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Plaindealer. F. K. QRANQER, Publisher. McHENftY, ^SSSSSBSSSSS ILLINOIS. WEEK'S NEWSfiECORD Tl» powder mill plant of the Pottsville, P«., Water Company blew up, destroying eighteen tons of powder. A gang of tramps, it is believed, set fire to a maga­ zine. The loss is $10,000. Francis B. Loomia. United States min­ ister to Venezuela, informs Secretary Hay that Venezuela will be .well represented at the international commercial congress in Philadelphia Oft. 10 next. Rich gold specimens and a diary dated In 1862 have been found in a cache in the Inyo desert, showing that William Bates, of St. Louis, discovered a rich mine, but probably perished on the desert. Si* United States prisoners confined in the county jail at Toledo. O., made their escape by climbing through the chimney at the rear end of the jail. One was re­ captured on the roof and returned to his cell. Harry Hayes, serving a life sentence in the Utah penitentiary for the murder of Albert Hayes, Alfred Nielson and An­ drew Johnson at Pelican Point, Utah, in 1885, has been pardoned. One George H. Wright has been charged with the crime. John Moore, who in March last cut the throats of his five little children, crushed their skfells with a hatchet and then set fire to the house in order to conceal his crime, was convicted at Hutchinson, Kan., of murder in the first degree, which means a life term in the penitentiary. A violent wind and rain storm swept through the prominent residence portion of St. Louis, leaving in its trail fifty un­ roofed houses, thousands of terrified peo­ ple and streets littered with fallen trees and debris of buildings.' Several persons "were slightly injured by flying timbers. George Dinning, colored, was awarded $50,000 damages by a jury of white men in the United States Court at Louisville. The defendants are farmers of Logan and Simpson counties. Dinning killed Jodie Conn, who, with the defendants, visited his home at midnight in January, 1897, to drive him therefrom. The Postmaster General has ordered that the rural free delivery service of the country be divided into two grand subdi­ visions, the western and eastern. The former is to consist of the Stateswest of the Ohio, and its headquarters will be at St. Louis. The other division, comprising States east of the Ohio, will have its head­ quarters in Washington., In its report the court of inquiry which investigated the beef charges censures General Miles for not reporting the un­ fitness of the rations at the time that the complaints reached him. General Eagan is severely scored for buying such immense quantities of an untried ration. The packers are exonerated, it being shown that they furnished the same goods that they put on the general market. The standing of the clubs in the Na>> tional League race ia as follows: W. L. W. L. St. Louis.... 12 5Baltimore ... 9 10 Chicago 13 6Louisville .... 8 10 Philadelphia. 13 6 New York.... 7 9 Brooklyn .... 12 7Pittsburg .... 6 10 Cincinnati... 9 7 Washington.. 4 14 Boston 10 9Cleveland ... 3 13 Ha* of Dewey day three persons were 11* Mftd the President seriously contem- jMdl? injured. The cannon was heavily j ptatvs calling that body together in extra loaded with powder and atones. Charley Nayame, a track walker on the New York elevated railroad, was struck by a train and hurled to the street many feet below. Portions erf his body fell on passing pedestrians, severed being bruised by them. ' During a violent thunderstorm light­ ning struck Sadie Tunie, a Russian New York girl, 13 years old, while standing in Canal street, causing fatal injuries. The bolt was attracted by the steel rod of her umbrella. Lyndhurst, the country home of the late Jay Gould, it is reported, has been pur­ chased by Miss Helen Gould from the Gould estate. The Lyndhurst property consists of 244 acres, and the price men­ tioned was $344,000. The United States cable steamer Hook­ er sailed from New York for Manila, to connect by cable all the principal points in the Philippines. The Hooker wins for­ merly the Panama, one of the first prizes captured in the Spanish war. WESTERN. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Kansas City. 6 4Indianapolis.. 5 5 Detroit 6 4Milwaukee... 4 5 Buffalo .. ... 5 4Minneapolis.. 4 6 St. Panl..... 5 4Columbus ... 3 6 R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "The failures in April were the smallest in any month since records by months began, 38 per cent smaller than in April of last year, not a third of the amount in 1897 and not half the amount in April of any previous year. It is not in­ consistent nor strange if business halts, because it has been crowded to the utmost for four months in anticipating future needs on account of new combinations proposed. In some cases prices have been advanced so far as to check new business and in others works have been engaged so far ahead that new orders cannot be taken. Yet new business in amount which would have been astonishing two years ago is still coming forward. Failures for the week have been 158 in the United States, against 238 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 25 last year." NEWS NUGGETS. The Emperor of Germany has appoint­ ed Mr. Frommann consul at St. Louis. Gen. Ramon Guerra, who