St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 October 1897 — Page 2

®lje Independent. ■ - -• ■==: ■—i AV. -A. ENDIjEY, A’ltlilisJsoi-. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. TIRE OF THEIR BONDS INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE OPPOSE ENGLISH TUTELAGE. X>cspise Their Position-The Colonist, They Say, Is Nobody, and His Condition Is One of Inferiority-Death of Geo. M. Pullman. They Would De Free. The executive of the Independence .League of Canada, at Montreal, which icomprises many conspicuous French Canadians, has issued an address to the people of Canada urging immediate action toward securing the complete independence of the dominion from Great Britain. “Who is the man who would not ll>e free?” says the address. “Relying on flhe justice of our cause we claim the privilege of using our inalienable right to free ;a * < ” ■ourselves fron^jpritish tutelage. A tutelage prestr^poses Th incapable or an interdict. Are the Canadian people so miserable that they will submit to such a disgrace? Will 5,000,000 of brave and hon<>st men. occupying a greater country than the whole of Europe, continue to bow their Leads beneath the British yoke? Certainly not, and as they have a right to do, they will proclaim their independence. Legally England cannot prevent them. The time to act is now. Not only our digiiity refuses to longer accept the English tutelage, but the future of our country depends upon the energy which we show toward realizing as soon as possible the great project of free Canada. To those Avho are not blinded by English fanaticism, personal interest or ignorance, it is evident that Canada is marching with •rapid steps toward bankruptcy.” Thou►ands of copies of the address have been printed in French and will be scattered broadcast throughout the province of Quebec. To Stop the Floods. United States Senator Nelson of Minnesota and J. H. Berry of Arkansas have been in St. Paul as part of the senatorial committee appointed at the last session to investigate the sources of the Mississippi river in conjunction with the United States army engineers for the purpose of devising means to prevent the annual Hoods and for the general improvement of the up-river country. The entire party has gone to the upper Mississippi river country to commence their investigations and explorations. The investigations will develop the advisability of constructing canals to divert the overflow, extending the reservoirs and using the surplus for. general irrigation purposes as well as for improving the navigation of the river. The new river steamer built last summer for the Government took the party through the chains of reservoirs. BREVITIES, Thrroun registration of Greater New York is 568,568. Senor Sagasta, premier of Spain, is sick and confined to his bed. Petroleum springs near Baku, Russia, have caught fire and the whole valley is a sea of flames. Ex-Senator Algernon S. Paddock died suddenly of heart disease at the Paddock Hotel in Beatrice, Neb. Joseph Jefferson made a temperance talk to 800 convicts in the Massachusetts State prison at Charlestown. The City Bank of Sherman, Texas, has closed its doors. Assets are said to be $200,000 and liabilities $60,000. The annual report of the third assistant postmaster general shows that expenditures exceed receipts by $11,411,779. The schooner Donna T. Briggs, suspected of being a filibuster, has ben seized by Government officials at Norfolk, Ya. Fighting has been resumed in India, Gen. Sir Bindon Biggs having driven several thousand tribesmen from Chagru and burned many villages. The legation of Guatemala in Washington received the following official dispatch: “Revolution subdued; order restored all over the country.” Brooks & Co., extensive raisin packers, doing business at Selma, Cal., have been forced to suspend. No statement of liabilities and assets has yet been made. The 300 employes of John and James Dobson's Bradford, Pa., cloth mills, who have been on strike, returned to work on promise of a 10 per cent increase in wages. George M. Pullman, the’ head of the great palace car company which bears his name, died suddenly at his home in Chicago Tuesday morning, of heart failure. The village of Flat Creek, in Bedford County, Tenn., was destroyed by fire. Thirteen stores and residences were vonKumcd ard only a few scatt< red cottages remain. Jolin Martin, an employe of the United Staff's treasury, has been arrested and indieted for taking silver dollars from bags and substituting lead to make up the weight. The German Government, it is understood, has decided to rearm the entire infantry with the new six-millitmeter rifle, said to surpass the weapons of all other States. The German Government has granted the exequatur of Benjamin Nausbaum of Pennsylvania, recently appointed consul at Munich, against whom there was a strong tight. Louis Knopp, 13 years old. killed his 9-year-old brother, Ernest in Chicago. The boys were playing at their home with a revolver. , Louis pulled the trigger accidentally and put a bullet in Ernest's head. W. Hughes, correspondent of Black and White of London, has starved to death in Havana. He was maltreated ami nibbed by guerrillas and lost his passport. The LokaJ Anzeiger of Berlin says that Count Lyof Tolstoi, the Russian author -.nd social reformer, is suffering from an illness which will necessitate the performance of a serious operation. The Knights of Pythias have raised $12,900 for a monument to John F. Rathbone, the founder of the order. It will be placed in New Forest cemetery, in Utica, the owners of the cemetery donating a plot of 10,000 feet.

