St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 August 1896 — Page 6

Cljc Jnicpcn^cnt. W. A. Klg-DiaaiY, ^ubllaber. WALKERTON. • - • INDIANA. RAILWAYS ONTR I AL. HAVE TAKEN LIBERTIES WITH INTERSTATE LAW. Commission Invratisatiug Charges of Kate Cutting — Better Times Hove Come to Englund Failure of Diauiond Mutch Magnates a Surprise.

Kate Cutters Arraigned. At 10 o'clock Tuesday four members of the interstate commerce commission sat Ju the United States Circuit Court room at Ohicagv and about fifty railroad men tsat in chairs anything but comfortable in front of them. Col. William IL Morrison. president of the commission. was in the chair, and with him were Messrs, Yeomans, Knapp and Clements. The session was a sort of adjourned meeting from the one begun two months ago at Kansas City, wherein the railroad companies were charged with having manipulated gratin rates east from Missouri river points. These roads are to be investigated: The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Ke, Chicago and Alton. Chicago ami Northwestern. Chicago. Burfingion and Quincy, Burlington and Northern. Chicago Great Western, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, Hannibal and St. Joe, Missouri. Kansas ami Texas, Missouri Pacific, lllinois Central, Wabash and Wisconsin Central lines. There is no question among railroad men or those acquainted with the situation that the several railroads have been taking liberties with interstate commerce regulations. Prosperous Conditions in England. ! The report of the labor department of the government board of trade of Great Britain for the month ending July 15 shows that during the month in question 43.090 wage workers were affected by changes in rates of wages, in which In. 000 obtained increases and 3.000 sustained decreases. The estimated effect of all the changes was an aggregate advance of about 20 cents on the dollar in the wap < of the total number affected. Five thousand iron and steel workers. 18,090 mechanics in the engineering and ship building industries, 9,000 workmen in other branches of the metal trades ami 4.000 building operators obtained increases. The principal reductions affected 2.000 blast furnace men in the northwest of England. The report goes on to say that in most industries the state of employment continues very good, and that the percentage of unemployisl in the various trade unions was but 3.2 per cent, as against 5.6 per cent for the same period of last year.

Failure of Moore Bro*. Like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky came the announcement from Chicago that the Moore brothers, the giants behind the great Diamond Match and Ne v York Biscuit deals, had fai.ed. The seneation produced in “the street” —that indefinite term used to describe the banks, brokers’ offices and the business places of the big men in finance without regard to their location—was most profound. The Moores have lost their al! and they have always been counted by the public as being among Chicago's millionaires. While the effects of the failure will be far-reaching and widespread, there will be no panic. The real business situation of the Diamond Match Company is not affected by the failure of the Moores; the foreign negotiations are still pending and It is said there is no reason why the shares of the company should not sell yet at the 300 mark which has been predicted for them upon the closing of some of the foreign contracts. Standing of National League. Following ; s the standing of the clnus cf the National Baseball League: W. L. W. I. Cincinnati . .62 29 Philadelphia .39 47 Baltimore . .57 27 Brooklyn .. .39 47 Cleveland.. .57 31 New York . .36 50 Chicago .. ..53 40Washington .34 49 Pittsburg.. .48 39St. Louis . . .28 G<> Boston 46 39 Louisville ...22 tsi Western League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L St. Paul .. ..55 31 Detroit 46 39 Indianapolis .51 32Milwaukee ..42 52 Minneapolis .50 37 Gr’d Rapids .33 60 Kansas City .49 38 Colum bus .. .30 64 Met on a Trestle. A Santa Fe train, made up of undamaged cars from trains in collision Monday near Dean Lake, Mo., reached Kansas City late Monday night, bearing the Injured. Some of them were taken t« Topeka and others to Chicago, a physician accompanying each train. All the injured, as far as known, ere progressing favorably. Engineer Heady went down with h > engine ami was horribly mangled. He .^»<d only a short time. BREVITIES,

