Walkerton Independent, Volume 28, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 21 February 1903 — Page 2

®ljc Independent. W. A. 322S»LEY, I>ul»lislior. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA, WEEK'S NEWS RECORD One hundred ladrones attacked the town of Nanjan. island of M indora. P. I. Constabulary repulsed them after a scattering tight of several hours, during which one ladrone was killed and one wounded. Twenty women and children in the town were injured.* A receiver was appointed at Cleveland for the National Computing Seale Company, capitalized at $275,000, and at Detroit Francis B. Beale, a furniture manufacturer of Northville, Mich., filed a petition in bankruptcy, listing liabilities of $70,000 and assets at $21,000. Stephen Bonsall, a newspaper and magazine writer and at one time connected with the United States diplomatic service, was waylaid and attacked by a negro servant of the hotel at Caracas, Venezuela, whom Mr, Bonsall had chastised for insolence. Uis assailant was immediately'arrested. Eighteen persons drowned and others re&cip "1 in. ■’ serious condition is the re^^*’^‘*S,*»enger steamer Olive being River, near Edenton, N. t C. A majfimy of the passengers and crew were below at the time, and had no , chance to save themselves. .

A large double sleigh containing a party of ten young people was struck by a Rio Grande Western passenger train at the intersection of Eighth South ami Fifth West streets. Salt Lake City. The sled was hurled through the air a hundred feet and demolished. One of the party was killed and none escaped injury. When Superintendent Ogg of the Kokomo, Ind., city schools ordered all the boys in school searched for weapons about 500 22-caliber pistols were found. The boys claimed they were toy guns for blank cartridges, but all had loaded cartridges in them. Chief of Police Taylor pronounced the pistols deadly weapons. George Cole, under arrest at Butte. Mont., has confessed that he was one of the men that held up a train at Homestake, on the Burlington. Napoleon Savoy has been arrested at Anaconda and identified as the man who. last October, held up a Northern Pacific train at Bearmouth, Mont., and killed Engineer O’Neill. “It is only a question of time,’’ says President Angell of the University of Michigan, “when southern Europe will /be thrown into war. Recent reports tell of Bulgaria with forces already in the field, and the trouble in Macedonia is only the cloud of the great war storm." President Angell made this prophecy in his. address on the “Eastern Question” before the Collegiate Alumni in Milwaukee. Mrs. Ira Baker was shot dead on the street in Lebanon, Pa., in view of scores of persons and in resisting arrest the murderer killed Cyrus Shaffer, a policeman. before he was landed in jail. Mrs. Baker was standing on a street corner with her husband and several friends when David Shaub stepped up and shot her in the head. Shaub was out on bail pending application for a new trial for robbing Mrs. Baker's stepfather. She was the principal-witness against him. BREVITIES^ At Nepera. N. Y., Hoofer A Co.'s wall paper factory was razed by fire. The loss is estimated at $115,000. A Chicago union boot and shoe maker named Sanborn was sandbagged in Boston. He was not seriously injured. The Alabama Senate has passed the bill regulating child labor as agreed to by advocates of the bill and mill men. The fish, forestry and game connnittee of Colorado has decided for a closed season for four years on deer and for six years on sheep, elk, antelope and other big game. .John Henry McCracken, president of Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., has resigned to become assistant to his father, chancellor of the University of New York City. Sheriff Dreger of Minneapolis has reached New Hampshire and begun extradition proceedings to secure removal of former Mayor A. A. Ames to Minnesota for trial.

John Mitchell, Clarence S. Darrow and Henry D. Lloyd were given tribute for anthracite coal strike and arbitration hearing by labor mass meeting at Auditorium in Chicago. Employes of the Massachusetts Electric Companies, controlling car lines outside Boston, have been granted increases in wages averaging 12.1 S per cent. The raise affects 2,522 men. In a sermon at Louisville Rev. T. T. Eaton declared that he did not think a murderer could be convicted and sentenced to death in Kentucky even if the criminal himself desiied it. E. V. Smith has been placed under arrest at Foss, Ok., at the request of the authorities of Waco, Texas, where, it is charged, he is under thirty-seven indictments for various crimes. Former Secretary of State John W. Foster has been selected to take charge of the case of the United States in the presentation of the Alaskan boundary

question to the commission. ’Frisco local passenger train Lh, north | bound, was wrecked at the Girardmid Joplin junction, east of 1 it tsit The entire train was derailed am passengers injured, none, it is believed, fatally. Miss Ora Montgomery, -> years old. school teacher in Western Port Md slipped and fell while running after a recalcitrant pupil. * " by a fall down the stairway. She died almost immediately. . A carter’s wife named Engels, in Kardorf. Germany. has just given birth to hcr thirtieth child. AU are ahve e^ 1 five. The eldest is 30. It is the bt„M st family in Germany, ami Engels has had to enlarge his house three times. He l V, years old and his wife is

‘The commerce of the Duluth-Superior harbor, according to the report of me I • . Unrin" tl’O Dclbt y( <ll "f increased 3o per cent. oy 1901 and 515 per cent, in the Hast .if e years. This record exceeds that of Bos ton harbor and is close, to that o .ew York. The Odd Fellows Temple <'onipany of Cincinnati assigned to Marcus \\ arth The assets consist of the temp e, valued nt $250,000. on which the ( entral Inis Company of Cincinnati has a mortgage for $225,000, with interest lor one year due. The \rkansas Legislature has directed the wavs ami means committee to investigate the charges made recently against Gov Davis. The inquiry may cesult in impeachment. The trouble grows out. of the purchase of a convict farm, the Governor bringing serious charges against other members of the penitentiary board and Attorney General Murphy demand -Ing the impeachment of the Governor.