EASTERN. Mrs. Charles Lonergan of Syracuse has identified the body of a man found on the track at Matteawan, N. Y., as that of her husband. The body was sent to Chicago, where his mother resides. William Daniel, one of the leaders of the Prohibition party in the United States and its candidate for the Vice Presidency in 1884, died suddenly at his home in Mount Washington, a suburb of Baltimore. Col. J. Thomas Scharf, Chinese inspector at Now York, has sent in his resignation, declaring that the Chinese exclusion act is a farce, cannot be enforced and results in the corruption of the Treasury Department. At the meeting of the new board of directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company in New York. Thomas U. Clark, formerly assistant to the president, was elected as acting vice-president, to succeed John Van Horne. United States Senator Gorman has issued an open letter to Edwin F. Abell, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, in which ho offers to relinquish the leadership of the Democracy in Maryland, providing Mr. Abell will accept it. Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros has adopted this country as her heme. She has signed her declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States at New York. Under the terms of her oath she has renounced all allegiance to Spain. Ex-Banker F. V. Rockafellow, convicted of receiving deposits at his bank at Wilkesbane, Pa., after he knew the bank was insolvent, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $1,400 and servo one year in the Eastern penitentiary. The prisoner is over 70 years of age. At Harrisburg, Pa., Judge Simonton handed down an opinion dissolving the temporary injunction against the Capitol building commission in the equity proceedings brought by certain architects who competed for the prizes for making the best design for the proposed new capitol. The prompt manner in which the Dauphin County, Pa., courts declared unconstitutional the anti-fusion law passed by the last legislature cause widespread interest in Illinois and neighboring States which have similar laws. In all probability test suits will be entered in other States as a result of tire ruling of the Pennsylvania court. The anti-fusion law was passed in the shape of an amendment to the Baker “blanket” ballot act. It is staled that Gov. Hastings would not have approved the anti-fusion amendment if it had stood alone. The deputy sheriffs at the De Armit coal mines made a raid on the strikers at Sandy Cicek and arrested fifteen men. * including the members of the brass band. The strikers were marching on the public road and were halted by the deputies about a quarter of a mile from the tipple. The band refused to stop playing and the entire party was placed und r arrest without resistance. The prisoners were taken to Pittsburg and to the sheriff's office. The members of the band took their arrest good-naturedly ami played their instruments as they were escorted from the railroad station to the sheriff's office. Chief Deputy Evans said the men were riotous and he feared trouble. This is denied by the strikers. Superintendent De Armit claims that the three mine-, of the company are now running to their fullest capacity. WESTERN. Henry C. Rouse, president of the Missouri. Kansas ami Texas Railway, is se riously sick at his home in Cleveland. Andrus R. Merritt, one of the big iron miners of Minnesota. has made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of his creditors. John Sullivan was found guilty of the murder of Harry Scovel and sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary by Judge Gary at Chicago. A. O. Jones, owner of the Jones Brick and Terra Cotta Company of Zanesville. Ohio, has made an assignment. He will be able to meet all claims. Rev. Francis E. Marston of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church. Columbus, 0.. has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Boston. George Greenwood, for many years a prominent business man of Duluth. Minn,, committed suicide by shooting. No cause is assigned for his action. In Chicago. Frederick V. Bowers, who plays a part in ’’McSorley's Twins," eloped to Milwaukee with Miss Blanche Louise Barrett, daughter of Charles R. Barrett. Plans contemplating the investment of from $500,000 to $1,090,000 by Eastern capitalists in sugar factories and refineries have been consummated in Denver, and an agreement has been signed by 100 farmers pledging themselves to the cultivation! of 1,900 ae r i s of sugar beets. At Portland. Ore., Francis Seely. Government tea inspector, condemned 830 chests of tea which arrived from the Orient on the steamship Monmouthshire. Several days ago he condemned 422 chests consigned to a Chicago finu. 