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Plaindealer. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ILLINOIS. MeHENRY, --•vi&'i- WEEK'S NEWS JEtECORD [ Lieut. Col. Arthur L. Wagner, assistant adjutant general, United States army, has been ordered to St. Paul, Minn., for duty as adjutant general of the tlepftrt- mcnt of Dakota, relieving Maj. Samuel D. : StUrgHk ' Judge Thomas, in the United States Circuit Court In New York, decided the infringement ease of the Rubber Tire $n>«e! Company of Springfield, Ohio, against the American Rubber Tire Com­ pany in favor of the former. At Princeton, Mo., Ira Sexton - was hanged for the killing of Nathan Stark, a young farmer, Oct. 28, 1897. Sexton jps manifested great composure while on the scaffold. He sang two hymns and made a speech declaring his innocence. |p% John Green, a deputy sheriff of New Mexico, who. is in Denver, has4*received l-jfV Information that Grant C. Gillett, the |ki fugitive cattle man, is making his head- S? , , quarters at Jiminea, a smfcll town 190 miles southeast of the city of Chihuahua, Mexico. Mrs. Nathaniel Brown, who had been visiting relatives at Youngstown, Ohio, - was found dead in bed at the residence of her son, Frank Brown. Death was the result of heart disease. She was 72 years of age and resided with her son-in-law in • Chicago. Robert G. Wells, connected with the Nicopol-Mariopol Mining and Metallurgi­ cal Company of Mariopol, Russia, has been in Pittsburg- to place orders for ma­ chinery aggregating $1,000,000 for mam­ moth mills to be erected at Mariopol on the sea of Azof. The latest trust is a consolidation of the three great thread manufacturing con­ cerns which practically control the thread business of the country. These concerns art George A. Clark & Bro., the Clark Mile-End Spool Cotton Company and the ' Coats Thread Company. The steamer China, recently arrived a* San Francisco from the Orient, carried the largest consignment of opium ever en­ tered at that port. There were 660 cases of the drug, valued at $500,000. The total weight of the opium is 27.000 pounds, and the duty on it amounts to $162,360, at $6 ,, a pound. James Brown, colored, was banged in the county jail at Kansas City for the murder of Henry Prather, also a negro. The mnrder was committed in April, 1896, Brown shooting Prather in a quarrel over a woman. Brown escaped to Hutchin­ son, Kan., then went to Quincy, 111., , where he was captured in December, 1897. The bodies of two children were found under an old stump near Portsmouth, O. The coroner has found a verdict charging Miss Rachel Glenn, aged 20. with the willful murder of her twin children, and that her mother and sister Sarah aided and abetted in the crime. The murdered children were about six months old. At Alliance, Ohio, fire hroke out, caus­ ing a loss of over $100,000. The blaze originated in Parthe's shoe store. The ' Atwell Block, occupied by the Cassidy • Drug and Chemical Company, caught fire, and the exploding drugs and chemicals ' threw burning fluids in all directions. , During the fire several persons were in- V jured. i 'A west-bound passenger train on the 'Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was wrecked near Hoehne, Colo. The train was running about sixty miles an honr, when the engine left the track and ; rolled down an embankment. The Pull- ' man cars followed. Many passengers f were badly shaken op, but none was seri- MBly injured. NEWS NUGGETS. sanity among the prisoners in that Inctta* tion for year*. The annual report of the American Board of Foreign Missions, made public at Boston, shows the following receipts: Donations, $252,488; legacies, $187,729; donations for school fund, $7,312; dona­ tions for Micronesian navy, $2,976; dona­ tions for young missionary fund, $3,017; donations for debt of Sept. 1. 1897, $25,- 902; donations for mission work for wom­ en, $186,000; income of fund% $6*393; total, $671,717. . WESTERN. John &- Parker, formerly a Chicago lawyer. Is missing from Oakland, Cal., and the police believe he has either com­ mitted suicide or met with foul play. At Omaha, the jury has returned a ver­ dict of not guilty in the case of W. F. Bechel, ex-auditor of the Pacific Express Company, charged with embezzlement. Samuel Carr, a colored man from Chi­ cago. has been given a life sentence in Cleveland for the murder of John Ste­ phanies during a fight in a boarding house. The Minnesota State canvassing board has completed its work. John Lind, silver Republican, with Democratic and Popu­ list indorsement, was the only fusion can­ didate elected, receiving 131,980, to lll,- 796 cast for Eustis. Republican, giving Lind a plurality of 20,184. At Omaha, George Davis was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary, he hav­ ing been convicted Of selling forged rail­ road tickets on the streets of Omaha last summer. Davis was one of the transitory scalpers whom the exposition had brought to the city. He came from Chicago. Judge Dissette, in the criminal court at Cleveland, sustained the demurrer made to the indictment made against ex-Mayor F. E. Magowan. Mrs. Magowan and lira. W ynn, Mrs. Magowan's sister, upon the charge of child stealing. The court or­ dered all of the defendants ijo the case discharged, saying that it was not a crime for a mother to stpal her