St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 October 1896 — Page 6

£ije 3ni<cpcndcnt. ''V. A. JC2X J> A', .‘'ubllslior. K=^=rr--— : -.-7=4 WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA BIG DEMAND FOR GOLD ENORMOUS TRANSFERS AT SAN FRANCISCO. Chicago and the Local Mint Appealed To for Aid—Run Is Now Over—Uncle Sam Thinks More of Mechanics than of Linguists. Greenbacks for Gold. The San Francisco subtreasury has just pulled through a rather serious run, .which threatened to annihilate its gold reserve and leave it without a dollar with which to redeem the perfect avalanche of greenbacks that poured over the counter. Timely aid came from Chicago and other sources, and when the outpouring of gold finally stopped the $12,000,000 of a few months ago, despite the frequent additions made during that period, was reduced to a bare $4,000,000. For once, subtreasury bad on band more green- • & -WUi t’ Jr In twtkMb!. ?r^TO<),0()0 worth of them were dumped over the counters and the gold they represented withdrawn. Thore was something like $7,000,000 in gold in die v;^«^hen the run commenced. Chi"•^S^S^PlX'ah’dito for aid and sent an g&aUy larger am mnt £o^. 'Univ lie 1 tL^rtMtSyareign s recently ^^eivet^from^^^^erc.coined into tlouSle eagles- at tilt carted to '••the subtretunry. The'hsy^easuries at San Francis^ and at Ne^pnirk are the onlv ones authorized to redeeem greenbacks. Locksmith vs. Linguist. In all the cities where a United States civil service commission is located examinations were held Tuesday for a linguist and an expert on locks and vaults. This fact would not in itself be remarkable were it not for the peeyjiar conditions that are attached to the’ examinations. The expert locksmith,.for ilfMnmce, whose business it would be to take care of the locks on vaults and safes in the Treasury Department, must be able to pick a lock under any circumstances within ten minutes; hence the position offers advantages to a retired cracksman who is anxious to lead an honest life in return for the prompt payment of a salary of $l5O monthly. The linguist, for a salary of $125 monthly, must be able to translate into English. French, German, Spanish and Italian, to do typewriting in all these languages, to read proofs in them and prepare manuscripts for the press, while in addition he must be proficient in the use of the English language and literary composition and familiar with all modern library methods. Venezuela's Case. The Venezuelan Government has forwarded to Washington the brief prepared at Caracas by a commission of five eminent jurists on the British-Venezuelan boundary question, and it will be submitted to the United States commission as soon as the translation is completed. The brief covers 300 pages and is said to be a forcible presentation of the case. Aside from this brief, coming direct from Yenezuela, Messrs. Scruggs and Storrow, the counsel of Venezuela in this country, are about to submit their final arguments. BREVITIES, Li Hung Chang has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Simultaneously with his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs an imperial edict orders Li Hung Chang to be punished for presuming to enter the precincts of the ruined summer palace while visiting the dowager Empress. Dr. W. W. Palmer and Miss Fanny Palmer, his granddaughter, 15 years of age, of Keansburg, N. J., were killed Tuesday and William Hauran, of Atlantic City, was probably fatally injured by a train on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The three, with a daughter of Dr. Palmer, were in a carriage crossing the railway track when a train struck the vehicle. Paul Isenberg, the wealthy Hawaiian sugar planter, who with his family has been spending several months in Europe, has arrived in San Francisco. Mr. Isenberg’s European trip was for the purpose of interesting foreign capitalists in the gigantic Ohu plantation scheme, of which much has been written lately. His mission was in a measure successful, for he is now returning to Honolulu with a guaranty of about $1,500,000 from several Dutch millionaires. The Long-Lochren pension case was dismissed by the United States Supreme Court on the ground of abatement by reason of the retirement of Judge Lochren -from the office of Commissioner of Pensions. The case was brought by Judge Long of the Michigan Supreme lb 5 -1 v< r.7 . ' ' - J . . p i of $72 a m< : -h and the reduction of the rating to SSO a month was stubbornly contested in the courts of the District of Columbia and finally carried to the Supreme Court. A bullfight with fatal results took place at Nogales, Sonora, Monday, and for a short time* caused a panic in the audience. One of the bulls, becoming enraged, rushed about the arena goring everything within its reach. A picador, Jose Angulo, in an attempt to place a thorn in the side of the wild animal, was caught on one of'its