St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 October 1897 — Page 2

®lj£ independent. : z rx4 W. A. EJfDUEY, X*ul»ll«1iox*. WALKERTOIT, - - - INDIANA. WOMAN THE VICTIM. ACTION IN A BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT IS REVERSED. Niece of Congressman Dingley Assessed $1,789 for Breaking Her Pledge to Marry A. S. Melcher—Another Coffee War. Must Pay the Suitor Damages. Because she did not keep her promise to become the wife of Arthur S. Melcher, Mrs. Hadley, formerly Miss Louise M. Dingley, a relative of Congressman Dingley, was sentenced at Auburn, Me., to pay $1,789 damages. It is the first time in the history of the State that such an action has been brought by a man against a woman. Mrs. Hadley, who until a few months ago was Miss Louise M. Dingley, is a cousin, and, by marriage, a niece of Congressman Dingley, the father of the present tariff law. She had suitors by the score, and just when it was pretty well settled in everybody's mind that Mr. Melcher was the favored one, she suddenlyappeared as the wife of Mr. Hadley, to whom she had been married a few days after having met him at Poland Springs. Air. Melcher is 50 years old and a widower. Mrs. Hadley is about 30 and a dashing blonde, and she is commonly reputed to be the possessor of a mind of her own. Mr. Melcher made oath that Mrs. Hadley, while she was yet Miss Dingley, not only solemnly- promised to marry him, but that the engagement was made at her suggestion; in other words, that it was Miss Dingley v.ho did the proposing. Tragedy Caused by Drink. During a quarrel, George P. Pfeiffer, a St. Louis stenographer, shot his father-in-law, Robert Delaney, through the brain and then killed himself. Delaney had been in the habit of coming home drunk ; and making trouble. On this occasion De- ; laney came in as usual and a quarrel with his son-in-layy ensued. Coffee War Begins Again. The war between the coffee men, Havemeyer and Arbuckle, is on again. The trouble was precipitated by the Ohio Wholesale Grocers’ Association in an endeavor to induce Ohio jobbers to become members of the organization. BREVITIES, Hazing at Princeton University is to be punished by expulsion. John R. Gentry paced a mile in 2:03(4 at Glens Falls without a pacemaker. Boston won the first of the Temple cup series of baseball games from Baltimore. Reports that the pope is dangerously sick are denied by his physician, Dr. LasJ. W:Barrie, the author and playwright. ■ was seriously hurt by a fall while directing a rehearsal at a London theater. Lord Douglas of Harwick, who is an enthusiastic believer in the Michipieoten gold fields, has secured several claims there. Swift & Co. of Chicago have leased for 999 years the large establishment of^ the ■ Minnesota Packing and Provision Company at St. Paul. Bishop Gaines of Georgia believes that the colored race in America is gradually j being absorbed by the white, and that in a few years the negro characteristics will disappear. Official figures of the New Jersey election show a majority of 102 for the antigambling amendments and 380 for the regulation of appointments aud 905 against woman suffrage. While attempting to extinguish a small i blaze which had been caused by a lamp explosion, Mrs. Della Klingenhagen of i Chicago was burned about the hands and face. She will probably recover. Anna Stiller, who was formerly a lady-in-waiting to the former Empress of Mexico (Carlotta, sister of the King of Belgium and widow of Emperor Maximilian), attempted to commit suicide by repeatedly stabbing herself in the neck and cutting off the end of her tongue. Three Chicago highwaymen fought with three Klondike gold miners at Clark and ’ Monroe streets in that city. '1 hey beat I the miners and robbed them of gold nug- ; gets valued at SSOO. From one they obtained a draft for SI,BOO. The victims were John, Elmer and Alfred Larson, brothers. Their homo is in Pennsylvania, to which they are returning after three ; years in the Klondike country. The boule met at Athens, but its proceedings attracted little interest. M. Zaimis, the new premier, declared that the objects of his government would be to secure the evacuation of Thessaly and to reorganize the country in order to secure evacuation. M. Delyannis, M. Karapanos and M. Deligcosgis announced that their I respective parties would support the government. The chamber then adjourned amid cheering for Gen. Smolenski, minister of war.

