St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 May 1896 — Page 2

£l)c Jniepen^cnt. W. A. BMri.EY, Ihibllshei. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. ROBBED BY BRIGANDS GERMAN DUKE AND DUCHESS THE VICTIMS. His Highness Losses sl3 und His Flunkies Had a Fit-President Kruger of the Transvaal Opens the Volksraad—Sugar from Argentine. * Brigands Bob a Duke and Duchess. The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his wife were stopped Tuesday by brigands, ^..near Frascati, Province of Rome, Italy, ■who demanded their money. The duke was at first inclined to resist, but his wife became hysterical and threw out her purse, containing sl3, whereupon the robbers withdrew, offering profound apologies. The robbers were masked and armed with rifles. They are known in the neighborhood as desperate characters, who would have killed or abducted the duke if ho had resisted. The party consisted of, besides the duke and duchess, the Poet Richard Yoss. two women and two flunkies. The latter fell into fits with ' fright. The Italian Government prom- I ises to hang the brigands, according to an * ancient law against robbing royal per- 1 sonages. A regiment of hussars which t was tracking the robbers reports having • caught them. ' Kruger to the Boers. ( The Volksraad of the South African 1 Republic was opened Tuesday by Pres- 1 ident Kruger at Pretoria. The President j in his speech said, in brief, that the recent t events, “due to malevolence and selfish ( •objects,” had seriously interrupted the ( rest and peace of the South African Re- ] public, adding: “It has over been my wish t to promote the development and prosper! • ty of the republic in the most peaceable [ manner possible, so I am firmly convinced ( that it is your sincere wish to co-operate j with me in this policy and that you ex- j pect with the fullest confidence that this ' session of the Volksraad will contribute । in no small manner to the restoration ( of peace in this State in order that. । through our united co-operation, our ( country may flourish and prosper for the । benefit of all.” The President then touch- , ed upon the foreign relations of the South African Republic, the most delicate and । eagerly anticipated portion of his speech. । saying: “In spite of past troubles the republic continues to maintain friendly , relations with foreign powers." This subject was then significantly dropped and the President turned to the relations between the South African republic and its sister republic, the Orange Free State, remarking: “I hope that a meeting lx'tween representatives of the Orange Free State and representatives of the South African Republic will shortly be held and plans for a closer union between the two countries will be discussed.” This! utterance of President Kruger was looked upon as confirming the report that flegotiations have for some time past l»een on foot for an alliance, offensive and defensive, between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, looking to resisting any attempt upon the part of Great Britain to interfere with the internal affairs of either country. National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 10 4 Cleveland ... 6 6 Pittsburg ... 9 4 Brooklyn .... 77 Boston 9 5 Baltimore ... 77 Chicago .... 9 6 Sr. Louis.... 6 9 Washington 8 G New York... 3 11 Cincinnati .. 8 (5 Louisville ... 2 13 Standing of Western League. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: W. L. W. L. Detroit 10 2 Indianapolis. 4 6 St. Paul 7 4 Minneapolis.. 5 S Kansas City. 7 5 Columbus ... . 5 S Milwaukee ..5 7 Grand Rapids 4 7 New Source of Sugar Supply. In view of the small crop of sugar produced in Cuba last year. United States Minister Buchanan, ar Buenos Ayres, says the belief has gained ground there that Argentine raw sugar and molasses can be profitably exported to the United States. To illustrate the extent of the sugar industry in that country the Minister submits statistics showing the production by mills and by departments. In one province. Tucuman, thirty-one mills produced 240.356.976 pounds of sugar during the nine months of 1895 ended Dec. 31, being an increase of 75.172.28 G pounds over rhe corresponding period of 1894. NEWS NUGGETS. Judge C. G. Foster, of the United States District Court, has appointed C. O. Knowles, V. G. Noel and 'Bonnett R. Wheeler receivers for the Investment Trust Company of America, doing business in Topeka, Kan. Among the company’s directors are William Lloyd Garrison. of Boston, and a half-dozen other New England capitalists. The authorized capital is S3,<MMMM)O and paid in capital $1,499,999. The receivers are friendly to the company. Constantinople newspapers were authorized to announce the death of the Shah of Persia, but without stating the cause. One newspaper announces that ihe Shah was out for a walk, felt unwell and died suddenly. Some apprehension is felt in official circles owing to the fact that the assassin formerly lived in Constantinople, from which place he communicated with Sheikh Jem Aleddin, who is credited with having planned to murder both the Shah and Grand Vizier of Persia. Willie Wild, brother of Oscar Wild and ex-husband of Mrs. Frank Leslie, has lieen lined 5 shillings at London for being drunk and disorderly. The will of the late John Stetson, the Boston theatrical manager, is missing, and there are rumors that only $5(10,090 of his supposed estate of $2,000,000 can be found. Obituary: At Philadelphia. Commander Felix McCurley, U. S. N..—At Englewood, N. V., George S. Coe, the New York banker. 79.—At Toronto, Ont., T. Anglin, 74.—At Rockford. 111.. Mrs. W. A. Fay.—At Joliet, 111., Thomas Tait, GO.