'The entire lot was found to be old, trashy tea, unfit for use. At a meeting of the California board of university regents, the resignation of Director E. S. Holden of the Lick Observatory was presented and accepted, to take effect on Jan. 1 next, when his leave of absence expires. Meantime Prof. James S. Haberle was appointed acting director of the observatory. An attempt was made to murder Editor Moffat of the Bismarck, N. D., Settler, five shots being fired by some unknown person. This is the second attempt on bis life, and three weeks ago his presses and type were dumped into the Missouri River. He has been making a bitter war on the saloon and gambling element. There was a riot among the prisoners in the St. Louis jail, during which twenty desperate negroes engaged in a fight among themselves. Deputy Jailer Wagner turned in the riot alarm to the police, w’ho overpowered the combatants and placed them in dungeons. The tight started over a game of craps, in which 80 cents was involved. In a lecture delivered before the chemists of the University Science Association on “The Transmutation of Metals,” Edmund O'Neill, associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, declared the possibility of making gold from silver, and said there was tin excellent basis io support, the claim for the union of metals ami that the ultimate solution of the problem was tin achievement science expects. Thirtcen-year-old Johnnie Mat thews was arrested at Guthrie, O. T., charged with murdering the 5-year-old son of Capt. L. L. Bridges, a well-known attorney,

5 formerly of Sedalia, Mo. The boys quarreled and a few hours later the murdered boy was found dead lying in front of Us father’s house, with a bullet wound in b's head. The bullet came from across tW‘ street, apparently from the Matthew 1 house, where a recently fired rifli^ found. I SOUTHERN. Four men hold up the cannon ball tral l on the International and Great Northef 1 Railroad in daylight and but twelve mil s from Austin, Texas. They robbed passengers of S2OO and wounded the clductor and another man, but couiwt break open the express safe. The jury in the famous case of Atkinson, on trial at Glenville, W. mL, for forging her former husband's hmV, disagreed and was discharged bygße court. The jury stood seven for acqu|lll and five for conviction. It is not beiielfi that the case will be tried again. I At Green Grove. Ky., Sam Smith igf Kettle Creek and a son of Will Heml Ross of New Albany. Ky., while rachis their horses collided, killing both aniiwls instantly. Smith’s right leg was broKi three or four times above the knee once below. He is injured internally ajj terribly bruised. His eyes are badly L jured and his right arm crushed. Rosa J in about ti e same condition. jL John R. Branyon, a wealthy cotgp planter and well known as a Democrat politician at Mechanicsville, Ga., awakened-one night reeumjy by a 40”in the rear of his house. 11 f and went back to investigate and fiUa man entering the main body of^^. house from the kitchen. He dema^^E to know who it was, and, failing tc^ ceive an answer, sent two loads of b>shot into the Duly of the intruder. T®' obtaining a light he stooped over his tim and ret egnized his IG-year-old Robert. The boy was dying, but Wo strength enough left to wrap his ujßf about bis father’s neck ami say tha^B forgave him for the shooting. W Ever since the appearance of yelw fever in Texas refugees from Galvesl a, Houston and other cities in the Lone $ ar State have been flocking to St. Louis. A special train, carrying sixty five pas: tigers from Houston and Galveston, as lately arrived there. Among those p bo;.»d was Dr. John Guiteras, the yel l 7 fever exjiert of the United States Mai e Hospital service. He said there was s solutely no danger in allowing these re < gees to come to St. Louis. Dr. Sta luff, health commissioner of St. Lo Ji takes the same view. A majority of th I passengers will stay in St Louht w! g the others will s-'atier about the court | on business or pleasure. Dr. Guile I said he was on route to his home in Ph i* । delphia, as he had finished his tour of ‘ speetion in the South. He will make 1 Ik exhaustive icport of his inspection to 1 B chief. Surgeon General Wyman. ' I Knights of Honor in New Orleans h; ' organized a relief eommittis* and notil F the grind jurisdictions throughout country that they arc prepared to I « after any members of the order who uK be sojourning in that city i ending the fv 1 vailing fever ami see that fraternal e.«e ami attention be accorded such meinbW as may become afflicted. WASHINGTON. W < '.mim.s-m.m i' of Imm _ : .