St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 December 1896 — Page 6

@he Judepenovent ¢ Independent. T e W, A. ENDLEY, “*ublisher. L e e ey WALKERTCN, - - < INDIANA e et e | e eotet e NATIONAL FINANCES . e —————————————————————— NOVEMBER RECEIPTS FALL FAR SHORT. Were Less Even than in 1895—Gen. Weyler Devastates Cuba in Attempting to Starve Out Maceo—Wisconsin Towns in Terror of Annihilation. Customs Receipts Fell Off. The comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States shows that during November, 1895, the total receipts were $25,210,696 and the expenditares.s32,26o,72o. The receipts for the five months of the year amount to $131,650,489 and 'he expenditures to $171,597,335. The deficit for the " month of November, therefore, is §8,050,. 024, and for the five months $39,946,846, as compared with $15,869,337 for the corresponding five months of last year. The receipts from customs during November amounted ‘to $9,930,385; from internal revenue, $13,104,828, and from miscellaneous sources, $2,175,482. This is a “ loss in customs, as compared with November, 1885, of $1,524,920, a gain from internal revenue of $64,744 and a gain of $6584,379 from miscellaneous sources. Mows a Path of Ruin, A special to the Cinecinnati Commercial Tribune from Key West says: “Weyler's threat that he would starve Maceo out seems likely to be ecarried out, as from all reports from Mariel, near where Werler is now. the work of destruction is being carried out fully. The Spanish army sweeps everything before it, killing beeves that it cannot use, burning cane fields and small stores with their previsions, and leaving a wide waste of ruin and desolation in its wake. People vainly implore Weyler to leave them provisions to keep them alive, but his brutal officers refuse with oaths and insulting words, if not worse. Over 300 refugees have come into Mariel since Weyler went cut this last time, all giving the same story of rapine, plunder and murder by the Spaniards. A Spanish guerrilla captain named Colazzo is accused of murdering over 100 persons in the valleys south of Mariel during the latter part of November. 'ln one instance he is accused of confining”a numuber of women and girls in a church, and, after they had been repeatedly maltreated by his men, burned the building with them in it. Many other outrages, all as horrible, are charged to him and his company. Northern Pacific Erakeman Killed, A freight train of thirty earsloaded with lumber and shingles, going west, got beyond control on a heavy grade east of the Mullen tunnel, on the Northern Pacific Road near Helena, Mont., Monday evening/and ran away. Twenty-six cars were _scattered along a distance of eight miles, — n the engine left the #rack. lEd Jareau, head brakeman, was thrown down an embankment with several cars and killed. Fireman Young jumped and es- - caped with a broken collar-bene, severe scalp wounds and other injuries. Engi—i neer John Flynn's leg was broken, be- | sides internal injuries. <Conductor John | Mcßean‘’s thigh is broken, his- back wrenched and his shoulder thrown out of joint. For a distance of eight miles the -track was badly torn up. Through trains were sent around byway of Butte. It is the weorst wreck ever known on the Northern Pacific Railway in point eof damage to track and rolling stock. Threatened by Fiood. Fearful disaster by flood threatened towns along the Chippewa River in Wisconsin. Millions of tons of ice and hundreds of thousands of logs had gorged above Chippewa Falls, and the use of dynamite to break it proved vain. Similar conditions prevailed at several points {urther down the river. DRumors are rife of great loss of life. At Chippewa IFalls the alarm was so great that all -the merchants in town abandoncd their siores, moving stocks to remote piaces of safety. Residents held themselves ready to flee. Water filled all basements. All railroad traffic in the valley was suspended. Iven under most favorable conditions from now on the ensuing damage will prove tremendous. Should the gorge Dbreak suddenly, the destruction would Lo beyond computation, for it would sweep down a populous and prosperous section, through many towns. Texas Planters Fear a Freeze. Dispatches from various points in Southern and Central Texas indicate that a severe norther, combined wiih a slect and snow sterm, prevailed throughout that section. In the vicinity of Houston a norther blew for three days, and the first snow since leb. 14, 1895, fell to a depth of several inches west of there. Sugar planters are uneasy, asa big freeze would cause great loss, most of the cance standing in the helds. At Port Lavaca, | Texas, it has been excessively cold, all shipping being temporarily tied up owing to the snow and sleet storm. Three inches of snow fell in Kagle Pass. This is unprecedenied for that section of the country. | NEWS NUGGETS, ; The Italian Parliament was opened i Monday. Four persons were killed at Nanterre, { France, as the result of a boiler explosion in a carbon factory. The damage amounts ‘ to $109,000. ‘ Obituary: At Sydney, Australia, Sadie McDonald, the soubrette—At Philadelphia, Capt. James Reynolds, a Mexican war veteran, formerly of Mascoutah. Il —At Hillsboro, 111, Rev. William T. Cole. i ——At Ashland, Ohio, Don F. Taylor.—At Terre Haute, Ind., Prof. Heich. Fire in Forster Square, Bradford. London, a big triangular block occupied by forty firms, caused damage which exceeds $1,500,000. The fire originated in Johns Holdsworth & Sons’ block, which was almost gutted. The offices of the Anglo-American and Commercial Cable (‘nx‘n]muies and about forty firms were burned out. William Steinway, the New York pianc manufacturer, died Monday at his residence. : - George E. Frost had his leg hrok(‘-n‘ in a _collision on the Pasadena and Pacific ¢lectrie road.