EASTERN. The New York World correspondent gives a list of thirty-two non-combatant Cubans shot without trial by the Spanish soldiers, and whose cases he has personally investigated. When George Wilhelm, of Beechmont, Allegheny County, Pa., heard the news 1 that the Illinois State convention had declared for McKinley, he killed himself. Wilhelm was an enthusiastic Quay man. The trial of Arthur Mayhew, a negro, for the murder of Stephen Howell in Hempstead. L. 1., on March i last was concluded before Justice Martin J. Keogh in Long Island. 'Phe jury returned a verdict of murder in tne first degree, after being out two hours. Dr. A. Monroe Loeser, executive surgeon of the Red Cross hospital in New York, has received a letter from Miss Clara Barton, dated Constantinople, in which she says that contagious diseases have spread very much at Zeitoun and at Marash in the interior of Anatolia. A strike of drivers has caused a suspension of live large mines in the Tom s Run district, near Carnegie, Pa. Not more than forty men quit work because their demand for an increase in wages was refused, but they have thrown about 700 diggers out of work. The strike is not sanctioned by the miners district officers, and every effort is being made by them to effect a settlement. Charles Broadway Rouss, the wealthy New York merchant who is rapidly succumbing to total blindness, has a standing offer of SI.O(HMMM) open to any person who can cure him. Various people have accepted the offer, Mr. Rouss wisely allowing them to experiment first upon a substitute. Only a week ago a substitute was tortured almost to madness by a crank with a pin pricking machine. Now comes a Western hypnotist who claims he has cured a Chicago man of business. He will accordingly try his hypnotic powers on a Mr. Martin, a substitute, and if the latter is cured Mr. Rouss will take the cure. Thon, if relieved, he will turn over to the hypnotist his eight-story Broadway store and everything in it as a reward. Gov. Levi P. Morton touched a button Saturday night in New York and a big cannon was discharged in Union Square. San Francisco. Th s announced the opening of the electrical exposition in New York city. By the aid of the Pacific Postal Company, Gov. Morton was enabled to form one of the largest circuits ever known. It was an idea of the directors of the exposition to have four cannons fired simultaneously in four large cities at the four points of the compass in the United States. St. Paul. Boston. New Orleans an I San Francisco were chosen to represent the North, East, South and West. A cannon was placed in a public square in each city and at S o’clock Saturday night, when the exposition opened. Gov. Morton touched the button in th? exposition building, and the four cannons were tired at once. WESTERN. One of the Noble Manufacturing Com pany’s warehouses at Goshen, Ind., was destroyed, presumably by the torch of an I Incendiary. Boss. J l.oixi; insurance, $2, DOO. i George Anderson, colored, of Terre Haute, was instantly killed by Robert Love at Indianapolis, Ind., and the latter made his escape. A quarrel began about five cents. Fire in the clothing house of S. Lazarus, Sons & Co., of Columbus. Ohio, was extinguished soon after being discovered, but the loss by smoke and water will be considerable. The Illinois Republican convention at Springfield nominated John R. Tanner for Governor, ami pledged its delegation to McKinley at the national convention at St. Louis. Cognovit judgments were taken against the Ohio Buggy Company at Columbus aggregating $50,009. J. S. Morton is president and John Derthick treasurer of the company. Japanese Consul Salto at Tacoma has received notice that a company of capitalists has applied t > the Japanese government for permission to establish a steam ship line between Japan ami New York City. The Lehigh Coal and Iron Company, one of the largest companies at the head of Lake Superior, has been reorganized under the name of the Lehigh Coal and Coke Company. The purpose of the change was to recapitalize. A man who gave the name of John Lewis, and who said he was an iron molder, wa arrested at San Francisco while attempting to strangle a woman in an alley. The polize believe Lewis may have