St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 September 1897 — Page 6

£lje JniicpcniscnL XV. A. KXIH-EY, I’n I>ll si-, or. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. HITS LUETGERT HARD EVIDENCE OF MRS. AGATHA TOSCH DAMAGING. Important Witness for the I’rosecti* tion in the Trial of the ChicaSo Sausage Man— Currency Now Flows Westward. Told Her of Grave Trouble. Mrs. Agatha Tosch, to whom Adolph Luetgert was wont to confide his business and marital troubles, took the stand for the prosecution when the famous murder case was resumed in Chicago Tuesday, and gave damaging testimony against the prisoner. According to her evidence, the day after Mrs. Luetgert disappeared Mrs. Tosch had a long conversation with the sansagemaker, who, she asserts, was pale and laboring under excitement he vainly endeavored to suppress, lu the course of wr- their talk site boldly told him she believed him guilty of making away with his wife and that he thereupon manifested much excitement ami begged her to help him. as he was in great trouble. Airs. Tosch dilated on Luetgert’s disturbed condition of mind as much as the rules of evidence would permit and finally swore that the man, in the extremity of his distress, de dared he was tempted to shoot himsdt and escape the trouble that hung over his head. Before she left the stand Mrs. Tosch also testified to the hatred felt by Luetgert for his wife and his significant threats to crush her. Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore .. .72 32 Pittsburg ... .4G s‘.i Boston 74 34 Philadelphia .48 61 New York . .GG 3S Louisville ... 48 62 Cincinnati ..64 42 Brooklyn ... .4G G1 Cleveland ...54 50 Washington .45 Gt), Chicago 50 38 St. Louis .. . .27 SI The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. SO 2D Detroit G** s*', Columbus ...70 41 Minneapolis ..to so St. Paul ....73 43 Kansas City .3G 84 Milwaukee ..68 4S Gra’d Rapids.3l SO Fight in Convention. Scenes of riotous disorder, in which (W---took the plane of oratorical arguments, marked the State convention of Petiiisyl vania Democrats. The convention was called to nominate candidates for State ’ Treasurer and Auditor General. but can , didates wen forgotb u in the tight to oust ■ William F. Harrity from his in the National Committee. The unti llarrity element won and Harrity will be succeed ed in the National Commitiee by Jani' s , N. Guffey of Pittsburg. Flow of Currency to the West, In the last six days there has been ' New lurk to w< 4< ;n i>.di>ts over $<,000,000 in currency to meet the demands imide on the New York City banks for money to move the crops which are now on their way to market. Most of this money which the bunks have sent has been in small bills. BREVITIES, —.... ■■ The construction of the Chinese Eastern I Railroad has been begun. Indiana window glass manufacturers I have decided to join the big combine. The Citizens' Union has decided to I nominate Seth Low for Mayor of Greater ' New York. The Spanish government is formulating a plan to bring about the banishment of , all Anarchists from Spain. The Spanish cabinet has decided to call ; out SO,(MX) reserves, more than a third of ; whom will be scut to Cuba. The Czar is said to have decided upon ' . the partial abolition of the exile to Siberia of criminals and the substitution of confinement in large central prisons in i Russia. Lord Salisbury’s proposal for a joint guaranty of the indemnity to be paid to . Tirrk^y 1A- flref cavils fallen through ow- j ing to Russia’s relu’ftrft-^nnd German}’jealousy. According to the forty-thir 1 annual report of the Chicago Board of Education. ; just issued, 1!H).471 pupils attended the city schools in 1897, an increase of 50 per i cent in live years. E. B. Cuthbert A Co., bankers ami bn>k ; ers of New York, mad*' tin assignment t > I Ernest 11. Ball with preferences of $72.- I 000. The liabilities may reach ssoo,o(it). i The amount of assets is unknown. Bolle Carmen of the Carmen sisters, i variety performers, was stabb ‘d Monday night in Chicago by .Mrs. Francos E. Mid- ! dleton, wife of the theatrical manager : and may die. Jealousy is said •> be th" ' — cause. Vova Havilt, the race mare v. Im b tirok" hex' leg last wm-k. will I, • ent to a stock farm. It was through the entreaties oil her oxyver’s daughter that the marc wa- : not killed at Harlem immediate)v after ’ the accident. Near Appleby station, T-\ ;■ ~ trucks of the sleeper <m tit,, south-bound Houston, East an.l West Texas pa--- , ger train jumped the track near a curve, carrying the sleeper ami day coach off the track, praetically demolishing both. One man v. as killed. Mrs. Annie Kirk ami her husband. . S. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwood. a dentist at San Francisco, for $250 damages alleged to have been sustained because he positively refused to examine the woman s teeth because she came to his office on her bicycle and wore bloomers. Mrs. Thomas Coker .and 9-ycar-old son were struck and instantly killed by a Santa Fe train while crossing a bridge one mile oast of Cedar Junction. The record for the transmission by long distance telephone of affidavits in an attachment case was beaten Monday by the sending of an affidavit from Minneapolis to New York City. The Shinwari and Kahi police posts on the Samana range, India, were attacked, evacuated by their garrisons and burned by the enemy on Sunday night. In addition, the Orakzais looted the Nariab, Samana, Bazaar and burned the school.