> U*i**t*Ui^k will try to bar out Louise Michel, the I'rem h anarchist, when she c omes. Maud G. Badgley, a clerk in the ge land office at Washington, emnmitted suicide by jumping from t’abin John’s briike, about six miles west of tin* city, '[he drop to the ravine below the bridge is about 125 feet. (’hief Justice Fuller, when the Supi jme Court met .at Washington, annotiired that the Joint Traffic Railroad AsscAution ease from Neu York and the Li elc'de Gas Light ease from St. Louis Jid been assigned by the court for arguu rnt on the first Mondax in m\t January. 'rh>' argutmer.s had bier set for this mouth, but Justice Field's retirement leaves the bench with onlx i ight members, and. in view es the important constitutional iptes;ions presented by these two cases, it was desired that they should be beard l>v a full bmch. As to ITesident McKinley's intentions regarding the appointment of a new Attorney General in case Mr. MeKenua i> promoted to the supreme bench, the general opinion in Washington is that Judge Day. the first assistant Secretary of Slate, will either be made Attorney < Jetieral and a new assistant secretary selected or that Sherman will retire, Day be appointed to smeied him and other changes and promotions made to fit the circumstances. So far a- can be learned by Washington correspondents, however., the President, has no inti ntion of asking Mr. Sherman to resign, and the Secretary has said that he had never given the ids 4 a moment's thought, and that lie woull remain to the end. The result in botj Ohio and New York will have a direti influence on the President's action in r I constructing his cabinet. 1 FOREIGN. * Merchants ami ma mifaetun-rs V France gn ve President Fame a great batif qiiet in honor us his recent visit to Russia. 'l'he rebellion in the eastern part • Guatemala is I । coming very serious the insurgents are eneampd not far the capital. Tlie London Daily Nows says there is a good prospect of a general treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and the United States. ' - Oil is now used as fuel for the Cromer express on the Great Eastern Railway in England, which runs 130 miles at the rate of 7S :: t miles an hour. A German shop keeper in Valparaiso, Chili, has been fined and imprisoned for exhibiting a small copy of the famous group, “The Three Graces.” It is stated in Paris that an association has been formed in the United States to secure the escape of Captain Albert Dreyfus from his prison on the Isle du Saint. Spain's reply to Minister Woodford's note has been prepared, aud says that while Spain cannot set a date for the ending of the Cuban war, it believes its new lilans will soon result in pacification of the island. The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard says it is asserted there that Russia. Japan and the United States have already assented to the assumption of the title of emperor by the King of Corea, but China intends to protest. The British foreign office officials appeared to be astonished at what they termed the “tone of surprise” assumed by Secretary Sherman in his reply to the note of the Marquis of Salisbury expressing Great Britain's declination to be repYe-

' (ented in the conference with Russia and Japan. 'The officials reiterate that the Marquis of Salisbury agreed to join in a conference of sealing experts representing U uP nited States, Canada and Great | Britain, but, they add, he did not agree >. to take part in a conference on the subject . with Russia and Japan. The foreign officials will be unable to say what the Brit- , 'sh Government is prepared to do until Secretary Sherman’s latest dispatch on I the conference is received. The Times 1 1 comments as follows: “Allowing for the 1 1 peculiarities of American diplomacy, there I Q. no ccason to quarrel with Secretary ■ n , rn!a,l s reply on the subject of the Bering Sea conference. We entirely disbelieve that Lord Salisbury in his oral communications with Ambassador Hay ever departed from the position adopted in his final note of July 28. But it is unnecessary to deal seriously with expressions of astonishment obviously intended to cover the failure of an attempt to bluff the British Government in a manner disapproved by the leading organs of American opinion.” IN GENERAL John A. Chanler, former husband of Amelie Rives, has been sent to Bloomingdale, suffering from paresis. The town of Windsor, N. S., was fireswept and 3,000 people are honioless. 'l'he direct financial loss is $1,500,000, with about ssoo.<too insurance. A plan is on foot to make the Yukon Anile?