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, \ v> w;', j to' *,. * 2i -- • • • " . w ' .: ^., * - -st •' * ' I 2/ »' * "*"* - ^Vf? '*•>.*"> -*/" 1./ . *#•••- " > J& «' •^*Bgggg3,tj - •' K K* T V v ™ - p T ^ " " T " ^ sra " *»" •"• • <g "'"' s *"4tt,« ,, •- McHenry Plaindealer. THE SPEAKERSHIP, F. K. QRANQER, Publisher. McHENRY, • li „, sg ILLINOIS. -Sf: ^WEEK'S SEWS RECORD | Tkf Wisconsin Oentral freight sheds io •Chicago were destroyed by tire. The loss to the building and its contents, consi^t- i ins for the most part of freight awaiting , deliver is -estimated at about $60,000, covered toy insurance. The Sixth Ohio, Col. W. V. McMaken, . was mustered out at -AagusJta, Ga. Gen. 8. M. Young, who is in charge of the BQUS- j*Mi.ng«ut of the troops in the South, says the Sixth Ohio was one of the best, if not > rf < the best, regimunt he had seen in the ii' &/, :m*- • r i 1 k3 - 4 A great sensation has been caused by the failure of Neilson Brothers, an impor- 1*7 _ ; V 4 • tant Glasgow firm engaged in the iron and steel trade. The total of the liabilities is \ ' . j*-'.' unknown. Neilson Brothers were the Iarg- '"-est dealers and exporters of ship plates in . *• *. - Scotland. ^ f ^ ' The French Government announces offl- •ll ,FC * dally that former Captain Dreyfus, now a Prisoner on Devil's Island, will be re- i&"> K'"T" tried by a court martial. The sittings will « • . tJu+- ' be held in a garrison town distant from 1^, Jfe cw Paris. The prisoner will be brought to France at an early date. ' With the return of spring to Dawson come renewed fears of jiestilence and death. Stringent sanitary measures are • being adopted. Physicians predict an un­ usual prevalence of typhoid owing to the accumulated filth of winter which now in­ cumbers the site of the city. The Episcopal Church of New York an­ nounces a plan to light the sale of rum by establishing tea bars in various parts of the city to supply this stimulating bever­ age, both hot and cold, for 1 cent a glass. A persistent effort wLll be made to teach the poor that good tea is better than beer or whisky. Lena Bouts, aged 14, and a younger brother, children of Frank Bouts, a Bur­ lington tie contractor of Pennington Coun­ ty, S. D., are under arrest, the girl being charged with murdering her father. She Bhot him through the head while asleep. The man was cruel to his family, and starved them half the time. Mrs. Edward Cooper and her 2-jear-old daughter of Findlay, Ohio, were fatally injured by a vicious horse. The horse first attacked the child and had it under its feet when the mother heard the screams and attempted to save it. The horse turned , on her and she was knocked down and her head crushed and body badly stamped. News comes from Skaguay of the ar­ rival there of a prospector named Charles Hartman, who had with him $5,OCX) in nuggets, which he said were taken from a new strike about fifty miles from Atlin. He is an American, and as he cannot stake his discovery, owing to the exclusion act, he refuses to make any statement as to where it is situated. The standing of the dabs io the Na tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. 11 Baltimore ...19 1G 12 New York... 14 20 12 Pittsburg ... .12 21 13 Louisville ... 12 23 15 Washington. 12 24 15 Cleveland ... 7 23 .23 <>•> Brooklyn St. Louis Boston . Philadelphia. 20 Chicago 21 Cincinnati . .18 SIC!' <??• ' Fallowing is the standing of the dubs Id the Western League: W. L. W. L. Milwaukee . .18 11 Indianapolis. 13 13 St. Paul.....15 12Columbus ...11 14 Detroit 15 13 Buffalo 10 15 Minneapolis. 15 13Kansas City.. 11 17 Bradstreet's report for this week says: "Favorable features of current trade still, as for a long time past, largely outnumber those of an opposite character. Wholesale distribution is naturally less active as the season advances, but comparisons with last year are still very satisfactory. In­ dustrial activity is widespread, and the prices of most staples are either very firm or tending upward, except in the cases of products affected by weather conditions. Reports from winter wheat become in­ creasingly unfavorable. Wheat (includ­ ing flour) shipments for the week aggre­ gate 3,198,318 bushels, against 2,212,200 bushels last week. Corn exports for the weefc aggregate 3,845,818 bushels, against 2,753,414 bushels last week." BREVITIES. ffm layman to be elected to that position. Robert L. Cutting has begun suit in the Supreme Court at New York for absolute divorce from Mrs. Minnie Seligman Cut­ ting. Hit wife denies his allegations and intends to make counter charges, insisting that the courts must grant a decree in her favor. A private viewing stand at Maiden, Mass., on the route of the parade in cele­ bration of- the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the town and which was occupied by a number of Senators and Representatives of the