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MINNEAPOLIS. OFFICE ii~, SOUTH FOURTH STREET. f t MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES. Johanna Cramslie has been adjudged in sane in the probate court and committed to St. Peter. The Bank of Minneapolis Wednesday paid the state its deposit of $15,G14.5S and $58.29 Interest. The Young Men's Democratic club will meet next Monday evening to arrange for meet ings and entertainment for the coming winter. A meeting of Clan Gordon members will be held next Thursday evening to make arrange ments for the proper observance of Hallow'een the great day for the Scotchmen, second only to Bobby Burns" birthday. Darwin Bacon, 35 years old, disappeared from his home. Twenty-sixth avenue north east. Monday, and his relatives are anxious regarding him. He is 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, light complexioned and smooth face. The police have been requested to appre hend George Maiwaring, 14 years old, and Merwin Whipple, the same age, should thoy turn up In this city. They ran away from their homes in West Superior and boarded i Great Northern train for this city. William Baxter was arraigned in the po lice court yesterday morning charged with the larceny of $50 from Charles Tyler, the colored gambler. It is said that the skeleton key used to gain entrance was found on Baxter's person. Baxter's examination ■will take place Sept. 21, pending which he was held in $300 bail. The grand jury reported to Judge Elliott yesterday afternoon and returned a large batch of indictments and a few no-bills, the first fruits of its investigations. Yesterday it took up the case of Charles Nelson and James Burns, accused of burglary in the third degree, and a number of firemen from engine house No. 19 were called as witnesses. The formal decree of distribution of the MfNair estate was filed in the probate court yesterday morning. By it Mrs. McNalr Is given the home on Linden avenue, together ■with all the personal effects appertaining to it. A large portion of the property is divided between the three heirs, but there still re mains a large quantity of property which is allotted to the heirs in "undivided one thirds.". THEY WEDDED AT HUDSON. 3: is* Rutherford Must Have Mnde a Trip April 2. The latest development in the Rutherford case is that the Hudson wedding took place some two weeks earlier than has been re ported. All the statements heretofore made were to the effect that the marriage was on May 6, or possibly a day or so later. A search in the reeorofe at Hudson shows that the wedding was on April 24. In supplying the facts required under the Wisconsin law, Morris gave the name of Philip M. Lootz, and said that he resided In Stillwater and was a bookkeeper. He represented himself to have been born in Sweden and said that his father's name was John P. Lootz. His young wife's name was given as Florence Alice Kutherford and Stillwater was named as her birthplace. The certificate of marriage was filled out in full and regular form by Rev. Charles T. Burnley, pastor of the Presbyter ian church of Hudson. This seems to indicate that Miss Ruther ford must have made a trip to Hudson be fore the date at which she finally left with Morris. Or else all the statements previously made were minstaken as to the date. TWO UNDER WHEELS. Railway Employes Run Down and j Injured. Thomas Conroy, aged fifty years, a mar ried man, residing at 1214 Sixth street south, was struck by a switch engine while walk- Ing along the Milwaukee tracks near the Washington avenue vinduct yesterday. The engine was moving slowly, and for that reason Conroy escaped serious injury. He j was painfully bruised about the body. He ■was taken home. Thomas Fitzgerald, aged seventy years, re siding at 760 De Soto street, St. Paul, was run down by a switch engine while working , on a side track in the Omaha yards, at Eighth avenue southeast, yesterday. He was j seriously and perhaps fatally injured. His j right hand was entirely severed from the , arm at the wrist, his head was badly cut i and he was painfully bruised about the body. Owing to deafness he did not notice the approach of the engine. He was taken to the St. Louis depot on the engine and was then removed to St. j Mary's hospital. He lost considerable blood j and "owing to his advanced age death may, result. He is a married man with a family. Struck Him With n Hammer. John McGinnis, the heavyweight watchman j for a large South side concern, was fined $25 or thirty days in the municipal court ! Wednesday for assaulting Joseph Dalsan, an . aged man, thin and small in stature. Me- Ginnis claimed that he had repeatedly warned the old man to keep off the premises, j and that when he encountered him on his | beat recently the plaintiff picked up a rock as if to strike him. In self-defense McGln- I nis claims, he struck Dalsen repeatedly with , a hammer, rendering him unconscious. The j evidence tended to show that the assau.t was entirely unprovoked, and that Dalsen was assaulted when least expecting it. Three YouiijA Runaways. The police have been asked to be on the j watch for 19-year-old Nicholas Ostadt, of ! Parker's lake, 15 miles from Minneapolis, ; who ran away from home Wednesday. He is thought to" have come to this city. Roy Douglas, aged 15 years, living with his pa rents at SOS Eleventh street south, ran away from home Wednesday because he was forced to go to school. His father has asked the police to look him up. George Kellog, 12 years of age whose family lives at 320 Ninth street southeast, is the third boy who caught the runaway fever Wednesday. His parents missed him at the supper hour. Cnt Green Timber. The Indians who testified in the logging I oases stood by Attorney Stryker with a j loyalty that was touching. They one and all testified that they had cut green timber for the lumbermen and lots of it, too. Some said that 90 trees out of 100 were green. Chief No-din-nah-quam himself, John Mesha-quad and George Reez testified to cutting green timber while in the employment of the de- Jendams. Lewis S. Card, a