St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 February 1896 — Page 6

independent. AV'. A. UIWJOIjEY, I’uDllslier. WALKERTON, - INDIANA. ENORMOUS SWINDLE. CHINESE FORGERS DISPOSE OF l 53.000.000 SPURIOUS MONEY. Many Merchants in the Island of Java Ruined—Two Western Scamps in the Toils—Wichita Murder Was Deliberately Planned. Bogus Bank Notes. Late advices from China tell of the nttering by Chinese forgers, on the Island of Java, of $3,000,000 of Java bank notes. In order to get notes accepted forged notary acceptances wore placed on them. Already £600,000, of forged and discounted notes have been discovered, and many prominent Chinese merchants have been placed under arrest, including Captain China, one of the wealthiest Chinamen in Java. It is believed by the police that the forgeries were completed in Singamore. Kwee-Che-Soe, a native of China, now a resident of Sourabaya. and a band of native etchers have been arrested. See has confessed to having committed the forgeries, anil implicates many others, all of whom insist they are innocent. Near ly all the leading Chinese merchants of Java have been victimized. Soe is noted for his cunning. Most of the notes made under his instruction were for L'l.fMMl each. On searching Soe’s house not only were found the forged seals of the notary, but also a number of forged bank notes of £SOO each which had recently been made. Soe confessed and offered to give the names of all the other culprits. One of the principals of the gang was Kong Kee, in whose house were found engraved plates and other tools used for the forgeries. Finished bank notes for £SOO and some in course of being completed were also found. Arrested at Kansas City. Two impecunious young men. said to be from New England and giving the names of Mason M. Totten and C. 1. Holliday, have been arrested at Kansas City by postoflice inspectors from Denver and St. Louis. The prisoners are accused of having used the United States mails in swindling several mining stock brokers of Denver. Their plan, operating from Kansas City, was to send urgent requests by mail for certain mining stocks, inclosing checks on Kansas City banks covering the market value of the shares asked for. Neither of the men had a cent in bank. In this manner they secured 20,000 shares of stock from two Denver brokers in exchange for worthless checks for $335. The stocks have all been recovered. The swindlers were preparing to visit Chicago, where they hoped to sell their shares on the mining exchange. Dark Plot Revealed. Tn the trial at Wichita, Kan., ot F. M. Williamson, charged with murdering Henry 11. Leonard to secure the latter's life insurance, Michael Jordan, an old soldier, swore that Williamson approached him last October, a month before the crime was committed, and suggested that he knew where SSOO could easily be made, 'Williamson told him that he knew of a woman who held a $5,000 insurance policyon the life of Leonard, and that she would give SSOO of the insurance to a man that wotdd kill him. Williamson told Jordan till the details of the scheme, and Jordan repeated them in court. The theory of the State has always been that Williamson consented to a divorce from his wife that she might marry Leonard, under agreement that they would afterward kill Leonard to get the insurance on his life. Cubans in the Fea. The steamer J. W. Hawkins, bound from New York to Cuba on a filibustering expedition, was abandoned at sea off Long Islam! Sunday night in a terrific gale, and of the 176 men on board only 113 are accounted for. Ten are known to have been drowned, ami it is believed fifty-three others met a like fate. BREVITIES. The $5,069 b’-each of promise suit of Miss Belie Avery, of Fond du Lae. Wis., against D. J. Evans, of Marshalltown. lowa, was settled before it came to trial. It is understood that Miss Avery received quite a large amount of money to dismiss the suit. The First Methodist Episcopal Church and the Free Methodist Church, of \ andalia. 