Miss Kate Barber. aged 40. a s -‘•■r >f O. C. Barber, president of the 1 >iunrond March Company, died at Akron. <>. l"'*r a number of years her mind had been unbalanced, and she had recently Ix'en brought from the Newburg hospital at Cleveland. The administration of I Trident Pietola. of Peru, is to be cnslired with antther triumph in effecting a loan of 80,JOO.ttOO frams. The bran, which will lie guaranteed by a salt tax and other revenues, will lie subscribed partly in Paris and partly in Ijima. The loan will be submitted to an executive session of congress for ratification. Tae government’s object in raising the money rs to ransom tae provinces of Tacna and Arica. John Schmidt was found guilty of nrnrfler in the first degree at Clayton, Mo., for his part in the murder of Bertram Atwater, the Chicago artist, at Webster Grove last January. Sentence of death Will lie passed in’case the Court overrules the usual"motion for a new trial. “Cotton” Schmidt and the negro, Sam Foster, are under sentence A special dispatch from Madrid. Spa hi. •ays that a great fire Tk raging at Rueda de Mt-dina, a town of about 4,000 inhabitants twenty-five miles southwest of Yah jadolki. Hundreds of buildings are said k> have been destroyed

EASTERN. By a collision between (rains on the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads near Atlantic City, N. J.. Thursday evening. fully fifty persons lost their lives and the list may reach twice that number. An excursion train of fifteen cars packed to the doors with people from Bridgeton, Millville and other places was crossing the tracks of the Reading when a fast express crashed into it, at the rate of sixtyfive miles an hour. It is said that every person in the smoking car of the excursion train, except one colored man, was killed. At Pittsburg. Pa., while an operation was being performed upon Mrs. Gisaria Masucci, she died while under the influence of an anesthetic. This announcement greatly incensed the Italians, and a rush for the doctors was made. The latter managed to escape after receiving sundry damage to their clothing. The mob followed them, throwing sticks and stones. Two of the doctors Jumped on a

passing street ear and thus escaped. The third took refuge in a drug store near by, from which he was rescued by the police in a patrol wagon. The Pennsylvania State Board of Health will be asked to disinfect the Monongahela Valley, which is a complete wreck from Pittsburg to the head waters of the Monongahela river. All kinds of crops have been swept away, fences ami outbuildings destroyed, and scores of cattle and stock drowned. Fruit trees were blown Dire and thousands of acres of eats, com, etc., destroyed. The farmers say many people are not far from starvation. To make the matter worse the contents of vaults have been swept over the low lands and will breed disease. Halfripened fruit and all kinds of vegetables line the river banks. For miles along the riv< r on both sides wreckage can be seen. Lieut.-Gen. John M. Schofield. retired, United States Army, visited Chautauqua, N. V., accompanied by Mrs. Scho field. Gen. Schofield was born just across the lake from the assembly grounds, where he spent most of his early years. He heartily agrees with the plans and methods of his successor, Gen. Nelson A. Miles. He regards the army as having greatly improved in the last few years, Kith in equipment ami the personnel of enlisted men. Ho attributes this latter fact to t. greater numlx’r of American born soldiers in the army than formerly. The massing of troops in large cities, Gen. Schofield says, affords better safeguards tn the republic ami gives bet ter opportunities for drill ami government of troops. Representatives of the syndicate of sterling exchange bankers, form- 1 to pre vent the depletion of the treasnry reserve, bad a meeting nt New York. J. P.erpont Morgan is quoted as saying: “The strength of the exchange market to-day is entirely natural. There are no bills against gold shipments and the supply of commercial exchange is moderate. The demand for exchange is not at al! urgent, however.” Referring to Ixmdon cables intimating the probability of shipments of gold to this country in the event of a