Mas­ sachusetts Legislature and their guests, collapsed and several of the occupants received severe injuries. The west side wall of the new building at 12G West Eleventh street,' New York, caved in, sevepdy injuring three laborers. The cause of the accident is unknown. The men were in an excavation. Old buildings had been torn down and the men were digging for a new building. A sus­ taining wall, 35 feet long and 10 feet high, fell and buried nine workmen. Two persons, a man and a woman, per­ ished in a fire that destroyed a lodging house kept by Fay Hilton in New York. The man was known by the name of Thompson, and he was supposed to be a fish dealer. The other victim was a ne- gress, whose name is not known, who was killed by leaping from the tSf> story of the building. The fire had gained great head- before it was discovered, and Thompson was suffocated in his roonii The loss on the building was $20,000. Mrs. John Roathberg, 84 years old, was fatally burn­ ed ip trying to escape from a burning ten­ ement at Riving'on and Pitt-streets. WESTERN. IF '1 Seven persons were killed in a wreck on the Burlington, Cedar ltapids and North­ ern Railroad four miles southeast of Wat­ erloo, Iowa. Thirty-nine others were in­ jured. The official count of votes cast by the Creek nation of Indians at the February election shows that the treaty proposed by the Dawes commission is ratified by a ma­ jority of 485. Jataes Weaver, the 11-year-old colored Boy who confessed that he poisoned his father and his brother, was arraigned in the police court in Cincinnati and held to answer to the grand jury. At St. Joseph, Mo., Prof. Frederick .William Plato, whose title in Germany was Baron von Doluitz, a musical com­ poser, is dead from injuries received by being struck by a wagon. In a Coronado, Cal., lodging house, Benedict Bergmann, infuriated at Miss Elizabeth Berkeley's refusal to marry him, stabbed the woman and then cut his own throat. Both were fatally wounded. August Boeder's renovating factory at rfewark, N. J„ was nearly destroyed'by fire. Loss $50,0<X). The widow of Chas. Norton, a former champion pugilist, was frightened by a fire, and she expired a few minutes later. . President McKinley is said to be re­ sponsible for giving Dewey the chance to gain fame. Secretary Long, had deter­ mined to give Watson command of the Asiatic squadron, when the President di­ rected him to appoint the Vermonter. Advices from Hardeeyille, R. C., report the burning to death, of Jacob Solomons, It is wife and seven children in a tire which destroyed their house. The Cuban-American League has called on T. Estrada Palma to account for the money he collected for the Cuban revolu­ tionary fund, estimated to amount to $0 • 780,000. Counsel for George Forzlcy & Co., a banking and commercial house for the Syrian colony of New York, filed a ppti tion in bankruptcy in the United States District Court. Vhe liabilities are esti- jriateA at $10,000. The factory of the Ohio Sash and Door Company in Cleveland burned. Loss $50,- 000. During the performance of a wild west show at Perry, Ok., Fred Meeks, a cow­ boy belonging to the show, and Sadie Spenny of Perry were married in the cir­ cus ring, in the presence of a big crowd. Ben Wilhite, a farmer, and his sweet­ heart, Miss Lulu Ford, living near Shar­ on, Mo., decided to commit suicide togeth­ er with a revolver. He shot himself dead. The girl then took the weapon, but it fail­ ed to explode, and 6he fainted. Passers- by found her. Mrs. Charles Hutchinson, aged 26 years, of Arcada, Ind., and five times married, shot and killed her husband. She is now in jail. Mrs. Hutchinson claims that the killing was done in self-defense, she having been attacked by her husbaifd, armed with a huge knife. A heavy windstorm struck Hastings, Neb., and did much damage. A long row of railroad sheds on the south side of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railro&d was demolished and fifteen or twenty small houses of laborers were blown down. So far as known no one was injured. The conference called in St Paul to con­ sider freight rates to Pacific coast points closed without a decision in favor either of Pacific coast jobbers, who want changes, or the wholesale and jobbing in­ terests of the middle West, who insist that the present tariffs must be main­ tained. L. S. Washburn, a trusted Michigan Central baggageman, was arrested in Chi­ cago on a charge of robbing the mails. Decoy bills were found on his person and he confessed having operated between Chicago and Grand Rapids, Mich., for a"bout two years, having purloined almost 30,000 letters. The threatened general strike of coal miners in the Missouri and Kansas dis­ trict has apparently been averted by an agreement entered into at a conference at Pittsburg, Kan. The operators have agreed to concede the eight-hour day after Sept. 1, recognize