started a rev-i olution in Venezuela last February, is now a fugitive. The Citadel, the largest fort in Halifax, N. S., has been condemned by the military authorities. At Greenville, Texas, John Little was Sunged for the murder of George Stone- sipher, whom he robbed. It is believed that the court of cassa­ tion in France will make public its decree in the Dreyfus case May 20. "Ike" Lewis, the negro who shot Police­ man McClure of Lindsey, Pa., at the Pat ton tunnel, has been captured. Three prisoners-Walter Lane, Miles Riggin and Seibert Mosby--escaped from the county jail at Mexico, Mo. JTwenty thousand barrels of oil was de­ stroyed by fire from lightning in an oil tank near Morgantown, W. Va. A fire in I. Fleisig's clothing store, SjLnta Cruz, Cal., caused a loss of about $50,000, covered by insurance. The President has decided to appoint Albert S. Kenny paymaster general of the navy, to succeed Edwin Stuart, retired. The projected German cable will touch at the Azores and will be worked by the Commercial Cable Company and the Pos­ tal Telegraph Company. George K. Van Horn, the murderer of Mrs. Josephine Wescott, was hanged in one of the corridors of the Lackawanna " County jail at Scranton, Pa. The first train over the South Park into Dillon, Colo., for four months ran through •olid walls of snow and steamed into the town amid the blowing of whistles and the ringing of bells. A cyclone which swept over the Chicka- B»w Indian Nation and Southern Okla tioma the other night killed five persons and injured about thirty. Slightly in jured number about twenty. It is thought all the wounded will survive. St. Philomae Church, in Cincinnati, was damaged about $10,000, principally on vestments and other contents, by fire. Cullison, a boom town of Pratt County, Ivan., paid off all indebtedness and made a bonfire of the canceled bonds. The tax­ payers raised the cash and bought up the bonds. Charles McCullough, a farm laborer, was shot and killed by Mrs. Eunice Brown at. her farm, south of Canton, S. D. The woman claims that she shot him in self-defense. J. H. Williams, aged 7G, collector for the First .National Bank of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, for thirty-six years, committed sui­ cide by shooting himself in the head. Despondency is believed to have prompted the deed. Because she would n<ft marry him, John Blorick of St. Louis shot and mortally Wounded Lizzie Diedrich and then fatally shot himself. Blorick was infatuated with the woman, who did not reciprocate his affections. The Fidelity Building and Savings Union of Indianapolis has begun volun­ tary liquidation. President J. B. Patten believes all claims may be paid in full if the intervention of the courts is not sought by stockholders. Judge Adams in the United States Dis­ trict Court at St. Louis refused an appli­ cation of the Edison Electric Light Com­ pany for an injunction against the Impe­ rial Electric Light, Heat and Power Com­ pany to compel it to desist from using the three-wire system of the Edison company. One of the worst sandstorms in years prevailed in central and western Kansas. At Abilene newly planted fields were in­ jured. At Newton, where the velocity of the wind reached sixty miles an hour, the sun was obscured by vast clouds of dust, trees were broken and small buildings overturned. At Cleveland, Ohio, two hundred lath­ ers struck for au eight-hour day and $2.50. Before noon they had secured what they asked for and returned to work. Two hundred plasterers also struck for $3 a day of eight hours. About fifty hodcar- riers went out on a demand for an ad­ vance from $1.50 to $2 a day. Seventy- five structural iron workers also struck for 35 cents an hour and an eight-hour day. Harry J. Flammger, a St. Louis police­ man, committed suicide because his wife did not give him a clean suit of underwear when he asked for it. Flammger went home at 4 o'clock in the morning after working all night. He proposed to his wife that they go out early and return, so that he could sleep late in the day. Then he asked her for the underwear. Upon her telling him that she did not have it just then he walked into the next room and shot himself. Flammger was 35 years old and had been on the force a year. Suits aggregating $9,000,000 have been filed against the Columbus, Hocking Val­ ley and Toledo Railway Company in the Federal Court at Columbus. The Guar­ anty Trust Company of New York asks judgment for $2,087,893, which it claims is due on principal and interest of bonds. M. E. Ingalls and George H. Gardiner sue the same company for $1,970,761, due of 7,930 5 per cent bonds. The same plaintiffs also sue the railroad company and the Hocking Coal and Railroad Com­ pany for $2,198,5(30, due of 1,693 joint mortgage bonds. A fire which broke out from incendiary causes in the big lumber yard of the A. Gebhart Lumber Company at Dayton, O., resulted in the death of Thomas Lawler, a lineman, and the severe injury of six other firemen. A high wind carried blazing sparks from the burning lumber to the roof of St. John's Lutheran Church on East Third street, setting that building on fire. Lawler was standing in the church vestibule when the belfry timbers fell on him. The other men were hurt by the flames and by falling. The material