St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 October 1897 — Page 6

Jnireptniicnt. w. A. ENDLUY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. VICTORY OF LAYMEN. CONFERENCE FAVORS EQUAL REPRESENTATION At the Chicago Session-The Upper lowa Conference Takes Similar Ac-tion-Fierce Battle in Idaho Between Settlers ami Shepherds.

Action of Two Conferences. Victory for the laymen marked the opening hour of one business session of the Rock River conference at Chicago. Soon after the ministers had been called to order in the Western Avenue Methodist Church Rev. I*. 11. Swift, secretary of the committee of live, made his report. It recommended the adoption of the proposition for a constitutional change granting equal representation in numbers of preachers and laymen at the Methodist general conference held every four years. This proposition was favored by a unanimous vote. In addition the conference pnssisi the resolutions favoring the laity, which was also presented Monday, after The laymen's association committee had been heard by the clergy. As the action was expected, it did not arouse much enthusiasm, but the church members present, when the report was made and the notion was taken, joined in hearty applause. At Dubuque, lowa, by a vote of 141 to 8 the Upper lowa Methodist Epistopal conference declared for the proposition to increase lay representation at the quadrennial general conference. Settlers and Shepherds Fought. News just, received from Long Valley, Idaho, says that there has been a battle between the settlers and the shepherds, in which three men were killed and one dangerously wounded. Details arc meager, but it seems that fifteen of the settlers warned the sheepmen to leave the valley and when they refused, made an attack upon the sheep camp. Thirty shots were tired by the settlers and a man named Barber was wounded. The sheepmen then returned the lire, killing three of the settlers. The rest of the attacking party tied. It is thought that Barber was killed.

BREVITIES, Senator Tillimwi is suffering from a severe attack of catarrhal jaundice. An earthquake shock was felt at New Madrid, Mo., but no damage was done. Methodist preachers of Philadelphia denounced foot-ball as brutal and debasing. It is believed the representatives of United States and Russia will be raised to the rank of ambassador this winter. In Chico County. Arkansas. A. V. Blass of Michigan sold the oak timber of about twenty sections of land for nearly $2 a tree. First Lieutenant George L. Anderson, Fourth Artillery, has been appointed military attache to the legation at St. Peters- ™ burg. Governor Drake of lowa is not dying, ns was reported. He is at Excelsior Springs, Mo., and is not even confined to his room. At Los Gatos, Cal.. Charles F. Beck was found dead in bed from heart, failure. He was a son of the late Senator Beck of Kentucky. The steamship Hesperkles is ashore on Outer Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras, and the vessel will be a total loss, with her cargo of pig iron. Miss Florence Helm, who was for two terms postmistress at Elizabethtown. Ky., is dead from the effects of morphine taken with suicidal intention. Baltimore won the fourth victory in the Temple Cup series and retains the cup. Boston people are disgusted over the apathy of the champions. Rhomboid Stenzel, editor of the Hamburg Echo, has been sentenced to eight months in jail for leze majesty against King Leopold of Belgium. Dr. Chauncey M. Depew delivered the . oration at the unveiling of the statue of Commodore Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. One hundred carpenters employed at the frans-Mississippi exposition grounds, at Omaha, Neb., have struck. The men ask that the carpenters’ union be recognized.

John F. Boynton, a well-known resident «f Leominster, Mass., shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Family troubles are believed to have been the cause. Governor McLaurin of Mississippi has appointed Senator-elect Money to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator George, whom he was chosen to succeed in 1899. Lightning strm-k a tree near Union Itidge, N. C., just as E. I*. Iluntman and his wife drove up. Mrs. Huntman died ' an hour afterward. Many others were seriously injured and are not expected to s live. Dei^h TTowgh, livon^ht to Owatonna, Minn., Vrom Gutbrie, Ky„ charged w'nh I murdering Jne M. Clark, lias made a full I confession to Sheriff .1. Z. Barncard and several witnesses. His confession clears three companions. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Twenty-five per cent., the Merchants' National Bank of Helena, Mont.; 12'4 l»er cent., the First National Bank of Mount Pleasant, Mich.; 12 per cent., the First National Bank of Port Angeles, ash.; 10.107 per cent., the first National Bank of Day ton, Tenn. The mon employed at the Bellaire, Ohio, steel works are on a strike. This plant employs about 1,000 mon. A cut in wages caused the trouble. Joe Wallace was instantly killed and David McElroy fatally injured at the St. Lawrence mine, Butte, Mont. The engineer failed to stop the engine, and the cage was carried up into the timbers. The Trenton Iron Works has begun the construction of an aerial tramway from Dyea to Lake Linderman, for the Chilkoot Railroad and Transportation Company. The contract calls for completion of the road by Jan. 15.

