St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 4, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 August 1897 — Page 6

Cljc JnDependent. AV. A. JEIN DJjEY, WALKERTOIT, - - ■ INDIANA. BATTLE LN A PRISON. SEVEN MEN SERIOUSLY HURT AT CHARLESTOWN, MASS. Only Coolness of Officials Prevents a Bloody Massacre and Escape of Murderer Willie—A Youngster Pumps Mis Eaby Brother Full of Wind. Bloody Prison Fijrh'. A most desperate and bloody attempt to escaiu' from State prison in Charlestown, Mass., took place in the rotunda of the institution Tuesday morning. As n result Herbert A. Willis, a prisoner serving h life sentence for murder, and his brother Everett Willis, aged 18, lie at the point of death. Officer E. S. Darling. 72 years old. who for forty-one years has been on the State prison force, is also at the hospital, suffering from bullet wounds and and his recovery is doubt* 'he Stale ra.ooxiou i ■ ' w n se n d, y y 1 *.bbott, are ■ HI c r nnTTron^vtu*.^. • ■ nrcnr wounds, 'The shooting was the result of n desperate attempt of Herbert A. Willis to escape from prison, aided by his brothel, who had been admitted to visit him. Ihe two desperadoes sought to hew the way to freedom for the convict by shooting down every man who could in any manner bar their way. Only the coolness of the prison officers prevented the State prison from becoming the scene of general massacre. Herbert Willis was sent up Feb. 13 last to serve a life sentence. He had been convicted of murder in the second degreeat Taunton. He had terrorized the community in Plymouth county for months before that time, riding around at night on a bicycle and holding up defenseless people wherever he met them. He finally wound up his eniw by committing murder, his victim being Fred Strange, a bicyclist, whom he shot in order to steal his wheel. He is only a little over 19 ye:n-s old. Athletes of the Dintnnnl. Following Is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston ....Ail 28 Philadelphia. 42 49 Cincinnati ..57 30 Pittsburg ... .41 49 Baltimore .. .55 30 Brooklyn ....38 49 New York.. .52 33 Louisville ... 11 ;>3 Cleveland ...4G 43 Washington. 33 55 Chicago ....45 48 St. L0ui5....25 >69 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. AV. L. Indianapolis. G 4 27 Detroit 4f> 50 Columbus .. .60 31 Minneapolis. 32 67 St. Paul GO 38 G’nd Rapids.3o 64 Milwaukee ..60 40 Kansas City.3o GS InHatcd the Infant. Mrs. George Ruthman of Beaver Falls, Pa., heard a peculiar noise on the back porch of her residence. Sho found her two sons, one aged 7 and the other 1 year old. in a corner. The babe was on his back. The elder brother had inserted the tube of a bicycle pump in the baby’s mouth and was filling him full of wimi as fast as he could work the pump handle. The infant was unconscious and its little stomach was inflated like a balloon. Ihe mother pulled the tube from the child’s mouth and the air followed with a sharp sound like the exhaust of an air brake on a railway train. The baby recovered consciousness. Fortune for Gold Seekers. Great excitement prevails at Trinity Center, Cal., and vicinity over a rich strike made by the Graves brothers and Henry Carter in the drift claim of the Coffee Creek. In four days they took out three water buckets full of gold, valued at $68,000. The largest piece was worth $12,000. They expect to take from $l5O. 000 to $200,000 out of the pocket. The gold is coarse, and lies between wails of porphyry, and itesembles melted gold pouted in the seams. BREVITIES, Chili's new cabinet has resigned. Gov. Bushnell of Ohio is seriously ill with heart weakness. The steamer City of Para, from Panama, is held iu quarantine at Suu Francisco, a passenger having died of yellow fever on the voyage. On the London Stock Exchange Monday Spanish securities fell one-half point on the news of the assassination of the premier, Senor Canovas del Castillo. A dispatch from the Herald’s correspondent in Medallin says that Charles Radford of Alabama has been condemned to death for the murder several months ago of Charles 11. Simmonds, a wealthy merchant of Cali. In all probability this sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment, as capital punishment there is never exercised save in exceptional cases. Obituary: At San Jose. Cal., Col. Au-' gustus G. Bennett, 61. At Marietta, O„ Dr. Leven Peddy.—At Bloomington. 111., John A. Kerr. 61. At Chester, Pa., Actor Wallace Campbdl.— At Memphis, exMayor John Park. 85. At New York, George Green, 49.— At Lacon, 111., Mrs. John S. Thompson.—At Martindale, Ind., Robert B. Mitchel! of Salem. At Bloomington, 111., Pai rick Lenehan. .80, Corrected tables about to be published by the bureau of statistics in connection with the monthly summary of finance and commerce will show that the domestic exports for the fiscal year ended June 30 were the largest in the history of the country. 1 heir value amounted to 81,032.991.1U.0. The n. Xt largest was the year 1892. when the, amounted to 81 - 015,732.011. The increase over export’s cf the preceding year was Sics.snos];;. In pursuance of ihe British mlmi-.Mi ■.’« policy of strengthening the Dope.io P . > and torpedo destroyer flotillas able. T < i,. Virago ami Thrasher have been , -inn', sioned for the Pacific station ami the Quail ami Sparrow Hawk have I< on • n. missioned for the North American *ta tions. These small vessels will be conveyed to their stations by cruisers. The appointment of Baron von Thielmann, the retiring German ambassador to the United States, as secretary of the imperial treasury, in succession to Count Posadowsky-AVehner, is gazetted at Berlin.

