St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 October 1896 — Page 6

Independent ■ XV. A. FCIV JJIjEJ Y, / »ti I>l Iml i or. WALKERTON. - • • INDIANA HAD A SAFE REFUGE. SPANISH REFUGEE ON AN AMERICAN SHIP. Weyler Respected the Provisions of the Treaty Governing: Right of Detention and Search—Robert T. Swallow, Labor Leader, Is Dead. Sustained by Treaty Agreement. It is stated by officials at Washington that the reports coming from New Orleans as to an exciting controversy at Havana between Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, United States Consul General, and Gen. Weyler over the attempted apprehension of a Mexican named Fernandez on board the American ship Vigilancia, give a significance and importance to the event not warranted by the facts. If there was any apprehension that war would result that feeling must have been confined entirely to Havana, for the law on the subject is so clear and its application has been so firmly established by precedent that the off. inis at Washington were in no doubt as to the outcome. The facts as reported are substantially these: Gen. Weyler ordered the arrest of Fernandez as a suspect. not knowing at the time of the issuance of the order that he was on board an American ship. Later Gen. Lee notified the Spanish authorities that the A igilancia was an American ship, which, under our treaty rights, had immunity from search and seizure for suspects in transit to other ports. Gen. Weyler promptly acceded to the position taken by Gen. Lee ami the affair ended. Labor Leader Asphyxiated. Robert T. Swallow, well known as a labor leader and politician, was found dead in a rear room of the headquarters of the Cook County Democracy, 76 La Salle street, Chicago. Tuesday. All of the doors leading to the room were tightly closed and the illuminating gas was pouring out of open jets. That the dead man had deliberately proceeded to end his life in the little cardroom appeared certain from the circumstances. Upon the little round table was a deck of cards, left in promiscuous piles as if Swallow had engaged in a game of solitaire while awaiting the deadly effect of the gas fuint s. From the position of the body upon the floor it appeared as if ho had fallen out of his chair. The man must have felt the death stupor coming over him. He had carefully placed a half-smoked cigar upon an ash-receiver close by the cards. New York Far Lehi nd. Proof of Chicago's supremacy over all other cities in the United States in point of population was recorded Tuesday at the final period for the registration of voters. New York has been left far behind in the race. The difference in the two great centers of population would permit of the addition to the New York registration lists of the total voting strength of any one of seven States. New York as it is now constituted claims a total population of 1,750,000, and up to date the best that the political parties and nonpajtisan boomers have been able to register is over 54,000 short of the number enrolled in Chicago, including the last day’s registration. In three days New York gathered 331,180 names, whereas in two days Chicago accumulated nearly 400,000 names of legal voters. Rambusch a Suicide. A dispatch was received at Juneau, Wis., late Tuesday night from the coroner of Fredericksburg, Ya., stating that W. T. Rambusch. the absconding banker of Juneau, had committed suicide there. The dispatch asked what disposition should be made of the body. Instructions were at once sent to forward the body to Juneau for burial. Rambusch was engaged in banking and the abstract business. He disappeared on Oct. 10, and forgeries amounting to between $300,000 and $500,000 have come te light. BREVITIES, “Spooning" is the charge on which a young couple were arrested at Sioux City. Dr. William Campbell, president of Queen's College, Cambridge, is dead at London. A mob of 500 raiders tore away the toll gates on the Owenton Peaks Mill and Flat Creek roads, near Frankfort, Ky.. Monday night. The senior class of Sheffield Scientific School at Yale has honored two Chicago boys, having elected J. R. Belden class statistician and N. L. Barnes one of the historians. Twenty-five freight cars with their contents were destroyed in a wreck on the 7 ?: c Four Railroad near Wellington, Ohio, Saturday night. The loss will reach $100,003. At Guthrie. O. T., in the divorce case of Louise B. Hillburn, of Chicago, against her husband, R. L. Hillburn, it developed that the plaintiff had already been divorced from four men. The Protestant Episcopal church, of the United States is about to organize an army of uniformed evangelists, who will be under military discipline and compete •with the Salvation Army and American Volunteers in the field of Christian work among th.e poor. The asphalt roof of a one-story room used by the University of Virginia at Charlottesville fell in Monday morning and caught five workmen, two of whom— Eugene Bunch and George Tucker —were killed. Lorenzo D. Bowen received a scalp wound and ugly cuts about the face, V. W. Chambers a fracture of the skull, and Joseph Lamb was cut about the head. Condie, the Chicago operator who absconded from Oak Lake Station on the Canadian Pacific with $3,000 of the Dominion Express Company’s funds, was arrested Monday night at Gladstone Station, Manitoba, where he was recognized by a young man named Walters. All the money was found on Condie, who has confessed his identity. At Greenville, Miss., frost fell Sunday morning sufficient to kill the top leaves of the cotton. The cotton fields looked as though they had ben scorched. This stops the top crop absolutely in that section.

