Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 July 1904 — Page 2

®l)c Jnbcpendcnt. W. A.. E^iBLEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - ■ INDIANA. EVENTS OF THE WEEK Four persons were injured, one fatally, in a grade crossing accident near Hopkinton, Mass., when a passenger train dashed into an auto. I. S. Wood of Milford, Mass., will die. His wife and sou and Mrs. A. E. Brigham were seriously hurt. In a collision between a freight train and a yard engine near Tampico on the Mexican Central Railroad, Engineer Robert Fillis, Engineer Antonio Saucedo, Brakeman Theodore Guiteras and two unidentified men were killed. Several persons were injured. Considerable damage was wrought by a cyclone in Weston County. Wyo. Trees were uprooted, ranch houses blown down, haystacks scattered and live stock and several persons injured. The twister passed over the country and narrowly missed a passenger traiu on the Burlington Railroad. The mummified body of Thomas McWilliams, Who perished in a blizzard test Maren, eighty miles north of Glendive, Mont., has been found. It was ent^veloped in the fur coat McWilliams wore when-fagricft-Bar U ranch. He was re> ligious in life, and in^d^KtlT the skeleton fingers were found clutching a Bible. John M. Bell, an agent for the Blickendorfer Typewriter Company, shot and killed a woman variously known as his housekeeper and his wife, in the apartment which they occupied at 235 West Eighteenth street, New York, and then turned the revolver on himself, inflicting a wound in his right temple, which caused his death in a few seconds. The coroner’s jury, after investigation of the General Slocum disaster, returned a verdict declaring the immense loss of life due to misconduct on the part of the directing owners of the vessel, charging the captain and chief equipment officer with criminal rsponsibility, accusing the mate of cowardly conduct and censuring Government Inspector Lundberg. The Japanese army under General Oku won a two days’ battle in Fenshui Pass, driving the Russians from Dalin Hill near Hai-Cheng after a fierce artillery engagement in which a Japanese battery got in the rear of the Russians. Motien and Ta passes also were captured by the Japanese, which places their forces close to Liao-Yang. Thieves worked a successful scheme for the robbery of a gambling house in Houston, Texas. About 8 o’clock a piece of dynamite was exploded under a poker table and the crowd of 100 immediately made a rush for the exit. During the excitement some one grabbed the bank roll at the faro table, getting between $1,200 and $1.500 out of the drawer. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. W. L. New Y0rk...42 16 St. Louis 28 28 Chicago 35 21 Boston 24 36 Cincinnati .. .36 23 Brooklyn ... .2^ 38 Pittsburg ...31 28 Philadelphia.. 13 42 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 36 21 Cleveland ....28 25 Chicago 37 24 St. Louis 25 28 k - Stanuiu s i. ,e amt.x.'u.rns. KSSI&n are as follows: W. L. W. L. Columbus .. .40 21 Indianapolis.. .31 31 St. Paul 38 24 Minneapolis.. .27 34 Milwaukee . .34 28 Toledo 22 38 Louisville .. .36 30 Kansas C ; ty..29 42 BREVITIES. The first preliminary examination of applicants for admission to the medical corps of the army will be held Aug. 1. Prof. W. J. Hussey of the University of California astronomical department at Lick Observatory, has announced the discovery of 100 new double stars. Customs officers in New York discovered a false bulkhead on the steamer Indrawadi, behind which was hidden SB,OOO worth of smuggled goods. An engine collided, Jiead-ou, with a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western steel plant employes’ train at Buffalo. N. Y., killing one man and injuring about fifteen others. Dan R. Hanna has received a life-size oil portrait of Senator Hanna just completed by Artist W. D. Murphy of New York, and for which the Senator sat in New York and Washington. Mrs. Daniel Manning, president of the world’s fair board of lady managers, gave a dinner at St. Louis in honor of Gov. and Mrs. Odell of New York. The table was set in solid gold. Ferryman James Brooks of the Biltmore estate has been given a money reward and a gold medal by George W. Vanderbilt in recognition of his bravery in saving three employes of the estate from drowning.