logging camp bookkeeper, who was the last witness ex- j amined yesterday, testified ' that in his j neighborhood 75 per cent of the timber cut i was green. Other witnesses examined j were Charles S. Hilldreth and Walter O. i Goodwin. Will Go on the Junket. Mayor Pratt. President Loye, of the city | council, and Aid. Rand, of the Sixth ward, have decided to represent the city at the national conference of mayors and council men to be held Sept. 2fi-30 at Columbus. O. It is understood that the board of tax levy, which was to have met Sept. 2S, will wait until the mayor's return before convening, owing to his desire to have a hand in fixing the tax levy. Oftedsl on the Stand. In the Augsburg Seminary case before Judge Russell. Sven Oftedal was on the stand all day for cross-examination under the statute. It was an effort on the part of the plaintiffs to obtain evidence as to the meetings and doings of the directors of Augsburg, to be used in their behalf. While an unwilling wit less at this time, the plaintiffs claim that they have secured many pointers which will be of ralue to them in establishing their case. Think the Price Too High. As a result of the action of the county Eommlssion in raising the price of board for city boarders at the poor farm, there is a plan being agitated for the maintenance of i poor farm by the city on its own behalf. I'he board of corrections and charities claims that it will cost the city $10,000 to maintain the poor for the next year, and they think It can be done for much less. Charged "With Highway Robbery. Eugene Blanon, John S. Mitchell and Wins Wood, the colored men held for an assault upon Henry Klar. in the Milwaukee yards some time ago, were arraigned yesterday upon an indictment charging them with highway robbery. They pleaded not guilty md were held in bonds of $2,000 each. ■•»- That House Warmings At Walker, Minn., on the shores of beautiful Leech Lake, ought to attract a good size crowd. A newly opened hotel in a new and picturesque locality always conduces to a pleasant time. Fifching, boating and rambling in the pine woods are accompanying pleas ure" Special $5.00 round trip rate, via Northern Pacific and Brainerd & Northern Minnesota railway only. Tickets sold Sept. 17, only. Good for return until Sept. 20. Northern Pacific ticket offices, 19 Nicollet House Block, Minneapolis, 162 East Third street, St. Paul. _________^_^— — For Delicacy, for parity, and for improvement of the com nlexion nothing equals Pozzoni'3 Powder. OflE PREENS LIFE BODY OF EDWARD DU FRESNE, OF ESCAXABA, MICH., TAKEN FROM, THE RIVER. MISSINtf MORE THAN A WEEK. ' ! EVIDENT THAT HE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN A FIT OF DESPONDENCY. GERMAN BAPTISTS AT WORK. They Elect Officers and Hear Re ports—News of the Mill City. The body of Edward Dv Fresne, of Esca naba, Mich., was found in the Mississippi river yesterday, and all indications point to suicide. Early yesterday afternoon while Burdelle Frost, an employe for McMillan Bros., was driving logs beneath the Northern Pacific railroad bridge, near East Island, he saw a floater in the river, and managed to secure it and draw it to shore. It proved to be the body of a man weighing about 200 pounds and about 30 years of age. He called Officers Chamberlain and Sullivan and turned the body over to them. They notified the coroner, who ordered It removed to the coun ty morgue. A post mortem was held, and letters and papers upon the person of the de ceased proved him to be Edward Dv Fresne, of Escanaba, Mich., aged 32 years, and stat ing that he was employed by the College Fuel and Lumber company. A telegram was at once sent to his home and a reply was received from his father-in law, H. Selba, requesting that the body be shipped at once to Escanaba. It was after wards discovered that the dead man had left a check for $100 and a fine gold watch at Anderson & Sandberg's, 209 Nicollet ave nue, Sept. 7, and had never returned to cIP-im them. Mr. Sandberg said last night that from the way the man talked he thought he must have had some domestic trouble. Dv Fresne acted moody and despondent, says Sandberg, but gave no indications of con templating self-extinction. So far as could be learned no one saw him after Sept. 7, whe l he left his valuables with Anderson ■ and Sandberg. It is conjectured that he at once took his life. The body had been in the water a long time and was badly decomposed. The remains will be shipped to his home this morning. BAPTISTS MADE REPORTS. German Society Is Shown to Be in a Flour it-thing- Condition. The first business session n * the annual conference of the German Baptists of the Northwest was held at the First German Baptist church, Lyndale and Twentieth avenues north, at 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing. The attendance was fair, and included many local Baptists, as well as delegates to the conference from outside the city. The conference embraces Wisconsin, .Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, Southeast ern lowa, and the British Northwest. Dele gates from all of the points named are precs ent. The session commenced with an hour's devotional exercises, conducted by Rev. Kludt, of North Dakota, after which the matter of organization was brought before the meeting. The election of officers, to serve during the ensuing year, resulted as follows: Modera tor, Rev. J. Scholz, Tyndall, S. D. ; vice pres ident, Rev. J. Jaegar, St. Paul; secretary, W. J. Zirbes, Sheboygan, Wis. ; assistant sec retary, F. Raise/, Milwaukee. This feature of the business disposed of, the conference listened to reports from various churches and conferences. The read ing of these consumed so much time that nothing more was accomplished before noon, at which time the body adjourned for dinner. At the afternoon session delegates from the different states of the Union and British provinces read reports showing the condition of the church in their respective communi ties. The reports were encouraging to the conference, snowing that aggressive work is being done among the adherents of the