EASTERN. i The Bank of Commerce at Buffalo, N. Y., has suspended. The Columbia brought to New York $1,652,500 gold from Europe Friday. George Young, an aged negro, who died nt Danbury, Conn., was body servant of Gen. “Stonewall’’ Jackson. Freeman, Ives & Co., Little Falls, N. Y., produce dealers, have assigned. The firm was rated from $150,000 to $300,000. It is rumored that a new Roman Catholic province is to be eieatcd in New York State and that th ' new archbishop will be Right Reverend John J. Keane. 1 W. J. McCahan, the owner of the Independent sugar refinery in Philadelphia, Pa„ denied the story that his establishment is to be a part of a combination of independent refineries to fight the sugar trust. According to the New York Herald s correspondent at Cadiz, Spain, if Spam has not put down the insum ci ion in Cuba by M itch 1 next it is th ' intention of the Government to give up the struggle and to let the island go. Amy Price, 21) years old. went to Philadelphia from her home in New York to visit her sister, Mrs. Carrie Clossen. She told her sister that she was going to take a bath, but instead she shot herself dead. Iler affianced died a few days ago. Henry E. Abbey, the widely known theatrical manager, died al New York Saturday morning of stomach trouble. The announcement camo as a surprise to the community, though it was known to his intimate acquaintances that his coudiWon had been serious. A courier brings word to Menn, Ark., from Kennedy's Camp, on the Kansas City, Pittsburg ami Gulf Railroad, of a premature explosion. Four men were killed outright and several more injured. Contractor Kennedy is badly hurt. Doctors have gone to the scene to care for the wounded. George T. Quinn, for whom the poli e of New York have been searching for the last six weeks, has been arrested at Lake View. Riverside County, Cal., where he was living on a ranch. Quinn was col lector for J. B. Hall, a New York decorator, and is charged with raising a check from $441 to s7ll. Ho decamped with the wife of H. W. Gamble, of Brooklyn, and while on route to California stopped off at Em! >ra, Kam, where he married a young woman who was said t > be verj wealthy. He deserted her in a few day-, and when arrested at Lake View was living with the Gamble woman. Several members of the Chini. o <’hr. tian Union of Boston have tiled charges with the police against the secret order of highbinders in Boston, alleging that a plot had been concocted which if tarried out would result in the assassination of all the members of the union. The alleged plot is denied by the highbinders. They claim that certain member of the Chinese Christian Union demanded sl<m> from each of the gambling houses and said information would lie furnished to the ♦ dice which would kind all of th I gamblers in jail. The charges caused a sensation in Chinatown, and it will be a long lime before matter^ are quiet again. WESTERN. Ex-Representative Edgar C. Hawley, of Elgin, has been inli.a.l by the Kane County Grand Jury on charge of em bezzling school funds. J. A. Tankard, of Ohio, is nt Deliver placing bets on M< Kinl 'y’s election. He has already put up $166.1)00 at various odds from 4 to 1 down to 3 to 2. A fresh outbreak of diphtheria in Ports mouth, Ohio, and vicinity is causing great alarm. Friday afternoon a mob prevented health officers burying Miss Mary Ward, of Utica, N. Y.. until her brothel arrived. Descendants of Jacob Royei^, who settled on the site of St. Louis early in the present century, have decided to bring suit for a large tract of real estate in the heart of the Missou.a metropolis worth $66,000,000. At Indianapolis. Ind . early Friday morning the wholesui? china and crock ery store of Pearson A Wetzel was dam aged SS6.