Owensville Republican from Owensville, Missouri • Page 1

VOL. I. OWENSVILLE, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1897. KO. S6.

IKMS7 NOAUM ISTICEET. HOPES FOR DURRANT. Don's Beport 8jt the Baslaeu for the Week Ha Been: DUappolntlnff. New York, May -15. q.

Dun Co.a Weekly Review of Trade says: "Speculator Tiave enjoyed an advance In wheat, corn, cotton 'and some other products, though obliged to sell wool and sugar at lower figures In, order to realize. Stocks have advanced Tcents per $100, and trust stocks lost 88 cents without enough demand to constitute a market Imports of merchandize, $18,382,01 for the week at New York alone, are 94 per cent larger -than a year ago, making the Increase 47 per cent for TheTast Blx'week87ahdrgedtlPn Tmvfiiri'asharthe-Ttirkish Conrlct Has Voufessed the Harder of Blanche Lamont. May 15. Theodore Durrant, through his attorneys, will ask Gov. Budd to pardon him on tht THEODORE CURRANT.

ground that the real murderer of Plancho Lamont has at last confessed his crime, The lawyers insist that In the person of John Rosenberg, convict at San Quentln prisonJhey have discovered the man who is guilty of the horrors of Enimnruel Church. John -Rosenberg has made, a "sworn confession that he killed Blanche Lamont at the iustlgatlon of a stranger and In consideration of the payment of $700 tor hSa bloody work. Rosenberg Is a Russian sailor and arrived In this city on a salting ves sel irom tiamourg, Germany, during the last week of March 1S9.1 or nn thai first day of He is now serving a term for horse stealing and appears to be sano. USED DYNAMITE. Southern Parlllo Express Car Wrecked and Safes Looted at Loiter, Trias San Antonio, May 15.

The Southern Pacific passenger west bound, was held up and robbed at 3 o'clock yesterday morning at, Losier, a flag Biauon. 'ua miles west or here. There "'re Jfiree imu in tho party, and while one of the guards 6tood over the enpineerand fireman the other two attacked the express car with dyna mite. The car was shattered all to pieces, ami side" being blown away. The messenger.

W. H. Joyco, itLo lives here, narrowly, escaped bc ing biown up. The two robbers then entered the wrecked earj and the one who was. the engineer and nreiuan brought hit charges back to If mm LATE MISSOURI iNWS KILLINQ NEAR M03ERLY.MO.

Charles Slartln and Walter riafer End a Quarrel. At a Jste honrTuesday night at Allen D. Terrill's farm two miles from Moberly, Charles Martin, aged about 17 years, shotariirkUled Walter Haar. The young men were paying attentions to Mr. Terrill's two daughters." It from t'io Ktatements of members of TerriU family, that tbey had tome nnplcassnt words whilojn the parlor-tvith the young ladies.

They leftThehosuc and Mr. Terr'dra family heard talking out In thg road, tbea -pistol shots. Ilager came to the hww end aaid'lL am shot." Mr. TerrUVlaW Mm flown -and MisEnia Terrill, to whom ho was -engaged, took his in her lap and held it there until he died, which he aid tn a few minntes, Martin at once -gavo himself Both of these young men have always borne excellent characters, ne'ther. of them ever having been know lo be in a difficulty.

Both are well connected. Martin is a farmer and Bngar was employed by the Standard Oil is la jail. Henry I. Lee a Suicide. Moberly was the scene of much eltcment Wednesday inorulng whea it became publicly known that Mr.

Henry Lee, a uicinWx of the city council and a man who bad always been looked upon as a modefcTllzen, hud shot himself his own bed about 11 o'clock lie le ft a aole, writteaonly.a few mlnutfta be- uro ha tiruil the fatal shot, takinir all the "blame tat the rath act on himself, lie leavei, a wife aud eight children one of them a bifba which was in bed him when the -shot' wns flrad." His wife, who was In au adjoining room, heard the shot and, running la, foiin.l her husband dead, the ball having crabbed through h's head. He hud drawn the covering over his hea I bo-fore shooting. Business trou hies aro thought toe pha cause, as. his surroundings were pleasant. M.

