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v V - Mctienry Plaindealer. F. K. QRANQER, PubUsker. fttcHENRY, ILj.IL .n-- ILLINOIS. EVENTS OF THE WEEK J . Lured to his death by robbers, George -ll. Pern, a Chicago dry goods merchant, . Was murdered in cold blood in his store. -V. A supposed patron shot him down while !|f, lie was attempting to defend his life. The police believe that revenge was the motive "' { fior the murder. «• , A soldier at Ma-tanzas, Cuba, while .il leaning the courtyard of the castle, found V Spanish gold piece. Other soldiers im- S mediately staked off claims and dug up , the whole yard, finding coins dated all the *av from 1730 to 1808 and worth $300 American money. • The Park Hotel at Hannibal, Mo., was destroy^ by lire. The flames origiua^"d (rum a defective electric wire in the eie- t*- , J vator. The guests escaped from the third [ hud fourth floors with great difficulty. K k Hfhe building was owned by Paice Broth- ^ - «ts, the occupants, and cost $35,000. pi • ; An order-in-counoil has been passed pre- ' Renting any person employed by the Do- t-V' « ./ Vfkinion Government in any capacity from itaking out or recording mining claims on ff%-, Dominion lauds pf any kind in the Yukon lf !>-• , territory. It was also decided to exempt * •, 4brom the rojnalty tax the gross output of I' * "Vby mine up to the amount pf $5,000. |-- s " ' ,The big stern-wheel steamer John Iv. Speed, owned by the Cincinnati and New fV* Orleans Packet Company, "was wrecked $r iv «hd sunk in the river near Louisville, Ky. ft." The 109 passengers and the members , of ' tHe crew were rescued. The property loss ,'t IS only about $8,000, as the steamer can * f be raised. \ A pitched battle was fought in the 3 Blreets of Brnnson, S. C., between James " Preacher, Charlie Preacher and Aren £ - Preacher, brothers, on one side, and Geo. Hied. Mack Ried and James Ried, broth- Ms, and Joseph Connelly, on the other. -• George Ried was killed. Slack Ried fatal- s - j,;r Jy wounded and Joseph Connelly serious- l">- ! If and James Preacher slightly wounded. ^ ̂ - United States District Attorney W. E. >5^ TBlindy of Cincinnati has filed a suit in the |5" United States Court agr.inst the Chesa- - peake and Ohio and seventeen other coal ^ i companies, comprising what is known as ^ ^ the coal trust, asking for an injunction <£;'?. V*. against all the members of the trust. It f is also asked that the trust or combina- £.•! tion be declared dissolved as void and ** illegal. v- Martin Furnibal was found dead near I' tbe city limits in Toledo. Ohio, with a load of buckshot in his back. He had been shot by Heriry Hartman. who had beard chicken thieves in his yard and fired to get rid of them. Furnibal. after the shooting, had gotten into his buggy and drove away, but was overcome and fell from the rig dead. His dog was watching tbe body when it was found. Fnrnibal's partner escaped. The President has named twelve new warships recently provided for by Con­ gress as follows: Battleships, Pennsylva- v nia, New Jersey, Georgia; armored cruis- efrs, West Virginia, Nebraska. California; ernisers, Denver, Des Moines, Chatta­ nooga. Galveston, Tacoma, Cleveland. Hundreds of petitions have been sent to tbe White House and Navy Department «*er since the new ships were provided for, urging the merits of various names. Georgia did not petition. Frank Fisher, keeper of the big ele­ phant Rajah, was killed by his charge at the winter quarters of Lemen Bros.' eir- cos in Argentine, Kan. The keeper, be­ coming angry at the elephant, struck him fiercely with a "hook." The huge beast promptly turned on him. grabbed him with bis trunk and threw him high in the air. When the body fell the elephant trampled it and gored it with his tusks till it was a shapeless mass. Fisher is Rajah's sixth victim. The people who live near the •how quarters are determined that the beast shall die. The show proprietors, , however, insist the elephant was justified I fel his act on the ground of cruelty. R. G. Dun & Cd.'s weekly review of f trade says: "Failures in the first quarter of 1809 were in number 2,772. against " *,«87 Inst year, and the liabilities $27,- $52,031, against $32.1*46.565, a decrease of 17.0 per cent. Geographical aspects make tbe return peculiar, with a slight increase Of 13 per cent in the Southeast, and 20 Per cent in the central States. There Was a decrease of nearly 40 per cent on . the Pacific and Southwestern States, 41 per cent in Western States and 40 per <$ent in Middle States. No other year of " • Hie twenty-four covered by Dun's quar- ^ terly reports has shown as small failures * ^uring its first quarter, excepting 1880 •nd 1881, and no other except 1880 and 188G as.small liabilities per failure. Fail­ ures for the week have been 141 in the f ,j. United States, against 232 last year, and 17 injCan ad a, against 32 last year.'