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TlIE COPrKIt LOUXntl KVENKkI XET3 CALUMET. FRIDAY, JULY 22. 1898 ARGONAUTS IN PERIL i Steamer Alfred J. Beach Sinks in a Heavy Sea. CHICAGO TASSENfJERS A DRIFT. HelW the Alfred J. Heath Four Other Ye.el AVer AVre ket During a Violent Storm Off the Ahukan Coat l'n grn Kacape. from Ieath The Alfred J. lteach Wm llullt by Chicago Tartie. tTho Loc Their Outfit. Seattle, Wash., July 22. The river steamer Alfred J. Beach, owned and built by a company of Chlcagoans for service on the Yukon river, was sunk In a Etorm on the north raclflc, S50 miles off the southeastern coast of Alaska, early on the morning of July 4. Her thin sides were crushed in by the mighty ocean swell. Twenty-four Chicago men and women took to the boats, and after drifting for a time managed to reach another river boat that was also being towed north. It was a miracle that no lives were lost. The tale of the disaster was brought to this city by the steam schooner Lak me, which arrived from St. Michaels with thirty gold-cliggers, bringing 1300, 00 in their purses. Besides the Alfred J. IXach, the river steamer W. II. Ev ans, Argo No. 2. Ccnstantine and In ternational are total wrecks, either at the bottom of the north Pacific or on the rocky teaches of the Islands of southeastern Alaska. The Lakme called at Dutch Harbor on her way south, and there learned of the disaster from the destitute owners of some of the river steamers. Had a Stormy Voyage. The steamer Xoyo, with the two river boats, Alfred J. Beach and W. II. Ev ans In tow, steamed out of the Seattle harbor on June 21. When off Cape Flattery, a day later, the hawser broke end the two steamers went adrift. They were picked up with great difficulty and brought into Port Angeles. Here Captain Hanson resigned, not caring to have the responsibility of taking the steamer farther. Captain Edget, an eastern navigator, was placed in command, and on June 15 the fleet started. This time it took the Inside route to Dixon's entrance. "When 230 miles out from Dixon's en trance, shortly before midnight on July 3, signals of distress began to come from the Beach, which was the end of the tow. The sea was running very high, but the captain of the Noyo re fused to stop until daylight. The Beach was leaking rapidly, and every wave that the Noyo pulled her through cause her to settle farther in the water. Thought They W-re L.t. Early on the morning of July 4 the waves swept her main deck, carrying off portions of the deckhouse. There were twenty-four men nnd women aboard. Their signals of distress had not been answer and they thought they were lost. By 4 o'clock the condition of the boat was such that it threatened to go down nt any moment. It was then that the passengers took to tho boats. The Noyo saw them leaving the steam er and the pilot went out in charge of a lifeboat to assist them. All were landed on the W. II. Evans in safety. By this time the Beach had entirely disappeared beneath the waves. The run had been resumed but a few hours when the Evans showed signs of break ing up. It was decided to return with her to Dixon's entrance and beach her. The run back took two days, and by that time the Evans was all but a wreck. She was beached in American bay, near a small settlement called Howkan. In I)eperat CI rou instance. The Noyo took aboard the passengers cf the two steamers and as much bag gage as was saved and started for St. Michaels. The passengers on the river steamers were In destitute circum stances but were determined to pro ceed. They hope for some lucky chance to get up the Yukon. The Noyo as to leave Dutch Harbor for St. Michaels on July 13. The Alfred J. Beach was the property cf the Alaska Mutual Transportation and Mining association of Chicago. They put up the money to build the vessel from the savings of years, and it is hard to say what they will do with out her. Their outfits were on board and will prove a total loss. She was " 128 feet long and 27 feet beam. She was fitted with electric lights, steam