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|lgc£lfnrir fflaittdealcf J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and PUMISMT. ILLINOIS. N U G G E T S O F G O L D FROM BVRRY QUARTER OPTHE GLOBE. >' Itli* Latent Intelligence Received by Wire from Distant Lands and at HuiM-Th* Creain of the New* Gathered frM AU •W$t* *?. <•»'<«>» of the World. fe*,- |s®t; ft BUSINESS IS BETTER. fie proved Weather I« Attended with Improve­ ment in Trad*. R. G. Dew & Co.'s weekly review of I trade says: ^^Vlth better weather there is visible im­ provement in trade and collections, and, "While it is yet but slight, the outlook for the future is generally regarded as encour­ aging. Crop prospects continue excellent, there is less monetary pressure at points wh ore some stringency lias existed, and in the chief industries some improvement in the demand appears. Meanwhile the vol­ ume of trade continues nearly as large in %he aggregate value HS it was a year ago. Sonne decrease in quantities of important products bring balanced by an advance in !\ the level of prices, which was nearly 15 per Sit. higher than a year ago. April 1, and ia 11 in ore than Ki per cent, higher. MAY REACH THE POLB. S^fntenMt Peary Arranging for His, Trip to th» Arctic. ^ ' LIEUTENANT ROBERT E. PEARV, of jrX'i.jJUro United States navy, is in New York making arrangements for his exploring trip to the arctic regions. He proposes to start late next month. The party will number six persons and is to be sent out by the Academy of Natural Sciences. The explorers will start from St John's And land at Whale Sound on the west coast of Greenland, between latitude 77 and 78 degrees. During the year the •enfire?ome voyagers will make trips north to the Humboldt glacier, but next spring they will push on for the north pole and they hope to get nearer this fascinating spot than man has ever been, lieutenant Peary's plan is to scale the t. glaciers near the cbast to a high latitude and thus find hard, snowy plains, and at the same time be able to take observa- , tions of the shore formation. | s , " K m V l - P ' x o n a S t r m n r THE North German Lloyd steamer Fulda, which arrived in New York from Bremen, via Southampton, had a case of t small-pox atnonz her passengers. She •was detained at quarantine. The pa­ tient is a woman in the steerage. , The health officers are aboard vaccinating the steerage passengers, of whom there * are «21. The cabin passengers will be '•v .. all, wed to land. The ship will be fumi­ gated before she is allowed to eome to > her dock. * W*nf a Rfh'ar'iig IT is stated that the Manitoba Railroad Cfcm pany will apply to the Supreme Court for a rehearing on certain points . V in the suit to decide title to Minnesota lands valued at $5,0.10,000, which was de- cided in the United States Supreme Court in favor of the Northern Pacific a month ago. The Manitoba Company claims that Ferious mistakes were made in re­ gard to the facts that would materially ft te.- the decision. , Th» C.indrc <»r Dis b*y d Orders. A WKECK occurred on the Asheville * -'iflt Spartanburg Railroad by the collision -of a freight train and a material tra n , Bear Landrum, S. C. The firemen and a Hegro on the material train were killed. Both engineers and e'ghteen of the hands were injured, many of them fatally. The coll s on was the result of the ireight i"*1:#.conductor's disobedien e of orders. 'J® P V; Waifng tor th- rornn-r. "' THE grand jury at New Brunswick, J., found an indictment against James Lynch, a chronic wife beater. Lynch bad foil awed his wife to the court room, waited till she came from the grand jury room, and struck her in front of the court house. Then he went home and banged himself, and was dead before the Indictment was found. ' Fonnd I»»a1 In M GAS escaping from a room at the United States Hotel, in New York City, alarmed the night clerk and the door was broken in Ex-State Senator John Birdsall, who had occupied the room, was found dead on the bed. He had not removed his clothes. The condition of the body indicated that the man had been dead for some time. ^ Oppn»«1 the Bav-Pall Sea-on. THE Western Base ball Association t|g)ened the season with games at Lin­ coln, Omaha and Denver, wet grounds .preventing a panic at Kansas City. Re- •iltilts: Minneapolis (i, Lincoln 5; Milwau- 113, Omaha <>; Denver <>, Sioux City x m Bit mi «-k F'ds G'affl <1. 1 A HAMBI*R<; dispatch says that I rinco liisnruck ieceived with equanimity the •.result of the voting at Giestemunde, iffend was rather gratified at not bcimr de­ feated in view of the active opposition <Gf th : government and socialists. A Hoo«l-r'<\B 'dy P«"r';fl-tl WHBN the body of William Jones, phich was buried at Coriinna, Ind.. two •Jsears ago, was disinterred the other dav­ it was found /to be petrified, every fea- tare being preserved, even to the hair. A Doubie Hai"»lng. GEORGE AND FRED- D; XAWAS were hanged at Tahlequah. Indian Territory, for the murder, last September, of Wash Lee, a Cherokee. Fai'ur* • for the Wrek BUSINESS failures for the week num­ ber 2">1, compared with 243 last week, •nd 214 in the corresponding week of 1*90. Hauenatln* Gets a Respite. HATTENBTINE, the Custer County, Ne­ braska, murderer who was to have been banged at Broken Bow, was respited for thirty days by Gov. Boyd in order to give a commission time t J decide on the condemned man's sanity. Negro Murderer Hanged. WILLI AH GREKX, a negro, was hanged New Orleans for the brutal murder of •Joseph Proper on Jan. 0. 