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The leader., 1897-03-17
Heavy Loss at Greenwood.

Greenwood suffered disastrous fire
last week. The Reiman House, with
all its furnishings, was completely de-
stroyed. How the fire originated is a
mystery. All the guests got out safely
with most of their belongings. The
fire spread rapidly to the frame build
ings west of the hotel and soon con-
sumed the law offices of Rush & Gard
ner and Coleman & McClurg, and two
frame store houses containing furniture,
fixtures, etc. The libraries Of the two
law firms were saved. The losses are
as follows: Reiman House, building
valued at $1,000 insurance SIS, 900; loss
on furniture, ETC., $1,000 with no in
surance. Rush & Gardeners law office,
IS, 600, furniture $500; no insurance. j.
d. Attlesey's building and furniture.
So, 500; no insurance. j. T. Terry's
building, $1,000; no insurance. 5. R.
Coleman's building, $500; no insurance.
II required heroic efforts to prevent the
buildings east and the courthouse south
Of the burning house from catching fire.
The leader., 1897-03-17

ii you need anything in the line of Hay.
Coal, Stock, Grain or Cotton Scales, YOU
should write to the Weeks Scale Works,
Buffalo, N. Y, for catalogue and informa.
ton. This is an old reliable firm, and YOU
can rely upon right prices and right treat.
The leader., 1897-03-17
CURRENT c~MMeNr.

In Detroit, Mich, a number of lead
ing citizens have presented the Saliva
tion army with a building valued at
$4,000.
The leader., 1897-03-17

TERRR HAUTE, Ind, March 1s.-The
Wabash river dyke in Sullivan county,
which cost $40. 900, has broken and TO-
600 acres of farming land viii be food
ed,
The leader., 1897-03-17

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle &
treatise. DR.. Kline, 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa.
The leader., 1897-03-17

THE British Medical Journal makes
the announcement that the plague Is
dying out in India and will probably
disappear before the end of May.
The leader., 1897-03-17

SINCE the streets of New York have
been properly cleaned the annual death
rate per 1000 has declined from 26.77
IN 10 fs
The leader., 1897-03-17

What men call failure may often be what
angels call success.-Ram's Horn.
The leader., 1897-03-17

A woman's idea of man good and true
is one who, on Sunday afternoon, reads to
his child the little paper it received at Sun.
day school that daY.-Atchison Globe
The leader., 1897-03-17
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.

George describes the girl he is engaged
to as perfect vision" Yes. And his sister
says she is sight. Indianapolis Journal.
The leader., 1897-03-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A SPECIAL from Washington to the
New York Herald on the 9th said that
President Mckinley was emphasizing
his earnest desire for the prompt rati-
fic;ttion Of the general arbitration
treaty by personal appeals to his
friends in the senate.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY held his first
regular cabinet meeting at IL o'clock
on the 9th. 1t is said he intends to
make practice of holding conferences
with his official advisers twice a week,
on Tuesday and Friday.
JOSEPH n. DoLPH, ex-United States
senator, died at Portland, Ore. on the
10th, aged 90. His leg was amputated in
the hope of saving his life, which was
threatened by blood poisoning, and the
shock was too great for him.
CAPT. III. ID. BAKER, for many years a
power in Kansas politics, died at
Guthrie, Ok, on the 18th. During the
manded company of Col. Crawford's
Nineteenth Kansas volunteer infantry.
In 1889 he removed to Oklahoma, where
he served in the territorial council.
A MASS meeting was held at New
York on the 18th for the purpose of
indorsing the arbitration treaty be-
tween this country and Great Britain,
but the meeting was captured by the
ants. Judge Lynn made speech de-
nouncing Great Britain for her policy
in support of Turkey and against the
Cretans and Armenians. The resolu-
| tions favoring ratification were put to
the meeting by President Seth Lowe
and, although only one-third voted in
favor of them, they were declared car
ried. Pandemonium reigned at the
meeting.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 18th
stated that it was practically GER
tain that ex-Delegate Dennis Flynn
will be named by President Mckinley
for governor of Oklahoma at the expira-
ton of Gov. Renfrow's term.
ii. CLAY EVANS, of Tennessee, has
been rendered the position of commits
sioner of pensions and probably will
accept, as it is one of the most impor-
tant in the departmental service outside
of the cabinet.
CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT, the Chicago
Records correspondent in Havana, de-
clared on the 18th that Gen. Weyler
had received positive orders from Mad
rid to end the Cuban war at once, even
going to the extent of selling the is
land to the insurgents to accomplish
that object.
In the Nebraska house on the 18th a
bill to extend the franchise, giving
women the right to vote at municipal
elections, was defeated.
The clerk of the house of represent
atives at Washington has classified the
new house as follows: Republicans,
2O9; democrats, 1872; populists, 2l; fu
sionists, 6; silverites, 8; vacancies. 2.
ALBERT MORT, of Baltimore, Md, has
been appointed national chairman of
| the L. A. W., to succeed George ID.
| Gideon, who declined the Office.
Word was received from Toronto,
Ont, on the 18th that Miss Eva Bal
lington- Booth, commander of the Sal
walton army forces in Canada, was dan
gerously i'll and that her recovery was
very doubtful.
The leader., 1897-03-17

