The Syracuse Register, Volume 7, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 May 1896 — Page 2

Syracuse Register. SYRACUSE. : : INDIANA. ■ ' T ■ ' ' ' -—— Thi “R”'months hare passed and the aristocratic oyster will spend the sum* mer at seashore resorts. Tua cyclone is pretty dangerous, but the ma n who gets in front of a bielone is the one who wishes he had taken to the cellar. •Mtbtiuuovb filibustering Steamers are the drawing cards at *umfy met resorts this year. The sea serpent . r will take a vacation. ABorrox paper remarks that “the .American Indian always has been comparatively a quiet fellow.” Our Boston friends have tfever seen the-noble red man charged full of frappe, dog meat •nd a sense of injustice. Tnx college are reported as having “taken to baseball." The friends need not worry over iU Let them play a few games and they will be glad enough to quit, if nobody forbids their playing. - i A tkar ago the frosts killed the orange groves in Florida. Since then they have been growing out aud now the shoots are said to be eight and ten feet high and next year they will be tearing again. The recuperative powers of orange groves are w onderful’. 4 - Ths story of the assassination of the •hnh of Persia and the inauguration > -f the new shah, hia son, was read in the ■ streets and homes of American cities a*soon ns it was in ths streets a down j Squares away from the palace. The tel- j egraph bindi the world together. Thf. New York World has a sketch of I the hotiae of Delmonico. from which it appear* that iia founder .landed tn this countrySluiff a century ago with only two dollars in hia pocket. If the old man Were alive and in similar elrcum- ■ stances to-day; he could scarcely buy a toothpick at liclmonico's. This shows lipw we have progressed. * c; I Wouiiixu emjterora and kings in Europe and Asia, who are surrounded with body guards and find no time for recreation. must envy the president of th" grenteat nation on the globe, who get* Qp at four a. tn., dons his rough suit, gathers up his fishjng tackle and gun ■nd batt, and slips out through, the kitchen door and has fun. ‘ 1 As the good ship left hqy pier in New York *<>bs and wails shook lovely terms and rent the air. Paderewski stoed by t.ie rail and was waving his left hand in fun-wqjl. His left hand, mind you 'A hot was J e doing with his right hand? ’ Gentle reader, I‘adcrew ski's right band in his inside pocket fondling 280,U<> nice, round, honest American do! tar*. Thb new battle ship .Massachusetts reached a •peed of 16.15 knots an hour, or'At Os a knot more than the record of her sister ship, the Indiana, The buildera secured a big bonus, and the navy ’ received a great addition to its fighting equipment. The M.-i»M>chu»etta Is additional proof that American naval architects thoroughly understand their business. What is needed now is men enough to man the new ships. A womax has a right to share In her husband** title, and this self-.”* ident T~ proposition may have led to ti-e announcement by an amateur contributor to the press that Mis. Gen. (iun recently gave a itiniheon in honor of Mrs. Maj Fword. wto to the guest of Mrs. Rev. (ood. The gu*sts were Mr*. Col. Gatling, Mr*. Judge Blackstone, jinodore Monitor and Airs. Prof. Music The elevated railroad people in New York have already suggested building • double-decked eight-tracked system from Harlem to tbs Battery, and now they propose a bicycle track on top of the second story of the structure and a charge of five ..cent* for a round trip use of the track. Thia is good as far a* it goea, but there should be another roadway on,top of the bicycle track for carriage* and a topmost path for pedestrian*. Iloi-MF.*, the multi-murderer, said before his execution in Philadelphia he «ou!<l himself see that the osseous part of his head and lace were gradually as- . suming that elongated shape so pronounced In w hat is called the degenerate head. When a man constantly holds the thought of evil and crime, sooner or aster:ths thought helps to" mold hi* b/xly. The man who continual ly fear* a certain disease i* likely some day to show forth the disease. “Think no evil" is coming to be recognised a* ■cientific a* well as ethical. >..• Patriotic people who love and eher- ! Ish American institutions can well as ford to lend a hand and furnish aid to the home-mission workers in every part of the country. The very safety of the republic, depend* upon America nixing, educating aud Christianising the million* from Europe and Asia reaching our borders. Theyalue of the quiet work of home missionaries and the labors of , American churches to the state and nation has never yet been fully appreciated. even by the thoughtful people. We speak of it in no sectarian sense, but in its effects Upon the nation at serge. The Central American states, Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras, have at last united under one flag, and -will be known ns the “Republics Major de Centro America." The consolidated republic will have an area of 103,841 square miles (Honduras 47,090, Nicaragua 45,fOO and Salvador 7.255) and a total population of about 1,377,000, in round numbers, as follows: Honduras, 450,000; Nicaragua. 350,000, and Salvador, 777,000. The new republic would have been ■till stronger had it included Guatemala on the north and Costa Rica on, the south. Guatemala, however, has always been hostile to consolidation. Tub proposed plan by which 40,000 *vnmarried women are to be transferred from eastern Canada to the northwest territories and British Columbia, to supply the deficiency in marriageable women in those countries, to the same method by which a similar deficiency of marriageable-women was supplied from France to eastern Canada some Jo 400 years ago- History is merely repeating itself, and the present move- * ment is a further indication of England-* vast territory on our northern border and the long period of time rereq m red to populate tt. Some proarinent women oppose the scheme.