EASTERN. Fort Cra 10, the historic Van Rensselaer mansion on the Hudson river in East Greenbush, N. Y., has been sold under the auctioneer's hammer for $4,360. It is supposed to be the oldest building in the United States, having been erected in 1642 as a manor house and place of defense. It was at one time Gen. Abercrombie’s headquarters. Fire broke out in the extensive chemical works of D. Jayne A Son, Frankford, Pa., Wednesday. One of the assistant engineers of the fire department and several of the firemen were injured by falling walls. They were taken to the hospital. The works occupy almost half a block and will be a total loss. The damage by the flames is estimated at $200,000. Henry F. Reed, a North Adams, Mass., money lender, aged 49, and his sister, Miss Blanche M. Reed, aged 50, are lying dead in their home, with their bodies mutilated and their faces battered almost beyond recognition. Both were murdered in cold blood and there is not the slightest clew to the perpetrators of the deed. The confused appearance which the house presented causes the police to believe that the purpose of the murderers was not robbery, but that they were in search of some particular article. Mr. Reed was said to be a merciless creditor, and the most plausible theory is that revenge and hatred instigated the crime. Susie A. Denehy was arraigned in the Lynn., Mass., police court Thursday on a charge of assault on Thomas Kclihcr, her lover, by throwing sulphuric acid in his face Tuesday night. She was not represented by counsel and pleaded not guilty. She was held in SI,OOO for trial Aug. 14. On leaving the court room, where she had been hysterical, she fainted. Kclihcr will be disfigured for life. One eye is destroyed, and the hospital physicians fear that the sight of the other also will be lost. The girl was jealous because Kclihcr had been to the beach 'Tuesday afternoon with another girl. Tuesday night they had a quarrel and she threw the acid upon his fare. Now she is very repentant. Russell Sage's office in New York was the scene of tin ever-changing throng Thursday. Many of the callers were leading financiers and big men in the business w< rid, and there were a good many strangers unfamiliar with puts and culls and the other phases of the great financier's business. They had just dropped in to congratulate him upon having reached his eighty-first birthday. To each of the bearers of good will Mr. Sage find a bright and < heery reply. 1 tespite his ad vanned age, his mental faculties are as alert as ever, and there are scarcely more gray hairs in his head than a year ago. To a methodical life be attributes his robust health. He has made it an invariable rule to be at bis office as soon ns his employes, and to leave only when the day's work is done. He regards himself as good for ten rears more of business life. Two children killed and six persons in jured, several probably fatally, is the record if an Occident on the N«'W A ork, Ontario and AAVstern Railroad just north of Rockland, Sullivan County, N. A. A combined obst n ation car and locomotive, bearing B. Canfield, the general superitt tendent, and Charles 11. Hopkins, super intendent of the southern division of the road, struck a wagon containing John Mauli-'k nnd bis wile nnd six children The accident occurred nt the Hollywood highway crossing. The wagon nnd occupants were hulled forty feet down an em bnnkment into the reeky bed of the A\ il lowsmoe river. One of the children was instantly killed, another died sooti after the accident, and othet members of the family are not expected to survive. '1 he crossing is one of the most dangerous on the line of the road. The tracks just be fore crossing tin highway descend n steep grade, and a sharp curve in the railroad renders it impossible to see the approach of a train until it is near the crossing. WESTERN. A Kansas preacher dismissed his eon gregation Sunday and led them to a wheat field to save a crop from an approaching storm. Dun McTaggart, ex