News of the Northwest
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BIG SHEEP SYNDICATE.
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Buying Up Sheep and Sheep Ranches in Montana.
Billings, Mont., Nov. 28.—Representatives of the American-English syndicate have been in this state all summer and fall traveling all over the large sheep raising sections, securing options on the best sheep ranches and best watered land for the purpose of consolidating them into one large company. Already options on nearly 500,000 head of sheep and 500.000 acres of finest and most fertile sheep raising land in the state have been obtained. Representatives of the syndicate in Montana are Col. E. C. Waters and Edward J. Morrison of Billings, both old experienced and successful Montana sheep men. Bost Reiss of New York is counsel and organizer of the company which will be known as the Consolidated Montana Sheep and Lamb company, with a capital of $10,000,000.
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Went Away Too Soon.
Sioux Falls, S. D„ Nov. 28—August Tabbert, charged with embezzlement from Sherman Bros. & Bratager of this city while in their employ, has been arraigned in the circuit court here. He pleaded guilty .and will receive sentence at once. On Aug. 19, when accused of the crime, he confessed. He was told that if he would make a full statement no action would be commenced against him. He agreed, but before the time for the conference left the city. A warrant was then sworn out for his arrest. He was apprehended at Newton, Ill., and brought back to Sioux Falls.
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Town Hay Have to Move.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 28.—It was expected that the town of Tabor would be the chief beneficiary of the Milwaukee railroad extension into Charles Mix county, but it is now stated that the railroad company will locate its depot one mile west of that place. If this proves true it will work considerable inconvenience to the residents, as it would virtually, compel them to move their buildings and other property to the railroad, otherwise a new town would naturally spring up around the railroad depot and utterly ruin the present town of Tabor.
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Resurrected the Treaty.
Tablequah, Ind. T., Nov. 28.—After killing the late Cherokee treaty on Friday the Cherokee council took it up again on Saturday and passed the bill extending the time for ratification by congress and asking that body to make certain changes in the document. It will now go to the senate, where it failed. It is stated on apparently good authority that Chief Buffington will veto any action of the council that will change any part of the treaty.
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Bank Robbers Use Dynamite.
Bluff City, Kan., Nov. 28.—Robbers touched off a quantity of dynamite that wrecked the safe and the front end of the State bank here, escaping with $1,000 in gold besides some silver and bills. This is the eighth Kansas bank to be robbed by safecrackers within three weeks. The safe of the State bank at Clearwater was blown open Friday night and $200 in cash and a number of notes taken.
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Action Against Cattle Men.
South McAlester, Ind. T., Nov. 28.—Prosecuting Attorney Soper has received peremptory instruction from Washington to begin at the earliest possible date action against cattlemen for bringing herds into the Creek country. These cases have been hanging fire for some time. The legal contest will be one of the most interesting in the annals of the Indian Territory.
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Buffalo Steak or Chicagoans.
Pierre, S. D., Nov. 28.—D. F. Carlin, administrator of the Dupree estate, is figuring on supplying the Chicago market with buffalo steak for a treat, the shipment to be made about the holiday time. He will kill several of the herd which is held on the Cheyenne river and ship the carcasses whole, with the hide on as a guarantee that the meat is genuine buffalo.
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Electric Plant for Dickinson.
Dickinson, N. D„ Nov. 27.—The Dickinson Electric Light and Power company is being incorporated by residents of this place. The company is capitalized at $10,000 and will commence work on an electric plant at once.
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An Alleged Firebug.
Belle Plaine, Minn., Nov. 28.—Patrick Sherlock's barn, twenty-one head of cattle, three head of horses and all his grain, vehicles, harness and hay were burned. Tom Hoy was arrested, and is charged with setting the fire.
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Viti Surrenders.
Kenosha, Wis., Nov. 28. — Charles Viti, the Italian who was suspected of killing Antonio Bruno and eluded the police, has surrendered. He admits that he shot Bruno but claims that the deed was done in self-defense.
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Will Go to the Penitentiary.
Mandan, N. D., Nov. 28.—In the district court Benjamin Freeman was yesterday found guilty of burglary and sentenced to the penitentiary for four years and four months. He burglarized stores here last August.
