St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 July 1896 — Page 6

Jniepenbcnt. W. A. FXDI^I.v, .-’ubllsher, ■ L ~” ' -— - . 1 : I WALKERTON, - • . INDIANA. MINERS ARE DOOMED. PITTSTON, PA., SHAFT IS STILL CAVING. Pescnera Cannot Reach the Men in a Month —Alton Agents and Conductors in Hud Business—Cleveland Police Crack the Heads of Rioters. No Hope for Miners. The situation at the Pittston, Pa., shaft fcas undergone no change. The rescuers continue to work under great difficulties. The squeeze is now general, and at the foot of the shaft the loud rumbling noise of falling rock in different parts of the mine can be heard. There was another fall which drove the men back. Double timbering is now being resorted to. It Is very slow and tedious work, and even under the most favorable conditions the workers could not hope to clear a gangway to where the entombed men are in less than a month. Blood at Cleveland. A pitched battle occurred Tuesday between eighty Cleveland. Ohio, policemen and a Jnrge force of strikers from the Brown Hoisting and Conveying .Hachim' Company. The trouble started when the non-union employes of the company were dismissed for the day. The 171 new employes marched to the street cars within « hollow square of poDcemen. The strikers persuaded the street car employes not to stop for the new men. ajid a stone was thrown by some one in the crowd of 2,000 strikers, sympathizers and spectators. The police were ordered to charge. They made eight sallies on the crowd. One of the patrolmen named Kndel was etruck on the head with a stone, and so badly disabled that he is now lying at a hospital. When the police saw that one of their number had been injured they started in to kill. As a result four of the strikers are in jail and 100 others are suffering with wounds inflicted by the clubs of the policemen. An Astonishing Swindle. Officials of the Chicago and Alton Railroad have just discovered that a gang of employes, among whom are passenger train conductors and station agents, working with Pullman car porters, have robbed the railway company of $15,000. The steal was accomplished through cooperation of a station agent with passenger conductors on railroad tickets from Springfield, 111., to Chicago. On nn average, so far as can be estimated by Auditor Kelsey's reports. S4O a day was stolen, and the larceny was in progress fully a year—probably a little longer. In a nutshell the scheme of robbery was for the conductor of the train which leaves Springfield for Chicago at noon to take up but not punch the tickets sold ®t office on the noon train. The tickets would then be sent back that day to be sold over again. National League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. “ W. L. Baltimore .. .37 19Philadelphia 30 29 Cleveland ...35 IS Chicago .. ..32 31 Cincinnati ..40 22 Brooklyn .. .29 29 Boston 34 22 New York . .24 33 Pittsburg . .30 27St. Louis. ..15 41 Washington .27 2G Louisville . 11 44 Western League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .34 19St. Paul ....30 2> Detroit .. ..33 21 Milwaukee ..27 35 Minneapolis .33 25 Columbus . .22 39 Kansas City.3l 27 Gr'd Rapids.. 22 39 In His Summer Home. President Cleveland left M ashington Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock over the Pennsylvania Railroad in a private car attached to the regular train. The President was accompanied by Private Secretary Thurber, who will be with him during the summer. At Jersey City the President went aboard the private yacht Oneida and sailed to Buzzard's Bay. All executive business will be transacted at Cray Gables during the summer, but official announcements, as heretofore, will be made from the executive mansion in Washington. Tarred the Tramps. At Hutchinson, Minn., two tramps soaked themselves in oil in an effort to get rid of coats’ of tar and feathers administered by citizens. The tramps had attempted to make a farmer named Austin Cook give them a meal, and one, who was drunk, hit Cook and was promptly knocked down. Because of the late murder of Sheriff Kogers by tramps the citisens decided to make an example of these two, one of whom committed no offense at all, and tarred them thoroughly. news’ nuggets. Four Indians rode into NeoL a small town twenty-four miles south of Neosho, Mo., and robbed the town. Charles F. Lisepnard, the missing Elwood, lud„ man. whose relatives have claimed $2,000 insurance, under the belief that he is dead, is reported to have been located in Alabama. Fire broke out Wednesday morning in George W. Piper's Long Island kindling wood factory at Ash street and Newtown Creek. Brooklyn. The flames quickly extended to the extensive lumber yards of E. C. Smith and from there to Ritchie. Brown A McDonald's iron works, Post & McCord's iron works, and Braun A Bainbrick's asphalt works. An estimate of loss has been made ranging from SBOO,900 to $1,000,000. It is estimated that the New’ South Wales wool clip of 1595-9 G will show a decrease of 100.000 bales. ’William Turner and R. W. Dunlop, who confessed to having robbed their employer, 1. Townsend Burden of New York, of SOO,OOO worth of jewelry, have been sentenced to nine years each in prison. Masked mon forced an entrance to the house of Joseph Hal’enmager in Starke Gounty, Indiana, and fatally tortured him with red-hot irons. It was believed Uallenmager had a large sum of money hidden in the house. . .