own child in the State of Ohio. The Magowans1 were not in coart when the decision was rendered. DEATH OF MORRILL. VENERABLE SENATOR EXPIRES IN WASHINGTON. ~ ? ; W Ag«l Statesman the Victim of Pneumonia--Total Eclipse of the Moon Visible in Many Places--Plans for a liew President's Palicti- Senator Jnstin S. Morrill of Vermont, the venerable "father of the Senate," died at 1:25 o'clock Wednesday morning at his residence in Washington. There were at the bedside the Senator's son, James Mor­ rill, Miss Swan, the sister of his deceased wife, and Senator Proctor, his colleague. He was attacked by grip about a week previous, but as the disease was mild in form, he attended the sessions of the Sen­ ate up to the holiday adjournment. His condition was not considered serious un­ til the day before his death, when pneu­ monia developed. He grew rapidly worse, and Monday night became unconscious, in which state he remained except for a few short lucid intervals. The Senator suffered a severe attack of pneumonia last winter. His wife died last summer just WASHINGTON. Gen. Bios, Spanish commander in the : iVisayas, has surrendered Iloilo. Montreal and New York capitalists have *•' purchased the Havana Street Railway and all its franchises for $1,800,000. Mrs. Isabel Mallon, best known by her som de plume of "Bab" and "Ruth Ash- more," died at her home in New York. At Woonsocket. B. I.. Herman Iviso, 12 iyears old, and Arthur Leedham, 9 • years old, were drowned while skating on thin ice. Returned prospectors report an ample food supply at Dawson City. The cost • of living there has greatly decreased, good jneals/costiog but a dolltfr. Daniel Allen, a lawyer of Buffalo, N. Y., has been adjudged bankrupt on his own application. The liabilities exceed $200,- 000, of which $190,000 is secured. W. A. E. Moore, convicted of robbing Martin Mahon. a hotelkeeper of New York, by the "badger" g«me, was sen- tenced to nineteen years in State prison. At Minneapolis, Minn., a loss of $100, 000 was caused by the burning of elevator "I," together with its contents of 60.000 bushels of wheat. The loss is covered by insurance. Robert Adams, formerly a manufactur­ er in Connecticut and New Jersey, a resi- , dent of Providence, It. I., has filed a, vol untary petition in bankruptcy. His lia­ bilities are placed at over $500,000. * Part of Red Rock Mountain, according to a dispatch from Airolo a village of Switzerland. Canton of Ticino, has fallen into Airolo, destroying a hotel and several houses. Three persons were injured. While quelling a riot between Spaniards and Cubans at Havana a detail of United States soldiers was fired on by the latter. The regulars returned the fire, killing a Spaniard and wounding several persons. W. R. Johnson, a cattle dealer of Paola, Kan., has disappeared, leaving his affairs The Secretary of War^fas appointed William P. Watson of Chicago auditor of customs accounts for Cuba at Havana. The Secretary of the Navy has ordered that the distilling ship Iris, now with the battleships Oregon and Iowa, leave Cal- lao, Peru, on her arrival there, and go across the Pacific to Manila, where she is needed by Admiral Dewey's feet. Engineers who have inspected the bat­ tleship Massachusetts, now in dry dock in the Brooklyn navy yard, report that it will cost $40,000 to repair the damage to her plates. The board of inquiry has con­ cluded its investigation into the accident. Col. J. R. Campbell of the Ninth Illi­ nois regiment, who represents the Twen­ tieth Illinois district in Congress, an­ nounces that he is going to Cuba with his regiment regardless of what Congress may do in reference to his right to retain his seat in the House and at the same time hold his commission in the army. The Washington Government, accord­ ing to a dispatch from Auckland, has in­ structed the tlnited States consul at Sa­ moa to act With greater vigilance and not to intrust his duties to his British and German colleagues. It appears the Ger­ man agent has taken advantage of his colleagues' confidence to land guns and munitions of war without their knowledge and also to Qbtain important advantages for German firms. RIOTERS AT HAVANA. Om4« of Violence Precede Hoiiting sf Stars and Stripea. Serious , rioting occurred in Havana Tuesday night. Before it wfas quelled American regulars had to be called for* They did their work so well that on# Spanish sailor was killed and a dozes Cubans and Spaniards injured, some fa­ tally. The trouble started through the resent­ ment of some Spanish soldiers and sailors because the American and Cuban Sags were flying everywhere in the city, which event the Cubans were boisterously cele­ brating. A Spanish soldier, marching with his company to the wharf, tried to pull down a Cuban flag in Bomba street. He was shot at and dangerously wound­ ed. Desperate fighting followed between Spaniards and Cubans. Lieut. Miller of the Tenth United States infantry, whose company had been brought into the city for just such an emergency, and was stationed three blocks away, sent Sergeant Adams with a detail of a dozen men to preserve order. The regulars soon reached the narrow Street and forming in line swept all be­ fore them at the point of the bayonet. Midway in the block is a cafe. When the Americans reached there they were fired upon. A quick order from