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McHENRY, >'.. *'V FGTGTCNRG F LAINFLCAUT VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publfthtr. ILLINOIS. THE NEWS RECORD. . »°^ABV °"n * WfEK.8 HAP- • '* *. -- Vbm l>af«(»'t Kew» aa Flaslied Over th< Wires from All Parts of the World--Ke- gsrding Politics, Religion, Casualties, CMnmeree, and Indnttqh H'f'f :& WORK OF THE STJLONS. Statures Considered by Both Houses of Con­ gress. MR. BLAIR presented in the Senate, on the 29th, a memorial of the Women's Na­ tional Industrial League for the suppres­ sion and punishment of the "armed assas­ sins known as the Pinkorton detectives." Referred to the .Judiciary Committee. Mr. Edmunds offered the following concurrent resolution, which went over for t lie present: Re.mlveiU That when the two houses iuijourn the Wtih of September, JS'.»0, it hi' to meet the lOtjh of November, 1 House bill authorizing the erection of a pontoon bridge across the Missouri River, between the City of St. Charles and the County of St.^Lottie, in Missouri, was n>i>orted by Mr. Vest, and passed without amendment. In the .House, the first bill considered was that wfaich ha« been pending for the last sixteen weeks--the omnibus Southern war- claims bill. Mr. Thomas (Wis.), who had objected to its passage on tlie ground that some of the claimants fcere disloyal, offered a substitute striking out the.objectionable features, and by unanimous consent it was agreed to. The bill carries about $530,000. THE NATIONAL GAME. Standlag of th6 Clubs I/'aetv in the' Base-Ball Players". W. \u V c. National. W. L. f e. Boston.. .. . .63 41 .('415 Brooklyn.. ..70 36 .660 Brooklyn.. .H5 45 .AM.Boston .69 :*» .638 New York. .61 44 .580 Cincinnati .63 41 .605 Pliila .5S 50 .537 I'hi la 64 4 i .603 Chicago ... ..57 5-2 .5-22 Chicago... .60 47 .5ti0 Pitt6bung.. ..44 55 .444 New York. .48 59 .448 Cleveland. ..42 60 .411, Cleveland. .36 72 Buffalo ..29 72 .asrjl'ittsDurg. .19 88 .177 Western. W. U 3? c.1 American. \v. L. ^ e. Milwaukee.. ,C2 34 .64) Louisville .6* 32 .660 Minneapolis 13 37 6Jc> St. IJOOIS .. .58 42 .580 Kansas Citv39 36 .621 Toitxio .5-2 44 .541 Denver .50 47 .515 Columbus. .53 47 .5-.0 Sioux City .47 47 .500 Athletic .50 47 .515 Omaha. .46 54 .460 Kocneater . .49 47 .510 Lincoln .36 61 .371 SjTacuse .. .39 58 .102 St. PaaL.. .129 71 .290 Brooklyn.. .20 73 .262 PRICES WILL BE HIGH. tails and Yeg'tables of All Kinds Unusual­ ly Scarce. Fnifrr and vegetables will be scarce and high this year, and those who con­ template laying in a winter supply had better begin before the prices set much higher. The near-by crops in these lilies are a failure this year, juul al­ though thefe is plenty of California fruit coming in the demand is so great for the Eastern markets, as AVOII as for home consumption, that it has a ten­ dency to make prices much higher. In $he fruit line the almost total failure of the apple crop will be felt by the people generally. The Eastern States have hardly any apples at all, and will not be able to supply the West as heretofore. Good apples are bringing 'to .$2.50. Among vegetables, potatoes are causing great anxiety. Careful calculations places the shortage at about 100.000.000 bushels, and the possibility of this record being lowered will depend entirely upon rain. Michigan, a great potato section, will only have about GO per cent, of an average crop. South Dakota a#I Minnesota are not up to the average, and Kansas aud Nebraska will only have enough for their own requirements. Tomatoes are plentiful and Illinois stock coming in. Onions are short and not of particularly good quality. Cabbages are fine this year, aud although the crop is not as large as visual the quality makes up for the lack in quantity. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Conditions Have Chang >d fur the Better Dnrirtr tte Week- R. G. DUN & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The great relief in the money market in Xew York caused by the Treasury purchases of 4% per cent, bonds, the refusal of the labor federation to take up and extend the strike on the Central Railroad, and the prospect that the Senate will soon reach final action on the tariff bill have all tended to im­ prove the state of business. At the same time better crop prospects have brought a distinct reaction in the speculations which most retarded exports. Thus, while the volume of domestic trade continues greater than in any previous year at this season, with bank clearings for August, outside New York exceeding last year's by 21 per cent, the outlook for the future is clearer and brighter. Chicago reports money plenty at G per cent, on call and collections easy, a better trade than last year's in dry goods and clothing, a reduction of T5 percent, in Stock Yards business since the strike, a de­ crease of 50 per cent, in wool compared with last year. 20 per cent, in butter, and steady decrease in dressed beef, but large increase in cured meats, lard, cheese, cattle, hides, and 100 per cent, In hums. ^ . was Douglass Ross, who lias -already vis­ ited Australia, Chili, ami Panama,, and always went alone. The little sac he I which contains his clothes was plastered all over with railroad, steamship, and express companies' tags from the coun­ tries he had visited. He is bound now for Washington Territory, where his parents reside. PAPERS have been sent from New York to London by which the Florida phosphate farm of Mr. Isaac Whittaker, of Kansas City, passes into the hands of a London syndicate at the round sum of 8500,000. The company, will be capital­ ized at £1.500.000, with $250,000 for working capital, and will begin immedi­ ate operations. • WESTERN HAPPENINGS. JOSEPH ICMTZMAJT. a tailor living In Cleveland, Ohio, becamo angry with His son Martin, aged 14 years, and threw a heavy pair of shears at him. One of the points