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The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24

Marquis de Rudini has reconstructed
the Italian ministry without rs much
trouble as was expected when the
crisis occurred
Mrs. Jennie June Croly, famous
throughout the country as worker
and writer for women's clubs, has been
appointed an inspector Of public
schools in Greater New York.
The prison board has decided TO dis
continue the manufacture of bedroom
suits at Ionia prison and to increase
the output of wood novelties. This
will reduce the competition with out
side labor to a minimum.
Congressman Mesick has been as
sured by Postmaster-General Gary that
the appointment of three Michigan
postmasters-A. r. Wheeler, at st.
Louis; c. r. Brown, at Alma, and Mr..
Rolf, at Traverse City-would be made
the last of January, to 60 into effect
Feb. /.
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24
Shot His wife Four Times.

4
Maurice e. Casey went to the home
of his wife's mother, Mrs. Sheridan, at
Alpena and shot his wife, four bullets
taking effect. The first shot struck
her just under the right eye, going
back into the head. The woman
turned and ran, but Casey fred again.
breaking her left arm. She fell and
crawled under table, and he fired
two more shots, both of which struck
her in the hips. The murderer then
went to his own home, left his overcoat,
kissed his little boy and went toward
the river, and it is believed he has com
mitted suicide. Mrs. Casey cannot re-
cover.
Casey was about 40 years of age and
his wife 30. He is teacher of boxing
and formerly kept a saloon. The
couple have not lived happily for years,
and Mrs. Casey recently secured legal
separation, each being given the GUS
tody of one child. Casey seemed to
think u good deal of his wife and has
brooded over the separation, and, it is
thought was out of his mind.
Later-Casey was caught at the
farm of Coon Ribble, five miles from
Alpena. After Casey had been there all
night he told Ribble what he had done.
The latter would not believe the story,
but he induced Casey TO give up his re-
volver and then went to Alpena and
told the officers where Casey was hid
ing and he was easily captured. He
nl III inns IN NlasA0s 40 In.
cidents of the tragedy and raves
about his poor wife, asks how
she is; if she is dead, ETC. He raves,
cries, and is morose by turns
Mrs. Casey is still alive and the doc
tors have some hope for her recovery.
Electrical Works Burn at Port Huron.
The Excelsior electric works at Port
Huron, burned at an estimated loss of
$3.50, 000 The fire started in the boiler
room, and a heavy draught swept
through the structure, causing the
flames spread with such rapidity that
the building was totally destroyed be-
fore the firemen could gain control.
The city electric railway is paralyzed,
as it's motive power was furnished by
the electric light plant. The four gem
orators belonging to the street car
company were ruined. Many business
places using electricity generated by
the Excelsior works will have to
burn gas
w. f. Davidson, manager of the Ex-
celsior Electric Light Co., had started
for Detroit, and at Lenox was notified
by telegraph of the burning of the
plant He at once telegraphed from
LenoX to Chicago for steel for new
building. He also ordered brick for a
new building, by telegraph, and closed
contract for its erection. This feat
was accomplished before Mr.. Davidson
had seen the runs and before the
flames were eXtinguished.
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24
DOiN0s OF CONGRESS.
A ParagraphIc Chronicle of the Acts of
the Nations Lawmakers.