church, and that its financial resources are increasing. It was shown that the number of baptisms in the conference for the year just e!o'3ed was double that of the previous year. There are not as many delegates in attendance as it was expected there would be, but what the meeting lacks in numbers is made up for in earnestness and enthusiasm, and those who are participating in the meetings feel much encouraged over the outlook. After the reading of the papers the meet- Ings was addressed by Dr. O. A. Williams, district secretary of the Baptist Home Mis sion society, E. R. Pope, secretary of the Baptist &tate convention and superintendent of missions: Rev. D. Roester, of Wisconsin; Rev. G. Herde, of Iowa; Rev. F. Heinemann, of Minnesota; Rev. J. Heiehert, of North Da kota; Rev. A. Liebig, of South Dakota, and Rev. W. H. Mueller, of Manitoba, all of whom spoke along the line of state work. The addresses were followed by the reading of the report of the secretary of missions of the conference, after which the meeting ad journed until 7:30 o'clock in the evening, when the delegates listened to a sermon by Rev. A. Liebie. INDORSES PROF. ANDREWS. In Doing: So a Free Silver Man Airs His Views. To the Editor of the Globe. Noting your comments on Prof. Andrews' letter to the corporation of Brown college, I please allow me, a free silver man, a few lints in your valuable paper to fully indorse President Andrews' letter, as I believe every intelligent free silver man can, and at the same time to enlighten the readers of your paper somewhat along this line. Query First —No true silver man for one minute intends to pay our national debt or any other debt with money worth one whit less than the money was worth when the debt was con tracted, and I believe there has been no change in the mint regulations of our coin- I age of go.d since the war, when the debt I was contracted: we desire silver put back I alongside of gold, where it was at that time, with the same privileges it had then, an 3 it will have the same value it had then. We j do object to paying our national debt with gold dollars at an appreciated value in the world of commerce over their value at .the j time the debt was contracted, because of the | demonetization of silver by this country; we !go further, and W. J. Bryan has often i maintained on the public platform and in I private letters, that all contracts now made payable in gold shall be paid in gold; but ; we" maintain that no law shall remain on ! our statute books that will permit any in dividual or corporation to specify in any agreement the payment of any debt In any particular one of our many legal tender moneys, thus demonetizing or lessening the demand for any one, and producing an ap preciative value on any other one of our basal money. No silver man believes or de ' sires that this country shall be placed on a silver basis any more than they desire it placed on a gold basis. In this we all agree ; with President Andrews, and, with him. be j lieve it possible to maintain the parity in this country alone, and also with him desire the co-operation of all leading nations of the world, but do not balieve it absolutely neees : Bary fur their co-operation by any means. i And with the coinage of silver on the same i principle of gold coinage, without any further I legislation, there would bs no speculation in i silver nor gold, and each or each of their ] representatives in paper would be legal pay ! ment for any and all debts, '"not otherwise contracted," and no further contracts should be made permitting a corner on any of our legal tender moneys. — H. A. Campbell. A DOCTOR OF HIS WORD. He Promised to Get a Subject and He Did, TliongH He Had to Shoot His 3l«ii. "There's one thing I have always admired about Dr. 8.," said Dr. \V., cne night last week. "Since I went to college with him back in the seven ties I have never known him to break his word. If he ever promised to do anything he would do it or break his nock rather than his word. He has the right material in him, and he showed it when a mere boy. The strongest proof of it is in what he did in 1876. There was a little group of close friends in our class at the medi cal school, and when we separated for the summer each man solemnly pledg ed himself to bring back a 'subject' when he returned in the fall. I prom ised with the rest, but failed, as did everybody in the class except Dr. B. We did not feel sheepish about the matter until he came, and not a word was said until we met that night, and he asked how many stiffs we had. Then he saw by our looks that we hud Jjot kept our wwort.d t . and he smiled. THE SAINT PAUI, GLOBE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1897. " 'Why, did you get one?' asked one of us. " 'Deed I did, and he's down stairs in a box.' " 'How did you get it?' asked several of us. " 'Shot it,' he said, in a matter of fact- way. "Then he told us all about it. He said that he was at Northfield, Minn., on Sept. 7, when the Younger gang raided the town to rob the bank, and that he was in the second story of a friend's house near the bank when he heard somebody shout, 'They're robbing the bank!' He ran to the window and saw three or four men on horses s.nd another on foot firing pis tols in every direction, and an instant later a bullet smashed through a pane of glass just over his head. He ran to his friend's room and got a Winchester rifle and shot one of the robbers off his horse. Almost the instant he fired a bullet came back at him and splin tered the frame of the window. When he looked again there were two men down in the street, and he made up his mind that one of them was his meat. "The robbers had fled and the street was deserted. The body lay almost in front of the house, and he went out and dragged it in. How he managed the rest he would not tell, but I know that he brought a body to the college, and that it was perforated by a rifle ball. After that he could have any thing that was going at that school."— New York Sun. KLONDIKERS DRIVEN BACK. Thirty Give Up tli© Attempt to Reach the Goltl Fields. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 16.— The steamer Garrallton arrived this morn ing from Skaguay and Dyea with thir ty passengers who have given up the attempt to reach the Yukon gold fields this winter. C. G. Shaw, representing an English syndicate, accompanied by a party of seven, took passage on the , Carrallton from Fort Wrangle, and are in Seattle. Mr. Shaw has been prospecting the divide between Cassier and the headwaters of the Yukon emptying into Teslin lake. He reports the existence of large quartz ledges of the same grade as the Treadwell, but they cannot be worked with profit on account of not being able to get ma chinery. Mr. Shaw says that the dif ficulties will be overcome by the con struction of the Cassiar Central & Teslin Lake road, which is now being surveyed by the Canadian government on the Stockton river. Mr. Shaw believes that Fort Wrangle will be the point of departure for the goods and machinery that will be sent into that part of the country. He in tends sending in an outfit of twenty men via Wrangle, the Stockton river and Teslin lake next spring with in structions to prospect the more remote districts of the headwaters of the Yn kcn immediately adjacent to the old Cassair gold diggings. The placers on this divide have undoubtedly derived their gold from quartz reefs in the immediate vicinity, as Shaw had in his possession a quantity of placer gold which is quite unworn and full of quartz. The purser of the Carrailton says there is a scarcity of boats at Lake Bennett, and that they are bring ing upwards of $300. None of the re turning miners had heard anything of the reported lynching of alleged thieves on Skaguay trail by vigilantes. XO GRIB STAKES. Credit Hard to Get at Damon City Just Now. SALEM, Ore., Sept. 16.— A letter re ceived here from Frank Singleton, an employe of the American Trading and Transportation company, located at Fcrt Cudahy, sixty miles north of Pawson City, says hundreds around Dawson are already unable to secure grub stakes, supply companies refus ing: to give them credit for the coming winter. Singleton says the gold com missioner has arrived at the Bonanza creek district to which he has given the name Trondike, instead of Klon dike. Although there are plenty of king salmon from the river, the fish are selling at Dawson City at $10 each, one selling as high as $60. READY TO SIGN. Proposition of the Powers Accepted by Turkey. VIENNA, Sept. 16.— The Neve Freie Presse says it is reported in official circles that the sultan of Turkey and the council of min isters of the Ottoman empire have accepted the powers' conditions of peace with Greece, and that it is expected the preliminaries of the treaty will be signed on Friday next. UNIVERSAL Is the Complaint, and in Rare Cases It In Long' Continued. They were the center of attraction for a whole street car full of people, but they didn't know it, says the St. Louis Glebe-Democrat. They sat on the front seat of a Lindell car — a pair of country lovers. He was sitting in the most un comfortable position possible, trying to face squarely to the front— just as though nothing was wrong — and at the same time keep his arm on the back of the seat, so that she might lean against it. His arm was bent back so far at the shoulder that it looked to be dislocated, and it surely did seem out of place. The girl in the case was a pretty, confiding country girl of about eighteen. She carried her handkerchief in a little ball, clutched in her hand. Her dress was a fluffy creation with a wilderness of ruffle trimmings. Her hands were rather large, and red, evi dencing the soap and water of a recent wash-day. The lover had on an upper case coat, a lower case vest, and a pair of wrong font pants, but they were "good stuff" and would "wear well." and that was what his pa bought them for. The lovers didn't say a word. Every body in the car was waiting for them to talk, but not so. He held her hand; she looked into his eyes; he blushel and grinned and she tittered. That made a whole volume of talk to them, and nobody could understand it fully but them. The conductor came and the swain worked the combination on a buckskin purse and got out a dollar. While he waited for change he grinned at her, and after he got it he grinned again. She tittered each time. "Union Station:" yelled the conductor. The swain unwound his arm from its clasp on exquisite bliss, but held onto the girl's hand. He led her out of the car with pride showing in every feature and every awkward movement. "Gumsuckers from Podunk," remark ed a smart young chap. "That's all right," remarked a pros perous-looking old man, turning around in his seat. "I was down myself with the same complaint that boy has once, and I ain't over it yet." Then the matronly old lady in spec tacles beside him blushed as she looked up at him. -**» Uncle Allen. "We have some kind of calamity shrieker with us all the time," sighed Uncle Allen Sparks. "Just as soon as the wail about hard times begins to stop and things look a little cheerful, here comes the katydid predicting an early frost.'"— Chicago Tribune. _ -»» Knew His Ways. "Why do you say that we are perfectly safe If we elope on a railroad train?" "Because papa won't pursue us until he can get a pass."— Chicago Record. Explainable. "Those people next door must be queer." '•Why?" "They've lived there more than a month, and I've never seen the postman stop at their house." "Oh. we.], maybe the man prefers to have the bills sent to his office."— DetlKt News. AR]iED WITH . CMBS THE PEACE WHICH HAS PRE VAILED AT HAZAET&N BROKEN BY STRtKfifttS. • t.u n« HUNGARIANS J3RJVEN OUT. TROUBLE THE DIRECT RESULT OF AN EFFORT JTO PRESUME WORK.) ;.; vr MINERS ARE TO BE" ORGANIZED. c ja 1 Cause of the Men Taken In Hand by the American -Federation of L:tlMor.<> HAZLETON, Pa., Bept. 17.