premium of 1 per cent being offered here. Mr. Morgan said: "Wv do not need t > import gold at this time. The only use for gold would be to settle accounts ! abroad, and it would obviously be absurd • to import it at a premium of 1 per cent j to liquidate a debt due abroad. As to ' the people who want gold for hoarding purposes, they lack the credit and facilities fur obtaining it.” Robert Garrett; formerly president of the Baltimore nnd Ohio Railway, died nt his cottage in Deer Park. Md., Wednes day morning. Mr. Garrett had been a hopeless mental invalid for many years. Robert Garrett was the son of John Work Garrett, who founded the Baltimore and Ohio Express Company, the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company, and was president of the railroad of t!rv same name for more than a quarter of a century. Robert Garrett was born in Baltimore in April. 18(7. He was identified with many of the commercial nnd nr tistic undertakings in Baltimore, and was one of the most benevolent an 1 phi lanthropic citizens of the Maryland m« troiwlis. Ten or twelvg years ago be erected in Baltimore one of the mos^ magnificent residences in the country. Mr. Garrett retaiueilthe presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad til! IS7S. w ic-i he was compelled to resign because of ' mental incapacity. WESTERN. — F>or three days clouds of grasshoppers i passed over Nebraska eastward bound । In some places they are reported to have been so numerous as to have perceptibly arrested the sun's rays. They have crossed the Missouri river tn swarms, but show no tendency to settle. They have done no damage to crops in Nebraska, and are believed to have come from Colorado. Specials from Millette and other points in South Dakota say that Wednesday night's hailstorm completely devastated a stretch of country sixty miles long and five to six miles wide. Crops on the farm of Hunter Salzer, an irrigated farm at Millette, were ruined. Hanvst had been' begun, but the shocked grain was beaten into the ground. In half a dozen villages every window on the side toward the storm was broken. The damage will am int to hutelri ds of thousands of dollars.

A iieculiar election is to be held in Oincinnati Monday. t'inchinuti owns n large railway system, ku n' n as the <' ncinnati Southern, now operated by the Queen and Crescent Company, running from, Cincinnati to Chattanooga. It was built by the city soon after the war, when it was thought that the only other road by which the Southern trade could Ix> reached, the Louisville and Nashville, was discriminating in favor of Louisville. It h*ts proved an exixmsive piece of property, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company having offered to give $1'0,000,000 for it, the proposition to sell the property for that sum will )>e submitted to the voters of the city, w no are the real owners of the road. The Staver & Abbott Manufacturing Company, the carriage firm at Chicago, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. This action was caused by the refusal of Eastern banks to grant exteneions on maturing paper, the attorneys in the case say, they having within the last fifteen days decided they couhl no longer carry the firm. It has only been within this time, it is said,, that the directors had any thought of being compelled to Beek relief at the hands of the court. Henry C. Staver, the principal member of the firm, is named as assignee. According to a rough estimate filed with the assignment the assets of the insolvent concern are $300,000 and the liabilities $400,000. Although the gross earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad

for the month of June, 189(1, increased $341,074, (here is a decrease of $105,501 in net earnings for the month. This is due to the enormous increase in operating expenses of $440,575. For the fiscal year ending June 30. 1896, the Milwaukee and St. l'aul makes a favorable showing. During the year it has made a net gain of $2,713,404, and for this reason could well afford to expend a portion of the earnings for June for betterments of track, etc The following is a detailed statement of earnings and expenses for the year ending June 30, 1896, as compared ‘with the year previous: 1895. 1896. Gross earning5..52<.335,369 $32,681,828 Total expenses.. 17.043,753 19,676.808 Net earnings... 