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Sentenced for Assault.
Fergus Falls, Minn.. Nov. 28.—William Colvert, Jr., was convicted of criminal assault. The jury was out only A few minutes. Judge Baxter sentenced him to the reformatory for an indefinite period.
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Depot Burns Down.
Bamboo, Wis., Nov. 28.—The depot at the Chicago & Northwestern road at Lodi burned Friday night. Every thing was consumed except the records.
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Stoned a Street Car.
Springfield, Ill., Nov. 28.—A second act of violence as the result of the local street car strike occurred when an unknown person threw a stone through a street car window, striking a passenger, wounding him badly.
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THOSE BANKS O. K.
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Sonndness of Yankton Institutions Not to Be Questioned.
Yankton, S. D., Nov. 26. — Reports sent out from Sioux City and Sioux Falls that great excitement prevails in Yankton and that the banks are sending to Sioux City for large amounts of money are without foundation. The statement of the Yankton banks show as good a condition as' the banks of any city in the country. Their soundness has never been, questioned. The Savings bank, which was forced by unusual circumstances to close for a time, will pay dollar for dollar.
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WHILE CORONER IS DISPUTED
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Dead Body Lay in the Mississippi for Several Days.
Keokuk, Iowa, Nov. 26.—The body of a drowned man lay in the Mississippi river south of here for several days while the coroners of Lewis county. Mo., and Adams county, Ill., quarreled about which state it was in. A man tied it to a tree with wire and yesterday some citizens towed the corpse up stream and tied it up to the Clark county. Mo., bank. The body is that of a workingman, with no clue to his identity. Economy was the cause of the dispute.
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HAYWARD SURELY SINKING.
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The Stricken Senator Likely to Drop Off at Any Time.
Nebraska City, Neb., Nov. 26.—Senator Hayward's condition was more critical last night than at any time during the present attack, and he is liable to drop off at any time. He has barely held his own during the past week and his strength is about all gone, while the paralysis is increasing and he speaks with great difficulty and his broken sentences are almost unintelligible.
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SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
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Unexpected Verdict in the Trial of Cyrus Brown.
Wabasha, Minn., Nov. 26— Cyrus W. Brown was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of John Olson last July. The jury was out less than half an hour. Considerable surprise is expressed at the verdict, it being generally thought Brown would get off at manslaughter or assault.
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Fighting Smallpox.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 26—Excitement has been created in Taopi township, this county, by the discovery that a family named Olson, which recently arrived there, had been exposed to smallpox at Storm Lake, Iowa, from whence they came to South Dakota. Dr. Files, president of the state board of health, and Dr. W. A. Germain will quarantine the Olson family, vaccinate all in the vicinity who have been exposed, and take such other steps as may be deemed necessary.
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Censured by Grand Jury.
Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 26. — The grand jury of this county severely censures the state board of control for its methods of doing business, and holding the board responsible for the recent outbreak in the industrial school for girls at Mitchellville. The grand jury says the rule of the board prohibiting the wife of the superintendent to serve as matron caused a change of officers and demoralized the inmates.
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Reversed by Supreme Court.
Madison, Wis., Nov. 26—The supreme court has reversed the decision of the Douglas county superior court in the case of the State vs. O'Toole, and remanded the action for a new hearing. O'Toole was convicted July 26 of the crime of robbery with force and violence, not being armed with a dangerous weapon, and was sentenced to seven years in state's prison.
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New Asylum Trustee.
Hudson, Wis., Nov. 26—The county board of St. Croix county chose W. O. Bradley of Hudson Prairie an asylum trustee to succeed O. J. Williams of New Richmond. O. W. Mosher, H. L. North and W. C. Bradley compose the board. W. J. Egbert, clerk of the court, has been elected purchasing agent for the county.
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Face Disfigured.
Printice, Wis., Nov. 26.—Daniel Hollinger, whose home is at Prescott, Wis., while trimming a tree, near Hawkins, struck himself in the face with a double-bitted ax. The ax crashed into his cheek, making a gash from his eye to his ear and severing two arteries. His recovery is doubtful.