EASTERN. The foot and mouth disease Ims be come serious again in Massachusetts. Fire destroyed the large carriage factory of William Bloom A Sons at Scranton, Pa. Loss about SOO,OOO. Rev. Manley S. Hard, D. D.. first assistant corresponding secretary of the board of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Philadelphia. Superintendent Brownson of the naval academy at Annapolis has accepted the promise of the third class to refrain from hazing and removed all restrictions upon the members. A man, aged about 21 years and giving the name of Charles Ross, Chicago, attempted suicide on a Baltimore and Ohio train near Cumberland, Md., by cutting an artery in his wrist. Mrs. Osee M. .Fitzgerald, mother of Bishop Fitzgerald of the Methodist Church, will celebrate her ninetieth birthday anniversary at Newark. N. J., by completing her ninetieth reading of the Bible. An armed negro uprising is predicted by John S. Wise of Virginia in address at Lincoln day dinner, Boston; encouragement of blacks declared responsible; South must be told to let negroes vote, or have representation cut. Mrs. George Nelk, aged 67 years, and her daughter. Miss Minnie Nelk. aged 26 years, wem found at 'their home in Gernmntc^^ ,] bi., with their heads awushtg^ ^^^^^uied. Nelk. as^iyi Js ■r-tre;! (T worn an, is accnsetFbf'tL rfrime. s • * • <1 General Nelson A. Miles reaeued New u

York from his five months' trip around the world. He declared that the Japanese army and navy are well equipped and disciplined; that the Siberian railroad's roadbed equals that of western American lines. In a wreck at Vienna station, on th Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Washington. Pa., three men were killed and the train to which they belonged was piled in a confused mass on the tracks, which were torn up for several hundred yards. The train struck a large bo wider that had fallen upon the track. In the United States Circuit Court in Boston Judge Colt decided that the entire fund in dispute between the federal government and the Emergency Loan and Trust Company, trustee, should go to the United States, the plaintiff. The amount —$(>90.000 —-is in the hands of the American Loan and Trust Comp my of Boston. A fire in the Hotel Lawrence in Washington threatened destruction of the building and the lives of 125 guests. The guests were quietly notified, and vacate! their rooms. Three descended the file escape without stopping to dress, and several were carried out. Two firemen were badly shaken up by a falling floor. The property loss was small. Dr. Irvine, the prison physician at Sing Sing, N. Y., examined William llonp-r Young, who began, his life sentence for the murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer. The doctor found, as did the New York physicians, that Young was medically insane and legally sane. Young's condition, ihe doctor said, was due to the excessive use of morphine and cigarettes. James 11. Wolf, a colored attorney of Boston, has been elected junior vice commander of the Massachusetts Department G. A. R.. defeating two .white men, W. W. Castle ami W. H. McFarlane. Considerable feeling has been shown as a result of the election. Wolf's triumph is saiu to be due to the fact, that he began his campaign long before his competitors did.

WESTERN. Tim Howard County Bank of Nashville, Ar*.. has suspended, and the appointment of a receiver is asked. Joseph E. Cot and Juan Gonzales, who killed an old man and robbed the corpse, were hanged at San Quentin, Cal. Bill allowing Sunday baseball was defeated in Indiana Senate by action of one member in keeping pledge to wife and refusing to vote. Representative Lewis of Duluth introduced a bill in the Minnesota House providing for death sentence by electrocution instead of hanging. The Olympian games will go to St. Louis next year instead of in Chicago, according to plans which have been practically agreed upon. Ansgar College at Hutcji’.nson. Minn., was destroyed by fire, 200 students losing art their effects. The building was insured for $30,000. The Columbia Firecracker Company nt Fostoria, Ohio, suffered damage of $12,000, with insurance of $760, as a result of a cracker explosion. Seventeen letter carriers have been suspended from the San Francisco post office for alleged political activity during the November campaign. Griffith & McCurdy’s store at Bremen. Ohio, burned, resulting in a loss of SBO,000. Harvey Grove lost his life and Postmaster Shelhamer was fatally burned. A new telegraph company is projected by leading St. Louis men, and seeks support in Chicago. System connecting principal western cities already seems assured. Oscar Dillon, a widower, jealous of Mrs. Hattie Dunn, one of his tenants, at St. Joseph. Mo., shot her fatally. Then Dillon killed himself, firing a bullet into his head. Ed Lincoln killed his brother-in-law, Robert Mitchell, on a farm near McCook, Neb., crushing his head with a

