The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 September 1894 — Page 2

THE DEMOCRAT.

GREEXCASTLE, : INDIANA.

The News Condensed.

important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Kt'Kiilar Session. Only a score of senators were present on the last day of the second session of the Fiftythird congress on the 28th. The committee appointed to call upon the president announced he had no further communication to make to congress. Resolutions of thanks were tendered Vice President Stevenson and the senate adjourned sine die. .In the house the resignation of Representative Oates, recently elected governor of Alabama, to take effect December 8, was presented. The committee appointed to wait upon the president reported that the president hud no further communication to make to congress, and the speaker declared the second session of the Fifty-third congress adjourned.

DOMESTIC. Mebcio Levine, aped 53; Joseph Levine, ii^ed 18, and Elias Levine, aired 16, perished in a tenement house tire in ! New York city. The St. Denis hotel, two livery stables and three residences were burned at Columbus, Ind., causing a loss of nearly 8100,000. Gov. Waite, of Colorado, and three Denver police officials were arrested, charged with opening a letter addressed loan ex-poliee matron. The date for the forthcoming' con ventlon of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union, tube held In Cleveland, O., has been set for Friday. November 16. John Jones, an Elwood (Ind.) tinplate worker, has fallen heir to 84,000,000 by the death of an uncle In

Wales.

Fohkst fires continued to rnge in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and In the former state several towns were endangered. The steamer Northwest ran on liar point, Lake Erie, while going at full speed and u panic was created among her 160 passengers. She was in no danger. It is claimed the state of Tennessee lias been defrauded out of $4,000,000 in taxes by derelict officials, and suits j will be entered. The International Migration society j of Birmingham, Ala., has arranged for the transportation of 6,000 negroes to Liberia prior to November 1. Fire wiped out the business portion of Elliston, a railroad aud logging camp near Helena, Mont. Madison Cheadlk, a farmer in Morgan county, O., charged with theft, was taken from his house by white caps, beaten almost to Insensibility and then hanged to the limb of a tree. A tramp cut him down in time to save his life. The house of C. J. Freeberg, a farmer near Fairmont, Minn., was burned, and his wife and child perished in the

Barnes.

A si,ate quarry at Steinsvillo, I’a., caved in, killiyg David Williams, aged 65, and Edward Daniels, aged 80. A fire originated in the Brooks’ Bros.' lumber yard in SL Paul, causing a loss of $110.000. The Imsiness portion of Burdick, Ind., was wiped out by fire. C. E. D. McNitt, minus both legs and one arm, wanted to marry Mrs. Martin, who had left her husband in Arkansas, bhe refused and both were found dead at Bonham, Tex. A freight and passenger train collided at Tower Hill, 111., doing damage to the extent of 8100,000. No one was Injured. Eire destroyed the Brooklyn (N. Y.) biscuit works, the loss being over $'Ju0,000. After devoting fourteen days in Chicago to the investigation of the recent strike the labor commission adjourned, to meet again in Washington heptember '26. Lord Clinton trotted a mile at Dayton, O., m 2:12, breaking the world's record for time over a half-mile truck. Census office statistics indicate that nearly one-half the families in the United States own their own homes. Richard McAvot and George Thomas were killed at Hartford, Kan., in a quarrel over some chickens. Mart Hopkins, once a society leader in Lawrence, Kan., was in jailattiuthrie, O. T., on a charge of stealing

horses.

Three men were killed and a fourth injured by the explosion of a thrashing machine boiler at Elbow Eake,

M inn.

Hv the forest fires in Michigan the Diamond Match company lost 00.000,000 feet of lumber in the Trout creek district, and the Nester estate 20,000,000 feet. During a drunken brawl amongCbilcat Indians at Juneau, in Alaska, six were murdered and a large number seriously wounded. Over 80,000 Sunday school children marched in the aanual rally day parade in Detroit, Mich. An English syndicate is said to have purchased thirty-four paper mills in Wisconsin. The deal involves 814,000.000. Flint Grover, a private in the regular army at Fort Myer, Va., has fallen heir to a fortune of 8500,000. Walter B. Richie, of Ohio, was elected supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias at the Washington conclave. Parke & Lacey, dealers In machinery at Portland, Ore., failed for 8125.000. Mrs. Lizzie Bent, of Lynn, Mass., has recovered her daughter, who was stolen from her thirteen years ago. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 81st ult. aggregated 8744,880,241, against 8813,408,031 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1803, was 14.6. TiiEur: were 168 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 31st nit., against 284 the week previous and 856 in the corresponding time In 1808.

