Walkerton Independent, Volume 24, Number 52, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 July 1899 — Page 2

gf* E, W___ — o @he Independent. e ety ot ~ —— W. A. ENDILEY, Publisher. B e s R —— - = WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA > - Ty YO 141 E P WEEK'SNEWS RECORD Belgiuam having noved b ; gions ou the importatio \ 1114 caitiec at ertal : s Prrovidead AN AT fmmediately slaw red, Germany has €ns to torind tn 1 mrtat L i from Belgium | One thousand men employed ai ! Omaha and Grant smelter at Omaha are fdle as a result of the eclosing of a nm ber of furnaces. The company says it is due to the coal famince meident to the strike of Illinois and lowa miners. Agents of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company in New York received a cablegram announcing that the _Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived at Cherbourg in the record-breaking time of ~ five days twenty hours and fifty-five It is announced that coppen ore of al- ~ most incredible extent and richness has ~ heen found in the Parry sound district _ within about zeven hours’ railway dis- ~ tance of Toronto. The discovery was due practically so an American mining expert of the name of Forbes. The FPope has been in correspondence with President Kruger. appealing to him to avord a rapture with Great Britain, and hss received a dispateh from the Transvaal's chief magisira Jde ring | that a settlement was still distant, but | that the erisis was passed. An order has been issued by the President extending privileges and protection of the American flag to the shipping of Porto Rico and the Philippines. All ships owned by residents of these islands at the time of the exchange of the ratification of treaties are included in the order. Word was received at Crystal Falls, Mich., from Stambaugh township that Otto Westerberg had shot a man named Carl Anderson while out in the woods hunting. The men were “headlighting” and Westerberg mistook the light on Anderson’s head for a deer's eye. Officers of the ordnance department, U. 8. A, conducted three tests at the proving grounds at Sandy Hook. The tests consisted of the throwing of high explosives, the firing of a new high explosive and the testing of a steel tower and range finder. All were accounted successful. Muricipal ownership of Detroit street railways has taken a fresh start, in spite of the recent adverse decision of the Michigan Supreme Court annulling the appointment of the street railway commissioners. The Common Council by a vote of 19 to 14 has passed the so-cailed security franchise ordinance. . The Rev. William Booth, head of the ‘Salvation army, arrived from England to assist in the Salvation army revival which is being held in Stockholm. As he * was driving to the meeting an unknown man burst from the crowd that lined the street, and, jumping up on the step of the carriage, tried to kill him with a heavy piece of iron gas pipe. The blow - was warded off by an officer, but in the ~ interval of general commotion the man - The standing of the clubs in the Na- ~ tional League race is as follows: . ',& e WL w. L. ..;_-;,;n;ifl‘,x%(linciunati 86 24 L oston .....4H 27Pittsbure ... .34 36 SR . ... .92 26 New Y0rk...31 39 & Philadeiphia. 42 27 Louisville ...27 44 . St. Louis. .. .41 30 Washington. 24 49 " Baltimore ...39 29Cleveland ...12 37 ~ Following is the standing of ;the clubs o the Western League: Minneapolis. 40 288 t. Pau1.....32 35 Indianapolis. 37 29 Kansas City.. 32 36 Columbus ...34 32 Milwaukee .. .32 37 Setroit .....34 33Buffalo ......28 39 : NEWS NUGGETS, Walla Tonka, the Choctaw ball player. has been sentenced to be shot. The sugar trust is about to establish a large chemiecal plant at Philadelphia with a capital of $1,500,000. " Henry Lorain, a veteran actor, who toured in the United States many years ago, is dead in London. It is announced from Washington that Secretary Russell A. Alger's resignation of the war pertfolio is now in the hands of President MeKinley. ’ Herbert H. Brooks of Medford. Mass., Boston manager of the American Circular Loom Company of Chicago, dicd suddeniy, aged 44 years. Five men were injured, two fataliy, by an explosion of gas in the Longhman mines at Ehrenfeld. I'a. The explosion was due to a defective lamp carried by Henry Hoyer. Abraham Finkelstein was probably fatally burned through the explosion of turpentine in his painters’ supplies and wall paper store in New York, and his wife and son were burned o death. Ezekiel T. Cooper, who was serving an eighteen months’ sentence in the New Jersey State prison for abs‘raction of funds frem the First National Bank of Dover, Del., died in the prison. _ Eligs Hatfield. the noted desperado and ‘#on of “Devil Anse” Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that cos: 141 ves, surrendered to Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia in person at Gray. | Col. John M. Ewiug, deputy anditor of | ! W fought with Matthew M n . 