Sergeant Adams and a dozen rifles rang out as one. Nearly every shot told, for eight or ten persons were seen to drop. One Spanish sailor was killed and the rest, Cubans and Spuniards, were wounded. That single j volley scattered the crowd like so many { sheep. The American soldiers captured four of the ringleaders in the disturbance and marched them back to their quarters. None of the American regulars was in­ jured. The city Wednesday was prac­ tically in the hands of the Americans. * SKNATOli MOKRILL. before the adjournment of Congress, and Mr. Morrill had been visibly failing since. Justin S. Morrill was born at Strafford, Orange County, Vt.. on April 14, 1810. He received an academic education and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1848, when he took up agriculture. He was elected to Congress in 1855 as a Republi­ can, and represented his native State in the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty- sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. During his several terms in Congress he always took a leading part in all financial and economic legislation, and was the father of the famous tariff bill of 1861. This bill became known as the Morrill tariff bill. Senator from Vermont, 1866. Mr. Morrill was elected to the Senate from Vermont in 1866 and has served con­ tinuously ever since. He had been a mem­ ber of Congress for forty-three years and had at all times been earnestly interested A PRESIDENT'S PALACE. A Movement for the Erection of*a $IO,- 000,000 Executive Mansion. A movement is on foot for the erection, of a new executive mansion for the Pres-> ident. Paul J. Pelz, the architect of the Congressional Library, has prepared elab­ orate drawings and diagrams for the pro­ posed mansion. The projectors want the Government to build a home for the Pres­ ident that will be a credit to the nation. They have found an ideal site on Meridian hill, bounded by West Sixteenth and Fourteenth streets. The crest of the hilli is 202 feet above the Potomac, while the Capitol site is only 90 feet above the river. They say fifty-two acres can be secured at moderate cost by condemnation, be­ cause there are few buildings on the land. The White House grounds have twenty- one acres. Mr. Pelz's plan is drawn on a scale of striking grandeur. The proposed building is in the form of the letter H. One wing is set aside for the living apartments of the President and his family, and the other is devoted •to social and state functions. The con­ necting structure is to have a roof garden. In the rear of the building is an elaborate system of conservatories inclosing an enormous court that is to be covered. The site is a mile or more north of the White House, which is to be retained for office purposes for the President. The new mansion is to face south toward the IN GENERAL. A new counterfeit $1 silver certificate has been discovered. It is of the series of 1896, Bruce, registrar, Roberts, treasurer, and apparently printed from photo-etched plates on heavy bond paper. The execu­ tion is poor and the work would deceive only the most careless handlers. Bradstreet's commercial weekly says: Current business conditions furnish some •harp contrasts to those usually looked for or reported at this season of the year. It is, of course, reasonable to look for ex­ ceptional activity in holiday and retail trade generally at this date, and in this respect the most sanguine expectations appear to have been realized. Probably never before at this date, however, was the course of general business so animated as at present. Speculative activity is no longer confined to the stock market, but has widened to include wheat and corn among the cereals and copper among the metals, while the rush of business in iron and steel seems little, if any, abated, and some lines, notably cotton goods and raw wool, are displaying an activity and strength which would have been welcomed at any time for a year past. Prices of securities and of staples alike furnish ex­ amples of aggressive strength which are,| so numerous as to deserve special mention. The foreign demand for cereals continues unabated, any slight price reaction being taken advantage of by foreign buyers. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,515,231 bushels, against 6.243,859 bushels last week. Since July 1, this year, the exports of wheat aggregate 115,236,084 bushels, against 123,566,647 bushels last year. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,103,673 bushels, against 3,251,936 bushels last week. Since July 1, this year, corn exports aggregate 77,289,- 899 bushels, against 76,260,454 bushels during the same period a year ago.". THE PROPOSED NEW WHITE HOUSE in legislation. Mr. Morrill's,career as Sen­ ator exceeded in length that of any other Senator in the history of this nation. Thomas H. Benton, the first Senator from Missouri, served thirty-one years in the Senate. Senator Morrill was widely known in educational circles because of tys success­ ful advocacy of the act of 1862 granting land to the various States for educational purposes. The act came to he known as the Morrill land-grant act. It was from the proceeds of this fund and from his private resources that Ezra Cornell found­ ed Cornell University. At that university and at many others Mr. Morrill's name is