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• •in;MTiiWiii>rnni iimi imrii Ulaintlcaki' \ -t, • 3. VAN SLYKE, Editor and PuhlisNr. llfeEBN&Y, - • * ILLINOIS. RYE DECIDEDLY IN IJ. • 4 :--:--j-- • c i , 5WDIRECTLY IT AFFECTS THE TRADE OUTLOOK. • > tlM Nwk-ind-K»ck Ruci of th« Rail ftMtns-Anna Dickinson Again l^ctur nc ; «r«lh Her OI«l-'I lia# KloqnMitt-fwdw Ifetll Explosion. BRIGHTER EVERY DAY. Oop Prospect and Business Improve Htftd- in-MamJ. &• G. Dtf* A'JCa.\s weekly rbvkwr of trade sa, s: The prohibition of exports of rye by Bos­ nia because of official declaration that famine Is impending has suddenly .-iltooted the grnln markets of the world. Oroii pros­ pects grow bripliter every day, and with as- surauce that the country will not only liavr enormous supplies of grain, hut a ruarke for it at good prices. business Is Improving throughout the North. The movement be­ gins close to the farms; country merchants are buying more freely, and their pur­ chases are felt- by wholesalers and manu­ facturers. In the main the Interior tnoaey markets are in fairly good condition, excepting at the South, and at Philadelphia confidence is sainui^. If Europe is able to send ensh for all the food it -will require this yenr It is probubie that this country will not lack money long. The business failure* occurring through­ out the country during the lust seven diivs number, for the United Si ate* 2P2. and for Canada 25. or a total of as comjwred With a total of :Kil la>t week and 247 the week previous to the last. For the corre­ sponding week of last year the figures were 197. representing 174 failure* in tike United flfattoe and 23 in the Dominion of Can a J a. He was the principal in tho establish­ ment of the New York Times In 1851. »nd in 1871 led the assault that flnallv broke up the notorious Tweed ring. America has seen few more able editors than Mr. Jones. ' ̂ wo lumbermen, Mahlon Dot ton and Corneiius Zacharius were killed by a Le- JilRh .Val eyJljulroad train near Weath- erly, Pa. A. Rochester, Pia, young woman an­ swered an advertisement of a Chicago firm who claimed to furnish profitable enjoyment to peis<ns at their own homo?, islio remitte i V1 for material with * instruct ons for fancy work, ft r which she was to receive *l for eaeli ar­ ticle. 1- rotu this she u ado sever.ai arti­ cles which she forwarded. out has fai ed to receive the i romised roon y. Tiie fiv«-year-old son of Charles Adams, of Ashland. Mass.. who was one of the children taken t-o the Pasteur ln- sftvwro, the wind and hail leveling wb*t promised to bo the largest crops in tho liisiory of the country. * Geo. S. Haskrli., ox-President of tho Illinois Board of Agriculture, died at his 1 ome in Rockford. For twelve years ho had been an active member of the Board, and was one of the moat prominent seedmen of tho State. Ix boring for water on bis farm near Crothersvllle, 2nd., Thomas L. Davis struck a strong flow of ietroleum and strong indications of natural gas, and the ! nd ha* <auso Igr at excitement A company will Le forced make further explorations. John E. VALKXTtN'E, alias "Stiffy Jack," a noted bank roober, is dying In the Ohio state prison of consumption. One of his big pieces of work is said to be the robbery of tho Ocean Bank in NeW York in 18:i0. The Nebraska Columbian Commission stitutc In New \ork Citj for treatment foririallv organized by the election of A. for a supposed mad do* bite has died. , ... „0 iw,, supposi and it is believed that without doubt hydrophobia wa* ihe cause of death. The children were discliar ed as cured. The establishment of Cleve'and. Brown «fc Co., manufacturers and dealers in gentlemen's neckwear, Boston, was L. Strang, of Omaha, as Prosideut. and J. II. Powers, of Stratton, as Secretary. Among the resolutions adopted was one ca ling upon the aichitects ta submit p ans for the erection of a building for Nebraska, tho cost not to exceed $15,00(1 Vt Elkhart, Ind , Anthony C. Man- entered and upward of a thousand yards nin. atec{ 7T y,ars, and Mrs. Amelia ,aU' $3'uw to •«? W„. «» •..'« Oamd„,, N. Citizens wer^'marrr^od J., awaiting trial on a clia ge of obtain­ ing money on false protense-, stabbed Jailer Andrew Robinson a d then com­ mitted suicide by cutting his throat Robinson's injuries ar .• not fatal. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. BASE-BALL. Standing of the Different Clubs According t« the Latest Contests. Foti-owncc, Is a showing of the stand­ ing of ca -h of the teams of the diffetcnt ••sedations. NATIONAL LEAGUE. L. Vc. W. L. Chieaeoe....53 ;jy .AN5 Prooklvns.. 44 «t> ... .53 38 ..W.il'lev«»lMil8. .44 ti New Yorke. .60 3vi .5^1 Ciucinnnlis.SS .'6 Pfailadelp's. 48 44 .522iPittsburg3..3a 37 K»o. .4t8 .•04 J8J AMERICAS ASSOCIATION. W. L. *>c. W. TJ. Bostona 07 SI Colambas.. .47 5-J 6U Lonia 64 H7 .6(4 < iucinnatis.'3 55 Baltimorea..55 . 39 .535 Loni«ville*..35 (i-1 l>hliadBlp'a..50 4C .S21 Washfn^fn.SJ 53 WH8TERN ASSOCIATIOX. W. L. *C. W. IBlwatikecB.59 37 .til > Kansas C'va.4.' Omahas 4# 37 .55J I.incolns... .44 Minneapo's.,52 45 ,5iii Denvers Sioux Citys.48 <6 .ill Duluths 3il ¥»c. .47. *33 ,:mo .3523 fa .5,t< .481 .40) .333 k'; Wife Murderer Baker Convicted. -r\ ; jury in the case of Dr. Baker« of Abingdon, Va., charged with tho mur- der of his wife by paison, brought in a -% verdict of guilty. The conviction was largely upon the testimony of Mrs. Gil­ mer, a woman of social prominence, who < onfessed her criminal intimacy with the accused and d ciarcd, that ha had admitted killing his wifo. * Hanged Threfl Times. Is Winston County, A'a , four marked " men bro e iato tho residence of Col. f v*'^" John Coyle. dragged him from his bed and demanded the hidins place of h si t money. He refused to fell and t^ey ^ strung him up to a tro •. The hanging was repeated three times They were 4l- . in the act of-hanging him again when 4., be consented. j£V"£v" • """•' »•" 1 v" - Colorado's Exhibit • of the Worths Fair man- <l»agers for Colorado was held and reports made showing that nearly every variety . of fruit lta i been collected and that ar- •* rangements were beinar made to properly $3? .v" preserve 1.5Q0 varieties. One hundred y, varieties of vild floVers have, been col- ".?