St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 June 1896 — Page 2

Independent. W. A. »rsi»’.i:v. .->uUliMlior. WALKERTON, - . . INDIANA. HE DIED'iNHARNESS. VETERAN CHICAGO JOURNALIST IS GONE. Wm a Worker in the Vineyard Since 1840—Great Gathering of Sunday School Workers at Boston—Si^iia of Peace in Crete. J. K. C. Forrest Dead. Joseph K. C. Forrest is dead. For a period greater in duration than that of any other man he had done editorial work on the newspapers of Chicago. Few men were better known than he. In a city where his employers could have passed unrecognized any time these twenty years, Mr. Forrest's walks on the street had been continuous processions through crowds of friends. Os late years Mr. Forrest had been employed on the Daily News, where his occasional articles over the odd signature of “Now or Never" were the best exponents of that older school of journalism, which he always adorned. The frivolous skipped those articles after a first reading. But the settled older fellow, with strong convictions and a positive love for true terms, read them ami enjoyed and indorsed them. But he was an old newspaper man before there was any Daily News. It is said Jo Forrest named the Tribune. He certainly helped start that paiMT. And even before that he was a professional, if not a veteran, for he had done much excellent work on the .Journal. Ever since 1840 he had been actively engaged in newspaper work in Chicago. Sunday School Convention. Tremont Temple, at Boston. Mass., was the scene Tuesday morning of the opening exorcises of the eighth annual international and thirteenth national Bunday school convention. Some 2,006 delegates, together with many times that number of visitors, representing 146.006 Sunday schools with a total membership of between ten and twelve million pupils,' were present when Evangelist Dwight L. Moody appeared on the platform to conduct the opening services. It is now twenty-one years since the first international convention was held in Baltimore, though the first national one was held forty-two years earlier. Oct. 3. 1832, in Chatham street chape:. New York. At the first national convention in New York 220 delegates were enrolled, representing fifteen States. National League. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cleveland ...31 18 Philadelphia .20 26 Kaltimore . .34 ISBrooklyn .. .27 25 Cincinnati ..33 22(’hieago .. ..20 27 Boston 20 21 New York . . .2 31 Washington .20 23St. Louis .. .14 38 Pittsburg ...27 21 Louisville ...11 30 Western League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .30 lOSt. Paul ... .23 2G Detroit 20 lOG'rd Rapids .21 30 Minneapolis .31 21 Milwaukee ..21 30 Kansas City .20 23 Columbus .. .10 35 Altged an 1 Silver. For Governor John I*. Altgeld For Lieutenant Governor Monroe C. Crawford For Secretary of State .Finis E. Downing For Treasurer Edward C. Pace For Attorney General . .George A. I re.!-' For Auditor I Beck For University I'rustees Julia Ho.mes Smith. N. W. Graham. Richard I’. Morgan. The above ticket was nominated 1 y Illinois Democrats in convention at Peoria, Tuesday. A platform strongly favoring silvir was adopted. Better Report from Crete. The Italian Consul nt Canea has received orders to hold himself in. readiness to co-operate with the other < onsu'.s to intervene toward the restoration of peace. News which is absolute.y authentic is to the effect that Shakir Tasha, who was announced as going to Grete. has bev i directed to go to Beyroot instead with four battalions of soldiers. Twenty-four hundred troops are going to Crete from Smvrna and 2.060 to Salonien from the interior. New troops are to go to Smyrna. Bel a sen Gets a Verdict. After an exhaustive trial lasting over three weeks a New \ ork jury 1 uesday declared that N. K. Lairbank. of t hicago, owed David Belaseo. dramatist and stage muimgvr. with ♦» per rout. interest from IS’Mi. for making an actress out es Mrs. Leslie Carter. This verdict gives Mr. Belaseo over $20,000 in reality, and is in the nature of a vindication for him and his witnesses, as well as a reward for his services. NEWS NUGGETS. German army officers, aided by the police, searched the soldiers barracks in the Halle for socialistic newspapers and books. Nothing was found, although there it is known that reserves who are garrisoned there temporarily brought with them quantities of incendiary literature. The first official report that has reached Washington of the great Japanese earthquake and tidal wave came Monday to the State Department from Mr. lierod. Secretary of our Legation at I’okio, in the following brief cablegram, which, however. makes the calamity out to be much worse than heretofore reported: “Deaths caused by lidai wave estimated at over 30,060 ill reports up to date. No mortality among Americans.'’ Brooks' periodical comet is reported to be returning to the earth. The Tabor Opera House and the Tabor Block were sold at auction at Denver. •Colo., under foreclosure by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee to satisfy a trust deed for $488,143. The company bid in the property. During the political excitement at Chatham, Ont., a balcony of the Royal Exchange Hotel collapsed, while a crowd stood underneath. Fourteen persons were severely and probably fatally injured.