EASTERN. J. L. Downs of Cleveland committed suicide at New York. The national Democracy of Greater New York has indorsed Seth Low for Mayor. Rukeyser & Bash, manufacturers of neckwear at New York, have failed, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. Jimmy Michael rode a mile in 1:36 at Philadelphia. This is practically the world's record for a cyclist. Henry George has again been nominated for Mayor of Greater New York, this time by the new Jeffersonian Democracy. I The United States ship Yantie has been I ordered to proceed from Boston to Michigan, for the use of the naval militia of that State. Major Lewis Ginter's will has been filed at Richmond, Vt. It disposes of an estate valued at between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000. Frank Steele, Robert Campbell and James F. Quigley, found guilty of assaulting Thomas I’\ McGuinness at Boston, Mass., were sentenced to fifteen years in State prison. Dr. Joseph W. Kelley, 23 years old, a graduate of the Holy Cross College and the Baltimore medical school, is said to be lying in a Brooklyn hospital suffering from yellow fever. Cutting off his wife and son without a penny, Robert Ireland, a member of an old New York family, who died in Catskill, N. Y., left his entire estate to Miss Mary Reynolds, his housekeeper. At Olean, N. Y., A. 11. Holmes, agent for a Chicago portrait company, arrested on a charge of appropriating $173 of (lie company's money, was found dead in his cell, having hanged himself with a handkerchief. Sister Gonzaga, the oldest sister of charity in the United States and for over fifty years the superior of St. Joseph's orphan asylum, Philadelphia, is dead. Sister Gonzaga was born near Emmetsburg. Md., in 1812. At the recent Connecticut election the constitutional amendment requiring all candidates hereafter for the right to vote in the State to read the constitution and State statutes in English carried by a large majority. Ethel Sprague Donaldson, granddaugh ter of Chief Justice Chase and daughter of ex-Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island ami Mrs. Kate Chase, who was the belle of the court during the Lincoln administra tion, has gone upon the vaudeville stage. Emmet C. Gibson is under arrest at New York, and if the charges against him are true he is the most astounding limuicier, promoter, cheek “kiter" and allround swindler of the century. lie lived in Chicago at one time, and is said 1o number among his victims Henry Clews and John M anamaker. At Philadelphia. the representatives of twelve breweries located in the central eastern part of Pennsylvania signed an agreement for the consolidation of the twelve concerns into one corporation, to be known as the Central Pennsylvania Brewing Company. The company will have a capital of $10,000,000. The tinners and dusters at the New Castle, P;l. Tin Plate Works have struck because Richard Kissinger was discharged, the foreman alleging that he had tried to kiss one of the girls employed at the plant. Both Kissinger and the girl make denials and it is claimed that the foreman reported Kissinger to the management because he wanted to get rid of him for other reasons. About 175 men and boys are out and ihe tin mill is idle.