held in high honor, and a building at Cor­ nell is named for him. The Senator had been for some years the patriarch of the Senate and held a wrfhn plaee in the affections of his asso­ ciates. He likewise enjoyed the fullest confidence of his constituents, who. not­ withstanding his years, re-elected him in 1896 for a fifth consecutive term, which would not have expired until March 3, 1003. • MOTIONLESS FIVE MONTHS White House, and its approach from the south side is t$-be buttressed by walls, terraces and broad flights of stairs, some­ what after the style of those on the west side of the Capitol. The architecture is like that of the Congressional Library* but the plan calls for white marble in­ stead of granite for the building. It is estimated the work will cost $8,000,000 to $10,000,000, and require eight or ten years for its completion. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime' $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red,66c to GSc; corn, No, 2, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 55c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 08c; corn, No. 2 Milwaukee Girl's Strange Trance a Puzzle to Physicians. For five months Tiny Broeschit of Mil­ waukee has not spoken a word and lies in her little room entirely oblivious to her surroundings. Every effort to attract her attention or make her so much as raise an eyelid has completely failed. She is gradually wasting away; death is the only thing which her family and friends think will relieve her from her suffering. She has become greatly emaciated, takes but little food and seems simply to exist with- LUNA'S FACE HID IN ECLIPSE. Obscured for the Third Time in the Course of a Tear. For about an hour and a half Tuesday night, where, clouds did not obscure, it seemed as if a black hand l\ad been put over the face of the moon. HCT silver face was blotted out and the sky was as if she had never been. In her flight about the earth she slid for a period of six hours and eighteen minutes through f;he converging DIAGRAM OP THE ECLIPSE. In a tangled state. Investigation reveals w^e, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c the fact that all his Kansas City property 4k mortgaged and his debts are numerous. Jay L. Athey, one of the best-known attorneys and at one time a leading Dem­ ocratic politician of Cleveland, died of pneumonia, aged 44 years. Sunny Slope farm, at Emporia, Kan., famous as a breeding establishment for ttereforu cattle, was sold for $40,000, the .purchaser being, C. A. ktannard of Hope, •Kan. M. Xepic of the staff of Les Droits -d'Honame, was severely wounded in a duel with Max Regis, the anti-Semite ex-mayor Of Algiers, in a duel fought at Paris. The duel originated in TSio T)reyfus contro­ versy. I "s" fcr"" EASTERN. < . iHretrftnsed $15,000 damage in the office of the Bridgeport, Conn;, Standard. At Philadelphia, Rear Admiral Schley was made the recipient of a handsome and costly sword, scabbard and belt presented to him in behalf of the people of that city tna other cities in Pennsylvania, New ersey and Delaware. Six convicts, driven mad by Idleness, were taken from Kings County peniten­ tiary, New York, to asylums for the crim­ inal insane. One of the penitentiary offi­ ciate skid that until the abolition of con­ vict labor there had not been a case, of in­ to 30c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 52c to 53c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2. G9c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $2.50 to $3.50; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 81c; rye, 66c to 67c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 69c to 71c; com, fCo. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c^ rye, No. 2, 53c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.45 to $4.50. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 1, 53c to 55c; barley, No. 2, 44c to 50c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00>£o $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 80c; corn, No. 2,43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, West­ ern, 25c to 27c. THE AFFLICTED GIBL. world. She is not in a trance, for during the greater part of the day her eyes are wide open and fixed with a wistful glance upon one corner of the room, where she seems to see things that other people can­ not see. Hypnotists are experimenting with the girl and claim to havo made progress in reviving her. They expect to ultimately succeed. Physicians, however, find no change in the girl's condition. ILOILO IS GIVEN UP. Spanish Governor Surrenders It Pre­ sumably to the Americans. Iloilo, capital of the island of Pansy, in the Philippines, has been surrendered to the Americans. Gen. Rios, the Spanish commander in the Visayas, cabled the Madrid Government as follows from Iloilo: "Am preparing to embark on the steam er Leo XIII. for Zamboanga, island of Miadanao, having formally surrendered Iloilo, in the presence of the military and naval commanders, the mayor and the foreign consuls. Have charged the Ger­ man consul with the protection of Spaaish interests." WAR WAS EXPECTED ORDERS NOW MADE PROVE THIS TO BE" PUBLIC Preparations Began Early in January for the Conflict Which Seemed Prob­ able if Not Inevitable--An Uaotosllj' IMsastrous Season on the Liket, Despite the vigorous