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\ ~ i^£/" '*' f ' • < - ri ': ALGER'S REPORT# illlOtJND & BIG STATE •RIEF COMPILATION Of NOIS NEWS. ' ILU- Accident Is Followed fcy • »falcWt- ipH^armer Succumbs to FamilyTroubles " --'Colonel And el Restored to Sank Duty--Breach of Promlu Suit. Joseph Corcoran and Miss Lela Shade, both well-known young people of Carlyle, in company with several young friends, took an afternoon walk out to Carlyle cemetery. While there young Corcoran was playfully handling a revolver, when it was accidentally discharged, the ball Striking Miss Shade. Corcoran hastily asked her if she was badly hurt, but she could make no reply, being for the mo­ ment speechless, whereupon Corcoran, who supposed he had killed her, placed the revolver to his own head and shot himself, dying instantly. Miss Shade received only a flesh wound and will recover. Fnicide la a Swine* John Hoselton, a prominent and "Wealthy farmer living three miles out of Springfield, committed suicide the other morning by shooting himself through the head. He died instantly. He had been brooding over family troubles for the past month, and had made threats that he would kill his son-in-hiw and then commit suicide. He was sitting in a awingwhee fired the shot. •" ' "v > Ftate Fair Paid Expenses. The receipts from all sources for the "'©tate fair this year were $50,000, which tills very good, considering that it rained the lest two days of the fair. The total expenses were $50,000, so that the State Board of Agriculture comes out even. The gate receipts were $34,000, against $44,- 000 last year. Last year's receipts were * i§80,000 and expenses $56,000. Andef Verdict fc'et Aside. •A telegram has been received at the fOrps headquarters at Jacksonville from President McKinley overruling the find- inds in the Andel court-martial case and ordering Col. Andel, Fourth infantry, re­ stored to full rank and duty. The action of the President has created much • ex citement among officers of the Fourth Illi­ nois regiment. Demands Pay for a Broken Hearty A breech of promise suit for $10,000 damages has been filed by Miss Mary Da- *is against John Cunningham, a widower, a wealthy land owner and retired mer­ chant of Areola. The suit was a general surprise, as both parties are prominenl and the case fringes on sensationalism. Brief State Happening* Kenny is seeking a glass factory. A Rushville woman has embarked in the undertaking business. Piatt County farmers are organising anti-chicken thief associations. The contract for a new t»wa hall has been let by the authorities of Mount Pu- Jaski. Berry H. Cassell, of Decatur, has a sec­ ond crop of peaches-growing in clusters on his trees. The Big Four's new shops at Urbaop being completed, the old buildings are be­ ing demolished. v Ralph Johnston, aged 17, the only son of W. K. Johnston, architect, of Chicago, was killed in a bicycle accident at Whit­ by, Ont. Frank Hoffman of Chicago committed suicide by asphyxiation in the house where the body of his dead wife rested in a cof­ fin. Despondency over her death was the cause. W. H. Thomas, a Chicago real estate dealer, sustained injuries from being run down by a cable car at Randolph and La- Salle streets Which if is thought will cause his death. The quarterly report of Supt.. Somer- -Ville. of the Illinois Soldiers' Home, at Quincy. shows the average attendance to be 116,742; total membership, 1,S79: ad­ mitted during the quarter, 153; discharg­ ed, 120; deaths, 35; average cost per cap­ ita, $24.91. Albert Stanley and George H. Ritter, the latter a son of former Superintendent of Streets Nicholas Ritter, were arrested in Springfield, charged with robbing Frederick Leka of $14,000. Stanley con­ fessed. Leka is a wealthy retire l farm­ er. Of late he has been livinsr with the Stanleys in Springfield. He buried his wealth in the barn and ynrd back of Ihe Stanley -hojiBe at night. Stanley and Rit­ ter watchea him and have been robbing him at intervals. Mri. Stanley discov­ ered the robbery and infortmnl the police. * M. A. Morgan of Okawvill*' was in­ stantly killed by a through passenger train on the Louisville and Nashville Rail- voad at Okawviile. He attempted to cross the track ahead of the train and was struck by the engine. Deceased repre- fcntcd his. district in the State Legisla­ ture for several terms. He was a lawyer by profession, but inherited a fortune and never attempted to practice. Besides bis service in the Legislature, Mr. Morgan held numerous offices in his town and county. He was born at Okawviile about forty-five years ago aud was the eldest son of tihe late Judge Morgan, a pioneer citizen of Southern Illinois. He leaves a widow and three children. One year ago the other day the Bradley Polytechnic Institute was launched at Peoria, and the school is already on the highway to success, the roster this year Rowing an attendance of more than 400 students. Founders' day was celebrated in an appropriate manner, the principal orators being Dr. William R. Harper a lid Professor T. C. Chamberlain of the -University of Chicago. Dr. Harper spoke on "The Significance of Founders' Day," paying a beautiful tribute to Mrs. Lydia Bradley, who established the school at a cost of $3,000,000. Professor Chamber­ lain