loss aggregates $75,000. session as early as October. It is announced that a lady of Pittsburg, whose name for the present is withheld, has founded the Thomas Coke College of Missions in the American University, Washington, D. C., by the gift of $60, 000. The President has appointed Col. Fred erick Funston of the Twentieth Kansas a brigadier general of volunteers. This appointment was recommended by Maj Gen. MacArthur and supplemented very strongly by Gen. Otis President McKinley has approved a par­ cels post convention between this Govern' ment and Venezuela, to take effect July 1 next. It permits parcels of merchandise up to eleven pounds in weight to go in the tnails between the two countries, the rate to be 12 cents a pouhd or fraction thereof. FOREIGN. ft EASTERN. At Cortland, N. Y., Mrs. Joanna De- Tern, a widow GO years old, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed her house. Immigration into the port of New York has been unusually great this spring, av­ eraging over 2,000 persons a day. Italians are coming in extraordinary numbers. . Fire in the boiler room of the power hotise extension of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, corner of Kent and Di­ vision avenue, Brooklyn, damaged prop­ erty to the extent of $50,000. At Mauch Chunk, Pa., by the premature discharge of a cannon used ia the celebra- The Transvaal gold output tor 1898 was $81,000,000. Vice Admiral Thomsen of the German navy has invented an apparatus by means of which it is possible to direct and con­ trol the- guns of a vessel from the bridge. A monument to the late Dr. von Ste­ phen, the German imperial postmaster general, wfeo died in 1897, was unveiled m Berlin in the hall of the Postal Mu­ seum. , Wyckliffe's English Bible, known as the Bramhall manuscript, from the Ashburn- ham manuscripts, was sold at auction at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodges, London, for $1,750. The administration^has about deter­ mined to call the' Honduran and Nicara- guan governments to account. It is said that if the Pear indemnity is not pWfcmptly paid a squadron will be sent to collect it. The famous Newgate prison and the Old Bailey, or Central Criminal Court, both contained in one of the most ancient and historic structures of London, will soon be demolished to make room for a new courts building. Owing to an inrush of water at th£ Ivtschnar gold mine, near Troizk, Russia, a shaft in which ninety-five men were at work collapsed. Sixty-two of the miners were killed and nearly all of the remain­ der were seriously injured. Herr Nowodwonski, editor of the Was- sawski Dnewik, and Herr Olszwski, a newspaper correspondent at St. Peters­ burg, have been exiled to Siberia. They are charged with publishing a confidential administration report to the Czar. Hong Kong advices say that Spain will demand a substantial land indemnity from China because the Viceroy of Canton per­ mitted the notorious Abby expedition to supply the insurgents in the Philippines with arms prior to the signing of the peace treaty. The Sultan has authorized the American minister, Oscar S. Straus, to telegraph President McKinley that his majesty has promised to pay the American claim of $20,000 for losses sustained by Americans in Turkey during the Armenian massacres in 1895. Prof. Cervello of the University of Palermo, Italy, claims to have discovered a radical cure for tuberculosis. The rem­ edy consists in the subcutaneous injection of a substance called "formalina." Out of 100 patients Prof. Cervello is said tc have cured 65. IN GENERAL. SOUTHERN. Ex-Gov. E. R. Scott of South Carolina has been stricken with apoplexy. The home of Gen. Wade Hampton at Columbia, S. C., was burned the other day. The famous asbestos mine at Sail Moun­ tain, Georgia, has been sold for $200,000 to Bancroft & Kenliick, mining engineers of London. Russel Sorver, a saloonkeeper of Coal- burg, W. Va., was found dead on the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks with a bullet wound in his body. Willis Sees, a negro, aged about 30 years, was taken from the jail at Osceola, Ark., and hanged in the jailyard by a mob of forty men. Sees was in jail on a charge of barn burning. A Kentucky judge has instructed a grand jury that church lotteries are gam­ bling and that he will sanction the prose­ cution of any church indulging in this spe­ cies of chance play for gain. City Collector Max Milean Sutor, of San Antonio, Texas, committed , suicide by shooting himself through the heart at his residence. Expert accountants have lately been investigating his accounts. The Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta, Ga„ was badly damaged by vandals the other night. Its pastor, Dr. Broughton, recent­ ly condemned the lynching of Sam Hose. He thinks the desecration of the church was done by persons who' feel aggrieved at his bold denunciation of lynchers. News has been received at Little Rock, Ark., of the assassination in Van Buren County of the son of Hugh Patterson, who was murdered in December, 1897, by Lee Mills and Will I^ardin. Mills was hanged a few days ago and Hardin was shot to death in jail. It is believed that young Patterson was murdered by friends of Hardin for revenge. Exports of American manufactured goods during March amounted