Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 January 1896 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH. INDIANA. OUTLOOK FOR TRADE. COMMERCE STILL WAITS UPON CONGRESS. forae Price KIsch Solely Ikcause of Short Supply Philadelphia I-ine Proposes to Heist Spanish CruiscrH Steamer St. Paul on the Heacli. Dun & Co.'s Kcvicw. 11. i. Ihm A: Cos Weekly Review ot Trade says: "The week been marked l.r improvements apparent rather than real. Prices of some products have risen, hut only because supplies are believed to U smaller than ex"ected. The Senate tili injures all l.usiness ly d.iinsr nothing Jlhd the treasury cannot expert to gain iu old as yet. hut loses less than was xiMtteil. It is generally assumed that the new loan will bo placed without ditli--iiltr thoiiirh the successive payments in.-iv iiiKii l iint imu-il ilist iirhanre. A del uxe of foreign rejiorts favorable to wheat simulation found ready answer in an advam-e of over Ö rents here, in spite f Western receipts 7 A i per rent, larger than last year." Ittow Sua n birds to Kingdom Come. Tin. ll.irt Line steamers, plvini: botween Philadelphia and Cuba an.l the West Indies, will iu future he armed with -annou and Maxim pins. apt. Jcr. counsel for the owners, has uotitietl tin Collector of the Port that they will carry lmw-chasers, and will blow the exoti Snaiii:! nls to kimrdom ronie sliould the . . . eil nur in..i-i ti-iiiilili- Tin' two vessels first mi I he list for eouipinelit are tin llorsa and Iiurada. l.th of which have gained no little notoriety Iroiu their al lc.'eil connect ion w it It filibustering expedi lions to Cuba. Capt. Ker avers that l.th will iiii-il ;iruis for self-protect ion. tlit' Laurada from the pirates whirh infest the i-oast of Africa, the Ilorsa from tin? Sii:ini:irds iriiiilxt:! ts. I he Spanish illl i ithorities in the rilv will, it is said, exert verv iiittiionco to prevent the Hart lioats - ..... ....i?. from lea vinir the port ot l'linaueipnm viih irms on 1mi.it-1 Cant. Kcr said: "I m ti.l. I fliMt ilu. Knanish authorities have said that if they catch any of the vessels of the Hart Line in Cuban waters they vii! m:iko it hot for them, this informa tion mav not he true, hut 1 have every roikoii to distrust the Spaniards. The ver-äViä-t ili . IV. .f l':n.t. Iliiirhes shows that our vessels have not done anyiniii to irive up the - . West Indies trade, ami we know there are no Tinted Slates war vessels to Protei ns. We have concluded to pi into tin niotectini? husiticss ourselves and we wil put jruns on our iM.ats and use them if necessary. There are lots of younj; men from our naval training vessels who would he only too lad h et positions where they could show their capacity, und there are no Letter gunners in th world than they :ire." Kaccd Into n SutuMtnr. ,tie i iiiiaioei- ar.ipauia. that Hie .mcririiii liner St. Pnul ran her nose Imi feet into the while sands of Lon Itramh Friday at inidniclit. Stories differ ulout the Campania, it being declared aul denied that she. too. ran aground, hut was ahle to reh'ase herself. The stranding of the St. I'aul. it was learned when her passengers arrived iu the city at 7 o'clock Saturday evening, occurred at the close of a soenlechhnur tare, ralleil off on ft .count of the heavy foi. This is vouched for Initli hy Captain Walker of the Campania and the passengers of both ships. Walker came near oin ashore himself ff Kllieron, hut was warned hy the men of the life-sa ving rrews and dropiwd anchor iu time to sae his ship. It is possible the St. Paul rannot he tloaled in time to save her. Kich Pichl in China. The Chinese t ioveininent has agreed to opeu the West River provided China is allowed to retain tin territory ceded tinder the Iturtnah-China convention in lNi, The eities of Canton and Ilniig Kong tire situated on I 1m hay into which the West Kiver empties. The news occasioned no small satisfaction in Hon Kon. The traJe of the rich provinee of Yunnan had heun to ! diverted hy tin' activity of the French in Tompiin from its natural channel down the river. Decide Auuiiist I en click. The Cook County Commissioners n Chicago canceled the contract with P. Keimefiek A: Co.. who are char cd with delivering short-weight coal to the county's dependents, voted to withhold further payments to that liriu and appointed a committee to present the case to tho tJrand Jury. BREVITIES. Theodore Kiinyoii. ('nited Stales ambassador to tJermany. expired HV.duenly ' and tinexpectnlly at Ih-rlin at 1 o'eloek Monday morning of heart failure. At Inihm Ambassador Itnyard sent Queen Victoria a message from President Cleveland expressing sincere eoiidolence with licr Majesty on the death of Trinre II'iiry of Battenln-rg. 