Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 February 1904 — Page 2

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0. a Wide Path Through the City, BIG BLOCKS GO DOWN. Fireproof Buildings Melt Like Wax Before the Conflagration. I A LARGE AREA 2 S BURNED Vast District Laid Waste by the Destroying Element —Loss $200,000,000. Seventy-five blocks in the heart of Baltimore were swept by the flames that raged twenty-eight hours before the conflagration was brought under control of the army of firemen, at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon. From the burned district 2,500 buildings have disappeared. Estimates of the loss are as high as $200,000,000, but the loss will not be accurately estimated for weeks. Ln the loss of property the fire which swept away the larger part of Baltimore’s business district on Feb. 7 and 8 ranks among the most destructive in history. Few, if any, lives were lost, and aside from the transient tenants of hotels no great number of people seem to have been made homeless. In this respect the Baltimore tire resembled that at Boston on Nov. 9, 1872, rather than that which swept over Chicago on Oct. 8 and 9, 1871. In Chicago not only were the edifices of trade and industry burned, but also thousands of dwellings, leaving the people shelterless upon the soil. Baltimore has been largely spared the latter misfortune. The most remarkable feature of the Baltimore fire is that office buildings of modern steel construction, often prov•ed capable of defying any fire that might originate within, went down like wax before the assault of the flames. Baltimore has been devastated by fire. Starting with a series of explosions at 11 o’clock Sunday forenoon, when thousands were attending church, the flames spread rapidly and wthin three hours had swept the entire wholesale district. Tis ” It is - sacrficed nowii to base been ’ vVamong them being Fire

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Chef Horton, who was knocked senseless < by a live electric wire. His condition is not dangerous, but the loss of his services 1 came at a critical moment. । Eight firemen were killed. Twenty- • five square blocks of buildings in the heart of the city were destroyed. , The $4,000,000 court house and the postofflce building were burned. The Holiday Street Theater was blown up with dynamite, and the United States Express offices and central offices of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are gone. Scores were injured. Several hospitals 1 in the heart of Baltimore were so seriously affected —two being burned—that the ambulances were not only used to transport the fire victims to outlying san- : itariums, but were employed in transfer- I ring the sick from hospital to hospital, ; Every newspaper plant in the city was I destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people walk- I ed the streets. Woe, distress, a feeling -of dreadful uncertainty prevailed throughout the whole city. br^nn in the long-estnblished wholeWle house of John E. Hurst & Co., in Hopkins place, near Hanover street. This is the center of the oldest wholesale trade in the United States, many of the firms having been in existence for two centuries. East and north, a halfmile away, were the postofflce, city hall, Board of Trade and the government building. A few blocks to the south stood the immense passenger station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Four explosions, following one another •quickly, marked the opening of this, the worst disaster in the history of the city. Explosions sent bricks, wood, iron, tin and rocks high in the air and shook the business portion of Baltimore to its foundations. With loud roars wall after wall toppled into the streets and firemen ran for their lives. The fire was beyond control and the flames ran from one building to another in spite of the fact that the firemen had done their best to check the progress of the flames by soaking the structures with water. Severaf of the largest banks, contain ing funds roughly estimated at $1,000,000, are in ruins. No one knows if the cash in the red-hot vaults is redeemable or not. By 7 o'clock forty costly buildings had been ruined. A dozen blocks had been all but devastated. A high southwest wind, augmented by the artificial gales which heated air and vacuums bring forth, had been helping the flames along from the outset. At nightfall, however, this wind increased. Cinders and ashes were blown for a dozen miles. Baltimore's residence section was enveloped in soot. Hot fagots fell upon the people gathered in the downtown streets and many were burned severely. Though every bit of fire-fi^htiny ap-