The news from the Indian frontier is favorable to the English. Sir William Lockhart’s forces will soon commence the advance of Tirah, the summer headquarters of the Afridis, from Peshawur, moving in three columns. Sir illiam Lockhart and Maj. (lon. Lord Methuen have already arrived at Kohat. The Mullahs of Tirah, on hearing of the advance contemplated, began their preparations to oppose it, but it is now also reported that they are prepared to offer terms on behalf of the Afridis, the Molimunds and the Malakand tribesmen. .John A. Skoog, the Chicago counterfeiter who escaped from the Will County (Ill.) jail last March, has been recaptured at Burlington, lowa. It is officially announced that the appointment of M. Jules ('ambon, recent governor of Algeria, as French ambassador at Washington has been accepted by the United States Government. President McKinley has made the following appointments: Laurits S. Swenson of Minnesota, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark: Edward Bedloe of Pennsylvania, consul at Canton, China.

EASTERN. Joseph Proctor, the veteran actor, died at his home in Columbus avenue, Boston. Gen. Neal Dow, the famous apostle of temperance, is dying of old age at Portland, Me. Ogden Goelet's will has been filed for probate. It leaves the entire estate, valued at $5,400,000, to the widow and two children. Mrs. Rivinirs, wife of a Government printer, and her four children, were accidentally asphyxiated by gas in a New York hotel. Robert Jones Monoghan, a prominent lawyer of West Chester, Pa., inhaled Illuminating gas and died in a Philadelphia hotel. Gen. Neal Dow, the veteran prohibitionist, died at his home in Portland, Me. The end came peacefully after an illness of several weeks. Republicans of Greater New York nominated Gen. B. F. Tracy for Mayor, Ashbel P. Fitch for Comptroller and R. R. Appleton for president of the Council. Dr. Chauncey B. Brewster, rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Brooklyn and coadjutor bishop-elect of Connecticut, was severely injured while riding in the Catskills. C. E. K. Royce, 55 years old, who registered at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, from San Francisco, was found dead in his room. He had committed suicide by inhaling gas. Robert A. Van Wyck was nominated for Mayor of Greater New York by the Tammany convention. Bird S. Color was named for Comptroller and J. Ruppert, Jr., for president, of the Council. A woman and her four children were found dead b.v asphyxiation in the West Shore Hotel, Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue, New York. The woman had evidently killed her children and committed suicide.

Massachusetts gold Democrats nominated the following State ticket: Governor, Dr. William Everett; Lieutenant Governor, James E. Cotter; Secretary of State, Bernard Wolf; Treasurer, Horace P. Tobey; Audit<>". Harry Douglas; Attorney General, William McClench. Massachusetts Democrats adopted a platform indorsing the Chicago free silver platform and nominated the following: . For Governor, George Fred Williams; I for Lieutenant Governor, C. T. Callahan; for Secretary of State, C. D. Nash; for Attorney General, John A. O'Keefe: for Treasurer, T. A. Watson; for Auditor, J. L. Chalifoux. WESTERN. School boys at Eau Claire, Wis., have experimented so successfully with hypnotism that the School Board has forbidden the dangerous practice. James Fountain, aged 75 years, died in the Boone County poorhouse at Columbia, Mo. He was a first cousin of Mrs. John A. Logan of Washington. H. Irwin, owner of the Belcher silver mine at Boulder, Colo., shot and dangerously wounded his wife and then shot himself in the heart, dying instantly. Frank Morgan of Franklin, Ind., was arrested by Sheriff Weddle nt Summitville, accused of complicity in the Sebree g^l^i^^g.uiceuwood Usesummer. ^Drtisident Harper of the games, under penalty of expulsion. Henry 1. Witbecic of Chicago has been adjudged incompetent to manage his affairs by a San Francisco court and his wife is appointed his legal guardian. An attempt was made to burn down the business portion of Stockton, t til., several incendiary fires being started simultaneously. The Pioneer Art Gallery was destroyed. Ina freight collision on the Nickel Plate Railroad at Willoughby, Ohio, Engineer Charles Brown of Bellevue was killed and seven cars loaded with grain and stock were demolished. The officers of the hydrographic offices at Cleveland and Chicago have been ordered to attach themselves to the naval reserves in an official, advisory aud inspective capacity. The grand jury has indicted Aid. Roman Alexander Dumbrowski of Minne- ' apolis ou a charge of offering a brilw of $5,000 to John De Laittre, a member of the State capital committee. The Missouri Broom Manufacturing Company, doing business in the penitentiary, made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities are about SII,OOO. The assets are not known.