Rorf.BT J.. owned by J. Hamlin, of Buffalo. N. Y., broke tbe world's j-.v. ing record on the track at Fort Wayne, Ind.. making a mile in'.:!).'! 1 ,. Pkof. D. K. Con ant, instructor in the gymnasium of the Un versity of Chicago, was drowned while bathing in Silver lake at Akron, O. The total receipts from nil sources at the treasury in Washington during August amounted to 841,021,380, and the disbursements to 881,688,864, leaving a surplus for the month of 80,832,-

526.

J. L. Hay, accused of appropriating 8160,(KM) of Arkansas script, and for whom officers had been searching for two years, was arrested at Memphis, Tenu. By the bursting of an artesian well basin the town of Uvalde, Tex., was inundated and it was thought 200 persons were drowned. The property loss was estimated at 81,500,000. The Montreal express on the Delaware ,v Hudson railroad was thrown from the traek near Port Kent, N. V, and more than twenty persons were injured, none fatally. Both eastward and westward Atlantic records were broken, the former by the Campania, which made the trip from New York to Queenstown in 5 days 10 hours and 47 minutes, the latter by the Lueania, which made the trip from Queenstown to New York in 5 days 8 hours and 38 minutes. George F. Newland and his wife were fatally burned at Saratoga, N. Y. The town of New Castle, Pa., was literally flooded with counterfeit quarters and dimes. In conclave at Washington the supreme assembly of the Pythian Sisterhood elected Mrs. George Bemis, of Worcester, Mass., as supreme chancellor. The Pythian Sisters elected Mrs. Ida M. W eaver, of Des Moines, la., us supreme chief. The enormous fruit business handled by the Union Pacific railway this year is without parallel in the history of the traffic. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league tor the week ended on the 1st were: Baltimore, .660; Boston, .639; New York, .036; Philadelphia, .561; Brooklyn, .542; Cleveland, .624; Pittsburgh, .491; Chicago, .403, Cincinnati, .435; ht. Louis, .413; Washington, .845; Louisville, .296. Forest fires wiped out th ■ towns of Hinckley, Mission Creek. Milaea and Stands tone in Minnesota, Bashaw, Barronett, Benoit. Cartwright, Fifield, Granite Lake, Grantsburg, (Hidden, Marengo, Muscado, Shell Lake and South Range in Wisconsin, and Nidnaw, Ewen and Trout Creek in Michigan. The total loss of life as far as known was placed at 466 and the loss

William Revei.l Moony, eldest son of the revivalist, was married to Miss Mary Whittle, eldest daughter of Maj. I). \V. Whittle, at East Xorthtield,

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Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his 85th birthday at Beverly Farms, near Boston. The following congressional nominations were reported: Iowa, Seventh I district, J. R. Bancroft (dem.). Illinois. Sixth district, James J. Linehan (pop.); Tenth. John Olsen (dem.). Indiana. Twelfth district. Freeman Kelley (pop.). Wisconsin. Third district, C. M. Bullett (pop.); Fifth. S. S. Barney (rep.). Mississippi, First district, L. A. Brown (pop.); Second, John 0. Kyle (dem.) renominated. Tennessee, Eighth district, J. A. McCamm (rep.). Texas. Thirteenth district. It. It. Kenyon (rep.). President Cleveland arrived at Buzzard's Bay. Mass., where he will spend I a brief vacation. Til* republicans of North Carolina met in state convention at Raleigh and indorsed the populist state ticket Richard Mi Chief, of Deerfield, Ind., aud Will MeGrilf. of Geneva, Ind., oelei hrated their 96th birthday. They aro said to he the oldest twins in the United States. In an open letter to the republicans 1 of New York ex-Viee President Morton 1 announced his candidacy for theguberI uatorial nomination. Colorado prohibitionists nominated a full ticket for state officers, headed by George Richardson for governor. Congressmen were nominated as fol- | lows: Virginia. Eighth district, J. G. Mason (pop.). Texas. Fourth district, I 1). B. Culberson (dem.) renominated. North Carolina, Third district, Cyrus Thompson (pop.); Sixth, 0. 11. Dockery

(rep.).