। :i ■ ill was called into requit- m as tin* flames continued to spread, I 1 the firemen realized that they had a task i before them which was too great for ; them to combat. Telegrams for lire engines were sent to Washington and Philadelphia and about 1 p. tn. six engines arrived from Washington and four from Philadelphia and joined in the battle with the flames. Engines from stations in Baltimore. .* Howard, Anne Arundel and Harford 1 counties also arrived as soon as possible, i ’ some of the apparatus traveling a distance of thirty miles and more. Water | plugs in every section within a radius of ( half a mile from the tire were in use 1 l and it is roughly estimated that there ] b were 350 hose all playing at one time । upon different parts of the conflagration. Owing to the great congestion of fire i apparatus, the crowds of people and the < general confusion many of the engines I from out of town were unable to find a 1

Il —I ,/Z® j tn non I “Mina ______ LOCATION OF THE BURNED DISTRICT AND SOME BUILDINGS. The space burned over is shaded and includes the sites of the Custom House, Board of Trade, Postottiee, Court House and offices of the Baltimore and Ohio Road.

place where they would be of any ser- I vice. The police, powerless to cope with looters, appealed for help. Two local regiments of militia were ordered out. and two troops of United States regulars from Fort McHenry came to watch property and arrest thieves. The whole city was notified of the eon- , flagration by the territie explosion, which occurred some minutes after 11 a. in. A sharp, splitting roar went up with re I verberating thunder. This was followed I by a peculiar whistling noise, like that । made by a shrill wind. The churches in i the central section of the city were tilled I with worshipers, many of whom became ; frightened, and, while no panics ensued, hundreds of men and women left their ; seats and went outside to see what had ' happened. In a few moments the streets and i pavements all over the city were - rowded : witli excited peopb*. Another deafening' crash occurred and dense columns of cinders and smoke shot w-u over the central,. trsstKTi Gs the” rt'Jy and ui a inure brown j column moved rapidly toward the north- I

east. Borne on the strong southeast wind, the column of smoke, blazing cinders and even pieces of tin roofing spread over the center of the city and a rain of cinders fell, compelling pedestrians to dodge rc-d-hot pieces of wood. Two more explosions followed and thousands of people hurried to the scene of the fire. Os all the spectators, comparatively few saw the fire itself. They could not get within half a mile of it. Even the policemen guarding the approaches to the fire had to repeatedly shift their positions and dodge falling cinders. Pieces of tin 6xß feet square were lifted into the air by the terrific heat, sailed upward like paper kites and When they reached a point beyond the zone of I > EQUITABLE LIFE BUILDING. the most intense heat fell clattering to the streets. The firemen and police, who were obliged to stick to their dangerous posts, dodged into doorways for shelter from the rain of hot missiles. Crash after crash could be heard within the burning district, but even the firemen could not tell from what building they proceeded. In the seething furnace of flame all sense of the direction or location of buildings was lost. Walls and flooring fell in thunderous roars that echoed for blocks away. Hundreds of merchants and business men with offices in the threatened district were notified by watchmen and police, j Nearly all took steps to have their books removed to a place of safety. Hundreds of men and boys were impressed to move the books. Wagons, handcarts and dry goods boxes were used to remove them. Toward evening the firemen showed signs of exhaustion. Men were drafted into service, and more assistance from nearby cities was telegraphed for. It was decided to blow up houses and stores which threatened an adjacent block of structures by dynamite. Accordingly many half-burned buildings were hurled into the smoke-filled atmosphere. The shower of cinders, wood, stone and redhot metal was terrific. After the Hurst building had burned, the great warehouses of A. C. Meyer & Co., the Carrollton Chemical Company, the Stanley A Brown Drug Company and

SUMMARY Os BAL IIM9RF FIRE. Total loss estimated $200,000,000 Known insurance Mis 50,000,000 People out of work 50.000 Buildings burned 2,500 Fire area in acres 140 City blocks H.ime swept... 75 Injured 35 Fire began Sunday, JO:I5 a. m. Under control Monday, 3 p. m. Uncontrollable 28 hours GREAT HUES IN AMERICA. New A <>rk. Dec. 10, 1835—Fire destroyed 074 buildings, including city’s best business structures. No lives lost Pioperty loss, $ 17,000.000. Chicago, Oct. 8, 1871 —Great Chicago lire, which ran over an area of three and a third square miles, destroying 17,450 buildings, killing 250 persons, rendering homeless 98,500 persons, and involving a property loss of $200,000,000. Boston. Mass., Nov. 9, IS72—Fire laid waste sixty-live acres of property ami caused death of fourteen persons. Eight hundred buildings destroyed. Property loss. $80,000,000.