* •V'S /* post-mortem examination on the itetnent, but no casualties. were the St. Cloud and the Stuart. Henry H. Croley, a wealthy farmer V>f La Salle, N. Y., announces that he will give $50,000 to any man who will lead his daughter. Miss Clara Croley, to the altar, the lucky man to be acceptable to both father and daughter. The candidate for tbe band of Miss Croley mast be honest, sober, industrious and bear a good charac­ ter. Fire broke out in the five-story dwell­ ing at 2 Bast Sixty-seventh street. New York, the home of Wallace Andrewls, i»i*e- ident of the New York Steam Heatfftg. Company. The fire spread very rapidly and when the firemen arrived in response to the first alarm they found the interior of the houses all in flames. Eleven Tires were lost. Because his wife gave him a public thrashing, William Adams cut bis throat at Camden, X. J. After a quarrel with his wife he went to work. He did not go home to dinner and his wife foimd him eating pie and milk in a restaurant. She had been waiting dinner fer 'him. She seized him by the whiskers, ftrngged him to the sidewalk and whipped him as one would a child. Then she walked home. Adams could not bear his humiliation. *Tbe WESTERN. Clyde Mattox killed Lincoln Swinney, an Osage ranchman, at Ponca, City, 1. T„ in the White House Club saloon during a quarrel in which Swinney was the aggres- tor. Mattox used a knife. ' A deed transferring the inteirests of tbe Minneapolis and Pacific Railroad Com­ pany to the Minneapolis and St. Louis Company was filed in tbe office of the Secretary of State at PierTC, S. I>. At Jefferson City, Mo., State Superin­ tendent of Insurance «®bear levied a tax of 2 per cent on premiums of foreign com­ panies doing business in Missouri. Tbe total tax amounts to $243,815, an increase of $10,500 over that levied last year. The announcement has been made that the extension system of telephone toll lines in Ohio owned by the National Tele­ phone and Telegraph Company bad passed into the hands of the United States Tele­ phone Company, which owns the indepen­ dent lines. At Everett. Wash., a powder car be­ longing to the Great Northern freight train blew up, killing one tramp and wounding two others who were riding in an adjoining car. In addition to the pow­ der car, two cars containing mixed, freight were burned. The twenty-sixth session of the Nebras­ ka Legislature has closed and t&e body has gone down in history as a unique gathering. Its record shows the highest number of bills ever introduced in a ses­ sion of tbe State Legislature and tbe low­ est number of bills passed. About 1,000 carpenters went on strike Cleveland, and it is stated that these figures will be greatly increased unless the contractors accede to the demands of the men for an eight-hour day and 30 cents an hour. A number of contractors have agreed to the scale of the men. Bronson, Kan., will be without a mu­ nicipal government for two years unless tbe present Mayor. Council and other officers can hold over. The people of the town were so engrossed in a natural gas and sine ore boom that they allowed nom­ inations to go utterly by default. Mrs. Sarah Shubert and Mrs. Byers were burned to death at Kingsley, Mich. George Geiger, with whom they were liv­ ing, called at their room in the night or early morning to give Mrs. Shubert, an invalid, some assistance. A short time after the fire started, supposedly caused by a lantern carried to the invalid's room. The first contract in the construction of the largest grain elevator in the world has been let by the Great Northern Railway. Schmidt Brothers of West Superior were awarded the contract for the foundation, their bid being $85,000. The elevator is to be located at West Superior and will be built of steel at a total cost of over $2,000,000. |ts capacity is to be 6,500,000 bushels of grain, or 2,500,000 more than the largest existing elevator. The ele­ vator will have provision for wheat, corn, flax and oats and is to be completed by next January. Masquerading as a student at an Oma­ ha commercial college, John Conrad, an expert cattle rustier, wanted in half the counties in Wyoming. Nebraska and South Dakota, was captured. So surpris­ ed was the old cattle thief when Sheriff Smink of Sun Dance, Wyo., grabbed him as he was leaving the school with other students that he could make no resistance and the wily fallow was in jail before he recovered his composure. The officers al­ lege that for years Conrad, with a small band of expert rustlers, operated in that stretch of range country where South Da­ kota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado join. The sheriffs made it so hot for the gang that they finally scattered. Most of them were later arrested, but the leader strangely disappeared. MEWS NUGGETS. Kie in the Northern Pacific shops at | Itfandaa, N. D.. caused a loss of from #50,000 to $75,000. Malietoa Tanus was crowned King of ...=^-*;'?C4f>amoa at Mulinuu. The ceremony was attended by all the representative Ameri- fans and British 4 Sir Henry Scholfield, K. B., who lived jfn Jersey City, died from pernicious anae- toia. He was 66 years old. Sir Henry Was at one time connected with the Brit­ ish diplomatic and consular service. James Davidson sued Drs. Carratt, An derson and Harris of Toronto for trespass bnd mutilation of his dead wife's body find secured $800 damages. The doctors tjheld a t>ody. I J. S. Bell, manager of the Washbnrn- ,,Crosby Flouring Mills Company, an .-..^ounces the consummation of the deal I s "whereby his company assumes ownership • '. ' the C. C. Washburn group of mills in Minneapolis. ; Gen. Gomez favors a free Cuba and fv" devote his time to organizing the Cu f/f f?;ban people into a party that will urge American withdrawal from the island. The Eiffel tower is to be converted into ijf, - a telegraph office for experiments with V,_ < the Marconi system.. An attempt will be M&': m*de to transmit messages between Cape ||iForeland, in England, and Paris. i I The New York Tribune prints a story _^'from Washington that Secretary Alger p/ " will resigij when he returns from Cuba I " and will be succeeded by Gen. Russell • • Hastings,- who • was Mclvinley's superior iff oflteer tjtafiQg the civil war. EA8TERN. SOUTHERN. . Conscience demands its return. CM Knows the name sad the s!a." The Secretary of State has announced the names of the United States delegation to the disarmament conference, which will meet at The Hague in the latter part of May. The delegation consists of Andrew