Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 6, 1900, Page 2

' The Lierald--Review. E, C. Kiley T J. Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Publishers. _ MINNESOTA, = A penny will buy twenty times as much nourishment in the shape of oat- meal as in the form of beef. GRAND RAPIDS, - Meat has been preserved in a frozen state for thirty years, and found per- fectly eatable at the end of that time. Before starting in to, lick China sin- gle handed the Kaiser might do well to make a study of England’s tussle with the Boers. The showing made by the Duke of Manchester in the bankruptcy court renders his marriage to a girl with a bank account imperative. Anger, wrote the great historian, Clarendon, is the most important pas- sion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than the other against whom it is directed. Like flakes of snow that fall unper- ceived upon the earth, says Jeremy Taylor, the seemingly unimportant events of life succeeded one another. As the snow gathers together, so are our habits formed. No single flake that is added to the pile produces a sensible change; no single action cre- ates, however it may exhibit, a man’s character. Carbolic acid, which is so much used as a dressing for wounds and skin troubles, is a dangerous remedy. Many instances are known in which morti- fication, with consequent loss of fin- gers and toes, has resulted from the application of cloths moistened in weak solutions of the drug, and physi- cians are beginning to cry out against this practice. The towns of Wheeling and Gaston in Delaware county, Indiana, were rivals in the matter of securing a rail- road and Gaston won, The other night a number of Gastonians started over to Wheeling with the intention of jubilating over their success. Just outside Wheeling they were met by a brigade armed with eggs. The defend- ers were as deadly of aim as the Boers and the Gaston folks took to flight, but not before nearly each of them had been profusely decorated. The inquirer caught her breath be- fore this descendant of the Schaufflers and Labarees. Persons who do not believe in foreign misions may prefer the story of a baby now living with his mother in the New Jersey state prison. His father was a criminal. His mother is a thief, so were his un- cles, grandfather and greatgrandfather. Physicians think they detect in his physical form evidenees of the thief and degenerate. ‘‘To the fourth gen- eration” has a double suggestiveness. After the “investment syndicates” collapsed, an unscrupujous New York- er printed an advertisement, signed “Lawyer,” asking all who had been swindled by the five-hundred-and- twenty-per-cent concerns to send him their names. Fancying that he want- ed to help them in some way, thou- sands of the dupes responded, where- upon “Lawyer” sold their addresses to promoters of other fraudulent schemes, suggesting that such people would bite at anything! It is one of the penalties of a foolish action that everybody expects the fool to give a continuous performance. Japan, which has surprised the west- ern world by its progress in modern material civilization, is not behind in some of the branches of science which are cultivated rather for themselves than for their utility in everyday af- fairs. In astronomy, for-instance, the Japanese are trying to Keep abreast with their European and American competitors, and it is announced that two of the three most recently discov- ered asteroids were found by Mr. Hirayama of the observatory of Tokio, using the distinctively modern method of photography which has displaced eye observation in-the search for such faintly luminous objects. The Crow Indians of Montana are emulating the whites in enterprise and industry. They have constructed ‘a system of irrigation for their farms, on which they raise much wheat; have one flour mill in operation and are building another in a distant part of the reservation. They are rich in flocks and herds, and dispose of many cattle and horses and much farm pro- duce to buyers. More than all, they have’ recently entered into a contract with the United States government to supply the Cheyenne Indians with ‘lonr. This is the first instance of a government contract being awarded to Indians—to “blanketed Indians,” at least. Of course the fact does not sig- mify that all Indians may be taught to be enterprising; but it does forbid us to think that they are all incapable of improvement, By the new Pollak and Virag sys- tem of rapid telegraphy, a