to be insane. The jury in the ghoul case, at Indiananolis failed to agree and was dis char'md Wives of two members are said £ be responsible for heated altercations and bitter feeling. ~ As a result of a political quarrel Edward S Garver, editor of the Grand ERv Mo Times, was assaulted and probably fatally injured by E. V- Stevens a Democratic politician. Foreign lords and other noblemen, both real and genuine, now running at large S'llXriar.- to l.» boWed. tas-.o™ licensed to protect ’’ measure proposed in the State Legisla

ture becomes a law. \mos L. Maxwell, aged 50 years, an inmate of the Kansas asylum for the ms uic at Topeka, died suddenly as n resu S a severe beating alleged to have been him by Earl Neal and M. Peterson, two guards. California Legislature's investigation of^n Quentin and Folsom State prison abuses disclosed one convict killed a 1 m inv permanently crippled by stiait jackets; Spanish windlass had been used to extract confessions. In 1 os Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Carrie Na- ’ tion was fined $2 and costs for blowmg 1 a horn in the streets am creating a d!S turbance. She was taken there y I vaudeville manager, who istaMs method O s advertising Ins attracti . The home of Mr and Mrs 1 Lyons burned at Lincoln. . • their two children, a boy •’ jeais -i . nl d a baby, perished in the fire. u^ i had been left alone in the house their mother attended a club meetn g. Live men, including Supt. . ■ tin C. Russell, were kiHed by escapu ■ ! gas in the Northwestern Gaslight

Coke Company's plant at Blue Island, 111. Twelve others had narrow escapes; two of killed were attempting rescue. Miss Martin, teacher in the 'Thayer (Ill.) school, dropped her pupils from a *' ; second story window while the building : was burning beneath her. The stairway i- ' was ent off and the children were tere rorized. Many were badly hurt by the 1- ; fall. i- I A light train caught a boarding gang | on a high trestle on the Great Northern il ' Railway near Camden. Wash. The worke men had posted warning Hags, but the a engine rushed down upon them. Arthur s Sewell was crushed by the engine and killed. g A large meteor struck the earth in 'he - vicinity of Bingham. Utah. The collision o with the earth caused windows to rattle g and houses to tremble, while a sound like a mighty <-lap of thunder awakened the f inhabitants. People thought there had t been an earthquake. v SOUTHERN. The plant of the Memphis Furniture . Company at Memphis. Tenn., burned, s causing $50,000 loss. The.dry goods store of A. D. Brown at Wilmington. N. C., burned, resulting in damage of $60,000. Sledge A Wells' large paper and burlap I bag factory at Memphis was destroyed • by fire. Loss $75,000; insurance $70,000. _V man named Miller lost his life ami at $38,000 woav d<at TampMHß* IHW^he tiaim->^ p 'lT difficult to control, . .re wiffl a’Strike । of firemen.

Fourteen thousand' acres of coal land near Honaker Station, Va.. have been purchased by Chicago and Pittsburg capitalists. Several million dollars will be spent for development and the construction of a railroad. • At Eckman, W. Va., John Frith killed Witton Height and Frank Williams and wounded a man who attempted to restrain him and one of Height's children. Frith escaped. He had had his wife and Height arrested as a result of domestic trouble. Hearing on the application for bail for former Lieutenant Governor Tillman, charged with the murder of N. G. Gonzales, was postponed at Newberry, S. C. In his affidavit Tillman says he was maligned and threatened by Gonzales, that Gonzales bad inquired for him the day of the shooting, and that the shooting was due to fear that his life was in danger. FOREIGN. Part of the Navy Department building was destroyed by fire at Buenos Ayres. The loss is estimated at about SS( M >,OOO. It is reported at Sofia that the Kiripipirs, a revolutionary band, engaged a foyce of Turkish regulars near Rejanzi : nd killed forty Turks. Former German Ambassador von Hol leben is reported charged with using his office to advertise a brand of wine by securing its use at the christening of the Kaiser's yacht Meteor. It is reported from Fez that the Sultan's troops have suffered a repulse with great slaughter at the hands of the Minina Kablye tribe, which is friendly to the pretender. Bu Hamara. Official Russian reports represent that a serious deficiency in winter grain is highly probable in most of European Russia, crops being almost entirely destroyed in sixteen provinces ami poor in others. Russian newspapers claim that a man in the hospital at Tomsk is 2(H) jears old. They say this statement is supported by documents. The man has been a widower for 123 years. He is bedridden. but mentally sound. The Dominion Line steamer Vancouver, for Boston from Mediterranean ports, was run down and badly injured by the Spanish steamer Ixia, while leaving Ponta Del Gorda, principal port, of the Azores. The extent of the damage is not stated. IN GENERAL The House passed the Elkins antirebate bill, completing program of partyleaders for trust legislation. United States Minister Squiers. in Havana. has received a message from Washington, and it is believed the naval coaling station agreement will be signed within a few hours. The blockade of Venezuelan ports by war ships of the allies has been raised. There is rejoicing at La Guaria. Vessels at Willemstad with cargoes for Venezuela sailed at once. K. G. Dun & Co.’s review reports January railroad earnings 9.4 per cent greater than for 1902; traffic congestion relieved only in favored districts; coke supply increased; manual labor scarce in all industries.

