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J. VAN &fX£, Editor and Pub, ItcHENBY. - - - ILLINOIS BUMS A BEEF HOUSE M: f*i" i is«r r'- K': THREE FIREf FALL!! :N DIE UNDER J WALLS. ValqM f&ulHKirtBK Proctoaitloa-ltl^ |a HUwiakee'* Sm»llpox District--Thn« Hart in • Chlc«(o Wreck-- of M<«hl{r«n in Feeb|e Hwitti > //J. Biff Flro st Sottth Omth*. *!',•. ^ EARLY Friday morn IN? firo broke 1^-1 u©ut in Hammond's big packing plant , at South Omaha, and by 9 o'clock had ".gained such hetdway that it seemed v, nothing short o a miia le could keep flames from sweeping all the build- in^s awav. and it was a so feared the 'it*? ' fire would reach the immeftse Cudahy f .-V plant. The entire department of the *4-t, » *city were called to the scene of the § V'fire and made such a determined fight ^ r1 that the flames were confined to what -»is known as the "beef house," a four- " "/story bric k building -00 by i.00 feet, i This building cost $'00,000 and with I tho contents will prcbablv bring the * "total loss to £50ty 0a There is $1,600,- i^v.'-'OOO insurance- on the whole plant. , •%' - „,Three firemen were caurht under f&lf- f f lug walls «ad instantly k lied. Pnnn«T«r'a Pnngent T*rorlamotion. ^ C Gov. PENNOYER, of Oregon, has fc- i : V/ ' • "'sued the following Thank-giving proc- ^ K t -1' lamatit n: "I hereby a (j oint the la9t i^Thursday of this month a Thanksgiving holiday. In the day of prosperity be jovial, but in the day of adversity cot»« |¥ ; ' aider.' "--Ecclesiastes viL, 14. BREVITIEST it « 5|" • r&WfttmmA, ILL, is arranging tojrat 1 in a svstem of water w^r<cs to cost |g*,-H30,0W. p• _ A NEW YORK paper print; a story m"i: to the effect that George M. Pullman's t . ̂ daughter is ab ut to marry King Alex­ ia" ander of Servia. - ONE of the recent developments of ,:^:<,^'S|the brewers' war at St. Jtseph, Mo., is 'the mutilation of horses belonging to *• jfche brewers. The employes are sus- • pec ted. . BURGLARS entered the bank at WeBt •^hjFinfie'd, Herkimer Couct.% N. Y., and blew the door of the vau't off with fesL \ Mynmite. Taey secuied abjut $1,000 ?">'tn ttojey- * THE twenty-second annual congress tbe Association for .the Advance- ^ ' inent of Women, Mrs. Julia Ward JHowe presiding, was in session at ^|::'-^|rf^lKnoxviile. Tenn. |£ V V f THE Chattanooga (Tenn.) Board cf V-KJ health has aatou'col that several vf4 ^ '"Cases of ch 11 mure or have grown out el* tl e insurance of the lives tf infants * ' fi, Wnong the negroes. • * "&--*" i PREPARATIONS for the formation of " ' 8 coli rolled st el t ust ara under way among t e larger manufactur- ' w'10 are meet^3ff »t the Holland '.;'i:( ' • House in Nt w York. W, ] \ JOSEPH ROSIXZKI was arrested at f'j.f Pittsburg and h?ll in $?,0C0 tail on o^'* the charge of co ispi racy to defraud a lu mber of persons who su scribed to a co-operative land scheme, f 'P, FIVE of the leaders of the Sanctified Xh' Band on Chiicote g e Island, Mary- > /land, hare beea indicted fo.* conspiracy u SJ' * " 'In separatinj: w'ves frcm theife hus- " 'baLd-i, and for bei W, r~'VA' . lg a public nuuaace. DR. GEORGE W. PHINNEY, nusband of Mrs. Phiriney, who is President of the National Non-1 artisan Woman's . Christian Temperance (Jnion, died at his residence in Cleveland of heart dis- % ' *tf> vA few ^4: ['&• 'it A SUCCESSFUL tesi of the German anti-tcxine remedy for diphtheria, used as a p event ve, has been made in the hospital at Philadelphia on a little girl who had been subjected to diphtheria in'ectioj. A MAIL POUCH »uppesed to have contained a large aiiouat of money in registered letters was stolen from the mail carrier's wagon while en route I from the depot to the po9toffice in •% *<• r Grand Porks, N. D. \ LUIGI REVELLI. son of a rich widow it," 4 InFurin, Italy, ctm nitted sui:ide in \ ^ °®C3 of a New * ©rk ltalian news- 1 '%}V\ pap?r immediately aftir an editorial i" dec inatiou t > u e soma manuscript he >' ^ had submittei g ving reasons why he " propoiei to kill himseli. E/ • ^ ^ A SUBURBAN train on the P., Ft. W. C. Eoal, west from Chicago, while "* running thirty m las an hour, crashed \ ^ into a c al traiD, Friday evening, and . ' .three passengers were seriously, . ' 4 though not fatal'v, hurt. The tram jg. » , leapoa, and escaped unscathed. JOHN MJBRIDE, at Massillon, Ohio, r-"- Jprofes ei to feel no concern about the v; , .^JrepDrted move of Sovereign and Hayes X, %, % to rule him out o' t!ie New Orleans Knights of J abo.* convention. He ffj" •>,, .characterized So.ereign a^ an ass for Pfe) , " issuing the letters written 'ait summer. TJK JR ^ EX-SSNATOR TJOMAS W. PALMER, J - j* . • President of the World's Fair, is ill of J^v \ < * nervous prostration, at the Battle «V Creek Sanitarium. Mr. Palmr attrib- K ' £•'„-' ute? his pre ent condi io.i to campai n || 1 ittf" > worry and his hard work in connection jSj>" '?i with the Columbia I Exposition. % , if'" HEALTH D^PAKTMSNT officers aft 4JK- 'S?1, * Milwaukea entered a house in the l-i-* !X smallpox infec ed district to fumigate \ it, ani, it is a'leged drove two women m, , s ' into the st eet without surl'cient cloth- **£'.on .them. _ This precipitated a riot |y ' t *, i which it re <uired the Mavor and po- '." If i?"lic3 forje to que L • JOHN B. ENGLEBERT, aa engineer, d '« 'Sf'hr '>• manager of a Tennessee ir< n company, - . . . - tfctitoirwijA. lathe exeilasoteai evarybody locked only to his OP. her own AATETY, «DD rushed .dowa the fire escape. The