• lected by the florist and botanists * , ' A'a " •5'. »-r' i~> p.© W; Found Skeletons in the Cellar. ; • SpitixGFiF.i.D, Ohio, workmen, in tear­ ing down HVelch's Area le." found sev­ eral skeletons ia thi> debris in the cellar. The place has been the resort of toughs and crooks of worst, description for many years, and the finding of the skeletons suggested a dark and mysterious crime or series of crimes in years gone by. A rErri.iAR accident occurred at the St. Louis fair (.rounds while a n nnin* race was being conte sted liig Texas, one of the entries, bolted the track, and severely injured three' people, one fa­ tally. The catt:e disease which has been ras­ ing in Palo Alto County. Iowa, coutinuos wtth increased vio eive Mat-' Veter­ inarian i^talka has teen investigating the disease, and, nDtwithstandin™ his re­ port that it was not contagious, cattle continue to die from it at the rate of ton or fifteen per day. They take the dis­ ease, suffer inten.^o pain two or three days and dre. They neither eat nor drink. The members of the charivari party who have been making it int<;ro ting for* J. Sehalnbarker, in Dupage County. III., visited his house once too oftc$. They went to hts place for the third time, when a load of buckshot was fired into the crowd, killina Frank Marvin and wounding several others. Tin: Rev. Frederick Wolfenden, of the Reformed Episcopal Ch rch, and cashier of the Dime Savinzs Bank, was drowned in Orion Lake, near Detroit. B. F. Hayes & Co., the oldestc othing firm in iJrecneastlc, Ind., made an as­ signment. Liabilities over 810,000, as­ sets nominally the suno: Their credit­ ors are Chicago and Cincinnati firms. Toxsof wool and t&liow and thousands of costly hides were destroyed by fire iu the biz warehouses of George Oberoo and II. M. Hosick, at tho corner of Michigan street and LaSalie avenue, jThicagb.. The loss, roughly estimated, 1s S-SU.OOO. The double five story build- Ins which the Wool men occupied was Completely guttfed by explosions of oil stored ch one of the upper floors The south-bound fast passenger train t>n the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail­ way ran into a freight at the Briant Siding, in Indiana. The engine toppled over. Engineer Dick was found dead. Firemau Brown W^s found crushed and bleeding, and died laffcr. The accident was caused by the air brakes of the pas­ senger train failing to work. At Eau Claire, Wis., Christian G. Forrest, a, returned Montana miner, was •decoyed into a hack by a woman calling I herself Alice Mclnotte, and robbed of ^-HO. The woman and the haekdriver were arrested. The former rode an _ elephant and posed as an albino with • Forepaugh's circus this summer. Ax Huntington, Ind., Mrs. John Co'r- j lins left her baby in a carriage on the sidewalk to get a drink at a fountain. | The baby carriage rolled off the side- , walk into the street, throwing the baby under a horse's feet, where it was In- 1 stantly crushed to death. I <TiiE^va"Jit ycllie C.^ with a pleasure . ••••':•. r. . i . IVarLv oF four ycung men and six girls ^*"1 V*a lU,;a°n LeClYreS- j aboard, was caught in a sudden squall At Ot^shen. N. Y., Miss Anna Dickin- on Maumee Bay, off Toledo, ancfcapsi-ed. son lectured on "Joan of Arc " The Three of the girls--Lena Sanlorg, hous: was crowded, and Mivs Dickinson i Ellen Fcelcv, and Clara Bourds--were had an enthusiastic reception. She • dro'vned. £"V ^ " ^ Jlifev't'.v - sign of deraiuement, and I DciU?^ five day's of unusually hot he we.l-known elo- • weather in Chicago thero were sevcj^- ' fnnn sirciHoc ronnftArl nnrl cntrAnn1. ^ SOUTHERN INCIDENTS* A desperate duel to tho death took place at Norfolk Landing, Miss. Th<j pr nclpals were D. B Wall, etnp'oyed as manager of K. H. Shaw s plantation, am) a negro named Reed. They hadadii-puto about the length of time the negro had worked. Reed was carrying a shotgun, Wall secured a revolver, but the negw shot him. Wall was mortally wounded,bu| emptied his revolver at the negro, then 'reloaded when he fell dead. The negrc fell at the fame time, one of the balli from Wall's pistol having passed through his body. Wall was only twenty tnret years old and unmarried. A party of Brandenburg, Ky.. young people were dr.ving over to b'ulphui iSprinsfs, A horse became unmanagablq and George Bonner and his companion, Cvnthia Du«an. were thrown out. Mlt.j Dugan struck her head against tU stump of a tree and was instantly killed, while Bonner rccehed injuries frou which he is not expected to recover. Joe Ozbuux, a cousin of Charles Oz- burn, hanged at Atlanta, Ga., two week; ago, killed Frank Tuggle at Newton factory. At Sfc. Martinslville, La., tho dead bodies of Mrs. James Robertson and hei daughter were discovered. Mrs. Robert­ son's throat had been cut and her daugh. ter had been choked to death. The ob: ject of their murderers appears to have been robbery. At the inquiry bv the Federal author­ ities under direction of United States Attorney General Miller, as to the al­ leged brutal treatment of Federal con­ victs in the penitentiary at Little Rock. Ark, Abraha n Davis, a convict, testi­ fied that shortly after his term began 1« was branded three times on tho hip? with a red-hot iron, s verely whipped and subsequently confined in a dark celj two days and nights and fed on brea) and water. The lessees of tho peniten­ tiary denied branding and in justifica­ tion of the whipping and confinement introduced testimony to show that Davis was lazy and impudent. all showed no Bpoke with quen^ia, **!