strangled other women who were recently murdered there. A destructive cyclone passed over sections of Boone, Audrain and Monroe Counties, Missouri, Tuesday night. Trees and fences were leveled, and at the farms of J. W. Sexton and .1. L. Sappington whole orchards were destroyed, and barns, dwellings and outbuildings swept away. No one is reported killed. Rev. C. O. Brown is no longer pastor of the First Congregational Church of San Francisco. At one of the stormiest ami most sensational meetings of his congregation he resigned, ami by this uiivx pected action destroyed the plans his opponents had been making for several weeks. To the very last his friends remained with him.

There would have been a bank failure nt Hallock, Minn., Friday had it not been for the cool head of a woman. President Booker, of the National Bank of Grand Forks, which went under last week, is int rested in the Kittson County Bank at Hallock. Cashier Douglas went to Grand Forks to see Mr. Booker, leaving Ins wife to run the institution. His I absence, coupled with the failure at । Grand Forks, led timorous people to become suspicious, and a few went in and drew a portion of their money. Presently some of the leading business men went in and asked for their entire balances. The lady in charge told them that the bank was solvent, and that if they persisted in 1 withdrawing tneir deposits she would 3 close the bank. This brought them to - their senses, confidence was restored after a few minutes' conversation, and the run ■ was stopped. The mining camp of Cripple Creek, Col., * is no more. The destroying angel whose i wings of tire fanned the camp on Saturday renewed his visitation Wednesday, and completed the calamity. Thousands of people are homeless, with two inches of snow on the ground and a thermome- ' ter that is hugging the zero mark. No ’ description can exaggerate the condition ■ of affairs. Two million dollars’ worth ’• of property went up in smoke, with prob-

ably one-tenth of that covered by Insurance. The loss of life is great owing to • the reckless use of dynamite in throwing t down buildings that stood in the path of the tire, with the hope of erecting a barrier of debris that would stop further progress of the flames. The Palace hotel was blown to bits, and sleeping guests were hurled to eternity. Four are known 1 to be dead, and the injured number twenty. 'Dio tire was started by bandits, whose aim was to loot the banks. Not a business building is standing. Only a few outlying residences escaped the flames. The climax of the fourth act of “Othello,” as produced by Tragedian Louis James at the C.lumbus, 0., High Street Theater Friday night, was not written by Shakspeare. Columbus theatergoers witnessed a startling innovation in the immortal love tragedy. Guy Linsley, the leading man of Mr. James' company, appeared in the role of lago. Lying on the stage floor, where he had been thrown by Othello, lago says: "This 1s damnation greater than 1 can bear.” Actor Linsley had hardly finished the linos when a stylishly dressed young woman jumped from one of the boxes on to the stage. She was white with anger. She held a leather riding whip in her hands and struck Linsley repeatedly on th? face and over the head. Linsley said: “Somebody take her away. Mr. James, take her away.” Mr. J antes ordered the curtain rung down. The worn-"' an was arrested and locked up on the charge of assault and battery. She gave the name of Georgia Kimball, and said that she had met Linsley in St. Louis. She said he had rejected her, and she came to Columbus for the sole purpose of disgracing and ruining him, Nir. Linsley denied he had made her any promises. Mantger Oven^ appeared on the stage an<l apologized to the audience for the disgraceful scene. Linsley was greeted with cheers upon his first appearance in the last act after the whipping. SOUTHERN. Mary, the wife of William Shore, of Huntington, W. Vn., leaped fifty feet from a railroad bridge into the Elkhorn river to escape an approaching engine. She was rescued, but will die. James Nixon shot ami killed Dempsey Brown, his brother-in-law, in a family quarrel at Austin. Texas. Brown in his dying agony returned the fire with a double-barreled shotgun, fatally