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McHENRY, lil •= McHenry Plaindealer. F. K. GRANQER, Publisher. ILLINOIS. fUMMAEY OF NEWS. While a freight train was passing over Oie big trestle at Summit Cut, Out., the •tract u re gave way, the engine and train (Ding to the bottom. Fireman McLaren Sas killed, Engineer William Canfield tally injured, and Brakeman McDonald jras badly hurt - Attorney General Crow of Missouri has Hecided that certificates of authority is- •tied to insurance agents do not need to carry 10 cents in revenue stamps, as or­ dered by the commissioner of internal rev*- <4aue, and has so notified Insurance Sup* •rintondont O'Rea. ; The Sherbourne school, a boarding in­ stitution for boys, located in San Rafael, Gal., was burned. There were a number Of daring rescues, but Charles Armstrong, the 6-year-old son of an-army officer now In Manila, rushed into the burning build- lag and was lost. * f^Sam Hose, negro, confessed murderer, , iras lynched at Newnan, Ga., in a most cruel manner. The black man's fingera Mid ears were cut off, his body backed With knives, he was chained to a tree, oil Sured over his body, wood heaped about d and the awful pyre ignited. A bank at the eastern end of Carlton, • Minn., caved in, burying seven men. Two were killed outright, but the others were , rescued through the efforts of the forty teen engaged in the work. Rain loosened tile bank, which had been retained by Drost, and it fell without warning. N. W. Kendall, a wealthy capitalist of New Haven, has been elected president of the new Maumee Brewing Company of Toledo, Ohio. He will also act as the gen- . «ral manager of the company, which has been recently reorganized and the capital atock raised from $100,000 to $300,000. Intense excitement was created at Mur- * fkhvsboro, 111., by the finding of the bodies of two women who were murdered while they slept. Their bodies were frightfully mutilated. Mrs. Mary E. Davie and Miss May Millstead are the victims. The con­ dition of the room indicated that it had been plundered. ~ There was a double drowning at Cin- -dnnati. Joseph Bans and Henry Oster- Bta, both aged 12 years, who were playing on a sandboat, were the victims. One of them had tossed up a buckeye, and as it dropped both made a grab for it. Both fell into the water, and before they could be rescued were drowned. »The standing of the clubs in the Na­ tional League race is as follows: * W. L. 81. Louis.... 5 OCincinnati . 2 New York. J£ Brooklyn .. 3 Pittsburg . 3 Cleveland . 4 Washington When returning , from a dance four f«ung people were run down by the Chi­ cago and Northwestern fast mail at Craw­ ford's crossing, about a mile from Bara- boo, Wis. Bennie Tulids, Kittie Mar­ shall and Nellie Welch were instantly killed. Frank Donald had his leg broken. The young people stepped from one track to avoid the approaching train, when they were caught by the fast mail, which was going at full speed. Nothing was known of the accident until the train .reached that city, when Donald was found on the cowcatcher ofthe engine with one |q? broken and several other injuries. B. G. Dun & Co.*8 weekly review of trade says: "Nothing appears in business or in money markets to prevent continu­ ance of the heaviest trade ever transacted at good profits. The payment to Spain is •opposed to have 'caused some rise in for­ eign exchange, which would amount to Sthing in any case, as balances due from ier countries more than cover the pay­ ment, and advance bills against crops to come forward in July and later will soon be offered. Nothing but industrial depres­ sion is left to excite apprehension, but the 1 industries are meeting something very milike depression. The kind of 'lull' that appears in the iron market rejoices manu- -V-- ' • 1.^. /i . -• t T r .. w.o, ttiv tiuwutru iai T?th The enfc*. production •gr,„ -1* still close to the maximum. London Jf" " •' speculation lifted tin to 25% cents, and sN, copper is very strong and scarce at 18% Cents for lake. Failures for the week &£* , f j i * have been 184 in the United States, %>) V Against 204 last year, and 22 in Canada, ? - • ^gainst 29 last year." &:• b J Philadelphia.. 6 Boston ..... 5 Chicago 6 Baltimore ... 4 Louisville ... 4 W. . 4 . 3 . 3 . 1 . 1 . 1 and inventor of the Lay torpedo, which was used by Lieut William B. Cushlng to destroy the Confederate gunboat Albe­ marle in 1SG4, is dead in New York, aged 68 years. It is reliably learned that a deal has been closed in New York whereby the Midland Terminal Railway Company and the Florence and Cripple Creek Railway and Florence reduction works at Flor­ ence, Colo., have been sold to a London syndicate for $8,000,000. The great battle for United States Sen­ ator at Harrisburg ended without an elec­ tion. and, unless Gov. Stoue calls an extra session, at which there should be an elec tion, Pennsylvania will have only one representative in the United States Sen­ ate during the next two years. In Philadelphia, fire destroyed William J. McCausland's paper tube factory. The flames spread to Fleming & Chapin's yarn and thread storehouse, damaging the place to the extent of $4,000. McCaus­ land's loss is $85,000. Whitaker & De- laney's glue works, at Tacony, a suburb of the city, were also destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000. kc- • NEWS NUGGETS. X George C. Owens was hanged at