_ &mm v •*" f.- „• f> ' mss ? ̂ -* ' McHenry Plakidealen t r yit,« • AtVls. --.--- ^ J. VAN SL,YKE, Editor and Pa*. McWENUY* .. ..v. Mr. Hall had been ill for some timet but ] to Havana, where she will be turned otm bis death was somewhat unexpected. j to her owners, the Spanish line. Clarence <Ragad«je, a-real estate agentj The United States Pension Commit- WEEK r;^ -•? ; The Peoples Telephone corporation of New York, incorporated at Albany with a capital of $5,(X>0,000, proposes to begin a fight against the present telephone monop oly. Kates will be reduced to subscribers from $240 per annum, the present charge, to f 100. J. F. Watson, driver for the Interna tional Oil Company, Chicago, was assault ed by two men in the rear of the cotu- {tany's office, 300 Wabash avenue. Five hundred dollars that had been paid to him by customers daring the day was taken ' from him. " ^ iLTie Swedish minister of marine has de cided to propose to the riksdag that a credit of over 20,000,000 kroner be voted for naval requirements. These will in clude the purchase of-three first-class iron clads, ammunition, torpedoes and subma rine mines.* The Mexican Government has granted a, concession for a Standard gauge rail road, 150 kilometers maximum length with 6,000 kilometers subsidy. The con cessionaire is the Inguaran Copper Mining Company, in which the Paris Rothschilds •re heavily interested. Howard Gould aud Actress Katherine Clemmons were secretly married at New York. The groom may lose $5,000,000. as under the provisions of his fathers will bis share of the estate will be cut in half unless a majority of the executors eon- sent to the marriage. The Tioga National Bank of Owego, N. Y., was closed by Order of the Comptroller of the Currency, and this action reveals that the bank was wrecked by its assist ant cashier, who died Wednesday. Sena tor Thomas C. Piatt is the president of the bank and the largest stockholder. Great activity prevails in Halifax mili tary circles. Reserve men are being rap idly enlisted in the First battalion, Lein- ater regiment, Roynl Canadians, for twto years instead of seven. One hundred 'dol lars is offered as a bonus for good reserve men willing to don the Queen's uniform. Secretary Long said the other day that ordinarily a higher officer than rear ad miral should head the navy, but the signal accomplishments of Rear Admiral Dewey during hostilities with Spain entitle him to the title of vice admiral, and Gongress will be asked to bestow that honor upon ^ The War Department is constant!y^in ; i i ' ;. receipt of requests from soldiers asking to 4 be mustered out, stating that the war has closed and they wish to go home. The .War Department officials say the war will VV not be over until the treaty of peace is " ' ' ratified by the United States Senate, and that the soldiers may be needed for fur ther duty. in Moberly, Mo., weat to New York to buy $3,000 worth of counterfeit money for $.r»00. He got for his cash a tin box full of pasteboard. . Bauk Examiner Kimball has reported to Comptroller Dawes that depositors in the Tradesmen's National Bank, Which recently suspended in New York City, will probably be paid in full. The leather firm of Hockman, Bissell & Co., of Boston, assigned to George W. Brown of the firm of Bullivant, Brown & Friske. They have been doing a busi ness of between $500,000 and $750,000 a year, William F. Douglass. ex-police justice and ex-corporation counsel of Jersey City, is supposed to have jumped into the Hud son river from the steamer Dean Rich mond somewhere between New York and Albany. WESTERN. & . f f V . ; Fy* • r v. fo?" & m S'X'T * ' ; k.y M" • ft*-* • J" - "i The Navy Department will place on sale in New York a quantity of Spanish money, gold and paper, found on the Spanish armored cruiser Ahnirante Oquendo. The money was damaged by exposure to salt water and heat, and is valuable princi- ^4 'W»Hy tn ,wiie hnnters. It was in the treas- ® tire chest of the Oquendo that the gold and bills were found. < Chaplain Mclntyre of the battleship Oregon is sentenced to dismissal "from the service. The court martial which tried Chaplain Mclntyre at Denver found hita guilty of every charge and specification, and unanimously agreed upon tlw?1 verdict without any recommendation for clem ency. Mclntyre criticised Admiral Samp son nnd Captain Evans in a public speech. Following ia the standing of the clubs is the National Baseball League: tW. L. W. L. Boston . ..: 101 47 New York... .76 73 Baltimore ...96 52 Pittsburg ....72 7<> Cincinnati _. .92 i>0 Louisville .. .68 81 65 Brooklyn .. 66 Washington 70St. Louis... 'j-.j .53 91 51 100 .39110 I Chicago 85 Cleveland .. .80 Philadelphia. 