St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 January 1896 — Page 6

®ljc Jnbepeniient. AV r . JL. .ICJX IV, I*lll>l Ishor, WALKERTON. ■ - - INDIANA. TH E END OF HIS ROPE. HANSEN WAS A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE. Defrauded Danish Creditors to the Amount of $40,000 Steamer Sinks n Gloucester Fishing Schooner, with a Loss of Niue Lives. Why Hansen Smothered His Family. It was because he was a fugitive from Danish justice, had swindled people m Denmark and led a crooked careel th nt Jens Hansen, known as Peter Hougaard. turned on the gas at his home in Chicago Sunday night and smothered his wife, five children and himself. He had swindled creditors out of S4I),(W in his native country and fled to America. He was driven to desperation and decided to die, taking his entire family with him. -x letter which has fallen into the hands of the police induces them to believe that ^sbaud and wife had reached an under standing concerning their final end, and had discussed the method of their taking off at least a week. Gloucester Ftshinsr Schooner Sunk. The Gloucester. .Mass., tishinc schooner Fortuna was sunk in a collision with the Boston Fruit Company's fruit steamet Barnstable oil Highland light Momlaj night. Nine of the Fortuna s crew were drowned; fourteen were saved. 'I he collision occurred about 7:30 o'clock. The night was extremely dark, and a lumpy sea was running. The Barnstable's lights were seen, but knowing she had the right of way the schooner's course was not altered until too late. The steamer struck her well forward, cutting a deep hole, and the schooner began to settle immediately. Before the boats could be cleared she went down and the crew were left struggling in the water until fourteen of them were picked up by the Barnstable's boats. The others had gone down. Babe Cooked to Death. One of the most fiendish crimes ever known is being investigated by the Topeka, Kan., police. The wife of Charles Dean left her two small children alone in a room while she ran over to a neighbor’s. Upon her return she found that some one had removed the clothing from her babe, 14 months old. seated it upon the top of a hot stove and tied. The flesh of the child was cooked to the bone. A young man who had quarreled with Mr. Dean is suspected, but he has tied the city. Strike of Rich Specimen Ore. One of the richest strikes of gold ore that have been ade since the discovery of the Holy Terror mine was made in the Sunnyside mine, two miles north of Hill City, S. D. Two of the former owners of the Holy Terror purchased half of the mine for a nominal sum. They commenced sinking a double compartment shaft, and at ten feet depth uncovered a body of rich specimen ore. Two other rich strikes have been made ten miles north of Hill City, at the head of Friday Gulch. BREVITIES, At Columbus, Ohio. J. B. Foraker was Tuesday elected Fnited States Senator to succeed Calvin S. Brice. Congressman Woodman, of Chicago, has introduced a bill in the House appropriating $100,090,000 for coast defenses. The large warehouse of S. S. Jewett & Co., stove manufacturers, at Buffalo, was destroyed by tire. The loss is $250,000, fully insured. Mis. Marion Spear, of Chicago, has just recovered her daughter, who was stolen “from her nearly ten years ago by a woman now dead. The child was found in an orphanage at Manchester. N. H. The Secretary of the Navy says to put in first-class condition for purposes of harbor defense al! monitors now in commission or undergoing repairs would cost $1,580,000; in good condition, $495,000. Miss E. W. Graham, saleswoman for a Chicago linn of dealers in women’s underwear, was found half way out of a window at the Hiester House, Lancaster, I’a. She was delirious and had cause.l great trouble at the hotel. The woman is now in a hospital. Senator Lodge introduced an amendment*to the fortifications appropriation b.il authorizing a popular 3 iwr cent coin bond issue of $100,000,000. to be used in providing for the defense of the coast, for the manufacture of gnus and the erection of forts and batteries. Near Kennedy, Lamar County. Ala.. James Runyon and Robert Young climbed a high tree for an opossum. On the same limb, forty feet from the ground, they quarreled. Runyon pushed Young off the limb, but was pulled off with him. Both lived just long enough to tell how it happefied. The sealing schooner Kilmney, twentyfour tons, M. Halgram master, and carrying a crew of four whites, is reported to have gone to pieces on the west const of Vancouver island in the gale if last ' Saturday. Meager particulars only are I obtainable ami it is not known whether the crew survived the disaster or not. The Kilmney was built two years ago and the present was her third sealing venture. Cope Clementi, collector of customs at Ottawa, Ont., has been missing for three weeks. He is said to he in Chicago. His books show a shortage in government funds of over $30,000. < 'lementi has been customs collector for nine years, during the last five of which ho has been speculating, and. it is charged, has falsified his books and accounts. Clementi well connected ami is about 38 years old. The government will try to have him ex t radited. 'Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan, called on Gen. Harrison at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. New York. Monday night. 'l'hey were together two hours. When Mr. Palmer came downstairs he was asked whether Mr. Harrison was a ermdidats for President. "It is my opinio::,” said he. “that Gen. Harrison is not a candidate.” The House Committee on Military Affairs unanimously rejMirted favorably the bill removing military disabilities of exConfederates who held commissions in the Fnited States army ami navy at the beginning of the rebellion.