San $uentin, Ca!. y *Dr. Heinrich Kiefert, the world-re- " -gowned cartographer and geographer, jfied in Berlin. X warehouse of the Kingman Imple- "Jbent Company at Omaha, Neb., was de- . Jftroyed by fire with all contents. The loss $170,000. In a shooting affray near Treval, Texas, JEdward Harding and James C. Treba- fhan were killed and L. C. Harding fatal- wounded. ... Almost the entire $5,000,000 that the Citizens of St. Louis have proposed to . raise to clinch the proposition of holding • world's fair there is in sight. Col. M. Lewis Clark of Louisville prominent in turf circles throughout the United States, shot himself through the heart at Memphis, Tenn. He was a vic­ tim of melancholia. Pastor W. H. McCool of the English Lutheran Church in West Point, Neb., committed suicide with a shotgun. He is >fuPDosfd t0 have been7mentally unbal- -j^vjjfcnced by overwork. The German Central Bund of Toletffr, g^/"With representatives of Irish societies, .V 'nas planned an organization to fight the |l|<!'J> talked-of American-British alliance. The ^ league will have at least 3,000 members. X*' •The street railway add lighting svjjdi- fK' '«•*. *Late llfts absorbed the Washington Gas •#" ^Company. The deal involves an expendi- X/> >' ture of about $7,200,000. The Northern Ohio Steel Range Manu- §%XX*facturers' Association decided to advance f the orices of finished nrodnr-ta *>n WESTERN. A waterspout at Forbes, Mo., washed out a mile of Burlington Railroad track and did other damage. Bt. Rev. John Ambrose Watterson, D. D., bishop of the diocese of Columbus, Ohio, died suddenly the other day. The Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma are being carried off by smallpox. There are 800 full-bloods in the tribe, and since Feb. 1 132~Cfthem have died of the dis­ ease. , A new first-class theater to cost, with the land, $400,000 is to be erected in San Francisco. It will be built by C. J. Beh- low and will be called the Academy of Music. At Moon town, Mo., Frank Yeager killed with an ax a man of the name of Powell, shot Mrs. Yeaker three times and then cut his own throat. Yeager was jealous of Powell. Hon. J. D. Ellis, Representative from Vernon County, is dead at his home near Nevada, Mo., of pneumonia. Mr. Ellis' wife died of the same disease about a week before. Newton Hilliard, formerly part owner and manager of the Baker Opera Com­ pany, has been adjudged insane in the pro­ bate court at Cleveland, Ohio, and or­ dered sent to an asylum. E. J. Baldwin, the California horseman, has mortgaged part of his magnificent es­ tates to secure a loan of $450,000 advanc­ ed by the German Savings and Loan So­ ciety of San Francisco. Penniless, behind on her rent, and hope­ less of the future, Georgiana Dworschak, a widow at Duluth, Minn., aged 26 years, shot herself and two children. The chil­ dren were 4 and 6 years of age respec­ tively. •' In a fit of jealousy at Cleveland, Wil­ liam Beatty, aged 22, shot and killed John Madden, aged 32, and sent a bullet through the forehead of Mabel Day, over whom the men had quarreled. The woman will recover. A prairie fire started near Wessington Springs, S. D., and swept across the coun­ try, destroying everything before it. Sev­ eral thousand acres of pasture and much stacked hay were destroyed. Many farm­ ers lost all they had. Dr. James G. Field, retired army sur­ geon, who volunteered to resume his du­ ties when the Spanish war broke cut, and served through the war in Cuba, btfoke both arms below the elbow by a fall while exercising in a gymnasium in Denver. Gov. Stephens returned the Farris in­ surance bill to the Missouri Senate, hav­ ing signed it. This measure makes the anti-trust law apply to St. Louis and Kan­ sas City and will practically destroy the boards of fire underwriters in both cities. M. J. Grogan; one of the oldest con­ ductors on the Lake Shore road, was found dead on the tracks at Toledo short­ ly before his train was to leave. Peculiar gashes on the head and the loss of a con­ siderable sum of money leads the detec­ tives to believe that he was murdered. At Missouri City, Mo., Miss Delia Clev- enger, who was shot by her cousin, Ernest Clevenger, on the night of Dec. 8 last, is dead of her wounds. Ernest Clevenger is in jail at Liberty, having been returned there from Vibbard, Mo., where he was recaptured after having escaped a week before. \i ZZzzzlj I!cTcaae Collector Hogue narrowly escaped being killed by two tame bears, from the owners of which he was attempting to collect $10 war revenue tax. The Italians refused to pay, and the bears were turned loose on the officer. A large part of his clothing was torn off, and lie barely escaped with his life. Five thousand Indians, dissatisfied with conditions existing in the reservations of the Indian territory, have left in a body for Mexico to establish a union reserva­ tion on a large tract of land near Guada­ lajara. They belong to the Cherokee, Creek and Delaware tribes. The emi­ grants are said to have a capital of $425,- 000 and expect further additions to their colony after they have organized their set­ tlement. A daring attempt to rob the State Sav­ ings Bank on Broadway, Council Bluffs, was made the other afternoon. A. J. Brown, the assistant cashier, was shot in the right arm while resisting the de­ mand of the bandit to hold up his hands. Four shots were fired by the desperado