*••• " "*"V Stay for a Murderer. Tub counsel of Martha Miilen. tho negro woman who was to have been hanged at Chester, S. C., for poisoning her husband, has secured a stay of pro- iwedings and carried the case to the Su­ preme Court. jil. Powder Miil Blown Up. rjl ^he powder mill at Central City, Kv., bti^the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad, was blown up The building contained 14,000 pounds o: powder. Vj, Thrown Into the Water. At Jamestown, N. Y., a section of the dock crowded with excursionist* gave way, precipitating about thirty persons Into the water, but all were r< s utd alive, 4. ' ' John R. Gamble Dead. h Jfons E. Gamki.e died at Yankton, y;,S. D., of paralysis of the heart.1 Ho was elected Congressman from South Dakota last fall. ?• An Aged Eloper in Custody. Alki;ei> White, of Medina, N. Y., in-» dneed thirieen-year old Ida Mi-s »li to elope with him. The couple wore cap- tured. The Pensaiola Unseawcrtny. It is believed that tho United States ffceamcr Pensacola, which is ndw at Mare Is'and. will soon be put out of commission, as her present cjndition is hard y seaworthy. Florida's Negro Terror. Polickman'H. J. Pixton, of Talla­ hassee, Fia. has resigned to capture, dead or alive. Harm n Murray, tho .negro despe aio and uaurJeivr, an 1 thus frin a $3,.id0 reward. p BASTERN OCCURRENCES. JElizabeth Joxes, 60 years of ago, of '^fashingtonvllle, N. Y., undertook to convey soma real estate, when It wa» found that an insane nephew had forged deeds to it and a largo amount of other pro] erty, and succeodod in having them .recorded. Okouc.e Jone-s editor of the Now York Tlme», died at Poland Springs, He. Mr. Jones was born at I'oultdneyj Vt, Aug. 11, of Scotch parents. In hi^ boyhood he served apprenticeship in a; jurint ng office, and latpr was associated vlth Horace Gree ey, on the 2Vtt>u»»e.; teen suicides reported, and several | deaths from unknown canscs, believed to be self-destruction. Poison and drown­ ing were the favorite methods. At Terre Haute, Ind, Georgo W. Carico, a well-known horseman, and at one time a prominent politician and official, died. At a meeting of0 Wichita, Ivan., , Board of Trade members the following telegram was drawn ud and forwarded to the Mayor of Findlay, Ohio: "Wo j see by the dispatches that g; asshopprrs ! are devasting your country. L'e of good 1 cheer. Kansas has an abundan e (or ail. j Sedgwick County will respond with a i train load of gia'n to any call of dis- . trcrs." \ •. r \ I tiiri friends o." Crawfo ;d Fairbanks, of Terre Haute, Ir.d , are beginning to J be a'armed lest an attack of hiceongh- ing may cause death. j At Burlington, Iowa, while tho two ' • children of .lames Moore were at play, ! j one of them, a boy of si v. got ho'd of a | , bottle of carbolic acid, tho contents of | I which^he poured into his brother's ear. j --II* tlo I allow died al ter terrib'c ! _ agony. - ' j "Tuiv Sori).\N" ha« entered on its last week at McVlcker's Theater, Chhago. In a letter received by Mr. sharpe from Josephine Chatterton, who witnessed a representation of "The Soudan" at Me- Vieker s Theater, that well-known au­ thoress states: "1 cannot tell how much I enjoyed the performance o;' > The Sou­ dan.' When i saw dear o d Trafalgar Square, tho Nelson Monument, and^the Grenadier Guards marching past, the only regret was that the curtain could not l>av<; been raised to give us all an­ other gl mpse of this so true-to-life scene. And I want to add one thin; more, and that is about your beautiful theat r. It is absolutely the handsom­ est house I over was in." A most terrific storm struck Ellsworth, Minn., and left the town a pretty com- complete wreck. A dark cloud Svith a gretSWisli tint along its edges came swiriing in from the northwest and crushed everything in its path. Tho Iow'a, Minnesota, and Dakota ele­ vator was completely blown to pieces. The Congregatlona* Church was par­ tially blown down. The dwelling: of D. F. Cramer was thrown from Its touuda- tion and tho Burlington depot suffered great damage about the west end. Sev­ eral box cars were hurled from the track. No lives were lost. There is not a build­ ing n the village that was not hit by the storm. The loan will reach S25,ooo. Around Lake Benton, St. Cloud, Fulda and Wo?thiugtoa, the FRESH AND NEWSY. The lake lines from Chicago have made a clean sweep of this season's c ip of wool. In one day there were shipped by lake 966 tons of wool, as compared with 16J^' tons by all the railroads to tho East. Tho lake linos have done much for tho sheep industry, for the clip has been car­ ried from Chicago to the mills in the East at just half the freight paid in previous years. A xoti; for 820,090, made by the city of Galveston, Tex., has been protested for non-payment. The city's credit has never before been questioned. The wife of Matthew Weiser, a Lan- genburg, Man , farmdt, was found dead in bed. The cause is a mystery, but it is supposed she starved to death, her husband being absent from home. Ministsii Douglass has resigned his pos|tion a;; minister to Ilavth Thejet_, ter tendering his resignation's simply a formal resignation, giving no reason for h'saction^ Itjs quite that a col­ ored man wiTT be his sutccsabr, and just now one of tl» most pr raising c§ndj- 3"tes is T. Thomas Forttjfce. a bright, clever and able editor of New York City. The Sioux Indians aro about to bo pjlid by tlo Government for tho lands they ccded. Tioublc is likely to arise, as the reds object to receiving agricul­ tural lmn'oaionts in lieu of cash. A boat containing a . party of seven persons capsized 0:1 Rite Lake, near Bowmanville, Ont Mr. atid Mrs. Haw­ kins and Miss May Bee were drowned; the others were rcsued. At Mitcheii, Oqt.. Faciei White was arrested charged with tho murder o.' his wife, who v, as fr.und d< a J in her house with terrible wor.n:ls on her head and iace. \\ bite was f< r i;ei ly a hoto:keeper iu Tor >nto an 1 ha- been drinking heavily of late, «•* *•- « - S3AUIUCT lt£^OKia CHICAGO. Cattt.t»--Common to trliue.. H. cs --Shipi' li,' Grades Khekp VVhkat--No. iiJried Cobx--No. 2 Oats-- No. 2 Kye--No. 2 Butteb--•1 hr>ice Crta-nery Cheksjj--I'"u:l Creauj, fla e Egos--Fresh Potatoes--No -v. 1 er bn INDIA SAPOI.IS. Cattt.e--Shipping Hoo:--Choice Lif;hr. Kh*ei>--t'oiaaion";o Prtiae \V h kat--No. 2 Ued No. 1 White Oais--No. 2 Whit-* ST. Cat t;-b Hoos Wheat--No. 2 Bod Cons--No. 2 Oats--No. 2 1'ouk--Moaa CINCINNATI. Cattl*.. Hooa Huket Wheat--No. 2 Bed. Cokn-- No. 2 Oats--No. 2 Mixed DETROIT. Catti,® . ... IIoos Sheep..., Wheat-Mo. 2 lted.............. Cobn--No. 2 Yellow Oats--No. 2 White TOLfcDO. "WHEiAT^-New Co^n--Cash •Oats--No. 2 White Kte BUFFALO. Bekf Cattle litvE H00-4 Wheat--No. 1 Northern Cobn--No. 2 MILWAUKEE. Wheat--No. 2 Spring C< b <--No. 3 Oatio--No. 2 White liYK--No. 1 Babibt--No. 2 Pobk--Meet f. NEW YOKE. Cattle Hogs Sheep Wheat--No. 2 Bed...... Cobs--No. 2 O^ts--Mixed Western. •3 50 4.00 3.00 .3B .62 @ .Rj vD .1) @ .0S!