follovrlng perished in the building: GtoSrge Friedman, 4 years; Levy Friedman, 3years; Annie Appleblatt, ?2 years: Lena Mitchell, 24 years; Margaret Killian, 70 years; Jacob Killian, her son, 40 years; George Levy, Mrs. Killian's grandson, 20 years. X^ena Friedman, mother of the dead chilnron, jumped iro n the Uilid-stury wind< w. She was badly crushed ana mangled and will die. The hcuse is a live-story brick tenement, the ground floor being occupied by a grocery and the upper stories being arranged with front and rear apartments. The.e , were seven families in the house. Xh® Only means of exit f jr the people is by means of a stairway, narrow and dark, which runs directly up thr ugh the center of the building. Before they were thoroughly arou ed the flames shot up through the air shafts and hallway?, licking the wood-work and cutting off the e ctpe of the ten­ ants. By the time the firemen came the inmates were in a state of hope­ less panic. Some of them made their way to the roof and escaped to adjoin­ ing houses. Others appeared at win­ dows surrounded by flumes and crying pite usly for aid. A great crowd gath­ ered in the street below, unable to ex­ tend any relief to the panic-stricken victims. Those imprisoned persons who aid HOD lose biieir ueaut* ciiuioeu out on the .fire escapes, and some of them reached the ground in this way. The fire was extinguished soon after the hose was turned on, and though the work of rescue was prosecuted With zeal from the instant the firemen arrive! on the scene, they were too late. The aamage to the house will not exceed > puty . Marshal Joe. in September, Wait.#! J. W. Thompson, Town Mar­ shal of York, Ala., was attempting to prevent a quarrel between S. A. Cam- erouttnd E. F. Allison, a revolver was accidentally discharged, and he re- odfeiaMet in his heMk^.™?^ ' as -rrr-ate V' r FOREIGN. 'fN , JAPS Will THE FIRST BATTLi CHINESE SOIT. , WESTERN. !$• was killed at Li e, Pa . by a boy whom • k® attempt3d to frighten. W '%'t , FOURTEEN White Caps who took P*rt *a the b t le in Sevier Co antv, STencewej, last wee%, i» which three I;*- men were killed, ha\e been arrested. • CHARLES B. DUNNINC, a prominent manu'ac'urer o! ̂ a;h, doors and blinds, left his home in Grand Forks, N. D., cn a co' lecting tour in his State, since which no tidings have been received of his whereabouts. EA8TERN, ~" «W»mpt was made to wreek the ; Boston and Chicago special on the Lake Shore Railway near Lake View, ten miles west of Buffa o, by placing a plank and stones on the track juf-t west of a siding. Fortunately the obstruc­ tions wera discovered and the train was stopped. Superintendent Niles does not credit the theory of train- robbery. An investigation is now in progress. • \ SEVEN people were smothered to by smoke in a tenement-house at ZUi West Thirtyrsecond street, ««. ' ̂ 4.. i U ) )l?/ hi. 3L< 'V'i •• L:"i PACKING-HOUSE managers at St Joseph, Kan-as City, Nebraska City, Omaha and Sioux City have organized for protection of mutual intere ?ts. WHILE passing through Missouri on his hunting trip, papers were served on George Gould in two suits instituted by minority bondholders of the Spring­ field, Warsaw and Sedalia Bailroad. C^PT. CHARLES BOCK has arrived in Wagoner, I. T., in command of a squad of twenty police, with Joe John­ son, Mosefe Price, Dick Reynolds, Jim Bates, and Lou Perry, members of the Cook gang, in custody. He says he can locate and capture the leaders of the gang. Six weeks ago Mrs. Emma Wohl- hueter's h use was burned at Akron, Ohio. She made a statement that three negroes had fired the premises a ter as-aulting her and throwing her into the cellar. The colored people began an investigation^ which resulted in the arrest of the woman on a oharge of arson. ANOTHER step in acknowledgment of woman's rights ha< be.>n taken at Milwaukee, where Adolph Scholz has begun suit for $30,000 damages for breach of promise against Katherine Pi Igor. Scholz sold out his banking business in Germany and journeyed to the C.eam City to wed Kat erine, but she refused to keep the engagement. FIRE at Kansas City destroyed the store and stock of the Green Grocery Company. The store was a four-story building at Santa Fe ani St Louis avenues, and was built in 1885 at a cost of $30,000. It was insured for $ 5,000. The stock was worth $80,000 and was insured for $50,003. James Green was the scle owner of the building and stock. AT Ind'anapolis, Ind., Judge Brown sustained the Grand Lcd?e Knight3 of Pythias in its suit against Koerner Lodue for property. Koerner Lodge seceded because the Supreme Lodge ruled out the German ritual. It sur­ rendered its charter but held its prop­ erty. The case is a test and is re­ garded as important in that it will be f.llowed by other suits throughout the United States. An appeal will be taken. SPECIAL AGENT M. F. HERJELEY, of Chicago, has been on the Pacific coast incognito for several months, engaged in investigating Chinese certificate frauds. He intimates there are fully 4,000 fraudulent certificates in Califor­ nia. They have not all been used, but are for sale by Chinese and white agents. The agent is trying to dis­ cover the person in the government who has been in collusion with the venders of fraudulent certificates. POLICEMAN GEORGE KRUM, of Chi­ cago, was shot and killed early Taurs- day morning at 161 Twentieth street. The officer was passing the house when he heard loud talk, and thinking that a