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McHENRY, ILLINOIS. EIVAL8 FOR TRADE. I r?> »m mm J «%• « j • I by killing hllltfllf. after mnrrf<»rin» tb* iVicnenry riairmeaier. \ m°th« w«, w« wire &nd their " {two young wfMrea, la a squalid apart- W I ^ :---- - .• V • on the top fleet ettbc tenement 643 J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Prt. j Sixth avenue. There lie ktd lived with them in ostensible t<wp«ct*bllity during almost the whole of his life ai a man of family. At Dover, Del., Mm. J, Polk Dean^nd her sister, Mrs. J. P. Dunning, are Mtd as the result of poisoning from eating candy. Mrs. Dunning is the wife of J. Preston Dunning, the well-known Asso­ ciated Press correspondent now in Porto Rico, and both women are daughters of ex-Congressman John E. Pennington. The candy came through the mails. The post­ mark on the box was not legible, but it is supposed by Mrs. Dunning to have been sent by a friend in San Francisco. The sloop yacht Leona, with seventeen men aboard, while anchored outside of Boston light, was run into by a barge in tow of the tug Honeybrook and five men were swept from the deck by the heavy towline. Two of the number. C. W. Sell- man and Albert Nordell, were drowned; another, Augustus Casperson, was killed by being jammed between the towline and the deck, while the two others. Peter Nel­ son and John Harkinson, although sus­ taining injuries, were rescued. > %• WOftKINQ TO INCREASE THEIR ^ V FOREIGN MARKET* &.f "• ,t i I'iiV * tfeaaWt* Write of the Effort* Kfcw \ .V - Being: Put Forth by France and , Pi Germany -- American Girl Plunge* fU >>•' mm aa Alpiae Height. . -~7 • &'•' Hntllag for Baslneea. # Two or three consular reports, dealing ** • |q large part with the Eastern and South - American trade, strengthen the views and assertions heretofore communicated to ' the State Department at Washington. |4! ,,' Consul Covert, writing from Lyons, deals at length with the subject of the French ?v : bureau of foreign commerce, recently es- p' v ? tablished. One division of this bureau will g; devote its attention in large measure to jL the Orient. This bureau will be in close fj,\ - touch with the French Board of Trade. i' ^ The French are aiding Russia to develop ^ her resources, and a largo part of the re- i.V port is taken up with the details of this £~ aid, which is a benefit to France, of M ' course. The writer says that the work f » * of the Lyons commission sent to China by the business men is being followed up J vigorously. France is trying to keep up f t- with England and Germany in efforts to iftr" * supply China, a nation which, to quote from a great European authority, "is the .« most potential market in the world." Con- f*l" , , ami Monoghan writes from Chemnitz in F two reports just given out. One. conoern- „ ing Germany's shipping, and the other, concerning her machinery export, throw ' much light on a great trade rivals opera- |1 ! tions. Compiling his figures, it is seen T ' that there was an increase in 1896 over 1895 of 13,706 ships and 600.000 tons. > Compared with twenty years ago. the fig- |y. nres show twice the number of ships and JS three times as much tonnage. There was JS ' an increase of 83 per cent in the number of laden ships and 152 per cent increase la the number of registered tons of vessels that went out laden with the empire's products and brought in foreign raw ma­ terials. Taken as to the number of voy­ ages, the growth is almost 10 per cent' for the last period--1S96-95--for which figures are accessible. Germany, like France, is catering-to the Russian trade and supplying that colossal country with manufactures. Russia is Germany's best . buyer of machinery. , IK a ce for the Pennant, r : following la the standing of tba eiub* in the National Baseball League: W. L. . W. 35 Pittsburg ... .51 39 Philadelphia. 47 38Brooklyn ....38 41 Wa shington. 37 44 Louisville .. .38 Chicago 55 49 St. Louis 30 Boston Cincinnati . Baltimore . , Cleveland ,, New York.. .68 .67 .60 .60 .58 following Is the standing of the clabs la lb* Western League: W L, Kansas City .68 41 St. Pan!.... .59 Indianapolis. 62 41 Detroit . ...J. .38 Milwaukee ..65 43 St. Joseph... .35 Columbus .. .56 43 Minneapolis. 35 Woman's Deed of Heroism* Mrs. Alfred S. Ames made a heroine of herself at Duluth, Minn., .while shoot­ ing the chutes on Minnesota point. She had just started down the chute when she •aw the head of a little child poke up be­ tween the rollers right ahead of her. Mrs. Ames had hardly a second to think, but rather than take any chances of braining the child, she threw herself from the to­ boggan and fell between the rollers. The child was unhurt, but Mrs. Ames was picked up unconscious. Her collar bone was broken and she was severely injured •bout the arm! and body. , ̂ •«- ' • P Vriffhtful Fate of a Woman. The London Daily Mail's Vienna corre­ spondent says that numerous Alpine fa­ talities have occurred recently. They in­ clude an American, Miss Merrant, who, while making a