EASTERN. The executive committee of the Luther League of America met at Lancaster, Pa., and decided to hold the national Luther League convention at Chicago Nov. 17, to continue three days. The failure of three New York firms in the bicycle trade were announced Friday. This started anew with increased vigor the reports of cutting in prices on strictly high-grade wheels, really meant to sell for SIOO each. As a matter of fact, it developed that about any SIOO machine on the market could be had at cuts from $lO to S4O if the buyer was persistent. Most important of all is the undeniod statement that the high-grade wheels will come down next season. Charles Hoffman, a New Y'ork lad, has reached the age of 19. and with his advancing years came a bitter realization of what was lacking in New York. This void he attempted to fill by changing his residence to Chicago. Being only a grocer's clerk he found himself forced to steal to obtain the price of a railroad ticket to the city where lay his hopes. Accordingly he went to jail instead of Chicago. and one more victory for the Two Million Club is lost. While ninety or more miners were at work in the Red Ash vein of the Twin Shaft at Pittston. Pa., about 3 o’clock Sunday morning, the roof caved in, and it is believed all of the men perished. About forty of the imprisoned men were'Euglishspeaking miners; the others were foreigners. Among the former were the principal operating officials, including M. J. Langan, inside superintendent, and J. H. Linnott, inside foreman. The fatalities may reach 100. More than two-thirds of the victims were married men and leave families. WESTERN. Ex-State Senator Ohl has been acquitted of the charge of bribery at Columbas. Ohio. Two men who murdered Sheriff Rogers, while resisting arrest, narrowly escaped lynching at Glencoe, Minn., and were only saved from a mob by the arrival of militia from St. Paul. Patrick McKeown, who was nominated at the Ohio Democratic State convention ’Wednesday for Slate food and dairy commissioner, died at his home in Cincinnati Saturday night of cholera morbus. Jessie Kelso, Sadie Reese and John Samson, members of a Tekamah, Neb., picnic party, were drowned in the Missouri Monday. The boat they occupied was swamped. But one member of the party was saved. The bodies were swept away by the strong current. The Circuit Court at Findlay, 0., overruled the lower court and discharged the Rev. Joseph Ebben Powell, the Episcopal rector ''convicted of fraudulent registration. The court held that the indictment was defective in its wording and did not sufficiently describe the crime. It did not pass upon the question of his guilt. Six thousand Sioux, the remnant of the most powerful lighters of the American Indians, Thursday celebrated the great event in their war history—the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of Custer’s command on the Little Big Horn. June 25, 1876. /They gathered at the scene of the terrible massacre, and though peaceable, indulged in all the fantastic dances and ceremonies incident to their traditions. The New York managers of Jonas Brook A Bro.. George A. Clark A Bro., James Chadwick A Bro., limited, and J. A I’. Coats, big English cotto i thread manufacturers, stated Friday that they had not received official information of the consolidation of the home firms. English reports say the firms have consolidated. Statements by outside thread men that the Willimantic Linen Company and the Clark Mile-End Company had joined or been asked to join the consolidation was denied by the managers of both companies. The consolidation does not affect the linen thread men at all. A party consisting of O. A. Risum ami wife, Herman Drackcry mid wife. Louis Gokey, wife and chill of Pulcifer. Miss Emma Garbrecht of Shawano, ami Miss Margaret Crowe of St. Nazianz. Manitowoc County. Wis., started from Cecil at 5 o’clock Sunday in Risum’s yacht, on route for a few days’ outing on the north shore of the lake. When about three miles from shore the boat was capsized by a sudden squall, and the party precipitated into the water. Mr. Risum and Mr. Drackery clung to the capsized yacht for almost five hours, the latter holding the child in his arms, when they were rescued by parties from Cecil, who were attracted by their cries for help. The boldest attempt at bank robbery ever made on the Pacific coast has just come to light. The object of the attack was the heavy steel vault of the Los Angeles First National Bank, one of the largest financial institutions of its kind in southern California, and to reach it the robbers dug a tunnel 102 feet in length, extending from a street adjoining the First National and running thence under the cellars of three other banks. This tunnel had progressed to a point directly beneath the vault when the police authorities were apprised of its existence. When the scheme was discovered the burglars had begun to remove the brick masonry supporting the steel vault. The work is believed to have been done by a gang of at least five or six