Iron County register. [volume], December 13, 1894, Image 2

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MISSOURI.
Ex-Gov. Leon J. Abbett, of New
Jersey, died in Jersey City, on "the 4th,
of catarrh of the stomach. -. ' ' ;
Chinese merchants engaged in the
shipping trade are transferring their
vessels to the protection of foreign
flags. '
Ox the 6th, a British squadron of
seven cruisers suddenly arrived at
Woo Sing-, a little to the north of
Shanghai. Some striking action on
their part was expected.
Daniel W. Connelly, member of the
forty-eighth congress, died in Scran
ton, Pa., on the 4th, aged 47 years
Death resulted from a stroke of paral
ysis which he sustained three weeks
before.
Secretary Herbert ordered the pay
ment, on the Cth, to the Cramps, of
Philadelphia, of $414,000, earned by the
cruiser Minneapolis as speed premium.
This is one of the largest premiums
ever paid.
M. Leon Say, in the discussion on
the budget in the French chamber, on
the 3d, expressed himself as opposed to
an income tax. M. Poincar proposed
that a personal progressive rebate tax
be imposed.
Failures for the week ended on the
7th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co.,
were: For the United States 385,
against 385 for the corresponding week
last year; and for Canada 40, against
-42 last year.
M. IIexri Houssaie, the French his
torian and critic, was, on the Cth,
elected a member of the Academie
Francaise. Emile Zola, who was also
a candidate for membership, did not
receive a single vote.
The cash balance in the treasury on
the 5th was 154,940,844; net gold, $111,
142,020. It is understood the entire
amount of gold called for under the
bids for the new bonds has been de
posited in the sub-treasury at New
York.
Mrs. Teddy Arthur, a well-known
woman on Hartz creek, in Lincoln
county, W. Va., was fatally shot, on
the 5th, by unknown parties. She was
going down the creek, when a bullet
struck her, and she died from hemor
rhage before she was discovered.
Ox the 6th Comptroller Eckels made
an assessment of 25 per cent, on the
stockholders of the National Shoe and
Leather bank of New York city to
make good the impairment of its cap
ital by the defalcation of Bookkeeper
Seeley, in conjunction with F. R. Ba
ker. A bill passed to the third reading in
the South Carolina legislature makes
intoxication and drunkenness and the
use of profane and obscene language
misdemeanors punishable by fine or
imprisonment. The use of an ordinary
profane word will cost 5 to S50 under
the law.
Some time ago several farmers liv
ing near Cushing, Okla., gave deputy
marshals information about the gang
of outlaws . that infest that region.
On the 6th four of the outlaws visited
the home of Cyrus King, one of the
farmers, shot him to death and burned
Iris property.
Thomas's crop reports, published in
the Cincinnati Price Current on the
5th, and which coincide in most par
ticulars with the government report,
make the acreage of winter wheat as
compared with last year, 101.9 per
cent., and the condition, as compared
with normal, 94.7 per cent.
W. E. Robertson, who was cashier
of a bank at Salida, CoL, and received
deposits when he knew the bank was
insolvent, was released from the prison
at Canon City, on the 4th, after ay ear's
sentence, and pleading guilty to four
other charges was immediately sent
back for another term of three years.
Ax application for the use of the
Cleveland (O.) Grays armory for a lec
ture to be given by Col. W. C P. Breck
inridge has been refused. "The armory
was engaged for that night," said Mr.
J. R. McGuigg, president of the board
of trustees, on the 7th, "but in any
event it would not have been rented to
Breckinridge."
David Joyce, the millionaire lum
berman of Lyons. Ia., died, on the 4th,
at Minneapolis, Minn., of paralysis,
aged nearly 70. He was connected
with twelve saw-mill plants in various
parts of the country, and had business
interests in twenty -two different local
ities in northern Iowa. The remains
were taken to Lyons for burial.
The president and directors of
Georgetown college, district of Colum
bia, issued a regulation, on the 4th,
adopted in faculty meeting, prohibit
ing the student from playing football
with teams, whether collegiate or
other, from outside the college, until
the character and rules of the game
shall have been radically modified.
TnoMAS E. Proctor, president of the
United States Leather Co., sometimes
called the Leather Trust, died in Bos
ton on the 7th. Mr. Proctor, the most
prominent man in the leather trade,
was about 60 years of age. and was
born in South Danvers (now Peabody),
Mass., in which town he received his
early education. He grew to be the
largest individual tenner in the coun
try. It was announced, on the 7th. that
eleven boxes of arms and ammunition
had been received at Thompson's,
Utah, shipped by Gov. West for use of
the settlers against the Indians in San
Juan county. Military men insist that
the Indians have a right to graze their
animals in southwest Utah, and that
soldiers will protect them in so doing.
"et tiers and cowboys, they say, have no
right in that country.
Every indication points to a vigor
ous attack in the house of representa
tives from the south and west upon the
recent bond sales of the treasury de
partment. On the 6th Gen. Hooker, of
Mississippi, introduced in the house a
bill repealing section 3 of the bill pro
viding for the resumption of specie
payments. This is the act under
which the late bond issues have been
made, and the object of the bill is to
revoke this power
HEWS AKD NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
ISecond Session-1
Is the senate, on tbe 3d. after the opening
formalities and routine business the presi
dent's message was received and read, its read
ing occupying two hours and five minutes.
