St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 January 1897 — Page 6

tftljc JnftepenbenL W. A. KNDJLEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. BIG COMBINE BROKEN? CALIFORNIA TRUST IS NOW A THING OF THE PAST. Was the Biggest Pool on the Pacific Coast—New bouth Wules Man the Criminal of the Century—Minister Willis Dying. Its Occupation Gone. The Central Lumber Company of California, the most stupendous trust ever organized on the Pacific coast, is a thing of the past. No such combine was ever effected for the control of a market on the coast, as it controlled every cargo mill on the coast but three. The projectors, confidently believing that the demand in 1896 would exceed that of 1895, thought price-cutting would be impossible. But the demand did not come up to expectations, and the anticipation of enhanced values caused the piling of great stocks of lumber. Then the retailers and members of the Central Lumber Company clashed and the breach was never healed. To-day lumber is selling at barely cost in San Francisco. Polish Priest Mobbed. Another bloody riot took place at St. Stanislaus' Polish Church in Bay City, Mich., Tuesday, in which the parsonage was looted by an infuriated mob and the priest and his bodyguard forced to surrender. Over 100 shots were exchanged and a score or more injured. The police were powerless to cope with the mob and the rioting continued for almost two hours. The rioters ransacked the house and threatened to tear it down unless the priest went away. He finally did so at the advice of the police. The mob swarmed through the house and were restrained with difficulty by the police from carrying off everything which was not destroyed. Over 100 bottles of wine and many boxes of choice cigars were passed out to the crowd from the cellar and the house was littered with the broken bottles. All the insurance companies have canceled risks on the church property, valued at SIOO,000. The firemen were ordered to arm themselves to protect the house in case of fire. Mayor Wright ordered a special detail of police to guard the premises. The riot resulted from the dissension which has divided the church for the past nine months. One side wants to see the books and the priest, by the bishop’s orders, refuses to allow them. A similar riot took place a few Sundays ago, and the matter was then submitted to Martinelli. It broke out again through Father Bogacki’s refusal to bury one of the warring faction from the church. St. Paul Banks Little Worried. In St. Paul banking circles Tuesday it seemed as if the scare had gone with the blizzard, for the banks were much less worried by withdrawals. The banks that closed Monday were in charge of their clerical forces, making up reports. Maurice Auerbach, as receiver, took the place of Bank Examiner Kenyon, in charge of the Allemania, his bond being $250,000. The reorganization committee of the stockholders of the Bank of Minnesota met with the heavier depositors to devise a method of reorganization. Thirty depositors, with $175,000 in the bank, were at the meeting. The depositors of the Union Stockyards Bank at South St. Paul are to meet later to consider the subject of reorganization, the receiver's report showing the bank to be in good condition. The January meeting of the directors of the Second National Bank declared a semi-annual dividend of 7 per cent. This bank has 51 per cent, of its deposits on hand in cash. The other national banks make similar showings. The savings banks, for the protection of depositors. are still requiring the sixty days’ notice for withdrawal of deposits, and this, together with the strong showing of the other banks, has had a quieting effect on the general public. Murdered His Partners. When the steamer Swanhilda arrives at San Francisco, whither she is now en route with a cargo from New South Wales, detectives will arrest the criminal of the century, a man named Frank Butler. withhalf a dozen aliases, who is wanted for one of the most remarkable series of crimes on record, which were committed in New South Wales. Butler's trade apparently was butchery, and his practice was to advertise for a partner with £lO to go prospecting, take him into the wilderness, shoot him after he had dug a trench that was to serve as his (the victim's) own grave, bury the body and return to the city to repeat the operation. NEWS NUGGETS. The Westminster Gazette. London, gives prominence to a report that Queen Victoria has decided to commemorate the fact that she has enjoyed the longest reign in English history by abdicating in favor of the Prince of Wales. The Union Pacific receivers went to Salt Lake City to witness the last acts segregating the Oregon Short Line and the Utah Northern from the gradually diminishing Union Pacific system. Mr. Mink says that a company has been formed to purchase the Short Line at the foreclosure sale. The steamship Miowera, just arrived at Victoria. B. U., from Honolulu, brought advices to the effect that at the time of the vessel’s departure from Honolulu United States Minister Willis was given up by his physicians, and his demise was momentarily expected. Much sympathy was expressed by the residents, ns the Minister was very popular both in his private life and in his official capacity. Rev. George I’. Pentecost has resigned his London pastorate to accept a call to America. At Atchison. Kan.. F. Irwin, colored, found a 10-year-old child dead in a snowdrift Monday morning. It proved to be one of the neighbor's children, who had got lost in the snow while on her way home. Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and widely known as a political economist and litterateur, was stricken with apoplexy at his home in Boston Tuesday morning and died soon afterward.