spoke of the moral nature of scientific study. Oliver J. Bailey, president of the institute, delivered the welcome address. Rev. David Tilton Morrill. D. D., ex­ pired at the home of his daughter in Bei- •idere, aged 73. In his family were sev­ en ministers of the gospel. The children are Mrs. Julien Herrick of Belvidere, Wife of the pastor of the First Baptist Church; Mrs. H. M. Cook, whose husband . .is pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Ohicago; Julian Lansing Morrill, pastor of a church at Owensborough; Kingman Nott Morrill, pastor of a Baptist church at Burlington; the Rev. Morrill, twins, evangelists and pastors of the "Gospel Ship" in Chicago, and Frank Morrill, an attorney at Minneapolis. The Eureka Steel Manufacturing Com­ pany has completed its organization at Bradley with a capithal of $50,000, and is hesitating between buying the plant of the Kankakee Manufacturing Company, or moving to the gas region of Indiana. In the Supreme Court at Springfield the case of the people on the relation of Hettie 0. R. Green and others against the board Of commissioner.-fof Cook County, to com­ pel the board to sit as a board of review t© reverse and correct the assessment on Certain property owned by them, leave to file a petition was granted. The board re- ftised to sit, claiming that the last Gen­ eral Assembly deprived them of that Fulton County's debt amounts **• 650. Bert Watson, private in Company K, Ninth Illinois, died st Jacksonville, Fla. His home was at Mount Vernon. According to the assessors' returns there are twice as many clocks and watches in Adams County as there are in Cook Coun­ ty; and Chicago is in Cook County. M. Hollenfehs, East Dubuque, manufac­ turer of bottled goods and wholesale liq­ uors, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $46,000; assets, $13,000. Conductor Edward Fenton of a Halsted street electric car was assaulted and fa­ tally wounded by four men in Chicago, as a result of a quarrel over * transfer. John Hoselton shot himself while sitting in a swing at his farm, three miles east of Springfield. There had been disagree­ ments in his family, and he is said to have made threats to kill his son-in-law and himself. The Governor has appointed the follow­ ing delegates to the national road parlia­ ment to be held at Omaha Oct. 5: D. V. Purington, William H. Arthur and T. Butterworth, Chicago, and Leon Hay, Kankakee. In plain view of half a dozen persons two colored highwaymen assaulted and robbed Otto Jacobson, a railroad foreman, of $400 before the side entrance to the Rock Island station in Chicago at 9 o'clock the other evening. The steamer Pewaukee was towed into port at Chicago by the Rita McDonald and taken to the lighthouse slip, where she > sank to the bottom. She commenced to leak when off Waukegan and was picked up off Grosse Point. Ernest Warren, son of W. S. Warren of Hubbard, Warren & Co., Chicago, acci­ dentally shot and fatally wounded himself in the firm's offices, No. 47 Board of Trade building. He was cleaning a Winchester rifle at his <fesk, when it was accidentally discharged. While working in the freight yards of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad at Chicago. John Murray, yard- master, was struck by a north-bound Chi­ cago and Rode Island passenger train. He died at Mercy hospital. Murray°was 45 years old. Jacob Bischof of Belleville committed suicide by shooting. His son found his dead body in the parlor of their home."On a table near by Was a note, saying: "I see the gate of the insane asylum opening1 be­ fore me. I prefer to die now to dying the de&th of an insane person."1 In Springfield, Mrs. B. E. Buckley of Chicago threw carbolic acid in the face" of her husband. He wilf be disfigured for life. The woman later took morphine, but recovered. She charges her husband with absenting; himself from home, leav­ ing her to earn her own living. Henry Meyer and George Laue, two Chicago sportsmen, were fined $36 and costs by Justice McLelan of La Grange for shooting song birds. This was at the rate of $6 for each bird killed. This is said to be the beginning of a crusade which the La Grange people intend to con­ duct 8 gainst the destroyers of the birds. At Carlinville, two fatalities resulted in three days on account of the Virden strike. In both instances carelessness in handling weapons was the cause. Arthur Nevins of Girard was shot by a fellow miner and instantly killed. Hugh Rainey was exam­ ining a revolver, which exploded, wound­ ing Frank Kanouse in the breast. He ran fifty feet before he' died. The unprecedentedly hot weather of the present season and the heavy rains of the past few weeks have caused numerous peach and pear" trees in the orchards around Nashville to come out in full bloom for the second time this year. Some of the trees were covered with blossoms and. standing beside the other trees, which have already begun to lose their foliage, they present a peculiar sight. At the meeting of the railroad commit­ tee of the State Board of Equalization, held in Springfield, Dr. Morton, special agent, and Mr. Frazier. master mechanic of the Baltimore and Ohio, complained of an excessive valuation of buildings. Mr. Hammill of the Louisville and Nashville complained of a raise of $200 per mile made by the board last year, and asked that a change be made in the valuation thereof. ITINERARY OF PRESIDENT MTCINLEY'3 WESTERN TRIP. 8. KII)<S{& •SsSLniM fvrf^ mxmm ESS®. ' f - WASHINGTON VT. L/OUtS •cr.