It is announced on authority of the Russian minister of the interior that the government has no intention to place on the Finnish people the responsibility of Gov. Gen. Bobrikoff’s assassination by Eugen Schaumann. Eight arrests have been made at the — "Grty Mexico as a result of a confession of Assistant Cashier Cobos of the Central Bank in connection with the stealing of funds, said to amount to $300,000, from the institution. The pension bureau at Washington estimates that the “unknown army” of veterans made eligible for pensions under the new order of President Roosevelt will not exceed 25.000 men. and of these less than 3.000 have applied for pensions. The excessive heat throughout Connecticut probably was responsible for two suicides. Mrs. Louis Barnes of Bolton shot herself after great suffering, and James Wood of Bristol ended his life by shooting. Both persons had been affected before by the heat. While several hundred persons were boarding an excursion steamer at Boston, a counterbalance fell, striking Edward Barrington, a son of the purser, and inflicting probably fatal injuries. His cries started a panic among the passengers, and in the crush Mrs. Daniel ^lurphy of Charleston had her arm broken. Christopher Frese, a former city councilman. and his wife were struck by a Lake Shore electric car in Cleveland and killed. A peculiar feature of the husband’s death was that his heart was severed from its attachments and forced from his body, and was found beside the dead man. George Fogle, aged GO, a prosperous farmer who lived near Broadway, Ohio, was driving to town, when his team became frightened and started to run. Mr. Fogle and his little grandson were thrown out. Fogle became tangled in the lines and was dragged about a quarter of a mile. He was picked up urconBcious and died.

EASTERN. A counterfeiting outfit, alleged ho be the property of Marcus Graham, arrested at St. Louis, was seized at Ijrovidence, R. I. Prof. Charles 11. Spooner of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 'was elected president of Norwich University, Northfield. Vt. E. C. Greene of Chicago was found unconscious on the street in Philadelphia, and is supposed to have been attacked by thugs. His condition is critical. John Tucker Murdock, manager of the Albert Tucker Coal Company of Philadelphia, shot and killed himself at his home in Riverton, N J, Failing health is said to be the <anse. Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell University, told the graduates at commencement that a college graduate who deliberately chooses bachelorhood for selfish reasons is no man. Two masked highwaymen held up an electric car at Lakeside, just outside the city of Baltimore, shot and robbed the conductor, Charles C. Baker, and robbed a man and a girl passenger. Ernest Payne and Miss Mabel Bonaker of Niagara Falls lost their lives during a squall on the upper Niagara river. Their boat was overturned. Payne’s body was recovered. A cyclone swept a suburb of Paterson, N. J., destroying the five Hopper icehouses and killing John Wieding, employed by the Rogers locomotive works. It is believed that others were killed. Augustus L. Shaffer, a former employe of the government printing office, Who shot and killed his divorced wife in Washington last August, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. According to the statement of Prof. L. V. Case, a scientific teacher and geologist at the Washington Irving high school at Tarrytown, N. Y., radium has been discovered in the Spar quarry there. During a game of baseball in Indiana, Pa., between the Johnstown Amateurs and the Indiana Normals George Thomas. catcher for the Johnstowns, was almost instantly killed by being hit over the heart by a foul tip. The explosion of a small bundle of fireworks in the store of the Diamond Fireworks Company, 826 Arch street, Philadelphia, caused the death of three persons, injury to half a dozen others and a property loss of $30,000. —J - = WESTERN. Degrees were given 106 graduates at the seventy-first commencement of Oberlin College, Oberlin. Ohio. A majority of bankers in nearly 100 cities of Illinois, Michigan. Indiana and Wisconsin report encouraging business and crop conditions. A. C. Allen, attorney for many manufacturing concerns in their fights with labor unions, was seriously hurt by a mysterious assailant in Chicago. Robbers in Chicago stole $1,650 which a widow had been saving for years as a legacy to be left the daughter of a man who had been killed by her husband. As the result of a mass meeting of citizens held in Milwaukee Attorney General Sturtevant of Wisconsin is to investigate the charges made by the Milwaukee ice trust. The Igorrotte and Negrito members of the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis exposition have been ordered to wear clothing enough to Aniericanize them for exhibition purposes.