EASTERN. Miss Beatrice Hoyt won her match at golf in the women’s tournament at Manchester, Mass. Republicans of Pennsylvania nominated James S. Beacom for State Treasurer and I Levi S. McCauley for Auditor. David J. Eeligman, prominent Now York banker, is dangerously ill as the result of an operation for appendicitis. Bakers in New York and Indianapolis have decreased the weight of loaves of bread because of the higher price of Hour. The will of Mrs. Caroline B. Fry, widow of Gen. James B. Fry. was tiled for probate in New York. It gives $2,000 to the widow of Gen. Custer. Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland are looking forward with happy anticipations to an increase in their family in October. The auspicious event will take place in their new home at Princeton, for which place they will leave their summer home at Marion shortly before the important date marked in their calendar of nursery events. During the warm days of the present summer Mis. Cleveland has occupied the greater part of the mornings sitting on the porticoes and out of doors at Marion sewing dainty garments. \\ hile Mrs. Cleveland was in the White House there were sent her from Mexico some dozen or so of exquisite little frocks of finest drawn work. The majority of these, having been carefully laid away, will be put in use for the new Cleveland baby Already presents of beautiful baby I clothes luiw la-gun to jHiur in on Mrs. I (Tevehiml from intimate friends mid rein I fives, rendering her task of sewing tor the newcomer almost superfluous. The power b -use of the f ederal • oal Company, u;>eratod by E. W . Powers, at Federal, Pa., on the Pittsburg. Chartiers and Yuiighi, glicuy Kailroad, was destroy ed by fire. The flames spread rapidly and great difficulty was experienced in saving the tipple. These seems to be no doubt that the tire was the work of mcendiarr- s, as three men wete seen running dow a the railroad a few minutes before the flames were discovered, Since the strike w s started Mr. Powers has made hit' i c . popular by threalening to import colored men and start his mines. The I’eder.tl mines were operate ! by miichinet y. T’ ■ loss was ssJmi(). Striking mm m are a i cused of poisoning the mules in Sfcr .• i mine No. 1, nt Hastings, P . Oue mo ■ I has died, tinolher :> r.r —it ga' 1 foil, u are extrcimdy sick. The company is re ported to have had the c:ir< ass of the dead one examined, with the result of proving its death was due to pnis> n. It :• umh r stood the mine wili be closed down mid the tracks removed. It Com < f the H' _ est mines in Hasting- a d • tin om nt which the men mid Snp< • .nte i k - t N h ' olson have had so mu- h : > • WESTERN. The pt'isomTs confined ill tin > •< jail at Bedford. ImL. mutimed a) e. It ! hour Thursday umruing ami to ■ . ‘ tire to the building. Fire losses i n Chi< ag-. for tin - v m.m 5 • | ending June 30 were > 1.7 5 2 J '.‘7. iJ-mit x 1 | per cent of the entile premium r« • p' of tb.e companies dmn • bus.m -s in t’h • . .. > I during that period. Plymouth t'hui!:. M■ hi in nt > • | ' and Twelltj sixth Htrcei. (Tin :go. h <s He ; : cided to call Rev. T. I>c Wi' i I aim. . ; ' fill .’u- pulpit mm:, v m ' ' ■•' tlm m > of Dr. Frank W . timismilu-. "Al” Hankins, tlm well kimua Ci. race horse man ami g.iml ’■ . v s k i ■ d j In the accidental ch -ing of a <1: „ !„ .i The imprisoned man v .< - i । for nearly ten minute- a :• r t!-. <"l!apsc j and when help ti mi I!y cat mlm )•. !,:.■! ci bu Hi >ea t ion. The Ameritan Bar A-- ■ ii,,m w - 1 called to order at A*». . .m U.ii: C.evvland, i).. W dm -da> an attendatme of marly ilthi d, , . . , I Presiilen .1. M W'"dwoith of t e ,i liveted an address t.> the a-s,„ ..h. ;i . : llhi h was listened to With tm.rsed a! ! tention. Ai Seattle, Wash. - , s ! ploration company ha • । n .m ■ : J The company is known .is L,- W :i.:r. - Yukon Alaska M , . 11;...'., Company, am: has i- np t.; - k : sstH»,ihmi in sj a r- -of s 1 T’ . poses to outfit ten or twelve men in th-- j spring and take them to the g"'-l r.ehis. The entire Chim -e <o|.m\ w r. d-d in St. Louis bj th- i'e-b • ■ ■ who took the Chinese to the Tuite I States District Com t, when* tlm\ w • r exam- 1 ined ns to their right to stay in this emin- ! try. Fourteen, w im.e . i-'.e at ■ - wm not forthcoming, will b- sent to San l im; sisco mid d< ported umler tlm Geary exclusion act. rile long-hmk' 1 for Port'.-.id || s ,r ' rived. Til. ship al...nt wlm ii stories have been toid sim • shi*4< ft S' I Michael tea-hed So Itlm Si. ~|.H ;.| .r r The Portlami ca tried tli ■: is'ii n,in, ... „ the total amount of gold -lust m b aid is about $575,000. Tim miners hud b: ■ only a small part of their stal: . ami the size of the Portland's car_i- was diratpointing. At Berwyn. 111., a Ci. <-ro am] I’rovis > electric car struck a baby carriage in w hich 15-months-oJ<J John Young was be ing wheeled by his nurse. By the for o of th-’ shock the - hild was thrown 11 om | the carriage fir to the front of the ear I ami befm. th. spe. d of tlm latter oiild ‘ ami three toes of th.' lefl 'foot. I k .k bli i ily upward from tip until u t । p, , 4 I I the utternoon I<H in th., shml.' w l .''the '"'l mouffilr I gan to get cooler h,,i m - • , record was '.13 \ stiini'- win ill" ' W m-l blew 11'..in tlie gmlhwest all -L n - | Hlt ; t m. i , to relieve the imen.; heat. f..r it was hot as the ii? f. ~m fiirn i The e were no prostrations. ’Ta-ksm-.n visiiei th Peq,!,.'. |- x . change Bank at Elmdale, K m.. Sunda v morning ami, when they left it. fhev ."ir Vied away all the money in the vault.; the exception of SI2S in silver, which warn on a shelf, ami $25 in gold, which the force of the explosion threw on the floor, where it was overlooked. The toss is $1 ’ SOO in money and STuo in drafts. The vault and safe are totally wrecked. Nitro- ■ glycerine was used ami Ilie first explosion ; stopped the clock at. exactly IJ*5 a. m. A woman living across the street heard the explosion and awoke her husband. M hile lie was discrediting her ideas of the [ noise, a second explosion occurred. He ran to Cashier E. N. Jeffrey's home, a block away. AYhile thg latter was dressing other mew were awakened. All armed themselves and hurried to the bank. Just