1 to State Senator Henry M. M Aae | tin had a pistol and Withers i S hurt, Martin's pist £ 1 o fiy The large steam ba i : Wauklin, located atr Rox it I’a.. was entirely destroyved by § Ita o a loss of $7T5.000. Jacob Backus. an old Ame dent and head of th Backus-J Brewing Company and also of 1 0 and smelting establishment aq Cas died at Lima, Peru. I* has been decided by a sul . of the 1,080 that the Dewe p wration in New York shall be of two davs dur a mammoth arch of trinmph, « which SIO,OOO will be expended. EASTERN. _ Actor William Barton Arnold, aged 67, 1S '3"!‘! at New ‘\ Tk, Captain Bent m Pratt, aged 65, died suddenly at W ashineton. 12 ) 1 . oy aard dtahl, musical director of JBly's lheater at 1 York, died sud: aelly from heg Poison from ¢ . Lo ors ¥ | thic Ginth ol a O-vear-old b P Robert Bounner ; ‘ - York Ledger a1 er of £a ; died at his hom N "

RAAARTS S RN s A 3 was due to a general breaking down of the svstem, | Fire in a siy-story brick building in Boston, occupied mainiy by tobacco man- , ufacturers, vaused a $75,000 loss. The | interior of the building was wrecked and iy contents were almost a total loss. Dr. James 1. Brownson, the venerable /I'-fl\:-x of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington and one of the most noted divines and prominent educators in the ‘ United States, is dead. aged 82 years. | ‘ Willard . Baker, formerly employed { by the Adams Express Company in Bos- ‘ ton, and wanted there for embezzlement, i made his es¢ ape from the officers sent to " San Francisco to take him back East, A charter has been granted at Harris- , burg for the National Glass Company of Pittsburg, a combination of the table glassware manufacturers. The new combine wiil probably be capitalized at $20,000, 000. The wholesale liquor dealers of Cincinnati met G. W. Wilson, commissioner of internal. revenue, and protested against his recent ruling extending the privilege to the distillers of reducing proof whisky to 90 per cent. The New England Cotton Yarn Company, with an authorized capital of sll,500,000, filed papers of incorporation with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J. The company is formed to weave cotton, - | flax, jute and linen. ] Fire and an explosion in the house of L] Captain Dickins of the United States navy at Washington resulted in the | shocking death of Mrs. Dickins, who was fearfully burned and died before medical assistance could reach her J At Canada Lake, N. Y., Lafavette Van- | { derpool, former supervisor of the town nl" Caroga, and his adopted daughter .\Lw] Morey. were drowned. Vanderpool endeavored to save his danghter. who \\‘.‘!\'{ in bathing and had gone out beyvond her | dt']\l’h. Edward H. Fallows and Henry Puster have been appointed receivers for the Metropolitan Building Company, a New Jersey corporation, having principal place of business in Jersey City. Daniel N. Morgan, ex-treasurer of the United States, is president of the company. The case of James H. Greene, who is wanted in half a dozen Western States for bunkoing farmers, was before Gov. Stone at Harrisburg, PPa. The Governor's action was checked by the issning of a warrant from the executive department to Sheriff Sellers, on the requisition papers sent from the State of Washington, and Greene was sent back to jail. WESTERN. The corner stone of the new State capitol at Helena, Mont., was laid the other day, with imposing ceremonies. Edwin Jacoby, president and incorporator of the Toledo and Bowling Green Railroad, died at Toledo, aged 65 years. William D. Bioodgood of New York has obtained a divorce from his wife, Katherine S. Bloodgood. in Bismartck, S. D. Mrs. Elsie Scheib of San Francisco ate of some candy received by mail and has since been seriously ili with symptoms of arsenical poisoning. : Mrs. May Wright Sewall of Indianapolis was elected president of the lunternational Council of Women, which has closed its session at Londen. | George W. Julian died at his home in | Irvington, Ind., at the age of 82 years. He was 2 prominent politician and wellBhown anti-slavery leader. 'l James McAfee was hanged at Carth- ; | age, Mo., for the murder of Eben Brewer, y| & merchant of Joplin, whom he attempted |to rob nearly two years ago. | An earthquake shock was felt at San Franeisco aud from reports received from other sections of the State it would appear that the vibrations were general. No damage has been reported. An explosion of gasoline in the h:nse-l ment of a business biock at Indianapolis partially wrecked the building, in which was a laundry and a drug store. Five persous were seriously hurt. A terrific rain and wind storm struck Crookston, Minn., the other evening just after the opening of the performance of | Ringling Brothers' circus. The main tent coilapsed, injuring sixty people, but none of them fatally. The circus company's loss is SIO,OOO. A destructive cyclone passed two miles from Ainsworth, Neb., kiiling Mrs. William Lockmiller, wife of a well-known farmer, and doing great damage to property. Houses, barns, fences and bridges were demolished and many families were made homeless, A platform on which were thirty prominent Jews of Cleveland fell a distance of several feet, resulting in serious and perhaps fatal injury to some. A new synagogue had been eompleted and was being dedicated. A\ large platform had been erected for the oceasion. Pleasantville, lowa, was badly damaged by a hailstorm. Nearly a€ the glass on the south and west sides of the dwellings was broken, and in the country eastward a strip of growing crops five miles \\'EJ!" and twelve miles long was destroved and much stock killed and injured. l Fire in the large plant of the lii;!:ui.