EASTERN. The home of Luther Greenman, a farmer, four miles northeast of Perry, N. Y., was destroyed by fire Sunday morning, and the entire family, consisting of five persons, were burned to death. The President has appointed Frank D. Hill, of Minnesota, consul to Santos, Brazil, to sucéeed Henry C. Smith, removed, and Rev. J. L. Corning, of New York, consul to Munich, Germany. The steamboat John E. Moore, with a party of 150 fishermen on board, struck a rock during a fog near Sandy Hook and went to the bottom. Only her lower deck was submerged, and the passengers were taken off by tugs. : Rev. Hiram Reynolds and his wife were to spend a day with their niece, Mrs. I'rank Howard, at Fredonia, N. Y. When the aged couple did not appear Mrs. Howard visited their house and found Mrs. Reynolds dead and Mr. Reynolds at the point of death. Iscaping coal gas was the cause. . In Thursday’s football games the Chi~cago Athletic Association won from the Boston eleven, 12 to 6. Chicago University won from Ann Arbor, 7 to 6. Northwestern and Wisconsin Universities played a tie. Cornell was beaten by Pennsylvania, 32 to 10. Purdue of Indiana with the University of Illinois, and lowa and Nebraska, tied. Railroads connecting Lake Erie with the iron, steel and coal producing districts will be required to reduce the carrying charges on those commodities. Andrew Carnegie has asserted over his signature that the railroad from Conneaut to Pittsburg, in which he is interested, expects to make its investment pay on a basis of three mills per ton mile, which means he believes iron ore can be transported to the furnaces for about 45 cents per ton. The present charge is $1.05. A terrible shooting affray, in which one person was almost instantly killed and two others were so badly injured that they cannot recover, took place at Durvea, threec miles north of Pittston, Pa., Friday. The trouble started in a saloon, where twenty or thirty Poles were drinking. Nearly all of the men were arme:l with revolvers and shooting began at once. James Motsley was killed. John Butts was shot through the left side and the back and cannot recover. Another man who was carried away by his friends was shot in the breast. His injuries are fatal. o WESTERN. The report that all the stone companies of Northern Ohio had consolidated and with a joint capitalization of $5,000,000 would operate as one company for the benefit of all seems to be without foundation. Phil Lee, treasurer of the St. Louis branch of the National Hodcarriers’ Union, claims that three men held him up at a pistol's point and robbed him of the funds of the union, which he had on his person. Alice Platt, the Kansas City servant girl who is suspected of having poisoned the two children of Lawyer Charles Mussey, has been held to the Grand Jury on a charge of murder in the first degree. She was committed to jail without bail to ‘await trial. | George E. Ross, for several years money clerk at the Kansas City. Mo., Union depot office of the Pacific Express Company, has been missing since Sunday. Ross had the entire confidence of the company and had the handling of thou- ! sands of dollars every day. The case has been placed in the hands of detectives and Ross’ books are being gone over. Miss Eugenia Halle, the daughter of Pius Halle, a retired St. Liouis merchant of great weaith, visited the morgue in great distress Wednesday. She said her father disappeared Friday afternoon and, as he was not in sound mental condition. she feared that he had killed himself by drowning in the river. Miss Halle told Supt. Mack, of the morgue, that the family wished to offer, through him, a suitable reward for the recovery of the body. Any amount the finder thought just would be paid. A man who registered as K. 1.. Bryan, but whose identity is unknown, sought a lodging place at the Kimball Hotel, Chicago, Saturday night. Ie was found dead Sunday afterncon amid circumstances that indicate he had planned and carried out most deliberate suicide. He wrote a letter to the coroner and the newspapers, another to the hotel proprietor, and a third to the medical men for the benefit of science, this while the drug he had swallowed was coursing through his arteries, destroying tissue and numbing the sense. Charles 11. Bailey, son of the late Probate Judge O. P. W. Bailey, of Independence, Mo., was arrested at IKansas City for forging a letter of credit for SI,OOO on the National Live Stock Bank of Fort Worth, Texas. Bailey cashed