dangerous ascent of the Dreisch-Usterspitze, near Innsbruck, slip­ ped and fell a distance of 1,500 feet. She was instantly killed. WESTERN. ' The Pasteur-Chamberlain Filter Com­ pany's plant at Dayton, Ohio, Was de-, stroyed, the loss being $50,000. Receipts for July at the Omaha expo­ sition enabled the directors to pay off $50,000 of the floating debt in addition to the running expenses. -^At Rochford, S. D., W. F. Hooper fired a charge of buckshot into John McCree, an employe of M. P. Day of the Lookout mine. McCreo jumped Hooper's placer claim and on being remonstrated with defied him. McCrea will die and the sym­ pathy of the community is with Hooper, an old settler, who gave himself up after the shooting. The entire business portion of Wheat­ land, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Only one small grocery store was left standing, and there were 5,000 people, including transient hop-pickers, to feed. The float­ ing population became riotous and began Sundering the town. A large force of deputy sheriffs was sworn in from among the citizens to protect the property. Amanda P. Austin has sued the estate of Millionaire Jefferson Wilcoxson, her uncle, for $150,000. at Sacramento, Cal. She claims that Wilcoxson induced her to come from Missouri and care for him in his old age. which she did for seventeen years, remaining single at his request. He promised her $150,000. After his death $170,000 was found in his safe, which she claims had been set aside for her. A series of mass meetings among the farmers of Sedgwick. Reno and Sumner counties, Kansas, has been arranged and calls issued for the purpose of raising $40,- 000 to bring suit for an injunction against the irrigation ditch companies of Colorado to prevent them from draining the Arkan­ sas river. Appropriations amounting to $1,500 have been made by the County Commissioners of Sedgwick and Keno counties and by the City Council of Wi­ chita. 1 In San Francisco. P. J. Corbett, father of James J. Gorbett, the heavyweight pugilist, shot and killed his wife and then turned the weapon upon, himself with fa­ tal effect. It is believed that the murder­ er was demented. He had been in ex­ tremely poor health for some time. Death was instantaneous fo both cases. The shooting occurred at the residence of the Corbett family, 520 Hayes street. Shortly before 5 o'clock in the morning Mr. King, a son-in-law of Corbett's, who was living in the house, heard two shots in his fath­ er-in-law's room. Hurrying to the room, he was horrified to find Mrs. Corbett lying in the bed, covered with blood, while his father-in-law lay on the -floor with blood pouring from his mouth. Mrs. Corbett was in her night attire, while her husband was fully dressed. Death must have been instantaneous. There was a wound in Mrs. Corbett's temple, and Corbett had killed himself by turning the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth. of Stit* at Washington for the pnrpcat wt making arrangements in connection with the Ami settlement of tb# cl§|p of Italy against Colombia. It is feVttMnted by the Colombian Government that when the award was made by President Cleveland as arbiter there was no provision as to the method of settlement, and the proposi­ tion of the Colombian Government is that this question be referred to the United States as arbiter. It is the desire of Co­ lombia that this matter be settled in manner to preserve the dignity of the republic. ' ^ forbiqhT y Ttie Pope's extreme weakness has pro­ duced great comnjotion. It is reported that France, Germany and Austria, as be­ ing chiefly concerned in the accession to the papacy, have ordered their representa­ tives not to leave Rome. Robert P. Porter, the superintendent of the last general census. Of the United States, has been appointed a commission­ er to examine and report upon the finances, banking systems and customs laws of Cuba and Porto Rico. Senor A. Lazo Arriaga wired the Asso­ ciated Press from Long Branch, N. J., where he is passing a part of the hot spell, that he had received a cablegram from his home Government saying: "Revolution Quickly suppressed. Peace prevails in Guatemala." The Japanese imbroglio of 1897 has been settled by the payment of $75,000 io Japan by the Hawaiian Government. In making the payment the Government does not admit the justice of the claim or the right of Japan to indemnity. The payment was made at the request of President McKinley. In Brussels, Belgitim, while a policeman was arresting a militant anarchist named Willems, the latter shot and wounded the officer and then escaped. The anarchist *also shot several persons who attempted to capture him* but he was finally ar­ rested and lodged in jail. Later the police visited Willems' lodgings, where they found two anarchists who promptly open­ ed fire at the officers. The policemen re­ plied to this fire, fatally wounding one of the anarchists. His companion was cap­ tured. By exercising the good offices of the United States tactfully Secretary Day