D. White, United States ambassador at Berlin; Mr. Newel, United States minis ter to the Netherlands; President Seth Low of the Columbia University, New York; Capt. Crocier, ordnance depart­ ment, U. S. A., and Capt. A. T/Mahan, retired, U. S. N. ' The Secretary of War recently request­ ed the opinioq of the Attorney General as to whether section 17 of the act passed at the last session of Congress, "increasing the efficiency of the army," prohibits the continuance of the sale of intoxicating drinks by the Government in the canteen sections of the post exchanges, which are organized and maintained at the various army posts and encampments throughout the United States. The Attorney General, in his reply, holds that the section in xjnestion does not prohibit the continuance of the sale of intoxicating drinks through the canteen sections, as heretofore organ­ ised and carried on, except that no officer or enlisted man can be detailed for duty in the canteen section to do the selling. FAIR TO fILIP|N0S. FOREIGN. Richard Chamberlain, brother of Joseph <3haiuberlain, secretary of state for the colonies, died in London. Marquis Charles Philippe de Chenne- vie res, member of the Institute, director of the Academie des Beaux Arts and chairman of the board of administration •of tbie Paris exposition of 1878, died at Paris, in his seventy-ninth year. According to mail advices brought from tbe Orient by tbe steamer Empress of Japan, ninety-four Chinese were killed and 123 wounded by the Russian soldiers in the redent riot at Tallen-Wan, China. A Russian interpreter was killed by the Chinese. The charities founded in Austria by Baron Maurice de Hirsch' and carried on since his death in 1896 by the late baron­ ess will benefit under her will to the ex­ tent of $1,150,000. Both the adopted sons receive large legacies, including the splen­ did Moravian estates. The United States torpedo boat Somers, which has made several unsuccessful at­ tempts to cross the ocean since it was purchased in West Prussia at the begin­ ning of the Spanish war, broke down again off Plymouth. England, and was towed into port disabled. Agoncillo, the representative of Agui- naldo at Paris, says the Filipinos hope to draw the American troops into the cen­ ter of the archipelago, as far away from the fleet as possible, and trust to the com­ ing rainy season and terrible fevers to work more injury than rebel ballets ever could. Japan was visited by another terrible earthquake. It centered in Nara prefec­ ture, and over thirty persons were killed by falling timbers and in mines, many of which caved in. The governor's report 6hows that besides those killed eleven per­ sons were injured, thirty-one dwellings destroyed, fifteen badly damaged, while thirty-six other buildings were more or less wrecked. PURPOSE or UNITED ST K-.-AI5 sit' FORTH. IN GENERAL. is. '• Brooklyn servant girls have formed anion., i. Three men were killed by an explosion at tbe railroad cap factory at Braddock, Pa. It is not known whatrcaused the ex­ plosion. The building was completely wrecked. A number of passers-by were struck and injured by flying bricks. Gotosts of two Broadway, New York, hotels were routed out of bed and thrown into a panic early the other morning by flames which destroyed several buildings between the two hostelries. Coming so* soon after the Windsor horror there was jgfljf ' kV't- - wT » ^ I r *1 - S- IV At Wheeling, W. Via., the Riverside Pottery Company has purchased the Ohio Valley cbina plant. The American Tin plate Company has secured control of the La Belle Iron and Steel Company's plant. The dead bodies of Weston B. Turner and his wife, a well-to-do couple, each about 60 years old, were found in their; home at Falls Church, Va'. Turner evi­ dently had shot his wife- while she was asleep and then put another bullet through his own head. 7 Churchill Guthrieand AugustusS. Flour- ooy of Kansas City, who were reported captured and shot as filibusters in Nicara­ gua, arrived at New Orleans from Blue- tielda on the steamship Breakwater. The Governmeat had ordered the gunboat Ma- chins to Honduras to protect the Ameri­ cans. Rev. G. W. Montgomery was decoyed from his home at Cameron, W. Va., the other night and terribly stoned by a crowd of men who waylaid him. The assault was the outgrowth of a vigorous cam­ paign against unlicensed saloons the min­ ister had conducted, and it created intense excitement. Two negroes, Forest Jamison and Moses Anderson, were lynched at Brooksville, Miss., by n mob for the murder of T. H. Cleland. Cleland, a stock farmer, was found dead in his room. An investigation was at once made and an inquest held, re­ sulting in a verdict of assassination. Guilt was soon placed upos two negroes who were living on.the farm. News has been received at Jackson, Tenn., from Chester County that Mrs. J. A. Stewart was found murdered in her barnyard a few days ago. Several w«eks ago her husband was found in his field mnrdered. One of his sons was arrested at the instance of his brother-in-law, Dan Foster, charged with the murder of tbe father. While young Stewart was in jail Foster committed suicide by shooting him­ self through the head. The boy was after­ ward released. Now comes the third in this chain of mysterious family tragedies. Acting Secretary Meiklejohn has receiv­ ed information that miners on the Copper river are starving. Disaffection in Jamaica against the Government is growing and the sentiment to join the Leeward Islands and to de> mand annexation to the United States is gaining force. A special from Tampico, Mexico, says: "The forests for miles around Tampico are a burning furnace, and as far as the eye can see there is a continuous