H "y A. Floaten, deported from TelK—« '®C.ol°m returned and was warned ' - - ,-n-g^ »'-hammittee. - is accused OY having tece;.- _ m deposit funds of the Miners’ Union. Prof. R. D. Salisbury of the University of Chicago received the honorary degree of LL. D. at the graduation exercises of Beloit College. Beloit, Wis., when forty students were graduated. The Montana Supreme Court decided that the fair triai bill is constitutional, which will result in taking all the Heinze-Amalgamated litigation away from the alleged biased courts at Butte. The world’s fair oratorical contest, open to the State university students of the United States, was won by Howard S. Smith of Miami University of Ohio. Jesse Hole of Kansas State University was second. In St. Paul habeas corpus proceedings were begun by Herman Heitmiller to get possession of his baby daughter Lydia, whom, he alleges, is being held by his mother-in-law until-he pays the expenses of his wife’s funeral. A baby choked to death in Chicago on a coffee bean. The little one was the 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Jettit of Rensselaer, Ind. They were visiting at 179 South Peoria street, when little Ida swallowed the bean. Three men, who represented themselves as being union labor sympathizers, invaded the room of Gov. Peabody of Colorado in the Auditorium Annex and hinted that he would better leave Chicago at once if he valued his health. Through the heroism of two employes of the Weber-Costello-Fricke Company in Chicago the lives of many women employed by the firm were saved when fire destroyed the building occupied by tire company, causing a damage of $^5,000. Two men were killed and four or more severely injured when the south-bound Twentieth Century Limited on the Big Four Railroad, running at sixty miles an hour, jumped the track at a curve just west of the station in Delaware, Ohio. Frank Chloepeck, aged 13, an inmate of the boys’ industrial home in Lancaster, Ohio, attempted suicide by swallowing a handful of carpet tacks. He is in a critical condition, but the physicians think he will recover. The lad’s home is in Toledo. Secret Service Agent W. J. Bell and Deputy United States Marshal Lathe raided a big counterfeit money plant in a cabin in Seattle, Wash., and arrested B. B. Lyons and Monroe Brown in the act of manufacturing bogus $5 and $lO gold pieces. A small blaze which started in a jewelry store resulted in a fire which destroyed the main part of Sisson, Cal. This is said to be the most destructive fire in the history of northern California, the loss reaching $300,00J, with little insurance. The old Luetgert sausage factory, the fame of which spread over the greater part of the world seven years ago as the scene of one of the most revolting crimes of the century, was destroyed by fire in Chicago. The blaze started from causes unknown. An intermittent snowstorm raged in Butte, Mont., Friday. The mountains had a covering of white, though in the valleys the snow melted as fast as it fell. It is not believed stock interests will suffer, though some damage may result to crops and early fruit. A man supposed to be Nelson P. Benson, aged 38. of Kansas City, fatally wounded Miss Mary Dove and then shot himself behind the ear, dying on the way to the hospital. The shooting occurred in the Illinois Hotel in St. Louis, where the couple had met by agreement. Mrs. William Graham, the wife of a well-to-do farmer living near Minot, N. D., has been found dead with a bullet holt through her head. Her husband is

missing and searching parties have failec to find any trace of him. The woman is supposed to have been murdered. James A. Neff, an old farmer, residing on a small farm just east of St. Paul, Minn., was struck by a car at the cornet of University and Lindhurst awjues and instantly killed. Mrs. Neff, who attempted to cross the street in front of the car with him, sustained seriotis injuries. R. B. Snyder of Fremont, Neb., wa.fi ele ted president of the National Grab Dealers’ Association at Milwaukee. L. Cortelyou of Muscoutah, Kan., and Daniel P. Byrne of St. Louis were named vice presidents, and Henry L. Goeman of Toledo, Ohio, is to be director at large. There was a riot at the plant of the J. E. Mills Lumber Company at Crown City, Ohio, between the striking white employes and negro non-union laborers who had taken their places. The negroes were attacked and badly beaten with stones and clubs in the hands of the white men. Elmer Mason, 33, and Rolla McDarmon. 28, of Beaver Dam, were found dead alongside the tracks of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad just east of Lima, Ohio. The skulls of both men had been crushed as if by a coupling pin and there were no other injuries. It is believed the men were robbed and "murdered. Commissioner Richardson of t,ie general land office, who is at Thief River Falls, Minn., conducting the sale of lauds of the Red Lake Indian reservation, has sold sixty tracts for $101,234; lowest price per acre, $5.25; highest. $18.50; average^ slUßO^very satisfactory. The law—was $4.^5 per imre. Seth Ellis, at one time the union reform candidate for president and master of the National and Ohio Granges, fell from a cherry tree on his farm at Waynesville, Ohio, and died. He served many years on the Ohio board of agriculture and was a wealthy farmer, being also largely interested in co-operative manufacturing of farm implements. The United Typotbetae of America in St. Louis adopted a new constitution, which provides for an emergency fund to meet expenses in fighting strikes. The convention opposed any reduction of working time for day work to less than fifty-four hours a week, condemned the union label, and favored allowing any firm to run an “open shop” if it desired. A Lima city street car and a Western Ohio special suburban car came together in Lima. Ohio, while both were entering a switch. Twelve or more passengers were hurt, the most seriously of whom was an 8-year-old girl. Lorens Nichols^ Kipling, or Kippens, of Spokane. Wash: Her left leg was so badly crushed that'it had to be amputated and she died in two hours.