EASTERN. Joseph T. Low & Co., the oldest dry goods firm in New York City, will disSblve. Murderer Edward Wright was hanged at Wilmington, Del. On the night of July 30, 1896, Wright killed Ida Crummel, colored, of whom he was jealous. The Baptist Tabernacle Church at New York City has been sold for $96,000 under foreclosure proceedings, brought, by the New York City Baptist Mission Society. The strike at the shoe factory of F. B. Jenkins & Co., at Stoneham, Mass., has been settled and over 100 operatives returned to work. The strike was ordered because of a 10 per cent, reduction in wages, and a compromise has been effected. WESTERN. The United States Express Company will retire from business in the New England States. Albert Franz, on trial at Dayton, Ohio, for killing Bessie Little, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. The Germania, Allemania and West Side banks, all of St. Paul, have closed their doors as a consequence of the failure of the Bank of Minnesota Dec. 22. The Board of Directors of the Denver Chamber of Commerce has unanimously decided to ignore the invitation to send delegates to the monetary conference to be held at IndianajKilis next month. The factory of the Nelsonville, Ohio, Sewer Pipe Company burned Wednesday morning, throwing 150 men out of employment for the winter. Loss fully SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. While five young men were skating on the Cannon River at Faribault, Minn., Friday they broke through the ice and two of the number, Moses Dent and Arthur Clement, were drowned. Both bodies were recovered. Dr. Carrie Johnson, a well known female physician, formerly of Washington, D. C., was found guilty of murder in the second degree at Pueblo, Colo. She was charged with having caused the death of Mrs. Ella A. Kelley last September by criminal malpractice. She will probably be sentenced t<> prison for twenty years.

Senator Peffer has been requested to have removed the charge of desertion from the record of Presidential Elector Linton, of Cherryvale, Kan. He said that it could be accomplished only by special act of Congress, but that the charge could not affect Mr. Linton's status as an elector, as it never had been tried by either a court martial or in the civil courts. Fred L. Wood, a convict in San Quentin, Cal., prison, who recently inherited a fortune of $30,000 from the estate of his father, a Chicago millionaire, is insane. He became violent in his cell Monday night and he had to be forcibly removed to the hospital. It is thought his recent good fortune, together with the constant worry attendant upon his confinement in the penitentiary, is the cause of his insanity. St. Paul's Cathedral. Springfield, 111., was crowded to the doors with society and political folk at high noon Wednesday, when Governor-elect John It Tanner and Miss Cora Edith English stood before the altar and plighted their troth. The marriage took place after the ritual of the Episcopal Church, Rev. Dr. Frederick W. Taylor officiating and Bishop George F. Seymour pronouncing the blessing and benediction. Kansas' birthday. Jan. 29, will be made a State holiday. On that date the people will meet at Topeka ami denounce the East, which has maligned the good name of the State because of recent events. The appeal for meetings everywhere says: “Every yelping dog has had its bark at Kansas, every cesspixd of ignorance, squalor and iniquity in the East has gasped a curse at Kansas. Let us stand up for our State and rebuke those hoary, wrinkled, hardened sinners.” The ease of the United States versus the Union Pacific Railway was dismissmi by Judge Hallet in the United States District Court at Denver. This action was brought by the Government on behalf of 2.300 people for the purpose of clearing titles to land purchased from the railroad. secured by the Government grants. Judge Hallet also declined to issue an order compelling the Fnion Pacific, Denver and Gulf to pay taxes on Pullman cars used by the railway company in Colorado. Emporia, Kan., business circles are in a whirl over the mysterious disappearance of C. E. Fuller, one of the best-known men in Central Kansas. Fuller left home two weeks ago, and despite every effort to locate him his whereabouts still remain a mystery. He left a wife and his debts aggregate several thousand dollars. Fuller owned a string of fast horses, among them being Free Coinage, who broke the yearling world’s record three years ago. He was well known in racing circles. The dead body of Joseph