18:«). Green 'flid not deny the crime, but held that it xi%u done in self-defense. him temporarily insane. He took a club and beat his wife severely, declar­ ing that ha was commanded to do so by the Loj>i. She died. { ^ THERE is great excitement over the discovery of a leper living in Camden, N. J., and daily associating with jthe peo­ ple, TFL<? leper is a, C&iiuiman , named Lee Yung, who has a laundry on South Fifth street. His bro.ther is dying of the disease in a Philadelphia' hospital. JOHN R. CRAWFORD, employe 1 by the Pinkejwn Detective Agency of Chicago as an accountant, was sent to New York to work up a case. He went to Smith & McNeil's Hotel. The hotel cashier cadied several checks for Crawford, which were subsequently returned marked "N. G." Crawford was arrestod. At the. Tombs Court Crawford sai 1 the checks were sent to him1 by his un le, G« orge Crawford, of Bethlahem, Pa. . He was held for trial in default of $500 ba!lj AT New York the steamer J. B Schuy­ ler, with 250 excursionists aboard, bound for the fishing tanks, was run into off Bar Ridge during the heavy fog by an unkn^vyn tug. The Schuyler was so badly damaged that she had to run to her dock at South Brooklyn, where her passengers were landed and sent to the city, by cars „ i REV. JAMES Y. ASITTOX, who was for years the chaplain and moral instructor in the Eastern Pennsylvania penlten- j tiarj', has submitted a long statement to the legislative investigating committee in which he charges Warden Cassidy and the keepers of that institution with the practice of horrible brutality. Specific details are given in the statement. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A BOAT containing twelve boys, while crossing the Mississippi River at St. Louis, was capsized, and lire of the young men were drowned. AT San Francisco a rumor i* current to the effect that the American and the California su^ar refineries are to com­ bine under the title of the Western Su­ gar Company, with J. D. Spreckles as President and Robert Oxnard as Vice President, and that Claus Spreck'es is about to retire and so to Europe. J. D. Spreckles, when asked about the report, declined to make any statement. A STRo.xr; flow of natural gas has been struck at Pleasonion, Cal., by Workmen who were boring a well in Odd-FeI!ows' Cemetery. The gas was* struck at a depth of 100 feet A FREIGHT train on the Great North­ ern Railroad was wrecked two miles south of Rothsav, Minn., twelve cars with their contents, and a bridge sixty feet long being burned: THE post mortem on the body of Mrs. Dol!e, the old woman who was found murdered under a trap-doop in her store, at San Francisco, showed that the woman's neck wa« broken in thr^e places and the skull badly battered by some heavy instrument. ADVICES from Burlington, Iowa, are to the effect that Manager Charles White, of the Duncan Hotel, whose death was credited to paralysis, died from the effects of morphine taken in­ tentionally. WMte was in debt and also suffered from poor health THE Gran^ Trunk ferryboat Huron has been stuck in the ice in the lake with two train loads of western-bound pas­ sengers. A tug boat managed to get close enough to her to deliver food to the half-famished victims. THE movement of cattle from Texas into the Indian Territory is tremendous. The Santa Fe has a dozen or more extra engines hauling trains of cattle. ADVICES from Kansas say tha,t the new secret order known as "The Knights of Reciprocity" is rapidly gaining a strong foothold throughout the West It has over 100 lodges in Kansas and a nucleus of strong State organizations has been created in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Missouri, Colo­ rado and Idaho. Members of the organ­ ization, which has grips, signs and pass­ words, are required to pledge them­ selves to support the perpetuity of the Union, to favor liberal pensions to sol­ diers and sailors, to maintain the doc­ trine of protection of American indus­ tries, while, at the same time, counte­ nancing fair and equitable reciprocity between all nations on the American continent, and are also required to ad­ vocate and work in favor of a free bal­ lot and an honest count. Lodges of the order will shortly be established else­ where throughout the country. Ax artillery company for service against Italy has been formed in High­ land Falls, N. Y. One hundred and twelve men have already joined. An­ drew Monroe has been made captain, and one of the lieutenants is the well- known hotel man and supervisor, Louis F. Goodsell. They expect to have 20f) members, and will offer their services to the Secretary of War. EA8TERN OCCURRENCES. THE eviction of strikers has been be­ gun in the Pennsylvania coke regions. A crowd of foreigners attacked the , Tiouses of several men who had gone to ; work near Scottdale, smashing doors y and windows and injuring one woman. THE New York Assembly passed a granting lands on Long Island to the 1$ United States by purchase for hew York tf ' harbor forti fications. F AT White Plains, N. Y., Jesse Lock- wood, aged 70, has been afflicted with f r,P« wblch Is said to have made SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. AT Montgomery, Ala., Willie Mend- heim, aged thirteen, became angry with his mother and told her he was going to commit suicide. His mother merely laughed at the threat. The boy pro­ cured a rope, and before his mother's eyes made his preparations for death. He fastened the rop1 to the ceiling, and. putting the rope around his neck, got up in a high chair and jumped. Just before the leap he said: "I have spited you now, mamma " His neck was broken. His mother saw him as he made the fatal spring. THE Todd mills and elevator at Dallas, Tex., were destroyed by fire. The mill and machinery were valued at S80.000; insured for HO,000. Twenty car-loads of flour, owned by Armstrong A- Co., were consumed; insured. The Texas and Pacific and Santa Fe Railroad Companies suffered considerable loss in cars and trestle work. Many telegraph poles were burned and the wires are down. The aggregate loss will reach $>00,000. A spark from au engine causcd the con­ flagration. NKAK Belton, Texas, a heavy starm filled the creeks and rivers. The trestle over Bird's Creeks was washed away, and an engine and ten cars of freight were thrown Into the stream.' Engineer Grubb, Fireman i'aul, and a head brake- man, name unknown, were instantly killed. The other trainmen escaped by jumping into the water. JOE BUADBUUV committed suicide at Watson, Ark., because a widow named WMnters refused to marry him Just be­ fore he died he confessed that about twelve years ago, when he was a boy of twelve years, he killed his stepfather, John Posh, at his home near Watson, by knocking him in the head with a club, and threw the body into Red Fork Bayou, where* It was afterward found. His only reason for kilting Posh was that he did