long horns, which pierced him like a sword. He was tossed and fell to the ground, bleeding and mangled, where the beast held him between his horns and'struck and pawed him. He was frightfully injured and died a few minutes later. There was intense excitement in the audience, which was quieted by the killing of the bull. It developed at the coroner’s inquest on ■Virginia Rivoux, aged 74, who died at Cincinnati, a pauper, from an overdose of laudanum, that she was the owner of several trunks containing quantities of silks, laces and jewelry. She had stored the trunks seven or eight years ago and had been living on charity all that time, clad in the meanest garments. Two men were killed and five persons injured, three seriously, by an explosion of 1,800 pounds of nitro-glycerine Monday morning'at the Acme Dynamite Company’s works near Hulton, Pa. The building was demolished

EASTERN. O. W. Peabody, of the well-known Boston banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co., died Friday, Rev. Thomas Stoughton Potwin hanged himself at Hartford, Conn. Melancholia, the result of continued poor health, was the cause. Justin S. Morrill was re-elected United States Senator from Vermont. He is 80 years old and has been in the Senate for thirty years. Sehweinfurth, the bogus “Messiah,” is reported to have given up his colonies at Minneapolis and Rockford and intends to retire to private life. Mrs. Barbara Orr, of Providence, R. 1., and formerly of Chicago, was found dead in her apartments in New York. She had committed suicide by inhaling gas. Miss Virginia Duane * Rouss, only daughter of the multi-millionaire, Charles Broadway Rouss, of New York, has set aside parental authority and precedent by marrying her father's secretary, David Lee. Hamlin J. Andrus, of Yonkers, N. Y., prosperous, respected, without an enemy in the world so far as known, was murdered Wednesday by some unknown miscreant, who chose the most cowardly of all weapons, a dynamite bomb. He was killed in the office of the Arlington Chemical Company, of which he was Secretary. ♦Tvi Batti Troubadours, consistdefined lady vocalists,” went to Hartford, Conir, Friday to till au engagement. 'They waited at the railroad station while their manager made the rounds of the hotels in the fruitless endeavor to secure them accommodations. Every hotel became suddenly "full,” and the fifty black Pattis spent the night on the benches of the waiting room. The manager is furious and says he will sue all the hotel landlords in the city. Hamlin J. Andrus, who was murdered in his office at Yonkers, N. Y., with a bomb fired by means of an elaborate electrical arrangement, was, it now seems certain, the victim of an anarchist plot. John E. Andra's said: "1 suspect two men, members of an anarchist body, and now have four detectives shadowing them. It they attempt to leave the town they will be. arrested at once. I believe it was part of an anarchistic plot to get rid of a number of the wealthy men, and think my brother ami 1 were simply two on the list. I am confident, too, 1 was to have been disposed of first. 1 will give any reward iwessiry. 1 will spend millions if need be to bring these men to justice.” Inv. -tigatiou by an export electrician shows the bomb to have been exploded by che kwork, set in motion by the elec:rival current. WESTERN. 'Pho stoneware works of Whitmore, Robinson *k <>., at East Akron, t-thio, were burned, the loss being S2 ( .>O,(MJO. Tiie distributing reservoir of the Oakland. Cal.. Water Company, broke its walls and flooded the town with 2,000,000 gallons of water. The steamer Argo of the Oregon Coal and Navigation Company was wrecked on the rocks at Coos Head, Oregon. Four passengers and eight of the crew were drowned. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior under Grant, died suddenly Friday at 11 a. in. at Lake Howe, his suburban homo near Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was 87 years old. R bbers entered, (lie Bank of Cassville, at Cassville, Mo.. Wednesday night and blew open the safe, securing the contents. The amount obtained by the robbers was* large, but the bank officials refuse to give the amount. Col. William F.. Cody, better known as “Buffalo Bill," was fined $250 by Judge Carolus on the charge of giving an exhibition of his show in St. Joseph, Mo., without a proper license. The ease will be appealed. Dr. Tanner, who many years ago gained national notoriety by his sensational public attempts at fasting, was one of the two men cremated in the burning at Akron, Ohio, of the pottery plant of the Whitmore-Robinson Company. His right name was Francis Harris m. Several years ago ho gained unenviable publicity by selling his wife, as reported, to Adam Hild, a German, for $lO and an old sewing machine. On the evidence revealed by an expert examination of the books of the Puget Sound Loan and Trust and Banking Company, which