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McHenry Plaindealer. F. K. ORANQER, Publisher. MCHENRY, it • '• g ILLINOIS. SUMMARY OF NEWS. • At Paris, Texas, n reviewing stand on ,^rhich wfrc seated 4,000 powsous, wit ness- lOg a display of fireworks, fell with a crash. No one was killed, but a great number were injured, some probably . fatally. Prof. William H. Brewer of the Yale ^ifljiteffield Scientific School will leave the irork of his department to become one of a party of twenty who will go to Alaska for the purpose of research. The expedition ... will return in August, 1900. Fred Simonds, an employe of the Erie, "Ra., fire department, walked into A. Spin­ ner's hardware store and. asked to be shown a revolver and sOme cartridges. Loading the weapon, he placed it to his head, pulled the trigger and killed himself. Q> The Morgan-Vanderbilt combination is getting control of Ohio railroads. The Cleveland. Akron and Columbus has been (raid to the Pennsylvania company and negotiations are under way for the control «(# the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Davton. f ;iThe Southwestern special was run intp it) the New York Central depot at Utica, N. Y., by an express train. A .Wagner ^*r and the engine and one car of the ex­ press train were derailed and burned in the depot. Ylarry NeaJ of Buffalo was badly burned. ; Kenoyer's bank, at Leon. Kan.. !was Visited by burglars and about $2,000 se­ es red. The robbery was evidently the *fork of amateurs, the tools having been Stolen from a blacksmith shop. The safe was blown to fragments and the building 0 was wrecked. William T. Stead was personally receiv­ ed by the Czar in St. Petersburg and thanked for his efforts on behalf of the peace conference. Later ^fr. Stead ad­ dressed an assemblage at the British and American Church, and criticised the workings of the Russian censorship. John Kerr, who killed his father-in-law, John Reid, at Valley, Neb., a year ago, #as convicted of murder in the second degree. The murder grew out of an at­ tempt of Kerr to secure a reconciliation with his divorced wife, during which the young man was severely beaten by Reid. 'Trafford N. Jayne. a prominent attor­ ney, society man and churchman of Min­ neapolis, has been missing several days. He left the city presumably on business and when it became necessary to openjiis desk a letter was found stating that his accounts with several estates in his charge were wrong and intimating that when th£ totter was found he would be dead by hii - «*rn hand. Daniel Mahonev sued his wife Mary for $000 at Kansas City. They were separat­ ed, but were not divorced. Mahoney claimed that his wife had saved the money from his earnings. The case did not get to trial. Mrs. Mahoney's lawyers simply demurred to the case, saying it had no standing in court, because a husband could not soe a wife, although either one might sue or be sued by a third party. The judge dismissed the case. The standing of the clubs in the Na­ tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. 0 Baltimore .. .11 St. Louis... .17 Philadelphia. 17 Chicago 10 .Brooklyn ... .16 Cincinnati . .14 Boston 14 7New York..., .7 Louisville .. 8Pittsburg ... 8 Washington.. 10 Cleveland .. feife with an ax white she was milting a [ «ate*cd hte father-la-law*® and shot cow. He then hanged himself. The doable ! him twice, not inflicting, however, a fatal tragedy is ascribed to religious insanity, j injury. He then turned the revolver on A construction train on the Pittsburg j himsolf, shooting himself in the neck. He and Western Railroad went through a was arrested. trestle near Newcastle, Pa., killing four The greatest town-building record, in men and injuring a number of others. Oklahoma has been won by Mountain The train went over a "WMoot trestle Into View, Washita County. The other day Spanglcr's run. , the town site was a prairie. The same Jacob H. Fleisch and Nathan Fleisch, comprising the firm of Fleisoh & Co., man­ ufacturers and dealers in men's under­ wear in New York, have filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $285,- 412, assets $95,200. Ten native Filipinos under contract to exhibit in a dime museum in New York were forbidden to land in San Francisco. Commissioner North holds they are con­ tract laborers. His views are supported by the Washington authorities. WESTERN. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L St. Paul 9 7 Milwaukee .., 8 8 Indianapolis.. 9 7Petroit 8 8 Buffalo 8 7Kansas City.. 7 10 Minneapolis.. 9 SColumbus ... G 9 R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "To speak truly of business this i week, one must free the mind of stocks. For a severe decline in manufac­ turing stocks has created an impression t&at it has some relation to productive in­ dustry, but it has none. There was no Change in the money market worth men­ tioning, and the volume of business shown by payments tnrough the principal clear- teg houses was 71.3 per cent larger than 1892, the year of greatest prosperity hitherto, which is more than double the gain anybody considered possible a year •go. Never before reac hing 230,000 tons Per week, the iron manufacture reports May 1 an output of 250.003 tons weekly. Greater than in any previous year by 9.8 per cent, the actual shipments of boots and shoes from the East reflect a heavy businew, with a general advance in prices. Hides at Chicago advanced about 1 per cent. Cotton is a shade stronger. Prices of wool are said to have been gen- , erally