to $36,025,- 533, an average of $1,400,000 for each working day. The former Hospice of St. Francis Xa- vier, on Ste. Catharine street, Montreal, was badly damaged by fire. It is now oc­ cupied by small manufacturing concerns. Formal announcement of the organiza­ tion of the American Hide and Leather Company is made. The company will soon be incorporated with a capital of $70,000,000. The torpedo boat Somers, which was bought by the United States in Germany previous to the war with Spain, has ar­ rived in New York on board the Atlantic transport liner Manhattan. Two cases of suspected small-pox have appeared on the United States transport Centennial, at San Francisco from Manila, and one case has manifested it­ self on the transport Sherman. Admiral Sampson's squadron of evolu­ tion has returned from its cruise in the West Indies to New York. The squadron is composed of the New York, Brooklyn, Indiana, Massachusetts and Texas. Authority has been granted Admiral Dewey to make such changes in the per­ sonnel of the Asiatic fl£et as he deems proper, advising the Navy Department subsequently for the purpose of record. Charles A. Walsh, secretary of the Democratic national committee, who has for the last year been digging gold in the Klondike, has arrived at home. From let­ ters he has written it is believed he has cleaned up between $50,000 and $100,00C during the winter. '< Dr. John Duncan Quackenbos, emeritus professor of Columbia University, has be­ come convinced by, a series of remarkable experiments that hypnotism may be em­ ployed to a great advantage not only in alleviating pain and curing certain dis­ eases, but for the purpose of reforming criminals and the treatment of certain forms of insanity. THE MARKETS NOVtl WA&TO DEAi'H FAILURE OF ALU NEGOTIATIONS ,v-FOr n« Pllipitte Proposition tor a Month*' Armistice Abruptly Reject* ed by Otis--Rebels Were Working; for Tiae-Fightiag Henewtd withVigor, The negotiations for peace in the Philip­ pines failed. The Filipino envoys in con­ ference with Gen. Otis iflade practically the same old proposi­ tion. They also ask ed for a three months' armistice, covering the entire archipelago. Gen. Otis abruptly refused the request and the conference terminat­ ed. The feeling-in Ma- , nila that peace would GEW. LAWTON. come as a result of the Filipino overtures. was rapidly dis­ pelled. The Filipinos are strengthening their lines wherever possible. This and the persistency with which Aguinaldo and Luna have sent in the same proposition for an armistice leads to the belief that the Filipino leaders have been simply working for time in which to collect their forces and to permit their soldiers to recover from the state of demoralization in which the repeated victories of the Americans had thrown them. The offensive opera­ tions begun by Gens. Lawton and Hale shows that Gen. Otis shares this belief. The news from Manila regarding the failure of peace negotiations came as a surprise to the War Department. The campaign will be pursued with the utmost OENRRALLUKA. vigor, and it ia not likely that the rainy season will offer any perceptible check to the aggressive movements of the Ameri­ cans, if aggressive action shall again be­ come necessary. * Although the Secretary of War and Adjutant General had hoped for a speedy, peaceable solution their eyes have from the beginning of the negotiations been on the other prospect as well, as evidenced by the disposition to hurry more troops to the Philippines as re-enforcements for Otis. The latter, it was firmly- believed, would not allow himself to be led into any trap, and the ruse to gain time, if such was the case, seems to have failed. Kout the Rebels* Advices have been received from Manila that Gen. Wheaton captured Santo Tomas after a severe fight with the insurgents. The insurgents were routed. The town was nearly destroyed by fire. Lawton's brigade has advanced toward Maasand, crossed the river and charged the enemy in strong intrenchments, driving him north­ ward and inflicting considerable loss. Both Wheaton and Hale of MacAr- thur's division found the enemy in force; Is •KX-- * It'ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, CALOOCAN strongly intrenched and commanded by Cotnniander-in-Chief Luna, about four miles south of San Fernando. Hale on the right, dislodged the enemy; and Wheaton, on the left, leading in person, made a brilliant charge, scattering Luna's forces and inflicting great punishment. Several officers and enlisted men were se­ riously wounded. WASHINGTON. f£ry - I Lewis Baker, editor of the St. Paul Globe and ex-minister to Nicaragua, died at Washington, aged G7. The President has appointed Herbert W. Bowen of New York as minister to Persia. Mr. Bowen was consul general at Barcelona before the Spanish war broke out. So many affairs of great importance await action by the next Congress that it Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat", No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushed. 