B. McCullagh, chief editor of the St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat, was found at 6:30 o'clock Thursday morning lying on the pavement beneath the window of his room in the residence of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Manion, 3837 West Pine street. It is supposed that he fell from the window some time during the early morning. His skull was badly crushed and the body otherwise injured. He was suffering from an alta<k of acute asthma, and it is thought he fell while leaning out of the window in an attempt to breathe more freely. In their residence near the furnace of the Struthers Furnace Company at Youngstown, Ohio, Joseph Best, his wife and 2-year-old daughter were found dead early Friday morning, having been asphyxiated by gas. Four boarders employed at the furnace were taken out in an unconscious condition, and after hard work restored. The house occupied by Best was one of a row owned by the furnace company, and the family had seven boarders, three of them living at work at the furnace, and when they returned found the family dead. Two years ago a child was asphyxiated by gas in the same house and the family had a narrow escape. War between Colorado cattlemen and Utah sheepmen in Colorado has been averted. It seems that sheepmen in Utah were under the impression that the quarantine proclamation issued by Governor Mclntyre would become void on his retirement from office Jan. 12, and while Governor Adams was getting ready to issue a new proclamation they could move their sheep into the State and be In possession of the ranges before anything could be done to drive them out.

Attorney General Carr having given an opinion that the proclamation remains in force until it is rescinded by executive order, the sheepmen have decided not to invade the State. William A. Hammond, second vice president of the National Bank of Illinois, committed suicide early Saturday morning at Chicago by drowning himself in Lake Michigan. He had been brooding over the failure of the bank, and smarted under the public accusation of having been its wrecker. The suicide of the vice president is the second that has occurred in connection with the failure of the National Bank of Illinois, Banker Otto Wasmansdorff, of Wasmansdorff & Heinemann, which was dragged down with the larger financial house, ending his life with a revolver. One other life is directly charged to the failure. laizore Lavoy died—his friends say of a broken heart —while writing it letter of resignation to his employer, who had notified him that owing to some of the firm’s cash being tied up in the bank his salary would have to be reduced. SOUTHERN. The wife of Granville Cecil, a trotting horse owner of Danville, Ky., has ssed for divorce, charging cruelty. 4 » Professor Jason W. Chenault, head < the university school at Ijouisville, died of heart disease, the immediate* suit of the excessive use of tobacco. Tlie boiler of Bowmar’s sawmill, ne; 1 Tazewell, Tenn., exploded. Jane was killed and Joe Brewer so badly ftljured that lie will die. Oscar Neal and B. F. Bowmar were badly scalded. Joseph Adkins, on trial for the murder of Judge Combs at Hazard, Perry County, Ky., several years ago, has been sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary. It was his third trial, and he was defended by Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge. Martin J. Ryan, chief of the Norfolk, Ya., fire department, was shot and mortally wounded by First Assistant Chief Frank Wood. The Chief had reported Wood for drunkenness, and Mayor Mayo was just writing nut the order of suspension. Wood has been arrested. A cut of 25 per cent, in wages is nnnounced at the Morton works in Ashland, Ky., affecting about 200 employes in the nail, rolling and heating departments, together witli the puddling department, employing, when in operation, a hundred more. The reduction will not be accepted. A traffic arrangement has been entered into between the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and the Baltimore and Ohio, whereby the former company is to enter Cleveland over the latter line. The Wheeling and Lake Erie company has been desirous for a long time of having an entrance to Cleveland, mid negotiations looking to that end lietween the two companies mentioned have been in progress for the last two years. The new arrangement, which goes Into effect immediately. will give th*’ Wheeling and Lake Erie the shortest route from Wheeling to the lakes, the distance l>eing 140 miles.

