Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 4, 1897, Page 2

wale The Hevald--B view. Ly E. Kiley. MINNESOTA, GRAND RAPIDS - Others see our faults as plainly as we see theirs, If you would not be known to do a thing, never do it. The man who plows deep makes the right kind of a prayer for good crops, To save all trouble Judge Jackson might enjoin the coal from remaining longer in the mines. A man of figures says one pound of wool will produce one yard af cloth. It will also produce 1,587,963,204 words which are called congressional de- bate. * “As Joaquin Miller sees it” is the headline over the poet’s letter from the Alaskan gold fields. And when you read the letter you know Mr. Miller saw it through a dictionary. ‘A remarkable discovery has been made in Connecticut. By an error in the statutes it is almost impossible to punish a man for bigamy. It is not a crime for a man to be married to more than one woman so long as he does not live with his wives. Who knows but the members of the legislature intended to have the law read just as it does? Of course, the women will see that it 1s repealed. At the unveiling of the monument to nis grandfather at Cologne, the En:peror William referred to the sym- bolical figure thereon as “Neptune and his trident.” As a matter of fact, the sculptor had struggled to represent “teather Rhine” and garlanded vines— and this was his reward. Our repub- lican eyes make odd mistakes with some of our statues, and the imperial eye may fairly be pardoned their artis- tie astigmatism. e There are many ways of keeping the great dead in perpetual remembrance. A magnificent tomb, a monument, a statue was the ancient. way. To erect memorials that will bless mankind, while recalling a name that deserves the honor of posterity, is a modern idea. One of the pleasantest and most merited tributes of this sort is the setting apart of Elmwood, the home- stead of James Russell Lowell, in Cam- bridge, as a public park. The project bids fair to succeed; and until a degen- erate age shall dispose of the land for money, the public pleasure ground will be a perpetual reminder of America’s poet, statesman and scholar. The production of aluminium in the United States during the year 1896 was 1,300,000 pounds, as against 900,000 pounds in 1895, showing a gain of 400,- 300 pounds, or 44 per cent. As has been the case for several years past the en- tire domestic output came from a single producer, the Pittsburg Reduction Company, the plant of which at Ni- agara Falls has been enlarged and has been working at nearly full capacity. {t is interesting to note in this connec- tion that the United States has up to the present time produced more than one-third of all the aluminium manu- factured in the world. The principal European producer is the Aluminium Industrie GesgJlschaft, with works at Neuhausen, Switzerland, and control- ling the Societe Electro-Metalurgique de France, with works at Froges, in France. In view of the probable borrowing upon a large scale by the Chinese gov- ernment in the near future investors would do well to bear in mind how un- settled the position of the empire is, and how serious is its financial out- look. In a letter dated April 30, the Pekin correspondent of the Lon- don Times points out the fi- nancial necessities of the coun- try are every day becoming keener, and now when China has need of all her resources, when revenues formerly distri*ated for internal needs are being collected to pay foreign in- debtedness, when terminal charges and others wrongfully imposed to nullify the value of transit passes are being abolished in obedience to the will of treaty powers, with consequent shrink- age of revenue, a famine has broken out in two of the richest provinces, Szuchuan and Hu-pei, and a great de- crease in the land tax and opium likin must further weaken the treasury, Cannibalism is reported in the famine districts. The secret societies are at work and the officials are in dread. Surely China has dark days before her. All is tending to unrest. The uprising in Yun-nan, the raids in Kwang-si, the murder of Pere Mazel, and the fore- boding of a rebellion in Yun-nan in sympathy with a Mohamedan insurrec- | tion in Kan-su are all of evil portent. The prospect is thus extremely gloomy, and a greater display of statesmanship ‘1 than has yet been made in Pekin will | be required if grave results are not to follow. Even the Chicago grand jury is tainted with bribery, and the public eye seeks in vain for a pure