Report comes from Fuller, in the south- \ ern part of Benton County, Mo., of the wrecking of a church and printing office j set up near there b.v a sect calling them- i selves “Brethren of the Church of Christ i in Love and Union.” A hundred farm- > ers raided the building, destroyer! the I press, pied the forms and threw the type into the street. Peter Hudson, a citizen of the Choctaw nation and superintendent of the female academy at Tuskahoma, Ark., says a movement is on foot looking to the sale by the full-blooded Choctaws of all their rights in the Indian Territory, and the removal of the entire tribe, as far as represented b.v the full bloods, to a tract of land in old Mexico. Jacob Jackson, the I oft-defeated candidate for chief, is to lead j the tribe to the new land. A woman calling herself .Mrs. Stephens visited Mrs. Jennie Truitt, in St. Louis. . Mo., and offered to give her $4,000 if she i would sign away all right ami interest in j her husband and promise not to contest 1 divorce proceedings if instituted by Mr. Truitt. Mrs. Stephens said that she loved ; Truitt and made the offer in good faith. Mrs. Truitt consulted counsel, ami, it is said, will accept the offer, removing to Illinois and letting any possible divorce case go by default. Trnitt is a street carconductor. Several hundred delegates, each with a limb or seme other part of his anatomy missing, are in attendance on the first national convention of cripples. The promoter of the unique gathering is William li. Trower, a crippled employe of the Iron Mountain Railroad, and the purposes are to discuss a variety of subjects of common interest to the deformed, crippled and maimed, such as employment to which they are best suited, the subject of artificial limbs and the question of institutions and homes for their maintenance. The Modern Woodmen war between Fulton and Rock Island ended in a sensational manner. The records of the head office were moved to the former [dace after Judge Gest had dissolved the latest injunction. Lieut. Gov. Northcott and Adjutant General Reece, who were actively engaged in the removal, were mobbed by a crowd of Fulton pjjple and locked up in a depot, and file companies of State militia were ordered out to res-