Epitome of the Week* INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FIFTY-FOURTHCONGREEE. The ProceeSlns* nt the First Seasioo. Washington, May 6.—ln the senate yesterday an hour was devoted to the consideration of the river and harbor bill and then the Peffer bond resolution was taken up and Senator Hill finished his speech in opposition to the measure and Senator Pettigrew spoke in its favor. A resolution was introduced rrquestingthepresident to protest agaihst ? the execution of American cttie.cn* taken on board the schooner Coni|H-titor Iby a -Spanish gunboat. Twenty-seven ! pension bill* were ;<assed. in the house ; the naval bill was further diacUssed. [ Washington. May- 7,—The bond resolution « nts further discussed in the senateyesterday. In the house a resolution was adopted for final adjournment on May 18. A favorable report was made <>n the bill to increase the pension* of veterans of .the Mexican and Indian war* '■ and their widows from eight to twelve 'dollar* a month. Seventy-two private I pension bills were passed. Washington, Moy B,—By a vote of 51 to 6 the senate yesterday inaugurated an investigation, to be conducted by the senate committee <ta finance, into the fact* nnd circumstances connected with the sale of United Staten bonds by the secretary of the treasury during the last three years. Tn the house no business of importance was transacted. Washington. May 9.—ln the senate yesterday * bill to prohibit the issue ot United State* bonds without authority of congress was introduced by Sen's tor Bacon (Ga.). The river and harbor bill was completed with the exeep- ; tion of the item for a deep sea harbor 'on the Pacific coast. In the bon*" n I bill was passed to appropriate $5,000 for I tfeedeporta t ion of the Canadian refugee (yipe Indians from the state of Montana, and another to provide clerks for the chairmen of regulat committee* the j year round.. At the evonlhg session 28 )x>n*ion bill* were passed. I —— —-'•'■rT., FROM WASHINGTON. John S. Seymour, commissioner of patents, in his annn.il rejiurt say* that during the year'2l.99S patent* and de»ign* were issued. Ibe aggregate receipt* were 51.345.247; expenditures. »1,n«4,49«. Fire losses Ip the United States and Canada <1 iring the month of April were I fl2.oiO.teK). about $1,000,000 more than the total for the month in 1595. Nrarlv 30.000 government employes were brought under the protection of the civil service by the issuance of an order of the president making* general revision of civil service rules. President Cleveland issued nn order extending the civil service rule* to the interstate commerce commission, making a total of about 85.2410 government positions, now included in the civil nervier. Exchanges at the lending clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the Sth aggregated sl.135,083,41?. against $951,585.51l the pre-. viruK week. The decrease, compared with the- corresqxvnding week in 1895. ’ was 2.8. In the United State* there were 238 business failures in the seven days ended on the Bth. against 2.38 the week previous and 227 in the corresponding period of 1893. ■ ' THE EAST. In New York a vast labor organization of housemaids was torined. nea„4j every kitchen in th" city being represented cn the rolls of the union. T The New York A-oerican Trading so- • etv, with linbili’Je* of $326,000,went into a receiver - * hands. __ An explosion of a gasoline sieve in a Brooklyn (N. V ) tenement bouse killed Mra. Rebecca Cohfh and .her two cJ.ildren and Mr*. Pastern. In the accounts ct ex-City Att >rney • AV illiam C. Morelam', of Pittsburgh,’Ta.. , n:< additional shortage of aimut $250,000 was sauLtp have been found. Pennsylvania prohibitionists met in Philadelphia and selected national delegate* and nominated J. S. Kent,of Del- j aware, and ex-Congressman A. A. Bar-i Ker, of Cambria, for congressmen at large. New Jersey prohibitionist* held their state convention in Trenton nnd elected delegate* to the natioyial convention at Pittsinirgh. . tn nn elaborate manner New Lebanon. Conn., celebrated her 250th anniversary. The prohibition convention at Montpelier. Vt»., nominated Rodney ('. Whitmore for governor and elected delegates to the national convejiWon. On the Michigan Central road a special train went from Windsor. Ont., to the Internotional bridge, Buffalo, a distance of 239 miles, in 220 minute* and 19 seconds, [. In Philadelphia Herman W. Mudgett, alia* H. H. Holme*, was hanged for the murder of Iteojamin F. Pitael nn September 2. 1894. New Jersev democrafff In convention at Trenton elected four delegates, at large to the national convention. The platform declare* for a gold money standard a nd’indorse* ex-Gov. Russel'i, of Mansachuaetta. for the presidency. Near Boston the derailment of a smoking car on a frnwi killril W. J. Down And J. E. Long, business men, and injured several other persona. At Rqmr, N. Y.. J. Watson Hildreth, the boy train wrecker, received a life sentence. His.companions, Plato and Hibbard, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sen fenced to 40 years' imprisonment each. WEST ANO SOUTH. Republicans of the First district of lowa renominated S. M. Clark foi congrv*v. .■ lien Brush won the 32d Kentucky derby at Churchill Downs, completing the distance, 1% miles, in 3:07%. In a fight between whites and negroes near McAlpin, Fla., three men were killed and five wounded. The California republicans in convention at Sacramento elected McKinley delegates to the national convention and adopted a platform favoring the free coinage of silver. Arkansas prohibitionists in convention at Little Rock nominated J. W. Mil|er, of Arkadelphia, for governor, and ■elected delegates to the national convention. The doors of the £itixena* bank of Union City, Ind., one of the oldest banking institutipns in the country, were closed with liabilities of $75,000. In a jeeloy* rage Charles Harrison, a young fanner living near Williamsport, Ind-, shot Ida Welsh and Harry Smith and then killeff The republicans of the Twentieth Ohio district renominated Clifton B. Beach for congressman.