Hoboken, N. J.. June 30. 1900 —North German Lloyd dock tire wiped out 150 lives and caused property loss of $7,01 >O,OOO. Jacksonville. Fla., May 3. 1901—Area two miles long and thirteen blocks wide swept clear of buildings. Loss $10,000,- ' 000. I’atcrson. N. J.. Fob. S. 1902—Fire in । business section destroyed 75 buildings. ! Loss $1S.OOOJK)O. Baltimore, Mil., Feb. 7 Fire in heart 1 of city destroyed its best, buildings. Loss I estimated at $200,000,000. । numerous other storehouses filled with . explosive chemicals and drugs were attacked by the flames. ('rash followed crash. Firemen scurried hither and ■ thither to avoid certain death lurking on j every hand. It was useless to try to tight the cyclone of flames in the ordinary ’ manner. Ladders were hardly raised to : some buildings when an explosion sliat1' tered the structures and caused the firemen mid poliep to run for their lives. Mayor McLane decided that the con■3

flagration was going beyond the power of the local force and telegraphed to Washington and Philadephia for engines. These cities and many smaller places responded with assistance. The loss to the insurance companies will be enormous, though in many instances there was no insurance of large stocks of now goods, just received by the wholesale firms. These firms had received their spring consignments, but had not taken out the usual policies. The Hurst stock alone is said to have been worth $1,000,000. This establishment probably was the largest wholesale dry goods emporium south of Philadelphia. Baltimore is the sixth largest city in the United States. The 1900 census placed the population at 508.957. The population of Chicago in 1870, tl. ’ year previous to the big fire, was 30G.6G’. How Did They Start ? How did the flames gain such heaM- : way? How did the fire start? Why wa\ it not checked? Between breathing spells citizens and officials asked these questiorrs; —tvoTwrowu-re-ply. All admitted that business in Baltimore would be paralyzed for months; that firms whose standing in the commer--1 cial world has been “gild-edged” are ■ nearly penniless, that many others have ! been ruined; that an unknown number I of people will be out of employment. This much is known —the first sight of j a blaze was in the basement of the Hurst concern. An automatic fire alarm apparatus in the big building registered an alarm at 10:48 o'clock, and within two or three minutes gt the most the salvage corps, located only half a block away, was on the scene ahead of the city department. The file captain observed at once that the conflagration promised to be extraordinarily serious, and his men worked at top speed. The supply of water was not sufficient to quench the constantly growing mass of flames. Fresh Water Exhausted, Augmenting the terror of the situation was rhe exhaustion of the supply of fresh water. Baltimore officials telephoned to Philadelphia to notify New York to “rush engines.” Philadelphia contributed a quota of fire locomotives which use fresh water only. They soon became useless, as they could not pump salt water. The engines sent by Washington and Wilmington, not to speak of small towns and cities, gave all the aid possible. But the heat was so terrific, the shower of red-hot metal, flaming faggots and pieces of stone and brick so discouraging that all human agencies seemed to be reduced to almost nothing. Prince Tarkanor, the well-known Russian scientist, declares that by the use of the rays of radium it will be possible to determine the sex of children.