advanced, with higher demands from the interior holders. Failures for the week have been 1(53 in the United States, against 240 last year, and 20 in Canada, against 24 last vear." BREVITIES. The twelve Filipinos who arrived at San Francisco a few days ago on the City of Peking have been ordered to be deported. ^Word comes from London that the joint high commission to settle disputes be­ tween the United States and Canada will resume its sittings Aug. 2. Rev. Dr.0 Charles A. Briggs has been ordained a priest of the Protestant Epis­ copal Church by Bishop Potter of New York, despite much opposition. The Uqyj£s of Mr. ajul M rs. Ilenry Tineknall were found in their <rooms in Auburn, N. \. The man was dead, with­ out a mark on him; the woman had her head battered in. A controversy of ten years' standing Was settled by the Catholic Knights of America at Kansas City when 1he dele­ gates meeting lu'knnual convention voted to admit women to the order. Fire at Fort Burwell, Ont.. destroyed twenty-seven business places and hotels. Only ope business bouse is left. Loss ,500.000. ( TfeC schooner Nelson, deeply laden with ft cargo of coal, fhindered in Luke Supe­ rior, off Grand Marais, and carried down ail hands except the captain. Nine lives Were lost. A collision occurred three miles below Marine City, Mich., between the steamer Vanderbilt, bound down, and the steamer White Star, bound up, which resulted in- the, sinking of the latter. No lives were lost on either boat. EASTERN. W" The Sewing Machine Attachment Com­ pany of New York, with a capital stock of $500,000, incorporated in Delaware. Maj. L. C. Overman, United States ar­ my, retired, was instantly killed by falling from a staging on which he was at work •t his summer home in Nantucket, Mass. Rev. Edward Morgan, late assistant rector of the Church of the Good: Samari­ tan in San Francisco, is reported to have been made a millionaire by the death of an •ant in New York. George Uhler, a farmer, 50 years of age, (•siding near Mount Hope, Pa., killed his Deputy Sheriff Frank Morrison was shot -dead at Mount Victory, Ohio, by "Ike" Bird while trying to arrest him. Bird then killed himself. Young Gee, said to be a highbinder from San Francisco, was shot dead at Sebas- topol, Cal., by his brother, Gang Gee, a merchant, whom ho had attempted to murder after being refused a sum of money for which he asked. Mary Vlach, the 10-year-old daughter of a farmer residing near Beemer, Neb., committed suicide while despondent over the death of her soldier sweetheart, Geo. Hoar, who fell before Caloocan while fighting with the First Nebraska. The big five story warehouse of the Newby Transfer and Storage Company at Kansas City was destroyed by tire. ^The loss is estimated at over $100,000. James G. McNellis, a fireman, foreman of No. 4 truck company, was killed.. Weasel Skin and some other Indians have terribly beaten a number of Mexican herders near the lower Florida mesa, near the Animas river, Colo., and killed five head of horses and a large herd of sheep belonging to the Mexicans' employers. L. G. Wilkins and another man were killed in an explosion at the California powder works at Pinole. Wilkins former­ ly lived at Council Bluffs, Iowa, where his parents now reside. He was foreman of the shellhouse and was aged 29 years. John C. Wagoner, who had carried a bullet in his head since the Custer mas­ sacre in 1870, committed suicide with morphine at a hotel in Stillwater, Minn. Wagoner served in both the Confederate and Union armies during the civil war. At Decatur, Neb., John Egleton and Oscar Zeager quarreled over the boundary line of their property and Egleton struck Zeager on the head with a singletree. Zeage r was p icked up insens ib l e and ne v ­ er rallied, dying in a few hours. Egleton is now in jail. W. E. Gooding, a well-kndwn railroad man, and for several years connected with the Minneapolis Times, committed suicide at Walla Walla, Wash., shooting himself in the head. ^A letter he left said his was simply a case of "too much poli­ tics and bad luck." During the performance of the Buffalo Bill show at Cumminsville, Ohio, the roof of old Turner Hall, which commanded a view of the show from across the street, was covered with spectators. A portion of the roof went down, with fifty persons on it, a distance of thirty feet. Three persons were dangerously injured. A cyclone visited Mulvan<^ Kan., and blew down twelve frame business houses and the Methodist Church. A small cy­ clone passed over Wichita, and five miles east of there it dropped to the earth and picked up five farm houses. Mr. Jacobs, while out feeding stock, was hit on the head by flying debris and fatally hurt. At Minneapolis, Bernard Golling at­ tempted to shoot his wife, from whom he was seeking a divorce. He fired one shot at her in the street, when Judge Gilfillan, who was passing, intervened and struck up Golling's arm, causing the second shot to go wild. Golling then ran a short dis­ tance and sent a bullet through his own head. A cyclone struck Coldwater, Kan., at 10 o'clock the other night, completely de­ stroying twelve houses and killing Joseph Bowers, a prominent cattleman. Aid- rich's general store was wrecked and a brick block on Main street was blown down. The Presbyterian Church was blown away and the court house was un­ roofed. Mrs. Charles U. Martz, wife of a promi­ nent Kirksville, Mo., man, received a beautifully chased silver wine flask, filled with what purported to be sweet wine. No marks other than the address