Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 28, 1897, Page 2

By E. Kiley. GRAND RAPIDS - MINNESOTA. Never meet trouble half way; let it do all the walking. By another summer it is prophesied that “gold bricks” will be numerous. Those Chicago gamblers whose place was held up by robbers now know how it is themselves. The political nondeseript whose sole object is seeking the plaudits of the galleries fails when occasion de- mands statesmanlike action. It is said that the music to “We Won’t Go Home Till Morning” is over 700 years old, or about the age the fel- low feels who sings it when he wakes up. Following the example of some other labor org~‘zations, the Knights of Labor are ¢2+paring io submit to Con- gress an amendment to the tariff bill. It calls fos the imposition of a duty amounting to $500 on each alien labor- er who comes into the United States. In justification of this proposition it is alleged that foreign laborers are brought here under various pretexts because they work cheaper than Amer- icans, A number of representative men and Women have given the New York In- dependent their opinion as to what con- stitutes the most striking characteristic of the period and the reign of Queen Victoria. A response from Gladstone properly leads the list of replies. No answer touches a finer characteristic than that of Frances E. Willard, that the queen has set up and illustrated the highest standard of personal purity. To be royal and yet pure in heart has unhappily not always been a charac- teristic of English sovereigns. Considering the intense cold of Alaska it might be well for us to turn to Yuma, Ariz., for a little relief. It has been stated for a fact that the ghost of a sol- dier, who had lived a bad life in Yuma, came back from the nether regions to get his army blankets because he felt so cold down there. Yuma is now a flour- ishing mining town with a population of 6,000. For weeks at a stretch the temperature ranges from 97 degrees to 125 degrees. They remark that it is a 200] day when the mercury sinks down to 90 degrees. This season Yuma has aad two spells of hot weather, when the thermometer registered 117 degrees in the shade. So, if one gets “froze out” in Yukon he could get thawed out in Yuma, |yer Some women are nervy, Mrs. F. G. Turner of St. Louis is of that class. She had a thrilling experience when she and Miss Sophy Sebenhor were at- racked by a mad ¢og. The animal ran lown the street, foaming at the mouth, and first attacked Miss Sebenhor, who turned him about with her parasol. Then it sprang at the throat of Mrs. Turner and fastened its fangs in her clothing. She seized the dog by the back of the neck and ears, forced it from her, placed it upon the sidewalk and fell with her knees upon the brute. She held the struggling animal in this position until her husband was tele- phoned for and came to the rescue on a bicycle, armed with a revolver. The dog was killed. Mrs. Turner’s arms were almost paralyzed by the strug- gle, The dairymen of Illinois have got their anti-color (butterme) bill enacted into law, but will now have to push it in the courts. A Chicago paper last week said: “Butterine manufacturers have banded together to test the con- stitutionality of the anti-butterine color law. They will resume manufac- turing and coloring it in defiance of the statute. Three of the largest firms engaged in its manufacture have al- ready resumed. They are the Fried- man Manufacturing Company, Braun & Fitts, and the W. J. Moxley Com- pany. They will persist in making, coloring and selling butterine until ar- rests are made. Then.the fight in the courts will begin, all the firms having pooled issues in this. The claim of unconstitutionality is based upon sey- eral points. One is that butter is col- ored by the same process as butterine, and what is lawful for one is lawful for another. A second point is that the law is special legislation, in the in- terest of one industry and against an- other. A third point is that the bill was passed after midnight—the hour fer adjournment of the legislature— and that the clerk on the third read- ing did not read from the original bill, but from a copy. This last allegation is undoubtedly true, as the original bill was stolen from the engrossing clerk’s office. The new law should be pushed to its full strength, and no time should be lost in following up violations of it. Every transgression should be fol- lowed by a case at law. The self-respect of a citizen of the United States is founded in personal freedom, which is based on personal responsibility, and with this, he has great admiration for the power of the great Republic, always provided that such power is not directed against his rights, in which case he endeavors in that regard to correct it. The Gardiner, Maine, man who took off his Prince Albert while mowing the Jawn, and later clipped off both tails with the mower, gets mad when he subject is mentioned in his presence. ae The Aevatil.