Fire destroyed the roundhouses and II locomotives belonging to the Queen and Crescent Railway company, at Somerset, Ky., the loss being $300,000. Tennessee democrats met at Nashville and nominated Robert L. Taylor for governor. Delegatas were chosen to the national convention and a free silverplatfortn was adopted. ih Chicago E. ft. Brainerd, a cut*tone contractor, failed for $300,000, ' pulling down with him the firm of Sherman. Flavin & Co., marble cutters, vv ho*e liabilities were over $300,000. - In cxjpvrntidh ih th-lroit the republirllhs <W Michigan tmattimoUsly de- • elated mt William McKmley nnd ndopt--1 rd the huihey remdutidn of the Minnc--1 apnll* phitfortn of 1892- ltu*sel*A. \lj ger, Thoma* J. O'Brivh. John Duncan 1 and Mark S. Brewer were elected dele i gate* nt large to the national convention. At Antler*. I. T.. Charles Homes, a Choctaw Indian, was executed ttuder • the Indian law. He was blindfolded and shot by the sheriff. The .Indiana republican* in convention nt Indianapolis nottiinnted the fol lojving ticket: For governor, James A. Mount; lieutenant governor. W. S. Haggard; secretary of state, William D. Owen; auditor. A. C. Dailey; treasurer. } Fred J. Mcholtrt attorney genral, W. I A." Ketchnm, superintendent of pulvlic instruction, Greeting; state sta j iisticiati, S. J. Thompson. The dele-. 1 gate* at large to the national convention are R. W. Thompson. C. W, Fair- - banks. F. M. Milliken and Gen. Lew 'Wallace, and they were instructed to vote for McKinley for president. The platform declares for “sound money" snd favors the use of both gold and silver nt |Uirity. t a ■ The Methodist general conference at (Teveland by n vote or 423 to 98 de-C-ided that the four women delegates might -retain their sent*. It was recommended nt the Methodist general conference in Cleveland that the American flag fly from the steeple of every Methodist church in the country. Oil caught fire and exploded nt Bellmore. 0.. causing, the death of William Cumming*, aged 24, and William Ix>ngnecker. aged 30. One of the largest tobacco dealers in I Ohio. D. C. Collins, failed at Cincinnati for $100.1X50. At Clark. S. D.. a cyclone wrecked houses and barns, nnd the wife Os C, H. Lindiand wn* killed. Near Fowler, Ind., Mrs. Fritz. Henisint gnve birth to six infant*, four boys and t,wo girls. Two years ago Mrs. Hcnisint gn»e birth to triplets. Missouri prohibitionists met at Sedalia, and nominated 11. F. Farris, of Hcfify county, for governor. I ■ Angeline Hip*hnw. aged 57 years, and Michael Farmer, nged 1)9 year*, were married at Thornhill. Tenn. In Des Moine*. In., Samuel R. Dawson, who Christmas Eve shot nnd killed Walter Scott, hi* son-in-law of an hour, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Flames wijied out the business jvortion of Sebree, Ky. The execution of John Waldrip. who four month* ago. while serving a term in the Coalburgh (Ala.) penitentiary for larceny, brained n fellow convict, j Jasper Thorn ton, took place in the jail yard. i FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. In London Col. J. T. North, commonly known os “the nitrate king,” died suddenly at his ofljee. aged 54 years. The Transvaal parliament wasojvened ni ITetorin with a speech by Presi lent Kruger, who deci ired for a firm but I eaceful policy. New* from the Transvaal soys that I the sentences of death of the so-called reformers would be. reduced to a small fine and imprisonment. At Heidelburg; Germany, the university riding school was burned? and four [verson* were suffocated and 27 horst-s also perished. The eniperor accepted Chancellor von H,ohenlqhe’s'resignation-'as a member of i the German reichstag. In Ixmdon the sum of $40,000,000 war indemnity from China to Japan was i transferred to the latter's agents. An earthquake destroyed the city of Puerto Viejo. Ecuador, Os 10,000 inj habitanta, and many lives were lost. Water news. Dispatches from Havana -ay that j the five men captured hi board the i American schooner Competitor have Lccn sent, need to death, It vvas a|so| said that !