KECOKIH t ^EWEEK INDIANA INCIIW^ TERSELY T T’ Ex-Sheriff and Stl 1)lIeIin House Girl Dh| fr()m Holue At . tempts Suieide-J^ GirU Ki , le(l by Cloudburst-hi in Princoto „. Lancaster ICBaldL president of the Ba'uwm Oil and Gl c allv . an ex Bhenti. had a despl |p d(|pl with bi . Stepson. Burt. Kittel at th e Baldwin home in Marim. l| dwin „ sed a rt . volver. while Hitter l led „ s | lot gnn. Neither man wis sel. elv burt . tllough several shots ' Tbp dup| 1O((k Place 111 the Hbr . aldwiu is said to have hreil the hi , tbp bullet miss . ing the head of , , . . , onlv an inch. Ruler seized a sh< ,' .■ . . i> .11 , and tired at Baldwin, the charge , . .. ... , not tearing a threeinch hole thro _ , 7,. . . „ ~ . 'door within two 'W* " f Ba ‘ -ek. some of the Jot rebounding akj pffept in Baldwins head. iwi „ again the bullet imssmj (ei . ; , Ibpu rush . J from the ho. w . tb ; pas; . pd out it ei shot am |t Baldwin slipped L22_<l^>-2_amr m U1( . sl)()t assed over his heTuT*' *— — „

Driven fj „ ller Home. Del,a Muncie, y ears () ] ( L residing near Asherville, alkud 1() Brazil, a distanee Os ten inm" iind was nearlv froz- I cm She said hei arrel(>d with her and drove h ? il||() th( . ] snow, when the t , (e] . was b((V( , r mg around zero . u (<( tbp b()lne of her uncle, Jr i( . p iu B ,. azil ( where she took no vith suicidal in- . lent " hen the y , was summon- 1 ed. she knocked ( dipinp fn)m his . ‘‘^k. She " as 0 • .ed bv force ami remedies were ap. Too Many I. 4oil Routeß> Ihe citizens o « (>r vilie. Sparta. ‘ 1 rozwr ami M ill, ~p ar()Used oypr an effort to aboh postoffices and have rural route . Anrora sub . ' stitu ed. 3 js bp . ng , p . pared agan pba The remon . stjatois sa\ a( lbtdr pr, ?sen t s tar route sys em is e ient. Farmers along the line admit I t tbp run , r((Utps arp in most < ases , ())d Hiing, but they add ,hat ,lIP - v ar ‘ eing overdone. Cloudb, f KUIr Two Girls. In a cloudl t at Wheeling the cabin of Daniel Ba t> a farniei , was wrppk . ' rrying his baby in his arms left the bin followed bv his wifo . two daughter uld ()np S()n Thp )wo daughters, ap. m and - vpars bp( . alne separated fro- hp pal . pnts and tbp npxt -—- )lllln R then d ; ps were f ollll d hanging ajarbed v, . fpnpp Tbp spn agpd <, y irs, was 1 ou a s f Unl p U nconKk >us. I-oss in Princeton Fire. , lro at 1 rm ' ton completely destroyed tin-general stor of Agar Brothers & Co., wifb contents, )nd ba(]|v damag<>d the BM.er Hotel t j()ining ’ Tbp ]pss was $i. ( .000. with $ ; HH) ills , H , u „. p AII b „„ ks and papers oi n Hoosier Oil Company wiue lestioje Low water pressure is gii. 11 .is om/ (Usp f tbp progress () f the fire. Drinks J , • . ... * .As Die*. ■ tioodhmd c<t , Hotel in Chi^x sllii iile hi « ‘ | bv drinking .rdih- 'o ihA verses are f im. Financial re- 11 he intended •• responsible. That known in a h " U* Ibe was made . neighbor. *t to George Fox. a 1 . 1 State 1 Alta Stodd of Interest at Buttervilli « the *'ew postmaster Potatoes an some parts of selling for 82 a bushel in • 'ass (’ounty 1 ' ie State. < xhibit at the schools will not make an John J. 1.0 worhl’s fair. postmaster at vrey has been .ipp'onicd I t’obimbus hi Montezuma. fid this white s bad more of the beautifore. r than in fifty years be j Fire dost nn and several im cd Tilden Stewart's bam St7,o(K*. rses, near Brookston. Loss Hernsl Bra luinbils, while Iford. 72. fell dead at < o funeraj of a returning home from the The Panha ’ ri ’’ nd ; Indianapolis idle is operating between | Vandalia’s I, nd Columbus two of the