suspended at New ’Whatcom, Wash., a few months ago. Mill A. Langdon, formerly bookkeeper of the bank, has been arrested at Moscow, Idaho, on a charge of embezzlement. The expert’s report is said to show astonishing irregularities reflecting seriously on certain former officials of the institution. Albert Newson, of St. Louis, is an Englisman with a most pronounced tendency to enter the uncertain state of matrimony. Four times has he appeared in the role of a husband and court records show no divorce proceedings against him. All four of his wives are said to be alive. One of them, who claims to be Mrs. Newson the third, applied for a warrant against Newson, charging him with b n amy. He was arrested and does not rUnerE..: he is much mt’ /ic i. He says his various wives told him they would not agitate the matter of his many mar riages. Four men, wearing masks and armed with rifles, held up a Chicago and Alton passenger train Friday noon at the Blue Cut, five miles west of Independence, Mo. Not a shot was fired, and the bandits got little booty. They were' baffled by a quick-witted messenger, who, suspecting why the train stopped, snatched the cash from his safe, threw it into some chicken coops in the express car and closed the safe door. He made a show of objection at the point of the menacing rifles and opened the safe with apparent reluctance. The outlaws found in the safe two small boxes supposed to contain jewelry, and they stole $25 from the pocket' of the vest left by the engineer in his cab. None oj the passengers was molested. A posse of officers is pursuing the bandits. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has decided to interest itself in obtaining some protective action from Congress relating to the American shipping interests. Secretary Merry will forward a memorial to Washington presenting the absolute necessity of some action in behalf of the ocean mail steamship service under the national ensign. The memorial sets forth that Japan is entering the field with modern steamships to be operated under a subsidy law so 'liberal that a 5,000-ton vessel with fifteen knots speed will be paid $31,500 for a voyage from

Yokohama to San Francisco and return. It also calls attention to the fact that Great Britain has a heavily subsidized line between Vancouver and Japan and China and that another is about to be established between Vancouver and Australia via New Zealand and the* Fiji Islands, also calling at Honolulu. England pays annually to mail steamship lines and auxiliary cruisers $5,033,440, and France pays $2,100,000, and with such inducements it is no use for American steamers to compete with them. The memorial declares that the contest for maritime control of the Pacific is at hand and asks jCongress to enact such beneficent measures as will permit American mail being carried by American ships. SOUTHERN. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, was the target for eggs at Covington, Ky., Thursday night. Repeated voicing of insult and contumely hurled at him was coupled with incidents which leaders of all factions declare were the work of hoodlums. He stood by his oratorical guns throughout, but nt the close of the meeting had to be escorted to his home by a platoon of police. Dr. T. W. Bowman tried to kill his wife, Mrs. A. Martha Bowman, at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday night. He was prevented from doing so by W. T. Haskell, a commercial traveler. Haskell seized Bowman’s pistol and wrenched it from him. Mrs. Bowman and her mother then nsHiiulted the doctor. 'They black-— ened his eyes and beat him very badly about the head. Some of the statements before the Recorder tended to show that Haskell joined in the assault on Dr. Bowman. After a thorough investigation the Recorder gave Bowman twenty-four hours to got out of the State and fined Haskell $25. Haskell has followed Bowman and his wife through Atlanta, Waynesboro and other Georgia cities. Beseiged bj - infuriated negroes, J. M. Criglar, manager of Hagerman’s lumber mills tit Hager Station, Fla., defended himself with such effect that he killed two of his assailants and wounded four others. Criglar became engaged in a quarrel with one of his employes, and the other negroes drew pistols and began firing at the manager. Criglar ran to his office, locked himself in ami opened fire with A Winchester on the maddened negroes, who surrounded the building. For an hour the battle continued, and when the Loui viile and Nashville train arrived at the station the negroes were preparing to set fire to the building and cremate Criglar. The train crew and passengers, however, rushed to the latter’s aid and dispersed the negroes. The negroes had fired over two hundred bullets into the building, but Criglar escaped by lying on the floor. As s >on ns the negroes fired a volley, he would rise and shoot at them through thc-windows.