were upon the package. The wine was given to a chemist, who analyzed it, finding enough arseuic in the contents to have killed a dozen persons. The suicide of Mary Vlack, a farmer's daughter, at Beemer, Neb., was followed by another, that of a young man-who is said to have cherished a tender affection for her. Young Jos. llarnby called at the Vlack home and asked permission to see the young woman's remains. He entered the death chamber and immediately shot himself, dying instantly. The long wooden railroad briSge span­ ning the Nemadji River below South Su­ perior, Wris., by which the Great North­ ern reaches Allouez Bay, fell while a heavy train was attempting the passage. Engineer Thomas Quinn was caught un­ derneath his engine and killed and Fire­ man Harry Miller was crushed between the cab and engine, receiving injuries which may prove fatal. Archie McCarter, a civil engineer and contractor in Fort Scott, Ivan., until 1891, when he left for Yucatan, has just been released from a political prison in the republic of Colombia, where he was confined for about six years, and has re­ turned there. He has gone directly to Washington and interested the Govern­ ment in his demand upon the Colombian Government for $150,000 indemnity. Fire swept Russell & Co.'s mammoth thrasher and engine plant at Massillon, Ohio, destroying property valued at fully $500,000. The blaze started in the ware­ house, and gained steadily on the fire­ men. In this structure 300 finished ma­ chines were consumed. The machine shops were saved. Albert Bamberger, a volunteer fireman, was killed by a fall­ ing wall. In the same catastrophe Chris- tianJL. Bgajz, a workman, was probably fatally injured. Mayor John R. Cassidy, of Bellefon- taine, Ohio, was horsewhipped by Miss Minnie Crawford on the main street of the city. Miss Crawford, who is a mil­ liner, had recently been subpoenaed as a witness in the mayor's court and had failed to respond. She became angered at the Mayor and lay in wait for him as he was going to his oflice. Drawing a whip from under her cape she lashed his Honor , over the head and shoulders, forcing bim ^to take refuge in a drug store. Joseph Harvey of Howard City, Mich., killed his wife, bis uncle, Robert Pierson, and his grandmother, aged 70, and mor­ tally wounded his 3-nionths-old child and wounded his father-in-law, John Logen- slayer, and fatally shot himself, inflicting a wound which, though serious, is not ex­ pected to prove fatal. The murderer as­ serts that Pierson was quarreling with' his grandmother and that he interfered; that thereupon Pierson stabbed and killed the aged woman, and that he (Harvey) retaliated by shooting his uncle. Harvey then returned to his home, and upon arriv­ ing there shot his wife twice, killing her. He then fired at his 8-months-old baby, • the ball going into its arm. Next Harvey day it was surveyed and platted and a large portion of it sold and settled upon. Washita river was bridged find a vast amount of accumulated freight was moved and located, "(the town was organized and officered and all lirilfts of business and pro­ fessions started. The town in one day be­ came a city of nearly 800, with W. T. V. Yates as Mayor, Senator G. W. Bellamy fts treasurer, and Col. John Kerfoot as pfeiice judge, with a full complement of conncilmen and minor officers of an organ­ ized towu. Some of the lots sold as high as $900 within thirty mintifes from the time the surveyor drove his stakes. Moun­ tain View is the western terminus of the Rock Island extension across the Coman­ che and Apache country. SOUTHERN. The sixth annual convention of the Po­ lice Chiefs' Association of the United States was held in Chattanooga, Tenn. The Portuguese bark Atlantico reached New Orleans from Brazil with a cargo of 4.000 snakes, bound for the Paris expo­ sition. At Scuffletown, N. C., Edward Lowery, a nephew of Henry B. Lowery, the fam­ ous outlaw of eastern Carolina, shot and killed Tucker Dial; Lowery escaped. The residence of Dr. L. C. Bagwell* east of Dalton, Ga., was burned. Dr. Bagwell, his three children and their ne­ gro housekeeper were burned to death. It is supposed a lamp exploded. A desperate encounter between four well-known men took place in the street at Okolona, Miss., and all four are dead. Dr. J. H. Murfee and his son, Howard .Mur- fee, were on one side and C. D. Clark and W. F. Clark on the other. Pistols and knives were used. The trouble was over a doctor's bill. Hearing that a force of 500 citizens of Elkins, W. Va., was on the way to Bev­ erly to remove the couuty records pending the settlement of the question of the loca­ tion of the county seat, citizens fortified the county buildings and prepared to re­ sist the Elkins people. The latter turned back on hearing of these preparations. FOREIGN. Another draft of regular British troops has sailed from England for Cape Town and more will follow. It is said that upon the completion of the railway to Khartoum, Lord Kitchener will open the Soudan to all traders, and that foreign goods will be admitted free of duty. The British ship Loch Sloy, from Clyde for Adelaide and Melbourne, was wrecked on Kangaroo Island. Five pas­ sengers and twenty-five of the crew were drowned. British forces under Col. Evatt defeated and captured Chief Kabarega on the east bank of the Nile. King Inwanga was also taken prisoner and 300 of his follow­ ers were killed. Four mummies, remains of the ancient Pharaohs, have been found in the pyra­ mids of Egypt. One of them has been