WESTERN. Star Pointer paced a mile in 2:ol'i at Ottumwa, facing a strong wind. William Six was given an indeterminate sentence for bigamy at Springfield. 111. Thirteen women in different parts of the country claim him as husband. Peoria, 111., citizens have won the first fight over the Allen law, the Central Railway Company of that city having withdrawn its application for a lifiy-ycar franchise. Henry Carter of Chicago, while temporarily insane from illness, attempted to climb on ihe stage of a New York theater and join in a ghost dance, and was taken to a sanitarium. Daniel B. Hubbard, one of Chicago's early settlers and for nearly thirty years connected with the First National Bank, died of heart disease. He was 55 years old and leaves a widow and one son. The big summer hotel being constructed at Lindsay Park, near Charlevoix, Mich., collapsed. Pierce Kendall of Charlevoix and Guy Hamilton of Grand Rapids were killed and about two score others injured. St. Louis tobacco manufacturers have

injected a new feature into the war between western companies and the American Tobacco Company by announcing their intention to begin manufacturing smoking tobacco. Francis Gambler and Annie Lower, while buggy riding in Milwaukee, were run down by an electric car. Gambler was killed instantly, and Miss Lower is so badly injured that there is littie hope of her recovery.

State Senator F. Q. Felts has filed with the secretary of the Nebraska State board of transportation complaints and applications for orders to compel the express and telegraph companies doing business in this State to reduce their charges one-third. The Ancient Order of Hibernians of Washington are formulating an appeal to Congress to rectify Hie mistake made I in omitting the name of Thomas Moore from the roll of poets inscribed on the walls of the new congressional library. A girl in the St. Haul Hospital is being kept alive by artificial respiration produced by attendants constantly working her arms. The patient is suffering from Landry's paralysis, and the physicians think there is a chance for her recovery.

Frank A. Novak, who was brought back from the Klondike to answer to the charge of murdering Edward Murray at Walford, lowa, says Murray diet! from drinking from a bottle containing whisky and morphine which Novak had put in his store as a trap for burglars. Fire destroyed the flouring min and warehouse of John M. Cain, at Atchison. Kan., together with the contents; the flouring mill and contents belonging to the Central mills; the Cain block, a two-story brick structure, containing four stores, and five small frame buildings. The ag gregale loss is about 875,000; insurance about one-third.

The Chicago and St. Louis express on the Chicago and Alton Railroad was held Up within a few miles of Kansas City. This train has been held up three times within a year and at nearly the sacte

place each time. Three masked men did { the work at what, is known as Washington Park cut, six miles east of the city, it is claimed they secured nothing. Dexter Park horse market, the center of the Chicago stock yards horse trade and comprising the oldest of the stock j yords buildings, was destroyed in a lire I that in twenty minutes swept over as j many acres and threatened to engulf all/ the business and residence property the district. Eleven men were killed. Thein loss will reach $117,500. which is pari; tlally covered by $103,600 insurance, SOUTHERN. 1 At Atlanta. Huke Smith, former SeLr^ tary of the Interior, has been eleaM^'^ president of the Board of EducatiomW Editor W. C. Brann of the Icono^' a ‘ ,t of Waco, Texas, was publicly beateW^f^ Judge .1. B. Scarborough and two « dents of the Baylor University l:e,® K .^ e of a published attack on the school ® w Two prisoners were roasted to deaM '’ n the burning jail at Opelika, Ala^Mw ^1 jail was a dry pine building, and blf ”*<l like tinder. Laura Bennett, in for Ja ^" enness, and Jim Ferguson, for slice® dues, were the only prisoners co® dfd. They were shackled to the floor,® cnee could not help themselves, and wersß/Urncd to death. When the Ure Nmy reached the spot there was noflun®®^, as the building was merely a pile orwUps.

WASHINGTON. Kj Captain John S. Garland, retinX- > s dead in Washington. He was nyyS ded from Michigan in 1847 and was during the war mid retired in Nov? jjer, LS6L U President McKinley has nt E ted George 11. Bridgeman of New York minister to Bolivia. Ambrose W. NauH®ras appointed collector of internal ry^nue for the sixth district of Indiana. /David W. Henry was appointed collector, of internal revenue for the seventh district of Indiana. X The Postoffice Department has adopted a policy of general extension of the money order system. First Assistant Postmaster General Heath believes that any postoffice wanting money order facilities should be given them. The total number of money order offices amw in operation is about 22,0(1<>, and the number probably will be increased to 3(1,000 before the next fiscal year.