-Beview, |FTH OF THE 8 EVENTS UF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM A Generali Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week From All Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Perusal By Busy People. Washington Talk. Acting on the request of Acting Sec- retary of the Interior Ryan, the de- partment of justice has authorized the United States marshal for Wyoming to offer a reward of $250 for the capture of the hignwaymen who held up the stages and robbed passengers in the | Yellowstone Park last Saturday. Personal Mention. Fitzsimmons is said to be composing a song, both words and music. Charles Compton, the actor, is dead in London. Secretary of State Sherman and Mrs. Sherman will next year celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Gladstone's prescription for keeping well and living long is to chew each bite of food seventeen times. Major Augustus W. Corlis: infantry, has been detailed as a mem- ber of the examining board at Denver, vice Major Henry B. Osgood, relieved. Dennis Ryan, the St. Paul mining magnate, is the latest to try his for- tune in the Klond) district. sending a representative there in the person of John J. Malone of Tacoma. Madame Nordica, the opera singer, quite recovered from her recent serious illness and has gone to Kreuznach, Rheinish where she will take the waters. Lieut. Col. Abraham A. 1» recently promoted from major of the Eighteenth infantry, has been as- signed to the Th infantry and or- dered to join his regiment. Ce Thomas Prince of Wheeling, , Well known in steamboat cir- cles in both Ohio and Mississippi, dead at Richmond, Ky., from the re- sult of injuries received ten days ago at the race k there. Cyrus W. Mason, aged eighty-two, died at Crown Point, Ind. He among the first white men to locate Lake ¢ He manufactured the first brick in In- ¢ Queen Liliuokalani left Washing- ton recently with her secretary for New Y city. No information was youchsafed to the people at the hotel where she stopped, and they know nothing about her future movement: Cardinal Gibbons recently surprise an English officer in Baltimore by his cracy and the hearty and cordial which he spoke to acquaint- in the street. “Well,” said the “neither in London nor Paris officer, did I ever see anything like that.” The Iowa law college at Des Moines has just turned out the youngest lav n the United States. man is Homer Millsap, a Californian, 16 years old. His standing was be- tween 90 and 100 in the college exam- inations. His youth, of course, pre- cludes his admission to practice at the present. Casualties. A locomotive at the government works at Tybee island, near Savannah, Ga several people, The Great Northern coats-bound overland train was wrecked twenty iniles north of Seattle. curve the train ran into an earth and boulder slide, 0 lives were lost, but the engine,baggage and mail ¢: derniled, the baggage car rolling into ; the sound, Thomas Handy. engineer in the ele: tric light station at Delevan, UL, wa ught in the big fly-wheel and in- stantly killed. In some unknown man- ner his clothing became entangled in the wheel, and before the machinery could be stopped he was smashed to pieces. Every bone was broken and his body made a mass of pulp. Criminal. Dora Cushman, aged fifteen, of Bris- tol, Vt., died from taking medicine de- signed to produce an abortion. Smith Davis, her betrayer, has fied. ‘The territory about Ottumwa, Iowa, is overrun with thieves and burglars. four men are in jail at Oskaloosa, two at Centerville, and a number at Albia, Red Oak and this city under suspicion of haying committed some of the crimes. After being three years a fugitive from justice, James Hollars, aged twenty-eight, who is wanted at Tate ville, Pulaski county, Kentucky, for murder, arrested at Terre Haute by two Kentuckians, 8. A. Flynn and J. M. Gibson. here was great surprise at St. Clair, A , When Charles E. Breder, former cashier of the National Bank of New Bethlehem, Pa., was arrested at St. Clair by Deputy United States Marshal Large, on a charge of embezzling the funds of the bank to the amount of $30,000, Kighty-year-old James A. Speaker, a farmer living near Kansas City, Mo., went to Chicago to meet a pretty wid- ow who had promised to be his wife; but, because she’ found out that he had no money, and failed to keep