- a separate territory under the ‘liame of Lincoln, with Eli Gage of Chicago as its first governor. _/Fhe Sons of the American Revolution ['and Sons of the Revolution have agreed upon a plan of union under the name Society of the American Revolution. A jury has awardeil Mrs. Lang $29,009 damages against the city of Victoria. B. C., for the death of her husband. Dr. Lnug, in the Point Ellice bridge disaster in May- 1*96. The United States steamship Philadelphia arrivisl at San Francisco from Honolulu. She will transfer her crew to the Baltimore, which is being fitted out for a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands as >pia'dily as possible. At Montreal, an organization known as the Canadian Independence Club has •>- sued a manifesto which was distributed throughout the city, stating that the time had come for Canada to throw off its connection with England. i <'ommander-in-ehief Gobin of the G. A. I R. has made the following appointments: 1 I nspector genera I. Alonzo Williams. Providence. R. I.; judge ndvocate’general, Eli Torrence, Minneapolis. Minn.: senior aid-de-camp, Milion A. G. Ilerst, Lebanon. Pa. The American board of eommis- oners I of foreign missions elected these officers: ITesident. < harles M. Lamson, D. D.. Hartford. Conn.: vice-president. D. Willis James. New York; treasurer. Frank 11. Wiggins; auditi rs, E. 11. Baker, E. R. Brown and 1 lent j T. < 'obb. The international court of arbitration which is to pass on the British-Vem zu ia boundary has iui n < cmpleted bj the -e---leetion of M. Maertens, a distinguished Russian jurist, as umpire, and arrangements are being made for the .assembling of the court at Paris during the late summer or fall i f next year. M. Maertens will act not only as umpire, but also as V?*•sidefMwf the court. Tin Bessemer Steamship Company of Cleveland, John D. Kockefeller's big line of lake steamers and tow barges, closed a contract for the three largest ships ever constructed for service on fresh water. The contract went to I’. W. Wheeler A Co. <>f Bay City, and is fir one steamer and two consorts. The three must be completed by next May. ami all together will carry over 2<UHM» tons of iron ore on h single trip on a draft of seventeen feet. The boats will cost be tween ss<MM><Hl and They will be equipped with everything modern for I the rapid handling of a cargo, and will be very speedy. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Foreign trade in September, the heavy increase in iron production and consitmptfi n and the largest payments through clearings ever known in O -tober are nidi atio“s which outweigh hesitation in some markets. The increase in employment of labor has continiu'il with further accounts daily of works opening, increasing force if hands or raising of wages, and ar every jHiint where actual production can be tested it appears greater than ever before. Sales of wool for two weeks have been 24.331.puum1s at the three chief markets. Wheat has been fairly steady, but moving more Largely than last year from the farms and from the country. Failures for the week have been 223 in the United States, against , 328 last year." - MARKET REPORTS. i Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, । S3.(HI t<> $5.5(1; bogs, -.'lipping grades, I $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 I to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 91c to 92c; Fl corn. No. 2. 25c to 26c: oats. No. 2. ISe to 19c: rye. No. f Indianapolis—-Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.J5; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice. $3.00 to $4.09; • wheat. No, 2. 92c to 93c; corn. No. 2 L white. 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c t to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.(.!0; wheat. No. 2. 95c to 97c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oafs. No. 2 white, 21e to 22c: iye. No. 2,42 cto -13 c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00: । wdicat, No. 2. 90c to 92c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c ’ to 21c; iye, No. 2. 47c to 48c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, ’ $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; । wheat. No. 2,92 cto 93c; corn. No. 2 1 yellow. 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22e ' to 24<-; rye. 46c to 48c. Toledo —M heat. No. 2 red, 93c to 94e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 2(>c; oats. No. > 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 48c; clover seed, $3.30 to $3.35. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 85c to 87c; corn. No. 3. 25c to 26c; oats. Ny. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 1, 4.>c to 47e; barley. No. 2,40 cto 43c; pork, mess, 1 $7.50 to SB.OO. 1 Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, ’ $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; ' wheat. No. 2 red, 92c to 94c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c; corn. No. ■ 2, 31c' to 32c; oats, No. 2 white. 22c to ' 24c; butter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs, Western, 16c to 18c.