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Miners' Strike Settled.
Decatur. Ill., Nov. 26. — An agreement for settling the miners' strike was reached yesterday by operators and miners. An eight-hour day and recognition of the union were the most important demands by the miners, and these are granted. Four hundred men were out nine weeks.
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Able-Bodied Artesian Well.
Cannon Falls, Minn., Nov. 26.—Matt Holland, who has been driving an artesian well for J. J. Anderson of this place, has struck a flow of 2,000 per minute, with force enough to raise the water forty feet above the level of the ground.
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Crushed Under the Wheels.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 26. — Lars Hystad, a farm hand, was killed in Edison township, eight miles from here, by a thresher engine passing over his body. He is supposed to have stumbled and fallen.
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Bob Fitssimmons Breaks a Hand.
Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 26.—A special from Jenesville says Bob Fitzsimmons accidentally caught his left hand between two heavy doors of a hotel here. The ex-champion says his hand is Broken
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Grain Inspector at Winona.
Winona, Minn., Nov. 26.—Inspector Reishus was here yesterday looking up the matter of appointing a deputy grain inspector for Winona. This will be done provided the Bay State mill guarantees the fees, $1,500 annually.
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ON ITS LAST LEGS
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HOT MUCH LEFT OF AGUINALDO'S REVOLUTION.
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Province of Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao, Surrenders Unconditionally— Numerous Chiefs Declare Their Loyalty—Filipino Republic Crumbling Like a House of Cards—Insurgents Flocking to Manila to Declare That They Are Weary of Rebellion—Cabinet Officer Captured.
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Washington, Nov. 28—Secretary of the Navy Long received a cablegram from Admiral Watson informing him that the entire province of Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, had! Surrendered unconditionally to Commander Very, of the Castine. The surrender was made on the 18th inst. Admiral Watson's dispatch follows:
"Nov. 18 entire province of Zamboanga surrendered to Very, unconditionally. Delivery of all guns promised. Numerous local chiefs declared loyalty.
—"Watson."
The information contained in Admiral Watson's dispatch was received by the president and his advisers with unconcealed satisfaction. The surrender of the province of Zamboanga is regarded as the beginning of the end of the revolution in the island of Mindanao, and, it is believed, will be a hard blow to those who are still endeavoring to maintain the insurrection in the island of Luzon.
Advices from Admiral Watson indicate that the southern half of the island, which comprises the province of Zamboango. has yielded to the American forces and acceded to the authority of the United States.
Revolution Crumbling.
Manila, Nov. 28. — The news which the steamship Brutus brings from Dagupan indicates that the so-called Filipino republic is crumbling like a house of cards. Aguinaldo is deserted or being abandoned by the politicians, and the army which a fortnight ago was Intrenched at Tarlac and exercised a de facto government over nine-tenths of the people of Luzon, is fugitive in the mountains, with small hope of reestablishing the machine. The army is scattered in the hills on both sides of the railroad, and widely separated detachments are within the cordon which Generals Lawton and Wheaton have cemented.
Buencomino, the ruling spirit of the cabinet, Is a prisoner in Manila, and the small fry are tumbling over one another to get to Manila. Three provincial governors have arrived in Manila to request Gen. Otis to install them in their old offices under the new regime. Dr. Luna, a brother of Gen. Luna, and a prominent insurrectionist, has arrived here, and many others are applying to Gen. Otis for permission to return to Manila after months of separation from civilization. Aguinaldo began his retreat with 2,000 men under Gen. Gregorio del Pilar. That force was probably reduced to its present proportions by desertions. The last definite news as to Aguinaldo's whereabouts is that he passed through Trinidad, east of Aringuay, toward Bayombong, escorted by 200 men.
Aggy's Last Council.
Manila, Nov. 28.—The last Filipino council of war was held by the retreating leaders at Bayamban on Nov. 13, In the house now occupied by Gen. MacArthur. It was attended by Aguinaldo, Pio del Pilar. Garcia. Alejanderino and some members of the so-called cabinet. Information has reached Gen. MacArthur from several sources to the effect that the council recognized the futility of attempting further resistance to the Americans with united forces and agreed that the Filipino troops should scatter and should hereafter follow guerilla methods.