— A mes sage came to headquarters at nearly 2 o'clock this morning from Cranberry, that a body of strikers were breaking into the powder house of Edward Turnbach. Request was made for. a detachment of troops. The night watchman at the power house was one of the deputy sheriffs. HAZLETON, Pa., Sept. 16. — The American Federation of Labor has taken up the cause of the mine work ers in this region. Their organizers are already at work here, and when this has been completed a uniform scale will be formulated and present ed to the operators. There will be no marching or anything in the nature of a demonstration, and no attempt will be made to bring about sympa thetic strike movements. The pease prevailing during the past few days was broken today by a con flict between striking and working miners, which for a time threatened to be serious. A body of about 100 men and boys, led by a score or more of women, made a raid on the Carson, Star and Monarch collieries at Honey brook, near Audenried. The women, as well as their followers, were armed with clubs and stones, fend before the 300 workers could be induced to come out the missiles were used. Some of the women stationed themselves on the top of a calm bank and pelted the workingmen with stones. One Hun garian was clubbed over the head and badly injured. The encounter was the direct result of an attempt to start up the Lehigh & Wilkes barre collieries. Despite the determination to remain until Superintendent Lawall was heard from regarding the JO. per cent advance demanded, a number of Hungarians and Ital ians reported for work this morning. As soon as this news reached Bunker Hill and Honey brook, the attack was made, each colliery be ing visited In turn. ASKED FOR AID. The superintendent called for assistance of Sheriff Scott, of Schuylkill ' county, in which county Iloneybrook lies, that official made a demand on Gen. Gobin for a body of soldiers. A battalion of the Eighth regi ment, under Col. MaGee, hurriedly marched from their Audenried camp to the scene of the trouble, but it was over and the men scattered when the soldiers reaehid there. Col. MaGee received a report of the occur rence and made a demonstration with the idea of subduing the turbulent inclinations of the foreigners. The march proceeded through Honeybrook, Bunker Hill and Mc- Adoo. Here the troops were halted, while the officers made a short reconnoitre toward Silver Brook. Nothing of a suspicious char acter was seen, however, and the troops were marched back to camp. . The soldiers had not been out of sight ten minutes before a crowd of strikers pounced upon a squad of Hungarians, who were screening coal near the : Star washory, and forced them to quit work. This second movement resulted in the sending of a squadron of the governor's troops to the disturbed district this afternoon. They re turned at 6 o'clock, with the report that all was quiet. , . Honeybrook being beyond the jurisdiction of Luzerne county. Sheriff Scott this after noon made a requisition on Gov. Hastings for a body of troops to be stationed there permanently. The executive answer had not yet come this evening. Another attempt to resume work will be made at these collieries tomorrow. Col. Magee, of the Eighth regi ment, reported the appearance of a blood stained Hungarian rushing pell-mell towards the guard line early tMs morning with four men in close pursuit. Tae latter seeing the white tents of the camp looming up. fled. The injured Hungarian, whose name is John Timke. was carried to tire camp hospital. Col MaGee further said that he had placed a guard of 100 men at the pumping station which supplies his regiment with water, and has sentinels stationed along the pipe line which carried it. A similar precaution has been observed at Lattimer and other points. There was no material change today in the situation of the strike beyond that already mentioned. iAmEAfITMOVIN^ All Previous Recorrtn Bettered Thin Year at Portland. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 16.— The wheat crop of 1597 is moving seaward at a rate that is breaking all previous records. Within the past seven days five cargoes, totaling 481,437 bushels, valued at $431,512, have cleared from Portland and are now on the way to Fngland. A cargo of flour cleared for the Orient included 19,188 barrels, val ued at $78,830, brings the value of wheat products for the week up to ever $500,000. Reports that have bevn coming from the grain districts north of Snake river this week have been of a very discouraging -nature, and it is feared that all prospects of a record breaking crop in that section have vanished. Instead of the damage by rain being slight, in many places it has ruined from one-third to one-half of the crop. -*» — ■ — TROUBLE EXPECTED. Tliree Troops of Cavalry to Arrest Indian Chiefs. SANTA FE, N. M.. Sept. 16.— Under orders from the Indian office, Capt. Nordstrom, United States agent in charge of the Pueblos, left for Zuni to assist Sheriff Sanchez in arresting 1 the big chiefs accused of attempting to murder an alleged Zuni witch Three troops of cavalry are awaiting at Zuni the arrival of the agent and the sheriff. Trouble is feared at Zuni, when the arrests are made, as this is the season of the Pueblos' annual har vest dance. Strnek hy Lislitninff. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16.— A special to th? Globe- Democrat from Gonzales, Mex.. says: Five i Mexicans were seriously injured by a bolt I of lightning, on the farm of W. R. Houston, four miles below here; "during a severe thund er storm. Three men, ■& woman, and a child were picking cotton, and . when the storm i came up, took shelter under a tree. Light j nicg struck the tree and rendered them all j unconscious. The woman and child are badly ! burned and may die. o Postmaster ' Sustained. CHICAGO, Sept. 16.^-In .'the federal court today, Judge Jenkins ' sustained Postmaster Gordon in his removal of Superintendent Carr, of the Englewodd branch of the post office, known as Station *?C," and dissolved the injunction secured by Carr. Judge Jenkins took a similar position to that of Judge Cox, of the district court of Columbia, in the Wood case, which was decided a day or two ago. ~^m ! Iron Hitflter. CLEVELAND. 0., Sept., 16.