BURIED A STRANGER. ♦ SUPPOSED HIM TO BE THEIR OWN SON. Man Thought to Have Died in Hie War Living for Thirty Years-Prisoners in Pennsylvania Penitentiary Have Been Making Bail Coin. A Singular Story. A remarkable and romantic case of mistaken identity has come to light at Akron, 0., with the information from Big Bug, Ariz., that George Case, who was supposed to have died in the war and to have been buried there, has in fact just died in Arizona, leaving quite a foriune to Akron heirs. George Case was ti e son of an Akron cariMmter. who, being refused permission to join the army, ran away from home and enlisted in the Sixth independent battery of Ohio. Jan. 15. 1864. His parents received information from Chattanooga, Tenn., that he was ill and in the general field hospital. Then came a letter from a comrade saying that George was dead. 'l'he parents ordered the body sent to Akron, but when it reached there the mother declared that the remains were not thos< of ’’or son. The body was interred in Glendale cemetery, and. no further tidings wi re received. J. F. Seiberling, the well-known manufacturer, recently received a letter from Big Bug, Ariz.. telling of the death of George Case, whose only relatives, so far as known there. lived in Akron. The man had long lived there, but died of rheumatism on his way to Hot Springs, Ark. Convict Counterfeiters. Warden E. S. Wright of the Riverside penitentiary at Pittsburg has discovered that a number of the convicts confined in the institution have bi-en manufacturing counterfeit 50-eent pieces. He has unearthed the metal from which the "queer” money was made, the molds in whii h it was cast ami the names of several convicts who were connected with the matter. blit :;s yet he has been Unable to find the man who originated and carried out the scheme. The counterfeits are magnificent sjiei miens of the l oim-r's art. The die from which they were made is almost perfect, and the milling of the coins, which is the Government's chief protection of metal money from those who would imitate it. is a> near perfect as it is possible for human ingenuity to make it. I'he counterfeiters had already secured a connection with outside parties and some of the bad money is now in circulation. Warden Wright has a list of nearly a score of convicts and other persons supposed to be connected with the counterfeiting. and wlien the full sxory of the crime comes out it is said, there will be some se.jsatiomil developments. We Wait on England. Unless the British foreign office of its own motion presses the negotiations in connection with the arbitration treaty. State Department officials in Washington say the matter w ill not again be taken up by this Government. In the past three months nothing lias l ien done to expedite matters. When Secretary Sherman siiggesiid to Sir Julian Pauucefote last June that the ITesident would be gratilitsl to see the negotiation of a maty of general titbitration during nis administration the latter expressed pleasure at the information and entered upon a discussion of the subject, which, however, was limitisl to generalities. Sir Julian then went to London to consult with Lord Salisbury on matters of importance and. acting under the instructions of the State Department. Ambassador Hay consulted with the British foreign office on the subject. Apparently the representations he made were not as enthusiastically received as were those of his predecessor. As a reI suit the matter has languished, and now, department officials declare. Grea - Britain must be the one to revive the subject and push it to a successful conclusion. NEWS NUGGETS. Sir Edwin Arnold, poet ami journalist, has married a Japanese lady in London. M. B. Tucker, an Associated Press correspondent in Alaska, died of exhaustion on a trail. It is said I.i Hung ('hang's health has failed af.d he is about to retire permanently from public life. All navigation upon the Yukon river is now closed by an ice blockade. Several vessels are frozen in. Fielder Keeler of Baltimore has an official batt-Ting average of .432. according to President Young's figures. Lotta Crabtree, better known as “Lotta." an actress, has sued the estate of Henry E. Abbey of New 5 < rk for S 2 L<1(10 and two years' interest on promissory notes. Admiral John Lorimer Worden, hero of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac and one of the bravest sailor fighters ever produced by the United i-nen-.Mill Crci'k. a small (own in the Chickasaw nation east of Berwyn. I. T.. was raided by thirty-five Chickasaw braves, who terrorized the inhabitants, drove the merchants from their houses and engaged in a wild orgy which ended in a killing. The Indians drew up in front of a cider mill, broke it open and drank all the hard cider and other drinks they could find. Then they began a systematic raid on the stores, helping themselves to whatever struck their fancy. The redskins kept up a continual shooting, having supplied themselves with ammunition from a hardware store. Lnxy Lewis and .lames McKinney engaged in a duel in which the latter was killed. A tramp was killed, fourteen ears ditched and two engines demolished by a collision of two freight trains near Mexico. Mo. John W. Baker, formerly assistant city treasurer of Butte. Mont., killed himself by shooting. He was formerly with the Northwestern in Chicago and Union Pacific in Omaha. Col. Peter C. Haim s of the engineer corps of the army, at present in charge of river and harbor inii»rovements for the Baltimore district, has been appointed to be engineer commissioner on the Nicaraguan canal commission. The schooner Silver Heels of Rockland. Me., has got away from New York on what is believed to be a filibustering trip to Cuba. John F. Kennedy, on trial at Kansas City. Mo., charged with being the leader of the Chicago and Alton passenger train robbery at Blue Cut, was acquitted.