EASTERN. The grent race between the University of Wisconsin and the Yule freshmen proved an overwhelming victory for the former. They covered the two miles in 12:0(13-5, leading the disciples of the famous Bob Cook by ten lengths of clear water. Lake Saltonstall, near New Ha--1 ven, was the scene of battle. The Middlesex woolen mill of . Lowell, Mass., employing nearly 1,000 hands, will close its departments one after another for an indefinite time. As the supplies furnished by one department become exhausted in another which is dependent upon it, the latter will close and so on until all have suspended. Overproduction is the reason assigned for the suspension. The body of an unknown man was washed ashore nt Ellis Island, New York, in the upper bay. In the clothing was a cheek for $1,006, dated San Francisco, May 27. payable to Faregle Gallagher, a £1 note, a baggage cheek from San Francisco and SI,OOO in gold, besides several foreign coins. The body indicates that the m. i was about 40 years old, 5 feet 7 L. R, Brewer, the California millionaire, has served notice on the Pacific Mail SteamshipTompany that he will sue for $1,506,(160 damages for the death of his wife and three children, who went down with the Colima off the coast of Mexico last year. The suits will be brought in New York. They are said to be the forerunners of many others that will be brought by relatives of the victims. Henry Barton Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward Beecher, was on trial on the charge of forgery in the criminal part of the Supremo Court, Brooklyn. Beecher is charged with forging an application of the vice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company for an insurance policy, for which the premiums would aggregate S22O,(MM). He is defended by his brother, Col. William C. Beecher, and ex Assistant District Attorney Wellman. At Pittsburg. Pa., the grand jury has returned true bills in the libel suit of C. L. Magee and Senator William Flinn against A, Reed, E. Bartlett and W. J. Christay of the Commercial Gazette. and C. W. Houston, C, E. Locke and the Press Publishing Company. This is the result of an article in the Commercial Gazette and a cartoon in the Press, asserting that Magee and Flinn's assistance in the McKinley campaign was due to the receipt of SIOO,OOO from Mark Hanna's satchel to carry on the fight against Senator Quay. Magee and Flinn denied the charge. At the Taylor Cycle Park, one mile west of Little Falls, N. Y., where the State meet of the L. A. W. was to take place, the boiler of the steam yacht Titus Sheard exploded as the boat was being moored Thursday afternoon. In that vicinity ten of the crowd were killed outright, one died while on the w iy to the hospital, three were fatally and six seriously injured. The boat was blown to splinters, and pieces of the boiler were thrown 500 feet. Three of the bodies have not been recovered, and ate believed to be in the Erie canal, where the catastrophe occurred. The explosion is believed to have resulted from the defective work Ing of the pump connected with the boilers. The engineer. W. Van Buren Youngs. : is in the hospital seriously injured, ami I can give no account of the ae Ideut. WESTERN, Gen. William Henry Dymond, who was one of San Francisco's most honored <-iti zens and at one time Super ntmihnt of the United States mint there, died nt th ’ Giisey House, New York, nt 7:30 o'clock Thursday morning, lb w;s on his way to Europe in search of health. The seventh annual convention of the . Medal of Honor Legion was held nt I'.i neuil Hall, Boston. Delegates wen pres ent from all parts of the country. Gen. Nelson A. Miles was unanimomdy electc.l president, ami Maj. Gen. I'healorc S. Peek. Adjutant General of Vermont, was elected senior vi e president. The printers' strike in the Twin Cities was settled at 2 o'clock Thursday morning by an agreement between the typographical union and the publishers' asso elation to arbitrate all differences as to wages and hours. Meanwhile the offices have been declared “open." and the old men will Ih' taken back as rapidly as places can be made for them. The Rev. Lyman J. Fisher, a retired Baptist minister at Middletown, ()., resigued from the Board of Education, giving as his reason that after a lifelong | study of the scriptures he had come to the conclusion that Saturday was the Sabbath day. As most of the examinations fall on Saturday, it hurt bis conscience to err longer. The resignation was accepted. A territie rain, wind and thunder storm visited Toledo, 0., Sunday afternoon. Victor Monimee. a well-known farmer, was instantly killed by lightning. Grove Collins