streak of fire and smoke." The great Sierra de Mercedi mountain of iron, adjoining Durango, Mexico, has been purchased by C. P. Huntington. The purchase price is placed at $800,000 in gold. The Mexican International Rail­ way is built to the foot of-the mountain. It is now publicly admitted that the Dominion of Canada is without defense and has no nrmy worthy of the name. This statement is made upon the authority of the head of the supposed army, the general who commands it. Gen. Hutton is a first-class imperial officer, who has seen active service in various parts of the empire. Recently published official figures show that in 1898 the Canadian gold output was $13,700,000, placing Canada in fifth place as a gold-producing country. Of the total product $10,000,000 was taken out of the Klondike. Official estimates place the output from the Klondike this year at $30,000,000, and British Columbia is also expected to do much better than in pre­ vious years, so that Canadians hope that Canada will soon be near the top. The American Potteries Company, the the name given to the proposed $27,000,- 000 trust to include tbe potteries of the United States, is dead. The projectors, it is said, spent $250,000 in trying to effect an organization, but failed because of overcapitalization. They could not per­ suade investors to buy stock. It is said the property to be included was intrinsic­ ally worth $7,000,000, but had been ap­ praised for sale to tbe trust at $12,000,- 000. The trouble arose in convincing in­ vestors that dividends could be paid on $15,000,000 more than the highest valua­ tion. THE MARKFTS. Proclamation Issued by the American Commissioners Promise* Home Hule« Btligioss Freedom* Justice and Friendship-Asnimrido Qntts I^nxon The United States Philippine commis­ sion Tuesday issued a proclamation at Manila containing 1,500 words to the in­ habitants of the islands. The paper, which was prepared by President Schur- tnann of the commission, outlines the re­ sponsibilities of the United StateB in the Philippines, and states that the object of the American Government is to elevate the Philippine people. The hostilities now prevailing are de­ plored and are attributed to the Filipinos misunderstanding the purposes of the United States. The commission asks the co-operation of the people for the estab­ lishment of a betted understanding and invites attention to the following regulat­ ing principles by which the United Statqa may be guided: ? Conditions Clearly Defined. ^ , ' 1. American supremacy must b# en­ forced. 2. The most ample liberty possible will be granted. 3. All civil rights are guaranteed. 4. Honor forbids use of the Philippines as a means of exploitation. 5. An effective civil service is guaran­ teed. 6. An honest, fiscal administration is promised. 7. All corruption will be eradicated^ 8. Public works of all kinds will be pro­ moted. 9. Foreign trade and commerce will be fostered. 10. Schools will be established. 11. Reforms in all departments of tbe government of the islands are promised. The proclamation is signed by Jacob Gould Schurmann, George Dewey, Elwell S. Otis, Charles Denby and Dean C. Wor­ cester. In conclusion the proclamation says: "Such is the spirit in which the United States comes to the people of the island and the President has instructed the com­ mission to make this publicly known. Obeying his behests, the commission­ ers desire to join the President in express­ ing their good will toward the Philippine people, and to extend to the leading repre­ sentative men an invitation to meet them for the purpose of personal acquaintance and tbe exchange of views and opinions." Jnnta Advise* Atruiaoldo. It is reported that Aguinaldo, on advice of the Filipino junta in Hong Kong, will abandon Luzon and* go to Mindanao, the southern island of tbe Philippine group, and endeavor to continue the insurrection1 there and on the adjoining islands of Ne- gros. Cebu and Bohol. It is expected that the Sultan of Sulu will lend him support. * HE BULLION IS WANING. Commissioners, in a Lone Telearram to McKinley, Confirm Otis' Advices. President McKinley received a long tel­ egram from the Philippine commissioners Tuesday confirming the encouraging ad­ vices telegraphed by Gen. Otis and an­ nouncing that they had taken advantage of the favorable opportunity to issue a proclamation to the people. They stated that in their opinion the rebellion was practically over. The troops will hold positions already captured and scouting parties will be sent out to look after the scattered bands of insurgents that have fled in different directions.. - . ' .. The commission reports that the people are coming back to their homes and that the local governments are being reorgan­ ized. They state that most of the local governments were forced into the rebel­ lion by Aguinaldo, who, while the treaty of peace was being negotiated with Spain, sent detachments of from fifty to 200 of his adherents from Luzon to each of the other provinces "to seize the governments as robbers hold up trains/' This is a new fciece of information. HARRISON IS CHOSEN. ELEVEN KNOWN DEAD. New York; Bttwes Destroyed by a* Barly Moraine Fire. . _ Eleven persCMM lost their (Ives in twa ^ flPSS which destroyed mansion* in tbe mil­ lionaire section of Fifth avenue, New York, early Friday morning. The first blase started in the residence of Wallace (3. Andrews, tbe millionaire president of the New York Steam Heating Company. This magnificent palace proyed a death trap, as nearly every inmate perished, in­ cluding the millionaire and his wife, who were found locked in each other's arms. Mrs. St. John, their daughter, and her three young children, also