message of 220 words was recently transmitted between Berlin and Pest in Hungary in nine seconds, or at the rate of 8,800 words per hour, The message is written by a point of light reflected from a swinging mirror at the receiy- ing end upon a roll of sensitized pa- per. A modification of the Morse al- phabet is used, and the message is put upon the wire by means of a strip of perforated paper running over a wheel and controlling the electric con- tacts. ALBERT LEA, MINN. Crazy Man Runs Amuck and Mor- tally Wounds Two Men—Citizens Go Gunning for the Insane Mur- derer and He Is Fatally Wounded —He Took the Middle of the Prin- cipal Street and Shot Right and Left — Fully Fifty Shots Were Fired Before He by <a Brought Down. Albert Lea, Minn., Oct. 3.—A terrible tragedy took place here. last might, and one man is almost dead and two more are perhaps mortally wounded. About § o'clock John M. Hare, a man forty years of age, who had been in- sane, met and began to abuse Prof. W. J. Schmitz, superintendent of the city schools, at the same time flour- ishing a revolver.’ He left there and rushed down the street, and when in front of the Briggs drug store he shot Policeman Sebby, the ball enter- ing the body on the left side and just below the heart. The officer fell and was taken to a doctor’s office, where he is in a dangerous condition. The insane murderer then took the middle of the principal street of the city and Shot Right and Left W. H. Jones, proprietor of the Albert Lea house, received two wounds, one in the arm and the second at the low- er part of the abdomen at the left, side. He was taken to the hospital and may recover if the intestines are not per- forated. The populace went gunning for the murderer and fully fifty shots were fired before he was brought down at the lower end of Broadway. The bullet entered the back of’ the head near the top and passed through, crushing the brain so it is oozing out, and death is but a question of a few hours. The town is wild and every- body is talking of the tragedy. SHOW GOODS RUINED. Dog Locked in a Store Destroys Val- uable Millinery. Fort Dodge, Iowa, Oct. 3.—A large greyhound belonging to parties in this city held high carnival last night in the store owned by the Weiss Dry Goods company, ‘and as a result the firm stands loser to the amount of several hundred dollars. The dog was accidentally locked in when the store was closed for the night, and when he was discovered he stood in the midst of a scene of destruction well calculated to harrow the feelings of any respectable storekeeper. The dog had attempted to -3cape through the show windows, and in doing so had destroyed the most attractive articles of millinery and dress goods. GOLD FROM NOME. Half a Million Brought Down by the Steamship Senator. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 3.—One hundred and thirteen passengers and five hun- dred thousand dollars’ worth of gold were brought to Seattle by the Sena- tor, just arrived from Nome. The Senator sailed Sept. 13. Capt. Patter- son says there was still a chance to save the steamship Orizaba when he left the scene of the wreck Sept. 22. The vessel was hanging hard and fast on the Rocky Point reef, St. Michael's island, with six feet of water in the hold. Several pumps were at work, and it was the belief of Capt.. Run- “dall, of the Orizaba, that she would be afloat with high tide. Four Vessels Lost. St. John’s, N. F., Oct. 3.—Four more fishing vessels, with crews aggrega- ting thirty-five men, were posted yes- terday as having been lost during the great gale of Sept. 13. This is likely to complete the list of local disasters. The British cruiser Charybdis, just returned from the northeast coast, re- ports that the French fishermen op- erating there have closed their sta- tions and left the coast after complete failure, the last retiring a week ago. Arrested on Suspicion. Hudson, Wis., Oct. 3—James Mar- tin, John Lusk and James Rambse were’ brought here from Baldwin by Sheriff Greene and Marshal Lewis Snoeyenkos. They are charged with carrying burglars’ tools and having designs upon the Hersch mercantile establishment at Baldwin. During the arrest one of the gang fired upon Officer Snoeyenbos, and though the call was very close, no serious conse- quences resulted. A Pioneer Gone. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 3.