'lhc Iirst assay of rock taken from the new IJonner District iu San Diego County, California, assayed $H;7.70 to the ton, or J?s;,;jr, to the jnnind. The field closely resembles that of Cripple Creek. The American ship L'oanoke. Captain Joseph Hamilton, which left New York "17 days ago. has reached San Francisco nfter a season of disaster and delay. Three of her original rre.v were lost iu the Atlantiennd sixteen were left iu the hospital lit Kio Janeiro. It was announced Thursday from Paris that by the terms of a treaty signed Jan. 38 the Island of Madagascar is declared a Freneh possession. The conference of silver leaders at Washington resulted iu a decision tij ; jiut a national ticket in the held. Tinconvention to make nominations will he : hold at St. Iouis on July The general merchandise and hardware Ktorc of .1. (J. Hun h held Jr. and the residence of Mark Mcl'ee. at Howard, Kan.. seventy-two miles south of l,mporia, were totally destroyed by lire. Ti e loss is JftJO,. UOO, insurance $IM00.

EASTERN.

fCw York society has snubbed Mrs. ni;r II P. Itelmont. formerly Mrs. W. K. Yanderbilf. A musical in aid of a hosnitnl has Ikcii declared off. the patron esses refusing to serve when they learned it was to lie held at her house. An explosion of gas occurred Tuesday in the factory of Frank P. Ptlagar & Co.. Xew Haven. Conn. Due man was inItantly killed by the explosion, two others lost their lives in the tierce tire wliicii followed. The buildiugs and contents Were destroyed, and a loss uf $100,000 was caused. At I'.He Pa.. Asent Frank Moore of tli" Agricultural Department, with 1. 1. tol of Pittsbur as attorney, prose cuted Fred Hale, the Armour & Co. agent, r.ir violntinir the State food law hy sellui oleomargarine. Hale was convicted and sentenced to pay a hue of 51 w una costs. Two civil avtions against the company n r. oemliliiT. - The steamer Seaguarance, at .New lork, from Me:-- an ports ami Havana. landed four sailors from the wrecked .Norwegian bark IWgbild. which, while proeeaing down the Mexican coast on Jan. 1L wns knocked down hy a norther ami capsized. All hands were saved. Two seamen of the schooner . W. Jones, which was wrecked on the bar at Santa Anna, while bound for New Orleans, alo arrived on the Seaguarance. (Jin. Thomas Fwing, ex-member of Congress from Ohio, died Tuesday morniiiL' :it New York, from the effects of iuiuries received by being struck by cabh f i nr. tlrn. Fvin. who was a member ot the law lirni of Kwing. Whitman S: Kwing. of New York, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in lS'JO. He was admitted tu tin bar in Cincinnati iu 1N"0 and went to Kansas during the free soil struggles. When the State of Kansas was admitted to the I'ni.ui. he was appointed chief iustice. but resigned to enter the Fniou army in the civil war as colonel of the I'l.. .hi li Iteuitneiit of Kansas. lie rose ' - - - to the rank of brigadier general, and af terward was breveted major general and had command of the Department of tl.e Missouri. He went to Washington in lsf.il us iho nwistiint of ex-Secieta ry of the Interior P.rowning. and returned to Ohio in INTO and entered politics. 11wjis ji iiieiiiliet- if I 'iiiiirress from 1S t to 1SS1 and in 1ST! ran for Oovernor on the Democrat ie ticket, but was defeated. In 1SS1 he went to New York to practice law. and for many years lu was president of the Ohio Society there. !en. Fwing had live children, a'l grown up. Mn. Fwin: is still living. WESTERN. Frank .1. Cannon and Arthur Itrown hare been elected to the Fnited States Senate by the Ftah Legislature. A San Francisco paper says President Cleveland has accepted an invitation from Attorney Y W. Foote to ss-nd part of his vacation next summer on the Pacini. coast. The Westliche Post, of St. Louis, the leading tSermau Republican paper of the central west, came out strong ednesday morning in favor of McKinley for presidential nomination. lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Marquis of t uei-nsberry. found fault with the orchestra leader of Lady Douglas' troupe nt Orville. Cab. ami as a result was thrashed hy the musician. The mammoth gas pumping station of Ind.. exploded ami c:r.,V.V".. I si"usia"y evening at 7 o'clock. The