met death, as did four of the servants. Two persons, servants, alone escaped from the build­ ing by jumping. They are In the hospital fatally hurt. Sparks blown two blocks through an open window, from which a young woman was watching the fire in the Andrews mansion, ignited the house of Albert J. Adams. Miss Adams' cries awakened Nellie Quinn and Mary Malloy, two of the servants, but by the time they reach­ ed the hallways they found escape cut off, so rapidly did the fire spread. They jumped from the fourth story to a balcony extension and were severely injured. Mary Vokel, another servant, was also badly injured by a fall. Isabella and Eve- l.vr» Adams, daughters of the owner of the house, were slightly injured by failing glass. The fire in the Adams house was put out after causing $10,000 damage. When the firemen searched the building they found Mrs. Mary Loughlin, 60 years old, burned to death in her bed on an up­ per floor. The police, after a thorough Investiga­ tion of the rnins<of the Andrews mansion, concluded that the fire started through a gas explosion, which occurred in the base­ ment of the house. Nearly every soul in that splendid but ill-fated mansion per­ ished. Two servants saved their lives for a time by jumping, but the injuries they received from their awful>leap will prob­ ably prove fatal. The Andrews mansion was completely gutted, and it was three hours or more be­ fore the firemen and police could begin the search for the dead. Body after body was carried out, laid on the sidewalk and then carried to a near-by police station. The first to be identified was that of Mrs. George St. John, daughter of Wallace P. Andrews. With her husband and children she lived in her father's hei)se. Her hus­ band, C. G. St. John, happened to be away in Delaware on a business trip, and saved his life. SiSfev;: WASHINGTON. The President has signed a proclama­ tion opening to settlement on May 4 next the larger portion of the southern Ute reservation in Colorado. The Secretary of the Treasury has re­ ceived in an envelope postmarked New lork threo $1,000 bills, which came as an inclosure in the following letter: "The in­ closed belongs to the-{?ni4e<l States treas- Chicago--Cattle, common to prime* $3.00 to $6.00; bogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2, 52c to 54c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 55c to 05c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 white, 35c to dtfc; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; bogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.89 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2-50 to $4.75; wheat, No, 2,, 73c to 75c; corn. No. mixed, 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 81c; ryfe, No. 2, 59c to 61c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, 59c to (iic. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye. No. 2, 55c to 57c; clover seed, new, $3.45 to $3.55. Milwsukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, G9c to 71c; euro, No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye. No. 1, 54c to 56c; barley, No. 2, 47c to 49c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; bogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.50. New York--Cattle, $325 to $6.00; bogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to; 84c; corn, No. 2. 42c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 36c to 39c; butter, creamery, 17c to 22c; egga, Western, 12ctol4e. Democratic Candidate Ta Be?£lected Mayor of Chicago. Carter H. Harrison was re-elected Mayor of Chicago Tuesday. His plurality was 38,850. Except tbe Twelfth, Twen­ ty-fifth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second and Thirty-fourth, he carried every ward in Chicago, and even in these he ran Mr. Carter so close a race that the Republi­ can pluralities were cut down to insignifi­ cant figures. Republican wards like the Third, Fourth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third and Twenty-eighth, which are counted on BIG DROP IN STOCKS. Wildly Exciting Scenes Witnessed on the KxchattKea. There was a panic on the stock e»» changes Friday. It was a "black Friday" on all of the bourses. Millions were lost on Wall street, and LaSalle street, Chi­ cago, has not had such a shaking up since tbe memorable days in '96, when the Moore campaign in Diamond Match and Biscuit shares ended in disaster. It was a case of everybody trying to sell at once. Stocks poured out of the commission houses in enormous volume, and with them came the most vigorous hammering of the market by the profes­ sional bear element that has been seen in several months. All efforts of the bull interests to stem the tide were unavail-> ing, and after the first few minutes of the session all efforts in this direction were apparently withdrawn. The market in Wall street was in a thoroughly demoral­ ized condition. Sensational does not be­ gin to express the state of affairs that pre­ vailed. The decline in the industrials quickly spread to the general list, and for a time the bottom appeared to have drop­ ped out of the whole market. Not only the industrial, but the railroad shares, good and bad, as well, were thrown over­ board in the wild scramble of traders to get out from under. It was not a question of taking remaining paper profits, but of minimizing losses. The main idea seemed to be to get out of the market as quickly as possible. CARTRR H. HARKISOS. to swell the party total, swung into tbe Harrison column. The entire Democratic city ticket was elected. Harrison's total vote was 146,042; Mr. Carter's 107,192, and ex-Gov. Altgeld's 45,404. The grand total of votes cast for all mayoral candidates was 