Ilie Washington police have recovered what they believe 10 be the pisd with which Guiteau shut President Garfield, and have put it in the cabinet at headquarters for safe kicmmi. The pistol was taken from police headquarters July 2, 1881, till'day President Garfield was shut, by Cui. George B. Corkhill, then district attorney. Subsequently it disappeared mysteriously and trace of it was obtained only recently. FOREIGN. Barney Barnato left a fortune of ?L 810,000. President Crespo of Venezuela is dan geronsly ill. A Hamburg syndicate litis offerc i a loan of $5,000,000 to Brazil. 'flic chamber of deputies of Peru lias voted to adopt the gold standard Dictator Barrios is reported to be defeating the rebels in Guatemala. Cecil Rhodes, the former prfurer of ( ape Colony, is seriousL ill nt Intauga, South Africa. William Perl, a w Cambridge. England. ‘ J < reporter Vo be missing. Uis liabilitl s are said to be $500,000.

Canudos. the stronghold of the Brazilian fanatics, has been captured by Government troops and the rebel leader, Cihim-I heiro, taken prisoner. The national council ;.t Berne by a vote of 68 to 2D has adopted a bill pis viding for the purchase of the five principal railroads of Switzerland at a cost approximating 1,1 >(>(>.(>6o,(MlO francs.

United States Minister Won'll ford's note to the Spanish Government asked the Spanish cabinet to say before Get. 31, the date at which, according to the Spanish Government's judgment. Spain will be able to consider as finished the Cuban war. The note declared that the purpose of the American Government in isking Spain to make this declaration befi ~e the American Congress meets was to < abb' the Unitisl States Government to report negotiations. Senor Sagasta says: "We will answer the American note in terms to suit ourselves, but always within the bounds es friendship.” Twelve hundred Japanese laborers are on their way to Honolulu from Japanese ports to fill contracts for plantation laborers, and it is assorted by promhent Japanese in that city that about 9Jb<) will be shipped there by the Ist of Decnuber. It is claimed that if the islands an annexed in December, under the laws of the United States, Japanese laborers who are there under contract cannot beforced to ieturn to their own country upmjhe expiration of their contract, and that they will have' the same citizenship rights as will be accoided to the present .'itizeus of the republic. A severe fight lias occurred Htween the insurgents and the Spanish forces of Pinar del Rio at Llanada Dohres. The insurgents finally defeated thgJnanbirds, who retreated, leaving on the one killed and twenty-nine woU«. vtl 1 Cubans lost six killed and twelv ed. The insurgents were under? 0 ' :M'm Garcia. The forces of had an < m-ounlm- al Cmn.-m ", m Seta Clara pm Uo". lasted tw., b..nt :m.l He- Spaniards def C-a-

. I with heavy les-es. 1 lie Vobwleei’S 0U the island are making threats!}/ the service of Spain if Gen called. They have cabled ’ asking that Wavier be permit^ j„ 7’’ main. Gen. M eylcr says thes i - 1( will be ended in a few weeks j O ro O, "n° n thousand seven hundred ‘ ^ llo for Spain in one day. Theta'S’. left abao has been attacked and a , ’"‘M* the insurgents. It is in b .V province. The Spanish garrh ( ° derod. All the stores in Surrendosed and large signs wo r ,|e" il wer e “Long Live Spain.” "Long j^'^ayed: Cuba.” "Cub,a Will Always ]' ; ,o‘^banish "Death to Traitors.” "DoW’’Danish.” Sam.” to Uncle The officials of the British • in London have communin'/' 1 ? 11 °lhce Cnited States ambassadoi p to Um Hay, the final decision of the ’ ^°hn that Great Britain must ]e ^° T<!ri nnent part in any sealing eonferenei a take sentatives of Russia and Jin"’^ 1 repreBritish Government, howeve 1 he willingness to confer with ’inserts its States alone, but it insists United and Jap in are not interestot?Russia ing Sea seals to a degree w- 11 Hie Ber“to'g them