the union and frame a new scale of wages. A race between a freight train and four robbers in a spring wagon took place near Lentner, Mo. The law-breakers had a good start, but were overtaken two miles out from the village and captured by the train crew and locked up in a box car. The only lane available for the escaping rob­ bers ran parallel with the railroad track. In and near a tent in Joplin, Mo., were found the dead bodies of J. E. Moss, his wife, an infant child, a girl of 7 years and a boy of 9. The heads of all save Moss had been with a hammer; He had a bullet hole in his head and still clasped a revolver. He had apparently killed his family, then committed suicide. Tom L. Johnson, the street car mag­ nate, has been buying up options on sev­ eral hundred acres of land near Port Clin­ ton, Ohio. It is said that he contemplates erecting a mammoth steel plant. In con­ nection with the deal the ' Marblehead, Port Clinton and Southern Railroad will be extended as far as Tiffin and perhaps into the coal fields. Judge Troutt of the Superior Court at Francisco has denied the right of Mrs. Nettie S. Craven-Fair to intervene in the contest of the will of the late James G. Fair, filed by his son Charles. In other words, she will have no chance to prove her claim to be the widow of the late James G. Fair unless the Supreme Court reverses Judge Troutt's ruling. Elliott W. Brown, manager of the Na­ tional Sheep and Cattle Company, one of the best known stockmen of Nebraska and Wyoming, was drowned in Indian creek, Nebraska, while attempting to ford it on horseback. Mr. Brown was oue of the Wyoming rough riders under Col. Grigsby and distinguished himself in the Missis sippi wreck last summer, when he saved many lives. Thomas A. Merritt and Edgar Holmarf of Duluth arrived there from the Golden Star mine in the Seine river district, with $12,000 in gold bricks. It represented one month's clean-up at the mine with a ten- stamp mill and beats all previous records for the same length of 4ime by $10,000 The stock in the mine jumped from 05 to 85. The stock of the Emma Abbott mine, owned by Chicago and New York parties which is supposed to be on the same vein advanced 5 cents also. sign Captain J. B. Ooghlan'to duty aa commandant of the Paget Sound naval station June 30, relieving Captain J. G. Green. The Comptroller of tke Currency fcu de­ clared a IS per cent dividend in favor of creditors of the First National Bank of Lnrihiore, N. D., and a 10 per cent divi­ dend in favor of the First National Bank of Emporia, Kan. Some extensive experiments are to be made with liquid fuel in the navy with a view to its adoption on torpedo boats and the naval ships oUlie smaller class. The torpedo boat Tallm, a forty-five ton craft, will be sent to the Norfolk navy yard at once, and there fitted out with the appli­ ances necessary for using liquid fuel in­ stead of coal as a means 6f generating steam w her boilers. FOR EI ¥, ^onff^nr Arsons were dWwrief^y the capsizing of a ferryboat on the Danube, near Straubing, Bavaria. The Spanish cabinet has approved the decision of the minister of finance, not to pay the public debt coupons due July 5 until the approval of the.chamber of dep­ uties has been secured. Three German officers were killed by the Chinese at Kiao-Chau (the German port in Shang-Tung peninsula), which may lead Germany to use force to compel the payment of indemnity. A large portisra of the Government of Astrakhan, Russia, dn the northwest coast of the Caspian Sea, has been sub­ merged by an overflow of the River Vol­ ga. In the Zarewsk district many villagea are flooded. Captain John B. Jeffery of Chicago, as­ sistant quartermaster of volunteers, on duty with the army in the Philippines, has been acquitted by a court martial of the chargeis of quitting his post to pillage and plunder. A terrible explosion occurred at the mili­ tary laboratory at Copenhagen. While workmen were engaged in tilling shells some of the latter exploded and killed seven men and severely injured a non­ commissioned officer and two workmen. Four Italians have been arrested for al­ leged participation in the destruction of the Lasal mine in Colorado. Two hun­ dred pounds of giant powder was exploded near the mouth of the mine. The mine is owned by a Michigan syndicate. The men were recently discharged. The Russian minister at Peking, M. de Giera, has notified the «Tsung-Ll-Yamen that Russia is unable to accept the Chin­ ese refusal of a railroad concession and that she will send engineers forthwith to survey a line to connect the Russian Man- chorian Railroad with Peking. IN GENERAL. The report that the United States cruis­ er Detroit had fired upon the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto and sunk her is un­ true. Everything is quiet along the At­ lantic coast of Nicaragua. Adit. Gen. Corbin has prepared