EASTERN. The largest ice bridge on record has formed at Niagara Falls, New Yorkers have subscribed $43,750 to secure the national Democratic con- . vention. The New York Board of Health census shows that there are 10,942 old maids ' in that city, and that there are ~4,0.»o more women than men of marriageable Joseph NV. Fritze, aged .>2 years, electrician for flit* Francis \\ ilson (.ompany, playing in Philadelphia, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. . Martinus Sieveking, the young Dutch pianist, who was to have made his New York debut about the middle of this mouth, is missing and now nobody knows where to find him. The liabilities of De Neufvill & < 'o-. brokers, who recently failed at New N ork. are placed at $737,006. The face value of the assets is $1,329,995. but the market quotations reduce them to $332,441. At New York, Judge Lacombe granted a motion to dismiss the suit brought by the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad against tiie Atchison. 1 opoka ami Santa Fe Railroad for $5,2u0,000 damages. Now it is reported that NN. K. N antler - bilt will follow his wife’s example ami marry. The prospective bride is said to be Miss Amy Bend. The latest rumor re garding the Belmont-Vanderbilt wedding is that it will take place Jan. ’2B. In Lynn. Mass . Mrs. I.amoire. aged ->> years, was burned to death in her home, ami her daughter in law, Annie I.amoire. aged 28, was so terribly burned that she is lying at the point of death al the hospital. After the lire was put out the father ami son were found in a closet connected with the house, naked and almost unconscious from intoxication. Both were considerably burned, but not dangerously so. The police say that a lamp was upset during some kind of a fracas, and that the in males of the house were 100 drunk to put out the fire. WESTERN. Judge Shiras, in the Federal Court a: Omaha, has decided that the Flotirnox company’s leases of Indian lands are mid. John J. Raniage. ex-Auditor of De!,i ware County, < thio, was sandbagged by three men near Marysville. He w.a - robbed, thrown on a railroad track, ami run over by a train. He will lose an arm and leg am! may die. A movement is on foot among a num ber of prominent Americans ami Britons in London to bring about the formation of a iiermanent court of arbitration to settle all dispnb's between the two mi tions, as proposed by Justice Harlan in 1893. The Fayctie. < >., Bank was entered Tuesday night by burglars ami $43,"0n in money and about $4,000 in bonds ink in. Thore is im dew to the perpetrators. The bank was insured in the Bankers’ Fidelity ami Casualty Company, New York. A Johannesburg dispatch says: Twenty two members of the reform committee, including Col. Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes, Sir Drummond Dunbar, Lionel Phillips and Dr. Sauer, were arrested at their club on the charge aof high trea son and conveyed under escort tv Pre toria. Gri-at excitement prevails it lliul'br, Colo., over Ute new gold fields situated between South Boulder creek and Mag noJia. and there are rumors of riches be i ing uncovered by prospectors in holes not > over five feet deep. One strike is alleged to be worth SIOO,OOO, and an offer of this amount is said to have been made ami refit set I. Light masked men dynamited the safe of the Farmers' Bank nt Vfrvua. Mo.. Friday morning ami cs aped with SlU** l in cash, all it contained. The robbers on tered the city on horseback, secured Night Watchman Hoover, and bound him to i tree across the street. They then easily : forced the front doors of the bank, ami in a short time literally blew the vault am! safe to pieces with dynamite. Eight masked men dynamited the safe j of the Farmers’ Batik at Verona, Mo., and escaped with S’.i.OOO in cash, all it contained. The robbers are supposed to be professionals. They entered the city on horseback, secured Night Watchmaa Hoover and bound him to a tree arivx; the street. They then easily forced Lie front doors of the bank and in a -he ■; time literally blew the vault and safe to • pieces with dynamite. A. C. Ady. dwelling house builder, .it ' Columbus, Ohio, assigned Friday. A* sets. $551 JMHI; liabilities. $400,000. The : assignee is Ben Monett. Ady has bin er Ie pieces of property. He has bis'ti a builder of what were called cheap houses. The houses had all modern conveniences, but were put together with nails, looked well, had good tenants when not sold, and bis career as a builder was looked upon as remarkable. People all over the city are living in houses bought from Mr. Ady. and which have not been fully paid for. More local persons are interested in this assignment than would have been in that of any other firm or individual in the city. The annua! income of the property is $40,629; interest on mortgage indebted ness, $19,982; valuation of property. $554.