\; Can Company in Chicago cansed damage | te the amount of 150,000 and imperiled l the lives of over 600 émployes. The lat- : ter escaped by means of the fire escapes | and stairways. Some had hairbreadth ex- i periences and two were injured. | | At Coutes, Kan,, Willie. Porter, sied 9, | playfully pointed a revoiver, which he | found in the hired man’s room, at his, baby sister, who was sitting en her mother’s lap, and pulled the trigger. The hall l passed through the baby’s head and the '\;‘ < Wer Gt ‘- ;!:“\\“" ’ | Zanes Ohio, it l#?\-“’ leedd A Seq s break n the non ; { derous beams was discovered, the ftloor | | of the bridge having sunk six inches. ') | Bl L soon to sail for! | Pacis to seeane \ xhibition of fine | !)-' =S\ t x i \ <iton. fel firom a wagon near Tiffin, Ohio, and was crushed to death by the wheels. He was the head i“f the glassworkers' nnion and superin | { tendent of Ball Brothees' big factory at 1 | Muncie, Ind. - |; A tornade passed over the town of Un- | I Wis Fhe storm strucl the town ‘{ pat the westen indary and plowed a furrow across it six miles long and sis teen to forty rods wide Practically ex eryvthing in its path was lestroyved. Esti | ‘ mates place the loss at £50,000 to 875,000 ’ " There was no loss of life i i SOUTHERN. 2‘ An advance of 20 per cent has been ,-ih ade In the wages of 300 miners at the i Whiteside m s of the Tennessee Coal. ‘ I 1 Company $ 1 PR ~ed 69 ;-j';».}'r.,-‘ l & ;8 ] a 1s (tovernor of B:: - :

RYR B T S AT MR NN | in the history of the organization, was { held at Asheville, N. C., with about 300 | members in attendance. ’ Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia ap- | pointed delegates to the anti-trust convention to be held in Chicago in September !undvr the auspices of the Civie Federation. The Governor also signified his intention of attending. ‘ Thirteen persons are dead and hundreds ,nf others were placed in peril from the flood at Brookshire, Texas, where the Brazos river was said to be ten miles wide. Mrs. 1.. A. Rice of San Antonio, Tex., dropped dead on the street at Atlanta, Ga. The cause of her death was heart failure. Mrs. Rice was the niece of Pres. lidvm Tyler and a first cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. 1 Elias Hatfield, Jr., son of “Devil Anse” Hattield, shot and killed H. E. Ellis on a Norfolk and Western passenger train‘i near Williamson, W. Va. There had been bad feeling between them for a long time, Ellis being a MeCoy sympathizer in the Hatfield-MeCoy feud. FOREIGN. Dowager Queen Kapiolani died at Honolulu. She was 65 years old. Followers of Jiminez have started another revolt in San Domingo. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and family have left London for Sweden, | where Mr. Clemens will take the Swed- | ish cure. Ambassador Choate and Lord Salis- ! bury are almost deadlocked over the mo- ! dus vivendi fixing the Alaskan boundary. Neither side will accept the provisional [ line proposed by the other. f l M. Bertillon has been discharged l'rumi his place as head of the 'rench anthropo- , metrical department because his h‘sli-l mony as a handwriting expert in the | l)h-,\'l'n\ case has proved to be I'!‘!‘o!](‘o“9.' The vali of Van, Turkish Armenia, re- | worts an incursion of an armed band of revolutionary Armenians frem Persia. In the conflicts with Turkish troops it is reported several persons have been killed. Admiral Cervera and the other commanders of the Spanish fleet destroyed in the battle of Santiago, whose conduet has been the subject of inguiry by special : court martial have been acquitted and formally liberated at Madrid. | The trial of the slayers of Gen. Luna, the Filipino leader who wus assassinated ! by the guard of Aguinaldo’s residence, is ended. The accused were acquitted on the ground of self-defense. The testimony showed there was a conspiracy on the part of Luna and other officers to kill | Aguinaldo and make Luna dictator. 