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taE REFUSAL OF INDIA. Cause of Failure of International Bimetallism. Report of an Interesting Nature Readies Washington Position Taken by the Indian Government. Washington, Nov. 17.

official report of the correspondence in regard to the bimetallic proposals of the United States monetary commission to the government of Great Britain together with the report of the proceedings at the conference of the British premier, the secretary of state for India, the first lord of the treasury and the chancellor of the exchequer with the French ambassador and our commissioners, has reached this country. The negotiations fell through, notwithstanding the expressed willingness of the French government to open its mints, owing to the rejection of the British government of the proposition to again open the Indian mints to the free coinage of silver. None of the other propositions was replied to, because that one, the most important concession requested of Great Britain could not be acceded to. The government of Great Britain in making her answer deferred to the wishes of the government of India, to which the proposal was referred, and the reply of the government of India, therefore, is the most important communication in the correspondence. Why India Objected.

It is a lengthy document in which the advantages pro and con to India are argued, and a very strong case from their standpoint is made out in favor of the rejection of the proposal. The disturbance of values in India with the attendant paralysis of trade, at least temporarily, the fall of silver prices in India concurrently with the increase of gold prices in Europe and America, are advanced, but the most potent reason urged against the proposition is that the burden of failure, if failure should come from the experiment for the reestablishment of bimetallism by France and the United States, must inevitably fall on India. Both the United States and France, the reply argues, with their supply of gold could to a greater or less extent protect themselves if the experiment did not succeed. In other Indian government as a preliminary proposition declared that it could not risk the success of the suggested measures. This definite and absolute rejection of the proposal was fully set forth in the cable reports of the correspondence, but the document contains a reservation which would seem to indicate that if the scope of the proposed experiment were sufficiently broadened India might be willing at least to reconsider her refusal.

Our Highest Reserve. Washington, Nov. 17. gold reserve reached high-water mark Tuesday. The total Tuesday afternoon was $155,886,248.

April 20, the next highest on record, it was $155,639,000. From that point it went down to $110,160,000. That was August 4. It has been crawling up steadily every since, being reinforced principally by the product of domestic mines. The few millions in gold which have been imported have, for the most part, gone into private storage.

Experts at the treasury department estimate that by January 1 there will be $160,000,000 in the vaults. Polygamists Defeated. New York, Nov. 18. first polygamists excluded under the existing immigration laws were six Mohamme- dans, who had arrived on the steamer California and 1 who were arraigned before the special board of inquiry at the barge office here.

The immigrants declared that they all believed in the Koran, which teaches polygamy. They were then ordered deported. Government of Alaska. San Francisco, Nov. 18.

Senator Perkins declared that he is opposed'to the granting of a territorial form of government to Alaska at present. When. congress convenes he proposes to introduce a joint resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to prepare civil and criminal codes for the government of Alaska. Strike Is Off. New York, Nov.

18. strike of T3OO cloakmakers in the shops of Freeenan Brothers began about two weeks agro in consequence of a reduction in wage scale, has been declared ofT temporarily, and the strikers returned work Wednesday in a body under the same conditions that prevailed before the strike was ordered. Pardon for Rivera. Havana, Nov, 19. Ruis Rivera, "the Cuban leader, it is reported, has been pardoned.

The Cuban camp of La Mandama, in Pinar del Rio province, was attacked by the Spaniards, who were defeated. The Spanish losses were one colonel, several officers anti 46 soldiers killed and 146 wounded. The Old Story. Eufaula, Nov. halfgrown children lost their lives in the burning of an old frame house a mile from White Oak.

Sunday night. Their parents, Louis Brown and wife, went to church, leaving their children, aged 12, eight and six years, locked Ju the house. McKenna for Judge. Washington. Nov.

General appointment as asso- ciate justice of the supreme court to wicceed Justice Field has been formally decided upon by the president and heartily approved by the cabinet. The -jiecession to the department of justice as still open. Xcw Style of Postal Card. Washington. Nov.

is expected that within a week all the first and second-class post offices in the country ill have been supplied with a new style of postal WILSON'S REPORT FILED. Secretary of Agrlcaltare Reviews the Work of His Department. Washington, Nov. report of the secretary of agriculture, James Wilson, for the year 1897 has been filed. Following is a brief synopsis: Seven tons of Imported sugar beet seeds were distributed last spring In 27 states, among 22,000 farmers, through the experiment stations of those states, to ascertain where the sweetest beets can be produced.