>j(9 .40 <0 19 6.2S & 6.75 & 5.25 & .9Gfc ~ .«3 .83 .SO .('O'/C .43 3.S0 & 5.7S S.50 0.75 3.5) «| 4.7."5 .80 3 .87 ,C3 «* .bfi .9J&9 .80S 8.S1 460 .SO .27 11.SJ S5.75 5.50 & .93 .58 .28 11.C0 5.S5 8.50 4.00 8.00 ^0 .61 & .61^ 8.00 3.0.) 8.<0 .9) ,t2 «S4 Sfl M JS5 >65 aso 4.23 & 500 & 5.2> & .aaii ^ 5.00 & 6.95 C'« 4.50 ' & .01 «« .04 • .36 0 .88 <9 .66 (A M V .96 (9 5.75 <0 U.00 A NOBLE/LIFE ENDED. OURLOV^D POET AND STATES­ MAN AT REST. BwHl Lnwe'l. Altor » tmy 14% <1 Vm ulntu and HrlUla >t SncMint, Is ' to Mis Hoine-HMMMiaed Sta'i m*« and Bird. James Russell Lowell, the great American poet and diplomat, died at Cambridge, Mass. lie was born in that city Feb. 2'J, 1819. He graduated at Harvard College in 1838, and studied law, but soon abandoned law for litera­ ture. Betoro leaving college he pub- Ibhed a class Doe.n. A volume of mis- celaieons poems entitled "A Year's Life* appeared in 1841; a new colleo- tion, containing a "Legend of Brittany," "l*rometheu»* and others, iu 1844; "Con­ versations on home of tho Old Poets," cojitaininff a serios of well-studied crit­ icisms, both iu prose and verso, giving indications of Mr Lowell s Interest In the various political and philanthropic questions of the day and of his attachment to thoso principles of which ho has since been the champion, in 1845; a thir 1 colle t on of poems and "The Vision of Mr Launfal." founded on a legend of the search for !he San Uiael, in ls+b; "A 1- able lor t ritics," In which ho Satirically passed in review the litterati of the United States, and his mos-. re­ markable work. -The Biglow Papers," a collection of humorous poems on poll leal subjects, wr.tton by "Hosea Biglow," In the Yankee dialect, in 1-48. "l'iroside Travels," inciudinar graphic papers on Cainbricl'zo in o d times and the second series of the "Biglow Papers" appeared in i8(M. jji 18i)i» Mr. Lowell published "Under the Willows and Other 1 ooms," and near the clot-e of the Same year "Ihe Cathedral," an epic poom; in 187U a col­ lected vo ume Of essays entit ed "Amonic My Books," and in 1871 "My Study Windows." "'ihree Memorial loeus" appeared in 1876. In I8.r>ft he succeeded Longfellow as profes or of modern lan­ guages and belles-lettres in Harvard Col­ lege. The degree of D. C. L. was con­ ferred upon him in 1873 by the English University of Oxford, and that of LL. D. by Cambridge in 1874. The latter de­ gree he received also from St. Andrew's, Edinburgh, Harvard an » Bologna From 1857 to 1862 he was editor of thp Athintlc Monthly, and he had previous y been connected w th The t iuncer, a ma-gaz no of high cliaracte/, the Sltti ery t>tanrl<trd, Futiuok s Month/;/, and from 18G4 to ltGG was editor of the North Aiwican RcrU'iv. He had also boon a lecturer before the Lowell Insti­ tute, ii^Boston, on tho Br.tish poets Tov/ard the close of 187 4 Mr. Lowell was offered thej ost of .Minister to lius- 8ia, which Ire declinod, but in 1877 ac­ cepted that of Min'ster to Spain, from which he was transferred in 1880 to that of Minister to Ore at Britain. On the change of admiuisiration in H85 he re­ signed this position and returned to the United States. The speeches which he delivered in England were republished in 18>»7 under the title'of "Democracy and Other Addresses. " Though a life­ long Republican, Mr. frbwell supported the candidacy of Air. Cleveland for re­ election to the presidency in 188a Dur­ ing tho slavery agitation prior to the civil war he was a pruminout advocate for its abolition, and had been equally outspoken in more rccont years in urging the reform of the civil service. "Harvardiana," wlii h Mr. Lowell ed ted in 18H7-8, was a notable poem, composed under peculiar circumstances. At the time of writing it the collegiate senior was undergoing a brief period of rustication at Concord in consequence of inattention to his textbooks. His forced sojourn in this Arcadia of scholar­ ship and reform brought him into re­ lationship witfr the transcendcutaUsts, who at that timf> were in tho habit of gathering at the home of Emerson, with whom then began that, friendship which, despite tho playful sailics of tho younger poet in his earlier writings, only termi­ nated with the death of the older. The young satirist saw tlu humorous i-ide of the social movements of the day. and tho class poem, scintillating with wit, at­ tacked the abolitionists, Carlyle, Emer­ son and the transcendentallsts. In the winter 01 1887 Mr. Lowell read a paper before the Union League Club, of Chicago, on the authorship of "Richard ill." Since his return to pri­ vate life Mr. Lowell's home had been with his only child, tho wife of Edward Burnett, at ^'outhboro, Mass. BOMBARDED THE SKIES. Fsrwelfi Rain- takers Art Abundant"; rutoes^fal ill Text*. The rainfall expedition sent out by tho United States Department ff Agri­ culture under the charge of It. O. Dy- j renforth arrived at Midland, Tex., last week, and has scored its lirst su- cess. I Last week was spent in conveying the supplies, to the ran h of Xolson Morris, of Chicago, which is located twenty- three miles north of Mid.atftL A part of the apparatus