entered tlu boy's side and lie died soon after. Ivlitzman tried to commit sucide, but is now in jail. TWENTY THOUSAND people atjtended the great Blue Grass Exposition Uhd Fair of Creston. Iowa, in one day. This is probably the largest crowd ever seen in Creston. It was Fremont County day, and speeches wei;e made bv State Sena­ tor George W. Perkins. President Will­ iam Brooks of Tabor College, and Major A. R. Anderson. Democratic nominee for Concress. All the speeches were eulo­ gistic of Fremont County. Major Ander­ son eulogized Iowa and the Blue Grass region, and especially Fremont County, where he lffe lived more than twenty- live years. Ottumwu sent a train of seven coaches. WATERTOWX, Iowa, is the first city in the State to avail itself of the. provisions of the schooI;book law passed by the last General Assembly. Contracts have been let with publishers for furnishing the books wanted by the schools for the next five years, and, after paying freight and allowing local dealers a commission for handling them, the saving will be fully 30 per cent. MRS. A. L. STEVENSON*, of Dubuque, Iowa, has received a letter stating that herself and brother, residing in Chicka­ saw County, Iowa, will become heirs to an estate in Ireland worth $9,000,000. Their father, 07 years of age, has just fallen heir to the estate. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. SEVERAL large oil-tanks at Peters­ burg, W. Va.. have been fired by in­ cendiaries. The loss is very heavy. THE Baltimore Manufacturers' Rec­ ord'k annual review of the crop situation in the South notes the largest cotton crop ever produced, and states that farmers are less in debt than at any time for twenty-live years. For live years the cotton crop has steadily increased from G,505,000 bales in 1886-1887 to from 7.500.000 to 8.000,000, the estimate for the present crop. The price has ad­ vanced with the increase in production, the total value of the last four crops, in­ cluding cotton seed, being about.SI,500.- OOO.OOO. The value of this year's crop is estimated at 8500,000.000. thus bringing the total value for liye years up to S2,- 000,000,000. While cotton has thus been adding so enormously to Southern wealth, corn, wheat, oats, tobacco, rice, sugar, grasses, fruits, and vegetables have made great gains, and while some of these crops--corn, for instance--will this year fall a little short of last year this difference in the corn yield will be more than counterbalanced by higher prices. From all over the South bankers write of the "best outlook for farmers since the war." The Soutli's agricultural products will this ^ear reach at le^st 81.000.000,000, or about £400,000,000 more than in 1880. their connection with the movement of a mouth or two ago. Admiral Brown says that the revolutionists were ex­ ceedingly strong, and if the trouble which was impending has really reached Its climax in an outbreak, King Kalakaua may be a prisoner or jiossibly deposed AccoisniNa to the bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association, the total production of pig iron in this coun­ try in the first six months Of 1690 was 5,109,737 net tons, or 4,015,837 gross tons, an increase of 754.053 net tons over tlio production in the last six months of 1889. THE Jewish Alliance of America has been organized in Philadelphia for the purpose of elevating Jewish immigrants in this country and to care similarly for those who are to (lee from Russia. Sev­ eral hundred Israelites, mostly those whd have come from Russia in* the last decade, participated. SPEAKING at a league meeting at Dub­ lin. Timothy He^ly, referring to the potato blight in Ireland, said that noth­ ing stood between tho people and starva­ tion during tho coming winter; that tho man who paid rent and left his family to starve wsts little better than an assassin; that if it was found necessary to appeal to the Irish in America and Australia, the assistance thus obtained ought not; to be shared by any man who had paid rent during the preceding twelve months* ADVICES from Jeddah arc to the effect that the cholera, which broke out among the pilgrims returning from Mecca, orig­ inated with the Hindoo passengers.. The pilgrims were in a terrible, condition, as they Were huddled together by thou­ sands in the dampness, unwashed and without sufficient food. Hundreds died who were not reported, and the real' number of fatalities will never be known. -A TEWtiFic storm has visited Trieste, in Austria, causing great loss of life and property. Many wrecks arc reported on the Adriatic Sea, and tho crews of sev­ eral vessels have perished. At Wittin- gau three persons were killed by light­ ning and much damage was done to property. IT is reported that the Russian Minis­ ter of War is enrolling tribes in the Caucasus and other departments to form an Asjlftic army which shall be able to operate independently of the European army in tho event of war with Asiatic countries, the European troops to be re­ moved from Asiatic Russia to Western Russia. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. ADVICES received from Washington say some compensation for the loss of the second city in the Union for Pennsyl­ vania is the fact, now fully ascertained, that it still holds a firm grip on tho sec­ ond place in the sisterhood of States in population and wealth. Pennsylvania made the largest actual gain in the num­ ber of its people, increasing its popula­ tion by over a million. Next comes New York, with an increase of over 900,000, and then Illinois with a gain of between 700,000 and 800,000. Ohio only increased by 400,000. There are eight States whose respective popu­ lations are over 2,000,000--New York has over 6,000,000, Pennsylvania over 5,000,- 000. and Illinois and Ohio both nearly 4,000,000. There are seventeen States that have each less than 1,000,000, and the population of all these seventeen States taken together does not quite equal that of the State of New York. It, iff figured out that Pennsylvania will 'lose one Con­ gressman in the next apportionment from present appearances, but. this is very doubtful, as her population is so large that any reapportionment scheme based upon \lic present membership of the House Is likeT? to^'iipw Pennsylvania holding her own at least. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Army of the «" n.uberla.d Reunion. THE twonty-lirst annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland will be held in Toledo. Ohio, Sept. 17 and 18. The local Executive Committee has about completed all the details necessary to make the event a conspicuous one in the history of the society. The.annual address will be delivered by Gen. Gates P. Thurston, and the annual banquet will be held at th" Boodv House Thurs­ day evening Sept. 18, at which distin­ guished members of the society will make short speeches. Tired at a P' ra^np T Train. A SANTA FE passenger train near Kansas City was fired upon by marks­ men who were, hidden in the high grass some distance from the railway track, and could br> located only by the puffs of smoke from their rifles. Several of the shots passed through the cars. No one was hit by the flying bullets, but the passengers were badly frightened. No reason for the attack is known. A Horteragft for $3,000,000. A MORTGAGE of $3,000,000, from the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Company to the Central Trust Company of New York, has been filed in the county registry office at Jersey City The money will be used in making im­ provements on the railroad. Three Women Drowned. A DISPATCH from Santiago de Cuba says thjkt in the excitement attending an alarm or fire on a towboat, some of the persons on the vessel jumped bverboard, and three women were drowned. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. THE Rev. Dr. Burtsell, the late pastor of the Church of the Epiphany in New York City, who was removed from his charge on account of his expressed sym pathy with Dr. McGlynn, has been temporarily suspended from the exercise of his functions as a Roman Catholic priest in the diocese of New York. < AMONG the crowd of immigrants who :;¥ft the barge office at New York the vOdher day for different points in the West was a pretty little 12-year-old boy #ho arrived from Hamburg on tho gteamer Waesland. The young traveler t' THERE will be no general strike or­ dered on the New York Central Road and the other Vandcrbilt lines by the Supreme Council of the United Order of Railway Employes. Stlch is the decis­ ion that has been reached in Terre Haute by that body after a conference lasting several days. Sympathy in abun­ dance is tendered the Knights of Labor in its light in support of organized labor, as Mr. Powderly states the case to be, but the constitution of the federation will not permit a strike to be ordered on the hypothetical case presented. The report issued by the Supreme Council disposes of federation help to the Knights by way of a sympathetic strike, and the great interest now at­ taches to the probable offer of financial assistance. The whole matter regarding this contingency is left with Grand Mas­ ter Sargent, and if occasion arises for financial heli> to come from the federa­ tion it is he alone who has the power to order a call. Under the strong express­ ions made in the manifesto it Is regarded as likely that financial assistance will be forthcoming if the situation requires it Just how far this offer of assistance, if it really comes to that, on the part of the federation will involve, the federation and the New York Central system is a question which time alone can an­ swer, and it was probably due to that fact that the Supreme Council relegated this matter of financial assistance to the future. It was a fact as well known to Mr. Sargent and his colleagues as it was to the general public that Mr. Arthur, the chief of the engineers, was and is hostile, to the strike; on the Cen­ tral system, and that Arthur and^Pow- derly are not dwelling together in liar- I Ho mony. If the Federation started a strike ' H'iXKP-- Mr. Sargent knew that he could not command the support of the engineers. Since this conference has been held members of the Council have not hesi­ tated to denounce Arthur as being too friendly with the railroads. FRESH AND NEWSY. IN tho crop estimates for the world America is credited with, 414,000,000 bushels of wheat and 1,600.000.000 bush­ els of maize, against 491,000,000 bushels of wheat and 2.113,000.000 bushels of maize in 1889. England is credited with an average yield.» THE Census Bureau has issued a bul­ letin on the financial condition of coun­ ties. The work has been done under the direction of Mr. T. Campbell Cope- land. The inquiries h^ve been made since June, 188!J. The aggregate bond­ ed county debt of Illinois is §11,468,000, a decrease of $2,600,000 since 1880. In­ diana has"1 a trifle under SO,000,000, nearly one-half of which has been in­ curred during the last ten years, Iowa's bonded debt is §3,217,000, an increase of §526,000. Michi­ gan has only §1,315,000, of which §445.000 has grown since 1880. Wiscon­ sin shows §1,615.000, a decrease of §465.