persons, but only one suspect—James K. Stephens—has thus far been arrested. When prices in the Chicago market are called low, as they are at present, it is startling to consider what such prices in Chicago really mean for carlots of coarse grain on track at country points throughout Nebraska, lowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and Illinois. It is not to be wondered at that those farmers who can are holding their grain in the hope that values cannot be any worse for them. Taking representative country points in the States named bids sent out to country shippers Friday night based on the market by various Chicago receiving and commission houses were practically below cost of production. The prices of No. 2 corn on track at Onawa. lowa, based on Friday's prices at Chicago, was 15^0 per bushel, and on No. 2 mixed oats 9^c, the railroad securing 20c per hundred as freight, and this included the local dealers’ profit of about ( lc per bushel. A triple execution took place in the Canon City, Colo., penitentiary Friday. The men who were hanged are Thomas Colt, Elbert Hobie and Dominica Romero, who killed Policeman John Solomon in Trinidad. Carl Albrecht was hanged at Marshfield, Ore., for the brutal murder of his wife last January. She supported him by taking in^washing. and because she did not turn all the money

earned over to him he killed her. Irving L. Ford, the negro whose brutal murder of Elsie Kreglo on May 4 last formed one of the most atrocious crimes in the police annals of Washington, was hanged. Ford’s crime aroused the greatest indignation in Washington, and lynching was talked of. His victim was a young white country girl, about 16 years of age, who lived with her parents, about a mile from the city limits. The negro cut several ugly gashes across the throat of his victim with a knife. Ford was at first defiant, and denied everything, but finally confessed that he murdered the girl. Ford was about 30 yours old, and a man of low brutish instincts. Fire insurance agents Friday took revenge on every property owner in Chicago in retaliation for the passage by the City Council of an ordinance taxing all agents whose companies are not Illinois corporations 2 per cent of their gross premiums, this money to go to the maintenance of the tire department. The agents met in special session, at air'emergency meeting of the Chicago Underwriters’ Association, and decided to raise the insurance rates in the city 5 per cent. Their avowed and openly expressed purpose is to hold this increase over the heads of the people as a club to force the reiieal of the obnoxious ordinance. They say the ordinance and the State law authorizing it are illegal and unconstitutional, their attorneys having so informed them. But instead of taking their case into court ami securing a ruling thereon they prefer to put the screws on the property owners, gather in the tax imposed on them almost threefold, and then, they think, the citizens will arise in wrath and indignation and wipe State law and city ordinance from the statute books. SOUTHERN. Fire broke out in the millinery store of Anna Durton at Point Pleasant, W. Va„ and burned Hoof's Opera House and other stores, shops and dwellings, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO, with but little insurance. The Board of Directors of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association and the Davis Monument Committee from the United Confederate Veterans met at Richmond, Ya., and awarded prizes for the designs for the Davis monument. Percy Griffin, of New York, secured first and Edgerton Rogers and AV. C. Noland, of Richmond, second and third. At a later meeting the design offered by Griffin will l>e adopted. His design provides for a monument to cost $200,000. WASHINGTON. A letter is published at the City of Mexico from Matias Romero, Mexican minister at Washington, resigning his post on account of an article published in an official journal during the pendency of the Guatemalan question, and which Minister Romero felt to be severe in its judgment of his views regarding the proper settlement of that question. The plan of field operators! of the geological survey for the season of 1896-97 has been completed and approved by the acting Secretary of the Interior. Five geological parties will work throughout the summer in the New England States and eastern New York, five in the Appalachian region, two in the coastal plain from the mouth of the Hudson to the Gulf of Mexico, five in the interior or Mississippi region, four in the Horta Mountain region and eight in the Pneitr region. Half the $50,000 appropriable’ for the hydrographic work will be di voted to the gauging of streams and dt termination of the water supply of al parts of the I'nited States under the direction of Expert Newell. The Government Forestry Commission, organized to make an investigation of various forestry problems and outline an administrative*policy hu the subject, will devote the summer to its work. The commission consists of Prof. Charles Sargent of Harvard College, Prof. William H. Bu wer of Yale College, Dr. Wolcott Gibbs. Newport. R. 1.. president of the National Academy of Sciences; Prof. Alexander Agassiz of Cambridge, Mass.. Gifford Pinchot, New York; Arnold Hague of the geo', gieal survey, Washington, and Gen. Henry L. Abbott. I . S. A. (retired*. All except Dr. Gibbs and Prof. Agassiz, who may join the party later in th season, ami Prof. Pinchot, who has been engaged in the work in Monta mi for a fortnight or so, will meet in Chicago next month and immediately pj-oceed together to the field. The investigations will begin in Montana and later will be extended through Idaho. Oregon, Washington. California. Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado Prof. Hague will confer with Prof. Sargent this week and the detailed plans of the exiwdition of the scientific body will be formulated at Chicago. The commission wiil return late in the autumn and as soon as z possible submit its report. FOREIGN. King Humbert unveiled a monument at Milan to the memory of his father, King Victor Emmanuel. The London Glolie says that the condition of Henry M. Stanley, M. P., the wellknown explorer, is serious. Prof. Hortet, who is experimenting at Lyons on guinea pigs, says his investigations prove that the Roentgen rays prevent the development of bacilli and tuberculosis. John Hays Hammond, the American mining engineer sentenced at Pretoria to death for treason to the 1 ransvaal, but finally liberated by the Boer Government on payment of a fine of $125,000, sailed from Cape Town Friday for Europe. Despite the protests of the English Cable Company the Brazilian Government has granted to another company the privilege of establishing a land telephone service to connect Rio Janeiro with all ports north to Para. The concession is heartily supported by the press. The Spanish senate, by a vote of S 8 to 44, has rejected the motion made by Senator Comas during the discussion of the Allianca incident, providing for an amendment to the royal address demanding that the protocol of 18<7 with the United States be renounced in view of the inequality of the rights of Spanish and American citizens under the present conditions. It is officially announced at London that the resignations of Cecil Rhodes. Alfred Beit and Dr. Rutherford Harris ns directors of the British South Africa Company have been accepted. The acceptance of the resignation of Messrs. Rhodes, Beit and Harris is undoubtedly the outcome of the recent demand of the Government of the South African Republic for the pros-

ecution of Rhodes and the others implicated with him in the Transvaal raid. The report of the royal commission on the financial relations between England and Ireland states that the increase of taxation in Ireland between the years 1853 and 1860 was not justified by the then existing circumstances. While the actual tax revenue of Ireland was about 1-11 of that of Great Britain, the relative taxable capacity of Ireland does not exceed 1-20. The report of the commission adds that Ireland is now overtaxed £2,750,000 annually. The Irish National Federation of America has issued to its branches in this country a notice of the Irish race convention to be held in Dublin on Sept. 1. The convention is called by the council of the federation in Ireland and the chairman of the Irish party. Its object as set forth in the call is to reconstitute a united home rule party and to satisfy the yearning of the Irish race all over the world for a thorough reunion of the political forces of Ireland. Each branch of the federation in America is entitled to one delegate to the convention. Secretary Olney received calls Thursday from Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, and Minister Andrade of Venezuela, with both of whom he conferred separately, concerning the arrest by Venezuelan troops of the British crown surveyor, Harrison, on the British-Vene-zuelan boundary. It is understood that Sir Julian, acting under instructions from the British foreign office, requested the friendly intervention of the I’nited States toward securing the release of Harrison, as was done by the British authorities in behalf of the American, John Hays Hammond, during the Transvaal uprising. Captain Connell, of the Loch Bredan, which has arrived at Liverpool, reports that March 21, in latitude 36 south, longitude 40 west, during a heavy gale, he sighted a full-rigged ship rolling heavily two miles away. The next morning he sighted her again. During a terrific squall the stranger disappeared. The description tallies with that of the City of Philadelphia, which sailed Feb. 2 from New York for San Francisco. She carried a crew of twenty. Her agents do not believe that it was the City of Philadelphia which the Loch Bredan sighted. They say the ship is not yet due in San Francisco. The filibustering steamer Commodore was fired ou in port at Tampa, Fla., Thursday afternoon by the revenue cutter McLean. The Commodore weighed anchor and proceeded without reporting. The McLean