not like to work and Posh wade him do so. defendants. These eases eame to the Supreme Court on an appeal from the Circuit Courts of Illinois and New York. The point involved in each was whether the dutiable value of certain importations of dross goods made of wool, but into the warp of which had been Introduced from 2 to 6 per cent, of cotton, the evident purpose being to have the goods classi Bed at lower rates under the provision of the tariff act of 1883, making lower duty on goods composed in part and not wholly of wool. The court in decidiug the cases, holds that, notwithstanding the small amount of cotton in the goods, they are dutiable at 5 cents per yard and 35 per cent ad valorem, and not at 9 cents per .yard and 40 per cent ad valoiem, as assessed by the collector * POLITICAL PORRIDGE. TIIE President has appointed Enos W. Nebeker, of Indiana, to be Uuited States Treasurer, vice J. N. Huston, re signed. It is said to be probdtfle that he will not assume charge ef the office for some time yet, and when he does the usual formalities, such as counting the cash, including 4,500 tons of coin and hundreds of millions of notes and bonds, must be undertaken. THE President has appointed Edwin A. Berry, of Florida, United States Consul at Santos, Brazil, and Alonzo Spencer, of New York, United States Consul at Pictou, N. S. FOREIGN GOSSIP. IN London, apprehension of * serious epidemic of influenza is caused by the fact that the disease has reappeared in the north of England, where it was first discovered in 1889. Besides prevailing in Sheffield in an epidemic form, the dis­ ease exists throughout the whole of Yorkshire. At Hull the death rate has doubled during the last two weeks, and the significant increase is attributed to the presence there of influenza. In Driffield district, near Hull, the entire population is more or less effected with the disease, and a ger.eriW suspension of labor has been made necessary. The mortality in the, district has been he&vy. At Birming­ ham, while the outbreak is of a milder description and less widely spr&ad, num­ bers of persons are suffering from the malady. A GIRL named Schmiedel at Dippoldis- walde, in Saxony, went suddenly insane on the subject of religion and insisted on starving herself for her sins. She went without food for five days, when, she being togtaveek to resist, food was administej;pdrr|rcibly. She is still, how­ ever, benf,Anvsfelf-d<S5ftTuction. A CORREK POX DENT at Constantinople calls attention to the fact that the Turks have almost entirely neglected the Black Sea approaches to Constantinople and that, on the other hand, the straits of the Dardanelles are being steadily forti­ fied with heavy guns which would be of use against any power but Russia. The correspondent adds Miat the autumn of the year will see concentrated on Rus­ sia's southwest frontier a Russian army sufficiently powerful to meet any eventu­ ality which may possible startle Europe from its present pacific slumber. THE British bark Strathorne, Captain Urquhart, from Losbos de Afura to Hampton Roads for orders, stranded south of Cape Henry. The crew was rescued by the life saving corps. AN order has just been received by the Tappan Sea Company, Piermont-on- the-Hudson, to make four gunboats for the Venezuelan Government, one to be 75 feet long and 14 feet beam, and the others 65 feet long and 12 feet beam. FRESH ANL> NEWSY. THE Occidental Hotel at Winters, Cal.,* was burned, and one of the guests, P. H. Ray, perished in the flames. DISPATCHES received from Chili state that a desperate battle, resulting in a victory for the Chilian insurgent forces, has been fought at Copiapo (or San Francisco de Siiva as it is also known), the capital of the province of At- acama, on the River Copiapo, thir­ ty miles from the sea. Only meager details' of the battle are given in the dispatches mentioned, which say that the insurgents, after a long and determined struggle, defeated with heavy loss a force of 3,000 of President Balmaceda's troops. The dispatches add that the insurgent army is increasing steadily in strength, and that it intends shortly to march upon the capital, San­ tiago de Chili, as wejl as upon Valpar­ aiso, the principal port of Chili. Cop­ iapo, where the battle has just been fought, is an important mining and mer­ cantile center, from which much silver and copper ores are shipped to Europe and elsewhere. THE steagner Oregon, which arrived from Liverpool at Portland, Me., had fifteen passengers only, having landed nearly five hundred immigrants at Hali­ fax, most of them coming to the United States by rail. They stopped at Halifax to avoid the new immigration law, which makes necessary an examination on landing and a capita t^x of 50 cents. SECRETARY NOBLE sent a telegram to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Ashland, Wis., suspending in­ definitely his orders authorizing the fil­ ing of claims within what is known as the Omaha Railroad grant. This action Is taken upon information that serious trouble will follow the opening of the lands to settlement HAHKKT REPORTS. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. GENF.KAI. SI'INOI.A, a member of Con­ gress from a New York district, died in Washington. 1 THE Supreme Court' has decided the cases of Seeberger, Collector at Chicago, ag&inst Farwell & Co. and others, and Magonc, Collector at New York, against Edward Luckeniueyur, iu favop of the CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime. HOGH - Shipping Grades HHKKP WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BITE--No. A BUTTEII--Choice Creamery...... CHKEtsE--Full Cream, flats HUGS--Freeh POTATOES-- vVenteni, per bu INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping BOGS--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime WHKAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 1 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 Bid Cons--No. 2........... OATS--No. 2 BAULKY-Iowa CINCINNATI. CATTLE. HUGS KHTEP WHKAT--No. S Bed COKN--No. 2 OATH--No. 2 Mixed DETROIT. CATTLE. HOGS SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White 'IOLEDO. WHEAT Cor.x--Cash OATS--No. 2 White CLOVEB BBEO EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Common to Prime HOGS--Light.. SHKEP--Medium LAMBS, MILWAUKEE. WHUT-NO. 2 Spring. CORN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White RYE--No. 1 1 BARLEY--No. 2 PORK--lieu NEW YOBK. CATTLE Hoos SHEEP . WHEAT--No. 2 Bad COBN--No. •«.... OATS--Mixed Western HUTTHn Creamery EGOS--Weitern PORE--NEW Mass $3.23 ® 6.75 8.00 & 5.50 8.00 & 6.00 1.05^@ I.OC^ .72 & .73 .54!u& .55^ .8-1 & .69 .'22 @ .'25 .11 -12% .12 @ .13 1.15 & 1.25 3.50 @ 5.50 3.00 & 5.50 3.00 & 5.2^ i.o5?