object connected with the administration of justice. Lawyers wriggle their clients out of trouble with the bold help of courts, and there appears to be little or no chance of a square deal in be- half of the vast honest majority of the” iss people. D603: OS | THE NEWS RESUME DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports—The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention. People Talked About. Judge Horace N. Houghton of ‘Spo- kane, Wash., formerly of Wisconsin, is dead at Chicago of paralysis. Edith, the only daughter of Dr. J. TH. Bates of Chicago, was secretly married to Ernest A. Whitney, a poor young man, at Kenosha, Wis., five weeks ago. Her parents are wealthy. Miss Mary McLean, daughter of Rey. J. K. MeLean of the Pacific Theolog- of professor of English lierature in Stanford university. James W. Paul, oldest member of the Philadelphia bar, is dead. He had a high reputation as a lawyer. He was the father of the late Mrs. Wal- dorf Astor of New York, and leaves four children. A. F. Gunther, president of the Fort Dodge, Iowa, National bank, and of the Craig and -Pleasant Valley coal company, is dead in Baden, Germany, where he had gone to take medical treatment. known citizens of Milwaukee, is dying. He was stricken with paralysis some time ago, and never recovered. His physician says he cannot live another day. Mr. Sanger was at one time very wealthy, but lost mest of his property in the panic of 1893. He has held sev- eral political offices. Accidental Happenings. President Patrick Dolan of the min- ers’ organization, had a narrow escape from death near Sturgeon Station, and John McLuckie, the camp commissary, was badly hurt by being struck by a train. Five children drowned in the harbor of Toronto, Canada, by the capsizing of a boat. The dead are: Albert Dris- coll, aged six; Gertie Harvey, aged eleven; Jack Bethel, aged ten, and two others, names unknown, A six-year-old boy of Antone Maffel, while playing on a coal car standing on a side track at Butte, Mont., suc- ceeded in unfastening the brake, and when the car started he fell off and un- der the wheels, which passed over him and literally cut him to pieces. Crimes and Criminals. John C. Seaver, judge of probate at Woodstock, Vt., was dangerously shot by William W. Lawrence because of official action he had taken. At Lovett, Tenn., Andrew Green, a colored man, crazed by whisky, killed a merchant, dangerously wounded a negro woman and was himself shot to death. The robber who was shot and killed at Canton, Ohio, by a policeman at the Canton Savings bank was George Ger- big of Chambersburg,Pa.,better known as “Conroy.” He was a barber about 40 years old and had a criminal record. A dastardly attempt was made on Samuel Carson’s life in Ross town- ship, near Kalamazoo, Mich., by blow- ing him up with dynamite. Carson is worth $200,000, and his family lives in Galesburg. He offers $500 reward for the arrest of the guilty man. Because rejected by Miss Ella De- magg, a pretty domestic of twenty, Private John Mottke, of Fort Ethan Allen, committed suicide at Burling- ton, Vt. He was a native of Germany, and had been in the United States army six years. Mrs. Otillie Kiraly, the divorced wife ofa lieutenant colonel of the Austrian army, and formerly a favorite actress in Vienna, apparently tried to shoot her Italian lover, Placida Saitta, a produce merchant, at Brooklyn. Fail- ing, she shot herself through the right temple. Ed Williams, colored, was killed and burned up in his home, three miles north of Baxter, Ark. About a month ago Williams committed an outrage on a colored woman and then sent word to the deputy sheriff, residing. here, that he would kill him if he undertook to arrest him. James R. Quigley, an ex-fireman, was killed at St. Louis by John O’Donnell, an ex-deputy sheriff, in a fight over a game of quoits. O’Donnell, it is al- leged, knocked his opponent down and kicked him repeatedly, injuring Quig- ley so bad that he died soon after be- ing taken to the city hospital. The murderer escaped. W. R. O’Hearn, cashier of the Jack- son County (Wis.) bank, who was ar- rested on the charge of receiving money after he knew the bank was in- solvent, was taken before Court Com- missioner P. B. Castle at Black River Falls, but waived examination until ‘the fall term of the circuit court under $5,000 bonds. Foreign Gossip. Rt. Hon. Osborne-Bart, member of parliament of East Denbingshire, is dead. | A special dispatch from Bombay says that cholera has broken out in the Northampshire regiment. A strong appeal to the queen regent of Spain in behalf of Evangelina Cis- neros has been begun at London. Italy has wired to Morocco threaten- ing to dispatch a man-of-war to Tang- ier unless the crew of the Italian brig Fiduca is released. 