(XX>; incumbrance on property, $279,000; floating debt, $121,515. A terrible a widen! occurred on the Ak 1 5 ron. B. Hord and Cleveland electric nW road, near ("lex eland. Ohio. A hear;, motor car and a coal ear plunged through the trestle over Tinker's creek, seventyfive feet into the chasm beneath. Two men were instantly killed ami one seriously injured. When about half way across tile trestle the trainmen felt a swaying motion, rhe next moment the light steel structure collapsed, ami the ears with their human load wont with a crash to the creek below. The cars were com pletely wre-ked. It is generally believed now that the cars jumped the track and that the jar caused the iron girders of the bridge to snap. There were no passengers on the motor car—only the rew of three men. The bridge that eoi psed was a frail trestle structure and was built or. an im-line, one end being considerably higher than the other. The span across the creek was about one bundled and seventy-live feet long and the train was in the center when the structure opened up as though it were cardboard ami allowed the train with its human freight to plunge to the ravine below. The statehood convention opened at Oklahoma City, O. T., Wednesday morning, mote largely attended than any of its predecessors. An influential committee was appointed to open headquarters in Washington for the purpose of securing an enabling act during the present session

of the Fifty-fourth Congress. The co ni - j mittec was instructed to use every possible effort to that end, on the ground that unless action is taken at the preset sion it may be at least three years befJre the people of Oklahoma can enjoy R lo great boon of statehood. A draft of the memorial to Congress, which was milted to the convention, contains, among others, the following arguments: “ly” have a population of nearly three h U) l dred thousand people. NVo have wealth sullicient to meet the necessary expen Sl .. of a State government. We are an intellb gent, industrious, progressive, patriots' people. We have better homes, a better system of public schools and in many oth or respects are far in advance of ninny o f the States that were admitted info this Fnion more than a score of years ago We have reduced the fertile acres of Oklahoma from the state of nature to a hign state of civilization. We have laid oul ami constructed highways. We have builded cities and towns, school houses ami churches. That we have accomplish, cd all this in spite of the wrong-doings and numberless privations which because of unfriendly legislation we have been forced to undergo proves beyond question our capacity for self-government.” WASHINGTON. The pension bill reported to Congress carries an appropriation of $141,325,820 Tb.e Seeretari of the Treasury Friday prepared and gave out lor publication a table showing the amount which should be bid for the new 4 per cent, bonds in order thal the investor might realize any rate of interest between 2*2 per cent, and I per cent, per annum. Follow ing is the table: 20_. per cent 130.874!) 2 1 ! per cenl 124.D234 3 per cent 119.322!) 3 1 Hi per < en! 117.9749 3’ s per cent 1 Hi.(j47i 3 3-10 per cent 115.3391 3’j pm- < en! Il4.itsih> 3 5 iii per cent 112.781 I 3% per cent 111.5391 3 7 Iti per cent 110.291)2 3V 2 per cent. Io!ljl85ii 3 9 It; 107 81MMI 3% per cent 10f,.71'2l 3 11 10 per cent 105.5510 3 : )| per cent 104.4082 3 Li 10 per cent 103.2810 1% i . ent, 10'2 1710 3 15 10 per cent. . . 