* IN THE GRASP OF FEVER. Samuel McMean, aged 20 years, and Miss Lizzie Wetzel, aged 17, both of Jef­ ferson County, were married on board the Mount Vernon accommodation train at the Nashville station. The young folks obtained a marriage license and made ar­ rangements with Judge Vernor to be at the station when the train arrived, that he might perform the marriage ceremony. The couple stood upon the platform of the car and the ceremony was performed in about three minutes and was witnessed by a large crowd. Jacob A. Busch, who claims to have been a body servant of the late Judge Ben­ jamin F. Fridley of Aurora, has filed in the County Court of Kane County a claim for $29,252.43 against the Fridley estate. Busch claims lie left $2 of his wages each week with Mr. Fridley during the entire period of his service and computes the amount due him, with interest, at $4,- 252.43. He sets forth in his claim that, besides the amount due for wages as above, he failed to convey certain estates located i^ Chicago and for services ren­ dered, etc., which amounts altogether to over $29,000. The findings of the court martial in the cases of the Fourth Illinois officers have been published from corps headquarters at Jacksonville, Fla. Col. Casimir P. An­ del, who js cashier of the First Rational Bank of Belleville, was found guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline and was ordered to be suspended from his'rank and command for the period of six months and to forfeit half of his pay during that time. He was also found guilty of several specifications in the charges. Major L. E. Bennett was found guilty of violation of the same arti­ cle of war and was ordered reprimanded by the commanding officer, which was done. Lieut. Col. McWilliams and Major Lang, also tried before the court martial, were acquitted. The Tri-City Railway Company at Rock Island, controlling the street railway lines of the three cities, which for ten years has been in the hands of J. J. Mitchell, D. H. Louderback, Clarence Buckingham and other Chicago capitalists/ passed into the hands' of local capitalists. A starving woman bearing a child in her arms walked into Lieut. Shippy's of­ fice at the stock yards police station in Chicago and asked for aid. While she was telling her story she fell at full length from exhaustion. When the woman was revived she burst into tears and said she had bad no food for three days. Because Isaac Schlesinger defended himself against some boys on the street in Chicago he, his wife and two children were held prisoners in their home for fourteen hours by a mob of 200 boys. John Zeprzlka of Chicago has been un­ able during the summer to endtire the op­ pressive atmosphere in his fiat, which is on the third floor, and since early last spring has been sleeping on the roof. Early the other morning he arose in his sleep and fell over the cornice to the gi^und, a distance of forty feet. Physicians say he will die. Zeprzlka is 42 years' old, is married and has seven children. He is a somnambulist and likes to sleep in the Tellow Jack's Tentacles Spread Over Mississippi. Without the intervention of. frost the* spread of yellow fever over the entire State of Mississippi seems a certainty. Each night's report indicates how surely and rapidly the disease is getting the whole State into its clutches. The contin­ uance of the present warm weather will guarantee a further spread, which the re­ sources of the State Board seem unable to stop. The disease is firmly rooted in all the different sections of Mississippi and its appearance in counties adjoining those already in the grasp of the fever is only a question of a short time. The State Board of Health has, of course, long ago despaired of confining the infection, and is now devoting itself more to the gen­ eral work of relief and securing of nurses for the places that are stricken. It is still waging a stubborn but hopeless fight against the rapid advance and whenever a new place is reported a State inspector is sent at once with orders to isolate and cordon the town. As a general thing, however, the exposure has usually been too widespread to render this inspection of any great valu®. The appeal of the Governor of the State to the Federal Government for relief had the effect of arousing neighboring States to the necessities of the situation. About $2,000owas raised in Memphis in one day for geheral distribution in the shape of food and supplies. The helpless destitu­ tion of negro reconcentradoes continues in Jackson and other towns without ma­ terial alleviation. They crowd as close to the guard line as possible when anyone goes down near the cordoned district and beg eagerly for money and supplies. Many without families have managed to get out and away. Helpless, ignorant creatures, they cannot understand why they should be sacrificed for the general good. The executive department of the State government is located at Brandon,Miss.,a small station on the Queen and Crescent roau tweive miles from Jackson. Jackson is the crty most affected, and the