has probably succeeded in averting a severe crisis in the relations between Italy and Colombia, growing out of the Cerrutl af­ fair. A cablegram has been received at the Department of State in Washington from Rome saying out of regard for the United States the Italian Government had telegraphed Admiral Candlnani at Carta­ gena, Colombia, to give the Colombian Government eight months' time in which to settle with Cerruti's creditors under the terms of President Cleveland's award. OF THE CUBAN AND RtCAN CO IN GENERAL* SOUTHERN. BREVITIES, * • William Scott of Brooklyn was restored to consciousness by electricity, after hav­ ing been in a state of coma for nearly two .years. Emiline C Reynolds, a young and ex­ tremely beautiful woman, was murdered for her money and jewels in a room in the Grand Hotel, New York. The Vatican asserts, despite the reports to the contrary, that the recent illness of the Pope was a merely transitory indispo­ sition, from which he has entirely recov­ ered. His holiness has resumed ^ys cus­ tomary duties and is daily receivingidepu- tations. |j Four men were killed and five others badly injured by the collapse of a cornice on a new building in the course of erec­ tion at Philadelphia. The cornice weigh­ ed nearly ten tons, and in falling carried the scaffold and men who were working on it to the street. A fire in which four persons perished occurred at Stanley, Iowa, on the farm of Peter Foy. The victims of the flames are the four children of Mr, and Mrs. Foy, ranging in age from 9 to 18 years. They axe three sons, Thomas, Louis and George, and one daughter, Blanche. The annual report of Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans will show that at the close of the fiscal year 1898 there were 993,714 pensioners on the roll of the bureau. This was a net increase of 12,- 900 over the previous year. There were dropped from the rolls during the year on account of deaths 33,691, and for remar­ riage and other causes 12,960 pensions were discontinued. *• Major Fred Brackett of Maryland was Spointed by the President as secretary the United States commission to the Paris exposition* B. L. Rouse, president of the Rouse & Hills Company, Cleveland, Ohio, filed a •v petition in the United States District -Court to be declared a voluntary bank­ rupt. Gen. Tchernaieff, the conqueror of 1, Tashkeud, died suddenly at St. Peters- ttorg. " The bubonic plague is again epidemic , •* ft Bombay, India. There were 103 deaths •!» l^BiCially reported in one recent week. :T.l EASTERN* Gold and copper deposits have been dis­ covered in Fulton County, ten mileB from Atlanta, Ga. Some specimens of the gold ore assay from $19 to $169 per ton. At Huntington, W. Va., M. Frost, agent for the Adams Express Company, and E. P. Frost, clerk in the office, refused to stamp express receipts and are held to the United States grand jury under $500 bond each. An official report having been received that one death has occurred from yellow fever at Franklin, La., Dr. John F. Hunt­ er, secretary of the Mississippi State Board of Health, has. quarantined the State against^he town of Franklin. John 'M. Rowan, after trying sixteen successive years, was elected Republican sheriff in Hawkins County, Tenn. Ha died from overjoy. The mother, brother and sister of Rowan have died during the past three years as a result of overwork in siding with him in bis political aspira­ tions. Death to twenty persons and devasta­ tion to 100 farms is the story in brief of a cloudburst in Hawkins County, Tenn., along Beach creek. For several weeks east-Tennessee has been flooded by heavy rainfalls, and the cloudburst was there­ fore a surprise. The torrent of water came with such force as to sweep away everything in its. path. The steamer New South, returning to Cincinnati with an excursion party of 700 people from Maysville, Ky., ran into a bank in the upper part of the city and stuck fast. The party were of the con­ vivial sort and many, were intoxicated, When the boat struck the shock knocked people down and' caused a panic. There are unverified rumors that some were drowned, but no names are given. The pilot is blamed for the accident. A special from Wartrace, Tenn., says "I. Rawlins, a prominent business man of Millersburg, has beeu found murdered on the road near his home. His body was riddled with bullets and shockingly mu­ tilated. He was disemboweled and the body cut almost in two. The body was found by John Pruett, who says he heard pistol shots in that vicinity several hours before. Rawlins recently was married to a young woman who was the belle of the neighborhood. It was thought he had been murdered by tramps, but suspicion now rests onv William Fulks, a neighbor, who is a cousin of Mrs. Rawlins. Fulks called at the Rawlins home a short time after Rawlins had left, and on being told of the departure, started in the same di­ rection. Fulks recently bought a revolver and cartridges at Bell Buckle, Tenn. He was net present at the funeral and is said to have