101.0778 I per cent Hhumhhi An echo ot the Associated Press dis patches from Venezuela wks heard iti the House of Representatives Thursday. As soon as the journal had been read Mr. Livingston <Dem.) of Georgia scut to th< clerk's desk ami had read the following] resolution: "Be it resolved by the House of Representative*, the Senate coiwur | ring, that the President of the I'nited States i* hereby requested to forthwith ascertain whether Great Britain la ad j vaucing her outposts on the territory in dispute between her colony of British Gui atui and the republic of N rnezucla, or is reinforcing posts heretofore established with troops, police or ordnance; ami should the President iH^wne cognimut of the ! ict that British military or police force is advancing to invade or reinforce, or since the 17th of December las’, ha* invaded or leinforeed posts formerly oe enpied within snid disputed territory, he demand the inmiodlfttc withdrawal of | said soldiers and the reduction of the po | lice force in said territory to not i greater number than v.< re occupying the Brit | i«h outposts on th*' nforvsMd lith of l»<."mbvr. I*!*.'..'' Mr l.iiiiw-Cci |, lor uimnimous consent to m.ik*> a bri-'f < x ' planation of the resolution, but Mr. B-ui telle (Rep.l of Maine objected and the resolution was referred to the < ommiHeion Foreign Affairs The time territorial delegate* Messrs. Flynn of Oklahoma. Murphy of Arizona and Catron of New Mexico are wag ng a vigorous campaign in Congress to secure favorable action upon their bibs tor the admission of the territorivs represent i ed by them to statehood. Each delegate j considers ihc achievement of ffatclmod j the chief mission of his cungresx.oiia! ea j reer and his energies are Iwut upon se ; j curing it. They are anxious I • have tin I . bills before the territories committee re , j p.iritsl to the House and dispos' d ■( i j smuc way. and having made a canvass of j | the committee, believe that more than ; ; two-thirds of its members w ill vede lor fa ; i vorable reporis. The bills for the adtnis ; sion of Ari. ma ami New NL-x * bet..r'i j this Congress are . cabling acts modeled i upon the act by whit 11 I bill was elevated j ; to siaielmod, with certain modifications ‘ demanded by hwai vomiiti ms. Ar.z-mn's j bill stipulates for immediate statehood on ’ a constitution which has already been i formed by the people. !>ut there is doubt । coneeniing the legal standing of the < 'iivention. Mr. Flynn’s new Oklahoma bill j differs from the former one in giving an ! thority to Congress to attach any or all of j the Indian territory to Oklahoma when tlie lands have been allotted and made subject to taxation. Ex Gov. Murphy, ol Arizona, who is m>w t: territorial dele gate, says he finds a strong soutimer.t for the abolition of the territorial system. but there is much opposition to the admission of Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma, mi tlie part of Wcst' rn numbers who object to increasing the free silver strength of the Senate. FOREIGN. It is reported that near Havana a pitched battle was fought, and that the insurgents were routed by the bayonet, losi fifteen killed and many wounded. Ihe | troops suffered slight losses. A letter from t'araeas. Venezuela, to the London Times says it is evident thal it is the present intention of President < ’respo not to give any satisfaction for the I ruan incident, and that he is determined to combine tlie I'ruan ami frontier questions. regarding them as one dispute. A big Cuban battle is reported, vit!i killed or wounded. Collazo is said to have stormed the city of Guira ami tlomez came io his aid. The Spanish troops were driven into a cathedral after a fierce street tight, and the insurgents forced surrender on the threat of burning the structure. The ant i-English manifestations continue in Venezuela. At N alencia the N enezuelans divided themselves into two parties one representing English invaders and the other the patriots and began a sham fight. Those on tlie N enezuela side became so excited they went at in earnest, with the result that several who were en acting the role of Englishmen received severe stab wounds. The police had to be called in to stop it. It is said that never since the days of the Crimea has England been so mightily excited. The leading papers grow more belligerent in tone; the whole nation expresses the greatest bitterness toward Germany for the Kaiser's action in the Transvaal matter, and the latest appar-