—E. R. Kirk, a pioneer of Sioux City and the Northwest, is dead. He was three times postmaster of Sioux City, was a membber of the Frontier Guards in the early ’50s, which had many en- counters with Indians, and also served through the Civil war with an Iowa regiment. | Burglars at Fergus Falls. Fergus Falls, Minn., Oct. 3.—Bur- glars entered the Kiewel warehouse by a back window, opened the safe, which was unlocked, took the money drawer and made good their escape. The drawer contained about $15 in cash, $1,200 in notes and other valua- ble papers. There is no clue. xf Early Morning Fire at Le Sueur. Le Sueur, Minn., Oct. 3.—The resi- dence of Philip Briard was destroyed by fire. Both house and contents were consumed. Loss, $1,000; partly insured. Lightning Causes Fire Loss. Red Wing, Minn., Oct. 3.—During a violent thunder storm lightning strufk at the farm of John McNamara, in Belle Creek, destroying the barn with hay and grain valued at $2,500. There was no insurance. Safe Blowers Escape. Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 3.—Three bur- glars entered the bank at Elkport, Northern Iowa, blew the safe to pieces and secured $1,000 in cash ana val'@ble papers. A posse is in pur- gut of the robbers. INSANE MAN'S WORK TERRIBLE TRAGEDY OCCURS AT Samoans to Be Rewarded for the Surrender of Rifles. ‘Washington, Oct. 2. — Baron Speck von Sternberg,, German charge d’af- faires, was at the state department Saturday in reference to closing up that branch of the Samoan Agreement rela- tive to the payment to the native Sa- moans the value of the rifles surren- dered by them. When the Samoan commissioners arrived at Apia they deemed it expedient first to. secure the disarmament of the belligerent native factions. This was agreed to by the natives on the understanding that $12.50 for each rifle would be paid. Some 3,000 rifles were turned over. The natives now ask the payment of the money, and Solf, the governor, has proposed Dr. that the payment shall be made un- der restrictions proposed by the for- eiga consuls in order that the consid- erable amount of money involved shal) not Iead to disorder among the na- tives. The three parties interested in Samoa at the time of the surrender of the rifles—United States, Germany and Great Britain—will jointly contribute the amount required and no difficulty is apprehended in making the settle- ment. CORBETT REFUSES TO TALK. Com: Back to Meet Charges— Makes Up With His Wife. New York, Oct. 2—James J. Corbett returned from Europe on the Campania. The only one who met him at quaran- tine was his legal representative, Emanuel Friend, and he and the fight- er held a conference while the ship was groping her way to her dock through the fog. The gang plank of the Cam- pania had hardly put out before tha form of Corbett appeared. He looked well and was dressed in a long brown mackintosh and wore a brown Derby. He carried a hat box which appeared to be his only piece of baggage, for this was chalked by the custom house people without causing him any delay, and he was then hurried off the pier by Mr. Friend and John Considine and another friend. The last two were on the dock to welcome him. As he was leaving’ the pier Mr. Corbett said hur- riedly to the reporters: “I have come back to meet any charges which may be made against me. That is all I have got to say and that is all I am going to say.” It is believed that all differences be- tween Corbett and his wife have been settled. Husband and wife dined to- gether at a restaurant and later ap- peared at a place of amusement. It is now said that Mrs. Corbbett will not press the divorce suit which she threat- ened to bring. Has AMIGOS WERE IN IT. Participate in Attacks on America Outposts. Manila, Oct. 2.—The Filipinos in the city of Manila have been more quiet of late, although last Wednesday night there were brisk attacks at Las Pinas and Paranaque, south of Ma- nila, as well as outpost firing at Imus, Bacor and Mutin Lupa. The Ameri- can officers are satisfied that the al- leged amigos living in and:around the towns in question participated in the attacks. Official reports have beep re- |. ceived of insurgent activity in Zam- bolas province and in Batangas prov- ince. Two skirmishes occurred dur- ing the keew on the Bicol river, in the province of South Camarines. It is es- timated that the insurgents lost 90 killed in the various districts. Two civilians, John McMahon and Ralph McCord of San Franciso, who started on a business trip in. Vigan and Ban- gued, in Northern Luzon, have not been heard from for three weeks. It is feared that they have been killed or captured by the insurgents. WILL COST ABOUT $15,000,000. Big Expenses Entailed in Taking of the Country's Census. Washington, Oct. 2. — So far as the work has progressed it appears likely that the present census will cost in the neighborhood of $15,000,000. The census bureau finished the enumeration of all the cities in the United States of over 25,000 inhabitants with the exception of Los Angeles, Seattle and Tacoma. The work of announcing the states will come next, beginning with Arkansas, probably to-day or to-morrow. MAY TRY ANOTHER METHOD. Speed of New Warships May Not Be Tried Over Measured Course. “Washington, Oct. 2.