her ap- pointment, he is supposed to have com- | mitted suicide. Vincent Syzika was fatally shot in the head by Joseph Beodzyk, his un- successful rival for the hand of four- teen-year-old Bronislarza Kuzarek, while the two young men and other acquaintances were at the young wo- man’s home making arrangements for the marriage, which was to have taken place within a fortnight. Both men for some time had been paying atten- tion to the young girl. . Foreign Gossip. Charles Compton, the actor, is dead in London. A potato blight is ravaging the coun- ties of Clare and Limerick, Ireland, Prices haye quadrupled and there is only a supply for two months. . Seventh | He is | celebrated | Prussia, | unty, settling there in 1837. | The young | fell through a trestle and killed In rounding a | Collegio Beda is the name given to the new English college at Rome by Pope “eo, in honor of St. Bede t Venerable. He rejected the names Pio and Leonino. Proceedings at an inquest held upon the body of a girl who died a day or two ago in Bethnal Green, London. pointed to symptoms of Asiatic chol- era. Special precautions have been taken, A Birmingham workingman used the parcel post recently to send his three- year-old boy home by mail. The post- office, under the rule regulating the conveyance of live animals, was obliged to accept the child, and charged ninepence for the service. Konakry, on the west coast of Afri- ca, has been reached by a French ex- pedition in three weeks from the Niger | for the second time. This establishes the advantage of the route by way of Fula-Djalon, and surveys for the road are being hastened. Sir John Kirk, once British consul- general at Zanzibar, whose name is as- sociated with African discovery from the days of Livingstone, Burton, Speke | and Grant to those of Stanley, has re- | ceived the degree of doctor of sciences , from Cambridge university. | The tactics of Germany in the nego- | tiations and the continual delays of Tewfik Pasha are provoking a good deal of agitation at Athens in favor of an appeal by the government to the nation to continue the war with Tur- by means of an obligatory loan. fhe trouble between the Bri warships and the lobster packers on the French shore of Newfoundland cortinues. The British commodore charges illicit packing and threatens to close the factories. Great excite- ment exists. According to a dispatch to the Lon- don Mail from Paris, it is rumored that the death at Teheran, Persia, of Dr. | Tholzan, physician of the late shah, was used by poison administered at the instigation of the reigning shah, be- cause Tholzan knew too many state se- | crets. It is stated from an excellent source that Mrs. Langtry will shortly marry Prince Esterha de Galantha. He is about sixty years of age and has been | married before, both his wives being dead. He isa great sportsman and the ‘ purchaser of horses for the A‘ | government. Prince Es lated to the earl of Jers tentions to Mrs. Langt to be most ardent. | | i | | | sh and his at- are reported ine’s grave in y in Paris by rankfurter Zeitung, which has raised a fund to keep the grave in or- der, were remoyed by the superintend- | ent, on the ground that the poet's rel- atives had not authorized the decora- tion. The needed permission bas been | obtained from the poet’s only surviv- ing sister, Frau Charlotte van Emden | of Hamburg, who is now ninety-six ' years of age. General. It is said that internal quarrels will scon disrupt the Greater Republic of Central America. According to the official reports the cereal crop prospects in the Argentine are excellent. The Canadian Pacific railway earn- ings for the week ending Aug. 14 were $499,000; for the same period last year, $447,000; increase, $52,000. The United States coast and geodetic survey steamer Hassler has been sold at Port Orchard, Wash., to H. I. Me- Guire of Portland, Or., for $15,500. James O'Leary of Cincinnati knocked out Peter Peterson of Boston in two rounds before the Metropolitan Athletic glub at Wheeling, W. Va. xen. Bradley T. Johuston is out in a letter opposing the movement to have the G. A. R. meet at Richmond, Va., in 1899, The big wagon works of the Mitch- ell-Lewis company of Racine, Wis., has begun working twelve hours a day. Among. the passengers who-arrived or the steamer Paris at New York were the countess of Aberdeen, W. C. Carnegie, Prof. E. M. Gallaudet and the American cricket team. ‘The Clement Chair company’s fac- | tory at Clinton, Iowa, is burned. Loss, | $47,000; insurance, $15,000. The fac- | tory will not be rebuilt. One hundred | persons are deprived of employment. | It is probable that the great silver | mines at