Gross earnings of 663 railroads for 1902 increased $63-8 per mile over 1601. according to interstate commerce statistics; operating expenses, $392; ratio of latter to earnings was 64.62 per cent, slightly lower than for 1901. German designs on Venezuela territory are disclosed by demand for $340,000 cash payment or indeterminate control of seaport; latter is rejected as conflicting with Monroe doctrine, and full payment offered; source from which cash wfl! come is kept secret. George B. Cortelyou has been nom mated and confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Commerce and

i- " ilL^oe.-eflTuux ■ - . tarv to the President. James R. Garheld 1 been selected for Commissioner of Corporations in the new department, protocols immediately raising \ vaezue 1 I in.a-'ide and referring preference 'T' w The II." , midnight I'ridns- i" ” aslnnirton. I .. . J Vnosevelt will name umpire if mixed'Tibtmals fail to settle other demands; cultured warships must be retained. The American members of the joint tribunal to arbitrate the Alaskan bound"issue under the terms of the tn. y wi’tii Great Britain have been select! d. They are Elihu Root, ^i-retary <d \\ ar; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Ma.. - ehusetts. and Senator George 1 urne„ o

Washington. j Engineer Vance, of the Canadian a- } Ziructions to prepare a camp and was insti ii> t prinonifollowing on snowshoes. ('ter registers 38 below zero. Andrew Carnegie's latest effort to ful f,H his wish that he may die poor involves A* payment of debts for oppressed na ions ‘it has become known that during ^Venezuelan negotiations, when Ger- ’ a nv seemed about to force heavy cash avment, the millionaire iron waste S a definite and emphatic offer to pay the bill for the sake of peace. ' The Spanish treaty claims commission i has dismissed the 152 eases arising from i the destruction of the I nited - 1898, on the ground time ■ claims <lO not arise in favor of the 0 , and seamen of a ship of war for m - juries received while in hue of duty and g for which a foreign government >s red sponsible.

l ; JURYF ’ STO AGREE ' ANAPOLIS GRAVE “ FIASCO IN I J ROB—7 CASE ' nvolved in AltereaJurors Become Is . „ . . . I to Reach X erdict—cation and Fail! . , , jt'ed that Organized ’ Evidence Sho#>. 1 " Cemeteries. Bands Despoiledj . ^.^*3the jury in the trial At Indianapolis :an j er> indicted ou a of Dr. J, C. | Ale: t y j n g rave robbing, charge of complic o ' c i oc k Sunday was discharged a out forty-eight hours i morning after beit .. () n the final ballot and failing to agrs ht f or acquittal and the vo^e stood eJ E There were tevtoui tor convict! tions during the coneral serious alteit evidence in the jury sideration of thf very nearly resulting room which came o f the personal feeim blo^. Ihe cai£ it K said, was a reings in *^^(teß o f the jurors being ? suk ,’’ f ' 1 them. . permitted e t ] )e imputation Attorne’ fluences were brought i lat any < or any mP mber of it ■ t 0 be® 1 ’ result of the case as it cannot ab however, a conviction ’ Kti,n, ls. t| u . altercation and । had been ret fcl ,p to it would have the causes lea he granting of a new been grounds f on is divided. Some । trial. Public ng the negroes go now are in favor o, t ul was not convicted. ThiP' *9Jsagre' ■ 17■.• ■ 1 7< i,. be nco^ ~ r , , , . , The* A sklexander is the outgrowth of U lkes “* a,k ' r‘ <ently liefore the grand ' ” y ' , lhey sh,,w " J a form of traffd .b''* fore disgraced ( ' A '“7“' al ‘ <: k .v been carried * 1,1 1 "'hanapolis, with the cemeter' ‘ re a, . ,!1 1,1 J 1 ";. vi, ' ink y as the bi z Iteration. Indianapolis has been the ee “ ter °, f '“•'^Jting Industry and hi bodies have been shipped to all P1 rts " H ‘ c ”" ntry ' , cordmg to one “Ver 1.000 graves have b- 7 • '’"spoiled am the bodies taken M ,h " a '"’ * hl PP"<’ , .. ooms m colleges in < into the dlssectmtc ~, , , , . . T * is. (’leveland. ( hicago. cmnati. St. Lti , , T • , » ser large cities. I hrongh Louisville and < > > . ~ .. „ i person whose identitv the medium of'

-.re- u '> ~ Tir ~ ' t ad U Lk-. [I 1 body snatchers at work.