- 000; Minnesota has a growing debt, for its counties are now bonded for §3,126,- 000, as against §798,000 in 1870. Throughout Indiana, more particularly in the northern counties, the gross debt is very considerable. Illinois has a large group of counties in the northern sec­ tion arid another group, consist­ ing of Woodford, McLean, Livings­ ton, • Iroquois, Vermilion, and Edgar Counties, without debt of any kind. Tho. souther* counties of Minnesota, par­ ticularly those of Faribault, Freeborn, Mower, Fillmore and Houston, together with Waseca, Steele, Dodge, Olmsted, Murray, Cottonwood and Watonwan, have at present no outstanding debt. Tho same may be said of the group formed by Dakota, Goodhue and Wa­ basha Counties. The northwestern counties of Iowa are somewhat heavily involved. OLIVER DALRYMPLE, the most exten­ sive wheat grower in America, says: "The 64,000,000 people of the United States arc consuming for bread and seed nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat per day, leaving from this crop only about 40.000,000 bushels of wheat for export, while the average production of the country for the last ten years is 445,000,- 000 bushels and the average export for the last ten years 133,000,000 bushels per aijnum. If the present ratio of increase of population over production continues for the next len years the United States will be changed from fill exporting to an importing wheat country." FROM information received by the schooner Arago, just arrived at San Fran­ cisco from the north, it is learned that the revenue cutter Rush was at St. Paul's Island Aug. 15. ' She is not making any seizures, but Is simply ordering sealers out of Behring Sea under threat of seiz­ ure. In every such case sealers have left Behring Sea. The, Corwin had not ar­ rived at Oonalaska when the Arago left. AN American syndicate is buying sugar lands in Mexico. Finance Minister Dub- Ian said the Government would not im­ pose a tax on sugar exports. He said the Government wished to do all in its power to aid commerce. THE IOWA CO AL PALACE THIS MARKETS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--PRI me l air to Good Common Hoos--Shipping Grades bHEKP WHKAT--NO. 2 lied COKN--No. 2 OATH --No. 2 KYE--NO. 2 BCTTEB--Choice CREAMERY CHEESE--Full Cream, flats EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--Ohio, per bu 1ND1ANAPOL1 CATTLE--Shipping Hoos--Choice Light (SHEEP--Common to Prime.... WH E A T --No. 2 Rod COHN-- No. 2 White OATS--No. 2 While ST. LOUle. CATTLE Houh W HEAT--No. 2 Ked. CORN--No. 2 Ked OATS--No. 2 IlYE--No. 2 CINCINNATI Hoos „ VV HEAT --NO. 2 Hod Cons--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed *" MILWAUKEE WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White KYE--No. 1 BARLEY--NO. 2 DKTTTOIT. CATTLE SHINING BLACK STRUCTURE DIAMONDS, OI* 1 '.'3: Unl«a« Enterprise at Ottum «-r> th# Xxm- ell or Southern l«w-Ho* It Is Pro­ posed to Dti/./le the Vlnltor xrllh th* Hswkcya State's Varied l'rodncts. Perhaps the majority of the people of this country think of that vast area west of the Mississippi and east of the Rocky Mountains as a purely agricultural coun­ try. Against such a view Southeastern Iowa enters a vigorous protest by erect­ ing a Coal Palace, which Is to be opened Sept. 10 and continued until Oct. 11. In many respects it is a unique enterprise, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean. True, tho palace idea is not a now one; Texas had a "Spring Pal­ ace, " Missouri has indulged in one, and Iowa has had severai of more or less im­ portance. But the Coal Palace seems to be the culmination of the united wisdom and experience of the past, and from all the suggestions embodied in former cn- FRESIDENT P. O. BALLINGALL. lerprises of a similar character seems to have drafted many original and singu­ larly attractive features. The Coal Palace is built at Ottumwa, which has been called the "Lowell of Iowa" because of its great manufactur­ ing interests. These manufacturing in­ terests are directly due to the great coal beds in which Ottumwa is situated. The city is an old one--as Western cities go --dating its history from 1840, or there­ abouts, and preserving in its local an- nalfs tho near-by traditions of the great aboriginal tribes who once made this their hunting-grounds. The town has a population of somo 17,000, and is just now growing with that surprising ra­ pidity which seemft to be the distin­ guishing characteristic of the West. Tho visitor sees on every hand now busi­ ness blocks growing up; a great force of men are busy putting down miles of brick paving; the sixth railroad has just been added to the lines of rail- communication leading into the city, and Nature seems to have intentionally madi the excavation, for that part of it be« neath the palace comes in play In a most fortunate manner as a miniature coal mine, which is to be one of the features of the palace, and the excavation is most admirably adapted to It. Into the mine a shaft will lead from the main tower, over 150 feet above. The tower is over forty feet square, and will be reached by means of two elevators in the semi-circu­ lar towers toward the front, or by flight of stairs in either of the other ^emi-cir- cular towers at the rear corners. From this point the sight-seer will enter a cai just as in a regular mine, when he will be lowered through a dark and forboding shaft into tho "sunken park," where the mules and miners with their lamps and picks, and the coal in targe veins, can be seen with as much vividness as if in any of the mines near the city. The sunken garden will itself be one of tho crowning features of the palace. Like tho mine, it will be below the level of the sidewalks; rare tropical plants and foliage are utilized to add to its beauty, the whole surrounded by an iron fence to prevent entrance except from the palace. The waterfall is probably the largest ever seen in such a building. It occupies the space in the rear of the sheet, a sheet of water thirty feet wide, falling Ov^r an artificial precipice forty feet high, at the bottom dissolving into spray. Three hundred electric lights, artistically arranged in the rear, will cause a thousand rainbows to chase each other with exquisite effect. One million five hundred thPisand gal­ lons of water will be the daily supply. A minaturo lake, peopled with tho most beautiful representatives of the finny tribe and bordered with flowers, will re­ ceive this great quantity