left town." The works of the Jenakes Machine Com­ pany at Sherbrooke, Que., the largest in­ dustry of the kind in Canada, were burn­ ed. The estimated loss is $225,000, prob­ ably covered by insurance. The arrival of two gold-laaen jpainera at Lake Bennett started a stampede to the newest Klondike of the Northwest. A small creek flowing into Taku arm, a branch of Tagish lake, was located by some lucky prospectors nearly a month agp,, and gold was found of remarkable richness. Rumors of the strike had reach­ ed Bennett before, but until two of the miners came out after supplies little at­ tention was paid to it. One of the men claimed to have taken out $100 per day for over three weeks. It is said that pans running from $2 to $6 are common. The new strike is within sixty miles of Ben­ nett, and several hundred men and women started at once for the scene. A steamer was chartered and led the St&mpede. The news reached Seattle on the steamer City of Topeka, which brought down four Ivlondikers, two of whom were women. Their combined wealth was estimated at $50,000., The Topeka brings news of a rich strike on Baranoff island, about twenty miles from Sitka and three miles in the interior from Whale Bay. It la similar to the Pande Basin discovery. The gravel on the shores of a small lake was found to be rich with gold; As soon as th$ news reached Sitka there was a stam­ pede. " Bradstreet's said on Saturday: "Changes in general trade and business this week have been very generally to­ ward improvement. Notable in this re­ spect has been the iron and steel trade, which has passed from the stage of prom­ ise to that of fulfillment on Increased de­ mand and marked advances in values. From all the leading iron centers east and west come reports of more or less Im­ provement in tone, demand or prices, es­ pecially prominent in the latter particu­ lar being steel billets, with an advance of $1 per ton; steel rails have bad advances ranging from 25c to $1 and sympathetic advances are likewise noted in Eastern pig iron, wrought iron pipes, steel beams and other structural and steel plates. Further encouraging features have been the accentuated demand on foreign ac­ count for wheat and corn, which is re­ flected in advances for those cereals in spite of a rather more favorahle than ex­ pected Government report of possible yield. Effects of the holding of wWat by farmers for better prices are found in the reduced volume of grain carried by rail­ roads during July. Business failures still incline toward a minimum, numbering only 157, against 189 last week, 214 in this week a year ago. 25S in 1896, 195"in 1895 and 254 in 1894." .While trying to prevent boy inmates fBom escaping. J.eJV. Stuck rath, keeper in the Alleghany County, Pa., reformatory, Was killed by the lads. Several boys had plotted to escape from the place. When no other guards were around they attack- ad Stuckrath, who fought them off and was about to open a door to call for as­ sistance when he was felled with a base- tell bat ' sAfter years Of wrongful living and se­ cret drunkenness, Policeman Henry <3. Hawley of New York finished his earthly „ career shortly before noon the othei; day < itt.jJlL/"'. • f w WASHINGTON. MJWrbC*. M- C.ffvri-fcK. 9tm*m*AL w**ii5toiT$outT b.. 7* JjIMZft.F.WAOE.. VtlC-CEN. JOHH R B*#»KE. STATE SENATOR WALL KILLE& HAY IS SECRETARY OF STATE. Murdered at Stauntont 111., by a Man Named Otto Mattias. State Senator H. W. Wall was shot and instantly killed near Staunton, 111., Tues­ day evening by Otto Mattias, who escap­ ed after the murder. Senator Wall dis­ covered a horse belonging to August Schadlich In his field and went out to capture it and take it iiome. The animal was chased into an orchard near the Schadlich house. While Mr. Wall was running after tB§ animal Mrs. Schadlich came out into the field and a quarrel start­ ed between the two. The woman got infuriated and declare!! she would get a gun and kill Wall. Suit­ ing her action to her word, she entered the house and returned a moment later car­ rying an old muzzle-loading shotgun. When within a few feet of Mr. Wall she pointed the weapon at him and endeavor­ ed to fire, but failed. At that Wall caught hold of the gun with one hand, still hold­ ing the horse with the other. Just then Mattias, who boards with the Schadlichs, came out of the house and ordered Wall and his men off his/ premises. Mrs. Schadlich told them that they could not take the animals off the property. Wall insisted, telling Mattias, who took an ag­ gressive part in the controversy, that he wanted to make a case against the Schad­ lichs and if he was in the wrong they could have redress through the regular channels of the law. Mrs. Schadlich jerk­ ed the gun out of Wall's hands at this juncture and stepped back as if to shoot him, but Mattias grabbed it away from her, and, raising it to his shoulder, took deliberate aim and fired. The charge of buckshot struck Wall in the right side of Ambassador Accepts the Appointuaent to Succeed