Chaney Matthews, a negress 110 years of age, died at Little Rock. She was the oldest resident of Arkansas us far as was known. Judge John E. Hanna, aged 90, the oldest practicing lawyer in Ohio, died at his home in McConnellsville. The following congressional nominations were made: Wisconsin, Seventh district, ( '. H. Van Wormer (pop.). Iowa, Eighth district, Frank C. Stuart (pop.). Missouri, Thirteenth district, J. II. Raney (rep.). Nebraska, Second district, James E. Boyd (dem.); Third, J. M. Devine (pop.). Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, famous as both soldier and statesman, died at Waltham, Mass., after a long illness, aged 78 years. Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's war governor and secretary of the interior in the Garfield cabinet, died at Iowa City, aged 80 years.

FOREIGN.

to property at 812,066,600. Upbraided for dissipation, James Cain, a Cincinnati barber, shot his father, wife and child. The latter was

dead.

S. Baron & Co., knit goods manufacturers of New York, were forced to assign through the speculating of a junior partner. Liabilities, $150,000. Four masked men robbed the bank at Tescott, Kan., of 81,000, and fatally wounded a citizen who attempted to interfere. Henry Loesche shot his wife four times at St. Louis and then cut his own throat. A new counterfeit two-dollar bank note was discovered by the redemption agency of the treasury department on the Commercial national bank of Providence, R. I. Mrs. Thomas McEmkry and her child were run down on a bridge and killed by a train near Fulton, 111. Polish Catholics at Omaha were swindled out of 822,000 by their priest and locked out of church by the bishop. Masked robbers tortured an aged couple near Warren, ()., and secured seventy cents. The old people would probably die of their injuries. The first ocean cable ever laid in New York bay was put down by the Commercial ( able company. John Kauffman, a wealthy brewer in Cincinnati, ()., was fatally wounded by bis wife, whom he had left. Smoke from forest fires became so dense in the city of Boston that artificial light was necessary at noon. Heavy wind and rainstorms wrecked several buildings at Indianapolis aud destroyed hundreds of shade trees. According to the treasury statement i the public debt decreased 81,718,654 during August. Six negroes who had been arrested on a charge of barn-burning were shot to death by a mob while being taken to the jail at Millington, Tenn. Jan Hus, the first Bohemian Meth odist church in the world, was dedicated in Chicago with interesting ceremonies. Claiming that the increase was illegal, whisky men will refuse to pay the new tax and appeal to the supreme

court.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The police of Milan arrested an anarchist in whose possession were papers detailiiy? the plans of a conspiracy to stab the king of Greece. Abbe Bih nkau was guillotined at Lavall, France for murder, British and German gunboats destroyed the stronghold of the Samoan rebels at Latuanuu and drove them out. Mexican troops were ambushed by Yaqui Indians near Los Guesimes, and twelve soldiers aud one woman were

killed.

Fearing pleuro-pneurjonia the Belgian government ordered quarantine of all American eatths for forty-five days after arrivaL Onb thousand Chinese were burned or drowned during a fire among the flower boats on the Canton river. In n quarrel over bouTuUry lines between San Miguel Achfutla and Teposcohn.l, Mexico, twenty-fire persons were killed.

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Later reports from the fire-swept district of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin indicate that the loss of life and destruction of property have not been exaggerated. While it is not possible to ascertain the exact number of lives lost it is certain that between 400 and 506 persons perished. The property loss will not fall short of 810,000,006. Twenty persons were drowned in an accident on Morecam bay, near Lancaster, England. The Colorado democrats in convention at Denver nominated C. G. Thomas, of Arapahoe county, for gov-

ernor.

Heavy rains averted further danger from forest fires at many points in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Mrs. J. McI’hee, her two children and Miss Mabel Hill were caught in a waterspout near Perry. 0. T., and drowned. Smoke from forest fires made navigation dangerous on Lakes Superior and M icliigan. The national irrigation convention opened at Denver with about 200 delegates in attendance. Several foreign countries were represented. Forest fires were raging in Pennsylvania. and trenches were being dug to protect the oil and gas plants.