Slate Senator from Montgomery County. Kan., ami pr ini nent as a Republican politician, was shot and killed tit McTaggart's mill, near Lib erty, by Henry Sheesley, h-see of the mill. McTaggart's 4 .'ear old sou was also shot in the arm. Sheesley was ur rested. Four Chicago firemen and an unknown man were killed. Chief Swenie and twenty other firemen were hurt, and $500,000 worth of property destroyed by a tire in the Chicago Railway Terminal Company's grain elevator Thursday afternoon. The fatalities were caused by a dust explosion, which almost invariably accom panics elevator tires. Judge Campbell of San Francisco has held Theodore A. Figel to answer to seven charges of embezzlement and two of forgery. ami fixed his bail at $38,000. The defense offered no testimony, but when the prosecution rested moved to dismiss upon the grounds that defendant's employer, Isaac Hoffman, deceased, had given Figel pet mission to sign his name. The motion was overruled. John Madden, treasurer of Modoc County. Cal., disappeared two weeks ago and , District Attorney Baker, believing Madden to l>e a defaulter for nt least .835.900. has asked the Board of Supervisors to declare the office vacant ami appoint a new treasurer. The funds of the county were deposited in the bank al Sacramento and checks drawn in payment of county warrants have been returned unpaid for lack of funds. Heavy rains at Denver, Colo., have caused many thousands of dollars' damage in and about the city. Several bridges across Cherry creek have been washe 1 away. Patrick Murray, a laborer, was thrown into the creek by the caving of a bank on which lit' was standing to watch the flood and was drowned. An unknown man who attempted to ford the cret'k on horseback was also swept away. Trains are much delayed on account of the damI age to loadbeds, bridges and culverts. , A dro !g hl in the AA'est was broken ■ uesday night ami Wednesday morning by a good rain, the fall vary ing from half j :in inch to -in inch and a half. Along the i Burlington lines the ra j n w;ls heaviest where n . A; K needed worst. Reports re chived ; t the general officer say the rain camo just in time to save the corn crop. On the St. .!<-eph and Grand Island road an inch and a half of rain fell. While some corn has been slightly damaged, the indications now point to an enormous > crop. Bernard Rons, a Bohemian tramp, con- ' fesses tin- murder of Miss Pear] Morrison at Crystal Falls, Mich. The confession was secured by the Pinkerton detective

I who had been employed in the case. In order to secure it a clever ruse was adopted. Tlie detective entered the cell of the prison dressed in the garb of a Roman < ntholie priest. He wore flic black cassock and Ids head was covered by a cowl. Lons is a Roman Catholic, and in this disguise the defective had little difficulty in securing a confession. Rons told how he had awaited llh- girl's coming on the road near where her body was found. He dragged her behind some bushes nnd killed her. After taking a breastpin from her dress he walked to the home of Mr. Brooks, v here he gave the pin to one of the girls. 'I he confession was heard by two reputable citizens, who hnd been pinecd in ndjoining cells for the purpose. Three men mid a woman were suffocated mid thirteen others slightly hurt by a Cincinnati fire Thursday morning, 'The dead me: Ezra Rouse, Arthur Guth, Nellie Bennett, Roy Carr, Seventeen men mid women were gathered in the second story of a building occupied on the first floor by Otto Adler’s all-night saloon. It seems that it was a wedding frolic, in which Guth, one of the dead men, was the bridegroom and the daughter of Landlord Adler was the bride. None of the dead were burned. All were suffocated by smoke from the fire in adjacent rooms. The only exit for escape was blocked by a bathtub set up on end at the head of the stairway. The smoke came frotnan adjacent room, where the fire was extinguished. The celebrants of thej^^' ding used beer nnd cigarettes very