Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 August 1901 — Page 2

uhc independent. W. A. EM»LEV. l»ul>li!»hcr. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA, WEEK'S NEWS RECORD Tramps held up John and Paul McGrath, of Rush City, Minn., on a moving cattle train. The men resisted and John McGrath was shot dead. Paul escaped to the top of the train, but was overtaken, robbed and finally locked into a car. A steam threshing machine exploded on the farm of C. L. Christenson, near Porter, Minn., instantly killing .Mrs. Christenson and severely injuring het daughter, Lars Christenson, Jr., John Anderson and one of the assistants at the machine. Following a custom that she adopted last year, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy signalized children’s day at the State fair at Concord, N. H., by giving a pair of shoes to every deserving child in Concord who makes his or her needs known at that time. Robert G. Evans, United States District /.ttorney for Minnesota, who last ■winter was a prominent candidate before the legislature to succeed Senator Cushman K. Davis in the United States Sen’ate, died suddenly in Minneapolis from heart disease. The Barberton, Akron and Eastern Railroad Company of Akron was in_corporated at Columbus. Ohio, with S•(BRW steam railroad from Barberton via Akron through Summit and Mahoning Counties to the State line. At Ash Hill, Mo., Luther Baggett, ID years old, shot and killed Mary Keith, 15 years old. He confessed the crime was committed at the instigation of Mrs. Janies Gilpin. The latter, her husband and young son, have been arrested for complicity in the crime. Lafayette Newkirk, a wealthy stock raiser, was shot and killed on one of the principal residence streets of Mexico, Mo., as he was walking home alone. The assassin was pursued by several persons who heard the shots, but escaped. No motive for the murder is known. The Sandy Valley Banking Company, of Malvern, Ohio, organized two months ago by F. S. Miller, former secretary of the fajed Superior Street Savings and Banking Company, of Cleveland, has made an assignment to H. J. Wilson, a merchant of Malvern. Depositors are much enraged. While charging the soda fountains in George Ott’s drug store at Ashley, Ind., the clerk, Fred Nicoli, supposedly made an error in mixing the gas and an explosion resulted. Fragments of the fountain struck Nicoli on the head, killing him, and knocked Ott unconscious, injuring him probably fatally. The damage to the building is slight. D. E. Lombard, who rose from bed upon which he had been confined to die of typhoid fever at Columbus, Ohio, and mysteriously disappeared one night recently, has returned to his home. Since he left home he has been wandering about the country, getting his meals as best he could, and h^s walked the fever out of ’in. Although weak, he is now praeticai- well. ^lowing is the standing of the clubs / in thtXatjonal League: / W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .58 38 Boston 51 52 Philadelpua 5!) 45 Cincinnati ...42 57 Brooklyn ...58 47 New Y0rk...40 57 St. L0ui5....58 47 Chicago 42 65 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago .’. ..04 41 Philadelphia. 54 50 Boston 62 42 Washington. 43 56 Baltimore ...56 45 Cleveland ...43 59 Detroit 55 49 Milwaukee . ,36 70 BREVITIES, A mob at Winchester. Tenn., burned at the stake a negro who assaulted and shot to death a white woman. Turkey has yielded to French demands for recognition of rights claimed by the Quays Company at Constantinople. Forest fires are doing great damage on the timber belt along the Columbia River on both the Washington an 1 Oregon shores. George Anspaugh, while drunk, at Lima. Ohio, assaulted his wife, knocked her down and poured red pepper sauce into her eyes, blinding her for life, it is feared. The Newport News Shipbuilding an i Dry Dock Company has notified the Navy Department that the battleship Illinois would be ready to go into commission on Sept. 10. A conservative estimate would place the population of the city of Cleveland to-day at 402.428. These figures disclose a remarkable growth for the city during the past year. Information has been obtained by agents of the Colombian government that a vessel now at a New Jersey port had been engaged by the insurgents for a filibustering expedition. Five masked men entered the home of Philip Stiles, near Deshler, Ohio, and after torturing and threatening the entire family of six persons for four hours departed with S6O in cash. The bank of New Metamoras, a private concern, has closed its doors. The bank had deposited $50,000 with the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company of Cleveland, which went to the wall. Orlenn Emerson shot and killed Dick ^"~Bnrrell at Brownstown, Ind. The murder occurred in Emerson’s drug store. Burrell was always a dangerous man when drinking and bad killed two men m his time and had served a term in prison. An accidental explosion of a “human bomb” in a New York park threw