Reports of ambuscades and skirmishes come from every section of the country along the railways. Military activity continues in every section.
Aguinaldo's Child Taken.
Washington, Nov. 28.—The adjutant general has received the following from Gen. Otis:
"Vessel from Lingayen gulf with dispatches from Weaton on 23d inst., brought in Buencamino, insurgent secretary of state, captured 21st inst. He was with Aguinaldo and party left Tarlac night of 13th to be escorted by 2,000 troops, north from Bayambang and Dagupan. These troop» Wheaton struck at San Jacinto, and Young eastward. Aguinaldo, with part of family, escaped north with 200 men, passing between Young and Wheaton. Young still in pursuit last accounts, and has been rationed at San Fernando. Aguinaldo's mother and oldest child, with Buencamino, separated from the rest of party; mother lost in woods, and child, four years old, with Wheaton's troops; $2,000 gold, belonging to mother, captured and now in Manila treasury. Heavy storm in Lingayen has prevented loading of troops there for the north. MacArthur the captured insurgent director of railroad, who endeavored to destroy railroad to Dagupan; also Capt. Lawrence, Englishman, who served in Aguinaldo's artillery. Our troops have liberated some 300 Spanish prisoners recently."
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Black Eye for Prerogatives.
Madrid, Nov. 28.—Senor Selvela, having refused to present to the chamber of deputies the reports of the proceedings against the officers who surrendered Santiago de Cuba and Manila to the Americans. Senor Morenco moved that such refusal was an infringement on the prerogatives of parliament. All the leaders of the minority supported Senor Morenco, but the motion was defeated by a vote of 125 to 85.
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Flag From the Kaiser.
Chicago, Nov. 28.—Dr. von Holleben, German ambassador to the United States, yesterday, In the presence of 2,000 Germans, presented a flag sent by Emperor William to the United German soldier societies in Chicago.
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Negro Shoots Jeweler Dead.
Evansville, Ind., Nov. 28. — Siman Skora, a pawnbroker, was shot down in his store by a negro. There was no provocation for the murder. The negro was caught and gave as a reason that he was drunk.
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BOY'S HEROIC ACT.
Presence of Mind Prevents a Disastrous Wreck.
Brazil, Ind., Nov. 28.—The courage and presence of mind of Frank Williams, fourteen years old, prevented a disastrous wreck on the Kandalia railroad yesterday. Williams was coming from Knightsville to this city when he noticed a broken rail which had been pressed out of position by a freight train some hours before. The lad heard the west-bound passenger and mail train whistle for the Knightsville station. Knowing that the train did not stop there the boy ran up the track and when he sighted the train stood between the rails and waived his hat. The engineer seeing the boy would not leave the track reversed the lever and applied the air brakes, stopping the train within a few feet of the broken rail. The engineer stated that lie was running fifty miles an hour when he saw the boy, and had his engine struck the broken rail with such great speed a fearful wreck would have resulted.
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DECISION AGAINST GOEBEL.
Kentucky Court of Appeals Awards the Nelson County Votes to Taylor.
Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 28.—The court of Appeals clinched Taylor's right to 1,197 Nelson county votes. The court, all the judges concurring, refused to dissolve the injunction as asked by Goebel's attorneys. The votes in controversy were certified for W. P. instead of W. S. Taylor. Judge Jones of Nelson county ordered these votes counted for W. S. Taylor, and this order is affirmed. The Democratic leaders now assert that Goebel will not contest before the legislature if he is not given the certificate of election by the state election board, which convenes here next Saturday. Taylor's managers are dubious on this point, as the statement that he would not contest has never been made by Goebel himself.
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PARIS HAS A FRESH SCANDAL.
Murder, Robbery and Other Crimes Arc Said to Have Been Committed in a Retreat.