111., have been holding revival meetings during the last three weeks. There have been eighty-six accessions to the First Methodist Church ami over fifty con versions. Springfield is the place and April 2!) is the time fixed by the Illinois State Central Committee for holding the State Republican convention. I'he vote on the location stood: Springfield, 13; Peoria. 11. One blank ballot was east and two members of the committee were absent. St. Paul's chances for entertaining the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic next September received a setback Tuesday by the action of the Western Passenger Association, and as a result of the arbitrary stand taken by that railroad octopus, the national encampment of 1896 may have to be abandoned entirely. The association insists upon a seven-day limit to all tickets. Prominent residents of Hopewell, N. .1., have organized the James W. Marshall I National Monument Association of New I Jersey, to erect a monument to the mem- j ory of James W. Marshall, who lirst dis- j covered gold in California on Jan. 24. ISIS. Marshall was born near Glenmore, ' in Mercer County, where it is proposed to ; erect the monument. An appeal for sub- i script ions will bo made to California pion- ; eers throughout the country. Judges Field. Harlan. Brewer and ’ Brown, of the Supreme Court, rendered their decision in the Northern Pacific recto vership case, holding all the courts along the line of the road to be ancillary to Judge Jenkins' court at Milwaukee. This decision gives the Milwaukee court jurisdiction over the entire system in the matter of receiverships. According to a New York rumor. Yvette Guilbert is to marry Teddy Marks, her manager. Mme. Modjeska's company- has been released for four weeks, owing to the illness of the star.

EASTERN. George L. Wellington has been nominated for United States Senator by the Maryland Republican legislative caucus. Frederick W. Sutterle, the head of the Keen-Sutterle Company, of Philadelphia, whose sensational failure was reported last week and who has been missing since the assignment, is in New York. New York society has snubbed Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, formerly Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. A musical in aid of a hospital has been declared off, the patronesses refusing to serve when they- learned it was to be held at her house. The American ship Roanoke, Captain Joseph Hamilton, which left New York 217 days ago, has reached San Francisco after a season of disaster and delay. Three of her original crew were lost in the Atlantic and sixteen were loft in the hospital at Rio Janeiro. William Foster. Jr., of New York city, engaged in the business of mining ami manufacturing, has made an assignment to his son. The liabilities are expected to be about $400,000, and the assets are largely in excess of that amount. The assignment is made in order to enable Mr. Foster, who is in ill health, to retire from business. The steamer Seaguarance, at New York, from Mexican port; and Havana, landed f^uß«i\ilors f rolu the wrecked Norwegian lia iikwghild, which, while proceeding do*B>lhe Mexican coast on Jan. 12, was knocks down by a norther and capsized. All haT-^x were saved. Two seamen of the schooner O. W. Jones, which was wrecked on the bar at Smita Anna, while bound for New Orleans, also arrived on tlie Seaguarance. It was during a spanking race to make New York port ahead of her fleet rival, the Uunarder Campania, that the American liner St. Paul ran her nose 100 feet into the white sands of Long Branch Friday at midnight. Stories differ about the Campania, it being declared ami denied that she, too, ran aground, but was able to release herself. The stranding of the St. Paul, it was learned when her passengers arrived in the city at 7 o'clock Saturday evening, occurred at the close of a seventeen-hour race, called off on account of the heavy fog. This is vouched for both by Captain Walker of the Campania and the passengers of both ships. Walker came near going ashore himself off Elberon, but was warned by the men of the life-saving crews and dropped anchor in time to save his ship. It is possible the St. Paul cannot be floated in time to save her. WESTERN. A San Francisco paper says President Cleveland has accepted an invitation from Attorney W. W. Foote to spend part of his vacation next summer on the Pacific coast. The Westliche Post, of St. Louis, the leading German Republican paper of the central west, came out strong Wednes day morning in favor of McKinley for presidential nomination. Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry, found fault with the orchestra leader of Lady Douglas’ troupe at Orville Cal., and as a result was thrashed by the musician. The first assay of rock taken from tin' new Bonner District in San Diego County. California, assayed $167,250 to the ton. or $83,625 to the pound. The field closely resembles that of Cripple ('reek. Children and grandchildren of Janies Rogers, of Pomona. Cal., have been amaz ed by the information that he married on Sunday last Miss Ida Nelson at the home of the bride's parents near Prescott. A. T. The groom is 77 years old and the bride will be 15 next May. The Cook County Commissioners at Chicago canceled the contract with P. Kennefiek & Co., who are charged with delivering short-weight coal to the conn ty's dependents, voted to withhold fur ther payments to that firm and appointed a committee to present the case to the Grand Jury. An explosion of chemicals in the laboratory of the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company, in room 21!) of the* old Stock Exchange Building at Chicago, caused a lire that wrecked all the offices on the second floor, frightened into panic or hysterics the occupants of the building am! resulted in the severe injury of two persons. The secretary of the Oakland, (‘al., branch of the American Railway Union has received a letter from the private secretary of E. V. Debs in which the statement telegraphed from the East that Dobs is to resign the presidency of the union is denied. He says Debs will win the fight in which he is now engaged on behalf of organized labor or die in the attempt. Mme. Modjeska, who was taken ill at Cincinnati Monday, is suffering from the same disease of which Lawrence Barrett died. The glands of the throat are badly swollen and the trouble extends down into the lungs and. by sympathy, the physicians say, to the shoulders and arms. What the nature of the disease is no one pretends to define precisely, but it is certain there is reason for alarm. The engine of the New York an i St. Louis express on the Little Miami Railroad exploded Wednesday morning forty miles from Columbus, Ohio, killing Clark A. Trimble, engineer, and George Waters, fireman, both of Columbus. No olh -r persons wen killed or injured. The track was all torn, ^p. requiring transfer of passongers^W^ararily at that point. All of the can^B^y wrecked except the s! ', | ers. ThatWa pupil was injured in a blaze which started Thursday morning on the first floor of the Dodge street school at Omaha. Neb., was due to Ossie Downs, a IG-year-old boy. Oftie is the head drummer in the tire drill. He handles the drum to keep the children in marching order. As soon as the alarm was given he hurried ■: down to the principal's office, got his drum j and, stationing himself near the door, | pounded out the tunes while the children | marched out of the building. j Mobster Grove, the St. Louis suburb, ! was wildly excited over the tragedy, when I Bertram A. Atwater, the young Chicago ! artist who had gone to visit his betrothj ed, was waylaid by highwaymen. One j of the robbers, John Schmidt, wounded s to death by the plucky Chicagoan, will i die. The other thug. Sam Foster, a col- : ored ex-convict, who tired the fatal shots. : and I’etm Schmidt, who arranged the trap into which Mr. Atwater was unsuspectingly lured and then slain, are in custody. At their examination they tried to escape, ami only determined action by Ihe officers prevented a mob from lynching them. “1 did the deed. 1 killed George Wells and don't want anyone else <0 suffer for the crime but myself." said Henry C. Foster. as he stood upon the scaffold at the । Cook County jail at Chicago Friday noon.