A mans importance cannot be deter
mined by the number of initials before hi
Globe.
The leader., 1897-03-17

When heating furnace for your foe, do
not forget that there is some danger Of
your being thrown into it.-Ram's Horn.
The leader., 1897-03-17

PuBLic sentiment. backed up by 5.ooi
sehool-teachers and principals, the Chi
cage Times-Herald says, has finally Sc
cured legislation which, it is believed
will practically cut OF the sale Of ciga
rettes 70 the school children Of Chicago
The tobacco dealers are said to fav0
Ne law, for the reason that there
dts1e proot q IL eigarstte tva1aa.
The leader., 1897-03-17

Over 400, 000c cured. Why not let No To Bac
regulate or remove your desire Tor tobacco!
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81 90, all druggists.
The leader., 1897-03-17

People really ought to have better sense
than they have.-Atchison Globe.
The leader., 1897-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE barn and stable of l.. w. Pres
ton at Glasgow, KY, was burned re-
Gently, together with 10 horses and
mules. All of the horses lost were
thorough reds and included Paragon,
Jr., and Vidette Boy. The fire was in
cendiary.
A STATEMENT issued by the immigra-
ton bureau at Washington shows that
for the six months ended December 81,
1896, the number of immigrants that
arrived in this country was 149, sos, a
decrease as compared with the same
period of 1895, of ~, zoo. For January,
1897, the decrease as compared with
January, 1896, was 1895, making the
total decrease for the seven months 49,
525.
STEPHEN HORTON, a wealthy farmer
at Rutland, Pa, and his wife were
found dead in their house on the 18th
from poison. 1t was thought that Mrs.
Horton poisoned her husband and then
herself while temporarily deranged
GEORGE MATTHEWS was hanged in the
Jail yard at La Plata, Nd, on the 18th
for the murder of James J. Irwin.
The federal grand jury at Louisville,
KY, on the 18th returned 81 separate
and distinct counts against J. M. Nc
knight, the late president of the de-
funct German national bank of that
city. The indictment specified viola
tions of the national banking laws, EN-
bezzlement, false entry and false re-
ports to the comptroller.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th
the cannonball express train from Chi
cago was wrecked on the Evansville &
Terre Haute railroad near Hazleton,
Ind, and the engine, baggage car and
smoker went into the White river and
seven were known to be killed. The re-
cent rains had weakened the roadbed.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone a mile in
width struck Ralston, ]. T., and great
damage was done. Nearly every house
in the town and in the path of the cy-
clone was either blown down or
wrecked. Many persons were injured,
but no lives were lost.
A MEXICAN woman, named Luz San
tos Rodriguez, and her three daughters
were drowned in lagoon about 20
miles from Brownsville, Tex. One of
the girls went in TO battle and got be-
yond her depth and the others tried to
save her and all were drowned.
A ROLLING mill ia the yard of the
Dupont powder works at Wilmington,
Del, blew up on the 9th. The build
ing was destroyed and James Walker
was killed.
THE northbound express train on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad was
held up by six masked men near Calera,
Ala, and number of money packages
were taken from the express car. The
amount was said to be large.
The Western Baseball league mag
mates adopted the schedule at a meet
ing at Detroit, Mich, on the 10th. The
season will be opened at Kansas City
BY game on April 30 with the st. Paul
club.
FINANCIAL distress is said to be most
acute throughout Cuba Famine is
rayaging the small towns of the prov
inces of Pinar del Rio, Havana and
Matanzas and smallpox is also in
creasing at an alarming rate and most
of the victims die.
PENSION examining surgeons, whose
fees amount to $500 and less per an
mum, have been declared not under the
civil service rules.
The La Grange, Ind, county safe in
the courthouse was blown open at two
o'clock ON the morning of the 18th and
500 was carried away. Two thousand
pennies just received from the mint
.as portion of the plumber,
The leader., 1897-03-17