5 The Paris Figaro publishes a report to the effect that the Bey of ‘unis, ‘ ortly abdicate in favor ical seminary, has accepted the chair Caspare M. Sanger, one of the hest- | the Ecole Normale Iris. The medallion is of bronze, with a wréath of oak and laurel, in pink marble, around it, and bears the dates of his principal dis- coveries, from 1857 to 1885. A message has been received at St. Johns, N. F., from Turnavick, on the coast of Labrador, dated July 28, stat- ing that the steamer Hope, with Lieut. R. E, Peary’s expedition, had touched there that day and sailed again on its way to Greenland. All on board we well. They have finally taken steps in Itussia to erect a monument to Turgen- eff, in his native town, Orel. A com- burg, at the head of which is Prince | Constantine Constantinovitch, —presi- ; dent of the Academy of Science, to collect money for the purpose. It .is expected that a large numBer of popu- lar contributions will be forthcoming. In his report to: Surgeon General Wyman, Dr. W. F. Brunner, sanitary inspector for the marine hospital ser- vice at Havana, says: The deaths from all causes are increasing rapidly each week. The deaths from yellow fever show a slight increase over the preceding week. Of the twenty-seven deaths from this cause twenty-five oc- curred among the Spanisb — soldiers and sailors. Otherwise. Yeorge Green was knocked out in eighteen rounds at San Francisco by Joe Walcott. Judge Acheson has rendered a de- cision in the United States circuit court at Pittsburg declaring the alien tax law unconstitutional. At the Arena at Philadelphia Harry Peppers of California put out Leon Block of Cleveland in the early part of the eighth round. ‘ The mortgage for $750,000 which the Iowa Union ‘Telephone company gave to the Illinois trust company, has been lost in the mails. Chief of Police Peter Conlin of New York has been retired by the police cominissioners on his own application. He will receive a pension of $3,000 a year. Ship charges are still on the inccease |at San Francisco, and 2s 6d from that port to Europe has been reached. At this rate three vessels have been en- gaged. The steamer Mariposa, which ar- rived at San Francisco from Sydney, via Honolulu, brought a consignment of $2,250,000 in English sovereigns for San Francisco banks. Reperts to the Illinois Central from all stations in Iowa indicate a large |}* crop of corn, within thirty to forty days of maturity. There has been no frost as yet, The Pl nton stock farm, near Oakland, Cal., the famous training and breeding establishment of some of the world’s greatest race horses, has ‘veen declared insolvent by Judge Hall. On behalf of the officers of the Farm- ers’ National Congress and Pan-Ametri- can Agricultural Parliament, Col. John M. Stahl has issued the call for the annual meeting. which will be held in St. Paul Aug. 31 to Sept. 7. The Wisconsin State timber estimat- ors who have been cruising over the state park lands report the minimum value of the’ tracts at $347,053. ‘The land and timber will be sold by th: state at public auction Oct. 5. The Northern Pacific and Ashland railroads have ceased hostilities at Moquah, Wis. The Ashland road will be allowed to relay its track. It will also put in interlocking swithees at once. The Wisconsin state veterinarian has killed a herd of thirty-five Jersey cat- tle belonging to D. J. Farnum, at Me rimack, on account of tuberculosis,and other herds will probably meet the same fate. ‘The bureau of Catholic Indian mis- sions at Washington is about to quit work. The meeting of the Catholic arehbishops, to be held there next Oc. tober, will formulate a new plan for the administration of the affairs of Indians, The best previous record for heavy lifting, that of Louis St. Cyr, who put up 8,536 pounds, was broken by a St. Louis man. Pat McCarthy, aged thir- ty-six, shouldered a board platform on which there was a pile of stone aggre- gating 4,222 pounds in weight. A great strike in the building trade begun at Budapest. More than 20,00€ men are involved. Several encounters have taken place between the police and strikers, and two hundred people are injured. ‘The police have made about cne hundred arrests. When the Philadelphia authorities examined