Walkerton Independent, Volume 24, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 July 1899 — Page 6

£|jc Independent, M' A. ICIXI>ILjKV, I*ll L»l !*h«r. WALKERTON. INDIANA SUMMARY OF NEWS. Harry Douglass ot Nevada ( ity. w.ih twenty-five other picked miners from various comities of California. who left June 2 last year for Siberia under the leadership of John T. McCall, have perished from privation ami cold. At Harper, Kan., John Kornstadt. a 16-year-old boy. has confessed to ha vug murdered his cousin Nora, the 10-year old daughter of 'Pony Kornstadt, a farmer. He first assaulted her and then threw her into an abandoned well, where she was found. Joseph Chamberlain, in a six'ech at Bir mingham, said the British Government accepted full responsibility for Sir Alfred Milner's actions in the Transvaal affair, and declared that while England was not seeking war she would not shirk it. Another of the Macomb train robbers was convicted at Hartville. Mo., when the jury brought in a verdict finding young Joe Shepard guilty and fixing his punishment at ten years in the State penitentiary. He is a son of Jake Shepard, a member of the old James gang. John and David Howard of Beaver County. Oklahoma, have invented a horseless carriage which is propelled by wind by means of sails like a ship. These men have ridden from their home in Fulton to Beaver City in this strange vehicle. and at times traveled fifteen miles an hour. There has been a big riot at Seoul, the Coroan capital, in which the ten <ats owned by the electric railway service t. eently established there were smashed and burned and several of the trama ay employes were killed. The ears had kill ed several children since the service was opened in Seoul. At Osgood, Ind., while Albert Shaw was Jwnt two men entered his house, struck Mrs. Shaw a blow that rendered her unconscious and dragged her downstairs. They then tied her hands fast to her knees and put her on the floor while they searched the house. Failing to find anything of value, they departed. Efforts to capture them have failed. The plans of Gov. Pingree and his associates for municipal ownership and operation of Detroit street railways were left "in the air" by the Common Council. The two pending ordinances and other matters appertaining to the municipal ownership scheme were laid on the table by unanimous vote, and it is problematical when these questions will be again publicly debated. Federal Judge Phillips, in a decision rendered at Kansas City, holds that under the statute governing assessment insurance companies it is no defense against the payment of the indiey that the insured committed suicide unless it is shown that he contemplated suicide at the time • he was insured: and, second, that changes in the rules of the company made alter the policy is taken out will not affect the payment of the policy. "Bill’' Jennings, a convicted train robber, in a jail breaking at Springfield. Mo., came very near gaining liberty. Jim Hennessy and Charles Wilchert escaped, crawling through a hole which they had cut with a chisel. Jennings was their cellmate, and would have escaped but for the fact that the hole was not huge enough tor him to crawl through. While he was trying to enlarge it he made a noise and attracted the guards and was removed to another cell. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...45 15New Y0rk...30 31 Boston 38 21 Cincinnati ...28 2!) Philadelphia. 35 22 Pittsburg ....25 32 Chicago 36 24Louisville ...21 38 St. L0ui5....35 26 Washington. IS 43 Baltimore ...32 25Cleveland ...10 47 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis. 31 23St. Paul 27 2*l Indianapolis. 30 24 Milwaukee .. .26 29 Columbus ...28 25Kausas City.. 23 31 Detroit 29 26 Buffalo 22 32 NEWS NUGGETS. Col. Thomas Cornelius of Portland. Ore., a pioneer of 1845. is dead. The Empress of Russia has given birth to a third daughter, who has been named Marie. W. H. Sullivan of Chicago was drowned in the Yellowstone river at Anaconda. Mont. Sir Thomas Lipton's cup-challenger. Shamrock, was launched at Millwall, England. Joshua flray. aged 75. one of the beiknown inventors in Massachusetts, died at Medford. By the capsizing of their boat in the Yellowstone river at Grey cliff, Mont., three men lost their lives. I he South African republic is reported to be placing large orders for rifles in Italy for immediate delivery. Baron Godin ami Baron Bounet. Bavarian officers. were killed while attempting to ascend the Ackerispitze, in the Tyrolese Alps. Cardinal Count Franz de Paula von Schonborn. archbishop of Prague and primate of Bohemia, is dead, in his fiftyfifth year. Thirty-three cases of yellow f wer. with five tlealbs. haw Own ..m.-iaUv ri'poriwl I »iti**<* tin- U'^inniug <»f ihf pr*-svnt out- 1 I S :. • .. _ The British II m-e us Lords, by a v ■ I of »>s to tsj de!e-<lt(«d the bill s _-c.z ... i the election of women as ■ r s 4 I aldermen. Fire at Comv |. i d.— r- 1 K — tor's cum • • h J -' Walk and the B evry and —x u -m 11. tph amu-emen:. 1. ■ .Ctu.ivmi Th.- four upper stories of a six-story Im ding in Bosom wer. destroyed by tire. Th.- prim-ipa, 10-s, other than on t. e building, falls on the Boston Book Bindin^ < oinpany. rhe is Slso.imhi A K. Hill of Vannfnvcr. K C„ was killed by a street .ar. Hill, who was a <• enm , n laborer, claimed to be the heir of J.«.rd Armstrong, the tarn.ms gmimak.r. but the peerage list give- m> heir to Amis' » ig.