Shem"Do you understand those French
Then wish you'd translate them. "-Piek
The leader., 1897-03-17

THE proposed corporation to csltrol
the output of Kentucky bourbon
whisky is being perfected, two apprais
ers having been appointed, one repre-
senting the distillers and the other the
capitalists who are to furnish the
money for the enterprise. The dis
tillers have agreed to shut down their
distilleries until January 1, 1897. The
stock of bourbon whisky in ware.
houses at present amounts to 90, 00O, 0Oc
gallons, while the consumption re-
quires Withdrawals of only $4,000, 00e
q year. The present stock. therefore.
will be sufficient to supply the demand
for At least five years to come.
The leader., 1897-03-17

When bilious or costive eat a Cascaret.
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. l0c, Csc.
The leader., 1897-03-17

A COMPANY has been organized al
Lacon, Ill, to open cat farm and
raise cat skins for the market. One OF
the men connected with the enterprize
said: 1t is well known that cat furs
go much into the making of leather
goods nowadays. "A cat breeds three
times . year and an average of ten live
kittens year can be depended upon
With 100 breeders to start, we coulc
have close to ]. 900, 900 cats in four years
time. The furs sell at ten and Is cents
While we will raise cats, we will alse
raise rats and feed the eats rats ane
the rats cats--that is, the rats will
thrive on the skinned bodies of the cats
The leader., 1897-03-17

A telephone at business Office is not foi
vocial messages. Atchison Globe,
The leader., 1897-03-17

Every failure carries guide-book to sie
cess In its inside pocket.-Ram's Horn.
The times., 1897-08-03

Chicago, August 2.-The wheat arket
was very strong today, although the visible
Increased l.. s. goo bushels, twice as much
as anticipated, and primary receipts, L.
100000 bushels, were double what they
Were the same day last year. Kansas
City Lad S23 cars, but that market closed
81 cent over Saturday, notwithstanding
Continental news was the stimulating fea-
ture, as it las been for the past two
weeks. Paris and Antwerp advanced
nearly 1-2 cent a bushel. Large amounts
of wheat came out on the sWells, pro
ducing only temporary effect on prices
Cash sales of $4,000 bushels spring wheat
We're made here to millers' agents English
markets Were closed on account of holi-
day.
> Exports OF wheat and flour from Can
ada and the United States In $50 equaIed
in round numbers 145. 600, 600 bushels.
Information from European correspondents
leads to the belief that they Will take
200, 900 of the crop of 1897. Tn
less the spring wheat crop of the North
west turns out smaller than expected we
shall probably be able to export from So
oOO,OoO to 60,o0O,ooo bushels more than
The times., 1897-08-03
COUNT M|TKEW|cz AGAIN
This Time He Is Indicted by the
District Grand Jury.
FALSE PRETENSES CHARGED
The Celebrated Promoter Is Ac-
cused of Soliciting Money on Mis-
representations to Boom His
Various Isnterprises-His Where
abuuts Unknown.

The remarkable Count Eugene de AIitde
wicZ, wel known in Washington and many
other parts of the country, is the gentle
man nam ad in an Indictment for false pre-
lenses found by the grand jury yesterday,
the last Indictment before they took their
recess until the middle of September.
is chargedin theindictment that Count
de MitkiewicZ, in May and June, 1886,
made the representation TO Mr.. James T.
Hunter and Mr.. David Lee Hoover Chat the
estate of his wife in Massachusetts was
being settled and that 1T was only neces-
sary for him to go to Massachusetts TO
secure his snare of the estate Immediately.
To Mr.. Hunter he stated on May s that
he would receive $4,000, and that all he
needed for the trip was $25. To Mr..
Hoover in Tune he made { he statement that
he would receive Sc 900 and that it would
cost him 81 90 TO get it.
The indictment states that the estate
was rot settled Mt that time, that Nit
klewicZ was Tot entitled at that time to
$4,000 or SEQ. 600. and that he did not
The times., 1897-08-03
The World of Business.
wall Street Yesterday.