ns they had surrounded it a third” —" sion occurred. This rattled the .. I who opened (ire at random, end | CltlZ<> ' lS ’ ! one another, but luckily doing h ngei ’ in K ! tion. In the excitement, th,, p> ? ^^‘'euuway with their booty. About C ' S !i ” t after three men in a buggy , a “ ho,,r eight miles west of the town ? Ca “‘ P their horses at full speed. Thev ’" nun ” posed to have been the robbers" t'' Sn . P posits in the bank aggregate \'t J 10 ‘ e ’ puna. F W/,SHINGTON. Mrs. Hugh Wallace, daughte,. r-i • r Justice Fuller, is reported out of d'lii 'er" Ex ery thing about the White House’ is being relurbtshed, polished am) brighten- " V the chief magistrate and his wife about Oct 1 Neither floors walls nor ceilings have been overlooked m the general housecleaning which was irauguraled n few hours after the presi-lentinl party started for Lake Champlain, and all th-- indications point to a pleasant and agreeable mansion for the nsuing winter. One of the heaviest penalties ever exacted from n commercial house by I’ncle Satu for violation ot the tariff laws has bven imposed upon the firm of A. W. Faber, the leading pencil man-.-fn-n mots, whose works are in Germany and whose New York offices are at 78 Um-J*’ For twenty years the firm hIW been importing goods at the same vain AU-m- Ko ecntlv the treasury agents "" vestigation which resttß<?d iu th 1 ' dWtsion that lor twenty y- trs A. W. F^l'” * I H ' U cits had bimi -.-timing into this country at pri-- s much lower th.iit the real table. The firm was accordingly tim'd $30,00G. The greater part of this sum paid into the treasury hist week. The firm of A. W. 1 iifi r is a German --m-vru ami - lie of the largest and wenhhiegt iu the world. It owtrs ami controls valuable graphite mim-s in Siberia mid has branch houses in every nig city <m the ghds*. The prim ipnl fa< lory is at Stein, m tr Nun-m berg, in Bavaria, and Ihe main office is in Berlin. It «ii- the invoices M -nt with sum-' recent shipments from Berlin that । cx- ited the suspit i US of the customs will- I Dm- of th. m -t a ■ rmmg . i 'umst.im rs I , lp.'7"".: harp l a4din '’; profit which it gives t« cminlerfrltrrM of silver coin, nud senri’rly a day misses that I thes^nt -crvico dt feet Ives „f the Trms I ury I b.pmtmeut d<> m>t art. ,: one or luorv P- ums who have I„s (I tempted by the making - unt.rf- teem*. When tbr^mar 1 r<-si-mbic mlv-r a« matly a* isissd>|<« In j I nvi h ? ♦ ’ d«r *’r iii ’ " but \h• 11 u » * ' than th** but ♦ot iihinl pur ’ ’ll tlm Mist ami within the j e’er, i I. ' g< ] with kg.. i p.' -s. <• L Km.l -if San Frwmu. n. I 'I J‘. ; . . I la ;s and tlii k< 8 e;e cf the —ft'cml* of ) • • , .ia! - iiimii'flrtl.ti. p . bolder Utw.-cti fho Failed Sfm*» an I I Mn o. ami that M.mc.iu coin i« iarg- b ' ! used bi tin -onmorreiters With Mex ' I emt d« liars selling as at t*i< * nt ata fra i ; t on over :U» cents in \meri.-an mm. y. either . n the American nr the t - an \ uof , i. t M- x i OREIGN. IL;ss i; .| Fram- have f-.rmed w a fh‘ i Bread h - risen ,. I: , halt f 1 f -miy . i tn rise 1 jH.uny a loaf, S; eh!, A < ~!< a.lmg »<k firm >f Za i • h A . h fr< m K J meir.. -th r ; IMM) bags, «s against tijmojHh) | );l gs lust - t • -m! . tn: ».f M.a- I I’angier unless ( h ■ n. w of tl. brig Fi dm :... < apturvd by M mrish plrat -. is r - pi V rth Cork am! Lim i- Is. Leia . I I- I evil partly destroyed : by blight, and in tho-e J triets it wiif be the worst year in the last half-century