thousands of pleasure seekers into panic and resulted in injury to many. A pistol duel was fought on Little Bird Cveek, near Middlesboro, Ky., between Thomas Little, aged 70, and William Strong, aged about 40. Strong was killed and Little surrendered to the authorities. Elrino Chavez and Leon Mora were run over by a Santa Fe train near Hanover. N. M. Both were decapitated ami horribly mangle-d. ’They were on the way to the wedding of Mora to the stepdaughter of Chavez. EASTERN. At Ogdensburg, N. Y’., John W. Larock, a farmer, 25 years old. shot himself through the heart. Despondency is assigned as the cause. John Sehamal, an engineer, looked into the face of his dead sweetheart, Annie Vo-ieseck. in New Y’ork, and then fired a bullet into his brain, dying instantly. Critchet, Sibley & Co., boot and shoe manufacturers, of Boston, operating a large factory at Belfast, Me., made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Harry Johnson, colored, a driver of a coal wagon, while passing along Clayton

I street in Wilmington, Del., lulaed his arm ! to brush away a wire that was hanging in the street. It was a "live’’ wire and he was instantly killed. By the collapse of a burning oil tank at the Atlantic Refining Company’s plant at Point Breeze, Philadelphia, " here a fire has been raging, about 100 persons—firemen, employes of the company and spectators—-were burned severely. The Carrie F. Roberts has arrived at Boston from a trip off shore with the biggest swordfish introduced to the Boston market within recent memory. Before he was cut up or sawed off he tipped the scales at nearly half a ton. His length was close to seventeen feet. It is believed that a woman is at the head of a gang of burglars committing depredations in Westchester County, New York, recently. Burglaries were committed in three towns in the county on a recent night. In each case there is evidence that a woman was concerned. The thunder is believed responsible for the death of 7-jear-old Eleanor Johnston, who lived in Germantown, Pa. During the storm Eleanor showed signs of nervousness. Each crash of thunder caused her to tremble. Suddenly she became unconscious, and all efforts to revive her failed. James W. Lyall. 63 years of age, a wealthy manufacturer of cotton goods, was found dead in a bath tub of his home in New Y’ork with the gas turned on. The theory of the family is that Mr. Lyall had been overcome by faintness and fell, striking the gas bracket in falling, and so turned on the gas. WESTERN.

Five business buildings were burned at Britton, S. D. Loss, $30,000, partly covered by insurance. The mangled body of Game Warden John McCarthy was found in the Mongolian Mountains near Flagstaff, A. T. He had been killed by a bear. A membership in the Kansas City Board of Trade sold the other day at SI,BOO, the highest price ever paid. The par value of the membership is SI,OOO. D. H. Mortly, famous as the writer of the Ohio constitution of 1852. died at McConnellsville, Ohio. There is now but one member of that convention living. The union molders at the Lima, Ohio, Machine Works quit work because they were asked to make castings for a Columbus, Ohio, concern where the men are on strike. Melville Nevin, aged 28 years, a resident of Missouri, while hunting in Lyttle Creek Canyon, California, fell from a precipice over the Bonita Falls and broke his neck. Sam Strong, the millionaire mine owner. was shot and killed at Cripple Creek, Colo., by Grant Crumley. The shooting took place in the Newport saloon, owned by Crumley. One thousand armed men drove every negro from Pierce City. Mo., cremated one aged man, burned five houses and decreed that here after no colored man shall reside in the town. Jack Winters, who got away with $320,000 in gold bullion from the Selby smelting works at Martinez, Cal., and afterward confessed, was sentenced to fifteen years at Folsom. Three oarsmen from St. Joseph. Mich., attempting to cross Lake Michigan Chicago, in a rowboat, drifted helpless!^ ashore near Michigan City, Ind., after a hard fight with the waves. At St. Louis Dr. Louis Knapp has taken final leave of his family and will at once isolate himself from his fellow men to nurse ’Dong Gong, the Chinese leper, in the interest of science. The stage on the Ager Klamath Falls route was held up by highwaymen ten miles east of Alger, Cal. They secured the Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express treasure box and the United States mail. At Alger, Ohio, a mad dog went through the town biting everything in its way. The citizens turned out en masse and began a warfare on all of the canines. They killed three hundred before stopping. Judge Kohlsaat, of Chicago, has issued an order enjoining strikers from placing pickets in the vicinity of the Allis-Chalm-ers plant, or from interfering with the business or operation of the company in any manner. The Hamilton. Ohio, branch of the American Can Company has discharged 300 men, half its force, because of the failure of