8. C. Land Orant. Information has reachud the Missouri- State- University aulhourities thntSecrctary Bliss has approved the order which was isniicd by socretary Francis, patentirg Jl.OOIacros of gov eramenl land it the tiniveralty. By an error in Ihe Ortgnal land grant tho nniverslty failed to receive the valoe of lands to which It was entitled.

After Investigation, Secretary Francis -order, giving the Unit. j.nese were scicctea oy ueuerat o. and located." Before the pajnt.was Issued the award wns held up by Secretary Bliss. He has now approved the action of Socretary Fran cis -and tho university gti the land. It is located in southern Missouri, aud is wo Jill about Cripples' Convention.

If the, plans of the promoters, do not mibesrry, the St. Louis Exposition of thU year will preseut oho particularly novel feature. Efforts are being madi have affected the exchange markets and helped further shipments of gold, whiciijmountLferJSOreeiioJSJS 000, but are practical balanced, by re ceipts from the interior, and cause no serious apprehension of financial diS' turbanceT-- "The government crop report "estimates the cstton acreage iat 6 per csnt less than last year, and ii considered encouraging because so alight a decrease from the floods mar easily, be made up. Prices have advanced an eighth on LiverpooI'speciJattoh, with to Warrant; tie rise. No, important changes-appear pig-iron.

demand for finished products is below the capacity of worki in operation, and the award pf th contract for the Montreal bridge, Is said to be at for beam, against $1.55 demanded from consumers in this country, has occasioned trouple In the beam asscclatlon, and ther are reports that It has dissolved. Woolen goods are doing better than for weeks past, although there Is great uncertainty regarding the future of the market Sales of wool have sharply creased. "Failures for the weekwcre 264 in the United States, against 224 last year, and 31 in Cdgalnst 33Jait year." TO STOP STRIKES. Big Chicago Contractor to Hold Secret Conference. H.

Chicago, May 17. Contractors from every trade In the building line, building material men, architects, real estate dealers and others met in secret conference In the rooms pf the Build, ers and Tradecs' ExcbaBgoa Xq'cl6ck this afternoon to outline a policy for the mass meeting to be held Monday afternoon in relation to the attitude of the. Building Trades Council on the sympathetic strike question. Those back of the meeting say that a nnlted and determined effort Is to bo made to do away with general building trade strikes in tho future. Failing in WJSHIKGTOS CRAND MONUMENT DEDICATED AT PHILADELPHIA.

President McKlnley, Plce-Frasldeat Ho-tart, and the Entire Cabinet Attend the Ceremonlee Description" tli Handsome Mcmflal Erected. Philadelphia, May 15. This city was ablaze with flags and bunting to day In' honor of Washington, the first president of the United States, whose monument was dedicated wita lmpos- jug ceremonies. One of the most showy features la connection with the celebration was tb whlcn-were lined with thousands of people. Many distinguished guests -WpfelleTeTStaoffg" them being President Vice-Presl the enure camnet.

-rr z. "Tr magnificent memorial dedicate" tg-day with sush'pomp and pageantry has a history almost as full of Interest and "moving accidents" as that of the hero whose prowess it commemorates, July 4, 1811, more than eighty-five years ago, the Society of the Cincinna ti, which still had among its members officers who had fought in the revolu tion, met in Independence halt and to erect a monu- "ment to the memory of George Wash-. lngton. At this meeting a committee was appointed, made up of MaJ. D.

Lenox, Judge R. Peters, MaJ. WY Jackaon, "Mr." Biddie, a descendant of Biddle, the doughty commodore-of the revolution, and Horace Binney. They appealed for funds to the people of Pennsylvania and $2,000 came In. From this small beginning the fund has grown to 1280,000, although the original purpose was to raise only 1150,000.

The monument, which Is. the design of Prof. Rudolph Siemerlng; a' celebrat ed sculptor of forty feef nigtt. From an oblong platform, reached on four sides by thirteen steps, symbolical! of the thirteen original states, rises -a pedestal -bearing an equestrian statue In bronze of Gen. Washington.