FOREIGN. Clement Scott a celebrated dramatic critic, is dead in London. Castir.au, director of a New York theater. was robbed of $30,000 while on a train traveling from Bremen to Hamburg, Germany. Twelve hundred Russians were lost when a force of 8,000 was ambushed in a deep valley near Kaichow by Japanese artillery, according to a report to a London paper. The Rosotofu ferryboat, while crossing the Kheper river, a tributary of the Don in Russia, sank with all on board. Sixty bodies have been recovered and 160 persons are missing. The American schooner yacht Ingoinar. owned by Morton F. Plant of New York, won in the international yacht race at Kiel.^from which Emperox Wil•v_ uctr i itrC re u* vu oeiore the finish. Thirty persons were killed in a train wreck in the province of Teruel. one of the most mountainous in Spain, abounding in torrents. The train was derailed on a bridge over the Jiloca river and the coaches were burned. A fearful disaster marked the contests among sailing cutters from the German warships in the regatta at Kiel. A sudden gale sprang up and capsized more than 100 of the contesting craft. Five of the crews were drowned. The steamer Mariposa, from Tahiti, brought a story of a boiler explosion on the French cruiser Durance, resulting in the death of fifteen men. The explosion occurred while the warship was on her way to Noumea from Papeete. Clara Ward of Detroit, who married the Prince de Chimay and afterward eloped with Rigo, a gypsy violinist, now has run off with a canvasser for Thomas Cook’s Sons, tourist agents in Paris. She has agreed to pay Rigo 1,000 francs a month. The French minister. M. Deprez, at Port an Prince. Hayti, has received a letter from the Haytien government apologizing for the action of the palace guard in stoning the minister while the latter was driving past the palace. The incident. therefore, is regarded as closed. A big naval battle has been fought off I’ort Arthur and Admiral Togo reports one Russian battleship of the Peresviet type sunk and a battleship of the Sevastopol class and a cruiser of the Diana type damaged. The Japanese fleet is uninjured. The Russians led in the attack; sailing out of the harbor and engaging the ships of the Japanese guard fleet. IN GENERAL. Many railroads have been found to be dealing with scalpers on St. Louis fair business, destroying the value of court injunctions against brokers. Earl Roberts has definitely decided to accept the invitation of Ambassador Choate—to-G.ii i. the, late summer or early autumn. Secretary Taft has issued orders making the Dingley tariff act applicable to the Panama canal strip and providing for the establishment of postoffices on the canal strip. The Republican national convention in Chicago nominated Theodore Roosevelt of New York for President and Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana for Vice President. Both nominations were by acclamation. In Ottawa, Ont., Judge Winchester, under tt e provision of the alien act, has recommended the deportation of certain employes engaged on the surveys of the Grand Trunk and Pacific. These parties are now being returned to the United States. The government publishes a report, based on the “poison squad” tests last year, showing that borax and boric acid used as food preservatives, even in small quantities, are deleterious to health when their use is continued over extended periods. Adolph Tancob is under arrest at Fort William, Man., charged with incendiarism. He has confessed to the police to the burning of buildings valued at more than $2,000,000, including the city hall, McDonald engineering plant, elevator B, the Canadian Pacific stock yards and a large number of dwellings. Paul Morton of the Santa Fe Railroad has been appointed by President Roosevelt to be Secretary of the Navy. Secretary Moody takes the place of Attorney General Knox. Congressman Metcalf of California has been named to succeed George B. Cortelyou as Secretary of the Department of Commerce.