Southern Arkansas. Northeastern Texas and Northwestern Louisiana were swept by a terrible wind and rain storm Saturday evening. Not less than ten and probably a greater number of lives are lost. So far as heard from the greatest destruction occurred at Mooringsport. La., about thirty miles from TexarMLna. the entire town being blown awawaud six or eight persons killed outrigh®»nd twenty or more injured, some of j»em fatally. Rumors come of great desfruc tiou at Benton. Ark. The Iron Mountain's south-bound passenger train was caught in the storm at that stall on ami had to be held there until the storm subsided. it is re|mrted that twenty-five houses were blown down at Benton and a number of people injured. WASHINGTON. For the first time since the present struggle in Cuba began this government has given permission to a customs official to clear for Cuba a vessel loaded, according to her manifest, with munitions of war and presumably intended for the insurgent army. The vessel in this case is the well-known and alleged filibuster the Dauntless. But the concession that under these circumstances she is entitled to clearance ’-apers leaves the situation, as far as she is concerned, quite as involved as before, as the statutes prescribe that before clearance shall be granted for any vessel bound tv a foreign port, the owners, shippers and consignors shall state under oath the foreign port at which the cargo is to be landed and severe penalties are prescribed for violations of this requirement, including the confiscation of the vessel. Neuvitas, the port named in the application as the destination of the cargo, is on the northern coast of Cuba and is occupied by the Spanish forces. FOREIGN. The Pope, according to private advices, is failing rapidly, and his condition is so serious that the question of succession is being discussed at the Vatican. Seventeen hundred disbanded Turkish marines made a hostile demonstration at the Constantinople arsenal Tuesday, demanding their arrears of pay. They received a portion of the money due and were then separated into small b^w*^ and sent to different ports of Anatoli ' The reports from Manilla state thaß^ 1 ® revelations brought about during the* r *al have caused a great sensation. On® insurgent said that he knew Japan intended to send a squadron to the Philippines, and to recognize the insurgents as belligerents, provided all the provinces joined in the rebellion. A Frenchman named Fabian lodged a claim for 46,000,000 francs some time ago against Venezuela on account of a denial of justice by the Venezuela courts. The matter was eventually submitted to the arbitration of the president of the Swiss republic, who has awarded Fabian 4,300,000 francs ($860,000). A dispatch from Madrid says that Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, again denies that he will resign the leadership of the Carlist party in favor of his son, Don Jaime, who, the father adds, is in perfect accord with him on the question. In regard to Cuba, Don Carlos believes that Spain ought to concede Cuba administrative autonomy, The filibustering steamer Commodore, which left Jacksonville, Fla., Thursdaynight, is now resting on the bottom of the sea in twenty fathoms of water, but all of the men on board were saved. Among those on board was Stephen Crane, the well-known novelist, who ship-

ped as a common seaman at S2O a month wages, to gather material for a novel. Reports from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, say there is much bitterness between the Spanish residents and the na-, fives and Indians, the latter being partisians of Cuba. At Coatepec recently a priest raised a Mexican flag on his church and the Spaniards attempted to tear it down. The result was a free fight, in which many heads were broken and one Spaniard was nearly killed. The flag was not removed. A terrible disaster lias occurred in the Santa Gertrusi mine at Pachuco. one of the most famous silver mines In Mexico. 1* rom some cause not known fire broke out in one of the levels of the old southern workings Thursday, shutting off the exit of thirteen Mexican miners. Miners on the outside went to work to try to put out the fire and save (he men. An Englishman, Ned Richards, an experienced miner, went down in charge of the rescue operations, but perished from suffocation. All the Mexicans died from the same cause or from burning. United States Consul Monaghan, at Chemnitz, gives some surprising comparative figures to show that Germany stands second only to England and much exceeds the United States in the value of her exports and imports. For 1895 these aggregated: For England, $3,125,820,600; for Germany, $1,926,729,000; for the United States. $1,524,770,000. Germany *t>ns also'gone ahead of France ir ocean tonnage, and Hamburg, her great seaport, is surpassed only by London, and she has the largest single steamship company in the world. Al) this is the work of little more than twenty years, and it grew out of almost nothing. Now the Germans demand a powerful navy to protect this magnificent merchant marine and prevent its destruction, as happened to Spain and Holland. The Cuban provisional government has forwarded a statement of money, munitions of war and provisions furnished for carrying on the war from all parts of the world since July 30, 1595, and up to Nov. 30. 1896. It was received in Washington a few days ago by Major Patrick of the Cuban commissary department and is for the purpose of showing how the finances have stood since the war began, which, it is believed, will have its effect in obtaining the additional money asked for by the leading Cubans of this country. The statement Is also made that when the struggle began General Gomez, the Cuban commander, agreed to serve through the war for SIOO,OOO, to be paid in installments of $20,000 every three months. It is claimed also that he has already received $60,000 from the provisional government and that the reminder is now due, and for that reason he has become careless and inactive, which accounts for the present state of affairs. But this is denied by the Cuban delegates in Washington. who say that Gomez is doing all that man can do. and is a true patriot, and is putting life and soul into his work. Following is a recapitulation of the contributions: Cities in the United States. .. .$1,706,000 States outside cities 275,000 Foreign countries 1,220,000 Total $3,210,000 Gonzelo de Quesada writes that if sl,000.000 can be secured in the next sixty days three months thereafter the war will be decided in Cuba’s favor. But the money is sorely needed and If not furnished it means a struggle with contingencies as well as with the enemy. Leas than $400,000 has been sent to the army in three months, the report says, and the treasury is entirely empty.