(H>O by fire. The firm carr. d a stock valued at $106,000. The loss is covered by insurance. Dr. Herman Rakeni t<. of Chicago, who has been trying ever since last April to secure the possession of bis two children, Elsa, u girl of 15. and Ctrl, a boy of 12, has b '• n a warded their custody by Court Commissioner Harper at Milwaukee. The Marine National bank at Duluth, Minn., has suspended and th.e bank examiner is in charge. Inability to make collections rapidly enough ’•» meet withdrawals is assigned as the cause. The bank has a capital of S'JoO.om. No statement has been issued. The wife of C. D. Smith, a farmer living thirteen miles east of Nevada, Mo., was found dead in the house with her head crushed. Her huslind was digging potatoes in a field sum? distance away and had left his wife aLu l , in the house. It is supposed she was murdered by a tramp. In Lae United State. Court of Appeals at St. Louis Judge Cal.l well rendered a decision i the ease of W. U. Werner, collector of taxes for Crittenden County, Arkansas, reversing the decree of the lower court, and in effect holding that a United States marshal cannot interfere with a constable in the possession of property which the latter ha* levied on. Ex-United States Sen itor Thomas W. Ferry died, at Grand Haven very suddenly Wednesday morning of paralysis. He had been in splen itd health, excepting attacks of sudden dizziness, until Sunday. when he took to his bed. Tuesday evening he was given a hypodermic injection. Tiie family sat up with him a short time, when he seemed to be asleep. In the morning he was found dead in bed. The resignation of Surgeon Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital service at Chicago, was accepted by th'.’ President Friday afternoon. In the controversy which has existed between Surgeon Hamilton and Surgeon General Wyman ever since the latter succeeded Dr. Hamilton as the head of the bureau the treasury officials have always sided with Dr. Wyman and have given him their full support, and the statement is made o high authority that no exception will be made in the present , instance. Horace Rublee, editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, died Sunday night. He had ■ been suffering for two years from a tu- . morons disease developed fro. i tuberculosis. Mr. Rublee was born in Berkshire, Vt., in 182!), and came to Wisconsin in his clevwuth year. He resided in that State

I continuously with the exception of a venr as editor of the Boston Advertiser i 1878 and eight years as Minister to Switz* erland during Grant’s administration He served for many years as chairman o j Republican State Committee, was editor of the Wisconsin State Journal at M id’ son for sixteen years, and in 1880* We ’ n ‘i to Milwaukee and for a like period has been in control of the Sentinel. \j r Rublee was easily the most distinguish newspaper writer in Wisconsin historv for scholarly attainments, political leadership and style of expresion. News has just been received from Meeker,in the northwestern part of Colorado of an attempted bank robbery that occurred Tuesday. Three men entered the bank which is connected with the storeroom of .1. W. Hugus & Co. Two of the men held the store employes at l ay, while the third went into the bank cashier’s window and, tiring one shot, or lured the cashier to throw up his hands. The order was dot quickly obeyed, and the robber fired again, whereupon the cashier’s hands went up. The manager of the store was then forced to open the bank door, and after gathering up all th? money in sight the robbers marched the cashier and store employes into the street with hands uplifted. They then rushed out the back way with their booty. Citizens, attracted by the shots, had pretty well surrounded the building by this time, and being armed, opened lire on the robbers, twof*6f whom, Charles Jones ami William Smith, were killed by the first v>Hey. The thjd man, George Harris, was shot thro®’ the longs, dying in two itours. He is fl?' ly identified. Four citizens were wotnS' ed, not seriously. - SOUTHERN. | Cummings Bros., exporters of hardwood lumber and logs, have assigned i^ Houston, Texas, naming George Arnold trustee. The assets foot up $120,00^ with liabilites to preferred creditors aggregating $46,000. The stringency in the money market and inability to realize are the reasons given. A terrific dynamite explosion occurred in a magazine tit Dayton, Tenn.. Friday morning. Many persons were hurt, the magazine was set on lire and a number of buildings were wrecked. All the window glass in the town was broken. The company’s store is n wreck. The debris was blown a quarter of a mile. Sunday morning a head-end collision ocetirr linear Li'lie Cypri ss Bayou on the Southern Pit' me in Texas, by which John Clancy, from Unionville. lowa, was killed and the engineer. A. T. Toler, of Houston, wh> was running the west-bound train, sutiiined a fracture of both thigh bones and a dislocatiou of the right shoulder. The National Live St . k Exchange, in session at Fort W rth. Texas, has elected the e otli^i rs: Ur sident, W. H. Thompson; S- t -tar. , A. Baker; Terascrer, Mr. Doud; Vi e Presidents. I. Ingerson. Sioux Uiti : E Met’aH, Pittsburg; Joseph Adams, Uhiengo; A. D. Evans, East St. Lotfis; W. E. Skinner, Fort Worth; J It Siath i, Kansas City; T. 1). ’’crriiic, < »mah i. In the presfme of I‘iJmX* old soldiers and their th s.