the fruit and vegetable crop, having reduced the demand for cans to such a great exteut. Henry Dolan, who died in New York, a few days ago, left an estate valued at $8,000,000. His property is to go, it is understood, to his niece, Mary L. DeForrest, of Irving, Kan. She is the daughter of his only brother. The house of I’. Byrne at Currie, Minn., was completely consumed am! three children are dead and a fourth probably dying from burns. The parents were in the harvest field and the origin of the fire is unknown. Upon application of the Superior Realty and Improvement Company Judge Dellenbaugh of the Common Pleas Court in Cleveland appointed Walter D. Sayle receiver for the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company. Otto Fauikenburg, once known as the White Cap leader of Perry County, for which he served five years in the State prison, was shot, it is charged, by Andrew Lamon, near Branchville, In i. The deed is the result of an 1 feud. The freight sheds, twenty-five loaded and twenty-five empty freight cars, belonging to the Union Pacific Railroad, were burned at the transfer depot of that company in Council Bluffs, causing a 4vss estimated at nearly $106,000. At Kansas City choice northern grown potatoes sold the other day at 50 cents a peck, the price of two bushels a year ago. A single bushel cost $1.90 from retail dealers, or about $1.60 when purchased direct from wholesale dealers and jobbers. John W. DeCamp, who was terribly burned in Seattle while searching in his blazing home for a servant he supposed to be imprisoned in her room, died. DeCamp was a well-known commission man of Seattle, formerly in the same business in St. Paul. At an early hour the other day fire broke out in the rear of Charles D. Speedes’ restaurant, in Elma, lowa, and within two hours one solid block of East Elma’s business buildings was a mass of smoldering ruins, tiie estimated loss being $75,000. The body of a woman, supposed to be Mrs. Bess Striegel, has been found in a room in the Lane Block, Boulder, Colo. Beside her on the same bed lay Bert Striegel in a dying condition. An empty phial, one ounce, labeled laudanum, was lying near by. A heavy wind and rain storm swept through the town of Anadarko, Okla. Ail the larger buildings in process of construction were blown down, together with I a large number of tents and smaller I houses. Two persons were killed and ‘ many injured. ' Joseph Gingotti, an Italian, aged 26,

| was shot and killed bv a mob at a rall- ] road camp near Ashdown. Ark. The mob was made up of sixty Americans, armed with rifles and revolvers, and had raided the camp as a demonstration against Italian labor. Il t’m plan of E. 11. Harriman is carried < 'he Southern Pacific will shortly begin -onstruction of the longest tun- । nel in 'nited States. The tunnel will run tl the heart of the Sierras near Summit. t will be five miles in length. The cost will be $5,000,000. SOUTHERN. Frank Jacks, a poor farmer, found a pot containing over $20,000 in gold in Madison County, Alabama. It is supposed to have been secreted during the Civil War. At Rapidan Landing, La., the boiler of a pump boat owned by Loisel A Israel exploded, killing two negroes and injuring fourteen. The pump man, a negro, felel asleep and the boiler went dry, resulting in the explosion. Lawyer R. E. Cullom, of Dallas. Tex., has been sentenced to three days in jail, to pay a SIOO fine ami to stand disbarred for attempting to bribe jurors in the famous Haydon-Cranfield lawsuit growing out of the Texas Baptist Church trouble. Abe Wildner, a negro, was burned to death at the stake twelve mile from Whitesboro, Texas. A mob of 5,000 farmers conducted the cremation proceedings. Wildner had assaulted and murdered the wife of W. C. Caldwell, a white farmer, while Caldwell was away from home. Gov. McSweeney of South Carolina par’floneT^PoT^'^r*!t. "Aea 1. 'forine r iy' 'SUpi!rintendent of the State penitentiary, who was convicted of failing to turn over funds to his successor. His bondsmen made up a shortag? of $7,000 and have been repaid by Mr. Neal. He has never been actually imprisoned. Gen. Samuel Pearson, a representative of the Boer government, at present in New Orleans, brought suit in the United States District Court there against the British consul, Arthur G. Vansittart, for $20,000 damages on the ground of alleged slander. It is claimed by the Boer general that Vansittart demanded his arrest of the superintendent of police and charged him with complicity in the attempted blowing up of the British muleship Mechanician. FOREIGN. A vessel carrying passengers between Pleubian and Plougrescant capsized at Treguier, fifteen persons being drowned. A hurricane has swept over the Village Villarogo, Jilota, Spain. Forty buildings were razed to the ground, six persons were killed and numbers were injured. President Loubet of France has conferred upon President W. R. Harper of the University of Chicago the decoration of the French Order of the Legion of Honor.