eastern. A petition in bankrupt) !• .t„ n h! ” in New York by Jolin W. S ven'. builder. Liabilities $130,113. no aAccording to a Washington dispa -h the President has decided to enlist 12,000 volunteers for service in ihe Philippines, The drying and linishing room of Robert H. Foerderer’s morocco works at Philadelphia was destroyed by lire. Loss S7o,iJUO. George Shea, also known as Philip Lambele, who is said to hail from Chicago, walked off with slo,ood in cash belonging to the Metropolitan National

Bank al Boston. He escaped to New I York, where he was captured six hours | later. Henry Bradley Plant, owner of the Plant railway system, a line of steamships and much real estate in the State of Florida, died at New York. An incendiary tire destroyed the bustuess portion of Livermore Falls, Maine. Loss $1tH1.666. Thirty families lost everything but their night clothes. Fire damaged the More Phillips Chemical works at Camden. N. J., to the extent of $160,1106. Three large buildings used in the manufacture of phosphates wire destroyed. Positive information that Gen. Joseph Wheeler will h ad Mis. George W. Childs of Philadelphia to the altar at an early day has been given by persons intimately acquainted with both. C. J. Matthews A Co.'s morocco factory and warehouse, two five-story brick buildings at Philadelphia, were destroyed by lire of unknown origin. Loss $100,060, covered by insurance. Edward F. Powell, who inherited s2.>o, 000 on reaching his majority a year ago, tried to amuse his young lady friends at Norristown, Pa., by showing them how fast he could run backward. He stumbled and fell, breaking his neck, and died immediately. Rev. W. M. Barrows, who was censured by the Association of Congregational Ministers of Connecticut for his part in the marriage of Perry Belmont and Mrs. Henry D. Sloane, made a statement before the convention, in which he said that he was deceived by Mrs. Sloane, who told him that she herself hail secured a di voree a year before. WESTERN. J. G. Wickersham, a Petaluma, Cal., banker, died, leaving an estate valued at $1,660.6* to Jesse Spalding of Chicago has been elect 'd president of the Chicago I nion Traction Company. At Evansville. Ind . non union colored miners were tired upon by unknown parties Six men Mere shot, three probabh fatally. A box containing 2,0**0 torpedoes ex ploded at the Rock Island freight depot in Wichita, Kan., seriously injuring Chas. Edwards, teamster. The Standard Oil Company is reported to be about to abandon business in Ohio because of the prosecution by the State Attorney General under the anti-trust law. At Hartville, Mo., a desikrate attempt was made to break jail by the Mae Comb train robbers, but it was frustrated by the guards. All the prisoners were then handcuffed. At Aurora. Mo.. New York and Philadelphia parties have purchased the Rinker land, consisting of eighty acres, for $160,000 cash. Several other big sales were consummated. The Music Teachers' National Associa tion convention at Cincinnati adjourned after electing A .1. Gantvoort of that city president. Next year's meeting will be held at Des Moines. lowa. Four small children of the name of Christensen were drowned in the Platte river at North Platte. Neb. One fell into the water and the others were drowned while attempting to rescue it. Frederick Schat -. of Graytown. <Hie>, who died at the home of his wife, was not killed, but died >0 heart disease, Wm. 11. Schatz, stated that the dispatches sent out to the effect that his father was mur dered by the wife are absolutely false. Tom Williams, a negro convict, who escaped from the Illinois penitentiary in 1895. was arrested at Greenville. Miss. Williams was convicted of brutally murdering James A. Craig in Chicago i u 1893, and was senten Ito life imprison ment. The largest soda ash factory in the United States is to be erected at Barberton, Ohio, by capitalists identified with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company The corporation will be chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania with a capital stock of $3,600,000. The settlement is announced of the coal miners' strike hi the States west of the Mississippi, which has been in progress over two months. As a result of the settlement 22.0*»0 of the 36JHMI Strikers in Missouri. Kansas. Indian Territory and Arkansas will return to work at once. A passenger train on the Burlington. Cedar Rapids and Northern road was wrecked on a ten-foot embankment two miles beyond the city limits of Muscatine. lowa, by a broken engine truck, the engine rolling down the bank and both coaches leaving the rails. Three persons were injured. Maj. Thomas E. Fitzpatrick, superintendent of the United States national cemetery in Mound Citv. ill,, was killed by Michael I’obin, one of the employes at that institution. I'obin hail been notified of his dismissal bv Maj. Fitzpatrick. Tobin made his escape immediately after the murder, which was committed with a shotgun. The Wichita. Kan.. Mill and Elevator Company lost their buildings, maehinerv and HUM) bushels of wheat by tire. The loss is estimated at $35,600, half of which is covered by insurance. At the same hour a tire on the West Side destroyed the Badger lumber yard and a barn, with a loss of $4,600; insurance s2,**oo. In ,-n---diarism is charged. A small tornado passed through Trenton township, S. D.. demolishing the school house and damaging the Buekhw residence. A heavy hailstorm followed th? tornado and two little school children were nearly killed by hailstones. A little boy saved his sister by placing her on the ground and then covering her body with his. The boy was rendered unconscious by hail and the sister escaped harm. Miles McDonald, aged 26. employed by tm- I'. M. Long Simp Uoniminy. as the 1 result ot a wauor with some fellow-em- | plot - - ill veil from the c-euter -pan of the I I- bridsz at S'. Loin-, badly injuring him-.d; h rrowly . s qumr death. The i d -tun o ; om bridge to tin water is M- Dona d alighted on bis i -. millers ami the upper part of his back. 1 and but i. the prompt a-sistance of a l> it and ci -w in readiness he would have drowned. SOUTHERN. . The Texas Court of Appeals has declared the law against railroad ticket scalpers inoperative and void because of its , b mgling ami incomprehensible wordim''. , Dr. Dudley Os Louistdle. K\„ who r went to Mnhita, Kan., a few davs ago and married Miss Viva March, cmnmit- . ted smeid.- by cutting his throat because his bride deserted him.

