The farmers' union., 1894-08-23
CHINA'S CREDITGOO
EUROPEAN BANKERS WANT HER
EONOS.
Progrexs Of the Eastern War-Plot (.
ASS ,ssinate Dupuy, the French Pre- M. Ter
Murder Mystery Cleared Cp-Two Sc
rious Railroad Accidents.
From Iur nnsl Near.

rious Railroad Accidents.
From EMr and Near.
The financlcrs OF London Berlin and
other capitals Of Europe are eagerly d.
cus>ing the proposed Chinese loan lnqui-
ries made u, the Offices OF Jardine. Mathe-
son & Co. London and China merchants.
aud at the offices Of the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Bank Company. show that the
loan which the great banking Institutions
OF Berlin are said to be hoatin. for China
amounts to TO- 200. 00J ,aels. aud no, IL
10000, 900, viously announced.
tael Is estimated to be worth about one
and one third ounces OF silver. or. Z ughiy
/ speaking. shitlinSs sterling or 81. 20. sup-
pose that thes. amounts represent the
value OF silver OF the wei: INT cf one tael
War news from the Orient comes slowly.
! On Saturday the authentic di>patche> re-
ceived Covered time to Aus. 6 only. and
! the situation is shown by the following
headlines appearing over Associated
/ Press dispatches: Two Thousand Slain
Armie. of China and Japan lash AT scik-
an IN Curea-Bis Battle Fought--Mikado's
Forces Make Brilliant Charge on Nam
! churians-kill All Wounded Foes--I.ater
io the Enlargement They Suffer kepulse
Unknown cruiser Is Sunk by the Chen
! iuen-Lt Hung Chang L. ses His Dispatch
Boat
lie Petit Journal OF Pari, SAYS that the
police have discovered an anarchist plot to
| assa>sinate Premier Dupuy. The Premier
is In the Eernet les Bains. on the Spanish
border. He is accompanied by three Paris
detectives. rs runlors o: pot against his
life have been numerous recently. These
detectives ar. supposed to have discovered
the plot through the presence OF several
tySt in vpsnft hlN,r
Of Ncrrc' The anarchists. according to
the newspaper, had been warned of
their danger the night before the
police expected to arrest them and fed
to Spain. Tho conspiracy was Matched in
barcelona by Spanish and French
arch;sts Three men were designated bv
lot to execute it. They were to cross the
border and assassinate the Premier during
his absence from Paris The bomb which
was TO tie used was made in Spain, although
, 1t Is Lot known that the barcelona an
archfst. did the work. The police In Bar
celona deny that there is an anarchist
laboratory In that city. and say that the
bomb must have been procured else where.
The plot was discovered after the three
| anarchist agents had started on their mis-
sion OF murder.
The cornfleld murder mystery at :! errc
Haute. Ind. has been cleared up by the
! confession made by Ben Reed after his ar
rest He says he aud the murdered man.
Henderson, walked from Marshall Ill
They slept In the cornfcld. Reed. waking
first. shot and killed Henderson. robbed
the body and returned to Marshall. The
proceeds of the murder. Sc so. he used to
buy clothing and food for his wife at Mar
shall.
"A fast Chicago freight on the Sioux
fty and Dnx. 1-~
box car at River Sioux. ffty-two miles
south OF Sioux City. Iowa The engine and
six cars plunged down embank ment.
and the engineer and fireman had "a mi-
raculous escape from death The INJURED
are: Engineer Moorey. che leg badly hurt
aud bruised on the body: Fireman McKin-
ney. log injured and ba lily bruised; Brake
man C. X. Turner. back wrenchel.
Mixed train No. . on the Harrodsburg
branch OF the Louisville. St. Louis and
Texas was wrecked at Harmed. Ky. the
front trucks Of the engine giving way.
One coach and two freight cars went into
the ditch Fireman liannen was fatally
injured. and several passengers slightly
hurt.
Nj Curtis. the actor. has closed a
real estate deal involving about 81 900. 0O0
MIR. Curtis has traded the hotel Drtskol, ut
Austin. Tex. for G. OOo lots at Lakewood.
n. J. The Lake wo ID property was owned
by George II. Dreher Mr. Curtis will build
d hotel on a portion OF his newly acquired
property. and will probably make it his
home.
"A number OF moonshiners in Russell
County. Virginia attempted to lynch {. F.
Clapp. q Deputy United States Marsh al,
but we're thwarted in their purpose. Clarp.
it is said. had been one of them. but turned
against them several months ago aud had
beon appointed marshal Most OF the men
coEcerned In the attempt to lynch Ciaop
are in Jail
| There is q uniform movement by the
strikers OF the Atchison. Topeka and Santa
Fe to get back their old places. but thus
far they have met with poor success Gem
eral Manager Frey remains firm in his
original position n It TO take any OF th4m
back. aud In the general Offices 1t is rot
believed that he will change his mind.
From Riverside. near the Kentucky
line comes news OF murder e,ultiny
from a domestic quarrel Edwin Lemaste rs
and his wife INDUCED in a dispute, the
woman finally threatening her husband
with shotgun. Upon the husbands 3 thre 1t
to knock her down il she old not drop tia
weapon, a son, W. L. Lemasters. shot has
father and killed him The boy escaped,
but II caught will be lynched
Obituary: At Milwaukee. Charles H.
Larkin. aged 81. At Upper Sandusky. Ohio.
Willard D. Tyler At Chesterton. Ind.
Ma.nus Lund. aged 6s. At Mount Carroll
Ill. David Nelson aged So
"A firm OF wool dealers in Hamilton,
Ont. have over q million pounds OF wool
stored in its warehouses here. nearly all OF
which will be shipped to the United States
When the new tariff hill hecomes Inv
The Canadian wool clip. As we'll as the clip
OF last year, is nearly all in the country ,
warehouses
The new officers OF the Wholesale Sad
dlery National Association elected 1T De-
troit are: President. l. s Gordon. OF Indi.
annapolis: Vice President. Albert Nor .bach,
Cincinnati; Secretary. J. h Denvir. st.
} Louis; Executive Committee. p. Burns. St
Louis: Il W. Campbell. Cinc;nnatf: and