M. Nyssens, former minister of industry and labor, committed suicide in Brussels by shooting himself with a revolver in the right temple. Domestic trouble is assigned as the cause for the act. Count Gilbert Graf Hohenwert-Ger-lachstein, recently appointed by Emperor Franz Joseph as Austrian minister tn th 1 City of Mexico, has arrived in New York, ^’he Count is the first minister of Austria to. Mexico since the execution of the Em peror Maximilian. v The Paris Petit Journal says; "The feigued anxiety expressed in the papers <if the Unite.] States over the CnLimbiau situation only serves here to mask the unmeasured ambition of American imperialism, thus favoring the accomplish meat of a long-cherished dream namely, taking possession of the isthmus of Fanama and th-. . urrv!.’ " The French ambassador, M. Constans, at Constantinople, has notified the Sultan s first secretary that all diplomatic relations between France and Turkey are broken off an 1 that the ambassador has informed his government to this effect. The ambassador justifies his action on the ground that the Sultan broke his direct personal promise regarding the pur chase of the quays and the settlement of the disputed French claims. IN GENERAL. The exodus from Nome is fairly en and each steamer arriving from there brings large numbers of passengers. Heavy southerly gales swept the islands of Barbados, Dominica, Martinique and Saint Vincent. At Saint Vin. ent the damage was particularly heavy, as many shipping lighters and wharves weer destroyed by the waves. Julius C. Beige, president of the St. Louis Shovel Company, confirms the reported consolidation of five of the largest shovel manufacturing concerns in the country, with a capital stock of $5,000,600. The new company will be called the Ames Tool ami Shovel Company. Fire nearly destroyed Grandbourg, the principal town of French West Indies, having a population of about 15,000 persons. All the public buildings except the church, prison and headquarters of the gendarmie were destroyed, as were some five hundred houses. The fire was of incendiary origin. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2,54 cto 55c, oats. N>. 2,34 c to 35c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c; butter, choice creamery. 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, new, SI.OO to sl.lO per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light. $4.00 to $.>.82; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, Ao. Z. OTc to-TiOTT curnr white, 61c to 62c; oats. No. 2 white, new. 37c to 38c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $6.05; sheep. $3.06 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2, 56c to 57c; oats, No. 2,36 cto 37c; rye, No. 2. 59c to 60c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $6.15; sheep, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2 mixed, new, 37c to 3Sc; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.15; hogs, $3.00 to $5.85; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 57c to 58c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; rye, 55c to 56c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 57c to 58c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 57c; clover seed, prime, $6.20. Milw>ikee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 3,54 cto 55c: oats, No. 2 white. 37c to 38c;; rye. No. 1,56 c to 57c; barley, No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork, mess, $14.35. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.50 to $5 J >5. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $5.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, j 59c to 60c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; j butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, westi era, 14c to 17c.

BOERS FULL OK^'IGHT * CONSUL STOWE TALKS OF THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION. England Still lias a Monster Task on Her Hands- The Farhtafa of South Africa Will Make a I. On s Struggle— IToclamat ion by Delare While James G. Stowe. Juited States consul to Cape Town, w' o arrived in London a few days ago fr mi South Africa. talked guardedly, as became his position, he said enough to bear out the general testimony that Grei t Britain has still a monster task in crushing the Boers. "The South African prsblem is undoubtedlj difficult and complicated," ho said. "The top igraphy o the country and rhe mobility of the rs, whom the English columns are unable to pursue individually, render operat tms most difficult. T!ie British are ceding many prisoners and providing for thousands of B<>er families, all of whirl is very nice on the part of England. But in the E ' •• C.KXKRM. uklah Ey meanwhile the war drags 7™ 'pin.j-,. is a great future for South Africa when peace is secure I. Ihe st ir f acp hoc mineral wealth is scarcely s • ratclK'd. Undoubtedlv England is prep nred t 0 solve th prob.vm o. iennihCati but when that wili occur certainly no pi >rßrin a t the Cape is able to say.’’