lives. The en ge Atlantic type loeomo handle is test' ,’ines are new and the Pan Julius Coni! Q K I M, " er ’ failed three y z. a Laporte banker who dead of hemo> ears ago tor SlDO.thnt. is His assets m rhage at Blue Grass. N. D. since paid nea Uted ol> per cent and lie edness. rly all his remaining indebtThe recent ment of sche ‘ form caused sad derangeBuried in the m- on Indiana railroads, on nearly ex ‘ep drifts of snow, trains search. Anr y road were objects ot panied by po < of section men. accomthe aid of m ’rful snowplows, went to eral instance y held prisoner. In sevfast for sevf the trains had been held came, and t 1 hours before assistance among the re was much suffering years had tl ssengers. Not for many more conn'd traffic of the State been the theomun gly at a standstill. With below zer eter registering four degrees and Wesi passengers on a Lake Erie \great drift ‘ train spent nine hours in a ^, tt ntn.t ear Miami. A blinding storm it yas not ^attempt to see! aid, and came on t .util a pTitrol 01 section men the snow; scene that the presence of section m< d train was known. I ift? train. Tl zd four engines released the Vandalia e passenger ’rains on the let. FiVv > into 11 deep drift near Cutcue, but 1 igines were sent to the reson the dri y could make no impression army of s After several hours a small ing the ti tion men succeeded in releasIt is st ns ’ connected 'd in Jeffersonville by persons plant of 1 h the establishment that the Company American Car and Foundry within fb 'ill shut down permanently out of en months, throwing 2,000 men

Len P oyment. port, life * ine, a farmer, near Logansis fearejt isappeared from home, and it play. i"r e Has been a victim of foul Center, am ne was last seen in Royal out of sigl then he dropped completely old, and li t. Perine was thirty years a farm, i veil alone with his father on Is knows o reason for his leaving home Sylve 4 grower,’ _e| Morris, an extensive fruit jail in> committed suicide in the county by meat" ,’alparaiso by hanging himself transom s d a towel thrown over a door Heved t; inthe toilet room. Morris bejail and ■ t v'a mob was surrounding the being t//en hut his wife, who fainted at his ris was tak from home, was dead. Morattempt to en into custody because of his with an ax - kill his wife and daughter Word ha of Edward S been received that the body m a house (“Dad”) Swafford, who lived drowned th >oat, near Brooklyn, and was A bulge in e other night, has been found, •f the bod the ice led to the discovery —- —— in about two feet of water.

EVI NFS IN OPENING 0! Illi RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR FIRST ENGAGEMENT. Place Port Arthur Harbor Russian ships engaged 14 Japtmese ships engaged 1G Russian ships disabled t> Japanese ships disabled 0 Russians killed 10 Russians wounded 11l Japanes<> killed 0 Japtmese wounded O SECOND ENGAGEMENT. Place Off Chemulpo Russian ships destroyed 2 Casualties Unknown After scoring a complete victory in Ihe first engagement, at Port Arthur, the Japanese fleet sailed away in the dir ftlon of Chemulpo, off which port two additional warships were encountered and destroyed. All foreign capitals tire amazed at the fighting ability shown by Japan. Russian foreign office issues a note giving its side of the far eastern controversy. Secretary of State Hay invites I 411 -the nowers to joi 11 in .preserving