denials made at rhe time, it is now a matter o(^public rec­ ord that the United States Government became convinced at least as long ago as the first day of January, 1898, that war with Spain was probable, if not inevita­ ble. During all the period from the meet­ ing of Congress in December until the actual declaration of war the President .and his advisers, in spite of their reiterat­ ed belief in a peaceful solution of the diffi­ culty, were steadily preparing for actual hostilities, and this, too, long before the Maine was blown up. Official dispatches have been m&dle-<public which establish this fact completely. In January Ad­ miral Selfridge was in command of the 'European station, and on Jan. 11, 1898, he was instructed to retain his sailors in spite of the expiration of enlistment. Five days later the gunboat Htelena.'at Fun- chal, Madeira, which had been ordered to the Asiatic station, received orders mark­ ed "secret and confidential," to delay its departure, and the ^pext day it was or­ dered to Lisbon. At the same time Cap­ tain Chester, in command of the South Atlantic squadron, received a confidential dispatch directing him to announce unoffi­ cially that the cruisers Cincinnati and Castine would go to the northern bound­ ary of his station for drill and exercise, ;then proceed to Para, Brazil, "without •causing comment." The same day, which was Jan. 17, the Wilmington, at Guade- loup, received instructions canceling its orders to go to South America, and re­ gaining it in the Windward Islands with­ out touching at Spanish ports. Commo­ dore Dewey, at Yokohama, as early as |Jan. 27 was instructed to disregard en­ listments and keep his sailors. The Maine jwas blown up Feb. 15; ten days later Theodore Roosevelt sent to Dewey the first warlike dispatch, which read: "Secret and confidential: Order the squadron, except Monocacy, to Hong Kong. Keep full of coal. In the event of declaration of war with Spain your duty will be to see that the Spanish squad- yon does not leave the Asiatic coast, and then begin offensive operations in the Philippine Islands. Keep Olympia until further orders." The Monocacy was practically useless and the Olytnpia was under orders to re-' turn home. At this time Secretary Long was giving out interviews daily affirming that the Maine was destroyed by accident find that there was no danger of war. Yet the day after Roosevelt's stirring dispatch Jo Dewey Secretary Long sent dispatches to Chester in the Barbadoes, Miller at Honolulu, Howell at Lisbon, Dewey at {Bong Kong and Sicard at Key West, all of which read significantly: "Keep full of coal--the best that can be had." March 7, six weeks before the declaration of war, in ordering the Brooklyn to Hampton 'Roads to leave the flying squadron, Secre­ tary Long used the unusual expression: "The situation is getting worse." April 7, a little over two weeks before the dec­ laration of war. Commodore Dewey was cabled: "Land all woodwork, stores, etc., it is not considered necessary to have for operation"--an order which, of course, contemplated nothing less than an attack on the Philippines. Three days before 'that Admiral "Sampson at Key West had been instructed to be ready at any time to take possession of the Key West cable office, and assigned an officer to stop the transmission to Cuba of any telegram re­ lating to the action of the President or Congress. The destruction of the Maine hurried things along, but the United States, it appears, was preparing for a war without exciting comme*ntlong before !that terrible catastrophe. DECLARES FOR NEW ALLIANCE. shadow of the earth that projects like a great invisible cone into space in the di­ rection away from the sun. For an hour and twenty-nine minutes the eclipse was total to observers where the sky was clear. As the shadow of the earth has swung about its tremendous circle during 1898 out interest in the outward atid apparent the moon has three times passed Ihrough it. Jan. 7 there was a total eclipse that, like the one of Tuesday night, was visible throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. July 3 the silver orb that floats in the sky had a section of its bright surface obscured by the shadow of a par­ tial eclipse that could be seen only in Eu- rbpe. The eclipse Tuesday followed to the. second a schedule that was calculated fully fifty years ago by the astronomer* of that time. Eenator Pavis Susrsresta Combination that Can Defy the World. The Paris correspondent of the London Daily Mail summarizes an interview he had with United States Senator Cushman :K. Davis of the peace commission, who advo­ cates a triple alliance .between the United States, Great Britain and J apan. The corre­ spondent says: "Mr. ,Davis declared Ameri­ can and British inter­ ests in the far East run quite parallel, and, therefore, the two pow­ ers should act jointly. 'I am not appealing to sentiment,' he said, c-DAVIS. 'though blood is thicker than water, and this argument should not be ignored. My thesis in favor of co-operation is borne out by the coldest logic. I favor a treaty of alliance, including Great Britain and 'Japan, for the protection of all their in­ terests north of the equator. The rest of the world would have a wholesome fe^r, synonymous with respect, for us.' "He proceeded to argue that Russia, Germany and France had secured the great bulk of the commercial benefits in China to the exclusion of both the Uuited States and England. He suggested that such a dreibnnd could have nothing to fear from any coalition of other nations, and that, therefore, it would tend to pre­ serve, the peace. 