Captn-e I bv the I , ner)> A dispatch from Lord Ki 1 c h v ner. dated from Pretoria, says: “Thn oin( .e rs and sixty fiye men. who were wnt u „ rth of Ladybran.!. Orange River ( , ojonv (>u th( . right of Elliot’s columns, w en , gnrrOunded on unfavorable ground and cap tured by a superior fores. One n an killed ami four were wounded. rh< _ p r j aon e r < were released. Him teeei n K>ng Jet . ter from Steyn, containing )|U argun ,e n . tative statement of the I c;lSv aud saying he wiil continue th< . a ] so a short letter from De Wet same effect. Botha writes aekn ,hedging the receipt of my praclamatim and protesting against it. an 1 staling I ers inten Itogo on fighting. ()n the othcr band, the surrenders Inti .jy have iucreased considerably.” Gen. Dein rex. uho has is gupj a proclamation declaring that the 1 have no Intention <>f giving up the s tniggle. is . tie of the most active of the T ransv aal lend era and his proclamation wlI) no doubt have the effect of eneouras inp frien j 8 of the Boer cause in Cape C< ,],, nv rA MOLS VIRGLMA t BEAL FY^ JS DEAD. Miss Maude Coleman \ k nls <ele :e i ns the n pre.-entytive of 1 r r»U>M I- tvt. el Io a h.v m Aim-ri. a. do- 11^777777717; of typhoid fever nt Chtr ^esville \a Miss Woods wn- known ’ i'ro.-.-h mt thcountry for her beauty; h“i f ac e ad v th Pan //^N\ » t ti I / (, i American medal typifying North and South America, having beet t selected bv th. Buffalo judges as the in beautiful woman in America. Her b > aa ty caused her to be selectedas sponsor for Virginia at the Nashville Confeder jt e reunion, an i she w as know n as the h veliest woman in the South. FAIR WILL OUST $25, 000,000. St. Louis Exposition Plas 3 Are Now ■ Nearly Complete. | Twelve million dollars wil expended in the erection of build| t g s and tb e beautification of the lands4\p e f or t he world's fair in St. Louis. 1/ irteen million dollars will be expends • j n Coiie,ding and placing exhibits. ' us t he total cost of the exposition, -cording to the plans announced by nrld’s fair wrvrkrrsr -py tu present SI6.UUU,UUO of amount is available. M hoys addit $9,000.0(8> is to come from has n®, . v , ... been made public. It is probable that plans „ tl ,-, buildings will be ready in ’ or e 113 and that work will be beg " ’ J" first because it will be neces “ ' them before the number of 1 ‘ 0 * . . x -it mall structures can be determined. I .. x : plan eliminates the court of honor, 1 „ , crowning feature of the Ch- Uch " aS a tion. but it includes geysers- , ' so , , , . waterfalls, lakes and cascades. Sparks from the YVg Oil has been found in payib es * In Guffey Company’s well' /'.v 1 *) 1 ! 18 Texas No gusher was expiJ ebster ’ .od. Walter Williams, a sub-ce the Choctaw ami Northern R 6 1 ’ ai, ' or “ n instantly killed by a stroke V-7'' lS near Guthrie, Okla. £ Mtmng Mary ILmghtmeyer, 18 committed suicide at her hj H1 ^ s w”-' town. Tenn., by hanging hers 7® at '" v rafters of her father’s barn. ;lf frolll King Edward will erect memorial to the late down? an 'sn Frederick, of Germany. It M f 1 : em lU’ess be erected at Frognmre. 111 P^ably William Prandell, a farm 20 vears. committed suicide I • Mo‘. by shooting. He left a tear that he was tired of life and : ~ tat ^ pleasure was iu getting drun ‘ 115

BURN NEGRO AT STAKE. Tennesseeans Avenge Attack Upon and Murder of a White Woman. Henry Noles, a negro who assaulted and shot to death Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a farmer living near Winchester, Tenn., was burned at the stake near the scene of his crime in the presence of a crowd of over 5,000 persons. The lynchers and others who came to witness the burning of the negro comprised almost the whole population for miles around. A procession three mile? long followed the black to the stake. Noh's was capture ! near Cowan and was taken to Winchester by his captors and placed in jail. Sheriff Stewart made haste to barricade the jail and protect the prisoner, but within an hour a mob of several hundred men gathered. Assistant Attorney General Matt N. Whittaker made a speech to tile crowd, appealing to them to assist him in allaying excitement ami upholding the law. The effect of these addresses was lost, however, when several hundred residents from the neighborhood where the crime was committed came up and increased the crowd to thousands. Then the mob swept forward upon the jail, overpowered the sheriff an.! his deputies, took the prisoner and started for the Williams home, twelve miles distant. XS hen this point was reached the negro was placed upon a stump and given a chance to make a statement. He mounted the stump stolidly and laughed as he began his statement. He said: " I ell all my sisters and brothers to meet mo in glory. I am going to make ! that my home. Tel) my mother to meet 1 me where parting will be no more.’’ to whether any- I one else was implicated in the crime. Noles said emphatically no one was implicated but himself. "Whj T did you kill Mrs. Williams?” was asked. "1 just J< ne that because I had nothing else to do.” When he finished his statement he was taken from the stump, carried to a tree near by, bound to the tree by chains and his body was saturated with oil. A match was applied ami instantly the quivering body was enveloped in Uanus. Fence rails were piled about the burning body and s mil life wc.s extinct. EQUALS BENDER FAMILY DEEDS. Murderer War 1 of Pluma, 8. IX, Had No Portner in Crime. The deeds of the Bender family of Kansas are not much worse than thoge that are being unearthed against the murderer W. H. Ward, of Pluma, S. D., who was captured Saturday nea’r Devil’s Tower, fifty miles northwest of Deadwood. Ward was single-handed in his cunning deals, but his work was effective in every case. The world may never know what method was used in the making away of Kirk Shephard, but there is no doubt that he was killed and the body concealed. Frank Neuenfeldt, the young miner who was killed in September. 