*resident Cleveland had ndti- ! fled the Spanish government thai suia- j ninry action in the cases of the men | would be resented by the United States, j ami that the Spanish government had ' cabled to Gen. Weyler to delay the ex- | ecutioit*. Instructive Torest fires were raging | in several portions of the upper pehin*ulii in Michigan. Annie Anderson, aged 24 years, was i shot at ijenton, N. J., by Joseph lira | ham, hr r lover, who immediately aftci ward shot himself. Jealousy was the causeThousand's of feet of dockage and m-arljy 30.000.000 fret of lumber were destroyed by fire at Ashland. Wis.. the loss tveing $500,000, and Peter Engeniar.. John No:nn<ier ml <»|e < w ere burner! to death. 0 The CnVre village of L'Anse, Mich-, rvi-ejit a few scattered houses, was destroyed by tire, the lol** being estimated j ei from $3*10.000 to $73b.000. Fifty families, numbering , about 300./ jiersona. were homeless. «• ■ Ferdinand Schumacher, the oatmeal king, and president of the American Oren! company, failnd nt Akron. <)., for (1,500,000. > ? William Reynold Sr.hnon. msmlior.of the Royal college of surgeons at Cardiff, Wales, celebrated his ua>th birthday. The percentages of the ba«et>allclubs in the National league for the week ended on the ,10th were as follows: Philadelphia. .722; lloatoh, .667; Pittsburgh. .647; Chicago. .379; Baltimore. .579; Cincinnati. .579: Cleveland, .563; Washington. .474; Brooklyn. .474; St Louis, .350; New York. «333; Louisville, .100. In a fire that destroyed the Metropolitan restaurant in St. Ixjui* ten men were injured, one fatally. Mike Mcßea (colored) was hanged at Oxark, Ata., for the murder of Angus McSwean and wife near Newton in Sej>tcmlier, 1893. ‘ The textile mill of Samuel Riddles A Sons near Chester. Pa., was destroyed by tire, the loss being $130,000. Washington. May 11.—The last jsiragraph of the river and hnrbor bill for a deep water harbor nt Santa Monica bay,. California. wa« not completed by the senate on Saturday, the entire session being taken up in discussing the item. The house "as not in session.

SPAIN IS WARNED. fehe Must Give Crete of the Competitor a Fair Show. is Notified Ur the Cnirad States that t» MiotK Them Would ttd a Violation ■r Trratr A*reeo>ent* FrattgNt With DAltgeti Madrid, May 11.—A dispatch from Havana stiys t.hfii the five prisonerr Captured oh the schooner Competitor have been sentenced to death. The bten sentenced tb death are: Alfredo Labonle. l»orn in New Orleans; Oh eh Milton. of Kansas; Williahi Kihla* ah Englishman, and, Elias Bedin ahtl Theodore de La Mazui. both Cubans. AVasbington, May IL—President Cleveland and Secretary Olney were in consultation on. the Competitor case. After th< conference the secretary of state Williams fit llavnnr. ahd Minister Taylor at Madtitl instructing thetn to notify the Spanish government that summary action in the cnses of the men capt ured on board the Competitor would l»e resented by the United States. The tenor of the botes is that the United State* will step Ife and terminate the bloody, war in Ctthn if these prisoners are not protected. ExecUtijjn of theta under the present sentence of the military tribunal would be a violation of the Cushing treaty of 1877. X London, May 11. —The Madrid correspondent of the Standard says: “Senor Canovas del Castillo has publicly Stated that America ha* not protested against Spain’* right to punish filibusters.’ but only against the summary trial. 5 American citizen* are entitled to be tried In the clvtl court* under the treaties ot 1795 and 1577. The Spanish goverrment I* willing to consider the demand, and hasyabled to Capt Gen. Weyler to delay th" executions pending the result of negotiations which arc actively proceeding between Washington,and Madrid to define the interpretation Ot the aforesaid treaties. "The Epoca (tne government organ) In guarded language recommend* prudence •nd deprecates’demonstratlons. It clearly Intimates that the government will make another effort to conciliate President Cleveland by ordering Gen Weyler to send i all the paper* bearing upon the case here ’ for the supreme court to pronounce upon, I The exix utlon of the sentences would thus be virtually shelved. “The rest of the Madrid pre** are unanimous In t he opinion that America has taken an ungenerous and unjustifiable advantage Ot Spain’s difficulties." Madrid. May 11.