-endnnts th ■ corner stone of a moaament to the <;,»«>’» Union soldiers of Ten'.-s-ee who perished in the war wa • laid at Kn xville, Tenn.. Thursday by Grand Arm> Posts, Women s Relief Corps, mil Sous of Wt'- ans. A histiX*s cai paper was read by William Rule, of Knoxville, past departtmnt commander, and the oration was d-’ivend by Gen. G. P. Thurston, of Nashville, who served on Gen. Thomas staff, in the historical paper it was shown thn’ 2<* per cent, of Tennessees enlisted r- ii died from wounds, di-ea.se, and in rebel prisons, a larger । ereentage than of any other State. Over 1.200 died in prison. The monument will be erected in the National Cemetery. It will be constructed of Tenneesee marble: will be >vcr fifty feet high and erow tied by the figure of an infantryman in bronze. It wilt cost completed - ■ ■ 000. WASHINGTON. Ivar Admiral Ghe. mdi, U S. N., has been elected coiumamicr in-chlef of the military ord< r of the Loyal Legiou of the United States. The Comptroller of the (’urren y an-nounc-.-s the failure cl the Second National Bank of Rockford 111. Bank Examit. T D. A. Cook has been placed in charge. The bank his a capital stock of s'_’• ■o.os>, and at the date of its last report ca l d-p> -'s ! । thi amount of $320,i*»<» and undivided profits aggregating s7o.tMh>. Inability to realize on its assets is given a the cause of the failure. 4’lie otlit ers of the bank ire: E. L. Woodi iff, I'tesi.huit; W. B, Barbour, Vice Pre-M 'nt; L. We.odruff, cashier; Willis M. Kimball, A- slant Cashier. Many of the wealthy 'm-n of the city are interested as stockholders. FOREIGN. Auguste Trectil. the French botanist, died Friday in a hospital in Paris, in a condition of poverty. The embassies of the powers have sent an identical note to the Porte refusing its demand to be accorded the right of searching foreign vessels in Turkish wa( ters for Armenians. 'l’lio l^ortugneso bark Venus. < Pinto, hailing from Lisbon, which sailed from Cardiff on Oct. 1 for Lisbon, foundered in a gale on Oct. 9 off Skomer Island. Twenty persons were drowned. The Venus was a bark of 647 tons register and was built in 1862 at Liverpool. Its owners were Rodriguez A Roza. In ’lie Vice Regal Council at Simla, India, Ilie Minister of Agriculture stated that the local authorities of a large portion of India reported that distress was expected as a result of the drought and the consequent rise in the price of wheat. But, the Minister added, the construction of Government works and the importation of wheat from California would prevent acute famine. A Vienna dispatch to the London Chronicle says that the Czar has informed the Prince of Montenegro that the dowry of the Princess Helena, his daughter. will be one million rubles (about $800,000). The Czar and Czarina ordered their wedding gift to the Princess upon her marriage to the Prince of Naples in Paris. It is a diamond ornament and will cost 2.000,000 francs ($400,000). The British colony of Barbadoes contemplates a change in the tariff schedules which, if approved by the Legislature will become operative Jan. 1. and increase the revenues of the island from £74,000 to £9.3,000. With the exceptions of meats and lard the duties on almost all commodities now dutiable are to p £l increased about 25 per cent., and 60Ine auditions arc to be made .9 the dutiable

list, including hay, manure, cattle, sheep, pigs, suit and oil. New York dispatch: Rumors that have recently attended the sha-p upward movement in Tobacco stock of negotiations pending for the control es large tobacco manufacturing plants by foreign capitalists have crystallized into a definite report that a London syndicate has been formed with a capital of $6OO,0.!O, and has purchased and will operate abroad the foreign patent rights of the National Cigarette and Tobacco Company. The National Company, it is alleged, is building fifty cigarette machines to be delivered in England by Jan. 1. In the domestic tobacco trade there arc persistent rumors of impending