1899. had been working several months for Ward and died from the effects of what Ward sai<l was a cave in after the blast. The death was not investigated and the old man's story was believed. Investigation of the oh! tunnel since shows that not enough dirt had fallen to cause death. Ward owed him back money for wages. The searching parties that have been ransacking Ward’s cabin and premises have found wagon loads of rubbish which has no special value, but has been accumulated evdently by u half-crazy num. The house is cut up into a number of ro >ms, with side, rear and front entrances, which would permit of easy hiding of crime or of stolen property. The old man always had an aversion to strangers i n:n,ng into his b••use. Nobody - w-m-e-»er knew lew many pel- Us W ar<l has made away with. There are Burner mis stories afl uit about sudden disappearances in that part of the country, dating -eieral years back, and other crimes may lie unearthed. It is known for a certainty th:' In has killed three men m cold blood. BUSINESS IN CUBA GROWS. Calendar Year 15133 Showi Increase in Custom-House Receipt*. According :•• a statement given out by the divishm ■: in-iiLir affairs of the War 1 lepartuient n Washington, the total receipts at the custom-liou.ses in Cuba during the caleu iar y< Hr ItatO were $ 16.699,92\ against $1 1,551.2<;i for 1899. The receipts from duties on imports were $14,273,141, against $13,403,649, and from duties < n exports Sl.od6.UUo. against $764,106. Most of the custom-houses show substantial increases, although Trinidad. Neuvitas. Baracoa ami Zaza show decreased receipts. The receipts at the principal custom-houses follow, the remaining ports showing less than $3(M).000 each in receipts; Havana. $12,042.031: Matanzas, $451,773; Santiago de Cuba. $953,078; Cardenas, $301,930; Cienfuegos, $1,160.303. The total import receipts at Havana were $10,522,096, a gain of $707,406, while th" export receipts at that port were $997,161, against $752,359 In 1899. Tte J Potatoes are about as valuable as golf balls this year. Mr. Schwab, who draws a $1,000,000 salary, has not struck. Cheer up. The prune crop of California is estimated at 350,000,000 pounds. “Ha-ve you looped the loop?" will i,e one of the leading questions in the Schley inquiry. This will be a hard winter on Russell Sage on account of the high price of fruit and vegetables. The South American republics are said to know what they are lighting for. Then why don’t they tell? The crowned heads of Europe are again finding it necessary to look under their beds before retiring. Zola must expect to spring another book on the public at an early day- an infernal machine has been left on his doorstep. If that Rocky Ford man has really grown a seedless watermelon, it will be the first crop of watermelons ever raised without seed. Our newly rich soon will be wearing potatoes in their shirt fronts instead of diamonds, when they want to make an ostentatious display, if prices keep on going up. Several of the girls who drew prizes in Uncle Sam’s land lottery are now being urged to try their luck in the more uncertain matrimonial lottery. For the land’s sake! Frame is having more trouble with her pretenders. It might I e said in this connection that tlie pretenders constitute about the only part of the French population which ketps im leasing at anything like a fair percentage.

! DEATH RATE LOWER. I STATISTICS SHOW MARKED DE. I CREASE IN MORTALITY. Difference of Nearly Ten Per Cent I Shown by Census Records—Average Life Is Long-'t Pneumonia Causes More Deaths than Any Other Disorder. The census bulletin on vital statistics containing the preliminary statistics of 1 deaths in the States ami territories an 1 i the principal registration cities shows • that the death rate has decreased by < nearly 10 per cent. i W. A. King, chief of the vital statis- i tics division, says: “The most important feature of the re- I suits presented is found in the deereas * 1 in the general death rate in the registra- i tion area of 1.8 per 1,000 of population, i a decrease of nearly 10 per cent, and the i decrease in the rates from the particular < diseases to which the general decrease > is due. ] "The effect of the advances made in medical science an I sanitation and in the ’ preventive and restrictive measures enforced by the health authorities is still more strikingly shown in the comparative ] rate for the registration cities of the country taken together. In 1890 the 1 death rate in 271 registration cities of 5,060 or more people was 21 per 1.060; ’ i in 1900 the rate was 18.6 per I.UOJ in 1 341 cities of 8.000 population and up- 1 ward, a reduction of 2.4 per 1,000. The IjgrnsH nou^ ition- jif tlw cities compre- I ! bended was 14,058,254 in 1800, and 21,663,631 in 1900. Average Li"e Th Longer. “The average age at death in 1890 was 31.1 years; in 1900 it was 35.2 years. "The total number of deaths reported in 1000 was 1,039,091; in 1890 it was 841,419. The increase therefore was 197.675, or 23.5 per cent. As the percentage of increase in the population was ' but 20.7. this indicates a more complete return of deaths than in 1890. “The record of deaths upon which these statistics are based was obtained from two differeent sources—namely; the return by the enumerators of deaths reported to them at the decennial enumeration, ami the registration of deaths recorded under local laws and ordinances. In the non-registration States no compa- ‘ risen with 1890 are made.” Total De ithw in States. ’ The total deaths in the various States and territories for 1900 are as follows: Alabama 25,C!