IN GENERAL Nearly every oatmeal and cereal mill in the United States has just entered into an agreement that amounts to a powerful trust to regulate the output and prices of oatmeal, rolled oats and other breakfast cereals. The new trust, that threatens to squeeze out of existence the smaller mills of the country and make a big advance in prices as soon as the condition of the trade will allow it. is called the Cereal Millers’ Association. Several days ago the representatives of the mills in the trust held a meet’ng in Chicago, and another meeting probably will be held soon, when it is likely, if the trade outlook has improved by that time, there will be a big advance in prices. The general manager of the association is George AV. Brown, of Sioux City, lowa, who gets $350 a month for his services. Most of the mills that compose the trust are located in lowa and in Ohio. The trust already is responsible, it is said, for the big jump of $1 a barrel which rolled oats took in November, and the decline of 75 cents a barrel in December, which was almost independent of the price of oats at that time. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common 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, 82c to 84c; corn. No. 2,22 cto 23c; oats. No. 2,15 c to 17c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 38c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c: eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common green to fine brush, 2c to 5140 per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, good to choice, $2.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2. 89c to 91c; corn. No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 92 to 94c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2,85 c to 36c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 37c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, 37c to 38c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $5.35 to $5.45. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 3. 19c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 35c; rye, No. 1,39 cto 40c; pork, mess, $6.50 to $7.00. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 93c to 95c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25: hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs, Western, 19c to 21c

WEYLERIN DISFAVOR. WILL BE RELIEVED OF COMMAND IN CUBA. Gen. Rivera to Succeed Him—Statistics of the Output of California During the Last Year—Germania Bank of St. Paul Falla, Rivera to Displace Weyler. New York dispatch: News has been received by the Cuban junta from Washington to the effect that the Spanish Government has positively determined to recall Capt. Gen. Weyler. Gen. Primo de Rivera, it is said, will succeed Gen. Weyler in Cuba. Rivera is a captain general in the Spanish army and in favor with the Canovas government. Minister Taylor, it is said, informed Secretary Olney several days ago that the authorities at Madrid were on the point of relieving Gen. Weyler of his command in Cuba and of appointing as his successor Capt. Gen. Rivera. The Madrid government is displeased at the fact that Gen. Weyler has not put down the Cuban revolt. He had expended large sums of money, but so far has made no decided headway in accomplishing his main object—that of quelling the insurrection and restoring peace and good order in Cuba. His troops have been victorious on occasions. But they have also met defeat. and the total result, considering Spain’s outlay in life and treasure, is far from satisfactory. Too much may have been expected of Weyler, jmrt as the exaction was too great in the case of Campos; still, the one great requirement —success—has not been fulfilled, and Weyler has consequently fallen in official esteem in Madrid. Output of California. The San Francisco Chronicle prints the following statistics of California products for the year 1596: Gold $14,160,613 ! Borax 800.000 Petroleum and bitumen, over. 6,000,000 Natural gas 150,000 Quicksilver, flasks 30,708 Beet sugar, pounds 66,000,000 Wheat, bushels 28,632,200 Brandy distilled from grapes, gallons, nearly 1.000,000 Barley, bushels 10,800,000 Beans, pounds 68,000,000 Raisins, pounds 34,000,000 Dried fruit, pounds 148,500 Dried prunes, pounds 51,000,000 Canned fruits, cases 1,340,000 Wool, pounds 24,500.000 Hops, bales, over 52,000 Oranges, 1896-97, carloads, estimated 8,372 Orange®, 1896, boxes 2,512,500 Butter, pounds 484,000.000 Chee®e, pounds 16,000,000 Wine receipts at Ban Francisco, gallons 12,400.000 Provisions $5,500,000 Value of nuts 350,000 The total gold production since IS4B is $368,429,278; quicksilver since 1877, 810,767 flasks; gold and silver since 1848, sl,475,107. Seventy-six thousand acres are set to orange trees and 76,000 to prunes. There are 3,900,000 acres of land under irrigation, 340,000 milch cows in the Stnte and $100,000,000 invested in dairies.