THE FORT SHERIDAN OUTRAGE. Inhuman Cruelty Perpetrated Upon at: Enlisted Man. There has been as much solemn pondering at Washington over the LoveringHanunond outrage at Fort Sheridan as .

if the captain's life hung in the balance. When Maj. Gen. Brooke's report from his chief aid-de-camp's point of view was received by the Secretary of War tiiat official considered it well and wrote 1 out his recommendatious to lay before the President. The adjutant general also examimnl the report. When the President

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saw the same report he thought of his general copimanding the army and suggested that it be laid IxTore him. Gen. Miles read the rep'ort and returned it to the Secretary of War with a few oral comments on the action which the Secretary proposed to take. Then Gen. Alger carried the report under his arm to the cabinet meeting, and the much-handled document was discussed by that body. Captain Eovering’s act at Fort Sheridan is very generally c< nsidere«i as one of inhuman cruelty. The Fourth regiment of infantry, Col. Hall commanding, is located at the fort near Chicagtyy. -Saturday Capt. Lowrilig was otficer < f tin ~ " : ® ■ ■; WDRAGGING PRIVATE HAMMOND TO COURT day. Among the prisoners ! ■ ntined in The guard house,was private Hammond. Hammond is not connected with the Fort Sheridan command. He is stationed at Plattsburg. N. Y.. and a few weeks ago asked for leave of ab>i me to visit hisniother. who lives in Chicago. It wasdenied him and he lift without lennission. There is a rule which makes it desertion for a soldier to be absent from his-

post longer than nine days without permission. Hamm on d came to Chicago, and on the ninth day surrendered himself at Fort Sheridan, and asked the officers to notify the Platts- \ burg Post. He was. oDceil in the guard hons.' tu reply. The following morning he was notified by the officer of

the day, Capt. Lov-private hammond. ering, to report for work. lie refused on the ground that he was not a regular prisoner. Capt. Lovering sent four men to take him out of the guard house. Hammond lay down and refused to move. levering then directed the men to cross hi* legs and tie them with a stout rope. This was done and then, under direction of the captain, the men dragged Hammond out of the guard house. Down the steps of the guard house Hammond was bumped. The four soldiers soon became sick of their task. They hesitated when they had crossed the road and got on the stone sidewalk. The captain would have no delay. He prodded the prisoner several times so that in pity the four soldiers hurried on with their terrible task. Nene of them had ever seen a soldier treated in such a brutal way and they obeyed through fear of similar punishment. Hammond’s face was distorted with pain and blood was oozing from several wounds as he was dragged along up the stairway to the summary court. There a light punishment was meted out to him. It is said that Lovering prodded Hammond with hi* sword as he was dragged along the road. STRANGLED BY BURGLARS. , Farmer Adam Hoffman Is Murdered Near Brimfield, Ind. Adam Hoffman, a wealthy bachelor farmer, living near Brimfield, Ind., was , murdered by two men. whose intention it ‘ was to rob him. Hoffman sold a large amount of wheat and stock the pa-t week । and it is asserted that the men, thinking he had the money at his h mm. c mmitted the crime while : . king tlie nr :.ey. Ar midnight a farm liar, —0 4. _ Hoffman was ’ tramping of men. The boy quickly crawi- ’ ed under the Inal and shortly after the men entered, a lighted match was thrust under the bed and the boy was discovered. He was ordered from his hiding place at the point of a revolver and placed on the bed. bound hand and foot ami securely gagged. He was warned that if he attempted to give an alarm he would ’ be killed. The men next went to the old mans room. Hoffman was ordered to pass over his money. He denied that he had any money in the house, saying that he never kept money there. The men began to threaten and choke him to force him to disclose to them his hiding place. Hi's hands were firmly bound t< gethi r and tied to his legs: his feet were likewise bound and then fastened to the bod. It is thought the men continued the choking until life was extinct. The m.?n t’ on searched the house from cellar to roof* but failed to find any money. News of Minor Note. Daniel S. Lamont has been elected president of the Northern Pacific Express Company. Rev. Dr. Newell Salbright. professor of Biblical and historical theology in the Iliff school of theology, died at Denver after a brief illness. One hundred carpenters employed at the Trans-Mississippi exposition grounds struck work at Omaha. The men ask that the carpenters union ho recognized and that skilled labor alone be employed in the carpenter work.