$® roe;# .71 Hk .56 <£ .57 4.00 @ C.25 <Li 0 <S 5.50 1.WS (g, 1.37 .69 @ .70 .8*^® .55 ̂ .82 & M 1.00 @ 5.50 8.00 dp, 5.50 4.00 ffi 6.60 1.08 & 1.09 .7»H® .74*$ .58 (g .59 8.03 8.00 8.00 1.09 .71 & 4.75 & 5.00 «* 5.S0 @ 1.10 ~ .72 .66* 1.12 1.10 .73 ,6j 4.20 4.00 8.25 6.50 4.50 © .75 <& .57 @ 4.80 @ f.25 & 5.75 <fH 8.25 & 6.75 1.04?*& 1.05)4 .70 @ .72 .57^(31 .58)4 .89 - -- .74 12.50 @ .76 @12.75 4.00 8.25 6.00 1.20 .80 .58 •21 .13 uiw ~ @ 6.25 5.50 to* 7.00 3 1.22 & .81 & ,62 (3 .27 .14)4 FOR EUDINI TO READ. H«?CETS LITTLE SATISFACTION . FROM UNCLE SAM. Allans Cu Claim Nothing from • Oor- •rnraent Which It Do*i Not Afford to Its Own CtttEans--Danial Wabstar Qaota4 to Sustain the Position Taken by the United States. Mr. Blaine's reply to Marquis Rudlni's note of April 2 has been transmitted to the Italian Government. It is a d!g nitied and yet caustic reply to a demand that had in it too much bravado to be read with patience in this country. The Question is discussed from the standpoint of a people indignant at the gratuitous bumptiousness of a" friendly nation, manifesting a desire to be fair, but ex­ hibiting not the slightest inclination to apologize. In effect Blaine takes the Italian Ministry tip, shakes it, and then with a show of iron-handed courtesy shoves it out of the way. Mr. Webster's correspondence as to the Spanish riots in New Orleans, which is quoted^n the reply, was memorable, but Mr. Webster all through his dispatches expressed an honest desire that the peaceful relations existing between the United States and Spain might not be disturbed. There is an entire absence of any such wish or expression in the reply to the Italian Government. The opinion is universal that the Italian Premier dis­ served fully the castigation he receives, ytet it is doubtful if any two great nations not immediately contemplating war ever before entered upon such a fusillade of absurd and unreasonable demands on tho one hand and of caustic irony and derisive courtesy on the other hand, as appear in this corre­ spondence. Imperiali's opening and cu­ rious soft sawder, in addressing the Sec­ retary of State as "Your Excellency" almost overshadows the admission he immediately,afterward makes that Ba­ ron Fava was not recalled, as the Baron himself gave out originally, but was simply absent "on leave." This gives Blafne a chance to get back at Imperial! and address him as full "charge d'affaires,n instead of being simply the officer left "in charge of current busi­ ness" as wa9 so sedulously stated at the outset of the trouble. The Italian Government has not sus­ pended diplomatic relations by recalling its Minister, though for home effect it has proclaimed that it has done so. The next and even more important point made is the showing from the exact lan­ guage of Rudini's original dispatch how widely different his two demands--the one sent out from Rome and the one now answered--were. Incidentally, Mr. Blaine gets in a sarcastic allusion, to Baron Fava's English. His quotation shows that ten years' residence in Wash­ ington has not given the Baroq greater familiarity with the language than he seems to have with the institutions of the country. Noting the different terms employed in the* dispatch which he is answering from those used in the dis­ patch previously received, he says his de­ partment "has no desire to change" the language of the original dispatch of March 24, which was delivered to him in person by Baron Fava, transcrioed in English* Then he quotes that dispatch with its assertion of a right "to demand and obtain the punishment of the mur­ derers and an indemnity for the,}r vic­ tims." Then* follows this extraordinary sentence, which "the Secretary of State mercilessly (yjafes: "I would add that tho pubHp^ opinion in Italy'is justly impatient and if concrete provisions were not at once taken I should find myself in the painful neces­ sity of showing openly our dissatisfac- tion by recalling the Minister of his Maj­ esty from a country wltere he is unable to obtainjuslipe." Mr. Blaine, of course, cannot ^esljpPftVJ^tra^ting the original demand with the subsequent cable dis­ patch stating that "The government of Italy has asked nothing but the prompt institution of judicial proceedings through the regular channels." He does not say that the Italian government has failed to carry out its threat of recalling the Minister, but he addresses his reply to Imperiali as "charged'affaires,"show­ ing that he takes cognizance of the fact, and then he proceeds to analyze other portions of the Italian Minister's second dispatch. , It seems that the summary as given out from Rome, in violation of ali diplo­ matic usage, was correct in stating that Rudini assumed the Secretary of State had promised indemnity for the families of the victims. Mr. Blaine shows that he had oply recognized the "principle ol indemnity" to those who had suffered in violation of treaty obligations. Finally, he puts it that if any of the persons killed by the mob In . New Orleans were really "Italian subjects who were resi­ dent or domiciled in that city, agreeably to our treaty with Italy and not in vio­ lation of our immigration laws, and who were abiding in the peace of the United States and obeying the laws thereof," impossible conditions for the Italian Government to show--then, in case the State authdrities had failed to prop­ erly pret'etthem, the "President would under such circumstance; feel that a case was established that should be submitted to the consideration of Congress." Only this and nothing more. It is very strongly suspected that the preliminary abstract of the report prepared by United States District At­ torney Grant, of Now Orleans, will dis­ close that all the men killed except two or three were naturalized citizens, and that these two or three were Italian ban­ dit* who had come here in violation of our naturalization laws, and for whom the Italian Government has therefore noright of reclamation. This correspondence will leave the Kudini ministry in a criti­ cal position before its own people, but it is generally conceded h#re that tho Italian Government has brought tho situation upon itself by bluff and bluster and jingoism. What effect the publica­ tion of this correspondence may have upon the critical, threatening attitude of several of tho European powers to each other, including those in alliance with Italy, is a fruitful theme for con­ jecture The much-talked of letter will not gi\e much comfort in Italy. SWEPT A WAV BY FLAME ITHE WEST AND SOUTH. 