10.291,616 13,005,020 The State convention of Populists of Indiana at Indianapolis adopted a platform almost identical with the St Louis utterances. The ticket nominated is as follows: Governor, Thomas Wadsworth, Daviess County; Lieutenant Governor, A. I'. Hanna, Montgomery; State Auditor, N. M. Jennings, Johnston; Secretary of State, S. M. Holcomb, Gibson; State Treasurer, F. S. Robinson, Putnam; Attorney General, D. IL Fernandes, Madison; Supreme Court Reporter, I. N. Force, Martin; Statistician, J. S. McKeever, Clark; Superintendent Public Instruction, J. B. Freeman, Howard. The faction that favored the indorsement of the Democratic ticket gave ns n reason that the Populist party would not be able to maintain n State committee, ox; even pay the secretary. They argued that the great majority of the Populists are in favor of free silver and when the Democrats have declared for it and have a prospect of success it would be folly to carry on a Populist campaign. SOUTHERN. It has just transpired that W E. Burt, a member of one of the liest families in Austin, Texas, killed his wife and two children, aged 2 and -1 years, and then sank their bodies in the house cistern. G* neral R. E. Colston, who was an officer in the Confederate army and nt one time commanded the Stonewall Brigade, died at the Soldiers' Home nt Richmond, Va, He was in his 71st year. General Colston served six years m the Egyptian army and received the decoration of the knight commander of the Turkish Order of Osmanish for distinguished services. Passengers from Havana to Key West, Fla , by the steamer Mascotte report a ruumr of the suc<’>sful landing of the filibustering expedition in the vicinity of > «en m gos. The expedition is believed to be under the command of Captain Cabrera. While another cxp<-h:ivn said to la- organizing nt Key West ami almost rend? to sail, no departures are known tn have taken pl.i’e from that point lately. WASHINGTON. President Cleveland has i*«ucd a warn in;: proclamation concerning Cuba. He says neutrality laws shall not be violated by the citizens of the United States if the chief executive can prevent it. He calls on all to help the government maintain peace with Spoil C.m-iil General Ixv's i report was unfavorable to (be insurgents : At Huber's Garden, a summer resort i on the electric line bark of NeWjiorL K* . a faro game of c<>»*idernl’'.c proportions has been m progress nightly Laic Tm « day night two men with revolvers drawn suddenly entered the room, and. in spite of the superior number* of the piayvs and proprietors, they emptied the ;*mk etc of ] ■ - । pnetors and got away unharmed. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has just submitted to Secretary Car. ale a preliminary n^ort to the ojsTations »*f bis bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30. It shows that the receipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year aggregated $146,830,615, an increase of $3,584,537 over the reeelpts of the pre ceiling fiscal year. The expense opproxi mail’d $4,044,351 nod the percentage of cost iif collectioa will be 2 "o. a reduction 'of .18, as compared with the pressding fiscal year. The exact cost cannot be definitely stated until the accounts have been received. It ts commonly I* liev.-d in New York that the arnch-s of ngn i merit drawn by ,1. I’ierpiit Morgan to prevent the ship : meat of gold to Europe by coutruhng ex j change’ have been signed by all the bank j ing houses and cori»orations in the foreign t exchange syndicate. Exactly who th ‘ members of the syndicate are ami wh ' are the importers who have joined their ranks i.- not yet known any more than is know n poei lively what is the exact nature of the agreement. But already the effectiveness of tlie agreement has lieen demonstrated. The gold withdrawals in New York Friday were $11*9.190 in gold coin and s2Lih>(i in bars. The receipts at New York were s7s,<M*t. The total receipts for the day were $1,391,009. making the total gold reserve $119,17'-*.597. I'he gd! receipts at Caicagi were $473,090 and at Boston $742,009. A small amount was also received at Philadelphia. The comparative statement of the Government receipts and expenditures, issued by the Treasury Department Saturday shows the total receipts from al! sources during July to have been $29,029.2**9, and the expenditures $42,088,468. leaving a deficiency for the month and the fiscal ! year Ibas far ~f S1 lot 1.249. TTh’ inter J Da! revenue . during the ni<»nth : Were S 1 I ••< )2..V -Ui. an n.r r»;t se of Sl.h»4. - 117 over the first month of the fiscal i year. tMi the other Iwiiml. the customs i receipts, which were $ 12.17>7,^>0. show a I falling off oa ? Icompared with i July of last year. The miscellaneous reeeipts which were $2.50‘J.3 Pl. show an inc: a^.