this statement of the number of deaths which have occurred in the army since the begin­ ning of the war with Spain: In Cuba, ,399; in Porto Rico, 287; at Honolulu, 45; in the Philippines, 00(3; in the United States, 3,872; total, 6,209. The schooner American Boy, from Ko- diak, Alaska, reports that Kodiak has had an unusually mild winter, with a small snowfall. Catches of furs have been heavy. The passage of the law permit­ ting natives to kill otters is bearing fruit. The skins are worth $600 each. The Standard Oil C'ompany^as acquir­ ed not only the Russian title, but also a mineral patent from the United States, for the famous coal lands on Cook Inlet, Alaska. A corps of engineers, under Al­ fred Ray, the Standard company's man­ ager at Seattle, has left for the north. The directors of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway have authorized an issue of $15,000,000 first mortgage 4 per cent con­ solidated bonds to retire present obliga­ tions, buy new equipment and to purchase the Cleveland, Canton and Southern and Cleveland Belt and Terminal Company. Fire did enormous damage at St. John, . B. A leading underwriter estimates the loss at $500,000 and the insurance at $300,000. The district burned contained many tenement houses, and probably 1,000 persons are homeless, a majority of them laboring people. Two deaths are to be set down to the fire. A letter from Durango, Mexico, says that Fred L. Morris, secretary of the Mis­ souri Valley Trust Company of Kansas City, and H. E. Ellison of Abilene, Kan., who have been prospecting for some weeks in the mountains, have struck a bonanza silver mine that promises a fortune. They claim to have $200,000 in sight. The largest stamp mill in the world was started up recently by D. O. Mills at the Treadwell mine on Douglass island, Alas­ ka. The new mill contains sixty batteries of five stamps each, with a crushing ca­ pacity of four tons to each stamp every twenty-four hours. The Treadwell and its associated mines now have 880 stamps in operation. They crush 3,520 tons of ore every twenty-four hours, averaging about $4 per ton in gold, or $14,000 daily. One-third of this output is settled in con­ centrators and shipped to the Tacomn smelter. The other two-thirds, or $9,380 per day, is the amount of gold actually released on Douglass island. , ' f * . E A S T E R N . J. W. Ball, a veteran journalist of Boston, and his wife were found dead. Despondency on account of ill health was the canse of the suicide, as explained in * letters on a table. The carhouse of the Red Bank and Ixrag Branch Electric Railroad, in Shrewsbury, N. J., was destroyed by fire. There were sixteen cars in the building. The loss on the building and its contents will amount to about $50,000. - Conservative Yale has turned aside the traditions of two centuries and dected as president, t» aucceed Dr.Timothy Dwight, SOUTHERN. The silver service and the silver bells se cured by citizens were presented at New Orleans to the cruiser New Orleans. James Humphrey and his two sons, sus' pected of aiding a murderer to escape were lynched in Henderson County, The fourteenth annual conference State and provincial boards of health of North America has been in session Richmond, Va. Col. E- W. Cole of Nashville, Tenn., one of the best known of the coal, iron and railroad capitalists of the South, dropped dead in the Fifth Avenue Hotel at New York. Ile was stricken with apoplexy. A so-called laborers' union band has been organized at Griffin, (Ja., the express­ ed obj«*ct of which is to drive the negroes out. Four negroes in the Kinkaid mills have already l>een flogged and others are threatened. THE MARKETS. i" ̂ DAVtD B. HENDERSON, OF IOWA. ALBERT J. HOPKINS, Or ILLINOIS. CYCLONES IN POUR STATES. Big Storms Deal Death and Rois in Farming * ection*. Cyclones in South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska Sunday caused serious loss of life and destroyed buildings by the score. Growing crops were ruined and frujfc trees stripped of their foliage. Wires are down in the sections visited, so that it has been impossible to obtain details of the damage in outlyinjf-districts. Michigan was swept by an unusually severe electric storm, many houses being struck by lightning. Meager reports give the following cas­ ualties: Bijon Hills, F. D. Killed •• ••% Fatally injured 2 Keswick, Iowa. Eeriously injured 3 Watervliet, Mich. Killed 1 Hastings and Beatrice, Neb. Eeriously injured 3 A violent rainstorm which broke over Chicago at 10:20 o'clock Sunday night flooded the city and suburbs, causing much damage to property. A disastrous and fatal tornado passed through the country in the vicinity of Bijou Hills, twenty-five miles south of Chamberlain, S. I)., resulting in the death of seven persons and the serious injury of two others. The tornado formed on a sec­ tion in plain view of