While alom- at the home of n. \] Geek-dt at Ridley, Tenn., the house caught fire and Edith Beckett. aged "> and tin 3-year-oid son of J. P. Cawthurn Were burned to death. A jury at Scranton. Mi„< , passing upon the death ot a negro who bad been lynched, rendered a verdict to the effect that the uegr., < tubed a tree, ventured too far out on a limb and fell, breaking his neck. News cones from Conwav, S C that negroes attempted to lynch a white”vomh named Sam win had killed a mgro named Green. The m-ero ran into Howe with a bicycle. Howe’s father shotgun. The old town of Carizo, T xas, yas

t I swept away by the Rio Grande flood. | The town had a population of several hundred Mexicans of the poorer clans. Their bouses were adobes, which quickly melted away when the high water struck them. There was no loss of life. Mrs. T. J. Lloyd, living seven miles northwest of Lampasas, Texas, with her live daughters and a visitor, Miss Childers, went in bathing in a creek. The three youngest girls went beyond their depth, when their eldest sister and Miss Childers went to their rescue and all five were drowned. Mrs. Lloyd saved her other daughter only by heroic efforts. Captain M. I*. Doulett of the steamer I ndepemlence has brought to New Orleans a piece of the wreck of the naphtha launch Paul Jones, lust in the gulf last January, which throws still more mystery on that disaster. The Paul Jones was thought to have been destroyed by the explosion of her naphtha tank. The tank was discovered by Captain Doullett intact and uninjured, and still three fourths full. FOREIGN. New South Wales has voted for the Australian federation. The Queen Regent of Spain has signed the bill for the cession to Germany of the Caroline Islands. The Boer Government has placed orders with the Krupps for twenty-five quick-tiring guns and several of heavier caliber. Fhe honorary degree of doctor of civil law has been conferred by Oxford University upon Gen. Lord Kitchener ami Cecil Rhodes. Malietoa Tanu has abdicated th* Samoan throne. The joint commission appointed by the powers will Recommend a republican form of government. It is announced that the khalifa has been defeated, with heavy loss, by the natives friendly to the British. It is added that h>- ba- tied to the woods with a few followers. I'he Atlantic transport line steamer Montana, from Baltimore, reached !■ ulmouth. England, with it- propeller shaft broken. It had been towed for six days bi the steamer Eiderslie. The Carnegie Steel Company has contracted with representatives of the Russian Government to furnish that country with ISiUMhi tons of steel rails for its im mouse railroad enterprises in Siberia ami China. This is the largest order ever placed with one firm in the world, and represents an outlay of between $4,.'66,*MH> and SS,O*hi,(MMI. The organization of a new cabinet has been completed at Paris, with Senator! Waldeck I' m-s.-au as minister of the in- I terior; M Dele i--e. foreign aft drs; Gen. Marqni- de Gallife:, war, ami M. Cail-I laux, finance. IN GENERAL, Commodore (i-.m C. Badger. F. S N., retired, is dead, aged 76 y a At H imdloti. On:. njamin Parrott wan hanged tor the murder of bi- mother. The murderer left a eonf<-non New - ha- beou re ,V.d f the destruction of the d’Areej 1- tml. B C.. b-pi r station by fire. One leper t- dead. Gen. Leonard Wood, military g ■■ emr of Santiago provim e. ha- been offered the presidency of the Washington Tra turn and Electric Company. I'he director- of tin Prunsj ivania Railroad have elected A J Ca-satt to be president of the Pennsylvania conipuny. the corporation which operate- tin lilies west of Pittsburg. Army officers are iooung for He hole in which a tram of seventeen freight ears loaded with fifty hospital ambulances dis appeared within the year -••mew here be tW• ' • I o ’ , | ! ', । Jacob Bais, ex charge d'affaires of ilondura- at Washington'and for many years consul general in New York lor Honduras. Salvador ami Guatemala is dead at his home in New York, aged 56 years. Standard Oil now controls tin whisky industry of the I nited States. The con trol of all the whisky, alcohol and distilling business of the country has passed int । the hands of the Whitney Widener Elkins syndicate, representing the millions of what is popularly known as the Standard (til crowd. Bradstreet's views the trade situation thus: "Less than the average effect of nppr -auiiing mid -umm ■ in'lm uce- is discernible in current trade reports. Prices, too, show a strength unusual at this period, and particularly in view of recent steady advances. This is notably mani fest, of course, iii the iron and steel indus try. where the tendency of values is -till upward. Hop. -of improvement in the woolen goods industry have materialized in an active demand at leading markets for the manufactured product. Improved crop reports are responsible chiefly lor lower quotations of products declining in price this week. Uotton ■: -p prospects have continued to improve, and the raw product is lower. Raw sugar is lower on unanimous reports of improving crop prospects the world over, but refined sugar is in heavy domestic demand and firm. Lumber retains all of it- early activity and strength alike as regard- movement and prices. Wheat, itieluditig flour, shipments for the week aggregated 3.746,71'btishels. against 2.766,471 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2>72.432 bushels, against 3,2n5,301 bushels last week." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats. No .2, 24c to 26c, rye, No. 2,60 cto 62c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice new, 50c to 60c per bushel I mlianapolis ('attic, shipping. $3.00 to ^5.50; hogs. < hoice light. $2.75 to sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wn it. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 xvlnte, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Eouis—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs. $3,00 to $4.00; sheep, $3,00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yi How, 31c to 36c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 28c; D'K No. 2,56 cto 58c. _ Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, •S 360 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, Ao. 2, i3c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 66c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, > S3.*M) to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50'; • wheat, No. 2, ißc to 80c; corn, No. 2 yeilow, 35c to 36e; oats, No. 2 white, 30c ■ to 31c; rye, 58c to 60c. 1 oledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to ll - • s, ‘’ ~ mixed, 34c to 36c; oats . No ; 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,59 c _ to 61e; clover seed, new, $4.00 to $4 10 j Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 spring, 74c to <*.e; corn, No. 3,34 cto 35c; oats, No. ( 2 white, 28e to 30c; rye, No. 1,60 cto6l e; 42c 10 43c: pork ’ t SB.OO to $8.50. ' gOOIJ steers, • euo- t 0 bo ~ s ’ fo . n,l n<>u to choibe, : '’ - sk( ' e P> f ;, ir to choice wethi :-, $., .i oto s.>..>o; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.25. > $5.75; hogs, 00 to S4JK); sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; ■ 2 red, 82c to 83< corn, No, 2, I 40c to 42c; oats. No 2 white, .".2c to 31c; I butter creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, West- - | era, 14c to 16c.

WHAT OTIS HAS DONE DETAILSOF PRESENT SITUATION IN PHILIPPINES. Country Held by- Troops Sixty Miles North and South of Manila Growing Desire for I’eaee Natives Combiniujj to Drive Out Insurgents. pen. Otis, iu reply to a cable from the War Department at Washington asking for information regarding situation and conditions in the Philippines, cabled as follows; “Adjutant General, Washington: Rainy reason. Little inland campaigning possin* Luzon. We occupy large portion “f Tagalog country, lines stretching from Imus south, io San Fernando north, nearly sixty miles, and to eastward into i.aguna province. Insurgent armies have suffered great losses and are scattered; only large force held together about 1,066 in. 1 arlae province and northern I’ampanga. Their scattered forces are in liands of fitly to five hundred in other portions Luzon; in Cavite and Batangus provinces could assemble possibly 2.666. though demoralized from recent defeat. Mass of people terrorized by in-urgent soldiers, desire pence and American protection; no longer flee on approach of our troops un less forced by insurgents, lull gladly welcome them. No recent burning of towns. Population within our lines becoming dense, taking up land cultivation extensively; kept out of Manila much as possible as city population is becoming too great to be ear.-J for. “Natives southeast of Luzon combining to d-ive out insurgents; only hope of in--urgMM^-aders is I nited States aid. Uhej probfeW near overthrow of the present admW^t''ation, to be followed by their indcflOTldenve mid recognition by I nited States. This is the influence which enables them to hold out; mm h contention prevails among them and no civil government remains. " Trade w ith ports not in our posses sion, a former source of insurgent revenue, now interdicted; not certain of wisdom of this policy, as |H-ople in those parts arc without supply of food ami mer chants are suffering losses; meditate restoring trade privileges. although insur Rents reap benefit-. Courts here in sue eessful oiwration under direction of nine 1 ilipinos. Affairs in other islands comparatively quiet, awaiting results iu Lu i eon. Ah anxious for trade.-mid rep. an d calls for American troop- are received j Am giving atten ion to .I -' ar«-h p. N a ■ • and I'alaw an Island- "* *nr troop- have w orked to tin hm t of endurmii-, \ dmitevr organizations ! have been called in ami replaced by regulars. who now o< enpy salient po-ifions. Nebraska. l'cnn-y !’• ama mid ’ l ah now ik i g transport-, mid S.