- of $475,038 over the month for the last fiscal year. All but two items of the exiienditures, war ami interest charges, show a dee’ub’d increase over July. 189,i. the heaviest being under the bead of civil and miscellaneous expenditures, vvhich were $12,343,931. as against SIO,O-17.5G2 of tile corresponding month a year ago. A part of the comparatively large deficiency is accounted for by the increase of expenditures on account of the navy, from $2,880,486 in July, 1895, to $3,756,250 last month. There is a slight increase of about a quarter of a million eaah for pensions ainl Italians over July of 4ast year. FOREIGN. The Irish land bill passed its third reading in the bouse of commons Wednesday. The American steamer Ernwell, Capt. Carter, at Colon, Colombia, from Baltimore to load manganese, was not allowed pratique because the captain contracted smallpox in Cuba. The rumor that Queen Victoria intends to retire in favor of the Prince Os Wales is again current at London, and it is add-

ed that court circles are greatly troubled Warding the condition of the queen’s health. A special dispatch from Vienna says the explosion of a powder magazine at Fuenfkirchen, Austria, resulted in the death of five persons, the injuring of eighty others and the wrecking of the town hall. The directorship of the Panama canal Will change hands shortly. M. Hutin is coming from Paris to succeed M. Vautard. The commission sent to Limon to hire laborers at $1.20 a day went on a fruitless errand. A dispatch from Ilfracombe, the wellknown bathing place on the north coast of Devonshire, Eng., announces that half the business portion of that port was burned, involving a loss estimated to amount t<T $500,000. There was no loss of life. A» a result of a Cabinet council the Turkish Government made a formal complaftit to the Government of Greece regarding the alleged shipment of arms anil ammunition from Greece to the Islands of Crete, for the use of the insurgents there, and relative to the appearance of armed bands in Macedonia, pointingjout tl*e danger therefrom to the peace o£ ISlirope and nddinsr that Greece would Wrebi r«’«P<»ii»l*'>e for it. The TurkUm ^rtiuieut also nunouiK e<l that it hud J decided to grant limited concessions he Cretans, anti that they will be al?d representation. The powers, it is staled, have decided to send a collective now to Greece declaring that the Governmekt of the latter country must suppress tbehnatters complained of by the Turkish U”J<’ r ninent, adding that otherwise the Sumin of Turkey will be left to restore ort»r in Crete. IN GENERAL. (fclleetor Milnes' report of the season's operations of the Canadian sealing fleet in Japanese waters shows an nrerag of 643 skins to each of the twenty eight schoom-rs nt work, making a t eal of IS,001 skins. There is also the catch of eight American schooners, totaling 3.Bus skins, ami of seven Kokmlate scalers with 2.417 skins. The catch of the ithcr American cruft make up a t cal of 25,521 skins. IL G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says. ‘'Busmens conditions have clearly im|»roved, though business hit* not. It is now the torpid season and better prosjMCts have little effect as yet. The signing of a compact to control foreign exchange by a syndicate, pledg.ng (be use of s7s<»,<« mh mo for that purpose, may render it unties --ary t.> use the g dd. । and has given some stocks a slight advance. Gold exports have ls*en stopped and foreign trade is m<>n promising of an early demand for our product. The pros1* cts for large crops of Ootton and corn are still excellent. ’’ The greater part of the Montreal exh: । bition buildings wore destroyed by fire early Thursday. The tire started in the I power hi use of the Montreal I'tirk and I Island Railway, north of the vxbibitio.i building*, while the tire br gade from that I portion of the city was out in rcspoise to A third alarm for u bad tire in v'ic i premiMS of Hou len. Starkes A Co, wholesale hardware. Consequently when | the fire apparatus reached th« *cc:h’ the main budding and many smaller ones »w*t«ir:.ol tv th. gr.’.ia ! A n imlwr of Geetric cars were destroyed. The loss will be al- ut sls9.*X<o. One effect . f the late Chino Japanese war which is just di lelopmg wn* to direct the attention of naval architects to the ue- vssity of providing nrm r for the 1 little tori««Li boats which form the main reliance of ma: y p. ns f >r defvn-v against host:..’ fleets, an r ar< also necessary ad juDCt* of thcM- very fleet* Among the Japanese torpedo boats which covered themselves with gl >ry in the attacks upon the Chiin sc fleets nt I’ort Arthur and Wei-Ha. Wei was the little Kotaka, a vesse! fuilt Leven years ng • t.y Yarrow. She had some armor, n d much it hi true, but one inch over the Lnlers nnd machinery, and this enabled her to run in where no othqr boat could escape destruction. The British designers were quick to see the advantages of this slight protection, and information has j ist rewhed Washiuc’or. that the Yurr-ov- hav. just ma le a snccersful trial of one ot the four loats built for Arge;”:ua. all irib ;i iv 1 to be similarly covered over the vitals with half an inch of high grade steel armor. While a slight sacrifice ~f speed is made to carry this armor, it is held that it will give the crews greater confidence, protect them against the rain of small missiles which are really more destructive than heavier projectilc*. and so make the lx>at more effective. Probably the idea will be taken up by our naval experts before long. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75. hogs, shipping grades, SO.OO to $3.75; sheep, fair : choice, s2.">*) to $3 ."si; wheat. No. 2 red. 58c to 59e; corn. No. 2. 23c to 25 ; oats. No 2. 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2. 39c to 31c; butter, choice creamery, 13c to 15c: eggs, fresh. 10c to 12c: new potatoes, per bushel. 2<*c tp 39c; brooui corn, common short to Aoice dwarf. $25 to SOI per ton. Undianapolis -Cattle, shipping. -JX'' hogs, choice l.ght, $3.1*0 to >3.io; ^e,p. common to prime, $2.90 to $3.50; theat. No. 2,57 cto 59c; corn. No. 1 ^lte, 20c ro 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c tv 22c. St. Ixmis Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2. 56e to 58c; Corn. No. 2 yellow. 22c to 23c: oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c- rve. No. 2,2 Se to 30c. CincinnatL-Cnttle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. Glc to G3c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 2Se: oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,29 cto 31c. Detroit—Cartie. $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to Gse; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 23e to 24c; rye. 31c to 32c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 rod. 63c to 65c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats. N-o. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2,32 cto 34c; clover seed. $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring. 59c to 60c; corn, No. 3,25 cto 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley. No. 2,32 cto 34c; rye. No. 1,31 cto 33c; pork, mess, $6.00 to $6.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.25 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00' to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 31c: oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 11? to 16c; eggs, Western, He to 14c.

GO OUT IN SYMPATHY. CLEVELAND MUDDLE HAS NEW COMPLICATIONS. Now Further from Settlement than Ever—Southern Sugar Planters Get Their Long Delayed Bounty—Strikers at Berea, 0., Accused of Dynamiting. Strike In Clevelands The reported settlement of th? Cler* Lind st like was erroneous. At the Hrown hoisting works the men are out in as great force as ever, claiming that the company violated its agreement. In addition, near- )>- 100 employes of the Van Wagoner & M illiatns Company quit work. The probability is that it is solely a sympathetic strike. Workmen in Kilby foundries Nos. 1 and 2 also express an intention of quitting. In that ease half a dozen big shops will have to close because of inability to get castings. A meeting of the Brown strikers was held Monday afternoon, at which Master Workman James O'Connell made a speech, in which he declared that the agreement between the Brown company and the strikers had been misundcr■toiHl; that it was interpreted one way by the company and a different way by the men. He is nqwrted to have said that the battle now on would lie watched by the labor world with interest. “The Mayor, police and tin soldiers,” he declared, “have armed to crush us. We have a duty to perform that of self-preserva-tion.” Cash for Sugar Planters. The warrants for the payment of the sugar bounties earned in 1894 (except maple sugar), the payment of which was provided for in the appropriation of $5,t>99,o<Ki in