Creede, Col., will be closed 1 i | | down on account of the low price of sil- ver, unless railroad and smelting rates are reduced. Several conferences have | been held, The Burlington has resumed ten hours’ time at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. | Heretofore 450 men have been work- ing forty-five hours per week. The in- | creased time is made necessary by the | demand for freight cars. Rey. Dwight L. Moody has denied the report recently circulated through- out New England to the effect that he intended to give up evangelical work, to be succeeded by Rey. William Pat- terson of Toronto. G. L. Miller, state game warden for the Prairie du Chien (Wis.) district, had the orchard trees on his farm cut down, presumably by persons having spite against him for his rigid enforce- ment of the fishing laws. ‘ Yhe controller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent banks as fol- lows: Marine National Bank of Du- luth, 10 per cent; Stock Growers’ Na- tional Bank of Miles City, Mont., 5 per cent. Commander Reisinger, the new com- mandant of the Pensacola, Fla., navy yard, is endeavoring to have the gov- ernment reopen some of the shops at the yard ‘and restore to the yard some- thing of its old importance, when it gave employment to hundreds of men. The city council of Helena, Mont., ended the water fight for at least five years by adopting an ordinance giving the company a contract for five years, at $18,000 a year, and a settlement of past differences on the same basis. ‘The fight has been in progress three years, and has gone through all stages of liti- gation. Village Gossip. Mrs. Hayrake—It’s all true about the ’Squire. They took him away yester- day. $ Hiram Hayrake—Puttin’ him in a hospital, are they? Mrs. Hayrake—Sanitarium, they call it, They're trin’ to cure him with the Keely motor.—Puck. ALL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE ASKED 0 JOIN ISSUES. Call Iesued for a Conference of Labor Organizations to Consider the Situation —Efforts to Spread the Strike Into West Virginia Will Be Renewed—Strike May Be Extended to Nearly Every Branch of Organized Labor tn the Coun- try. Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 21.—The na- tional executive board of the United Mire Workers adjourned after having issued the call for the confereuce of organized labor to be held in St. Le uis Aug. 30. The board rejetced the prop- ositicn of the Pittsburg operators for a conference to arbitrate the wage dis- pute in that district,claiming that such action would be prejudicial to the in- terests of the miners at large. The board is ready to consider overt.res for the arbitration of the issues of the yreat strike only when these over- tures come from all the opezators in the competitive -listrict,which includes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The board has decided not to deviate from the established policy until the result of the St. Louis conference is known. The aggressive work in the field will be continued, and the efforts to spread the strike in the West Vir- ginia district will be renewed. ‘The success or failure of the strike hangs upon the St. Louis conference, the call for which has. been indorsed by Sam- uel Gompers, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and J. 8. Sovereign, general master workman of the Knights of Labor. maintain that the fight now being waged by the min- ers is one of common interests to or- ganized labor throughout the country. At the St. Louis conference all labor organizations will be asked to join is- sues with the miners. The failure to secure a general suspension in West Virginia has greatly interfered with the prospects of success, as the ¢ supplied from there and the fe lated districts is meeting the limited demand. The only hope of cutting off this supply appears to lie in the refusal of organized labor in the ordinary channels of traffic and business to handle or use this coal. If the objects of the St. Louis conference is accom- plished, the strike will be extended to nearly every branch of labor in the country. TERRORS OF THE PASS. Not One in Ten Will Be Able to Cross Chilkpot This Year. Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 21.—In a letter received here from C. M. Wey- mouth, who left here on the last trip of the Mexico,dated, Lake Lindemann, Aug. 7, Weymouth says he is disgiisted with the trip over the pass and would return but for the terrors of crossing over Chilkoot pass. Weymouth is with W. J. Jones, the United States com- missioner for Alaska,and a well known newspaper correspondent, which party was the first to land at Lindemann since the Klondike rush began. Both Jones and Weymouth give an opinion that not one in ten of those who are new at Dyea and Skaguay and en route will be able to cross the divide this year. Agreement Between Mexico and Britain as to the Belize. Washington, Aug. 21.