Nominations for congress were made as follows: Iowa, Tenth district, J. P. Babcock (dem.). Illinois,Ninth district, D. F. Thompson (dem.); Thirteenth, W. L. Barnes (pops). Michigan. Fifth district, W. A. Smith (rep.); Sixth, G. L. Kilbonrne (dam.); Eighth, P. o. Crosby (pop.). Minnesota, First district, J. A. Tawney (rep.) renominated. West Virginia, Second district, William L. Wilson (dem ) renominated; Fourth, James Capeh&rt (dem.). Maryland, First district, A. S. Dryden (rep.). North Carolina, Third district, Cyrus Thompson (pop.); Tenth, T. C. Mllliken (rep.). Mississippi, First district, J. M Allen (dem.) renominated. Texas, J. O. Abbott (dem.) on the 8,398th ballot. Pennsylvania, Twelfth district, W. II. Hines (dem.) renomi nated. W. C. Howells, consul at Toronto and Quebec under President Grant, and one of the oldest journalists in Ohio, died at his home in Jefferson, aged 87 years. The democrats in state convention at Dover, Del., nominated Ebe W. Tunnel. of Sussex county, for governor John C. Gault, a veteran railroad man, died in Chicago from paralysis, aged 65 years.

Mrs. John Carter and John Wemmot were murdered at Burr Oak, la. The woman’s husband was arrested on suspicion. The first national labor holiday was generally observed throughout the country. The democrats elected their entire state ticket in Arkansas, James P. Clark, for governor, having from 15,000 to 20,000 majority. Burglars entered the W abash ticket office at Springfield, 111., at the noon hour and robbed the safe of 81.000. At Burbank, ().. the Methodist church, twelve dwelling-houses and live barns were destroyed by fire. Seven persons were shot in Hayti for connection with a conspiracy to murdera daughter of Hippolyte. Preparations for an industrial exposition of giant proportions, to be held in 1897. were being made at Stockholm. Sweden. Point au Pic, a summer resort 70 miles below Quebec, was destroyed by

fire.

The populists nominated C. II. Martin for congress in the Sixtli district of North Carolina and Henry C. Baldwin in the Second district of Connect!*

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THE LABOR COMMISSION.

Concluding TestimonieB Submitted Anent the Strike.