virulence of the disease among negroes has demon­ strated that they are no more immune than white people. The mortality re­ mains small, only five deaths having been recorded so far at the State capital. In the smaller towns, however, new cases are reported daily in totally unexpected quarters, and in some places have caused a panic. Realizing that its efforts were unavailing, the Mississippi State Board of Health has appealed for aid to tlie Fed­ eral Government. Since the cordoning of the yellow fever infected districts and even towns with a strict guard the condition of affairs has rapidly grown worse. More than 6,000 people, according to official figures, are in absolute need of food, not to mention the necessity for nurses. The acute stage that the situation has reached is proved by the official appeal for aid to the Presi­ dent of the United States issued by the State Board of Health. The panic continues. A grewsome illus­ tration of the state of public feejing was reported by Dr. Harrison, health officer of Le Flore County. A tramp entered the neighborhood of Phillips, a small inland town in that county, three days ago. He was taken sick, and sought refuge in a negro church, where he remained two days before he was discovered, and his sickness diagnosed by Dr. Harrison as yel­ low fever. The whole neighborhood was in a panic. Jackson was wired for an ex­ pert to come aud confirm the diagnosis. None of the citizens would go near the pa­ tient, who was in a dying condition. Dr. Harrison's practice compelled him to leave him for several hours alone. When he re­ turned the church was in ashes, and the tramp consumed in the flames. The yellow fever reports show a total of 465 cases in Louisiana this summer, and thirty deaths and 351 cases in Mississippi and thirty-five deaths. Old-Ma h-Quad. This old Indian, captured by Gep. Ba­ con's force, has a reputation of the worst kind, even among his own people. He has often boasted of the whites he would kill if opportunity offered. The picture shows him seated on an old barrel, with the pipe of pence in one hand and his In­ dian war clubln the other. DATE NOW FIXED. NAVY'S SMALL RECORD OF LOST Seventeen Men Killed and Sixty-seven Wounded in Spanish War. A tabulated statement of the casualties of the war with Spain has been sent to Secretary Long by the surgeon general of the navy. The statement begins with the action at Manila, May 1, and includes the actions off Cienfuegos, Cardenas, San Juan, Porto Rico. Guantanamo, Santiago, June 22 and July 3; the fight of the Eagle, July 12; the Bancroft, Aug. 2; the Am- phitrite, Aug. 6, and the Yankee, Aug. 11. Altogether there were seventeen killed and sixty-seven wounded. Only one man died subsequently,^ a,result of his wounds; fifty-four w^p.ayere discharged and returned to dutj^Six were invalided from the service, an# sir continue under treatment. a It is remarkable that of the ten men wounded in the battle of July 3 eight had ear drums burst. This is explained by the fact that in all other actions the naen put cotton in their ears, but when Cervera's fleet came out they did not have time<Sj|o take this precaution. Th# greatest num­ ber of casualties in a single engagement was at Guantanamo, Spaniards Must Give Up All the Cuban Custom Houses on Dec. 1. The situation over the failure of the Spanish Government to agree to withdraw its forces quickly from Cuba has become scTious, and it may be necessary for the United States to adopt stringent measures to compel the Spaniards to adhere to the conditions of the peace protocol. The ad­ ministration is determined not to grant the Spanish beyond Dec. 1 in which to sur­ render authority to the American repre­ sentatives. That decision has been com­ municated to the American members of the Havana evacnation commission, and the Spanish commissioners will be inform­ ed that further delay will tfot be tolerated. The United States will not insist on evacuation of the island by all the Span­ ish forces by the date fixed, but on Dec. 1 the American military commanders in Cuba will take possession of all custom house and other public buildings in their several districts. If it shall be necessary to use force to accomplish this, force will be used. The administration is hopeful that the Spanish authorities will bow to the inevitable when they fiave learned what the United States Government pro­ poses to do, and all trouble will be averted. From reports of the American commis­ sioners it is evident to the President and his cabinet that the Spanish commission­ ers are pursuing dilatory tactics for the sole purpose of holding on to the revenues of Cuba as long as possible. With the-ex- ception of Santiago, the principal ports of Cuba are still in the possession of the Spaniards, who hold, the custom houses and collect duties. The present attitude of the Spanish members of the evacuation commission is such, however, that they may attempt to make trouble if American troops ore land­ ed at Havana and other important ports. Although the administration is confident that this defiant disposition will change when the Spaniards realize how determin­ ed this Government is, every preparation will be made to meet any emergency that may be presented. Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's Seventh army corps will be in possession of the city of Havana long before the date on which the custom house there must be surrendered. His troops will go into camp on the out­ skirts of the city, but will practically as­ sume authority over the capital when they arrive. SIX PUT TO DEATH. CJtinese Councilors Who Advocated Reforms Have Their Heads Cut Off. The Chinese embassy at London is In receipt of a dispatch from Pekin saying that greatest harmony prevails between the emperor and dowager empress. The dispatch adds that the latter, seeing the danger of rushing sweeping reforms, con­ sented to advise the emperor in the gen­ eral management of affairs and as to the best way of introducing reforms. Con­ tinuing, the dispatch says circumstances have shown it tp be necessary that six councilors who were urging the emperor to undertake inopportune reforms be put to death. After referring to the punish­ ment of the others, the dispatch eays that since his dismissal from the Tsung-Li- Yamen, Li Hung Chang has abstained from participating in public affairs. GEN. GRANVILLE tyL DODGE. President of the Commission Which Is Investigating Army Scandals. Gen. Granville M. Dodge, president of the commission that is inquiring into the pianagement of the war,, is one of the most distinguished of the soldiers pro­ duced by the United States. So highly did his old comrades rate his military and manly character that they gave him the position of president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee In succession to Gen. Sherman, Gen. Dodge was bom at Danvers, Mass., in 1831. His youth was spent on jk farm in the pure air and in that phy­ sical labor which gives men strong con­ stitutions. In 1846 he entered Norwich University, and was graduated four years later as a civil1 engineer. In 1857 he en­ tered the service of the Illinois Central, and later that of the Rock Island, and was afterward employed by the Govern­ ment in the surveys of the Pacific Rail­ road. -About this time Gen. Dodge established the banking and trading house of Bald­ win & Dodge at Council Blufts, Iowa, and he has never given up his residence in that city, although he spends much of his time in New York. Gen. Dodge went to the civil War as colortel of the Fourth Iowa infantry, and was severely wounded in the Missouri campaign. When be recovered he was made a brigadier general and placed in command of the Second division in Ken­ tucky. After the war Gen. Dwlge was QUAY UNDER BONDS Pennsylvania /Senator, and His Son Charged with Misnse of Money. United States Senator Quay, his son Richard R. Quay and Charles H. McKee of Pittsburg, law partner of Lieut. Gov. Walter Lyon, appeared before Magistrate Jermon in the Central Station Court in Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon to an- | swer to the charge of conspiracy in the alleged misuse of money, with John S. Hopkins, former cashier of the People's Bank, who committed suicide soon after the failure of the bank in March last. Af­ ter a hearing lasting three hours Senator Quay and his son and Mr. McKee were bound over for appearance at the next term of court. Bail was fixed at $5,000 in each case, David H. Lane, a local political leader, going on the bond. The case now goes on thp list for trial at the term of court beginning in November. Movements in the Soudan. Re-enforcements have been ordered from Omdurman to Ghedaref, where the force under Col. Parsons has repulsed an­ other dervish attack with slight loss. There is no news from Fashoda, but in all probability Maj. Marchand will shortly tnentc bis position there, OK.N. GIIANVIM.IC M. DODGK. made chief engineer of tfie Union Pacific Railroad. As engineer, as Congressman as director of the grand railroad construe tion across the continent, he evinced as much genius and vim as be had when a soldier. AFTER THE SCALPERS. Eight feet is the usual width of a street in China. • Greece has a population of 2,433,806-- 1,266,816 males and 1,166,990 females. Marigolds and camomiles in North Af­ rica reacli a height of four or five^eet. Switzerland has 1,693 hotels for tour­ ists, with 88,000 beds and 24,000 em­ ployes. In the Bank of England there are silver bars that have lain there untouched for 200 years. Quebec, with a population of 70,000, has six daily newspapers, four of which are ;n the French language. The Riesengebirge, or Giant mountains of Germany, are to be covered with a net­ work of electric railways. The total dumber of chemical works registered^™ all parts of Germany is 6,144, with 125,440 employes. The longest span of telegraph wire in the world is in India, over the river Kistr na. It is over 6,000 feet in length; A Chinese paper estimates that the vic­ tims of the plague in Foochow this year will not fall far short of 40,000. China has an arsenal at Tsinanfu at which 300 workmen are employed making anas and ammunition, besides rasairiac. Crusade Inaugurated Against Men Who f»e!l Cut-fiate Tickets. " A concerted movement against the En­ tire system of ticket scalping was inou- gurjUed at Chicago Wednesday. The Na» tional Association of Merchants and Trav­ elers tendered a banquet to representative railroad men, at which the subject of ticket scalping was gone over in all its de­ tails. Over 250 guests were present, and John V. Farwell, Jr.. presided. Both rail­ road and business men dwelt upon the menace to the commerce and trade of the country from the business of ticket brok­ erage, and resolutions were adopted au­ thorizing the organization of a central anti-4icket scalping committee with sub­ committees and representation from all the States. The coming session of Con­ gress will be the objective point, and en­ ergies will be bent in the direction of se­ curing drastic legislation against the scalp­ ing trade. FEVER SCARE HURTS RAILROADS Illinois Central Losing $15,000 a Day by the Quarantine. It is estimated that the Illinois Central Railroad Ss losing $15,000 a day on its Southern business as a result of the strin­ gent yellow fever quarantine. It has completely tied up the Yazoo and Mis­ sissippi Valley division and has badly hampered all traffic on the main line, tak­ ing off all the passenger trains except the double through veotibule service. The effect upon the railroads is a more serious question than the fever itself, which is of a very mild type. Other railroads run­ ning into New Orleans are hampered in much the same way. Passenger coaches on all the roads 'are locked tight after leaving the New Orleans depot until they get through the States of Alabama. Mis­ sissippi and parts of Tennessee and Texas. To Pnt Down Socialists. The Vorwaerts of Berlin publishes an order issued by the Prussian minister to the tSovernoT of Erfurt complaining of the leniency shown by the police in the recent election disturbances and enjoin­ ing the police in future to act resolutely, using the edge and not the flat of their swords if rioters refuse to disperse. This order is believed to be direetd against the socialists, and is likely to produce a sen­ sation. The order also enjoins the ener­ getic use of firearms and prohibits the firing of blanks. Chinese Become Hilarious. During the celebration in Pekin of Jhe festival of the moon the drunken crowds which had gathered upon the streets threw mud upon all Europeans who made their appearance. As a precautionary measure the Russian legation ordered an escort of Cossacks from Port Arthur. The British minister also ordered a guard of twenty-five marines from Wei-Hai- Wei. ^ I FisbtinK in the Viscayas. \ A dispatch received at Madrid from the Viscayas Islands says the Tagales have landed in the Antigtm province and have been completely defeated by the Spanish column, after a sharp fight, in» which nine­ ty-four of the insurgents were killed. J&parka from the Wlrea. The battleship Kentucky is 75 per cent completed. A general military hospital is to be erected on Angel Island, off San Fran­ cisco. Gen. Shatter has been temporarily as­ signed to the command of the Department aft^fiMA War Plaits Are Made Pubifie £y tha ^Inquiry Commfsion. The reply of Secretary Alger to the questions asked him bythf war investi­ gating commission states chat on the dec­ laration of war it was decided to imme­ diately blockade the important ports of Cuba and hold troops at points nearest Cuba to be ready for any emergency. On May 9 orders were issued to land a force at Mariel, twenty-five miles west of Ha­ vana, preparatory to a movement upon that city, but this plan was changed on the discovery that Mariel was an un­ healthy place, and on account of the un­ certainty of the movements of the Span­ ish fleet. Mr. Alger says the Santiago campaign' was necessitated by the presence of Ad­ miral Cervera's fleet in Santiago harbor, but it had previously been contemplated. The immediate destruction of Cervera-'s fleet was necessary, and rhe co-operation of the military force was hastened by the receipt of a telegram from Admiral Samp­ son on June 7, in which he stated that on the previous day he had bombarded and quickly silenced the forts at Santiago, and that if 10,000 mem were there city and fleet could be captured In forty-eight hours. Troops sailed from Tampa on June 14, with 16,988 officers and men. They were held on transports there a week after em­ barkation on account of a warning from Commodore Perry that a Spanish cruiser and torpedo boat destroyer wero waiting in Nicholas channel to destroy the con­ voy. The answer states that the camp at Ferttandina. was organized on the recom­ mendation of Maj. Get). Miles, and that at Jacksonville, on the recommendation of Maj. Gen. Lee. A permanent camp, it is stated, was never contemplated at Tampa, which was selected as a base of operations on account of its shipping fa­ cilities. Troops were sent there prepara­ tory to embarkation, and when no longer needed were sent to Huntsville, Ala.