1 ottu'a New Play. A story of the French revolution of the last century furnishes the plot of Lotta's new musical comedy, now on atMcVick- er's Theater, Chicago. The plot is not intricate, and therein is one point that appeals strongly to public favor. The first act serves to involve the characters in a maze of misunderstandin < and in­ troduces Ina, a ^street ballad singer, impersonated by Lotta, and Girard -- in love with each other, of course. The second act finds Ina installed in the house of her long-lost father, a rich, foolish old Marquis, who is sent to prison for writing treasonable songs. Act third reveals Pari* in the hands of a revolutionist mob, the characters of the play in a series of startling adventures, and closes in happy denouement brought about by Girard, who has rapidly risen to high position in the rebellious ranks. Through the play solos, trios, duets, choruses, and quartets are introduced, and the whole gives opportunity to dis­ play the inimitable style of the JTamous little comedienne. You must be sure df two things--you must love your work, and not be always lookiqg over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin; a^id the other is, you must not be ashamed of your Work, and tthink it would be more honorable to you 'to be doing something cl*e. :Y CHICAGO PROPERTY WORT# A MILLION BURNED. I ltany BalUInc* t'on*tJtnecl---Erfry Struc­ ture for 800 Feet fn Ruin*--The Dime Maaeura Wrecked--Two' PET-sbhs Are Fatally Injured and Six Others Hart. Once more has Chicago received a costly visit from the fire king. Not since the little Chicago fire which swept everything from Twelfth and Clark streets north to Van Buren in 1874 has this latest call ever been eclipsed in its damaging work. The other afternoon fire started under the stage in Kohl & Middleton's West Side Dime Museum on Madison street, and before It was taken in control by the fire department it had destroyed the immense furniture estab­ lishment of John M. Smyth, Kohl & Middleton's Museum, and five other five-story business blocks, and damaged several of the adjacent structures. A low estimate to place on the loss is $1,- 250,000. Aside from its teri ible effects, says a Chicago dispatch, the fire was a grand sight to behold. Fierce and furious were the flames, eating all before them. The sky, at first blackened by the huge volumes of smoke that poured forth from t£e seething flames, soon took on a rose­ ate hue as the tongues of fire darted through the black mass. Qreat fire­ brands sailed through the air, and fall­ ing started blazes which threatened with destruction the surrounding edi­ fices. It appeared as though the western part of the city was doomed- The high wind carried the firebrands here, there, and everywhere. People ran about de­ moralized. Thousands of persons were in peril of their lives. Kohl & Middle- ton's museum was jammed with amuse­ ment seekers, who in an instant had their pleasure turned into greatest ter­ ror. So fast did the fire burn that it was hardly a moment f.om the,time it broke out until the entire place was in *HE REMAINS OF SMYTH'S BIO ESTABLISHMENT. flames. A stampede followed. In the fierce fight for life eight women were knocked down and trampled under foot. Several men jumped from win­ dows, and one of these, Alexander Grant, a painter employed on the place, leaped from the third story and struck a siarn in his descent. He fell to the ground Benseless, his skull fractured, and one leg broken. When all those who were able to get out had left the building Officers Welbaskey and Pat Sheedy en­ tered the burning bui ding and went as far as the flames would permit They pulled out several women who had faint­ ed from fright or been crushed in the stampede. Across the street in the Haymarket Theater'a simiiar panic was averted only by the coolness of George Fair, tho treasurer. When it became apparent that the theater was in danger Mr. Fair called the ushers into his private office, and instructing them to stand at the fire-escape and to by nq means permit crowding, he quietly went around from one gallery to another and told the spectators that there was a fire across the street, but that there was no imme­ diate danger. They were then led to the fire-escapes and made their way easily. As in the case of the great fire, this last conflagration was started by a lamp explosion. While the audience in the museum theater was watching with in­ terest a juggler balancing a lighted lamp on a wand, at'the same time walk­ ing a tight-rope, the juggler slipped, the lamp fell, there was an explosion, and a flame darted up the scenery of the stage. The stare curtains took fire, and before the panic-stricken men and women could make their exit the. entire stage was a mas- of flames. John M. Smyth is the heaviest loser. The Kohl & Middleton edifice, as well as the building occupied by himself, was his property. His loss on buildings is $403,000,and on stock 8600,00;). He carried an insurance of $175,000 on the buildings. Kohl & Middleton lose their entire equipment, valued at $20,000. The five-story buildings 147-149 West Madison street were owned by James Casey and were destroyed. They were valued at $210,000. A^ired Peats occu­ pied the entire building with a largo stock of wall paper. His loss is8.r>5,0U0. The next building, occupied by