WASHINGTON. Edwin Willits, .if Mi.-lgan. formerly Assistant Secretary of Agriculture ami President of the l’n:‘'il States Government Board at the Columbian Exposition, died at Washington Friday night. Mr. Willits was a , ; b mlid specimen of American citizenship, intc’.iigvut, honest, and conscientious. He leaves a reputation for fidelity to trusts and integrity in the discharge of all duties, pabli ami privajx. upon which there is not n spot or blemish. The sti anwr Monowai, at San Francisco. from Australia, had on board about $2,500,000 worth of English sovereigns, consigned to Assistant United States Treasurer Berry, to be melted down and minted iiito double eagles and stored away in the snbtn usury. The g hl thus shipped from Australia is placed to the credit of merchants who are buying in New Tork and Bur >pe to make up the balance of trade, who h is naturally In favor of N. w Y>>rk at this season. Private information has been received nt San Fran. i> • > that ex Secretary of State John W. Foster will go to the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Foster is going to the islands ostensibly for his health, bu* it is hinted that he may have on hand business of international importance. Since the ex Secretary has achieved a reputation as an exponent of international law his services have been sought by some of the greatest nations on earth. It is not considered probable that he would journey to the Hawaiian Islands at a time when his learning might bo called into service unless on business of great importance. FOREIGN. .Tamai i has prohibited the importation of cattle from the United States. The South Australian harvest is a failure owing to drought, and numbers of farmers are destitute. Th l ' steamer Dauuth and the tug R. L. Mabey, employed by the Cuban Junta in transporting arms and ammunition to the insurgents on the island, were captured early Wednesday morning off the east ' oast of Florida by the United States, cruiser Raleigh after a chase, during which the warship used its guns. R. Yell, formerly chief officer of the British steamship Linlithgow, and five seamen of that vessel arrived in Neu York Wednesday on the Colombian liner Advance from Colon. They are the men who traveled 2.500 miles on the Pacific Ocean in an open lifeboat when the Linlithgow was stranded in mid- can bj the snapping of her air shaft. The men sailed at once for England on the Majestic. * r ■ The Armenians can record another victim. Nouri Effendi, mortally wounded, died at Constantinople in the presence of his . weeping father, who arrived just in time to find him in the agony of death. The. Sultan, on hearing of the serious condition of Nouri, sent the palace surgeon to see if it was possible for an operation to save his life. His majesty was greatly grieved when he heard of the death of Nouri. The Bank of England has advanced its rate of discount from 3 to 4 per cent. All of the London newspapers Thursday morning deny the rumors which were in circulation that the Bank of France had agreed to make a loan to the Bank of England with a view of preventing the rise in the bank-note rate. At the meeting of the directors of the Austro-Hun-garian Bank in Y’ienna the discount rate was not changed, the financial situation being satisfactory. Advices received at Washington by Minister Andrade, of Y'enezuela, are to the effect that the commission sent by Venezuela to Germany has returned after accomplishing most satisfactory arrangements which bring about a close identity of interests between the two countries. The main features of the arrangement

a loan of 50,000,000 bolivars, or $lO,-( yWOoo o f German capital, to the Y r ene-' Rollin government and the establish- , of a German bank with large capital a Caracas. The large loan comes from in-ivate German sources, but it is felt to be n ot the less important in showing the se ntim en t of the German government toward Venezuela. . London dispatch: Despite the denials issuefl from time to time from the American embassy concerning the non-exist-ence of estates in chancery awaiting ejaimants, a sem-official report just issued shows that Sept. 1 the unclaimed funds under the control of the Court of Chaneery aggregated the enormous total of $000,000,000. Among those who are at the present time being advertised or sought for in connection with unclaimed Properties, and the places in which they were last heard from, are John Charles, York; David Griffiths, Pittsburg; John and Thomas Moore, Toronto; Augustus Nugent, California; Henry Nugont, Manitoba. Those who are supposed to be in some portion-of the United States are: James Ward, Francis K. Ryan, William Purchase or his heirs, James Kearns, Robert Charles Overman and Frederick, Francis and Henry Powell. Details of a massacre on tne Solomon Islands were brought to San b from-4he <h by th 0, -^ nuc S, “ isbtp Company's mall steamer Monowai which arrived Thursday. The victim*’of the bloodthirsty savages were members of a party of Austrians