the letter of credit, securing S9OO, from the Metropolitan National Bank of Kansas City and from the Chrisman-Sawyer Bank of Independence. All the meney except $l5O was recovered. DBailey says he is not guilty. The letter, he claims, was sent to him by his uncle, but the Metropolitan Bank officials say it is in Bailey’s handwriting. Bailey was reared in Independence. He is 27 years old and has a wife in Waxahachie. Two hundred head of cattle are perishing from cold and hunger on the ranges west of the Missouri River in South Dakota. A heavy fall of snow, preceded by twenty-four hours of rain, covered the ground to a depth of twelve to sixteen inches. Cattle were unable to get food, and have drifted into the ravines and settlements for shelter, hundreds of them having succumbed to starvation. Monday a similar storm set in, and prevailed with unrelenting vigor three days. Cattleowners ecarly began shipping to market stock that was almost too weak te stand, and the last storm, with a solid coating of ice over the deep snow, assures a heavy loss. None of these cattle can be driven through the snow to the railroad. Thousands of tons of hay are stacked, and no stock to feed it to. Large herds of range cattle have drifted into the Missouri bottoms and may survive, but those herds on the open prairie will perish. George E. Ross, of Kansas City, Mo., missing money clerk for the Pacific and United States Express Companies, has been located in St. Louis by the surety company that furnished his bond, and is now under surveillance. It is stated that the express company officials had all along knowa of Ross’ exact location, but have kept it quiet because iere are, it is said, others implicated who are not yet in custody. The officials still refuse to give out information of a definite charac-

ter, but enough has been learned, says a local paper, to merit the statement that evidence of collusion between certain employes to rob the express companies has been turned up. Sunday there was handled through the office over which Ross presided money packages containing SIIO,OOO. Already $2,300 of this amount is known to be missing and the books are still being gone over. Shortage checks have been coming in so regularly since the examination began, it is said, that the officials have renewed their efforts, and ‘now fear that the whole SIIO,OOO may ‘never have reached its destination. . ~ Contracts for over $3,000,000 worth of new vessels for the lakes have been closed in Chicago and employment has been given to 3,500 men who a month ago were facing the winter with no food in their cupboards, no coal in their cellars and ne work ahead. The great shipyard in the Calumet River will keep a vast army of men at work from now until well toward midsummer in the construction of new vessels for lake service. The shipyard now leads all others on the lakes in the amount of new tonnage under contraet, and is in the front rank of American shipyards engaged in the construction of the merchant marine. Last week contracts were closed for two steamers and. o large steel schooner, in addition to th great steamer Crescent City, which 1 lead all lake craft in carrying capac and general construction. These f boats would have been considered ampleé* work for the winter under ordinary eii cumstances, but Wednesday the contract for still another vessel, the largest steel schooner on the lakes, was announced. It will be for James Corrigan, the prominent iron-mining man of Cleveland, and his associates in the iron trade. Almost the entire Northwest was visited Thursday night and Friday with one of the severest blizzards ever known, and fears are entertained that a number of lives have been lost in the prairie sections. At a number of points in Minnesota and the Dakotas business was practically suspended and a number of trains are reported to be snowbound. On the prairvies there was such blinding and drifting snow as to make it unsafe for ranchmen to go to their stock unless they had “life lines” siretched, and stock suffered both from cold and lack of care. Great uueasiness prevails as to the effect on stock on ranges west of the Missouri River which may not have been placed in shelter. The thermometer registered nearly zero. Railroad lines west of St. Paul were in bad shape. The wind drifted the snow into cuts along all lines. In the northern region the snow drifted to the depth of twelve feet, and at some points in North Dakota and Montana drifts eighteen feet