ently authentic report that France and Russia will sustain the Emperor has but added fuel to the flames. The war spirit is high also in Germany. Ihe New York Advertiser saya: Positive announcements come from Indianapolis concerning the much-talked-of engagement of ex-President Harrison and Mrs. Mary Scott Dimmick. and though neither one of the contracting parties will say a word; it is nearly certain that the marriage will take place. Press dispatches Saturday bore strangely contradictory news. One from Loudon was to the effect that England was determined upon war; Hint tlie 'Pransvaal prisoners were to be held l,y the Boers as hostages; and that Parliament was to be summoned to declare war. Another from London asserts thal the Queen is in receipt of an autograph letter from the German Emperor, who declares he has no wish nor intcniion to engage in war. Twu eartlupiakes occurred in the District of Khalkhal, Persia, the first Jan. 2. The large village of Jan.iabad was destroyed. several others were partially destroyed and 300 persons killed. The second occurred Jan. 5 and was felt over an area of 100 miles. The town of Goi was destroyed and a thousand houses were demolished. In addition great damage was done to many villages. The loss of life was very great. There were SOO persons killed in Goi alone, and large numbers of cattle and sheep also perished. A special ilispateh from Berlin says that Russia's co-operation with Germany in the Transvaal matter has been assured and that Frame will act with Russia. This, appareiitly, tends to confirm the report of an anti British alliance, ami that the action of Emperor William toward the Boer republic was a thoroughly weighed

step. The dispatch from Berlin to the London Times saying that it is explained that Germany desired only to protect German residents and its consulate at Pretoria by dispatching .in armed force from Delagoa Bay, and that no arrangement on the subject had previously been made with Portugal, tended to produce a better teeling. Bin this slight change for the better was counteracted by the receipt of a specin! dispatch from Pretoria, i-apital of th* l Transvaal, saying that the Boers demanded the surrender of all British rights ami suzerainty over the Transvaal, and the pre-emption of Delagoa Bay ;iml the canceling of the charter of tiie British South Africa Company. It is furtiter stated that the Boers have nrrested, on the charge of treason, right leaders of ih*' recent movement among the I ithmders at Johaiinesbiirg. That the bitter anti-American utterances of the London Times and other newspapers of that city in conneetmn j with the Veui'xuclan eompli. atinn. which have been so lavishly cabled to thi* connj try. do it'd represrut the real st-ntiments of th* l great mass of the wage workers and toilers of the mother country is abundantly d*’mons!rated by editorial utter ntt'i'S of the weekly press in line with that element. In England, a* in m> .dher country, the working class organs ’x tie* t rather than du ’..te ti e * o-w - and Jden* of their eunstituencies. and hence their j expressions of opinio ! may be sis ptr-l ' as those of the gr*-at army of wage vyork I vrs into whose home* they enter Rey Holds' Now-paper, the great radical oignn, which goes every Saturday and Sunday into m<*ro thnti a tmilmn families wiy“We nro bound to mv th i. m insrding on arbitration iti this ■ Pr-siib-nt i Clcvclnml is right; ami in objecting t<> It I fjord .Salisbury is wr«»ng. It is n“t the | question whether the Venezuelan govern jliem ill*) or dbl U* t de.-line icrtaui «»-bl , ftritlons al*otit other territories in the t as!: /it is a question of what is right ami poit tic a .v. We should io, ( efu-c arbitr.i tion with Germany, or the I nite I States its*if. Why potim-e on tliis weak an 1 ^helpl. - sta!e atoi hold itp. -• !<• speak, l revolver at her throat? If numbers of Etlg.ishnien, as we ; told, haxc .- ttlel on disputed territory, that is their affair, nut ours. They Went, with their cy.«»pen, for gold, ami i: i- not our busim s* to j protect ex.-ry maraii'lnig Englishmn:i who j wants to Im*' his pocket* and bring h - । gold and h>» vulgarity with him to Lomlon. I NN e ray a : i n. let tins matter be .sitbin,t । ted to arbitration, and if the territory j is r* ally British it will be awarded to <«reat Britain. And we further -ay that ’ heavy will be the responsibility of th” i British prime minister if he deck; . - to ■ arbitrate. England is unpopular enong’t. ! we might almost say .lete-ti-l en.?ugii, in I most parts of tiie world a* it is. NV.