the deficiency act of 1895, were issued Monday at Washington. The facts In connection with the refusal of the Comptroller to pass these claims and tho long litigation which resulted in the,deo:on of the Supreme Court ordering their payment are familiar to the public. The proved claims were pro-rated, each claimant rceeivi’ig umler the $5,009,000 appropriation 84 per .ent of his claim. The ntinikr and amount of the beet sugar claims paid are insignificant; in all fortynine warrants wen* issued. Three warrants, amounting to $11,94 1. were withheld. making the total amount of the 41*0 warrants issued to day $4,988,036. Hon«e Wrecked by Dynamite. At 1 o’clock Monday b- rning the people of Bcn>a. <>., were awakened by a terrific explosion. It was found that the rc<: !cmv of Charles A. Seibert, n grocer, had been partially wrecked by dynamite. a charge of which had l>een placed under the house by some unknown person. Fortunately none of the inmates of the house was injured. Seibert did not sympathiz*' with the quarrymen in their late strike and refuse,! many of them credit. It is generally believed that the dynamite w s placed under the house by strikers. Biiah'n Racing String Injured. A wrv 'k Monday morning at North Ind:an on the Big I'our read, caused a parlor car for horses, containing the string liei ine _. j jc Bush of Louis vilk', to upset and every horse was so much injured that it is thought none will ever race again. The value of the stable of horse- i* said to have la-on s4»o,*>oo. Four men were hurt. The racing para phernalia was all badly dafimged. The rattruad company’s loss will not be heavy. NEWS NUGGETS. The Czar of Russia is reported to l>e suffering from nervous debility. The sublime oorte denies tile report that Turkey is to issue paper money. A freight train on the Oxford and * larksville Railroad went through a bridge twelve miles fr >m Durham. N. C. The engineer and tireman are thought to be fatally injured. The French liner La Bourgogne brought to New York twelve men from the German bark Ernst, rescited from their waterlogged vessel in the height of a heavy gale. Four rain and hail storms, with the wind at sixty miles an hour, accompanied by terrific thunder and lightning, visited Cincinnati, 0., Saturday afternoon. A number of persons were hurt, but no fatalities have been reported. The property damage is enormous. The wool commission firm of W. D. Eaton & Co., of Boston, made an assignment. Joseph W. Spaulding is the assignee. and tho liabilities are p'ace-1 at s29*.•*«>. No statement of the assets has been given out. The failure is attributed to the poor condition of the wool market. At Bakinmre, James M. Deets wont home drnnk Sunday night and abused his wife Annie, who. becoming frightened, ran into the street and called for assistance. J. Hanson Andrews, nn engineer, aged 29, volunteered protection and went with Mrs. Dis-ts to the door of her house. I loots opened the door, and s<s-iiie Andrews began striking him. Andrews whipped out a knife and stabbed Deets to the heart, killing, him instantly. Andrews was arrested. E. E. Clark, grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, and Grand Chief Morrissey of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen arrived at Topeka. Kam. for the purpose of holding a conference w ith General Manager J. J. Frey of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. They decline to make public the nature of the grievamv to be discussed, but say they expect to secure an amicable adjustment of the differences between the men and tiie company. The Spanish consul at Philadelphia has issued a circular, offering $10,090 for information leading to the capture within Spanish waters of any military or naval ex;>ed it ion. or of any vessel engaged in carrying men and munitions of war to the Isle of Cuba, certain inhabitants of which ore now in insurrection against the Government of Spain. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr., and Mitos Grace Wilson were married at noon Monday at the Wilson residence in New York by Rev. William H. Pott, assistant rector of St. Thomas' Church. The wedding was private. John Cushman, of Brooklyn, was arrested at Atlanta. Ga., by IL A. Smith, claiming to be a Brooklyn detective, who said Cushman murdered Mrs. O'Donnell and two daughters at Brooklyn July 2, and that there was a reward offered of $1,500 for Cushman. Smith said he had followed Cushman sin “ July 2.