After the reading resolutions on various sub
jects were offered, amonj? them on the alleged
Armenian outrages and the election of United
Stages senators by the people In the house
business was taken up with no more formal
ity than on ordinary meeting days. The presi
dent's message was read, after which the death
of Representative Wright, of Pennsylvania,
was announced and the hoase adjourned as a
mark of respect to his memory.
In the senate, on the 4th, Mr. Peffer intro
duced some half-dozen projects of legislation,
and Mr. Blanchard (dem.. La.) offered a reso
lution looking to the payment of the bounty on
the sugar crop of 1S94 under the terms of the
McKinley tariff act. Other resolutions were
offered, and the senate adjourned out of re
spect to the memory of the late Representative
Wright, of Pennsylvania In the house sev
eral bills were passed, among them one appro
priating 15.000 for the purchase of 3.000 acres
of land on which the battle of Shiloh was
fought, and to begin the construction of a na
tional park thereon.
Is the senate, on the 5th, Mr. Vest (dem..
Mo.) spoke In support of the cloture resolu
tion offered the day previous by him, confess
ing to a change of opinion on the subject of
unlimited debate. Mr. Peffer's resolution in
structing the judiciary committee to report as
to the legality of the recent issue of United
States bonds was agreed to In the house
a bill to prevent the free use of timber on the
public lands and to revoke all permits hereto
fore granted in certain states was passed. The
conference report on the bill to regulate the
printing and distribution of public documents
was agreed to, and the bill to permit railroad
companies to pool their business under regula
tions to be established by the interstate com
merce commission was taken up.
Is the senate, on the 6th, four bills were
passed, one appropriating $17,486 to reimburse
the Washington and Lee university at Lexing
ton, Va., for injuries done by United States
troops during the war, and another appropria
ting $20,000 for the dedication of Chickamauga
and Chattanooga national park, on the two bat
tlefields. September 19 and 20, 1895. Mr. Tur
pie (Ind.) spoke in favor of making senators
elective by the people of each state instead of
by the legislatures In the house Speaker
Crisp announced a number of committee re
movals and assignments. The pension and
fortifications appropriation bills were reported,
after which debate on the bill to so amend the
interstate commerce law as to permit of pool
ing by railroads was resumed and occupied the
remainder of the session.
cTbe senate was not in session on the 7th
In the house the greater portion of the session
was taken up with the continued discussion of
the bill to so amend the interstate commerce
act as to permit railroad companies to pool
their earnings. A resolution was passed dis
tributing the president's message among the
several appropriate committees. A bill to pro
tect the public forest reservations was dis
cussed for an hour, but no conclusion was
reached.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL-
Bids were opened at the post office
department in Washington, on the 5th,
for the mail contracts for star and
steamboat service in the states of Ohio,
Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota. Iowa and Missouri. A large
number of bids had been received, and
it will be several weeks before the con
tracts are awarded.
The case of John R. Tait, paying
teller of the Chemical national bank of
New York city, an alleged defaulter to
the amount of 515,000, was laid before
the United States grand jury, on the
4th, all efforts to settle having failed.
Michael Eppley, a farmer 73 years
of age, living near Elyria, O., was
found dead in his bed on the 5th. A
post-mortem examination was held and
disclosed the fact that his heart had
burst, the pericardium being filled
with fragments of the organ.
The six-story building at 547 Broad
way, New York, used as an emporium
for fancy goods, haberdashery and
feathers, and immediately adjoining
the lofty structure of Charles Broad
way Rouss, was gutted by fire on the
evening of the 4th. The building was
crowded by working girls, several of
whom sustained slight injuries, but
all got out of the burning building in
safety. The loss is 5225,000.
The safe of the missing treasurer of
San Augustine county, Tex., was
opened, on the 3d, and found to con
tain $1.45.
R. F. Kolb, on the 4th, completed a
message to the Alabama legislature,
which he signs as governor. The mes
sage is also addressed to the people of
Alabama, and is a long and in many
respects a revolutionary document, as it
recommends that his followers do not
pay their taxes for awhile.
The department of state has been
notified, through its consular repre
sentative at Bremen, of a proposed
change in the German customs tariff
by which the duty on cotton seed oil
will be increased 250 per cent, over the
present rates. This is done in further
retaliation against our discriminating
duty on German beet sugar imposed by
the new tariff law.
Owing to the closing down of the
coal mines operated by the Sunday
Creek Coal Co., at Buckingham, O.. 300
miners have been thrown out of em
ployment, and, with their familes, are
in a destitute condition. A committee
was sent to Columbus, on the 5th, to
secure aid.
Ox the 4th ex-Gov. Oden Bowie died
at his home, "Fairview," in which lie
was born November 10, 1820, at Bowie,
Md. The end came peacefully while
the ex-governor was surrounded by the
members of the family.
Ox the 5th Senator Quay introduced
an amendment to the sugar bill as
passed by the house and reported to
the senate, which provides for striking
out the one-eighth of one cant per
pound differential on sugar.