- bav.not au ally in Europe, save bankrupt । Italy, and our press still * hoo-. - to treat | Franc*' and Ri;s*ia a- h>Ue. If. w;i, > ottr hand* are *<> full in the East, we deliberately <ur Up an:" * in ' o- W also, we shall bo em in led by an army i of powerful foes ami find ourselves checkmated ev. rvwhere. 1* ties tiie object f w hich the Brit i-h cl t' p•' i .ord Sj I ■ bury in power Inst July’:" MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. s3.;>o to Sajh); hog*, shipping grmb -. $3.(10 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice. $2.5n to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 57.• to •o* . i corn. No. 2, 2t>e to 27e; oats, No. 2. 17 ■ : to 18c, rye. N■. 2, ..0: i > 37c butter. I choice creamery, 23e to 24c: egg*, fn -ii. I lie to 19c; potatoes, per bushel. 20c ’o । 30e, broom corn, 820 to $45 pci ion for ! poor to choice. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $,”>.00 to $4.50; hog*, choice light. e, Sl.ir sheep, common to prime. 8’2.u0 to y.'!. wheat. No. 2. tile to (>s< : coi n. No. 1 wkiic, 26x to 27c; oats. N... 2 white. 2<»e io 22c. I St. Louis Cattle, $3.00 to s.>.’*•. hog*. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 00<- to ! 07e; corn. No. 2 yellow. 25e io 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 17e to 18. ; rye. No. 2. 35e to 37c, • iminnati Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4Jh); sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,68 cto 70e; corn. No. 2 mixed. 2Sc to 2!*c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 20 Io 21< ; rye. No. 2,3 Se to 40c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs. $.1.0(1 to $4.25; sheep. S2.CH to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 05e to (>7c: corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23e; rye. 36e to 38c. I oledo Wheat, No. 2 rod. 66e to t>Se; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 2Sc; oats, No. 2 while. l!)c to 21c; rve. No. 2. 37c to 39c; < lovrr seed. $4.15 to $4.25. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring. 57e Io oSc; corn. No. 3. 25c to 27c: oats. No. 19c to 2Oe; barley. No. 2. 33e to ■ rye. No. 1.36 cto 38c; pork, tm s*. $9.25 to $9.75. ^Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50: hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.50 to 54.50; u In nt, No. 2 red. 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 33c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23e to 24c. York--Cattle, S3.(N) to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. S2.<HI to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 67e to 68e; corn. No. 2, 35e tc 36c; oats. No. 2 white. 23e to 25e; butter, creamery, 17c to 26c; eggs. Western, 21c to 25c.

MOURNFUL TRAGEDY. FATHER, MOTHER, AND FIVE CHILDREN PERISH. Poverty Impels a Chicago Man to Wholesale Murder of His Family and Then to Filicide- Mr. MoracQ Strong Armenian Resolution. Kills All His Family. Driven fiendishly insane by despondency, Peter Hougaard. a Dane, of Chicago, took the lives of his wife and five sunny-eyed little children, and when he had completed his horrible work he coolly laid down in the noxious gas-saturated air of his home and breathed the deadly fumes that swept tin entire family from the list of the living. The atrocity of the father's awful crime could not have been greater had he used a bloody weapon. Death came to the children and the pa-

tient, plodding mother while they slept Sunday night in the little cottage at 731 (list street, that has been the Hougaard residence for some time. Hougaard dis closed his murderous resolve in a letter, but with the cunning of a maniac he took good precaution to render the warning void by entrusting it io the United States mails for delivery. This letter, wrilten in Danish to a countryman of the murder <r. was received Munday morning, and the horrified friend read of Huugaard's determination to kill his family and end his life. A mad run by the police patrol wagon with a dozen officers was vain, a* ihe fatal work was accomplished.

