St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 January 1896 — Page 6

®lje Independent W. A. El* JOINTS Y, JPixtoltslior. WALKERTON. - - ■ INDIANA. GEN. TOM EWING DEAD INJURIES RECEIVED IN NEW YORK PROVE FATAL. Ex-Congressman from Ohio and Prominent in Kansas During Free Soil Struggle—Several Americans Under Arrest by Spanish at Havana. Gen. Ewins’s Injuries Fatal. Gen. Thomas Ewing, ex-member ot Congress from Ohio, died Tuesday morning at New York, from the effects of injuries received by being struck by a cable car. Gen. Ewing, who was a member of the law firm of Ewing. Whitman & Ewing, of New York, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1829. He was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1856 and went to Kansas during the free soil struggles. When the State of Kansas was admitted to the Union, he was appointed chief justice, but resigned to enter the Union army in the civil war as colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of Kansas. He rose to the rank of brigadier general, and at terward was breveted major general and had command of the Department of the .Missouri. Ho went to Washington in 1866 as the assistant of ex Secretary of the Interior Browning, and returned to Ohio in 1870 and entered polities. He was a member of Congress from 1.877 to 1881 and in .1879 ran for Governor on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In 1881 he went to New York to practice law, and for many years he was president of the Ohio Society there. Gen. Ewing hail five children, all grown up. Mrs. Ewing is still living. Recent Arrests at Havana. Cuban affairs came to the front in the Senate in a new guise Tuesday when Senator Call read a telegram from Key West telling of the arrest of American citizens by the Spanish authorises. The telegram is as follows: “Marquis Rodriquez was taken from steamer Olivette last Wednesday. Louis Samallien and son also taken at Havana. Al! American citizens. Get them out of grasp of Spanish authorities." Senator Call offered a resolution reciting the arrests and directing the executive authorities to ascertain if any just cause for the arrests existed, and if not, to demand their immediate release. Senator Hoar suggested that the tone of the resolution was too imperative. There seemed to be an idea, he said, that the Semite of the United States is a constantly loaded cannon, which can be touched off at any time by a Senator. The Senator urged an inquiry of the State Department before a demand. State Department Disapproves. Much anxiety is shown at the Statq Department over Clara Barton’s Red Cross expedition to Armenia, in face of the orders from the sublime porte. Miss Barton has been denied special passports, ' and will be given no recognition by the | representatives of the American Govern- ( meat in Constantinople. Secretary Olney regards her mission under the circumstances as a grave mistake, which is likely to embroil this country in further ditfi cuity with the Turkish Government, If j Miss Barton is peacefully ejected the ; Secretary of State will not enter protest; j If she is maltreated our Government will undoubtedly interfere. While Secretary Olney approved of Miss Barton's mission when at first proposed, and, in fact, suggested it, he does not approve of undertaking it in face of the protests of the sultan. Sad Fate of Firemen, As the result of a fire in the building nt No. 415 Broadway. St. Louis. Mo., Tuesday night five firemen were buried m the ruins. Owney Hines, foreman of truck No. 6, who was taken from the burning building soon after the tire started, badly : suffocated and cut. died while being taken | to Mercy Hospital in an ambulance. The dead are: Milton Curly, ('apt. Glanville, j Owney Hines. James Rhoddy. Staun- ; ton. The total loss caused by fire ami | water is estimated at $200,900, fairly in- ! surd. BREVITIES. The Bank of Commerce at Grand Is]- ! and, Neb., lias closed its doors. The Ixmdon Daily News, describing the ! massacre at Manish in November, says ■ the two head teachers in the American j Academy were killed, one being flayed i alive and then cut to pieces. The House Committee on Public Lands . has received from Secretary Smith a ' strong adverse report against the free j homestead bill. The measure is a sweeping one and land office officials estimate its passage would involve at least $30,000,000 of cost to the Government and $18,000,000 in Oklahoma alone. This is the amount paid to the Indians for the relinquishment of their lands there. Almost the entire population of Cuba. Putnam Comity. 0.. was engaged Mon- j day dragging Blanchard river for tie- I bodies of five children, a girl and four ; boys. drowned Sunday afternoon. Three ! children of John Shuman and two chii- I dren of George Formas were playing on i the ice when it broke and four of the j children disappeared. The eldest, a boy j of 16, attempted to rescue the girl and ! was drowned also. It was learned Sundav that an agent I of the War Department had been mak- j ing inquiries in Cleveland for an avails j ble site for the location of a fortification j for the protection of the city in ease of ! war. One site considered is located at Rocky River, six miles west of Cleveland, on a bluff from which heavy guns could command the entrance to the harbor east and west. There wore no negotiations for the purchase of the place. • A Washington dispatch says: “Dan" Fansdell, ex-marshal of the District of Columbia, and close personal friend and adviser of ex-President Harrison, and Col. Michener, formerly of Indianapolis, and political manager for Harrison, have been in star-chamber consultation for two days planning the Harrison campaign* The Rev. Dr. Carlos Martyn, formerly of Chicago, is leading an active and energetic crusade against, the pool rooms of । San Francisco. A big mass meeting has I been held for the purpose of getting rid of I evil. J