299,709. It was one of the quietest election days in the history of Chicago. There was no occasion for brawling or fighting or in tithidation of voters, even if anybody had been so inclined. Complaints of infrac tiOn of the election laws were singularly few. Intense interest in the election, sup­ plemented by the finest election day weather imaginable, brought out tbe heaviest vote ever cast to a Chicago city election. Comparison with the vote of twd years ago shows that the Harlan vote was split almost equally between Harrison and gar­ ter. Kotet of Current Bventa The Boston Board of Health has pro* bibited spitting in public places. Senator Teller of Colorado says he Is •till for Bryan for President in 1900. • Recent measurements show Orizaba to be the highest mountain peak in Mexico. Roman A. Baca, an old Indian fighter and prominent politician of New Mexico* Is dead. A block of white marble weighing over 100,000 pounds was quarried at Marble Hill, Ga. The mail system of Porto Rico will be conducted as though the island were ' Independent country. * " ' TO PROTECT AMERICANS. Crniser Detroit Hurried to Bluefielde, Nicarasna* The cruiser Detroit was ordered post haste to Bluefields, Nicaragua, for the protection of American interests in that quarter. Its dispatch under hurry orders was at the urgent request of the State Department, to which American residents both at Bluefields and in Costa Rica ap­ pealed for protection of American inter­ ests. The arbitrary and extortionate policy adopted by Gen. Torres at Bluefields, who on more than one occasion has made himself persona uon grata to this Govern­ ment, and whose restoration to power has been followed by acts which American residents resenj and protest against, was the main cause of the vessel's dispatch. The State Department at the same time cabled instructions to the United States diplomatic representatives at Bluefields to lodge an energetic protest with the Nic- nraguan Government against the action of Gen. Torres. In Costa Rica the American business interests and residents are in trouble as a result of an insurrectionary movement. It is understood that the in­ surgents are levying forced loans on them, besides ( collecting exorbitant and double duties on imports. rcLETCTRMJ' filgTJT/Tft SPIRITEO MUNICIPAL CONTiSTS IN VARIOU8 STATES. ttocal Issne* Peem to Have Determined Nearly i-Tery Contest, and Besnlta Are Mot Thoaght to Have Any Par* tlcnlar National Significance. FARES ARE LOWERED. i Indianapolis Finally Wins Its Street Railway Fight. Indianapolis has won its fight for cheap­ er street car fares--six tickets for 25 cents, twenty-five tickets for $1, with transfer privileges, making the fare really 4 cents. Single fares, however, will re­ main at 5 cents as at present. The street car company also agrees to bear the cost of paving between the tracks and fqr eighteen inches on each side. These, in brief, are the terms of the 34-year fran- hise of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, which has been signed and ac­ cepted. In addition to reducing the fare and doing the paving, the company agrees to pay the city of Indianapolis $1,160,000 in cash, in regular installments. News of Minor Note* Fur-bearing seals have been unusually plentiful off the coast of California this year. Mrs. Place made a confession just be­ fore her execution by electricity at Sing Ging prison, New York. Mount Vesuvius is covered with deep snow, while at the same time its volcanic activity is on the increase. The cruiser Baltimore and the monitor Monterey, which have been in dry dock at Hong Kong, have returned to Manila in first-class condition. Many discharged volunteers are apply­ ing for enlistment id the regular army. They want to go to the Philippines and help trounce the rebels. It is expected that the President will send to the Senate again when it assem­ bles all the 625 nominations for brevet commissions for gaiiaatry in the army. A bill has been introduced in the Jap­ anese House of Representatives granting special navigation wubsidies to steamship lines plying between Japan and Europe, Seattle and San Francisco. United States officials in Hnvana pre­ dict that under the American system of sanitation BOW beiug perfected Havana will be a healthy p«k<v in s few years and The elections in Michigan have not shown any marked change in the general political complexion of the State, but the result shows quite heavy Democrstic gains in some of the larger cities, notably so in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Jackson and Kalamazoo. On a generally light vote the Republicans hold their own in the smaller cities and throughout the rural districts. Circuit judges were elect­ ed in thirty-six judicial districts. Of these about two^thirds of the new judges who are elected for six-year terms are Repub­ licans. The Republicans re-elect Judge Claudius B. Grant as justice of the Su­ preme Court by a majority ©£«t least:20,- 000, They also elect Henry S. Dean and Eli R. Sutton regents of Michigan Uni­ versity by somewhat greater majorities. Thomas E. Bark worth, Democratic can­ didate for justice, ran nearly 6,000 ahead of Judge Grant in Wayne County, (De­ troit), and Grant received only a thousand plurality in Kent County (Grand Rapids), which in recent years has shown much heavier Republican majorities. Local and personal issues played the usual conspicu­ ous part in the spring elections through­ out the State. At Jackson Mayer Loen- necker, Dem., was re-elected by about 1,000 majority, a Democratic gain of 750. The Republicans carried Battle Creek, electing all officers excepting one alder­ man. At Bay City the entire Republican city ticket was elected