shock of the explosion caused building to shake and sway as by an earthquake. Two nun were killed and four injured. The secretary of the Oakland. Cal.. branch of the American Railway Fniou has received a letter from the private secretary of I'. V. Debs in which the statement telegraphed from the Kast that Debs is to resign the piesidenry of the union is denied. II says Debs will win the light in whirh he is now engaged on behalf of organized labor or die in the attempt. Mine. Modjeska. who was tajien ill at Cincinnati Monday, is suffering from the same disease of which Lawrence ItatTctt died. The glands of the throat are badly Wollen and the trouble extends down into the lungs and. hy sympathy, the physicianc say, to the shoulders and arms. What the nature of the disease is no one pretvnds to define precisely, but it is certain there is reason for alarm. Tile engine of the New York au 1 St. Louis express on the Little Miami Railroad exploded Wednesday morning forty mile from Columbus, Ohio, killing ClaiK A. Trimble, engineer, and Oeorge Waters, tireiuau. both of Columbus. No oth-r persons were killed or injured. The tack was all torn up, requiring transfer of passengers temporarily at that point. All of thecals were wrecked except the sleepers. The !) year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman, near Delaware, O.. discovered the family shotgun under the be. He pointed it playfully at his baby brother, ami saying. "I'm going to shoot you," pulled the trigger. The cap failed to explode. Turning the muzzle toward the cat. which was sitting on the hearth, he Mid: "I'll try my luck on 'Tabby.' " This time the gun fired, and there was nothing left of "Tabby." Almost the entire population of Cuba, Putnam County, O.. was engaged Monday s dragging Rlamhard river for tlo bodies of live children, a girl and four boys, drowned Sunday afternoon. Tbre children of John Shuman and two ohiidren of (Jeorge Forma were playing 'on the ice whrn it broke and four of tli childr'ii disappeared. Tin eldest, u boy Of 10, attempted to rescue the girl and was drowned also. An the result of a tire in the building at No. 11." Rroadway, St. I.ouis, Mo., Tuesday night live firemen were buried in the ruins. Owney I lines, foreman of truck No. 0, who was taken from the burning building soon after the lire started, badly Mifroeatcd and rut. died while being takeii to Merry Hospital in an ambulance. The dead are: Milton Curly, Capt. Olanville, Owney Ilines, James Rhoddy. Staunton. The total 1 oss caused by fire ami water is estimated at Ki,i , fairly insured. SOUTHERN. The Ijouisvillc Paer Company at Iuisville, tiled a deed of assignment. It. F. I'ansley was made assignee. The liabilities are placed at .".K. The cause of the assignment, as given out, is hard time. Intense excitement prevails in the newly discovered oil fields underlying the border counties of Kentucky and Teiinenaee. Speculators and boomers have followed in swarms on the heels of tlietirt report of oil. but the agents of the Standari', as well as other organizations and

Individual investors, preceded tliMn and

have already leased every acre of land for miles around. The belt will probably range from forty to fifty feet i." width, following closely the Cumberland plateau. Daily carloads of machinery for sinking of wells and putting up of plants are ar riving at Rugby Ruad. Ten or twelve liorder comities are embraced in the oil district, which is the leat settled and wildest part of Tennessee. Investments to date approximate H0,0tJ0. ltishop llavgood, uf the M. F. Church South, died at his home iu OxforJ, Cla., Sunday morning. Atticus (Jreen Haygood was born at Watkinsville, Ja.. . Nov. 10. 1S,50. He was graduated at Emory College, (Ja., in 1SÖ0. and license 1 to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the same year. From 1S0 to 1S73 he was editor of the Sunday school publications of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in ISiO was elected president of Emory College, where he remained eight years. He was appointed general of the John F. Slater fund in 1S8.' for the edm-Jtion of colored youth in the Southern States and has since de voted himself to this work and efforts for the progress of the colored rare. Dr. Haygood was the author of several religious works. WASHINGTON. The House Committee on Public Lands bus received from Secretary Smith a strong adverse report against the free homestead bill. The measure is a sweep