signaled it to stop, but no attention was paid to the signal ami the second was treated the same. The McLean then fired a blank cartridge at the Commodore, but this failed, as did a second blank shot. The McLean then fired a solid ball at the Commodore, which had continued to show a clean pair of heels. The shot missed the Commodore about seven feet and brought it to suddenly. It was then boarded by a party from the McLean and everything was found all right. No cargo of any kind being aboard, the Commodore was allowed to proceed. When about five miles down the bay two sloops put out from the cover of shore and boarded it. In a little while after this the Spanish consular agent arrived on the scene, and when the Commodore had gotten twelve miles away the McLean started in pursuit. It speeds nine miles an hour, while the Commodore goes fourteen. There has been an altogether unprecedented falling off in the heretofore large cloth trade of the great Bradford district of England with the I'nited States, ami I'nited States Consul Meeker has mads it the subject of an interesting report to the State Department. This de reuse ranged from $247,779 in February to sl.703,592 in May. being a decrease for the latter month of 79 per cent, which is without precedent in the history of the consulate. The prin ipal items affected were worsted coatings for men's wear, closely followed by stuffs, comprising linings, dress goods, etc., while cotton goods tire credited with a decrease of 2S per cent. The exception was in the case of machinery, where the exports increased 52 per cent. All of the mills in the American trade have consequently been put on short time, while there has also been a falling off in the prie of finished goods. The consul also says that American woo! is meeting with a bad reputation in Bradford. w here it do* s not take well because the workmen are \ >ol t<> its handling and also because it .s not considered as well suited to the staple fabric- of the district. A lot of Kmiimni pounds of Ohio wool brought 19 cents, although 23 was "sked for it. and several hundred thousand pounds of far western wools went t?ck to tb.e United States Is cause the prices asked could net be realized. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $3.75: sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. .54c to 56c; corn. No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats. No. 2. 15e to 17c; rye, No. 2. 32c to 33c; butter, choice creamery. 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, lOe to 12c; new potatoes, per bushel, 25c to 40c; broom corn, common to choice, $2,5 to SSO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.75: hogs, choice light. $3.09 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,58 cto 59c; corn. No. 1 white. 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4 50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 61c to 63c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 15c to 17c; rye, No. 2,29 c to 31c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,62 cto 64c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2. 35c to 37c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 61c to 63c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 19e to 21c; rye, 31c to 33c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 59c to 60c; corn. No. 2 >e!low, 27c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white. 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2,31 cto 33c; clover seed. $4.50 to $4.60. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring, 55c to 56c; corn. No. 3. 26c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c: barley. No. 2,29 cto 31c: rye. ?<o. 1,31 cto 33c; pork, mess, $6.7T> to $7.25. Buffalo —Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, S3JK< to $3.75: sheep. $3.25 to s4.O(*; wheat.. No. 2 red. (>se to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 21 e to 23c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.90 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 61c to 62c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c io 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, Western, 10c to 12c.

VICTIMS A BLOCK OFF. THREE DIE AT HOUSTON BY A BOILER EXPLOSION. Wreck in a Newspaper Office—Four Children Killed at Boston — Many Factories Shut Down—Church Choir Boys and Their Master Drown, Awful Accident at Houston, By the explosion of a boiler in the office of the Houston, Tex., Evening Age Monday, three people were killed and a fourth badly injured. The latter is W. G. Van Vleck, general manager of the Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific Railway. The body of the boiler was blown nearly a block, tearing out the front of General Manager Van Vleck's office. Miss Loeb, his stenographer, was writing beside him and was struck by a portion of the boiler, under which she was crushed to death. Operator Emery had his finger on the key iu Mr. Van Vleck's office when a portion of the boiler struck him over the heart, killing him