EASTERN. C. Oliver Iselin, according to a New York dispatch, is going to Europe to demand satisfaction or blood of Lord Dunraven. At New York Friday ex-President Benjamin Harrison authorized the announcement that he is to marry Mrs. Mary L. Dimmock. The wedding will take place after Lent. Bernhard Gillam, the famous cartoonist of Judge, died Sunday morning at the home of his father-in-law, ex-Senator James Arkell, of Canajoharie, N. Y. His death was the result of typhoid fever. Perkins & Welsh, New York, sugar importers and exporters, have assigned to Benjamin Perkins., with preferences to creditors for upward of $125,000. The firm was rated at $300,000 and its credit was good. A light engine ran into a crowd of carcleaners who were walking the New York. New Haven and Hari ford Railroad track at New York, killing two women and injuring two other women ami a man so badly that they will probably die. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Demoralization is staring the kid and morocco leather industry in the face. Several large firms have gone to the wall and others in all probability will follow. The direct cause of the failure of the local firms which have lately succumbed is traceable to the failure of the Keen-Sut-terlee Company, which went under a few days ago. The latest failure recorded is that of diaries Landelh who has eon f 'ssed judgment to the amount ot almost $1,900,000. It is whispered in some sections along North Third street that something of a very sensational nature may soon be expected in the tiffairs of the Keen-Sutterlee Company, but the nature of it was not mentioned by anyone. It is impossible to get the exact figures representing the liabilities of the tirm. but those best informed state that they will surely amount to over $4,009,090. while any attempt to get at the assets is mere conjecture. WESTERN. Edward Amann, a Cincinnati distiller, been convicted of counterie iing “Old Ihqiper Whisky" labels. F. C. Cannon and Arthur Brown have been nominated for United States Senators by the Utah Republican legislative caucus. Col. Holt, of Decatur. Uh, has been holding a series of temperance meetings in Pierre, S. D. They culminated Wed nesday evening in many of the prominent women of the city raiding the saloons and gambling houses A few nights ago a notice signed "White Caps” was posted on the door of \\ illiam Hertel's factory, near Payne, <»., ordering him to discharge a colored man. He did not do so, and Thursday morning his factory was in ruins. Des Moines, la., on Thursday witness ed the retiring of Gov. Jackson and Lieut. Gov. Dungan to private life and the elevation of Gen. Francis M. Drake to the position of Governor and Matt Parrott to the position of Lieutenant Governor of the State of lowa. As a result of the Duncan Lemly com missioner contest all the votes east at the i last Omaha city election have been order |ed recounted by the courts. Numerous I reports of wholesale frauds in the elec | tion have been made public from time to time, ami it is asserted by many that this contest will cause startling developments. Charles A. Millman, of Kansas City, I ex-State Representative ami .a prominent j local politician, has been acquitted of the I charge of poisoning tin election judge in ' order, as claimed, that ballot-box staffers might proceed with their work umnulested. Millman was one of a dozen politicians indicted for alleged crooked work committed in the spring election of 1894. The Benedict Paper Company. Kansas City, Mo., wholesale paper dealers, has failed with liabilites of $59,445 and assets । about the same. Chattel mortgages conveying all of the company's property to seventy-odd creditors, mostly Eastern concerns, have been filed with the Recorder of Deeds. The principal creditor is the Western Paper Bag Company, of Batavia. 