—The text of the new treaty between Great Britain and Mexico, relating to the Mexican use of the waters of Belize, the British colony of Central America,has been re- ceived here. It was concluded by Sir Henry Neville Deering and Senor Par- iscal on Aug. 3, and grants in. perpetui, ty all merchant vessels of Mexico ab- solute liberty of navigation of the wa- ters of the British possessions in that locality. It also sets forth the boun- dary between Yucatan and Belize, and to that extent gives Mexico's adher- ence to the existing boundary. FOREST RESERVES. Comwirsioner General Hermann on a Mission to California. San Francisco, Aug. 21.—Binger Her- mann, commissioner general of the United States land office, arrived here for the purpose of conferring with Prof. Hilgard and other members ot the state forestry commission upon the subject of the recent action of con- gress in setting apart some forty mil- lions of acres of land as forest re- serves, of which about six millions of acres are located in this state. Organized Against Lawlessness. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 21.—Shortly aft- er the colier Wilamette left Seattle for Dyea the passengers organized for po- lice protection, the organization being named the Wilamette and Klondike Protective society. Especial care was taken to prevent fire and all suspicious characters are watched. Before the boat reached Dyea eight suspects had been imprisoned. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 21.—Valentine scrip has jumped in price to $35 and $45 an acre as the result of the rush to the Klondike gold fields. Large blocks of the scrip"have been sold in this city, the intention being to locate property at Skaguay. * Damaged in a Storm, Plymouth, Eng., Aug. 21.—The twin screw torpedo boat Destroyer and the cruiser Pheaton, which started for the Pacific station, have returned here, both being badly damaged through the rough weather. The Destroyer got across the bows of the Pheaton and the coxswain of the former was knock- ed overboard and drowned. Trial of Dr. Hunter. Prankfort, iKy., Aug. —azue trial of the inditcments against Dr. Hunter,ex- Congressman John H. Wilson, Hon. E. T. Franks, Noel Gaines and Thomas Tanner, for alleged conspiracy to bribe was docketed by Judge Cantrill for the fourth day of the coming term of the Franklin circuit court. Adjt. Gen. Breck has issued an order revising the regulations of the United States infantry and cavalry school at Leavenworth, Kan. The changes are almost wholly of a technical nature. MINERS’ NEW MOVE the Cumberland river bridge. BELIEVES IN ANDREE. Views of the President of the Royal ~Geographical Society. Torento, Ont., \ug. 24.—Scott Keltie, the president of the Royal Geograph- ical Society of Great Britain, perhaps the best authority on exploration in the world, characterized as “rot” the statement that Andree’s balloon has been seen in the White sea, because it would not have been likely to take that direction. As to the report of Andree’s pigeons having been found, it was im- possible to say whether or not they wer Andree’s. The Germans are flying pigeons from the English coast to their own country, and the pigeons found been German birds. An- id before he started that he might not be hard from for two years. He was personally acquainted with Mr. Andree and with Mr. Natsen. They much alike. Andree was a ent fellow, of magnificent physique. He was perfectly well aware of what he was deing when he under- took the trip to the North Pole, and if pluck, intelligence ard physique could help a man through such an undertak- ing, he would yet be heard from. It might be that his balloon would come down on the northern coast of Alaska, in which case it would take corsider- able time for him to reach a telegraph station. Then it might descend in Si- or Greenland,and some time must ber elaspse in any case before he would be heard from. Mr. Keltie appears to be of the opinion that Andree has been successful in crossing the North Pole, and to believe that he will be heard fiom soon. Christiana, Aug. 23. — A dispatch to the Fremskridt from Sande says that a | balloon was seen on Aug. 15 hovering at 2 great height and in a northwester- ly direction. From the balloon depend- ed a tackle, which appeared to be luminous. ARMENIAN BOMBS. Confession From the Organ of the | Armenian Revolutionis i Geneva, Aug. 23. — The Goskat, the | organ of the Constantinople commit- tee of the Armenisn Revolutionary Federation, which is printed here, as- serts that the recent explosions in Con- stantinople were the work of the com- mittee, and says the committee is di- recting the movements of the parties who are fighting the Turks in the lage of Van. “W eare obliged,’ the Groshat, “to resort to every p ble means to carry on the struggle ; against such overwhelming odds. Rey- cluticn is the only source left us.” Constantinople, Au; 3.