— During the present week there has been an advance of 50 cents a ton in bessemer pig iron, making the price $10 a ton. No big sales at that price are recorded, but the market is firm at the new quotation. m To Keep Frost From Shop Windows. Shopkeepers often find their fine display of goods hidden from the public eye by the WOODBURY'S FACI^v oAP frost forming on the Inside of the panes. A simple remedy for this, is a thin coat of pure glycerine applied to the glass. This will pre vent any moisture forming thereon and last until go much dust collects upon It as to make the window cloudy. Surveyors use it with advantage on their instruments in frosty or foggy weather. In fact, it can be used to prevent moisture forming upon anything, and engine drivers find it particularly useful to keep their windows clear from steam as well as cold or moisture. INSURANCE AN INVESTMENT, Says Secretary De Boer, Addressing: the National Underwriters. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 16.— 1t was 10:45 o'clock when the first session of the second day's convention of the National Association of Life Under writers was called to order. President Hendrick at once introduced J. A. De Boer, secretary and actuary of the Na tional Life Insurance company, of New Hampshire. Mr. Boer addressed the convention on "The Relation of Public Opinion to Life Insurance." He said, in part, that life insurance had got beyond the stage of needing apol ogy from those who advocated it. and, it had become a matter requiring apology on the part of any respectable citizen who did not carry insurance on his life. The fair opinion of the public, won by the companies repre~ sented in this convention, for life insur ance, might be considered one of the most valuable assets of the life in surance companies. It should be guarded with the utmost care. He re ferred to editorial comments of some well-known papers of the business, and took occasion to score the great editors of the country for their ignorance on the subject. The address was largely devoted to the best lines of manage, mtnt, and the necessity of strictly hon est, fair and liberal methods, not only in selecting risks but in the manage ment of the funds and the general policy adopted. He believed that the life insurance business would stand the light of public investigation and come from the trial with public approval. The report of the executive commit tee on a resolution of W. H. Dyer, of Massachusetts, with regard to the ex punging of a part of Article 5, which provides for the reference of all mat ters of the executive committee before discussion, was read by the secretary. The committee reported unfavorably on the- resolution, and on motion the com mittee's report was adopted. This leaves the matter as it stood before Mr. Dyer's resolution. The treasurer's report shows total re ceipts, $1,635.29; disbursements, $979.19, leaving a balance on hand. $656.10. Simon Wolf, of Washington, D. C, who was to have read a paper at the afternoon session, was unable to be present on ac count of illness. His place on the pro gramme .was taken by Charles W. Pickell, of Detroit, Mich., who read an able paper on "Income and Disbursements in Life In surance." After Mr. Pickell's address the report of the executive committee was pre sented. It refers briefly to the death of Maj. Ben S. Calef, on Jan. 9, and Col. G. P. Haskell, on Aug. 6, of this year. The association is in a prosperous condition, the membership being 1,337, an increase of 115. The matter of finances is taken up, and it is shown there will be an estimated deficit of over $200. Expenses have increased, and the committee recommends that a larger income be provided on the basis of $25 dues yearly from each association and ?1 addi tional from each member. It also recom mends an increased membership at the con vention by adding one delegate for every twenty-five members of an association, which would be in addition to the five delegates now given each association, regardless of Its numerical condition. TO MAKE ROCK TRANSPARENT. Prof. Dwigrtat's Machine Can Slice the Hardest Flint to the Thinnest Layers. Prof. William B. Dwight, of Vassar college, has invented a machine that will slice rock so thin that it can be wsed for a window transparency. This feat is accomplished by means of a Eeries of thin disks with edges charged with diamond dust. The machine will cut fossils or rock of any description bo thin that any one may see through it as easily as through the glass in a window. To such a degree of nicety is the machine regulated that it will cut the most brittle rock to the thick ness of one-fiftieth of an inch. The object of the inventor was to contrive a machine which should be of assistance to the paleontologist in en abling him to distinguish the minor points of his objects of investigations, which, under former conditions, was impossible. One of the chief difficulties of the paleontologist has been his inability 10 study thoroughly the grain of the rock. It is often the case that the points of greatest value are not shown upon the rock's surface, and the geologist breaks it with his hammer. Now, the pale ontologist objects to cfcing anything of this sort, because he realizes that in so doing he may destroy a choice specimen. Therefore, a machine that permits him to saw off almost the thickness of a hair at a time, triples the opportunities of discovery and makes possible analysis of a rook specimen finer than those his fondest di earns imagined might one day be possible. It has long been known, also, that the beauties of various varieties of stone increased in proportion as their density was lessened. Therefore it is possible by means of the new machine to study the grain of rock which may perhaps prove prismatic in a manner never before supposed to be possible. The geologist knows exactly the rock formations which represent certain pe riods -in the earth's existence. The composition of rock is by no means the same. Each age has had its variation, and therefore this method which the machine makes possible of showing to the smallest degree the composition of the rock enables the geologist to trace its history beyond peradventure. Clothing; Didn't Count. Tn a recent discussion on improvements in the X ray apparatus, one of the speakers men tioned that he possessed a fluorescent screen measuring 6 feet by V-h. feet. It is intended to show the full length figure all at one view, and on an occasion when the apparatus was being inspected by a number of persons it was the means of creating an embarrassment al most beyond the power of words to describe. A lady having incautiously passed in the line of rays was displayed on the large screen, and as dress materials are very transparent to the rays her costume, of course, did not count for much in the picture.