the integrity of the Chinese Empire. FUTURE OF KOREA HOPELESS Kingdom Powerless to Stop Advance of Kither Russia or Japan. The position of Keren in regard to the questions in dispute between Russia and Japan is a hopeless one. Unfortunately the government of the hermit kingdom is powerless to prevent either the advance of Russia or the steady spread of Japanese influence. She possesses neither army nor navy which can be put to any practical use, while she is iu that position in which a country is placed when unable to raise its. voice upon its own behalf. Korea is the helpless, hapless sport of Japanese caprice or Russian lust, and it is almost impossible to contemplate without concern the ultimate fate of the little kingdom. Korea is destitute of any form of constitutional government. Indeed, the qualities of government there may be described as benevolently despotic. The reins of authority are concentrated in the hands of the emperor, who administers the functions of his office with the assistance of a council of ministers. Life in Korea is easy going; the officials are corrupt; the administration of the laws is lax. The people are docile, without, enterprise or ambition, preferring a state of idleness and peaceful seclusion to the notoriety which has now fallen upon their borders. The future of ; the country is uncertain. It contained I some promise of development, but if war should break out. it is not at all improba- ! ble that this prospect will be ruined through the anarchy and consequent upheaval of commercial interests which will follow in its train. The army of Korea exists only in the imagination of Korean officialdom. It is a useless institution, but until lately not without a certain picturesque note in its attire. The strength of the Korean army iias been returned by an official of the Korean legation in this country as 50.000 men, which in times of emergency might be increased to 100,000 effective trained men. — This is. unfortunately, nonsense, and as a point of fact the armed might of Korea would be routed utterly by a regiment of crossing sweepers armed with broomsticks. The navy is confined to a single steamer, formerly a coal lighter. TRY TO KILL BRITAIN, Russians Aim a Deathblow at King Edward’s Empire. Victory for Japan would be worthless, i however crippling the cost, if it failed to , break the Russian power in Asia. Lhere ; could be no victory for Russia but in the I absolute crushing of Japan or, perhaps, I its conversion into a satellite of the Russian empire, harmless if not helpful. Great Britain's interest in the struggle is with Japan, for Rus-ian success means that the Uzar will attempt to extend his triumphs into British territorj. It is a plain fact that if Russia's ! march southward ami eastward be not j immediately checked the difficulty of doing so later, when she has absorbed Korea as well as Manchuria and is threat-

ening Japan's very existence as a nation, will be immeasurably greater. I' or Russia will then be mistress of Pekin also. Should that come to pass Great Britain will have to use all her force to keep Russia away from India, as the way will be open through Thibet. Great Britain will find it difficult, moreover, to maintain the independence of Afghanistan. The expense that would be incurred in such a vast undertaking as that implied would conceivably be even greater thon the cost of the South African war, but it might be feasible to check Russia now with comparative ease were Great Britain really to make up her mind to do so. . Russia should at all hazards, in the opinion of British statesmen, be given to understand that she must stop short at the Amoor. Her railway in Manchu- ’ ria she can sell to China, as agreed ou 1 before it was made. Port Arthur as a 1 fortress could be dismantled. 1 here is in Bm-ir,." .si «-Mig party favorahje_jo tliis course, heade® by a eiuse relative vi tiw Russian emperor, whose own aspirations, by the way, are regarded by Britains as being eminently pacific. It may be added that as Russia made the restoration to China of the Manchurian provinces a part of the bargain under which she acquired a lease of Port Arthur she can therefore evacuate the region with honor. All Around the Globe.

At a depth of 2.775 feet a lake of oil was struck near Florence. Colo. A train killed C. J. Moore, a painter', at Eldon, Mo. He formerly lived at Versailles, Ind. The annual meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy, is to be held in St. Louis Oct. 4. Four men were seriously and four others slightly injured by a premature explosion of dynamite while clearing the right of way for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Lowellville, Ohio. M. Ilerrenschmidt, an engineer, has stated, says the Petit Parisien, that the recently discovered gold reefs in the Department of Mayenne, France, may possibly rival those of Australia. Treasury experts report the accounts of Secretary Edward A. Moseley of the interstate commerce commission at Washington absolutely correct, but criticise his methods in several particulars. Viola Miller. 13-year-old daughter of H. E. Miller, manager of the Fairbanks Scale Company at Mamaroneck, N. Y., and Leroy Masters, a 14-year-old high school student, ran away from home to Bee the world and become “cowboys," but were intercepted at Bridgeport, । onu.