at the cashier, but the fusillade soon attract­ ed a large crowd to the scene. The would- be robber, whose only disguise was a white handkerchief tied around the lower part of his face, escaped through the back door. The attempt to rob the bank oc­ curred about 2:30 o'clock, when Mr. Brown was alone in the bank, the cashier having stepped out for a few minutes. In­ stead of complying with a demand to hold up his hands Mr. Brown seized a stool, raised it to protect himself, and com­ menced to call for help. The bandit then began to shoot. the Jailer was overfftwered ink tie keys were taken from him. Hardin offered desperate resistance before he was shot down. Half a dozen shots were then fired into Us corpse and the mob acatterfp^ / , WASHINGTON. "V Secretary Alger announces that the Cu­ ban mortgages have been extended two years beginning May 1 next. Secretary Alger lias made public the verdict in the case of Lieut. Lang, who vpas charged with conduct unbecoming an officer. The court found Lang guilty, and sentenced him to dismissal. The President has approved the sentence. The record of Pollak, the electrical en­ gineer at Vienna, of transmitting 00,000 words an hour by telegraphy was eclipsed in Gen. Greely's office in the War De­ partment at Washington when a speed of 120,000 words an hour was attained and maintained without difficulty. One of the largest contracts for dressed beef ever placed by the United States Government has just been arranged with a Kansas City packing house. The con­ tract is for 1,500,000 pounds of best ex­ port beef to be shipped to the Philippine Islands for the Government troops. The Secretary of War has issued orders for the reorganization of the military de­ partments in Cuba.. The number of de­ partments is reduced from seven to five, the two eliminated being the department of Pinar del Rio, commanded by Brig. Gen. Hasbrouck, and the department of Matanzas, commanded by Brig. Gen. Bates. Julio Henna and M. Zeno Gaudia pre­ sented to the President a memorial from the people of Porto Rico, asking that the civil government be turned over to the control of the departments in W ashington having jurisdiction over similar matters in the United States; that the people of the island be granted a territorial form of government temporarily, and for free trade with the United States. Gen. Henry, owing to illness, is to be re­ lieved of the governorship of Porto Rico. The military force in Porto Rico is also to be materially reduced. Emma Nevada, the American prima donna, has been compelled to cancel a six months' engagement in Spain because, of the insults of the populace. Fifteen sailors of the crew of the York- town, which had gone to Baler, in the Isle of Luzon, P. I., were ambushed by Fili­ pinos and captured. Their fate is un­ known. 15 It is officially announced in Cettinje that the Montenegrin crown prince, Da- nilo Alexander, is, betrothed to Duchess Augusta Charlotte Jutta of Mecklenburg- Strelitz. Three cases |Of bubonic plafeue have oc­ curred amongithe employes in one of the big shops of Paris, to which the disease was brought in carpets of Eastern manu­ facture. The villagers of Tai-Poe-Sn, one of the newly acquired places in the British ter­ ritory on the Hong Kong mainland, China, rebelled and burned some British mat sheds. Gen. Guy V. Henry, commanding in Porto Rico, said to a member of the Porto Rican commission that he does not "be­ lieve in thrus|ing Americans into all the offices; I believe in colonizing. 1 have been here nearly a year and the commis­ sion only a few weeks." Serious student riots have occurred at the University of Kieff, Russia, the riot­ ers smashing the windows of bouses and \>ps with stones. The troops were call­ ed out and dispersed the mob, injuring several persons and arresting 400 of those who took part in the disorders. SOUTHERN. II- ' the prices of finished products 20 per cent ^because of the increased cost of raw ma­ terials. i Gov. Johnston of Alabama has issued a call for an extra session of the Legisla- fOT tke purpose of considering the re- 1; X, peal of the act calling for an election to It*, -determine whether a constitutional con- mention shall be held. ^ EASTERN. toooklyn servant girls have formed a anion. The' fishing schooner Eliza of Beverly, Mass., which sailed from Hyannis for fishing grounds, struck on Rose and Crown shoals during the night and eleven of the crew of fourteen men were lost. The Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, in session at Boston elected Willard Scott, D. D., of Worces ter, president, and William E. Barton, D. D., Oak Park, 111., a vice-president. John Louis Lay. formerly a first assist jWt engineer la the United States navj, Sam Washington, & negro, was hanged at Yazoo City, Miss., for the murder of a plantation manager named Coker. Samuel Abbott, a soldier in the First Artillery, summarily avenged a sister's wrong by killing Thomas Craig at Wise's Landing, Ky. Abbott gave himself up, The farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born, which lies two miles south of Hodgenville, Ky., and which was owned by A. W. Dennett of New York City, has been sold to David Grear, also of New York City. It is now very probable that the farm will be converted into a park. At Henderson, Tenn., a mob of marked inen overpowered Sheriff Sujith and com­ pelled him at the point of