cue them, but they were released bef ore any of the troops arrived on the scene. The notorious Stafllebaek family, whose crimes are commonly supposed to have rivaled those of the Benders, were sentenced at Columbus, Kan., for the killing of Frank Galbraith, the peddler who was murdered in their den at Galena. ami George Stailieback, convicted of murder in the first degree, were given lif e spn fences. Mrs. Wilson, their mother, as an accessory, was sentenced to twenty-one years. Mike Stafflebaek is serving a g Tp years’ term for burglary. Ed Staffieback one of the men sentenced, has been declared insane, his mind having given way through fear of lynching. A Rock Island passenger train was held up near Chickasha, I. T., by a band of five robbers, ’rhe bandits lay secreted near the section house until within a halfhour of train time, when they took possession of the section house ami all within. They then secured the switch keys, opened the siding and flagged the train. The train men wondered what it up meant, but ran upon the track until sltfle ped by a car of coal, half of the pa^^. ger train remaining upon the main The robbers immediately boarded engine, drew the fire and opened the valve. They used dynamite oa--dJ«Av press car door and entered, then work on the local ami t through safe contained a large amoui .M, currency, but it resisted the explos^^ The local safe gave way after^twflßor three attempts, and everything withinjit was secured, amounting to several hiitidred dollars, 'rhe bandits were not at satisfied with this, aud three of them, including their leader, went through the day coaches and sleeper, securing everything of value from the passengers. WASHINGTON. President McKinley has returned to Washington from the Berkshire hills. Zephaniah Jones, an aged Washington contractor, was run down by a bicycle and killed. John K. McLean has retired as the free silver aspirant for the seat now held by Senator Hanna. Gen. A. .1. Warner is announced as a candidate for the place. John Wedderbum & Co. of Washington. D. C., were dishorn'd from practice before the Interior Department as patent attorneys or agents on charges of gross fraud and unprofessional conduct. The power house of the Central Traction Company of Washington was destroyed by tire, the loss being about sl,000,000. Some of the Government buildings, including the White House, were threatened. An official announcement received at Washington of the departure of the Japanese cruiser Naniwa for Yokohama, together with the statement that the immigration question between Japan and Hawaii is likely to Ik* shortly settled, without arbitration, has thrown a iwaeefnl aspect around American questions iu the Pacific. This cheering news was communicated to the State Department by Minister Sewall, stationed at Honolulu, whose mail reports have just reached the departnu nt. FOREIGN. Jules Gambon, governor general n geria, is to succeed M. event of Groat Bw^Jl encroaching on the ameer’s territory." Charles Belmont Davis, United Stages consul at Florence, Italy, has resigned that position to become a member of b business firm in New York. The torpedo boat destroyers Lynx and Thrasher of the British navy ran aground on Dodman's Point in a fog. The Thrasher broke in two and three stokers were killed. The Greek cabinet has resigned, the boule having refused a vote of confidence before discussing the treaty with Turkey arranged by the representatives of the powers. Criminal proceedings have been commenced against the Frankfort Zeitung, on the charge of lose majeste, for criticising the alleged erratic course of Emperor William. The London Globe says it hears the I I pope's weakness is increasing and that i the church dignitaries are afraid he will not rally from the extreme feebleness and I exhaustion he new betrays. Ii has been recommended to the State i Department at Washington bj- United States Consul Read at Tien-Tsin that the I question of including Peking iu the list , of treaty ports be taken into consideration. Yokohama. Japan, papers contain full accounts of a severe storm which passed । over the country, and reports of great ■ havoc are coming in from all quarters. : At the latest date 370 houses were totally ; destroyed in Tokyo. 7,728 partially damaged and 14,043 submerged. Despite denials, the rumor is persistently circulated in Valparaiso, (.'hili, on the authority of those who are presumably in I a position to know, that Chili is on the eve of serious international troubles with Argentine and Peru. It is stated in Valparaiso that Argentine, Peru and Bolivia have been secretly negotiating a treaty which it is believed is hostile to Chili. There is considerable rejoicing at Manague. Nicaragua, at the announcement that lien. Alexander, the engineer up s pointed by President Cleveland to settle the boundary dispute b'tween Costa Rica 1 and Nicaragua, ha- decided that thq-east-ern boundary of Nicaragua and Costa Rica commences at the harbor head of i Greytown, as claimed by Nicaragua. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Reed, formerly of ; Boston, but now a resident of Chicago, has the honor of being the first and only | woman elected to membership of the Royjal Asiatic Society of London. A paper by Mrs. Reed was read at a recent meeting of the Victoria Institute, and was de- : Hared to be the feature of that meeting |of English savants. Its title was “The Ethics of Buddhism Were They Derived ■ from Semitic Sources?'’ The Spanish cabinet has resigned and ; the queen has accepted the resignations. 5 She has, however, asked Gen. Azcarraga i to continue in office until a solution of the ; crisis is found. Her majesty will summon the leaders of the various parties and ' the presidents of the chamber to Madrid, to consult as to the situation. Senor Sagasta has been telegraphed for, and it is believed that the Liberal leader will be asked to form a cabinet. The distrust of Japan felt by the administration at Washington is well illusI trated by the correspondence which has | passed between Rear Admiral Miller, j commander-in-chief of the naval force in i Hawaiian waters, and the Navy Depart- : ment. A steamer which lately arrived in ! San Francisco brought advices from Ad- | miral Miller to the department that the

Japanese cruiser Naniwa had left Honolulu for Yokohama. Notwithstanding this assertion, so fearful were the authorities that the Japanese had simply attempted to hoodwink the American officials of the cruiser Philadelphia, and thus leave a comparatively free field for the Naniwa ou her return, that the gunboat Wheeling was directed to proceed post haste to Honolulu with instructions to delay the departure of the Philadelphia until Rear Admiral Miller had positively assured himself that the Mikado's ship had really proceeded to Japan. IN GENERAL. Peruvians are anxious for a reciprocity treaty with the United States. More than twenty of the largest malt houses in the United States have formed n combine. Two now cables between France and Massachusetts are expected to be working soon, at reduced rates. Overflow is another horse that by winning the Scully purse has deprived the runping turf of his presence forever. Pope Leo has sent to President McKinley a copy of a fine illustrated work descriptive of the recently restored Appartamcnli Borgia at the Vatican.