The father of his country is represented in the colonial uni-." form of the Americau amy, a large '-military cloak being thrown around his commanding figure v. At the four corners of the platform are fountains, served by allegorical figures of American Indians, representing four rivers, the Delaware, Potomac and Mississippi. On the sides each of fountains is guarded by typical American animals, eight in all. At the front and hack of the pedestal are two allegorical exouns. the former representing America seated, holding in one nana a cornucopia; in the other a trident, and having at her feet chains just cast oft.

She is in the act of re-" celvlng from her victorious sons the xropmcs or their conquest. Below thM group is an eagle supporting the arms of the United States. 33" The group in Uia back represents America arousing her sons to a sense of their slavery. Below are 'the arms of Pennsylvania. On tho sides of tha oeming me march of the American army, the other a western-bound emigrant train.

One one side the pedestal bears the Jnscripllon; "Sic Semper Tyrannis" and "Per Aspera ad on the' other, "Westward the-Star of Empire Takes Its Way." Surrounding the upper portion of the pedestal Is the legend: "Erected by the State Society of the Cincinnati" AFTER THE TRUSTS. Supreme Court of Kew Tork gammons Their Chief Officer. Albany, N. May 17. The Supreme Court OfNew York, through Juki, airi4M4Utriihr.tcaa ihey will combine and force the issue; marching.

irom TrinkluUa jn Vofo, Ihe t'fir hS frtit-tftTO tcfIinjyTrflrTwc an wraew -an Turkish Founds. Co" an tinopIe.3Uay.l7Tha Port, has replied officially to the note of th. powers, and declines to agree to an ar mislice nntKthe following condition, are accepted: The annexation of Thessaly, an'in demnity of 10,000,000 Turkish ant the abolition of the capitulation. proposes that plenipotentiarlei of throwers should meet atPharsalo. to discuss the terms of peace, and de Clares that if these conditions an declined tho Turkish ftrmw will Mn tinue to advance, lhe demand for the annexation oi Thesaly is based upon the fact thai the province was originally ceded iirgecflia thft advieo- of thy power with the object of ending- brigandag- una ureeti incursions into Ottomaa territoryhe.

Jorte' llfevlagrat IW time that the cessionwouldattais the objects but the recent incura tons of Greek bands an4 the eventi immediately preceding1 the war hav proved to the contrary. This is th substance of the reply. st The Porte's renlv to tti hased upon a mazbata nrunfi the council of ministers to the ml tan, representing that Greece was responsible for compelling Turkey to declare war; that for the last 15 years Greecs had ignored engagements nndei the Berlin treaty, by omliting to pay indemnity, by seizing and confiscating yakoups, or religions domain anil by invading Turkish and that, therefore, the council was ol th opinion that Greece had no just claim upon him for leniency. Then follow the Dronosalsnhnn wln'oh the council would base a pekce. Thi grand vizier, in submitting the ma bata, assured the sultan that the ration was prepared to shed Its lutitmn of blood in support of such condition! of settlement.

The war party threatens todnfhr. the sultan jf he show any weakness, hut shrew (observers believe that thli is only a furcq to enabla him- tq pos before Europ as the unwilling victim of his fanatical subjects. CUBAN VICTORIES. Cmshlnj Defeats for the 8Danlarde-i Erery Band. Key Mav irfM Martinez, of Gen.

Aramgurin's force, affain rai4ed Coabilias, in Havana Province, last week, -and the town wat almost destroyed. Two block housei estublishecr" there by the Spanihh recently were captured and burned the ground. The Spanish garrison did not wait to contest the but, hearing of the approach the Cuban soldiers, hastily evacuated the place, leaving an nouroelore the Jnsurpenti entered the town. 'It Is a pro-Spanish place, ana the insurgents vented their spite upon it by burning1 most of the houses and Tooting the stores. A Spanish gunboat was captured on the Havana river last week, after sharp fight.

The Cubans lay in wait lor the vessel while she was navigat ing the upper part of the river, and. firing rom the bank, disabled Hit pilot. The boat sheered and ran Into sand bar. The Cubans kept ud a rapid-firing; until nightfall, and dnring the night boarded the vessel. Eighteen men and officers of the crew were killed and three escaped.