row was in progress he entered. On the second Moor of the build­ ing he openei a door and found several persons quarreling. One of the men was James Burns. It is sup­ posed that Burns got angry at the officer's interference and shot him. Burns was himself shot three times by the officer, and he is now dying at the county hospital. The police were soon on the Icene and all the occupants of the Louse were ar­ rested. The body of Officer Krum was found lying on the stairway, where he had fallen in his attempt to escape from the house. TWO STICKS, the Sioux Indian in­ dicted for the murder of the cowboy James Eacon, wa* found guilty at Peadwood, S. D. The murder cc- curred on the Sioux Reservation in February, lb9i. Two Sticks and four other Indians went to Humphrey's ranch and Sturgis' ranch and sat around the stove smoking with ltmr cowboys. At a given signal the four cowboys were killed. No reason has been gi- en in the evidence for the deed except that the r hearts were bad. Two Sticks sat throughout the trial with his wicked face ne ir- ly buried in his red handkerchief and laughing delightedly at any refer­ ence in the evidence to his part in the killing. Of the other four Indians, White Faced Horse and Two Two have pleaded guilty to manslaughter, Fights With is serving his time in the peni­ tentiary, and the other, First Eagle, was killed while resisting arrest Un­ der the Unitei Slates statutes, there is but one penalty for the crima ol murder, and that is hanging. ^ SOUTHERNT FOREST fires are raging in the vicin­ ity of Tiimble, Tenn.. and Corinth, Miss. STANTON ABBOTT knocked but Chas. Gehring at Baltimore, ?Md., in three round-. JOHN KREPS and David Jones were instantly killed and Benjamin Mount fatally injured by the explosion of a saw mill boiler at Parkersburg, W. Va. THE 6-year-old child of Mrs. Ollie Shackleford, of Frankfort, Ky.( was taken with hydrophobia. The child was bitten ab^ut three weeks ago by a dog. SAM HIKORY, alav Downing, haft again been sentenced to be hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for the murder of • • . •*** is y * THE Mahdi has declared a holy war against Italians at Massowah. AOVIOKH FROM T\IV4SFTLA Mate THAT the mahdi has proclaimed a holy war against the Italians. The Governor of Massowah has ordered the Fifth bat­ talion to be in readiness by Nov. J, when the Italian troops at Kassala will number 7,000 and the mahdi's army 12,000. THE International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union at Berne, Swit­ zerland, has officially announced that the postal! administration of Salvador gives circulation in its mails to pack­ ages containing live bees. Conse­ quently packages containing live baes will be admitted as "samples" to the malls hereafter dispa'ched from this country to the republic of Salvador, provided they are properly packed. LA RIOJA, capital of a province of that name in Argentine, lost churches, schools, public buildings, and many dwellings Sunday night by earthquake. The first shock was lelt at 4&0 o'clock i 414 liio liiHJti, rtUU iiUet'tiMliitU rttia rt ' succession Of shocks, some lasting twenty-six seconds. The people ran screaming from their homes, women fainting by the score. It is estimated that 2,000 persons perished in the province, as the disturbance was wide­ spread. At several points the earth opened and hot water and boiling mud flowed over the country. The village of Del Arbardon d sappeared in one of the fissures, and other town? report destruction that makes 20,000 persons homele-s. The general government sent medical at'endance, tents, and provisions and laborers to clear away the ruins of collapsed towns and vari­ ous cities are contributing largely to a relief fund. Tr.e wave appears to have E damage is reported THE Union Line steamer Wairaipa, bound from Sydney, N. S. W., for Auckland, N. Z., was wreoked Sunday night on Great Barrier Island, off the northeast coast of New Zealand. The 6teamer had a large number of passen- fers, and 112 of them were drowned, 'he number of the saved is not positively known. The night was very dark and the officers and lookout on the steamer were igno­ rant of the proximity of land until the steamer struck on the rocks. Captain Mcintosh, the master of the Wairaipa, was on the br dge at the time. He, to­ gether with most of the crew, was lost. The sea was rough when the steamer wefit aground. Attempts were made to lower seme of the boats, but several of these were Bither smashed by being thrown by the sea against the side of, the steamer before the falls were cast off, or were capsized before they could be laid head on to the sea. Everybody in the beats perished. Tho e remain' ing on board were saved. sa-sed out to sae near the mouth of the Plata. Soutn of Buenos Ayres no IN GENERAL J. A. BAILEY has purchased the Barnum interest and is now the sole owner of the Barnum circus. GENERAL CIENFUEGOS, the young lieutenant of General Ezeta who was released from the Alameda County, California, jail on an order from Sec­ retary Gresham, has taken passage on the steamer San Jose for Acapulco. JAPANESE residents of the Paciflo coast have recently remitted to the War Department at Tokio $10,000, do be used in the present campaign against China. Another $10,000 will be sent next week, and periodical re­ mittances will be sent as long as the war lasts. THE price of coal is not going down. Recent dispatches from Philadelphia indicate