by about 300 ma­ jority. In West Bay City tne Republi­ cans elected controller and three alder­ men, the Democrats the other officers. The Democrats elected Mayor and three al­ dermen at Kalamazoo and the Republi­ cans City Treasurer and two aldermen. Ohio. The elections in Ohio Monday were gen- feral for municipal and township officers. While local issues usually control these spring elections, yet there were other in­ fluences in some places. At Cleveland there was a decisive Democratic victory on the head of the ticket. At Columbus a Republican Mayor was elected for the first time in twelve years. At Cincinnati the Republicans have a plurality of 7,000, and the present Democratic Mayor was elected two years ago by almost as large a plurality. At Toledo an indepen­ dent Republican was elected on Pingree Issues, assisted by factional complications. At Dayton the Democrats made municipal gains, but the Republicans gained in the township. In the smaller cities, as well as in the rural districts, the Republicans claim gains. At Hamilton the Democrats maintained their majorities; also at Lima, Newark, Circleville, Upper Sandusky, Wapakoneta, Millersburg and Vanwert. At Zanesville and Marysville the Repub­ licans were successful. As a rule, the vote was light. At Canton, the home of McKinley, James Robertson, Republican, was elected Mayor by 13 plurality, a change from the present Democratic ad­ ministration. Illinois. After the most hotly contested munici­ pal campaign that Springfield has experi­ enced for many years the Republicans elected both their city and township tick­ ets. The Republicans lose one alderman, but will still have control of the Council. They also claim the County Board by a majority of one. The Democrats have controlled by a majority of one during the last year. In the township election at Peoria the entire Republican ticket was elected. Joliet township Republicans elected every man on their ticket. At Galesburg the Republican municipal ticket was elected by the largest plurality in the history of the city. Nearly a presi­ dential vote was polled at Quincy. John A. Steinbach, Dem., was re-elected May­ or by a majority of nearly 1,000. The entire Democratic ticket is elected, with the exception of three aldermen. Missouri. Returns from the municipal and school elections held in most of the townB, cities and counties throughout Missouri show that the Democrats carried a majority of their tickets, while in several cities, nota­ bly Boonville and Sedalia, honors were di­ vided with the Republicans. Party lines were closely drawn. Kirksville, St. Jo­ seph, Carrollton, Clinton, Paris, Colum­ bia, Brookfield, Cape Girardeau, Wind­ sor, Holden, Richmond, Monroe City and Moberly report Democratic majorities, with Jefferson City. Joplin, Springfield, Poplar Bluff, Hamilton, Warrensburg, Carthage and Mountain Grove Republi­ can. Wisconsin.' In Wisconsin two justices of the .Su­ preme Court were elected. Less ttian half the usual vote was polled iu Milwaukee, and reports ftfmxi the State indicate that there was very little interest in any of the contests. In the municipal'elections in the cities of the second and third class, party lines were drawn in but few cases, and tbe results have no national signifi­ cance. Local issues determined nearly ev­ ery contest. * Nebraska. City elections were, held all over Ne­ braska except in Omaha. The heaviest vote in years was polled. The issue was almost universally license or no license. The larger places almost without except tion elected license tickets, while in the smaller villages probably half decided against tbe issue of saloon licenses. Poli­ tics cut no figure except in the larger cities. Newa of Minor Note. The Empress Dowager recently restor­ ed to favor several degraded officials. A national convention of Prohibition­ ists will be held at Pittsburg June 8. In 1898 the railroads of Iowa paid about 8 per cent of the State, county and municipal taxes. News from Honolulu says that the fun­ eral of Princess Kauilani was tbe largest ever seen in that city. United States troops participated. The Plains of Abraham, Canada's his­ toric battlefield, have been Surveyed for building lots, and will be converted into a suburb of Quebec. Walter S. Mather, a well-known busi­ ness man of Hartford, Conn., who died tbe other day, was a descendant of the famous Cotton Mather. A printing press is on its way to Khar­ toum in charge charge of Corporal Mag- gridge, R. E., who will be the pioneer of the printing trade in Soudanese Africa. A dispatch from Portsmouth, Va., says that panthers from the dismal swamp nightly invade the village of Deep Creek, killing many domestic animals and terror­ ising the inhabitants. An expedition to search for Andree, tbe intrepid aeronaut, who started on a voy­ age to tbe north pole in a balloon, ttbd has never been heard from, will start from Russia in May. On the Transeaspian Railroad, Russia has some fertile country, where cotton was planted last year as an experiment. The yield was more than 230 pounds to the were, which is above the average yield in thja cQontitr. , REST IN ARLINGTON. * ' « ©HAD HEftOES OF TUB SftANISN ; WAR ARC BURIED. Solemn Ceremony at Washington lit Unprecedented in the World'* HlS" tOry--Salutes Are Fired and Taps Arm Bounded Over Graves of the Bold!era* An event unprecedented in tbe world'* history occurred at Washington Thurs­ day, when 350 dead soldiers whose re­ mains had been brought from Cuba and Porto Rico were interred at the national cemetery at Arlington, Va. The day was a solemn holiday, by proclamation of the President. Flags were at half mast and department buildings were closed. • great cortege, comprising