111., which the Benedict Company owes $19,000. Poor collections are given as the cause. The rivalry at Cincinnati between Observer Bassler and Coin Teller Phil Turpin's poultry over which is the better weather prophet ended in a victory for the observer. Turpin's rooster crowed on Friday, and on the strength of this his owner prophesied a storm for Saturday contrary to Bassler's prediction. The rooster's life was wagered against Bassler's money on the result. There was no storm on Saturday and Bassler will eat ! roast rooster. Bassler has eaten Tur- ■ pin’s oracular pig and now gets his roos ■ ter. Turpin still has a turkey which has | the gift of prophecy and proposes to stay I in the light as long as his stock holds out. Aiderman Frank Lawler, of Chicago, ' died Friday at his home, of heart disease, j Death came while he was presumably preparing to go down town to the city hall. He fell lifeless to the floor before his wife. The deceased was a unique character in politics, not only of a municipal but national order. He served a term in Congress after having officiated in several elective offices in the city. The celebrated fight he made to obtain the office of postmaster, that was secured by Washington Hosing, with his "miles long petition," made him famous. His recent i victory in his ward over a number of as- ; pirants for the place of aiderman was ' considered by him to be his greatest poI litical victory. | The apparel of the new woman is inj volved in a question presented to the - Chicago city law department. The point ’ decided was that the polße department ' acted within its authority in threatening to close one of the big down town restau- ! rants and lunch counters in which it is proposed to install a force of female wnitj ers dressed in knickerbockers and tightfitting jackets. It is expected that the opinion will be contested in court, and ; that an attempt will be made to establish for all time the rights of the varied and ' abbreviated bloomer costumes affected by ; the modern woman. The backers of the ' bloomer restaurant enterprise, it is said, I threaten to turn the same authority j against enthusiastic female bicyclists, >f : their plans are interfered with by the i police. SOUTHERN. Within the last ten days twenty-five recruits for the Cuban army have left Fort Worth, Tex., for Galveston, from which point they will embark for the Cuban coast. The agent contracted to I pay SSO per month to date from enlist- | ment, advance payment to be made when I the party arrived at Galveston. Railroad 1 transportation from Fort Worth to Gal-

veston was furnished each man. The fact that recruiting for the Cuban army has been going on is well known. The men are good material for soldiers. A horrible double murder was committed near Flynn's Lock, Tenn, Five masked men entered the house of Joseph Day an old farmer, who was reputed to have money hidden away, and demanded the secret of his treasure. Day refused to give it up, and after numerous threats was taken out of doors and hanged to a tree. The brutes then attempted to make Mrs. Day tell where the money was hid den, and when she refused beat her brains out with a club. They then ransacked the house, but failed to find the money. No arrests have been made. A special to the St. Louis Republic from Tallahassee, Fla., says; “Sensational stories are afloat here. Gov. Mitchell, at the request of the War Department in Washington. has ordered Adjt. Gen. Houston to see that the Florida militia be placed iu readiness to take the field at a moment's notice. Similar requests, it is reported, have been sent to the governors of other Southern States. The story has become generally known, and is causing great excitement throughout the South. Gov. .Mitchell and Adjt. Gen. Houston were asked in regard to it, but they refused to talk. Gen. Houston has sent telegrams to all battalion commanders in the State. Major Turner, Ist Flori^ battalion, has received several messagti from the adjutant general. The butt ion commamhTs at 1 •eiism ola ami 10^1*1 have also received messages from Gen. Houston. It is stated as coming from the executive oilice that the Washington authorities have reason to believe that a deal is pending between Spain and Great Britain for the sale of Cuba to the latter, and that the United States is preparing to resist the transfer of the island, and that the flying squadron is coming io American waters to be ready for the war with the United States that will inevitably follow the attempted^cession of Cuba. Dispatches from various cities in Florida report that the troops are gathering, and that the war fever is higher than the day after President Cleveland's \eiiez.uelan message. WASHINGTON. The disagreement between the eo-pas tors of the First Presbyterian Church. Washington, D. C,, the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage and the Rev. Adolos Allen, has been settled by the church session calling for Mr. Alien’s resignation. The trouble grew out of a plan to have Dr. Talmage preach Sunday mornings a> well as evenings, to which his eolhtigue objected. Dr. Talmage now will hold forth twice on Sunday. Chicago 26 St. Louis 21 Uineinnati 1 New York 9 Chicago wins the Democratic national convention of 1896. July 7 is the date. The national Democratic committee so decided at Washington Thursday. It was a long contest, and for twenty eight ballots the result was in great doubt. Chicago won eventually by the slender margin of two votes over St. Louis, amid considerable excitement in the committee room and among n great throng which bad lingered for two hours in the hotel lobbies awaiting the decisive ballot. There was an unusual s. .ne in the House at Washington the other day when Chaplain Uouden proceeded to speak