stearing gear and cost $35,000. Killed by a Live Wire. Philadelphia, July 22. Walter Bush, a St. Louis? boy, who was visiting his grandfather In this city, was Instantly killed by grasping a live wire. The boy noticed a wire hanging above a bay window. He opened the window nnd stepped out upon a small porch and raught hold of the wire. As soon as his hand came In contact with the wire there was a bright Hash and the lad dropped dead on the porch. CongrnnMiiau Fleming Doing Well. Boston, July 22. Congressman Will lam H. Fleming of Augusta, (Ja., who was operated on at the Massachusetts hospital for appendicitis is resting com fortably after a fairly good night, and there is strong hope of his recovery. Mr. Fleming came to Boston Tuesday to participate in the congressional pos tal inquiry now in progress hero, when he fell ill. Ohio Murderer To lie Flectroruted. Bowling Green. O., July 22. Charles Nelson, colored, has been convicted of murdering James Zimmerman and sen tenced to be electrocuted in the Ohio penitentiary the morning of Nov. 4. Nelson narrowly escaped lynching at the time of the murder. He killed Zim merman for money to get his sweet heart out of Jail. Shaft Itrnken at Sea. New York, July 22. The steamer Trave, which reached this port reports that July 18 she sighted the steamer Frieslnnd, from Antwerp for New York and was informed that the latter ves sel, when five days out, July 14, broke her shaft. When spoken the Frlesland had repaired the damage and was pro ceeding under steam. liny Kreak III k. Nlles, Mich., July 22. The 9-year-old son of (Justave Bohm of (lallen, whll playing, attempted to turn a somer . saclt nnd broke his neck, dying almost Instantly. THE SEWS IX BRIEF. , Trlnce Henry of Prussia, commander of the German squadron in Asiatic wa ters, has sailed from Kiao-Chou for Vladlvostock. The Milburn-Bass wagon factory was burned at Chattanooga, (la., and Is a total loss. The plant, stock, etc., was valued at $125,000; Insurance, $65,000. The British bark Midas, Captain Mes senger, which sailed from Nagasaki, Japan, on Feb. 14, for Portland, Ore., has been posted by the Lloyds as miss. Irg. The Republican congressional conven tion of the First Missouri district nom inated Frederick William Bless of Ma con City. City Marshal Hahn of Three Rivers, Mich., has arrested a man with a wood en leg. He is suspected of murdering Officer Toohey of London, Ont. Paris has an official rat-catcher who has, during the last thirty-five years, caught about half a million of these animals. William Frederick Cardsen, 6 years of age, w as run over by a delivery wag on and instantly killed at Milwaukee. Germany has 5.7S2 associations of turners, with 578.1C3 members. Charles E. Wilhite was arrested at Milan. Mo., on the charge of forging his father's name to a note for $1,140. Powdered rice is said to be of great efficacy In checking bleeding from cuts and bruises. Jacob Heble, a farmer at Tower Hill. Ills., 60 years old, was killed by falling from a hayrack. Fire in the Chelsea Jute mills In Greenpolnt, L. I., damaged the build ing, plant and stock to the extent of about $30,000. One thousand men are out of work. No thistles grew in Australia until a Scotchman planted some there for love for his country. IMPRISONED SAILORS SAFE. Men Had Not Suffered Seriously When llellef Reached Them. Seattle, Wash., July 22. A member of the Bear relief expedition writes from Point Barrow under date of March 27 confirming the news received from Captain Tuttle that the Imprisoned whalers had been reached and that they were better off than had been ex pected. Most of the vessels can be saved and the men have not suffered seriously, having subsisted on fish and wild reindeer. There were 100 men quar tered at Cape Smythe, seventy-six of these in the old Kelly house and the remainder divided up between Charlie Browers' and the old refuge station new run by Professor Mcllheny. They were in want of food and clothing, which was at once supplied. Lieutenant Jarvis, who led the land expedition