high were formed. All trains from the West were delayed several hours. None of the coast lines sent out their overland trains from St. Paul. There was not a telegraph wire through to the coast. But little difficulty was encountered east of St. Paul. ’ SOUTHERN. At Island Creek, W. Va., M:s. Elizabeth Be'cher, who is reputed to have money at her home, heard burglars working at a back door Thursday night. She stole out with a Winchester rifle, saw three men at the door, and fired three shots at them. The burglars fled. They wens tracked more than a mile by bleod stuitg‘ Kentucky's official count was had Friday and showed 281 majority for the leading MeKinley elector over the leading Bryan elector. The electoral vote .in the State will be twelve for McKinley and one for Bryan. Two electors on the Republican ticket are tied for last place, and the question as to which one is defeated by the leading Demceratie elector will have to be decided by the other fwelve electors when they meet in Jan uary. Key West, Fla.,, dispatch: Unable to crush the insurgent armies, Captain General Weyler has renewed his war on noncombatants with savage eunergy, according to advices received from Havana. It is stated that Weyler some weeks ago issued a secret order to his commanders in the various provinces to ‘‘clear the country of nou-combatents.” This order has been interpreted by the Npanish commanders as an edict to massacre old men, women and children, and the resuit is an appalling list of butcheries. The engine, baggage and mail car of the Southern Express from Ilorida, on the Pennsylvania Railway, was thrown from the tracks at New Brunswick, N. J., carly Wednesday morning. The engineer and fireman were instantly killed, and three men were injured—one badly. The three sleepers did not leave the rails. 'The accident was causzed Ly the breaking of an axle on a car of a freight train which was passing south on avother track. The car swung out from its place and struck the forward end of the passenger train, knocking the engine and two cars down an embankment. None of the passengers was hurt. ' At Little Rock, Ark., Charles H. Gunn, traveling salesman, of Quincy, 111., became suddenly insane Saturday night and had to be placed in the lockup to prevent his doing violence. Shortly before 1 o'clock Sunday morning a telephone alarm was received at police head-i quarters to the effect that there was g crazy man at the union depot who waS:. trying to kill everybody in the Il(‘i'_"‘2lbt)vl’ hood. He told Sergt. King that threil detectives were after his mother and sis ter, trying to make them a sign a note fo;] $2.000: that he could see them then. His purse contained $45 in bills and §7 in change. His expense account was accurately kept, showing he had arrived from Memphis Saturday. His house was wired his condition. WASHINGTON, The Secretary of the Treasury is considering the question of resuming the issue of gold certificates, which was suspended in 1893 when the gold reserve first fell below the $100,000,000 point. The issue of these certificates was suspended as a means of acquiring gold in the treasury. Theretofore it had been the custom of the treasury to issue certificates on the deposit of gold, but such gold did not become part of the gold reserve. By suspending the issue of those certificates many holders of gold, rather than hold if, exchanged it for legal tenders and treasury notes, which, under the ruling of the department being gold obligations, practically subserved their purposes, but the treasury on receipt of gold so discharged was enabled to add it to the gold reserve. As long as the treasury adhered to its policy of redeeming legal tenders and treasury notes in gold the holders of such notes could obtain gold on demand as readily on them as on gold certificates. Since the gradual increase of the gold reserve such leaders believe that there is