^ representation at the conference. The Government does not suggest any ■L e for a conference with the United h 8 ’ an< ’ ' s thought probable in Lonftasi u • Great Britain’s withdrawal will rFtit , । n . two n, eeli»Ss» one between the fjoth . 1 Russia and Japan and the 111 Brit F . c ß v een United States, Great L s t r ni " aQ d Canada. It cannot be too Los . 'iterated that the withdrawal r c On/J° a * : Britain from the Washington 'I tll| 1 Pleil ce is due p, Canada's insistence, V f O . ,at until the Canadian officials inCn n , , fort ‘’Kn office in London of / 'ind l a 8 ob-li'Ctions to meeting Russia ' Grou/'n 1 !'/ ? Ut of fpnr of being outvoted, , Com- Brita hi fully intended to enter the 8 '-oiiference. the Bl 'itish Government’s answer to proposals of the United States and 1 an-,., C< ‘ for bimetallism by international £ will probably be ready soon. ' <lk, l<> i 1S '‘'’lienee that the ministers tire 'tn 10,1 by the prolongation of the con- | th?' 185 oVel Bu* monetary question in ’* press and wish to put an end Io it. wo months ago they were strongly dis(osed to make such concessions to the I nited States and France as would have I’Uabled those powers to convoke a monerur.v conference. Sir Michael Hicks>cach obtained from the governor of the Bank of England a qualified assent to the conversion into silver of one-fifth of the reserve for the redemption of the note issue, ihe Indian Government was also consulted respecting the expediency of

reopening Hi to thp ~f silver. It the answer to that proposition had been as favorable as tin- reply ~r n„. governor of the Bank of England on Hie minor point of a larger use of silver in the reserxes. Senator Wolcott's mission would ha' <• been completely successful in opening the way for a new session of the conference. That answer has not yet been officially revealed, but it has been received in London, and is believed in diplomatic circles to be unfavorable to reopening the Indian mints. IN GENERAL.

A terrible accident occurred twenty-five miles south of Monterey, Mexico, where a tunnel is being const tinted by the Mexican National Railroad. A premature explosion of a blast occurred, killing four men outright and wounding ten others seriously. A great schism is threalem'd among the Masons of Canada. A new lodge has been started, composed of French and Italians, under a charter of the Grand Orient . f France, which does not believe in the Bible. Other lodges disown* them and have written to the Prince of Wales for instructions. The drouth which has prevailed in Col orndo. Wyoming. Texas, Oklahom.-i. Ten m-s-.ee, Kansas, Nebraska, the eastern pol l ions of the Dakotas. N1 ■ nll < ~. 1 ;i, I own. Wisconsin, N rthern Michigan. Arkan-a-. I. uisi ria. Mis-issippi, Mt-s.niri ami other portions of Illinois, has been broken by abundant rains.

The British war ship ImperieuM-. wh; h recently sailed from \lctoril. B. c., for Gua temaki. rarrii I. a guest of 13 : • uimiral Palliser, Ernest Harris. a real estate man of \ ietoria. It is asserted that he went south to secure part of the treasure which Charles Hartford says he has located on Cocos Island. Hartford claimed to have located $30,000,006 in gold, silver ami jewels. R. <>. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Ri view of I fade sjiys: "While faibiit-, were the smallest ever known in any quarter sime IM*2, and bnsim-^s payments through bunks the largest by SgCs.imi<>.(><io ever .known m S.-pteiut'er, th, sp iilator< who ^trofess anxiety about Cuba, or fever at the South, or a municipal eb>ction, still have some influence. Yet business is stil increasing. The productive fore, steadily < nliirges, the distribution of wages ass- rd ; .-in increasing fund for [mrchnses, ami the fotimlations art' laid for a larger business hereafter. Crop reporters who have w idely tliffcted now agree in putting the yield of wheat from ssO,imi(i,lilhi to S'JO.OOO,Hi)O bushels, which is nearly 2tl’kOOO.()lHi bushels more than will be required for home use. keeping stocks as they were July 1. the lowest for seven years. With h — favorable reports of yield, corn exports fall short slightly, with small difference in price, (’otton is unchanged in price, with larger consuming demand, though big crop estimates do not appear to be disputed. Building of more ves-els on the hikes and seacoast, heavy ord- rs for sheets, bars, rods ami pipe have caii'e-l advam es averaging half of 1 per cent on all classes of iron. W< >1 lias now reached an average of 20.37 cents per pound, a rise of S cents since a year ago, with a much heavier rise on s mie qualities. Sp, • - Illative sales still account for mo>: -,f the aggregate. Failures for the wet k were 213 in th<‘ United Slat' s, against 2'06 hist year, ami 2!) in Canada, against 46 last y ea r."