Ix the senate, on the 5th, a bill was
introduced by Mr. Hoar, of Massachu
setts, and referred to the committee
on pensions, grantinga pension of 100
a month to Uie- widow of Gen. N. P.
Banks.
Germaxy's new reichstag building
in Berlin wus opened with imposing
ceremonies on the 5th.
M. Ferdixaxd de Lf.sskp8 was re
ported seriously ill on the 5th.
Ma J. Hamtjrough, father of Lieut.
Hambrough, for whose murder Alfred
John Monson was tried in Edinburgh
last year and discharged on the Scotch
verdict of "not proven," some time
since instituted suit against the Mu
tual Life Insurance Co. of London to
recover 20,000 insurance on his son's
life. The jury in the case returned a
verdict, on the 5th, for the defendants.
H. A. Chapix, aged 81, the mil
lionaire mine owner of Niles, Mich.,
was taken suddenly and critically ill
on the 5th. He owns the big Chapin
mine in the northern peninsula of
Michigan, and is reputed to be the
wealthiest man in southwestern Mich
igan. . The official count in Tennessee gives
Evans (rep.), for governor, 841 plu
rality. The bill of Representative Knight to
punish usurpers of state offices was
passed by a strictly party vote in the
Alabama legislature on the 5th.
Tus cruiser Detroit arrived at Gib
raltar on the 5th. She was expected to
proceed in a day or two to Naples to
deliver the Columbian relics loaned by
the pope to the United States for the
Chicago fair.
The banks included in what is known
as "Group No. 9." of the New York
State Bank association, have combined
for the purpose of protecting them
selves against peculations of dishonest
employes.
The silver statue of the actress, Ada
Rehan, was placed under the guard of
half a dozen detectives in Chicago, on
the 5th, as the result of the discovery
of a plot to steal the valuable image.
Two miles south of Frankfort, Ind.,
on tithe 5th, Jennie, the 5-year-old
daughter of Frank Groves, was burned
to death before her mother's eyes. The
child's frock took fire from an open
grate.
Harry Goodloe, a student of Cen
tral university, at Richmond, Ivy.,
died, on the 5th, of injuries sustained
while playing football. He was a son
of State Senator John D. Goodloe.
The appropriations' committee of the
house, on the 5th, received from the
treasury department estimates for the
urgency deficiency bill, aggregating
52,700,000, which includes the amount
required to collect the income tax. The
committee will go to work on the bill
as soon as possible.
The British steamer Dorian, from
New York for Halifax, while passing
down Long Island sound, on the night
of the 5th, ran into the schooner Clara
Simpson and sent her to the bottom.
There were six men on the schooner, of
which number the mate, the cook and
a seaman were lost.
While A. L. Johnson was hauling a
load of nitro-glycerine from Belmont
to Archer's Fork, W. Va., on the 5th,
the team ran away. An explosion fol
lowed which was heard 40 miles away.
All that was found of the outfit was a
horse-collar and a hole iu the ground.
Miss Ella Haines, of Biddeford, Me.,
has brought suit against the estate of
the late Luther Bryant, the Biddeford
millionaire, for $260,000. She sues to
recover a tin box containing 5250,000 in
government bonds and stocks, which
she alleges Mr. Bryant gave her before
he died, but which she was compeled to
give up by the executors of the estate
after the millionaire died.
While Maria Gett, a megro maiden,
was being -baptized in Olivet Baptist
church at Pottsville, Pa., on the even
ing of the 4th, the false bottom of the
baptistry gave way, and the convert,
the pastor in charge. Rev. T. A. T.
Hanna, and a deacon were submerged.
All were taken out of the water unin
jured, and the services were continued.
Three masked desperadoes held up
a train on the Texas & Pacific railroad,
8 miles west of Fort Worth, Tex., on the
evening of the 0th, and robbed the ex
press car of money, gold bullion and
checks to an amount said to have been
no less than 5140,000. They then or
dered the engineer to move on and
leisurely rode off. Armed posses were
soon after organized in Fort Worth
and sent in all directions in pursuit.
Miss Celia Fowler, of Detroit, threw
herself in front of a passenger train 2
miles south of Richmond, Mich., on the
6th, and was instantly killed. She is
supposed to have been temporarily in
sane. Foil November the Northern Pacific
railroad earned 51.815,247, an increase
of 579,017.
The treasury balance, on the Gth,
stood at 5154,727,000, of which 5109,700,
000 was in gold.
Ax extensive strike was inaugurated
by the silk weavers of Lyons. France,
most of whom left their work on the
6th.
The Chinese at Port Arthur make
presents to the Japanese who recently
captured that place and give dramatic
performances for the entertainment of
the visitors.
Count Ferdixaxd de LESSF.rsdied at
Lachcnaie in the department L'Indre,
France, on the 7th. He was taken ill
just before the Panama canal expo
sure, and for months had been at the
door of death.