^NAMEC.O.P.HEADS i. Roosevelt jid Fairbanks Are Choseig at Chicago. ALL CU m |aND DRIED. No Other Canjidates Came Before the ReptiHiccn Convention. Rules Required a Roll Call, but Nomination Was Unanimous — Fairbanks Named by Acclamation—Ex-Govern-or Black, Senator Dolliver and Lesser Lights Deliver Speeches — Party’s Campaign, Directed by Cortelyou, to Begin at Once. Chicago correspondence’ Nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for President Senator Charles W. Fairbanks urilmlitum for Vice President, nppohW uent O1 committees to . . notjfy bot «•*’* ^heir nomination, and the election 'orge B. CortctxWTas chairman ot Republican National Committee oi aursday brought to a close the pro^dings of the thirteenth Republican iijional convention. The adjournment f the convention marked the beginning the^great national political camp^ufof L 64. The best orators it**' Republican party’ were ninnl/ 4 long those selected to 1 a LI wisdom among the delissemuiation among the s’ 01 Aitories of the Union, and 'tes and / f

i is; 1 d -IW 7 O PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. campaign thunder in large chunks was launched iu the nomination speeches before 'the Convention. With every contested detail adjusted the Republican convention, after only two dj ys of bumomious sessions, bad nothin* do except to go through me HL, Z>f nominating Theodore Roosevelt m New York for ^resident and Charles; Warren Fairbanks of Indiana for Vice President. The platform had been adopted. Jhe contests for individual seats had been settled, the other candidates for Vice President had been withdrawn, and nothing remained except to make the nominating speeches and to choose the standard-bearers by acclamation. Mr. Hitt of Illinois, the only outspoken competitor of Senator Fairbanks who had any chance of victory. was withdrawn from the fight at his own request. The other minor candidates followed suit, ami so the situation gradually settled itself to the point where only nominating speecb.es were left to occupy the attention of the delegates. Former Governor Black of New York made the speech nominating Theodore Roosevelt for President of the United States. He was followed in seconding speecb.es by Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana. George A. Knight of California, Harry Stillwell Edwards of Georgia, Joseph B. Cotton of Minnesota and Harry S. Cummings of Marylan^i. the latter a leader of the colored people. I nder the rules a roll call was 'loured which showed the nomination to be harmonious after which the friends and admirers of the President Mve full vent to their lung power. Even before the word “Roosevelt” was uttered by Governor Black the delegates ’fere on their feet, bracing themselveAy^or a demonstration. The New Yoryn ‘‘legation was the center of the ytyt; used every device known , invitors to keep up the charing orgies. With the appearance c the huge crayon of the 'i ft — J lr r Inlk SEfATOR FAIRBANKS. President there went up from the main floor a voial roar that perhaps w’as never equaled in a political gathering. New Yo-k led the demonstration. The sev<nty-eight delegates from Roosevelt’s native State started the hurrahing, but soon they were mere specks in ’the panorama of ■ fluttering flags and clamoring clans. Leaping to their chaiis the New-Yorkers sent up a mighty shout and flung their silk flags to tbi breeze. It w^s the signal for an oi;burst. The band had begun to phy at the outset, but its strains wre drowned out. Human lungs completely squelched the instruments of brass. Bedlam seemed to have brokm loose in the great Coliseum.

The nomination for the Vice Presidency followed the Presidential nomination. Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of lowa placed Senator Fairbanks in nomination. He was followed in seconding speeches by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, Senator Depew of New York. Senator Foraker of Ohio and former Senator Thomas Carter of Montana. When the roll call of the States for the vice presidential nomination was begun Alabama passed her right to suggest a name on to lowa, and Senator Dolliver, amid a whirlwind of applause, took the platform to nominate Charles Warren Fairbanks. Tin* lowa senator's naming of Fairbanks was th<* signal for a riot of noise, on’y second in volume to that which followed Frank S. Black's naming of Roosevelt. The roll call for the vice presidential nomination was dispensed with, and Fairbanks was made the running mate by* acclamation. AGE OF POLITICAL PARTIES. Republican Party Is Fifty Years OldDemocratic Party Born in 1792, Fifty years ago this summer the Republican party was born. Authorities differ as to the exact date aud place of the birth, doubtless because the union of anti-slavery people was progressing independently in various parts of the country at the same time. The Democratic party, with some changes in the nan^e, dates from 1792. n ■ if, a.■ ,I*^ll fc < as the Republir^n party, and opposed the Federalists under the lead of Hamilton. In 1793 it assumed the name “Democratic-Republican,” by which it is still designated in the platforms of Tammany in New York. The party divided in 1828, and the opponents of Gen. Jackson gradually formed themselves into a new organization, under the name of National Republicans. The party in power ultimately dropped th*! word Republican, and became simply’ the Democratic party, a mime which it has ever since retained. When the slavery issue cut across ail party lines and a new party was formed in 1851. the name Republican was selected. it is said, in the hope that it would appeal to the anti-slavery members of the old Democratic-Republican and National Republican parties. The Whigs did not appear in a national election until 1836. The party was crushed and dispersed by its defeat in 1852, and was succeeded by the American, or Know Nothing, party. The Aboli; <iiists and Free-soilers, tinder various names, organized and nominated candidates for President between 1839 and 1556, when the new Republican party entered the field with John C. Fremont as its “standard bearer.” Since ISSG ten or fifteen new parties have arisen, lived a while ami died. None of them save the Prohibitionist party has survived more than three presidential elections. In 11M p> eight parties strove for the presidency. Six of them failed to win a single electoral vote. Indeed, sine** Lincoln's second election the People’s, better known as the Populist pt rty, is the only “third party” which has succeeded in choosing any electors. DENIED THERE WAS A GOD And Was Immediately Stricken and Rendered Deaf and Dumb. The case of St. Julian Renfro, who it is claimed was made deaf and dumb " non he protested that he should remain an agnostic until he "received such a sign from heaven as would lead him «•* believe that there was a God in heaven." is still creating no small amount of interest among the pastors of Chicago. The physicians say that it is due to htsterir,, while many of the ministers think that it was a direct judgment from God. The story of the ease is that Renfro and three companions were playing cards in his room when the conversation took religious turn. Renfro said tn bis <onipanioiis: "1 was raised a Christian, but have been reading the works of Ingersoll ami studying Theosophy, so that my belief has been shaken. Let God prove His power if He has any. Let Him take away my sight, my speech and my hearing and then I will believe.”