The anna ment of the vessel was taken away. aner wnicn she was sunk. It Wan a Fake. rrobably never before was a throng St. Louisans so thoroughly disap pointed and badly fooled as were the 15,000 people who saw the "raiiroad collision" near Forsythe Junction Sun day afternoon.

They went there ex pectmg to see a novel and startling illustration of a bead-end locomotive smash-up, but instead were treated to a tame affair. they Raw Ibeomotives City and Colorado road, run into each other, rub noses together and hiss at one another with escaping steam, and then stand still, practically uninjured. Royal Train tn couuioa. Vienna, May 15. A royal special train, conveying Prince and Princess Ferdinand of Bulgaria to attend the funeral of the Duchesse d'Alencon and the Duo d'Aumale, collided on Wednes- mall train at the station of Jagodin, a town of Servia near Morava river, and sixty- three miles southeast of Somendrla.

The Prince and Princess of Bulgaria and the members of their suites es caped without Injury, Lacanla Breaks tn Record. Queenstown, May 17. The Cunard line steamship Lucania. Capt McKay, which left New York. May 8, clearing Sandy Hook lightship at 11:15 a.cv that day, arrived.

here at 7:24 a. m. Frtdayafter a passage of flvadays Ioujnoursanflfty-fourrmlnute8, luring which, over the distance 2,939 knots, she made the best time on record, 21.80 knots per hour. The Aquatle Dliplay. The river parade of- the) Southwest ern Rowing Association Sunday at St.

Louis was the grandest acquatio spectacle ever brought off around St Louis. All the local rowing clubs were repre sented in the turnout and fully 25,000 pectatora witnessed the show from tha. west bank of the.MSaiaippi" Think! Colon Will F1L New York, May 17. Dr. Horatio Cuzman, former minister of, Nicaragua at Washington, who Has ust arrived from his country, aaid that he did not beUevorthat the reports of the pression of the revotetion in Honduras were true.

The revolt could not be so H0ELMAN IS HANGED. woman slayer executed at paxton. ill. rbe llorderer e( Hr. fVelhke OeSdee tha' Death Penalty He DeoUres Bis Innocenoe ea the; Scaffold Other Crlaua Attributed to Hloa, Paxton, May 15.Fred Hoelman, alias Hartman, was hanged In the jail in this city this morning In the preset C9 of about fifty witnesses, consisting of the jury whlchconykte(Lilhahar county officers, attending physicians, press representatives and clergymen: At 715 fe took a position on the trap.

Blome of the -Roman Catholic lnstltutr-n4f hJa-spirltual advisers, read the condemned man's last state-, ment from the scaffold, as" follows: "I must and find my death In this way. I bold no malice toward any one. I freely forgive, as I ask God to forgive me. I am not guilty of the crime for which I die. I leave it all with God, who, in the judgment day, will give each the reward of deeds.

"I believe that one who does not confess to God his sins Is eternally lost. I have confessed to God and trust In Him. The rich Instead of-spending their money for the theater and the opera, should build hospitals and almshouses tor-the -Some day those who spend their, money In this way find themselves in the condition of the rich man who despised poor Lazar-ust-I am glad that I am so near the end. I ask that my body be sent to Grand Haven, and placed beside that of my wife and child." After the reading a funeral hymn was sung by a few beside him, during which the black cap was pulled down over his face and he exclaimed In a toud, firm voice several times: Good-bye, all." The rope which supported the trap as cut, the platform fell and his body tell six and one-half feet, where it tung straight and still without a trem-r or struggle. Hoelman was dead In fourteen minutes and fras cut down and placed in his coffin nineteen minutes from the time the Irop tell.

The neck was broken and there was no sign of a struggle. Notwithstanding his denial the gen-iral Impression is that Hoelman was rullty." He showed himself to be an tnlgma if not a physical and moral de- renerate ot the mot-mukU rt- Soelman was born in Brandburg, Ger-panyr and came to this country in i884. Hoelman, alias Hartman, was tanged for killing Mrs. Wlebke Ged-fles, having, been convicted on circumstantial evidence. Mr.