>9 Montana 2,188 ’ Arizona 1,233 Nebraska 8.204 Arkansas 22.518 Nevada 438 • California .... 22.500 N. Hampshire. 7,400 Colorado 7,428 New Jersey ... 32,735 Connecticut ... 15.422 New Mexico ... 2,074 > Delaware 3.075,New York ....130,268 Dlst. of Col’bia 0.304 North Carolina. 21.068 , Florida 0,482 North Dakota . 2,287 ' Georgia 26,041;0hi0 53.362 • Idaho 1,242 Oklahoma 3,181 Illinois lil.k^'.iOregou 3,31>.i Indiana 33.586 Pennsylvania .. 00.199 Indian Ter 5,286 Khode Island.. 8,176 lowa 19,573 South Carolina. 17,106 : Kansas 16.261;50nth Dakota.. 3.088 Kentucky .... 27.091 {Tennessee 30.572 Louisiana .... 20.9551 Texas 34.10.0 1 Maine 12,148 Utah 3,079 Maryland 20,422, Vermont 5,829 Massachusetts 49,756 Virginia 25.252 Michigan 33.572 Washington .. 4,910 Minnesota .... 17.005 West Virginia.. 9,58.8 1 Mississippi ... 20,251 Wisconsin 24,928 j Missouri 38,024; Wyoming 767

Death Rates in Cities. The cities with a population above 100.1 MM) show the following death rates for 1900 and 1890, respectively: DOO. 1890. Washington, I). C 22.8 23.7 Boston 30.1 23.4 Fall River. Mass 22.4 23.2 Worcester, Mass 15.5 IS.O Detroit 17.1 18.7 Jersey Cttv 20.7 25.6 Newark. 8. J 19.8 27.4 Batersoti, N. J 19.0 22.2 Buffalo 14.8 15.4 Rochester, N. Y 15.0 17.3 Syracuse 13.8 19.6 Providence 19.9 21.1 I - x Cal 18.1 20.0 San I : c sco 20.5 22 5 Denver T-. 6 23.0 Chicago 16.2 19.1 New Y’ork (estimated) 2-.4 2341 lndlannp< lis 16.7 17.3 Louisvide, Ky 20.0 to.l New Orh ans 28.9 2'6.3 • 21.0 22.0 Minneapolis lu.H 13.5 St. i'aul 9.7 14.9 Kansas City 17.4 17.3 St. Joseph 9.1 .... St. Louis 17.9 17.4 Cincinnati 19.1 21.0 Cleveland 17.1 20.2 Columbus 15.8 14.7 Toledo 16.0 18.9 Allegheny, l’a 18.4 1^.2 Philadelphia 21.2 21.3Pittsburg 20.0 20.1 Scranton 20.7 21.8 Memphis 25.1 25.3 Milwaukee 15-9 18.8 Principal Causes of Death. In the legistration area the fifteen principal causes of death, with the rate per 100,000, was as follows: Pneumonia, 191.9; consumption. 190.5; heart disease. 134.0; diarrhoeal diseases, 85.1; kidney diseases, 83.7; apoplexy, 66.6; cancer, 60; old age, 54; bronchitis. 48.3; cholera infantum. 47.8; debility, 45.5; inflammation of brain and meningitis, 41.8; diphtheria. 34.4: typhoid, 33.8; and premature birth. 35.7. Death from all the principal diseases shows a decrease since 1890. the most notable being in consumption, which decreases 54.9 per 100,000. WEATHER TIPS FOR FARMERS. Rural Free Delivery Mail Wagons Are to Carry Larsre Placards. Arrangements have been made.by the postofiiee department in Washington for the display of weather signals from the wagons of the rural free delivery and the innovation will shortly go into effect. Reports from the weather bureau will be forwarded to each rural free delivery center before the departure of the carrier on his route, and large signals in accordance will Be ’HepL'iyed the sides of the wagon, so that all farmers along the route may be able to read them at a considerable distance. The signals will be carried daily, where the delivery service is such, and on all routes of the rural delivery. The time of the departure on all routes is to be carefully noted, and the weather report forwarded to each in ample time for use. Where the regular time of departure happens to be before the report can reach the point, the carrier will be instructed to wait for it. KEEP HANDS OFF PANAMA. United States, Says Secretary Hay, To Not Intend to Intervene. There will be no grab policy inaugurated by the United States, no matter what the South American imbroglio may develop into. This, in effect, was the statement made by Secretary Hay after a conference with the President. Secretary Hay had a conference of five and a half hours with Mr. McKinley at the Canton White House. Referring to South American matters. Secretary Hay said that there was no thought of intervention on the part of the Unitel States to settle the trouble. He declared tha? the plan was shr.ply to look after the interests of this government at the isthmus of Panama, and for that purimsc steps have alrerady been taken which will guarantee that this nation will not i»uf-

LAW BAN ON PICKETS, UNION MEN ENJOINED FROM ACTING AS SENTINELS. Restraining Order Taken Against the Striking Machinists by a ChicagoFirm —Action Commented Upon by Leaders on Both Sides of Controversy^ For the first time in Chicago since the* famous Debs injunction during the great strike of the American Railway Union a similar writ was issued Friday by a federal judge, preventing the strikers from interfering with the operation of business. Judge Kohlsaat, sitting in the I nited States District Court, issued an injunction against the strikers who are carrying on the war against certain Chicago machine manufacturers. The writ wa» issued at the request of AV. J. Calhoun, of the firm of Pam, Calhoun & Glennon,, representing the Allis-Chalmers Company. I’his writ is to remain effective unlit the court has opportunity to decide whether it should be made permanent. Judge