—There are evidences of growing jopular excitement in Spain over the attitude of the United States government toward the question of the filibusters captured on Imard the Competitor. The riots nnd outbreaks of popular hatred tow ard the I tilted State* at the time of the passage through congress of the resolutions favoring the recognition of the Cubans as belHgerent.* have not been forgotten arid the •entiments which caused them nre but smoldering. The Sjvanish government has on all jvossible occasions expressed Its appreciation of and sajisfact ion w ith the efforts made by the United States government to prevent as far as lay in It* power the giving of unlawful aid to the Cuban insurgents by citizens of the United States, but the w idespread sympathy felt for the insurgents in the United States is well recognized by the Spanish people, and the new s of expedition* from the United States landed from time to time in ,|'ubn create* Intense irritation. The neXv s of the>apture of the men on the Competitor was received with great satisfaction and rejoicing. It was felt to be the first opportunity that had been offered to make an example Os those i who had been feeding the insurrection. } The popular demand for their execution Is general and is l ikely to become vociferous. Little account is taken of the refined questions pf'treaty interpretation Involved in the protest of the United States government against the execution of the sentence*. The action of the United States is regarded rather as an exprbssiou of sympathy with the inI aurrection. and there wHI be a strong ’ popular clamor todisregard it. Madrid, May Hi— It is understood, that the cabinet has decided to place the case of the men captured on the i filibustering American schooner Gpm- | petitor before the supreme council of the army ;and navy for a revision of the |.proceedings of the eburt-martini held ,tn Havana. A dispatch from Marana says that Capt. Gen Weybr is angry ' becuuse of the attitude of the United • State*, and that he will resign unless i the sentences are executed. The disj patch adds that the conduct of the j American consul general is very ir- > rit.nting to loyal Spaniards. He shows I Kim Sell everywhere nnd his talk is menacing. BRUTALLY SLAIN |. Toon* Man Stabbed to Death In the Praa* cnee of ll*< S nter. - Mineral Springs. <>.. May 11.—George ■nd Sylvester Taj lor assaulted and ■ stablK'l to death Nathaniel - Dodge in a brutall manner Saturday night. Four of the lav lor brothers were together walk i iig a long the road. They met Dodge ant! hi* sister coming from church. George Taylor stepped in front of Dodge •aid made some remark alout the latter’s having accused him of stealing a horse ;ind oug-y. At thekimr moment George and Sylvester sprang upon Dodge and stabbed hitg to death before they were separated. The body of the murdered man lay where it fell nil night awaiting an inqmwt. Sjlvester is uiidcr srre*t but the other three brothers are still at large. Pallium for Archblahop Kana. St. Louis. May It. One of the moat impressive cvrenionies in the history of the Catholic church of St. Ixtuia occurred Sunday, when His _Eminence Jtrmos. Cardinal Giblatn*. conferred the pallium, the insigsa of arcbieptecopal office, upon Archbishop J. J. Kune, tor brilliancy, wealth of detail and solemnity. the investiture was Unprecedented in the west. Hrrm»« Cats HH Throat. Elwood. Aud.. May 11.—Charles Aan Ke**, mbmlver of the tire department, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Trnaeme t Centennial. Nashville, Tenn., May It. —The Tennessee Centennial exposition, to celebrate the end of the first century of the state'* history, will open in this city on June 1. On that day the centennial exercises will be held aud the exposition will be formally inaugurated. The exposition will continue through six months to November 1. Call for 24*tional Bank Keporta. Washington. May 11. — Comptroller of the Currency Eckels Saturday issued • call for a report of the condition of -wattotinl hanlfs at the close of business on Tht ;* y, May 7.