the anthracite pool had b >en broken up and that a cut-throat war wa9 about to begin. But Thurs­ day Chicago coal dealers received telegraphic advices to advance tho price of anthracite in car-load lots from $5 to $5.25. The reasons for the advance in the price of coal are many. Duriner the summer labor troubles a/id the strike among the soft coal miners many operators of anthracite fields, fancying they foresaw a short market, mined sufficient hard coal to glut the market in the late summer and early autumn This kept prices down. In the early portion of the season lake rates on coal were as low as 25 cents and rail rates fell from $4 to $3.50. Since then lake rates have risen to 70 cents, and while rail rates have not changed, an advance td $4 is expected within the next few days. Also, the cold weather is beginning and examination of stocks on hand shows Chicago dealers that the supply is bv no means as,-great as it was thought to be. Further, small dealers with outputs of a million tons have placed their product in advance of that of the big dealers with outputs of four millions. And these are the reasons the coal men give for making the public pay a little more for winter fuel. MARKET REPORTS. MfcS «0 & 3 00 4 00 3 00 48 M 81 3 00 SOU 48 *7 » (8 8 CO 1 00 2 00 CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.... $3 75 Hoos--BblppiDg Grades *4 00 SHEEP-Fair to Choice 2 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 61 COHN-NO. 2 61 OATS--NO. a. >8 RYE-NO. a. 47 BUTTEB--Choice CreartMrytV".;. EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--car-lots, per bu INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE-Shipping HOGS--Choice Light KHEEP--Common to PrlaM WHEAT--No. *2 Had COBN--No. i Wiute OATS-NO. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. * Ken. COBN--No. 2 OA I B -- No. 2. ii....... BYJC--No. 2: CINCINNATI. CATTLE Hoos HHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. -i Mixed OATS--No. 2 Mixed UYE--No. 2 .ji.. DETROIT. CATTLE, rrr.. bHKEP WHKAT--NO. 2 Whjte COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 White..... .iJU TOLEDO. - - WHEAT--No. 2 Rod. COBN--No. 2 Yehow OATS--No. 2 White BYE--No. 2 Bonsto. WHEAT--No. l White No. 2 Rtd CoJIN--No. 2 Yellow OATB--No. a White MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. 8 OATS--No. 2 White B ABLET--Na. A BYE--N0.1.J... POBK--Meu. NEW YORK. C&'i'XijK HOOB SHEEP.. WHEAT--Ko. 2JB*d.. CORN--No. 2 OAT»*--wiiite Western..iii....'. BUT I s it--Creamery BOOB--Western & 8 60 @ 6 Oi & 8 #0 & 62 & 63 29 48 22)* & 85 <S 5 78 & S 00 @ 9 00 & 49 <a 62*3 (0 82 ® 8 75 & 4 78 13> 49 & 48 & 80 & 60 30,y@ „#|0 '.(J# & 0 50 4 75 isoi ton 62'a 31 LI 2 80 4 00 2 00 85 M.. 80 (9 8 00 & 4 75 & 2 73 66 t 61H® 6854 M (0 66 M & to M & 06 H & M M 0 as* h & 38 M & M «• & (1 12 fO 313 Ml a 00 e* u &J c S SO © 5 21 , 2 00 & 8 as 57* M & 61 M & in . n & 34 V * 90 8S" Prepare to M|kt a Tell- hn* AtflMw Before Cold Weather--Crop . Coaftitfcnu Reported from of Honon Verde; One IVit Arthur rmfh&SftL Two Important and significant Jap­ anese victories are recorded by United^ Statei Minister Denby in a cable to the State Department at Washington. Ho says that the Chinese forces have been defeated atChin Lien Cheng, and havo retreated to Moukden, and that the Japanese have taken one of the Chi­ nese forts at Port Arthur. The Bcene of the first engagement is just across the Yalu river in Manchu­ ria, and it marks the first real aggres­ sive movement by the Japanese on Chi­ nese soil, for it is be­ lieved that the pre­ ceding movements on the west side o; tie Yalu ri er by the Japanese have been in the nature of skir­ mishes to develop the real strength of l/UU OiiiliUoO iuioos. This ha ing been done, the Japanese CHARLES DKNBT. »rG Supposed to have r" formally entered up­ on the campaign with Moukden, the Manchurian capital, as the objective point. Unless they are fully prepared to maKe this a winter campaign, s me- thing heretofore unknown in liastern warfare, they will ba obliged to force the lighting and move with great speed, as but fifteen days remain be­ fore cold weather comes. In the neighborhood of Port Arthur, where the second .Japanese success is reported, the winter climate is not so severe and operations may be main­ tained until much later in' the season, Earticularly in view of the excellent ase of supplies afforded for the Jap­ anese troops in the presence of their own war vessels in the neighborhood, which will keep open free lines of com­ munication with Corea and Japanese supply ports. It is believed that not­ withstanding the taking of a Chinese fort by the Japanese at Port Arthur the place will be able to hold cut for a longtime. It is strongly fortified by land and sea, the plansb.nng drawn by experienced European engineer o J cers and can offer a most formidable resist­ ance. The experts in "Washington be­ lieve that it cannot be reduced by the Japanese without the use of heavy siege 'artillery and so far as reported the Japanese are not supplied with this. Inasmuch as the capture of Port Ar­ thur would result in giving Japan con­ trol of the Gulf of Pe Chi Li and cut off the Chinese capital from communi­ cation with the sea, it is believed that the Japanese will make a most deter­ mined effort to capture the fortress. The belief that they are prepared to do this, even if it involves a long siege and a winter campaign, is borne out by the fact that the agents