Samples are now being analyzed at the experiment stations, and where they are not prepared to do the work the beets are forwarded to the laboratory of the department at Washington. There is abundant encouragement to lead us to conclude that our country will within a few years produce what sugar It requires. The appropriation at the disposal of the bureau has not been sufficient to enable It Inspect all the animals slaughtered in the United States designed for interstate and foreign commerce. The force engaged In the work has been enlarged from time to time, and the number of animals inspected has increased each year. During the past year all the beef exported to Europe and a great part of the pork and other meat products have been Inspected in accordance with the law, but the bureau has found It impossible to Inspect the large amount of meat slaughtered for interstate trade.

The force now used in the inspection is competent and efficient, and it should be extended sufficiently to meet the intent of the law looking to the inspection of all the meat entering into interstate and foreign trade. The extension of the scope of the weather bureau and its Increase in usefulness are well known to the American people. In 1883 weather maps were not Issued except at the central office in Washington. During the last fiscal year 4,315.000 maps were issued at 81 stations outside of Washington, and there has been an increase of 686,000 copies within the last two years to meet the constantly increasing demands of the public. In 1883 forecasts and warnings were sent to 8,094 places by mail, no other method of distribution, except through the daily press and the railroad train service, being then in use.

During the last fiscal year daily forecasts and warnings were sent to 51,694 places by mail, telegraph and telephone, and there has been an Increase in the number of places receiving forecasts in the last two years of nearly 30,000. Recent events have greatly augmented the importance of active measures to develop the agriculture of Alaska. The information recently received from Inofficial sources, as well as that previously gathered by officers of the government, seems to make it clear that it will be practicable to develop the agriculture of that region so that it may furnish food supplies and beasts of burden for a considerable population. The development of agriculture in this region, as elsewhere, can undoubtedly be greatly promoted by experimental Inquiries conducted systematically under the supervision of expert officers. I would, therefore, urge that the appropriation for Investigating the agricultural resources and capabilities of Alaska be continued and that provision be made for carrying on experiments in that region in case the official inquiries now in progress there seem to make this desirable.

Many of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, together with scientific, technical and industrial schools, now maintain a department of domestic science. Cooking and sewing are quite commonly taught in the public schools, and cooking schools for women have been organized in numerous places. While useful Instruction in these lines is imparted it is generally recognized that much remains to be done before the teaching of domestic science can assume its most effective form. An investigation of the disposition which is made of street sweepings and other refuse of cities has been undertaken by this division and will be prosecuted vigorously during the coming year. The division has placed itself In communication with all the cities of the United States having a population of 10,000 and over.

It has also perfected arrangements for obtaining information in regard to disposition of street sweepings and sewage in the largest cities of Europe. The importance of this work is from a hygienic and economical point of view, in regard to the best method of disposing of this refuse, and, second, in regard to the value of these materials for fertilizing purposes. WORSE THAN THE PEST. Nearly 75 Cent, of 400,000 Pacificos Died of Hunger. New York, Nov.

17. special to the World from Havana says: It now appears that nearly 75 per cent, of the 400,000 helpless women, children and noncombatants in Cuba affected by former Capt. Gen. policy are dead. Despite the orders issued by Gen.

Blanco to feed the starving, the daily mortality of the remaining is frightful. The rabid Spaniards, who believe that only by extermination of the race can the Cuban war be won, openly challenge the good faith of Gen. statements as to his intention to feed and find work for those whom Gen. Weyler has not killed. More than half of the rural population has disappeared, having been murdered by Gen.

Weyler and his supporters. As nearly as can be conservatively computed from official figures, little more than half are left alive and well of the 180,000 vigorous peasant lads Spain sent to Cuba. The figures are: Died in hospitals, killed and died on the field, sent back to Spain as now in hospitals. 060; total, 81,000. The best informed Cubans admit that disease and starvation have reduced the rebel army of able-bodied men from 100,000 to 40,000.