BREVITIES, The Paris edition of the New York Herald says it can guarantee the accuracy of the news which it presents that Antonio Maceo is still alive. Fire which originated in Lebeck Bros.' dry goods store at Nashville, Tenn., deatroyed ten stores and the south end of the city market house. Loss, $400,000. James Duffy, the Boston pugilist, who collapsed at the conclusion of a ten-round boxing match with George Justus at the Broadway Ath etic Club. New York, Saturday night, died Monday without having regained consciousness. Early Monday morning Kansas City detectives working on the Blue Cut train robbery case brought in another suspect, arrested near Glendale, and who, they claim, was with John Kennedy, the leader of the gang, now under arrest, on the night of the robbery. The Germania Bank at St. Paul, a State institution, did not open for business Monday, but announced its assignment to Peter M. Kerst. who for the last year or two has been its cashier. The bank stood a run for nearly two weeks, its depositors beginning to withdraw their deposits at the time the Bank of Minnesota closed. Mrs. D. C. Dodge, wife of Col. D. C. Dodge, vice president and general manager of the Rio Grande Western Railroad, died at Denver of cancer of the stomach after a long illness. She was known as one of the most charitable women in th“ city and her marked executive ability made her a leader in every movement in which she became interested. Owing to the recent disturbances and the threats of organizations against tollgates. Judge Garrison H. Hillis, of Vanceburg, Ky., announces an extra term of court to devise plans by which the tollgates can be legally- disposed of instead of being destroyed by mobs. Most of the stockholders have agreed to assign their holdings in the roads to the courts. Since the Arbuckles, of coffee fame, entered the sugar field, the sugar trust, through employment of the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, has been cutting prices on coffee, and declares the intention to either drive the Arbuckles out of the coffee business or ruin them. Now the Arbuckles have succeeded in getting hold of some Woolson stock, and will throw the concern into the hands of a receiver, if ruinous prices are made. Five negroes in jail at Birmingham, Ala., have confessed to Ihe attempt to wreck the Southern Railway's fast express from Washington, at McComb’s trestle. Dec. 19. It is believed they also caused the wreck on the Birmingham road which k lied twenty-eight people. Their intention at McComb’s was robbery. The Princess Chimay-Caraman and the gypsy- musician, Rigos, are getting hard up. The Princess is said to have signed a contract to sing in a Budapest mdsic hall, Rigos playing a violin in the orchestra. The authorities in Jamaica have prohibited the importation of cattle from Colombia. Byway of retaliation it is suggested that the Colombian Government should issue a decree against the importation of laborers from Jamaica, many of whom are now at work on the Panama Canal.