a pistol to go with three of them to the cell- where A. M. La Rue was confined,ho in MarcHf killed John Young, a neighbor. The masked men* placed a rope around the neck of La Rue and tric-d to drag him out but could not. They then shot through the bead and body and left bim. Will H. Ilardin, under sentence for murder, "was shot to death by a mob in his cell at the Clinton jail, Arkansas. Gov Jones commuted Hardin's sentence from death to life imprisonment, and this, it believed, aroused the friends of Hardin's victim, Hugh Patterson. The mob went quietly into Clinton and made * denuuid ou the jailer for Hardin; It was refused, FOREIGN. IN GENERAL. John Lee Carroll has been re-elected president of the Sons of the Revolution. The United States torpedo boat Som- ers, purchased just before the war with Spain, which twice tried to cross the ocean under its own steam and each time returned disabled, has been shipped from London on the steamer Manhattan for New York. It is said that a combination of all the tile companies of the country is in pro­ gress of organization, the new corporation to be called the Encaustic Tile Company of America, and to be capitalized at $7,- 000,000, which $3,000,000 is to be pre- f?rr?d stock and $4,000,000 common tcck. . ' The new wrecking steamer Rescue of the Merritt-Chapman Wrecking Company is being fitted out in New York for a trip to Santiago de Cuba. She is the largest wrecking vessel afloat and received orders to sail on May 15. The Rescue is going to Santiago to tow the raised Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes of Admiral Cer- vera's fleet to Norfolk, Va. A letter has been received by relatives in Berrien Springs, Mich., from A. L. Warren, now in the Klondike, in which he says that deaths by suicide are occurring daily at Dawson City. The failure to find gold and the imporerished condition of hundreds of prospectors is dethroning the reason of miners and a suicidal mania is the result. Mr. Warren says that the hospitals are full of scurvy stricken min­ ers and many deaths have occurred from the malady. Thousands of gold hunters are trying to get home. Warren has been Alaska two years and has had fair success. THE MARKETS. GREET THE EALElGH. THO S WELCOME 1 GALLANT ^HIP. Y'S [I' Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 62c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 78£; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 2 ats, No. 2, 28c to 80c; Tsagiui4 of War Vessels In the Bat- tic of Manila Bay, with Its Crew, of Warriors, la Honored onJtetnroin® to a Rome Port. Thirty thousand enthusiastic people stood along the water front at North riv­ er, at New York, and wildly greeted the returned cruiser Ra­ leigh, the United States battleship of Dewey's fleet which has the distinction of having fired the first shot on the morning of May 1 in Manila harbor. The hero ship was accompan- C1PT. coshlajT. ied by the two cap­ tured Spanish prises, the Sandoval and the Alvarado. New York forgot church'and defied a rainstorm to honor the vanguard of Dewey's fighting ships and men. Salvos from brass-throated whistles of every boil­ er that carried Bteam on water or land, ponderous salutes from shore guns and field batteries along the Hudson, mingled with cheers from thousands upon thou­ sands of Americans, attended the cruiser from the time Bhe weighed anchor till the end of her triumphal trip to and from Grant's tomb. Grim in her war paint and bristling with her guns, the cruiser which tossed the first shell of the battle of Ma­ nila bay last May day was bombarded by patriotic welcomes. Flags fluttered in the rain from every flagstaff in the city and thousands waited dinnerless beneath um­ brellas in Riverside park for a chance to • cheer the fighting Raleigh and Dewey's heroes. Overdue twenty-four hours, the welcome was none the less hearty--so THB U. B. CHUISER BALE1GH. hearty that modest Capt. Coghlan and his officers protested against honors they de­ clared should be reserved for Admiral Dewey and proffered to none other. The vessels arrived off Sandy Hook from the east Saturday at midnight, and anchored in the harbor. Although the rain ponred in torrents all day Sunday, streams of people could be seen harrying to the river front to witness the triumphal entry of the small but distinguished fleet. After passing Grant's tomb the vessels proceeded siowiy down the river and drop­ ped anchor off Thirty-seventh street. Then the public was tendered a royal welcome aboard the Raleigh. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people availed themselves of the op­ portunity to board the ship and admire the big guns which had done such effec­ tive work in far-off Manila harbor. The warship was Uncomfortably srowded, but everybody received a cordial welcome. The crew apparently took great pride in showing visitors over the ship and partic­ ularly in pointing ont the 5-inch gun which fired the first shot in the battle of Manila bay. In the forecastle of the cruiser Raleigh are many relics of the battle of Manila bay. One of these is the bead of a Span­ ish sailor, shot clean from the body. Be­ tween the teeth is a small stiletto clinched in the grip of death. The head and knife were found floating in the water, and one of the Raleigh's sailors dived over the side for it. The ghastly remnant of the battle was hermetically sealed in a big glass of alcohol. PLANNING TO CRUSH REBELS. yellow, 34c 36c: oat rye, No. 2, 55c to o7c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.60 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 61c to 63c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 00c to 62c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c; clover seed, new, $3.70 to $3.80. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white. 28c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 68c to 69c; barley, No. 2, 47c to 48c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, 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, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats„ No. 2 white, 35c tc 37c; batter, creamery, ^U ««gs. Western, 14c to 15c. GwUbiiil T.awtou'a CubiiUuuJ Returns to Aid General McArthnr. Gen. Lawton's expedition returned to Manila Monday morning pursuant to or­ ders from Maj. Gen/Otis. Lawtop aban­ doned a number of towns and twenty miles of territory along the lake which had been cleared of Filipinos. The withdrawal of Gen. Lawton from the Laguna de Bay country was not un­ expected by officers of the War Depart­ ment. Gen. Schwan, acting adjutant general, said: "Gen. Otis sent this expe­ dition to southern Luzon for the purpose of destroying any insurgent forces that might be found there, to make a careful reconnoissance and to spread broadcast the recent proclamation of the Philippine commission, setting forth the purposes of this Government with respect to the isl­ ands. I understand that he will release all the prisoners he has taken, and they will be sent to their homes. By this action it is hoped that he will prove to the Fili­ pinos that the Americans are not as bar­ barous as the insurgents pretend we are, and that we propose to treat the Fili­ pinos humanely." The officials were reticent regarding Gen. Otis' new campaign to the north­ ward. It is believed that a movement will be made on San Fernando, where the in­ surgent leader has established his head­ quarters. Dispatches from Manila say that Gen. Lawton thinks it would be necessary for the United States to send 109,000 troops to the Philippine Islands if the natives continued hostile. He said that it was essential to garrison' all the cities cap­ tured or that are to be captured in the future operations if the insurrection was to be put down. Gen. Lawton's opinion is given a great deal of weight among the officers in Washington. They say his wide experience with guerrilla warfare makes him a most capablo judge of the sitilation. - • • • WHITNEY SYNDICATE EXPANDS, of WKifr Towmat. 'Spaakar Qnita Politic* to Take Cp tfca ProfeMion of Law, Thomas Brackett Reed has become the head of the New York law firm of Simp- aon, Thacher St Barnum, and it is under-* stood that he will soon resign his seat in Congress and remove to that city. The contract has been signed whereby he is to take up the practice of his profession immediately upon his return from a brief trip abroad. Speaker Reed has known the members of the firm for many years and has had frequent business dealings with them. Though he had received offers to go to the head of several pierhaps better known firms, he early expressed his preference for the one with which he is to be asso* SPEAKKB USED. Combine Peeks National Control Electric Transportation. William C. Whitney and his associates, who now have an iron grip on street rail­ way lines throughout the Eastern States, have completed preparations for securing control of all electric transportation in the Northern and Western Stat^, and a blan ket charter giving them unlimited power in that direction will be taken out in New Jersey. The syndicate will seek to control sur­ face lines,., both cable and electric, ele­ vated roads and horseless carriage travel Fourteen branch companies to carry out the plans of Mr. Whitney in the large Western cities will be formed at once, and the first one organized will invade Chi cago, where it intends to build and operate electric cabs and trucks and merge all of the street railway lines into one company Chicago is to be the main Western head quarters of the syndicate, and large man­ ufacturing and distributing plants are to be erected there, from which districts west of Pennsylvania will be supplied with borsetas carriages and trucks. dated. The Speaker is said to have been assured of an income of at least $50,000 a year, an emolument equal to that of the President of the United States, from in­ surance companies alone. He will con­ tinue to act as referee for the several In­ surance corporations for which he has been recently acting, and friends say that his income may yet amount to $100,000 annually. Washington politicians say Speaker Reed's retirement from Congress just now is the best possible play he cotild make' for the presidency. It is taken for grant­ ed that he will not be a candidate against McKinley next year, but it is also believed he is looking ahead to 1004. Of the can­ didates for the Speakership the youngest is Sherman, who is 44 years old. Hop­ kins is 52, Dalzell 54, Payne 56, Hender­ son 59, Cannon 63, and Grosvenor and Hepburn 66. v ARREST OF COUNTERFEITERS. Capture of Ensravera of Facnona $100 Bank Note. The most important arrest by secret ser­ vice men for years has been made, in the capture of the makers of the famous $100 counterfeit bank