'There are sMlJMO xearft of vigorous fight in England,' said Mr. ,Davis, 'which shows no sign of decrepi­ tude, while, strong as America is, it will take several hundred years to develop her promise and potency. I do not see why other nations should object to the alli­ ance. If they do, let them. Germany al ready by special'legislation has immense­ ly injured America's commercial interests. German-Americans regret this attitude on the part of the mother country.' GOLD QALORE.' HEAVY MARINE LOSSES. Keport from Diwton Indicate* In­ crease in Output of lOO Per Cent. Reports from all the creeks in the vicin­ ity of Dawson indicate that the winter'* produce of gold will exceed last year's by, more than 100 per cent. New strikes are being made daily and the indications are that the full extent of the Klondike placer regions has by no means been yet deter­ mined. All known localities are crowded with hard-working miners, who are push­ ing development with a rapidity unparal-> leled in this country. American genius has furnished thawing machinery and frost extractors which enable the miner to work economically and speedily, so that the gold production this winter will be at considerable less cost than hereto­ fore. Eldorado, Bonanza, Hunker, Skokum, Bear, Chief gulch, Aurora, Dominion, Sulphur, Little Blanch, French gulch and bench claims bordering them are being worked and nearly all with good prospects of success. From Thistle and Tulare creeks, on the upper river, most flattering reports have come, and those who stam­ peded there in the latter part of Septem­ ber are now returning to Dawson CJitjr to procure outfits and make reports 'that rreat richness remains. •a.:';,. 'i.tr J. An Unusually Disastrous Pearon for Freah Water Navigation. Marine losses during 1898 were mate­ rially greater than duriug any previous season oa the lakes. Up to the middle of July insurance men were congratulating themselves that they were doing well. The losses had been few, and there was a large margin of premiums to cover the latter half of the season. Along in Sep­ tember the trouble began, and it did not cease until the last boat was in port at the close of the season. The trouble was not confined to an^ one cause. Fire contributed an uuusual num­ ber of big losses, but strandiugs were pre­ eminent. The collision itcin was much smaller than in previous years. As to the grand total of losses from all causes, no two underwriters make estimates within a half of a million dollars of one another. A general average of statements made by people who are in touch with the business places the aggregate loss at about $2,- 600.000. Vessehnen, who are fearful of high rates next season, protest that these figures are too high. In a iift.of 569 losses the causes assign­ ed were (Is follows: Ashore, 123; aground in protected channels, 120; fire. 40; col­ lisions, 90; ice, 16; storm-beaten, 96; foun- Theft is no mistaking the fact that Ben* tftnen't is growing in Congress against the Morgan proposition to buy the conces­ sions now held by the Maritime Canal Company and build a ship canal across Nicaragua according to the conditions in •uch concession. A great many sincere friends of the canal cannot bring them­ selves to believe that it would be the best thing for the Government to go ahead un­ der this particular concession. They con­ tend that to do so would be to commit this Government to the expenditure of anywhere frpm $40,000,000 to $75,000,- 000 over and above the actual cost of the /canal proper, and they do not see the ne­ cessity of assuming any such responsibil­ ity. They honestly believe that it will not be fatal to the canal project to allow the concession to the American company to expire arid begin negotiations direct with ;the Government of Nicaragua for the right to construct a water way across that country.' ' The American peace commissioners and their assistants have been obliged to pay all their personal expenses out of the com­ pensation allowed them by the President. The expense which the Government de­ frayed included, office rent, stationery and general expense. The hotel bills «if fhe commissioners were not defrayed by the Government. As the personal expenses ,of the commissioners were very high, a comparatively small amount was left to each commissioner and each officer of the commission out of the President's allot­ ment of salaries. Each commissioner will receive about $17,000 for his services, and out of this he must pay all personal ex­ penses contracted on his trip abroad. &bc* rctary Moore will receive half the amount paid to each commissioner, and as his personal expenses were as heavy as those of the jqembers of the commission'he will fare Worse than his Superiors. Of the 1,700 letters which President McKlnley received one day last week one of the most interesting was from a Chi­ cago man, named Dougherty. He offered this suggestions "The United States went to war to set Cuba free. Now we have it in our power to liberate another country of far greater importance