instantly. General Manager Van Vleck was struck by a brick and for a time it was feared he was fatally injured, but he will recover, though badly hurt. The explosion was caused by letting cold water into an empty boiler. The third person killed was the engineer. Many Men Idle. The annual depression in manufacturing circles has arrived. At McKeesport, Pa., with the exception of two mills in the butt weld department, the entire plant of the National Tube Works Company, the National Rolling mills, and the W. Dewees’ Wood. Iron and Steel mills are shut down and 12,000 men are temporarily out of employment. The tube works will resume operations next week, but the rolling mills and the wood plants will be closed for six or seven weeks. The Braddock wire works, the largest of the plants of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, followed the ruling of the wire nail trust and shut down. Both of the Braddock wire mills are now shut do^vn, also the Beaver Falls mill. The suspension at these mills affects 800 men, who will be idle until August. Wealth Buys Him No Luxuries. W. W. Varney, the Cincinnati diamond thief, who, since his incarceration at the Columbus penitentiary, has been given a ten-year sentence in the Franklin County courts for throwing vitriol into the eyes of William J. Elliott, the Columbus editor, serving a term for killing A. C. Osborne, has fallen heir to a fortune of $60,000, which he will enjoy after Dec. 22 next, which will be his thirty-second birthday. Varney, since his accession to wealth, had been having an easy time of it. living in a luxuriantly appointed coll and having his meals sent to him. Warden Coffin has stopped that and has sent Varney to the idle house. The gas in his cell was ordered turned off, and for cursing the guard who came to do this he was punished. McKinley Is Notified. Standing on. the vine-shrouded porch of his home nt Canton. (>.. ’William McKinley. at 12:10 Monday afternoon, listened to tlie formal notification of the fact that he had been nominated for the presidency by the Republican mitiomll convention of St. Louis. The actual ceremony conKunied only about half nn hour, and consisted ill the speech of notification by Senator Thurston, chairman of the convention. and a response by Gov. McKinley. Then followed the presentation of the Abraham Lincoln gavel by Harry Smith, and following this a lunch served in a large tent behind the house. Death at a Picnic, Four boys were drowned and thirteen persons were hurt Monday by the collapse of Sheldon’s wharf at Castle Island landing, South Boston. The citizens were celebrating “Farragut day” and a large crowd was on the wharf, attracted by the offer of free passage to the island. The boat Ella was about to make fast at the wharf when the I<M> or more on the small landing surged at the outer side. Immediately that side went down into eight feet of water and completely turned over, throwing seventy-five or eighty persons into the bay. Many of the crowd were women and children. BREVITIES, Miss Frances E. Willard states that je World's Women's Christian Temperance I’nion. of which she is president, will meet in Montreal. Canada, cither next spring or next autumn. At I'erry. Okla/. Dr David Jacobson, a wi k-knoMii New York City physician, was divorced from Nora Jacobson on the ground of abandonment. The complainant claimed, among other things, that his wife loved poodle dogs better than she liked him. William A. Thompson, who had been indicted in New York for forgery on the testimony of his former employer, was acquitted. Thompson's father was a clergyman in I‘ortehester. Grieving over the disgrace brought upon him aggravated his trouble and he died a few weeks ago. literally of grief. Monday afternoon four choir boys and the choirmaster of St. John's Episcopal Church of Charlestown, Mass., were drowned in Lake Massapoag. They were members of a party in camp. Mr. Brackett aniLsix boys went out in a boat and when about 400 feet from the shore Harry Parker fell overboard. Frank Cox, 13 years old. jumped overboard and rescued the boy and swam with him to the shore. During the excitement the boat was overturned, and the rest perished. John-McGinnes and John O'Brien, both men of many aliases, and both notorious bank robbers, were captured in Vancouver and are now in jail. Walter Conway, a Denver fugitive, has been arrested in Chicago. He is wanted for the embezzlement of $9,000 alleged to have been given him by a friend who wanted to defraud another. The intercollegiate four-mile boat race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y'., Friday, was won by Cornell's crow, in 19 min., 29 sec.; Harvard second. 19 min.. 32 sec.; Pennsylvania third. 20 min.. 11 see.; Columbia fourth, 21 min., 35 sec The schooner Norma, from Kodiakata, arrived at I’ort Townsend, Wash., with thirty-five stranded miners aboard, who pronounced the Cook's Inlet mining boom a fizzle. Over thirty-five hundred miners are stranded at the inlet, unable to obtain employment, and supplies are going rapidly.