—It has been pro- posed to the navy department that the trial trips of the monitor Wyoming and the torpedo boats Paul Jones and Preble shall be in San Francisco bay by the standardized screw method in- stead of over a measured course, as is customary. The craft are now being built by the Union Iron works of San Francisco. A determination has not been reached yet, and. it will depend upon the decision of the bureau chiefs as to the practicability of the plan. HOBSON’S EYES ARE PAINING, Lieutenant Has Asked for Six Months’ Leave of Absence. Washington, Oct. 2.—Lieut. Hobson has applied to the navy department for six months’ leave of absence because of trouble which has developed with his eyes. He has experienced consid- erable pain with his eyes of late, par- ticularly when exposed to strong light, and it is understood that a specialist has recommended that the organs be given a complete rest for six months, ‘ Wessels Driven Ashore. San Francisco, Oct. 2.—The steamer Chracoa brings news of a storm which was raging along the Mexican coast when she sailed for the north. Severa! vessels were driven ashore, among them being the German bark Planet, which will be a total loss. TWO OCEAN BOATS COLLIDE. Norwegian Steamer Calanda and Japanese Steamer Ise Maru Come Together. Nagasaki, Oct. 2. — The Norwegian steamer Calanda and the Japanese steamer Ise Maru are reported to have peen in collision off Iwo Shima. The Calanda was sunk and forty-five of her passengers and crew drowned. The Ise Maru put in at Iwo Shima. The Calanda was a vessel of 865 tons reg. ister. She was last reported as having arrived at Nagasaki Aug. 8 from Kure NITHOUT A BREAK keine Sh sacaing MAINTAIN A Additional Notices of the Offer of an Increase Are Posted, but the Strikers Do Not Waver in Their Allegiance to the Union — Miners ‘Will Insist on Other Concessions and Demand Recognition for Their Union — President Mitchell Addresses a Large Mass Meeting at Wilkesbarre. q Philadelphia, Oct. 3—No break has eccurred in the ranks of the striking mineworkers, though additional no- tices of the offer of an increase of 10 per cent in wages were posted yester- day throughout the region. In fact there were many indications of an in- tent on the part of the strikers to in- sist upon other concessions also and remain out until the operators give recognition to their national order. The feature of the day was the pa- rade and mass meeting of minework- ers at Wilkesbarre arranged for the purpose of demonstrating the strength of the United Mineworkers. A con- servative estimate places the number of strikers in the procession at 15,000, and the day was generally given up as a holiday by the people of Wilkes- barre and other Luzerne county towns. The meeting was addressed by President Mitchell and other of- ficers of the United Mineworkers. President Mitchell, in his speech, con- gratulated the strikers in already having received a proffer of 10 per cent increase in wages. He said their cause had been recognized as a right- eous one and the time was not far dis- tant when they would receive proper compensation for their labor. He would advise them to stand firmly to- gether. He said the strike would not be ended by him and could only be closed when a convention of miners representing every union and every colliery should so decide. He hoped that not one man would desert the ranks until victory was complete. Mr. Mitchell was expected to denote in'his speech his views of the 10 per cent proffered advance, but beyond classing it as visionary, he made no comment on that subject, and said that a local union had asked for the calling of a convention. A significant development in this connection, how- ever, happened.in Shenandoah, where all local unions held meetings and se- lected delegates to a convention to be called later by President Mitchell. This is the first intimation of such a convention. The entire region