1 Three minutes later the murder for which the young colored man had been tried was legally avenged. The "Black Bear" died with the exemplification of the nerve that he has so often declared he would display upon the gallows. Not once did he betray weakness during the ordeal which preceded the adjusting of the noose and the paraphernalia of death. There was an absence of the bravado manner that the young man's varied life might have instilled in him. WASHINGTON. President Cleveland declares that the Davis Monroe doctrine resolution is “mischievous, inopportune and unfortunate." The conference of silver leaders at Washington resulted in a decision to put a national ticket in the field. The convention to make nominations will be held at St. Louis on July 22. Ex-President Harrison called at the White House about 3 o'clock Friday afternoon to pay his respects to President Cleveland, thus returning a similar call made by the hitter upon him while he was the occupant of the White House, and. like himself, an ex-President. The interview lasted about ten minutes. Washington dispatch: Col. R. E. A. Crofton, commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry at Fort Sheridan, 111., has oeen asked to retire from the army. Secretary Lamont sent him a letter ing that on account of certain evidenaK revealed in the Pague court-martial the President would b" pl.ns.d to gnu his application for retirement. In six months more Crofton could have retired upon bis own motion. Ex-Congressman Hatch, of Missouri; J. Howes, of Maryland, and 11. C. Adams, of Wisconsin, have established in Washington in behalf of the National Dairy I'nion, which represents interests aggregating $6,000.000,000, for the purpose of procuring the passage by Congress of a bill tp limit the effect of the commerce clause of the constitution with respect to the oleomargarine and filled cheese, or what is known to the dairymen as the Hill-Apsley-Grout bill of the fifty-third Congress. Another bill aims at the regulation of the manufacture and sale of tilled cheese, while a third provides for the registering of State trade marks. It is thought that all three measures can be successfully pushed through Congress at its present session, although strong opposition is anticipated from the manufacturers and wholesale venders of fraudulent dairy products. FOREIGN, Yang Yu. Chinese minister, has received notice of his promotion to the presidency ot the board of sacrificial worship, one of the most honorable offices in the Chinese empire. He will leave Washington for Peking in June and it is understood that In Yong, now minister to Japan, will succeed him. Rumors are current at Bilbao, Spain, of greatly increased activity in Cariist circles, where it is hoped that the reverses which the Spanish forces have suffered in Cuba and the failure of Gen. Campis to put down the insurrection may ru tse the Spanish people against the Gove;;, ment of the queen regent and aft • •d an opportunity for I ton Carlos, or Don Jaime, his son. Prince Henry of Battenlterg. husband of Princess Beatrice of England, who went to Ashantee in a special < apn -i*** and who contracted fever then-, is der 1. The news was received nt Osborne Lous •. Isle of Wight, early Wednesday. Jl.e queen and Princess Beatrice are p.->s fritted with grief. The greatest - o-.-ow is manifested throughout the Isle of Wight at the death of Prime Henry ami the flags everywhere are at half imim. A dispatch received from Osborne. isle of Wight, says that the health of Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice is affect ed by the shock experienced when the news of the death of Prime Henri of Battenberg was made known to them. 1 he remains of the prince will bo interred at Windsor and the ceremony to be followed will be similar to that used at the Imral of the remains of the Duke of Albany. Queen Victoria's youngest son. who died in 1884. The Chinese Government lias agreed to open the West River provided China is allowed to retain the territory < cded.im ; j dor the Burmah-China convention in IS'.H. 1 The cities of Canton and Hong Kong are situated on the ba. into which the West River empties. The news occasioned no small satisfaction in Hong Kong. The trade of the rich province of Yunnan hail begun to be diverted by the activity of the French in Tonquin from its natural channel down the river. A dispatch to the London Pall Mall Gazette from Constantinople, dated Wednesday, says that an offensive and defensive alliance has L’en concluded be- , tween Russia and Turkey. The treaty was signed Jan. IS at Constantinople, and the ratifications were exchanged at St. Pet<*rsburg between