DEATH IN THE MINE. ONE HUNDRED MEN ENTOMBED AT PITTSTON, PA. Shaft’s Mouth Surrounded by Frantic Men and Shr ekinu Women —Nearly Every Innocent Victim Leaves a Family to Struggle cn Alone. Coal Pit Their Tomb. One hundred miners were caught under a fall of rock in the Twin Shaft mine at Pittston, Pa. It is believed that all perished instantly. If it prove that the men are dead sixty-three women will be left widows and 200 children be fatherless. This is the most terrible* mine accident which fins occurred in the anthracite region since the great disaster at Avondale, in 1869, in which 120 lives were lost. The Twin Shaft operated by the Newton Coal Company, the principal stoekholifers of which live in Philadelphia, is an old mine, but the output has always been large. Some two weeks ago it was noticed that the mine was “squeezing”— that is to say, the surface was pressing hard on the props and pillars. Steps were nt once’taken to stop it. Heavy timbers were put in nud every precaution was taken to prevent n cave-in. Friday it was thought that the “squeeze” had been arrested, but Saturday it began to "work” again. The principal trouble was iu the red nsh or lower vein of coal 1,500 feet from the foot of the shaft. There were two heavy falls on Saturday afternoon and 1? was thought dangerous to enter that part of the mine. At 8 o’clock in the evening Inside Superintendent Langan concluded that something would have to be done and done quickly if it was hoped to save the inside workings from destruction. Accordingly he Issued orders to get a party of the most expert miners together to make an effort to prevent further damage to the mine. Calls were sent out and at 9 o’clock that night about 100 men had gone down the mine. Nearly all of them knew the great risk, they were running, but they argued thus: “The superintendent and foreman are with us; if they do not hesitate to go in, why should we?” The men worked hard and faithfully until a lit lie after 3 o’clock, when, probably without warning, the roof on the 1,000-foot slope where the men were at work fell in. The concussion was so great that it was felt for a distance of four miles. The foundations of nearly every house in Pittston were shaken, and the citizens first thought a violent earthquake had taken place. Immediately after the accident occurred there was a call for volunteers. Two hundred men responded at once, and, despite the great dangers sure to be encountered, entered upon the work of rescue. The mon were divided into relief gangs of forty each, for the work is very tedious, as the roof has to be propped as fast as the men work their way through the debris. The greatest excitement prevailed about the mouth of the shaft all day. The relatives of the imprisoned men gathered in large numbers ami their grief was pitiable. “Oh, my dear husband,” “Oh. my poor papa,’’ were the cries of anguish heard. Many of the women swooned and had to be carried away. Some knelt ou the wet ground and prayed that their loved ones might be brought out alive. At last the excitement became so great that a special police force was sworn in to keep the crowd back. People from nil over the valley went to Pittston by train, trolley ears, carriages and bicycles. WASHINGTON’S HEADQUARTERS Historic Spot Near White Plains Offered to Whoever Wilt Buy. The Miller house on the road to Unionville, about a mile and a half north of White Plains, N. Y.. once occupied by Washington as his headquarters, lies in a valley, bounded on the east by a range of steep hills, while to the west there is a rolling country through which run the sluggish waters of the Bronx. At the present time the Harlem Railroad passes in plain view of the old structure, from which the tracks are distant but a stone's throw. From official papers it appears - — BOUSE IN WHICH WASHINGTON LIVED. that the house was occupied from Oct. 21 to Nov. 10. 1776. Within this period the battle of White Plains had been fought and lost, and after his retreat to North Castle the American army underwent such privations from lack of food and other necessaries that the steep hill that rises to the east of the headquarters is known as “Mount Misery,” in memory of the sufferings endured by the patriots within the breastworks that crowned the eminence. Remains of these earthworks, overgrown by tall trees, tire still to be seen. At the present time the house is unoccu--pied, and a sign upon the premises announces it to be for sale, together witE ninety acres of land. Sparks from the Wires. Henry Mitchell Smith, colored, was* hanged at Lexington, Ky., for assaulting; a white woman. Rev. Dr. William Adams, pastor of theWest Green Street Presbyterian Church v Philadelphia, is dead at his home in that city. He was formerly pastor of a largecongregation in Louisville. Hugh Sproston. Jr., the leading figurein business circles of British Guiana, drowned himself by jumping from a steamer into the Demnrara river. He was short in his accounts $3,000,000. Philip Oppenheim, who was ordered by the Sacramento (Cal.) Superior Court to turn over to T. M. Y'ates, as receiver, SIOO,OOO which he held as trustee for his mother, has disappeared and is supposed to be in Toronto. During the game of baseball between the teams from Allegheny College and Grove Citi College at Meadville. Pa., tlie grand stand containing 200 persons collapsed and caused a panic. The injured were hastily taken from the wreck and the fortunate discovery made that no one was killed, although many were badl/’ bruised.