78 Mrs. Samuel P. Swartwood of Moun tain Top, Pa., is the mother of twenty- -four children. Five of the children are dead. But Mrs. Swartwood's dinner horn can still summon to the table nineteen children, her husband, two sons-in-law, •Be daughter-in-law and two grandchil dren. Mrs. Swartwood is now 40 years old. She was married when she was 14 . years old and when her husband was 20. NEWS NUGGETS. Sexton died at St. a- m. ft &"*•. • ins Rev. Dr. George Catherines, Ont. The condition of Admiral Schley, who ia suffering with a sprained ankle, is much improved. Five men were killed and eleven injured by an explosion of gas in colliery No. 8 at Ooaldale, near Tamaqua, Pa. San Francisco has been determined upon as the place for holding the next biennial council of the Episcopal Church. , At Kansas City, Mo., Frank R. Mason, A graduate of West Point, pleaded guilty to burglary and has been sentenced to #erve ten years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Augusta Nack, in Auburn, N. Y., prison for the murder of William Gulden- suppeT suffers from cataracts of the eyes and is likely to become totally blind. Because of tbe recent strength in the wheat market and the urgent foreign de mand for thfe grain, wholesale flour deal ers of Chicago advanced that article 10 cents per barrel. * JiOrd Rosary, in a speech at Epsom, referring to the Fashoda dispute, declared that Great Britain will submit to no com promise in matter of inroads on its terri torial rights. The Rome correspondent of the London Daily Mail persists iu hitfeassertion that diplomatic relations between Prussia and the Vatican have actually been broken off and that Cardinal Rainpolla is making frantic efforts to repair the error, ,-,A (Congress of Russian mill owners at Odessa decided, owing to the decline in ex* ports, to petition the Government to grant , fxport bounties <iu flour, 'J. McD. Scott & Co.. wholesale shoe dealers of Pittsburg, bave made a volun tary assignment for the benefit of cred- The liabilities are stated to be |200f000. A dispatch was received at the WaT De partment from Minnesota, asking for 500 Springfield rifles and 50,000 pounds of am munition for the use of the people of that ' State in protecting themselves against hos tile Indians. New Mexico Democrats have renom inated H. B. Ferguson for territorial dele gate to Congress. In Judge Murphy's court in St. Louis Monday two women pelted an acquitted prisoner with crockery. Margaret, the aged wife of Andy Mor gan. a homeseeker living near Rhineland- er. Wis., was burned to death Saturday. Her clothes caught fire from a lighted wisp of paper she was using. The American Steel and Wire Com pany of Chicago hss qualified to do busi ness in Ohio with $1,600,000 of its $24,- 000,000 capital employed in that State. It has mills at Saletu, Cleveland and Find- lay. A deal is on foot by which all coal lands in the Indian ^Territory will be leased and held indefinitely until the company is ready to work the coal or sell its leases. John D. Rockefeller is to furnish the money. It is stated that United States secret service officers, aided by Chief Lees, have discovered that large numbers of counter feit $100 silver certificates have been pro duced in San Francisco and sent to the Klondike country. Dora Cox, the notorious horsetfiief and outlaw, who escaped from the Kingfisher jaiJ, is under arrest at Tecumseh, Okla. When captured she was riding bareback and barefooted, and had a cartridge belt buckled around her. ; An epidemic of smallpox has broken out at Wapakoneta, Ohio, but so far there have been no deaths. All the schools have been ordered closed, and public as semblages have been forbidden. The scare amounts to almost a panic. George D. Saxton, the only brother of Mrs. William McKinley, lies dead at the Canton, Ohio, morgue, murdered by a wo man. Mrs. Anna George, an intimate friend of the dead man, is under arrest, charged with having fired the fatal shots. John E. ^Burton, the' main promoter of the Gogebic iron-mining movement in 1886-7, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court at Milwaukee. His liabilities, according to th6 schedule, amount to about $200,000, and the assets to less than $100,000. As. Mrs. Adam Troutmau and children were returning home ii-oaa a visit with Shelby, Ohio, relatives in a carriage, the horse backed off a bridge, precipitating the whole load into the creek. A child about 2 years old was drowned and the ndother rendered unconscious. v A double-headed Fremout, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley freight train ran into the rear end of an Omaha passenger train in the yards at Omaha. The din ing car Delmonico was split almost in two lengthwise. One man was killed, anoth er fatally wounded and others seriously hurt. The big lumber raft