the bills incurred for the en- tertainment of guests at the recent un- veiling of the Washington monument, it was found the cost of entertaining Mayor Strong of New York was just The owners of the Down Town mines in Leadville, allowed to fill with water during the great miners’ strike and have not been operated since, de- cided, at a conference in that city, to | defer the unwatering of the mines un- til the silver market becomes more set- tled. “Died by the visitation of God” was the verdict of the coroner's jury that sat at Cortland, N. Y., in the case of Frank Dickinson, who expired while struggling with his son, Leroy, Tues- day, after a quarrel. The autopsy in- dicated a badly-diseased heart, which had been ruptured in three places. An error of magnitude has been dis- covered in the treasury statistics re- lating to wool imported for consump- tion in 1893. Wools of class 3, im- ported in the fiscal year of 1893, were reported to have been 133,197,580 Ibs, These figures are too high by 26,302,- 00 Ibs. The directors of the Astronomical | Society of the Paicfic have formally -accepted the foundation and endow- ment of the gold medal by Miss Cath- erine Wolfe Bruce of New York city, to be awarded not oftener than once a year by the society for “distinguished services to astronomy.” Prof. W. H. Holmes, curator of the department of “anthropology in the Field Colvmbian museum and profes- sor of geology in the University of Chi- cago, has been assigned to the care of the collections in the departments ot anthropology and ethnology in the na- tional museum and Smithsonian mu- mittee has been formed in St. Petérs-| KING OF THE TURF STAR POINTER PACES THE FASTEST MILE ON RECORD. The Famous Tennessee Stallion Goes a Mile in the Phenomenal Time of 1:59 1-4—The Wildest Excite- ment Prevailed When It Became Evident That the Two-Minute Mark Would Be Smashed—A Fair- er Mile Was Never Timed. * Readville, Mass., Aug. 31. — Star Pointer, the famous pacing horse, broke the world’s record for one mile on this track, pacing an exhibition mile in 1:59 1-4. The track was in ex- cellent condition and Star Pointer made the record with hardly an effort. When it was started it was not thought he would do better than 2:02. When he passed the quarter-post in :30 flat, however, there was intense ex- citement. ‘The half-mile was turned in 59 3-4 and the third quarter in 1.25. On the stretch the horse seemed to fairly fly and crossed the tape in the wonderful time of 1:591-4. He was paced by a running horse. Star Point- er was driven by McClary. McClary nodded for the word and off the pacer went. The first quarter was at an even 2 minute gate in 30 seconds, and then McClary called on his pacer to move the second quarter. There was a great cheer, for he was beating two minutes all to pieces and got the half in :59 3-4 with the second quarter in 293-4 seconds. The third quarter was the fastest of the mile. The distance was covered in 2914 seconds, a 1:57 gait. Around the turn Pointer seemed to waver the small- est fraction of a second, but McClary had him right almost before one could see it, and then they straightened into the stretch. The great stallion ap- peared to freshen in the last few strides, gathering fresh strength and courage as he neared the wire, and finished like a lion in the record-break- ing time of 1:591-4. A mighty shout went up. Men yelled as though pos- sessed. In the grand stand the own- er of the horse had his hand wrung until it ached. Over the fences jumped men who knew horse and driver or who were carried away with the en- thusiasm of the moment. Hardly had McClary got the horse to a stand-still before they had him on their shoulders and he was borne down the stretch to the judges’ stand, and there, «as the band played “Hail to the Chief,” he was introduced to the throng. A tip of the hat and renewed applause for the horse, owner and trainer rang out. A fairer mile was never timed. Not a watch in the stand but what agreed with the time announced, pad Boston, Aug. 31.—Star Pointer and Joe Patchen, the pacers, have been matched for a mile race at Mystic Park on Sept. 11 for a purse of $4,000, the winner to take all. OFF FOR CURA. Best Equipped -Expeditioa Yet Leaves Florida. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 31.