note, which has puzzled the authorities for more than a year. Offi­ cers under the direction of Chief John Wilkie procured the arrest of the coun­ terfeiter. He was a well-known news­ paper man in Washington city. When the "Monroe notes," as they are called, made their appearance about fif­ teen months ago, the work ®a^sb-^r- fect as to be accepted at the subtreas- uries, and Secretary Gage decided to call in the issue which had been counterfeited. Twenty-three million was then in circu­ lation. and $6,000,000 is still out. The men arrested are: William M. Jacobs and W. L. Kendig, wholesale cigar manufac­ turers of Lancaster, Pa.; Arthur Taylor and Baldwin S. Bredell, engravers of Philadelphia, and James Burns, an, em­ ploye of Jacobs. A clew was found and since that time officers of the secret service have been eating, drinking and sleeping with the men who were suspected. Not until they were snre of their ground did these men place the counterfeiters under arrest. Mr. Wilkie and a number of his men went over to Philadelphia to be present when the arrest was made. The Philadelphians were taken hito custody, but the greatest secrecy was maintained for fear of frightening* away the culprits at Lancaster. After placing the men at Philadelphia under lock and key, Mr. Wilkie left for Lancaster and paid a visit to the men who were in league with those in the City of Brotherly Love. About one year ago the first clew was obtained that has led up to the capture of the gang. How that clew was secured, how it was followed up, and the details of the secret service operations during the last twelve months will likely remain hid­ den in the secret archives of the bureau. The success of the bureau's operations lies in the fact that its method of work is never made public. As the Secretary of the Treasury said, results are what count, and the arrest of these men, with the tell­ tale plates in their possession# is all that the public need know of the twelve months' hard and secret work of1 Chief Wilkie and his assistants. TROOPS TO GO TO t MANILA. Fourteen Thousand Seculars for Otis -- Volunteers to Come Home, Fourteen thousand regulars are to be sent to re-enforoe Gen. Otis at Manila as Boon as the necessary marine transporta­ tion can be provided. It is not expected that the bulk of the large body of re-en­ forcements can reach Manila until the end of the rainy season, which has just be­ gun, but they will closely follow the de­ parture of the volunteers from the Phil­ ippines. With the regular troops already ordered and on the way to Manila, Otis will have an effective force of 21,729 men, in addi­ tion to the recruits being sent every few days for the regiments already in the Philippines. This force is to be raised to 35,000 men by the time aggressive op­ erations can be pressed in the early au­ tumn. The volunteers to be retnrried tc this country from Manila number 12,000, so the determination to send 14,000 able- bodied regulars to take their places is cal­ culated to show the rebel leaders that the United States is terribly in earnest about meeting its responsibilities for preserving order and commanding respect through the archipelago. It is stated that the army in the Philip­ pines will be Increased to 85,000 men, whether the rebels abandon the field or not. If Agtfitfiddo gives up his hopeless fight as a result of the negotiations now in progress between his followers and the President's^: commissioners, 85,000 men are deemed the'right nuttiber to garrison the forts in the outlying islands and es­ tablish lawful government In them. Queer Thins* that Happen. William Whist of Denver died of apo­ plexy while saying his prayers. A Detroit burglar stole the piano and a stove from the house he robbed. Some one has stolen the bronze harp at­ tached to Shelley's tomb in Rome. A Bridgeport (Pa.) man drowned him­ self by repeated dips in a pool of stagnant water. Angered because the second basomac put him out, an Algiers (La.) ball player shot the offender in the arm. On Easter Sunday a Manson, Iowa, ken laid an egg measuring eight inches in cir­ cumference one way and 8% inches lengthwise. One clover New York boy . travels around the city on roller skates, being pulled by a carefully harnessed St. Ber­ nard dps. TBIAI OF MRS.GE0RGE CHARGED WITH SHOOTING MRS, M'KINLEY'S BROTHER. / Celebrated Canton, Ohio, Case--Priaon- er Has Remained Remarkably Cool Wkile Passing Under tha Shadow of Death--Scenes and. Incidents* The trial of Mrs. Anna B. George at Canton, Ohio, for the murder of Geo. D. Saxton has aroused unusual and wide­ spread interest. Had the man whom she is said to have shot been any other than the brother-in-law of the President of the United States it is not likely that her fu­ ture would be the subject of speculation In thousands of homes throughout the country and the newspapers outside of the locality would not consider it worth while to send represeatatives there to report every move she makes and every detail of her trial. It's the prominence of the murdered man that attracts attention to her. The prosecution occupied nearly two weeks in presenting their side of the case. The defense opened Tuesday morning. In the court room Mrs. George has con­ stantly at her side her oldest hoy, New­ ton; her sister, Mrs. Brown of Hanover- ton, and a number of friends from her old home. Her former husband, Sample