which has been floating around the Pacific for two weeks has been towed into port at San Fran cisco by tugboats. The original raft was built at Astoria, Ore., and was taken in tow for San Francisco, but had to be abandoned during a storm. The portion saved is 350 feet long and worth $75,000. Express companies fTgm several West ern cities met at Kansas City and agreed to act together in suppressing train rob bery. Plans to that end were agreed up on, but will be kept secret. The superin tendents of the Pacific, American, Wells- Fargo, United States and Adams Express companies from Omaha, St. Louis and Kansas City were present. Near Wanatah, Ind., Albert Aigner, aged 25 yea-rs. a prominent young business man, was killed by his brother, Henry Aigner, aged 18. Young Aigner spent the day with a party of friends hunting. He returned home intoxicated and at once began abusing his aged father. Unable to put him out of the house, the father called for his son Albert, and with his as sistance Henry was ejected. Albert pick ed up Henry's coat and hat to take to him and as he stepped out of the door was struck on the head by Henry with a club. He died six hours later. The murderer then fled to the woods, where he was found in almost a demented condition. It is feared he will lose his reason. •ioner denies the report current at tbe re cent G. A. Tt. national encampment that he called his chiefs together and instruct ed them to disregard every application based 6n deafness and rheu&atism in the adjudication of claims for pensions. James E. Boyd, assistant United States attorney general, has given an opinion holding that the refund check given pas sengers on railroad trains who pay cash in excess of the regular fare is not subject to thejstamp tax. He has also held that checks to* excess baggage are not taxa ble. -i-A.,. FOREIGN. Meet the Deputies ia Deadly . Conflict at Virden, •"« STATE TROOPS SENT. "Hap showino seat of minimi outbreaks in iLuiHoi«j ? Blanche Willis Howard, the American author, is dead at Munich, Germany. Victor Napoleon has abdicated in favdr of his brother Louis as leader of the French Bonapartists. H. Sidney Everett, a son of Edward Everett, died Tuesday at Brighton, En gland, aged 63 years. Herr Theodor Lerner's expedition has returned to Trondhjem from Spitsber gen. Nothing was seen of Andree. Wreckers have abandoned work on the sunken Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, having discovered that she cannot be saved. General Garcia has left Santiago on a mission as agent of the American gov ernment to induce the Cuban army to dis band. * The Parnellite convention at Dublin adopted a resolution opposing an alliance between Great Britain and the United States. « Dr. Nancy Guilford no longer denies that she is the midwife of Bridgeport, Conn., charged with the death of Emma Gill. She is now in the infirmary of the Holloway jail. London, suffering from nervous collapse. The loan contract for the extension of the Nieu Chwaig Railroad, signed by the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Rank, calls for $11,250,000 at 5 per cent., guaranteed on the security of the existing lines at Pe king, Shanghai and other places. The reply of the Turkish government to the note of the powers demanding the evacuation of the Island of Crete has been handed to the ambassadors. Turkey accepts the terms proposed, hut expresses wish for certain modifications. General Wood reports the death at San tiago of Private Joshua W. Johnson, Third United States Volunteers, and Cor poral Albert Delaney, Ninth1 United States Volunteers. Eleven hundred and thirty soldiers are sick, 669 with fevers. Owing to Italy's financial straits, the minister of marine. Admiral di Canevaro, has renounced the sweeping naval pro gram, involving the expenditure of 540,- 000.000 lire, and will be satisfied with a naval credit this year of 28,000,000 lire. A ministerial crisis is thus averted. It is expected that the budget for the current year will show a deficit of 17,000,000 lire. Foarteen Were Killed and Maiijr Fatjpjtr Wounded by Rifle Bnlleti. IN GEN ERAS* SOUTHERN. f, >/r , EASTERN. ti*'. of United States Senator Ken- :-'»y of Delaware on a charge of complicity In the Dover baafc defalcation has been postponed to December. > At Montclair, N. J., Agnes Mulligan, tbe 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. •4 ttr^illiam Mulligan, was kicked by. a horse ' tad died shortly afterward. Two men who gave their names as tioren Lake and Edward Snellenberg, f . twultry dealers of Payne, Ohio, lost $1,000 • y „ ta "green goods" men in New, York, w ^ Ex-Mayor Oskey Hall of Jfew York '•^0ei suddenly ia the 73d years of his age. Panic-stricken residents of Phillips, Miss., burned