1 Measures have been taken to strike off the rolls of the Prussian herrenhaus, or house of lords, the name of Prince (job-i hard Blucher, great-grandson of the fam-‘ ous general who commanded the Frussians at the battle of Waterloo. Some years ago the prince, ruined by gambling, fled to New York, where it is said he became naturalized. IN GENERAL. Conroy Brothers' sawmills, on the Ottawa river, several mik's from Ottawa, Ont., were struck by lightning and barned to the ground. Loss $135,000, insurance S7TH,OOO, For the quarter ending March 31 last there were 7,846,168 money orders issued, amounting to £52.383,938. This is an increase over the corresponding quarter last vear of 83,890,306, Chairman Mortin C. Rankin of the Populist national committee says his party will formi no fusion with the Demo- | crats in 1900, but will write its owu platform and name its own ticket The New York Central and the Pennsyivania raiiroads have entered into a compact unprecedented in railway history. Under its provisions the two great properties become for practical purposes l one system. The New Jersey (hart of Errors and Appeals has reversed the decision of ViceChancellor Gray in the cases of the Trenton Potteries Company against Richard Oliphant and others. Mr. Oliphaut, after selling out to the trust, entered into a | written agreement not to start uxain] anywhere in the United States vki'vpt“ Nevada and Arizona, but subsequently started- in opposition, and Viece-Chancel-lor Grey refused to restrain Mr. Oliphant lor Grey refused to restrain Mre. Oliphant, taking the ground that the cnn-' tract was in restraint of trade. ! Bradstreet’s views the trade situation | thus: “Holiday observances and srmi-' annual stock takings have worked toward | quiet in general trade and industry, but | it is significant of the favorable rnm]i-! tions ruling in this, as compared with pre- Q vious years, that trade advices point to | rather more than the average business being done, notwithstanding the checks to demand and shipment above mentioned. Additional results of the season's work brought to light are fully as favorable as/| those indicated in Bradstreet's report last | week, and furnish an adequate basis furf th: general air of confidence with \\'!l}-‘?l2 the business world faces the last half of ! the year. Business failures for the week | 'number 1306. as against 158 last wes 3\.? 241 in this week a vear ago. 213 in 1897 219 in 1896 and 266 in 18303, RBhsiness failures in Canada for the week number |25, as compared with 23 last week, 16 in ' this week a ¥ear ago, 31 i 1897, 3 1896 and 30 in 1895." MARKET REPORTS. | Chicageg—Caitle, common to prime.i $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping f:r:hlvs.l $£3.00 to $4.00; sheep. fair to choice, $3.00 , to $£5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, T3¢ to 7ic; | orn, No. 2, 33¢ to 34¢: oats, No. 2, 23¢ | r B 190; epe B e, shipping, $3.00 to | L. .ol hops t cht. $2.75 to »4.00; sheep, common to cho $250 to 54925- | wheat, No. 2 red, Tdc to 5 n, No. 2 i white, 34c¢ to 35¢; oats, No. 2 white, 29¢ | | to 30c. 5 { St. Louis—Cattle, £3.50 to $5.75; hoes. | ‘».\':'.nu to $4.00; sheep, £3.00 to 5;_7,—,;§ vheat, No. 2, T4c to T6c; corn, No. ::’ b i | Yellow, ooc 10 oac; oats, No. 2, 26¢ to 27c: ‘ 2 ,\'.‘n. 2, Bic to 59c. | { Cincinnati—Carttle, $2.50 to $5.75; hw:fl.‘ I 3000 to $1.00: sheep, $2.50 to $4.50: | wheat, No 2 7lc fto Tip: corn. No. _»' mixed, 35¢ to 37¢; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28 - 1 to 29¢; rye, No. 2 64c to OLe. i ! Detroit—Cat e, 250 sBO hoos ‘ i 300 to $4.25 sheep. $2.50 t ‘.\"-‘:,—'A! | wheur, N 6, 2 e fn 06 obrn Ny 9| | vellow, 35¢ to 37c: ats, No. 2 white. :5.‘.‘1 2 to 3lc; rye, Hs9¢ to GOc, | | Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixe i T m“ ipe; corn, No. 2 mixed 34e to 36c: onts. | 1 Do. 2 mixed, 24¢ 16 25¢: rve No 257 i to 59¢; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.00. {+ Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, T2¢ to 13¢; corn, No. 3, 33¢ to 35¢: aats. No. 2 white, 26¢ to 29¢; rye, No. 1,60 cto Gle: barley, No. 2 4le¢ to 4.3¢; pork, mess, | 35.00 to $8.50. ' Buffalo— Tattle, cood \h‘j‘A,\"&’_’_ sieers. | £3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, } $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethim"s, .\'::_.-a“ to $3.25: lambs, common to ! extra, $4.50 to $6.75. | New York—Cattle, £53.25 to $6.25: hogs, I $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $3.:25; { wheat, No. 2 red, 80¢ to 8le¢; corn, No. 2 39¢ to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c¢ to 82c¢: butter, ereamery, 15¢ to 19¢; eggs, West- | ern, 14c¢c to 10ec.

———E! !! !Q Efl : r E"—-fi_—— ;:' N % AFRAID OF 7 BOERS WITH ALL HER STRENGTH, EN.- | GLAND SHRINKS FROM WAR. i | Well She May, so, the south Africans Are Maznificent Fighters —ln the Event of War, the Eoers Will Be Led by an American, ‘ . .\ i ”bhould the dificultjes between the l.l‘ruumuul. republie, South Africa, and | Great Brnum‘ lead tq war, the conflict I will be l‘.\'(‘('t‘(hngly bittep and sanguinary. | In the end, by CXCreiging her supreme - » v Ypea . . strength, (n.(ut lh‘\t;nn will conquer; but | . the effort !\'lll‘i‘(ml her heavily in lite and | i money. English Officers are well aware | | of th‘ls and have RO hegitancy in so expressing themselyeg, One of them, Lord | Cecil Douglass C*)"lm(m. now in this country, and who hag secn service in South Africa andg k"O\\"s the Boers well, thus discusses the Situation: “The Boers of the Pransvaal,” he says, { ““are magnificent Euerlig soldiers. Their history has proved it, andd they are fully s v ‘«9 g 8 y‘- N el W i ol oo B b o f Pt = - 8 | V"7 X ! 