some friendly words for Cuba in his morning prayer, and was promptly applauded <>». Ixilh sides of the House. His sentiments; found an immisliate echo among the mem bers. and few find fault with his opinions on Cuba, but at the same time the unexpected applause startled some of the members to such an extent that a <piiet in im.itiou was conveyed to the blind chap ain's friends that hereafter lie would d ■ well to leave ncitters pending ia the run mittees or before tiio House out of his pctitions to the throne «®f grace. Tie se < onservative members are afraid the chaplain may interfere with a prayer on almost any topic, and as no points of order coubl be raistsl. tile) would be helpless. So they declare that although he is all right on Cuba, they will mere for his removal unless he confines himself to glittering generalities hereafter. The pension committee of the Grand Army of the Republic will appear bet..re the House Committee on Pensions and urge legislation placing the pension office administration on "business principles,” the stopping of “unwarranted interference with pensions through biased complaints." and will favor fixing S3(M) a year as the limit of income which bars a widow from receiving a pension. Gen. Walker said: "We want the practice of sending assassins of pensioners’ rights through the country at the beck and call of everyone who has some personal aim to serve to stop. The Grand Army of rhe Republic is in favor of using every means to stop fraudulent operations, but in ninety-nine cases out <>f one hundred it is not the pensioner guilty of fraud in cases investigat ed. but those personating pensioners. Among no body of men is there less fraud. We believe that, except where otherwise provided by special legislation, all pensions should be issued uniformly, the widow of a colonel receiving the same pension as the widow of a private.” FOREIGN? - Havana is in danger ot famine owing , to the cutting off of supplies by the in-, surgents. The pope, through Cardinal Satolli. has made a semi-official proposal to President Cleveland to arbitrate the Venezuela question. The pope was much hurt by England’s refusal last year when Venezuela proposed the pope as an arbitrator. It is believed that his holiness has now instructed Cardinal Vaughan to sound the British Government on the subject. At a Cabinet council held at Paris M. Berthelot. Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Anglo-French agreement regarding Siam was signed Wednesday, and that by its terms the Mekong becomes the boundary, and both powers undertake to refrain from an armed advance into the Menam Valley. But the Siamese territorj’ west and east of it is excluded from this clause. The Chilian treaty with Brazil has been shorn of its importance by the announcement that Argentina has an anterior treaty with Brazil giving all the rights of a favored nation. It is the intention of the United States minister to demand ot the Brazilian Government that similar privileges be accorded this country. This will minimize the advantages that may possibly accrue in favor of Chilian flour and cereals. Berlin dispatch: Tn the Reichstag Thursday during the discussion of Count von Kanitz's proposal for the establishment of a Government grain monopoly, the Count denied that it would raise the price of bread. He also said that the

scheme was not socialistic and that iti object was to benefit the peasantry. He concluded with the remark: “The Government may look on while the country is being desolated, but we want deeds, not words. (Prolonged applause.) The forthcoming report of the Department of Labor of the British State Department will say that, notwithstanding he numerous trade union troubles of the last twelve months, the manufacturing and building interests of the country are on the whole in better shape than at any similar period in the last five or six years, r roin scarcely any center are there reports of the pressure of unemployed such as w9re made a year mid two years ago, while prices of labor range a fraction higher. The only exception to the general report of improved conditions is from Lancashire, where, owing to lack of orders, it is stated that over 10,000 looms are idle. A Portsmouth, Eng., dispatch says: “The flying squadron, consisting of the battleship Revenge, flagship. Rear Admiral Alfred T. Dale; the battleship Royal Oak, the first-class cruisers Gibraltar and Theseus, and the second-class cruises Charybdis and Hermione, together with six first-class torpedo boat destroyers, assembled at Spithead at noon Friday. It is reported that the destination of this squadron, after leaving Bantry Bay, Irehmd. will be the Bermudas.” No information reached XVaHhinKton Friday. It is doubted whether Great Britain would send such n powerful fleet into American waters at this time, when its presence in force sufficient to overcome our North Atlantic squadron almost certainly would be regarded as a hostile demonstration certainly not called for as long as diplomacy has not vet exhausted its resources in the settlement of the differences between the United States and Great Britain. The Bermudas, lying between 609 and 700 