Geddes, the husband, worked on a farm more than a mile from his home. On a' morning In Decsmber, 1896, he got up at 4 o'clock and went to his task of husk- lng corn, At 8 o'clock a neighbor called at the home and found the body of Mrs. Geddes on the floqr of her jroom with a cord around her neck. The other end of the cord being fastened to a doorknob, Beneath the bedclothes on the floor was her little daughter crying. The slats of the bed were scattered around the room and there was.other evidence of a fearful struggle, one of the legs of Mrs.

Geddes being broken and her body being covered with bruises. Marks on the neck of the little girl showed that she.had been choked, doubtless into insensibility, and, possibly, left for dead. Hoelman) who was suspected, told contradictory stories as to his whereabouts, and the circumstantial evidence'presented by the prosecution was sufficient to convince the jury that he was guilty of the crime. He is believed to have killed several other women In this part of the state In the same way, but ereased suspicion and arrest, as the coroners' juries rendered verdicts of KILLED SEVERAL MEN. Bloody Work of a Morderons tndlaa la Ketrada.

Eldorado Canyon, May 15. An Indian calledAhvote ehot and killed two of the Southwestern Mining company, named Lee Franwa and Ben Jones, on the Oregon road. between the mines and the hill, yesterday afternoon, and then went on to the cabin of Christopher Nellson, a prospector, and killed him also. Franzen had several bullet holes In his body, and Jones one Just below the heart A party went to Nellson's cabin ana touna mm aead in bis bea. a Chi oaman; just arrived, reports that Char ley Monaghan, who lived alone on the banks of tha river, yai, aim ghpt Jn bed.

It is feared that the Indian had several more victims who lived alone on the route be probably took after killing the teamsters. 'a Frleoa for President NlchoU. New Orleans, May 15. President W. P.

Nlcholls of the Bank of Commerce, convicted of embezzlement, was sentenced to, three years at hard labor In the state penitentiary. He wlHappeal to the Suprme court. Vaccination I Hot Cosnpnltory, Chicago, May 15. The Suprem Court has rendered a decision declaring that the State Board of Health has ao-rlgM-tcrrompel the vaccination of Khool children. Upon the heels of the decision Senator Mahoney Introduced no pupil shall be admitted to any public, private or parochial school In the State onless he shall present a certificate of vaccination signed by a physician, and the committee on eduction reported favorably on the masure TURKEY'S RULER IN NO HURRY TO ACT.

Foreign Ambassador ItoneV Their Proposal Without Effect Saltan Beallses Ills BlUltary Strength Order Soot to Edhem Pasha to Cootlune to Advance. Constantinople. May 5. The foreign ambassadors held another conferecco. Thursday, after which Earon de Calice, the AustroHungariari minister of foreign affairs, and renewed the proposal, of an armistice.

The opinion is general la Turkish eirole.i tnat until the occupation oi Domokos, which Is mornentarily expected, the porta will not grant an armistice. ine sultan's position, is a little stronger than King Ceorge'B, and, therefore, it is not surprising that, while the war feeling Is strong, he hesitates at taltlng a step which could be construed us a surrender of Ottoman In addition to this, the fact that the feast of Bairam begins teday, Jafitmg until offers another delayr, The powers are in no'iiiood to yield overmuch to the. demands cf Turkey. The war has had qftite au unexuccled effect in revealing an amiifeiiig mihti't? vitality la the sulUin's 'domiulons, which is not pleasing to Lussla or the other powers. "Hence the sultan will be reminded that it was his original missovernment which led to thowar; that onJy the Influence of Europe prevented a general blaze In the 'Balkans, and that it Is, therefore, advlu-oble for him to adopt reasonable terms.