2 fi;'”-",/‘}‘ ] , if{/ ; S 8 N K\ ! ¥ A \\V'f\"\ 3 ’: 4 SFWIR ;\\ Mgt ,'. S RVE N\ a7 %, | - r;: NN »N7 f\\ -R\B » \ 7- , ‘**y.,\?\;\\\-\\ ,/,/q B , A SN N AN N, 8 i ~k\\‘§ g, i ,l'\x'/(// A ‘,’f//.‘/ P ) NN (v L N\ LR W o A A | LN -\\»\ 7 1 AN N R F 750,77 | | U el | | VAR - | i GEN. JOUBERT. | I O R ———— | | up to their standard to-day. They are ex- | pert marksmen, born rough riders, such | &8 your own cowhoys, and their courage | and tenacity is undeniable. Individually | they are as cood military stuff as the world possesses. They also are thoronghly convinced of the dustice of their cause { and would die 10 a man at the word of | { Oom Paul. { But aside from their morale and their | fitness, the Transvaal country 1s one ad | mirably adapted for the purposes of defense. It is inland, with large uninhab | ited spaces. Ap army invading it must have a distant base, and its supplies mus | be brought up throngh a \"”-’i"?"'I“'”'; country under the most di<:|~!\;l:.‘::._‘«-n:h‘j . conditions Cape Town is a thousand |

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s e e l milesgifrom the Vaal river, and if an at- | tack were to be made trom Natal there would be mountains to work through and ' much tropical growth., | “The question of transportation would be serious. We wounld need thousands of mules, which must be brought from South America. The ocean distance and the adverse climate would kill the animals off by the hundreds, and the actual work would entail even greater losses. Will Need 60,000 Men. “There is a question of strategy as well. The Boers would be difficult to hit in a mass. Indeed, they might not be mobilized in a European sense at all. In an arid, rocky conntry, filled wib splendid shots, with no real objective point to capture, with a disaffected or actively hostile population on your flank or rear, the conquest of the Transvaal would be one of the most arduous undertakings we ever entered upon. In my opinion no less than GO,OOO men would be required. Your own Philippine war is not so dificult. Indeed, it is folly to underestimate the military strength of the Transvaal, which proceeds not alone from the material character of the population but alse from | the nature of the country itself. ’ “And the Boers are armed to the teeth. { The money raised by taxation of the Ulit- | landers has been spent in arms and artili lery, so that the republic repeats on a | smiall scale the military eamp which the continental powers ¢xhibit on a great ; scale.”’ i How excellent a marksman the Boer is may be inferred from England's p: perience with him. I’ oc consag in the "So's' out of & toio) uslish f of between 600 and T the loss in a fev hours was 2838 kilied and wounded—mnearIy half the force. It is a literal fact that ]Y‘h\- great majority of #he dead soldiers | wore found 1o have heeg shot through the | hend. a hole in the helget of each of the 1 fallen showing the ”]:k at which the i :'.’v:"'n‘ r rifleman had ‘v £fd. 2 I'he v-»nnn:n.n.h:r O he Boers in the event of hostiliies™ay 1. Gen. P. T, Joubert, who has Suceesstully measured swords before with the English Gen. Joubert is an American. having been born in Uniontown, Pa., in 1841, SAD END TO FISHING PARTY. Mrs. M. S, Ten Eyck of Chicago Dies in Lake Superior, 5 Details of a fatal accident in Lake Su—‘ perior, in which one Chicagoan lost her | life and two others narrowly escaped \\':u«‘i ery graves, have reached Chicago. By the overturning of a sKiff near the shore | t of Isle Royale, in which were M. 8 Ten i Eyck and wife and Mrs. E. W, Androws, Mrs. Ten Evck met death, while her hus. band, after two gttempts to save her, was towed ashore compleiely exhausted, \\nnf one arm encircling his wife's dead body. Mrs, Andrews was kept afloat by a tightly buttoned mackintosh, whiech spread ont like a parachute, and bher presence of mind in clinging to the bottom of the "‘”"i sized boat. e 1‘ PLANS FOR DEWEY’'S WELCOME. i Committee at New YOrk Outlines Pro- } gram for a Celebration, | Plans for the Dewey celebration at New York were outlined at 4 meeting of the committee on plan and scope Monday. 1 It has been decided practically that thvr«-1 shail be a two-day celebration with both _a land and naval parade. Admiral Dewey | will pass under a large triumphal arch to be constructed either in City Hall park or| | Madison Square park at a cost of $lO,1 000. It was decided also to have two large civic floats in the naval parade, J