Aarej Pasha and the <-zar. The basis of flic treaty is declared to be on the lines of the Unkiar-Skelessi agreement of 1533, by which Turkey promised, in the event of Russia going to war. to close the Dardanelles to warships of all nations. The Fall Mall Gazette's correspondent adds that the treaty must soon lie abandoned owing to the refusal of the powers to recognize it. He also says the French ambassador, M. Cambon. conferred with the sultan yestenlnyC and that it is probable France will be included in the new alliance. B. Argos, an Armenian resident of Neu Britain. Conn., is in receipt of a letter from a friend in Armenia, in which details are given of the awful massacies perpetrated in the district ot Harpoot. The letter, which was secretly mailed and came via Persia, says that between nine and ten thousand Armenians have been massacred, and upward of one hundrel thousand are starving ami destitut > in the district. Snow lies to the depth of several feet. Some of the Armenians hav • taken to eating grain. Os the 300 villages m Harpoot, five have been sacked and burned by Turks and Kurds. 'l’he rest are occupied by the butchering soldiers. 1 here were twelve American missions in tbe listrict, but eight of them have been burned. Tae lives of the Americans have been spared, but they, with the Armeunns. are in great want, and in some instances they are starving. Owing to the energetic representations of I'nited States Minister Terrell, Miss Barton and her party will be permitted by the Turkish Government to distribute relief to the distressed Armenians, although the Red ('loss will not figure in the work. This nows came to the State Department Friday in a cablegram from tin' minister to Secretary Olney, in which he says that while the porte refuses such permission to the Red Cross, or to the memb<*rs of the Red Cross, as such, and thereby declines to officially recognize that

society, It will permit any person whom the minister names and approves to dis-i tribute relief in the interior of Turkey! provided the 1 urkish authorities ar4 kept informed of what they are doing. There can be no question that Miss Bari ton and her party will be so designated by Mr Terrell. But it is apprehended that they will encounter almost insure mountable obstacles in reaching the field of action, as the mountain passes betwecii the seaboard and the interior are now practically impassable owing to the deep snow. Ihe Hart Line steamers, plying between Philadelphia and Cuba and the M est Indies, will in future be armed with cannon and Maxim guns. Capt. Ker, counsel for the owners, has notified the Collector of the Port that the will carry bow-chasers, and u ill blow the exotic Spaniards to kingdom come should they give any more trouble. The two vessels first on the list for equipment are the Horsn and Laurada. both of which have gained no little notoriety from their alleged connection with filibustering expeditions to Cuba. ('apt. Ker avers that both vessels will need arms for self-protection, the laurada from the pirates which infest the coast of Africa, the Horsa from the Spaniards gunboats. The Spanish authorities in the city will, it is said, exert every influence to prevent the Hart boats from leaving the port of T’hiladelphia with arms ou botird. Capt. Ker said: "I , nut told that tin- Spanish authorities have I said that if they catch any of the vessels of the Hart Line in Cuban waters they will make it hot for them, this information may not betrue. but I have every reason to distrust the Spaniards. The verdict in the case of Capt. Hughes shows that our vessels have not done anything wrong. We are not going to give up the \\ est Indies trade, and we know there are no I nited States war vessels to protect us. Me have concluded to go into the protecting business ourselves and we will put guns on our boats and use them if necessary. There are lots of young mon from our naval training vessels who would be only too glad to get positions where they could show their capacity, and there are no better gunners in the world than tiny are." IN GENERAL Mme. Modjeska is so seriously ill that all her engagements have been canceled. Miss Clara Barton and the staff officers of the Red Cross Society sailed Wednesday from New York for Constantinople. The wife of Hon. George N. t'urzon. who was formerly Miss Mary Leiter, of Washington, was delivered of a daughter Monday. Jennie Goldthwnite, the "Kitty Glover" of the Princess Bonnie ()pern Company, is engaged to marri Frank Murphy, the Chicago broker. The China ships. Clarence S. Bennett, Captain Franck, and Wiliittm H. Connor. Captain Pendleton, crossed the New York bar together Wednesday night outwardbound. The John Currier, Captain Law rence, and the Josephus. Captain Kilkey, ' left later for the same port Shanghai. 