was sot up and a test of it was made in which a number of blasts were fired. The explosions of "raclvarock" bomb9 caused great conclusions, and wero hear I and felt distincth at a considera­ ble distance from the field of operat'ons. The explosives were all fired from tho ground by means of electric batteries. The trial was made primarily to tost the apparatus, and was not calculated to bo on a scalo extensive enough to secure rain. However, in about ten hours after the explosions clouds began to form and gather over tho Morris ranch and sur­ rounding country, and a' out seventeen hours after tho operations tho rain be­ gan to fall in ropio'is quantities. Tho storm seemed to gather direct'y over the ranch and the fall of the rain was heav est at that point The storm extended over a space of 1,000 square miles and at the ranch tho rain contin­ ued to fall for a space of s x hours. About two inches fell at that point. This storm breaks a drought of long du­ ration in this locality and is the best rain that has fallen on the Morris -ranch for more than a year. All the appar­ atus wili bo in position in a few duys when full trial will be made, which will bo watched with greatest interest. L05H<$ JX) .95 .63 .33 .cm 10.25 .71 (A .96 (9 .04 <4 .34 0 .68 # .66 @10.73 ' « 6.25 ffi 6.00 <k 5.50 # 1.07 & .76 - . -;j v.*" . '• * » " 1 [ btrarRR--Cr^sinery. P o B K - l l O I S * • • • • • Somebm>y who has been figuring up says thattlw records of women preachers have 7~o names Three hundred and tifty of these belong to the Friends. Of the churches4 which have bn-ruu to or­ dain women the Cnfve sali; t is at the head of the list: it has thirty-six woimcti regu­ larly in the ministry and eleven others licensed to preach. The Unitarians have sixteen or.iaiiicd women and a large number wh > preach more or less regu­ larly. The Congregationalisms have >lx or eight ordaine I women. And, wo may add, there aro lots of men who oould well bo proud of the work those women ha vo dona.--Los ton I-c v-rci. A* ik he did not have enough to do with his projected observatory on top of Mont Blanc, M. EitTcl has cabled the World's Fair directors for perm'ssion t ) erect a tower 1ft Chicago that shall bo superior to the one at the Paris exoosi- tlon. He has been notified to send on his proposition and it will recelvo im­ mediate consideration. But la Chicago enterprise going to let a Frenchman take the crowning honors of the great fair w,ith a second-hand show that has lot* Its novelty?---PtUladclpfU* BuUetftt. SLOT MACHINES. Tht lllimeiiM Proflt That in Made (hit of Tfc«fr Operation*. Two young men entered the ijafay etie oaf© recently and ordered drinks, Bays tho Philadelphia Press. While the barkeeper was preparing them one of the young men turned to a slot ma­ chine which advertised that it couid tell anyone's age. He dropped a nickel in the slot, followed the instructions printed, and soon obtained a card on which were the figures, "20 years, 6 nionth\ 19 days." MBv George, that is my age to the day! he exclaimed. The bartender looked up and said: "Is that so? Are yon really 20 years old?* "Yes," replied the guileless youth. "I am very sorry," continued the bar­ tender, "but if that is so I can't sell you any drinks; you are a minor." An elderly gentleman with a gray beard stood by with an amused smile whilo that was going on, and told the bartender that he was right. The eld­ erly man proved to be J. W. Brookn, of New York, who is heavily interested in the slot machines, and in speaking of them he said to a Press reporter: "There ia an immense amount of cap­ ital invested in these little affairx. Ei as- tus Wiman, of New York, was the lirst to bring them to this country, I believe, and about 1886 he placed in the large American cities weighing machines. These make a great deal of money, and then H. K. Thurber started in with the slot machine which sold candy and chocolate. Mr. Wiman thought he had a patent for the United State*, and a costly lawsuit followed. During this the records of the patent office at Wash­ ington were examined, and they found that 100 years agola man in England, who kept a tavern, made use of the slot machine. This was a tin box con­ taining tabacco. *The frequenters of his tavern dropped a half-penny in the slot and it struck a lever which opened the box. Then the purchasers took out a pinch of tobacco and put it in one of the pipes lying around on the table in the bar room. This is the first slot machine of which any record is known. Nowadays they sell t.verything in them, especially in England, where they are used for postage stamps. In Washing­ ton the other day I saw a slot machine into which you drop two nickles, and from which you obtain a glass of rock- and-rye. I do not think that any of the machines cost over $30. ^V.nd if only one cent profit is made every day, it means 10 per cent, interest on the investment. The first month our com­ pany placed a machine in the Hoffman Mouse in New York city it took in $46. A certain dry goods firm receutly put out a lot of slot machines which sell lead pencils. You put a penny in the slot and out comes a pencil nicely sharpened and covered'with the ad"- vertisement of the firm. The latter es­ timates that the advertisement pays all expeuses^and so the pennies taken iu are clear profit." JLamp Hock of Central Asia. Capt. Younghusband, an English traveller, writes home from Central Asia an account of a rock which ha? been a mystery to the natives and to travellers. It in situated on the shores of a lake near one of the branches of the upper Oxus, and is known as the Lamp Bock. The account of it is pub­ lished in the Geographical Magazine. This rock received its strange name because from a supposed cave in its side a perpetual light shines ont. Mr. Elias, who passed the spot in 1885, thought the light n^ight be a phosphorescent one, but he not have time; to exam­ ine it properly. Younghusband says the rock