Louis Laberge, was six stories, entirely de­ stroyed, and owned by Col. Thompson. Loss on building 540,000, stock and fix­ tures $15,000. Joseph Stein's shoe store was at 153 Madison street. His loss on stock is $20,000. Other losers are: Adam Gerhardt,barber shop at 155 West Madison street, $3,00 ); Baer Bro.'s hat store and Eureka laun­ dry at 157, $13,0U'J; M. J. Irrmin, cigars, $(>,000; Neely Bros , boots and shoi?s, $20,000; L. Kaempfer, jewelry, loss un­ known; Lawyer Payne Fittz, $5,000. Two persons were fatally injured and six others seriously hurt. Historical. THK colony of Hong Kong was first ceded to Great Britain in 1841, and the cession was confirmed by the treaty of Nanking in 1842. THE first Colonial Congress met Oct. 7, 17o5, at NeW York. Timothy Ruggles of Massachusetts was Chairman and John Cotton Clerk of the convention. THE peculiar reach toward Lake. Erie in the State Line of Pennsylvania, known as the Triangle (from its being originally the State of New York extension) was a special purchase, Sept. 4, 1788, from the Government, of a slico of tho Northwest Territory, containing 202,187 acies, at a State cost of $157,(540. G .< VE* were, in 1410, often set wit I piecious stones, and sufficiently valusT) e to be le > as legacies. Tl e jeweled QIOM S of S'. Martial wera said to have rebuk a an act of sacrilege. The gloves oi Bishop Gravesend, worked with gold and enamel, were priced at £5. a great sum in 1310. But the sturdier Bishop Button wore thick yellow gloves at 10J a pair. .' IN 1658 the fashion of wearing large stirrup-hose or stockings, two yards wide at the top, with points through several eyelet holes, by which they were made fast to tho petticoat's breeches, was brought into England from France, ac­ cording to Randle Holme. "Long and short kersey stockings are reckoned among the exports in the Book of Rates, 12th Charles II., and in !• there are en­ tries of stockings of leather, of silk, of woolen, and of worsted -for men and chil- dNK* OPENING OP THE COMMERCIAL t > , CONGRESS. Jitter, from the President--He Declines an Invitation to Be Present, and Jir. presses- His Views on 4 Home Usrket and Bimetallism. The first Western States Commercial Convention . convened at the Coates Opera House, in this citjt, says a Kansas City, Mo., dispatch, with delegations present from the following twenty-four Western and Southern States and Terri­ tories: Califoiaiia, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Mon­ tana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska^ Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illi­ nois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tonnes- see, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, and Oklahoma. The delegations are composed mainly of busi­ ness men appointed by the Governors qf the various States, and are representa­ tive of the Western and Southern people. ( The convention was called to order by State Senator Kelly, of Kansas. He in­ troduced Rev. Dr. Hayes, who offei-ed a prayer. The convention then proceeded to temporary organizatien. On motion of Governor Francis, of Missouri, Sena­ tor Kelly was chosen temporary chair­ man. In a long speech of acceptance lie explained the object of the congress to he the consideration of various questions of peculiar interest to the West and Soflth. Mr. Kelly laid all the blame of agricultural depression upon a too small circulating medium. Asa relief he sug­ gested the recoinage of silver; the rais­ ing of silver money to the standard of gold. The Hon. John W. Springer, of Illi­ nois, was elected Temporary Secretary. The Chairman then presented Gov. Francis, of Missouri, who welcomed the delegates on behalf of the State. He said that the congress marked a new era in agricultural, commercial and financial history. In the early history of the country such dissension and dissatisfac­ tion as now exists resulted in revolution. The people of the West were now crying for relief, but the manner of relief was sought, not by arms, but by this deliber­ ative congress. Different causes were assigned for the depression of Western interests. Let the cause be what it may, the effect was the same. There was deep-rooted dissatisfaction, and there was unanimous desire that the evil of depression be^abolished, and that Western interests be stimulated. Here­ tofore Federal legislation has been in the interests of the East. Congress has been favorable to the creditor class, and tho West was a heavy debtor. It was necessary now for the West to stand together, and there were many things that the West desired, the advocacy pf which should be unanimous, earnest and continued. The West wanted freer trade with Mexico, Canada and South America and all the countries of the world. The West wanted the Missis­ sippi connected with the great lakes. It wanted improved railways, so that one could step on a vestibule train at Kansas City and step off it at Buenos Ayres. It wanted a fuller volume of currency. These were things that would relieve the distressing condition of affairs, and these were things on which the West must act together. L. D. Wight Thatcher welcomed l^e delegation on behalf of the State of Kan­ sas. An adjournment was then taken until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Upon reassembling letters of regret were read from those who had been given special invitations to attend the congress. Among the number was one from Presi­ dent HarriBon, in which he regretted his inability to be present in response to the Invitation extended him. He also said: A public discussion of the conditions affect­ ing agricultural and business prosperity cannot but be helpful, if it ia conducted on broad line* and is hospitable to differences of opinion. Th« extraordinary development of production ol agriculture-which has taken place In a recent period in this country, by reason of the rapid enlargement of the area* of tillage under the favoring land laws of the United States, verj naturally has called attention to the value and, indeed, the necessity of larger marketB. I aio one of those who believe that a home market is necessarily the best market for the producers, as it measurably anticipates him, in proportion to its nearness, from the exactions of the trans. Sortation companies. If the farmer could de-ver his surplus produce to the consumer out of his farm wagon, his independence ana hit profits would be larger and surer. It seems tc me quite possible to attain a largely increased market for our staple farm products without impairing tVe home market by opening the manufacturing trades to a competition in which foreign producers paying a lower scale of wa&es would have the advantage. A police that would reduce the number of our peopls engaged in me­ chanical pursuits or diminisn their ability to purchase food products by reducing wages cau not be helpful to those how engaged in agricul- ture. The farmers insist that the prices of farm products have been too low--below the point of fair living and fair profits. 