Knilroari* < omit thr Tout Yiro President Wickea* Testimony lien. Miles* Part in tIk** Affair- Mayor Hopkins Is Heard. I.OR8E8 TO THE BO ADS. CHICAGO. Auk 80. -When the labor commission assembled *>r Tuesday's session svv eral railroad officials who had been summoned to furnish statemeuts of the losses caused to various roads by the strike were heard. Summarized their statements show that the affprretrute loss of the Chlcaffo & Alton road was $286,860, the Lake Shore. damaKC to cars. $5,154; the Chicago & Eastern Illinois. $123,706; the Burlington, $115,000; the St. Paul, $190,020; the Northwestern, $562,690.31; Chicago & Erie. $14*4,788.77. The same statement showed a total loss of wages to employes of $335,935.93 Then Mr. Wickes took the stand. Questioned by Chairman Wright, he said that the cost to the company of building the cars under contract at the time of the strike was about $1.4o0.0U0. The labor would cost about $240,000. The contracts were taken on a basis of a reduction of 20 per cent, and thus under the old prices the labor would cost about $310,000. On this basis Me. Wright said that, according to the testimony of Mr. Wickes. the company had contributed $52,000 for the purpose of securing these contracts and keeping the people employed and the wage earners $60,000. The wages of workmen had been raised, Mr. Wickes said, time and again where there had been no request from the men. The company's officers w’ere always ready to pay every man ff>r his skill; but, too, they were entitled to just profits occurring from the use of improved machinery. Witness had been in close touch with labor men for the past twenty-six years. He thought the present principle of operation had worked admirably until last May. In the works of the Pullman comp my at Wilmington and at St. Louis there had never been any trouble of any kind, lie thought that if there had been no outside interference there the men would not have gone on strike. The company was preparing an investigation and a statement of its actual condition to set before the men when the strike was called. That statement would have bei-n identical with the one given in evidence before the commission. Th • subject of arbitration and the Pullman company's refusal to arbitrate with its former employes was taken up by Commissioner Kernan. The witness thought that the question of wages could not be submitted to arbitration. An employer knew what he could afford to pay for the w’ork needed and that was a fixed amount. It could vary only as profits to the manufacturer change The Pullman company had never objected to unions except in one instance. The objection to the American Hallway union was that the company would not treat with its men through any union. It would treat with them individually only. Gen. Nelson A. Miles took the stand when the commission met after luncheon. In answer to questions he said his occupation was major general of the United States army. He denied flatly the story that on his arrival here from Washington he had at once consulted with the general managers. On July 2, when this conference w’as said to have taken place, he was in Washington, and he arrived here on July 4. Asked if it was true that he had declared he had broken the backbone of the strike, the general said this was not quite exact. What Ihe said was that he had broken the backbone of the opposition to the federal troops. The commissioners wanted to know if the troops forced railroad men to work at the point of the bayonet. Gen. Miles said that while this might have happened in some instances, he had not been aware of it and had issued no orders to that effect. He said he knew nothing about the strike. That the troops were ordered here by the president to see that the decrees of the United States courts were enforced, aud beyond carrying out such instructions he had nothing to do with the strike. More Testimony Taken. Chicago, Aug. 31.—Chairman Wright has announced that all the witnesses on both sides who had been suggested to the commission had been examined, and there remained no more evidence to be heard, except what testimony may be added in rebuttal which either side may care to offer. The testimony given on Wednesday was brief and comparatively unimportant. The lirst w Itness was Town Agent Hoornbeck. of Pullman, who was questioned by Mr. Kernan. He said that he had charge of the houses and real estate in the model town. The witness said that he signed the leases of the houses for the company, aud produced a form of the lease. The agent said that in the matter of repairs the company paid all the bills. The repairs on the houses last year amounted to $42,000. The repairs were not charged to the tenants. He could not say why the lease provided for the charging of repairs to the tenants. He only knew that the company did not charge the tenant with repairs. The Hock Island road furnished about thirty witnesses from Blue Island to show the character of the strike meeting at the village on that road. There were tailors, painters, carpenters, storekeepersjand railroad men. but most of them knew nothing and were dismissed. Their testimony showed that of about 400 men w ho attended the meeting less than one-third were railroad men. Each testified that Vice President Howard, of the American Railway union, had used most violent language in the speech he made at the Blue Island meeting, suggesting violence and calling Mr. Pullman and the railroad managers hard and vile names. These witnesses said that Howard caused the strike on the Hock Island Debs helped only incidentally to bring It on. H. R. Saunders was recalled after the others had testifled. He said that in his speech Mr. Howard had said that Pullman ought to be hanged, and that he, Howard, would like to help hang him. Howard hud also said the men who would take the places of those on strike should be killed with a coupling pin. Testimony of Mayor Hopkins. Chicago, Aug. 31. After hearing the testimony of Mayor Hopkins Thursday afternoon Chairman Wright announced that the work of the labor commission in Chicago was at an

end.

Mayor Hopkins being called testifled that Mr. Wright, counsel for the Rock Island road, claimed on July 5 that mobs were interfering with the operation of trains. At that time the main line was clear to Thirty-seventh street, but at that place about 3,500 persons, mostly women and children, had congregated. A car had benn overturned north of Thirty-seventh street, ami the wrecking crew was working on it. He continued; “Thf.t same evening I learned that the First regiment was going into camp at Springfield. I wired the governor that they ought to be kept here, us they might be needed within twentyfour hours. At my suggestion he had them report at their armory for duty instead of going to Spring field. About 10 30 o'clock that night I learned that the Diamond special on the Illinois ('entral was stal ed at Kensington and had the police clear the way for it. Friday morning. July 0. information came that crowds were gathering on "ho Rock Island tracks, and after consultation 1 decided to call on the governor for five regiments of state militia, which he ordered to report to me immediately. * 1 believe the police did their full duty all through the strike. 1 have been assured by a nutnber of railroad officials that the protection of the police was all they needed. General Superintendent Sullivan, of the Illinois Central, President Thomas, of the Western Indiana, and Superintendent Ashby, of the Union Stock Yards & Transit company, have all congratulated the city authorities on the conduct ol the police and the management of the disturbances. M In all the evidence produced before the otmnission. so far as I could discover, I have seen no instance where a charge has been made against the city police that they have failed to do all that could have been expected of them. J suppose Mr. Egan might have made noma

complaint, but he was continually putting the police force to unnecessary trouble and effort by alarms of violence w here there were no» ••Would you say. Mr. Mayor, that the police had shown no sympathy for the strikers or had not let their sympathy influence their con-

duct?”