1: i- "!'i. .. ly annotim -•-) th; t 1 ;• A Mr.sjid. in the Khyber Pa-s. u - ex ' ated after eleven of the garrison, composed of Khyber Rith - :\h \ ,s> had deserted. No mw- h - been i-reived the remainder of the garrison. During a national fete uin h was li"M in Montevideo I‘r. - : nr J. iu nt. Bo- la of Crucnav v.js -1 ; mol kiTcd by an assossi;,. I’ivs.dcnt Borda d;> d^limo-t 1' ■ ..f nm^enati’. h^a,v " >•" ' > "i th-, republic ad 1 situated at the ex lit Jilt «‘ii‘i 1 Ih<‘ l\!i\bt rPm i I 11. ‘Mhx 1 Jss -Hr! gam--sa^cX^u n^b^ o’- 0 ’- The tam.ms Afghanistan int<". Imba ' ""'mTctcl. mt., the han 1" . """" I I tiib-'sinen. ' """ " f I he insurgent i ac.n..H"l.'-s th?n n iwpe r ^ k ^ d >o^ the last leports ceic i- ce v,. Il' . B! >iee "f Max.m vole; , ,I ' i "^p- """ " f I’hilippim. m-up ‘ \v imn has resulted in the tow ■ • ' hmes situated amund the bale'' 'x, 1 ' iP IXtynules. The latest !-h VII , ! ,n \ • R-mo. m cordia. ban Antonio and Sn, u , । ' lsv!'ilast two named are suburbs of t destruction of which was -in,, Hie weeks ago. A terHide 3"' 1 B«'Vthe eyes of visdors at Lil,bat L IL> inhabitants are buri,al in -i «nd All the surrounding hem,, ' .mJ*: r ”ins. fields and cattle have been ,] '"'’’“s, Two hundred inhabitants periX*) buuto Nino, San Roque and Mi "hen wine destroyed, and another ' •^'’dia death umler the ashes and lava in . nie t other towns named. Cascade's of 01 aeilr lava pouring over Mayou's sid<'s ?' I ' ,l ot er with dense showers of ashes f r ,' '^‘'fljfirst eruption, buried 500 hum.i n "i 11 '.’ 1 ’" before they could Hee to places ,f . M, ' n ks . 1 Gradually the eruption increased pj l1 '?'- Vlo-