wes quiet and very few operators were working. PERUVIAN Caisis, Resignation of Cabinet After Being Censured by Congress. Lima, Peru, Oct. 30. The cahinet has resigned owing to a unanimous vote of censure by congress being in- evitable as a result of the scandal in connection with the purchase of arms in Belgium and the alleged use of Senor Belaunde, a former minister of finance, of government funds for his private transactions. are, The ministers of Peru who have just resigned were appointed Aug. 31 last by President Romana, Senor Enrique Coronel Zegarra, being president of the cabinet and minister of home af- fairs. MINISTERIALIST GAINS, Results of the Bri Parliamentary General Election. London, Oct. 3.—Yesterday’s polling in the parliamentary general elec- tions leaves the state of the parties as follows: Ministerialists, 176; Lib- erals, 35; Nationalists, 19. Of the 232 seats thus disposed of the Ministerial- ists, or rather the Conservatives, have gained 6, including Stockton, Middles- boro and Lancaster, and the Liberals 7, including Gloucester, Grantham, Northampton, Swansea Town, Hast- ings and South Wolverhampton. In- creased Conservative majorities are especially noticeable in London and Lancashire. Sues the Pinkertons. Kansas_City, Oct. 3.—CCharles M. Polk, who was arrested on the charge of being implicated in the last big train robbebry that occurred in Jack- son county yesterday filed suit here for one hundred thousand dollars’ damages against the National Pink- erton Detective agency. Will Be a Total Loss. Williemsport, Pa., Oct. 3.—Shortly after midnight fire broke out in the large shoe factory of J. E. Dayton & Co., and at 2 o’clock this morning was not under control. The plant will be a total loss. The factory and con- tenis are valued at $300,000, partly covered by insurance. ei Needs of Galveston. i Galveston, Tex., Oct. 3—The Gal- veston News says: “The pressing need of Galveston is money with which to shelter more than 8,000 per- sons now homeless, and to make habitable the homes of many others.” Robbed the Vatican, Rome, Oct. 3.—During Monday's fes- tivities at St. Peter’s burglars entered a deserted part of the Vatican, broke into the strong .box and stole several hundred thousand francs. Agreement as to Wages. New York, Oct. 3. — The conference between officers of the American Tin Plate company and representatives of their employes has resulted in an agreement on the scale of wages, but some minor demands of the men re- main to be settled. ; q Angeles’ Census. Washington, Oct. 3.— The census bureau announces that the population of Los Angeles, Cal., is 102,709, as against 50,395 in 1890. This is an in- crease of 52,084, or 103.35 per cent. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Terrible Punishment Meted Out to a Negro Who Attempted to Assault a White Woman. Wetumpeka, Ala., Oct. 3.—Winfield Townsend, alias Floyd, a negro, was burned at the stake in the little town of Eclectic, fifteen miles frem this. place, a half hour after midnight yes- terday morning. The negro’s crime was an attempted assault on Mrs. Lonnie Harrington, whose husband set fire to the fuel which reduced Townsend’s body to ashes. Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock Townsend, who was a nephew of the negro Floyd, hanged a week ago for an attempted assault, attempted to assault Mrs. Harrington. Mr. Harrington was at a cotton gin in Electic and lives one mile out of town. The negro came to the heuse and told Mrs. Harrington that her husband had sent him to get twenty cents from her. She told him she had no change. Then the negro left, but returned in about ten minutes. The woman’s screams were heard by Bob Nichols, a negro who was passing along the road at the time. He ran to the house in time to see the negro escape. As soon as Mrs. Harrington was restored to conscious- ness Nichols gave the alarm. The news spread rapidly. All the stores at Eclectic were instantly closed, the ginneries and sawmills shut dowa, the people ‘eft their wagons in the road and their plows in the field and gathered for a pursuit of the negro. He was traced by bloodhounds and was captured and taken to the edge of the village where preparations for his death were quickly made. The stake was prepared and the negro Was bound to it with chains. Pine knots were piled about him and the flames were started by the husband of Townsend's victim. As they leaped to the negro’s flesh he uttered wild eries to God for mercy and help. The crowd looked on, deaf to his cries, and within an hour he was reduced to ashes. Townsend, before being bound, confessed the crime and said he was also implicated with Alex Floyd, who, was hanged two weeks ago for an at- tempted assault on Miss Kate Pear- son. He said he and Floyd had planned four other crimes of like na- ture. ‘ SMOKELESS SOFT COAL. British Transportation Companies Buying American Product. Chicago, Oct. 3.