“I would not like to say the police had no sympathy with the strike. Doubtless some of them had. I am free to say that so fur as the strikers at Pullman were concerned I was in sympathy with them myself. What I do mesia to say is that no policeman let his sympathies keen him from doing his full duty during the strike so fur as I have been able to discover. The police were on duty for ten days without going home. They lived at their posts or at the stations, and I think they did all that could have been expected of them.** The mayor told about the failure of his efforts to secure arbitration or other settlement of the trouble. July 12 the witness had accompanied Mayor Pingree to call on Mr. Wickes Mr Runneila and Mr Brown, but tkey persisted in their statement that there was nothing to arbitrate. On July 13 came the communication from I’ebs and Howard tothe general managers which the mayor agreed to take to the general managers. ‘T took it to their headquarters and found Mr. St. John, who said that the general managers did not wish to consider any communication coming from those men. He said, however. that since 1 hud brought It he would consult the members of the association personally. He did, and the result was a letter returning the communication." •It has been intimated that I protested against the presence in the city of federal troops. That is not so. I was not consulted with nor advised that federal troops were to be sent here. I had not up to that time been advised that anybody or any corporation needed protection of any kiqd that was not already supplied. 1 did not protest against the sending of federal troops, although I plight have felt that the persons desiring protection should have called first upon municipal and state authorities for protection before they called for United States

troops.”

The commission then adjourned.

Th#» Blizzard. A piercing shriek, a maddening swirl, And the blinding storm is on. Tis wind-swept branches writhe and curl. The fence and the road are gone; Not a landmark remains on the yawning plains. And the storm and the night are one. There are needles of sleet in the Icy blast That pushes against the pane; There are choking billows of snow, that cast Their eddying depths amain. And whirl with a cry through the falling sky That moves upon the plain. Against the stack in huddled fear The unhoused cattle wait, From out the storm rack, shrill and clear, A horse neighs for his mate, While a man in the storm with sturdy form Is battling with his fate. Alas! oh storm, for the <lays that dawn When thy secrets shall be rend. Alas! for the aching hearts at home, With their sickening weight of dread. Alas! for the one who will not come Till the snows give up their dead. —Georgianu Hodgkins, in Youth's Companion* The Voice of the 1‘eople Proclaims one fact ns true, namely, that Hostetler’s Stomach Hitters effects a cure whenever it is persistently used for the ailments to which it is adapted. Among these are malarial and dyspeptic ailments, rheuI mutism, nervous and kidney complaints, ! constipation and biliousness. A tablespoonful three times a day is about the average. “Dip that young girl that Tompkins befriended at the sea shore show any gratitude for what he’d done'*’ ‘ Well. I should say not! bho married him.”—Inter Ocean. Barker—“Sure, this is neither rhyme nor reason!'’ Griggs “I know it; but it’s the English translation of an Italian opera I libretto!”- Truth.

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Hong Kong, Sept. 1.—A terrible fire has occurred on the Canton river. A flower boat caught fire, and the flames spread until hundreds of those craft were destroyed. The progress of the lire was so rapid that at least 1.000 native perished in the flames. The flower boats were moored stem and stern, in rows, and large numbers of natives lived upon them. The spread of the conflagration from one boat to another was so rapid that the unfortunate Chinese had no time to cut them from their moorings, a strong wind materially helping the increase of the fire. Many hundreds of persons on board the flower boats leaped overboard and were drowned, while several hundred others remained on board the craft and perished in the flames. SCANDAL IN THE 400. Mrs. \Y. K. Vanderbilt to He^ln I’roreedings for Legal Separation. New York, Aug. 81 —Reports from Paris are to the effect that Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt is about to make application for divorce. If she does, she will ask for an allowance of 8300,000 a year, the custody of the children and the three homes which the family occupies at different seasons of the year. The white marble palace at Newport, that cost $1,000,000, was deeded to Mrs. Vanderbilt some time ago. The husband’s relations to Nelly Neustretter, a well-known woman in Paris, are said to be the immediate cause of Mrs. Vanderbilt’s impending action, though other women will doubtless be dragged into the ease as co-respondents. A FATAL DUEL. KHcht of the Hrecklnrlilgc ( iuimois Fulls nil Two l-Hin 11 i«*B. Lexington, Ky., Aug 81.—A luel to death with knives occurred iji Clark county, near Boonesboro, over the scandal feature of the Ashland congressional contest. John King, a Breckinridge man, living in Fayette county, met on the highway Ins old friend George Cook, who lives in Clark county. Cook said any woman who went to hear Breckinridge speak was no better than a courtesan. King dismounted from his horse, saying his wife and daughters had heard Breckinridge. Cook insisted it was a shame. He also dismounted. Both drew knives and blood flowed freely until Cook dropped, having three stabs in the breast. King lias escaped. GERMANY DON’T LIKE IT. She Tuken Umbrage at Our Increased Tax on Sugar. London, Aug. 81.—The Standard’s conespondent at Berlin says: "Tbe new American tarlll law gives umbrage in Germany, especially tfic proviso which Increases the duty on sugar from countries giving bounties. This change Is felt more keenly here, us the amount of increase is the sani^for all bounty-giving countries regardless of tho uuinunt of the bounties. The effect of this, according to (ierman opinion, will not be to induce such countries to abolish the bounties, as tho American senate wishes, but on the contrary to raise them." Made Yankee Coin In Canada. Windsor, Out., Sept. 1.- Thomas Ryan and Ed Weaver, counterfeiters, were arrested here Thursday night. A search of their apartments revealed molds for coining American dollars and quarters, a quantity of metal, a melting pot and other equipment necessary for making spurious coin. A few counterfeit quarters and dollars were also found. The men are said to be members of a gang who have a large and well-equipped den sotne1 where near the city.