ami family sought refuge in a shed and were knocked unconscious by a bolt striking the building. A great deal of damage to buildings, orchards, fruit trees, etc., is reported from all sections of the county. At Leadville. Colo.. Friday night 1.000 miners walked out. They demand $3 a day and are now receiving only $2.50. A number of the mines are paying $3 a day. but many properties claim they can only afford $2.50. The men who struck are employed at the Mariah. Maid. Henriette. Penrose ami Bohn properties. All other $2.50 men will go out. The strike is or dered by the Miners Lmou. Everything so far is orderly. According to reports received by the Postotiice Inspector at. Denver, Colo., a deadly running fight occurred Wednesday at Liberty, N. M., a small town 112 miles from Las Vegas, and seventy-five miles from Galiinas Springs, the nearest hamlet. 'J'wo desperate characters had been terrorizing the ranchmen and cattlemen for several days. Meeting with no resistance, they were emboldened, and made a raid on the postotiice at Liberty. A. posse followed, overtaking the robbers thirty miles from town. The bandits opened fire on them, killing Levi Herzstein, the postmaster, and Merejillo Gallegos, and mortally wounding Placide 1 Gurule. Three horses were shot down. Both men are described as six footers, ' well armed, and not afraid of tight. A reward of $1,500 has been off red for their capture. Excursionists on the steamer City of Chicago who went across the lake from Chicago to St. .Joseph Saturday night saw Capt. Charles Mclntosh, the veteran ' commander, put a passenger in chains. 1 The captain, observing an excursionist ' sitting on the steamer's rail, told him it ’ was against the rules of the vessel. The man made no answer, and was ordered down at once. ‘T will get down when I

I am good and ready,” was the reply, as the man reached for bis revolver. Without another word Capt. Mclntosh, who is over 60 years of age, seized the passenger, who weighed 180 pounds, and, after a brief struggle, threw him on the deek. He then sat down on him and held him until members of the crew brought a rope. He was securely bound and carried into the hold, where he was kept until the steamer’s arrival at St. Joseph. H e was then turned over Io tlm? United States deputy marshal on the charge of attempting to shoot an officer of a. vessel on the high sens. The penalty for the offense is severe. He gave the name of Philip Rogers, and said lie was a railroad mau of Chicago. ' I POLITICAL. - The silver men who walked out of the national Republican convention issued an address to the country Friday announcing the launching of a new party and putting forward Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado ns a candidate for President. M ilham C, Whitney, of New York, made a public statement in which he defines the political situation, makes his position clear as regards his decision to remain in this country instead of going to Europe, mid concludes by saying that he is not a presidential possibility; that he "would not run if nominated and would not serve if elected.” At Portland, Me,, the Democratic fetate convention declared in favor of a'gold standard, against the u>hmge silver, in favor of a resubmission oi the State prohibition amendment, ana for high license mid local option. It indorsed President Cleveland and denounced the protective tariff as operated by Republicans, declaring in favor of legislation which shall restore the country to prosperity. Edward B. Winslow, of Portland, was nominated for Governor by accla mat ion. The Republican national committee Friday elected Marcus A. Hanna chairman of the committee, filled the vacancies on the committee caused by the silver bolt, mid then adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. On motion of N. B. Scott of West Virginia the committee filled the other vacancies on the committee caused by the silver bolt, as follows: New Mexico, Solomon Luna: Oolorado, J. F. Sunders; Nevada, (1. 11. Sproude: Idaho, George F. Shoup: Utah, O. J. Salsburv; Arizona, W. M. Griffith. Following is a table showing the vote on the first and only ballot at the St. Louis convention: M'Kln- Mor- Alll*»otes. ley. Reed. ton. Quay. son. Alabama ..22 10 2 1 Arkansas .. 10 10 .. .. " " California .IS 18 Colorado .. S .. Con’cUcut .12 7 5 ’. ” Delaware .0 0 ’ I-'loridn ... 8 o . . 2 , . .. Georgia ... 20 22 2 .. 2 ” Idaho o . . 7 ” Illinois .... 48 4 i 2 .. ~ ’ Indiana. .. 30 30 lowa 20 jj Kansas .... 20 20 Kentucky .20 28 ” Louisiana . 10 11 4 u u Main- 12 12 .. ’ ’ Maryland . 10 ir. 1 Mas.a 30 12.» Michigan ..28 2s ' .Minnesota .18 is ' I aMlssl'ppl . is 17 | Mlasourl ..34 34 ’ ” (■Montana 0 ' । Nebraska .. 