'l’he ship tluit first reaches her destination will win a purse of S4OO, which the captains have made up. R. (•. Dun .A Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The week has been marked by improvements apparent rather Lhaq real. Prices of some prodm-ts have ris -n, Xjbnt only becuuse supplies are believed to li^dfcnuilier than expe< tc*L I lie Senate still injures all busim ss by doing nothing and the treasury cannot expect to gain in gold ns yet. but loses less than was ex]<ected. It is generally assumed that the new loan will be placed without difficulty. though the successive payments may cause continued disturbance. A deluge of foreign reports favorable to wheat s|M>culntion found ready answer in an advance of over 5 cents here, in spite of Western receipts sti per cent, larger than last year." The ban placed by the Roman Catholic Church upon the orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons of Temperance and Odd Fellows is absolute and admits of no further discussion. This is the mandate of the pope, through his official representative, (’ardintil Satolli. The three orders named have a Roman Catholic member ship in round numbers of nearly a hundred thousand. One month ago a num- . her of prominent Catholies connected with the Pythian order organized a committee of appeal in the hope that a proper presentation of the case before the papal delegate would result in a recall of the interdict. In resjxmse to invitations the committee received a thousand letters from prominent Roman Catholics in all parts of the country heartily indorsing the movement and pledging moral and financial aid. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. tile to (»2c; corn. No. 2,27 cto 28e; oats. No. 2. 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2. 38c to 39c: butter, choice creamery. 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh. 15c to 17c; potatoes. 1 per bushel, l^c to 25c; broom corn. 2c to 4c per pound for l>oor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 '<■ $4.75; hogs, choice light. $3.(M< to $3.5(1; sheep, common to prime. $2.(Ki to X 3.00; client. No. 2. (<*ie to Il7< ; corn. No. 1 xGiite, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white. 22c t “ 23c. St. Louis —Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00: hogs. $3.00 to $4.25: wheat. No. 2 red. 64c to 66c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25e to 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,34 c to 36c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cio 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to 54.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.00 to $3.50: wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white. 21c to 22c: rye. 38c to 39c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 69c to 71c: corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c: oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,38 ct > 39c; ‘-■lover seed, $4.25 to $4.35. Milwaukee-M'heat, No. 2 spring, <>oc to 61c; corn, No. 2, 2(ic to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley. No. 2. 33c to 35c; rye, No. 1,39 cto 41c; pork, mess, $10.25 to $10.75. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to Tie; corn, No. 2. 3(ic to 37c; oats, No. 2 white. 24c to 2->c; butter, creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs. M estern, 16c to 18c.

THEY WILL NOT FUSE. THREE TICKETS THIS YEAR IN KANSAS, Democrats and Populists Will Fly Separate Banners —Awful Loss of Life in a Welsh Colliery Exp osion-Chap-lain Prays for Armenia. No Fusion in Kansas. There has been a good deal of newspaper talk lately about fusion between the Democrats and Populists in Kansas this year, with George W. Glick as the candidate for Governor. M’hile such a combination is possible, it is not probable, says a Topeka dispatch. Many of the Democratic leaders are opposed to any kind of a coalition with the Populists, claiming that it would result disastrously to their organization, as did the arrangement of 1892. Ihe Populist leaders also ate opposed to fusion. ’1 hose who are outspoken for fusion arc Democrats and Populists who prefer anything to Republicanism. This faction is greatly in th< minority, but it is growing. However, it is the opinion of conservative Democrats and Populists that there will not be any fusion on State officers this year, ami that there will be three straight tickets in the field as in 1594. Invokes Divine Aid. Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the House, prayed eloquently for bieeding Armenia Monday. “Hear the cry of our agony." he prayed, "in behalf of the people of Armenia, despoiled, tortured, their homes in ashes, their men and women and children slain at the edge of the sword, their women dishonored. Arouse ami unite the powers of Christendom, the queen, tin? czar, the kaiser, kings and princes, their ministers and people, that the sultan shall lie forced to sheathe his bloody sword and stay the frenzied rage of bis fanatical soldiery and subjects.’’ Sublime Porte M ill Pay. Uncle Sam has brought the sultan to time, and there is now little likelihood that any of the American cruisers will have war practice in the Levant, with Mohammedan towns as targets. During the Armenian debate Monday in the 1 louse. Mr. Hitt of Illinois, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Turkish Government had admitted the justice of claims for indemnity in the Kharput and Marsh outrages, and would pay the sums demanded by Secretary Olney. These sums amounted to about s2t»o,(ioo. Death in a M’clsh Colliery, A terrible explosion has taken place in n colliery it Tylnrstown. near Cardiff. Males. The shafts were shattered and the whole town was shaken by the tremendous eom ussion. causing a scene of wild excitement. Fifty-four miners were i below the surface when the explosion took place. Twelve bodies were recovered from the colliery and twelve mon are still missing. !b s< ue parties were hurried to the scene, but their work was very dangerous. owing to the fact that the pit is on tire. NEWS NUGGETS. J. I. Fry. of Andreus. Ind., who sued the Wabash Railroad for SItUMM), alleging improper treatment at the hands of the company’s physician when he was sick, lost his suit. Louis Magnus was found frozen to death in his room in Quincy, 111. He was recently divorced from his wife and lived alone. He leaves a farm and several pieces of improved city real estate. Sheriff E. A. Baxter, of Springfield. UL. went to Sedalia. Mo., with a requisition for Fred Brown, charged with forgery by the Farmers’ National Bank of Springfield. Baxter was prevented from taking his man to Illinois by a writ of habeas corpus. The south bound Southern Pacific passenger train on the coast division ran into a washout Sunday night twenty miles south of San Francisco, derailing the locomotive and four cars. Engineer John Keyer was killed and several passengers injured, but none seriously. Ex President George F. Magoun, of lowa College, is very iil at his home in Grinnell. lowa, and is not expected to live. He was the first president of lowa College and served for twenty years. He is a member of the American board, and is well known in religious and college circles East and West. At Swanse. Blount County. Ala.. I’rank Jones, superintendent of the Swanse Coal Company mines, shot and fatally wounded his wife, a beautiful young woman. 20 years of age. Jones was insanely jealous of his wife. He escaped, armed, ami defied anyone to arrest him. Jones has heretofore stood high. A double murder was committed at Hoonah. Alaska, on account of the failure of lel.-Ka-Ish. a medicine man of the Hoonah tribe, to cure a young Indian. The medicine man blamed a young I idian. who immediately shot the doctor. Then the doctor's cousin shot the slayer of the doctor. A few blankets squared the deal. Louis Grancitta. an artist, was found dead in bed at M’ashington. He had turned on the gas before retiring and was asphyxiated. Despondency was the probable cause for the act. Grancitta had up to Saturday worked on the new congressional library building as a decorator, and was said to be an expert in his profession. He had been employed in Chicago ami California. He had traveled the world over and had exorcised his talent in the principal cities, 'i’he suicide was about forty years of age and a Swiss by birth., James Gillespie was run over by a Panhandle train at Elwood. Ind., ami instantly killed. Advices from Alaska say that Iho steamer Rustler picked up thirteen starving men in a rowboat. Ihe men were on the way from Seward City to Juneau, and had not had food or water for two days. They acted like wolves. 11. M. Hoon, professor of the high school in Mitehell. S. D., was thrown from a buggy ami killed. Mrs. S. (>. G. Hopkins was thrown from her buggy in a runaway in Mat shall, Mo., and was instantly killed. The induction of the I tali Senators occurred in the Senate Monday, Senator Dubois presenting the en dentials of Senator Cannon and Senator Burrows those of Senator Brown. I'hey drew lots. Senator Cannon won the long term, expiring March 3. 1899, and Senator Brown the term until March 3, 1897.