startling developments of a bullish character, in th? direction of a strong combination on Standard Oil lines. A great sensation has been caused at Havana by the discovery that Spanish officials have been supplying the insur- , gents with arms and ammunition and medicine. I'he treason is apparently so widespread that Weyler hardly knows how to act. It is said that the officers of the Spanish garrison at Guanabacoa, across the bay from Havana, are under suspicion and that Dr. Jose R. Sanabi, superintendent of Spanish Military Hospitals, has been arrested. It is said the deals with insurgents were made through Dr. Sanabi, his position affording good opportunity for carrying on the traitorous work. It is stated that through Dr. Sanabi the Cubans in the last two months hgvo secured n great quantity of ammunition mid medicine. The insurgents are said to have paid liberally, and Dr. Sanabi and friends are credited with receiving thousands of dollars for their treachery to Spain. IN GENERAL. Obituary: At Bourbon, Ind., Asa St. John. 81.—At Elkhart, Ind.. Lucian M. Hopkina, 25. At Saginaw, Mich., Frank S. Erd. Obituary: At Alto, Iml., William Harrison Finch, 74.— At Warrington. Ind., Dr. R. D. Hanna. At Bay City, Mich., James Shearer, 7.3. The J. & I‘. Coates Company, limited, of Glasgow, has bought (’lark’s MileEnd Thread Mills at N irk, N. J. The price paid is said to ha' ■ been $1,256,006. Obituary: At Gahna. 111.. Mrs. Oswald E. Ryan, of ('hieago.—At Germantown, 111., Hermann Wobbc, 87. At Bloomingt?n, 111., Mrs. Belle E. Robinson, 4S — At Janesville, Wis., Isaac Farnsworth. 00. Among the passengers by the City of Topekn, which arrived at Vittoria. B. C„ from the mirth i tiesday night, were Capt. Coles and crew of the little 31-ton sealer, San Jese, whi h left for 16 bring Sen early in June. While homewanl bound, with (510 skins, Sept. 22, their vessel was caught in a tierce gale at Unimak Pass, and dragging her anchor became a total wreck. The season’s catch was saved with difficulty ami no lives were List. United States Consul M< eki r at Brailford reports to the State Department that over 1,000,006 pounds of American wool was sold in England early in the autumn at an average price of 9 een:s per pound, and that these sales would have continued except for the advance in freight rates and stiffer prices at home, - • that there are still large amounts held for sale in Jfctigland waiting higher prices. Uom j'l^lt is made of th*' quality of this wool, ' wtneh is of the merino short staple type, and buy-Tei complain that tin' Boston ship pers selected the very worst they had to send over. Mr. Meeker says British merchants strongly advise American wool buyers, if they hope to keep a place in the British market, to edmate the growers through agricultural papers, so that they may bring their wool to market in better condition. R G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “ The one commercial change which m.-re than any other insures better business in the near future is the excess of merchandise exports over imports. In September exports were ss's,6‘.»S,s’J4$ 5 '5,6‘.»5,5’J4 and inqs>rt> only $50,825,765, and the excess of exports was $34.272,55’.», in payment f<>r which tu t imports of gold were $.34,249,18,3. Last year the excess of mer chandise imports was $<1,765,257 in Sep tember ami net exqiorts of gold $16,506,558. In the four principal classes exports inertased >'-!•>.611,1.3 I. more than half in cotton. Continued shipments of gold from Europe, not including $4.0*10.000 from Australia, now amount to $59,250.000 since the movement began, of which 502.250.ihm> has already arrived and have not been arrested by measures taken by the great European banks. The heavy movement of grain is the corner stone. An important fait is that all available grain freights have been engaged for memths ahead.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $.3.50 to $5.25; h 'gs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2. 21c to 25c; >at.. No. 2, 18 ' to 19c: rye. No. 2,37 cto 3Sc; butter, choice creamery. 17? to 19e; eggs, fresh, 16c to 17c; potanie.s. i -t bushel, 18c to 36c: br. em < "rn. eonim m short to choice ■ dwarf, $35 to $l6O per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $;>,75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2. 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 25e to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, ISc to 20e. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 77c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 22c to 23c: oats, No. 2 white, 16c to ISc; rye, No. 2,34 c to 35c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2 50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 77c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 16c to 1.8 c; rye. No. 2,40 cto 42c. Detroit—(’attic. -82.50 to $5.00; hogt, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 75c to 77e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to, 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. 38e to 46c. Toledo—M heat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, ISc to 26c; rye. No. 2,39 cto 41c; clover seed, $5.60 to $5.70. Milwaukee— Wheat, No. 2 spring, 68c to iOc; corn. No. 12, 123 c to 25c; outs, No. 2 white, 19c to 26c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 36c; rye. No. 1,37 cto 39c; pork, mess, to HufTalo —Cattle, $2.00 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. S red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29n io 31c; cats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25e. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 12c to 20c; eggs, Western, 15c to 19c-

SCHNAUBELT IS DEAD. SAID TO BE THE FAMOUS CHICAGO BOMB THROWER. Consumption Ends the Life of the Fugitive Anarchist—Bold Robbery of the Mails at Kansas City—Plucky Mississippi Sheriff. Now Safe from Arrest. Yludclph Sehnaubelt, the supposed bomb-thrower of the Chicago Haymarket riot, is dead at last. It is the third report of his death, but this time it is definite. His life came to an end Monday in San Bernardino, Cal., consumption being the cause. In 1887 he was reported dead in Erie, Pa., and only eighteen months ago a report came that he was fatally shot in Honduras. Sehnaubelt was one of the first men arrested with Lingg, Spies, and Schwab, May 5, 1886, after the great riot. For ten hours the police kept him In the sweat box, but his nerves stood the test and they let him go. He took immediate advantage of this, for he disappeared as completely as if he had dropped into the lake. In ten hours more the police wanted him badly, but could not trace him. He was reported in Central America and all over the world, but was never captured. Robber Dong a Postal Uniform. A daring mail robber has been arrested at Kansas City, Mo., by the postal authorities. The culprit is C. 11. Hamilton, alias Wallace. Sunday evening Hamilton appeared at the I nion depot, wearing the brass buttons and uniform of a railway mail agent. He stepped boldly up to a truck that was standing under the depot sheds loaded with mail sacks, and pulling down a letter pouch threw it across his arm and stepped into a waiting room, i’hore he placed the pouch under an overcoat that hung upon his arm and walked into the street, not knowing that he had been "shadowed.” He was arrested at his hotel while going through the letters, lie had already extracted several small sums of money. Shoots Two Negroes. At Crystal Springs, Miss., Deputy Sheriff Murphy went to the house of a negro Saturday night in search of an es•aped convict ami demanded admittance. When the door was opened Murphy entered ami was shot by a negro who ran past him. As the negro ran out of the -U r, Murphy tired upon him. killing him in-’a’itly. The <1- ad negro's partner then tm -lea break for Murphy, and he also r?-eived a wound from which he can hardly rec-nor. Officer Murphy is dangerously wounded. NEWS NUGGETS. Frank H. Wilmarth. City Clerk of Gloversville, N. Y., since 1890. was arrested on a charge of misappropriating funds and falsifying the books of the •ity during the last five years. The prisoner pleade 1 not guilty, and was held in SIO,<MH) bail. At a mass meeting of unemployed at T-iroiito. Ont.. M-m-lay night resolutions "< re passed in favor of the free coinage of silver, the almlition of private banks ami other s- eialistic measures. Then the leaders waited on the City Council with threatening proposals. When the steamer Orizaba reached the mouth of the River Culiaea. State of Siualoa, Mexico, on its last trip up the Gulf, it v as found that not a building of th*- litth' mining town of Altata was standing. This was the reult of the terrible sterm of Sept. IS. Thomas E. Watson Friday forwarded from