C. George, was present at one session of court and shook hands with her. From these friends and from people in Canton Mrs. George daily receives bouquets of jfiowers, which stand on the table in front 'of her and brighten the court room. As the trial proceeds she is responsive to every act trt the attorneys and wit­ nesses. All is not grim solemnity in the court room. Occasionally there are ex­ changes of wit, by the lawyers and then MM8. ANNA B. GEORGE. Mrs. George smiles with the rest. When the sod features of the case are touched upon she is moved to tears, that trickle down her pale checks, but are not ob­ servable to the great mass of spectators. Only once has her nerve deserted her. That was when the blood and powder- stained waistcoat worn by Saxton on the night of the murder was introduced as evi­ dence. Mrs. George is apparently the least con* cerned person in the court room. She knows that the penalty upon conviction in the first degree is a seat in the awful new death chair at Columbus. The thought of it has probably oome to her many times during her long incarceration, but she is so confident of acquittal that the visions of the death chair do not appal her. While the jurors were being examined prior to their acceptance and asked if they had any objection to capital punishment, par­ ticularly where a woman is the victim, some of the speotators turned pityingly to the stylish prisoner, but she gave no evidenoe of a thought that this question concerned her. According to a correspondent, the people of Canton have made a heroine of Mrs. George. They have paid for her meals during her long imprisonment, which have consisted of theW?st foods that the best restaurants in to^trr' could furnish. In addition there have come fruits and flow­ ers. A local florist received a letter from a far-off State the other day, inclosing money for a bouquet for Mrs. George. The prisoner has been visitsd frequently by some of the society ladies of Canton, who. have encouraged her to look hopeful­ ly into the future. Letters of sympathy have come to her from afar, from stran­ gers who had read of her case in the pa­ pers. Mrs. George has really been a boarder, and not a prisoner, in Sheriff Zaiser's care. Ordinarily Mrs. George is bright and Cheerful and in a happy conver­ sational mood. Nearly every day, before and after court, she receives callers and her merry laogh may be heard in the jail corridors. The prosecuting attorney, Atlee Pome- rone, a young man of marked individual­ ity, conducts the case relentlessly and he is ably seconded by his assistant, James J. Grant, who was Saxton's most intimate friend. In his opening address Pomerene called Mrs. George an adventuress and in­ timate that her relations with Saxton were not the only black spots in her life. He said the crime could be brought home to her and it could also be shown that she had forfeited all confidence that Saxton might have reposed in her. Mrs. George's attorney, John C. Welty --who, assisted by James S. Sterling, is making as good an array of legal talent as could be found in the vicinity--outlined her defense. He said that she was not Kuilty, but dwelt mainly on her relations ith Saxton, indicating that the defense would rely upon the plea of justifiable homicide or emotional insanity. While Mr. Welty drew a pathetic picture'of her unhappy past Mrs. George sat with eyes closed and averted and face inclined to­ ward the table in front of her. With drooping countenance she heard the his­ tory of her girlhood, her happy home, her removal to Canton, and her retetiefw with 'Saxton. •' The American navy has practically all "been built since 1888. The black plague is *t!H raging in the Island of Formosa. The German Government has express­ ed sympathy with the United States in •its losses in Samoa. The pistol taken from "Gen. Santa Ana at the battle of San Jacinto was recently placed in the Texas department of his­ tory. f -* \ Twenty-five years -ago France was able1 to put as many soldiers in the field as Ger­ many. Now it falls short about 1,000,000 men. The Massachusetts -Senate has passed a bin appropriating $170,000 from the State treasury for the destruction of the gypsy tooth. The Vatican is said to be greatly exer» cised over the repeated attacks made toy the clerical newspapers of Mexiow upon the United 8tataa. 8.8 li 13.9 13.5 4.T A recent report by the Treasury Depart* ihent contains some interesting informa* tion concerning the cost of collecting tha revenues of the Government. During the last fiscal year the aggregate receipts at all the custom houses amounted to $150,- 443.936.93, while the expenses of main­ taining the service is reported by col­ lectors at $6,776,394.67. Thus it costs th«^f Government 4.6 cents to collect $1 in rev­ enue. The imports during the year amounted to $616,049,654 and the exports, •' both foreign and domestic, to $1,231,482,- 333, or a total commerce of $1,847,531,- 984. At only five custom houses, how­ ever, was the actual cost of collecting the revenues as low ael-the average. At New York it cost tha-Government 2.8 cents to collect a dollar; Philadelphia, 8.8 cents} Dubuque, 3.3 cents; Des Moines, 3.4 cents, and Chicago, 3% cents. The fol­ lowing is a statenle&t •af the aggregate , collections at the principal ports of entyy, the expense of operating the service and tho average cost of collecting $1: ' Cost of Aggregate collecting „ _ . Collections. Expenses. $1. York.