Gkx. Eleakim Parker Scammox died
of cancer of the stomach at the resi
dence of his daughter, Mrs. N. S. Jones,
in Audubon park, New York city, on
the morning of the 7th. aged 78.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The senate was not in session on the
8th In the house a great portion
of the session was occupied by a con
tinuation of the debate on the bill to
amend the interstate commerce act so
as to permit pooling of railroad earn-
I ings, and notice was given that a vote
on the passage of the bill would be
taken on the 11th at 3 o'clock. The
bill providing a retired list for the
revenue cutter service and thereby to
promote its efficiency was before the
house in the consideration morning
hour, and failing of action went over
not to come up again until the commit
tee reporting it is again called.
Mayor Prixce Rupoli of Rome ar
rived in that city from New York on'
the 0th. In a short interview he passed
several flattering enconiums upon the
prodigious activity of Americans. He
was especially pleased with the cour
tesy shown him by Mayor Gilroy of
New York.
Through the confession of Sam
Evans, one of the participants in the
robbery of the Texas & Pacific train
at Marv's creek, near Fort Worth,
Tex., on the night of the 0th, his two
confedeatesand himself were arrest
ed, on the 0th, and placed in jail at
Fort Worth.
All Protestant Germany celebrated,
on the 5th. the three hundredth anni
versary of the birth of Gustavus Adol
phus, king of Sweden, who in 1G30 took
his army to Germany to help the Prot
estants in their struggle against the
Catholic league.
The war ship Esmeralda, which the
house of Flint & Co., of Valparaiso,
had just purchased from Chile for
Ecuador, sailed for the latter country,
on the 8th, flying the flag of Ecuador,
and with a full complement of men
and munitions.
It is announced in St. Petersburg
that Count Von Sehouveloff, the Rus
sian ambassador to Germany, will suc
ceed Gen. Gourko. who on December
I tendered his resignation as military
governor of Warsaw.
A serious outbreak was reported at
u II u, in the ang Tse Kiang, on
the 9th, and an American war ship and
Admiral Fremantle, of the British
fleet, proceeded to the scene of the dis
turbance.
A church of the German orthodox
faith was opened in the rue Blanche,
Paris, on the 9th. It cost 80,000 francs,
of which Emperor William contributed
40,000.
Ferdixaxd de Lesseps' body will be
taken to Paris on the 13th and the fu
neral will take place on the 15th.
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
l.i the Penitentiary Once More.
Samuel Carson was turned over to
the Missouri penitentiary authorities
by Chicago police officials a few days
ago."
Carson escaped from the prison fifteen years
ago, and after wandering about surrendered to
the Chicago police not long ago, stating that he
wished to return to the Missouri prison and
complete his sentence. He Is afflicted with
consumption, and, after leaving the receiving
cell, was sent to the prison hospital for treat
ment. He has something like four years jret to
serve on his unfinished sentence, but the
chances are 100 to 1 that he will not live two
years in the prison. Speaking of his experi
ence, he said: "There was three things left fcr
me to do: to give myself up, to commit
suicide, or go to the insane asylum. Now
that I am back here my mind is free of the
load of terror it has carried for so manv vears.
and these grim walls look like a palace. Dread
of being captured has broken me in mind and
health, but I am happier than I have been since
I went over the hospital wall fifteen years ago
the -Wh of this month."
Carson refused to say whether or not it is
true that he has fallen heir to a fortune, as re
ported. The prison officials seem inclined to
the belief mat he gave himself up. knowing
that, in his broken down health, he will have
good attention and medical service in the pris
on hospital.
Coming Changes at Jefferson City.
January 1, 1895, will see a general
changing around in the statehouse and
in the supreme court building, Jeffer
son City.
Prof. J. K. Kirk will assume the duties of
state superintendent of public schools, and
then there will be the novelty of a republican
state officer, with his office full or republican
clerks. Prof. L. E. Wolfe, the retiring state
superintendent, has accepted the position of
assistant in the Kansas City high school
which Prof. Ivtrk will vacate to succeed
him. When Railroad Commissioner-elect
Joseph Flory goes into office there will be a
reorganization of the board, and Commissioner
H. W. Hickman will become chairman. This
means that there may be a general turning
over in the grain inspection department in both
Kansas City and St. Louis. In the supreme
court Judge P. M. Black will retire, and Judge
William Kobinson will take his place upon the
bench. There will be a reorganization of the
court, and Judge Theodore Brace will become
the chief justice, and hold it until the close of
his term of service, two years hence.
State University Matters.
The executive board of .the state uni
versity curators held their session at
Columbia.
Sydney Calvert, of Harvard, was chosen as
sistant in chemistry, to succeed Fred Homberg,
resigned. The board approved the plans or the
faculty and citizens to invite the legislature to
visit Columbia early in January. Invitations
were extended to the State Horticutural asso
ciation and the State Dairymen's association
to make their headquarters in Columbia, ac
commodations in the university building being
promised. M. G. Kern, ronnerly a citizen or
Columbia, was invited to submit plans for the
permanent improvement of the university cam
pus. It was reported that the St. Louis Alumni
association was preparing a university regis
ter, containing a list and sketches of universi
ty graduates. It will be ready for distribution
in June.
Proved a Slagging Match.