which arrived at Foint Bar row ahead of the Bear, made nearly 2,000 miles in 1C2 days, and his arrival put an end to the troubles of the ice- locked men. He first boarded the Bel videre and was greeted by Captain Nil- lard, who at once informed him of the condition of the lloet. The arrival of tame reindeer and of the Bear party put an end to the fears of the men, and there is no danger of further dis tress. Killing of Naval I'rlzea at Santiago. Washington, July 22. Secretary Al ger announces that it has been finally and definitely decided that the ships taken in Santiago harbor by the sur render of that city become United States prtperty, not prizes of either the army or the navy. This is in accord ance with a former supreme court de cision. THE .MARKETS. Chicago Grain and Produce. Chicago, July 21. Following were the quotations on the ...$ .78 $ .80& $ .78V4 $ .78 .. .6S4 .694 .68 MY .. .eS'g .68 .67 -68 ... .334 .33 .22 .32 .. .33 .33 .33 .33 ... .33 .24 .33 .33 ... .23 .23 .23 .23 ... .19 .20 .19 .19 .. .22 .22 .22 .22 .. 9.93 9.95 9.95 9.95 ... 5.65 5.67 5.60 5.60 .. 5.70 5.70 5.65 5.65 September December Corn July September December Oats July September May Pork September Lard July Or tolir 5. Produce: Butter Extra creamery, 16c per lb; extra dairy, 14c; fresh packing stock, 10(3 10c. Eggs Fresh stock, 11c per doz. Live Poultry Turkeys, 6 8c per lb; chickens, 8c: spring. ll&12c; ducks, 66c. Pota toesNew, $1.2501.60 per brl. Berries Raspberries, red, 605175c per 24-pt case; black, 6070c per 16-qt case. Black berries, 40 60c per 16-qt case. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, July 21. Hogs Estimated receipts for the day, 32,000; sales ranged at $2.80(fJ3.90 for pigs, $3.70fr3.93 for light, $3.7503.85 for rough packing, $3.754.00 for mixed, and $3.85(4.05 for heavy packing and ship ping lots. Cattle Estimated receipts for the day, 10.500; quotations ranged at $").15'?Z5.45 choice to extra steers, $4.75 5.10 good to choice do., $4.50(34.95 for fair to good. $4.15fj5.10 good to choice do., $4.50(5:4.95 for fair to good, $4.15(3) 4.60 common to medium do., $4.1004.43 butchers' steers, $4.2505.10 fed western steers. $3.60(r4.20 stockers. $4.M)(f?4.0 feeders. $2.f.0(t4.23 cows, $3.2004.83 heif ers. J2.70fi4.2r. bulls, oxen and stags. $3.f.0Ti4.70 Texas steer?, and $4.7offi6.75 veal calves. Sheep and Lambs Esti mated receipts for the day, 12,000; quo tations ranged at $4.0074.85 westerns, $3.25535.10 natives, and $4.25 0 6.50 lambs. Kant Ituffalo Live Stork. East Buffalo, N. Y.. July 21. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Com mission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y.. quote as follows: Cattle Receipts. 2 cars; market firm: veals, I4.ri0ffi6.00. Hog Active; Yorkers, $4.1004.15; mixed, $4.1504.17; others. $4.2004.25. Shep and Lambs Receipts, 7 cars; market dull; lambs lower; pheep steady; top lambs. $6.00(776.25; others, $4.005 5.75; Fheep same as last quoted. St. I-nuU Grain. St. Louis. July 21. Wheat Higher for cash and July, but lower for futures; No. 2 red rash ele vator. 77c; track, 76 77c; July, 75c; September. 66c bid; December, 66c; No 2 hard, 7"c. Corn Lower; No. 2 cah 32'ic bid', July, 31mc nominal; Feptember. 21031c asked. Oats Dull No. 2 enph. 2:c asked; track, 250 July. 23,ic Md. "September, 19 :iv; No. 2 white, 28Q2Sc. Rye Nom inal. 45e. Milwaukee Oraln. Milwaukee, July 21. Wheat Firmer: No. 1 northern. 8!e; No. 2 northern, fOc: September, 70ce. Oats Higher; 24772Cc. Rye Lower; No. 1, 480 4S Vic. Barley Steady; No. 2, Feptember, 42c; sample, 33 0 35c TIJIOKS OF THIEVING. MOW SHOPLIFTERS YORK'S BIG PILFER IN NEW STORES. Women Who lt Clever Children Trained to tho UatineM Aids In Their Nefa rious Calling Tha Clot Watch of th Store Detective. Schools for shoplifters are not adver tised, but they thtive. Feinalu Fagius are no longer regarded as phenomenal criminals thoy are considered well es tablished enemies to the police. Vigil ance versus shoplifters, though, U a contest in which the store thieves are invariably