$10S,703,856.40 *2,886,659.42 2J9 PhUadia . 12,602,172.81 472,638.87 Boston ... M),689,064.12 632,035.69 S. Fra/ieU 6,3P3,753.68 387,415.51 Ch cago .. 4,179,898.27 146,446.52 Baltimore. 1.T46,124.46 246,722.49 N. Orleans 1,487,263.15 200,630.06 St. Louis.. 1,000,632.43 47,479.38 These are the only offices in the coun­ try at which over a million dollars reve­ nue was collected. The following is a similar statement of customs districts in the Northwest: Cost if Aggregate . collecting _ _ collections. Expenses. SI. ^ ,'•* $407.(96.20 $70,826.40 17.» St. Panl... 211.407.05 33,784.73 16.0 Milwaukee. 202,857.29 16,520.84 8.1 only 101 of the 152 customs districts of the United States was the revenue col­ lected with any profit to the Government. In fifty-one districts it cost the Govern­ ment more than 100 cents to collect a dol­ lar. The most expensive customs district during the year was that at Yaquina, Ore., where it cost $531 to collect $1. Coos Bay, in southern Oregon, came next, with $378.52 expended for etery dollar collected. At Georgetown, S. U., it «o«t $300.31 to collect $1; at Eastern, Md„ $216.42; Albemarle, N. C., $175.21; Som- ers Point, N. J., $127.86;. Brashear, La., $112.40; Saeo, Me., $52.70; Rock Island, 111- $44.03; Kennebunk, Me., $33.33; La Crosse, Wis., $26.86; Cedar Keys, Fla., $17.60; Bridgeton, N. J., $15.84, and New- buryport, Mass., $12.86. At twelve cus­ toms districts and portB there were no receipts. One of these, Port Jefferson, N. Y., showed an average of two persons employed, but did not report any expenses to be paid from Uncle Yarn's pocket. The othas eleven, with the number of persona employed and the cost of maintaining the offices during the year, were: No. of employes. Beaufort, N. C.» 2 Anoapolls 2 Cape Chet*es City, Va 8 rappahannock, Va. ...2 Natchez, Miss 2 Padueah, Ky ..2 Cairo, 111 1 Salens. Ill 1 Nantucket, lfa*. . . . 1 Vork, Me. 1 rreaton, N. J 2 Expenses., f1,429.45 963.20 959.88 530.00 512.00 362.00 350.00 350.00 347.00 200.00 150.00 Assistant Secretary Ryan of the Inte­ rior Department says that the Dawea commission had nothing to do with the ' proposition to annex the Indian Territory to Oklahoma and to make a State of the combined territories. A story has been circulated to the effect that Gov, Barnes, the Dawes commission, and a number of politicians proposed to combine these two territories and appeal to Congress for an­ nexation. Secretary Ryan said he would not be surprised if the politicians had some such scheme on foot, but he was cer­ tain the Dawes commission, which is a Government institution, has no connection with it. Several efforts have been made to give these territories statehood, and legislation of this character was intro­ duced in Congress, but failed to pass. Thousands of pqttple flocked to the grounds which surround the executive mansion to watch the army of children in­ dulge in their annual sport of egg-rolling. The young and the old, rich and poor, white people and negroes, Chinamen, Jap­ anese, and, perhaps, people of every na­ tion were there. Eggs were cheap, and the street urchins as well as the petted children of fashionable families were well supplied, and only a few of thosg who live In dire poverty were without fancy col­ ored eggs. This did not rob the latter class of happiness, however, as they sta­ tioned themselves at the bottom of the hills and captured the eggs rolled down by those who had been favored by fortune. The representatives of the Cuban As- aembly have left Washington utterly dis­ gusted because they were refused official recognition by the President and with the plain way in which Secretary Hay Inform­ ed them they would not secure an increase in the allowance for paying the Cuban soldiers. The Secretary went further than this, and told the Cubans the Gov-* eminent did not propose to enter into any discussion with them in regard to the mat- ter. f One of the objects of Investigation by the next Congress will be the transport system of the War Department. Numer­ ous complaints have been made in regard to the service, its cost, and its manage­ ment. The results are not satisfactory and those who have been transited t« distant points have made interesting f«- ports on the subject.. , , President McKinley has decided to re­ sume bis walks ahoht the city, which were abandoned at the outbreak of the war, first because of lack of time, and then because of the remonstrances of frienda' who believed the President should not encourage domestic cranks or foreign ene­ mies to attack him. Now that peace is at hand he will again walk about the atreeta of Washington. 8parfc« from the Wires, . „ The ordnance department has contract* 1 ed for 8.000,000 smokeless cartridges at | $23.80 per 1,000. *• Already 2,500 formal applications tat office under the eensas director have bef&,. received, and 10,000 more are in sight. Accident insurance companies in ArkaflK* sos have been notified that they must sus­ pend business there, owing to the ani$> trust law. The California fish commission of San Francisco is devising humane measures to got rid of the increasing herd of sea lions alona the coast. Ex-Secretary of the Navy William O. Whitney is believed to bare been the real aarcbaser of the famous brood marges re* aeatly -aaM at Lefci*g*s«, K>.