The Marmaduke Military academy
foot-ball team, of Sweet Springs, played
the Sedalia Athletic association eleven
at Sedalia, but neither side was able to
score. The visitors resorted to slug
ging, aud several times the spectators
had to interfere to keep the opposing
teams from indulging in a free fight.
Wilson, of Sedalia, was so badly in
jured that he had to be carried from
the field, and three players were
slightly hurt.
Had Hid Father's Permission.
A marriage license was issued at
Farmington recently to Martin May
nard and Mrs. Malinda Pigg. The
bride is a widow of about 40, while the
groom is a boy of 18, who brought the
written consent of his father to the
circuit court, so he could secure a li
cense. Cole Younger to Be Released.
A dispatch from St. Joseph says that
Cole Younger, the notorious Missouri
outlaw, who has been an inmate of the
Stillwater (Minn.) penitentiary for ten
years for complicity in a bank robbery,
will be released January 1. He has been
on the sick list since his incarceration.
For Alleged Felonious Assault.
Dr. Sidney A. Conkwright, of La
mine, Cooper county, has instituted
suit in the Pettis county circuit court
against W. H. Harrah, a Sedalia liv
eryman, for 1,000 damages for an al
leged felonious assault made upon the
plaintiff last June.
Respite for Philip Martin.
Gov. Stone has granted a respite to
Philip Martin, the Kansas City negro
who was sentenced to be hanged De
cember 13. The respite gives Martin a
lease on life until January 18. 1895.
A Kansas City Capitalist.
Thomas Brock way Bullen, capitalist
and merchant of Kansas City, died of
heart disease a few days ago. He was
66, and for years had been one of Kan
sas City's foremost citizens.
An Experiment.
Harris Bros., of Henry county, are
feeding 600 head of cattle. They are
experimenting with a mixture of
ground wheat and corn as feed for fat
tening cattle.
Tax On Cigarette Dealers.
The city council of DeSoto at a re
cent meeting passed an ordinance fix
ing a tax of $250 per year on all per
sons selling cigarettes in the town.
Burned Out.
The store building and stock of the
general merchandise store of Clark &
Martin, at Sullivan, were destroyed by
fire. Loss, "0,000; insurance, half.
Cattle Dying Off.
The cattle on Allen, Dog and Dar
danne prairies, Lincoln county, are
dying to an alarming extent. No one
seems to know what the disease is.
In Another Scheme.
J. C. Thompson, the absconding cash
ier of the defunct First national bank,
Sedalia, is now secretary of a gold and
silver mining company in Mexico.
Capt. Edward H. Webster.
Capt, Edward II. Webster, one of
Kansas City's pioneers, at one time
a leader in financial circles, died in
Denver, Col., a few days ago.
MIUs Destroyed.
The flouring and saw mills of Hick
man & Co. at Montauk, Dent county,
were destroyed by fire the other night.
Loss, $10,000; no insurance.
Prisoners Return Thanks.
The inmates of the jail at Nevada
were so well feasted on Thanksgiving
day that they come out in a newspaper
with a card of thanks.
He ts a Leper.
John Walker, aged 65, who had been
wandering about the St. Louis city
hosoital for several weeks, has been
pronounced a leper.
An Old Railway Man.
W. H. Selby, aged 60, died at his
farm northeast of Moberly. At one
time he was master mechanic of the
I Wabash.
MISSOURI CULL1NGS.
Gov, Stone has appointed O. G. Hal
liburton, of Bates county, member of
the board of managers of the Missouri
school for the blind, vice J. T. Kendall,
resigned.
Hog cholera is raging in portions of
Pettis county, and especially in the
vicinity of Longwood. John R. Her
man, an extensive stock-raiser, has lost
nearly 100 head, and others have lost
from five to twenty head each. In the
Stokely neighborhood many animals
have also died, but the disease is now
under control there.
The state executive committee of the
Congregational Home Missson society
met at the Congregational church, Se
dalia, the object of the meeting being
to extend mission work in Missouri.
Reports were presented showing what
was accomplished during the past
twelve months, and plans were dis
cussed for future work.
George D. Sherwin, a well-known at
torney of Kansas City, died from the
effects of a self-administered overdose
of morphine, taken as his relatives
claim, to alleviate suffering due to
asthma. Sherwin was 57 years old,
had been an old practitioner in Kansas
City, and was at one time solicitor for
the R. G. Dun Mercantile Co.
A. B. Fonts, a farmer, who lived 4
miles west of Thompson, Audrain
county, killed himself by blowing off
his head with a shotgun. He placed
the muzzle of the gun to his left ear
and discharged both barrels with a
stick. Fouts left a note to his sons re
garding the management of the farm,
but gave no cause for the deed.
F. A. Afflect was found dead in a
pasture adjoining Boliver. The cir
cumstances indicate suicide, the body
being found in a spring. Financial
trouble is supposed to be the cause.
Afflect had been circuit clerk of Polk
county for eight years, and was re
elected last month. He was prominent
in church and social circles and in
masonic and other fraternities.
The other night burglars effected an
entrance into the bank of Marceline
through a window.drilled a hole along
side the combination in the vault door,
jammed in the tongue of the lock and
introduced nitro-glycerine into the
safe, which, when exploded, tore the
door off. They damaged, but did not
open, the money chest, containing
S7,00(). The bank safe and vault were
completely demolished, but no money
secured. A reward of $250 has been
offered for the cracksmen.