‘no reason why the issue of gold certifi‘cates should not be resumed. The mat‘ter is now before Secretary Carlisle, and probably will be decided upon the return ‘of Assistant Secretary Curtis from New York. It is understood that Mr. Carlisle is not favorably disposed toward the resumption. The issue of currency certificates under the act of 1872 has never ‘been suspended. ol o e FOREIGN. : : Henry Otaso, an American citizen, is reported to have been killed by Spanish guerrillas in Cuba. Dispatches received at Paris from Antanamarivo, dated Nov. 13, say the rebellion in the Island of Madagascar is raging, though the vicinity of tHe capital is quieter. No colonists are arriving and ‘trade is paralyzed. - The London Daily Mail says the royal yisit to Blenheim cost the Duke of Marlborough SIOO,OOO. It would be.cheap at ‘that, from a social point of view, but even ‘with everything taken into ,account it probably cost less. : e . There has been a continuous exchange of telegraphic messages recently between ‘the British consul at Manilla and the 9’? -K'.ong Government. As one of the results the British second-class cruiser Pique has gone to the Philippine Islands. ' The Volksraad at Pretoria, South Africa, formaliy passed theimmigration restriction bill, requiring immigrants to produce passports showing that they possess the means of support or that they can obtain work. The measure goes into force Jan. 1, 1897. At Paris an actress named Mlle. Glayeuls has been swindled out of SIO,OOO worth of jewelry by an American named Cazauben, who represented himself as an agent of the Watson Company, New York, prepared to advance money on valuables. Cazauben decamped. It is alleged that he is from New Orleans, where he committed a similar robbery. It now seems that the report circulated in London and subsequently denied that Tom Mann, the well-known English labor leader and prime mover in the proposed universal dockers’ strike, has been arrested in Germany is correct. Mann was taken into custody at Eimsbruetta, charged with inciting to create disaster and was placed on board a steamer bound for Grimsby, England, after having been cautioned not to return. An advance of 3%@4e per bushel in Liverpool wheat® Wednesday sent the New York market up. Trading at the opening was very active. December jumped to 90c¢ and May to 98¢ under tho impuise of a strong local buying. Later prices reacted under selling against calls. Small spring wheat receipts and the gtrong cash position west were also valuable aids to the bull cause. Total sales during the forenoon were 6,225,000 bushels. News comes via Jacksonville, Fla., from Havana that orders were issued Thursday night doubling the guards at the fortifications around the city, and that word had reached the Captain Gencral of the presence of large guerrilla forces near the city. The trocha was forced twice during the week, each time large bodies of Cubans crossing with slight loss. A military train was dynamited near Mariel Thursday, causing a Spanish loss of six or seven soldiers killed and several wounded. At Valparaiso, Chile, at one of the late sessions of the Senate the Minister of Finance made a clear, practical exposition of the true financial condition of the country, proving his assertions by s!.atistics and documents. It is evident from this statement that the conversion is a raalized fact, there being in the conversio. sand a surplus of more than 8,000,000 pesos, which can be applied to balance the expenditures, leaving assured at the end of 1896 a surplus in favor of 1897 of more than 5,000,000 peses. The Government is firmly resolved that by strict economy it will be able to reduce the expenditures several million pesos under the ’vstium’.cs. A London dispatch says: IFor the third time within four months the Ipiscopal chureh and allied societies have received a windfall exceeding 81,000,000. This time the benefactor is Alfred Marriott, a wealthy retired manufacturer of York shire, who died a few weeks since. IHis will, which has just been offered for pro bate, bequeaths $2,500,000 to the Chureh of llngland and its ally, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The will dil‘m’[s (}z:il !IM‘ money Sli:l“ be 11('\'\){m] toward the erection of churches in the poorest aud most thickly populated dis tricts of I.ondon and of foreign countries, ard to the enlarging of hospitals or refuges for orphan children or fallen women, MARXET REFORTS. Chicago—Cattle, ccmmon to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, Ble¢ to S2¢: earti. No. 2. 23e to 25¢; oats, No. 2, 18¢ 10 20¢: rye, No. 2. 42c to 4dc; butter choice creamery, 21c¢ to 23¢; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23c; potatoes, per bushel, 20¢ to 30¢; broom corn, common green to fine brush, 2%5c to 51% per pound. - ’luili:m.upw}isf(';llll(*. shipping, $£3.00 to £50.20; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; Ehecp, common to prime, $2.00 to ."53.7-}: gheat, No. 2,87 cto 89¢; corn, No. 2 white, 24¢ to 2Ge; oats, No. 2 white, 22¢ to 23ec. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $3.25: hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 90c¢ to S)f;»; cor, No. 2 yellow, 22¢ to 23c: oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; e, No. 2. 86e to 38e. ; Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $3.00: hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.30 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2, 94¢ to 9Gc: corn. No 2 mixed, 25¢ to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 19> to-21¢; rye, No. 2. 3Ge to 38e, i _ Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $3.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 96c¢ to 97¢; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 24c¢; oats, No. 2 white, 20¢ to 21c; rye, 40¢ to 4le. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 99¢; f;m'n.. No. 2 mixed, 22¢ to 23¢; oats, No. = white, 18c to 20¢; rye, No. 2, 39¢ to 41c: clover seed, $5.45 to $5.35. )Eilwaukee:—}\'hyur, No. 2 spring, BS3c ‘t)o b4'(~; corn, No. 3, 24¢ to 2Ge: oats No. :__.whne, 1!)}' to 21c; barley, No. 2. 30c te x}lc: rye, No. 1,41 cte 43c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Q{)Bnll»ff:lloi(,':‘lt-“(‘, §2.50 TO»SB.UO; hogs, $5.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 98c to $1.00; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25¢ to 26c; oats, No. 2 white 23¢ to 24c. : e New York—Cattle, £3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; ‘\:;heat,‘.\o. 2 red, A{)“C to 91 ¢; corn, No. 2 29¢ to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25¢: butter, creamery, 15c¢ to 23c; eggs, Western, 20c¢ to 25¢,

OLNEY ASKED TO ACT. e e, et e = ¥ ANOTHER AMERICAN IN DANGER ~IN CUBA. Key West Newspaper Correspondent Charged with Filibustering — Four Tennessee Counties Abound with Precious Yellow Rock, Imprisoned in City. Letters received in Key West, IMla., from Cuba state that young Oscar Cespedes, an American citizen and correspondent of the Key West Herald, who ‘has been confined in prison in Matanzas for several months, will be tried by court martial. Young Cespedes is accused of being a filibuster, and, although an American citizen, his friends fear that he will be condemned to death by the Spaniards and executed. The case of Cespedes is similar to that of Ona Melton, correspondent of the Jacksonville TimesUnion, who has been confined in the Cabanas for the last nine months. Both cases have been reported to Secretary Olney, with the request that he intervene. Ona Melton had just had an attack of yvellow-fever and is very weak. ; It is feared that he will die unless speedily released. The dispatch from Havana announcing the Competitor prisoners were being tried again by secret court martial in the Cabanas IMortress and were not allowed counsel, not even an interpreter, has been denied by Gen. Weyler's subordinate, but is confirmed by a letter from Mr. Melton, smuggled out of prison, which reached the New York World Monday. Rich Find of Rock Phosphate. A rich and extensive discovery of rock phosphate has been made in Tennessec. The deposits underlie four counties in the vicinity of Nashville—Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, and Maury. The rock lies in a vein averaging from three to twelve feet in thickness, and is but ten feet below the surface. The commercial value of the discovery 1 is impossible to estimate, but the output will be very rich. Mr. Clark, of the firm of Pratt & Clark, chemists, of Atlanta, while in Nashville some four weeks ago on business, passed some men digging a sewer. He picked up a piece of the soft, ecrumbling yellow rock, had it analyzed, and found it 82 per cent. pure phosphate. George W. Scott, a capitalist of Atlanta, was informed. He, with a crew of picked laborers, went to Nashville. All the propesty near thie location of the sewer was bought up, the vein followed, and farms bought wherever the rock was found. The fertilizing companies of Chicago managed to get a generous siice. It is said Philip D. Armour has a chemist and representative in the field, who are looking for more land. Rev. M, B, Hill Dying, Rev. M. B. Hill, formerly missionary to China, was stricken with paralysis while delivering a sermon at the Bentonville, Ark., Methodist Ipiscopal Church South Sunday morning. The church was crowded, and when the sermon was about half through the minister reeled and fell backward into the pulpit chair. Excitement ran high in the congregation. Dr. C. H. Cragile, a particular friend, with others, helped