—The foreign ambassadors here have received a cir- ' letter from the Armenian Dash- Zetoum committee almost iden- with that sent to them in 1896, de- claring that the Armenians are tired of waiting and have resolved to take ac- tion for the redress of their grievances. Filibustering Again, shington, Aug. 23.—Unofficial in- formation has reached the treasury de- tment that the suspected filibuster untless has left Savannah, Ga., with a barge in tow and that she is to be jeined by the Alexander Jones at a point southeast of Hatteras, where the | e to meet the schocner Hanna F. Briggs,supposed to be loaded with munitions of war for the Cuban | urgents. Which vessel will make the trip is not known. It is also stated that a filibustering expedition is as- sembling near Tampa, Fla. Secretary Gage to-day telegraphed the collector of customs at Sa and Tampa, to use spe 4 prevent violations of the n Jaws, and also to ccnfer with the coim- manders of naval y els at their ports | as to what steps sheuld be taken. ation Postponed. —The execution he alleged para- moniae with a mania for marrying young girls, has beer indefinitely post- poned., Flanagan was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Allen and:Miss Ruth’ Stack, in Dekalb county, and was sen- tenced to be hanged Wednesday, Aug. 25. A motion for a new trial was ar- gued before Judge Chandler at Deea- tur to-day. The judge reserved his de- cision and indefinitely postponed Flan- agan’s execution, A Little More Fighting. f — Official advices from Santa Clara report that a sharp engagement has tuken place on the Gonzales coffee estate, between govern- ment forces under Gen. Lopez Amor end a band of insurgents. The latter were defeated an dtheir leader, Flores, h twenty-four of his followers, was l:illed. Capt. nm. Weyler has been ad- vised that $3,000,000 in silver, with which to pay the troops, was remitted Saturday from Spain. Consul General Lee has received $5,000 more for tribution among the needy Amerie: in Cuba. The Arions Start. ‘The special train nent to Yellowstone Park and back, at of $18,000 by 125 members of the Arion society of this city, has left on its journey. ‘The exucrsionists were xiven a grand send-off by the Arion band. Held Up by Robbers. Granite, Colo., Aug. 25.—A messenger and armed guard carryin gthe weekly cleanup of the Twin Lakes Placer com- pany to town for shipment wer? halted by two men and compeled to deliver the gold, valued at between $4.000 and $5,000. A posse is now in pursuit. South Dakota’s Tax League. Pierre, S. D., Aug. 23.—The total fig- ures of the South Dakota assessment for this year are completed and show an assessable valuation cf $120,167,160, a raise of $776,004 over the assessment .of last year. Cloakmakers on a Strike. New York, Aug. 23.—Two thousand cloakmakers employed by Baumann & Sperting, H. W. Endorff & Co., the Syndicate Cloak Company, Bernstein & Newman, Rubin & Welland, and Bloom Bros., are on a strike for higher wages. Lynched a Rapist. Williamsburg, Ky., Aug. 23—Eleany Sullivan,convicted of the rape of Sarah Lawson and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary,was taken from jail by a mob and hanged on the timbers of ; deal which she has passed through. ' service from Dawson City down to Washington, Aug. 20. — Secretary Sherman has submitted to the Jan- anese government an answer to the latter’s note relating to the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. The - answer was delivered to Mr. Hoshi, Y the Japanese minister, last Saturday. - It is in reply to Japan’s note of July b 10. which up to that time had not been ; acknowledged. Mr. Biennanns answer is marked by its friendly expressions toward Japan, which gives special satisfaction, in view of the somewhat strained rela- tions resulting from the previous Cor- respondence. wo features are brought out by the answer: It reiterates the position heretofore taken by the secre- tary of state as to the right and pro- priety of annexing Hawaii to the Unit- - ed States. With this, however, is coupled an assurance that the inter- ests of Japan in Hawaii will be fully safeguarded. It also expresses satis- faction at the plan of arbitration be- tween Japan and Hawaii on the ques- tion of Japanese immigration to - Hawaii. — ~ _— THE PENSION BUSINESS. Hard Times Caused a Marked In-~ crease in Applications. Washington, Aug. 20.