ing one and land office officials estimate its passage would involve at least ",- (mki.imni of cost to the Oovctnment and 5TN,tM0,O00 in Oklahoma alone. I his is the amount paid to the Indians for the relinquishment of their lands there. It was learned Sunday that an agent if the War Department had been mak ing inquiries in Cleveland for an avail r ble ite for the location of a fortincation for the protection of the city in ease of war. One site considered is located :.t Rockv River, six miles west of t leve-Iaml, on a bluff from which heavy guns could command the entrance to the harbor east and west. There were no negotiations for the purchase of the place. Much anxiety is shown at the State Department over Clara Bartons Red (Voss exiiedilion to Armenia, in face of the orders from the sublime torte. Mi-ss Tbirtoti has been denied special passports. a ml w ill lie irivcn no reconitioii by the representatives of the American (overnnient in Constantinople. Secretary Olney regards her mission under me circum stances as a grave mistake, which is like Iv to embroil this country in further d i til .-ultr with the Turkish Jovcrnnielit. If Miss Rarton is peacefully ejected the Soerotiirv of State will not enter protest. If she is 'maltreated our Oovernnient will undoubtedly interfere. While Secretary Olney approved of Miss Barton's mission when at first promised, and, in lact, sug irested it. lie does Hot approve of under taking it in face of the protests of the sultan. CT-Conirressnian Hatrh. of Missouri: J. Hewes, of Maryland, and IL C. Adams, of Wisconsin, have established in Washington in behalf of the National Dairy Fnion. which represents interests aggregating $ti.(MH.tKMI,INN. for the purpose of procuring the passage by Congress of a bill to limit the effect of the commcree clause of the constitution with respect to the oleomargarine and tilled cheese, or what is known to the dairymen as the lJill-Apsley-Orout bill of the JiftJ-tiyr.! I "cheese, while a third provides for the registering oi rMaie traue uiaiKs. it is thought that all three measures can be successfully pushed through Congress ut its present session, although strong opposition is anticipated from the manufacturers and wholesale venders of fraudulent dairy products. FOREIGN, Rumors are current at Ililbao. Spain, of greatly increased acliviiy in Carlist circles, where it is hoped that the iwcr.-es which the Spanish forces have sulTeied in Cuba and the failure of (Jen. Canq is to put down the i n stir reel ioy may n.t:.e the Spanish people against the ( luven,A I' it . I . t mein oi ino queen regent ami tiii-.'ii opMrt unity for Don Carlos, or Don Ja'me. his sou. A dispatch from Fkateriuosla v. capital of the (Joverument of that name in South Bit ssin, gives the details of a lire that occurred in a theater there, causing large loss of life. The tire was discovered while a performance was going on. The spectators became panic stricken ami made a wild ruh for the exits. Forty-nine bodies bave already been taken out. A number of persons who are known to have been in the theater are still missing. Prince Henry of Kattenberg, husband of Princess Beatrice of England. lo went to Ashantee in a special capacity ami who contracted fever there, is .lea J. Wile newv WHS l-e.-e! ve. I ii f ( luL.riiu l...n . Isle of Wight, early Wednesday. Tl.. queen and Princess Heat rice are prostrated with grief. The greatest sorrow is manifested throughout the Isle of Wight at the death of Prince Henry und the flags everywhere are at half-mast. A dispatch received from Osborne, Isle of Wight, says that the health of Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice is affected by the shock experienced when the news of the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg was made known lo them. The rrniains of the prince will be interred at Windsor ami the ceremony to Ik followed will be similar to that used at the burial of the remains of the Duke of Albany, Queen Yietoria's youngest son. who died in 1SSI. The Paris Figaro says it has received private information that the Abyssinians captured Makal.'e, the Italian position, Suiwlay. Previous to this report, the latest news from Abyssinia was that King Menelik bad invested Makalle, and that (Jen. Haratieri, the commander of the Italian forces, was at Erythrea and unable to succor Makalle. the three approaches to that place being almost impassable from natural causes, besides being guarded by t.