10 10 cNevnda .. <i 3 N Hamp., s ~ 8 New Jersey 20 IP 1 Now York 72 17 . . N Csr.dlnn. 22 WU, 2H • * N. Dakota 8 0 .. .. Ohio 4'l 4« <»reg.>n .... S 8 I'enns'nla Ui G .. .. 58 Rhode DIM. 8 . . 8 8 Carolina. IS is 8 I >akotii s 8 i Tennessee . 24 21 .. •• •• ' ilTcina .... 30 21 5 • • • • “ । ( tab <1 3 . . .. • • 3 Vermont s 8 Virginia .. 21 23 I Wash gi n 8 * W Virginia 12 12 Wisconsin 24 24 . . •• Wyoming . 0 0 Arizona . 0 « New M< x .8 5 ‘ Okla Ter. . 0 4 1 .. •• ‘ Inri Ter . G 0 Dial, of C"l. 2 .. 1•• 1 Alaska .4 4 Totals U 22 oC>l>*j M’-i 58 Ul'-j num absent in Mbsisslpiu bMmitaua One for Cameron; four blank. (Nevada Three absent. dTvxus Otte absent FOREIGN. Venezuelan troops have crossed the Schombttrgk line into territory in dispute with Briiish Guianu. advices from Georgetown report, and have peremptorily prohibited the progress of n British expedition sent out, ostensibly at least, to survey the ground. Un being threatened with force the British retired While there is no confirmation at Paris of the report that the Marquis de Mores, who recently left there for the mysterious Saharan City of Rhat. has been murdered, with practically his entire caravan, toward South Tripoli, by a native tribe, the story is generally believed. According to Explorer Hess, in Figaro, the Marquis had a presentiment that his anti-English campaign in French Africa might cost him his life during this exploring expedition. "France and Russia have shown Spain such steadfast sympathy," says I.e Epoca, a Spanish ministerial organ, "as to justify the belief that if an alliance should be"necessary there would be no ditticTrP.' hi the way." Gen. Campos, having asKe^ 1 to be freed from arrest in order that may take part in the Senate debate the'address, during which he will l»e attacked. the committee of the Senate has reported favorably on his petition, declaring it feels sure the marshal will not abuse his freedom for the purpose of fighting a duel. In the Chamber of Deputies at Madrid, replying to questions put by the deputies, the Duke of Tetuan, minister of foreign affairs, said that Mr. Taylor, the United States minister, had acted in a perfectly correct manner regarding the affair of the Conde de Venadito, the cruiser which fired upon the American steamer Alliaiica off Cape Maisi. in March. 1895. Deputy Gallego replied to the Duke of Tetuan that the Conde de Venadito was within the jurisdietion of Spain at the time. He declared that tiie conspiracy of the United States against the interests of Spain "as unceasing and public, which recent events clearly proved. The Duke of Tetuan censured Senor Gallego for these remarks. Senor Gallego protested against the Duke of Tetuan's censure and referred to the debates in the United States Senate, where, he declared, all sorts of charges and insults had been leveled against the Spanish. London dispatch: The News Tuesday says: “The Junta of the Cuban revolutionists are men of fewer words than their Spanish opponents, but they bow

assert that they have something to say and have accordingly said it. They announce that they have broken the Spanish fortified line and that Gomez is at the gates of Havana. If it is not true they will look foolish; if it is the Spanish generals will appear in that light. We shall know soon one way or the other. The Spanish authorities hitherto have had the dispatch of news from the island all to themselves, but their average of about one and a quarter government victories a day may be regarded as rather too high. Gomez is the leader who baffled Campos last summer. The marshal threw 30,000 men across the island to prevent the insurrection from spreading to Puerto Principe. Gomez with 250 men made a feint at two separate points and then passed through the middle of the line without losing a man. His present success may be a fable, but this is history.” Some time ago at London, the Hon. James Bourke Roche instituted a suit for libel against the proprietors of Burke’s Peerage for an entry in that publication to the effect that he had been divorced from his wife, who was a daughter of Frank Work of New York. The proprietors of Burke’s Peerage have now consented to the verdict against them on the point and it will be moved to accept this verdict on the understanding by the proprietors of Burke’s Peerage to pay Roche’s costs, publish an apology in the newspapers, give a nominal sum to charity, and promise to refuse to sell all of the remaining numbers of the Peerage containing the entry. When Bourke Roche entered a libel suit against William Redmond’s Dublin newspaper for a similar statement the