wounding Nixon. Fire at Paris, Texas, destroyed property valued at $250,000, including the Hotel Peterson, the J. K. Bywaters Building. M. F. Alien & Co.'s warehouse and the Clements Building. The body of John Saulsman win found in the ruins, and it is supposed tmit h > was murdered and the fire started to conceal the crime. According to Kentucky law. which requires that if a defendant is to be put on the stand at all he shall be called first, Scott Jackson was put upon the stand at | Newport, Ky., Thursday morning. lie I gave a brief sketch of hie life in Jersey I City ami New York, ami of his acquaint I mice in Greencastle. Ind., where his mother lives, and told briefly of his acquaintance with Pearl Bryan. He was in Greencastle from the s * ng of 1895 until the middle of October of that year audi I saw Pearl Bryan often. He was nlsxuL tolrll of atnUziucuts made to him by Will \\ ood ouxTrninK Wood'* relations • I'earl Bryan when the Court ruled UuX t such testimony was not admissible. Jat^f r sou said he received many letters frw, Wood. but that they were so vile tha^y ' destroy.si nil except two. which are Im’* in the possession of the prosecution. K FOREIGN, The illness of the Russian cznrowit* has taken a sudden turn for the worar. The distress, owing to the drouth in the northwest provime* of India, is unexampled. It is estimated that 2t*>,ooo persons are employed on relief work Prof. Geffleken, the well-known authority on international law and editor of the Diary of Emperor Frederick, nzs suffocated in a tire at Munich, caused by the explosion of a lamp. An explosion, by which 109 people are believed to have perished, occurred at a colliery in Miiklefiehl, Yorkshire, England. Twenty injured persons have been rescued from the shaft. While the shah was entering the inner court of the shrine of Shah Abdul Azim, six miles south of Teheran, Persia, Friday afternoon he vas shot. It is officially announccil that the shah is dead. The assassin fired point blank at his heart. According to a dispatch received at Berlin from Teheran the report is confirmed. It is stated that a physician attached to the German legation saw the i shah's body. A dispatch from Hinda. India, says that an explosion of a box of fireworks on th- Bombay mail train near Ghuziabad wrecked the car and hurled the occupants along the line. The train was packed with humanity. The natives, who made up the greater part of the passengers, maddened by pain, jumped recklessly out of the windows, with their clothes on fire, while the train was going at full speed. Three of them were kille«l and eleven injured by jumping. Several . others were burned to death in the car. It is reported that the Transvaal executive has asked each of the reform prisoners, except the leaders, to make a separate stntomeiH giving reasons why hL ; sentence should be reduced. All the pii-*"

oners were searched and everything taken from them. The prisoners are on strictly prison fare. George Bieker, I nited States geologist, has cabled Secretary Olney pointing out when in December a proposal to raise a foreign flag was made Hammond demanded and obtained an oath of allegiance from all the members to the Transvaal Hag. Their sole purpose in forming a committee was for the protection of their homes and not for revolution. The sentence of death imposed at Pretoria, South Africa, upon John Hays Hammond, the American engineer; Col. Francis Rhodes, a brother of the former premier of Cape Colony; Lionel Phillips, president of the Chamber of Mines of Johannesburg, and George Farrar, proprietor of County Life, of Johannesburg, has been commuted. Advices say that at the close of the trial of the leading members of the Johannesburg committee the presiding judge, after summing up, said that it was his painful duty to pass sentence upon the prisoners who had pleaded guilty of high treason, but he expressed the hope that tae executive would show the same clemency it had exhibited during the crisis which marked the beginning of the year. The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has captureri' and brought into Havana the American schooner Competitor, of Key West, loaded with arms and ammunition, believed to be intended for the insurgents.