(MK Abyssiuians. The alleged program of (Jen. Weyler, the new (Jovenior (Jeneral of Cuba, has been cabled from Spain. He will not follow (Jen. Canipua' policy; politically he will be an opportunist; war will be answered with war; he will be inexorable towards spiesud rebel sympathizers, but lenient towards those surrendering under arms; he will endeavor to establish an efficient blockade to prevent the landing of arms and ammunition from the United States; that he will not be sanguinary, but will deal justly. He says that two months ago it would have been eay to suffocate the rebellion; now It will not be so easy on account of its spread. But lie prom. Ises satisfactory results in the future. The same dispatch reports that 17,000 men

will be sent from Spain, beginning in Fetv

ru?ry, vitü two batteries of mountain artillery. A dispatch to the London Fall Mall Gazette from Constantinople, dated Wednesday, says that an offensive and difensive alliance has been concluded between Russia and Turkey. The treatywas signed Jan. is at Constantinople, and the ratifications were exchanged at St. Petei-sbnrir between Aarei Pasha and the - -r - " m czar. The basis of the treaty is declared to be on the lines of the l hkiar-Skelessj iiirreemciit of IK.;., bv which Turkey promised, in the event of Russia going t.j war. to close the Dardanelles to warships of all nations. The Pall Mall Uuiette'r correspondent adds that the treaty musi soon be :c)andoncd owing to the retusa ot tlie owers to recognize n. lie ais says the French ambassador. M. Cam boii, conferred with the sullan yesterday, and that it is probable trance will l iucluded in the new alliance. It. Argos. an Armenian resident of Ne Rritain. Conn., is in rercipt of a letter from a friend in Armenia, in which de tails are iriveii of the awful massncie oeroet rated in the district of Iluipoo The letter, which was secretly made m... .iiiiie viii I'rsin. savs that bet Wee. I liil.t and ten thousand Armenians hav Im-ii massacred, and upward of one liuudiv! thousand are starvin and destitut-' in tie district. Snow lies to the depth of sv've::i'. feet. Some of the Armenians hav- taken to eating grain. Of the .'.hi villages n Harriot, five have been sacked and burn cd by Turks ami Kurds. The rest are . ciime.l bv the hutehel'imr soldiers. I llcl I - - were twelve American missions in lb-. !;s 1 1-!.- lint ..ii'lil of ill. .ill li:l ve b"-cll b.ll'lie I Tue lives of the Aiucrirans have ben; spared, but they, with the Armeiitins. are in great want, and iu some instance they are starving. , Cuban affairs came to the front in tin Senate in a new i:uise Tuesday when Sen ator Call read a telegram from KeyWest tellimr of the arrest of American .iti-..iw bv the Snatiish authorities. Tin telegram is as follows: "Marquis Rod i-io ue-. was taken from steamer Olivetti last Wednesday. Louis Samallicii and sou also taken at Havana. All Ameri can citizens. Oct them out of grasp of Spanish authorities. Senator i all oiicted a resolution reciting the arrests and ili rccting the executive authorities to ascei tain if anv iust cause for the arrest evisted. mid if not. to demand their im mediate release. Senator I loa r suggested that the tone of the resolution was too imperative. There seemed to be an idea, he said, that the Senate of the Fuitcd States is a constantly loaded cannon. which can he touched off at any time by a Senator. The Senator urged an inquiry of the State Department before a demaiu1. The press and people of Venezuela have declared commercial war against Eng land. The newspapers publish daily thi.! notice in display type: "lo the people Whoever buvs English products increase the power of (ireat Britain." For tvvi ni.oitlw fr, .in .Tun IT. the nress will givi daily the names of Venezuelan ami ioreign merchants dealing in any manner with PiiL'Iainf on her colonies. There is n hrb'ht outlook for American trade. President Crespo is releasing many political prisoners, and Congress is soon to meet. The IJovernment has bougnt a liflit-ilrji ft ten in craft nnd armed It w:t! li-'ht Hotchkiss cutis for service on the Orinoco river. There is a rumor that the (lennan (Joverument has sent a sliar detii.nml for lhc immediate payment of tin t--:ir. od debt, The enrolling of militia is Jan. L'O. The militia will drill with wood en guns. The town of San Sebastian, in the .Mule oi Miranda, has heen iiepopti la ted by yellow fever. IN GENERAL The wife of Hon. (Jeorge N. Curzoii. who was