identified as the body of Thothraes I., wh® flourished about 1633 B. C. In opening Imre Kiralfy's "Greater Britain Exhibition" at Earl's Court, Lon­ don, the Duke of Cambridge deplored' that while the nations talked of peace they still kept on increasing their armaments. He said that England was prepared for emergencies, and that the country had faith in the loyalty of the colonies. Rear Admiral, Howison, on board the United States cruiser Chicago at Tangier, demanded of the Sultan of Morocco a set­ tlement of the claims against him by American citizens. The admiral gave the Sultan notice that he would have to settle within twenty-four hours or the city would be bombarded. The threa„t was ef­ fective, as soon afterward the claim was settled. MANX DIE IN WRECK. TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISAS1!^ ON EASTERN ROAD. Pleasure fiseken Meet Awfttl Death at Exeter, Pa.--Express and Excur­ sion Trains Collide--Twenty-five Re­ ported Kilted and Fifty Injured. • collision of passenger trains occurred on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Exeter, about six miles south of Read' ing, Pa., Friday night, and the number of killed was stated to be twenty-five. Fully fifty others are injured. The regular express train from Potts* ville to Philadelphia connected at the sta« tion in Reading with n train from Harris- burg, which was crowded with excursion­ ists who had been to the State capital to witness the ceremonies in connection with the unveiling of the Hartranft monument. Many of the Harrisburg passengers at Reading went aboard the Philadelphia ex­ press, but, it being found that all could not be accommodated, it was decided to send an extra train to Philadelphia to run as the second section of the express. The extra train left twenty minutes later than the express. At Exeter the express stopped for orders, and while standing still the extra train crashed into it while moving at great speed. Three of the rear cars of the express were tele­ scoped and the first ear of the extra train was also wrecked. The passengers in these cars were terribly mangled, many being killed outright, while others had limbs and bodies maimed. 'Word-was at once sent to Reading and a special train with physicians and nurses was sent to the sbene as quickly as it could possibly be put in readiness. According to the account of the passen­ gers the engine of the second train plow­ ed through the rear car of the first train, then through the parlor car and half way through the third car. The first car on the second train was also telescoped. The passengers 4n the second train were most­ ly from Norristown. Some say that the signal man neglected to display the proper lights. He claims, however, that he had the warning signals up, but he thinks on account of a curve the engineer did not see them until too late. United States Senator Boies Penrose and Gen. E. Burd Grubb were passengers in the Pullman car of the wrecked train. The rear end of the car in which they were riding was crushed, but they were uninjured. ROSWELL P. FLOWER DEAD. IN GENERAL. Gen. O. O. Howard has been re-elected president of the American Tract Society. The new Ward Line steamer Havana, Captain Stevens, made the trip from Cuba in two days and twenty hours, the fastest time on record. The Dresden, Ont., branch of the Cana­ dian Bank of Commerce was robbed of an amount estimated at $10,000. The burg­ lars got away without leaving a clew. Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn has is­ sued an order creating the military district of North Alaska, which is to include all that portion of the territory north of the sixty-first parallel. Captain P. H, Ray is to command it. Plow manufacturers have virtually formed a trust, the capitalization of which will be over $63,000,000. The combina­ tion will take in all the leading plow- makers in the country, the most of whom are located within 200 miles of Chicago. The steamer La Gascogne, Capt. Simon, from New York for Havre, where she has arrived, reports that one of her boiler tubes exploded during the voyage. A fire man was badly burned and an engineer, who went to his assistance, was so severe­ ly injured that he died a few hours later. THE MARKETS. 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, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 25c to »7c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c 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, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 3Gc; oats, 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, 75c to 7Gc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; pats, No. 2, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 57c to &8c, Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 02c to G4c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye, Glc to 03c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c;" oats, No.' 2 white, 20c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c; clover seed, new, $3.05 to $3.75. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2.spring, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 3, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 30c; rye, No. 1, 59c to 61c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 42c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00. to $0.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $0.50. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; butter, creamery, 15c to 18c; eggs, West­ ern, 13c to 15c. Great Politician and Financier Passes Away Suddenly. Roswell P. Flower, millionaire and for­ mer Governor of New York, died Friday night at the Long Island Country Club, E a s t p o r t, L. I. Heart failure, sup­ erinduced by indi­ gestion, was the cause of death, which came sudden­ ly. There were pres­ ent his wife, his daughter, his phy­ sician and the nurses. Mr. Flow- • er had been a suf- r. i*. flower. ferer from gastritis for a long time, with every now and then ,ao acute attack. For a month or twQ past he had been a regular visitor at the Eastport Country Club in the hope that he would find some relief in the outing. Mr. Flower had become the foremost figure in the speculative financial world. He was born Aug. 7, 1835, at Theresa, Jefferson County, N. Y. His parents were poor and his father, a poor wool- carder, died when Roswell was 8 years old. The son at 10 graduated from high school and began teaching. Then he be­ came clerk for his brother-in-law and later went to Watertown, where he became deputy postmaster and clerk in a store and managed to save $1,000. Then he bought his employers' st6re and got mar­ ried. His brother-in-law, Henry Keep, a rich N£w York man, got sick and sent for Mr. Flcnver to come and take care of him. Mr. Keep died and Flower took up the management of the estate. Mr. Flow­ er was once a seeker for the Democratic presidential nomination; was twice mem­ ber of Congress, twice Governor of New York and for nearly two years a leader of New York financiers. ADULTERATION OF FOOD. Startling Testimony Given Before the Senate Investicating Committee. The senatorial pure food investigating committee, which has concluded its ses­ sions in Chicago, heard some startling testimony in regard to adulteration of food products. Prof. A. S. Mitchell, chief chemist of the Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commission, made the sworn statement that nearly every butcher in Illinois used preserving liquids on scraps of meat which they laid aside for the manufacture of hamburger steak. This liquid, known as "freezine," Dr. Wiley, the Government expert, said he identified as practically the same chemical which was used during his experience at a medical college to pre­ serve cadavers and was now occasionally put to service in disinfecting houses where smallpox patients resided. Prof. Mitchell said that the stuff had been used exten­ sively by farmers to keep milk and but­ ter. J. J. Berry, manufacturer of jellies, pre­ serves and syrup, testified that fruit was one of the least considerations in the mod­ ern jelly of commerce. Currant jelly, as a rule, has nothing in it that ever saw a currant bush. .Telly, Berry said, is 50 per cent glucose, 10 per cent sugar, 40 per cent apple juice and a few drops of color­ ing and acid to make it firm. Prof. C. S. N. Hallberg of the Chicago College of Pharmacy, testified that alum in baking powder changes to hydrates in the process of heating, but he could not say what the latter becomes in the acids of the stomach. He insisted, however, that alum proper isan irritant poison. Maurice II. Scully, of a syrup company testified that three kinds of "maple' syrup are made, one of which is 40 per cent glucose. EXPANSIONIST8 MEET jr* -. r .1 i • i ... Siarire Audiences Indorse the Government'* Philippine Policy. Aj/pouring rain didn't seem to dampen the enthusiasm of 6,000 Chicagoans who taet Sunday in the Auditorium and Cen­ tral Music Hall to indorse the Govern­ ment's Philippine policy. According to a dispatch, two audiences, fired by the elo­ quence of speakers who lauded loyalty to the Government in the present crisis, cheered at the mention of the names of the President and the heroes of the con­ flict in the Philippines and hissed the sen­ timents expressed at the Central Music Hall anti-imperialistic mass meeting of a week before. Clergymen, civilians and soldiers voiced the sentiments from the platform. Almost every sentence was punctuated by applause, and when a pop­ ular war hero was named the cheers were prolonged into minutes. The Auditorium was elaborately deco­ rated for the occasion. The speakers" desk was draped with an American flag made by Cuban women. The faces of Mc- Kinley and Dewey were portrayed in huge proportions on the platform. The army was represented by the portrait of Col. Roosevelt and the navy by the portraits of Sampson, Schley and Sigsbee. The Naval Veterans' Association, under command of Lieut. W. J. W'ilson, and fifty strong, was conspicuous in the uniforms.- which had seen service at Santiago. Sprinkled in the audience were noticed the blue uniforms of the boys of '98 and the gray heads of the veterans of '01. There were many women present, both in the audience aiid on the platform. When the vote was taken on the resolution of indorsement of the administration the few anti-imperialists who were present re- mafiled seated and at once became the objects of attention. There were cries of Put them out!" and one or two of the antis" bid defiance to the audience by leaving the meeting. When Judge O. H. Horton called the Auditorium meeting to order at 3 o'clock there were almost 5,000 persons in the great hall. The Central Music Hall meet­ ing was presided over by Thomas B. Bry­ an and about 1,200 were present. The speakers at the Auditorium were William Dudley Foulke of Indiana, Judge Richard S. Tuthill, the Rev. P. S. Henson, Bishop Samuel Fallows, George E. Adams, Gen. John C. Black and Congressman J. P. Dolliver of Iowa. Letters were