all the'military and naval forces stationed in the vicinity, escorted the remains to the beautiful rest­ ing place across the Potomac, where thousands of heroes Of the civil war lie in well-cared-for graves. Other nations have paid tribute to thrft> fallen heroes, but none before so tenderly expressed its esteem of those who died. It is the first in history that private- sol* diers who' were killed on foreign soil were brought back to their native land for In­ terment. The transport Crook left this country two months ago with a small ar­ my of undertakers and grave diggers. The bodies of men who died, either in action or from disease, at San Juan, Guantaftamo, Santiago and other points in Cuba and at Poace, San Juan, Coamo, Guanica and other Porto Rican points, were disinterred and brought to New York. The ship reached the metropolis last week. A large number of bodies were claimed by rela­ tives and forwarded to them, but abotit 350 were sent to Washington for inter­ ment in the national cemetery. Of the bodies that were buried nearly one-half are claimed, but laid to rest in Arlington at the wishes of relatives. To these the special privilege of a position within the lines was granted. Many others beyond these lines looked on with moistened eyes upon the row of caskets. They knew not but what some relative or friend whose death had been reported but whose body had not been identified slumbered there among the "unclaimed" dead. Full military honors were paid the dead soldiers. The military committal service was conducted by Post Chaplain Freelamf of Fort Monroe, according to the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Father Joseph F. McGee of St Patrick's Church read the Catholic ser­ vice over the Catholic dead. The customary volleys were fired, tape were sounded, and then each flag-draped casket was lowered into the earth. There were no addresses, and the entire service consumed but a short time. The military escort comprised all of the artillery troops a£ the Washington barracks, one troop Si cavalry from Fort Meyer, a battalion el marines from the navy yard and marine barracks, and the entire national guard el the District of Columbia. Besides the public, that showed sympa­ thy and patriotism, the relatives who shed their tears above the bodies of loved ones, there were in attendance the President el the United States and most of the mem­ bers of his cabinet, artny and navy offi­ cers of the highest rank, whose presence indicated the official honor and respect in which those are ever held Who die foi their country's sake. In his proclamation. President MclKn- ley said: "Those who died in another land left in many homes the undying memories that attend the heroic dead of all ages. It was fitting that with the advent of peace, won by their sacrifice, their bodies should be gathered with tender care and restored to home and kindred. This has been done with the dead of Cuba and Porto Rico. Those of the Philippines still rest where they fell, watched tfver by their surviving comrades and crowned with the love of « grateful nation. "The remains of many brought to ou« shores have been delivered to their fami­ lies for private burial. But for others of the brave officers and men who perished there has been reserved interment in ground sacred to soldiers and sailors amid the tributes of military honor and na­ tional mourning they have so well de­ served." v4V:r- | ii ... Bulgaria has secured a loan in Vienna of $50,000,000. Cecil Rhodes' telegraph line has reached Abercorn, at the southern extremity of Lake Tanganyika. The cable between Manila and Iloilo has been repaired and communication once more established. The Sultan, of Turkey will send five en­ voys to the Czar's disarmament confer­ ence at The Hague. Germany will take no steps to purchase the Carolines until "ratifications of the peace treaty are exchanged between Spain and the United States. Lieut. Lemaire's exploration party in German East Africa recently covered the 600 miles between Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika in twenty days. Considerable alarm has been occasioned In Constantinople among the native Chris­ tians by the receipt of many telegrams from friends and relatives in Smyrna* signed "Are Safe." Such telegrams in 1895 were often the forerunners of a massacre. -- -- ---- The Sultan of Turkey has granted te Germany the right to build warehouses and docks at Haidar Pasha, a port dit rectly opposite Constantinople. Haidar Pasha will be made the western terminus, of tbe Anatolian Railway, now under construction by German capitalists. Newspaper reports at Turin to the ef­ fect the Italian territory in East Africa will be ceded to Great Britain create in­ tense excitement, notwithstanding offlcM denials. The Armenian committee at Geneva has issued a circular to the powers "hinting at revolution unless they intervene to secure an amelioration of the position of Ar­ menians in Turkey. » 3*he Indian budget just announced timates the surplus for the year 1898-'99 at $15,000,000 and the surplus for the year 1899-1900 at $12,500,000. The Gov­ ernment has voted not to reduce taxation. Sporka from the Wirea. Among recent presents sent to Admiral Dewey is an annual pass to a theater named for him. • The appointment of Prof. Walter P. Wilcex of {yonnell University as chief sta­ tistician of tbe census itureau has been announced. / . A hall ef five which came from the clouds created ihavoc in Moatclair, N. J4 destroying two bouses and injuring sev­ eral persons. Nearly every vessel at tbe Chicago end ef Lake Michigan has been chartered and loaded with grain awaiting the opening «f jMvigatto*. ~ .I*-.-. * '.a ..rVl