formerly Miss Mary Leiter, of AN ashington, ns delivered of a daughter Monday. Eugene Y. Debs says he is going to refire from Iho A. U. F. and become a newspaper man. and that he will probably locate in Chicago. A larse number of American sealer have become dissatistied with the manner in which the Customs Department of the (Jovcrninent is handll on Puget Sound, and are seeking protection under the English crown. The China ships. Clarence S. Benin tt. Captain Franck. and William II. Connor. Capt n iu Pendleton, crossed the New York bar together Wednesday night outwardbound. The John Currier, Captain Lawrence, and the Josephus, Captain Kilkey, left laterfor the same port -Shanghai. The ship that first reaches her destination will win a purse of ?loo, which the captains have made up. MARKET" REPORTS. Chiengo Cattle, common to prime, .r0 to $o.00; hogs, shipping grade, j;klM to $A.'J5; sheep, fair to choice, $2.0j to $o7r; whent, No. 2 rod, to CI?: com. No. ü, 21V to :'Oe; oats. No. 2, 18c to'lttc; rye. No. L :iSc to :!0c; butter, ehoice creamery, 10c to 'Jle; eggs, fresh, löe to 17c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 'JTic; broom corn, $J0 to per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis Cattle, slripping. $;.0 to 14.7."; hoc-, choice light, &i.00 to Jf-1.00; ftlieyp, common, fa prime. $'J.OO to $3.7."; wlhrat. No. II. tJTic to title; com. , No. I white, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Co to 22e. St. Louis Cattle, $.1.00 to $.".00; hog, $.'J.0O to $4.20; wheat, No. 2 red, (He to IVic: corn. No. 1 yellow. LTe to 27c; ihiU. Nor2 whiff, ISc to Ilk-; rye, No. 2. Jib; to .'iOe. r ' jh. Cincinnaiti Cattle, $:.ro to $4.75; bog, $.'.00 to $4.2."; sheep, $2.50 to $::.7r; wheat. No. 2, 00c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 2Se to 21 e; oats. No. 2 mixed, 2)l to 22c; rye, .No. 2, 12c to 4:Jc. Detroit -Cattle, $2.."0 'o $5.00; hogs. $r.0O to $1.25; sheep. $2.ttt to $:k7o; wheat, No. 2 red. (iOe to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 20.-; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 2oc: rye. .'Sc to :51N-. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 led, (JOe ro 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 20c: oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 22e; ry e, No. 2, IlSc i Mc; clover sceil, $4.40 to $4.50. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring. 'iMe to Olr; corn. No. 2, 25c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 10c to 20c; bjrley. No. 2, IKlo to oW: rye. No. 1. U0c to 41c; pork, nies, $10.25 to $10.75. BufTalo-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $o.00 to $l.r0: Kheep, $2.."s) to .i.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 7J5c to 75c; com, No. 2 yellow, .'51c to o2c; oats, No. 2 white, 24 e to 25c New York-Cattle, $:!.00 to $5.23;s1iogs, $.t.00 to $4.75; slu-ep. $2.(M) to :t.75: wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2, SCm? to 37c; oatH, No. 2 w!iite, 24e to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 17c to l'Je,

WILL PERMIT RELIEF

AID ALLOWED TO SUFFERING ARMENIANS. Sublime I'ortc, However Will Noi HccOKiiizc the Hcd Crnoü Society ltan Upon Catholic Mcinhcrslii p of Secret Societies to He Eternal. Sultan Partly Helcnts. Owing to the energetic representations of I'nited States .Minister Terrell. Miss Barton and her party will be permitted. bv the Turkish (lovcrnmcnt to distribute relief to the distressed Armenians, although the Red Cross will not figure Iu the work. This news came to the State Department Friday iu a cablegram from the minister to Secretary Olney. in which he says that while the Mrte refuses such permission lo the Bed Cross, or to the members of the Ited Cross, as such, and thereby declines to otKcially recognize that society, it will permit any person whom the minister names and approves to distribute relief in the interior of Turkey, provided the Turkish authorities are kept informed of what I hey are doing. There can be no question that Miss Earton and her party will be so designated hy Mr. Terrell. Hut it is apprehended that they will encounter almost insur immutable obstacles in reaching the field of action, as the mountain passes between the seaboard and the interior are now practically impassable owing to the deep snow. Satolli Decline to Hear Appeal. The ban placed by the Koman Catholic Church upon the orders of Knights of Pythias. Sons of Temperance and Odd l-'ellows