Almost before he had spoken the words In* fell to the floor unconscious. Physicians were summoned and at first it was thought that he was shamming, but on further examination they decided that he was temporarily deaf and dumb. Report of the affair reached Rev. Mr. Jacoby, of Moody’s church, who went at once to see the man and after a long conversation had been carried on by pencil and paper the minister became convinced that the condition of Renfro was the direct result of a miracle. Renfro was converted and said that he would study for the ministry and become an evangelist, hoping that his speech and hearing would be restored to him upon his taking up the work of the ministry. Renfro has gone to the home of his parents at Shreveport, La., and intends to begin at once his preparations for entering the ministry. From Far and Near. The people of Switzerland have recently defeated a compulsory voting proposition. S. M. Barrett, of Rich Hill, Mo., has been elected city superintendent of schools for Lawton, O. T. Miss Maude Fealy, of Denver, Colo., has signed a contract as leading woman with Sir Henry Irving for next season. ■ ■'T'ptoTr —foYuicrly one of the” best known wholesale merchants of Kansas City, where he l ad lived for nearly half a century, died suddenly at his home. The only unidentified body of the victims of the Iroquois fire in Chicago was buried at Montrose cemetery with this inscription on the casket. “The unknown, Dec. 30. 1903.” Colonel Charles F. Mills, of Springfield. 111., was Thursday appointed chief of the live stock department of the World’s Fair, to succeed F. D. Coburn, of Kansas, resigned. The National Association of Veterans of the Mexican war will hold its next reunion at East St. Louis, 111., on Sept. 15, and on the exposition grounds at St. Louis, on Sept. 16, 1904. The Pope has ordered the destruction of the vineyards of the Vatican because the wine, intrinsically, is worthless. He considers it beneath, his dignity to speculate on the produce of the apostolic gardens. Frederick Nelson, 70 years old, a wealthy fanner, living near St. Cloud, Minn., stabbed his wife to death, set fire to the house and barn and then hanged himself to the rafters of the latter building, stabbing himself in the breast. The cause for the tragedy is not known. Pat Sheedy, the sporting man, has brought suit ii. St. Louis against Vincent Kerens, son of R. C. Kerens, a member of the Republican national committee, to recover $20,000 on a note given by Kerens at Ostend, Belgium, in 1900. Kerens admits the note is genuine, but declares he was the victim of sharpers.