The real figure probably is nearer 000. QUARANTINE RAISED. Great Influx of Cattle Into Kanaaa Hua Begun. Topeka, Nov. 17.

quarantine in Kansas on cattle from the south was lifted Tuesday, and, according to Taylor Riddle, chairman of the state live stock committee, the biggest influx of cattle for years was begun. are herds of feeders right he said, the southern border ready to come in and there are cattle in Mississippi ready for shipment to Kansas. I consider it a conservative estimate to say that 30,000 Texas cattle and 20,000 more from Arkansas, Mississippi and western Tennessee will be shipped into Kansas before December HENRY GEORGE MEMORIAL. Public Aiked to Give Money for Erection. New York, Nov.

has been determined to appeal to the public at large for subscriptions to a memorial for Henry George on the broadest grounds of respect for the memory of man who devoted himself unselfishly to the public good and entirely irrespective of difference of opinion as to bis economic or political views in the hope that all the various projects which have sprung up in different parts of the country having this purpose in view can into harmony. LONDON A PREY TO FIRE. Great Conflagration Rages in a Manufacturing District. A Vast Area Burned Over Before the Arc Loss la Estimated at $25,000,000 St. Giles Church Damaged.

London. Nov. 20. of the most disastrous fires in history since the great fire of 1666 broke out in a large block of buildings lying eastward of Aldersgate street and between that thoroughfare and Bed Cross street just after one Friday afternoon. The flames wtere fanned by a strong wind and were fed by highly inflammable stocks of Christmas fancy goods and flimsy dress materials of all descriptions that filled every floor of the six-story buildings in the old street.

Consequently the conflagration gained headway with surprising rapidity and was soon far beyond the possibility of being checked by the few engines which were early on the spot. For four hours and a half the flames had their own way, and it was only after more than a hundred engines had worked an hour that the chief of the fire brigade sent out the signal that the fire was under control. At midnight the fire is still the scene of great excitement. Fifty engines are playing upon the ruins, wagons are hurrying up coal and tons of water are pouring into the fiery debris. The scene must occupy the fire brigade for several days, especially in view of the grave danger of the collapse of the shells of buildings which fall now and again with a loud report.

The latest accounts indicate that nearly a hundred warehouses have been destroyed, while the loss will probably exceed 5,000,000 The historic Church of St. Giles has been much damaged, the principal damage being to the roof, the old windows, the baptismal font and statue. It is officially announced that 150 warehouses have been gutted. Nearly all the British fire insurance companies are involved, and fire insurance shares were practically unsaleable on the stock exchange Friday afternoon after the fire was well under way. Nearly 300 telephone wires have been cut, thus interrupting communication with many of the big provincial towns.

The fire will cause an enormous advance in the price of ostrich feathers, which rose 30 per cent. Friday evening. Two feather firms alone have lost £15,000 A very large force of firemen and about 20 engines worked at a high pressure all night. The district ravaged by the fire is bounded by Aldersgate street, lied Cross, Maidenhead court and Bradford avenue, and includes the intermediate streets, Jewin, Hamsell, Well and Edmund, and Jewin crescent. The ravaged district also includes part of Australian avenue, alley, Cripple Gate churchyard, Wood street square, Monkwell street, Nicholl square and Fore street.

Hamsell street was the scene of the outbreak of the fire, which was due to an explosion in connection a gas engine on the premises of Walter Brown mantel manufacturers at No. 30 on that thoroughfare. Their third factory was crowded with girls when the fire broke out, and it was instantly the scene of a semipanic, the frightened operatives rushing to the roof of the building and there crossing to other buildings and so effecting their escape while the flames were pouring out of the basement. In less than a quarter of an hour the flames had enveloped the adjoining warehouse and thence they leaped across the street to an enormous paper warehouse which was fully alight in less than ten minutes. B.y this time it was evident to the firemen that they were face to face with a great disaster and a general alarm was sent out.

There was no abatement of the blaze before 3:30 p. m. Then the check came In Jewin street and in Well street, where the collapse of a wall on the right-hand side of that thoroughfare was the means of saving the last building in the street. The width of Red Cross street, a comparatively broad thoroughfare, also formed a barrier there. By dusk the picture presented was extremely brilliant.

Four streets were blazing on both sides and there was plenty to interest the gambling spirit of the on-lookers, in betting as to whether or not the venerable tower of St. church could stand the hail of sparks and burning fragments with which it was enveloped. Aldersgate street leads fntoGoswell road, and from the latter runs Old street, oldest way in or about London, and probably older than London itself, forming the road from the eastern to the western John Milton went to live in Jewin street, off Aldersgate street in 1661, and here he married his third wife. The church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, was built about the year 1100, close to the ancient city gate of that name, where cripples were permitted to congregate to ask for alms of travelers.