\’. t-' ry jsi nt f. Negros t o r> ;• v« n.a rbe-e troops are in good physi <ndi lion; -icknvss among troop- has vsis cd lately, due mo-tly to arduoii- vice and climatic infl nm ■ - N :hmg alaim ing. Os flu 12 per ftp of the command re|s>rtixl -ick m arly 6 in g> m ral hospital, of w’loin 3 js : ' have typhoid and 17 I ma’nruil fevers; 25 |“ T cenf have inb - tuial trouble, remaining .V. pr .ent have various mmi< nt', 11 of which arc dm to , wuimd injurb - Many oflieers and men who -ervod in Cuba break under rv< urrem, of Cuban fever, ami n guii: r< gi ment' received are imidequately officered O I’IS " i’he :u.idequa< i of the number of of® wr- ineutionvd ill the lasi part of the ca bb gram has Iwen remedied by the sinliug ..f th. ’ ii-'s.rts Zelmidia and Shendan. GERMANY REJECTS SCHEME. Colnnel Von Feb wutzbofT Puts n ( b , k on IHanrin iincfil i lan**. I'he a pi ; ".ii** (< r a slhhJs of armament have I eon submitteil to a sub committee of the peace conference a: The Hague This move was al! that sav.-d them from immediate rvj< i: >n. Tie-r eventual rejection i» -tire. <’■ G; -- ven Soh war .iff of th. G, man delegation made n -]«•• ch against the di-armameut s. heme which is die '• :-.ition of the «> nf< nm e so far. in reply t > the < /.ir',s plea for di<ar: .aim nt on the ground that a maintrmime of Luge armaments is crashing the nations, he s; t d that < lenminy was m-r N — • :1 .j and her wealth, cotiteiitedtiess and stand ard of life were da:|\ imux <-.;.g. He said further that a r> dm-t n;, of p, ace fortes was only .-m small -:.p tow a:! a reduction of offensive power. Leng: h of mill’ary -m i.; . \ i rm; of railway, emtlding rap I m bii: zar: n ami economical conditions were aii f.. tors in a nation's military -:n - g’ii. He < im lmied by -ay mg w ith am.'/mg frankness that to only consi.L r the mm increase of armaments and leave out all tho-c other factors m giu seem a pian-i---b'e scheme for pea , |<, an mit- Her. L'p to a military expert i: was -,t manifestly absurd that he wonden d it could ever have been put forward in mi rm st. Many of the delegates say that Col. von Sehwatzhoff s sp.-erh was a smashing tmk to Riissmn arguments. The German jieace delegate- have privately informed their colleagues that they are now instrm ted to -upporr the principle of arbitration. BELIEVE SHE WAS MURDERED. Evidence Showinu that I'elle Slav u I)i<l Not Comm t Suicide. hen the body of Belie Slavin was found in the office of the National B ink of Commerce st Wichita, Kan., math having resulted m a Imllm w. mH in the head, it w?’ -up?. -• i -h. m H ] committed sui.^de. I m- deiclopments seem to indicate, that the young woman w as murdered ^Ae police are working up. m Iba t t neo''.' . M '' Si:ixl, o ">•" was the bank's stenW;|S Ih • nii • ».,. i ♦ ♦ i ; ; ' . . . 11,1 r, 'd to take m ontsale work, which 0ft,.,, L-,,,,, i . bank until lo o'clock ■ Vr' V J . . . , K "> night. Mr. Jobepresident o1 the bank, now- state- that on the afternoon |c, vi,,n came to the bank and as ™ an work done. Mis- Sb,/,, , 1 ’■■'‘'e some ... '"id him to bring it around alter o o clock । > that he observed tie the interior of the bank' vert n'" A citizen heard a pistol -hm jllsr ;|f , ( . rS O clock. Mhen M.S- Slavic father and .'inother citizen went m t . •' 1 ‘ «1 ’ u Iler ihi e found the bank .loor unlocked papers wore scattered around th( . J _ tents of several drawers dis.arrmg ed ami Miss Slavin - k „ ys W(>r( . I he revolver found by tl„. x< ,nug side was not hers. AMERICANS SUE ON 1 ARIO. laimbermcn Claim Damages Unde, the New Timber Reg It i ations . Don M. Dickinson of | Mr()it has a big bill of damages agam.-t the province of Ontario at Otfawa, on behalf of Mich igan lessees of Ontario timber lands for violation of the crown timber licenses. Ontario now reqnires all lessees to manufacture the luß s into lumber in On tario, and as a consequence several mills in Michigan have nan to shm down. The claims reach the ! " ,: ii of $936,500. The constitutionality oi th" Ontario statute is now being tested m >hp courts, h n ^ t j le ease will not like!,' >' nch the final court of appeal, the Britm i p rivv e oUU eil, unt ji next November.

WORLD'S WOMEN MEET. I International cZ^Tcommencea It ß ' eesions in London. ihe International Council of Women Opened in the convocation hall of the church house, London, England. The Countess^ of Aberdeen, president of the council, m her address, after cordial words ot welcome, sketched the duties of he council. She said international arbi“■“th'u should ever be placed foremost in ■ s piogiam, advocated the establishment ot an international bureau of infornm--110,1 regarding all that affects worn ami warned women against arrogating to themselves alone the duties of curing all evils. Lady Aberdeen afterward introduced • is. May Wright Sewall of the I'nited ' ’ates. vice-president of the council, who was enthusiastically received as a possible successor to the presidency. I‘or officers the international council has some of the most prominent women in the world. They are: President. Countess of Aberdeen; vice-president, Mrs. May Wright Sewall of the I’nited States; treasurer. Baroness Alexandra Grippenberg of Finland; recording secretary, Mme. Maria Martin of France; corresponding secretary, Miss Teresa F. Wilson of London. I he nations represented at the congress are the I'nited States. Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Canada. Denmark, Holland, India. New Smith Wales, Tasmania. Norway. Palestine. China, New Zealand and the Argentine Republic, ’i'he I nited Slates is represented by Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Gaffney. Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna H Shaw. Among the well known American women who are in attendance at the congress are Dr. Sarah llaektUt Stevenson. Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden. Mrs. Annie Jenne-s Miller, Mrs. Fhirciice B. Kelley, Mrs. Elizab'Mh C, Grannis and Miss Alice Burditt. NEW CANAL COMBINATION. 1* Proposes to Construct an Isthmian W ater Way. Article- of incorporation for the American Isthmus Ship Canal Company have been filed in Trenton, N. J. Through these articles the first announcement was made of the new combination, which, it is -aid, includes many men of large wealth, im.id'd by former Mayor William R. Grace, and expects to carry to eomplet'on the isthmian canal -eheme. Although the tmminal capital - $36,61:6, the articles of immporatmu give the right to increase ■ t to S2."i<>.iaHt.<Min. It is estimated that between 5156.(W.iml S29O.tMMUMMI will be needed to .rry o:r the protect, the greater part of which w T be expended in buying off the If dcr- • com • - i<m-. According to the pap l • - ! im-ot poratmn, the übject of the <"mpany - to acquire any and all con--1 ■ >tis, rights md franchises on the Amm an -thmu-. to build a canal front thf Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, to own Is, n m - an 1 railroads; to colonize an ! ’ Im 11, -wm and operate any canal t r ni •■■•ait ami to obtain 'lid •:*> ' - I ai -d State-. England, France, <> -many or any other < lovernnient to th.it end. TRUSTS ON THE DECLINE. So Saes ( raw torii Fairbnnks, Who <>rgnnizcil Strawboard Combine. <'''■■ I ''airbanks of I’erre Haute, Ind. the Kewery magnate and the pro- - । -I th.- -trawb-ard trust, ha- a ’ :v:d d< I th:- tin ’rust- are, — to speak, on their last leg-. Di • m :ii th,i - < xp:>'--ion ot the A :: • *. m i ~f ;ae I nited States •' 1: h i -ai l that the investor- in s won d be the sufferers not the ptl . ■" -a i ' "Well, his head may i ■ level. I'he mv, -mrs base n stomachi.ti of trust- Tin-’ -tock is down from l.’> to 2** p o'- an I the investors don't . t.i., hey did. The furore - wearing ■4l 1 '.c.e- . Linger . hunk of bait and a :•• iter eya.o \ to have a tempting effect than H i awhile back. I don't think ,:h ■ ;t " ..; - ble to pm through tiny trust d. al -a a large scale in the future.” POWERFUL NEW SHELL TESTED. Device ot Fur Greater DeHtrilitive Power thu it Shra pne 1 Invented. \ -f terrific expb -lie power, Wide dm- "t •: -(ruction and a capacity to at ' tia by Imt-’mg fragments and a -Im. k a- effec ;vr as ;i streak of lightmag w i )>• tii" i-anire of the tall cam--1.. . a in ! : ■ I'ni.d'pim Islands. Te-ds th" • tg' of tins terrible engine ot w.:.' I' n- been mmle at Sandy Hook, the G vi -mm .’ _ : ' di: g el ly its secret 01 mannfa'-’tiF" A -hell of this nature ii rg. d with an exp' -ive equal to melin- . e t d.':■ a st.;:•• lai lug near a battalion of th>' enemy w.mld Lill or cripple a very • _ |hh'> e'i'"g, "f tlm battalion. The .ii ■ -of e-i pe from thi- tremendous m.i li :■ w: I 6e le. ~ a-ed 166 times, exi- :■ - - ■ . eon।; ; . d w ith shrapnel discharm d a' the same objects. PLAGUE GETS TO HONOLULU. Two Heath- from Bub ,nic Scourge in Hawaiian Ha r bor. The steamer N ppmi Maru, from Honji Kimg, which has reached Honolulu, has been quarantined in consequence of c death, i el . \ ed 'o be from bubonic plague having occurred on board three days be' f-ie her arrival. One Cliinese passen ger died on beard just before the vesse reach'd Nagasaki and the Japanese health authorities had the body crematet and held the ves-el in quarantine for <tev era) days. Three days before reaching 11 iiolnin another death occurred amonj the I'him-e. The Honolulu health offi cers made a bacteriological examination resulting in the finding of bubonic plagm baceili in the body. Sparks from the Wires. Percy Cox, 19, \\ cstfield, N. J., hanger himself. E. B. Week- fmmd murdered in his home, Bogue Sound. B. N (' E. G. Leake, Elkton. K . . -tabb, d Ho mer Scott, colored, to death. Joseph Lincoln, 65. relative of Abraham Lincoln, dead, ('haitanooga, Tenn. E. C. Robinson, Lexington, Mu., killed himself in a Cincinnati hotel. Arsenic. Congressman Charles Dick will manage the Ohio campaign for the Republicans. Ji>e Lepps. Louisville. Ky.. in a family row. killed his stepfather. George Bowinaster. So much gambling in Cuba that Gen. Brooke threatens to close some of the places. John Hayes, Belaire. Md., engaged in a pi-tol battle with Policeman Bateman. Both dead. Emile Zola, at Paris, filed papers opposing the verdict condemning him to a year’s imprisonment. Two principal witnesses in murder eases pending in San Saba *'oimty, Texas, were assassinated. Jos. Hopper, Summerville. Texas, suddenly became insane and kill' 1 Samuel Davis with an ax. Four freight cars crashed th rough the bridge, Pacific. Mo., and fell into the river. No one hurt. Capt. Peter Devries. Grand Rapids. Mich., is trying to secure homes in Georgia for 101* Dutch families. Mrs. Margaret Trishman, Mammoth Hot Springs. Yellowstone Park, cut the throat of her 5-year-old son. Insane.