Day. i Ambassador Hay at London has accept- j ed the offict* of Secretary of State. Col. Hay was born in Salem, Ind., in 1838. His father was a physician and his grandfath­ er was one of the heroes of the revolu­ tion. After graduating at Brown Col­ lege he went, at the age of 21, to Spring- Gen. Fitzhufth Lee desires to become United States Senator from Virginia. He expressed himself to that effect recently. President McKinley has received Am­ bassador Hay's acceptance of thp office of Secretary of State, soon to be vacated by Judge William It. Day. Whitelaw Iteid, ex-minister to France, has been" offered and has accepted the place afc ambassador to the court of St. James to succeed Col. Hay. The legal representative of the Colom­ bian Government called on the Secretary MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prlmo, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 45c; butter, choice creamery., 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.0Q; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 23o to 25c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 21 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 49c to 51c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, 45c to 47c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 45c; clover ceed, $3.10 to $3.20. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 45c barley, No. 2, 44c to 46e; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth ers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $7.00. New York--Cattle, $3.00 t<M|5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3i.0^to $4.75 wheat, No. 2 red,' 80c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, Western, Mc to 15c. ^ ^ i \ ' SENATOR H. W. WALL. the head, blowing away one side of ihe skull and killing him instantly. Mrs. Schadlich was arrested. Senator Wall had served several terms in the State Senate, and was one of the leading Democrats of the State. He is well known among politicians all over Illi­ nois. He was senior member of the bank­ ing firm of Wall & Panhorst of Staun­ ton. KILLS WIFE AND SELF. Former Supervisor of Bnrean County, 111., Commita Murder and Suicide. John Searls, a wealthy farmer, mur­ dered his young wife and then killed him­ self at their home west of Peru, 111., the other night. Searls' son, Grant, who lives close by, went to his father's home at 7 o'clock the next morning, and finding the doors locked, he forced an entrance. In the bedroom he found his stepmother in pool of blood on the floor, with her throat cut, and near by his father with a similar wound in his neck. The rooms showed signs of a terrible struggle. A large pocketknife was found clasped in the husband's hand. The murdered wom­ an was Searls' second wife. They were married about a year ago and had never lived happily. Searls was very wealthy and had been a supervisor of Bureau County for a great many years. He wag U7 years old and his wife just half that age. She had endeavored ever since their marriage to have her husband make a will leaving her all his property. He refused and frequent quarrels resulted. COLON KI, JOHN IIAT. field, 111., where he entered the office of Abraham Lincoln and began to study law. When Lincoln was made President he se­ lected Col. Hay as one of his private sec­ retaries. Huy was with Lincoln as sec­ retary from 1861 to 1865, except for a brief service in the army, where he at­ tained the rank of major and brevet colo­ nel. When Lincoln's death ended his du­ ties as secretary Col. Hay was sent to Madrid, and later to Paris as secretary of legation, and still later was charge d'af­ faires at Viennp. Returning to America he Wrote editorials for the New York Tribune and acted as editor-in-chief dur­ ing Whitelaw Reid's absence in Europe. It was while he was on the Tribune that Col. Hay wrote his "Pike County Bal­ lads." robust, hearty pictures of Western life that gained an immediate popularity. More pretentious is "Castilian Days," a work of great literary merit. In 1875 Col. Hay removed tp Cleveland, where he entered quite actively into political life, and upon the election of Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency he became as­ sistant Secretary of State. Since then he has made his home in Washington, his residence at the capital being one of the most elegant in that city. SIX MEN HONORED. FARMER BUYS SILVER MINE. GhresUp His Money and Signs Notes that He Will Be Forced to Pay. A sensational silver-brick swindle has been developed, in which the principal victim is Smith H. Knott of "Normal, 111. Knott, who is aged 63, is a retired farm­ er. It seems certain that he has been plucked to the tune of $25,000 or $30,000, if not more. Knott was visiting in El Paso, Texas, recently, and was associated there with M. Sieberling and his four sons of Peoria County, Illinois. By means of a fraudulent assay he was induced to invest In a valueless silver mine. Knott gave $10,000 cash and notes. The notqs are now coming to Normal and