INSTRUCTED FOR M'KINLEY. Indiana Kepnbllcans Will Vote tot Hl® > at St* Louts* Indianapolis, Ind., May 8. —The Indiana republican state convention met Thursday to nominate state officer®, appoint delegates to the St. Louis convention, and set forth their platterm. Resolutions instructing the delegates at large to vote and work for the nomination of William McKinley, of Ohio, as candidate for president of theL'nited States were adopted by practically a Unanimous vote. The platform demands a “tariff that Will not only secure the necessary amount of revenue, but will also afford adequate and certain protection to the wage-workers and producers of this country, 4 ’ Reciprocity goes along with this. The platform further favors “the Use of silver as currency, but to the extent only and under such regulations that its parity with gold can be maintained, and in consequence arc Opposed to the fr4c, Unlimited and independent Coin* age of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one** The ticket made up is as followsi rot Governor James A Mount* or Lieutenant-Governor..W. S. Haggard | For Secretary of StateVV. D. Owens For Auditor of State.:."..Al’ Pallet | For TreasurerF. J. Seholi Delegates at Large— K. w. Thompson, C. W. Fairbanks, Lew Wallace. F. M. Milliton. Alternates at Large—--11. Brownlee, --C E. O. Hopkins. K. J. McDonald. George fl Knot. ’ - Presidential electors«at Large— A C. Thayer. Charles Jones. For Judge of the Appellate Court— First District...]...W. P. Kobtnaofl For Attorney-GeneralW. A. Ketcham For Reporter of the Supreme Court—- „ ■ C. AV. Remy For Superintendent of Public Instruction—■ P M Geetfng For State Statistician .. .S. P. Thompson HEAVY FAILURE. f- —; —— |t. R. Fralnerd Assigns at Chicago with Liabilities of 8300,000. Chicago. May 8 —E. R. Brainerd, a re* puted wealthy marble and cut stone dealer nnd contractor, made an assignment tn the county court Thursday to the Tltl# Guarantee & Trust company for the benefit of his creditors. His failure forced the assignment shortly afterwards of Sherman A Flavin, one of the largest marble-cutting firms' In the city. Mr. Brainerd being a member and large.baeker of the firm. Both have been established .here many years, and the assignments were a surprise in business circles Mr. Brainerd’s liabilities will be .about KWMOW. but an accurate state* ment cannot be obtained. His assets ar* not known even.to the lawyer who has had charge of his affairs for some time. The liabilities of Shirrman A Flavin are al>ovt jiW.roo. with assets fully equal to tha’t amount. It is expected that all creditors will be paid dollar for dollar. General de* preaslon tn the building trade Is given as th* prime cause !of the failures. Mr. Brainerd Is prominent in republican poll* ■ tics, and when the office of national committeeman was recently vacant on account of the death of W. J. Campbell, he was a leading candidate for the place. He Is a delegate from Chicago to the national convention at St. Louisl TRAGEDY IN CLEVELAND. —st Man Shot Head by a Bystander V» hilt Trying to Kill tils Wife. Cleveland, 0., Mat S.--WPllam AV.orcester was shot and killed Thursday night at seven o’clock by John T. Bayne, while attempting to murder his wife. Sarah, tn the Hubbard building at 284 Detroit street: The Worcesters formerly lived tn Oberlin, O. from where, on account of his frequent murderous assaults on his wife, the husband was adjudged Insane and committed to the Toledo asylum. He was released s few days ago and returned to this city, where his Wife has supported herself and children by keeping boarders. Worcester became engaged in a quarrel with his wife and was about to kill her when Bayne, one of t|he boarders, drew a revolver and shot him dead. ; A Bloody Affray. McAlpin, Fla.. May 7.—lt is reported here that three men were killed and live wounded in a fight between whites, and negroes in Lafayette county. The killed are said .to- Im James Smith Abram Dunean and Jonas MfSbry. all negroes. Frank Anderson ami Jack Simpson, also negroes are reported wounded, as are George and Albert Varne and Henry Sullivan, whites. The Varne brothers were attempting, to colleet money owing to them. .Manufacturing I’l ant Burned. New - Brunswick. N. J., May 8> —Fire started at one o’clock Thursday morning in William Henderson’s foundry near the canal and in the center of the manufacturing district. The flames Bpread to the Empire machine works and the varnish shops pf the United States rubber factory. The foutifiry and the Empire machine works were destroyed, but the rubber factory was saved. Total loss, $25,000. Ground to Pieces. Lincoln. Neb;. May B.— Frank T. Walx>n. a young inoney loaner of’his city, » successful in business and of some prominence in society, committed suicide Thursday morning by throwing himself in.front of a Kock Island (ms* senger train. The body was literally ground to pieces. The cause was the feeling of shame caused by scandal arising from ease in which his father was defendant. JL--; .Must Attend to Their Duties. Washington. May B.—General Superintendent Kimball, of the life-saving service, has issued a circular forbidding members of a life-saving crew, during the active season, ferry ing, boating, oystening, crabbing, fishing, shooting game, gathering moss nr engaging in similar employment, for pay or market, in competition with other persona engaged in such busiuesa. GREAT ALTITUDES. North Franklin mountain, 7.069 feet, la said to be the highest •ele’vation in Texas. . Mount Fairweather, 14,450 feet high, is said to be the tallest elevation in Russia. Wheeler, Nev., is 13.036 feet above sea level, and is the highest town in that state. There are ten mountain peaks in Arizona, each of which exceeds 10,000 feet in height. Fremont’s Point, at an elevation of 13,790 feet, is said to be the highest in Wyoming. Box Elder mountain, in Oregon, 9,541 feet high, is said to be the loftiest in that state. Ciingman’s mountain, 6,707 feet high, takes precedence of all others in North Carolina. There is no mountain 10,000 feet high on the American continent east of the Rockies. The great plateau enst of the Rocky mountains averages 4,000 feet above the sea. Zoologists aver that in 100 years the lion will be extinct* I •