the afHlicted minister, who is still alive but slowly dying. Two Men Burned to Death, “he steamer City of Kalamazoo, ownel by the T. H. W. Williams Transfer Company, took fire Monday morning at South Haven, Mich., and is almost a total loss. Robert Van Ostrando and Joseph Laud, who were on the boat, were overcome by smoke and burned to death. Three other men escaped without their clothing. Van Ostrando was a single man, but Land had a family. The origin of the fire is unknown. BREVITIES, Mavor Edward T. Burke, of Rawlins, Wryo., has been arrested, charged with passing a bogus check. Elevator A, at St. Paul, owned by the St. Paul Warehouse and Elevator Company, was destroyved by fire Friday evening. The fire is thought to have been caused by friction in the belting. ILoss SBO,OOO. According to the New York Evening World, plans are now drawn and negotiations well under way for the erection there of an office building fifty-nine stories high, with a six-story cupola p\'l'l*hml on top. It is certain that a bill will be introduced in the Missouri Legislature this winter making it a misdemeanor or a felony to play football in the State. A number of members have measures drawn up placing football upon the same plane as prize fighting. It was learned at Princeton, N. J., on the best authority that President Cleveland purchased the W. G. Slidell estate, situated on Bayard avenue, Princeton. The President intends to commence at once a numb®r of improvements on the property and will make the place his permanent place of abode immediately after his term of office expires on March 4, 1897. The National Council of Administration of the . A. R., with Commander-in-chief T. S. Clarkson in the chair, met at Buffalo, N. Y., Monday. It was decided by the committ:e to have the encampment in Buffalo ihe last week of August, beginning Avz. 23. During the meeting a telegram was received by Chief of Staff Winans from President-elect McKinley as follows: *“I will be pleased to see Gen. Clarkson and staff in Canton on \\'t‘lhl\'sfl;l)'." Receivers are to be appointed for the Sinepuxent Bay Company, which operates Ocean City, Maryland’s seaside resort. The Citizens’ Bank of Midlothian, Texas, has suspended business and is closing up its affairs. No statement of liabilities and assets has been made, but depositors will be paid in full. ' 1i Hung Chang is in trouble again, and is said to have contemplated resigning his official position. The Emperor of China has deprived him of a year’s salary because he entered the imperial park and hunting-ground without permission. Charles H. Hoyt received a cablegram at New York from Australia announcing the sudden death of Sadie McDonald, a member of “A Milk Whife Flag” company. About six weeks ago Miss MeDonald wrote a friend she was engaged to be married to a millionaire ranch own&r of Australia, ;

SaalaELa e R DYNAMITE DEALS DEATH AND DISMAY IN THEIR RANKS. Weyler’'s Men Led Into Ambush by the Wily Maceo—AwfulSlaughter of the Royal Forces—Men and Horsce Blown to Bits, Two Thousand Killed. Unconfirmed but apparently authentic information comes of the rout and fearful slaughter of the army under Gen. Weyler in Cuba. Col. Jose Reyes, aid-de-camp of Gen. Maceo, passed through Jacksonville, Fla.,. Thursday. He says there has beem fierce fighting in the Rubi hills in Pinar del Rio. The most sanguinarysbattle of the war was fought there and 2,000 of Weyler’s men were killed in two days and not less than 4,000 wounded. When Weyler went into the field he had: 85,000 men in three columns, one of 15;000 under his direct command; one of 10,000 under Gen. Echague, and the third of 10,000 under Gen. Munore. They found Maceo intrenched in a crescentshaped range of hills. : Gen. Munore was directed to oust him from this position and Gen. Echague to execute a flank movement and cut off the Cuban general’s retreat. Gen. Munorewent forth gallantly upon the field, bat when he had arrived at the foot of thehills his forces met with a withering fire that cut gaps in the ranks. Maceo’s men shot from behind rocks and trees and gradualiy gave way before the Spaniards, who, encouraged by what they thought to be victory, pursued with extreme confidence of success. - Without the least premonition a deafening explosion was heard and a scene followed resembling the mine horror at Petersburg during the civil war. Horses and men were blown high in the air and fell to the earth dead and mangled. A dynamite mine had been touched