—A large Cu- ban expedition under the command of Col. Mendez got away, taking a spe- cial train in the suburbs under cover ot darkness. ‘The train was rushed over the Plant system to Cleveland on the Peace river, near Punta Gorda, where the tug Fearless, commanded by Capt. Merwin, is supposed to have been ready to take the men on and their equipments out to sea to meet a larger boat on which the trip is to be completed. This party has been here for nearly two months. Within the past few days a number of Chilean of- ficers have joined them, The Cubans say that their expedition is the best equipped with men and munitions of any that they have succeeded in send- ing away. MISS CISNEROS’ RELEASE, Capt. General Weyler Postpones Ac- tion in the Matter. Havana, Aug. 31. — It is asserted here that it was the intention of Capt. Gen. Weyler as the result of quiet and friendly influence on the part of Con- sul General Lee, to issue an order dis- missing the case of Miss Cossie Cis- neros ina short time. In view of the publicity given to the case and the many contradictory assertions made in regard to it, the captain general has decided to postpone action for the pres- ent. The military commander of the Isle of Pines recently stated that many of the statements made with reference to Senorita Cisneros were without foundation, and that so far as he could judge no extreme sentence would be imposed upon her. A Spanish Concession. Paris, Aug. 31. — Senor Delmaze, former civil governor of Havana, in an interview printed in Figaro, is quoted as saying: “The Cuban ques- tion was badly managed by Senor Canovas. The Liberals would not re- fuse any just claims the United States | might make. - Gen. Campos, Domin- ; guez, Blanco or Azcarraga are most fitted to succeed Gen. Weyler and bring the latter’s unfortunate opera- | tions to an end.” Wisconsin Man Reveals Himself. Albion, N. Y., Aug. 31.—W.°E. Lord , enlisted in 1863, when a boy, at Lake Mills, Wis., and went to the front. He was not heard of afterward and was given up for dead. His family moved here soon after and were overjoyed by his appearance here to-day. Lord, who is now superintendent of public works at Pittsburg, attended the G. A. R. encampment at Buffalo, and while there learned of his family’s where- abouts. \_ . Who Will Be Senator? Jackson, Miss., Aug. 31.—Interest in the appointment of a successor to the late J. George grows apace as the tire for appointment approaches. Among those prominently mentioned are ex- Gov. Lowry, Senator-elect H. D. Money, who was elected to take the place of Senator George, commencing in 1899, and Hon. J. W. Cutrer. It is to be remembered that the appoint- ment by the governor holds only until the election of the legislature, which meets in January. _ ‘ # a ea . BERING SEA. Argument for the Canadian Govern- ment Before Commission. | Halifax, N. 8., Aug. 31—The Bering sea commission met again. Hon. F. G. Peters continued his address. He fol- lowed the same grounds as taken by him the day before in regard to the loss of the seals from prospective catches. He claimed that as the United States had taken the stand during the German convention that prospective damages should be award- ed, that to-day the same contention by the Canadian counsel should be sup- ported. He pointed out that the Unit- ed States authorities claimed pros- pective damages on behalf of the United States at a time when a num- ber of American vessels seining in TIortune bay were prevented from fish- ing by a mob of natives and that an award was made in view of the fact that a big catch was prevented by the action of the assailants. He further claimed that damages should be made for bodily hardship to the crew. For the government Mr. Peters claimed damages for the sealers, inasmuch as there had been no intention on the part of the United States to prevent the fishing by Canadian sealers. OFFERED AN ADVANCE. Rochester and London Striking Min- ers Given a Chance to Resume. 31.—General Man- sued a circular to the Rochester and London striking miners in which he grants an advance to 40 cents per net ton and gives the eempany’s side of the controversy. On Tuesday after the committee notified Mr. Robinson that the miners here agreed to strike notwithstanding his request for them to work until Satur- day, when he would reply to their de- mand for an advance, he told them he would have no further communication with Dubois. In his circular he says he deems it his duty to send them a communication as they have been mis- led and misinformed. Rumors of a General Shut Down. Hazelton, Pa., Aug. 31.