The church, having suffered from fire in 1545, was then partly rebuilt. In it Oliver Cromwell, then only 21 years old, was married to Elizabeth Bourchier, August 20, 1620. In this church are the tombs of John Milton and his father and also the tomb of Fox, who wrote the "Book of In the southwest eorner of St. churchyard are the remains of a bastion of the old Roman wall which once surrounded the city. The funeral services of Daniel Defoe, author of were held in St.

Giles church. The stained-glass winddw Injured by the fire was erected to the memory of Milton by the late George W. Childs, of Philadelphia. This venerable church is approached by an archway in Red Cross street, through which the fire swept. CREDITORS.

Sam of His I.ar«e*t Amounts to Oshkosh, Nov. is a list of the largest creditors of Henry Sherry who made an assignment on Wednesday last: Hirman Smith, D. C. Van Ostrand, C. W.

Howard, 000; Mrs. D. T. Kimberly. Mrs.

George Harlow, First national bank, Milwaukee, National bank of Oshkosh, Manufacture! national bank, of Neenah, 000. Total, $699,000. LITIGATION ENDED. Settlement of the Wisner Estate in Hardin County Recalls History. The administrators of the George H.

Wisner estate have made their final reports and been discharged by courts wt Eldora. The settlement of this estate recalls this wealthy Wisner family and the power their wealth exerted. In three short years, father mother and son all passed away. Lyman F. Wisner, the head of the family, was one of the wealthiest men in central and northern lowa.

He amassed a fortune of about $1,500,000 by coming to Hardin county at an early date and by his shrewd, economical and business-like ways. He was the friend of everybody, rich and poor alike. He married Miss Julia Hatch, and by their union they had one son, George. Mr. Wisner was president of the Hardin county bank, at Eldora, and of the First national bank, at lowa Falls; owned the wellknown "Sunnyside of some 1,500 acres at lowa Falls and owned land in nearly half the states of the union.

While hunting near his farm near lowa Falls, by the accidental discharge of a shotgun, Mr. Wisner was killed in August, 1889. Dying Intestate, his widow Inherited her third of the estate, and the only son, George, the remainder. Young Wisner was married in the autumn of the year of his death to Miss Fannie Gilman, one of the society favorites of Hardin county, and daughter of Charles C. Gilman, expresident of the lowa Central railroad.

By careful management, assisted by J. D. Newcomer, financial secretary to his late father, George H. Wisner added largely to his portion of his father's estate. January 11, 1893, young Wisner died very suddenly from a complication of diseases.

He died without leaving a will, and the first case that came up in the new temple of justice was a contest as to who should administer the affairs of this large estate. Mrs. Julia A. Wisner chose Mr. J.

D. Newcomer, the friend and adviser of her husband and son. The widow, Mrs. Fannie Wisner, assisted by her father, C. C.

Gilman, chose Mr. J. L. Williams, a prominent banker, now dead, of Marshalltown. After a long, bitter legal fight, Mr.

Williams was chosen. Soon after the death of George, and having so much trouble and grieving so continually over the death of her only son, Mrs. Julia A. Wisner died in April, 1893. The bulk of her money went to her grandchildren, son and daughter of George.

These children, Gilman and Lois, are now aged about seven, and each inherited one-third of their estate and a large amount from their grandmother. At the time of reaching their majority the children will be millionaires. The widow of G. H. Wisner has again been married, to Mr.

Frank W. Crockett, who was county clerk of Hardin county at the time of the administrator contest. Mr. Crockett has been appointed guardian of one of the minor children. Mr.

James L. Williams, who was administrator of the estate of George H. Wisner, was stricken with apoplexy before the affairs of his administratorship were settled. GIVEN DEGREES. Graduates of the State Agricultural College Made Hnppy.

Degrees were conferred at the graduating exercises of the lowa Agricultural college at Ames as follows: Bachelor of W. Bouska, Philip E. Damon, T. W. Mast, Arthur F.

Sample, J. J. Vernon, Jasper Allen Wilson. Doctor of Veterinary A. Craig.

Bachelor of Mechanical George G. Dana, C. E. Bergeman. Bachelor of Civil Gersbach, Ole Davidson, Ward M.

Jones, W. S. Joseph, George B. McWilliams, J. S.

Morrison. Bachelor of Science in Electrical R. Cole, Emerson G. Reed, Glenn G. Heald, G.