I GREATEST SINCE CIVIL WAR. [, ExteDßive Army Maneuvers to Be Held Next Slimmer. Within 150 miles of New York City early next summer there will be held tha i । greatest exhibition of mimic w’ir ever I attempted on this si.le of the Atlantic. I Gen. Corbin, commanding the Department of the East, is making plans to mobilize 50,090 troops, including all the regulars east of the Mississippi and the 1 militia of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and pel haps several other States, to take part in a land : campaign similar to the annual maneuvers of Germany and France. 1 The plans involve the establishment of I of great military encampments forty or fifty miles apart, and a hostile campaign between the two bases, simulating all the conditions of an actual state of hostilities. Negotiations are now in progress with several railway lines to arrange their schedules for the period of operations, so that the opposing forces may seize sufficient rolling stock and assume

MAJOR GENERAL CORBIN. control of the right of way for military purposes without too serious inconvenience of regular traffic, and property owners in the districts so be occupied or traversed by the combatants are being warned what to expect and what compensation the War Department will allow them for the inconvenience they may suffer. All the branches of the army will be represented in the maneuvers, Lit the navy will not take part, the force afloat having purely naval problems to work out next summer. It is probable that the usual army problems at Forts Riley and Thomas next summer will be much curtailed in order ’mt the War Department may conceto z > its resources to make the New YoFk campaign more memorable. FEVER SEIZES HANNA. Senator Is Found to Have an Attack of Typhoid. Senator Hanua is ill with typhoid fever in Washington. The Senator is being i closely guarded from visitors and no oue

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illness. It is somewhat like walking , typhoid, which accounts for the recent | fluctuations in the fever and general con- j ditions of the patient. i It is realized that the Senator’s ad- ! vanced age and his rheumatic conditions ■ । make the case a more serious oue than in a younger man, but the belief is ex- - I pressed by his family that he will re- I i cover, although he will be confined to bis j bed for a considerable period. The pres- - j ent plan is to take him to Thomasville, I Ga., as soon as he is able to be moved. WHEAT GOES SOARING. Russia-Japanese Mar News Advances Cereal to High Price.

Russo-Japanese war news has had the effect of sending the price of cereals skyward on the Chicago Board of trade. Wheat went soaring and the advance in other grains was almost as great. May wheat market broke from all restraint and went to the highest point reached in years. Already firm and strong, as the result of the weather and crop reports from the various wheat-growing States and foreign markets. May wheat proved a gold mine for the fortunate traders on the bull side of the market. The excitement yas intense when the markets begun to advance, not only the shorts attempting to cover, but the investors, who are long on wheat, demanding more. Outsiders all over the country joined in the buying movement, confident that a big boom in all the grains would send wheat to sl. - .*wtnut of bov-bandits wil yet raise up apologists for King Herod. The public has learned that there is such a thing as an asbestosless asbestos

curtain. If things keep on the sheep will be tempted to shift and try to raise cotton fleeces. Any country looking for a secondhand war cloud would do well to apply to Japan. The Czar is troubled with insomnia, and the Mikado has been unusually wide awake of late.

Mexico has evolved the hornless bull fight. It will be boycotted by the horned cattlemen's union. King Edward read his speech with as grave and serious a face as if he had written it himself. Another thing the theatergoer will demandtis an exit that is something more than a constructive exit. Colombia will yet claim that it sent down that army for the purpose of giving us a proper welcome. The price of wheat may go up in reaponse to rumors, but it requires more than rumors to keep it up. Russia doesn’t like our new treaty with China. That confirms the impression that it is a good thing. One thing appears certain —Chicago theater managers do not want to burn money to make their places safe. A Michigan murderer was sentenced to prison for life within sixty hours after he committed the crime. This get-justice-quick idea should become popular all over the country.

tHEWEEKLY HISTORIAN SMS 1 i jj J-j-j j One Hundred Years Ago. Mungo Park, the famous explorer, started on his secondto Africa, which cost hijNt Members of the accused of "graf’ :