miles off our coast, would afford an admirable base of operations against any point from Cape Cod down to Key West, and while the islands are part of the British empire the assemblage of a powerful fleet there could not be regarded with indifference by the United States Government, unless its presence was explained satisfactorily. IN GENERAL The provincial elections in Manitoba resulted in the Greenway government being sustained by a substantial majority. The issue at the polls was largely national schools vs. separate schools. The opposition party championed the. cause of a dual system and the vote was overwhelmingly against their eamtidates, many of whom were defeated two to one by the government representatives. Premier Greenway and his entire cabinet were reelected, three by acclamation. In the new House of forty members the party will stand: Government, or national school, party, 31; opposition, or separate school, party, 8; independent. 1. Bunker Morgan has dissolved the great bond combination, and the gold syndicate is broken. In his circular to the syndicate members. e<Meeniitiß the popular feature of the loan. Mr. Morgan says: “1 feel perfectly satisfied that there is mi question as to the success of the loan." The reason given for the dissolution of the syndicate is that the syndicate contract calk'd for n bid of “all or none,” and therefore Mr. Morgan was unwilling to make a bid under the present eireum stances, as he might seem to present for consideration by rhe Secretary of ihe Treasury the throwing out of smaller bids made in good faith under the public call. The only emergency, in Mr. Monran’s judgment, which would justify such i course would be the failure of the public to respond t the < all of t'ne Government. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The situation could hardly be more perplexing. None doubts that ‘he Government will raise money to me-t obligations, but h<>u far the mor -y market will be djuturbed or the treasury reserve first diminished none .an say. The business world cannot km.w as yet ho v far foreign questions may upset calculations. though there seems every reason to exiH'et peaceful settlement. it cannot know what may be the duties on any important class of imports a month hence; whether imports are likely to ex ceed exports and draw away gold; whether the deficit of revenue will continue, or ifhat other taxation will be levied. Failure of the Senate thus far to take any action upon financial measures proposed by the President or those passed by the House affects unfavorably all branches of business. Under such adverse circumstances it is actually encouraging that shrinkage in transactions ami resulting commercial disasters have not been greater. But four large failures within a day or two indicate that the same condition cannot continue without much embarrassment." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades. $3.0<l to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 57c to 58.-; corn. No. 2. 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2. 17e to ISc; rye, No. 2. 36c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c: eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn. S2O to SSO per ion for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.75; flogs, choice light. $3.90 to Sf.oO; j sheep, common to prime. $2.09 to s;>.i-'; . wheat. No. 2, 65e to 66e; corn. No. 1 /white, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 63e to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,33 c to 35c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2. 67c to 68e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 28e to 29c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20e to 21c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21e to 22c; rye, 37c to 38c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, G6c to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 21e; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $4.40 to $4.45. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring. 57e to 59c; corn, No. 3,25 cto 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley. No. 2,33 cto 35c; rye, No. 1,38 cto 39c; pork, mess, SIO.OO to $10.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.-50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; butter, creamery, 16c to 25c; eggs, Western, 18e to iQc,

BOYCOTT ON BRITAIN. HER GOODS TABOOED IN VENEZUELA. Little Republic Active in Other Mat-ters-Wcyler Will Not Follow the I Policy of Gen. Campos in Cuba —New Oil Fields. xVenezuelan News Budget. I he press ami people of Venezuela have declared commercial war against Eng- I land. The newspapers publish daily this ' notice in display type: "To the People: j Whoever buys English products increases i the power of Great Britain.” For two months from Jan. 15 the press will give daily the names of Venezuelan and foreign merchants dealing in any manner with England on her colonies. There is a bright outlook for American trade. President Crespo is releasing many political prisoners, and Congress is soon fol meet. The Government has bought a ' light-draft steam craft and armed it with i light Hotchkiss guns for service on the! Orinoco river. There is a rumor that the German Government has sent a sharp demand for the immt Jiate payment of the railroad debt. Tin- I'lirolling of militia is so great that the time has been cxteml.