brought to grief. As a woman leading a little girl pass ed from counter to counter in a Sixth avenue store one day last week another woman closely followed and never took her eyes off her. The woman with the little girl walked and talked rapidly. They asked for nothing; their eyes sought much. Their stops at various counters seldom lasted more than a second. When they had reached the jewelry department, their pace slack ened. As they passed a counter where a sale of gold mounted combs was in progress the woman's arm flew out from Ivncath a black capo and hack again. With the arm on its return trip had gone one of the most handsomo and expensive combs. On tho woman and the little girl passed until they came opposite a tray of earrings. The clerk was about to re turn the tray to its case, "What pretty stones, mammal" ex claimed the child. "Yes, my dear," responded the wom an, "but wo won't look at them today. " "Oil, yes. Let's stop. You know you promised to buy mo 6omo earrings for my birthday." "I know, but your birthday is still far away." - "Why, mamma, you know that it is next Tuesday." "My goodness! The child tells tho truth. How time does fly 1 Well, we'll look at them, but I'll not promise you to buy them today. " Then begins the examination of chil dren's earrings. Mother and daughter look at them critically they admiro most of them. This goes on for several minutes, tho mother protesting to the child that the purchaso should not bo made today. Diamond earrings of all sizes are in the tray. A customer steps up to make an in quiry. The clerk turns her eyes for an instant toward her questioner. One of tho largest of tho diamond earrings gives a flash and is goua The little girl comes between her mother and tho counter. "When tho customer is gone, tho little girl has two small earrings in her hand and says : "Won't you get mamma to buy mo this pair?" While the clerk smiles nnd tho moth er is saying they will call again in a day or two tho largo diamond earring is being fastened inside the cape. Tho mother thanks the clerk, T then they hurry from the store. . j ; They aro scarcely out on tho sidewalk beforu a command is whispered in the woman's ear: "Return that stolen property." Tho girl takes to her heels. A man follows and catches her. Tho woman calls it an outrage. She protests; says she'll make them pay for tho insult. v She grows hysterical. They lead the two back to a side door. They tako them into the searcher's room. Then the woman detective carefully ex amines all their clothing. The child cries. The woman becomes silent She sees it's all up. What's the nse of go ing to tho trouble of making another scene? The child is 12 years old and has been bat a week under instruction. Be ing arrested is new to her. A society takes the child. Her teacher in crime, the woman who posed as her mother, is held for trial. This is but a sample case. In the same store last week there were 15 ar rests for shoplifting. Those of the pris oners who had never been in such scrapes before were released. This par ticular store trios to avoid the courts as much as possible. One woman who was arrested wore a shoplifter's skirt This skirt consists chiefly of pockets. There are pockets of all widths and depths. This 6kirt is usually worn as an underskirt An opening is provided in tho overskirt, through which the pocket filled skirt is easily accessible. In the concealed pockets of the wom an mentioned wcro found two pieces of embroidery, several rolls of silk braid, six remnants of silk, several pieces of jewelry and a pair of shoes. Two of the store detectives, a man and a woman, had watched tho purloining of all these articles. It is tho rule of most stores that no shoplifters aro ta bo arrested until they reach tho street Scenes caused by ar rests nro very undesirablo in a placo of business. Besides this, thoso placed un der arrest in stores often mako tho de fense that they did not intend to take tho goods away they simply desired to examine them in a good light One shoplifter, arrested