Cleveland’s Attitude on Cuba, To recognize the independence of the “republic of Cuba” would be a farce, because no such republic exists. —Ohatta- • nooga News. If an ambassador of the United States should be sent to communicate with the republic of Cuba where would he find its government? —lndianapolis Journal. President Cleveland, who recommended in his annual message home rule for Cuba, seems disposed to deny it to the United States.—Troy, N. Y., Press. Secretary Olney has served notice o* Congress that, so far as the diplomatic game is concerned, it is but the vern^ form appendix.—New York Evening Journal. It should be enough to know that Mr. Olney’s claim is inconsistent with our conception of popular government. That fact alone should condemn it,—Cleveland Recorder. When we get a President who is too great to be bound by an enactment of Congress it will be interesting to learn just what he thinks can bind him.—New York World. In the game between the administration and the Senate on the Cuban recognition question it seems that the former has four aces and the latter a bobtail.—Dea Moines Leader. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Olney in resisting this spirit will find themselves sustained, regardless of party affiliations, by men who have most at stake when a war comes.—Louisville Post. If, as Secretary Olney now contends, Congress can act only in an advisory na- , tore, for what reason did the President and his Secretary of State lay the wholesubject before Congress?—Spokane ReI view. The constitution presents no ground for Mr. Olney to stand upon when he claims that the President of the United States is supreme in the matter of recognizing foreign establishments. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Some Senators in their eagerness to declare Cuba independent are inspired a deal more by a desire to infringe upon the prerogative of the executive department than by any yearning to help the patriots. ■ —Dallas News. The President has a right to veto any I resolution sent to him by Congress. He would be a weak-kneed creature if be- ; cause he was afraid to exercise It he i should suffer this right to fall into dis- । ’ use.—Milwaukee Sentinel. The position assumed by the Secretary of State, which was inspired by the Pres- ; ident, is not in accord with the spirit of i our institutions. It would make th* I President superior to Congress and in- ■ deed little short of a dictator.—Quincy I Whig. ■ If Mr. Olney’s view of the whereabouts of the dividing line between the power® ’ i of the President and the Congress is mls- ' taken he errs in the company of some of his most distinguished predecessor®— I William H. Seward for one.—Hartford Courant.

This and That. If Spain were to bump up against the 1 American banner it would see forty-five I stars. —Philadelphia Times. The six-day bicycle race in New York City was productive of one good result. It was a victory for the men who sat vp the straightest.— Chicago Tribune. If litigation becomes a regular feature I of pugilistic engagements, there may ret 1 be enough ill-feeling engendered to provoke some really serious personal encounters. —Washington Star. The naval court of inquiry has decided i that the Texas is all right. Hereafter I one test of a vessel’s seaworthiness should be her ability to sink when tied up to a dock.—Chicago Record. This is a euphemistic age. A thief now- ; adays is called a “kleptomaniac,” a murderer is called a “psychic epileptic” and an aiderman is called “one of our best citizens.” —Chicago Times-Herald. A fashion journal says: “In millinery there are sharp contrasts, but the coloring is in general brilliant without being crude or glaring.” BiliS are generally plain, and in black and white, following last year's fashion. —Boston Globe. A good deal of public time could be saved and a good deal of important business could be facilitated if Congressmen would learn a little something of the things they have to talk about before making speeches.—Baltimore American. An Eastern manufacturer is said to ' have discovered away to make corn- ' stalks worth $5 an acre. If he will now ' discover away to make the corn worth another $5 many unhappy farmers maysee a chance of getting through a hard winter.—Chicago News. The convention of Judges which is to meet in Philadelphia might discuss at I least two subjects with profit to the people of Pennsylvania: “How Can Bullies at the Bar Be Best Suppressed?” and “How to Protect Decent Persons in the Witness Box.” —Philadelphia Bulletin. Lillian Russell is highly indignant at the reports that she had married again. “Why,” she exclaims, “I haven't been divorced from Mr. —Mr.—you know whom I mean—my present husband.” Which shows a delicate appreciation of the law, becoming rare upon the stage.— Chicago Chronicle. It appears that the Alien Land law of Kansas is not altogether satisfactory to everybody in that State. One "Gene” Ware is quoted as believing that a Kansas man ought to have the right to sell his farm to anybody who will buy it—“even a Pole from Poland or a Hole from Holland.” “Gene’s” notions of equality are all right, even if he is slightly erratic in his derivative adjectives.— New Yorii Advertiser. The United States steamer Adams got to San Francisco from Honolulu minus about forty-eight of her crew and one quartermaster. The sailors were all enlisted in San Francisco prior to the sailing of the warship ten months ago and their destination had barely been reached before they began deserting. George W. Gilmore, a welathy rancher in Rawley County, Kas., was assassinate ed, being shot as he sat at his supper table by someone unknown who fired * load of buckshot through the window at he sat at his supper table.