London, Nov. 28. — A scandal has arisen over the old age retreat, Malakoff, near Paris, founded by an ex-Franciscan monk. Many wealthy old women were sent there and are said to have been beaten, tortured and robbed. Even murder is now alleged to have been committed. One woman, eighty-five years old, is said to have been induced by an attendans, twenty-five years old, to give up 20,000 francs, and was then forced to marry him; Several of the residents were found dead, as if accidentally, and padded cells were discovered in the building by a magistrate who is thoroughly investigating the institution. Two of the attendants have been imprisoned.
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KHALIFA DIES IN BATTLE.
Scourge of the Soudan Killed With His Emirs.
Cairo, Nov. 28. — Lord' Cromer, the British minister here, has received the following dispatch from Gen. Kitchener:
"Wingate's force caught up with the khalifa's force seven miles southeast of Godid and attacked it. After a sharp fight he took his position. The khalifa, who was surrounded by a bodyguard of emirs, was killed and all the principal emirs were killed or captured except Osman Digna, who escaped."
The dervishes were utterly defeated, their whole camp was taken, and thousands surrendered. A large number of women, children and cattle also fell into the hands of the Anglo-Egyptian force.
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ON A SECRET MISSION.
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U. S. S. Ranger Fitting Out for a Long Voyage.
Chicago, Nov. 28.—A special to the Record from San Francisco says: The United States ship Ranger, now lying at Mare Island, has quietly fitted out for some long voyage, and rumors are current that she is bent on some secret mission. The officers of the warship refuse to discuss the nature of the voyage. Several six-inch guns are being placed in position on the vessel. The only thing the officers will admit is that the Ranger has been ordered to Panama and will sail in December.
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COL. GEORGE R. DAVIS DEAD.
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Director General of the World's Fair, Soldier and Congressman.
Chicago, Nov. 28. — Col. George R. Davis, former director general of the world's fair, died at his home on Washington boulevard of valvular disease of the heart. Col. Davis had been suffering from heart trouble for some time, but it was only during the last ten days that he was confined to the house. Until then he was actively engaged in business. His death was not unexpected.
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Mai. Howard's Remains.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 28.—The remains of Maj. Guy Howard, son of Gen. O. O. Howard, who was killed recently in the Philippines, will arrive In this city to-day over the Union Pacific from San Francisco. They will be met at the station by a delegation from army headquarters and escorted to the home of the father-in-law of the deceased officer, Judge J. M. Woolworth, where later in the day funeral services will be held.
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The Uprising That Failed.
Paris, Nov. 28.—The senate, sitting as a high court, heard witnesses in reference to the Royalists' arrangements for an uprising in February last. One witness deposed that M. Guerin's secretary told him the Anti-Semite league was ready to march and that carts filled with arms and ammunition would follow the demonstrators.
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Business Portion Suffers.
Bowling Green, Ohio, Nov. 28.—Nearly half of the business portion of Watson, a town of 1,200 inhabitants, was burned yesterday. Twelve buildings, occupied by about twenty business firms, were destroyed. Loss, $50,000.
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Lost Precious Stones.
Chicago, Nov. 28. — Daniel Earl, a diamond importer, lost a leather pouch containing $7,363 worth of diamonds, rubles sapphires and other preciouss tones while carrying it from his office to safety deposit vaults.
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THE COAL INDUSTRY
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PROMISES BIG THINGS FOR NORTH DAKOTA.
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Capitalists Are Interested in the Developmentof the Lignite Coal Fields—It Promises to Prove a Source of Wealth to the State—Their Converting Plants to Be Located and Active Operations Begun—An Illimitable Coal Supply for the West Independent of the Eastern Product.
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The vast veins of lignite coal underlying North Dakota, and which, up to the present time, has been put to little use except to supply a local demand for fuel, promise, under a discovery that has been made by some German capitalists, to prove a source of wealth to the state, and to furnish a supply of superior fuel that [sic] will.e re long, be in use on all Western railroads and in all factories. The gentlemen, who have discovered a process for converting the lignite coal into a grade of fuel that, at a recent test, gave better results than the best Eastern bituminous coal, are J. Moersch. Sherman Wolff and Alex Menke, and they are in the western part of this state looking up coal lands, and an opportunity to purchase coal veins. They were at Bismarck, looking over the prospects here, and from Bismarck they went to Dickinson, where there are immense deposits of lignite. They are also considering locations for the establishment of their converting plants, three of which will be put in operation in the lignite region. The establishment of these plants will require $80,000 for each one, and the output of product will be correspondingly large. The matter is one that is of vital interest to the state, and, indeed, of the whole Northwest, for, if the process proves successful in creating a superior fuel for practical use, as it has in the tests that have been made, the base of supply for fuel for the entire West will be transferred from the coal fields of the East to those of North Dakota.