a church in which an un known man suffering with yellow fever had taken refuge. The victim's bones were found in the ashes of the church. Dora Richardson, "child wife" of Gen eral Cassius M. Clay, and who was di vorced from him a month ago. was mar ried at Keene, Ky., to Riley Brock, the farmhand to whom she was engaged. Three hundred miners employed by the Tennessee C'oal, Iron and Railway Com pany at Tracy City, Tenn., have gone out on a strike on account of a reduction in wages. Other miners of the districtjsdll take action. A general strike in the dis trict is expected. " , Private M. A. Doucet, a young S^vede belonging to Company L, Twelfth New Vork, was shot and killed at Lexington, Ky., by the provost guard while running i * away to evade arrest. Private Bailey of ° 0 the Third engineers was also shot by the provost guard and is in a critical condi tion. ' Frank Dubarry, a planter of Latour, Ark., was murdered by a negro employe. The negro robbed the body of all the mon ey upon it, then burned the house to the ground. He is in jail and makes no at tempt at concealment. He says that Du barry owed him $5, which he would not give him, and that he killed him to get the money. Near Montic< tlo, Ky., Ale*. KeLtb, a young farmer, called on his sweetheart, Miss Lou Dick, and found a rival talking to her. Angry words passed and Keith attempted to shoot the other man. Miss Dick interfered, when Keith turned his revolver on her and shot her through the right breast, indicting a mortal wound. He then fled. The^late Thomas F. Bayard left an es tate VAitted at $75,000. An attempt is beiug made to consoli date the furniture factories of the North west. The steainer Amur has arrived at Vic toria from Skaguay with about three hun dred pounds of gold dust. The Third Illinois Regiment is to be brought back from Porto Rico as soon as transports can be prepared; Rev. Dr. Cunningham Geikie, the well- known religious commentator and histo rian, is dead. He was 78 years old. William Ogilvie, Yukon commissioner, haa been empowered by the Canadian Government to make a searching investi gation into Yukon scandals, and Gordon Hunter, barrister, of Victoria, B. C., has been appointed to replace Gold Commis sioner Fawcett. A new trade with the Philippines has sprung up. During the last six or seven weeks not less than fifty car loads of beer and six carloads of cigarettes have been sent there. Milwaukee"" and St. Louis firms are shipping the beer and Richmond. New York and several other Eastern cities are forwarding the cigar ettes. The articles are for the use of tbe American" Soldiers. Bradstreet's says: "With the exception of some part9 of the South where heavy storms aud yellow fever with resulting quarantines check distribution, a very large business appears to be doing, though complaints of & narrow margin of profit are well nigh unanimous. It has been a carnival and fall celebration period at a number of Western cities and a resulting large distribution both retail and whole sale is reported. Prices of leading staples, while showing rather more irregularity, are in the main well held." The G. H. Eldredge geological survey party, #hich has returned from the Cook's Inlet country, is said to have discovered the highest mountain in North America. The peak, which towers far above Mount St. Elias, is situated in Alaska to the right of the Sushitna River. The govern ment topographer took triangulations of the elevations, ascertaining by scientific calculations the exact height of the peak, which he declared to be more than 20,000 feet. The mountain was named Bpllshae, a word spokeu m exclamation by the In dian guide of the party upon first behold ing the wonderful peak. 'Effort of the Coal Mine Operators to Bring Negro Miner* from the South Causes Trouble--Twenty-five More or Len Severely Wounded -- Railway Cara Are Middled with Bullets- Tanner Sends Troops. The expected tragedy at Virden, 111., was enacted Wednesday. A train load of negro miners who were brought to Virden to take the places of the men .who were on strike was met by a mob of strikers, variously estimated at from" fl|ve hundred to fifteen hundred, aud a battle ensued, in which many were killed or wounded. The striking miners had been awaiting the coming of the negroes for several days. They have been armed during all of that tim^and have paraded the streets of the toWn, openly avowing their pur pose to prevent the negroes from landing. The tragedy is the result of a determin ed effort on the part of the Cbicago-Vir- den Ctoal Company to employ negro min ers brought from Alabama to take the places of miners on a strike. The strik ers were equally determined and both sides sought to win by force of arms. Fir ing began when the