of the Jap­ anese government in this country have quietly bought up a vast store of goat skins, and have practically cornered the market. As these skins are com­ monly used in China and Japan as a necessary part of the soldier's winter raiment, it is fair to presume that the Japanese are making ready for a win­ ter campaign. Great interest is shown in the news at both Japanese and Chi­ nese legations in Washington. ^ • MERCIER IS NO MORE. Ex-Premier of Quebec Yield# After a Long Strugarln for Life. Ex-Premier Mercier died at Mon­ treal Tuesday morning. He had been sick for many weeks, during which his death had been al­ most momentarily ex­ pected. Hope of recoveryi had been given up weeks ago. In fact, from the moment that he first felt seriously ill on the I4th of August last it had been felt that he lay; on his death bed. Mr.r Mercier had been suf­ fering from a compli-* cation of diseases for years past, diabetes predominating. After his defeat at the general elec­ tions of March, 1892, his friends ex­ pressed the opinion that he had only six months to live, but by dint of adopting abstemious habits ot living he managed to prolong his life. Honore Mercier was born at "St. Athancose. Que., in 1840. He was edu­ cated at the Jesuit College in Mont­ real and began the study of law. He was for a time editor of the Courier de St. Hyacinthe and was admitted to the bar in 18tir. In 1883 Mercier was elect­ ed leader of the Quebec Liberals. The feeling aroused by the execution of Riel, the leader of* tbe half-breed re­ bellion in tho Northwest, gave him a great opportunity, and when the elec­ tion of lc8ti came on he organized a brilliant campaign, which led to tbe defeat of the Conservative Govern­ ment. Mr. Mercier was summoned to form a Cabinet on Jan. 27, 1887. His administration was full of exciting in­ cidents. As Premier he was a stanch champion of French-Canadians and their rights. One of the most im­ portant acts of his administration was the settlement of the Jesuit estate question, by which the Jesuits were paid a large sum of money, and which provoked a storm of indignation in the other provinces. He attracted con­ siderable attention on account of his advocacy of Canadian independence CROP CONDITIONS. : ' Corrmponde its In Twelve State* Give la- f formation for Farmers. The Farmers' Review has received reports from its correspondents in twelve States on the relative area of wheat being sown, on the condition of the corn crop at harvest, on condition of horses, with supply and prices, and the condition of pastures. Whem teed lag--la spite of the low prices of w heat the area seeded this fall will be about the same as last in most of th« States reported, except, perhaps. ^Kansas and Nebrasku. ID all the States there are counties wlierelosa wheat will be sown than last year, but these counties are not numerous They are offset by the counties that will sow more than the usual amount. In Western Nebraska and Kansas the weather and ground are yet too dry to eucourage tbe sower, even if all had seed BOW, which some have not. In fact there seems a Kood prospect that the semi- arid rezions will experience a dry tall, like tbe one last year, and in that case it woul# be little use to sow. Borne of the counties in these States will put in very large areas ompared with last year. Corn--The corn crop at harvest is quite generally good In hardness and dryness, bat in quantity is the same as indicated by former reporta Horses -- Horses ara la generally good condition as to flesh and health. The sap- ply of coiititsoii &ud poor horses Is very large. In spite of the incessant warnings of the agricultural press, farmers have conilnued to breed cheap mares to cheap stallions, iM now have on their hands myriads of hones so poor in quality that no OBt wants them, and some joftrf'-f «eruba . 't rise In prices angler and would indicate that farmers most adopt better methods In breeding. Pastures.--Under# the influence of tbe fall rains I he pastures bare re rived in most of the States. In some ptaeM they are the best ever known. Thfi Is proving a great blessing to the farmers with short hay and fodder crop*. It will give a boun­ tiful supply of food till the frost kills It and will send the cnttlc lntr> winter Jn bnt Hat eoa4Ukiou tbau us ani THE FOE.OF VIOBI m Bar. W. W.O. nr.APir^ G. Clarke, the PmrkHnrst of thi Windy ClCy. As New York looked upon Her. Dr. Parkhurdt two years ago, so the citi­ zens of Chicago are now regarding I ev. W. G. Clarke, one of tbe eloquent young preachers of that city, who ha-< set out on a mission of municipal r e f orma- tion. Clarke's meth­ ods differ somewhat from those of the New York divine. After a careful survey of the field, he came to t h e c o n c l u s i o n t h a t the gambling evil w a s t h o w o r s t o n e t which Chicagoaos were contending with, and at once planned ior the suppres­ sion .of that vice. Be organized the Civic Federation consisting of some of the best people of the "Windy City. Then he enlisted the aid of con­ stables and detectives and a concertei move was made upon the gambling houses. The effort to raid these es­ tablishments resulted in a number of i erhts, in which clubs and revolvers were used and several ) ersons were injured, but at lost the reverend gentle­ man and his posse succeeded in land­ ing several scores of gamblers behind the bari. He has since t-ecured their indictment Wilile gambling