—British steamships and railroads are expected to burn American smokeless soft coal in the near future. Negotiations for the sale of five hundred thousand tons of the American product have practically been completed between a Chicago firm of bituminous mine owners and operators and an agent of a London brokerage firm, who is now in this city. Purchasing parties will send their own transports to carry the coal. The present deal is one of the largest on record. It is believed that it marks the beginning of a regular de- mand by British concerns for Ameri- can coal, GENOA FLOODED. Serious Distress and Loss of Prop- erty by Swollen Rivers. Rome, Oct. 3.—The recent torrents of rain that have fallen in the prov- ince of Genoa have so swollen the rivers that they have overflowed ttheir banks, nearly subnterging the entire district and causing immense damage to property and loss of life. The railway between Genoa and Ven- timiglia has been partly destroyed, and traffic entirely interrupted. A cabinet council was held and it was decided to send help at once to the victims of the flood, many of whme have lost all they possess. Sig. Branca, minister of public works, goes to Genoa to take charge of the relief work. STEAMER SUNK. Result of Collision—All Hands Taken Off by Other Boat. Philadelphia, Oct. 3. — The British steamship Eagle Point, Capt. Hewison, from London to Philadelphia, just ar- rived, reports that she collided with the British steamer Biela, from New York Sept. 30, for Manchester, Eng., and that the latter vessel sank. The captain reports that all hands were taken off the Biela before she sank and will be brought here. The Eagle Point had her bow stove in. The Biela was a steel steamer built at Hepburn in 1870, and registered 2,182 tons gross and 1,374 tons net. Fatal Accident to Actress. Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 3.—Harrietta Sa- tore, a well known actress here with the “Through the Breakers” company, while reaching up into a wardrobe at the Hotel Madison yesterday evi- dently slipped and the wardrobe fell upon her, producing concussion of the brain and causing almost instant death. She was about sixty-two years of age. Her husband was in an adjoining room at the time. Hemp Corner Collapses. New York; Oct. 3.— A local hemp firn@ has received cable advices from Manila that the combination of about half a dozen exporters who have been running a practical corner in Manila hemp by holding back supplies in storehouses, has collapsed. The com- bination’s holdings have been esti- mated at about two hundred and thir- ty thousand bales. Hacked to Death With a Knife. Toledo, Oct. 3. — Fred Schilling, a German cabinetmaker who lives alone, was found dead in his room yesterday with over forty knife wounds in his body. He had evidently been deaa two or three days. There is no clue to the murderers. Robbery was ap- parently the motive. No Beet Sugar Bounty. Lansing, Mich., Oct. 3. — The state supreme court in a unanimous opin- ion handed down yesterday declared the act granting a bounty of 1 cent per pound on all beet sugar manufac- tured inthe state unconstitutional. Two Were Drowned. Philadelphia, Oct. 3—The Standard steamer Maj. Barrett ran into and sank the tug Fleetwood at the junc- tion of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers, drowning two of the crew of the Fleetwood, NEAR AN AGREEMENT PROSPECTS FOR AN ADJUSTMENT OF CHINESE DIFFICULTY. Agreement Will Be on the Basia of the Propositions Laid Down hy Secretary Hay in His Note of July 3 and the Subsequent Notes Treat- ing on That Subject — Accord of Russia More Complete Than Was Anticipated—France Ready to Ne- gotinte at Once — Germany Pre- pared to Join In. Washington, Oct. 3 — Favorable news has reached Washington from the European chancellories indicating that a complete agreement as to China” is within sight. The agree- ment will “be on the babsis of the proposition laid down by Secretary Hay in his note of July 3 and the sub- sequent notes treating on that sub- ject. The accord of Russia with the United States is more complete than was