lence until lava was flowing into the sea forty miles from the era (er. and a tremendous rain of ashes and sand reached Nueva. fifty miles away. Yillages were thus destroyed which were thought to be safe when the eruptions began, and the number of known dead was increased to lat least 1)00. At Baeacay manv houses have been buried under avalanches of ashes and sand. In the town of Tobaco a large fissure opened iu the earth, engulfing several dozen buildings. The remaining inhabitants were obliged to hermetically close doors and windows to keep out the ashes. Escape from this town was impossible, as all the roads were destroyed. IN GENERAL. (’ummander Booth Tucker and his wife have returned from England, where they attended tb.e international congress of Salvationists. Gen. J. F. Gobin of Lebanon, Ba., was elected commamb-r in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and Cimiti miti was selected as the place lor the next

encampment. William H-istetter was arrested by Canadian officials at Bell City, Ont., and turned over to a Cnited States pustotfiee inspector from Denver, charg'd with the r-d.licry -if the Deuv-r pustidlice a year The negroes of prominence nil over the I nite.l States me making pii’parmi.m.s t" hold a mammoth conventimi in Atlanta iu October t<> protest against lynching. Bishop Grunt b ads the nmvcmeiit mid it will condemn lynching a- strongly in New Y-irk as in Georgia. Many famous n«' groes tht-iugkmit the country have signi tied their intention of uttending. The steamer Portland, fr >m St. Mi < Intel’s, had -n I- nnl an nileg. J mmd. rer who (has,.| by u-te-'t ne- uilt wav t arouml the world, 'll. was in charge ..'t two Pitlkvrton ilvtci fives. Th- prisoner, Frank A. N-onk. w. - pur .1 -ver th. I continent to Jtuivmt. to Ih- a .a l a. r-- j the Chilk-sd Pass, over th< I; s nc; d’-w ti the rn er- to the g-dd to ids . f K!”U- I \ .. mar Cedar Rap,.:-. I .wa. n ? : . - i.' i! I • lain that he w >« b nm-1 to death in the fire. Hi. life wa- m.UHsI for »3.\that the l> -ly was i t th -t -f N- cd. but I adr.iixe*) that Novak had .. aim 11.-i aim I iTnkrrbm im , put -’ll th< trad r d I ' * The steamer Willamette arriv 4 in Ta- I mi) Wevlmadu, f, !t S'.agu y. white j * •• sgb • -M LAr lU-unc-L will suable Uh |