the NatiOns Lawmakers.
The bill to prohibit American citi-
zens engaging in the Boring sea seal
fisheries industry was passed by the
Senate, after Mr. Pettigrew, of South
Dakota, had criticised it sharply as an
other instance of trucking to Great
Britain, and offered an amendment
providing for determination of the seals
if Great Britain did not, by June 1,
agree to a suspension of pelagic seal
ing. The amendment was defeated.
When the bill reached the House il met
with a warm antagonism there from
Mr. Johnson, of North Dakota, Mr..
Loud, of California, and others, and in
the course of the debate there were
some caustic criticisms of the course of
our Berlng sea negotiations past and
present. 1T was passed, however, and
then there was discovered provision
in closing section which will prohibit
the importation of sealslSins into the
United States This will be severe
measure against British and Canadian
industries which take and cure the
skins and then dispose of them largely
in the United States.
Secretary OF War Alger was directed
by the Senate to send relief to the
klondilSe miners. The same bill passed
the House, also 1t appropriates S175,-
600 for the purpose.
number of important nominations
have been sent to the Senate by Presi-
dent Mckinley, including the follow
ing: The present attorney general,
Joseph McKenna, of California, to be
an associate justice of the IT, S. supreme
court; Charles q. Dawes, of Illinois, to
be comptroller of the currency; Ham
ilton King, of Michigan, to be minister
resident and consul-general to Siam;
VIM. w. Thomas, Jr., of Maine, TO be
envoy extraordinary to Sweden and
Norway; Nathan B. Scott, of West Vir-
ginia, to be commissioner of internal
revenue.
At hearing before the interstate
commerce committee of the Senate
Geo. NJ. Mckenzie, representing the
ticket brokers of the country, protested
against the passage of the anti-scalp-
ing bill. He stated that % per cent of
the tickets sold by brokers came from
the railroads themselves and that it is
estimated that the brokers save the
travelling public nearly S6,OOO,O 900 an
nually.
Senator Wolcott, chairman of the
international monetary commission,
stated in the Senate that it is uncer-
tain when report would be made by
the commission, as negotiations are
still pending, but there was no inten-
ton of prolonging effort beyond the
the point where reasonable hope for
success should exist.
The Democratic members of the
House held caucus attended by 101
of the 1875 Democratic members. The
caucus decided to resist all efforts to
retire the green backs and treasury
notes and to extend the privileges of
national banks or to reduce the taxes
which they now pay, also to favor the
passage of the Senate resolution recog-
nizipg that condition of war exists in
Cuba, and the enactment of just and
wise bankruptcy law.
Congress adjourned from Dec. Is, to
Jan. 3.
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24

Iron ore in large quantities have
been discovered near Munising.
A bonus of SO, 600 is being raised at
Monroe TO secure a fax and excelsior
mill.
The fifth annual meeting of the as
ISOLATION of the judges of Michigan
will be held at Lansing commencing
Dec. %.
The postoflice at Laurium will be
raised TO the presidential class on Jan.
4, the salary of the postmaster to be
81 900 per annum.
Mrs Thomas Hamilton, a bride of
six weeks and only Is years old, was
killed by a train vtllilc crossing the
railroad at Richmond
Durand will vote on the question of
ibouding for $500 to Enlarge the light
ing plant, which is made necessary by
The growth Of the village
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24
MunIsing waterworks ReservoLr Burst

The waterworlIs reservoir at NUNS
ing, Mich, gave way with noise like
the roar of Niagara. 1t had just been
completed by the Shaw Kim5all En-
cheering Co., of Toledo, and the coun-
ell had appointed a committee to in
spect the job. The reservoir is 317 feet
above the level of the streets and sup
piled the water mains of the village.
The break was caused by frost crack
ing the cement and the water working
a way through the loose dirt. The
amount of damage has rot been esti-
mated The village is not without fire
protection, however, for the mains can
be fed by direct pressure from the bay
by means of the new water works
power house.
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24
A Now Gun Boat for the Lakes.

Senator McMillan's bill to place a
modern gunboat on the Great lakes in
stead of the Anticipated Michigan, has
been referred by the Senate committee
on naval affairs TO the senator himself
to draft a favorable report. This re-
port will be speedily prepared, and the
the measure will then be reported to
the Senate and placed on the calendar.
There it will remain until the naval APP
preparation bill comes over from the
House when it will be offered as an
amendment, and undoubtedly adopted.
The navy department is heartily in
favor of the new gunboat
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24
Only 90 Lives Lost on the Lakes In 'e7

Only 60 Lives Lost on the Lakes IN '97
In navigating the Great lakes during
the season just closed only So sailors
lost their lives. The only disaster was
the loss of the Idaho on Lake Erie,
when 10 lives were sacrificed. The re-
mainder of the 6s were lost one at a
time, either from falling overheard or
from accidents on shipboard. Not a
single passenger was lost during the
season on lake steamers, but one
jumped overheard. The season was
chiefly remarkable for the large num-
Der of narrow escapes of crews from
wrecked vessels. In this respect the
work of the life-saving service was ex-
tremely good.
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24