Th-uns-in, 6a. certain papers to Kansas, notifying the Secretary of State to tak- his name as nominee for Vice President from the head of the silver Democratic Populistic fusion ticket. The necessary affidavit, in due form, authorizing the withdrawal from that ticket, accompanied the papers. Sc.rotary Olney is in receipt of a telegraphic dispatch from the United States Minister at (’onstantinople to the effect that he has at last obtained telegraphic orders from the Turkish Government to permit the departure for the United States, with safe conduct to the seaports, of all native Armenian women and children wh. -se husbands and fathers are in the Unitv-i States. The ceremonies of accepting the "Army Correspondents' Memorial” at Gapland, the beautiful summer home of George Alfred Townsend, < n South Mountain, near Middletown. Md., occurred Friday afternoon. There wt re about 200 invited guests present, including Gov. Lowndes, if Maryland, and many prominent newspaper correspondents. Gov. Lowndes, Mr. Townsend, Gen. Boynton, Gen. Fullerton ami others spoke. Speaking of an article in a New York paper attacking the financial integrity of Montana, Gov. Rickards says: “The statement that Montana does not honor her outstandiim' obligatioi s is false ami malicious. The warrant issued to Laurizen A ('o. for SSOO was drawn against the State capital fund, ami so states upon its face. If it had been drawn on the general fund it would have been cashed." A great sensation has been caused in the British political world by the speech of Sir Edward Clark, Conservative member of Parliament, ami who was Solicitor General in Lord Salisbury's previous ministry, in which he said, speaking of the W-nezuelan question, that the decision of the American Boundary Commission would be against England, not because it was a hostile commission, but because he believed no honest and impartial arbitrator or commission could decide in favor of England's claim upon the evidence. To ditch the Burlington night train from the East in order to accomplish the death of A. Bissell, a passenger on the train, and to eventually collect $W,0()0 accident insura nee carried in Bissell's name are the outlines of a plot in which' W. L. Lee, a photographer of York, Neb., is charged with being the principal. AVilbam A. Richardson, chief justice of the Court of Claims, died at ’Washington Monday, aged 74 years. He had been ill for some months with a complication of diseases, and owing to his advanced ago his death had been generally expected. Baron Fava Monday visited the White House for the purpose of presenting to the I’resident by direction of the King of Italy a testimonial of *-steem in the shape of a set of volumes of the greatest historical value touching the early history of America. The work is in fourteen volumes.

WHEAT IS BOOMING. GOES UP FOUR CENTS IN CHICAGO ON MONDAY. Ease l on Legitimate Demand, Trader# See a Rampant Market Likely Until Christmas—Home an 1 Foreign Markets Excited an.l America Happy Biggest Day’s Jump in Years. Wheat made the greatest single day's advance in price Monday that it has in twenty years. It took a balloon and sailed to great heights. There was no parachute attached to that balloon either for a speedy descent. All day above the pit of the Chicago Board of Trade rang the cry: “Dollar wheat.” It was echoed in Liverpool, in Paris, Antwerp and Berlin, over the impoverished fields of Russia and where the empty granaries of Argentine mock the sun. Foreign bread makers and bread sellers were after American wheat. Since Skobeloff stormed the mountain crags of Plevna, during the Turko-Russiau war, European markets have never put forth such a demand for a Yankee's grain. The bound in prices was phenomenal. The advances at the great foreign ami home markets in the price over that of Saturday wire: i. Antwerp jo cents -ylj'ns * 8 cents i ^ v, r l >oo ^ 6 cents At Berlin . 