was veiled in r J- Stvr - V , tb “ of ~h, ‘ organization of K rave d ‘'T<» betrayed themselves to loteet.ves who were sent out to gather 'Jidence m the matter. With the <le< furnished the detectiveworked persi. t 111 > ’ b " 'V untll ,b ” members of ghouhsh band were placed behind ' ba " of th ” Indianapolis tail 'Die were negroes. j ChA oftheGhouis. When these ‘rrests wore made it was supposed that tbe nefarious traffic had been effectually- destroyed. iwenty-four hours had not p np?*- the gang mentioned had beet,/ placed Jad ’ however before further 1 f v '^nee was collected pointing towart I 1 tbe startling fact that three other org unctions were still operating among the K r « v ^ ,if * be ™lneteries in the ce “ tra P ort . ,,,n of I" d *ana. The fact was : ,8 ° brought to b Sht that several promin- ' nt , physicians and surgeons ami med cal \ u * t , rU< £’ rS and dei "' onstrators in tl p n,l ddle est were accused of complit the nefarious work. Among these w ere I,r - do!M, P h ( ' Ab 'Y ander, demonst: ator at ’ , le * elltrf, l ( "1lege of Physici ins and Gurgens m Indianapolis. who was arrested and charged with disturbing . graves aiding m concealment of bod ,es and fa,lin " t 0 keo U a record of bodies ’ used for 'Acting purposes.

Ghouls Operated. 11, who is known as the Ihonls.” made a confesnner in which the gruelas been carried on. In vay in which a grave is fed that ghouls have seisiness as well as those Actable callings. The entf laid bare. A hole as Lrave is wide is dug at Inound. When the coffin bd a man is sent into the is at work drillTuet the^hM** lie remise he makes are both arousing suspicion by ji js thrown across the top ?.le Jte labors beneath its i 1 the coffin has been opoerture has been made ; permit of the corpse beigh, a seebnd ghoul lakes place and drags the body to the surface.

How the Rufus Cantre "King of the < sion of the ma some business 1 describing the t robbed, he sho' crets in their I engaged in rest tire coffin is nJ Square as the t’ho-^md of a has bcdT-^n,.]),’ excavation ->-,i ing " '

nfe V c • heavy rofit!^”' 1 of the grave^S covering. "“ e ened and an c large enough t< ing drawn thro the first man's from the coffin

BOERS TO LOCATE IN TEXAS. Fully 20.000 Families Arc Ready to ^'°” l eto America. G- M- M<’Ri mey. indnstria.l agent for the Harriman lines, is authority for the statement that acres of land have been purchased for tbe Boers jn south _ west Texas be ween the San Antonio and

Neucus rivets. The purchase is said to have been mao „ (' vn Pearsons, who has been my s tigating lands in various portions of the West . m( j Southwest with a view of colonization. It is staled that fully 29- Boer families are awaiting the result । (« pJb p,.arsons’ investigations and immigrate to America at once and s . j n t heir new homes in Texas. Shott3| { ] lp movement prove a sue'css it is ( j n t j nie a majority of the "rieanders will become citizens of tlu 'nited States and will found in the g q Southwest a vast colony. with < om—-, 1))1S ;ls m>ar as po-^iide similar to dim j n ? ] li; Transvaal. Ihe present .olonization will be along the lines of t ~ ^ out hern Pacific' in Texas, ami ti » officials of the company expect to assi tbe g oers j n their initial effort toi ;I j ge r j ce an j tobacco, for which that sft, j on o f t he CoH ntry has recently been dip .onstrated to be peculiarly adapted. A o .fermined effort was made by several w< tern and southwestern railroads to it j uce R O er settlement, and It is possible j iat o the r colonies mav be parted in Um

MANY TURF CONCERNS RAIDED. Millions of Dollars Are Lost in Gigantic “Get-Rich-Quick” Swindle. Further search in Chicago for "get-rich-quick” concerns developed the fact that E. J. Arnold A Co., the St. Louis firm that collapsed recently causing patrons to lose many millions of dollars, had a branch office in Chicago. The place was raided and the local manager, 11. B. Blackstone, was taken into custody. From letters ami books gathered in at the Arnold, Benedict A Co., Midi mtinent Company, and Brolaski A Co. raids it has been found that the turf scheme has found victims in fifty-one cities and towns in the West. It is said by those who should know that < 'hicagoans have lost more than $ IJXNMIOO and the loss to residents in other sections of the State will be quite as much more. It has been learned that fully 70 per cent of the racegoers and race lovers of the country have been victimized by these turf swindlers. From every town and hamlet in Illinois and from all the large t-ities and towns throughout the country come reports from losses through the operations of these concerns and it is safe to say that more than 590,000 per sons have contributed vast sums to the pockets of these speculators. Report after report shows that the dupes are countless and that the sums lost are of gigantic proportions and may reach nearly $40,090,000. From Omaha comes a report showing that tin* losses ^there will run away up into the thousands of dollars. Boston, Washington. Philadelphia, Pittsburg- Lm+Ui'Oir. —Now JaUgans. ('incinnati. Atlanta and the sttmim-r resorts” of California and Florida all contribute their tale of losses. And when this is all summed up it will be found that this gigantic swindle exceeds in extent even the great fraud of the South Seas known as the "south sea bubble.’’ Five hundred and twenty per cent Miller of New York was a mere tyro as compared with these get richquick swindlers. Miller's dupes lost millions. The customers of the get-rich-quick tipsters will lose tens of millions. A young woman employe in the St. Louis office of E. J. Arnold A Co. declares that no attempt at bookkeeping was made beyond recording the amounts received and the addresses of the victims. Money poured in at the rate of $50,000