— Lancet. "Your wife is financially interested i n your business, is she?" "Yes." "A silent partner, I suppose?" "Well - er - that's what she calls her self." ATTACK Ofl DIAZ Continued From First Page. the question of the decline in silveer as affecting the finances of Mexico, the president says: "Unfortunately the present fiscal year does not begin un der as good auspices as the previous one, for the excessive weakness and fluctuations of silver, often sudden and violent in their character, have so in fluenced some sections of the country that It Is demanding the serious at tention of the government. ' All expen ses not absolutely necessary are being opposed or reduced. SILVER QUESTION. "The magnitude and sudden character of the present perturbation in silver certainly does not correspond to the known causes which have produced it, and therefore there are well-founded motives for expecting that the factors, more or less artificial, which may have had an influence in the decline of siU ver, will be of short duration and may even soon bring about a favorable re action. There is not therefore, for the present, any serious reason for alarm. The nation will be able to pass through this difficult period confronting it with the same serenity which, it displayed a few years ago when the same causes produced alarm." NEWSBOY MILLIONAIRE. London to See the Denouement of a Pretty Romance of the West and South. The romance of the "Copper King of Colorado and its approaching happy ending at St. Dunstan's, in Fleet street, is the thing of particular interest to American society in London at the present moment. The "Copper King" is Mr. John Mc- Donough, the president fo the John McDonough Security company, of Den ver, head of such a splendid property as the Gholson Copper company, an! principal member of the company work ing the mother vein at Clear Creek. Col., adjoining the famous Stanley mine, from which gold, silver and cop per to the value of $3,000,000 have been taken. The bride, who is expected to arrive in England directly, on the steamer Mobile, of the Atlantic Trans port line, is Miss Margaret Dare, a young lady who has succeeded In mak ing a name for herself in literature In New York, writing over the norn de plume of Richard Dare. She is a New- Orleans girl, and comes from an old and distinguished Creole family. That Miss Dare Is a beautiful young woman goes without saying. How Miss Dare and Mr. McDonough met, fell In love, were engaged to be married, sep arated and came together again would make far more interesting reading than most novels. A number of prominent Americans with some well-known English guest.? are to accompany Mr. McDonough when he goes down to meet his brido at Tilbury, which he will do on a specially chartered boat as soon as the Mobile is signalled today or to morrow. Mr. McDonough is a Liverpool En glishman by birth. He went to Amer ica as a lad, and his first experience of life on the other side of 'the Atlantic was gained in selling papers about the streets of New York. He was bright and energetic, and rose steadily, finally going to Albany and Troy, in New York state, and securing control of a small library which he soon developed into a publishing house that gained a decided reputation in the western part of the state. It was at Troy, when he had dis tanced a number of rivals in the book selling business, that Mr. McDonough met Miss Dare. This was a little over five years ago. Everything went well for a time. But the course of true love did not run smoothly. The McDonough establishment was sold, the local so ciety was disappointed of a splendid wedding it had anticipated for nearly a year, and Mr. McDonough left Troy with a heavy heart. The young American-Englishman went straight to Colorado, and tried to forget the lovely Southerner. Perhaps it was with the desperation of disap pointed love that he started in to rival the famous W. S. Stratton, who, in beginning life in Denver, in 1892, had only the "grub stake' Bret Harte tells about, but at present counts his fortune In millions. McDonough got mto the real estate business in Denver, made money fast, organized the First Na tional bank, of Colorado, of which he Is still the president, became director of the Commonwealth Savings bank, and then started in to buy up prospectors' claims in mines that had proved good. He went in for copper when almost everybody was seeking only silver and gold.' and the event proved the wisdom of his judgment. Mr. McDonough, making copper his specialty, in this way organized syndi cate after syndicate to operate the mines he secured. One of these mines, in Custer county, Col., is now paying good dividends on over $2,000,000. The Gholson mine is an immense deposit of native copper, such as have heretofore only been found in the state of Mich igan. When the copper mines were In such a highly remunerative condition Mr. MoDonough, who had all along kept a close watch on the movement of Miss Dare, again laid active siege to that young lady's affections. She had al lowed no other suitor to take his place in her heart, and her reply to him was ► a promise to come to London to be married. Only Relatively. "You want too big a pront." grumbled the customer "Seventy-five dollars is a high price for a mere riding plaything." "We have them cheaper, of course." said the bicwle dealer, anxious to please. "Up in the garret thrre is an old-fashioned high wheel', and out in the yard at the back of the shop I have a horse. Both are in fair condition, and you can have either for ?2..")0." —Chicago Tribune. A Street Grab In 1920. Mr. Wheeler (reading the paper)— Goodness! There's another outrage! i-rs. Wheeler— What is it? Mr. Wheeler— Why, the aldermen have passed a resolution permitting pedestrians to use six more streets, and they won't have to pay the public a cent for the privilege!