Tho activity. of Turkish, milltafy prpparations, which is no way abated by-the diplomatic negotiations, may possibly explained by the following statement.of. a -high Turkish official; Russians are putting a high price upon 'the' moral support they extended to us-durtng the Armenian trouble: but the demands now made upon u9 are so exorbitant that their acceptance would to resigning our titlo as a -f London. 1.1. It is tolerably certain th at only a few Creek troops remain in Domokis.

tbe-birltt of Constan-tine's army haviag-withdrawn to it will in bo closer ''ooinmmil-catiou with General Sinolenslti. This probably erxpluins the reported move-montsof the TurkLsh nnnv, asanmri- ConstuntinopUv Miiv 'sul--. tan will not -transact diplomatic biibi-ness (liiTin.jf tli fisist of bm that festival does iiol iutci fcro scrious-ly with the war. A battle wm lieifiin early yesterday morniiiff in Epirus, ncur Griaoro. It lasted all slay.

The Greeks carried tho first line of defenses; bcif'then with a stubborn Fighting will continue today. Tho Greek fleet and nrmy'are attack-in Nicopolis. Nisht ended. the strug-ple, ''which will be resumed by the M-uwrM sf The sultan lias replied to the powers' note that he will talk about a truce when the feast of liairain ends iiun- da.v An intimation, is given out at St. Petersburg-that' Russia will not object if Turkey desires toretain Thessaly.

Diplomats are much worried by the restlessness of the ISuljraran people and armyJtifclv-fr pow-L that the Bulgarian government may be forced into a war witluTui key. Eleven Greek sailing vessels, which, with their crews, ltve been by war vessels have been brought into the Dardanelles. TEXAS JUSTICE. All Coom Look Alike to a Determined Houston, May 15. A small tree in Falls county, Texas, between Mai liosubiul, two villages of that Tonwty, Thursday nlyht held threo 'negroes who wpro hung' by a mob of citiissns who had visited upon thera a punishment which is by" the" tin written "law of Texas for that trime-whit'SHs an invasion-tipon h3 of this Stjlte.

The which occurrvd was the result of a well planned scheme, ihous'htof by ngrot's, attempted by negroes, and would have been carried out by them but that they were frightened when they visited the home of a respectable farmer to carry out heir designs. A confession made by one of the ne groes to the officers wassufficient to arouse lite-neighborhood, and at night 20(1 determined men collected about The ruus JaHTs atooU tuo pTisoncfs thegnards. -J'o time was aitowed' for prayer or The confession of liams suited for alt and they died as others have died lit Tetas. When spoken to, Sjieriff Emerson said he hud no c'ew Kt lie personnel of the mob. Itis knSwn.

however, that of the best pjopie (Trall county were in it. Thiherilf ith the governor asking for. a reward, bi 1 there will bo ho a rrestsv riaffoe'e TagcsIn Inrtla. London. May 13.

A' dispatch to tho Daily. Mail from Bombay says the bubonic plague is making fearful rav Cutchmandyl district, where, there have been 2.000 deaths In Editor at tho tfcntennUL Nashville; May 15-The Wolverine Presa Association, fhcluding among' Its members many of the moet.j prominent editors in Michigan, saw the Exposition toorgauizoaconvaotion.0L9neiftttned-r-. -nester, has issued its summons-talnailQl and 105, that the first time there Is general strike they will pool their Issues Jttsf As the building trades unions do through the Building Trades Council, and then the fur will fly. NO MORE Immense Beterrolr of Water Will Be stored CpJ' s- Cheyenne, May 17. Lieut.

Crittenden, the government engineer Setailed to choose sites for the proposed government reservoirs in Colorado and Wyoming, has Inspected and selected 4he great natural baaialyipy acar-La--t ramie, as the Wyoming site. This great basin lies in the heart of the Rocky Mountains and is ten miles -long by two miles wide. Its maximumt depth is 150 feet, and the government engineers estimate that it will hold 20.000,000,000 cubic feet cf water. The wails of the basin are perfect without break. The Big and Little Laramie rivers will be tapped, and it will take ween fiveahd six years to fill the las.

Enouih waler anj)e stored to keep the entire eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska supplied with water dnring dry seasons. durrant will Oot. Badd Bald to Be Disinclined to Interfere with the 8entemt. Sacramento, May 17. If external appearances go for anything.