The gentlemen who are interested in the conversion of lignite have been at work for some time upon their experiments, which were tested at an experiment made at St. Paul recently, in the presence of officials of the Northern Pacific road, which is particularly interested in the process. The results obtained were highly satisfactory. The prepared fuel from the lignite gave better results than the best Eastern coal, and it is stated that the discoverers and owners of the process have a contingent contract with the road for upwards of 100,000 tons of this fuel, if it shall prove up to the standard of that with which the test was made. The process is a crushing of the lignite, removal of the sulphur and other elements aside from the carbon and the pressure of the residue into squares of about the size of the ordinary anthracite product.
The cost of preparing the fuel is so reasonable that it can be put upon the market at a price far below that demanded for Eastern coal, and insures a coal supply for the West independent of the probabilities of lake traffic, and at a lower price than must be paid for fuel transported from the East.
If the plan proves successful, its importance to the state cannot be estimated now. There is no adequate conception of the vastness of the lignite fields of the western part of the state. Thousands upon thousands of acres of land are underlaid with lignite in veins of from twelve to fifteen feet thick. The Bad Lands, in the western part of the state, are one immense deposit of coalRunning the entire length of the Little Missouri river in its course through this region, there is a vein of coal of exceptional thickness and extending back thousands of feet into the clay hills and buttes. If this coal could be converted into a fuel equal to the ordinary bituminous product, it would supply the demands of the entire West and Northwest for years. At present, lignite is used by only a limited portion of the state. It is soft, and the elements of matter other than carbon are so great that Its cheapness Is its greatest recommendation to the consumer. But, converted into the kind of fuel proposed, and which the owners of the process in question are confident of producing from it, North Dakota lignite fields would prove the source of supply for Western fuel.
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The Stechman Case.
Henry Stechman of Casselton has about concluded that the state enforcement league combination is an avenging Nemesis. His hotel was raided and his arrest effected two or three weeks ago. Two trials in the district court for alleged infraction of the prohibitory liquor law, led to a disagreement and acquittal, respectively. Stechman returned to his home and thought he would be permitted to pursue the even tenor of his way unmolested by the league spotters. The case has now assumed another phase, and he is made the defendant in an action to close his place by injunction. This is purely a court matter, and the defendant begins to see his finish, as he fears Judge Pollock will grant the demands of the leaguers whom, Stechman claims, are persecuting him.
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Henry Bemares, the convict and all around crook, has escaped again at Hope and is at large. He is undoubtedly making his escape good this time.
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All attempts to settle the county seat fight In Emmons county seem to have proven unavailing, and the matter will be decided at the special election Dec. 19.
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Helping the Russians.
The sufferings of the famine-stricken Russians in their native land are being ameliorated to some degree by the former subjects of the czar who have settled in this state. In certain sections Russians are very numerous. Their kinsfolk have written of the destitution on account of the failure of crops, and the cases are numerous where those who have prospered on North Dakota's fertile prairies have sent money back to relatives
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HERO COMMITS SUICIDE.
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"Brave Bill Anthony," Who Was on the Battleship Maine.
New York, Nov. 26. - William Anthony, better known as "Brave Bill Anthony," died at the Presbyterian hospital yesterday, half an hour after he had swallowed a quantity cocaine at one of the Central Park entrances. He was the man who on 1 15 1898, when the battleship Maine was blown up to Havana harbor, reported to Capt. Sigsbee in the famous words: "Sir. I have the honor to report that the ship has been blown up and is sinking."