off by Maceo’s electrician. Maceo then used his dynamite guns and still greater havocwas wrought. Col. Reyes’ men say that Weyler lost 700 men in the explosion and 500 more in the charge that followed, as well as 1.600 wounded. On the following day, Maceo, who knew of the reserve force under Weyler, retreated to a stronger position. He was. there attacked by a column under Echague, who was driven from the field. Eight hundred men were killed and 1,300+ wounded. It was in this fight that Echague lost his leg. It was torn off by a dynamite bomb. His men then became paniestricken. They feared another mine and would not obey when ordered to attack a second time. On the the third day Maceo again retreated, maneavexing continually te entrap Weyler into a filed that had been honeycombed with dynamite. In the meantime Weyler heard that there was* danger of an uprising in Havana because he had failed to crush Maceo and he hastened back to the capital. In a letter brought by Col. Reyes to prominent Cubans Maceo says: “Have ‘no fear. I am like a turtle in his shell. If they get into my shell God help them.” el e e VICTIMS OF FOOTBALL. Listof Thursday’s Kiiled and Wounded Upon the Girdiron, A oar(‘fi}l compilation of the casualties reported from all over the country in Thursday's football games showz the list of dead and wounded to be about as follows: The dead: William Rue, Brooklyn, knocked down and inft‘untl'y Eillcd during a rusn of two teams. I'he injured: fl‘{lfilxlfl;% Anderson, Jacksonville, badiy bruised in a free-for-all fight. ——— Bergeron, Cleveland team, collar bone broken. Frank Coffeen, Lafayette, Ind., arms and legs bruised by being jumped on by eight men. = ‘l.l:irr'y Coy, half back of the University of Chicago <team; shoulders dislocated. —— Clancy, Clicago; badly bruised im the game at Detroit, Mich, 'Bon:,mm‘n ”. I);_n'is. Sonth Chicago; body badly crushed; will probably die. E(l\\'.:u'd Graham, Boston, right leg dislocated in game with Chicago Athletie Club. ——— Hinckley, captain of the Beloit teamsy kicked in the small of the back; left army badly bruised. James Hooper, South Bend, llungs knocked out of place for a short time; not serious. W. S. Hotehkiss, Mayfair, knocked down and trampled on during ¥vanston game; arm broken and:injured internaliy. Andrew Johnson, arms and back carved by James Black in a dispute over the umpire's decision at Greentown, La. Sol. Johnson, Pekin, both eyes blackened, nose broken and tqges smashed. Robert Kennedy, New Orleans, jumped on and ridden over; will die, Ray Lewis, Wheaton, N. D., left eye gouged out and left hip broken. ——— Lewis, captain of the Racine team:, struck in the breast and stomach and carried from the field. T. O. Marrow, Deadwood, S. D., left ear torn off. M. O’Malley, Grand Port, Wash., both ears torn off. ——— Scovill, center of Riverside Athletic team, right ankle broken. Thomas Stocker, Scranton, I’a., part of scalp torn off. ——— Tucker, full back for the Missourt team; head badly hurt during Kansas City game; taken to hospital. C. Upp,.Tolédo, crushed about the body in ‘a game with the Michigan freshmen. | Samuel Werner, Akron team, shouiderblade fractured and body bruised. —— Wihitney, right end for Xansas. team, hurt in the stomach during the Kansas City game; taken+td hospital, Fred White, Pekin, Lknocked senseless. while making a rush. Herbeit Whiteomb, San Francisco, swallowed set of teeth during the excitement of’ play. ; . Frank Woolly, Tower, Minn., hit over the. head with a brick thrown by an Indian; }scnlp badly cut. ; The injured expect to be in shape to play again next Thanksgiving. \ ———— \ 3 ‘ - ~ - The Cleveland Steel Company of Cleveland, owned by the Rockefellers, is erecting a big crucible steel plant and wil} manufacture that article on a large scale. It will be the only concern of the kind in this country, as all crucible steel which is used for the manufacture of cutlery and fine tools is now imported from Sweden. ~_lndictments were made public at St. Paul against the St. Paul, “Soo,” Wisconsin Central, Great Northern and Greas Western Raiiroads, for “refusing to turn over unclaimed freight to a licensed publis warehouse man after twenty days from receipt of the same by the railway companies.” The members of the United States battleship Oregon’s inspection board which had been orderéd by the Secretary of the Navy to inspect the report on the fitness of the vessel for active work, convened om board the ship at San ¥Francisco. i