principal defense filed was that Burke's Peerage had also published the allegation of,his being divorced without apparently having been challenged by him. This was the origin of his suit against Burke's Peerage, and the verdict now consented to will place Redmond's paper in an awkward predicament. Yokahama dispatch: It is now estimated that 10,000 people were drowned by the tidal wave on the Island of Yesso, the northern part of Japan, which accompanied a succession of frightful earthquakes, lasting about twenty hours. In addition to the town of Kumaishi, which was wholly destroyed, many other coast towns have been washed away entirely or in part. Yesso, or Jcsso, as it is sometimes called, is the most northerly of the four principal islands which compose the Empire of Japan. It lies north of the central island of Nipon, from which it is separated by the Sangar Strait. It is about 350 miles in length from east to west and 250 miles in extreme breadth. The estimated area is (>2.5(t0 square miles, and the population i« about 120.000. The surface ic mountainous. A rugged mountain chain traverses it from north to south, and it contains many active as well as extinct volcanoes. It is rich in minerals, well watered, ami has coasts indented by numerous bays and harbors. The northern part is especially fertile. There are some valuable gold and silver mines, but the chief products are wheat, rice, hemp, toJmeco and fish. The chief town on the island is Mntsmai. on the south coast, whose population is al»otit 50.000. After Mntsmai. the most important seaport is Hak» ladi. IN GENERAL. - The British steamer Drummond struck a rock and sank. Tuesday night, off the coast of Frau c. and 210 < t the passengers and crew were drew ued. IL G. Dun Ac Go’s Weekly Review of Trade ny«: "There are continued signs that a gain in Ini' te - has begun. Stocks have gone higher than they were before the artificial break ten days ago; wheat «ul . are in better demand, there is more camtidence in monetary circles, and the tendency t""ard shrinkage in great industries seem« in some measure, at least, to be eh’ eked. While the outcome of the Democratic convention is uncertain. and the great crops are not yet wholly beyond danger, a sure and strong improvement could hardly be expected, but the tone in business circles has grown distinctly more hopeful." “Her w hole nature has la-en revolutionized," sa I i Washington hotel keeper, speak.ng of Mrs. Hetty Green’s reported intention of spending Jl.i*«i.uimi or "so much as may be nece'-.iry,' to elect her son Governor of Texa-. "I never knew anybody to loosen up as Mrs. Green has of late,” continued the bonifaee. About eighteen meiiths ago. wren she came here, she haggled with me over the price of one of the cheapest rooms in the house, ami actually made me give her a reduction because she staid a week. The next time she came she had on the finest sort of dross, and my house was not good enough for her. so she went to the highest-priced place in town and never asked the rate. Her liberal streak was late in developing." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.5i) to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 57c to 59c; corn No. 2, 27e to 28c; oats. No. 2. 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,32 cto 34c; butter, choice creamery. 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; new potatoes, per bushel. 25c to 45c; broom corn, common to choice, $25 to $.50 per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light. s3.<»o to 83.75; sheep, common to prime. $J ihi to $3. <•<. wheat. No. 2. 5Pc to G”c; corn. No. ’ white, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 20e to -Ic. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $4.50; iiogs. $3.00 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2 red. (He to G3c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 3le to 33c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4..50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.5n; wheat. No. 2,63 cto 64c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2. 37c to 38c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 io $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.00 to $3.75; wiieat. No. 2 red. 64c to 05c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c: oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. 33c to 35c. Toledo— Wheat. No. 2 red, Gsc to GGc: corn. No. 2 yellow, 2tc to 28c; oats. No. 2 white. 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2,33 cto 35c: clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring. 58c • to 59c; corn. No. 3,26 cto 28c; oats. No. 2 white. 19c to 20c: barley. No. 2. 30c to ’ 32c; rye, No. 1,32 cto 34c; pork, mess, $7.00 'to $7.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. ■ $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.25 to s4.u»: wheat, No. 2 red. 67c to G9c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, ; 22c to 23c. : - New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $4.75; $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65e; corn. No. 2. 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; 1 hutter, creamery, 11c to 16c; eggs, Western, 11c to 13c.