which had been taken to the islands by the Austrian man-of-war Albatross. It was under the leadership of -lleury, Baron Fulton von Norbeck, an Austrian scientist who has visited many groups of islands in the South Seas and had numerous exciting experiences with the natives. While traveling with an armed guard over the mountains of the island he was set upon by bush men and slain, together with three others. During the desperate conflict which followed the assault many of the party were dangerous wounded. During the middle of last August a landing was made at a place called Titri, on the north cqast of Guadalcanal While exploring the Lion's Head Mountain bushmen from a score of places at once rushed out and the Baron was struck on the neck with a tomahawk, while a crowd of busliinen attacked the rest of tho party with clubs. The native who had cut down the Baron was shot by a sailor. The sailors were well armed and the bushmen finally had to retreat to tho woods, many of them wounded. IN GENERAL. Advices from Winnipeg, Man., say: The Government has revised: its estimate of the wheat yield of Manitoba, reducing the amount to snmethiug less than 15,000,000 bushels. The acreage under wheat was a little short of t.O<MUMX) acres. This does not im hide wheat of the Northwest Territory s. At the very outside it is not expected that there will be more than lO.tM'l'.tXU bushels of Manitoba grain available t >r export. An Anti rican syndicate has. it is said, securedcontnuof the famous underground railways of Lmdon. England. The syndicate was f ri;. l 1. in Toronto, Canada, and R ss Mackenzie is at the head .'f it. Capita L-ts toum Ni " York. Philadelphia and o*. • wties are also interested, and one of the hvaviest.investors Is stated to tie n well known St. L<>nis man. The precise,amount of money involved has not beenA^eriained. but it is way up in the mill ^-.s. ns the underground mads of London have an enormous capitalization and constitute a magnificent property. Owin^ t>» the m essity of acquiring real estate Comp< nsating other owners and the expense of diverting drainage, making tunnels, etc., the underground roads avernged la many ;>ortiens a cost of $5,000,VxXa mile. X number of American Catholics are being organized into a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on the plan of the American natfv^il pilgrimage to Rome and Lourdes duAi/ the last three years. The great sutems attending th* se pilgrimages suggcst<n the organization of one to Palestine ami the Holy Land. A number of the A -a. :in hierarchy and the clergy bare given the scheme hearty approval. Aa i aged it is expected to haie I€m) pilgrims embark on the .North German Lloyd steamer Werra, leaving New York Jan. IC I: is purposed to carry the Stars find Stripes to the Holy Land. The Unit.M Stat* s flag of silk, with the badge of ri pilgrimage and the date 1597 embroider* d thereon, will be the votive banner. It w ill be carried in procession ami deposited in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, there tc remain.

MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to §5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; si.eep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 70e to 71c; corn. No. 2, 23e to 24c; oats, No. 2, 17e to ISc; rye. No. 2,35 cto 36c; butter, choice creamery. I s - to 20c; eggs, fresh, 17c tO' 18e; p -ti-t ~ !• r bushel, ISe to 30c; broonUcorn, comm m short to choice dwarfit s3o to SIOO per ton. 'lndiana’ -Ur'-tlc, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, ch ice light. 83.00 to $3.75; she. p’ common to prime, $2.00 to $3.25: ?3c to 74c; corn. No. 2 ~sc to 27. ; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 20c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 16e to 18c; rye, No. 2,34 c to 36c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.50 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,79 cto Sic; corn, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; oats. No. 2 mixed, ISc to 19c; rye. No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 7Sc to 80c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 2S>‘ to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye; 37c to 39c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c: oats,/No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 38c; elover seed, $5.20 to $5.30. Milwaukee —YVheat, No. 2 spring, GBe to 70c; corn. No. 3,24 cto 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley, No. 2,35 cto 38e; rye, No. 1,35 cto 37c; pork, lues's, $6»75 to $7.25. Buffalo-Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.25a wheat, No. 2 rod, 82c to 84c; corn, No. 2yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white,' 23c to 24c. ■ New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs,, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50;' wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 2,: 30c to 32c; oats, ^o. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West-' ern, 15c to 19c."