has not been entirely suppres. ed, the majority of the houses have been closed and there hss been a large decrease in the profits of thoso which are running. Mr. Clark's next move will be against immoral houses. He is at present the most talked-about man In Chicago and a large number are advocating his ele­ vation to the mayoralty at the next election. Telegraphic Clle^s. GEORGE GOULD'S match oqmpany has been organized. DULUTH voted to buy the city water­ works and gas plant. PLATE-GLASS manufacturers aw> en­ deavoring to form a trust. A SNOWSTORM lasting eight hours occurred at Hay Springs, Neb. SEVERAL buildings burned at Holla, Mo., causing a loss of 350,000. J. M. GREGG, a prominent business man of Burlington, Iowa, is dead. MRS. W. H. JONES was iound dead at Salem, Ohio. Murder is suspected. J'OSEPH KERCHER was kil'ed at Phil­ adelphia, Pa., by a batted bass-ball. AN unknown steamer and all hands went down in the English channel. ORDEFS have been issued to work the Reading collierio1*-t3 their lull ca­ pacity. GOVERNMENT troops will be sent to Indian Territory to rid the country of bandits. ALBERT TOWNSEND is under arrest at Denver for forgeries in various States. THE Georgia Assembly refused to consider a resolution declaring for free silver. VAST quantities of timber have been destroyed near Trimble, Tenn., by for­ est fires. W. J. BARNE3 is held at Sioux City, Iowa, to answer to a score of charges of forgery. GOVERNMENT offcials are investi­ gating the lead trust, preparatory to prosecution. . THE Rev. Dr. A- P. Happer, for forty years a missionary in China, died at Wooster, Ohio. ' 4 MATHIAS ANDREWS, of South Bend, Ind., was struck by a train and died at Plymouth. Ind. J. A. FRANCIS, teller of the City Bank at Hartford, Conn., is in jail. His shortage is $23,000. DAVID STONE, of Yelverton, Ohio, was fatally beaten by burglars ana robbed of #1,0J0. THE power house and machine shop of the Canadian canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, burned. CHARLES E. ANDERSON, a Swede, committo 1 suicide at Hot Springs, Ark., by taking morphine. FOR the third time within a year John Beard has been appointed Post­ master at Danville, 111. SOCIETY people of Det oit engaged in a fox hunt, an aniseed bag being substituted for the iox. > THREE trainmen were injured and considerable property destroyed by a collision at Lima, Oliio. GOVERNMENT officials havo made a vigorous protest to Germany against the war on American cattle. COL. CIENFUEGOS, the last ot the San Salvadorean refugees detained at San Francisco, has been released. THE county jail at Waterloo, Iowa, was burned by incendiaries. The prisoners were rescued with difficulty. THE American brig T. W. Lucas, Puget Sound to San fcrancisco, wits abandoned at eea in a leaking condi­ tion. DR. LENT,botanist, and Dr.KretzsoH- mar, zoologist, and several black fol­ lowers have been slain in Africa by natives. A GUN exploded in the hands of Philip Raymond, of West Newton, Mass., and killed his wife and i'-year- old-son. JOAQUIN INFANTE, one of the wealthiest men of New Orleans, died at sea while en route from Sicily to New Orleans. BOSTON and New York capitalist! have formed a syndicate to purchase a line of newspapers from the Atlantic to the Pacific. OFFICIALS of the United Mine Workers deny the rumors that the coal miners of Illinois contemplate an­ other general strike. ALICE BRANDON, of Wausau, Ind., took poison at Frankfort, Ind., ana died. She left a letter saying, "The wages of sin is death." MAMIE KEYS, the child abducted at Philadelphia by Charles Wilson, a madman, was returned to her home by Wilson, who was arrested. THE Northern Pacific elevator sys­ tem was bid in at Mcorhead, Minn., by E. W. Peet, in behalf of tee reor­ ganization committee, for $250,000. CHARLES REEVES committed suicide at Hot Springs, Ark., by shooting. Reeves was from Mexioo, and had been In the city two weeks. He left no statement. CONGRESSMAN HALL, of Minnesota, was very seriously Injured by falling from a trestle after a political rally at Hastings. In hurrying for ttia train he stepped off a trestle and fell Head foremost twenty ieet- ftUIXft OP ALL THE RUSSIAS ;v^r. -r^S 'PASSED Crowned Heads Gather Abott th« tttmr of the Dead Emperor--End of Weeks of Aaxletjr --Something temr of the Graat Bnten Itlinslil; ]V£t;Ui"US XJfci- Death has claimed Alexander IIL, Czar of Russia The end came peace- fully at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. For weeks it has baen known that his illness could have o&ly a fatal ending, and the world is not unprepared to hear that the house of Romanoff has suffered bereavement. The news of the Czar's death, although expected every moment for the two weeks, has caused confusion approaching con- stercation ?• throjghout Europe. No­ body believed that he could recover, but everybody thought he would be­ fore bis death settle finally the ques­ tion of the succession. Russia murm f r the monoTCh that is no more, for he see - a to have had tho gojd will of his people. Ai to the KICHOLA8, THE C7AHOWIXZ. J.Who now becomes Emperor of Russia. 