—Commissioner of Pensions Evans has had a state- ment prepared on the number of appli- cations for pensions filed since July, 1896. The comparison shows that in July, 1896, applications for pensions aggregated 2,898, while in June, 1897, there were 40,169, largely for increases ' and for widows and minor children. The commissioner attributes the in- crease to the hard times which have - prevailed during the past few years. He thinks, however, the high-water mark of pensions has been reached, and that now the number of applica- 4 tions will begin to decrease. MRS. DOMINGUEZ FREE. Released From a Cuban Prison by the Interference of the United States. Washington, Aug. 20.—The state de- i | partment has received official informa- i tion from Matanzas that Mrs. Domin- guez has been released from jail,where she was held incommunicado. The ,; United States consul visited her and ‘ ; found she was suffering from nervous prostration and half-crazed by the or- ‘ She has quite a severe wound in her throat, and is in a ocnstant state of alarm on account of her husband, who is held a prisoner. The state depart- ment made an effort in behalf of these people,who are American citizens,some time ago, and the release of the woman was made on the 10th inst. Postal Facilities for Klondike. Washington, Aug. 20.—The Canadian government and the United States. have agreed in co-operating in aug- menting the postal facilities for the Klondike region, and the result will shortly be evidenced in a substantial I doubling of the mail service from the coast into the district. The reply of Canada to Acting Postmaster General Shallenberger’s proposition to estab- lish an exchange of mails at Circle City and Dawson City reached here. It is a counter-proposition made by Can- ada, the latter agreeing to perform the Dyea, by means of a contract of her own, with redisbursement to be made by this government for its share of the service. This differs frem this coun- try’s propcsition in that it was to have the United States let the contract and look to Canada for her share. The oe | counter-proposition, however, is satis- factory to the department here. BUTTERINE PROSECUTION. Chicago Firms Indicted for Viola- tion of the Law. Chicago, Aug. 20.—Prosecutions on a wholesale scale will, it is said, soon be instituted against violators of the new } butterine lay, wliich prohibits the col- - } ; oring of imitation butter. It is claimed that dealers in all parts of the city are } selling butterine and other prepara- : tions in open defiance of the law, and | with the mutual understanding that the matter is to be brought to the su- § } preme court to have the constitutional- ity of the law passed upon. In this, it is said, they will be accommodated with a vengeance. Three prominent 4 firms have already been indicted for vi- olating the law, and evidence is being collected in other cases. The Nationla Dairy union is said to be behind the ; prosecution. A Submarine Craft. a Baltimore, Md., Aug. 20.—The Argo- naut, a submarine craft. was launched at the yards of the Columbian Iron W Werks in the presence of a laige crowd of spectators. Miss Myriam Lake, daughter of the inventor, chris- | ; tened it. ‘This vessel, which is the in- i } vention of a Baltimoreaa, Simon Lake, bad : is as far as intentions and appearance are conecrned, one of the most unique ever constructed. It is intended for commercial work, including the explo- ration of the bottem of rivers, lakes, bays, and even seas, for wrecking work. oj oo Deaths in Silesin. Berhn, Aug. 20—The greater part of Silesia has been visited by very severe storms, and several persons have been killed by lightning. yphus fever is rampant at Rogan in consequence of Ld the water used for drinking there, hay- ing become infected by the refuse ac- cumulated by the floods, aw. Sold for $6,000,000. New York, Aug. 20.—It is reported i that ey pene members of the ; manufacturing firm of Stein t Sons have consummated a deal wheres ‘ ¥ ag by the extensive business of the con- | sen Danves into the hands of an En- glish syndicate. The price paid was $6,000,000. o Memphis, Tenn, Auge abe: Harvey i emphis, Tenn., Aug. 20. — Deberry (colored) was hanged in the jail yard this morning. pro- tested his innocence while on the gal- lows. Deberry was hanged for at- tempting to rape a 7-year-old girl on Oct. 8, 1896. This is the first leg hanging for this crime in SEE aeeeee By a close vote the New uce exchange declined to” <a é 4