a day. and it lay around the office like so much merchandise, living so abundant that little care was taken to prevent thefts by employes. One girl employed in the office, it is said, stole $9,000 and not only escaped prosecution, but kept the money, because her employers knew she could toll their secrets and close their swindling concern. It is stated by men conversant with the business of the E. J. Arnold Company that Arnold has 55,(MM»,000 in his possession when he fled to escape arrest. This money came to him in a golden river from all over the country, and when he ran oft to escape arrest and imprisonment it is believed he took the $5,000,- • XM> with him. If grave robbers are abroad the safest way is to drink boiled water and thus avoid them. Why should President Roosevelt act as arbitrator when The Hague tribunal is suffering for exercise? Sultan Abdul Tamid may be mobilizing a great army and again he may be mobilizing a giant bluff. If John D. Rockefeller, Jr., sent thoes telegrams they give further evidence that he is not as wise as his pa. With a world's fair job on its hands St. Louis cannot be expected to pay much attention to a mere earthquake. No one seems to doubt that such a telegram would have expressed Mr. Rockefeller's feelings accurately enough. The powers that are talking -Hie"Turk dm of bmropc the Sultan sends a polite invitation to come outside and put him out. Tests made by the international doctors indicate that Europe's sick man's temperature is again showing several degrees of fever. It will be remembered that a few years ago Greece was going to lick the Turk with dream weapons; but the dope ' failed to work. In Salt Lake City an ex-Senator has been sent to jail and yet some people doubt the wisdom of having admitted Utah as a State. Even if Crown Princess Louise has dropped her music teacher she may have a hard time getting Saxony to take her back on probation. There was a time when Minnesota would have Ireen glad to have Cole Younger agree to keep out of the State without conditions. Well, if none of those Senators received Mr. Rockefellers message he will be going to the telegraph companies mid demanding his money back. It is claimed by the defense that part of that Indiana grave robbing testimony is paid for. It certainly sounds somewhat like a historical romance. With that European war cloud getting blacker every minute the Monroe doctrine thanks its stars that it does not have to watch over the Dardanelles. "Jim” Hill is determined not to let any fancied enjoyment of present nr asperity deprive him of the luxury of saying "I told you so” when that wave of adversity sets in. Let them revise the football game until it will not be necessary to begin the reports with a list of the killed and wounded and they will see what happens to the gate receipts.

BITTER COLD WAVE. COUNTRY IS SWEPT BY WINTRY BLAST. Death ami Destruction Following in M ake of Worst Spell of Frigidity in I ears — Cyclone Sinks Steamer and Twenty-three Are Drowned. r l he country has recently experienced the most bitter cold wave of the season. Thirty degrees below zero in the Dakotas, • zero in Texas, within a few degrees of the cipher in New York thermometers; the entire country swept by wmds that add to the severity of the eold. people frozen to death in Chicago, Kansas, Georgia and elsewhere—that was Tuesday’s chapter in the story of the most widespread and lasting cold wave known in years. The other usual incidents of delay to transportation of all sorts, added suffering among the poor, injury to telephone and telegraph wires and' general injury to business interests, are reported from all the area between the Atlantic coast and the far western ranges of the Rocky Mountains. Railroads have been confiscating coal consigned to firms and individuals at such a rate that two bills wen- introduced in the Kansas Legislature making such action a crime. Even by thus appropriating shipments of fuel to their “IH. h Ux'S an.J running fho risk of f»;»yinur big damages, many of the roads have been unable to keep trains moving. Some of the temperatures reported Tuesday were: Bismarck. N. D... 30 St. Louis —fl Duluth. Minn ... '24 Cleveland -4 Milwaukee —ls Amarillo. Tex.... 0 • ’hicago I<> Louisville 2 Omaha —lO New York 12 The Eastern States got what seemeiU more than their share of the storm. In central New York fifteen inches of snow fell. Gales swept the coast and endangered shipping, and fewer vessels ventured out on account of storm warnings. Pittsburg was in danger of a flood, and municipal election day in the State of Pennsylvania saw only a fraction of voters willing to go to the polls. The cojd was general. East mid west from Chicago the country was frozen in its clutch. Near Chadron. Neb., six trains were buried in snow drifts, the imprisoned passengers including a regiment of United States cavalry. In Wyoming the worst blockade of the winter was reported, while Kansas has been enduring perhaps the lowest temperature in its history. Ohio reports bitter weather and a serious shortage in natural gas, which is adding greatly to the suffering. In Springfield, Ohio, the street gas jets were extinguished to eke out the scanty supply of artificial gas with which the citizens were trying to keep from freezing. It is estimated that 10,000 persons who depend on natural gas have suffered, and many remained in bed all day in their efforts to keep warm. With a temperature which sank to 10 degrees below zero at 7 a. m. Tuesday was the coldest day in Chicago since Feb. 9. 1X99. when the thermometer registered 21 degrees below. Most of the mail trains entering Chicago were late, some of them being five hours behind time. The whole State of Wyoming has been in the grasp of rhe fiercest blizzard of ihe winter, ami . >i)w ys are badly crippled. Cuts have tilled with snow,