train loaded passed the station and continued all along the line of the stockade, where the principal battle took place. Here the miners were Milt OeAvea VIRDEN 6IRAR0 O ft&Gotmt&a CAMJN V.O J. F. EY8TEB. Manager of the Com pany Store. _ F. U. LIKENS. Manager Chteago-Vir- den Coal Co. in force and they were opposed by a strong force of guards. The train, rid dled with bullets, pulled out and proceed ed to Springfield, without unloading the negroes. After a desperate fight the guards retreated to the stockade and the men went to town, where the man in CAUSE OF THE MINERS' STRIKE. Conditions Leading Up to the Trouble at Pana and Virden. The coal miners' strike, which has had such a sanguinary culmination at Virden, was begun last April. The miners insist ed on a scale of wages adopted at the miners' national convention at Columbus. The operators refused the terms demand ed, and the miners offered to leave the matter to arbitration. This the operators refused to consider, and1 when the State Board of Arbitration went to Pana for the purpose of settling the difficulty, if possi ble, the operators declined to join in the investigation. Then the lockout began. In August the operators grew tired of the situation aud undertook to fill the strik ers' places with imported negroes, and since that time Pana has been in a state of siege. Sheriffs have guarded the ne groes, who have been working behind stockades. The Pen well and Springside mines were protected with stockades and the negroes were safe behind them. When ever an imported miner appeared in the streets he was roughly treated. STOCKADE AND SHAFT TOWER AT VIRDEN, SCENE OF WEDNESDAY'S BATTLE. . .J r?n! V?® shaft tower at the stockade a deadly Ore w*s poured Into the ranks of the strikers, apparently by expert marksmen, as ft is ftaimed most or tbe fatalities among the attacking party wen caused by bullets from this vantage point. The train came to a bait lust hi front of ttfe eate and a force of guards emerged to cover the unloading of the negroes. The fiercest fight of the aay resulted. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, corimon to prime; $3.00 to $6.00; ^ hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No, 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 49c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; whea<t, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c WASHINGTON. P. W. Berthfong of Boston has been selected to take charge of customs at Manzanillo, tuba. ^ Commissioner Jones, in his annual re port, says there are 23,952 pupils being t <1- licated in Indian schools. Orders were received from the War De partment by Col. Kimball Mouday to send the steamship Mexico, which had been osed by Government as a transport, St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 48c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; 'wheat, No. 2, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c (o 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 49c to 51c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, iNo. 2, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed; -65c to 66c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 44e to 46c; clover seed, $4.20 to $4.30. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 63c to (>4c; corn, No. 3, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 26c; rye, No. 1, 48c to 49c; 4mrley, No. 2, 44c to 45c; pork, mess, $7.50 to $7.75. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.ti0 to $5.75; bogs, common to choice, $3.50' to $4.00; sheep, fair to ehoice weth ers. $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.00. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2, 586c to 28c; butter, Creamery, 15c to 22c;>fts, West* era. 17c to 19c. charge of the company store was shot, beaten and kicked until fatally wounded. It was shortly after noon when the trouble began. The operators have known for weeks that there would be riot and bloodshed the moment it was attempted to unload the negroes at the mines, and they were prepared for trouble. A stock ade had been erected, with a block house in the Enclosure, in which thirty-two Chi cago police officers with loaded rifles were stationed. No sooner had the train steamed in than a fusillade was opened upon the miners from the guards in the block house and the fifty guards in charge of the train. Then the slaughter began. The miners return ed the fire, and soon dead and wounded men cumbered the ground. At the east end of the stockade where the train stop ped the scene was awful. .The miners who were making thir demonstrations were to the south of the stockade, but over in the field east of the Chicago and Alton tracks was a crowd of miners. The guards in the tower and on the train commenced picking them off, and here is where the miners lost all their men who were killed. The train met a furious volley of bullets from over a thousand men, every shot in tending to kill. The volleys were kept up for fully ten minutes, until the uselessness of remaining became apparent to the trainmen, and the train was sped on to Springfield. j Then the miners turned loose and pan demonium reigned. The men were crazed at the slaughter of their comrades, and as a result there were terrible excesses. J. F.