and interest without going to war. That is Ireland. \Ye have on our hands the Philippine Isl­ ands, which we may offer to England as a compensation as well as to relieve our­ selves of what may turn out to be a white elephant. McKinley's ancestors were Irish and his great-granduuele, Francis McKinley, was shot down by the British soldiers as an Irish rebel after a farcical court martial about 100 years ago." Under the provisions of the bill for tb? increase of the army the regular force will consist of 3,942 commissioned officers and 96,815 enlisted men, making a total of 100,757 men in all. There will be one lieutenant general, six major generals, twenty-four brigadier generals, 114 colo­ nels, 156 lieutenant colonels, 447 majors, 1,053 captains, 1,401 first lieutenants and 740 second lieutenants. The total enlisted strength of each arm will be: Infantry, 53,220 men; light field coast artillery, 20,- 598 men; cavalry, 15.840 men; medical de­ partments, 3,750; signal corps, 630; ord­ nance department, 605; engineers, 1,862; subsistence department, 160, and the quartermaster's department. 150 men. Ambassador Hitchcock, at St. Peters­ burg, who was appointed to the position of Secretary of the Interior, has been for a long time a close personal friend of the President, and few, if any, Senators were consulted in advance, the same condition of affairs prevailing when Mr. Hitchcock was first nominated for the Russian mis­ sion. Western men seem gratified over the appointment, because they have all along contended that no Eastern man, however competent and acute, could pos­ sibly appreciate the needs of the far West­ ern country, which is more interested in the Interior Department than any other branch of the Government. The President says the idea of placing the graves of Confederate soldiers under the care of the Government first occurred to him twelve years ago, when he visited the city of Fredericksburg. Va. He found the 'Confederate ceilietery in a deplorable condition, while under the care of the quartermaster's department the graves of the Federal dead were uicely trimmed and kept in perfect order. He resolved then that he would take the first opportunity to bring this matter before the attention of the country, and he thinks the time has now come when the dead of both armies should be looked after by the Government. The Canadian high joint icciumissi^n will Boon reconvene in Washington'. ..It is not true, as widely stated, that the con­ ference is a failure and that indications point to a non-agreement upon a treaty between the United States and Canada. Directly contrary is the ease. The Cana­ dian and American commissioners are gradually getting together upon the impor­ tant points of difference, and there is lit- tle doubt of an ultimate agreement. ^Before the end *>f January 50,000 volun­ teers will be mustered out of the service, the preliminary orders for this having al­ ready been drafted. Present plans are that the troops which have seen foreign service will be let out first, but the con­ dition of some of the Southern camps is such as to cause apprehension of an out­ break of typhoid fever, and before the mustering out program is finally arrang­ ed it may be deemed necessary to break up those camps. All of the soldiers in the Cuban army will be taken care of. If they want wages they will be given employment upon the public works. If they prefer to remain in the army they wili be organized into rural police, the intention being to keep them together and prevent them from scatter­ ing idly like tramps throughout the coun­ try. Dr. J. R. Church, the surgeon of the rough riders, whose gallantry in rescuing the wounded from the field of battle at Santiago was one of the brightest inci­ dents in that campaign, has been appoint­ ed a surgeon in the regular army and or­ dered to report to Gen. Otis at Manila. It has been decided by the War Depart­ ment to reinstate Gen. Morritt in com­ mand of the Department of the East, whence he was taken for the mission to Manila, and to send Gen. Shaffer back to the Pacific coast in command of the Department of California. Secretary Wilaon remarked the other day that he had been gratified .at seeing many heroes down South, but he would have been still more gcaiified if he had' Men more hogs. 'h'ii * . . - A - ^ %yr Chicago seems to be gettis; very hot tinder the collar over the doings of her al- -.n» dermen, despite tae cold weather.--Bosto* - Globe. v !> Admiral Sampson says he is neither a. Republican nor a Democrat. Possibly he v V*'/ considers himself a stand-off.--Washing- ^ ton Port. If the stock of American heiresses holda ^ out the alliance between this country and England will be a condition, not a theory. . ̂ *4 --Pittsburg Post. The Chicago aldermen are getting into the doubtful list, preparatory to Mr. Yerkes' next hot dash for philanthropy.-- Washington Post. A Chicago man was sent to jail for stealing tombstones. Gracious, is a body. safe any way in that wicked town?-- Philadelphia Times. Bob Fitzsimmons, as becomes.the chant* pion of the world, announces his willing­ ness to fight Chauncey M. Depew.--Mem­ phis Commercial-Appeal. One of the reforms that is not to be looked for at this session of Congress ia the abolition of the "leave to print" nui­ sance.