j Sk.g-mx Act R> ,| J, 1; .. m Aug. 2». [ guay from Dav -.m > r ught doVn | will HM-nd the wh'.’er. These returned ; pCot A ius at I’.ixx- Hi Cdx xxei. ' Mill I e hu.l a fr:< nd at D.i - >l. Cilx xvho nbin. With the arrival of . n .mer f: ■'U S' M;<ll Ici t ix .1 s ... 0.l .• , m.r, J im. - P. R •• ami J-.fia M G.e * to SUeh Sk gmx.x mr I i!;- Widaxven t >!• 'I; Sk . c '■ w: Jbe; hi biggest MARKET REFORT3. Cb 'ago Cattle, naHimn to prime,

<ho .' • rcamery, 17. to It*. ■ --- fr 12c to Ifi . new ! i.it- ।>, 53. io ‘ i Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to >5.25: kogw choice light, S3.»>‘» to ' l-bIK sheep, common to choice. $3.00 to Sl.' ll *. x\ heal. No. 2. '.He to 9Gc; corn. No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; cat-. No. 2 white, D to 19e. _ St I oil - Cattle. $;;.0.» to s;>.-’O: hogs. s3.()<i to $4.73; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; xvlieat. No. 2. 90e to 92<; corn. No. 2 veiloxv, 27c to 2S'; oats. No. 2 white, 19c | to 20e; rye. No. 2. 31c to_s2e. , Cincinnati Cattle. $2..>0 to So. Jo. i"--. j s3jmi to $4.23; sheep. to $4 00: wheat. No. 2. !>Ge to 97e; corn. No. 2 mix-'J. 30c to 31.•; oats. No. 2 mixed, IDe to 21c; rxe. No. 2. 49e to 51c. _ _ Iletl'oit Cattle. $2.50 to So..,'’. h ! '>- $3.00 to $4.25; -In ep. $2.50 to xxhe.it. No. 2. 93.' to '. A-; . nn. vellow, 31c to ."..'fi -, oats. No. 2 white, —c to 24 : rye, 51c to 52c. Toh-lo Wheat. No. 2 red. (He to J., '; corn. No. 2 mixed. 30c to 32c; oats. _N". 2 white. 18e to 20c: rye. No. 2. 49c io .'le; d i,er scetl, 51.20 to il w.) ukee Wheat. No. 2 spring. •*-< to 9lc: < No - :!Oc : o‘-n a to-"m 2 white, 22c to 24-; rye. No. 2. ~oe to , No. 2,40 cto Ific; pork, mess, ?S 1 {\dfalo-Ca’tt le, $3-<>o •" S 3 HO to $4.75: sheep. SUM to ‘ " red 98c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 ycH-'ixw 3.5 c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 2 'x xv York—Cattle. $3.00 to $3.30; hogs, ' o $3 25: sheep. $3.00 to $4.30; J t ' No 2 red, sl.Ol to $1.03; corn. ; N h o 3^ to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25e;”i.utter. creamery, 12c to 20c; eggs, . Western, 13<c to 18c.

PORTLAND IN PORT. TREASURE STEAMER ARRIVES FROM THE GOLD REGION. She Carried Thirteen Miners Who! luring About $070,000 in Dust and Nuggets — Earthquake in Japan Causes Loss of Life and Property. Gold from Klondvke. The huig-looked for I’ortlaml has arrived. 'j fie ship tibout w hich so many stones have been told since she left St. q., U ‘'.'V ' ,e!, ‘4ied Seattle Sunday morning. 1 he I ortland carried thirteen miners, ami the total amount of gold dust on board is about 8575JXH). Th,, miners had brought only a small part of their stakes ami the size of the Portland’s cargo was disappointing. The miners on board, with the amounts of their total mining profits, parts of