The details of the affair show that the Mengagcra on Saturday sighted near Berracag, on the north coast of the Province of I innr del Rio, a suspicious-looking schooner, which attempted to get awav from the war vessel. She was pursued, overhauled and boarded. I„ command of her were Alfredo Laborde, Dr Bedia and three newspaper correspondents The Competitor, it appears, was last from the Mosquito const, where, it is presumed she shipped the arms and ammunition found on board. The latter consisted of 38090 cartridges, a number of packages of dynamite, many cases of Mauser and Remington rifles, cases of accoutrements, etc. The men found on board are held as prisoners. Baroh Hirsch left to the Prince of Wales by will £1,000,090 ($5,000,000). This is announced from London upon the authority of a leading official in one of the royal establishments—a Knight Commander of the Bath, who by reason of his official as well as his personal and social relations to the Prince of Wales, is in a position to know the facts. Common rumor has had it for a long time that the prince was heavily in the baron's debt. Whether the bequest is exclusive or inclusive of this alleged indebtedness cannot be known perhaps until the will is read. The baron certainly and frequently was grout financial assistance to his X' nl highness. In return the prince gave ^n constant social countenance, even gsng to the baron’s vast shooting domains in Austria a few years ago on a visit. The young kaiser was also invited then', but, with contempt, refused to go. Report has ever since had it that the prince pressed his nephew to go, and that the kaiser's refusal was the first cause of the wellknown ill-feeling between the twnIN GENERAL* The town of Flesherton, Ont., was wiped out by fire. The total catch oi seal in the north Atlantic for the season just closed was 297,(KM). Columbia University will send a band of naturalists to explore the Puget Sound region. They will leave New York June 19. The Epworth League board of control has recommended that the affiliation with the ^Christian Endeavor Society be dissolved. Mrs. Booth-Tucker, the consul of the Salvation Army in America, is very ill, and it is*doubtful whether she will lie able to keep her engagements in California and Oregon. Obituary: At Dresden. Ohio, Dr. D. A. Austin. At Fairbury, 111., Mrs. Mary Gibb, <SB. At Muncie, Ind., Milton Thoma< At Constantine, Mich., Samuel King. At Elkhart, Ind.. Mrs. Margaret Burdoff. 52. At Rockford, 1111., Mrs. A. J. Storey, 63. Obituary: At Anderson. Ind., W. G. 1 Lindsay. At Crystal Falls. Mu h.. Sheriff I Thomas Ball. At Rochester, Ind., Dr. Cornelius (’. Hector, 80. At Janesville, j Wis.. Mrs. E. <’. Gowdy. At Gillett, Wish.. Louis Runkel. At Elco, 111., James E. M< Urite, 83. The steamer Alki, at Port Townsend, from Alaska, had a passengers two sealers, Gns Petersen, a German, and a halfbreed. Siwash Jimmy, who left Victoria rJaik 23 in a m sb ag whtmner. City of t. ■. .... a,..1l « <>.. ....... ->.<• 1...... > Yig w»1». were tost in n blinding snows lorin am! driven before the wind all \ Hight in a small canoe. When daylight A same the schooner was not in sight. For Hix days and night the men driftisf, un 4 til they went on th. Alaskan beach !'*> miles west of Sitka. Their feet and hands wen* frozen stiff. They were picked up by Indians As the schooner City of San Diego has not been sighted since the night of the storm. Peterson is of the opinion she was l< st. Sho had eighty skins at the time the men loft her. R G. Dun A C ' Weekly Review •! Trade says: "As the season advances there is more business, but advices indicate that on the whole the prevalent feeling is that the gain is less than there was reason to ex;ie< t. While retail trade has been active enough to materially lessen stocks and obligations tfnd thus to prevent n great many threatened embarrass nients, it has not yet brought enough new business to mills or factories to prevent decrease of unfilled orders ami closing of some works. Substantially the same state of things < vis's in all the great industries. notwithstanding the strong combinations in some, and evidence of inadequate consumption appears in the fact that the general range of prices for commodities farm and mine as well as manufactured products is nearly 1 per cent lower than it was April 1 and the lowest I over known, the decline since th-tobi r, 1892, being 16.7 per cent.