--Philadelphia'Ledger. Among other important improvements already secured in Havana is the chang­ ing of the name of a street from Weyler to Obisko.--Milwaukee Sentinel. Now that the treaty of peace has been signed, it is time for Don Carlos to rush across the stage with his wax impression of a resolution.--Pittsburg Post. It is a wonder it never occurred to Paal du Chaillu to explore the fastnesses of South Clark street, Chicago, if he is really in search of excitement.--St. Paul Dis­ patch. It is hoped that Gen. Shafter is not anxious to be classed by posterity among those warriors who do their principal fighting with their mouthB.--Philadelphia Ledger. An Ohio man had a surgical operation perfopned upon his mouth with a view to making it larger. It is safe to say he will have no feminine Imitators.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. England has seized the opportunity that offered to assure Turkey of her friendly feelings toward her. There it is again. England is always seizing something.-- Boston Herald. Mr. Croker must really feel envious, when he learns how Gen. Wood elected his mayoralty candidate in Santiago. The general's was the only vote cast.--Cleve­ land Plain Dealer. Now that Spain yields everything we shall soon have some intimation of what Europe proposes to do about it. The best thing to be done is to make for the "open door."--Boston Globe. The reports of Senator Quay's indict­ ment and arrest have thus far failed to show that Johji Wanamaker rushed in and affixed his name to the bail bond.-- Kansas City Journal. In thinking of pistols and ropes for# those alleged boodle aldermen, Chicago gives the world tfn apparent intimation that she has outgrown the use of the sandbag.--Philadelphia Times. If the French editors will permit them-. selves to think over the peace terms which France accepted from Germany, our re­ quirements of Spain may nvt seem so harsh to them.--Milwaukee Sentinel. It would seem*that it took the United States minister to Turkey to succeed where the ministers of the other powers had failed, in bottling . the crusty old Porte. Wire the cork securely.--Boston Herald. The French newspapers would have Great Britain believe that we will swal­ low her next, and that Europe would en­ joy the performance. John Bull is not to be scared by that sort of talk.--Washing­ ton Post. ^ --* The Chicatco Fight. Mr. Yerkes' pet theory ascribes vast quantities of ulterior motive to the Chi­ cago editors.--Washington Post. So far as could be learned at the hour of going to press, Chicago's Board of Alder­ men was still unhanged.--Kansas. City Journal. _ & The Chicago' aldermeir can put in the long winter evenings by discussing the venality of the public print*--Washing­ ton Post. Those Chicago councilmen, with their $100,000 votes, are liksly to raise the price of "concessious" in Philadelphia.--Phila­ delphia Ledger. If the dander of Chicago keeps on ris­ ing the only safe place for an alderman will be in the penitentiary.--Memphis Commercial-Appeal. If Chicago should turn in and lynch a few aldermen, public condemnation would doubtless be indefinitely suspended.--" Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The disappointed Chicago aldermen will never forgive those men who have tarnished the fair name of the city and' incidentally killed a real good thing.-- Washington Post. The people of Chicago have triumphed. over the traction companies of that city, and the indications are strong that the greatest people of the West will be al­ lowed to have the control and direction of' their own streets.--Peoria rterald. , The people of the country at large should rejoice "that this result has been reached without the Chicago public be­ ing provoked to that pitch of public re­ sentment which might have ended in vio­ lences As the matter now stands, the people have triumphed over the boodlers by the ordinary and legitimate processes of municipal legislation.--St. Louis Re­ public. The action of the people of Chicago" and its consequence should afford a salutary lesson both to politicians and to corpora­ tions who are firm in the faith that booule can do everything. American history is replete with proofs that the masses, care­ less and good humored so long as things are endurable, may be lashed into a de­ structive fury by the antics of brazen coi^- ruptioln--New Orleans Times-Democrat. Kinei Swamp a Hero. Fie, fie, Hobson! The country wil} loae its good opinion of you.--Boston Globe. As far as Hobson is concerned, mistle­ toe is a mere mockery.--Cleveland Leader. Hobson wears a-rose in his button hole, but tulips are his favorite flowers.--P< bria Herald. Hobson sunk the Merrimftc, but a lot of foolish, sentimental women have come well nigh sinking Hobsoa.---Bloomingtou Pantagraph. Hobson is now a shattered idol with the great majority of the American people, his foolish fondness for indiscriminate os­ culation having hurled him from the ped­ estal on which the public lad placed him. --Peoria Transcript. Lieut. Hobson has thoroughly disgusted the people hi his efforts to make a record as the chanip:in kisser. On every occa­ sion he has slobbered over shallow-pated women, and so conducted himself as tp leave the impression that he is the cheap* •est kind of a amob.--Galesburg Matt. "f? :J... a , i.'\ •" . r,&~ ' "Si.-? nJ.,rA..IJu.v - ,*V. * -