'\‘_.__.\M SEEKS BAN ON CANAL. ' City of St. Louis Wi Ask Issue of an | . Injunction. | Proceedings will be instituted soon in the Federal Coust at Chicago to prevent the aperation of the Chicago drainage canal. The city of St. Louis will be the i |)lnimii.T. represented by City Counselor St‘hlllll'llm('llc‘l'. This was decided at the | meeting of the joint committee of the St. Lonis City Council and house of delefates which was appointed several weeks 480 to investigate the drainage canal enterprise and recommend steps to protect the ¢ity's interest., Various plans were discussed for preventing the pollution of the city’'s water supply, proceedings by injunction ln-ing' regarded as the most feasible. Afterward the committee asked My, Svhnurmzn'ln-r‘ for a written opinion as to the standing the city would have in the courts. 'The committee met to consider Mr. Schnurmacher's advice. This was to the effect that the city or any resident of St. Louis could enjoin the operation of the canal if it could be shown that any interest would be threatened by the pollution of the wiater. Resort should e had to the United States Court at Chicago, in Mr., Schnurmacher's opinion. The committee discussed the matter for an hour and a hair, and then drafted a joint resolution directing the city counseclor to institute such legal proceedings as might be NeCessury. The action of the committee following di. rectly on the visit to St. Louis of the State inspectors from Chicago is considered significant. e L RURAL DELIVERY IS GROWING. Western Headquarters Fixed at Indianapolis, The Western headquarters of the rural free delivery of mail has been established at Indianapolis, and the following special agents met with I'rank M. Dice, :vm-ml; |sn;wrimvmln-nl: Henry Casten, Madison, { Wis.: Charles Lynn, Chicage:; W. P l(‘nn:m' and George Olsen, Wisconsin; | Thomas Howard, St. Paul: W. V. Anuin, Phoenix, Ariz.: S. B. Rathbone, Wheele, W. Va b 1 Hathaway, Indiana. The agents made reports concerning the | “rowth of the movement. They said that i while the undertaking was largely in its preliminary stages, it was growing rapidly and was the “coming’ department of lxhu United States postoflice business. A new year began July 1, and there is now !S.‘NN!,UHH available for the service this 1 year. Indiana heads the list of States in | the demand for the service and lowa is } second. | TEACHERS DIE IN A WRECK. 1 S— — i ‘; Excursion Train Crashes Into Freight ! Near Newman, Cal. | A special train of nine coaches, in }rls:n‘:n of S. R. Drury of the Burlington | iru;\.!. on the way from St. Louis to Ln\" | Angeles, and loaded with teachers bound

for the national educational convention, ran into a freight train near the depot at Newman, Cal, early Monday morning with the result that three ladies were killed and eleven other PASSengers were tinjur(\i. one most severely. The special was going at a speed of | forty miles an hour and was supposed to ‘hm‘v & clear track, when, in the early i morning, it crashed into a feed rmin‘ which was taking water on the main t(rm'k with no light out. The tender of the locomotive was forced into the end of the forward sleeper, there being no bag~! gage to block it. The freight cars took fire, but the Newman volunteer fire departmeat turned out and saved the pas‘svngvr train from the flames and also most of the freight train. A special was made up and the injured passengers were 3’“‘“‘ to San Francisco. The other pasi sengers proceeded on their way to Los ! Angeles. INGALLS RE-ENTERS POLITICS. Endeavors to Bring About a New Deal in the Republican Ranks. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls in an au- ! thorized interview anuounces that he pro- % poses 1o re-enter Kansas polities, and that | ; @\ he will ™ endeavor 10 {/ & bring about a new deal ‘ :.i,'/\?’/i\ in l:e-;nx!-f’in an y.-:‘l‘::i-w'. | ?; ’, i ]l'.“‘:A?.:u:;.‘-w% that he :‘ @Y{‘?\;’ \ ~\':\:!'~l». : r:r‘»: : !!11-' ’ N NS "nited .\":': €8 Nenate or anp T e 7 e MeKinles i N .‘,/ . . ~ — | £ ! { JOBN J. INGALLS i erialisy | tary domination, with the silver guestion on the side. : The practical solution of the q\u-stlonl of trnsts, he said, rests with the State Legislatures. The solution is taxation, just as the Government destroved the State banks by imposing the 10 per cent | tax. The law at present existing is praec- | tically sufficient in his opinion. News of Minor Note. Next saengerfest will be held in Buffalo in 1401, | Knights of Bt. John will meet in Philaiq]t‘!lvlli;l HEeNE yoar, l Ex-Mayor Collier, Petersburg, Va. | commitied suicide. , Encincer Callaghan was killed in a iavreck, Mattewan, N X i I'fred W. Sehachtle, New York killed | by an explosion in a brewery. i Ny Yon Sheong, San Franciseo. was | shot while in bed by a highbiuder. l Memorial tablets i honor of (30l Har- | ry Egbert were unveiled at Cin mnati, ; Ko 1. Smith, Washington Ga was perforated with bullets shot by C 1. Groves. ' I'amily racket. Clarence Williams, Paris, Ky., for killing Martha Tillman will quit the world on a scaffold. Emanuel Souders knifed Frank Reed, Pittsburg, Ky., because he wouldn't pay $2. Reed will die. Because she was jilted, Estella Cork. t 16, Asbury Park, N. J., committed suic¢ide. Carbolic acid. | William Brunt, Rahway, N. J., it is Iw~l lieved, was killed by tramps and his body placed on the railroad. Francis J. Nulty, New York, who murdered his sweetheart, Mamie Remley, last Christmas day. has been sentenced to‘ prison for life.