W. Patterson. Frank Linebaugh, Robert E. King, Frank B. Spencer, Allan Rae, Edwin R.

Townsend, Herman T. Schmidt, George L. Stearns. Bachelor in Science of Mining Engineering P. Kribs.

Bachelor of E. Barger. E. C. Bierbaum, Guy S.

Brewer, Andrew Brown, James R. Burnip, Hanna Mae Thomas, Louis A. Duroe, W. C. Garberson, Margaret M.

Jones, Charles E. Frank McConnon, William Newall, E. F. Rhodenbaugh, Ambrose C. Rice, F.

M. Rolfs, Margaret Rutherford, Clarence E. Tanton, Lawrence Winne. Bachelor of Gwendolen Doxsee, Lydia Mae Fellows, Blanche Greeley, Helen Louis Knapp, Elizabeth Alvina Morphy, Edith Redmon, Olive Estelle Stevens, Minta A. Tilden, Ida L.

Wafliins. Graduate Courses, Master of H. Eckles, Charles Stuart Hutchinson, H. C. Irish.

Master of W. Louthan. DECLARED INSANE. Mrs. Ileacock, of Kinsley, Said to He of In Mound Mind.

An interesting insanity case was tried at Le Mars before the board of commissioners of insanity. Mrs. J. J. Heacock, of Kingsley, wife of a wealthy miller, is the party supposed to be insane.

She has at various times committed peculiar acts, such as setting fire to her mill and threatening to kill her relatives, and she has driven her stepchildren out of the house. Iler family physician, her father, her husband, uncle and grown-up children testified to her strange actions and gave their opinions that she was of unsound mind. The woman has some money in her own right, and she employed counsel and made a sharp contest. Several of the neighbors took her side, and the case was a long one. The board adjudged her insane.

Notice of appeal was given, and unless some compromise is made she will remain at liberty pending the decision of the district court. PERPETUAL MOTION. A Jefferson Mnn lie Has Solved the Vexed Question. Albert S. Russell, of Jefferson, has invented a perpetual motion machine, consisting of a circuit of corks ascending in water and descending in air.

He says: rude dish was used for this purpose, having a thin tube soldered into the bottom of said vessel through which the of corks passed, for repeating the circuit. Though the model was cheap and rudely constructed, and the number of corks small. It was found that by the law of specific gravity one cork ascending in water drew up nearly corks In the air, all of equal size. Now, it is contended that materials lighter than water (as corks) will cause motion: this motion, too, facilitating the movement of the till perpetual motion is produced. The Intervening flexible pads (between the corks) keep the water from escaping; the tin tube holding about 216 of these.

The circuit to run on freely movable wheels, one above and one below. The water is prevented from evaporating by a Henderson Recovered. Congressman first appearance on a public occasion since recent illness, brought on by his wounds received during the war, was made at the charity ball in Dubuque. He has now fully recovered his health and Strength. TRIAL OF FRANK NOVAK.

Great Interest in the Case Manifested All Over the State. The Charge Is the Murder of Edward Murray at of the Various Witnesses from Day to Day. Vinton. Nov. state rested Its case In the Novak murder trial late yesterday afternoon, and the defense had two witnesses on the stand before' adjournment The counsel for the defense devoted a large part of the forenoon to an effort to Impeach the evidence of the witness Perrin by his cross-examination.

In the afternoon Drs. C. C. Grien and J. P.

Whitney, of Vinton, who made an examination of the skull of Edward Murray after the body was exhumed and the head severed, testified that on the right side of the head there was evidence of a fracture. They also testified that there was a blood clot to the right and back of the brain. They expressed the opinion that this blood clot could not have been produced except by an Injury before death. The Seventh Day. Vinton, Nov.

taking of evidence for the defense occupied the time yesterday in the Novak murder trial. John Stusak, an old employe of the Novaks, testified that he and John Dusil went into the ruins on the night following the fire and turned off the valves in the boilerroom. They feared the gas might escape and cause an explosion. The witnesses for the state testified they found them shut and that they had been welded together by the heat, so that it was impossible to open The most interesting testimony was that given by Dr. J.

T. Woitishek. of Rapids. The defense proved by him that Novak learned from him the amount of morphine needed to drug whisky enough to put burglars to sleep. However, the doctor said he told Novak not to do it and would not give him a morphine prescription.

defense proved that Novak did not conceal his actions at lowa City the night after the fire, when he left for Omaha, by the testimony of G. H. Burkheister, formerly operator there, and James Smail, baggageman. Annie Zabortski. the sister, and her husband.