-.l to Jan. 31. The limit originally set was Jan. 29. The militia will drill with wooden guns. The town of San Stbastian. in the State of Miranda, has been depopulated by yellow fever. NN cyler in Cuba. The alleged program of Gen. NVeyler, the new Governor General of CuUi, has been cabled from Spain. He will not follow Gen. t'ampos' policy: politically he will be an opportunist; war will be answered with war: he will lie inexorable towarils spies and rebel sympathizers, but lenient towards those surrendering under arms; he will endeavor to establish an efficient blockade to prevent the landing of arms and ammunition from the United States; that he will not be sanguinary, but will deal justly, lie says that two months ago it would have been easy to suffocate the rebellion; now it will not be so easy on account of its spread. But he promises satisfactory results in the future. The same dispatch reports that 17.009 men w ill be sent from Spain, beginning in February. with two batteries of mountain artillery. Bishop Haygood of Georgia Bead. Bishop Haygood, of the M. E. Church Smith, died at his home in Oxford. Ga., Sunday morning. Atticus Green Haygood was born at Watkinsville. Ga., on Nov. 19. 1839. n ( . w: is graduated at Emory College. Ga., in 18.59, and license I to pr.a.-h in tlie Methodist Episcopal Uhureii in the same year. From IS7O to 1.875 he was editor of the Sunday school pubiieatious ol the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in 1876 was elected president of Emory College, where he remained eight years. He was appoiivted general of the John F. Slater fund in ISX.3 f,,f th,, education of colored you'll in the Southern States ami has sim-e d-'-voted himself to this work and efforts for the progre-s of the colored race. Dr. Haygood was the author of several religious works. Millions in Oil in Tennessee. Intense txcitiment prevails in the newIj discovered oi’ fields underlying the border '■-•unties of Kentucky ami Tennessee. Speeuiators and boomers have followed in swarms on the heels of the first rejiorts of oil. but the agents of the Standard. as well as otin-r organizations and individual i:r <-tors, preceded them mi l have already leased every acre of land for miles around. The belt will probably range fimn forty to fifty feet in width, following closely the Uuiuberlaml plateau. Daily carloads of machinery for sinking of wells mid putting up of plants are arriving at Rugby Road. Ten or twelve border counties are i mbraeed in the oil district, which is the least settled and wild'st part of Tenm sstsx In vestments to date approximate .815.999.91 ;o. Baby in Luck, Cat Out of Luck. The P-year-old s m of Mr. and Mrs John Fret man. near Delaware. 0.. discovered the family shotgun under the bed. He pointed it playfully at his baby brother. ami saying, "I'm go'ng to shoot you.” pulled the trigger. The cap failed to explode. Turning the muzzle toward the cat. which was sitting on the hearth, he said: “I'll try my luck on 'Tabby.' " This time the gun fired, ami there was nothing left of "Tabby." NEWS NUGGETS. The population of Oregon, according ; । the census just completed by the county assessors, is 3154.762. an increase of about 13 per cent over the < Jovernment census of 1890. The Mayor of San Miguel. I’eru. seized mid <_-.iu>ed to be burned in the public square of the city all the Bibles and stock of the local agent of tile Ameri.-mi Bible Company. Henry C. We<i A- < New York, rice mid coffee brokers, assigned to Martin S. Katenhorn. The s -hedules in the assignment of Harriet R. Tracy, dealer in sewing machines, snow liabilities of $41,842; nominal assets. 528.610; actual assets, $7.250. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says Senhor Carlos Carvalho, minister of foreign affairs, is preparing a no.te demanding the immediate res ri turion of the Island of Trinidad, which has been occupied by Great Britain. It is stated a refusal on the pan of Great Br tain to restore Trinidad to Brazil will le;n[ io a rupture of diplomatic relations between (ircat Britain and Brazil. At Erie. I’a.. Agent Frank Moore of the Agri e lilt lira! Department, with K. T. .Mead of Pittsburg as attorney, prosecuted Fred Hale, Ihe Armour A- Co. agent, for violating the Stiate food law by selling oleomargarine. Hale was convicted and sentenced to pay fine of Si"<> and costs. Two civil actions against the company are pending. A large numb r of Amer.can sealers have become dissatisfied with the manner in which the Customs Departin ml of the Government is hamlhd on I’uge: Soun I. and are seeking prote: rion under the Eug- ; lish crown. Owing to dissensions in the Shoan eamp Emperor Menclek is suing to the Italians for -peace. He has asked Gen. Barateiri. I in command of the Italian forces in Abysi sinia. to appoint a plenipotentiary lor the i purpose of arranging the terms of peace. ' The Shoans had 596 killed iu the lighting ' at Fort Makalee on Jan. 11.