Silver scored a sharp decline of % of n penny to 25R. pence in London and to *54-I'2 cents in New Y ork. The high price on the rally was reached on Sept. 20, on which date the price was 2714 pence in London and 59% cents in New York. The low price of Sept. 1 was 23 ; ;4 pence iu London and 541,4 cents in New York. Never before, since the weather bureau was established, twenty-seven years ago, has September been so hot. The mean temperature for the thirty days is f>9 degrees. It is live degrees above the normal average for September at Chicago. And it has been the driest month, with one exception. 1 ^September. 1871, there was a rainfall of .74 inch. In September, 1897. the rainfall was .84 inch. Resides, the two mouths of August and September, taken together, are the two hottest and driest of any on record. There have been no storms in September. In all the month there was but one bit of bad weather, and that was in the Lake Superior region. But it did not amount to much, and little or nothing was destroyed by it. R. G. Dun A Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The failures during the third quarter of ISh were 2,903. with liabilities of $28.903.201. of which twenty-nine wen* in banking, with liabilities of $3. 387.009. The commercial failures. 2,874. with liabilities of $25,570,192, average only $8,899 each, lower than in any other quarter for twenty-three years. The amount of defaulted liabilities is the smallest in any quarter for five years, and in fifteen years only six quarters have shown smaller liabilities. Manufacturing failures, 051. with liabdiiies of 89.131, 191. average but $14,487 each, and trading. 2,104. with liabilities <>f 812.525.t105, average but 85,927 each, both smaller in average of liabilities than in any previous year of whi<h classified record exists. The volume of legitimate business continues a little larger than in the same month of 1892. New Y'ork makes settlements for a large part of the country, and the daily avenijre. including city, was in S ptomber, against $134..5-,9,0u0 last ' n rs ls 1‘ P‘ r cent." no such occasion to rejoice over an abundance <.f orchard products this fall as there was a year ago. The fact 4 crops have all been small, particularly so when compared with the oversupply of last year; the weather, while not especially unfavorable, has been anything but beneficial, and fruit has matured very slowly. Pea Hies have been a disappointment from the very first of the season. Ihe trees when in bloom gave evidence of a wonderful crop, which was expected to comiuire very favorably with that of the preceding year. Later the outlook was not quite so bright because of the backward weather. Then came a drought, and finally the cool wave, just when warm, bright sunshine was so essential to insure a good flavor and appearaice. Last year's apple crop eclipsed alnost anything ever heard of, and it is onlj to be expected that the trees will be more or less bare this year. Yet. althougl the entire crop of the country is estimated at 5G per cent of an average, dealer! do not anticipate any fam re or even i noticeable scarcity. Anywhere from f 2.50 to 84 per barrel is charged for no better fruit than sold at this time last yt«u at from 75 cents to Os grapes there is scarcely any doubt that the Slfpl.V will be large enough to satisfy everytody. Reports from large growers confirn rumors that this is going to be avert successful season. The cranberry crop as advanced sufficiently to sjiow that i will be a short one. MARKET REPORTS.

Chiago—Cattle. common to prime, $3.00t0 $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, s3.ofto $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 88c to 89c; cori No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats. No. 2,18 c to 3c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 47c; butter, choe creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, l^co 15c, new potatoes, 45c to 55c per »Lucl. Ajlianapolis—Cattle, shipnine, $3.00 to hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; Uil>, common to choice. $3.00 to S4.W. jCat, No. 2,91 cto 93c; corn. No. 2 ite, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c 24 c. . Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; ^t, No. 2,96 cto 9Sc; corn. No. 2 ^w, 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c ^c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 44c. ■Winnati— Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, ’ to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25: * at > No. 2. 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2 ^•1, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c r ye. No. 2,46 cto 4Sc, ( ‘troit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25: hogs, w sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; ®t, No. 2,92 cto 94c; corn. No. 2 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c ■C rye, 46c to 48c. heat. No. 2 red, 93c to 95c; <»’. No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c: oats. No. ( , l, e. 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 48c; ;r s ’ ed. $3.20 to $3.30. Wheat, No. 2 spring, 87c 2 a’ Corn » No. 3. 26c to 27e; oats, No. hf,,. C ’ 1° 23c; rye. No. 1,46 cto 47c; Ss ’ No. 2,40 cto 43c; pork, mess, $8.50. ^“io-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, w t V sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; 2 I< ) C' O ;,~ winter, 94c to 96c; corn. No. 2'^,2 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, ”/<c. $3.2 ^-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, wh, s°-25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; 2, L* ~ r cd, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 24cju”''G oats, No. 2 white, 23c to Weh.,* cr e a mery, 15c to 23c; eggs, ' lG c to 17e.