HOLMES IS HANGED. Pays the Penalty fbr the Murder of Pitnel. Aa Account of the Arch-Fiend’s Lae* Hours on Earth —His Scaffold Speech—Died Protesting His Innocence. - ’ . I. ” ’ , • Philadelphia, May S.—H. H. Holmes was hanged Thursday morning. The drop fell St 10:12. It was not until 18 minutes later that he was pronounced dead. His neck Was hot broken !by the fall. The marvelous nerve of the mas never deserted him to the very end. Even on the scaffold he was probably the coolest person in the solemn assemblage. Holmes spent the greater part of his last night on earth writing letters. At midnight he went to bed and slept soundly until six o’clock Thursday morning. It took two calls to awaken him. Promptly arising, be received a visit from his spiritual advisers. Fathers Daly and Macpeak. of the Church of the Annunciation. They administered the last sacrament and did hot leave him until nearly nine o’clock. At 10:02 o’clock the sheriff called together the official jury, and after each man had answered to his name and subscribed to the certificate the solemn march to the gallows w as begun. As the gathering Stood In silence before the scaffold a murmur came from behind I the partition erected Immediately back o’ ■ it. It was the dolorous chant of the two ■ priests, accompanying the doomed man i to the scaffold. They were uttering the l>saltn "Miserere. ’* They mounted the platform. A moment of prayer followed, and then Holmes stepped to the front of the scaffold and. resting his hands on the rail before him. made his statement of Innocence. It was received tn absolute silence. Pallid naturally after his Incarceration, there was no other evidence df fear or disquiet. He spoke slowly and wilh measured attention to every word: a trifle low at first, but louder as he proceeded, until every word was distinctly audible! "Gentlemen," he said, "I have very few Words to say. Ir fact I would dnake no statement at this time except that by not speaking I| would appear to acquiesce in life In my execution. I only want to say that the extent of my wrong-doings ■: In taking" human life consisted in the , deaths of two women, they having tiled 1 at my hands as the result of criminal operations. I wish also to state, hbwevqr, so that there will be no . misunderstanding hereafter. 1 am not guilty of taking the lives of any of the Pitkel family, the three children er father. Bci.JLmin F. Fltzel. of whose death I am now convicted and for which I am to-day to be hanged. | "That is all.” As he ceased speaking, he stepped back and kneeling between Fathers Paly and . Macpeak, joined with them in silent prayer •I for a brief minute or t wo. Again standing I he shook the hand of al! those about htm. ! and then signified his readiness for the end Herman W. Mudgett. better known as H. U. Holmes, was one of the most conspicuous criminal! of piodern times, and if the "murderer’s confessions” which he has written can only partially be believed, he was without a peer as a bloodthirsty demon. His recent ingenious "confession,” I wherein lie claimed to have killed 27 i persons, was disproved, partly, at least. 1 by the appearance of several of the socalled victims; but Holmes’ object In maki Ing the confession was realized—the obtaining of A stim said to be J7.5<A and which amount Is said to have been settled upon the criminal’s IS-year-o.ld son. While the "confessions" have served to increase the sensationalism of the. case, the only capital ctlmc for which Holmes had t<Fanswer was the killing in this city, on September 2. ISM. of Benjamin Pltzel, his fellowconspirator. The murder was committed In the dwelling. No. 1316 C'allovvhfl) street Holmes was captured In Boston, Slass..

tn the latter part of ISM. by Owen Hanscom, the deputy superintendent of police, upon the strength of a telegram from Fort Worth. Tex., where he was wanted .for horse-stealing and for other charges of larceny - . At that time officials of the Fidelity Mutual Life association, of Philadelphia. were hot on Holmes’ trail for defrauding the concern out of JIO.COO-ln connection wltl PltZel’s death, the latter being insured for this amount, and as the accused believed horse-stealing to be a high crime in Texas, he voluntarily’confessed to Deputy Superintendent Hanscom to the Insurance fraud. He did not. for a moment, dream that he was then suspected of the murder of Pltxel, and he came to Philadelphia without requisition papers He expressed a willingness to be tried her.on the conspiracy charge In preference to that of horse stealing at Fort Worth. Betw.een this time and his trial for conspiracy to defraud the Insuran-e company to which he pleaded guilty. Holmes made many "confessions." Each time he pretended to tell the truth, but he sedulously avoided doing bo. Nobody believed what Holmes said asout Pltzel. and he would not say anything about the children except that they were all right. $ In his many Interviews with District Attorney Graham. Holmes persisted that the three missing Pltzel children were with Minnie Williams in I-ondon He even persuaded Mr. G£jham to have an advertisement In of a cipher puzzle inserted In a New York paper, for th* purpose of bringing Minnie Williams and the little Pitzels back from Europe. The district attorney placed little faith In