lows-' " <re l "o>'ght with them, are as folJ. Rowan. $30,000; James Bell. $15,000’ Joseph Goldsmith, $.",5.000; N W Powers, >:i5,i.00, \y. \y Caldwell, SGAoimi- ". °" r ' ^.".O.OOO; I'. K, Xi !!v> S2S,IHH>. c' M. t'obb. 525.000; w. Zahn, S15.OOO; A. Km ’ocy , $10,000; yj s. Lansing. sls,ihmi; B. W. Farnham, $IO,UOO; M. R. Camler, ' $15,000. Wiiilc the small amount of gold brought from the Yukon by the Portland was a disappointment to majiy, the miners who returned unite in saying that the country is fabulously rich. The claims w Inch have been w-like 4 promise w ell, and in fact many of them give assurance of proving very rich. All estimates of the amount of gold w hich v. ill be taken 'mt of the i Yuk .a next year taa- m < --arily be very rough, as there is no means of dete.-min-ing Low mu h work will be done. If men could be se- mod to work the claims alI ready In-ated there w-ml-l undoubtedly I be many millions of dollars taken out, but , the majority of m- a who go there prefer | to prospect on their own account, uotwithI stm; ling the fact that high wages can be Stntcm-nt« have been made that the : steamer PortCnd -hi her next trip will j brmg t cly •j.«i in g"i l. but the

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n ■ ■' 'm ti f r,,;a Da xvsou ('ity say I t n j w ill tome,! ; ' ' - ' i i taken out of the ground. | j<> ' wl.. i amc down pl. lees the r. . : M.< "Oj'(m. 11l D-.rado and B -i.iii/a Creeks, where the richest; I Stiik. • ' X■' been made, have b-en staked '■ f >: r . :.y mile*, but dc-irabk' claims are ' I*• ; *■ < ..a I the pr*urc bogHiuiisg • H imlr. d- of miners are b king toward ' t>„ fill X. ■: t. ।r, ti ■ --•-• ml largest br: m h -4 flic A • ..m, . ad htmd.eds of . j*in - :1. -XX Jilt i the .xt fe.x j rix. :- : ,x.- I ■ , a Mb • •-sfully worked fm- I Ith I 4 :■ a ;, । :■ . there has practically ; j|. n< re i! pro-pi ting <1 me <m th" many ; .■ : trif- । ri- EverywiieH' that i k- .' .a ;! / Si. xx.Tf and its bram lie-: g ,|.i ! •< en f".m l. <ln many creeks the I । . • - xx, ixllag' • d. Several tilings I in-, e ■ •nspir, It„ h ax. ibis field practical1 he que-:!"U of getting i । . ~ ~ .ry serious one. At the | -.■ lane the f- w’ hundred men who have I ].. ea <m the Yukon up to last year have j ’ mid - Tb .■ ntlx attractive diggings near- I : ;• ; :k. ..'.a-r lii-tricts ami closer to sup- । ply I t.-’ . Th" Indians al-" have a sup T- : sti'ioii regarding a powerful and savage' tribe who live -m the upper part of the riv- 1 er and xvhotu they cal! the "Mahonies and consequently will nut go up the river : From th,- n.oiith of Stewart over to Hie north f< rk the <l -:am e is e-tima!--! at 430

miles, ami t- the head of this fork in the x i.'inity , f 3'm mil- -in all. I’he south f.,r a -uflicient u^-iam-e to determine its character or length. 'I he prospectors ami those xx ho have been on the river say that it carries a larger volume of water than the Pelly river. It is beyond doubt the second largest feeder of the Yukon. The first gold discoveries on the Stewart wore mad,' in lsS3 on bars within about 106 miles fr- m the mouth. '1 hose xx ere rich. During the fall, in less than fifty days’ time, as high as SGJmmi to the man was rock' d out. In IbSG fully 4< »<» men were working on the river bars with good sue- . cess Some xvent up the north fork nearly . to'it’s head. Each succeeding season the I bars have been worked until noxv they do not pay want's. EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN. Great Lose of Life mid I’ropcrty Ie Reported. A great earthquake occurred in Japan . Aug. 15. It lasted eight minutes ami was followed by a tidal wave which s’.vept up, rivers, following into the sea and caused | great destruction. I’p to Aug. l‘» known in Yokohama that over ; houses had been inundated or xvashed j awav. Between 1<»» and 300 people were , known to be drowned or seriously injured. ; It was then too oarly to estimate the amount of damage done to railways,crops, roads, bridges and shipping. It was reported from Hosoku that coal mines there were flooded by an overflowing river, drowning over 100 miners. Earthquake shocks on the morning of Aug. 5 varied from four to sixteen in number in various places, the movement being from east to west. Less than an hour afterward a tidal wave was felt in towns