read from Dr. Lyman Afcbott, Lambert Tree, E. Benjamin Andrews, Luther Laflin Mills and the Rev. Thomas P. Hodnett. The resolutions were read by Gen. John C. Black and declared the belief of the as­ semblage that the present conditions in the Philippines are the natural result of the events of the war; that the destruction ^ of Spanish authority there left no other authority than that of the United States; that peace prevailed from the time of the American occupation until the firing by the insurgents; that every honorable means has been employed by this Govern­ ment to cause a cessation of hostilities; that faith is declared in the army and navy; that the administration has dis­ charged its duties fully and well; that sup­ port is pledged to the American soldiers in the Philippines, and end with this sen­ tence: "Until armed insurrection has ceas­ ed we have no terms to offer but the American terms of unconditional surren­ der." & FAVORS POLICY HOLDERS. mm m Conrt Decision Hits Insnranoe Com­ panies' Surplus Funds Hard. Holders of endowment insurance poli­ cies' itf the mutual life insurance com­ panies are jubilant over the decision of Justice Woodward in the appellate divis­ ion of the Supreme Court of New York, which is taken to mean, unless the higher court rules otherwise, that endowment pol­ icy holders are entitled to a share of the entire surplus of the companies, instead, as at present, only that part which the directors in their discretion set aside. If this interpretation of the law holds, it will mean the distribution of millions among the policy holders and the empty­ ing of the surplus fund treasury of the mu­ tual companies. It would revolutionize the business. The surplus funds of the big companies run up in the millions. Insur­ ance men say they will fight the decision to the end. News of Minor Note* Capt. T. J. Jewell has been chosen to command the cruiser Brooklyn. Germany wants a law requiring auto­ matic couplers ou all cars. Juan Caballcra. bandit chief, was exe­ cuted at Mayari, Santiago de Cuba. Part of the building being erected for the Cincinnati saengerfest collapsed. No one injured. Mob burned the house of Widow Haley near Cave Hills, Ky., and ordered her out of the couuty. Accused of stealing chick ens. A trust will endeavor to get control of all the coal docks on the great lakes. West Virgiuia coal operators may form a com bine. On the farm of John Martin, near Car lisle. Pa., lightning struck a flock of thir­ ty-five sheep and twenty-seven of them were killed. Gen. Booth of t^e Salvation army is making preparations to establish an in­ dustrial farm of 15,000 acres in Western Australia. SHIPS START HOME. NASHVILLE AT CAIRO. Gnnboat Given Enthusiastic Welcouto to Illinois. The United States gunboat Nashville arrived at Cairo, 111., and anchored in midstream in the Ohio, immediately in front of the city. Thousands of people have visited the gallant ship, from which the first gun of the Spanish-American war was tired, and which captured the first prize. The number of visitors Sun­ day has been variously estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000, and they came from six States. Several thousand people visited the ship during the day and many thou­ sand were unable to get aboard. Six boats were engaged in ferrying the crowd, and they could not handle them. The Nashville left Monday for St. Louis, the steamer Grapevine accompany­ ing the vessel to make soundings in shoal places. CAVALRY FOR THE PHILIPPINES. 6ix Remaining Troops of Fonrtli Regi­ ment Ordered to Manila. The arrival of the transports Grant and Sherman at San Francisco has been re­ ported to the Wai^Department. As soon as they can be, made ready they will take the Sixth and Sixteenth infantry to Ma­ nila. The six remaining troops of the Fourth cavalry have been ordered to the Philippines. To relieve two of these, now at Fort Yellowstone, Wyo., a troop of the First cavalry has been ordered there from Fort Meade, S. D. There are now only four troops of mounted cavalry, part of the Fourth regiment, serving in the Phil­ ippines, and some very creditable work has been performed by these men in the recent operations. DEWEY'S SAILORS IN. Buffalo Brines 096 Time-Expired Men from Manila. The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, with 596 time-expired officers and men from Dewey's-fleet, has arrived at New York. The men were brought home for dis­ charge, having been relieved by the de­ tachment that was carried to Manila last December. On the Buffalo were forty- nine seamen who were on Dewey's flag­ ship when the Spanish ships were destroy­ ed. No ceremonies of any sort marked the arrival of the vessel. As a matter of fact, it was not expected before another week's time. She made a remarkably fast voy­ age, being only forty-five days out f»oni Manila. STATE WILL DEFY NATION. TRANSPORTS LEAVE MANILA WITH SICK AND WOUNDED. General Otis Reports Tassels that Have 6tarted from Manila for 8sn Francisco--Volunteers Are to Come When More Regulars Arrive. Gen. Otis has informed the War De­ partment of the sailing of six chartered transports from Manila for San Fran­ cisco. They are the City of Pueblo, the Zealandie, the Pennsylvania, the Nelson, the Cleveland and the St. Paul. Sick and wounded men are being brought home on these vessels. The Cleveland and the Nelson are freight boats, but the others could have brought volunteers if it had been consid­ ered advisable to reduce the effective forces during the negotiations now