stands by itself about 200 feet high, and pro­ jects from the mouutain side. High up the steep cliff the cave was pointed out to him, and sure enough there was a pale light visible. The natives have a superstitious dread of the rock, and say the light comes from a diamond in the forehead of a demon, who guards his vast treasures stored in the cave. ] With great difficulty Mr. Younghus­ band ascended to the cave. A false step, in some places, would have meant certain death. He entered the cave and j saw the light, which he found to be merely the unadulterated light of heaven, ooming from the other side of the cave. In fact, it is no cave, but a tunnel right through the rock. From below, the fact cannot be determined that the hole is not a cave, and the light stnking up against tho roof is all that can be seen. A Large Order. Artists sometimes find that persons who are abundantly able to buy pictures are so well able to appreciate the pos­ sibilities and the aims of art. The artist Hoppner related that a wealthy stockbroker, with his wife and five sons and seven daughters, once called npon him. The gentleman said: "Well, Mr. Painter, here we are, a baker's dozen. How much will you demand for painting the whole lot of us, prompt payment for discount?" "Why, that will depend," replied the artist, "upon the dimeusions, style, com­ position, aud--" "Oh, that's all settled," replied this person, who evidently followed the ex­ cellent plan of knowing exactly what he wanted when he went shopping, "we are all to be touched off in one piece, as large as life, all seated upon our lawn at Clapham, and all singing, 'God save the Queen/^ Tlx* lie at Sort of Trunk. A Madison street trunk man: The best trunk ever made, or that ever will be made, was that old-time horse-hair covered trunk. It would defy any bag­ gage-smasher of tho present ago. Why it went out of style I never knew. It was a good seller and seldom came back for repair*. Next to it the best trunk now made is the cloth-covered one. They are much better than the tin-cov­ ered ones, and yet it is almost impossi­ ble to convince a customer of that. I do not know whether you are aware of of it, but most English travelers to this country buy their trunks over here. Our trunks are no better than the Eng- ^sh trunks, but the English think so. There are a few things in this country to whicli an Englishman will take off his hat.--Chicago Tribune. What Site Wanted. They had been married but two months, and they still loved each other devotedly (I am not describing an inci­ dent in France.) He was in the back­ yard blacking his shoes. (In fact the incident occurred in Chicago--if it had been in New York, of course, they would be living about seven stories up in a flat.) "Jack," she called at the top of her voice--"Jack, come here, quick." He knew at once that she was in im­ minent dauger. He grasped a club and rushed up two flights of stairs to the rescue. He entered the room breath­ lessly and found her looking out of the window, "Look," said she; "that's the kind of a bounetl want you to get me." --Brooklyn £i/«. many MILLIONS SHORT. UMiie Wheat supply op BU&oi PEAN COUNTRIES. A BARE SWINDLE.!! VICTIMS NUMBER THIRTY THOUSAND. The United State* Will Contribute About 77.000,000 Iluahels, Ind a 33,000,900. Louring Abo at 104.000.000 Btutbcle 10 Be Supplied from Other Soaree*. fir,m]street's says: It Is too early to give anything bettor than a rough esti­ mate of the wheat production of Euro­ pean countries for the current year, only a few official comparisons of tho probable difference between this yi'ar's and last year's yield having appeared. With respect to Russia the mo3t contra­ dictory reports have been issued, but thero is no doubt that the wheat crop Is a bad failure in many parts of the em­ pire, and it seems within the mark to assess it at 15 per cent, less than last year s crop, whicu was officially put at 196,80j,00a bushels, reducing the quan­ tity to a little over l*i7,000.000 bushels. Allowing 1?,000,000 bushels for Poland, as compared with 15,000,0^0 bushels for 18;H), we have 180,000,000 bushes in round numbers as the indicated crop of European Russia, including Poland. Seeing that the consumption under or­ dinary circumstances would be at least 140,000,0-K) bushels, and that the fai uro of the rye harvest will increase the con­ sumption of wheat, while stocks of o d wheat are, unusually small, it seems a liberal allowance to reckon on an ex­ port surplus of 40,000,000 bushela. Noth­ ing Is substracted on account of tho shortness of tho rye crop In ordej- to avoid exaggeration of the situation in Russia. Last year's crop in Austria-Hungary --an extra good one--was officially es­ timated at 193,458,000 bushela The latest report of tho Hungarian Minister of Agriculture indicated a reduction of 20 per cent for the current harvest, but since then tho weather has improved tho outlook. In Austria recent storms havo dono a good deal of damage. Taking 15 per cent off last year's product of Aus­ tria-Hungary, we have about 164,MX-,000 bushels. Hearing in mind the doficic: cy of tho rye crop ttu re would scarcely be any surplus at all from the now crop, but it is be.ieved that stocks of old wheat aro large, and 8,Ot0,000 bushels may/therefore, be put down for export. Thero is a good crop in Roumania, but not quite equal to that of last year, which was uno.i.cially estimated at 64,- 000,000 bushels. An even 60,000,000 may be allowed as a maximum. Kou- mania exported about iit'.ooo.ooo bushels in 1890 and 3c,000,000 may be put dowu for the currcnt year. Bulgaria and Servia aro reported to havo good crops, but there i.