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, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; oatH, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 3Ge; oats, No. 2, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 58c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wluat, No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 62c to 63c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; bogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 61c to G3c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 7Gc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Sc to 30c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c; clover seed, new, $3.70 to $3.80. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye. No. 1, 59c to 61c; barley, No. 2, 42c to 44c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common tc extra, $4.50 to $6.25. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, Nor. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; butter, creamery, 15c to 18c; eggs. West era, 12c to 14c. j; WAR Np^s IN BRIEF, jj Gen. Otis finds it impossible to maintain telegraphic communication with Gen. Lawton. Small bands of the enemy cut the wires as fast as the signal corps can erect them. Gen. Joe Wheeler will not go to the Philippines. That has been definitely de­ cided. He will probably be placed in com­ mand of the departmen! of Texas, which is to be revived. A Spanish prisoner brought into the American lines states that' Gen. Hale's brigade inflicted terrible losses on the Fili­ pinos during the fight at Quingua. He says that more than 200 Filipinos were killed in the fight. The three brigadier generals who will go to the Philippines are Gen. Fred Grant, who is now on his way from Porto Rico; Gen. Bates, recently military gov­ ernor of Santa Clara province, Cuba, and Gen. S. M. B. Young. Official dispatches from Manila say that the Spanish garrison at Baler continues to hold out against the insurgents. Gen. Otis declined to accept the proposal of Gen. Itios to send Spanish troops to the relief of the beleaguered garrison. He decided to send an American force to res­ cue the Spaniards. At Pulilan, a few miles east of Calum- pit, Wheeler's troop of the Fourth cav­ alry, while reconnoiteriug, encountered a smal^body of insurgents, who failed to re­ turn the fire of our soldiers. Instead they raised a white flag, and in the parley which followed explained that they had strict orders to stop fighting pending the negotiations for an armistice. The Amer­ icans gave them half an hour to get away. ^oi.es of Current EVente. A burglar in Detroit stole the piano and a stove from the house he robbed. Senator-elect Quarles of Wisconsin ia one of the truest sportsmen in the North­ west. The Salvation Army has provided a wood yard and a free labor bureau for needy applicants in the Klondike. TI»a Victory of Mantle Remembered Throughout the Csnstry, In Philadelphia, in Boston, in New York, in Bra Francisco, in Chicago, every­ where, men wrote the words strong and clear: "Dewey, great forever," and "The Government when in difficulty must have the loyal support of all worthy citizens." These were the keynotes, Dewey and the Nation. Colleges, universities, clubs apd business organizations joined with the cities in fittingly commemorating the occa­ sion of the first anniversary of Dewey's victory at Manila. Grand Army of the Re­ public men cheered for the hero; on the farms and in the hamlets, and wherever the American flag was unfurled to the breezes of the May day there wks an exhi­ bition of patriotism. Chicago observed the day by banquets and exercises in the public schools, and thousands filled the Auditorium to hear the majestic concert strains of the "Ma­ nila Te Deum." Statesmen, university men and citizens assembled at a "Dewey day" dinner in the banquet hall of the Quadrangle Club at the University of Chi­ cago to talk of the hero and of patriotism and of loyalty to the Government. Judge Kohlsaat, Col. Turner, Charles K. Ladd and other men prominent in the State and country joined together at a banquet at the Ashland Fellowship Club. A pre­ sentation picture of Dewey was hung amid deafening cheers. For Dewey in Philadelphia Captain Coghlan reviewed the naval parade in the river. * In Boston Secretary Long, Captain "Bob" Evans arid Captain Wilde, who commanded the cruiser Boston, made his­ toric speeches at the evening banquet. California made the day a legal holiday. In St, Louis the school children cele­ brated and the merchants paused in theft busy day to shout for Dewey. The nation's chief executive sent to the hero of Manila bay the following cable­ gram: Dewey, Manila--On tbls anniversary of your great victory the people of the United States unite in an expression of affection and gratitude to yourself and the brave offi­ cers and men of your fleet, whose brilliant achievements marked an epoch in history, and which will live in the annals of the world's heroic deeds. WILLIAM M'KINLEY. ATKINSON'S MAIL IS STOPPED. An^ti-Imperialist Pamphlets Cannot * Go to Manila. The Postmaster General has directed the postmaster at San Francisco to take out of the mails for Manila three pam­ phlets issued by Edward Atkinson of Bos­ ton, vice-president ofjhe Anti-imperial­ istic League. This qi^ler does not apply to the circulation of the pamphlets by mail In this country, but bars their dispatch from this country to the Philippines, dis­ content and even mutiny among the sol­ diers being stated by the department to be the design of .these -publications. The three