Charles Zabortski, testified that they carried a stock of goods worth between $6,000 and $7,000, upon which there was insurance of that the building was worth nearly and was Insured for $2,000. The Eighth Day. Vinton, Nov. defense tn the Novak murder trial continued yesterday. One of the most suspicious circumstances connected with the finding of the body of Edward Murray in the ruins of the Walford fire was the fact that an identification check, a pair of scissors and other articles belonging to Frank A.

Novak were found in the ruins near the dead boy. Yesterday the mother testified that while she was in the sleeping-room on the day before the fire she found a pair of pants which he wore on the day before and which he tore badly while jumping over a fence to separate some fighting dogs which had frightened the children. She said that when she placed them on a lounge near by that there was something in the pockets which rattled. Mrs. Frank Novak, wife of the defendant, testified that their home life was a happy one, and that Novak was a good husband.

Several witnesses were on the stand who contradicted the witnesses and testified that when the cot and dead body were taken from the boiler-room after the fire there was a quantity of debris under it. John W. Nolan testified that he was told by a robber who had been captured a few weeks ago that there was an organized gang in that vicinity and that they had planned to rob the Novak bank among other places. Members of the Novak family testified that the bottle of morphined whisky was kept in a bank vault and not in the store. The Ninth Day.

Vinton, Nov. feature of the Novak murder trial yesterday was the testimony of Mary A. Novak, who took the stand in behalf of her husband. The wife described the interior of the bank building, how it was divided, the location of the rooms, vault, counter, windows and doors. She said: husband was at home all Sunday afternoon before the fire.

He had on his everyday trousers. A strange dog came along and got to fighting with dog. He started out to part the dogs, and jumped over the fence. As he did so he tore his trousers. He did not go to the store until he was ready to retire.

He was back to breakfast, but had changed his trousers. He had on a still darker It is admitted that the wife made a very strong witness for her husband and materially weakened some of the strong points in the evidence. Fred Feyerbrand, of Walford, testified that he was standing six feet from the body when it was exposed in the ruins, and that there was nothing on it. This was a direct contradiction of the evidence. J.

W. Nolan, station agent in Walford, also testified to the same effect, being very positive that there was nothing on the body when it was exposed in the debris. Evidence was also introduced to show that Novak went away because the gas in the burning store building caused temporary insanity. Prof. Andrews, of the state university, and Dr.

Carroll, chemists, testified that the gases in a fire of wood and coal would cause temporary insanity in one awakened from sleep as Novak was. They said that such gas might cause one man to awaken and another to sleep on in The Tenth Day. Vinton, Nov. Novak murder trial was full of surprises yesterday and was brought to a sudden and unexpected termination. When court adjourned Thursday evening it was the intention of the counsel for the defense to place Novak on the stand yesterday to testify in his own behalf.

After two or three unimportant witnesses had testified Judge Ney, of the defense, asked for a short recess at ten This was granted, and the attorneys for the defense retired for consultation. It was expected that when they leturned they would place Novak on the stand, but Mr. Miller, chief counsel for the defense, unexpectedly announced that the defense would rest. When two came the state had been able to get but four witnesses here. Drs.

Griffin and Whitney were called to the stand and the state sought to introduce in evidence a portion of a medical work. The defense objected, and the court sustained the objection. Mr. McQuilken and Mr. Schloeman, members of the grand jury, were called to the stand and testified that Joe Shunka and Charles Zabortsky, witnesses for the defense, had testified differently before the grand jury than they had in this trial.

The state had no more witnesses present, and the court would give them no more time, So they were compelled to rest their case. County Attorney Tobin at once began the opening argument and had not closed when adjournment was taken. There will be four arguments, and it is probable the case will be given to the jury late Monday afternoon. In a newly designed hose nozzle two outlet tubes are used, one to throw a full stream of water and the other a spray, with a valve to turn the water to either outlet. Two New York men have invented a snow plow, the draft appliance of which is at the rear, so that the horses will not pack the snow down before the scraper reaches it.

Sore backs on horses are prevented by a new harness pad, which has a pneumatic section inserted under the soft leather covering to keep the pad from chafing. IOWA STATE NEWS. Law Student Kills Himself. George Pusey Kitchen committed, suicide by shooting. Kitchen was a senior in the department of the state university at lowa City.