1 think BO, too, but I venture to remind them that the plea thoy make involves the concession that things may be too cheat). A coat may be too cheap as well as corn. The farmer wno claims a good living and profits for his work should concede the same to e^ery other man and women who tolls. 1 look with great confldenco to the com­ pletion of reciprocal arrangements, especially with the Central and South American States, as furnishing new and large markets for meats, breadstuffs, and an important line Of manu­ factured products. f ersistent and earnest efforts are also being made, and a considerable measure of success has already been attained, to secure the re­ moval of restrictions which we have regarded as unjust upon the admission and use of our meats and live cattle in some of the European countries. I look with confidence to a success­ ful termination of the pending negotiations, be­ cause I cannot but assume that when the abso­ lutely satisfactory character of the sanitary in­ spections now provided by our law is made known to these foreign sta'es, they will promptly relax their discriminating regulations. No effort and none of the powers vested in the Executive will be left unused to secure an end which is so desirable. Your deliberations will probably also embrace the consideration of the question of the volume and character of our cur­ rency. It will not be possible, ana would not be appropriate for me in this letter to enter upon any elaborate discussion of these questions. One or two things I will say, and first, I believe that every person who thoughtfully considers the question will agree me upon a propo­ sition which is at tl/e base all consider, ation of the currency question :N*iatnely, that any dollar, paper or coin, that is issued by the United States, must be made and kept in its commercial uses as good as any other dollar. 8o long as any paper money issued or author­ ized by the United States GoVernment is accept­ ed in commercial use as the equivalent of the best coined dollar that we ijsue, and so long as every coined dollar, whether of silver or gold, is assured of an equal value in commercial use there need be no fear as to an excess of money. The more such money the better. But on the other hand, when any issue of paper or coined dollars is, in buying or selling, rated at less value than other papers of coined dollars, we have passed the limit of safe experiment in finance. If we have dollars of different values, only the poorest will circulate. The tarmer and the laborer who are not in hourly touch wiih the ticker or the telegraph will require, above all other classes of our community, a dollar of full value. Fluctuations and depreciations are al­ ways at the first cost of these classes of our community. The banker and the speculator an- tteipate, discount, and often profit by such fluctuations. It ia very easy under the impulse of excitement or the stress of money stringency to fall into the slough of a depreciated or irre- deemablo currency. It is a very painful and slow business to get out when once in. I have alwavs believed, and do now more than ever believe In bimetal ism and favor the fullest use of silver in connection with our currency that is compatible with the maintenance of the parity of the gold and silver dollar in their comiuer- cial uses. Nothing, in mv judgment, would so much retard the restoration of the free use o. silver by the commercial nations of the world as legislation adopted by us that would result in placing this country upon a basis of silver monometalism. The legislation adopted by the first session of the Fifty-first Congress. I assured by leading advocates of free coin­ age, representatives of the silver States, would promptly and permanently bring sfiver to 129 per ounce and keen it there. That anticipation has not been realized, and for reasons not yet agreed upon, diminished the .demand for silver In China and India. Here an:I There. THE organs of smell in the turkey vul­ ture and carrion irow are so delicate that they can scent their food for a dis­ tance of forty miles. A GEORGIA editor has twenty-seven children. He positively refuses to in­ sert an advertisement announcing that a boy or girl is wanted. HERE'S THE OTHER SIDE! SUSAN DICKINSON IS DEFEND-* ED BY PRIENDS. i X ."'tit "I neverf Tv^' sa l Miss Frances Wlllird Amsied by Anew Dickinson's Bseltsl-is«sa Hartl Alwaya Been a living. Unselfish and Atteht- ^ ire Sister--The Funil Explained. A dispatch from Scrantoa, Pa., sayss^ Miss Susan E. Dickinson was in th»; ' ^ - city li^ consultation with friends* * \ relative to the statements made by her»- *1 1 s i s t e r t o a r e p o r t e r i n N e w Y o r k . M i s 4 ' - ' Dickinson said that she had telesraphec# Dr. Seward that he would be "held ir^ ^ ' damages for ,the injury he is doing heif . < 1 sister's mind, confirming her delusion* 1 , ' : and also that friends in West Pittston* * and vicinity will testify that she has de-*j voted her life for years to the welfare V and interests of Anna. In denying the* ' story published in New York, Miss Susam ' 's Dickinson first refers to the charge that; • a removal was made to Westi -• Pittston clearly to please herself.' * i. The true reason of the removal, she says, was because Miss Anna hs.