On his return to this country Anthony was accorded receptions everywhere. He received many invitations from cities to be their guest. For months he traveled the country, being accorded the honors of a hero When his leave of absence was ended Anthony was promoted to be a sergeant of marines and was detailed at the Brooklyn navy yard. In one of Anthony's coat pockets was found a letter written to his aunt, which read that he was discouraged and disconsolate and was going to end it all. Among the articles found was a picture of his one-month-old child, on the back of which was written: "Bury this with me " The Spanish-American war medal, such as all the survivors of the battleship Maine received, was also found.
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RAIDED BY POLICE.
Concern In New York That Had Been Advertising Fabulous Dividends.
New York, Nov. 26. — William F. Miller, head of the Franklin Syndicate, which has accepted the deposits of thousands of persons in Brooklyn under promises of paying dividends of 10 per cent a week or 520 per cent per annum, and Cecil Leslie, his secretary, were indicted by the King's county grand jury. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest of these two men, but up to quite a late hour last night neither had been found, the police saying they had disappeared in the afternoon. Last night the police raided the premises occupied by the Franklin syndicate on Floyd street. There was a great crowd gathered around the building and the police surrounded it. Inspector Brennan arrested Louis Miller, brother of the head of the syndicate, and the cashier of the concern, and took possession of $15,000 in cash. There were forty [sic] employes engaged at work in the offices and these were allowed to go. The chief specification on which Miller was indicted was conspiracy to defraud. The district attorney's office has been at work on the case for some weeks, so prominent have become Miller's operations in that time.
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KENTUCKY'S TRIAL TRIP.
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Big Battleship Proves Highly Satisfactory.
Boston. Nov. 26.—Against tide, wind and with a heavy head sea for at least half her course the new battleship Kentucky made a record of 16,877 knots an hour on her official speed trial over the government course from Cape Anne to Boone island, and by her work she showed that she is a little faster than her sister ship, the Kearsarge, which recently was sent over the same course. The trial showed her builders, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, that she can justly be rated as a seventeen knot vessel, although her contract calls for only sixteen knots. They expect that when the figures of the trial are revised and tidal allowances made it will be found that she actually averaged seventeen knots on her run.
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TORTURED AND ROBBED.
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Aged Couple Treated in a Shameful Manner.
Cumberland, Md., Nov. 26. — James Earle, eighty-five years old, and his wife, over eighty, were tortured and robbed at Glencoe by a gang of masked men. The old people were cruelly beaten and the soles of their feet were burned with torches before they would make known the hiding place of their money. The culprits obtained over $500. Both Earle and his wife are in a precarious condition, their advanced age making recovery doubtful. Three years ago they were robbed and the thieves, who were never detected, are believed to have been the same persons who committed yesterday's crime.
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WOMEN RIOTING.
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Wives and Other Relatives of Strikers Give Battle to Deputies.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 26.—The parading and rioting of the wives and other female relatives of the striking miners at Nanticoke was resumed there, hundreds of women marching the streets. One of them was arrested for throwing pepper into the eyes of a deputy. A number of miners working about the collieries were captured by them and the deputies were forced to charge the line of women in order to recapture the men. The women gave battle to the deputies, and a number of hard blows were exchanged.
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Mortally Wounded by His Brother.
Maryville, Mo., Nov. 26.—Mom Lindsay, aged eighteen, was shot and mortally wounded by his younger brother, Jesse, at the home of their brother-in-law, Joseph Yeager, nine miles west of here Wednesday and the affair have just been made public. [sic] eYager says the two young men were quarreling. Tom, who can live but a short time, says the shooting was accidental. Jesse, has disappeared.
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More Mules for the British.
St. Louis, Nov. 26.—Col. J. H. Smith and Capt. Markham, of the English army, are in the city for mules for use in the war against the Boers in South Africa. In addition to the 8,000 mules already purchased the officers have orders to secure 2,000 more.
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A Revision Suggested.
St. Petersburg. Nov. 26.—The Novoe Vremya says that Count Muraveiff, the minister of foreign affairs, has suggested a revision of the treaty of commerce between Russia and the United States, which was concluded in 1832.
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Finnish Immigrants.
Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 26.—The department of the interior has received information that at least 15,000 Finlanders will arrive in Canada next spring. The majority of the immigrants will be from South Finland.