^ Byster, manager of the coal company store, was espied in the streets and set upon. He was first jphot down and then his body was frightfully mangled Of the dead, six are miners, one a Chi cago and Alton detective, one a stockade guard--Al Morgan of Chicago--and two detectives, W. W. Carroll and W. W. Clarkson. The wounded include eight strikers, six I*isik?rton iind Thiolo men and seven guards at the stockpde. Thos. Pre-ston, formerly a lieutenant of jwlice in Chicago, was killed by the militia. He was on guard at the stockade and failed to respond to an order to halt. Troops were sent by Gov. Tanner to protect life and property and he asked the Federal authorities to allow him to use Col. Culver's regiment. He insisted the soldiers should not aid the coal mine operators in their purpose of working im ported negro miners, and he dwlares the operators ought to be convicted for caus ing the bloodshed. Mr. Lukens, the com pany's manager, is quite a* vebment in his denunciation of tbe Governor for his failure to send troons sooner. After the negroes who were brought from Alabama on( Aug. 24 were put to work the miners coerced the Overholt brothers to write a note calling the min ers out, but. when released by the strik ers who had captured them the note was repudiated. On Sept. 14 another batcli of negro miners were put to work in the PenweH mines. Two weeks later one of VKNNKM. MINE, PANA.. their number appeared on the streets and was attacked. This precipitated a riot and the negro was arrested. A call was made for troops, which, after having been previously refused by the Governor, ar rived on the last day of September. of the Governor's staff, and notified them that all arms must be surrendered. TWO MEN DIB AT 8PRINGF(ELD. Victims of the Rio^Ej^plre Yn Reach- ins the Capital, j Great excitement was created) in Spring field upon the arrival of t)«? train over the Chicago and Alton road*hat had pass ed through the battle at Virden. It con sisted of three coaches, a baggage ear and a cal>oose and contained about 160 ne groes and fifty or sixty deputies. It was literally riddled with bullets. The win dows had been shot to pieces. The sides of the cars were peppered, and a piece was shot out of one of the driving wheels of the engine. Here seven wounded men were taken from the train and conveyed to St. John's Hospital, where two of them subsequently died. - While the train wus lying at the depot State President Hunter of the minora^r- ganiisatiou and other leaders of the min ers put iu appearance and induced about half of the negroes on the trnin to leave it. Ejection "Not&ea Served. Operator King of Chicago, owner of the Green Ridge shaft at Carlinville, has served ejectment notices on miners occu pying company houses. King has received no rent since last May. The miners are given twelve days' notice to leave, at the end of which time, it fis asserted, they »re to be supplanted hy imported neu. ARRIVAL OF BATTERY B. Presence of State Troops Causes a Lull in the Tumult at Virden. The arrival of Battery from Pana at midnight Wednesday wa^ tht^ signal for peace in Virden. The tunmlt of the streets had not subsided before that time and threats of blowing up the stockade with dynamite were freely n^Meby the more hot-headed of the miners. AVHeB~the troops arrived a skirmish line was thrown out at once by Capt. Craig and the streets clear ed. Seventy-five men wlfro found in the strikers' hall and made to come down to the street and hold up their hands. They were searched and all weapons taken from them. This action was general through out the city. DANGER IN FRANCE. JuTee Mellne Utters Serious Warning Against Agitation and Unrest. Jules Meline. premier of the French ministry preceding the present Govern- «ieut of M. Brisson and who presided at a banquet of the Association of Railway Employes at Bpinal, France, uttered a serious warning against the agitation and unrest in France, class troubles and strikes. Referring to th* "divided state of society, the violence cf polemics and the sectarian spirit displayed in politics," he said it was impossible see France thus torn by factions and devoured by po litical passions, while daily rhe principle of authority was