314 cent 3 At New York 5 cents At Chicago 4 cents M bile at the closing of the market there was some falling off from these gains, it was not sufficient to afford the bears any satisfaction or comfort. Twenty Years’ Record Broken. Twenty years have passed since the wheat market has seen any such activity. Britishers have been accustomed to wait for war times before expecting such market excitement as seen in Liverpool Monday. Their uniform ■ ibh grams to Chieac'iI agents were: "Wheat excited and 5d higher. ’ On the continent the excitement was still greater. Paris and Antwerp felt the tremendous bulge of Saturday in the Berlin market. Berlin, which set the . pace Saturday, advanced 3U cents. On the Pacific coast the net gain for the day was but <1 cents per .cental, although at one time it was 8 cents. New York’s opening gain was 5 <* ■ -. ami of this it : retained 3 cents until ri '» December wheat in Ui.: co w s within one-fourth of a cent of "•» cents at 11 . o’clock Monday morning. This was the highwater mark of the day. Two years ago <m Oct. 19 December wheat sold at closing at 60 : ,\s cents. The closing price was 77 : ,\s, or 17 cents higher than two years ago. The biggest bear on the market could not take cheer out of that comparison, especially since the foreign demand continues strong and without a sign of letting up. The advance was not checked by the posted figures showing an increase in the visible supply of 2,5ia).660 bushels, making a grand total in sight of 55,000,000. Europe wanted wheat—wants it still—and that badly. America has the gran. Unloadinij at Quick Profits. The bulls, wise sometimes and sometimes not, thought the situation at opening warranted the unloading of part of their holdings. They wanted a profit at 79 cents. They got it, and then under i foreign pressure bought back the grain . they had sold at a higher figure than they had received for it. Law of supply and demand proved stronger than all speculative rules, and made many a wiseacre on the board wish for a few moments Monday that he was omniscient. The gamut which December wheat ran Monday in the Chicago market was: Opening, 78^ cents, 79U> cents, 79;i cents; closing, 77 : ’s cents. The hot haste of the bulls to realize ■ quick profits had more to do with hammering the local price down than anything else. There was no weakening in the foreign demand. But as it was there was a net gain of cents from Satur- . day’s closing figures and no decline. A flood of buying orders from California . and foreign markets caused an advance , on the unofficial curb market in the af- [ ternoon of 1 cent over the closing price on the Board of Trade. No one better explains the situation or ( makes it more plain why the eyes of the whole world are now turned to the wheat . stores of America than John Hyde, expert special agent of the eleventh census, ’ in his statement: “It is worthy of note that in 1867 and ’ 1868 the failure of crops in Great Brit- । ain, which the United States was unable to make good out of its own surplus, caus- ’ ed an advance in price of no less than 42 cents per bushel. Wheat .during the last ’ ninety days, owing to deficient harvests in other countries, has advanced from 64 to *8 cents per bushel.” Told in a Few Lines. Harry M. Schneider, trading as L. 11. Schneider’s Sons, hardware, made an as--1 signmont at Washington, D. C. Assets, $56,091: liabilities, $39,357. The First National Bank of Joseph. M'allowa County, Ore., was robbed of $2.OGU by three men, one of whom is dea I. another badly wqtnuled. while the third 1 is being pursued by a posse of citizens. The greater part • ' the '’ image ? < •' , by the cloudburst at Benson, Ariz., was in the town, flic west end of which was ; completely washed away. The express ( office was lifted from its foundation. Sev- ( en persons are reported dead. t Consent has been given by the Chi- > nese Government for the building of a . branch of the Silesian Railway across f North Manchuria wit’a the pre-emption clause giving China the right to purchase this branch after thirty years. , The estimate of the total damage done by the storm in M'ashington, D. C., ag1 gregate $433,500. The unroofing of so t many houses caused a brisk demand for roofing tin and sent the price up. The stock of tin in the city soon became exhausted. Edward S. Stokes has retired from the active management of Whe Hoffman House at New York. Sir. Stokes has given up the active management in order to attend to his private interests outside, but he still remains president of the hotel company. The Laconia, N. IL. Car Company, through its president, Perley Putnam, ft* large creditor, petitioned for the appointment of a receiver. The entire indebtedness is $350,000, of which $150,000 is mortgaged bonds. The present financial difficulty is attributed to the general depression of business.