The case of the State vs. Alva C.
Ross, wherein the defendant was on
trial, charged with being an accom
plice of Wm. P. Taylor in the burning
of Gibson's lumber and implement
building in Browning, Linn county,
some time ago, after a long and bitter
trial, went to the jury, which returned
a verdict of guilty, and fixed his pun
ishment at five years in the peniten
tiary. Ross was a member of the Tay
lor gang, of Browning, which ter
rorized Linn and Sullivan counties for
years.
The case of J. A. Bovard, receiver,
against Thomas R. J. Jones and others,
of Bevier, was dismissed in the United
States district court at Hannibal. Jones
and twelve other coal miners were ar
rested and brought for trial before the
federal court on a charge of intimidat
ing and interfering with scab workmen
at the Loomis coal mines during the
strike a year ago. The case had been
continued from time to time upon
promise of good behavior, and as there
were no more outbreaks or trouble at
the mines it was finally dismissed.
Miss Willie Crigler, daughter of
Sheriff George C. Crigler, and Walter
R. Swain, were married in Fayette at
3 o'clock the other morning. Swain's
attentions had been objected to by
Sheriff Crigler. There had been pre
vious attempts made by the lovers to
slude parental vigilance. So when
Miss Willie was missing at 7 p. m.
Sheriff Crigler and son, Roy, scoured
the town, and finally located her at
Dr. A. W. Moore's. The father told
Swain that he would interpose no fur
ther objection, and wrote an order for
the license, Miss Willie being only 17.
License were procured, a minister
summoned from bed, and the marriage
took place.
Capt. R. T. Hawkins, deputy col
lector of internal revenue at Kansas
City, received a box of red, ripe and
juicy apples the other day, a present
from George Barker of Weston, Mo.,
the first consignment of the regular
fall supply. "In a few days," said
Capt. Hawkins, "our hickory nuts,
cider and other things, such as we
had when we were boys, will begin to
come in. Then we old fellows will get
together somewhere, build an old log
fire and hold a 'swa-roo. I think,
though," he concluded, looking mourn
fully at the box "that unless we put
that box in a vault, we will have to
get another supply of apples."
At Kansas City, William Huke, 18
years of age, formerly a clerk for the
Buford & George Implement Co., was
taken from his cell, where he is await
ing trial for grand larceny from his
employers, and was wedded to Miss
Minnie Brown, aged 16, whom he has
known since childhood. The girl, who
is quite pretty, said she wished to em
phasize her belief in his innocence by
becoming his wife, even while he was
behind the bars. When Huke was
brought from his cell he was overjoyed
at meeting his bride. She stood by his
6ide and Justice Krueger pronounced
the simple service.
W. M. Hudspeth, of Fort Osage town
ship, Jackson county, drove to Kansas
City the other day twenty-two steers
averaging 1,338 pounds, which he sold
at 5.10. These cattle, Mr. Hudspeth
stated, averaged 817 pounds on April
30, when they were put on grass. He
fed them 100 days corn or grass. "Not
withstanding it was a dry season," con
tinued Mr. Hudspeth, "my corn yield
was seventy-five bushels to the acre,
and a neighbor of mine, John Ucher,
raised 2,000 bushels of corn on twenty
acres, while W. A. Johnson got 7,500
bushels from 100 acres. I raised 1.248
bushels of oats on twenty-one acres of
land."
Jefferson Bridge ford, of Paris, Mon
roe county, purchased a bunch of feed
ing steers in Kansas City recently,
which he shipped to Cedar county. Mr.
Bridgeford settled in Monroe county in
1836, and drove cattle to St. Louis be
fore the day of railroads about fifty
yeais ago when there were no plat
form scales, and when cattle were sold
by dressed weight. He has driven cattle
from Saline county to St. Louis. "In
Monroe county a neighbor of mine,"
said Mr. Bridgeford, "sold twenty
3-year-old steers, which averaged about
2,000 pound, at $6.75 oer cwL, deliv
ered December 10.
DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW-
Ko Change Observable In Current Busi
ness Future Prospects More Hope fuL,
with the Employment of a Somewhat
Larger Working Force After the Holi
days The Shipment of Gold to Europe
Again Commenced.
New York, Dec 8. R. G. Dun fc
Co.'s weekly review of trade issued to
day says:
It is difficult to detect any change in
current business. Prospects for busi
ness after January 1 are quite gener
ally considered more hopeful; in some
branches there are larger orders and
the west-bound shipments of mer
chandise are a little larger. But the
working force is naturally diminished
near the end of the year, and the holi
day traffic brings just now a temporary
activity which is not of much general
significance.
The meeting of congress and the an
nouncement of the new currency plan
and of various bills proposed, have not
affected the situation perceptibly.
Payments for bonds have been com
pleted without disturbance, but did
not prevent the shipment of some gold
to Europe to-day. On the whole, agri
cultural products are scarcely stronger,
and wages of labor do not advance,
but there is reason to expect the em
ployment of a somewhat larger work
ing force after the holidays.