undermine*, the army was weakened, and the institutions upon which rested the security of the nation were shaken, without thinking of "that opening in the Vosges through which an invading army could pass," or without thinking of "some unforeseen temptation beiug offered to the foreigner." The ad versaries of France, however, had no need to declare war. said M. Meline. They were content to wait the exhaustion of France. - News of Minor Note. The value of the annual plum crop in France is $3,000,000. x Great Britain has 294 torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, Ninety-two flour mills in North Caro lina grind all the wheat grown in the State. Thirty kejjK of beer w<?ro consumed by the guests ao? wedding of foreigners at Shenandoah. 1^ Vienna has a cabman who has been fined twenty times for trying to bring bt cyclists to grief. LTF'KINLKR IT OMAHA. Q10WWW3VIU.CT _ This map shows the country Mirroundipg Virden (Ntteoopin County), where the killing of the Pnnntl ,^ro>£i»?fa« t"® ?,n M?* is th* orl<J,nal s,,,u of tbe trouble. Pana is in the County of Chr stlan, about th1rtv-*is mlU>s to the east. Virden itself i» only abr.ut twenty-one'miles nhi5?.!!!! .1,rom-^Spring Aeld to St. Louis the dislunoe Is atout 100 miles, nnd from Springfield to Chicago the distance is about 180imles. The mininp troubles have occurred within an area de- scribed by a circle whose radius stn rls rroin Vlrdeu as the centcr of the circ e. The town of Y"irden ThfpiUlaUou iri^ (^nsroount')!tM."aUrdaU ^ ̂ ̂ Jmck8l>QvUie' PRESIDENT IS WELCOMED , ' ? y-t r Mr. McKinley and Party Arrive the Exposition City and Are Greeted ^ by an Enormous Crowd---Tfe* Trip * Through Western State*. * * '"Sj Two hundred thousand citizens of the ' ^ * j t'ransmissouri region welcomed President*^' McKinley to the Omaha peace jubilee.' Th* enthusiasm of the greeting was wor-* thy of the great West and the Presvaent ' j of the republic. President McKinley waH profoundly impressed with the magnitude T of the demonstration. He said as much in^ »ns, for he made no "f * effort to conceal his pleasure. From the , time the special bearing the distinguished ^1 guest passed into the city until the Presi-' * </, dent entered his quarters for repose an hour later he received a continual ovation. -* ^ His route was through an ocean of human. *.« < faces and the vast throng stretched out -- into tlie side streets as far a« the eye k could see. "*• AH ideas of confining the delighted pee- \\ ^ pie to the Curbstones was abandoned be-*. % s fore tbe presidential party entered, and as it proceeded through the streets in ve- ve hicles the acclaiming multitude touched , ^; the very wheels of the carriages aud good- i£, naturedly elbowed for room in which " raise and wave Sags and other emblems ^'.,1,, of a national nature. It was a few minutes past 9 o'clock 'A when the headlight of the presidential spe- \ cial glistened on the great bridge separat- ; ing Nebraska and Iowa. The thousands surrounding the station greeted the ap pearance of the locomotive with shouts •&* prolonged. The steam whistles and bells : of the city took up the acclaim and for a;' few minutes the whole city resounded - '.Jf with a perfect medley of discordant SENTIMENT AGAINST OPERATORS Opinion General *t Virden That the Miners Have Won a Victory. Everywhere, according to a Virden re port, sentiment is against the mine own ers. It is the general opinion that the miners have won a victory, though at a terrible price. Miners stood guard at the stockades, and the Chicago and. Alton tracks all of Wednesday night, fearful that an attempt would be made to bring the special with the imported miners on board back from Springfield. The min ers claim that the first shot was fired from the train by a guard. A miner fired a shot into the air as the train approached the town, as a signal for the miners to assemble and resist the landing of the ne groes. Adjutant General Reece, in command of the soldiers, said he had unmistakable orders from Gov. Tanner to prevent fur ther trouble, to protect lives and property and to prevent operators from bringing imported labor into the town. He called upon -the men at the stockade writh Col. Sargeant McKnight of Girard, a member sounds. President McKinley was ready to alight almost as the train came to a halt, and before the platoon of police could press back the crowd which closed around \ > - J the presidential special. The members of the reception committee boarded the train V>j$! in Council Bluffs and to them the Presi- ": > * | dent remarked upon the ease of the jour- • ney, adding: "Such a welcome would make any one forget the fatigue of a thousand such journeys." * Second Train Arrives* r- . . Scarcely had greetings been ekchiiig^d