of water. The Coal Palace, which opens Sept. 16 and closes Oct. ll, will be a vast agricult­ ural, mechanical, and industrial display; but the departments of fine arts, sci­ ence, ethology, etc., will be by no means neglected. Special days will bo devoted to the counties represented, to labor, the sol­ diers, women, school children, etc., while distinguished statesmen, scientists, and soldiers have accepted the invitation to bo present on different days, when spe­ cial celebration will be accorded them. Who originated the palace idea? It is doubtful if pny one knows, but the honor is ascribed to an Iowa Seirator--Senator Harsh. With commendable prido and wide generosity, the public-spirited men of Ottumwa promptly acted upon tho suggestion. Colonel P. G. Ballingall, who is interested in all the public enterprises in Iowa, was chosen President when the association was formed, with S. A. Flagler, an extensive mine operator, as Vice President; Calvin Man ting, cashier of tjie Iowa National Bank, as Secre­ tary. and W. T. Fenton, cashier of the Ottumwa National Bank, as Treasurer. Backed by a thoroughly wideawake and harmonious board of directors, compris* I'LPEUSORTHEXAJION.IHE NATIONAL S0L0NS IH - .national congress at COUNCIL BLUPPSf I FOREIGN GOSSIP. THE cruiser Charleston, with Admiral Brown, has just reached Seattle, Wash., and brings startling news from Hono­ lulu. The Admiral says a revolution was impending when he left less than two weeks ago, and has undoubtedly broken out by this time. The leadinar spirits were those who had been pardoned for WHEAT--No. 2 Ked COHN---NO. 2 Yellow OAT.* -- No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT CORN--Cash OATS--No. 2 White BUFFALO. CATTLE--Good to 1'riine Hoos--Medium and Heavy WHEAT--No. 1 Hard CORN--No. 2 EAbT LIBERTY. CATTLB--Common to Prime Hoos--Light bHKRF--Medium to Oood NK <V YOliJC CATTLE Hoos SHEEP WHP.AT--No. 2 Had OOHN--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Weitern .* 5.00 0 8.50 . 4.00 & 5.00 . 3.00 i<9 4.0l . 8.75 4..">0 . 3.00 5.00 . 1.04'6*» 1.U5H . .48 » ,4bVi . .37 @ .38 . .66 & .68 . .21 1(9 .23 • .tw^ 0 .09* . .16 & .17 . .05 & 1.00 s. & 1.00 . 8.00 & 4.76 . 3.00 (i# 4.25 . 8.50 & 4.75 . .99 <3 1.01 . .50 <& .51 . .38 (j> .40 .. 4.25 & 4.75 .. 8.75 & 4.2-5 .. 1.00 & 1.01 .. .44 & .46 .. .34 & .35 .. .59 & .61 8.25 & 4.50 .. 1.01 1.03 .. .52 & .54 .. .38-. <» .3.>H 1.01 & 1.04 .. .40 M .50 .. .37^® ,3-iH .66 9 .70 .. .68 & .65 ... 8.00 (ft 4.50 .. 8.00 « 3.7S .. 8.00 4.50 ... 1.02 & 1.03 .02>40 1.02 .61 .84 8.75 S.WO 1.21 .51 S.lfO 9.01 4.25 .53 H .39 >4 1.03 .92 .40 9 4.73 & 4.25 & 1.22 , (0 .33* ® r.H> & 4.13 0 S. 2S & 5.4S 0 U5 . ® si) l,W4@i.oaj4 . .93 9 M 4.01 4.515 4.00 T. fn the-midst of all, surrounded by its wonderful "Sunken Park," and adjacent to the superb new union depot of« the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road, towers tho massive proportions of tho Coal Palace itself. At Ottumwa all the roads center upon the river front, back of which the city rises in lordly terraces to the summit of the sweeping bluffs. Tho palace is in the very heart of the city. The great structure rises tower and pinnacle and lordly nave in massive and harmonious design, covering almost a block of ground, and 200 feet in the clear to its highest central tower. It has those massive, harmoniously conceived graces of architecture which rescue it from all triviality. Its name is not a misnomer--it; Is a palace in all its archi­ tectural details. The cost of the building will be be­ tween §28.000 and $30,000, 230 feet in length, 130 feet in width; it has a dis­ tinct architectural character. Tho architecture is a compromise between the gothic and the Byzantine. The build­ ing is two stories in height, the first be­ ing about 20 feet to the ceiling, the other reaching to the top of the structure, varying from 40 to t>0 feet. The main entrance is on Main street, through tho grand arch in the tower to the right, whose summit is near tho tower. That battlement is 36 feet wide aud of the same proportions as the one to the left, which faces the unique and sunken gar­ den. The rear end is beautified by twin semi-circular turrets, one of which can be seen at the extreme right. A couple of similar towers, somewhat elongated, jut out from the other side toward tho opposite or Washington street end of the palace, while a similar tower to that first described forming the main street en­ trance, symmetrizes the palace on tho opposite side. In this tower is the stage, 30x36, and the main hall with the bal­ conies ascending direct from the stage, will give the building an auditorium with a seating capacity of from 6,000 to 8,000 On either side of the main room or nave of the building are the spaces above and below for the exhibits of the surrounding counties and from abroad. But think of a palace of coal. Yet that is what this is. Great hewn blocks of the glistening bituminous product, laid in red mortar, form the massive walls, veneered over the solid sheeting of plank. And the ten counties which form the coal league--though the citi­ zens of Ottumwa arc building tho palace --produce over 3,000,000 tons of the bituminous product every year, and offer to the manufacturer and the artisan the cheapest fuel in the world, costing for steam production but 37 cents per ton in Ottumwa. There will be three special features which the palace will claim as "all its own"--the mine, the garden and the waterfall. The pal ace is built on three hundred piles driven in what is known as the "Sunken Park," owned by President P. G. Bal lingall. Years ago the Des Moines Rivr plunged In mighty torrents over the spot the palace now adorns. The "Q." came into this city, and finding no bettei4 right of way, pushed out on trestle and em­ bankment across the bctad in tho river. This changed the course of the stream, and soon a slough was encased, which was reclaimed, and Colonel Ballingall became i>ossessor of it. It has never been filled up completely, but has been adorned and beautified, and thus hat come to be known as the "Sunken Park." ing a coterie of public-spirited and lib­ eral citizens, the work was pushed for­ ward. Tho popular subscription of $30,- 000 to begin with was promptly taken, and the inspiration of tho prime movers was felt by all tho citizens of the city and gradually spread throughout South- erd Iowa, which now looks upon tho enterprise witli all the fond prido that a great commonwealth can feel in a !.