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cat tie, common to prime, 83.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.20; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 9Ue; corn. No. 2, 2ie to 28c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; ive. No. 2,45 cto 47c, butter, choice cteamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; new potatoes, 38c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to choice. $3.00 to 84.00; wlc-at. No. g. 91c to Hoc; corn, No. 2 white. gSc to 3Oe; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Lotus—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $1.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4./); wheat, Nr. 2,97 cto 98c; corn, No, 2 yellow, 2Gc to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 44c.

Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4 25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,4 Ge to 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, 83.00 to $4.00 sheep, $2.50 to $4 00; wheat, No. 2, 91e to 93c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24e; rye. 47c to 19c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 49c; clover seed, $3.15 to $3.25. Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 spring, 85c to 87c; corn. No. 3, 27e to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 1. 4Gc to 48e; barlev, No. 2,40 cto 44c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.70. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5 50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50. wheat, No. 2 winter. 95c to 97e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 12to 2€>c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, 83 50 to $4.75; sin ,p, $3.00 to sl-5; wheat No 2 red. 97c to 99c; corn. No. 2, 33c’to 34c; oats, No. _2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, loc to 23c; eggs, Western. 10c • 18c.

NEW YORK FLOODED. DAMAGE OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN ONE SECTION. Prominent Street Submerged in Some Places to a Depth of Fifteen Feet and More - Ex-Queen Lil of Hawaii Is Reported to Be Very II!. Great Water Main Burst. A forty-eight-inch water main at the couthciist corner of 4.Bth street ami Madison avenue. New York, burst and flooded that select section of lite city with 10,000,(XM) gallons of water. The Hood stretched from 40th to 42d street and from sth avenue across the tracks of the New A ork Central Railroad to 4th avenue. It was the greatest and most dt'slructive accident of the kind which has occun-cd in the history of the city. Within th<' area mentioned thousands of dollars worth of propi'rty was destroyed, re-s---idents were fearful that the foundations ol their homes would be iindermineil. ami the escaping waler in many instances leached ihe gas meters ami shut off the chance of si-eing by gas light how much damage was done. In searching for the causes ot this disaster there was a unanimity of opinion that it was Hue to trie terrific blasting of rock al ISth street and Madison avenue. The Metromdiltn. • l i cet Itmlway Coinpany is laying an elec-n.-al eomlun system in Ma.lison avenue above 4_,1 street, ami Hie blasting was 'lotic by Its men. It was this heavy Mailing which cracked the 4S-im-h main at •ISth stieet ami Madison avenue. The great stream of water which flows through the p-pe tit big pres.-nre forced open the crack ami <aiisc<l a section of the' pipe almost seven feet long and three feet wide to fail out.