OTIS PROMISED HELP. ; WAR DEPARTMENT PLANS TO * SEND RE-ENFORCEMENTS. Commander Telegraphs He Needs 30,- 1 OOt) Men “in the Field” at Once— Surgeon McQuestin Thinks It Will Require Over 100,000 Troops. President McKinley is reported by a W ashingtou correspondent to have couie to a realization of the serious situation of the zYmerican troops in the Philippines, and, as the result of a telegram which is said lo have been received at the War Department from Gen. Otis, he is contemplating .-ending ten regiments instead Ot three, as was formerly intended. The strongest argument, jiul the one that is believed to have tinned the balance, is said lo have been a dispatch recently received from Gen. Otis, in which the latter explained that bis dispatches had been misimdorstood. He does not think that 30,669 mon. including sick, wounded, noncombatants and garri-ou troops, would be sufficient, but that 30. >OO "in the field” oyer and above all drains for other service would be. \\ hen he captures a town he wants men to garrison it without weakening his lighting force. That is to say. he really w ants 56,000 or 60,000 men in all. Preparations are being made for recruiting many more for service at the Philippines, Some have expressed a ' dread fear that the Americans are being forced back to Manila by the climate, and 1 army ulli,ors ar.- said to be in dread of receiving news of some disaster. Another cause given for the President’s alleged change of front is the testimony of Surgeon MeQuestin. which caused so much excitement at the War Department. Surgeon M eQuest in declares, like all other returned officers, that the force of soldiers necessary to subdue and hold the islands has been greatly underestimated; that it will require from 1U6.U69 to 150,006 men to accomplish the task. Last accounts a few weeks ago tell of the insurgents forcing their way between Mc.Arthur's and Otis’ forces. The enemy was at that time reported to have been repulsed with loss. Since that time no news has been made public of what has happened to McArthur's forces. It is evident that the insurgents are not so thoroughly disorganized as the first dispatches would indicate. Should the regiments spoken of be recruited. all the regular troops now in the I’nited Stales might be sent at once to Manila. This would give Otis about 50,066 men, instead of tin 35,000 which will be at his disposal when the volunteers shall have returned. It is suggested that to send all the regulars to the Philippines wunld deplete the forces in the United States dangerously; but the plan proposed at the War Department is to use the 10,66t> troops of the provisional army for garrison purpuses here, and to call on the ' Ouveriinrs of Stales fur regiments of militia fur temporary service in case of emergency. This would be strictly in accordance with the law, and at the same time it wunld give Oti- the very best kind of men for his purposes. • There are 9,600 troops now at San Francisco awaiting transportation to the 1 Philippims. (if these 9,61)0 regulars, • 3,506 are raw recruits. Tlie troops will not lie sent by organizations. A battalion of seasoned regulars, for instance, will go 4 on the same transport with a lot of un--1 trained recruits, so that the time preced- ? ing the arriva at Manila may be devoted ’’ profitably to putting the new men into shape. i * TEXAS TOWN WASHED AWAY. J Rio Gramie River Higher thau Known for Forty Years. ? The Rio Grande is on the greatest ram- • page known for forty years. The old town of Uarrizo, the county seat of Za- . pata County, Texas, was washed away by the flood of that river, not a vestige ; of Ihe settlement, which had a population of about 1.26*1 Mexicans, remaining. !• ihe emir: house and a part of the new’ i> town is th:, atoned with destruction, and it all the county record- were removed. Unconfirmed reports of a number of deaths by drowning have reached Austin s from points below Carrizo. The wide valf ley on the Mexican side of the river be--0 low Rio Grande *’ity has been completet ly dcminat 6, several thousand acres of e irrigated crop being destroyed. The present big flood has caused the river to n change its course at several points, transy ferring thousands of acres of Mexican e territory to the United States, s At one point on the river, bordering on :- ILdaigo (.'minty, the river is cutting off i- a large tract of United States territory, an ! promises to land it in Mexico. Near Betievidos the river, when on a rise a few • years ago, transferred a part of a Mexican ranch stocked with several thousand 1 sheep, to the Texas side of the stream. The United States officials made an effort to collect a duty on the sheep, but 3 the ranch owner successfully resisted paya ment of the same. MAMMOTH SMELTING WORKS. ‘ New Concern Established by Capitalists in Canada. Steps toward the establishment of one g of the greatest iron and steel works in g the wufld were taken at a meeting held j. in Montreal, w hen H. M. \\ hiiuoy of j Boston, pri sideiit ot Ihe I hmiimmi Coal ’ Cumpan.'. ne t "-th a number of promie nent Canadian capitalists. Ihe result was the formation of the Dominion Steel Smelting Company, with a capital of $20,d 006,066. Whitney was elected president. Thi’ company will erect iron and steel s w g - ' Si dney, i’ape Breton, which will have a capacity of from 1,600 to 1,500 ions of steel a day, and this mean<s 1 that at the present prices the product of ihe works will amonnt to about $9,000.11 600 a year. The site for the works has been selected. 1 DENOUNCES MINING JOBBERS. e Z . Governor Murphy of Arizona issues Signed StatementGov. Murphy of Arizona has issued over his signature an annoum-enient tantamount to a proclamation, in which he • denounces in most vigorous language ihe * methods of stock jobbing mining companies in Ihe territory. The publication i of the announcement has caused a stir and has fallen .-a bombshell in Boston and New York, where tl offices ol the different companie denounced ate cated. WORRIES M’ARTHUR’S MEN. | 4 . , ... Force Is Making I’etty Ni^ht A Hacks. Vmimildo, who has taken personal com- ; mand of the force- formerly led by Gen. ' Luna, is worrying Gen. McArthurs men with petty night attacks. Two members ' of the Seventeenth regulars were wound- ’ ed Thursdav night in a skirmish with Ihe Filipinos. Gen. McArthur is of th" opinion that Agninaldo is preparing to make a desperate attempt to retake San Lernando. Re enforcements in large numbers have joined him in the last few days unth now hr Mas a force of from 6,000 to | fe.UOO men. f