--a camp selected by officers. Poarto RicO campaign, the Secretary says, had long been considered, and orders to carry it out were issued on June 26. Alger's reply is accompanied by a num­ ber of telegrams that passed between Gen. Shafter and the War Department before Cuba was invaded. POLYGAMY IN UTAH. No Doubt that Plural Marriages Are f till Contracted in the State; According to a resolution adopted by the Presbytery of Utah, polygamy is reviv­ ing in that State. This document asserts that more than two thousand cases of men living with plural wives have come to their knowledge, and that this mode of living has resulted in the birth of more than one thousand children since State­ hood. Juries refuse to find indictments, officers make no arrests, religious immor­ ality goes unpunished. From the heeds of the church down polygamy flourishes. The Salt Lake Bee says: "As to the ex­ istence of polygamy in Utah, no one doubts it, and that it has increased since Statehood is known to all who have op­ portunities of observation. Not only have old family relations beeq retimed, but new marriages have been contracted and are being contracted almost daily. Those who protest that there is no polygamy in Utah assume that the people of Utah, are a class of chumps." NO STATE AlDi Governor Tanner Refuses Troops to Coal Mine Operators. Gov. Tanner of Illinois had a sharp con­ troversy over the telephone with Manager Lukens of the Chicago Virden Coal Com­ pany. The Governor received a telegram from the sheriff of Macoupin County and conversed with the sheriff and Manager Lukens over the telephone in regard to sending troops to Virden. Manager Lu­ kens, in reply to a question, said he pro- pOS6u tO import labor and would operate his mine, if necessary, at the point of the bayonet and the muzzles of Winchesters. Gov. Tanner said he would not send troops to assist the operators in running their mines with imported labor and if the operators attempted to enforce their ideas in regard to Winchesters he would send the National Guard to , Virden to disarm all. In regard to the situation at Pana, Gov. Tanner said if the operators persisted in employing imported labor he would withdraw the troops from that place. TERROR REIGNS OVER RIOT. Huntsvillef Ala.( Thrown Into a Tremor of Excitement. Huntsville, Ala., has been in a state of great excitement as a result of a riot among; United States troops. The soldiers involved in the fight were members of the Tenth cavalry aud the Sixteenth infantry. Trouble arose out of the arrest of a colored trooper who was painting the town a bright carnation. His arrest was effected by members of the provost guard, composed of Companies L and M of the Sixteenth infantry. Negro cavalrymen endeavored to take the prisoner away from the provost guardsmen, but failed. In the fight army rifles were used, the result being that Corporal McLaughlin of the provost guard was killed outright while two Tenth cavalry men were fatally and two members of the Sixteenth regi­ ment seriously wounded. EATS OF SPIDERS TO DIE. Woman Borgia Emulates the Fate of Egypt's Queen. Cora Smith, whose death took place at Anamosa, to wa, penitentiary Monday killed herself by eating spiders. ' A paper bag partially full of the insects was fonnd in her cell and an examination of her stomach showed that the poison from the insects caused her death. She leTt a writ­ ten confession addressed to Attorney Gen­ eral Milton Remley. in which she persists that she and her sister Ellen administered the poison which caused the death of their father, Michael Smith, and that her motli- er, Betsy Smith, who is confined for life for the murder, is innocent. She wrote the confession while contemplating the suicide. The spiders she secured from the stone waJIs of the prison. SIR KNIGHTS IN LINE. Templars Make *n Imposing Parade in Pittsburg. It is the.xsneral opinion among the thousands of Knights Templar that the twenty-seventh conclave at Pittsburg was the most successfur*75r**«y^^ever hekl. More mten have been in the pltsa^cs on other occasions, but the good niafore­ men t, the evident spirit of hospitality shown, the decorations, and the general spirit of enthusiasm manifested by knighta and spectators have never been exceeded. It is estimated that the parade proper was made up of 25,000 uniformed knights, moving in carriages, on horseback, and on foot, and there were at lc*«t 1,000,000 spertators along the route of the parade, which was seven miles long. PostoflSce Physician. ^ ) The Chicago postoffice is to have a- i^pw permanent employe in the person of a physician at a salary of $1,700 a year. H* will be statioued at the main office for the purpose of examining employes who report themselves as being sick; and it is expected that he will make a large sav­ ing to the Government ih sslsnes. All Washington is laughing at the plight of several government clerks. It has been the custom of the heads of department* to let off clerks who may have relatives in regiments passing through town so. that they may have a chance to exchangee greetings with the soldier boys. This privilege has been considerably abased, but there seemed to be no way of stop­ ping it except to refuse leave to clerks . asking it for the purpose mentioned. Last Saturday the Tenth Cavalry (colored> spent the day in Washington. Notice was sent around through the deportments that clerks having relatives in the regiment would be allowed time to see them. A good many white clerks, possibly forty or fifty altogether, remembered that they had brothers, cousins or fathers in the Tenth, and were given leave of absence to visit their heroes. Imagine the amaze­ ment and chagrin of the Caucasians who had played it low down on Uncle Sam in order to steal a few honrs for pleasure « to discover that the boys of the Tenth were black, most of them very black. • • • The commissioners to Paris and (he