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SEND FOR CATALOGUE „ * . /r W-L-DOUGLAT, K ^ ' BI^OCKTON, MASS. You can save money by wearing tho W. L. Douul.i* ert.OO Shoe. BornuHP, wo aro the largest manufacturers ol this gradoof shoes la tho world, and guarantee their ▼aluo by stamping the name and price on the bottom, which protect you a ;alnst hlt;h prices and the middleman’s proffts. Our shoes equal custom work In stylo, easy flttlug and wearing qualities, j tVehave them gold everywhere at lower prices for tho value given than any other make. Take no sub* etltute. If your dealer cannot supply you, we can.

WALTER BAKER & GO. The Largest Manufacturers of fU. PURE, HIGH GRADE liCOCOHS UNO CHOCOLATES f rfsijgh On this Continent, have received SPECIAL AND HIGHEST

AWARDS

on all t/telr iiootla at tho

CALIFORNIA

MIDWINTER EXPOSITION. VTh.ir BREAKFAST COCOA, Which, unlike the Dutch Process, ide without the u*e of Alkalies

mu uUi.r nyo«. L ahsoand soluble, and costs

Is nm<l<

or other Chcmi

lutely pure

less than one cent a cup.

SOLO BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER k G1. DORCHESTER, MASS.

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FERTILE-CHEAP-HEALTHY AND NOT TOO FAR FROM GOOD MARKETS. Tho MICHIGAN CKNTRAL will run a SPECUI HOME-SEEKERS’ EXCURSION SEPT. 18 to points north of Lansing, Saginaw and Bay City at one; faro for ihe round trip. Ticket, good twenty days and to stop over. For par-

ticulars address,

O. M. BARNES, or O. W. RUGOLES. Land Commissioner, Gfcu'l Pass’r k Tick* 1 ' Ageo% Lansing, men. Chicago, ill.

Drilling Machines

for any depth. DEEP

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44

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Best line of Portable aud Semi-Portable Machines ever made. Drill 2 to 12 inches in diameter, all depths. Mounted and Down Machines. Bteiun and 2Iorse Power. Self Pumping Tools for shnllow wells. Hope tools for large and deep wells. State size ami depth you want to drilL LOOMIS & NYMAN, Tiffin, Ohio. SALESMEN WMTEB. To Bell Hardy Northern Grown Nursery NtooL. Large asBortiueiit finest tfnods sroivn. Cash every week. T11E.IKWELL NUUSKKV CO No.914 Nursery Ave., Lake € Ity, Minnesota.'

I^rpvjj WANTED to sell hurdy Nursery ■■rn 8toek. our own growins. Wo

t. our own ^rowl r commission Addr ■ Prop., I'it Ion .Nurse

Wo pay salary

L. U. mum; A t o.. Prop.. I nlon V.'.r.'rrl'.'H,

THIS PAPRK r>wrf t!m« you .rrt.

cunts WMtHE All ELSE UllS. it Lough byrup. Tastes Good. Use I in tine. Bold by druggists. I