Gov. Budd was. not favorably impressed by the arguments advanced by Durrant's attorneys In their plea for executivo clemency In behalf of the condemned murderer of Blanche Lamontr Absolutely no credence was apparently placed by any one, unless by the pris oner's attorneys, upon Ihe alleged con- fession Of rnmrlM nf San Quentln prlsonr who declared ho had murdered Blanche Lamont for S7UU at the Instigation of a stranger. Wilt Start Leadvlllo Mines. Leadville, May 17.

An agree-? ment having been reached among the owners of the principal mines In the downtown district to resume pumping which was stopped last winter, while the strike was 6h, the work of unwater Ing will be beghn next week. The ar-rangement for pumping, which will go Into effect Monday, will result In the employment of from 1,000 to 1,530 men, with a strong probability that the number will reach 2,000 within the next six months, I Bor Killed While FisMIn. May 15-Otis, the year-old son of Frank Mitten, near Buchanan, while boxing with a schoolmate, was struck just below the heart The doclors think he cannot recover," Cnlted Brethren General Conference 'Toledo. Ohio, May 17. Bishow Castlo of Indiana presided over tho united brethren general conference Firiay.

Tha sesssioa was largely occupied la the reading ot tie different genera) church Interests. Th: IUV. rtiLisloimiifi se--. In? rtfary. repofted that rt $3.00,000 hud been contributed for homo andTofeigu missionaries.

Tkr hiiiidred and sev en missionaries are employed in the home field and Ihtrty-cvcn Amerli can missionaries In turcica away tho wrcckugn so that; dynamite could; be placed on tho through and local safes. The dynamite wus ex plodod and both safes were sliattered. The jobbers thenv deiibarately helped themselves to the contents of both safes. They took everything of value, and are believed to have secured sev eral thousand dollars. The robbers held the train nearlt au hour and a half, and thea mountei their horses and off, firing a volJ ley of shots at the train as a warning that pursuit would btt dangerous.

rAailTiiCTIppler: Florence, Ala. May 15. Yesterday ten-white men were killed by the fall of a 60 foot tipple at the ore mines at Pinckuey, Tenn. At a dozen others were seriously injured and half of them will die. AH of the killed and wounded were on top of-the tipple when it collapsed.

0nly-4wo escaped without rct'ious in ir; juries. One young, man, seeing his danger" In to a tree and.received slight scratches, and another jumped to ground, turning over several times and alighting oij his feet, only spraining his ankle. The cause of the collapse is unknown. The du mp was anew one and was tested with twenty ears of ore less than a month ago. There was only a small wtht on it when it fell.

The mines where tlicaiiasteroecurred belong-to J. Criag McLanuhan. Arrested for "Kdon Robbery. Ottumwa, Iowa, May 15. Indict, ments have been returned tn the El bank robbery case against the fol lowing persons: Thomas Murray.Sam.

nerRlchey, D. Cameron, Jesse Hamilton Joseph- Smith, alias "Indian Joe, and Robert Dtirvln, all well known the Plnkerton detectives. Only one it known to have been captured, Hamil ton." The detectives say the other men question of time when they also will captured. Dodd has cinfessed to his! are so wen Known tnat it is only a part In the robbery. He has cleared up "also several other mysterious robberies that have cccurred in Ottumwa recently, Passion Flay In Mexico, Mexico ityrMetn-May-45 Sehurtz, of Hungary, hat been in the cily for some time to make arrangt-mei in this city of the Passion Play, on tho same scale as at Oberamtucrgau.

Mr. Sehurtz is well acquainted with the divine tragedy as represented at tho Bavarian village, and he Is confident of Doing able to reproduce It here In an equally impressive manner Ho is now actively engaged with the preparations. rr' Started by Qneea Victoria. Montreal, May 15 Arrangements are' being perfected by which Queen Victoria will start the electric works of-the HydraurhrtindLand Company at" Lachine Rapids on. or about Jubilee day.

This will" be on5 by of the Atlant'c fable, th4 queen touching the button at Windsor castia. DecldeiWoa St. LmU. Baltimore, May IS. The American Medico-Psychological Association decided to hold the next meeting In St.