Mormous are invading southern
Michigan in force. Twenty elders
have begun missionary work in Van
Buren,, Kent, Cass. st. Joseph, Calhoun
and other southern counties. Perma-
nent headquarters will be established
in Grand Rapids. The crusade which
will be conducted will be similar in
character TO that of the Salvation Army.
Clinton ID. Butterheld and De We're
Miller, the young men arrested on the
charge OF looting the safe of the Mich
igan Agricultural college and the post
Office there last April, were arraigned
before Judge Swan in the U. 5. circuit
court at Detroit, and were released on
suspended sentence, their stcalings
having been made good and it being
deemed that they had been punished
sufficiently already. Butterfield is the
son of the secretary of the college, and
Miller, who was student, is the son
of leading physician of Cadillac.
Ray Kimball, of Whitehall, lost his
foot as the result of hunting acciden
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24
Germany to Devour China "Bit by

Germany's designs on China are out
lined by a significant utterance of En-
peror William while at Hamburg.
When dining with Admiral Won Knorr
he said that "China is like an artich olSe
1t has TO be eaten bit by bit. Speak
ing of the navy, he said he hoped the
time was not far distant when Ger
many would have fine warships afloat
in every sea.
The Yale expositor., 1897-12-24

The dreaded San Jose scale has
surely secured foothold in the west
ern Michigan fruit belt Clinton ID.
Smith of the Michigan Agricultural
college, visited the orchard of a young
farmer i'm jamestown, Ottawa county.
and found his apple trees so badly I'M
fected by the scale that the young man
was ordered to- cut down and burn
. |. 200 trees. The farmer had mort
gagged his farm to put out the orchard,
which was only five years old, and had
just come into the bearing stage.
East Tawas is trying to revive her
salt industry,
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
DETROIT FIRE.
Three Large Buildings With Contents ant
Several Others Damaged as the Result.

Three Large Buildings With Contents and
Several Others Damaged as the Result.
DETROIT. Mich, Oct. THE center
of Detroit was the scene at 1 o'clock
Thursday morning of a confagration
which totally destroyed three large
buildings and contents, damaged sew
eral others and threatened destruction
of at least an entire block of the most
valuable property in the city.
The blaze originated on the stage of
the Detroit opera house. Simultan-
eously with the breaking out of the
fire there were several loud explosions,
presumably the bursting of the stage
lighting apparatus. The flames quick
ly enveloped the rear of the theater
and made a furnace of the interior.
The opera house, with all its contents,
including the handsome scenery, cos
tunes and equipment of the Julia
Arthur Co. were destroyed in short or
der. The rear of the ten story build
ing occupied by the Fl. Leonard Furni-
ture Co. caught fire and nothing of the
structure or contents remains but the
steel frame. The four story building
of the Mitchell Table Supply Co., east
of the theater, was Quilted and par
italy destroyed and several other
buildings were slightly damaged
At $50 the fire had been confined
practically to the above buildings. The
losses have not yet been approXimated,
but it is believed they will reach the
vicinity of $25O,OO0.
A block of tenement houses at the
foot of Hastings street caught fire from
sparks from the opera house fire and
were destroyed.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
Every Saturday Tourist Slee ping Caz
Route to California.

Every Saturday night Midland Route tour
ist cars en- route to Colorado, Utah and CALI
fornia will leave the Chicago Union Pas
senger Station of the Chicago, Milwaukee,
A St. Paul Railway at 10 o'clock, running
over the Chicago and Omaha Short Line to
Omaha, thence via Lincoln, Neb., Colorado
Springs and Leadville, Colo, Salt Lake City
and Ogden, Utah, Reno, Nevada, and Sacra-
mento, CAL, arriving at San Francisco at
8:45 D. m Wednesday.
These popular every Saturday California
excursions for both first and second-class'
passengers mot foreign emigrants) are
personally conducted" by intelligent, com
petent and courteous "couriers" who will
attend to the wants of all passengers en-
route. This is an entirely new feature or
tourist car service and will be greatly APP
preciated by families or parties OF friends
travelling together, or by ladies travelling
alone. Particular attention is paid to the
care of children who usually get weary on
long journey.
Remember that the Midland Route Tour
list Cars are sleeping cars and are supplied
with all the accessories necessary to make
the journey comfortable and pleasant, and
the sleeping berth rate is but $500 (for two
persons) from Chicago to California.
Ask the nearest ticket agent for a tour
list car folder" giving complete informa-
ton about the Midland Route, or address
Eastern Manager Midland Route" No. 81
Adams street, Chicago, ILL.,, or Geo. II. Heat
ford, General Passenger Agent, 40 Old
Colony Building, Chicago.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
WARS HORROR.
Women and Old Men, All Pacificos, Forced
to Work In Repairing Wagon Roads, BY
the Side of Common Criminals.