THE WHEAT SUPPLY. ENGLAND HAS NOT ENOUGH TO LAST A FORTNIGHT. Christmas Will See Much Higher Prices All Over the World—lnterrogatories to Determine the Amount of Alcohol Used in the Arte. Little Wheat in -English Ports. The Ixmdon Daily Telegraph says of the demand for and the supply of wheat: “The stock of foreign wheat at the principal British ports, it is said, would not suffice to feed the country for a fortnight. Tile slight fall in American exchanges on Saturday., gave the English markets a downward tendency, but it is the opinion of one of the best-known corn factors in Mark Lane that American wheats will speedily rise with a bang and that by Christmas prices will be much further advanced. During the recent excitement business was in a comparatively few hands. The operators are reported to have reaped a rich harvest. Speculation both in England and America was carried beyond all reasonaldo bounds. American operators were decidedly intemperate and excessive, but in the market the opinion is positive that at least a portion of the rise will be retained and that the era of low prices is for the time being ended.” Free for the Arts. The joint select committee, created at the last session of Congress to investigate and report upon the question of the use of alcohol free of tax in the manufactures and arts, has prepared a series of interrogatories which will be distributed throughout the courtry to such parties as are thought to be interested in the question. The report of Henry Dalley, Jr., who was commissioned to investigate the workings of foreign laws governing the use of untaxed alcohol in the manufactures and arts, has been submitted and contains very full and valuable data covering Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland. It is the desire of the committee to secure all possible information bearing upon the subject, and parties interested are requested to submit their views to the committee promptly. The committee, which is composed of three members of each house, probably will assemble in Washington soon after the middle of November for the purpose of formulating a report to Congress, accompanied by the draft of a law which will place domestic industries on as favorable a basis ns similar industries in foreign countries. During their sessions in Washington hearings wWI probably be give: in order to supplement the informition obtained through the interrogatories to be sent out. Lieut. IbsttisOTi Makes a Long Ride. Lieut. Harry 11. l’attison, of the Third Cavalry, has reached Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., after accomplishing a remarkable feat of horsemanship. He rode from St. James, Mo., to the barracks, 112 miles, in twenty four hours and tw ntythree Hiinuies. He rode the same horse ell the way, the animal he had ridden during the entire practice march to Springfield, M ’.. and return. lie made the last ten miles in two hours and six minutes. He made three stops on the journey. The horse was examined by the veterinary surgeon and pronounced uninjured. Although Col. Henry gave his permission it is thought the authorities in Washington will not approve the useless strain imposed ou a valuable animal. Saves Them from Death. “Let's go fishing,” said Edward Long to his friend, Archie Campbell, at Greenwich, Conn. “If the boat upsets Commodore Benedict will save us.” This was a joke, but it looked serious before an hour had passed, for the boat did upset. Mrs. E. C. Benedict saw it and summoned her husband, who sent his son and a man in a naphtha launch to the rescue. The men had been in the water for fifteen minutes, and were numb with the cold when reached. Long was one of the occupants of the yacht Addie, which was picked up in the sound two weeks ago by Commodore Benedict.

NEWS NUGGETS. The town of Koroff, in the Government of Lublin. Russian Poland, has been almost totally destroyed by tire, and 3,000 persons are left homeless. A number of passengers and the crew of the British steamer Taif, which plies between the Island of Mauritius and Bombay, were landed at Colombo, Ceylon. They report that the steamer foundered during a heavy gale Sept. 24 and that twenty-seven natives were drowned. Isaac 11. Lionberger of St. Louis, Mo., has been appointed Assistant Attorney General of the United States for the Interior Department. He succeeds AViiliatn A. Little of Georgia, who recently ri-signed to become a candidate for the office of justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Mr. Lionberger took the oath of office and entered upon his official duties Monday. A well-attended public meeting was held in the Academy of Music at Philadelphia, to protest against the ill-treat-ment of Irish political prisoners in English prisons. Ex-Gov. Pattison presided, and addresses were made by Alexander K. McClure, ex-Congressman McAleer and Rabbi' Joseph Krauskopf. Resolutions were adopted calling upon the British Government to abolish the evils objected to in the treatment of such prisoners and expressing sympathy for all nations engaged in struggles for liberty. A singular attempt to stop work on the new Capitol at St. Paul, Minn., was bpgun witli the filing in the District Court by John F. Kelly of an action asking for an injunction to restrain the work. Th'e complaint attacks the laws made in behalf of the Capitol and alleges that the site has mot been legally located in St. Paul byLany vote of the people The University of California is to be made richer by $4,000,000 by donations from various persons, chief among whom is Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, widow of the millionaire Senator from California. The whaling bark John YVinthrop has returned again to San Francisco after an absence of thirty-one months, during the great portion of which time she has teen within the arctic circle. There is hot a barrel of oil in her hold nor a pound of whalebone, and Captain A. T. Simmons’ log-book shows only hard luc^.