is absolute and admits of no fur ther discussion. This is the mandate of the pope, through bis oll'u-ial representative. Cardinal Satolli. The three orders named have a Roman Catholic membership in round numbers of nearly a hun dred thousand. J die month ago a number of prominent Catholics connected with the Pythian order organized a committee of appeal iu the hope that a proper pre sentation of the case before the papal delegate would result ill a recall of the interdict. In response to invitations the committee receive.i a inousanu leiters from prominent Koman Catholics in all parts' of the country heartily indorsing I he movement and pledging moral and financial aid. Coufcsfacs on the Gallows. "I did the deed. I killed t Jeorge Wells and don't want anvone else to suffer for lhc crime but myself." said Henry C. Coster, as he stood upon the scaffold at the Cook County jail at Chicago Friday noon. Three minutes later the murder for which the young colored man had been tried was legally avenged. The "Black Bear" died with the exemplitical ion of the nerve that he has so often declared he would display upon the gallows. Not once did he betray weakness during the ordeal which preceded the adjusting of the noose and the paraphernalia of death. There was an absence of the bravado manner that the voting man's varied life might have instilled in him. Would f.ynch the Murderers. Webster tlrove. the St. I.ouis suburb, was wildlv excited over the tragedy, when Bertram A. Aiwa let, the young Chieag cd, was waylaid by highwaymen. Om of the robbers. John Schmidt, wounde. to death by the plucky Chicagoan, wil the. I he other Ihm;. Sam Foster, a col ored ex-convict, who tired the fatal shots. nnd Feter Schmidt, who arranged tin trap into which Mr. Alwalor was unsus pectingly lured and then slain, are in cus tody. At their examination thev tried to escape, ami only determined action bv llieollicets prevented a mob from Ivm hiug them. Yotiiiy; Oniahn Hero. That not a pupil was injured in a blase which started Thursday morning on the lirst floor of the Dodge street school nt Omaha. Neb., was due to OHie Downs, a 10 year-old boy. Oflie is the head drummer iu the tire drill, lie handles the drum to keep the children iu marching order As soon us the alarm was given he hurried down to the principal's oflice. got his drum nnd, stationing himself near the door. loiiiMicii mil ine tunes win ie Hie children marched out of the building. Ttia .Much Scandal. Washington dispatch: Col. U. i:. ,. Crofton minauder of the Fifteenth Kegiment of Infantry at Fort Sheridan. 111.. has oeen asked to retire from the army. Secretary Lament sent him a letter saying that on account of certain evidence revealed iu the I'ague court -mart ial trial the President would be please to grant his application for retirement. In six months more Crofton could have retired upon his own motion. NEWS .NUGGETS. A mi tote France, the author, has been elected a member of the French Academy. Mine. Modjeska is so seriously ill :hat nil her engagement have been canceh .'. A receiver is asked for the Lincoln (Neb. I Savings ltank and Safe Deposit Company. Bertram F., Atwater. the Chicago artist nnd designer, was shot and killed by highwaymen iu a St. Louis suburb. William Foster, dr.. of New York city, engaged in the business of mining ami manufacturing, has made an assignment to his son. The liabilities are expected to be about SlOO.t.HM'. end the assets are largely in excess of that amount. The assignment is made iu order to enable Mr. Foster, who is iu ill health, to retire from business. An explosion of chemicals in the laboratory of the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company, in room L'10 of lhc old Stock Fxchango Ituilding at Chicago, caused a lire that wrecked all theolliccs on the second floor, frightened into panic or hysterics the occupants of the building and resulted iu the kcvciv injury of two perCollS. Miss Clara Barton and the staff oflicers of t'ie Red Cross Society sailed Wednesday from New York for Constantino. Ic. President Cleveland declares that the Davis Monroe doctrine resolution is "mischievous, inopportune and unfortunate." Jennie (Joldthwaite. the "Kitty (Hover" of the Princess llounic Opera Company, Is engaged to marry Frank Murphy, the Chicago broker. The Democratic members of the Mississippi Legislature hnve nominated Congressman II. D. Mouey for Fniled States Senator to succeed J. Z. (.Jeorge. j

A WHARF RAT.