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $3.,”»9 to $4 59; hogs, shipping grades, $3.(M> to 83.75; sheep, fair to -hoc e. $2.5!) to $4.90; wheat. No. 2 red. G<»e to G2e; corn. No. 2. 28c t • 29.■; oat'. No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye. No. 2. 35c to 36c; butter, choice creamery. 1 I ■ to IGc; eggs, fresh, 9e to 10c; potat- .s, per bushel. 15c to 20c; broom corn. 2c to 4- per lb for com-

mon growth to tine brush. Indianapolis—-Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to s4.si>; hogs . - ' sheep, ennmon t- j., i $2.00 to SM»l; | wheat, No. 2. GGc "o • oc; corn. No. 1 white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22e to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to ISc; rye, No. 2,36 c to 38c. Cincinnati—Cattle. 93.50 to $4.25: hogs. 93.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 t ■ $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 60c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2. 41c to 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to 93.75; sheep, $2.00 to 94.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 66e to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats. No 2 white. 22c to 23c: rye. 35c to 370. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. G.Sc to G9c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white. 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2. 3Se to 39c; clover seed, $4.55 to $4.65. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring. 60c to 62c; corn. No. 3. 29c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley. No. 2. 33c to 35c; rye, No, 1,37 c to 39c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $-1.50: sheep. 92.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2. 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white. 24c to 26c; butter, creamery, 10c to 16c; eggs, Western, 10c to 12c. 1

WOMAN’S RASH DEED. MRS. SAILER DROWNS HERSELF AND CHILDREN. Sturgeon Bay, Wi s „ the e ccnc of the ragedy - Horror at CincinnatiBritain’s Big Canal Depends Upon American Shipments. Sought Relief i n Death. H. A B ™? ation " i,s created in Sturgeon \\ is., Monday' evening by the announcement that Mrs. F. X. Sailer, the wife of a business man. had drowned her two children and then committed suicide by the same method. The woman had gone down the bay shore a distance of three miles and had evidently walked out into the bay with her children and held them under the water until life was extinct, after which she lay down ami deliberately suffered herself to drown. A fisherman coming from his nets discovered the bodies floating in the water and immediately reported the matter to the city- authorities, who went, to the scene. They found the children, aged 4 and 2 years, upon the shore, while the mother’s body was out about sixty feet. Mrs. Sailer was about 25 years of age and was the fourth wife of her husband, and from all reports the couple had not been living happily for a year or so past. Mr. Sailer owns a business block and had until recently been engaged in the furniture business.

Sure to Reap a 1 ic i Harvest. The steamer Lakme has arrived at Seattle, Wash., from Cook’s Inlet. On board was Will M. Steele, secretary of Washington Press Association, who reports his observations as follows: “The rush this spring to-the gold district of Turnagain Bay, Cook's Inlet, w/s unprecedented. Although comparatively unexplored, numerous creeks on the bay have given up gold dust and nuzgets of such value as to encourage the hopes of prospectors, numbering into the thousands. 1 spent two weeks cruising on tlm inlet, and from a careful e.’