along the coast. For week previously rains had fallen almost all the time and the rivers were already very high. The tidal wave raised them in so many minutes from twelve to twenty feet higher. The Governor of Nigata prefecture reports that the Arakawa rose twenty feet at Naoyetzu. Fifteen hundred houses 1 were Hooded and thirty people killed or inI jured. The waters rose so rapidly that over GOO people were afloat in their houses before they knew what had happened. These were all rescue-1 with boats. Further down the same river twenty boats were swept away or wrecked and 2.000 filled with water. Nearly 700 houses were wrecked and inundated in other towns Reports from province of Rikuzen state immense waves rolled in forty-five minutes aft^r the earthquake and flooded eight fishing villages. All official buildings and the railway stataion at. Naoycdzu were flooded. Nine railway officials were carried down stream to sea in their houses. A steamer rescued them, but many smaller boats were swept away.

WORLD'S HARVEST SHORT. Annual ItHtimatc Furnished by Hnngarinn Authorities. The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture has issued its annual estimates, in which it describes the world's harvest as extraordinary light. The total yield of wheat is placed at 57:'.,7tU),000 metric hundred weights, while the present annual requiii ments arc estimated at 655,150,000 metric hundred weights. It is calculated that for 1897 and 189 S there will be a shortage o‘s 50,800,006 hundredweight. The stocks remaining on hand from IS9G are approximately estii mated at somewhere between 38,000,000 I and -15.0im),0(m). The total supply for the j year, leckonmg both the present stocks ami the harvest, is estimated fram 610,OGO.GOO to 651,000,000 metric hundredI weights. HAS SYMPATHY OF ENEMIES. Beautiful Cuban Girl May Be Sentenced to Long Tears in Prison. Gen. AVeyler’s determination to make war upon women and children as well as Cuban patriots bore fruit in the prosecution of the b- autiful Evangelina Cisneros, whose only crime lies in being a niece of Fresident Cisneros, the rebel chief. The

trial iu Havana has attracted great interC'l all'll even the loyal Spanish residents profess pity for this persecuted girl whose very life is in danger at the hands of the bloodthirsty tyrant. For months she has been subjected to the cruelties of a Spanj ish military prison in the Casa de llecojidas. at Havana. 1 he crown prosecutor, in his harangue : before the military court, demanded that 1 1 «r 1 '^r mi -- - I 0 2w\V^ c n ' J VANBEUX AC! S\’E the terrified girl be sentenced for twenty years to the galleys in Ceuta, a place famed for its horrors. Cuetii is one of the penal colonies on the North African coast, where al:e;:dy hundreds of Cuban patriots have entered upon a living.

The harvest song this fall is a paean of real thanksgiving.—Baltimore American. The record of the wheat pits makes the tai < of the gold diggings seem tame.— Boston Herald. A waitless messenger boy should be invented to go with the wireless telegraph.— Detroit Free I’ress. A gold mine to start with is becoming i a necessary part of the Klondyke outfit. — ■ San Francisco Chronicle. - I’roperity, even if it comes with a rush, I won't shovel dollars into the idle, lazy ' man's pockets. -Chicago Inter Ocean. The handshake is the thing before the nominations are made. The grand shake comes afu rward.—Richmond Dispatch. It has taken Weyler a long time to coni vinee Spain that he is a failure. The rest of ns realized it some time ago.—Chicago Post. The day of long speeches is past. Brevity ’’s the soul, not only of wit, but of political popularity, nowadays.—Richmond 1 lispateh. One thing that is not booming just now is immigration, and nobody cares very much if it does take a year off.—Baltimore News. It is a satisfaction to reflect that there is no possibility of readjusting boundary lines so as to deflect the advantages resulting from the big wheat crop.—Washington Star.