Beds of Silicon Found, A practically inexhaustible mine of silicon has been found m u- the line < f the • arson and ('dorado lUilwa.v in Esmeralda ( ounty. Nevada. There tire hundreds of act, of the mineral, which is alim-st pure. A Pennsylvania company has Io eii foitni'd ami will scon put up a plant to develop the mine. Tests have proved that a fireproof paint and plaster can be easily ami cheaply imide of it. ami it is supirior to a-b.stos as a boiler covering. Fx-Ouccii Lil V cry Hick. Ex (2m>en 1 /diitokaiani of Hawaii is reported as very sick at her apartments in the I'.hbitt House in Washitigt'in. ihe forim-r im narch returned from a trip t-> s -”l I ■ m-js, , -n 1, 1( ] health. She had contracted a heavy cohl on the journey eastward attd a physician was at once summoned. Sho Ims since been steadily growing worse, ami it is reportml that symptoms -f pm ium.ma have developed. NEWS NUGGETS. Pittsburg sbel mannfactnters propose to e.e t a colossal iironz.c statue of Tubal <‘ain. Prim e P.. kino, the Russian delegate to the seal eonfetem-e, | la s at rived at Washington. Two masked m< n held up an ele.-tric car m-ar < begon City, Ore., ami robhml the tiiirty live passengers of about Still. i’he British steamer H<-periih s. laden wirii iron ore. went ashore on Diamond shoals. Cape Hatteras, and is a total wreck. The crew was stlVisi. It is said in Washington that E. I>. Kotzebue, the Russian minister, will not return to the I'nited States because of family reasons ami his own ill health. The I'nited States board on geographic name.-, has fixed the -pidling of many Alaska names. “Kh>mlike" i< adopted, and what is commctilx called Dvea is spelled "Taiya." W, 't \ irginia ofli, als have called upon former Secretary of State Chilton to pay a la hi c • - f I <■: wi 1 11 SIS.IHM 1 ami s2l ’J M M», which he had collected as tax on charters, etc., .and he has promist'd to do so in a few da vs.

The Uniti’d States Government may protest against the action of Nicaragua in granting to an English corporation a < one."don that conflicls with that awarded :o ihe Maritime Canal Comp mv of New York. At San Francisco John 11. Coville has been arrested on a telegraphic dispatch from Boston. He is accused of embezzling sLsi:(i fy.on Marshall I’. Bollard of that city. When - arched S4OO was found on iiis in-rson. J. B. West, a student at the Texas St.’.te University in Austin, became violently insane. He was put in a cell with another lunatic. Thomas c. Denge. and choked him to death, although four attendants tried to tear him b ,se. it is rumored am< ng iron and steel men of Cleveland that J. hn "W. Gates will s ion resign the pri sidi ;tey of the Illinois Steel Company to I eeomc the head of the Consolidated i'tmd and ’Wire Company, with plants in various cities. On Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Frank Early was in the eomjeiny of Nannie Fry Early's wife appeared and a disturbance followed. Early shot and killed his wife and fatally sh o the Fry woman. K.irly and wife are colored and the I’ry woman w bite. An electric car on the Waterloo and Cedar Falls Interurban line left the track on the trestle approaching the Cedar liver bridge, eleven miles from Waterloo. lowa, and fell fifteen feet. It struck on its side, and was completely demolished. There were <m board thirteen passengers and four railway employes. All the passengers and two of the employes were injured. The State Department is preparing a report on "Commercial Relations of the United State's" that will he of great value to all business nmn.

Illinois Republican^ at Washingtor complain because John C. Inget-011. appointed consul nt <'openhagi n. is ( hargtsl to Illinois. They say he has never been a citizen , f that State. Genigi l Morgan was hanged at Omaha for the murder of Ida Gaskill in Noicmber, 1895. Morgan died protesting his innocence. His vi«.'im was but 11 years ohl and had been assaulted and choked to death. Bob Carter, negro, killed Jame- Burch in a saloon at Brenham, Texas, and then went to the jail to surrender. The next morning his body was found riddled with bullets and buckshot, lying about UK) yards back of the jail. A mob of unknown persons had pursued and killed him