anticipated at first, and the re- ports show that all of the European nations probably are placing them- selves in a position to take advan- tage of the opening made by the United States and soon will be ready to begin negotiations for a settlement with the Chinese government. The Russians already have given notice ot such a purpose, and while the text of the French note on this subject has’ not reached the state department the officials are satisfied that it is cor- rectly reported and that France, like Russia, is ready to negotiate at once. As for Germany, either the position of that government ‘Has Been Misunderstood or it has sustained a change of mind. Possibly the former is the case, but however that may be, it is quite cer- tain from the advices which have reached Washington that the German government, upon careful inspection of the plans for/a settlement proposed by the United States finds therein nothing inconsistent with the German aspirations. Therefore it may be ex- pected that Germany, too, will be prepared soon to join in this com- mon movement toward a settlement. It can be stated that altogether the prospects of an adjustment of the Chinese difficulty without resort to formal war are very much brighter than they were a week ago. The news developments of the day were few, being confined to a cablegram from Mr. Conger reciting the depafture of the Russian minister and suite from Pekin, and an authentication by Min- ister Wu for the edict providing for the punishment of Tuan and the guilty princes. POSSIBLY A SUICIDE. Mysterious Death of Prince Bernard Henri, Suitor for the Hand of Wil- helmina. Berlin, Oct. 3—Is Queen Wilhelmina, the young ruler of The Netherlands, ‘responsible for the death of her cousin, Prince Bernard Henri of Saxe- Weimer? That has been on every one’s lips since: the sudden death of the young man at Potsdam Monday. Prince Henri was only twenty-two years of age, and his sudden death is shrouded in mystery. No details of his end ‘have been given out, and everything is kept as secret as possi- ble. It is openly hinted that the prince tceok his own life in despair over the delay which had been given to the answer to his request for the hand of his queen cousin. That the head of the house of Saxe-Weimar died of a broken heart no one doubts, and everything points to the theory that he hastened his end with his own hand. For more than a year Prince Henri had been an ardent suitor for the hand of Wilhelmina. BOERS SURRENDERING. Those Not Provided With Horses Are Permitted to Yield. Pretoria, Oct. 3.—One hundred and sixty persons have arrived here from Erstfabrieken and a number of others are on their way here from the East. The Hoers are beginning to permit such burghers as are not provided with horses and who belong to the southern districts to surrender. The armistice of five days, which Commandant Erasmus required Gen. Paget to grant Sept. 26 on the plea that he wished to confirm reports of the collapse of the Boers’ main army prior to surrendering, will result in nothing except having provided him with an opportunity for driving his cattle north to the Pietersburg piat- eau. It is estimated that there are 50,000 head of cattle along the Olifanta river and 1,000 more at Bussveld. Payne Will Head the Ticket. Bosten, Oct. 3.—Robert Treat Payne will again head the ticket which the Democrats of this state will be asked to support at the coming election, having received the nomination for governor at the Democratic conven- tion yesterday. The rest of the ticket follows: Lieutenant governor, Hon. J. B. O’Donrell, Northampton; secretary of state, Gen, Luther B. Stevenson, Hingham; auditor, E. Gerry Brown, Brocton; treasurer, John L. Chali- foux, Lowell; attorney general, John Cc. Crosby, Pittsfield. Killed a Bystander. New York, Oct. 3—James Potter, a colored porter, was shot and killed .by a white man known as “‘Alsey.” A crowd of negroes had attacked “Alsey” as the result of a row. He shot at the crowd and. killed Potter, an innocent bystander, and then es- caped. His Second Crime. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 3. — Henry Frazier, a young negro, who - six months ago was given 200 lashes for attempting to ravish a white girl, made ‘an assault last evening on a young woman of Rowesville. Citizens took Frazier into the woods, mutilated him, then cut off his ears and turned him loose. He may die. The German tories at §| and Amberg are manufacturing < new vernment arms fac- | \ dau, Dantzic, Erfurt |