hundreds of persons, and moved in a southerly course. The storm destroyed a church and a school house, after which it reached the Peter­ son place, where the execution done was appalling. The dead and injured were strewn all about the premises, all being bruised and maimed in a shocking man­ ner, while the buildings were smashed to splinters. After doing its worst the storm passed into the range of hills skirting the Missouri river, where it appears to have been dissolved. The path covered by the storm was only about twenty rods wide and about three miles in length. The wind was accompanied by a heavy fall of rain and hail, the latter being as large as goose eggs. Everything in the course of the storm was completely destroyed. A large amount of stock was killed. Probably the most destructive tornado that ever visited Nebraska passed through the northern part of Hamilton County Saturday night at 7 o'clock, destroying from $75,000 to $100,000 worth of prop­ erty, including fifteen dwellings, oue church, one school house, two iron bridges across the Blue river, barns, eorncribs, outbuildings, orchards, groves, fences and stock. In Cunning County a cloudburst in the northeast part caused much destruc­ tion. The creek was filled bank high in a few minutes and the adjoining bottoms flooded. Over 1,000 tons of hay is known to be washed away and destroyed, and miles of fencing is ruined. Corn land is badly washed. A terrific hailstorm struck Hastings, Neb., Sunday afternoon and continued for fifteen minutes, during which time several persons were hurt, over 2,000 panes of glass broken, fruit and grain destroyed and chickens and birds killed and injured. At the asylum for chronic insane 400 panes of glass were broken in the main building and 1,300 in the green houses, where a great amount of damage was done. The hail stone« were as large as hens' eggs and came down with such force as to kill chickens. Young fruit on the cherry, apple and peach trees was all knoctc'J off and many limbs stripped from the trees. All the winter wheat was de­ stroyed. Corn and other grain was not far enough advanced to be affected. Terrific storms swept over Iowa Satur­ day and Sunday. At Tama there was al­ most a cloudburst and much damage done. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad sustained much damage. A tornado struck the farm house of a man named McCoy, half a mile south of Keswick. The build­ ing was demolished and five persons were injured, Mrs. McCoy fatally. Rain and hail followed the storm, and much dam­ age to the growing crops resulted. A storm passed through the country twenty- five miles northeast of Des Moines Sun­ day afternoon. Several houses and barns are reported to have been blown down and considerable damage done, but so far as known no lives were lost in that locality. THE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST. Wisconsin Favors Henderson, Whil^ Indiana May Prefer Hopkina. It is now generally accepted that the qext Speaker will be a Western man, and that the contest will be between Hender­ son and Hopkins. The Wisconsin con-< gressional delegation, at its meeting in, Milwaukee Saturday afternoon, unani­ mously resolved to throw its entire strength to Congressman Henderson in the contest. They got together, they said, to indorse a Western man, and show that Wisconsin was in the contest in dead earn­ est. The Wisconsin delegation placed th« immediate advantage with Henderson^ but Wisconsin is only one of the middle Western States to declare for the candi­ date of another State. A Washington correspondent says that the action of the Wisconsin congressional delegation has given a decided impetus to the Henderson speakership boom in the East. It sBowrs that the men who have been in control of the House organization for the last four years are striving to re­ tain that control in the next House. Payne of New York, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Grosvenor of Ohio, Stteele of Indiana, Babcock of Wisconsin, Henderson of Iowa, Towney of Minnesota, were among the more influential members in the Reed organization, and with Reed out of Con­ gress they will endeavor to continue in the leadership. They have found it quite improbable that an Eastern man would be elected, and they are turning to Col. Hen­ derson. * An Indianapolis dispatch says the In­ diana Republicans are very much in favor of Hopkins, and the party managers are said to favor him. The most potent cause that is operating in Hopkins' favor is the belief that he would approve drastic leg­ islation against trusts, and as this ques­ tion is to be prominent in the coming na­ tional campaign the Indiana Congressmen will be for him, as he is known to hold Western sentiments regarding trusts and the necessity for legislation against them. The best-posted politicians say that the nine members of Congress