f^f/’ mul it is now supposed cigarettes staitj h 8 the fire and that beer emitted the fence which, with the up-ended batlKb, were the indirect causes of so many lutalities. SOUTHERN. Upon the application of James Sloan Jr., vt Baltimore, n stockholder in the Monongah Coal mid Coke Company, made by ex Governor Fleming, his counsel, Judge Jackson, in the United States court at Parkersburg, AV. Vn., AVednvsday as termam granted a sweeping injunction re straining Eugene A'. Debs mid his associates from in any way interfering with or molesting the inamigrment or ihe conducting of tin projs'rty of the Monongah Coke and Coni Company or its employes. AVarrmits have been taxied nt Huntsville, Ala., for the arrest of Norman Sweetin and his brother-in-law, J. 11. Sisirdling. Kith v.ell known men, on the charge of mvrderiiu: Uni Harper and <t<s»rge Tueker, whose Isslies were found near Seligman a few days ago. Tiierv is strong evid«'n^' that Swis'tiu mid Spard ling killed the tuo men for the purpose of robbery. Citizens nnd officers arc scouring tbe country for the alleged murdercHi, mul they arc U>th almost certain of being lynched when captured. WASHINGTON. A AA'ushingtuu dispat. h to a St. L<>vH paper say-< that Jusths' l‘i< ld of the Suprime bcmdi will retire this month, that Attorney General McKenna will l>e np pointed to the vacancy and thr.f the latter will be sim corded by Attorney Henry D:t.b. ■ • ■ St, L‘ u v The buteau of American republics ha* rcecived intoi million that the Gm erumeut of the State of I'ern, BrnzU, is inviting lenders fur the pur. lium' ol the present water works of the city <»f Ptirn mid for extending the system. Bids will md I" re. eived utter Nov. IS, Ai - Ui '■ mithoriiy for the statement thwjph'’ claims already filed b Amcricmi* Spain growing out ct mid incident t”’he Cuban ievolutmn tiggtegate not less the s7s.iHsi.tHH), mul thm the amount .* in < reasing daily Only a few s- ii-m .mM claims have been brought to the attention of the public, but hundreds of those now b<*fore the Department oi State arc as just «« the Ruir. or any of th. claim*, ami .am lie forced to n mico ssfitl issue ju*t us certainly. In Ilie slow |>to--e*s of dip lonmtic ndjustmeiit of clnims filed against Spain 75 per cent of the parties .oiicern <sl will drop out of sight mid their th munda be lost sight of. Gut the remainder, who have gteater pc; sisteiie. or sii|>eriur m qua inlnnee with the agencies employed in the business, may eventually get some thing back in the way ot rcpmiitu.u for hisses sustained. It i- safe to say. h ,n hit. that mil lu p. i cent of die original claims will clef b' realized, nubs* they should he piovided f. i in ibe terms of set tleincut “when the island finds shelter under the p: bition of I'mlc Sam.' It Spain and <‘i;ba should conclude the war and maintain their existing relationship the claims of Americiims for proja'rty losses will then be refern*! to a commission. FOREIGN. The Japanese Government has ilecided to ah dish all exp. rt duties from the commencement of the thirty first fiscal year next April. Senor Antonio Canovas del Castillo, prime minister of Spain, was assassinated by Michele Angiuo Golli, a Neapolitan anarchist, at Santa Agucdn. Sunday afternoon. He was shot three times, and fell dying at his wife's feet. The A’ienna correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle says he learns by special dispatches from Warsaw thatjthe Russian Government intends to prohibit the export of grain this year, owin^ to the expected bad harvest. Forty-two houses, many fari^HF “X' a quantity of grain and a number of'raf^ e were destroyed by tire Weduesdaj ex ing at the village of Pohlbuch. in the Wittlich district in Germany. Three of the inhabitants of the village lost their lives during ihe conflagration. 