Walkerton Independent, Volume 28, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 January 1903 — Page 2

^lljc Jniiepcndcnt. W. A. ENDLEY, I>uVllßlior. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. EVENTS OF THE WEEK John Bascom, former president of University ot Wisconsin, in an address to teachers, says money obtained at the expense of the people cannot be used for tire good of the people, referring to the Rockefeller gifts to the University of 'Chicago. News was brought by the steamer Tartar of a disaster in the Malacca straits, ns a result of whig^ sixty lives were Ipst. The steamer Buusang was in, collision with the steamer Kiangyau in the straits and the Kiangyau was sunk, sixty -sailors and passengers being missing. Sheriff Foster and his posse, of Noble County men. after a long running tight, captured James Mark and William Kvans, supposed to be the men who robbed the Mulhall, Okla., postoffice. Ope of the men had ill>,Boo in cash, including $243 in pennies. The postoflive was robbed of $15,000. iFire which broke out in the wholesale whisky house Pf Bonnie Brothers, in the JuT.rt of the wholesale whisky district of lisville. Ky.. caused n loss of $lA),000

EASTERN. William L. Elkins, Philadelphia, will build $500,000 home for orphan daughters of Pennsylvania Mas- ns. Nate Salisbury, principal owner of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, died at his home in Long Branch, N. J. Christian C. Rauck, aged 25 years, a farmer residing witli his father near Paradise, Pa., was murdered by an unknown burglar whom he caught in the cellar. Fire did $50,000 damage to the Goerke Company’s department store, the establishment of the Paris Cloak am) Suit Company- and the Ray Tailoring Company in Newark, N. J. By order of A. B. Wolvin, general manager of the Pittsburg Steamship Company, the captains of all the boats of that company will receive an advance in wages of 10 per cent for the season of 1903, The Maxon block, opposite the Union station in Schenectady, N, Y., wits totally destroyed by tire. The fire, which probably was caused by an overheated chimney, was a spectacular one. The total loss was SIOO,OOO. At Olivedale, a hamlet near Bradford. Pa., Mrs. Edward Burdick shot John Ryan dead in defense of herself. Ryan entered the woman's house during her husband’s absence. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. By the breaking of » scaffold on the big ice how of wnst ruction

with her family, Mrs Ella Sweetland, of St. Louis, killed herself by shooting. She had expressed a fear of paralysis, and it is believed brooding over this prompted the deed. The boiler of a Rio Grande engine pulling a freight train exploded six miles oust of Buena Vista, Cal., killing Engi neer George Miller, fatally injuring Brakeman Potter and badly burning Fireman W. S. Newby. Miller ami Mahan, partners in a general store at West Point. Ark., had a difficulty over business affairs and shot each other. Mahan was killed instantly, ami Miller died a few hours later. No one witnessed the shooting. The town of Hubbard, Neb., was the scene of a daring hold-up. Two masked men, heavily armed, entered a crowded saloon and robbed everybody in the place and looted the till and made their escape. The amount secured is not known. William L. Russell of Lima, >hio, and Charles E. Russell of La Porte, Ind., have closed an oil deal involving $517.500. They bought the leases and wells of eight < ompani" s in Ohio. Th ■re is an acreage of G.^hhi with 277 wells. Louis Burton, of Louisville, Ky.. a discharged soldier on his way home from the Philippines, shot and killed Frank Walker in a saloon in Kansas City. Both men had been drinking, but eyewitmss-s say that Burton killed Walker in selfdefense. The State Bank of Webber, Kan., was robbed of $1.5'10 ’he >fe 1,...1 |„. ( . u

G «—wy ’AGUE. VE F £ IS RE- „ RIBUNAL. rowi ble Givi ntc the Trona:Jc Court —News A btates Biock- ( .em^ay -'Sa. have ——— mt President^ Britain and ItMv X "' to force npadarn. I hey the ungrateful able rcquestM^, thu Venezm-hm should Ite/ l h „ Auivric;m * b,eh bmml at The Hague I to perform a dmv werejnstr, ^ u . s to H , t is a prce^ly tm « jro|)t . 1 , n n „ UoM9 bating to consider uela ami thL t j,, ns have distv as not II |„| r( .l nt j ( „ 9 „f X <Uez 4-e powers \em.zmla qtu m- ho LI to The Hague ugre--11 matter of no conseboutnl [t js wimn;: to ' it::.al ami agree to be The ar’. writing. A Kcc , anizr(h 1 !s j ll ’ arbitration. at this run » p ’i ' u made public, but it it has been so arnbarrass this govern

BLUE-BLOOD EXHIBITS AT THE LIVE-STOCK SHOW. — l Ue third international live stock exposition was the most successful of the three Chicago stock shows in point of revenue, attendance and the number of animals on « ■ hibition. It was the largest stock show ever held. The attendance for the week is estimated to have been 3,>0,030. In the stock judging contest, open to students of agricultural colleges and farmers' sons, one’ lone farmer's ten ran le the money, all the other prizes .n r^,,,

I LATEST ROYAL SCANDAL. | _ I Princess Louise Deserts Iler Husband I and t'enounces Rights. Another chapter in the long list of domestic tragedies which figure with monotonous regularity in the annals of many of the royal ' houses i f Europe | ■ . ' was added when the I . King ami (Town | Prince of Sixony % < • caused to t>e insert- ■ ed in the odicml , qS journal at Dresden - I i a notice to the effect ' that the vnfe of Hie ; latter, Crown i rtn- ; cess Louise of Sax- , ony, had tied from ' home during the [ V 1 i 1 PKINCESS LOUISE. I time the news of ; the disappearance of the crown princess | was kept from the public, but it was at : last given out, because the court fiction I that she preferred to remain in retirement at Salzburg rather than return to i her husband and children at Dresden | could not longer be maintained. About a month ago Princess Louise, ■ accompanied by her. husband, went to । the castle of Emperor Francis Joseph, । near Salzburg, which is the capital of | the duchy of Salzburg. A week after I their arrival at the castle the crown prince broke his leg while hunting and ; returned to Dn sden. The princess, howI ever, remained at the Austrian castle, • ’ it was from there that she disap-

WARtIAL ~ ~ ' “Trade and speculation* Net tort. experienced the customary? — —— ’holiday quiet, except in Christmas goods, which sold freely,, many packing and shipping departments being still engaged on this class of work, which could not be completed at the specified time. Industrial undertakings are interrupted in many cases by the taking, of inventories, while other plants are closed because fuel cannot be obtained. “Orders still come forward freely, and. the new year will open with more business on the books than ever before Prices of commodities arc firmly held by the steady domestic demand, and there is a good export movement of the leading staples. In this as in many other instances, however, there is still the drawback of inadequate transporting facili ties, which restrict shipments to the seaboard.” R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade makes the foregoing summary of the industrial situation, and, continuing the review, says: Financial conditions are satisfactory. Railway earnings thus far reported fur the month of December surpass 1