MANY ARE STARVING . FEARFUL CONDITIONS CAUSED. BY TEXAS FLOODS. | People of the Brazos Valley Face Death ‘l by Famine and Fiood—-Fully Three i Hundred Negroes are Known to ' Have Perished, The total number of lives known to have been lost in the Brazos and Colo- | rado river floods, that are spread over u‘ ! great area of central and southern Texas, | is fully 300. There are unauthenticated reports of many more cases of drowning, Nearly all of the vietims were negroes, who refused to heed the warning of the iulp(‘udiug overfigw and seek higher | ground. In Burlesen County a party of twents twWo water-bound negro men, women and children were rescued from tree tops, Set - R e g Ty x =2

varte they had been stationed for '..\\-.|| days. They were in a famished condition. ! \Thv water is subsiding along the nmwl", source of the Brazos, but is still rising | \near the gulf. It is now many feet above the highest water mark ever known. In Waller County there is great dosliluliuu\ among the sufferers and appeals have been sent to the mayors of all the larger | cities of the State for aid in the way of | clothing and food. Through railroad traf sic on all the principal roads of the State is still suspended. Gov. Sayers received a telegram signed by a committee of citizens of IFulshear, Fort Bend County, saying that thousands of people in that county are starving and appealing for immediate aid. Twenty-two counties are submerged to

a greater or less extent, and thousands of acres of cotton lands are under water. The loss of cotton yield is estimated at from 15,060 to 30,000 bales in each county, entailing a monetary loss of fully SB,000,000. It is estimated that the damage to other property, inclnding loss of live stock, will approximate £7,000,000, making a total due to the loods of $13,000,000, Terrible stories of destitution and distress, of hunger and death, to come in from the tlood-swept belt. In the Brazos river hottom nefr Brookshire, a station on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, thirty-eight miles from Houston, comes an appalling account. The meager dispuatches received from there state that in the Brazos bottom men, women and children are lodged in trees and are dying from hunger and exhaustion. Hundreds of people, mostly negroes, are the vietims. Around Brookshire people are huddied like sheep on little knolls and in other ! places of temporary safety. A report received at Fort Worth by telephone from scuth Texas flood points gives additional appalling accounts of the disaster fraught by the unprecedented flooding of the Brazos river. Fully 200 lives have been lost near Sealey, at a point called The Mound. The spot is a small upland entirely surrounded by the raging waters, extending three or four miles in all directions. On this spot were congregated 300 negroes. The waters seemed to be closing in on them, with no avenue of escape. On another small pateh of ground, out in the river, near Brookshire, was another bunch of 400 negroes, who were in danger of being swept away. The situation, the dispatches say, is frightful and people are panicstricken and unable ‘o lend the unfortunate ones suecor of any kind, IFrom indieations the loss of life will reach 500, unL mprisoned negroes are given assistance. | Reports received from Calvert and Brookshire, 100 miles down the river from Calvert, portray a fearful state of desolation and suffering, particularly among the plantation negroes hemmed in by the raging torrents. The river is seven feet higher than ever before, and the lashing, leaping waters cover an expanse of more than five miles. Plantations along the river, near Hearne, are all under warer and crops practically ruined. It has rained continuously for eight days throughout, the fiooded districts, the greatest rainfall since 1842, when a similar disaster befell the people along the Brazos river and hundreds were drowned. The War Department has granted the request of the GGovernor of Texas for aid for flood sufferers. Such Government boats as are available will be placed at‘ the disposition of the Governor, and the‘ rations asked will be issued at once. 1 } £sl e gdi 11 8 W’) I@‘l ‘ ‘; R W ‘& B P Qlyai" 3.::‘“‘ | L e ) | Gen. Wheeler of Alabama entered West { Point from New York. i Emerson’s Essays are Queen Victoria's ) ‘ favorite reading nowadays. 1 Lord Salisbury never walks, even the f shortest distance, when he ean avoid it. | John M. Ward, once famous as a baseball playver, is winning iaurels on the golf I eventy vears Roswell Beardsles { Anibassade iaoate s son acts as IS | lpri\‘u[c secretary. He has been out of i college two years. G. L. Watson, designer of the famous' English yachts, has tever owned even a rowboat of his own | Mrs. i Hung Chang has a more extensive wardrobe than any other woman. Her dresses number 3,000, : Mrs. George Gould's c¢hildren have a ! head nurse, two assistants, two gov- ! ernesses, two grooms and two footboys to { minister to their wants. ’ Aucustus J. C. Hare has a room furnished entirely with articles formerly the ip:n.;n piy of Pope Pius 1N Three times Sarah Bernhardt has been i”y: the verge of bankruptey, but friends ' have come to her rescue. E Sir Edwin Arnold savs that he ¢an do ! his best work when there is plengy of noise :””4., v m where he S Wil iv\\'r,;‘[» S. Weir Mitehe beg ) ;3\ 13t ~ flls ! i i -~ I W 1 g?‘y‘\‘::.:‘ 1S & D sician | Liord Rothschild « fines i o | the London Times. He has read only ' novel, Beaconsfield's “Young Duke.’ } Paderewski is a farme Ik | good deal about horticult but ;:v;‘:x;‘\:..}"‘~f"r.‘~’| { Secretary Holls of the Americar > | mission to the peace couferens I | g qually well with eith )1 Ris ! Canon KFarrar knows the gos] heart and can recite the from the St | verse of Matthew tot | ( 1 ! Enemies of €. D. W ker, 4 Wi : candidate for Congress, m tial '; wears a plum-colored silk dressing gown. | Henry C. Frick, head of the new Carne- | gie syndicate, made his fortune v an| early appreciation of the possibilities »i the coke industry. |

A—- — RAISE TEN REGIMENTS. Enlistment of Volunteers for Service in the Philippines Is Urdered. The order for the enlistment of ten new regiments of infantry was issued ThursIday by the Secretary of War. It is the ‘intention of tbe President to raise ten regiments of volunteers besides filling up all the vacanecies existing in the regular army now at Manila. Two of the volunteer regiments have already been organized at Manila, and of the remaining eight one will rendezvous and be drilled at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., two at Camp Meade, Pa., one at Co‘lumhus Barracks, one at Fort Thomas, Ky., one at Fort Sheridan, I'l., one at Leavenworth, Kan., one at San Antonio, \ Texas, and one at Vancouver Barracks. Regular army officers who commanded volunteer regiments in the war with Spain ‘ will be assigned to command the nine voli unteer regiments, and these officers will | be directed to proceed immediately with \] their captains to the post at which their | respective regiments will be recruited and 3 hhe. o el < =

drilled and take me: res to enlist men in all parts of the counti, without refercnee to the regular recruiting stations. By this means the War Department expects that by August all the nmen necessary to form the regiments will have been obtained and that by the following month they will be in shape to sail for their destination. The total number of volunteers who will | be enlisted will he 13,781—11,781 for the nine regiments to he organized in this | country and 2,000 in Manila. Each regi- | ment will leave fifty officers, so that the | regimental strength will be 1,350 men. Some slight changes have been made in the recruiting instructions, which are intended to be broad enough to cover the enlistment of both regulars and volunteers.