A WHARF RAT. One Seen in a Walk Alone South Street. “I had read about wharf rats, and heard about them often,” said a man. ’‘The other day I saw one. I was walking along South street, and I saw a Sound boat whose sailing hour was about due, and I thought I’d like to see her start out. You couldn’t see much of her from the wharf at which she lay. on account ofi the pier shed; aud so 1 went round and down the wharf on the other side of the ship. The wharf was housed over, but it had the usual openings in the sides, and from one of them I got a good view of the boat I wanted to see, directly opposite at work taking on the last of the steamer’s load. Over there it was all activity; where I was it,was all quiet. There was no boat on either side, and only a truck or two and three or four men on the wharf. "M’hile I stood there in the broad opening looking at the boat and at the flags floating over it a rat apeared six or eight feet away, on that side of the opening toward the river end of the wharf; it came out from alongside of or under the stringpiece, where it was cut off so that the floor of the wharf might in the opening be unobstructeo to the edge. “1 don’t know how big wharf rats grow, but this was the biggest rar 1 ever saw; it was a big rat, and yet. big as it was, it didn’t seem monstrous; that is, it didn't seem like a rat of unusual size for the place, for it acted as though it belonged there and was perfectly familiar with the place and its surroundings. It was quick and smooth in its movements, but not hurried. The instant it appeared it started across the opening. It crossed in front of me, within a few jnches of where I stood, but without deviating from its course., and disappeared under the corresponding end of the stringpiece on the other side. "In the presence of that rat I felt like a stranger. M’here he came from and where he was going I didn't know, nor what his errand was, but it was plain enough from the ease and certainty with which he moved that he knew that wharf from bulkhead line to pierhead in every spile and brace, aud probably be knows all South street just as well. He didn't stop to look at the boat; he wffsn't interested in it, as I was, for be lives there and sees it every day."New York Sun. Some Rare Minerals. “Once in a while,” remarked a mining man last evening, “you hear of a man who claims to have found a mine of bismuth, and basing his calculations upon a price of say $2 a pound, he heralds his find and thinks he has a forj tune within his grasp. The fact is, there is no bismuth produced in this country and there are only about thirty tons imported. So if any one could put 100 tons on the market it would bring the price down to 25 cents, at least. "Os cobalt not more than 200 tons are used annually in the world. "In regard to mica—l am speaking now of the uses it is put to in electrical appliances—the East Indian product is driving the Canadian product out of the market. Mica that is in the least associated with iron is useless for this purpose. It is much the same with some of the rarer minerals. NVere tellurium found in large quantities its value would lessen, but, as only a few ounces are found each year, not enough to supply the demand, Mhy the value is enhanced." Three-fifths of the nickel produced in the world comes from Canada. The production iu other portions of the world is so small as to cut no figure in ! the statistics of mineral productions.— Spokane Review. Novel Use of Searchlight. The electric searchlight was used recently to put down a riot in Lancashire, England. A manufacturer, whose men had struck, was determined to keep his mill going, and he promptly ,sc?ureJ new hands and set them to work. Ab the same time he fixed a searchlizht on the factory building to prevent the strikers from setting fire to the sheds erected for the new hands. During the continuance of the strike this ligt.t was used nightly in conjunction tvith the police established in the works, to scour the country and to illuminate iLe part where pickets were placed. 11 was ; found so effective that a large nnnUvr of temporary police were dispensed with. * Fear of Death. ! The absence of fear of death which is such a striking character of the Ghinese nature has a logical explanation. The Chinese are taught that only those who face death fearlessly enter into happiness in the other world. Foreigners who have witnessed executions in China bear witness that, as the executioner with his stvord mows down the kneeling ranks, the convicts invariably meet death with jest. Lions. The Mesopotamian lion ,is usually without a mane, although upon the Ksrun River some have been found with a long black one. Such a lion, a recent traveler tells us, is called a Kaffir, or Infidel, the maneless lions being Mussulmans. These latter, if properly adjured, may. say the inhabitants, be induced to spare*life on orthodox confession of faith, while the unbelieving lion has no mercy. Likes the Country. James R. Robertson, a young Englishman who recently arrived in this country, is thus quoted: "This is my first trip to the United States, and I am charmed and interested with the country and its people. 1 was up mi Lake George, where 1 consider the scenery as fine as anything iu Scotland.” The dirtier a dog is, the more friendLy he is to his master. . _____