•/ SECRETARY COTJ-VIS MANNING. project to exploit its wonderful natural resources. Welcomed to 'om by Gov. Boles--Presi­ dent Kolb's Annual Address--What He Thinks About the Tariff and the Fa tun­ ers. [Council Bluffs (Iowa) dispatch.] The Farmers' National Congress began Its tenth annual meeting to-day. There is a large attendance of delegates and visitors from different States. The Sec­ retary of the congress, B. F. Clayton, of Macedonia, Iowa, and the President, R. F. Kolb, of Alabama, have been at work for weeks to make the gathering a suc­ cess, and have succeeded. *The meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock at Do- liany's Opera House. Gov. Boies was present, and delivered the address of welcome. He was followed by the Mayor, who welcomed the visitors to the city. President Kolb made a lengthy speech to tho agriculturists. Ho re­ viewed the tariff question at length, and, after defining tho positions of the two great political parties on the subject, he said; Tho agricultural class is probably more interested In the question than any other class. The farmers use all the articles of domestic life that others do, besides a great many that no other class does, and gets less direct benefit out of the tariff than any other. I would not advise a hostile hand to be raised against any American industry. I would go as far as I could to foster every existing one and bring Into existence new ones until I reached the point w.here the principle of the greatest good to the great­ est number was fulfilled. That far I would go, but not a step farther, and I would strike down with a relentless hand any system that attempted to enrich a few at the expense of the masses. Millions would I give for development, but not one cent for tribute. The farmers of this favor­ ed land have at all times borne their share of public responsibility. , Farmers, as sol­ diers and statesmen, have ever been self- sacrificing patriots. Whether as subduers of the forest and plain, unmurmuring tax­ payers or great wealth producers, they have borne their share of the heat and burden of tho day. and it must not be accounted strange if they demand that there shall be no class legislation in all the statute books of this broad land. Let tho taxe* be so laid as to raise sufficient money to meet the wants of the Government economically administered. Not a dollar more. No bounties to trusts and combines. The toc­ sin of reform has been sounded from the lakes to tho Gulf and from the Alleghanles to the Pacific Slope, and a bloodless revolu­ tion lias been inaugurated. Georgia and Kansas, North Carolina. Nebraska, Texas, Minnesota and Iowa have, souuded the clarion note of the farmer's freedom. The Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union of America was established to annihilate monopolies, destroy trusts and break down combinations formed to injure the farmer. What could bo more patriotic than its declaration of purposes. The address received a hearty j,pprov- al from the agriculturists present. MISSISSIPPI'S CONVENTION. GENATB AND HOUSE OF REPRB~ 8ENTATIVES. „ • -fe Anchored Balloon. There are in Germany many societies for aeronautics. There is one in Munich which has been in existence for a long time, and is the largest society of its j was not accommodated, kind, not only in Germany but in the Floods of Amendments Offered--Qualifi­ cations for Klectors. {Jackson (Miss.) dispatch.] The Constitutional Convention met at 3:30 p. m.. and under the call of counties, which is the regular order for Tuesdays and Fridays, a flood of amendments and resolutions were submitted and re­ ferred to appropriate committees. Among others wero the following: By Mr. Marette, of Marshall County, to insert into tho constitution the following words under tho section bill of rights: "This State 9hall ever remain a member of the American 'Union, -and tlio people thereof are a part of tho American nation, and all attempts to dissolve tho said union shall be resisted with the wliolo power of the State." Mr. Dab- ncy, of Warren County, offered a pre­ amble and resolution touching the fifteenth amendment. The preamble re­ cites that the black and white races are hopelessly antagonistic on political ques­ tions, and that the safety of the state demands white supremacy. Three dele­ gates offered resolutions providing that no member of tho convention shall bo eligible to a State or national office for ajperiod of three years immediately fol­ lowing tho adoption of the constitution. Theso were referred without action. The report of the sub-committee on franchise, which was printed to-dtfy, does not materially differ from the lan- guago of tl»e provisions telegraphed last night. Tho qualifications which are to become operative Jan. 1, 1890, are: 1. Every qualified elector shall be able to read any article of the constitution of this State; or (2) he shall bo able to un­ derstand the Tsamo when read to him; or (3) ho shall own in his own right and shall liavo paid taxes on property of the assessed valuo of $200 for the fiscal year next preceding his registration. Soldiers of either army, who served honorably during the late war, shall bo exempt from the property or educational qualifica­ tions. h'o legislation need, be expected of the convention until the committee on elective franchise has submitted Its re port. The presont indications arc that the convention will bo in session until Oct. 1. ' Mews In Briet BY an act of Congress Lincoln, Neb., was recently made a port of delivery, and since last March imports valued at $10,000 have passed through the little Custom House AN elderly gentleman called at the Young Woman's Homo at Chattanooga and asked that a brido be recommended to him from among the inmates. He Owr Hattnnsl law-Maker« a&tf WhatYlitty */. Are Doing for the Good of the Country-* Various Measures Proposed, Discussed* and Acted Upon. THE Senate devoted the 23d to eulogies oil |1 the late Senator Beck, of Kentucky. Senais ator Blackburn speaking of the religion | the deceased, said: "His had been th«fc : | religion of humanity. He had believed tlrkfc . .