pamphlets are specifically described and in no circumstances are they to be forwarded by mail to the Philippines. A Washington correspondent says that trustworthy information is in possession of the administration to^the effect that arms and ammunition have been sent from American manufacturers to the Philippine insurgents. The arms and mu­ nitions of war, it is learned, have been sent under blind from the United States to ports of Asia, thence reshipped to Sing­ apore and Hong Kong. From these places the Philippine insurgent junta has been running the blockade established by Dewey and getting the arms to Aguinaldo and his men. But representatives of the administration have given to the manu­ facturers concerned a quiet hint that the traffic must stop at once or they will be dealt with summarily. INCREASE IN PUBLIC DEBT. Net Caah Balance lu the Treasury Ia $263,127,633. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business April 29, 1899, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,172,587,264, an increase during the month of $29,081,701. This is accounted for by the payment of $20,000,000 to Spain in settlement of treaty obligations. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest-bearing debt $1,046,048,680 Debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity 1,218,390 Debt bearing no Interest 388,447,727 Total .$1,435,714,797 This amount does not include $554,256,- 613 in certificates and treasury notes out­ standing, whiph are offset by an equal amount of cash on hand. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold $278,085,254 Bilver 5U7,tt4tt,7U2 paper 44,851,406 Bonds, deposits In national banks, disbursing officers' baK auces, etc 85,682,004 Total $917,165,517 Against this there are demand liabili­ ties outstanding amounting to $6^4,037,- 984, which leaves a net cash balance in the treasury of $2^3,127,533. NEWS OF GILMORE. Missing Lieutenant and Nine Men in the Filipinos' Hands. Lieut. Gilmore and at least nine of the fourteen men from the Yorktown, who were lost in the attempt to relieve the Spanish garrison of Baler, are reported alive in the hands of the rebels. Col. Arguelles, the Fili­ pino envoy, who visited Gen. Otis on S a t u r d a y , s t a t e d that the Filipinos held sixteen Ameri­ can prisoners, ten of whom, including i . i e u t . G i r . m o k e . L i e u t . G i l m o r e , were from the Yorktown. Gen. MacArthur sent Maj. Shields and Lieut. Hayne to the Filipino lines under a white flag with ten days' rations and a supply of delicacies for the sixteen Ameri­ can prisoners. Gen. MacArthur also sent a letter to Gen. Luna suggesting the ex­ change of Filipinos for the American pris­ oners. Capt. Charles M. Rockefeller, Ninth infantry, is believed to be a prisoner in the hands of the insurgents. It is thought that he may be one of the sixteen American prisoners mentioned by Ar­ guelles. BIG DAMAGE BY FLOODS High Water in Wisconsin Carries Away u Number of Dams. Four dams were carried away by high water on the Eagle Nest river in Wis­ consin. The Eagle Nest is a tributary of the Peshtigo. The damage done will amount to $25,000 or $30,000. The force of the water was terrible and carried the 6,000,000 or 7.000,000 feet of timber in the dams and scattered it through the woods. It also tore away the banks of fhe stream and widened the river about twenty feet. The great flood of water let loose swept downstream into the Peshtigo and caused loss to other points. To save the dam at Crivitz II. Zech put fifty men to work tearing out part of the dam to let the water through. Damage is also reported at other points. The water in the Menominee is at the highest mark it has been since 18S8 and there is great fear of inundation. Much excitement prevails over the rise of the water. Moo are patrolling the river day and night. CAJBNIGIE STEPS OUT: HE RETIRE8 FROM HIS GREAT •TEEL'fMJfcHTBTi^ Henry Clay Frick Now In Command of These Interests-Likely that This Is a Step In the Formation^y^^^^* •aft Cooibine on Earth. "r" . / Andrew Carnegie, the greatest manufac­ turer in the world, has sold out to the new steel trust. This removes the last obstacle to a consolidation of practically all the steel producing companies of the United States. This will be not-ouly the greatest trust but the greatest combination of capital and manufacturing plants in Christendom. It will have a capital of $600,000,000, of which $100,000,000 will be in first mort­ gage 5 per cent gold bonds, $250,000,000 in preferred stock, and $250,000,000 in common stock. * % Mr. Carnegie is to retire from business permanently, turning over the controlling interest in his vast steel making concerns to the new trust and receiving in payment the entire issue of $100,000,000 in gold bonds, which becomes a mortgage not only upon the Carnegie mills but upon all the other steel mills owned by the trust, with $500,000,000 of stock back of them. The President of the new Company is to be Henry Clay Frick, formerly the part- 4 ANDREW CABNEGTE. ner of Andrew Carnegie, and the actual manager of the works at Homestead. Pa., when the great strike of 1803 occurred. Mr. Frick is one of the biggest coke man­ ufacturers in the world, several times „ millionaire, an expert in all branches of steel making, and a man of iron will. The concerns which are to be taken into the trust, with their capital so far as is known, are as follows: Carnegie Steel and Iron Co. .