New York, Aug. 2. While q compara-
lively few stocks enjoyed some what
disproportionate Share of specula tive inter
est today. the market was broad and active.
Room traders made quite vigorous at
tack on the Granger shares at the opening
of business, but soon discovered that an
accumulation of buying orders over Sun
day rendered their efforts unavailing.
TIE persistence with which the profess
sional element contests the obvious ten
dency OF the market, shows that it has
formed no adequate conception Of the
change that has taken place in the gen.
eial situation and in the purely marke.
conditions. The growth of public interest
In the market has been such that the specu-
lative principles of the past few. years are
no longer re liable. Theo re tically the
market should undergo a reaction. The
pause in the Changers during the week
may prove To be the reaction they Will get.
Notwithstanding the recent comparative
inactivity of this group, they must still be
recognized as the usual leaders of the
market.
The situation In the grain market wa,
still the most important factor In the stock
market, although its influence was not
directly reflected in the stocks most con-
cerned. All the foreign grain markets adj
vanced sharply. and the advance in wheat
here and In Chicago was on large foreign
aceeptannes for export. The grain move
ment in the Interior was upon a very large
scale, amounting to ,156, 400 bushels,
against e40.9o0 for the corresponding day
last year. The engagements for export
from New York and the outports aggre-
gated seventy loads. Otherwise the days
situation was rather devoid OF feature
Chicago Gas, Northern Pacific, caesa-
peake & Ohio. and Louisville & Nashville,
We're the conspicuous features OF the mar
ket. The first established a new price
record, crossing par on very animated
dealings. The buying OF the stock was
doubtless referable to the dividend decla-
ration and to the progress of the plan
for consolidation Of the companies. A
further remarkable advance In Consoli-
1ated Gas was 4 feature of the market,
which was explained as due to the hopes
OF an increased rate OF dividend. The
expected change in the presidency of the
Northern Pacific Company and expecta-
tions OF Increased traffic this rail- probably
-cconnted for the strength and activity
i'll that instance. The grangers Were steady
on moderate volume OF business
In the bond market large dealings were
noted in Atchis"n, Northern Pacific. and
the securities affiliated with the Union
Pacific Company.
The market closed steady with only a
moderate amount OF business.
The times., 1897-08-03
MINERALs IN SAN DOMINGO.
Ancient Treasure Diggings of Indi-
ans and SDaniards

Aocient reasure Dfggtngs of 1ndi-
ans and Spaniards.
All the gold in the world has not been
discovered, and the recent great strikes
in widely separated parts of Alaska, il,
the Rainy Lake region, and in other parts
Of the United States seem to nresace
the opening of another golden age. The
next place from which the Geological
Survey expects 20 hear OF mighty finds of
gold is the republic Df Santo Domingo.
The survey has a report from Mr. William
Blake, a distinguished geologist and
nhneralogist, on the subject of the mineral
resources OF that far Southern country.
The most important Of the useful min
erals on Santo Domingo saws Mr..
Blake, 80 far as 1 have been able to
ascertain, are iron, gold, copper, Ignite.
s SAT-. and petroleum. This is enough tn
make any country attractive
There is very considerable extent OF
gold bearing country in the interior of
this republic, and gold is washed from
the rivers at various points. 1t is found
along the Jaina, upon the Verde ana upon
the Kaqui and its tributaries and doubt
less upon other large rivers in the far
Interior. Some portions of the geld fields
Were ancieutiy worked by the INDIANS
and Spaniands, but their methods were
very crude and where ore of these old
diGgings is recovered it is profitable to
WORK il over.
There are doubtless many gold deposits
not only along the beds of tile rivers but
on the hills, which have never been worked.
ami Mr.. Rake thinks there is great
wealth Of gold remaining in the old work
ings- He thinks that the appearances of
the soil and rocks are such as to Justify
the labor and expense of carefully pros
pecting the gold region. The conditions
for working are favorable. The supply Of
weter for washing is unlimited and suf-
ficleut fall for drainage can generally be
had.
The women In the interior obtain a
small quantity Of gold by washing the
gravel In bstteaus, and II is said that there
arc two or three Americans in the mount
aims engaged in gold washing, and thai
they occasionally visit the villages for
The times., 1897-08-03
TOO MUCH MOTHER-IN-LAW
Young Mr.. Smiths Explanation Of
His Domestic Troubles.
Did Not Intend to kidnap His Child,
But Was Simply Fleeing From
His WIfe's Mother.