KANSASWHEATYIELD WILL EXCEED FORTY-THREE MILLION BUSHELS. Double That of Last Year, and Above the Average for Five Ycars-Van-dais Burn the Hoxie, Kan., Court Bouae, and Records. Enormous Wheat Crop. After many vicissitudes during the period of growth the State of Kansas has produced an eminently satisfactory crop of wheat. From returns furnished from every county in the State, the total yield is 43,000,060 bushels. That is almost double the quantity produced in the same State the year previous. It also exceeds the average yield of the last live years, which include the phenomenally heavy crop of 1892. It is 9.000.000 bushels more than the season of 1894-95 at the four principal winter wheat markets ami 16,000,<M)6 bushels in excess of the quantity reported at the same fonr principal winter wheat markets since last July to the present date. The production of wheat in Kansas, as officially estimated in the appended table, was as follows: 1891, 54.866,000 bu.; 1892, 70.831,060 bu.; 1803, 23.252.060 bu.; 1894, 35,315,000 bu.; 1895, 22,920,000 bu. Courthouse at Hoxie. Kan., Burned. Sunday morning the court house in Hoxie, Sheridan County, Kan., was burned to the ground and ail of the records of the Registrar of Deeds and County Treasurer destroyed. The safes had been both opened, and the records taken out, opened and piled on the floor in such a manner that they would be sure to be destroyed. There was SBO6 in the Treasurer's safe, which is gone. The County Clerks' safe was not touched and his records were saved. It will cost Sheridan County about $20,660 to repair the loss nnd put the records where they were. No clew has been found to the perpetrators of the deed and the excitement is high. BREVITIES, Sixty Armenians have been massacred by Turks near Van. Hobby Hathersall, a jockey, was thrown and killed at Forsyth tracks in Indiana, Monday, by the race horse Little Tommy. Mayor C. M. Bowie, of White Castle, La., has written io Dr. Dolphin, of Fort Scott, Kan., who claims to have effected a cure of leprosy, asking him to demonstrate his cure at the leprosy hospital six miles from White Castle. There are twenty patients slowly dying of this disease. and the Doctor has assured him that he can cure them. The Marquis of Salisbury, replying at London tn a deputation from the International Arbitration lauigue. said it was his desire to extend arbitration to those whoso’ interests were committed to the government's charge. There was every hope that England and the United States would give the world the first instance of the triumph of a principle which would tend more than anything else to abolish war. \ hail storm raged Sunday night in the western portion ot Nebraska nn l between Dnxt' n and Brule. At Megeath Siding, on the Union Pacific, the hail reached a depth Ilf over two feet. The section men wt re - :,t out with shovels to clear the track s i that the trains could rim. The hail for several miles varied from that depth down to three inches, atid was pm ked in upon the track like pebbles. In some pitices the kail stacked up t<> a depth of four feet, but this was only in draws and pockets. At Spring Grove C<-metery. Cincinnati, Ohio. Friday the last tribute of respect was placed over the resting place of the veteran actor. Henry Howe of the IrvingTerry company, who died in that city on March 9. It was in the shape of a solid granite block. The simple inscription is: “Henry Howe, an English actor, ended his career in Cincinnati March 9, 1896, aged 83. This stone is erected to his memory by his friends of the London Lyceum company.” The Spanish Government has resolved to establish an extraordinary tax on navigation for Spanish ships only; also a temporary moderate tax upon the loaded and unloaded merchandise. The Spanish ports to be taxed include those of Puerto Rico and the Phillipincs, but not of Cuba. The money will go to tile fund for increasing the navy. An extra budget was submitted to the Cortes for the purchase of two additional cruisers and 66,(M1,004) pesetas of war material. The Detroit Tribune, for many years the leading Republican