Shut Out by Turkey. The Turkish legation at Washington gave out Monday afternoon the following official communication: "The imperial government will not permit any distribution among his subjects, jn his own territory, by any foreign society or individuals, however respectable same may be las. for instance, the Red Cross Society), of money collected abroad. Such interferen. e no independent government has ever allowed, especially when the collections are made on the strength of speeches delivered in public me"tings by irrecomil.tble enemies of the Turkish race and religion. and on the basis of false accusations that Turkey repudiate*. Besides, the sublime jnirie is mindful of the true interests of its subjects, and. distinguishing between the real state of things and the calumnies ami wild exaggerations of interested or fanatical parties, will, as it has done heretofore, under its own legilimate control alleviate tlie wants of all Turkish subjects living in certain provinei s irrespective of creed or race,” Loss of the Janet Cowan. Several members of the crew of the British ship Janet ('aw an. which wa* wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island. attributed the loss of the ship to the iucompetenry of ('aptain Thompson. The captain is -aid to have been drunk when tb.e sfiq, struck and went to the bottom. Sex ,-n of the crew, including tlie cap ain. lost their lives, ('aptain Thompson and two other men died of hunger and ex-l»o-ure after landing on \ a:, -ouver Island. Shipping men have grave fears for the -if. ty of the British bark Lorton, which i* now out oxer sixtx days from Mnzatlan. M< xi >. fur Portland, Ore. Tiie bark was dm* a month ugo, ami her wheat charter \psrctl I ’<■ .it Tridcpendeoce for Armenia. D’ Morse, of Massachusetts, present i-.t a rc-ulut:> n in the House of Represent ntivvs to the •ffeci that "the t ommittei <>n Foreign \ffairs consider the expedi•>m j of reporting forthwith some expres suui by this Government in denunciation of th'- Turkish atro 4i*'s. ami if tiny find that we. a nation, are powerless to act, that we invoke the co-operation of th' oi;cd |«.w ei * to x* j**- th" Turkish Guxerii-im-nt off Hie f.i e of the earth ami secure the freedom and independence of Arnien a.” The resolution was referred. NEWS NUGGETS. Keei e. Sut’- rlec & Co., of Philadelphia. ! ■ of tlie largest exporting ami import- । ing firms of th*' city, failed. It is said the ILbil. 'e- will cxcei-d SSOOJM;h>. \ p . "ui x fix .• p; m., ;il 'ut Niag aru •'aunty, Xew V*.rk. farmers firnercl :u f. "'■> ho use a ; to •!<*.tth George 11. Suiith. an ex-convict, who had mtii' det -d his fathcr-in-hiw three hours before. W'.Tt P. Rem!. Hie ('!iicagt» coal opela'.or, lias admitted that his statement r. g ' : .iit:g Wi.iinm Warner, secretary of D t 5 of the Pittsburg. Pa., coal mim r’s oi g.mi eition, wa* made on hear--ay nnd Warm-r has withdrawn his suit for slander. Monday was an unlm ky day in Wichita. Kan., for seekt r< atler divorce. Tiie district judge of the comity made the remarkable record of hearing twenty-one dix ircf cases inside of four hours. lie granted only two out of the entire bunch. He is a m w judge, and as his action is regarded a* an established policy, the divorce colonists from all xiuartirs are picking up their dmls prepara lory to an exo,|us to <>klalionia. A London dispatch says: It was learue*! Monday afli rnoon that the cabinet <-ouncil of Saturday last considered the question of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Venezuela, but no definite conclusion was arrived at. The Westminster Gazette. touching upon the misunderstanding between Great Britain ami the Fnited States, says it sees a distant break in the clouds, ami hopes that a settlement satisfactory to Great Britain and the Fnited States will be effected with \ enczuela direct, ami intimates that tiie Brazilian minister is closely identified with the latest proposed solution of this controversy. Prof. Richard I . Garner, who is in Africa trying to demonstrate the correctness of his theory that monkeys talk to each other, lias written to his son in Baltimore. Md., saying that his mission has been accomplished. His rpu'an-in's have been carried on under the auspices of the As rican Research Society of Chicago. At Indianapolis, in the dry goods liou*'' of L. S. Ayers w Co.. Miss Ruth Gordon. a clerk, fired two im ffectmil shots n! Harry Piirviam-e. a floor walker. Miss Gordon charged Furviani'e with ungentlemanly conduct toward her. Friday night after the performance of "Die Meistersinger" at the Metropolitan, St. Paul. Minn., by the Damrosch Opera t'ompanv. a betrothal, according to the German fashion, was held in honor ot the engagement of Wilhelm Mertens, the famous baritone, and Miss Sanchen Faber, u well-known local beauty.

DIDN’T GET WHAT SHE WANTED. A Young Woman Who Undertook to Squelch a Grocery Clerk. Two pretty young women entered a large uptown grocery one evening last week. From their conversation it was evident that they belonged to some boarding school in tl.e neighborhood, and had stolen out for a few minutes to buy dainties, which they meant to smuggle to their rooms. "There's one thing I don't like about the clerks in this store,” said one of them, while they* waited for the salesman, “and that's the way they insist on telling you that you don't want what you do want and that you do want what you don't want. Every time I come iu here I have the same experience, and lin Just tired of it. The next time it happens I’m going to tell the clerk just what I think of him.”