Blooming- ton for collection. Knott is seeking to stop payment, but they have got into inno­ cent third parties' hands. Knott is worth $00,000 to $75,000, owning a 300-acre farm in Champaign County and valuable property at Normal. DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. Hoases of Nonunion Miners ot Pana, 111., Are Wrecked. The residence of George Snyder, who has been working at the Springfield mine at Pana, 111., was attacked and partially demolished by unknown parties one night recently, and Snyder and family driven away. Snyder created great excitement by wildly running half naked through the streets armed with revolvers seeking the perpetrators. Other non-union miners' homes were also served likewise. Extra police were on patrol, but did not succeed is detecting tbe guilty partie*. .Veterans of Land and Sea to Be Mili­ tary Commissioners. • Under the terms of the peace protocol Spain is to evacuate Cuba and Porto Rico "immediately," but this is not to be in­ terpreted literally. To arrange the details of the evacuation and the displacement of Spanish troops by American is no sim­ ple undertaking. How soqn the soldiers under Blanco are to be deported and what, not being prisoners of war, they are entitled to carry away with them are matters reserved for the decision of the joint military commissionju. The Ameri­ can commissioners have n4en named by the President. For Cuba Maj. Gen. Wade, Rear Admiral Sampson and Maj. Gen. Butler are selected, while Maj. Gen. Brooke, Rear Admiral Schley and Brig. Gen. Gordon are to serve in Porto Rico. All these commissioners are to meet at Washington and receive explicit instruc­ tions from the President. While the prob­ lem of civil government in the Spanish Wost Indian possessions to.be surrender­ ed is wholly independent and receiving the attention of the President and his ad­ visers, the military commissions will be charged with the provision for the mainte­ nance of law and order during the period occupied by the evacuation. This will obviously complicate their task. COLLAPSE OF A GRAND STAND. Twenty-eight Persons Suffer More or Leas Serious Injuries. At the old settlers' reunion at Cissna Park, 111., the other afternoon the grand stated collapsed, seriously injuring twenty- eight people. The building was a tempo­ rary affair, made of inferior material.- It was eighty-nirie feet long, with ten tiers of seats, and it is said over 2.00Q people were crowded into it for the purpose of witnessing the baseball game between the Chicago Unions and the Danville baseball team. The collapse occurred during the third inning. Six women and three men sustained broken limbs and three women had their arms fractured. Mates of Current Events* An AiJbrican cable will be laid to Porto Rico at once. The corn crop of Nebraska, Improved by rains, will yield about $25,000,000. Mrs. Margaret Fallon, buried recently at King's Ferry, N. °Y„ was said to be 117 years old. Joseph Leiter, the Chicago wheat pfung- er, in the final round-up of his affairs, lost $10,000,000: At Walla Walla, State of Washington, the thermometer registered 113 degrees in the shade one day recently. Denmark has placed the seaport of'Co­ penhagen in a state ot military efficiency, in fear of a conflict between England and Russia. While under the Influence of whisky. Toll Hodge, a farmer, living near Rich­ mond, Ky., fell from his horse and broke his neck. Adolph Sutro, multi-millionaire, philan­ thropist, ex-Mayor of San Francisco and creator of the Sutro Tunnel, began life as a peddler. The list of postoffices in the United States now includes Hobson. Va.; Sigs- bee, Ark.; Dewey, N. C.; Sampson, Fla.f and Manila, Ky. NINE PERS( Othera Are l^g|^llldiB|» and A terrific cyclone, accompanied by hall, running from northeast to southwest, •truck Sunday night about four miles west of Qmrj, S. D., a small village on the Watertown branch of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Everything in the path of the storm was swept away. Vine people died at Gary, and there is lit­ tle doubt that a search through the strick­ en country will reveal other, and perhaps, many victims. • The storm skirted one mile northeast of Hutchinson's farm and struck his house,, driving it through the barn, and causing a complete wreck. The Northwestern track is torn up for some distance and telegraph poles and snow fences are down. The cyclone was not wide in extent, but its track was thirty to forty miles long. The buildings of Carl Peterson, M. Ken- yon, Mr. Johnson, Mike Hunt, Dr. Bent- ley, Charles Burstry and many other farmers were completely destroyed. Many farmers lost almost their entire crops and large numbers of cattle and sheep. Hail stones over eight inches in circumference were picked up after the storm was over. One farmer had 200 acres of wheat in shock. It was taken up by the wind and no trace of the crop ra now left. Reports of damage by wind and hail storms have been received from many oth­ er points in the Northwest. As the wheat is