One Seen in a Walk Alone South Street. "I had read about wharf rats, and heard about them often," said a man. rrhe other day I saw one. I was walking along South street, nnd I saw a Sound bgit whose sailing; hour was about due, and I thought I'd like to see her start out. You couldn't see much of her from the wharf at which she lay, on account of the pier shed; and so I went round and down the wharf on the other side of the ship. The wharf was housed over, but it had the usual openings in the sides, and from one of thci.i 1 got a good view of the boat I wanted to see, directly opposite at work taking on thi' last of the steamer's bad. Ov t there it was all activity; where I wait was all quiet. There was no boat hi either side, and only a truck or two am! three or four men on the wharf. "While I stood there in the broad opening looking at the boat and at tic Hairs Homing; over it a rat apeaied six or eight feet away, on that side of the opening; toward the river end of the wharf; it came out from alongside of or under the stringpiece. where it was cut oft' so that the lloor of the wharf might in the opening be unobstructed to the edge. "I don't know how big wharf rats grow. but this was the biggest rat I ever saw; it was a bic rat, and yet. bi:: as it was. it didn't seem monstrous; that i, it didn't seem like a rat of unusual size for the place, for it acted as though it belonged there and was perfectly familiar with the place and its surroundings. It was quick and smooth in its movements, but not hurried. Tbc instant it appeared it started across the opening. It crossed in front of me. wil hin a few inches of where 1 sto d, but without deviating from its course, and disappeared under the corresponding end of the stringpioco on the other f-ide. "In the presence of that rat I felt like a stranger. Where be came from and where he was going 1 didn't know, inn what his errand was; but it was plain enough from the ease and certainty with which he moved that lie knew that wharf from bulkhead line to pierhead in every spile and brace, and probably he knows all South street just as well. He didn't stop to look at the boat; b-: wasn't interested in it, as 1 was, for he lives there and sees it every day."New York Sun. Some Itnre Minerals. "Once in a while,", remarked a mining man last evening, "you hear of a man who claims to have found a mine of bismuth, and basins his calculations upon a price of say J?H a pound, be heralds his find and thinks he has a fortune within bis prasp. The fact is. there is no bismuth produced in this country and there are only about thirty tons Imported. So If any one could put 100 tons on the market it would bring the price down to LT cents, at least. "Of cobalt not more than -"o tons hi . .. . " ----.II.. jn i)f world. "In regard to mica-i am spenKu..; now of the uses it is put to in electrical appliances the Fast Indian product is driving the Canadian product out of the market. Mica that Is in the bast associated with iron Is useless for this purpose. It is much the same with mono of the rarer minerals. Were tclliiriuin found in large quantifies its value would 'lessen, but, as only a few ounccN are found each year, not enough to supply the demand, why the value is enhanced." Thrte-llfths of the nickel produced !n the world comes from Canada. The production in other portions of the world is so small as to cut no figure in lite .vlatiijlics of luimral productions.-. Spokane Review. Novel Fse of ScnrcliUjjht. The electric searchlight was used recently to put down a riot In Lancashire, Fngland. A manufacturer, whoso men had struck, was determined to keep bis mill Kotng, and he promptly s uir" ! new bunds and set thotu to work. At the same time he fixed a searchlight on the factory building to prevent tin strikers from setting lire to the sh-d$ erected for the new hands. During the continuance og the strike this 11;;!, t was used nightly lit conjunction willi th police established in the works, to t-cour the country and to illuminate the part w here pickets were placed. It was -found so effective that a large num'vr of temporary police were dispr-nsc.I With. Fear of Death. The absence of fear of death which 1? such a striking character of the Chinese nature has a logical explanation. The Chinese aie taught that only those who face death fearlessly enter Into happiness in the other world. Foreign ers whp have witnessed executions in China bear witness that, as the exe cutioner with his sword mows down the kDeeling ranks, the convicts invariably meet death w Ith Jest. Lions. The Mesopotamia!! lion is usually without, a mane, although mum tho K?run River some have been found with a long black one. Such a lion. a recent traveler tells us. is called Kallir, or infidel, the lnanelcss lions being Mussulmans. These latter. If properly adjured, may, say the Inhab itants, be Induced to spare life on or thodox confession of faith, while the unbelieving lion has no mercv. I. ikes the Country. James R. Robertson, n young Fnglish-. man who recently arrived in ibis coe.n. try, is thus quoted: "This is my tirs trip to the Fnited States, and I ani charmed nnd Interested with the coun try nml Its people. I was up mi Lake Ceorge, where I consider the scenery as line as anything in Scotland." The dirtier a log is, the mor friend-

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