The expected government report on
feeding of wheat to cattle and hogs
has scarcely influenced the market.
It is doubted whether the estimate is
more reliable than the estimates of
the yield of wheat and cotton, which
are not regarded seriously. The re
ceipts of wheat are larger than a year
ago and the exports smaller, but for
eign accounts, particularly as to the
Argentine crop, have helped an ad
vance of 1J cents. Estimates of the
winter wheat acreage indicate an in
crease of 1.9 per cent., with a condi
tion somewhat better than last year.
Although corn receipts have been
much larger than a year ago, and ex
ports not one-sixth as large, the price
has changed but little. Cotton has
fallen again to 5 cents, very close to
the lowest point for many years, .and
actual receipts from plantations are
larger to date than in 1891, when the
crop was over 9,000,000 bales. Neither
abroad nor here are there indications
as yet of more than an average con
sumption. The iron industry seems to have dis
tinctly brighter prospects at Chicago,
where pig iron is firmer and bar in
larger demand because of orders for
freight cars. But Bessemer iron has
sold at $10.25 at Pittsburgh, steel rails
have been reduced to $22 there and
wire rods and nails weaker. A com
parison of prices there and at
the east shows the lowest aver
age yet recorded; taking prices
of October, 1880, as 100, quotations
have fallen to 55. 7 and are so far shaded
that substantially half the price has
been cut off within four years. South
ern works are offering iron here and in
New England at very low figures, and
though a somewhat better demand ap
pears for finished products, it is so far
below the output that the competition
leaves scarcely a profit.
Heavy sales of shoes during the past
two months at prices said to be 5 to 7
cents lower than recent prices of
leather warrant, cause a general effort
for an advance, and some jobbers have
conceded 2K cents on women's grain
and buff shoes, but others protest that
no advance is possible, and have cut
down or withdrawn their orders. Or
ders for next season are quite encour
aging as to quantity, but it is claimed
that few can be filled at a profit and
leather seems firmer with no prospect
of a decline.
The wool manufacture, judging from
sales at the three chief markets since
September 1, has been doing 3 per
cent, more than last year, but 31 per
.cent, less than in 1892, and the average
of 104 qualities of wool quoted by
Coates Bros, is 13.79 cents, the lowest
ever known, and 14 per cent, lower
than in 1892.
Manufacturers are receiving more or
ders for spring, and still have consid
erable demand for heavy goods, par
ticularly for overcoat goods on account
of a change in the fashion, and there
is much confidence expressed that they
will be able to continue production at
about the present rate after January 1.
The cotton manufacture shows no
material change, though the demand
for spring is very backward.
The money market has not im
proved and the drift of idle money
hitherward is as large as at any time
this year. A remarkable statement
shows that treasury transfers of money
have been almost exclusively to New
Orleans, $2,375,000 in October, against
565,000 to all other points, and $2,425,
000 in November, against $203,000 to all
other cities. Commercial loans show
no increase whatever, and heavy sales
of American securities by London this
week have advanced exchange to the
shipping point, so that $1,250,000 gold
will be exported to-day.
The liabilities in failures for the last
week of November were $2,038,407,
against $2,904,476 for the same week
last year, but the decrease was wholly
in manufacturing liabilities, $427,644,
against $1,657,027 last year, while trad
ing liabilities were $1,567,343, against
$1,208,449 last year. For the four
weeks of November the aggregate was
810,581,873, against $20,841,621 last year.
The failures this week have been 385
in the United States, against 385 last
year, and 40 in Canada, against 42 last
year.
WILL PROTECT THE INDIANS.
Military Men Say that Settlers and Cow
boys Have No Right in Southeast Utah.
Denver, Col., Dec. 8. There is a
feeling at military headquarters in
this city that if the governor of Utah
intends to arm settlers and cowboys in
southeastern Utah to drive out the
Indians, who are pasturing ponies and
cattle in San Juan cou nty , there will be
a first-class rumpus. The military au
thorities here hold that the Indians
have a right in that country, and it is
likely, shouil trouble arise, that troops
will be sent to protect the Indians.
THOMAS E. PROCTOR.
Death a' tb President of the Leathei
Trust.
Boston, Dec 8. Thomas E. Proctor,
president of the United States Leather
Co., sometimes called the Leather
trust, dici yesterday morning at his
residence on Commonwealth avenue.
Mr. Proctor, the most prominent man
in the leather trade, was about 60
years of age, and was born in South
Danvers (now Peabody), Mass., in
which town he received his early edu
cation. He grew to be thu largest in
dividual tanner in the country.
THE MURDER IS OUT.
The Mystery Surrounding the Gin Trag- -
edy Dispelled and the Whole lie
Laid Bare The Poor Unsuspecting1 Girl
was Done to Death la Order that Harry '
Harvard Might Secure the Insurance oo
Her Lire The Confessions.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec 10. Still
another confession has been made in .
the Catherine Gin? murder case. It-
has been the theory of the police that
C. A. Blixt, the engineer ol tne uzai-s
flats where both Miss Gintr and Ilarr
Hay ward resided, committed the mur
der at the instigation of HaywarO.