.amination ‘ of the existing conditions and authenticated reports of developments and finds along numerous creeks am firmly of the opinion that the proper kind of men haz- ’ ardisi no chance in casting their lines into 1 the golden waters that flow into the inlet. Every creek and river shows traces of tine gold, which increase in coarseness ns the streams are ascended, while pieces of gold-bearing quartz are frequently found in placers, demonstrating that fur--1 ther back toward the mountains are 1 mother ledges. Auriferous deposits cov- • era territory of almost unknown extent. while prospecting thus far has lieen comparatively slight.” Helps the Manchester Canal. The business of the great Manchester Ship ('anal is looking up. according to a report to the State Department by Uni- _ ted States Consul Grinnell at Manchester. and on ttie basis of his figures he feels j that the prospec of a more general and an । increased business from the United States direct to Manchester by the canal seems , assured. During the first three months f of this year WJRSi bates of cotton arquantity than arrived durinu the entire | two years since the canal opened Jan. 1. t 1894. It is also exjiected that a part of r the great American cattle and provision fr.: Ie may l<e diverted to Manchester to 1 the aid of the eanal. Death in the Blast. ! Six people killed, eighteen more in the p hospital and from twenty-five to fifty perP sons missing is the result of an explosion r which wrecked the five-story brick building. Nos. Isj and I s ! Walnut street. Cinj ciunati. <».. Monday night. It is thought 4 fully a score of people have been killed. Imt nothing definite will be known until the ruins me cleared. The explosion was s caused by the ignition of a tank of gaso-

s line used in making gas for the premises j by a patent pr>»v's. BREVITIES. v ——— t Baron de H;: - h’s will h ave-85.ihhi.ihhi j for charities in Moravia. e Mrs. Stanford has transferrel $2,500.(hhi in fi. nds to the Leland Stanford Jr. University. William Bendy, who killed three per- - sons nti I wounded four others at Beaumont, Texas, has been hanged by a mob. D. Paul H nipt, head of the Semitic t department of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Md., started Monday for Leij»s;e to'direct the work on a n-w polychromatic edition of the Old Testament. The edition will be in twenty parts. Dr. Haupt is the editor-in-chief. A rabbinical supplement edited by S. Schechter of . Cambridge and M. Friedman of Vienna . will lie adi'.ed to the work. ' Ex-Priest George Francis DoEon, of • Pittsburg, Pa., with his bride, is in Akron, O~ where h- will open a stationery

-tore and news stand. Dillon was si - era! years priest of St. Th ima*' Cmir.a in Braddock, l’a.. in which town ho met Rose <'ecilia Donovan, a pretty telegraph operator. They were much taken with each other, ami last November they were . ■ ! I - • . I < ■ es eelihzcy. WHS P-mi-w- 1 from . his priestly ctli e. The business done by the Chicago post- ; ofiice continues to show a healthful in- ' crease. The receipts for April were the ; largest of any April in the history of the 1 ofiice. exceeding by $67,087 the corre- I spending month of last year—an increase : of 17.64 per cent. The receipts exceeded : those of the busy month of April. 1893. j marly 84OJMN>. despite the fact that at ' that time nearly the whole world was in i correspondence with Chicago. 1 Ite in- ' crease was uniform in all lines. The four leading theaters of Denver gave performances for the benefit of the • t 'ripple Creek sufferers. About 91.<hhi was netted. .v dispatch received by the Indian De- j pertinent at Ottawa. Ont., says the Indians in the Alaska distr: ■: are preparing I to go on rhe warpath. The news reach- i ed Victoria by the steamer Sitka. Rev. Dr. Nathan E. Wood, of Boston, I has withdrawn from the Salvation Army . .Auxiliary League because, he says. Gen. ’ Booth is at the head of a military dr-pot- j ism and the army is drifting fast into I the formation of another sect. Claude Fai's 'Wright and Miss Mary Kathlene Lcoliue Leonard were married at New York by the secret head of rhe Theosophical Society of America, in accordance with the rites of ancient Egyptian mysteries. Theosophists say the couple were married some SJJOO years ago. during a previous reincarnation.