—The strike situation here is more unsettled than it.has been for some days and rumors of a general shut-down are current. These have excited no little apprehen- sion among people who were just be- ginning to feel the effects of the im- proved condition of the anthracite coal trade and the activity at the mines due to the increased demand created by the depleted stock of bituminous. The foreigners control mining mat- ters here and this fact is coming home to the operators with greater force now than when they imported hard coal, FEAR OF LYNCHING. Sheriff Warned of a Plot to Lynch Two Young Men. Springfield. Ohio, Aug. 31. — Sheriff Shocknessy was informed that people living in and around St. Paris were organizing to come here to take Rollo Shafstall and Dayton Snyder from jail and lynch them. The young men who are now in jail here are the wealthy Dayton boys who, it is al- leged, brutally assaulted two girls at St. Paris while out driving with them. The information was given the sheriff by a Jamestown man _ who passed through here en route home from the Addison pioneer meeting. The sheriff professes not to be alarmed over the notification as Sheriff McLean of Ur- bana had agreed to let him know of any serious turn, and he has not yet heard from him. ASSAULTED A WOMAN. Mrs, Couch Choked Into Insensibili- ty and Assaulted. Macon, Ga., Aug. 31.—Mrs. J. Melvin Couch, wife of an engineer at Man- chester cotton mill, was assaulted by an unknown man. She was choked into insensibility before being able to see whether her assailant was white or black, but thinks he was black. Her wrist was bitten badly, presumably in the brute’s effort to find whether she was dead after his purpose had been accomplished. She was in the house alone and the front door was left un- locked as her husband was at a neighbor’s across the street. In the struggle Mrs. Couch managed to bite a piece out of the man’s face, and this will be the means of identifying him. Lynching is highly probable when he is captured. ; Raided by Brigands, Hong Kong, Aug. 31.—Malt Salet, a notorious brigand with 200 followers, raided the government station at Pulop Gaiya, captured Mr. Newbron- ner, the officer in charge, killed a cor- poral and then sacked the treasury of $20,000. The town, which consisted of wooden and kagang houses, was then fired and every building destroyed. Gaiya is the export and import center of a considerable district and the pop- ulation was largely Chinese. Salet at last accounts was fortified at Inaman adand it is feared will attack Sandaka and miassacre the Europeans after looting the town. Must Go to Russian Vessels. Washington, Aug. 31.—Consul Gen- eral Karel, at St. Petersburg, informs the state department that a measure has been sanctioned by the emperor of Russia providing that after Jan. 1, 1900, all coastwise trade of Russia must be carried in Russian vessels with the exception of salt from the Black and Azov seas to ports on the Baltic. A similar law was passed in 1830 but has remained a dead letter. Mexican Hurricane. Nogales, Ariz., Aug. 31. — Advices from Guayamas state that a severe hurricane visited the Gulf of Califor- nia and lower Mexican coast on the 22d inst. At Las Guaymas, near the mouth of the Yaquai river, the region for miles arouad was inundated and the town swept away. Three lives are reported lost and great damage done to crops. Disobedient Kiowas, Wichita, Kan., Aug. 31—Three hun- dred Kiowa Indians who persisted in dancing the ghost dance in defiance of the’ order of Capt. Frank D. Baldwin, agent for the Kiowas and Comanches, are under arrest and will be punished for their disobedience. Rehabilitating Spain’s Navy. Madrid, Aug. 31.—The Spanish goy- ernment wiil immediately construct one large iron clad and six cruisers of from 6,000 to 7,000 tons to form the nucleus of three squadrons. GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT WIND UP ITS AFFAIRS. : The-Election of Officers Was Take> Up and Completed at the Last Session—Report of the Pension Committee Favorably Receiv: A Service Pension Law Ree¢ mended—Parchase of Important Battlefields. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 28.