paper of Michigan. repudiates the action of the St. Louis convention in declaring absolutely for the gold standard as against bimetallism. It says: “No one’s Repubucanism can be impugned if he continues to stand squarely on the national and State platforms of the past, and if he repudiates utterly the false and un-American fulmination nt' the St. Louis conspiracy.” and advises active eampaigning against “gold monometallist" congressional candidates. Noble Shepard, who was waiting execution in jail nt St. Louis for the murder of Thomas Morton and Lizzie Leahey, escaped from his cell some time between midnight and 4 o'clock Monday morning, crawled some twenty feet through a sewer, climbed to the roof of the gallows on which he was to hang, thence to the high brick wall surroum..ng the jai'.yard, and then to the street. There is no doubt that he was aided by friends on the outside. and the jail authorities and the police are trying to unravel the mystery of the es-eape. At London the Grand Jury found true bills against Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. Maj. Sir John Willoughby. Uol. R. Gray. Maj. R. White. Col. 11. F. White and Hon. Henry I’. Coventry, who were held for trial at the Bow street police court June 15, charged with violating the neutrality laws by invading the Transvaal Republic. The Dowager Empress of China is dead. A dispatch from Beyrout, Syria, says that during the recent fighting between the Turks and the insurgent Druses in thd Hauran districts the former lost 560 men killed. Bradley C. Newell, the Vermont “healer,” is at New York on his way to England. where, it is said, he will treat the Princess of Wales. A serious conflict has taken place between Servian officials and Montenegrins at Kursamlija. Several persons were killed and wounded on both sides.

TELLER THEIR MAN. SILVER PEOPLE URGE H«S NOMINATION. A Definition of Their Position Set Forth in an Address to the Voters of the Country—Views of Those Who ‘Bolted.” Silver Men's Manifesto. The silver men who walked out of the Republican convention, with others of the same faith, have issued a statement addressed to the people of the United States and the national conventions yet to be held. They say in part: I here is no sanctity in a mere partv name, and the mark of decay is set on individual strength in the nation when an absolute rule us ti political organization coerces men irom the truth for the sake of expediency and establishes an insincere submission to partisan rule for the sake us power. “There has been growing in this country, and swelling with each recurrence of the national elections, a great mass of Independent ulld voters, which, falling within Itseii to control, lias Krnvltatd lietwee'i the IWO great parses. Tifflce 1872 (ex tpung possibly 1876) the pendulum has swung from side to side each four years. In 1872 the KepubHean party elected Its President. In 1876 Democracy claimed the election. In 1880 the Republican party elected. In 1884 the Democrats elected. In 188 S the Republl<*aus elected, and in 1802 tUe Deiuovnits elected. lu IStKJ, until within a few weekw, it has been conceded that the Republicans would elect.” The signers say this is because party promises made were broken to the people by party performance. They declare further: “During all this period we have lacked a great constructive administration. It becomes a source of reproach to any mau that he should dare to renounce allegiance to an organization.. Men have been expected to submit their views to the dictation of conventions, although It is of common knowledge that conventions have been swayed to the views and declarations not most approved by the mass of people nor for their welfare.” The silver men further deciare: “The time has come for the performance of a duty to the country. I’arties may outlive their usefulness, but truth never becomes obsolete. Every generation of free men has a right to affirm the truths of past knowledge and present acquirement, and if the enforcement of those truths shall make necessary a departure from the party organizatlon, the people have this right and will exercise it until the old parties shi.ll return to the truth or new parties be created to enact It into law. “We hold that in the great work of social revolution in this country monetary reform Is the first requisite, awl no policy, however promising in good results, can take its place. The continuation during the next four years of our present financial system will bring down upon the American people that cloud of impending evil to avert which should be the first thought of statesmen and the first prayer of all patriots. Our very