Kohlsaat will set a date for tin hearing of arguments on this point. The injunction is directed against the National Association of Ironworkers, the Iron Molders of North America, the Pat-tern-Makers’ A«so iation and the various officers and members of those orgauizn tions. The motion for an injunction as presented by Calhoun requested that thejoined from “a continuous and persistent picketing of the shops and plant of thc-Allis-Chalmers Company, accompanied by the incidental ‘slugging’ of nonunion employes and otherwise interfering with theoperation of the company’s plant.” "This is the first time in Chicago that the federal courts have been appealed to since the big Debs strike,” said \V. J. Chalmers. "The reason we appealed to Judge Kohlsaat is because we cannot get protection in justice courts. Polities seems to be intrenched behind justicecourt cases, and the assaulting or intimidation of strikers are not taken care off as they should be, ,;.i fact they* are protected. Yesterday five men were beaten, at the Aliis-Chalmers plant. Hardly a day passes that men are not knocked? down and beaten up there. In view oU these facts, we could see no other thing, to do but to appeal to the court of highest jurisdiction in the eity.” “I am not surprised at the action of the employers in seeking the assistance of the courts,” said Business Agent Ireland of the machinists. "They have beem threatening it for a long time, but, in. estimation, the plea for an injunction is; a confession of weakness on their part. The courts have been closed to us during the importation of men- here becausewe had not enough money to pay an attorney to request an injunction restvainring the bringing in of men. and thus testing the validity of the law. We’ll haveto do the best we can to continue the fight if the court rules against picketing,’’

INVITATION SENT ALL NATIONS. President’s Proclamation Announcing Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The State Department at Washington has issued the following proclamation: “Louisiana Purchase Exposition, by the President of the United States of America—A proclamation: Whereas, notice has been given me by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition commission in ac f cordance with the provisions of section 94 of the act of Congress, approved March 3. 1901, entitled 'An act to pro vide for celebrating the one hundredths, anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of industries, manufactures and products of the soil, mine, forest and sea in the city of St. Louis, in the State of -Missouri, that provision has been ordered for grounds and buildings for the uses provided for in the said act of Congress:’ "Now. therefore. I. William McKinley^ President of the United States, by virtue of authority invested in me by said act. do hereby declare and proclaim that such international exhibition will be opened in the city of St. Louis, in the State ■ i Missouri, not later than the first day ’ May, 1903, and will he (b»--d nut latet than the first day of December thereafter. “In the name of the government and of the people of the United States 1 de hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemoration of the purchase of the Louisiana territory, an event of great interest to the United States of abiding effect on their development, by appointing representatives and sending such exhibits to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as will most fitly and fully illustrate their resources, theii industries and their progress in civilization. "In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the. United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of August, 1901. ami of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.” (Seal.) "WILLIAM MKINLEY. “By the President. “John Hay. Secretary of State.” Brief News Items. C. A. Cregan, supervising engineer of the Daly Construction Company, NewYork, killed himself, at Brooklyn, by shooting. At Appleby. Tex., John Tindail was thrown from a mule and sustained inju ries which caused his death in a few minutes. Jacob Huth was killed and John Heller fatally injured by tb^ breaking of an elevator on which they were working at ‘Wheeling. W. Ya. They fell four stories. E W. Carleton, city editor of the Joplin, Mo.. Daily Globe, shot himself through the heart in the newspaper office and died almost instantly. Edgar A. Allen, now superintendent of the Quepaw Indian School in Indian Territory. has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Carlisle Indian In dustrial School at Carlisle. Pa. United States Treasurer Kober's has received from an unknown person a conscience c< ntribu’i - i of X 420. The tm :ey was received through father A. V. Raggio, S. J., pastor of St. Clare Church, Santa Clara, Cal. William J. McNamara, a former magistrate of Lexington. Ky.. was m,- u ■ killed by John Meagh r. a sal •>n ii rk. M-Namara attacked Meagher an 1 tri. .3 to put him out of the saloon. The h me of Nathan Barber. in Minneapolis, was destroyed by tire ami Mr’ Barber was so badly burned ’hat sh--later di- d. Mrs. Barber and two y ung children were carried out by her lli-year-old son. Olin Hubbard, sm of a Enb n County, Ohio, physician, was shot an 1 probably fatally wounde i at Stryker in a skirmish with officers who attempted to arrest him and a young man named finch for shooting at passing trains.