OVER FORTY DEAD. FLYING EXPRESS CUTS EXCURSION TRAIN IN TWO. Awful Disaster Occurs at a Crossing Near Jersey City— Reading Express Catches a West Jersey Excursion Broadside - Sixty Arc Injured. Scores Are Killed. A flying i xpress train on the Reading •nd Atlantic City Railroad crashed into a West Jersey Railroad excursion train at the crossing of the two roads Thursday night. At hast forty people were killed outright and about sixty injured. Os the killed twelve were women, twentyfour men and four children. The crash was thg most disastrous in the history of eastern railroad traffic. The accident was the result of a collision between the 5:40 p. m. express train from Philadelphia over the Reading and Atlantic City Railroad and an excursion of Red Men from Bridgeton, .N. J., and vicinity, returning from Atlantic City, over the West Jersey Railroad, at the crossing of the two roads a short distance out of Atlantic City. At the seeond signal tower the tracks of t the two roads cross diagonally. The Reud- ’ ing train was given the signal, but it - either failed to work or the speed of the , express was too great to be checked in । time. It caught the excursion train broadside and plowed through it, literally cleaving it in twain. The engine of the Reading train was shattered to pieces. Every car was jammed to its fullest capacity. As soon as the news reached Atlantic City the utmost consternation prevailed. Relief trains were dispatched to the scene, loaded with cots and bearing staffs of surgeons. As fast as the bodies were reCovered they were carried into the local hospitals nnd undertakers' shops. A general lire alarm was sounded, and the department promptly responded and aided in the work of digging for the victims. The worst fears were realized as th^ vigorous work of the relief gangs revealed the awful extent of the disaster. The first Reading relief train bore into the city twenty-seven mangled corpses, men, women and children. ’! be next train, not an ( hour later, carried fifteen of the maimed and woun-ied. and two of these died soon after reaching the city. Hospitals Overtaxed. As train after train was hurried to the scene of the wreck and came back with ■ its ghastly load the sanitarium which does, duty as the city hospital quickly found ita capacity overtaxed. Meanwmie oth- ! era of the dead and injured were being carri xl to the private hospital at Ocean ’ and Pacific avenues. t Edward Farr, engineer of the Reading r train, was killed outright, as was another i road man who rode on the engine with > him. This man saw the collision coming r and leaped from the cab an instant before the crash. Almost at the same instant the engine cut its way through and caught him directly in its path. His body and that of Farr were found under a heap of i debris, but the "engineer lay in what remained of the cab and his right hand still grasped the throttle. He had been faith- ’ ful unto death and met it at his post. The • fireman *n the train had leaped a few seconds before and escaped with trifling Injuries. , Not Known Who I* to Blame. The excursion train was made up of fifteen cars, the foremost of which was a baggage car. This and the next two coaches caught the full force of the crash and were utterly demolished. What remained of the third car was tumbled into a ditch at the roadside. The responsi--1 bility for the accident cannot now be fixed. 1 Charles C. Rynick. of Bridgeton, who * was in the excursion party, was in one of the rear cars. “When we saw that a col- > lision was unavoidable,” he said, “the scene in our car was terrific. Women t fainted and men rushed in mad panic for - the d”or. But it eajne almost before we - had time to think. *me car was cut right • In two and the Ewer portion of it lifted bodily from the track and tumbled over. , The roof of one of the cars fell in a mass ; and everybody in that car was buried unI der it. It simply dropped on top of the people. 1 don't know who is to blame. , When we were aliout two miles out from Atlantic City. N, J., we came to a stop out in the meadows and stayed there for several minutes, but I do not know why. I ■ think there must have been fully, eighty or 100 killed. The only person with me was my G-year-old son, and be was not E hurt.” ' Fourteen of the injured are reported ta ‘ have died at the sanitarium. Superintendent I. N. Swigard. of the t Philadelphia and Reading Company, s places the number of dead at thirty-seven , and the injured at about the same number. 'William Thurlow, the operator at th® • | bl - k :->wer si:u.T:< d at the crossing, hat been placed under arrest by order of the. I coroner. Scene at the Fatal Flace. An Associated Press reporter was on one of the first relief trains sent out by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The train ’ was in charge of a number of railroad officials and Prosecutor Perry of Atlantia ' County. It drew up in the darkness a • few feet this side of the fatal point. Staggering in and out of ditches and stum- ' bling over masses of broken timber, with only a few lanterns, the rescue gang set bravely to work. Axes and shovels were piled with the greatest vigor, and almost at every half a dozen strokes a mangled form was brought up and laid tenderly on the pallets. It was a terrible task, and the strongest of men turned aside, faint from tiie revelations of the workers. A heap of bh od-stained timbers, turned aside by one of the rescuers, brought to sight a woman’s arm. It had been wrenched off at the shoulder. Not five minutes later a chance blow from a pick revealed a human heart. Her Troubles. He —What are you looking so worried about, darling? She—Oh, I was tanking what a dreadful thing life would have been if we had never met—lllustrated Month-, ly. It Is. “That affair on the end of my tall,” said the rattlesnake, "may not seem handsome, but ”Hi skillfully threw a coil. -‘lt’s a rattling good thing. Yes.”—New York Press.