| a man who helped his fellowmen was doing- God's service. Ills life had been molded !i»r . S that faith. If there were one soul at whos^¥,: ' approach the pearly gates of the celestial city would open widest and offer freest en*s „ « trance to its eternal glories, It would cer*-" talnly be to one Which in its life on thft;•••;'!$ earth strove hardest to aid the weak, tg.. u| shelter the defenseless, to lighten the burden*' \ s!i| of the heavy-laden, and which brought thai,. most smiles and the fewest tears to tiie chil­ dren of the world." The compound lard bill was taken up in the House. Mr. Hits (111.1 said that for the last ten years out1 whole diplomatic service had been trying to-, vindicate the American hog and prove that* American pork wa« pure and who ses ,mo. While our diplomats had been diinj thin our i.'itizens bad been sending ihrougli thqr world an adulterated pork product. It was time for Congress to enfjre honest dealing. When It came to a vote it wa-» found that there was no quorum and the ;. - House adjourned. ;* MR. Ar.DHII H (Rep.) introduced a resolu-* ticn In tho Senate on the 25th to fix a tini^ ' for voting on the tariff bill. The resolution^ at the suggestion of Mr. Gorman (Dem.fi,* was modified so as to continue the general- discussion up to and including Wednesday, ' Sept. U. to have live minutes' debate oi»-. Thursday, 4, Friday. 5, aud Saturday. and to fix Monday, Sept. 8, and thereafter for consideration of tho bill and amend- ^ ments without debate; then throe hours to- bo allow ed to each side for general; debate, and the final vote to bo taken vpt" the passage of the bill. The matter wofi not disposed of. Congressman Lewis Ki Watson, representing the Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania District, died suddenly at hibt hotel, and as a mark of respect both houses, adjourned, The Senate Committee on Pos­ tal Affairs decided to make the bill to ex­ tend the free delivery system apply to cities of 5.000 inhabitants or to cities where the postal receipts amount to So,000. IN the Senate the proposition offered on the previous day fixing a day for taking the vote on the tariff bill was agreed to on th© 26th. The conference report on the sundrjr rivil appropriation bill was agreed to. The* " ariff bill was then taken up, the question being on the lead paragraph, to which Mr. . Coke had offered an amendment to mak& the lead extracted from silver ores free of duty, and Mr. Plumb had offered one re* ducing the duty on lead ore and lead drosa- from one and one-half cents to three*' quarters of a cent. Before proceeding" with that paragraph Mr. Plumb gave- notice of an amendment to the bilit which he would offer at the appropriate time. The amendment was read. It is, witli some few modifications, tho bill for reci­ procity with Canada, introduced by Mr. Butterworth In the House of Representa­ tives. Senator Plumb- propose^ to reAriot- tlie operation of the reciprocal arrange^ ment to manufactured articles and min­ erals. In the House the entire day was- spent in wrangling over parliamentary questions. The delay was caused by tho opponents of tho compound-lard bill, who resorted to dilatory tactics to koe i'the bill from coming to a vote THE feature of the tariff debate In the Senate on the 27th was the speech of" Sena­ tor Cusli Davis, of Minnesota, in favor of" reciprocity with South American countries. He spoke of the general impression that tho country was entering upon an era of unex­ ampled material prosperity, and said that the renewal of prosperity was largely the result of wise legislation enacted (the sil­ ver bill) and to be enacted (the tariff bill). He thought that the tariff bill should be amended in the direction of reciprocity so as to secure American farmer*' trade with foreign nations, especially with South America. Central America, Mexico, and tho West Tndia Islands. But there w:t» (tile item in the bill of extraordinary importance the people of Minnesota; that was tbe ite»» . of binding twine. In his opinion that as-.' tide should go on the free list and should b& . subject to no duty or tax-whatever. ThSa • matter affected the farmers of every Stafe in the Union. It affected the poo*' pie of Minnesota to the nmoudt t of nearly a million dollars a. year. The entire business, includiug tlie i sources from which that commodity was y^* supplied, was governed by a combination of // all, or substantially all, the manufacturers-1^ of cordage and binding twine, They were in no need of protection. They were ampljr. able to protect themselves and to spoliate - the world. They were amenable to the law ^ against trusts, and certainly the Senate ' should not legislate in favor of men under * ; the ban of outlawry. The House spent the , - entire day again in wrangling over parlia* l* mentary points. THE long-expected reciprocity amend­ ments to the tariff bill were introduced la the Senate on the 28th by Senator Aldrlch. The vital one relates to sugar, molasscn, coffee, tea. and hides. It is set forth in th® ' declaratory statement that the object Is reciprocity. The President is not given any 1 wide discretionary powers, for lie simply, carries out the direction of Congress in im-- .. j losing certain duties on specified articles at given time--July 1, 1891--if countries having the benefit of the United _ States markets do not reciprocate.