CHARLES F. CRISP DEAD. Ex-Speaker of the House of Repre“ ■entatives Passes Away. Charles F. Crisp, the ex-Speaker of theHouse of Representatives, died at Atlanta, Ga., .Friday afternoon. Mr. Crisp had been an inmate of the sanitarium of Dr. Hclmes for several weeks. His condition had been reported as very low, but no fatal conclusions to his illness had been expected so soon. When a rumor got abroad several days ago that he was sinking it was vigorously denied at the sanitarium, where it was given out that he was getting better. Mr. Crisp was the choice of the Democrats of Georgia, to succeed Senator John B. Gordon in the United States Senate, and would have been chosen to that position by the Legislature at its approaching session had he lived. Mr. Crisp had been suffering from malarial fever. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. Mr. Crisp had been in intense pain all day. At about a quarter of 2 o’clock Mr.,Crisp was seized with another attack. The watchers saw it and Judge Crisp's two daughters, Mrs. Fred Daveni>ort and Miss Bertha Crisp, z chari.es f. crisp. and his two sons, Charles F. Crisp Jr., and Fred Crisp were quickly summoned. When they entered the room Judge Crisp was still conscious. Ho cave^them the look of recognition, breathed a few times and died. Mr. Crisp’s death, while apparently thus sudden, was not unexpected by the physicians who have been watching him. He had been decfining for several years. His last illness, however, was occasioned by an attack of malarial fever, which he contracted at his home, Americus, a few weeks ago, but which itself yielded to I treatment when he went to Atlanta. He ! was considered convalescent, and only I last Sabbath had ridden out. But, when renewed health seemed within view, he was attacked by congestion of the lungs, which, added to the weakness of the lungs and heart, caused by two previous attacks of pleuro-pneumonia, resulted in his death. Charles Frederick Crisp was born at Sheffield, England, Jan. 29, 1545. He was brought to the United States when a year old. and was educated at public schools of Savannah and Macon, Ga. He served in the Confederate army during the civil war, and at its close studied law and was admitted to tho bar in 1566. He pra* ticed at Ellaville, Ga. In 1872 he was appointed solicitor general of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit of Georgia, and in 1577 became judge of the Superior Court of the same judicial circuit. This position he retained until elected a representative in Congress in ISS2. He served continuously in Congress until the expiration of the last term. He had been Speaker of the House. SCNDSx' Emma Offat has won up to date slo,* 000 in purses. Since Gentry made his record of 2:03"i last season he has made a gain of 130 feet to the mile. Fitzsimmons is under SI,OOO bail in New York, he having been indicted by the Grand Jury for arranging to fight to a finish with Jim Corbett. Page, the greatest green trotter of the year,' has been ten times first, three times second apd one tliird in fourteen starts. His winnings are $4,975. How quickly the bloomers passed out of fashion. The short skirt and golf stockings—and pretty ones they are, too —- are now the vogue among the fair sex. James Michael rode five miles paced, flying start, at the Garfield Park cycling track, Chicago, Saturday, in 9:20, reducing the American record for the distance. Cooper, who is matched for a series of races with Bald for a stake of SI,OOO and the championship, won forty-one races this season. His total winnings this year foot up to $5,620. Van Zant, one of the fastest and best campaigners of the year, was worked some as a yearling, but she was experimented on for three years before she became properly balanced. As a 3-year-old it is said she would trot a mile in three minutes. The Baltimore baseball team will make a short tour of England. Arrangements wilFbe made for a series of games with all the prominent baseball clubs of the British empire. Lange and Gleasqn will take the places of Brodie and Reitz. They will be billed in England as the Thiee-Times-Champions of America. A most remarkable feat was recently performed by an athlete named Tommy Burns, of Ixmdon. On a wager he was to dive from the top of-London bridge, and then run to Yarmouth, a distance of 128 miles, inside twenty-four hours. He made the dive, but was immediately arrested by the police. He was released on bail, and started on his run. He won the wager by doing the journey in 23h. 40m. Burns has saved forty-three lives. Jennings, of Baltimore, leads the National League in batting, with an average of .400, closely followed by Keeler, Burkett and Delehanty.'Zimmer leads in catching, Lajoie as first baseman, McPhee as second baseman, Irwin as third baseman, Dolan a-s short stop, Cooley as left fielder.'Brodie as center Welder, Thompson as right fielder, and Payne as pitcher. Reports from Arkoe, Mo., state that a young woman of that place has been arrested for the horrible murder of Mrs. John Baumley near that place. It is sam that she-was in love with Mr. Bauimey.