practically all harvested in South Da­ kota, in Minnesota, except in the North­ ern Red River valley, and in North Da­ kota, except in the northern half of the State, there does not seem to be much chance of .extensive injury. In the vi­ cinity of Carrington, ,N. B., however, there was an extensive area covered by one storm which swept over parts of Stutsman, Wells, Foster and Eddy coun­ ties, causing a total loss of about 20,000 acres of wheat. The erratic character of the storm is evidenced by the report of no serious dis­ turbance along the lines of the Northern Pacific, while on the Soo and Great Northern, which intersect the former sys­ tem, at various points, much damage was done, both by wind and haiL The storm of Sunday night seems to have been general throughout Wisconsin, western Michigan, northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Minnesota and the Da- kotas. At Racine, Portage, Oshkosh, Mil­ waukee, South Milwaukee, Whitehall, Al­ bany, Lancaster, Pewaukee and other Wlseonsln towns there was a heavy rain, and lightning caused a number of fires which resulted in considerable damage; cellars were flooded, windows broken, and trees broken down. At Aurora and Har­ vard, 111., the damage due to the storm was heavy, and in western Michigan the loss to the fruit growers will exceed $10,- 000. FATAL STORM IN TENNKSSBE. Thirty or More Said to Have Been Killed In a Cloudburst. A terrible cloudburst, in which at least twenty lives are known to have been sac­ rificed, was visited upon the community of Beech Creek, about fifteen miles north of Rogersville, Tenn., which place is eighty miles distant from Knoxville. The torrent of water fell in the vicinity of the home of William Figan, a well-to-do farm­ er, and his entire family, wife and five children, was drowned and washed away with the flood. Figan, however, escaped. The deluge of water carried with it every other human within its reach. The cloud­ burst destroyed several thousand dollars' worth of property. Whole crops were washed away. Very heavy rains caused the sudden overflow of a mountain stream that swept down the cove, carrying away houses and everything that lay in its path. The time of the disaster was Thursday afternoon, but because of the remoteness of the lo­ cality, in the mountains of East Tennes­ see, the news was slow in reaching the outside world. The victims were all of the poorer class of mountain people living in log cabins in a narrow valley. It is be­ lieved the number of dead will reach thirty. ' ALL RUSH TO NEW GOLD FIELD. Rich Discoveries Have Been Made on Pike Creek. News has reached Victoria, B. C., from Skaguay of a rich placer find on Pike creek, which runs into Tagish lake, in northern British Columbia. The discov­ erers took out from $1,000 to $1,500 in a week, and took their sacks to Skaguay to... speak for themselves. Alaskan towns have been deserted, and men are rushing to Tagish. There is a staff of British Co­ lumbia officers at Bennett, only sixty miles away, so there will be no difficulty in regard tp staking of claims. News of the rich strike was regarded as a "fake""until "some men came along with a sack full of nuggets to show for a week's work. Some of th#m have as high as $1,200. It is reported to be a sec­ ond Eldorado, from $10 to $6 pans being the average, and a few going as high as $50. The return of the miners fairly set Skaguay crazy. Every one who can leave is going to Bennett just as fast as possi­ ble. Bennett is deserted, everybody hav­ ing left for the new diggings, which are only sixty miles from there. Fierce Heat in California. A hot wave passed over southern Cali» fornia'that has never had a parallel there within the memory of man. The maxi­ mum has been 102, 109, 107, 103, 106, 104 and 103 for seven days. To add to the disagreeableness of the weather there has been a very low barometer. (OT33?1: s-TOBBI?* "Six weeks at Santiago. By W. S. Schley," would make an alliterative, title for a very interesting volume.--Philadel­ phia Ledger. A description given of Blanco hy one who knows him says that he is an enthu­ siastic fisherman. That accounts for it!-- Boston Herald. Dewey has made a requisition for 60,- 000 pounds of soap. Having cleared out the Spanish, be must intend to scour the Philippines.--Salt Lake Herald. While Cervera might have fared better if his ships had fireproof woodwork, he was certainly hindered by having so many fireproof guns.--Philadelphia Times. What if the nation is throwing a lot of bouquets at Cervera 1 It's about the only case where things are coming the old sailor's way*--Philadelphia Times. When we contemplate Aguinaldo's suc­ cessful base ruuning we must not lose sight of the fact that George Dewey is doing the coaching.--Washington Post. During the fight with Cervera's ships the Oregon fired 1,776 shells in about three hours. Now, that's the way to fire a Fourth of July salute.--Philadelphia Ledger. > Admiral von Diedrichs never shopped going until he reached a cable station and learned that there is no war between Ger­ many and the United States.