- The only thing left to his judgment is the time of this suspension, and that is# necessary discretion. The sugar duties are set forth in detailed the amendment in o|>- der to prevent any ambiguity. The time given the various countries to open up tholf • markets is shorter than has been heretofore talked about. Assuming that the tariff bill will be in effect Oct. 1, it would lie nine months. The relation of sugar to reciproci­ ty is still to be determined. The second amendment in relation to fish is purely retaliatory and is aimed at Canada. In the House, after four days of filibustering, the bill regulating the manufact ure and sule of compound lard was passed. 120 to :(1. The House also passed the bill establishing the eight-hour day on all Government works. THE MELD PF LABOR. world. It numbers over two hundred and sixty associates, among them six members of the Bavarian royal house. The society has three branches--one for scientific study of aeronautics, one for practical testing and experimenting in the art, and one for general purposes connected with it. Another society of no less activity is tho one in Berlin. A curious little balloou has been constructed under the auspices of this society. It is of the best materials, and provided with self- registering meteorological instruments. It is to bo anchored to the ground, and reach a greater height than any build­ ing possibly could; two Eiffel towers placed one on top of the other would not come near it. This balloon is to be put in action very soon, as Counsellor yon Siemens has placcd at the disposal of the socie­ ty a suitable spot on his estate near Charlotteiiburg. -- Youth's Compan­ ion. FLEAS, filth, and poverty are appall­ ingly common in Naples. A recent traveler pay that many of tho poorer families have each but one room. He says that, iu several instances, he saw a family of six persons living in a single room, with a bed in one corner, while hens, pigs,.and perhaps a donkey, oc­ cupied ti e other three corners. JOHN and Jacob Weber are still teaching a school which they opened in New Orleans in May, 1840, at which they have taught continuously without a vacation, and with only fifteen days' intermission in fifty years, to permit of the repair of the building. THE one thing needful to put a par­ son of prominence on a level with kings and queens is to be shot at a few times. J. J. SIMMONS, a negro, posed as a Government pension agent in Tennessee, and secured several hundred dollars from negroes, for whom he said he could obtain pensions if deserved. Now he is in jail. GBEEX MORRIS, a leader of the Ever- soles in the French-Eversoles feud In Kentucky, has been captured. "Clabo" Jones, who is credited with having killc1 twenty-five men, has been placed in jail also. THE Archbishop of Kingston, Ont., has borrowed $200,000 from the Standard Life Assurance Company at 4% per cent. Tho loan is for twenty years. The lives of forty young men will bo insured tfor 85,000 each. , AT Beaver Canyon, Idaho, Deputy Sheriff Dave Stoddard, of Bingham County, Idaho, was cut and slashed to death by a drunken and treacherous In­ dian while two of his accomplices wero holding his hands. FIVE THOUSAND persons attended tho oponiug of the Grangers' National Exhi­ bition at Williams Grove, Pa. One of tho principal features pf tho exhibition is the display of cereals by the Northern Pacific Railroad. CHARLES RUBER, agent for a Kansas City liquor house, went to sell liquor at Topeka, Kan., after being notified that the President had signed the Wilson bill, aud his goods were seized by the Slierifl and he himself locked in jail. Its Average Value. "We, the jury," thus ran the verdict, "find for the plaintiff, and assess the damages at four and three-twelfths cents." "Is that all a broken heart is worth? bitterly exclaimed the mature com­ plainant in the breach of promise case. "That's what we averaged it at, mum," explained the foreman of the 'jury. "Some on us held out fur ten cents, but we hed to come down." fi Nearly all Denver stores now close at 0 o'clock. Minneapolis has a co-operative fur­ nishing company. Some union brick-layers at Boston get 42 cents an hour. Pittsburg steam-fitters won nine hours, ten hours' pay. A co-operative society in ̂ sslio has forty-three stores. The San Francisco Cdast , Seamen's union has 4,200 members. ^ In Pittsburg 18,000 men JttelSinployMl in thirty-eight iron mills. San Francisco sewing girls have compete with the Chinese and malt* $4.50 a week. The Kansas City city council has adopted an eight-hour ordinance for city employes. The Dallas Manufacturing company, with SI,000,001) capital, will start cotton-mill at Huntsville, Ala. The Allegheny Bessemer-Steel coai- peny of Duquesne, Pa., has adopted eight hours in all its departments. In the Japanese house of peers jwlfc elected there are tweuty-two farmers, fifteen mcrchauts, and but one nobto» man. ' - Brooklyn and New York varnishert demand nine hours with eight on Sat­ urday and S3 a day for outride and §2.75 for inside work. The German Typographical National union has gained the eight-hour day- this season in Milwaukee, Wis., an<ft .Cleveland, Ohio. The cleaners and packers of the New Castle wire nail works have returned to work with an advance of 2.r< and 1& cents per day respectively. The French Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill giving trade unions» stronger legal position t&an they have ever had in America or England. Selrsit years Ago they were illegal. J.