1 mourning of the other sovereigns-- well, 1 hat is a function like any ether function. They are wondering with the rest of the world what the effect of the Czar's t eath will be in Europe. Possibly the C^arowitz won t sucoeed his father: more likely he will. Bhe Czarowitz and Princess Alix, who is the granddaughter of Queen Victoria through one of the petty German princes, were to have been wedded this week. The marriage was desired by the Czar, and had he lived a few days longer it would have taken place. The Czarowitz is under Ger­ man influence and his accession to the throne is assumed to forbode ill to France, which has had an enlightened friend in Alexander III. Yet France will probably be calm, secure in the belief that there can be no lasting alliance between Russia on the one hand and Germany and En­ gland* on the other. Whoever suc­ ceeds to the throne will be bound to follow out Czas Alexander III.'s policy of completing the trans-Siberian road to Vladivos­ tok on the Facitic; of extending Russia's boundaries along the Chinese frontier, and of combating English ad­ vances in Afghanistan. So there is more probability of a collision in the future than of a close alliance between Russia and England. As to Germany, a friendly con mercial treaty has al­ ready been entered into, but Russian statesmanship w o ild never permit a permanent alliance whicn would cast Russia in the shade, as Austria and Italy are cast in the shadow by the triple alliance. Ktlcned Thirteen Year*. ft is thirteen years since Alexander II. was assassinated in the streets of St. Petersburg. His son and successor has lived a life of seclusion, surround­ ed by plotters and conspirators, per­ haps wondering whether the bitter jest of the nihilists that he would be "permitted" to die in his bed would come true. Rumors of poison have marked his last illness, but whether that be true o • not the shadows which have hung over him could not have been darker if open attempts had been made on his life. Of t ie late Em­ peror's policy at home the outside world is not competent to judge imi artially. Yet the .jews have been persecuted with all the ardor of a "conscientious" sovereign, other sects have been driven out cr silenced and religious persecu­ tion has flourished as it only can Sour­ ish under a bigoted autocrat. As to domestic policy, the Russian people alone are fitted to say whether the Czar's reign has been a good one. Of Alexander s foreign policy intel­ ligent judgment can be formed, and there will be little disposition to with­ hold praise. He has unquestionably saved the peace of Europft when it was threatened. His friendship for France has been firm, yet discreet, and has operated as a check on that volatile nation. His attitude toward the triple alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy, wbi.e not pointedly antagonistic, has b?en clear and has shown that no com­ bination of powers would be permitted to domineer continental Europe. Alexander's death may hasten com­ plications that have been arising. It may strengthen the German influence in Russia and help to isolate France, yet it is too soon to guess what its fall effect will be. Germany and Russia are not Latural allies" and France *aows it. Sparks from the Wires, MEXICO plans a world's fair. Six ice-houses burned at Laporte, Sad. Loss, $3,000. LILLIAN RUSSELL has reaohed New Vork from London. FOREST fires caused heavy losses «ear Corinth, Miss. MRS. CATHERINE VANCE, aged 65, •tarved to death at Kalamazoo, Mich., A REWARD of $250 a head, dead or Alive, is offered for the Cook gang of desperadoes in Indian Territory. JOHN KEYES, a traveling salesman of Des Moines, Iowa, ended his life with poison at Sedalia, Mo. NEGUOES employed to load a cotton steamer at New ( rleans were mobbed t>y union men. Six men were seriously wounded. CONURES9 will be as&ed to either re- ?air or remove the unsightly tablets 0 deceased Congressmen in the Con­ gressional cemetery. Two DECK stewards on the steamer Lvcania were attacked with small-pox on the last voyage. They are detained at New Ycrk. A FREIGHT and construction train collided on the Pennsylvania Road at Croydon, Pa., and S. Loway. J. Mo- Nelly and Frank Stone were killed and nine men injured. This and That. Mtrsic festivals in Cincinnati cost on average awo.OOO. THE black diamond is «o hard that ifcftnnot be polished. A WOMAN Boats upon water with Acre eaee than a man. PERSONS PER IE ATT SEA' SIXTEEN pi * lhat Up in a lire Trap, They An oated. and Cremated Without SUeape--W omen and ChUdm the Victims--List of the Dead. Sixteen persons--ten men, three women, and three child en--were burned to death in the West Street Botei at Seattle, Wash., early Satur­ day morning. The Killed, with namee so far a« known, are: F. Bol.man, M. MoZooley, Agnes Mixon. C. Wilson, --- Anderson, Andrew Otterson, Mrs. Otterson and her mother, Airs. Huff­ man and little son and daughter, four men, one woman, and one child, un­ identified: lecognition impossible. The West ^tn et Hotel occupied the upper floor of a two-story corrugated iron building that covered a quarterbf a block of ground at Columbia and West streets, one block from the Northern Pacific Depot, and near the business center of tho city. The build­ ing was a me e shell ol wood, covered with iron. There were "several exits to tho, street, but they wer :; narrow^, The halls were narrow and the rocms small.^ W holesaie business houses oc- oui/iou. irlio gt'oujuu x.oor. 