--Philadel­ phia Ledger. 'The log house of Gen. Shafter may be accurately drawn, but don't think for * single minute that the general could get through its front doo'r now.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. threshold of this great and free country for more than a century before any ac­ tive intervention was undertaken by the United States. Outrage after out­ rage bad been piled upon American citi­ zens who resided there or undertook to trade at her ports; The present war ought to have been fought fifty years ago, and it is a long, sad commentary , on the too peaceful conservatism of the ' past that the first man killed In front of Santiago in June, 1898, was the grandson and namesake of the Secre­ tary of State who held back the hand of justice In 1S70 when the Virginius af-| fair stirred the American people to in­ dignation. It seems to prove thnt, whether the war jvas, deferred or not, it must come* in spite, of the conserr#- tism--in spite of the'cost of life and^ money. The thought that it would come was , present in the minds of many, and in •-'.M one instance at least seems to have been developed into a basis for action. Many residents of our city have noted in the street cars among the advertising „ t ^ signs which are so prominently dis- " played, a series of cards which refer to -"J naval and military lines, and which ^ have a double interest at the present ^ hour. Although they were placed In the cars over a year ago, before the Spanish >, war was thought of, their text in not . ) a few points seems to foretell with ac- curacy some of the rela tions of the wac 7 'V a clean nation has ever been a Fortify with SAP0LI0 Is there not a certain prophetic touch in the suggestion, "A clean nation has ever been a strong nation." wtth tbe further humorous advice to "fortify with Sapolio," backed by a picture of Uncle Sam marching up and down be­ hind a rampart formed of cakes of that well-known article? Truly civilization and soap seem to go together; and the clean, well-tubbed, nicely housed Anglo- Saxon seems to have in that regard a great advantage over his soap-avoiding enemy from the peninsula of Spain. We realize the dread realities of war when these cards suggest to us that the proper ammunition with which to resist THE PROPER A M M U N I T I O N with which to rMtot'tflrt, la SAPOLIO dirt is Sapolio. The campaign in Cuba has resulted In a loss of life On the battle-field of about one hundred and fifty, while every evidence points to the probability that double that number of deaths will resnlt from the yellow fever scourge, which largely originates from the Spanish lack of cleanliness. No less a statesman than James G. Blaine stated publicly that one hundred mill­ ions would be a cheap price to pay for Cuba If by proper sanitary measures we could prevent the annual scare of yellow fever along our coast The advance of civilization Is "SAPOLIO If, as these active advertisers assert, the advance of civilization is marked by the use of Sapolio. there should be a good market for their useful in the Spanish possessions which have lately fallen under our control. Whether they were prophesying or not. their an­ nouncements are brisk and timely, and the advice they give is--like the Ameri­ can arms--Irresistible. London Street Names. A visitor lh London refers to the con­ fusion incident to the duplication of street names in that city. For instance, there are twenty-one High streets in London. But let his tell his own story;^ Let us take High street for an exam­ ple. Suppose I live at 25 High street, and that you are coming to see me. You get out of the Liverpool train at Fusion station, and tell cabby, "Twenty-five High street." "Yes, sir," says cabby. "High street, Camden Town, sir, or High street, Clap- ham; or High street, Deptford: or High street, Fulham; or High street. Hainp- stead; or High street. Homerton: or High street, Highgate; or High street, Islington; or High street, Lambeth; or High street, Kingstand; or High street, Maryleboiy?; or High street. Poplar; or High street, Putney; or Hight street, Peckliam; or High street, Portland Town; or High street, St. Giles; or High street. Stepney; o& High street, N.; or High street. Shad well; or High street, White^hapel; or High street, Wapping, sir?" Of course you are In wkp^t the En-' glish call "a blue funk" by this time, if you are a stranger, and don't know High street from Ixnv street. "I don't know." you tell him; "take your choice. I only know that it's not far from Manchester Square." "Ah!" says ca.tby; "worry good, sir; that's High street. Marylebone, sir." And off yon go. for cabby knows now exactly- where It Is. ' - Turkeiy and Greece are the only Euro­ pean countries into which the telephone has nor yet been Introduced. Sweden has the largest number of telephones per capita of any country In the world, having one to every 115 perttms, and Switzerland comes next with on6 to every 129.