(Louis. ton the second Tuesday la May, 189S- and" one-Tcggtd, Jcglcss andTarmlesi" ihe promoters give as the object of the scheme the bringing into closet contact of cripples, surgeons and In strument makers. Special features of this convention will be an exhibition of artificial limbs, lectures by prominent turgeons, narratives by the the cripples and exhibitions of the skill displayed by cripples in various branches. It la also proposed to have lectures by min-isters and bisss men interested la those handicappedva the race of life by the loss of legs or arms." Got. Stephens' Appointment.

Gev. Stephens has -appointed F. J. Rice, of Dunklin and Moses Whyback, of Bollinger, member of the board of regents of the state, normal school. atCpe yirardeau.for.a term of six years each from January 1,1897.

P. jL-Lovett was appointed coal oil inspector Joesph for a terra of two years from April 24, 1837. A Girl Burned to Death. Ea, the 18-year-old daughter of James Walker of Huggins, Texas county, was burned to death Tuesday. Her clothes becamo Ignited while helping her parents bnrn bnikh on a piectTof -new ground near the home.

Her father was so badly burned in his attempts to save her life that both hi hanila will have to be amputated, 1 1 Sonthwest Mlasonrl Teteraae. The Southwest Missouri. VetecanAl Association will hold its annual reunion at Nevada, September 9 Xia' clMsiveArtcian.J?arki-will; be used for camp grounds. Arrangements ar- being-made-f or-the the-rectioa -of sr- large ampithcater for the ue of the old soldiers and visitors. Killed by a rist Blow.

David Fitzgerald, a noted Kansas City character, known widely as "Code Island tbtr bospiul there Wednesday from tnjtbi.es infliclei ten days before by Thomas Hylsnd, wbo s-iiit him to the ground with a terrific right-hander on the land will be held for murder. Fell lo the While playing on the bank of Cedar Creek, Boone- county, Eoy Anderson, -9 years old, fell into the water, and-was drowned. "The -water was very shallow, but thn boy was caught nn-der a log and was. drowned before he could he JUnen noney for China. Pekln, May 14.

A preliminary, contract for a loan of 180,000,000 was signed here to-day in behalf of a Brit-ith syndicate. presidents of the various coal carrying roads, ordering them to appear In this nty next Thursday to answer questions as to charges of violation of Sec. 383 of the laws 0f 1897 against monopolies and combinations alleged to exist in restraint of Following are the defendants: Samuel Sloan, president of Lackawanna Railroad Company; Thomas P. Fowler, president of --the ew York, Ontario Western Railroad Company; M. Olyphant, presi-- cent of the Delaware Hudson Railroad Company; J.

Rogers Maxwell, President of the Jersey Central Rail-Company; ErP. Wiibur, president the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com J. S. Harris, president of the Phil- aaePh'a Reading Railroad Company. Longshoremen on a Strike.

Detour. May tug Kiver Queen, with Sheriff McNaughton na five deputies on board, reached here Ste- Marl8 Thursday night, rat the striking longshoremen PlckandsTiiather oock refused to allow them to land. Finally the strikers relented and al- Th7Lthe tug t0 110 UP at the dock. tat sheriff's force was too small to at- clear the dock, and read the not act to the strikers and persuaded i.t0 clear the Premises. They did r8' but ned up at the foot of the -and refused to let any non-union on the dockr Work on the dock I at A standstill, and more trouble la Royal l8land' May sixth head -mp meeting of the Roval" Pr 1 America came to an end fn.

Pail was chosen as tho ISM 1dlS the, next in- Inr Re8olutloi were adopted dwell -tJ? ihe legal troubles which have 'nrJ tnem to remove from their pre. RoU rni0Undinga to Wood nd' callln UDOn th9 bllnna me" JUne 1 at UW- thi Iwa' t0 "Miner, nent army cotild not get to the scene of war quickly, owlngto high moun tains' and inaccessible routes. He doei not believe the greater republics, Nicaragua, Honduras anASan Salvador; a4U continue, long to act4a unison..