SLOCUM A DEATH TRAP. Coroner’s Investigation Seems to Show j Boat to Have Been Such, That over 1,000 persons perished is the burning of the excursion steamer General Slocum is novy certain. According to an exhaustive report made by Police Inspector Schmittberger. on the number of dead, missing, injured and uninjured in the disaster, it appears that 938 bodies have been recover' d :.t, 1 that 93 persons absolutely known to have been aboard the vessel are still unaccounted for, bringing the total mortality of the disaster up to 1.031. Those injured numbering 179 and of the throng of fully 1,500 who embarked on the excursion of St. Mark’s Church, but 236 escaped without injury. The report is the result of a minute inquiry made by a corps of 10.1 patrohnen under the direction of the inspector. In the course of the inquiry much valuable information was secured from survivors which will be used in the investigation by the District Attorney to fix the responsibility for the disaster. A thorough examination of the hull by Coroners O’Gorman and Berry and Inspector Albertson resulted in the discovery in the ioeker in which the fire started of a number of barrels which had contained kerosene and lubricating oil. The investigation prosecuted by the coroner seems to make it ciear that the Slocum had been nothing better than a death trap for years. The steamboat company admitted that since 1895 not a single new life preserver had been purchased for the Slocum. Gen. Dumont, head of the United States steamboat inspection service for the harbor of New Ydrk~issc-rnrthnT th* life of the average good life preserver is six years. President Barnaby was accused of bad faith and of trying to deceive the coroner's jury as to the life preservers by his testimony on the first day of the inquest. Capt. John A. Pease, supervising captain of the company, who put the boat into commission, bluntly admitted that it was impossible to purchase a proper fire hose for 16 cents a foot. That was the price of the cotton fire hose that was in use on the Slocum. All testimony went to show clearly that none of the officers or members of the crew of the Slocum had made the least effort to save lives on the day of the disaster. It was shown also that the only member of the crew to drown. Michael MeGanu, the steward, had put on one of the worthless lifepreservers. Deckhand John Coakley testified that he worked on the Slocum for $6.25 a week. Coakley never saw a fire drill on the boat ami never was told by any of the officers what to do in case of fire. This may explain his attempt to put out the blaze by emptying bags of charcoal ou it. Deckhand O'Neill had never worked on a boat before he went on the Slocum. His usual line was “driving, trucking or most anything.” He saw a life-boat filled with people and jumped into it, although the man in charge warned him that the boat had all it would hold. When O'Neill jumped in he capsized the boat, threw all the people into the water and then swam ashore without trying to save anybody. He explained that there were others doing that and lie was not an expert swimmer. This hero had never seen a fire drill on the boat. “If there had been one I would have been in it.” It was shown that many victims who might otherwise have escaped were drawn to the bottom by the worthless life preservers. After all this one might suppose that I the General Slocum was a grotesque freak among the craft of New York harbor. On the contrary, there is .every reason to Ivelieve that she was safer than most of them. That is what lends sm h a dreadful significance to her fate. President Roosevelt has recognized the meaning of it by ordering that hereafter an army and a naval officer shall be added to the inspection board as experts. MANY TEACHERS MEET. National Association Opens FortyThird Convention at St. Donis. The forty-third annual convention of the National Educational Association formally convened Tuesday at the world’s fair grounds in St. Ixniis when the first of the general sessions was called to order in Festival Hall. Later the sessions of the different educational departments were convened in various halls throughout thf^rounds, the whole constituting the general convention of the association. As. the majority of the educators failed to register upon arrival, but went directly from the trains to their various stopping places, it is not definitely known how large was the attendance, but it is known that many thousands of persons came to St. Louis for the express purpose of attending the convention. Festival Hall has a seating capacity of about 2,500, but had the hall been several times as large it would not have accommodated the crowd. Educators from every portion of the United States and many from abroad constituted the vast throng that endeavored to find entrance to the hall, and the musical program that was arranged as preliminary to the convention was continued for some time after the hour set in order to permit the delegates to arrange themselves comfortably. The convention was called to order by President John W. Cook, who is president of the Northern Illinois State Normal School, DeKalb. 111. He introduced the first speaker. W. T. Carrington, superintendent of public instruction of Missouri. who welcomed the educators to St. Louis and to the exposition. A second address of welcome was made ‘by C. M. Woodward, president of the St. L*n>is Board of Education. The next speaker was F. Louis Soldan. superintendent of public instruction of St. Louis. While Mr. Soldan was speaking Mayor Rolla Wells and President D. R. Francis entered the hall. Mayor Wells was introduced next and welcomed the educators. The Emperor of Austria is an expert embroiderer. The King of Denmark has a collection of birds’ eggs worth $75,000. M. Sienkiewicz, most famous of Polish authors, is enjoying his third honeymoon tour. It is said the health of King Ix’opold of Belgium is causing much uneasiness at Brussels. President Loubet of France is an enthusiastic huntsman. He is fond also of music and art. Lord Kitchener is still suffering from the injury received in falling from a horse some weeks ago. Dr. E. J. Dillon, a correspondent of the London Telegraph, is said to know more languages than any other journalist. Christian Busch was a student of chemistry at the University of Gies>.en for sixty-six semesters, but never passed, i He could not remember his lessons he- j cause of an injury to the head received I in a duel. He died recently. j