J ̂ when the army and navy special arrived. The two trains had crossed the State pfSetically atf' two sections, running the last 100 miles almost in sight of each oth- - ^ er. As the occupants of the two trains mingled on the platform the reception ' • committee assigned the visitors to car riages, and the procession moved toward the center of the city. President McKin ley, Mayor Frank E. Moores of Omah'a and President Wattles of the exposition occupied the front carriages, and others spread out for a distance of several hun- f dred yards. King Ak-Sar-Ben and 500 ' '. of his knights, composing the secret enter- tainment organization of Omaha, acted as escorts to the President. They formed a cavalcade that added much to the beauty of the procession. The Ak-Sar-Ben knights formed into platoons as outriders, escorting each carriage in fours. Thr^t the procession passed north on Tenth street to Far nam and west on Far- nam to the city hall, where the distin guished guests alighted to witness the fes tivities of the evening. Every turn of the wheels gave the President new surprises as to the magnitude and enthusiasm of Omaha's peace jubilee crowd. The caval cade on$r tried to keep the jubilant crowds back six feet from the carriages of the chief executive and his party, but even this was futile, and the vehicles were im peded iu their progress by the weight of human bodies. When the army chiefs' vehicle passed the shouts and wild ac claim of the crowd was scarcely less than that with which the President was greet ed, . • CROWDS ALONG THE WAY. Ovation Given the President by Peo ple of Illinois and Iowa. Wherever the presidential train stopped in Illinois and Iowa the demonstrations were enthusiastic beyond precedent. At the stations through which the trains rushed at full speed the enthusiasm was not less evident, but the people were com-,4 pelled to content themselves With a cheer and were rewarded by a wave of the hand. The presidential train arrived in Chi-. cago about 7 o'clock in the morning over the Pennsylvania road and was swung around to the Chicago and Northwestern by the belt line. The engine which pulled the presidential train out of Chicago was one of the most powerful ever made, and was bedecked with flags and bunting un til it looked like a triumphal car. The President's journey through Illi-. nois and Iowa was a continuous ovation. The first sit op was made at Dekalb, and here the President spoke a few words in response to the crowd's enthusiastic wel come. At Clinton, Iowa, a great crowd was at the station when President Mc- Kinley's train rolled in. Senator Allison joined the presidential party here. The President appeared on the rear platform and was received with tremendous cheers. The President left the train for the first time at Cedar Rapids. A platform elab orately decorated stood near the track, and from here Mr. McKinley delivered an address which brought cheers from 10,000 lusty throats. SAMPSON JSETS THE CREDIT. Battle of Santlauo Won Upon Plans Prepared by Him. Admiral Sampson has been officially giv en the credit for destroying the Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera off Santiago July 3. This was tec in the report of the commission of naval officers appointed to settle the merits of the Sampson-Schley controversy. Briefly stated, the board found ttart the battle was fought and won ui»on plans prepared by Sampson; that any directing of the movements of ships by Schley dur ing the battle was inconsiderable; that the New York had no active part in the fight; that the Brooklyn was not engaged at so close quarters as represented in the first report; that the brunt of the fighting was borne by the Oregon, the Texas and the Iowa; that the New York was more than nine miles from the Colon when that ship surrendered, and between four and five miles from the nearest of her sister ships engaged; that the average range of the ships most engaged was about a mile and a half; that no American ship at any time during the battle was within a mile of an unsurrendered Spanish ship. ROBBERS MAKE BIG HAUL. t*r * m. rui' :-:'i : i..:'" Waldron, 111., £afe Is Blown Open and Looted. Promissory notes, some of them negotia ble, valued^ at $17,000. and $50 in money was the booty secured by expert robbers who forced open the door of H. Y. Swan's office iu the village of Waldron, III., and blew open the safe with dynamite. From the-skillful manner iu which the work was performed Chicago men are suspect ed. A hole was drilled in the arffe dooc and the combination blown out. The hinges were torn off. Portions of a burg lar's kit were found on. the floor with some tools that had b-fen taken from a blacksmith shop close at haiid. forcibly ^ : v ; "f ^ si*,