from Indiana will vote for him. DIE IN A WRECK. WASHINGTON. According to Washington gossip Ad­ miral Dewey left Manila to avoid friction with the civilian commissioners. Senator Piatt has declared himself for McKinley and. Hobart in 1900. He says •Col. Roosevelt will not be a candidate. Naval orders .posted the other day aa- Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 61c to 62c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 27c 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 $5.75; wheat, No, 2 red, 72c to 73c, corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. St Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; .hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 62c to 63c. Cincinnati-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 06c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.75: wheat, No. 2, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; rye, 62c to 04c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed,*C9c to 30c; rye, No. 2,^Wc to 61c; clover seed, new, $3.65 to $3.75. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; com, No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats, No 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 1, <K)c to 01c barley, No. 2, 40c to 42c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. . 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 $5.50; lambs, common to extra. $4.50 to $7.00. New York-Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50 wheat. No. 2 red. 83c to 84c; corn. No 2, 40c to 42c; oata. No, 2 white, 33c to 35c butter, creamery, 15c to 10c; eggs, West' era, 15c to 17c. NO PARDON FOR MRS.MAYBRICK British Government Says There Is No New Evidence. Ambassador Choatf! informs the State Department that the British Government has declined to grant a pardon to Mrs. Florence Ma.vbrick, sentenced to prison for life in July, 1889, for the murder of her husband. At the request of friends of Mrs. May- brick in this country Ambassador Choate was instructed to request the British Gov­ ernment to release Mrs. Maybrick. Mr, Choate complied with his instructions sev­ eral weeks ago, and the British foreign office at once agreed to have the matter looked into again by the home office. The home office has reviewed the case, and Mr. Choate has received through the for­ eign office a courteous reply, stating that the British Government regrets that noth­ ing has developed to cause a change in its attitude toward the prisoner, no new evi­ dence tending to show her innocence of the crime of which she was convicted having been presented. The friends of Mrs Maybrick in this country are still petition­ ing the State Department in her behalf. Burlinston Train of Seven Cars Is Almost Demolished. Nine persons were killed in two railroad wrecks in Iowa, the result of passenger trains running into washouts, caused by storms. Forty-six more were injured and some of them will probably die. The first disaster was near Waterloo on the B., C. R. & N. road, while the second was near Oelwein. Near Denison, Texas, a freight train jumped the track and the engineer was killed. The wreck on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids und Northern Railway was caus­ ed by the washing away of the foundation beneath the track, the rain falling at the time in torrents. There are indications that the rain had been preceded by a cloudburst, which had washed the earth from the track for a distance of half a mile. Being warned by a lurch of the en­ gine of the impending disaster, the engi­ neer and fireman jumped and escaped with slight bruises. The engine plowed its way into the earth, and lay in the ditch with the cars of the train piled upon it. The mail car was partially telescoped by the baggage car, which in turn penetrated the smoker. The rear end of the smoker rest­ ed oij the roof of the coach fol­ lowing, while the day coach and the sleep­ er had almost entirely telescoped each oth­ er. The sleeper in the rear escaped with much less injury. News af the disaster was brought to Waterloo by two of the passengers who had escaped serious injury. Relief trains from there and from Cedar Rapids were quickly on the ground, and the injured passengers were soon extricated from the ^peck and tenderly cared for until they were taken to the hospital at Cedar Rap­ ids. It was found that death had resulted in a short time in all but the case of David Hallo of Minneapolis, who lived until some hours after the accident. Mr. Hallo was on the way to Minneapolis to marry Miss Laura Morgenstern of that city, a niece of Admiral Schley. Many of the njured are in a serious condition, and fears are entertained that the list of dead will be added to. CUBANS DIDN'T COME. RULES FOR DREYFUS. in Civil Court of Cassation Reports Favor of Revision. A new trial for Dreyfus is assured and the prisoner will be