HARD WORK FOR IT. diplomatic branch of the GOVERNMENT BUSY. , Vital Points Are at Stake-Cuban and Other Questions Demanding Early Adjustment An English Artist Tortured in Thibet. Busy Diplomatic Season. I he hard work of the diplomatic branch of the administration at. Washington is about to begin, now that the diplomats are returning to Washington. While the Cuban question will ere long overshadow 1 all other foreign questions, there are many other important affairs of state demanding immediate attention. With negotia- • tions Tor a new Anglo-American general I arbitration treaty, for reciprocity treaties in accordance with tin* new tariff law, । sot the settlement of the cable contro- | versy with France, for new Bering Sea 1 regulations and the outlining of a policy in regard to the construction and control i of the Nicaraguan canal, the State DeI partment end of the ndministration has a 1 long season before it. A small contingent of the diplomatic corps is now in , the city and the remainder is expected to ; follow. In anticipation of their coming the State Department is making prepara- ! tions for the discussion of questions to be brought up very soon. Two diplomats strange to Washington will put in an appearance this fall. One is Herr von Reichenau, the German ambassador, who is the successor of Baron von Thielmann. । Ihe other will succeed M. Patenotre of France. Great Floods Ravage China. 'lhe steamer Victoria brings news to lacoma. Wash., of the most disastrous Hoods that have visited China for many years. Sixty villages near Tung Chou, j containing over So.ikmi inhabitants, have been destroyed by floods and the people drowned or for< ed to flee. There is no ■ means of finding how many thousands : have been drowned, but the number is estimated by Chinese authorities at 15,099 to 2<UHIO. 'i’he flooded district is within twelve miles of Pekin, the capital oft hina. Great distress prevails. Chicago Man Used a Knife. M illiam McCaleb cut the throat of his wife, Annie, in Chicago, with an ink eraser, killing her almost instantly. After satisfying himself that the woman was dead McCaleb shot himself in the head and breast and then cut his own throat. Barred Out of Russia. Adolph Kuttner. one of the wealthiest and best known citizens of the San Joaquin Valley, California, has just returned from Europe and confirms the previously telegrafihed report of how he was barred out of Russia because he is a Jew. NEWS NUGGETS. The new Greek cabinet has been formally installed in office. Thousands of houses were destroyed iiveß tost by a typhoon that

n council at Kool and have arranged a plan to oppose the British advance. Mrs. Ballington Booth says the report that the Salvation army and the American \ olunteers may unite is without foundation. I’ratrie fires have caused great devastation in Manitoba. At Beausejour two women and five < hildren were burned to death. Frame ha- demanded of Brazil an immediate settlement of the Amapa question and an explanation of Brazil's delay in the matter. The Pitt.-burg baseball club has offered Manager Ned Hanlon of Baltimore $12.000 a year and an interest in the chib to manage the pirates. Indianapolis was given the Western League "I emple cup" by the Columbus players, because neither team cared to continue the series. Mrs. b rank Davi-, wife of a farmer living near Schuyler. Neb., put strychnine in the breakfast coffee. The mother and four children are dead. Osman Digma, the principal general of the khalifa, is retiring with his army on Omdiirman. opposite Khartoum, leaving the road between Suakim and Berber open. The schooner Henry May was wrecked off Longport, 5. J. The captain and crew of five men were rescued after battling with the waves for over twenty-four hours. Henry George, who has already been nominated b.v two organizations for Mayor of Greater New York, received a third nomination for Mayor from the People's party, which will unite with the Democratic alliance and the United Democracy in the formal notification.

Henry Savage Landor, the artist, traveler and writer, who went on an exploring expedition to Thibet for the London Mail, has returned after a terrible experience. He was arrested by the Thibetans and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to torturing with hot irons and being stretched on the rack. Mr. Landor was seriously injured. Indiana has quarantim-d against refugees from the yellow fever districts of the South. The State board ha- been authorized to expend $1.0(10 of the emergency health fund in establishing a quarantine. Immediately the board will station agents at the Illinois-Indiana line whose duty it will be to inspect trains from St. Louis, and at the Indiana-Kentucky line to inspect trains from Louisiana. Fire broke out in Austin. Pa., and in five hours' time every building in town but five was burned to the ground. Probably 500 people are homeless. The fire

was started by a load of hay being run into a gas jet. In all. about 100 buildings were burned, mostly residences, among the Josses being the Methodist Church. Presbyterian Church, and opera house. A passenger train on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and .Memphis Railway ran into a wagon containing seven persons at Dead Man's cut. three miles north of "Willow Springs, Mo., instantly killing six and fatally injuring the seventh. Five hundred thousand acres of fine land along the Big Piney. La Barge and Fontanelle creeks and Green river. Wyoming, which has recently been surveyed, will be thrown open to settlement under the United States land laws after Nov. 1. The lands comprise eight townships, all in Uinta County.