IN DANGER OF FAMINE. Opelousas, La., Cut Off from Food Sup« plies by Quarantine. For fear of fever Opelousas, La., is face to face with famine. The food stores in that town are all but exhausted, and shotgun quarantine in a close cordon of neighboring towns makes it practically impossible to bring in supplies. The population of the town is divided on the question whether starvation is better or worse than death from yellow jack. This question docs not trouble the quarantine authorities, whose restrictions have caused the shortage in Opelousas. Vicksburg, Miss., has placed an absolute embargo on the operation of all trains of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific? road on the ground that the company 7 had violated the established quarantine regulations. It is more than likely that the general quarantine in effect throughout the cotton belt will have an appreciable effect upon the pri?e of that staple and will cause heavy losses. The quarantine has been very strict against this character of freight, and only a few of the towns interested have as yet relaxed the severity of dnginal conditions. Even in these cases 11 cotton coming via infected cities is allowed to pass. Atlanta is becoming restive under the failure to receive mails, and it is claimed that more than $1,000,000 in bank checks and drafts for the Georgia city are held up in the mail-gorg-ed postoflice of Mobile for lack of sufficient facilities to handle the fumigating plant. There is a probability of a hitch between the State otm-iais of Mississippi and the Ii ileral < ...vi rnment. Uustuvus Foster Government lighthouse keeper of ttio Merril Shell Beach lighthouse, near Bay St. Louis, had refu-ed to comply with the quarantine restrictions imposed by the Mississippi town council. He was arrested and sentenced to. line and imprisonment. Mayor A;bo, who made the ruling, reconsidered the case and ordered Foster to leave town immediately. Foster went. SAY 20,000 WERE LOST. Great Floods Ravage China, Leaving Thousands Hometcss. The steamer Victoria brings news of the most disastrous floods that have visited China for many years. Sixty’ villages near Tung Chou, containing over 80,000 inhabitants, have been destroyed by floods ahd the people drowned or forced to flee. There is no means^of finding how many thousands have been drowned, but the number is estimated by Chinese authorities at 15,000 to 20,(100. Thei flooded district is within twelve miles of Pekin, the capital of China. As a rule Chinese officials make very little stir when a calamity like this happens, but the proximity of the disaster hits resulted in its being brought to the attention of the emperor, who has ordered that all possible relief be given. Survivors from the villages nearest Pekin have been allowed such shelter as they can find on the city walls, but thousands are without protection against the rain, which continues to fall. The distress of these people is most pitiable. Public spirited and wealthy men of Pekin and Tung Chou are actively assisting the authorities in providing them with food. The floods have greatly damaged a largo number of estates belonging to Pekin nobles. The unusual rains began July 23 and continued until Aug. 15. The crops in the flooded district were destroyed. The prefects, local magistrates and people of the flooded district prayed for the cessation of the rain seven days before they were finally driven out of their homes.

DISASTER ON THE SEA. Appalling Incident of a Hurricane — Ship and Fifty Men Go Down. The British barkentine St. Peter, before reported having been passed at sea and making for Halifax in distress, arrived there Sunday. She was partly dismasted in a hurricane that struck her on the night of Sept. 8, compelling her to put about for Halifax in order to repair the damage. Capt. Skaling brings the startling report that the storm through which his vessel passed was the cause of sending to the bottom a four-masted iron sailing ship, which must have carried a crew of at least forty-live or fifty men. The St. Peter and the other vessel had been sailing within sight of each other all day Sept. 8, but never came within hailing distance. The name of one could not be distinguished from the deck of the other. 'When night closed in the big ship could be plainly seen from the deck of the St. Peter. Her lights were in sight for some time after dark. Then the hurricane swept the ocean and on the 9th notliing was to be seen of the four-masted ship sighted the day'before, but shortly after the barkentine passed the floating wreck of a ship's-deck and deckhouse, which the crew identified as belonging to their sailing companion of the previous day. Capt. Skaling is satisfied that the other vessel went down with every man on board.

It turns out that the last Arizona man appointed to office is an Ohio man.— Washington Post. Spain has reached that trying and distressing point where she can neither quit nor keep on with safety.—Kansas City Journal. Gen. Miles is about to start for home, probably for the purpose of having a new supply of photographs taken. —Cleveland Leader. Os course, Greece is in mourning. The moral of it seems to he that it is better not to be too bumptious than to be sorry.— Boston Herald. Is it possible there is no way to satisfj the Mikado but to cal! him into the woodshed for an interview v itb the old man’ —Chicago Tribune. If Greece did more burning of gunpowder at critical moments and Jess burning of treaties, she would occupy a less pitiable position in the eyes of the nations. —New Y'ork Press? Cleo de Merode will have no king in her train while in this country, but she can catch any number of jacks if she considers them worthy of her bait.—San Francisco Examiner. The six great powers of Europe are Btill-eagaged In pacificating the Turk, who will submit to it so long as it continues profitable to be pacifiea;ed.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.