George Smith, twenty-eight years Of age,
was in TIE police court yesterday, charged
with vagrancy, but was discharged by
Judge Charles f. Scott, who is now try
Ing the District cases Smith is the young
man who was arrested near North Capitol
and streets, on Sunday, as was stated
in The Times, and it was alleged that
lac had abducted his own baby from its
mother while she was out walking
In passing sentence, the court said:
The testimony is not sufficient to hold
the prisoner In taking his child In his
aims, the defendant was doing only that
which any married man has a right to
do The case is dismissed"
In q conversation yesterday afternoon
Mr.. Smith said
There was nothing at all in the case
against me. 1t Is simply another case
or TOO much mother-in-law. / am not
living with my wife, but she met me
every evening on the street. 1 met her
Sunday by appointment and we were
taking a walk together. l had the child
in my arms, and when my mOther-in-law
approached, simply walked away TO
avoid trouble, as l knew she would create
scene. When I was arrested by the
officer 1 was Just returning nv baby
to its mother. Ny motheF-iu-law claimed
that 1 kidnaped the child. Why, what
would l do with 1t? Iu is only a few
months of age. Ny wife and l are as
good friends as ever, and this case was
gotten UP by my wife's relatives. with
whom l can't get along It is absurd
to charge me with vagrancy. l live at
SO H street northeast and work every
day"
The times., 1897-08-03

teen-and-a-half and Fourteenth streets ard
Il street and Ohio avenue
The building proper will cover rec
tangular space $50 feet by go feet, and
will tower so feet into the air, making
it, when completed, one of the most impos-
Ing structures in this city, and one of the
finest and most complete power-houSes in
the South.
Something like a force of so men are
working daily eXcaYating the foundations
for the new building, and in several weeks
the number of workmen will be further
augmented by the addition of night force.
The laying Of the foundations forms
one Oh the most interesting features of the
work of construction The entire area in
Guided within the foundations will be
sunk with piles These piles will be each
fourteen inches in diam eter at the butt and
twenty feet long. They will be driven
down by special machinery to the gravel
bed and will be three feet six inches apart
The plans for the pilework have been de-
signed by E. M. Sunderland, the architect
CT the new building, who has made spe-
cial study OF such work, which will be the
first ever done III this city by local archi-
tect
The foundation will be strengthened by
lronWork and filled in with concrete to a
depth Of three feet and six inches below
the surface. The piles viii each support a
ioau or FIFTEEN tons, and the concrete a
weight of ten tons to the square foot.
The foundation will cost S25 GOO, the
superstructnre COO and the equipment
100000. The machinery will be of the
latest and most Modern improvement, and
will be for the greater part automatic.
II is the insention of the company to double
the capacity of the present plant, with
the possibility. of decreasing the cost OF
the eelectncityto consumers. Electricpower
for every purpose will te generated and
tie direct instead of. the alternating cur
rent will be used.
Frank L. Hanvey has the contract for
the erection of the new building an q Sar-s
gent & Lundy, well-known electrical en-
gineers of Chicago. have the contract for
the equipment of the same,
The times., 1897-08-03

provisions. Ores of copper occur on the
southern flank OF the mountains between
Azua and the river Jaina. The beds of
yellow copper ole and variegated copper
are said to compare favorably with similar
deposits OF ore in the foothills OF the mount
aims of California.
In I79S Don Juan Neito Baicarcel,
a Spanish mining engineer, was sent by
tie Spanish government TO study the mines
of Santo Domingo. ana he made glow
ing report. Six leagues west of Cotuy,
he wrote, exists a mine which was an
cienily work ked and produced annually more
than "A million crowns, but, having fallen
In, it has ever since remained in this state
This Spaniard report ted rich deposits OF
gold quartz IN many places throughout the
island, and, in conclusion, said:
Finally. / can compare this isle TO
that of Tarshish, from whence solomon
drew the gold which he employed in the
ornamcntation OF his temple -