MENACED BY DROUGHT. Central and Western States in Danger from Lack of Ruin. Nearly the entire central and western portions of the United States are suffering from the long-continued drought. Danger and hardship exist iu many of the sections where no rain has fallen recently, and the result is great fear among the people. Had not the crops matured before the dry spell they would have been scorched and ruined. And even now fire threatens the fields and pastures on the prairies of Illinois and other YVesteru States. In many instances the conditions have become such that there is actually severe suffering among die population. Farmers on both sides of the Missouri river are compelled to haul water many miles. AV ells have become dry and men and animals must quench their thirst. The only rain that has fallen has been insufficient to affect the parched ground or to bring water into wells which have become dry or at least low. Instead of the fall rains, w hich would soften the ground for plowing, there is fair weather and an unusual and dangerous dryness. One of the greatest dangers connected w ith this condition throughout the country is that of lire. Not only in northern Wisconsin, covered by timber land, is there fear of destructive fires, but in Illinois and adjoining States every farmer whose acres are traversed by a railroad or are near to any railway line is constantly afraid his corn fields may be str afire b.v sparks from a passing locomotive. 'The dried-up pastures all over the prairie land are in the same danger, and the least carelessness may result in enormous destruction and even loss of life. As for the lack of water, it is daily becoming greater, and farmers do not know what the^ will do with their stock when present sources of supply give out, which will not be long if there is no precipitation of moisture soon. There is no State where these conditions do not exist. Kansas, Missouri, lowa, YVisconsin, Illinois and Indiana all are included in the belt where there is nothing but dust and the parched remains of harvest fields and pastures where animals grazed a month ago. In Illinois, Indiana and lowa there is the worst suffering, according to the reports received from all the cities, towns and hamlets in the country districts of these three States. » In Illinois and lowa, where so large a portion of the crop is corn and corn fields cover every county and line every railway. the most fear of prairie fires exists. It is only the absence of a strong wind which has so far prevented them, for any small spark might kindle one which could spread over a large area. The farmers have exercised the greatest care during: the last two weeks to prevent small blazes spreading. But the fire danger and the suffering from want of water in some districts isnot the only result of the drought. Nearly all pasturage has been made absolutely barren. At this time, when horses and, cows usually are outside before the approach of the cold weather, they must be fed on hay. They have torn up even the roots in pastures in their endeavor t<get grass, aud dust has Mikeu the place-

I . Dl V Treasury Statcmr>»i ei. tion <>f v . - S,,ow " «•> Addition of .Nearly $4,000,000. ' The monthly treasury statement shows that at the close of business .Sept. 30, 1897, the public debt, Jess cash in the treasury, was §1,012,122,713, r.n increase since Aug. 30 of $3,787,592. This increase1 ts accounted for by a corresponding de- । crease in the amount of cash on hamL. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest-bearing debt §847,365,540 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity.. .. 1,334,570 Debt bearing no interest. . 378,615,390 Total §1,227,315.500 This amount, however, does not include §589,070,953 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset bv ai* equal amount of cash in the treasury. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: (•old §184.561,GG4 Silver 513,481.747 Paper 133,611,339 Bonds, disbursing officers' balances, etc 18.713,886 Total §850,368.631 Against this there are demand liabilitiesoutstanding amounting to §635,175,844. which leaves a net cash balance in the treasury of §215,192,787. MONUMENT FOR DUBUQUE. Memory of the lowa Pioneer to Be Fittingly Honored. The Early Settlers' Association and thelowa Institute of Science and Arts have formed a joint association which will rear a monument upon the grave of Julian Dubuque. Ihis is upon the top of a ma-

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1 ’ jestic bluff a mile below the city of Dur buque and overlooking the Mississippi. Dubuque's claim to honor rests on the fact that he was the first settler. , Ex-Queen Liliuokalnni of Hawaii has returned to Washington, D. C.. from her visit to San Francisco. Accompanying, her were Joseph Helelulhe, her secretary, and several friends who recently arrived at San Francisco from the islands. The ex-queen's stay in the city is indefinite. Zephaniah Jones, one of the oldest and most respected 1 nilders and contractorsin Washington, D. C., was killed by a collision with a middle-aged bicyclist named Reuben F. Gray, who is employed as a clerk in one of the branches of the government printing office.