mu mi ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* I FROM THE 810 CITIES. 1 Chicago. L 'l'he city is soon to have a woman’s hotel. Marriage licenses to the number of 129 were issued in one day recently. Physicians and citizens are about to organize a society for the prevention of consumption. The Postofliee Department at Washinglon has allowed appropriations of $24,300 and $25,000 to be used in improvements of the city postal service. G. A. R. men are waging a lively battle for the location of the thirty-fourth natiunal encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in the city in 1900. 1 he Pullman company has received an ordm- tri in the Government of the Kingdom of Bavaria for six compartment passenger e irs for the railroads of that country. President McKinley and his cabinet have been invited to be present at the ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the new Federal building, Uhicago-JrJ^sq*^! Oct. 9. Skilled workmen in the building line are at a premium, and the scarcity of men is giving trouble to the representatives of ilie organizations that are affiliated with the Building Trades Council, London. Scorching is forbidden cyclers, and the police enforce the order with strictness. Aged workmen are said to dye their ' gray hair so as to be able to'obtain emIployment. A 17 ear-old London elist has made 317 miles iu a twenty-^^^B road trial over hilly country, unpaced. The latest addition to London clubs is a Poodle Club, which has been formed by a number of ladies and gentlemen interested in the breed. The public entrance doors of the groat building of the Bank of England are so ‘ finely balanced that a clerk, by pressing a knob under his desk can close them instantly. Sandwich men are not permitted to parade on the sidewalks. They must keep close to the curb, however, and not nearer than thirty feet from the next man bearing a placard. Complaint is made of slow delivery of letters. zY letter posted at 4:15 on a Saturday afternoon did not reach its destination, half a mile, away, until the second delivery on Monday. Boston. The new floating hospital will soon be ready. • Three pensioners of the war of ISI2 live in Boston. Forty free fountains furnish ice water to the thirsty. Complaint is made of the increase of the municipal debt. The new municipal gymnasium is practically completed. Salesgirls in the. department stores no longer wear aprous. 'l'he United States Hotel is to follow the old Tremont House into oblivion. Hand organ renters have formed a trust and increased the rental paid by the grinders. Citizens are to be given a chance to patronize home peddlers. Their licenses are to bear even numbers, while non-residents will bear tags with odd numbers. New Y'ork. Horse cars will soon be a thing of the , past. — Cucumber punch is the newest summer drink. Controller Color says New York is the Mecca of beggars. Tua bars are to be established iu order to combat the "liquor evil.” It is suggested that Coney Island's name be changed to "Dewey Park.” Increasing numbers of baseball cranks cross the river to see the Brooklyns play ball. Among the women of the fashionable set there is a mania for handsome bedsteads. The Sun notes that the number of women who patronize bootblacks is increasing steadily. Baltimore. Golf is the fad of the moment. A wave of suicide seems to be sweeping over the city. A new reform City Council promises to make a record for economical administration of municipal affairs. The old High Street Methodist Church, a landmark of Methodism, has been sold and will be converted into a synagogue. A correspondent writes to one of the papers saying that Baltimore girls are losing the beauty for which they were • famous. Berlin. Cabmen are forbidden to use certain streets unless they have a passenger. Berlin's population is increasing with such great rapidity that it is predicted it will pass Paris within twenty years. Automatic telephones are to be established in convenient places, such as cigar stores and restaurants, by the postal authorities. A new military establishment for the manufacture of explosives is being erected in the Jungerfernhalde, a vast plain ne?” the city. Paris. Glass is being used as street pavement. Anglomania is rife among the jeunesse I dore. YVork upon the buildings of the exposition is progressing rapidly. 1 Omnibuses are io be run all night and a train service to the suburbs is to be in- ’ angurated which will run up to 2a. m. 1 Mummv photographs is the latest form t^en bv the French fad for grewsomej‘ .ss. 'The faces of pretty nomen are placed on mummy cases. Dublin. Complaint is made that Irish history is not taught in the schools. icral of the non-conformist preachers have inaugurated a crusade against gamThe Independent suggests that Dublin imitate American cities and have a municipal baud. I'ruf. Reynolds of Trinity College has heated niatter to a temperature of 3,500 degrees by means of electricity. Use of temperance drinks is increasing and rhe consumption of beer and whisky is said to be falling off. San Francisco. The celestial population is not increasing iu number. It is noted that there has been a de•r. asi in crime among the Chinese. ar has been declared against the seals. The fish commissioners claim that they are destroying the food fish. Popular feeling runs high against the proposed double track franchise to the Southern Pacific Railway within the city limits. Philadelphia. The Record says the hay crop will be large. zln undertaker has been made chief of the bureau of health.