Paul Bourget Is writing a one-act play In prose for the Comedie-Francaise. Th« title is “The Screen.” Edmund C. Stedman has declined an offer 0^ the new Billings chair in English literature at Yale University. । In the Macmillan’s new edition of j Dickens, edited by his eldest son, thero are many Interesting reminiscences ot । the novelist and bits of bls correspondence in the prefaces. The American Economic Association will publish very shortly, "Letters ot Ricardo to NlcCulloch,” lately discovered, edited and annotated by J. 11. Hollander, Ph. D„ of Johns Hopkins . University, and “Race Traits and TenI dencies of the American Negro,” by F. . L. Hoffman. Mrs. D. F. Verdenal, formerly of San Francisco, but now living in New York, where her husband is a correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, has written a novel. It is entitled,’ “Ladies First,” and deals with the experiences of a well-known mine promoter of early days. Richard Harding Davis is said to have been paid five hundred dollars by W. R. Hearst's New York paper, the Journal, for writing the introduction to the Yale-Princeton football match. Heffelfinger, the giant football player, received a like amount from the same newspaper for publishing a technical description of the game. T. B. Aldrich has sent the following letter to the Boston Transcript: “Some verses called The Ideal Husband,’ and having my name attached to them as the author, are being extensively reprinted by the newspapers. I bog leave to say—and it gives me great pleasure to say it—that I am not the author of those verses.” Douglas Sladen's new book, “A Japanese Marriage,” wbicn has had an immense run in England, has just been Issued in America. In it Mr. Sladen declare^ himself a strong advocate of the New Woman movement. The book Is dedicated to the Earl of Dunraven, “the most eloquent advocate of the rights of the deceased wife’s sister.” In speaking of a passage in “Vailima Letters,” Andrew Lang says: “♦ ♦ • Mr. Stevenson was ‘crazy’ over M. Bourget's ‘Sensations d’ltalie,’ and fired a dedication at him. It hit M. Bourget in a book-seller's shop in Paris (he informed me), a bolt out of the blue, and sorely puzzled he was as to how to communicate with his remote admirer.” Terror of Engagement Time. The daughter in a wealthy household I lu close neighborhood to Central Park i is engaged to be married, and the news I of the engagement has been published. “We all wish I hadn’t,” says paterfamilias, "because since it got out it lias j looked as though we would not be able ; to enjoy life or even to stay lu town. The mail we receive and the people j who try io get in to see my wife or । myself are such as to cause consternaI tion. Both the letters and the visitors I come from tradesmen who would like ! to furnish flowers for the wedding or ’ to cook the wedding supper (whether j we were to have one or no), or to supply, , the chinaware or the cabs. They are i from stationers who desire to print the cards, from engravers, from jewelers, ' from dressmakers and tailors and mili liners, from caterers who will furnish ' waiters, napery, china, glass, plate—- , even a bridegroom if we ran short, I imagine. The letters pile up beside my wife's jflate every morning and the most stylish engraved cards, bearing the names of men and women of-whom i we never heard, are sent up to the disI traded woman from the front door all ’ day long. Interesting? Yes, very; ' especially the covert suggestion by a I jeweler or two that if we desire to ! swell the display of wedding* presents of gold or silver or jewels they can be had on hire.”—New York Sun. Female Firemen. In Wasso, Sweden, there is a feminina branch of the fire department. Their duties consist in filling four great tubs i which constitute the water supply in i case of fire. They stand in two con- ! tinuous lines from the tubs to the lake, i about three blocks away, oue line pass- ' ing the full buckets and the other sendI ing them back. NVhenever the firo : alarm sounds they are obliged to come I out, no matter what the weather may be, the daughter of the house as well as the serving maid, and often their skirts freeze like bark from the water and the cold. I f the men are away they not only carry the water, but bring ouß the hose and ladders and work the pumps. A Mysterious Face. While a workman engaged’in a Pue- : bio, Colo., stone yard was dressing a block of stone his chisel laid bare a round knob or knot near the surface of the rock. A stroke of the hammer vigorously applied for the purpose of smoothing down the nodule had the effect of dislodging it entire. An investigation proved that the under side of the stone knot bore a perfect model of a human face. The Corean Hat. A singular Corean hat is a great round mat of straw worn by a mourner. The hat is bound down at the' sides so as almost to conceal the head and face of the wearer. He carries in his hand a screen or fan, and when in the road any one approaches him. he bolds the screen in front of him, so that it, together with the hat, completely conceals him. When a man disputes with a fool th« pol is doing the very same thing.