— Puck. A SILEX T PARTNER. WFAfc" LAME WEI/\IV, BACK! WHAT IT fIEANS. Do you suffer from if*? Do you know its cause? It generally means a great deal, and should not be neglected. Plasters and medi cines hardly ever cure it, but electricity, properly applied, is a positive remedy, as our thousands of cures tn this city testify. I have just issued a neat little book which every sufferer from Lame Back should read. It explains the many causes and effects of this annoying weakness, and a rational, positive cure by my wonderful Electric Belt, For WEAK MEN. IF POSSIBLE, CALL AND EXAMINE MY FAMOUS BODY BATTERY IN FORM OF A BELT, OR ADDRESS FOR PAMPH LET, "THREE CLASSES OF MEN." DR. A.T. BANDEN 835 Mcollet Av.,Cor. Washington, Minneapolis, nnrx. Office Hours — 9 a. ni. to 6p. m. CALSE OF THE AVAR. Explanation of the Present Conflict Between Turkey and Greece. The real cause of the trouble between Greece and Turkey is the determina tion of the czar to crush the sultan and add the Ottoman empire to Russia, says the Chicago Record. The apparent cause, however, is the interference of Greece in the domestic affairs of Crete, which is a province of Turkey, and may be described as the Cuba of the Med iterranean. Last year the massacres in Armenia were incited by Russian intrigue, with the expectation that they would end in the dissolution of Turkey, but the sul tan conducted himself with such skill and diplomacy that he was able to crawl out of the trouble. He saved him self from punishment by "bluffing" all the rest of Europe. The revolution in Crete is believed by diplomatists to have originated in a similar manner, with the same motives, for the same object, and Greece is supposed to be the decoy which Russia is using to involve Turkey in a war in which sooner or later the czar will take a hand. For many centuries Crete was a part of Greece. The inhabitants are mostly of Grecian ancestry. They belong to the Greek Catholic church, of which the czar is the recognized head, as the pope is the head of the Roman Catholic church. They have been in a state of rebellion ever since Crete was annexed to Turkey. In 1868, after a war that lasted several years and was likely to exterminate the inhabitants and ruin the industries of the island, the great powers of Europe interfered and corn- Felled the sultan to give Cretans a form of home rule similar in some respects to that offered Cuba by the government of Spain, including a legislative assem bly elected by the people, and a Chris tian civil governor. But the laws adopted by the Cretan assembly have been usually vetoed by the sultan, and the military commandant, who has al ways been a Turk and a Mussulman, has continually usurped the authority of the civil governor, and has at tempted to control civil affairs. The other officials of the island, being 1 re sponsible only to the sultan, have out raged the people, so that the autonomy of Crete has *been only a pretense. The latest difficulty was over the management of finances. The sultan, being very hard up, persuaded the Turkish collector of taxes In Crete to divert about $500,000 of the proceeds of the tax on tobacco to the use of the Turkish government. The Cretans de manded the reimbursement of that sum. The sultan refused, and provoked an agitation throughout Crete which caused a continual collision between the citizens and the military guards, and resulted in an open rebellion of the Christians, which was encouraged and aided by Greece. Absolute autonomy was demanded by some, and annexa tion by others, and finally the Greek army was sent to the assistance of the rebels. Then the powers of Europe In tervened, Greece was forbidden to in terfere, but declined to obey, so that finally a collision recurred between the Greek and Turkish troops, and war was declared. ACRES OF PIGKONS. A Flock n Mile in Length and Two Ilimilreil Yards "XVlile. News was brought in by James Fletcher, a miner living near Round mountain, in the eastern part of Shas ta county, that a flock of wild pigeons had visited that neighborhood that lays in the shade anything in the wild pig eon line since the pioneer days of the middle West, when flocks came in such numbers as to darken the sun and to break the branches of the trees where they roosted, says a Redding, Cal., spe cial to the New York World. Fletcher says that last Thursday ho heard a whirring noise behind him like the rush of a coming storm of wind. Turning, he saw a flock of wild pigeons. The whirring noise was only a prelude to a great storm yet to come. For prob ably five minutes, he says, he stood dazed, watching the flight of the Liids that came by hundreds and thousands. He was so startled and so lost in won derment that he can give no adequate description of the size of the flock or make any estimate of the number. Standing alone in the little valley at the base of the mountains, he was tco much excited by the novel sight to take it in calmly, but he says that he thinks the flock must have been a mile in length and with a varying width of from 100 to 200 yards. The birds took possession of the grove and apparently every twig and limb of the trees, covering perhaps 160 acres of land, was a roosting place for birds which he could now readily recognize to be a variety of pigeons, though plain ly not the domestic paeons that abide in our barns. The .cooing and love makir.g'going on were enough to make his bachelor heart sick. The pigeons have evidently taken possession of the grove for a nesting and breeding place. Another Brute. Friend— ls your brother still the level-head ed, sensible follow he used to be? Henry Peck— Yes; he i 3 still a bachelor. — Puck. . 3