A passenger train, two snow plows, and a freight train were snowbound forty miles north of Cheyenne, on the Colorado and Southern, seven passenger trains were tied up at Laramic and points west on the Union Pacific owing to a blockade near Medicine Bow. 3'wo passenger trains ami several freights were snowiHumd <ix miles south of Cheyenne on the Denver Pacific. In most cases the dining cars kept the imprisoned passengers applied with food. Where there were no diners the railroad companies have sent provisions. Reports of stock losses are beginning to come in from the range, but the losses will not be as heavy as anticipated. Many cities in Ohio, among them Springfield. Day; -n. Urbana. Sidney, Piqua and Troy, l ave bee!) without natural gas. It is estimated that 10.000 persons dependent upon this fuel for heat have suffered severely. The gas in scores of homes puffed out. owing to the low pressure, and many families had narrow- • •scapes from asphyxiation. Valves had been left open ami the’natural gas. when it returned, escaped into the homes. The cold wave which has swept over southern California during the last four or five days, bringing snow and frost, is broken and orchardists are giving their attention to the work of determining the -lan.age. It has been ascertained that lemons suffered most. In certain localities the entire lenmu crop for the summer was killed am! in nearly all sections of < 'alifornia there was more or less damage. It is conservatively estimated that the loss will h swoon In and 20 per cent of i':o on .re crop. STEAMER SINKS: MANY DROWN. Accident Takes Place iri Chowan River, North Carolina. A cyclone struck the passenger steamer Olive and sent it to the bottom of Chowan river, in North Carolina, drowning eighteen per-mis. Tin- Olive is a ■ river ‘ jdGn - between RranVlin Va.. ami Ed iit-m. The accident took place off Woodley's wharf, between Mount Pleasant and Oliver's wharf. Without any warning a furious blast of wind struck the shallow craft, careening it until the water rush-d -war the side. It righted. but sank immediately, and the passenger- on the lower deck and in the cabin had no < h:mce to seek s ifety in any directin’.). Nearly every one was in the cabin on account of the threatening .storm. Only the pilot house stood above the water when the steamer settled to the bottom. In it were Capt. George 11. Withy and five others, the only ones saved. Early the next morning the river steamer Pettit came in sight and rescued the almost frozen survivors. Eight members of the crew who embarked in lifeboats to go to a passing craft were picked up after rowing four hours. The Olive was a small s. ,g]e screw steamer. owned by J A. Pretlow of Franklin. Va. It lef; Franklin for Edenton. and had alms; reached its d sim;itioii when the cyclone struck it. Telegraphic Brevities. John I*. Cranford, "s’. is dead. Wakefield. N. J. He hmi oee'i known as ;he "father of asphalt pavements." Boilermakers of 1 h <’ icago Shipbuilding Company. S ; < hieago. have struck. Machinists have been out for a year. <'. Inman Barnard. Paris eorr pond- nt of the New nk Tribune, has received the rank of < be\.alier of the Legion of Honor. Ethel Royster. Ma . Dean and Wil-I liam Tillitson were swept from their I buggy while crossing stream. Oxford, I N. C. Miss Royster was drowned.