to Work In Repairing Wagon Roads, BY
the Side of Common Criminals.
New YORK, Oct. THE Suns Ha-
vana correspondent sends the follow
ing:
One thousand and seventy women and
40 old men, all pacificos, have beeu
forced by the Spaniards to go to work
repairing the wagon road from Matan-
zas City to Bellamar. They are work
ing by the side of common criminals
who have been sentenced to hard
labor, and they receive worse treat
ment than the criminals. The con-
victs are fed by the Spanish govern
ment. The pacificos are not. Gov.
Porcet, of Matanzas, has promised 20
Spanish cents day to the women and
ten cents to the men, but even this
paltry sum, inadequate as it would be
for their sustenance, is not paid to
them.
They are starving to death in con-
dition of slavery. Refusal to work
means heavy corporeal punishment, or
even death. Their situation is so dis
tressful, letter from Matanzas says,
that before starting to work in Bella
mar every morning many of the WON
en- commit suicide by drowning them
selves in the San Juan river.
In Havana similar brutality is daily
witnessed, while the pockets of the
Spanish officials are overloaded with
gold. Every day hundreds of pacificos
arrive at the capital to die of hunger
in the streets, and the spectacle is the
most appalling that can be imagined
1t is not true, as the Spanish allege,
that the insurgent general, Mayia
Rodriguez, has recently been defeated.
He is encamped at Iona del Hambre,
Havana, with strong force, and the
Spanish columns have not disturbed
him
The town of San Juan, in Pinar del
Rio, has been attacked and partly de-
stroyed by the patriots. So has the
town of QuemadO de GuineS, Santa
Clara. where the patriots were led to
the attack by Col Robau. The same
patriot leader had fierce engagement
on Saturday at Iona Bonita with a
Spanish column, and heavy losses re-
suited on both sides.
In Santiago de Cuba province the
war is waging holly. Details received
here of the latest fight at Socorro say
that the Spanish attempted to send re-
Inducements to their column from
Songo, but were checked by the Gu
bans and compelled to retire to the
town.
The small town of Carraza near the
Jucaro- Moron trocha, has been de-
stroyed by the Cubans. The Spanish
lost several officers of the battalion of
Cuba.
Many merchants, mostly Spaniards,
of the town of Calbarien, Havana, have
been arrested for aiding the revolu-
ton. A Spanish column at Cayo
Conuco, near Caibarien, found some
boxes of provisions and arms that had
been sent to the patriots by these mer-
chants
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
STOCK YARDS FIRE.
Many Business Houses and Residences De-
strOyed-HOrses Burned-One Man Killed
and Several Injured.

Many Business Houses and Residences De-
and Several Injured.
CHICAGO, Oct. 7.-Fanned by a strong
wind from the west, fire which broke
out in the Dexter Park pavilion at the
Union stock yards Wednesday after
noon spread to the district between
Halsted street and Union avenue and
Forty-third and Forty-ffth streets, de-
molishing business houses and resi-
dences.
The worst sufferers among the resi-
dents were those along Halstead street,
between Forty-third and Forty-fourth
streets. Business houses and resi-
dences alike, all of them frame struc-
lures, furnished ready material for the
flames, which ragged from 8 o'clock
until 5, and then yielded to the
vigorous work of the fire depart
ment The total damage to the
Dexter Park pavilion is estimated
at more than $50, 200 but it may exceed
that sum as the exact number of horses
burned in the fire is not known and
calculation of the amount of feed
stored in the pavilion is also yet to be
made.
A number of persons were injured
during the fight with the flames and
one man, according to an employee OF
the stock yards, was burned to DEATH
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
MILD FORM.