—The Grand Army has selected its officers for the ensuing year and the encampment of 97 has adjourned to meet at Cincin- nati next year. Yesterday's session lasted from 9:35 in the morning until 4 o’clock in the afternoon without intermission. Open- ing under the order of business, the encampment took up the election of senior vice commander-in-chief. Com- rade Alfred Lyth, of Bidwell-Wilkeson post of this city, was placed in nomina- tion by Maj. A. J. E. Smith, the com- mander of his post, and was elected unanimously, there being no other nominations. The election of a junior vice commander-in-chief was not ac- complished until afternoon, there be- ing four candidates and several inter- ruptions to the proceedings by speeches and the admission of a com- mittee from the Woman’s Relief Corps. On the first ballot F. B. Allen of Con- necticut, the candidate of the naval veterans, led, with G. W. Carpenter of South Dakota second, S. L. Knapp of Kansas third, D. E. Boss of Delaware fourth and J. B. Cummings of Okla- homa fifth. There was evidently 10 desire to contest the election beyond the first ballot, as on the second the delegates began going over to Mr. Al- len rapidly and before the roll call had been completed the adjutant general was instructed to cast the vote of the encampment for him. David Mackay of Dallas, Tex., was elected surgeon general unanimously, and Rey. Frank Cc. Bruner, of the First Methodist church, Chicago, was in like manner elected chaplain-in-chief. Past-Com- mander-in-Chief Walker of Mlinois was presented with a silver service by the encampment. Among the reports receiving favor- able consideration in the executive ses- sion of the encampment was that of the pension committee. It recommend- ed a readjustment of widows’ peusions aud presented a form of proof and ap- plication in pension claims substantial- ly the same as embodied in the Pick- ler bill which has passed the house of representatives but has not passed the senate. that congress pass a service pension law to apply to all veterans who have reached the age of 62 years. The re- port of the committee having in charge the memoralizing of congress to pur- chase several of the most important _ battlefields about Fredericksburg, Va., and connect them by government roads was adopted. The invitation of the Young Men’s Business Association of Richmand, Va., to hold the encamp- ment of ’99 in that city was received and thanks extended and the assécia- tion was informed that the question could only be considered by the en- campment of ’98. M’KINLEY WAS THERE. Guest of the American Bar Associa- tion at Their Banquet. Cleveland, Aug. 28. — President Me- Kinley was-the guest of the American Bar association at its banquet, though the fact that he was to be there was kept very quiet. The president was accompanied by Secretary Alger and Senator Hanna. A’‘seat had been re- served for him between the new and the retiring presidents of the associa- tion. After the applause which greet- ed the president had subsided the toastmaster announced that the execu- tive committee had reported the elec- tion to honorary membership in the association of William MeKinley of Ohio. The announcement was greeted by cheers. The president made a short speech in response. HAS EVADED PURSUERS. Ferdinand May, German Defaulter, > Supposed to Be in Australia. San Francisco, Aug. 28.—Ferdinand May. who fied from Germany with, nearly $1,000,000 entrusted to him by® clients, is supposed to be in Australia. ‘The steamer Mariposa, here from Aus- tralia, was carefully searched before her departure, the authorities suspect- ing that the criminal would attempt to escape to the United States. He is thought to have reached Sydney by the Arcadia or Australia, a man an- swering his description haying board- ed the latter vessel at Suez. It is also reported that he was traced to Bris- bane, but there the detectives lost track of him. Substantial rewards are offered for his arrest. He is a man of culture and excellent presence. MESS BEEF FOR JAPAN. Oriental Army and Navy te Be Sup- plted by Armonr. Kansas City, Aug. 28.—A million and a half pounds of mess beef for use by the Japanese army and navy is being prepared in this city by the Armour Packing company. The shipmy Ys ‘os. the largest single beef © orde! ed by a Kansas City ho it shipment has been ma special train of twenty i Chicago Great Wes' St. Paul the cargo wil to the Canadian Pacifie fi whence it will go by Nagasaki. Charged With Embezzlement. Trenton, N. J., Aug. 28.—Justice of the Peace Michael J. Dolan has issued a warrant for the arrest of Peter W, Crozier, the secretary and treasurer f] the collapsed Mercer and Mechani Mutual Building and Loan association, charging him with embezzlement. Corn May Suffer. _ Burlington, Iowa, Aug. 28. — The farmers in this Hlinois are compla’ of the drouth and claim if there is not rain soom corn will suffer severely. _ The report also recommended S rtion of Towa and | 7 > | yoo