* no trust­ worthy information about these coun­ tries at present. Last year their total prod me was estimated at about"46,OoO,- 000 bushels and 45,000,000 bushels may be allowed as a rough estimate for the current year and 1-4,000,000 bushels as the export. Turning to Import'ng countries we may alio at 70,000,000 bushels f or the new crop of tho United Kingdom and at least 145,000,000 bushels as necessary imports. What tho actual deficiency of the French wheat crop will be it is lrnjA>s8i- ble to say, and estimates of authorities in that country have varied with every change of weather. Last year's yieid was officially estimated at 338,000,0J0 bushels. Decreases ranging up t< 120,- 000,000 bushels have been predicted, but later accounts have been loss pesslmistii'. The requirements from foreign sources may bo put at about loo,oor,ooo bushels. In Germany tho acreage is mu» h •mailer than It was last year. in Prus­ sia alone the Minister of Agriculture re­ ports the plowing up of over 4<,0,00C acres, while the yield Is put at 16 pei cent, less than that of lJiOo. If wo set the rccent improvement in crop pros­ pects again t the deficient area, and de­ duct 15 per cent, from last year'fe crop of about 02,000,000- bushels, not including spelt, the present crop comes out at 78,- 20<\000 bushels. A year's consumption of wheat a one at the present time can scarcely be less than 105,'-0v,u(<0 bushels, and as the great' tieliciency of the ry€ crop will necessitate the consumption ol more wheat than usual, the require ments from foreign tources cannot well be put at less than 35,00",000 bushels. ; 'Ihe Italian wheat crop was atone itimo reported to bo 15 per cent below llast year's good crop, which wm official- !ly estifnated at 1^3,(00,00 bushels. Re­ cent reports, however, are moro favor- 'able, and it is deemed probable thai 1115,000,000 bushels maybe obtained, year's consumption, judging from serious of recent crops and import* appears to be about 140.0' 0 0*; 0 bushels, js3 that the figures just given show a idcficiency of 2r.,0(0,000 bushels. It is difficult to get trustworthy Infor­ mation on Spanish crop prospects, ol even the resuits. Tho last crop was estimated at about 70,01-0,LOO bushels, and as it was not a good one, tho same quantity may be allowed for tho pr sen! year, in Portugal 8*000,000 bushels may be added, and the requirements ol the two countries from foreign sources may be put at ic,000,000 busho's. De­ tails from other European countries, with whose above montioned will be fouud in the ioilowing table, all that is necessary to e plain being that Turkey is an importing country, apart from the principalities, and that the wheat crop? in Holland Belgium and Denmark are all un^questionably deficient: BliHUWLB. Estimated. Egtimatel Esp't cotmtifos. Yie'd 9). jiel 1 "9'. ex. 'Ol-i5. .Wusaia !• c. - ol d.2Jl,bi>',(K0 18',003,Oct) i ,000,1'tX Austua-Hu: g'y.J(l3.4 lC4,3i)d,uOU OOOOtOf 1 lioutuania 64,'K'o,OUO (30,000,0 )0 .Mi),OJO.O. C Bulgarla&B rvla 46,Jt.0,i;(XI 4},0J0,00C 12.UOO.OX Totals exporting • c uritries 515, United Kingd. in. 75 France 32T Germany 9; Italy 12:1 S ain & Portugal 73, Hwitzorlauu 2. Turkey HO, Kest of Europe.. 258 000 094,000 (XtO.OH) ,OX»,o >0 (iOJtO(K) i.ODO.OOO 4j0,();X) ,100,000 000,000 4*9.500,r00 70,CCD .030 2»ti,00i) 000 78.2J0.000 11;>,000,000 78 000,000 •-',200 000 58, X> 1,(00 3!t.0Ui,l«0 91.000.00; U3 00<>,00C ioo.iwo or* 3\000,0(K e.'>,ooo.ooc l.l 000,0cK 8,000,0:X 10,000,10: . a,ooo,ooc Totals. 7bJ,B94,UO) OOt),400,000 371.0uO.0M Estimated Es'imn ed Yell-90. yi"Ul 91. ex. 1I1-9A Tot'l.E-ro- e.l.29,«,052,i/OJ 1,115,900,000 2dl,0-.0,()o0 • Net Import*. In my desire to avoid exaggeration ol the deficiency in Europe, 1 am not sure that I have al owed enough for the defi­ ciency of the rye crop elsewhere than in Germany. Tho crop Is a bad ono nearly all over Europe, and unless wheat be­ comes so dear that the peasantry will be driven to the consumption of other kinds of grain to take the place of rye, thero must bo a large extra use of wheat If we allow average exports from India during tho cereal year, including a por­ tion of tho surplus of next spring's wheat--«ay 33,000,000 bushels--and sup­ pose that the United States will spare for Europo 144,00o,0.'>0 bushels, making 177,000,000 bushels together, there will bo, according to tho estimated European deficiency, about 104,000,0c0 bushels to obtain from minor sources of supply outside Europe. CHICAGO'S EIFFEL TOWER, If M. Eiffel really does bui:d th»t tower at Chicago it will be at l«*ast one fof>t higher than the one in Franco.-- Fort Wayne Press. M. Eiff*x has won tho roarard of Chicago at once. He wants to build her a tower. Anything that shows that Parea has really heard of her does please Chicago immensely.--Boston liecortL Tiiaxks awfully, M. Eiffel; but, per­ haps, tho construction of a tower for Chicago, if it is to bo undertaken at all, had letter be left to native talent This isn't to be a French {*tr» you kuow«-«r Boston Herald. » OrtcctlVH Chasing the Fnrittve Hhoatari . --He ttu* Decampe<t with .* est of th«K Plunder--Still a bumU Part or tlio Be-,1 ?t" esiptn In the Hand* of the 1 o'irt. ; " 1. A hasty examination of the books of the National Capital Pavings, Building*'! and Loan As-sociation of Korth America, f which was taken in hand by the Uniteda Stares authorities at Chicago, gives a--, more definite idea of the extent of the fraud practiced by the "close'.' corpora­ tion and shows in detail the plan by. which 31,000 people were systematically "; defrauded The Amount of tfio firm's? receipts was somewhat exaggerated by ;i the first reports, but Inspector Stuart* holds that at lea>t £150,0J0'for which the stock holders got not a cent was taken in by the company. , „ The greater part of this amount, over and above the association's expenses. Ia3?v^ in the possession of Louis F. Mortimer,';*./;; the promoter of the proiect, wh) is nowf.f" being closely chased by detectives in tho-;- ^ East Ex-Judge 8. A. Page and Attor- • .* ney Lyden Evans for the cheated stock­ holders, and District Attorney Milchrist.; . turned rapidly through the t o sen or: more ledgers and books kept by the cor-; poration. and the result, roughly esti-^..