being conducted with a view of ending further Filipino resistance to the American Gov­ ernment. The Pennsylvania has been sta­ tioned several months at Cebu, and the St. Paul has been at Iloilo since fail. These vessels will be returned to their owners when they reach San Francisco, and as napidly as possible all the remain­ ing chartered vessels will be released. Gen. Otis cables: "Volunteers under­ stand they will begin to leave for the United States the latter part of the month; know importance of their presence here at this time and accept sacrifice which United States interests make imperative." War Department officials Bay that the cable regarding the return of the volun­ teers indicates that the troops are making no clamor to be sent home, but see the neoessity of remaining until they can be relieved by the regulars now on their way and to be sent to Manila as soon as they can be shipped. There have been many applications from the West to have the volunteers brought home by the Suez canal route. A Wash­ ington dispatch says investigation shows that it is impracticable. The Suez canal route is a much longer route than that across the Pacific and the men would be kept on the transports from ten to fifteen or twenty days longer than if they came across the Pacific. The distance is esti­ mated to be about 8,000 miles longer by the Suez canal route than across the Pa­ cific, and at this season of the year it is considered more unsafe, owing to climatic egpditions, especially for the troops who have been in the tropical climate of the Philippines. The greater part of the voy­ age would have to be made through the tropical climate even farther south than Manila, as they would have to skirt the southern coast of Asia, where plague spots exist at all times and especially in the summer season. By the other route, the transports can sail north to Japan, and then across the Pacific, in a more salubri­ ous climate, which will make the voyage beneficial to the men. The expensive tolls at the Suez canal make the Pacific route the more economical. The War Department has, therefore, been constrained to deny these requests, and to bring the volunteers home by the Pacific route. As a majority of the vol­ unteers are from the West, they will also have a shorter railroad journey before them when they land in San Francisco. Gen. Lawton has established a SFilipino government at Balinay, a council compos­ ed of Filipinos, and a mayor being elected. Americans are not to be held responsible, for remuneration to the officials. To such! an extent as the natives conduct their! affaire in a manner the Americans consid­ er proper, they will not be interfered with. This has been promised them. A portion of the Filipinos are satisfied with this, and have commenced to cultivate thtpir fields. Those in that city who were un­ willing to submit to foreign rule have largely become weary of the war and sick of slaughter and have laid down their arms. Gen. Lawtoo is giving a cordial wel­ come to the Filipinos returning from the north and ooming into the protection of the Americans. Many natives are getting food supplies from the rebel stores taken at Balinag by Gen. Lawton. Aguinaldo's power is reported to be weakening con­ tinually. The returning insurgents are made to understand that they will be ac­ corded kind and just treatment. FOUR REGIMENTS FOR MANJL These Will Enable Otis to fend Home the Volunteers. The War Department is preparing to send four regiments of regulars to Maillla by way of New York City and the Sues Canal, utilizing for the purpose of trans­ ports Thomas, Meade .and Logan, which are to be permanently transferred from the Atlantic to the Pacific fleet. They are expected to transport the Seventh and Nineteenth regiments of infantry and the First and Seventh regiments of artillery. The Seventh infantry is now distributed at posts east of the Missouri, the Nine­ teenth is in Porto Rico, the Seventh ar­ tillery is along the Atlantic coast north of Washington and the First is in the coast defense south of the Chesapeake and along the gulf. The project to send these regiments by way of New York City and Suez is based on considerations similar to those which governed the War Department in sending the Grant, the Sherman and the Sheridan by that route. The expense of transpor­ tation of the troops by rail across the con­ tinent, amounting to $30,000 a regiment, is saved and the transports are sent to the Pacific, where they are most needed, as few Cuban or Porto Rican garrisons will require much moving about for a long .time to come. On the Pacific coast two more regi­ ments, the Sixth and SixteAith infantry, will start for Manila this month. It is believed that Gen. Otis will soon be in position to begin sending home the volun­ teers from the Philippines by every avail­ able steamer, as important re-enforce­ ments are about due to reach him. These consist of a regular infautry regiment and eleven batteries of artillery. e Governor Thomas Demands Rceall of Colorado Volunteer®. Charles S. Thomas, Governor of the of Colorado, is determined the Colo­ rado volunteer soldiers shall be returned from the Philippines, and it is intimated that he will resort to the drastic measure of appealing to the Supreme Court if President McKinley does not order their immediate return. The Governor says the boys enlisted for the Spanish war, and as war with Spain is over there remains nothing for them to do bat return to their country and