„, lost the means to support her mother as* she desired to in Philadelphia. She ex- 1 plains facts relative to their family arrangements and then answers the •„ charge of extravagance, saying that she vi*-* was her sister's private secretary an<i: 1 V-- bookkeeper, and was allowed $250 a, . J month to meet expenses, which included? ' % the rental of a $1,000 a year house. The* ..V\5 house was generally full of Anna's com- '"V pany, and they had to be provided for. It was impossible, therefore, to avoid the- standing over of accounts until her re­ turn home to settle at times.' ^ made an investment of any kind in my' - life," continued Miss Susan. "I never" ' v bought trinkets for myself, and was not in the habit of making gifts tor- • other people. In answer to my sister's ^ allegation that I have an intense hatrf and jealousy for her, I have to say., that it has never taken any other "r form than that of striving to further1";-S, her interests to the utmost o? my ability-' Physicians will testify that in the sumr'p ^ mer of 1877 it was my nursing which?"" saved her life. Dr. Hileman, whom she abuses, was her own selection, and sh& praised him to the skies. After a time,, on Thursday, Feb. 19, Anna became violently delirious, and her actions were very curious. Among other things she- began screaming and pounding on tho partition walls The servant was afraid of her, ran out of the house, and was- followed by Anna. She then came back. and ate her supper. Her story of gleam­ ing white crystals in a cup of coffee is a pure fabrication, which on'y insanity can account for. Several days before she- had been accusing Howe & Hummell^ her attorneys, of the vilest treachery in her case against the Republican National Committee, and she asserted that an old friend in Boston was con­ cerned in a plot to ruin her reputation. "" Miss Susan speaks of Miss Anna's vio­ lence toward her and then says that oa Feb. 25 it became necessary to deliver her sister to Danville, because she had eaten nothing for three days. She was not roughly handled and her clothing was not injured, as stated" in 4U the papers, at the time her door was forced open. Her papers have been carefully assorted, and they now await her dispo­ sition. Her stage jewels in one package and her private jewels in another are safe in her own bank in Pittston, subject to her order. The attempt to secure money for her was inaugurated by M*s. Longford and Miss Willard without an^ action or word on Miss Susan's pait \ The Pittston Gazette says: "Of course \ 9 there is not to be found in all this region i a single person who for one moment be­ lieves the ridiculous story sent out. Miss Susan has been great'y devoted to her sister Anna, and for years she has placed her welfare above all else, even, . - to the extent of relinquishment of the^X gl greater portion of her literary work in order that she might be able to better attend her sister during her late ill­ ness." . - "I really do not know what to make of ) the report published in regard to the unjust incarceration of Anna Dickinson,* said Frances E. Willard. "I have no authoritative information upon which to base a hypothesis," con­ tinued Miss Willard, "and I was neverin my life more astonished than when I read the statement. What I do know is that 11 I have been acquainted with Susan E. Dickinson, Anita's sister, for the last fif­ teen years, and that to my knowledge she has been a most genbrous, faithful and also beloved sister. There were the most cordial and loving relations between the two sisters, and I have, times with­ out number, heard Anna speak in the most affectionate way of Susan. Indeedt I have always regarded Susan as the mainstay of the family. Anna was al­ ways erratic, but Susan went on in the even tenor of her way, and was alway» to be depended upon. "I could not believe Snsan Dickinson capable of the base conduct attributed to her under any circumstances, but really I do not see what she could hope to gain by such a course. The plan for the fund which we hope to raise is that it shall be placed in the hands of trus­ tees, and that only the interest shall be paid to Anna Dickinson, and that it shall be kept as a permanent fund for the purpose of aiding any woman who has given her life to the public and is no longer able to care for herself. That A. J. Drexel is the treasurer of the commit­ tee that is to take charge of the fund9 is, it seems to me, sufficient guarantee that all will be conducted as it should be. It also seems to me to disprove th» statement that Susan E. Dickinson hopes to posses ? herself of any funds that should be raised. "Here is a letter from Susan E. Dick­ inson which I received recently," said Miss Willard. "She tells me of Anna's removal and says: 'I could not go with her because, as is so usual in such cases, she turned suddenly and violently against me, and until I have the assurance that it is better instead of worse for her to see me I shall wait' "Miss Susan closed with: 'How earn­ estly I thank you for all you, are doing and for all your tributes to Anna in what you write I have no adequate words to say. But I pray God to bless you, and I look forward to the day when you. and Anna shall take loving counsel to­ gether.' " FUNERAL OF P. T. BARNUM. wW ' A Lsif* Crowd Follows the Great Shew- man's Remains to the Grave. At Bridgeport, Conn., business was al­ most entirely suspended out of respect to the memory of Bridgeport's great benefactor, the late P. T. Barnum. Mourning emblems were to be seen oa all sides, and the day was one of gloom and sorrow. At an early hour the- streets were filled with people from the- surrounding towns and cities. The funeral services were begun by a short service of prayer at the residence, only the members of the family being present. The body was then conveyed to th9 Con­ gregational Church, where Dr. Collyer, of New Ycfrk, delivered a touching ora­ tion. The singing was especially beau­ tiful and the floral tributes many and> appropriate. The church was crowded. A great throng followed the body to. (he- grave. Crops In Great Shape. April returns to the Department or Agriculture show that the condition qf the growing wheat crop throughout th** entire country is the best sinee 1883.