He was despondent because of failure in passing his examination and disappointment in a love affair. He djrove to the home of his sweetheart, daughter of Charles Fairall and his cousin, about ten miles east of the city, and there committed the deed. The family was absent at the time. The body was found in the front yard. The remains were to his home in West Virginia.

Insane Attorney Suicides. Albert Phillips, an attorney from Bellevue, committed suicide at Independence by throwing himself in front of a moving train. Phillips had been an inmate of an insane asylum three months. The cause of his mental trouble was financial reverses through failure of building and loan investments. With an attendant he visited the depot to bid good-by to his wife and babe, who visited him, and then threw himself under the rear ear.

At the fourteenth annual meeting in lowa City of the Young Christian association the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. F. E. Morgan, Des Moines; first vice president, Mrs. Emma Ridley, Cedar Falls; second vice president.

Miss Eva Seevers, Des Moines; recording secretary, Miss Ethel Brookwal.er, Toledo; corresponding secretary, Miss Fannie Eckles, Des Moines. The twenty-first annual convention of the lowa State Dairy association was held at Charles City and officers were elected as follows: President, P. G. Henderson, Central City; vice president, G. L.

Hubbel, Waukon; secretary, J. C. Daly, Charles City; treasurer, E. G. Swift, State Center.

Waterloo was selected as the place for meeting in 1898. L. D. Spiekler, a farmer, shot anti killed his wife at Cushing and afterwards blew out his own brains. Four children were made orphans by the tragedy.

They were the children of the woman by a former husband. Spiekler separated from his wife over a year ago on account of family troubles and they had lived apart since that time. Gov. Drake has refused to honor the requisition of Gov. Tanney, of Illinois, for the return of J.

F. Corey, who is charged with embezzling funds from a Chicago firm for whom he was buying cattle. The draft on which the money was procured having been drawn in lowa, the governor claims that the crime was committed in this state. A freight train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids Northern railway struck a three-wheeled railway velocipede carrying a man and two women a mile east of New Liberty and Fred Lausen, section boss at Bennett, and Mattie Schulsen, a young lady living at Bennett, were instantly killed. Col.

Crawford, one of the members of the Dubuque city council of 1895, indicted for raising their own salaries, has returned the money in dispute to the city treasurer, and the eight other defendants are preparing to do so. It is thought this will end the indictments. A post office has been established at Elder Grove, Allamakee county, with Olave Monserud as postmaster. Rev. Dr.

J. C. Maple, pastor of the First Baptist church in Keokuk for 11 years, has resigned, the resignation to take effect December 1. The Northwestern lowa Horticultural society will meet at Forest City November 30 to December 2. The Christian Scientists of Dubuque will erect a house of worship.

Annan Hanner, a music teacher in Red Oak, was convicted of passing a forged note on the bank of Elliott. The State Horticultural convention will be held at Des Moines Deeember 14 to 17. Walter Gray, of Lomax, 111., while hunting below Burlington was knocked into the river by the recoil of his gun and drowned. Nathaniel L. Ives, a veteran engineer of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids Northern road, died of blood-poisoning in Cedar Rapids, aged 57 years.

Monroe county will have saloons. In the clothing of George Schoenenherr, an aged hermit who died at Dubuque, was found certificates valued at $4,200. Des new city directory contains 27,180 names, from which it is deduced that the population is 67,950. Wapello county voted for the erection of an asylum on the poor farm. Thieves stole SIOO worth of goods from Jonas store at Oskaloosa but were caught.

For the first time in 36 years Dubuque county has a republican sheriff. August Nelson fell from a three-story window at Des Moines and was killed. Judge Elisha Randall, one of the founders of Mason City, died at the age of 79 years. A gas well has been struck at Coon Rapids. Dr.

Marcus C. Terry, of Brighton, has been appointed physician at the Fort Shaw (Mont.) Indian agency at S9OO per annum. A post office has been established at Stella, Allamakee county, with William Blum, as postmaster, and another at Bruce, Wright county, with Halvor M. Reierson as postmaster. F.

G. Randall, a retired druggist, was run down and killed by an electric street car at Ottumwa. The hardware store of George F. Kerr was burglarized at Allerton of knives, razors, spectacles and revolvers valued at $l5O. Officers Chosen.

lowa Dairy Association. Kills Wife and Self. Requisition Refused. Two Killed. Pays Back Hie Salary.

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