3 < 'onsidernble almm has been caused by the official statistics of the public health just published at Bombay. They show that there were 1,971 deaths during the last week, of whi<h number 220 were deaths from cholera mid 1.8 were deaths from the plague. The total death rate is equal to 65.61 per 1,999, or double the normal rate. B. F. Hawkesley, counsel for Cecil Rhodes, iii no interview at London declared that the reports circulated by the Morning P< st to the effect that "Mr. Rhodes mid Alfred Beit, the former resident director at t’ape'row n of the British South .Africa Company, had persowilly paid the Transvaal Government £2svjooo as indemnity for the raid of Dr. L. S. J th u mid his followers into the Tru'-s---vaal in Die r her. 1895. is “all nonsense.” Samuel Parker, who was minister of foreign chairs in Queen Liliuokalani's cabinet, mrived at San Francisco from Honolulu on the Belgic. He said: “If annexation is defeated. Hawaii will put her foot down. She will then be ready to negotiate with Japan, England or any i other country. About one-fourth of the i peopie of the island are Japanese, many of them soldiers, it is rumored. I do not

think Japan will do anything until the । annexation and treaty questions have been settled by the United States.” Santiago de Cuba dispatches Thursday report the military arrest, drumhead court martial and execution of three employes of the Jnragua iron mines, operated near there, by Americans, for the joint account of the Carnegie mills and Pennsylvania steel works, mid also announce the detention of a number of miners ns political suspects. AVeyler’s continued attempts to force the syndicate to close the mines is much commented upon among the foreigners. A mi'mber of the Competitor's crew, confined in La Cabana. makes a complaint that letters sent him from the United States consulate general are invariably opened, translated and read by the Spanish officers of the fortress before delivery. In Gumiabucoa ninety-two Cuban women, respectably connected, and young girls, have been arrested since Sunday as political suspects. IN GENERAL. The Pacific Nfnil Steamship Company’s stemnship China sailed from San Francisco Thursday flying the Hawaiian flag. It was decided by the officers of the company to place the big vessel, which is the crack ship of the Pacific Mail licet, under ihe Hnwaiiitn flag without loss of time, and it is said in maritime circles that this action indicates a belief mining the vllievrs of tlie conqiuiiy that annexation of the isluuds is likely to be accomplished in the very near future. Narrnthcs of fabulous wealth taken from Kl< ndyke soil me eclip'dl by stones of recent manipulations in the July wheat market. For two months a bull clique of New York, St. Louis mid Chicago brokers has been playing a fast and loose game with the wheat shorts, demanding tribute mid erenting fallacious hopes. George R. French, it brillimit young speculator, who was sent to Chicago from New York to guard the earthworks of the clique, affirms unhesitatingly the current statements that his backers have divided not less than s6<hi,imh> net profit during the Inst month. Thus it follows that the tacit impression on 'Chance that July wheat was being mmiipulated is bolstered up by facts. Joseph Leiter, the Chicago dark horse, is one of the men who have pock eted a part of the big "rake off,” A< cnrd ing to All. Frem h the combine with which he figures controlled not less than 4.500, 990 bushels of Jtily wheat. Au effort was made by certain Chicago commie-don nwrchmit* in June to run a tight corner in the wheat market at thm time when the visible supply ivu-nhsl only I.ihmi.imm bushels nx ailable wlu.it. The same firms hlentitied w ith this attempt, which di<l not 1 succeed, 11 an*fcrr«'d their holdings to Sep tember. The tinal day for fulfilling July wheat irmtrmt* for delivery «iw the < 3 lbum shot ts deejiera u 4 v s< t ninbhng for the eliq i< s offerings, pushing the price up 4 <i nts within two h"Uis and shower ing S lihi.i hh i w or! h : . <iin into the coffer* of tiie bull combine. The mmiipukitors I again put their h«m!s together, snaO hm) 7,O<MMKH» bushel f wheat at ebb-tide price and in throe days >ot«l <»nt the lino nt n pn’t of y^iKiiMHi 11. G. Dun A < ».' Weekly Review of Trade says: "FoMr >< • g > hiltn-s in July un> imte.j to ov, while in last month Imlm* ~ hnw been only $7,117,727. the *uialie«t in any m nth siu< e Dp? J!,., staietueiif of failure* by < Insws of busiuc-c fur July ami for forty i «ix ui< ith* shows that <: manufiu t uring 1 ruiii>r>*w lime Ikcu siunlb'c tbaii in any etb» r immth except me. mi l in many brttttehe* <>f «• i hT : '■ ■ • I’l.ia iu tneart month ■ ( vln<li teemM" exist. Igist month wa* the t.rst for font ycurs I of W Itieh 1 <■ l »futile of hll 4la reported I by ckariug houw« was larger than in the smue mouth of 1*92, mi l thi- telegrapliH' diHpat.'hos from all part* ot the country giv.-n this w.-.i; show u gratifying iui ploXemeut. I Ills IS partly due to & large I yield of wlmat aud prii •*. though the < roj 1> prohibit i t .m huge m»r are I prices th .H ta' . high in 1*92. but of v..ib»ti the |. : .. . . high. r. .uM tt.e y .-id pc >lc: 1 'ha i. o’, lh.lt y• a i < Mher f irm products are t.‘aiming g “ d price*, Mild the jwiss'bh- lie. len^' iu > u i.l of col li may lu ip to i. ,i iT< t th enormous *urplu i brought i.ui f: m la*t war. It i- the wrong season to e\;»e. t mm h from industries. mid yet there ha* been material increase in the mimKr of hand* employ cd iu the iron m.imif.o lure Im au-e of th.' .satisfactory adjustment of wages dispute; while the coal miners’ strike seems each day more likely to cm! in a permam nt settlement beneficial to both parties Mean 1 while the demmid for most tinished products is stemlily increasing. Manufacturers are buy nig but little, though they are rapidly increasing the output, and are able to obtain an advance of about 11> per cent in prices of goods with rapidly in creasing orders." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.99 to $5.56; hogs, shipping grades, S3.(H» to $4,119; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 77c to 78e; corn. No. 2, 26e to 27c; oats. No. 2,16 c to 17c; rye, No. 2. 41e to 43c; butter, choice creamery. 1 !<• to 15c; eggs, fresh. 9c to 11c; new potatoes, 40c to 60e per bushel. Indimmpolis l'attle, shipping, s.’t.oO to $5.00; hogs, ch- ice light. S.U.im to 8!.25, 1 sheep, common t" choice, .B,’f.ito to wheat. No. 77' b< 79.-; e<.rn. No. 2 while. 27c Io 2'-.,; ats, No. 2 while, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25: hogs, 1 $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, 53.09 to S 1.00; wheat, No. 2. Sic to 83c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25e to 2(>c: oats. No. 2 white, 16c to ISc; rye. No. 2,41 cto 42c. Cincinnati Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, 53.00 to $4.00: sheep. $2.50 Io 84.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 7Se; corn. No. 2 mixed, 2Sc t<> 29c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 16c to 1.8 c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39c. Detroit Cattle, 82.50 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $1.00; sheep. $2.50 to 8 1.00; wheat, No. 2, Sic to S3c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 23e; rye. 42e to 1 le. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. Sic to S3e; corn. No. 2 mixed. 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 17e to 19e; rye. No. 2,12 cto 43c; clover seed, 84.30 to 8 I. 10. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 82c to 84c; corn. No. 3,27 cto 28c; oats. No. 1 2 white, 20e to 21c; rye. No. 1,49 cto 42e; barley, No. 2,34 cto 38c; pork, mess, $7.50 to $8.25. Buffalo-Cattb', $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.2.t; sheep. .83.00 to 51.75; ; wheat. No. 2 red. 83e to Mr; corn. No. i yelloxv, 3o<- to 32c; oats, No. 2 w hite. 24e ’ to 25e. New York-Cattle. $3.00 to 85.25; hogs. . $3.50 to $4.50; Shep, $3.00 to 84.25; • wheat, No. 2 led. S9e to 9Oe; otic No. 2. ‘ 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white. 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, AA estern, 12c to 14c.