Yesterday Blixt broke down and made
a complete confession, in wnicn a
charges Harry Hay ward with commit
tino" the murder. According to his
story he was sent by Hayward to the
scene of the murder. Hardly had he
arrived there than Hayward drove up -
with Miss Ging. When within tmy
feet of him the shots were fired and
Hayward alighted from the buggy.
"The deed is done," said he; "get in
and drive it around until it is deaa
and then dump it out."
Blixt took Hayward's place in me
KtirrfTtf nnii Hrnvf slnnf the road for
about a mile, until he became satisfied
that Miss Ging was dead, men ne
drove back, and when near the place
where the murder was committed he
rolled the body in the robe and pushed
it out of the buggy and into tne roaa.
He then drove the horse about a mile
until he reached the Lyndale-a venue
car line Then he turned the animal
Inns and took a car down town. The
horse went direct to the stable, and
this was the first intimation that any
one received that anything was wrong.
The murder, according to Blixt, was
committed shortly after 7 o'clock, and
as soon as he got into the buggy nay
ward walked to the Ilennepin-avenue
car line and then took the daughter of
a prominent lawyer to tne tneater.
Blixt claims that the murder was
originally fixed for the preced'ng Sat
urday night, but circumstances were
such that it had to be abandoned.
Hayward was to slug Miss Ging with
a piece of railroad iron which Blixt
had provided. The body was to have
been thrown out near the curb at a
street corner, the horse turned loose
aifd the buggy wrecked for the pur
pose of giving color to the theory that
the woman had been killed in a run
away. This plan, so Blixt says, could
be notcarried out successfully, and it
was decided to shoot her.
Blixt tells of several other jobs
which had been proposed by Hayward.
but which fell through, and says that
after this job, for which he was to re
seive $2,000, or one-fifth of the life in
surance involved, he was to receive
$400 for "doing" a Chicago man.
Ole Erickson, who took the bundle
of clothingHo Iowa Falls, is believed
to have been a dupe, and it is expected
that he will be released from custody
to-day.
Blixt last night told a story to the
effect that Harry Hayward wanted his
assistance in disposing of the father
and mother of a young woman in M inne
apolis whom he wanted to marry and
secure her property.
The Truth at Last Blixt Confesses Him
self the Murderer.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec 10. About
midnight last night Blixt made an
other confession in which he said that
he himself committed the murder.
Haywood had interested Miss Ging in
a green-goods business and drove with
her from the West house, until they
reached the corner of Hennepin and
Franklin avenues, about two miles
from where the murder was com
mitted. There they met Blixt, whom
Haywood pushed into the buggy with
instructions to drive to where they
would meet Hayward, who would have
the goods with him.
Previous to that Hayward had in
duced Miss Ging to entrust what money
she had, Blixt did not know how
much, to him.
Blixt and Miss Ging drove around
the end of the lake, and Miss Ging be
came anxious and began to ask about
Hayward. When they reached the
scene of the murder she was looking
out the side of the buggy, and white in
this position Blixt shot her.
He drove about the country about an
hour, and when he was satisfied that
she was dead he threw the body out
and went home.
Blixt also tells a wild story about be
ing engaged by Hayward to set fire to
the Ozark flats. Blixt had been told
by Hayward to take Miss Ging's seal
skin cloak and after a few weeks pawn
it to give color to the theory that Miss
Ging had been robbed.
A FRIGHTFUL DEATH
Overtakes Two Men at a Railroad Crossing
A Third Man Injured.
Cleveland, O., Dec 10. Two men
met a frightful death at a railroad
crossing Saturday evening. George B.
Buckley, aged 48; Albert Kopfstein,
aged 60, and John Slarizhy, employed
in the foundry, went home together.
A network of twenty tracks crosses
Lawrence street, and as they were on
the point of crossing a heavy Cleve
land fc Pittsburgh engine came along
at a terrific speed. Buckley and Kopf
stein were caught in the meshes and
knocked down by the monster and in
stantly killed. The two men were
actually torn to pieces, and after the
locomotive was stopped it was almost
impossible to distinguish one corpse
from the other. Both men had large
families. The third man was injured
and taken to the hospital.
The Esmeralda Goes to Ecuador.
Valparaiso, Dec 10. The war ship
Esmeralda, which the house of Flint fc
Co. has just purchased from Chile for
Ecuador has sailed for the latter coun
try, flying the flag of Ecuador and
with a full complement of men and
munitions.
Gov. McKinley Accepts.
Hartford, Conn., Dec. 10. Gov. Mc
Kinley of Ohio has accepted an invita
tion to be the guest of the McKinley
club, of this city, at a banquet on the
occasion of the club's first anniversary,
February 13.
Will Awnit the Action of the Family.
Paris, Dec 10. The Suez canal com
mittee has decided to take no steps re
garding the obsequies of Count de
Lesseps until the family of the dead
count shall have notified them of tie
arrangements they have made.
Will Succeed Gen. Gourko.
St. Petersbcro, Dec 10, It is an
nounced here that Count Von Schouva
loff, the Russian ambassador to Ger
many, will succeed Gen. Gourko, who.
on December 1, tendered bis resigna
tion as military ptovernor oithe city
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