1 pn isonaparte s guarax. that Spain would remain neutral in the war between France and England. An epidemic of fever broke out at Newcastle, England, and all the hand fire engines of the town were ordered out to wash the streets and alleys. A great dinner was given at Washington by members of Congress in honor of Presides ■.Jefferson, Vice President Aaron Burr, and the heads of departments in honor of the acquisition of Louisiana territory. Fifty Turkish pirates in a captured gond^a were reported terrorizing Mediterranean shipping. Talleyrand, French minister of foreign affairs, was accused of “grafting” because he had just purchased an estate costing 4.000,000 francs. Seventy-five Years Ago. The Turkish -troops began crossing the Danube, pressing back the Russian army as they advanced. The loss of the Russians in their campaign against the Turks was estimated at 50,000 men. The Duke of Wellington appealed to the King of England iu behalf of Irish Catholics. The Episcopal Church of Scotland made the clergy of America eligible to holdings there equally with those of England and Ireland. Merchant ships refused to sail from Matanzas, Cuba, without an armed escort provided by the Spanish government, because of the numerous pirates. Fifty Years Ago. Napoleon 111. addressed a note to th* Czar defining the position o7 France and Turkey on the eastern question. The Tehuantepec Railroad was opened in the presence of leading officials of the Mexican government. Russian warships were given fifteen days to withdraw from the Black sea by the admirals of the allied fleets. The first railroad track of uniform gauge between Buffalo and Chicago was completed, making the running of through trains possible. .Queen Victoria was cheered in the her l’ll I y S from the opening of Parliament. Assistance in suppressing a civil war was offered to the Emperor of China by representatives of England and the United States. forty Years Ago. Lieut. TV. R. Mesich of the Confederate army was arrested in Chicago and papers seized involving him in a conspiracy to free the Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas. Bishop Ames of the Methodist Episcopal Church, acting for the M ar Departrnent, took forcible possession of the Methodist churches of New Orleans and assigned army chaplains to preach m them. The Michigan Legislature adopted resolutions urging the renomination of President Lincoln on motion of Lockwood, Democratic member from Detroit. Contributions of 10 cents each were solicited from Ohio citizens for the relief of ex-Congressman Clement L. \ allandigham. whom President Lincoln had ‘ exiled for making treasonable speeches. I The bill creating the office of lieuten- ' aut general was passed by the House at > Washington over the protest of James A. । Garfield an amendment being added rec- | ommending Ulysses S. Grant for the • place. ! A draft of 500.000 men was ordered by ; President Lincoln, to serve for three ! years, or during the war. A ■ $ ates - Sr -> s ’ s J?" I nois, calling for the immediate abohshI meat of slavery, was presented to the I Senate by Senator Sumner of Massachuj setts. Thirty Years Ago. I George Bancroft. United States min--1 ister to Germany and famous historian. reported that American credit was failing there, because no efforts were made to bring our currency to P ar - Congress was asked to pay 841,000 for removing corns from the feet of Union soldiers during the Civil War. I Gen. James A. Garfield began a series 1 i <vf hearings at \\ ashingti j to cutting government

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Gladstone and John Bright appealed to their English constituents for re-elec-tion. promising to secure the repeal of the income tax. The British army under Sir Garnet Wolseley defeated the Ashantees at Amoaful. Twenty Years Ago. William M. Evarts proposed George F. Edmunds of Vermont as a Republican presidential candidate to succeed Chester A. Arthur. The quinine trust, which had controlled the world’s supply for several years, was broken and prices fell 25 cents an ounce. A state of siege was proclaimed by the Austrian government in V ienna, Korneburg and Neustadt, to suppress socialists and anarchists. Jay Gould succeeded in cornering Oregon Railway and Navigation Company stock and forcing the price from 87 to no. The bodies of Lieut. De Long and other members of the Jeannette arctic expedition were escorted through^ the streets of Moscow en rente to the United States. Ten Years Ago. Brazilian revolutionists fired on American and German ships in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. _ Lyman J. Gage, Erskine M. I’helps, C. B. Farwell and other Chicago business men declared the bottom of the existing business panic had been reached,