CANOVAS murdered. SPAIN’S PRIME MINISTER SHOT BY AN ANARCHIST. Ulen Crying “Long Live Spain’’-Mcets Hi» Fate at a Bathing Resort— Ab in the Case of Carnot of France, Assassin Is an Alien. Spain Mourns Her Premier. Senor Antonio Canovas del Castillo, prime minister of Spain, was assassinated by Michele Angino Golli, a Neapolitan anarchist, at Santa Agueda, Spain, at 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He was shot’ to death. The murderer Cred three times at the aged Spanish minister. Two bullets passed through his forehead and another penetrated his chest. He fell dying nt the feet of his wife, who was witli him. For two hours he lingered in terrible agony, struggling against the rapid approaeh’of death. AVith the cry of “Long live Spain” on his lips, the grim old patriot, the tierce monarchist and lender of the Alfonsist party, and the head of the government that tried to crush the Cuban rebellion by n policy of extermination, passed away. Spain was his love and his life. His country was his idol and its progress his pride. He fought for the monarchy that now rules Spain. He fell by the’ hand of one to whom all monarchies are detestable and all men in jiower are tyrants fit only for the knife or the bullet. AHsmusinatcd by an Alien. Like President Carnot of France, he was assassinated by an alien. In each <-ase the murderer came from Italy, ami followed the victim from the seat of the government to a spot where the crime would be made easier by the absence of guards. In each case the crime was committed <>n Sunday. “I killed him in accomplishment of u just vengeance," exclaimed the assassin

<>f Canovas, boastingly, when arrested. Golli declared his deed was the outcome of a vast conspiracy to assassinate the rulers nf Etiropi*. He spoke of Cesare Santo, the Italian assassin of i'lcsidcnt Carnot, a* a hero who I elonged to a band of similar "heroes devoted to the work of destroy ing t j rants." 1 tirope Shaken bv the News. The t<-rrible news swept over Spain and the iHN'ple went into mourning for the victim of the awful crime. Europe was shaken by the story of the assassination, and words of sorrow and sympathy were fla slu'd from ex cry court. The revolutionists in Spain were silenced nnd the liberals, who had fought the monarchist lead- < is wen* Iwitifii'd at the crime. Senor Canova* passed through the storm and stress of a mini-9 rial crisis only two months ago. His cabinet was again iu the saddle, lie bad won n victory over hi* political opponents. His plans f‘>r the suppression of the rebellion in Cuba and tlie re • stablishment of Spanish supremacy in the Philippine Islands were st 1 < ngthi lied. SOnglit host und Met Booth. The Spanish pram > r dctciniincd to take n rest am! a three weeks’ course ot the bath* at Santa Aguciln. He was to return to tlie summer tesidom e of the Spanish c iii at San Sebastian b> u ee; I nited State* Mim ter AY‘odford. who was t.. I>< prcM-tiicd and ollb uilly ii* eived by Maria Chri*timi, the qiiecn regent. He " mg! ' rest at this time «> that be would be iil.ii- to take up the Ctibnn problem with the minister finin the I idled Si an * and learn the attitude of the latter e. untry toward Spain nnd the Cuban ► truggle for independent e. The muii’iTer was well dressed and did lot attract parti'nlar it 19ni ion. li is ion embered now that he often wandered about the passage.* ami corridor- in the l athing । ::iblishment. IL* actions were Hiispii'ious, but. as he was mtired like the fashionable friquetiters of the Santa Agucdu baihs, nothing was ever said to him. I he Neapolitan had wandered around the establishment on his usual search for the Spanish prime minister. He saw him in the gallery, and, walking slowly so as not to attract notice from the attendants, he stepped Up to the premier. Wiihout a word be tired at Senor Canovas when only one pace from him. The first bullet passed through the body and camo out behind under the left shoulder. The prime minister uttered a cry of agony and clutched at the wound in bis side. He reeled, but before he fell the assassin fired n.o more shots, both bullets lodging in the head. The roar of the revolver was heard in every part of the establishment, and the attendants rushed to the scene of the tragedy. Sonora Canovas flung open the door of her dressing room and caught her husband as lie fell. The horror of it all overcame her and she swooned and fell over him. For a few minutes only did the prime minister recover consciousness. Then he opened his eyes, dulled with agotiy. and murmured the words: "Long live Spaini" The assassin offered no resistance Io arrest. He is a Neopolitan. and gax-i' hi* name as Rinaldi. It is b<diov<-d this is an assumed name and that his real name is I Michele Angino Colli. ..s Brooklyn has released Pitchers McMahon and Daub. Toronto is drawing the banner crowds in the Eastern League this year. Griffith of Chicago is one of the most enjoyable pitchers to watch in the league. Claude Ritchey holds a record this season unequalled by any shortstop in the league. Pitchers have become so priceless that it is proposed to save them from going to the bat at all. Fred Pfeffer, the famous ball player, has applied to Nick Young for a position as league umpire. The Ne'V A orks have not w on a game from either the Bostons or the Phiiadclphias this setison. The Central Baseball League, composed of Terre Haute, AA'ashington, Evansville, Paducah, Henderson and Cairo, has disbanded. Bert Ink*, the southpaw, who had a mefeoric carter in the National League for several years, has returned to his home in Ligonier, Ind., stricken with rheumatism.