what Holmes told htm. but the "ad” was published as a sort of last and hornless effort. When the bodies of Nellie and Alice Pltzel were unearthed in Toronto. Holme* ! denied having killed them. When HowI ard’s charred bones were located In a superannuated stove in Irvington, Ind., Holmes calmly denied any knowkdge of the lad’s death. When the murders of. Minnie Williams and her sister were discovered, Holmes' said than Minnie killed Nannie in a Jealous frenzy, and he buried the body In I-ake Michigan. He vigorouslydenied having put Minnie to death so a* to secure her property. The disappearance of Emily Clgrand w:as traced to Holmes, but the criminal said he knew nothing of the girl’s fate. The partially consumed bones that were found in the Chicago "castle” are known to be those of some of Holmes’ victims. About the last time that Holmes was’ taken to the district attorney’s office to ’’confess.” Mr Graham lost patience with him. Holmes gave a repetition of his picturesque falsehoods He actually gave the district attorney a verii table "Jolly” about the Pltzel family and ] Minnie Williams being still alive The scene thaf ensued was extremely dramatic. Fatal Cyclone. .’ Clark, T>. D., May 9.-,-A severe storm i of a cyclonic jiature [>a.«se*l. over here I Thursday night. I'he: house of C. M. ! Lindland, 12 miles southtvest.was taken up by the w ind and carried a distance of 80 feet and totally destroyed. There were ten persons in the house, anti Mrs, Lindland is reported kilied, while other members of the family are more or less injured. • L -■ — —— r Elephants Cause a Runaway. Paterson, N. J*, May 7.— While a circus parade was taking place here two hoi-ses-drawing a heavy wagon became, frightened and ran away, knocking i people down right and left. 2> being • injured, anti Edward Schultz, ten yeqrs old, was killed in the stampede. Chiuameu Are lonilnj. Montreal, Can., May 7.—The spring tide cf Chinese emigration has arrived. One hundred Chinese are here from Vancouver, and arc stopping at the two big Chinese boarding-houses waiting for a favorable opportunity to go to the states. Italians Defeat Abysslnlam*. Rome, May s.—The govft-nment hna received ’information that Gen. Baldiserra, commanding the Italian forces in Abyssinia, at the head of three columns of ,troops marching to the relief of the Italian troops at Adigrat. met and defeated a large force of Abyssinian* under Ras Sebath. No Recognition fpr Faith Care. Dayton, 0., May 5. —The coroner announced that no burial permits will be signed by him or accepted by the health department that come from relatives of persons who have been treated by Christian science doctor* exclusively.

INDIAN STOICISM. , Choctaw Works Right Up to the Day ot His Execution. The stoicism of the North American Indian is proverbial. In the long ago when one tribe warred against another, Indian prisoners were accustomed to stand torture without flinching. The race may have degenerated, but its remarkable characteristic Ts still conspicuous. A story told by a western citizen to a Washington Star reporter fnmishes a good illustration of the indifference with which even the Indian of to-day views death: “In the Choctaw Indian nation there is no jail in which convicted murderers are confined.” said he. "When I first went to the Indian territory I settled in the Choctaw nation, and hearing that n certain Indian was an excellent hand on the ranch, I hunted him up and asked him if he would work for me. ‘I will work until the 20th of next month,’ he ’ • said. ’Why not longer?’ I inquired. T am to bp hanged the 21st,’ was his reply, in an unconcerned way. I hire'd him, and upon inquiry learned that what he said was true. Rut one man has ever failed to return for hanging after he has been sentenced, and my Indian did not prove an exception to the rule.' On the day l»efore the execution was to take place he left as calmly as though going on a visit, and the hanging took place at the time appointed. Notwithstanding his approaching doom the Indian made one of the best ranchers I ever saw, and I regretted to lose him." Railway Stations In Russia. It is a peculiarity of the Russian railways that their stations are generally two miles distant from the towns and ■ villages which they wrve. This is said to be on account of.the danger of tire, The houses in small places generally being thatched with straw. A DIKRInK Fish. ' The digging fish is a native of the' lakes ami riWrs of Central Africa. When the dry season approaches it ’ burrows in the’mud at the bottom of 1 its residence to the depth of two or 'three feet, goes to sleep and Awaits thq . return of the wet season. • ’ | More Good NeWs. General Manager I’. S. Maegowan, of the Walter A Wood Harvester Co . St. Paul, Minn., informs us tha', business is cx< cjlent and that his company will be able this fall to liquidate its entire indebtedness, and pass but of th** receiver a hands hi a most • prosperous condition. He is our authority, also, for annpuncing the good news that some of the most intluential stockholders of the St. Paul and Hoosiek Ea’ils companies are now at work trying to effect a reorganization, to the end of placinglboth companies in a position to go along with the iitlniense business in such manner as t-> maintain past reputation for solidity and progressiveness?-'’’'’' . If the leorganizntien is effected, which, / from present progress would seem assured,/ ho business will again be on a solid foundation and under a management that will push its well, known machine* in even market on the globe.—Form Muchin'/y, April 2t, _ _ Bhb “You say that man is out’’’ He-. I “Yes. lie was struck out." She—t Why, no one struck him.’’--Cincinnati CommercialGazette.

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