commission that is investigating the army are both to be paid out of the general ap­ propriation for carrying on the war. A liberal allowance was made in ihe last army bjjjl, to be expended at the discretion of the President, for unforeseen contin­ gencies, and both the investigating and peace commissions answer that descrip­ tion. The investigators will receive $20 a day in lieu of salary, hotel bills and in­ cidental expenses, and are not required to render accounts. Their traveling ex­ penses are also paid. The compensation for the peace commissioners has not been fixed, and will not be until they have completed their labors. All of their hotel bilis and other ordinary expenses will be paid by Mr. Brannagan, the disbursing officer of the State Department who ae-. companied the party, but each commis­ sioner is expected to supply his own pock­ et money. It is probable that a lump sum will be paid each of them when they return to the United States. That was the case with the'members of the Geneva arbitration in 1871 and tiNrPartr arbi­ tration in 1898. r V • • • . Few soldiers in the field wit! enjoy the privilege of casting their ballots at the next election. In the absence of a "na­ tional law the State law will prevail, and there are few States on whose statute books are laws granting this privilege. Politicians at both the Democratic and Republican headquarters have been ap­ pealed to by a large number of regiments to secure furloughs to enable them to vote. The politicians are helpless, however, be-, cause the matter lies between the War Department and the regiments. Unless the War Department grants the soldiers furloughs in many instances they will lose their votes. Leaders of both parties are consoling themselves with the fact fhat the soldiers are about equally, divid­ ed as to politics, and as.nothing can be done to relieve the, situation they are turning their attention to matters nearer home. " * s s With the exception of New Orles«s. aa the principal cities show a healthy in* crease in postal receipts during the past year. New York leads the ljst with a net increase over last year of $586,438.45. Chicago follows with a net increase of 503.454.27. and then follow Philadel­ phia with $163,152.67: Boston with $134,- 040.11; Brooklyn with $133,343.65; St. lyouis with $120,882,<»9i and RjilHmore with $98,169,60 increase. Kansas City. Mo., had an increased revenue of $92,- 052.30 and Washington, D. C., led such cities as Milwaukee, St. Panl, New Or­ leans, Rochester, Newark, N. J., Denver, and Providence with a net increase of $44,962.93. New Orleans reported ^def­ icit over last year's receipts of $1,303.98. • • • * The administration will recommend to Congress the revival of the grade of ad­ miral, and the promotion to that rank of Rear Admiral George Pc-wey, now in com­ mand of the Asiatic station. Secretary Long made the positive announcement that he intended to recommend that the grade of admiral be revivod. and that rank be conferred ou Rear Admiral Dewey*., The President indorses the Secretary., • • • According to the report of the surg«nr' general of th/^iavy, the men-of-war of the United Snrtes were the healthiest places in all the world last summer, both afloat and ashore. In the entire navy, of about 24,000 men. there were only eighty- four casualties, including accidents and everything, and of these only seventeen resulted in death. „ • • » Secretary Hay has settled down at once to the discharge of the many duties of his new i>ost. Already have applications for office begun to pour in upon him. but the Secretary finds upoif examination that there are no position? in his departmMrt within his disposal under the |Sw. * * • Mr. Simon, the new Seuator from Ore­ gon, is a Jew, and the third of his race to hold a seat in the Senate. The first wa* Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana, the next was Mr. Moses of the sapie Stare. Both of them were men of gif&u-'tion anfi -pr, tluence. " . ':;i. V y: * • • * Controller Dawes, who is treasurer of the I^afayettc monument fond, received the first contribution for that purpose Monday. It was from Schoolmaster Haigh at Ryan,* Iowa, and fcmonhted tm $2.05. ' • •» • Foreign government? are seeking infor­ mation in regard to the gun practice of the American sailors. They desire to adopt the system in their navies, as such good results were-obtained from them ia the Spanish war. * ' <• * • S • • ;•••" -n. ; ,>} j;. Information has been received in Wash* ington that an offer is about to be made by the French interests controlling the Panama canal to sell out to the American Government. » WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. The Spanish warships in Cuban waters have been ordered to sail for home. -"'"S- Admiral Dewey recommends the annex­ ation of the Philippine lalaud of Lvson. by the United SSates. Lieut. Ho»>son ssys thar the skvia® of ' the Cristobal Colon is a mere question oif scientific engineering. The report conies from Havana that th« casket containing the remains of Col«tu­ bus bears evidences of having been tftWK pered with. The account book of the paymaster of the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon, *nnk at Santiago, was fonnd. 00 .the beach im&,, Uiddletown, IL L •u.J"" * • }