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW. MAKERS. A Week's Proceedings in the Halls of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon-An Impartial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. The Senate was plunged into an exciting financial debat. Tuesdav, after several weeks of serene and forma! procedurenHnatmrTnatiOU b;! ' B ’ The naval a PP r ° : 1 lation bill was under consideration, and the item of four battle ships, to cost an aggregate of $15,000,000, served as s md t H° r * a ,^ l>eeCh by Mr ’ Gorl «™ pointing are 1< t ti^ r , e . Venues of tho Government smtl, ‘ a V hl ‘ r eeei P‘ s - Gorman’s statements brought on an animated controversy m which Mr. Sherman. Mr. Hale and Mr. Chandler joined issues • i-.i the Maryland Senator as to the responsibility for the failure of tariff legislation in the present Congress. The House passed the I'iekler general pension bill by n vote of 187 to 54. The section to which the bulk of the opposition was directed provides that persons otherwise entitled to pensions shall un be disqualified on account of prior service in the Confe<le rate

army, provided they joineu the Union forces ninety days before Lee’s surrender. Both House and Senate spent Wednesday in debate of various measures. Absolutely nothing of importance was done. The general debate on the bankruptcy bill was continued and concluded in the House Thursday. Mr. Bailey of Texas gave notice that he would offer as a substitute his voluntary bankruptcy bill. The Senate spent another day on the naval appropriation bill without completing it. Mr. Gorman further opposed the item of four battle ships and expressed the opinion that the appropriations already made would consume the balance in the treasury. A determination of the number of battle ships has not yet been reached. Mr. Chandler has propo. ed substituting thirty large and fast torpedo gunboats for two of the battle ships. The bill was passed increasing the jK'nsion of Brigadier General William Gross of the volunteer forces to $75 per month. The Senate Friday discussed the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Gorman's amendment reducing from four to two the number of battle ships to be constructed was adopted in the Senate by a vote of 31 to 27. The House again devoted the major portion of the day to debate on the bankruptcy bill. Several amendments were offered, but none were adopted. A bill to provide for a delegate in Congress from the territory of Alaska was defeated by a vote of 60 to 44. Opponents of the bankruptcy bill which passed the Hous' Saturday afternoon by a decisive majority, the vote being 157 yeas to SI nays, were not confined to cither of the great political parties or any I section. State delegations were divided j as to the propriety of such a bill and the members of the Illinois delegation were ! by no means favorably disposed toward the measure. Representatives Connolly, Hitt and Lorimer voted for the bill, while v»>>vs-<irafT» Marsh. Smith aiM Wood were recorded in opposition. What is true of the Illinois delegation applies With equal force to the other State delegations, and Democrats. Populists and Republicans at last found a proposition on which they could agree and vote accordingly. All the Populists voted against the bill. Baker 'Kan.l. Bell I Colo.), Kem, Newlands. Suford and Strowd (N. C.). The Bailey substitute to the bill providing for voluntary bankruptcy was defeated—B9 to 129. The Senate passed the naval appropriation bill. An amendment for building three torpedo boats on the Pacific coast was agreed to. The Chandler amendment providing for twenty torpedo boats was defeated—23 to 39.

I MV. The Senate passed Monday in debate of I the resolution for bond investigation, ignoring the river and harbor bib. The , House discussed Senate amendments to the naval appropriation bill. Quite a i number of bills were passed during the j day, mostly of minor importance. Among i them were bills for the protection of I yacht owners end shipbuilders, to authorize the construction of a bridge acr ss the i Illinois river at Grafton. 111.; to create a I new division of the eastern judiciary district of Toxas; to pension Gen. Joseph R. West at the rate of SSO per month and to 1 authorize South Dakota to select the ' Fort Scully military reservation as pert | of the lands granted to that State. Items of Interest. Sunflower stalks are now converted I into paper. The Cherokees of North Carolina number 2.885. Blotting pappr is made of cotton rags boiled in soda. The Russian imperial crown is valued at $6,000,000. The notes of the Bank of England cost one-half penny each. The eggs of a crocodile are scarcely larger than those of a goose. The Himalaya Mountains have been seen twenty-two miles away. Railway travel in Norway is cheaper than in any other country of Europe. In Brazil there are said to be 300 ' languages and dialects spoken by the Indians. In the Bermudas accounts are settled but once a year, June 30 being the day ■ fixed for payments. The commander-in-chief of the Sultan of Morocco's army is a Scotchman, by name Raid McLain. In marching soldiers take seventyfive steps per minute, quick marching i 108 and in charging 150. A healthy man respires 16 to 20 times a minute, or over 20.000 a day: a child : 25 or 35 times a minute. It is said that at Stevens Point. Wis., I a local census disclosed a husband of I 37 and wife of 35 who had a grandchild 5 years old. There are 197.14G.420 a .■ s of timber lands in the Southern States, and the average yield of these forests is 3,000 feet per acre. j. C. Kissinger, a successful farmer and banker of Butler County, Pa., is the father of thirty-four children, nineteen by his first wife and fifteen by a second.