GREED OF CANADA. Again Upsets Nzgotiations for Settlement of Boundary Dispute. Late developments in the efforts of this Government to effect a temporary settlement of the Alaska boundary dispute have demonstrated the futility of hoping to accomplish anything by the means nsually employed when diplomatie questions are concerned. The latest evidence of the greed of the Canadians is contained in their claim to the Porcupine district, and their demand that it shall be recognized in the modus vivendi as Canadian territory. This preposterous claim affects the rights of over 2,000 American miners. It has shown the President and Secretary Hay that conciliation and concession are lost upon the Canadians; that the time has come for the American (Government to stand against further greed. The instructions to Ambassador Choate have been very positive regarding the stand he is to maintain. He has been directed to notify Great Britain that the United States canneot entertain the most recent proposition for a temporary Alaskan boundary. He has been told to say that, if the proposition is insisted upon, this Government cannot continue negotiations. The position of the United States is almost an ultimatum. ANXIOUS TO QUIT. Aguinaldo Realizes that His Fight Against America Is Hopeless. A San Francisco dispatch says that in the face of all the Filipino-American “news’’ that is being received from Manila concerning the invinecible rebel chief, Aguinaldo, there comes the information from an altogether unprejudiced source that the leader of the insurgents in the I’hilippines has tired of the fight, and that his army counsists of a lot of bloodthirsty [ handits who are in holy fear of American bullets. A copy of the Japanese Times was secured from the steamer Nippon Maru, and in it is an account of the arrival at Yokohama of two Spanish priests who lately escaped from the insurgent camps. One of the fathers, who is described as a man of splendid education, a student of many languages and an authority on island affairs, stated that the - power of Aguinaldo will be broken immediately on the arrival of American troops to garrison towns that are taken. GOOD CORN CROP REPORTED. Nebraska, Tow: and Missouri Send Encouraging News, The Corn Belt in its monthly crop report says that the corn outlook is good. “Nebraska—Sixty-seven reports out of the 323 received say the stand of corn is excellent, 214 say it is good, 18 that it is fair, 4 that it is poor. This indicates an excellent stand. “lowa—The present condition of the crop as it stands is by 14 reports called excellent, 50 say it is good, 14 that it is fair, 2 that it is poor. . “Missouri—Reports from 29 counties in the northern one-fourth of the State. Four reports say the stand is excellent, 40 that it is good, 18 that it is fair, 2 that it is poor.” } FAMOUS CASE IS DECIDED. | Wisconsin Supreme Court Delivers an i Important Decis ' on. i .1 An opinion that will stand as an impor- | tant legal precedent in the legislation of i Wisconsin was made by the Wisconsin .| Supreme Court in deciding the famous | Plankinton Bank ecase in favor of the ! creditors. | The terms of the alternative writ of M a1 11 remptory. and, { the report of William Plankinton up to July 1, 1898, is declared to be void at law and of absolutely no effect. WILL FIGHT THE STEEL TRUST. Large and Strong Company Is Formed at ~t. Louis. X A company has been formed at St. | Louis to build the largest steel plant in the West, which, it is understood, will be | prepared to fight the trust. The capital- | ization will be $500,000, to be increased ! in the near future. Sparks from the Wires. ; Postoffice, Congers City, N. Y., iobhed | of S3OO. | Inetand orders a battalion of fusi'eers 1 - rted drowned, Gals(e ‘ pay $4.187,700 for the Sily 0\ .. Niagara, returned to : 1 Oh k ] "Z ‘U:\' . . , ) Ilico may be i ; ; s in Indian Terrii m Kogers. business man, WinchesW ers, Altoona, Pa., fell into 1 k Tan N s, Ohio, died from | 4 stab re y an Italian fight, | SQchooner Benson sprung g leak, San- | dusky, Ohio, and went down f Minister Bryan at 'l:m "i‘f“"il'o cables | that Brazil wants (o buy thirty miles of | street car rails.