Institution is at stake. With a rapidly increasing population, with widely swelling demands, the basis of our money is relatively contracting and people are passing into a servitude all the more dangerous because it Is not physically apparent. “The nation Itself, as to other nations, is losing the sturdy courage which could make It defiant in the face of injastice and international wrong. From the farmer and tradesman to the Government, there is an apparent shrinkage from giving offense, lest the vengeance of the offended financial powers descend. Business must yield some portion of Its international rights lest some mighty foreign creditor make a destructive demand. ••Where will all this end if the people decline to assert themselves? The country cannot much longer exist free and independent against all the rest of the world, net can Its people much longer be free in tL6 noblest sense of the term, if the United States as a debtor nation shall follow ths policy dictated by the creditor nations. "We produce all the necessaries of life, while other nations consume onr products. In the race for existence it is a constant struggle between the producer and the consumer. Our present system of money deliberately submits to the desire and profit of the creditor nations, leaving us en masse and as Individuals a prey to the money gathering and deadly cheapening of the old world. As our debt to creditors abroad increases on the masses of the nation, the price of human production on the farm nnd in the workshop decreases with appalling rapidity, exacting more and more toil from our citizens to meet a given demand and holding over their heads the threat of confiscation to meet their obligations, leaving them bare and defenseless. "The only remedy is to stop the falling prices, the deadliest curse of national life. Prices never will cease falling under a single gold standard. The restoration of bimetalHsin by this country will double the basis of our money system. In time it will double the stock of primary money of the world, will stop falling prices and steadily elevate them until they regain their normal relation to the volume of debts and credits in the world. “We have endeavored in a plain way to set this matter before the ey.es of our fellowcitizens. We Invoke a union of all men and all parties who believe the time has come for the triumph of justice.” The signers then pronounce a eulogy upon Senator Teller and suggest him to all national conventions yet to be held as a candidate for the Presidency. TOPULISTS INDORSE TELLER. Issue an Address Cal lin - on All Silver Men to Support Him. As the result of a series of conferences between the committees appointed by the seceding silver men of the recent Republican convention and a committee composed cf prominent I’opulists, an address has been issued from the headquarters of the People’s party national committee in St. Louis, advising I’opulists throughout the country to name Henry M. Teller of Colorado their national standard bearer. Immediately after the silver men walked out of the convention they appointed a committee, of which Charles S. Hartman of Montana. Senator R. F. Pettigrew of South Dakota. <F. Gannon of Utah and Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho were members, to confer with a similar committee of Populists. That evening at the Planters' Hotel they met H. E.Taubeneck of Illinois, chairman. Dr. Howard S. Taylor of Chicago and Thomas M. Patterson of Denver, of the national Populist committee, and as a result of that and subsequent conferences the address was issued. Chairman Taubeneck in an interview said: “The seceding silver men of the Republican party and the Populists have, as the result of our conferences. come to a perfect agreement as to the future, and henceforth we will work along the same lines." He predicted victory for a ticket with Teller as its leader. James Creelman. the war correspondent. says there will be a war with Spain. He says the American people will be thunderstruck when the documents in possession of the State Department are made public. Spain is anxious for war. Twenty-five million dollars' worth of American property lias been destroyed in Cuba and many Americans killed without provocation. Judge Kinne, at Ann Arbor. Mich., decided the famous Henry C. Lewis will ease against the university, and several thousand dollars' worth of the great Lewis art collection is kept out of the hands of the university thereby. Returns to the fisheries department oC the spring catch of seals by Canadian vessels taken off the British Columbia and Washington coasts show the decrease of nearly a thousand skins.