$100,000,000 National Steel Co American Steel Hoop Co.... American Tinplate Co American Steel and Wire Co. Federal Steel Co The Rockefeller Mesaba plant, capital not given. WINTER WHEAT OUTLOOK FAIR. 50,000,000 33,000,000 46,000,000 90,000,000 90,250,000 Reports in Some States Are Bad, bnt Others Good. Reports on the condition of winter wheat have been received by the Farmer's Review from its correspondents in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Mis­ souri and Kansas. In northern Illinois the outlook is extremely discouraging, many of the farmers declaring they will turn up their crops entirely. In such ,c<mutie,s as, Schuyler and Adams only 10 per cent will be left, while in Logan, Ma­ coupin, Sangamon, Shelby, and Ivnox counties 75 per cent will be plowed under. Jiy'k&uthern Illinois the reports are far from bright, but more hopeful than those nearer Chicago.. Recent rains have brought hopes of pros- tpeHty to tillers of the soil in Indiana. In thie central part of the State the reports are quite encouraging. Early sown wheat in Kentucky looks well, but the late sown bad. The conditions are said to be gen­ erally fair. Kansas has little better tid­ ings to report than Illinois. Snow saved the wheat in Michigan, where high hopes at*e expressed by the farmers. In Wex­ ford County an exception is recorded, how­ ever, correspondents claiming that 50 per cpnt will have to be turned under. Missouri has had a variety of fortune in her wheat. Half the counties in the northern part of the State will be almost destitute of crops. Southern and central Missouri farmers have been more fortu­ nate. Correspondents in Osage, • Benton, Franklin, Hickory, Miller and Bates coun­ ties say only 5 per cent will have to be plowed up. Iq Ohio the best reports are from Huron, Geauga, Hancock and Ma­ honing counties, where condition ranges from 95 to 100 per cent. The reports on the whole from this State are highly en­ couraging. PHILIPPINES ARE PAID FOR. Purchase Money-$20,000,000--Hand­ ed Over by Secretary Hay. The last move in the negotiations termi­ nating the war with Spain occurred in Washington Monday when Secretary Hay paid to the French ambassador, M. Cam- bon, the $20,000,000 provided by the treaty of peace for the cession of the Phil­ ippines. The payment was made in four treasury warrants of $5,000,000 each and was receipted for by M. Cambon as com­ pletely liquidating the obligation of the United States in this connection. The ambassador deposited the $20,000,- 000 in the ltiggs National Bank and the Spanish Government was notjgied by ca­ ble of the payment. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Vanderlip handed to Secretary Hay the the drafts for $20,000,000 to be turned over to the Spanish Government through Ambassador Cambon. The State Depart­ ment at once sent word to the French am­ bassador that the warrants were in hand and would be turned over to him at any time. M. Cambon strolled over to the department. He was alone and no extra precaution was taken to guard the trans­ fer of such a large amount. Secretary Hay received the ambassador in the diplo­ matic room, where the transfer took place with little formality. INCREASED IMMIGRATION. A Strong Tide of Would-Be Citizens Has Already Set In. The springtime of immigration has set in. There is a greater influx of foreigners now than for years past, due probably to the advertising Uncle Sam got out of the Spanish war. More Finns have come to the United States in the last three months than in all the'months of last year put together. Russian Meunonites. Swedes, Irish and a'smail proportion of the Italian immigrants are viewed with favor by the immigration officials. Recently a consid­ erable number of Italian farmers have been coming over; some of them were go­ ing up into New England to take up the abandoned farms there, and others were bound for the West. They are better ed­ ucated, quicker witted and a great deal cleaner than the bulk of their brethren. The rest of the Italians and the Eastern peoples, Greeks, Turks and Syrians, are not cordially welcomed to these shores by the immigration officials. This Government will not permit Nica­ ragua to carry out its threat to confiscate ithe property of the Americans who fused to pay double duty on goods import- *•*' ed. It appears the Americans paid the' , duty in good*faith to the insurrectionists^ <• p ; who were in revolt, and when the revoWk-^* lution was put down a second payment was demanded by the recognized Govern-" ment, under threat of confiscation. The' Americans appealed to the State Departi>r$§#p& ment, and they were advised to pay the * duty a second time under protest, which^fe ^ would give them grounds for claims " y. against the Nicaraguan Governments „ Whether this was done is not known the State Department officials, but thO' business of the Americans has been sus­ pended. They put a seal upon their doors, and hoisted the American flag over their places of business. When the officials de­ manded the duty, and in the event of a re­ fusal of payment threatened to confiscate the property, the Americans pointed to ' the flag