At that moment a clerk approached and risked the young women what they wanted. The one who had so much to complain al»out pointed at one of a row of cracker tins anil said: "I want a pound of those.” Oh, lie, you don't,’’ said the cleric suavely, “yon want one of these, or these here; they’re all very nice.” The young wonmn threw a glance which said, "AVhat did I tell you r” at her companion, and turning to the clerk said fiercely: "No, 1 don't, anything of the kind. I want these and no others.” "I beg your pardun,” he began, “I thought "Never mind what you thought," said the young woman. "I guess I know what 1 want Now. just let me have a pound Os these, please,” and she turned to her companion with a look of triumph on her face, which plainly meant, "Didn't I squelch him’4” "Very well, madam,” said the clerk humbly, "but may 1 ask whether they are for yourself?” "AVell, of all the Impertinent questions ” began the young woman, when her companion interrupted, and, turning to the clerk, said; "Why do you ask?” "Oh. because they're dog biscuit,” replied the clerk, indifferently. “Still, of course, If you want them you can have them.” "Never mipd.” faltered^ £he young woman who had lnsisted-.6n having what she wanted. “I guess iklon't want anything at all.” and she strutted out of the store looking very much ashamed and followed by her companion, who was struggling to hide her laughter. The clerk didn't say anything, but there was a satisfitsl smile on his face as lie Dangl'd the cover down on the can of dog biscuit ami walked away to wait on another customer.—New York Sun. C heaper Alcohol. M. Molssan, the noted French electrician, expects to revolutionize the distillation of alcohol. Ue lias discovered an Inexpensive method of obtaining alcohol from acetylene, which is the new gas that came to the front so prominently a few months ago as a probable substitute for ordinary illuminating gas, owing to its cheapness. M. Moissan pursues the same method of producing the acetylene gas Dy subjecting a quantity of coke and quicklime to the heat of an electric riqnaee in order to effect a direct uniofi of their elements and produce calcium carbide, which deceinjiosea w)>en thrown in water into acetylene. Ammonia-cliro-rnous sulphate absorbs ibis gas, ami by the aid of heat transform* it into ethylene. The ethylene Is passed into hot sulphuric acid, and sulphovinic acid is. obtained, w I'.ich. by the addition of boiling water, produces the alcohol that then only demands reel ideation. The cost of best quality of alcohol produced Dy tliis method is stated to be from 5 to* 6 cents per quart. < ’hildhood. The qualities that are the most attractive In childhood are not Dy any means the most valuable in maturity. We look for determination, will, decision of character, firmness in the man, ami refuse Dim our respect if he have them not. But. when the child exhibits these qualities, even in their incipient stages, we are annoyed, am] perhaps repulsed. Instead of rejoicing In his strength of will ami guiding it into right channels, we lament it as a greviouo fault in him and a misfortune to us. It is the meek ami yielding child who care* not to decide anything for himself in whom xva delight, ami whose feeble will w-* t iko etill feebler Dy denying it all ex-erci*o. I et. when he groxx s up and (-liters the world ami yiel is to t mptatloit, an I perhaps disgraces himself and his family, we look at him in imbecile wonder that so good a child should have turned out to bo so Dad a man, when, in-truth, his course has Deen only the natural outcome of his past life and training. The P ipe's Salary. The rope has no salary; his principal source of income is the Peter's*Pence, a collection taken up x acli year in every Roman Catholic Church. The amount received varies, but the Pope's income is as a rule in tlie neighborhood of SLUGOJmm'). of this he retains aiimti SIOO.000; the rest goes to the eardinals. poor bishopries, the administration of the cliurch, diplomatic expenses, sehools and the maintenance of the Vatican ami its dependencies. Pocahontas. Pocahontas xvas married ar -Tamestowu. Va.. on April 5. Hill, to Mr. John Rolfe. She went to London in April, 1616. reaching there June 12. <m Marek 21, 1617, when 22 years old. she died In Ixmdon of small-pox ami was buried in the parish churchyard at Gravesend. She left one son. Thomas, from whom some of the “first” families trace their descent i d