Very Few Deaths From Yellow Fever M
New Orleans-The Death Rate Has Falle.
to About Ten and Half Per Cent.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 5.-For "a hours.
closing at nightfall, there had not been
& single death recorded in the Office of
the board of health. Sunday there
had been 81 new cases reported and at
seven o'clock Monday night % were re-
ported since nine o'clock Sunday night.
Sunday there were nearly 200 premises
under surveillance, in which yellow
fever had been declared to exist and
in some of the houses there were
four or five cases, yet not q
single one had proved fatal in "a hours
The result was that Monday night the
death rate had fallen to a trifiing ex-
cess over 1011 per cent. and the pros
poets for an early stamping out of the
disease had been considerably bright
ened.
There is no indication that the sick
ness will assume an epidemic form.
All fear of that has disappeared and
people who have their families at other
points are beginning to make arrange
ments to bring them back
At special meeting of the board of
health Monday afternoon it was de-
cided that the ship bringing Sicilian
immigrants upon arrival here shall be
detained at quarantine at the mouth
of the river until further orders and a
notice to this effect was sent to Col
iector Wilkinson.
Six days have passed since Ocean
Springs has had any yellow fever. If
the present immunity from disease
continues until Friday of the current
week, the board of health will officially
declare the Mississippi resort free of
fever. Ocean Springs was the first to
contract the disease and will probably
be the first to get rid of it.
JACKSON, Miss, Oct. 5.-The follow
ing report was received from Dr. Dunn,
at Edwards, Miss, at p. M:
The situation here is fairly good,
considering the circumstances. There
have been reported Is new cases, seven
whites and IL colored, ten cases seri-
ously i'll, two with black vomit; two
Deaths"
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 5.-Seven new
cases and one death was reported for
Monday.
Thirty-two persons went from here
to the detention camp at Mount Yer
non Monday morning. Twenty more
went there Tuesday morning.
MCHENRY, Miss, Oct. 5.-Three new
cases here Monday. The town pre-
sents deserted appearance. Sunday
night an unsuccessful attempt VISA
made by some unknown party to assas-
sinate w. c. Wise, who is under arrest
for violating the quarantine regula-
tons
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
Town Threatened by Fire.

RAPID CITY, S. D., Oct. 5.-~~rious
fires have been raging north and Ntt
OF this place for four days, and The
citizens are exhausted from fighting
flames to save their homes All night
800 men made desperate stand against
the line of fire approaching from the
north, and finally succeeded in saving
the town, though many farmhopses
were burned. The fire had approached
within two miles of Rapid City. It had
been burning for four days in the
heaviest timbered part of the Black
bills. 1t was swept toward Rapid City
N a solid sheet of flame two miles
wide.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
Entries for the Harness Race.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 6.-The en-
tries for the purse races of the Louis
vile Driving and Fair association
closed Tuesday, and the indica
tons are that they will be equally
as large as the stake events
which closed June Is with 467 entries
The meeting begins at the close of the
Lexington meeting, and all of the fam
Gus horses which appear at the latter
place will be here, together with many
others which do not show in LexinC
ton, among them the famous Star
Pointer, Robert j and John r. Gentry.
as we'll as pacing Johnnie and the rae
ing ellzs.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
FIVE DEATHS
And Thirty-NSne New Cases OF Yellow Fee
yer Reported In New Orleans LSednes-

And Thirty-Nsne New Gases OF Yellow Fee
Reported In New Orleans ISednes-
day.
New ORLEANS, Oct EVEN as early
as six o'clock Wednesday afternoon the
day had proved record breaker, both
as to the number of cases and as to the
number of deaths that had been re-
ported. The increase of cases Wednes-
day was not unexpected The weather
has been warm, during the afternoon
especially, and the large terri
tory the board of health has to
cover makes perfect scrutiny i'm
possible and germs are being dis
tributed which, if the totality
of cases was fewer would easily be re-
strained. While the number of cases
under treatment Wednesday were in
the neighborhood of 25O, there are
many houses which have not yet been
disinfected, but in which the patients
have been declared well. Less re-
straint than usual is imposed on the
inmates of such premises and the re-
suit has been that the number of foci
has been increased. But the total
death rate is still small in proportion
to the number of eases.
There were deaths and 80 new cases
reported to the health authorities We'd
neSday.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-08
DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE.

One Hundred Buildings in Austin, Pa
Burned, Entailing Loss of Nearly Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars.
AUSTIN, Pa, Oct. 5.-Fire broke out
Monday afternoon at 2:45 in Weeds
livery barn on Turner street. In five
hours time every building in town but
five were burned to the ground Tur-
ner street was the principal residence
street of the town, and probably 500
people are tonight homeless.
The fire was started by a
load of hay being run into
gas jet. In all about one hundred
buildings were burned, mostly resi-
dences, among the larger losses being
the Methodist church, Presbyterian
church, opera house, Welch's meat
market, Hellwig's drug store, Gallup's
livery and Weeds livery. The loss is
placed by insurance experts at from
$780, 900 to 100000.