FIVE WIVES OR MORE. Davit* E, Batea a Big Star in th* List of Maritat Marauders. "With five known wives and possibly a» many more not yet discovered, with sweethearts by the score loving by mail and telegraph, David E. Bates, now locked up at the stock yards police station in Chicago, has lived a life of consummate marital deceit and trickery which has seldom been equaled. Bates has been married five times surely, though the police believe they have Information concerning another woman who claims to be his wife. “He has confessed that he bad xvedded twelve times and should have married as many more women,” was the startling statement of pretty 19-year-old Nettie Swaim, his last bride. Bates told the relatives of his first Chicago wife that he had had tn agreement with wife No. 2 to separate, and this made his marriage to Miss McCarthy legal. They are going to prosecute him for big- " 11 —■ *, \ Wf - —l^l THE MAX OF MANY WIVES.

amy, however. H. F. Lawrence, the brother-in-law of wife No. 5, caused the arrest of Bates, and there will be another prosecution for bigamy. Bates' career has been remarkable. He is 38 years old, but he looks younger, though his experience has been such ns would turn any other man’s hair gray. He is a psychological puzzle. He is a dull, uninteresting, homely, thin-faced, angular specimen of humanity of the commonplace type. In the slang of the street he would be called a "lobster.” Yet he induced at least five women to marry him and has been iu correspondence with a score of others who have expressed in their letters the warmest affection for him. He kept three and possibly four establishments In Chicago at the same time, though he was only getting S6O a month as night clerk for the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company. He fell heavily into debt. This was the only matter that troubled him. He had finally determined to get rid of all his wives by starting for Alaska on the day he was arrested. DEBS ISSUES A DEFI. Labor Leader Say* the Jackson In* junction Is a Farce. Eugene V. Debs, the social reformer, says that he will talk when and where he pleases, regardless of tlie Injunction issued by Judge Jackson in AA’est ATrginia. He declares it is the most sweeping document ever promulgated and one which. If its principles were sustained, would effectually strike down all constitutional rights. Concerning it he says: The Injunction Issued by Judge Jackson Is substantially the same a* that Issued by Judge Mason. Uy its provisions I am enjoined from walking on the public highways xvhlch lead to the mines, and as all tho highways lead to the mines 1 am subject tor arrest the Instant I enter the State. This is the most sweeping injunction ever Issued by any court, and If sustained, as it doubtless will be, it effectually strikes down all constitutional rights and leaves us bound and helpless at the feet of the money poxver. The courts of this country have degenerated until they are now the conveniences of corporate capital. There are but few exceptions and they but serve to prove the rule. They are the oppressors of the people wha support them. This fact Is being gradually understood, and when the eyes of the people are entirely opened there will be r change, and the high priests of tho bench, xvlll learn that Judicial despotism will noil be tolerated on American soil. As for Jackson's injunction, I hold It In sovereign contempt, if I have occasion to speak in the Interest of famishing miners In his Jurisdiction I xvil! do so, or at least make tho attempt, totally regardless of his Infamous Injunction. The farce of It is that the injunction pretends to be Issued by a judge. If it came direct from the coal'operators some little respect would be due the judge. Such Injunctions are Issued by the creatures who owe their positions to organi ized capital, and they obey the orders of their masters with the alacrity of spaniels. DIES TO PAY DEBTS. Charles Knorr Writes Creditors Where His Body Will Be Found. Charles Knorr, an architect of Chicago, decided to shoot himself to pay his debts. Saturday be cashed a check for $25 at Albrecht & Glemboxv’s meat market. Sunday, filled with remorse, he wrote a letter to the butchers, it is said, confessing the check xvas a forgery. “AA'hen you receive this note I will be dead,” he wrote, “but my xx ife xx ill pay you for the loss out of my Insurance money.’* Wednesday morning A. L. Kraus received yet another note telling him just RACE TO SAVE A SUICIDE. where the body would be found. The xvriter told him to inform the president of his lodge of the death at once, so his wife xvould hax e no delay in securing her insurance money. Kraus, behind a fast horse, set out at once, and at top speed began the mad race with death. The note had said the body would be near Niles Center, but when the exhausted animal and his driver reached the spot indicated it was too late—life was extinct.