-*., mated, gives the following figures: To- > al tal amount received, SSO.OOJ. Of this * \ 871,00J has been paid to the agents' J throughout tho country. There aro >13,- - 000 assets In night, 8S>, 100 of which is the ** • i securities upon which small loans to give ; confidence to stockholders wero made, and the balance in the bank and now subject to the court's order. Thon ,ho books show 810,100 r aid to l^ewis F. Slorlimer as c m > issio.is, and of this $19,<.00 Mortimer must ao ount t > tho iiid gnant stockholders" Thro is yet , $••23,000 to be accounted for, nnJ Morti­ mer is supposed to have the amount with him. At least I10 did have it in hand when he left the city on "pr ssing Eastern bpmoss." Since .July 3» this year 913, wo has been tak"ii in and is de­ posited as a trost fund, suble^t <0 the order of the t-uperior Court, in which the case is now pending Mortimer is be;ng closely followed in the East, and word was lojeived at the Government building which, it is said, will lead to his arrest. The officials look upon him as the important man a:id care nothing about the little cat h, for Mortimer got the money and the others • were used as his tools. Alfred 1.own­ ing, president of the bogus b ilding as­ sociation, is still in tho hands of the Government authorit es, but his tail has been fixed at $2,000, wuicn. is looked upon as an absurd bond for a man under the charge made against him :f the offi­ cials cared to hold li.m. N IL Tollman has also b >en reh ased on tho same bond. In view of the fact that bo.h men have told all they know about tho management of the National > apl.tal Savings, Huildin? and Loan Assoc ation of North America and are wording hand-in-hand with the authorities for the capture of Mortimer, it can easily be surmised that neither of these, men will be prosecuted, b it wi,l be used as witnesses against Mortimer, who. ad- cording to Mr. Downing, is "one n an in a thousand." and as smooth as the L»est. , Attorney Lyden Evans has been drawn Into this case by circumstances, no was at first called'upon by 25-ortiinor to de­ fend certain little suits and knew nota- Ing of the association's stand.n*?. He did more and more o' tin firm's legal business until one day he con eivod the idea that all was not, straight. Mr. Mor­ timer was in New York at the time and Evans demanded at the assoc:atkm's of­ fice in the Kook.ry Building to ha»e access to the comi any's books if he was to be its legal adviser. It wa; then lie met Tollman, ono of the directors, and he told him what he thought. Tollman, be says, became frtgntftned, aud asked what iio could do to protect himself, as he did not know the association, was not straight. This started the ball rol ing,: and a receiver would have been asked' for by Mr. Evans had uot Lnc.o Saw got there first ' j "Mortimer runs things with a high hand," said Mr. Evans, alter he had looked over the books of the bogus com­ pany, "and it's a won I0r- he did not) smash things aud get In the hands of the] law before. He put his father in asj secietary and treasurer, his brother-in- law (F. O. Wentwurth) as president, and' had a man in Canada named C'hoate: whose proxy he voted regularly. It was* a sort of family affair between them, and Mr- Downing, tho president, whom Mortimer claimed to havo ousted by. the recent election, was male a, tool of, as was a'so the vice pre>ideut,; Mr. Tollman. These men, I believe, got nothing. We are going now to see what we can do for the stock ho ders. There is Sl,90u left in bank aud $0,100 out on loans, the real estatQ security for which wo believe is perfectly good. That is about 20 per cent, any how.l We will next make an application for a receiver, and 1 believe the association ought not to be allowed to go to pieces, as there is a heap of money coming in all the time. Since tho money now In hank was tied up over S13,00:) has been re­ ceived, which the court w 11 tak? charge of as a trust fund, and I believe that a.i association that is in receipt of s ich large amounts shouldn't be ali<«;vcd to go to pieces." While the figurrs got from the firm's books showed that £8ti,(0!» had been re­ ceived, this does not cover the entire scope of Mortimer's .business. He ran a' branch house for three months at Phila­ delphia, and of the proceeds it is said no account was mado. The company operated in nearly every State in the Union and it* agents wero in nearly every town The plan was the regu ar system adopted by building and loan associations, only thoy failed to make the usual loans when called upon,! and the stockholders' money can only be accounted for the ono way. 1 Inspector Stuart said that ho does not think a record of half the money re­ ceived by the association was kept, and stated that tuoro than fifty letters con-! taining checks, money orders, etc., rang-: ing in amount from *5 to $50, and ad­ dressed to tho association, were received- by one morning's mail. Minning Links. Londoit theater-going Is said to have declined to a remarkable extent Bkkfstkak and black coffee aro said to have reduced a lady of 182 pounds to 14a 1 Onr of the most eminent English phy-: siclans recently said that every modern house ought to be destroyed after it had been built for sixty years. Whatevkr bo the state of co'ored photography, a process of photograph­ ing In colojjthas been patented in Lon­ don, and the company is about to begin business. Out.of the British Isles the Salvation Army now has 1,705 corps and 1,0.0 so- » cieties. altogether 2,754 salvation socie­ ties. These are led forward by 5,830 officers. , The well that is being tored at Wheel­ ing in the interestof science has reached a depth of three-quarters Of a mile. Prog­ ress is being made at the rate of about ten feet a day. The most violent thunder-storms In the world occur in French Guiana. Tho thunder there in an ordinary storm Is almost deafening, while peal follow*" peal in Quick saccessioiL " * ; ' <• . u. fkL t - ,sS,