last week, and one on whom tho stolen goods were found, had six children at homo. Tho youngest was 0 months old. Tho wom an ' husband has a good business. He furnished bail for her. When tho pro prietors of tho storo learned that the woman had a 0-months-old child at home they withdrew tho complaint against her. Tho woman's husband said ho could not understand why she should wish to steal. Storo detectives deny that thero is any such thing as kleptomania. "Kleptomania is a mistaken notion, that some women have tliat storps aro easily victimized," is tho definition that tho detectives give, Now York Tele gram. A bar of lead cooled to about 300 de grees below zero, according to an ex pcriment of M. 1'ietet, gives out when struck a pure musicnl tone. DISASTROUS STOIIJIS. Four Men Killed In the Eat Damastt In YViitrouln and Michigan. New Ycrk, July 21. New Jersey and part of New York were swept by a storm which caused treat destruction to life and property. Four men wne struck by litjhtnlnqr and instantly kT.el und five other w.r badly Injured while seeking1 she'ter lrcm the storm ur.d;r a tree rear Hoontin, N. J. The dead aro: James Quick 27 years old, of B:ontcn; Jchn Ryszchyr.skl. 20 years old, of Ho bcken: Clarence Tod J. 14 years old, of Boonton; Jo'.m Va er.tlne, 3d years old, of Boonton. The men had been fishing from the bark of Beaver Tend, three mlle9 from Boonton. When the stcrm broke at 3 o clock the men fouriu sneiter under a large tre near the pond. The storm raged with frightful fury. The flashes of lightn ng were terr fy ns. When the storm was over passers-by discovered the frrms of nine men lying on the ground. Five of , them were uncon scious. The ethers were dead. Assist ance was summoned ar.d the Injured cared for. Milwaukee, July 21. A violent storrn swept over the northern part of the state, doing thousands of dollars' worth of damage. The full extent of the dis asters cannot be told as yet, because telegraph and telephone wires are down and It Is impossible to set definite news from the Btarm-ridden districts. . St. Cloud is reported to be half demolished and yachts are missing from Menomo nie. So far as known the fatalities have been few, the only loss of life be ing that of Frank Romeck, a farmer of Hewitt, who was killed when his barn was blown down. St. Joseph, Mich., July 21. One of the worst windstorms known In years vis ited this section of the country. Its direction was southwest, changing to southeast. It ruined thousands of dol lars' worth of fruit trees, loaded down with fruit, while the berries, which have not been gathered the past week because the farmers were unable to get help, were beaten to the ground. It Is estimated 100,000 cases of berries along the lake shore were lost, while the fruits suffered equally. Reports from various points throughout the country show grain has suffered severely. It Is estimated the grain loss will be greater than on fruit. Killed by an Illinois Man. Ashevllle, N. C, July 21. R. W. Tay lor, proprietor of the Oaks hotel, was killed by John Corey of Decatur, Ills. Corey, who was the guest of the hotel, took the part of the clerk In a dispute over a bill. This angered Taylor, and in the quarrel which ensued he was killed. HOTEL ARRIVALS. THE ARLINQTON HOTEL. MERZ k muir, mors. O. C. Smith. O. Hart, F. O. Blackman, Charles Poor, M. Abrabtu, Ed Fry. II, GrosMe, Chicago; U.S. Lawrence. West Hay City; D. II. Servoso, Mackinaw; Willi Peak and wife, F. P. Uokes, De troit; W.J. Patterson, It. Shelden and on. Houghton: Hugh Wasbitt, Baraga; D P. Baldwin. Marquette; L P. Oilman, Warsaw, Wis,; Peter Rossi, Broidwood, III.; W. A. 8trenen Renter, Milwaukee; J. C. Martin, St. Paul; F. M. Gardner, Charles Pratt, Grand Rapide; Sonford M. Cobeo, Milwaukee. THE CALUMET HOUSE. JCD P. NOKTH, PROP. L. H. Cheney, Milwaukee; T. R. Leslie, Doiutb; W. C. Monroe, Detroit; T. B. Maber, Chicago; James McKeeves. liOIHAH SlKETirSGtS. The regular meeting: of Calumet En campment, No. 77, 1. O. 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