|CONGRESSI Mr. Hanna called up the cons ren> « report on the Department of Coneneret bill in the Senate on Wednesday, am; it was agreed to without debate. Mr. Morgan almost immediately Tter the opening of the session resumed his remarks on the statehood bill, but branched off on the subject of the proposed ;reaty with Colombia. Mr. Depew spoke :ti opposition to the statehood bill. He did not conclude hi< speech. The Senate then went into executive session and 'led the Alaskan treaty. The House a fair progress with the sundry civil ap ropriation bill, covering eigh' v six of the 159 pages of the bill. The ..m-n.Jmcnts for the completion of the east roue of the capitol. and the erection ff an officebuilding for members, were 'doped. With the exception of a few mini: during which some routine business natransacted, the session of the S mate Thursday was behind closed doors. After being in executive session for five hours the Senate adjourned. T’m Hons» made slow progress with the sundry ■ iril bill, covering only iwen;-~ ages and leaving forty pages still o !>• disposed of. The delays were o> ‘asiom -1 by a rather protracted discussion of the item in the bill for the urninten ms the White House, and considerable debate upon the item appropriating $3,000. 000 for the relief of distress in the Philippines. Mr. Gaines (Dem.. Tenn. r: '. Mr. Fitzgerald (Dem.. N. 5.- er the greatly increased cost of main' .. mig the White House. An amendment •> «ut in half the appropriation tor the -e . -f ,if distress in the Philippines was d'-l- L but the language of the pa :gr. modified to require annual reports f Ue expenditure of the money. An immense crowd was at'rae: <1 *c the Senate Friday to hear t’ae invocation of Gen. William Booth, u md• r .'t: commander-in-chief of tie* Xaivr ion Army. The resolution oi Mr. Morgan calling for the correspondence of imviii officers regarding the military oeruj ■ . of the bays of Panama and • aa:. ■ agreed to. When the stat< up Mr. Depew resumed his remark-. He attacked ihe .Mormon Uhurch. n. ; i • . he said, he believed its members . cling to the practice of polygau Mr. Rawlins replied, saying that mons were not interfered w/1: '! work out their own destiny. T : U .. - bill to prohibit rebates to .shippers wa-= passed by the House by a vote ’ 241 to 6, those voting m the nega' ■ ■ Democrats. The remainder of : ■ session was devoted to the sundry - . appropriation bill, which was pr. ically completed. No effort was made ' . pass it, as there was no quorum present. The Senate listened to the rcaiung of the Indian appropriation bill on S: : irda. and spent some time in the consider.!lion of that measure. It was not. how -ver. finally disposed of. The greater part: of the remainder of the day was given over to eulogies of late members of the House, of Representatives, including Uhari -s Q. Russell of Connecticut, Joshua S. X. r of New Jersey. Amos J. Cummin-- of New York, and R. O. Crump : gan. The House passed the sttndr. civ. bill, and then broke all records ia the matter of private pension legislatem. It

was the last op[W. t .mtl. I. sion bills at this session, and the -.1 dar was cleared, not only of House but of Senate bills. 325 in all being pa-sed Tlwee hundred and twelve is the ug' st previous record, made in the Fifty-first Congress. There was no debate on tae st..■ bill in the Senate Monday. The ’ . appropriation bill and the Philippic • urrency bill both were passed. Mr. V« - while the Indian bill was up. called •■’)- tion to a point of order which had U er made against one of its provisions on the ground that it was new iegb. The Senate, he said, had passed the Pi ippine government bill as a rider - army appropriation bill, ami ye* other provision-’ out. Ail rules. ; said, were violated when a majority v - favor of any measure. The Hov- - hr posed of a number of bills under - • :i---sion of the rules, defeating tv.i T t most important measure paired - h< Senate bill to amend the railroad saf< ty appliance law. A special order was ued which practically will make the 1 > 1 ler currency bill a continuing order f- r the remainder of the session, not. how ever, to interfere with conference r» p >rt<. appropriation bills, and other pr.vwg.o matters. The Sena;e agreed to the ■ • report on the army appropriation bi Tuesday. Discussion of the sta>‘ a■ ■. bill was resumed, and Mr. Dep v »’ • tinned his remarks in opposition ’• Toward the end of the session Mr. '1 r declared that himself and the nr ■ had been insulted by -nine of M". D> pew's, references to the unequal :r - sentation in the Senate. Mr. Hon the Committee on Judiciary, r-'i- ■ Littlefield anti trust bill as ; Mr Platt (Conn.i. of the committee, that it was not a unanimous report, that he was opposed to the measur House began eon-ideration < t ’ • . appropriation bill under the ..per:. I a rule which made the new tv.- "I * -f?-'— = -’-*** of the navy and for the increase of the naval academy in order. The general debate on the bill was without special feature. The paragraph in the U providing $250.(M)0 ’ the great lakes wen* <>ut on a ; : of order. ।hi • ■ pleting thir of 1 e sixtyfive pages < f the naval apnropriat: a bill the committee rose. The Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation biij were disagreed to, and the i.'ili fi. conference. In the National C pita!. A bill has been introduced * <■ I House to increase the salary of IT ■> .: n from SAo.fhH, • , SKhi.imk) rimom Senate state! • od tight may lie • . mised by admission of two St’’-- .’aOklahoma ami the other N-uv M and Arizona combined umi r tc of latter. Philamhi-i’V "trust." with capital, has been projected by A. o < iozier. treasurer of National t'orre ,>s and Charities congress ; inter's\ ionaires will d capital. ’ : relief to victims of disasters. that were ki’b d by order -if * • ; of anima! indn-ury. in the N- E States, in the fight i gains’ m. ; mouth dis. ase. S.-nao " be* allowed ■ :i.- ear . -.- . . It provid s f,,r their allowam-e wl i application has b.-eii filed sixty ia; s . July 1. I!n2. The Na\y 1’• ' mem fas il-- . I retain the l'hila< : iphia at th- lire I navy yard as receiving ship. This I sei was one of he first cruisers I new steel navy and already has v I ami . ’at’d :: many respects