'jihe hotel, being near tlie railroad depot and a cheap but 1 eputable house, was much patronized by country people. The fire was undoubtedly caused by the explosion of a iamp iu the kitchen in the rear of the house. The propri­ etor's son was aroused by the noise of the explosion about 1 o'clock, but be­ fore he could investigate the fiames spread all through the house. The corrugated iron sheeting kept the fiames hidden until nearly tha whole interior was a furnace. The thin par­ titions were of resinous pine, covered with cheese cloth, and burned furi­ ously. It was not until the flames were seen burning in the windows by people in the streets that an alarm was turned in. When the fireman ar ived the fire did not present a"n alarming as­ pect. The people at the windows were rescued with ladders and boards, some escaping with hardly any clothing. Shucking I>tsoov«rie4 by the firemen* The firemen discovered corpse after corpse, until, at 4 o'clock, they had counted fifteen. Subsequently another was discovered. Most of the bodies were left where they lay until daylight in the hope the prop ietar might iden­ tify them by locating the rooms on the register, for all except two were charred beyond possibility oi recognl- ticn. The bodies were taken to tbe morgue in boxes or canvas sacks. The arrangem jnts of the halls of the hotel made such a lat yrlnth that in the day time one unfamiliar with the plaoe would have had difficulty in finding his way about without several attempts, and as the halls were filled with smoke there was little chance for any of them to make their way out before suffo­ cating. S me of the lodgers were asleep and were overtaken in bed, while others rushed into the halls were suffocated and burned. BLOW AT UNCLE SAM. , V -- '*<•> i German Government Excludes AmsrloMi Live Cattle and Fresh Beef. f The Gcrm n government has pub* fi lished a decree prohibiting .the im- portation of American live cattle and M fresh fceaf cn the ground that two | cargoes which have just arrived con- » 1 tained several animals suffering from 1 Texas fever. This action, a Washing- 4 ton dispatch sa/s, WJS not entirely un- ••'! expected by tho agricultural depart- 1 ment, although the officials had hoped J up to the last moment that the Germans would prove open to teason. § The matter will not be allowed to rest ?! where it now stands, b it our govern- ^ ment will cause a thorough investiga- I tion t:> be made of the cases of the ai» • leged Texas fever on which the Ger- | man government has seen fit to act in I! I such a summary fashion. No doubt ^ j is felt here that these alleged cases | will turn out to be founded on a mis- taken diagnosis, for if there is any cat- fi tie dis3ase that the German veterina- ;J rians know little or nothing about, that J disease is Texas fever, a purely ».| climatic, non-infecticus fever peculiar § to America. That is the opinion of ^ the Agricultural Eej a tment experts | who have studied the disease for years sj and a e aware of the stat J of knowl- edge on the subject in Europe, if the departmental examination,as expected, ^ results in disprovi g the existence of .1 the cases complained of, our Govern- | ment will enter a very vigorous pro- £ test against the action of Germany and $ seek to make it clear that the reason fl assigned for the destruction of our i meat trade is disingenuously stated, r : » ,1 : SHORN OF ITS TERROR. , UfcH h i French Claim that Diphtheria Is to kt , . 'j Cared t'y Inocalntton Hereafter. . ' The new treatment by inoculation for diphtheria and croup, as practiced | in France, is the sub ect of a special i| report to the State" Department by S Lnited Sta'.es Consul C.W. Chancellor. 3 at Havre. The Consul gives in detail a history of the development of the ,j treatment by Dr. 1 asteur and his as- J sistant, Dr. Roux, who have been ex- % perimenting with it for five years,keep- | ing it secret until they had satisfied | themselves of its eiiciency and % had subjected the animal the horse 1 I best adapted to transform diphtheritic | poison into an anti-toxine. A trial of | the new treatment at one of the largest children's hospitals of Paris resulted | in reducing the death rate from diph- theria from ol.70 per cent, to 14.33 per -j| cent. In addition it is stated that chil- 3 dren v iccinated with the serum were | ""protected from the disease even while ^ living in cloto contact with diphtheritio patients. As the Pasteur Institute I cannot meet the great demand for the § 1 erum movements are on foot in differ- ent localities to establish auxiliary stations. In plight cases one in.ectlon i 01 the serum is sufficient -r „ ' ' Onr Population.* t * " > • \ THE proportion of foreign-bom "per­ sons to natives in Nevada is 70,'035 to S 1UO.0 0; in Arizona, 65,799; the D&ko- I tas, 02,118; Minnesota, 52,169: (Jaiilor- nia, 51,218. V MISSOURI has 705,718 males of voting • age, of whom 584,981 are native and , 1v 1^\737 are of foreign birth. The whole vota of Missouri in the election of l&tti was 540,960. | MASSACHUSETTS, Rhode Island and S New York have the largest average ^ number of persons to a hou-e, each ^ house in these States having more than six oocu, ants. ;; SOUTH CAROLINA has the largest ^ percentage of blacks, 59.35: then comes 1 Mississippi with 57.5& Louisiana has % 4!i.«9, and Alabama 44.£4 per cent, .ot- f black populati n. % FOR the United States as a whole there were in lf* 0 1CO,UOO males 10 ;<5,- ^ 2 0 females, so that s me of the males f will bj unable to get wives if tbey' | really need them. % 1 '-i THE persons of Afrioan descent are classified sco >rding to the degrees of ' i ctlored blood into 337,980 blacks, /'h 95ti.989 mulattoes, 105,135 quadrnonsu and 69,936 oct roona. ¥'f;1