and t<)ld those who wanted to de­ spoil them that they would have to tear5 down the flag before the threats could be , executed. According to the last advices the flag was still flying, and the property was in possession of its rightful owners. The Detroit, with Minister Merry, the American consul, and the Nicaraguan minister of foreign affairs, is now on the scene of the trouble, and from the instruc­ tions sent from Washington it is safe to Say the Americans will retain their prop­ erty, and their rights will be respected. There is renewed talk of an extra ses­ sion in the fall. Nothing has developed of a definite nature, but members of Con­ gress who have talked with the Presi­ dent say he seems impressed with the magnitude of the work before the next Congress. There must be provided Gov­ ernments for Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines; preparations must be made to turn Cuba over to the natives; the pre­ liminary legislation on the Nicaragua Canal must be started; the war revenue act will need curtailment; and a currency plan is necessarv to form the basis of the Republican platform for 1900. As a new Speaker will be elected, necessitating a long wait for the committees, it is felt an early start will be necessary to get all the work done by the time the national con­ ventions meet. Official objections to married men in the enlisted force of the army have been re­ newed by the War Department in an order sent out to recruiting officers and regi­ mental and other commanding officers. There always has been a natural objec­ tion to this for the reason that the accom­ modations at military posts do not admit of many families. Another reason is found in the fact that men make better fighters and can be ordered here and there easier when they are free of family responsibili­ ties. There is now better reason than ever before to limit the enlistments to un­ married men with the constant changes being made in stations of troops and the hard work in the field which many of the commands will be called on to perform. Sixteen members of the present United States Senate have served terms as Gov­ ernor of their respective States. They are Bate of Tennessee, Berry of Arkan­ sas, Culberson of Texas, Cullom of Illi­ nois, Davis of Minnesota, Foraker of Ohio, Gear of Iowa, Hawley of Cinnecti- " ; cut, McEnery of Louisiana, Nelson of Minnesota, Perkins of California, Proctor of Vermont, Shoup of Idaho, Tillman of South Carolina, Warren of Wyoming and Wetmore of Rhode Island. The oflice of Senator, by the way, has increased vastly in importance since the time when DeWitt Clinton resigned a senatorship to become Mayor of New York City. . ^ Naval officers are forced to keep a close watch on their utterances in public, as Captain Coghlan has found since his re­ flections on the Germans at a banquet in New York.' He might have profited by the experience of Admiral Ivirkland in March, 1895, who criticised missionaries and said one of them was an escaped con­ vict. This led to his recall from the North Atlantic squadron by President Cleveland and his assignment to the Mare Island navy yard, where he remained until his death. The change meant a loss of $1,000 a year in his pay. The great bull movement which has dominated Wall street for the last five months has been profitable for Uncle Sam. At two cents a share for revenue stamps the Government's receipts since the first of the year from this source have been at the rate of $90,000 a week. On the pres­ ent basis Uncle Sara will be richer by $4,- 500,000 for the year 1899 as a result of the stamps sold in Wall street. Preparations are being made by the Postoffice Department to send a large number of postage stamps to Manila. These stamps will be similar to those used in this country, but the word "Philip­ pines" will be stamped across the face of each, as was done with the stamps for telegrams and checks before, the internal revenue stamps were printed. Former Governor Lord of Oregon has declined the Persian mission. The reason for declining is that he wished to go to PSru; and cared nothing a"bout Persia. President McKinley will not have any difficulty in securing some one to fill the vacancy in Persia, as there are thousands of applicants for positions in the diplo­ matic service. If the regular army of tht United States should be increased to 100,000 men, the United States will still have fewer sol­ diers on a peace footing than any of the seven important nations of Europe. In time of i»eace Germany has 591.715 men; Russia. 761,400; France, 561,848; Italy, 208,060; Austria-Hungary, 279.120; Great Britain, 211,237, and Turkey, 237,400. With the annexation of Porto Rico the United States acquired a town which is older by fifty-five years than St. Augus­ tine, Fla., which was settled in 1565. and which all the historians tell us is the oldest town in the United States. The new old­ est town is Caparra, Porto Rico, which ^ was founded by Ponce de Leon in 1509. Joseph Neidenhofer, painter, New York, fell from a truck and received fatal in­ juries. Mrs. George, Canton, Ohio, says she win write a book in order to get money to pay her bills. - J. D. Rich, Juarez, Mexico, on his deattf bed, said he had been shot by his wife in a fit of jealous rage. -'".a.. >•