~ 77 U~l Reports to the InternaNBl^ I Ola. I tionai Mercantile Agency from commercial centers throughout the United States indicate greater activity in general business, especially in the Southwest. This applies to most branches of dry goods,, with a good demand for men’s and. women’s apparel in light-weight garments. ’Wholesale houses in the Chicago district report heavy buying for fail delivery, with clothing, dry goods! anil shoes in best demand. Advices to that center from tributary points suggest fair interior trade and a promising outlook. These conditions are modified, of course, by disturbances in certain centers where jobbers announce a decrease compared with last year's orders. The volume of business in the North and Northwest is materially below that of 1903. Here, as elsewhere, the approach of a Presidential election, with the feeling that general trade had slackened, have been effective in restricting operations in various industries. With the generally hopet\ " '‘Ving about the crops, distributiv merchandise has been expedited an^ sentiment materially improved. Collections are still slow, and in the neighborhood of Baltimore they show a falling off for the week. In Pennsylvania the same tendency has been felt. St. Louis territory shows up well, with active dry-goods trade and heavy orders for fall deliveries. Boots and shoes are also in demand, with best qualities selling well. A large business has been done in hats, caps and millinery during the week. The labor situation is decidedly better. The tie-up on the great lakes, which has been so long a disastrous hindrance, is at an end, and from now on the industries that suffered most from the blockade are likely to be unusually active. There is already a great rush of work at the docks, and while it may not be possible to make good the losses sustained, the net result of the strike may average a smaller falling off in the total volume of business done than was first feared. The striking machinists are still out at Chicago, but the lockout in the shoe industry is over. Revival of investment buying of bonds has been the feature of principal significance in New York. Investors iu all parts of the country have sent orders for liigh-class securities, and the demand has been sufficiently broad to justify the belief that with the release of the Juiy dividend fund next week a great deal of surplus capital will be permanently invested. This week’s demand for bonds in New York has been chiefly for the 4 per cent issues selling around par. “ 1 R. G. Dun & Co.’s ClljCdGo. T weefclyTeview oriL+ncagu — — — « trade says: The season is now in evidence when trade currents are expected to move more slowly for a brief period. Factory repairs have to be attended to, entailing enforced vacations among workers, and there are labor disputes which require prompt treatment, but there is nothing to indicate that general business will enter upon the last half of the year in any way seriously impeded. The week’s developments have been important in steel product ami jobbing sales, buying in both these branches exhibiting wider activity based upon confidence in the outlook and prospects for increased activity. Crop conditions appear to be most encouraging. Harvesting is rapidly extending with satisfactory results, good prices are readily obtained, and there has been heavier forwarding of flour and provisions. Grain shipments, 2,385,959 bushels, compared with 2.413.942 bushels the previous week and 4,046.644 bushels a year ago. The absence of demand has been notably apparent, but nevertheless prices disclosed little change, the closings compared with a week ago showing a gain in wheat of 1 cent a bushel and a fractional decline in oats, while corn was steady. Urovisions sold freely for both domestic and foreign consumption, and prices again closed higher, in pork 55c a barrel, in ribs 40c and in lard 271-jC. Live stock receipts, 271,727 head, compar 'd with 275,585 head the previous week and 321.890 head a year ago. Failures reported in Chicago district number 16. against 26 last week and 28 a year ago. W />®W§ Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.40; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $5.45; sheep, fair to choice. $2.75 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 9Sc to 99c; I corn. No. 2,53 cto 54c: oats. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2,64 cto 65c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $14.00: m-alr’** to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, j new, $1.20 to $1.30. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.65; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 ti $1.06; corn. No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats. No. 2,40 cto 41c; rye, No. 2. GGe to 68c. Cincinnati —('attic. $4.00 to $5.75; , hogs. $4.00 to $5.57; sheep. to j $4.35; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.05; I corn. No. 2 mixe i. 47e to 4Sc; outs. No. j 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; rye. No. 2,78 cto 80c. Detroit —Cattle. $3.50 to $6.25; hogs, I $4.00 to $4.90; si eep. $2.50 to $5.00; ' wheat. No. 2. sl-00 to $1.03; corn. No. 3 i yellow, 48 • to 41’c; oats, No. 3 white, 42c ' to 43e; rye. No. 2. 72c to 73c. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern, 95c to 96c; eornfi No. 3. 4Sc to 49c; oats. No. 2 white. 41c to 42c: rye. No. 1, i 66- to 67'-; barley, No. 2. 63c to 64c; 1 pork. mess. $12.85. T c -’o—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 99c to | coni. No. 2 mixed. 48c to 49c; I oats, ?<o. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; rye. No. 2, | 67c to 68c; clover seed, prime. $6.10.