homes. WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. Filipino riflemen to the number of 8,000 are intrenched ou three sides of Cacolor. The insurgents succeeded in landing ten machine guns at Capiz, on the island of Panay. McArthur's troops are considerably en­ ervated by the heat and the fatigue of the campaign. The insurgents of the province of Ca- vite are preparing to make a desperate re­ sistance to the Americans. Gen. Luna massed his army east of the railway, bringing up troops by trainloads In sight of the American lines. A reeonnoitering party, sent out by Gen. Lawtou, discovered the insurgents strong­ ly intrenched at San lldefonso, nine miles north of Balinag. During the afternoon of Monday Gen. Mascardo, with a large retinue of offi­ cers, rode along the lines, frequently stop­ ping to harangue his warriors. The transport Hancock, with the Twen­ ty-fifth United States infantry, numbering 1,400 men, arrived at Manila from San Francisco Thursday morning. The ar­ rival of the Hancock was timely, as fresh troops were needed to relieve the exhaust- ' ed men of Gen. MacArthur's command. Tift? most famous Jefferson enrred in Washington April 13, 1830. At this banquet Gen. Jackson--"Old Hick­ ory"--then Presi­ dent of the United States, was the guest of honor. His toast created an enormous sensation at the time and has never been forgot­ ten. It was: "Our Federal Union; It Must Be Preserv­ ed." South Caro­ lina was then in the throes of nullifica* ANDREW JACKSON, tion. The doctrine of State rights was being preached in Congress and out of it. The historic de» bate between Webster and Hayne had just taken place. Sturdy old Andrew Jackson determined to do what he could to turn the tide the other way. His toast was followed by that of John C. Calhonn, then president of the, Senate and recogniz­ ed defender of the doctrine of State rights. Calhoun proposed: "The Union: Next Jto our libertv the most dear. May we all re­ member that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States and dis­ tributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union." Gen. Fred Funston won his wife ta; much the same dare-devil spirit that he won Calumpit. He simply took the fair •young Californian, who went to gaze at the troops of the Twentieth Kansas in camp at the Presidio field, by storm. Soon the general was spending his eveningB at the girl's home, and the engagement follow-. ed. Then love's dream was suddenly shattered by orders for the regi­ ment to sail for.Manila. MRS. funvton. The brave girl determined to become Mrs. Funston at once, and did so. No officers' wives were allowed upon the transport, but she dressed up as a bugler, and was soon safe on board. But Gen. Otis dis-y covered the trick and ordered her to leave her husband at Honolulu. She did so, but followed her husband in the next ship for Manila, where she has lived since. The measures taken by the Government against Edward Atkinson in seizing the pamphlets he was sending to the soldiers in the Philippines arp much less severe than those which President Lincoln adopted in dealing with Clement L. Vallandigham in the '60s, and who was charged with similar offenses. Vallandig­ ham, in 1863, made a speech in which he declared the war to be "cruel and unnecessary'." For making this-sopeech he was urrested and sentenced to imprisonment in Fort Warren, but President'Lincoln commuted the sentence to deportation beyond the Union lines. Accordingly Mr. Vallandigham was taken South aud turned loose in the enemyis country. VALLANDIGHAM. OATUMAX'X. Alfred and Mrs. Crawford, the Georgia farmer and his wife, victims of the negro Louis Gathmann, whose gun cotto® shell was tested at Sandy Hook, has been long known to army meu over all the world through his great inventive genius. as the deviser of high pressure guns and powerful explosives. Mr. Gathmann is a} German who speaks^k English with a slight accent. He is 50 years; .... old, and left his na-#^|i+,\\K tive Hanover thirty-^ four years ago to come and live in America. The officers of the American army believe that as an inventor of ord­ nance Mr. Gathmann has no equal in the world. Thi' experiments with his cannon have been iu progress at Sandy Hook for two years. Among its many other distinrctions Kan- sas is the only State which has sent an American Indian fo Congress. The repre­ sentative of the red man is Congressman Charles Curtis of the Topeka district. Mr. Curtis is an In­ dian of the Kaw tribe. He was born in Shawnee County, went to school in To­ peka, studied law, aud was elected county attorney. He has served three terms^jS'^vCoijgress charles curtis. an(j jjas elected for the fourth. Naturally Mr. Curtis is the most conspicuous "friend at court" of "the noble red man." Miss Margaret Dunn, Springfield, Mo., a cool-headed professional nurse, fought with a burglar who entered the room of the woman she was nursing, and almost overcame him. She knocked him down twice, and bears on her body many marks of the desperate en-"j^1 counter. Says she wasn't a bit afraid of the big burglar, but miss ih*nx. he was too strong and she couldn't hold him* Martin II. Glynn of Albany, N. Y., wiH be the youngest member of the Fifty-sixth Congress. He has just passed his twen­ ty-sixth b f r t b d a y. Mr. Glynn is a law­ yer and newspaper man, being managing editor of the Albany iTimes-Uuiou. He first 'came into prominence as a speaker at a \ meeting of the In­ tercollegiate Athletic M„. n. glynn. Association at the fifth Avenue Hotel in New Yotfk.