brought back from Devil's Island and his case passed upon by a new court martial. This was determin ed upon Saturday, when Ballot de Beau pre, president of the civil section of the court of cassation, re\>orted to M. Ma steau, president of the court of cassation in favor of revision. The French Govern ment therefore officially announces that former Captain Dreyfus, now a prisoner on Devil's Island, will be retried by a court martial. The sittings will be held in a garrison town distant from Paris. While it is not believed that any serious outbreak will follow the announcement of the court in favor of Dreyfus, the Gov ernment is prepared to take prompt action in case of serious disturbances. It is known that several demonstrations have been organized. Orders have been issued to the military police to hold themselves in readiness and any attempt at rioting will be suppressed in a vigorous fashion. Only Pevcn Out of 4,317 on the Rolls Prove Their Claims for Money. Although the American officers in Ha­ vana waited from early morning until into the evening Saturday to pay the $75 each to Cuban soldiers, only seven of the 4,317 men reported by the Cuban officers as composing the Fifth army corps proved their claims and not one of these surren­ dered arms. All receiving the money were camp followers, there being no fighters among them. Several others who applied could not show any connection with the army and were turned away. The total day's work was therefore the distributi9n of $525, with not a gun corralled. Gold and silver to the amount of $39,000 was ready and a strong guard of soldiers had been put about the paymaster's office to manage the expected crowd. If the Cubans persist in this course the United States Government will be justi­ fied in holding that there is not and never was any Cuban army. Incidentally, the United States treasury will save th« greater part of the $3,000,000 appropri­ ated by Congress to pay this mythical army. The belief prevails that outside of Havana more men will take the money, aa they are less under the influence of the agitators. Most Cubans look upon the turn of affairs rather as a defeat of Gomez than for the United States. Gomez feels his embarrassment poignantly, but still has hopes of being able to turn the tide, DlWEY AT HONG KOMQ. A rr(¥al !"• Made the Occasion off n Great Demonstration. The arrival of Admiral Dewey at Kong was the occasion for a hearty dem­ onstration. All the warships in the har­ bor fired an admiral's salute, and the sail­ ors in the British warships manned the rigging and cheered the hero of Manila. The Olympia's anchor was scarcely down when Aid Scott went ashore and called on ' Consul Wildman, who returned with him aboard the Olympia. After a brief con­ versation with the consul, Admiral Dewey1 went ashore to call on the governor. He' got a slight taste of what awaits him when he arrives in New York. The streets were crowded with pedjjKp eager to see the man1 who had sailed away from Hong Itong a? little oyer a year ago almost unknown, and who was returning famous. The streets were lined with the troops of the Royal •Fusileers, who Lept the crowds in check. AU English houses were decorated with thte British and American flags. Admiral Dewey, accompanied by Cap­ tain jLambertbn and Flag Lieut. Brumby, w"as rec^iip^d fey the British governor, Blake, with a squad of honor. There was a full military band in attendance. All the prominent British officers in Hong Kbiig hadi gathered to congratulate Dewey-. , Governor Blake Invited the admiral to put yp gt the Government house. Dewey decline with thanks. Admiral Dewey's healt^ is somewhat impaired, but he is not seriously ill. A good rest will put him in good shape. WASHINGTON'S PEACE JUBILEE. Celebration Eta's Imposing Parade and Brilliant Micht Program. The national peace jubilee celebration was ushered In at Washington with the ringing of church bells and the blowing of steam whistles, while the guns from Government vessels and army posts near by thundered salutes. At noon the can­ non' fired a salute of forty-five guns to the Unioncrroine gun for each State. The afternoon was-given over to an imposing military, parade, moving through the prin- ctjal part of the city and being reviewed by President McKinley, his cabinet, the I^strict gotnmissioners and the diplomatic corps, from an artistic stand .in front of thp White House. Besides the Fourth immune regiment, just returned from Cuba, the artillery from Fort Washington and Sheridan Point, the cavalry from Au­ gusta, Ga., and Fort Myer, there were in line the local military bodies, veterans of the Spanish-American war and militia from several States. At night a brilliant spectacle was pre­ sented in the grounds surrounding the Washington monument, at which Presi­ dent McKinley and his cabinet were pres­ ent. In addition to a remarkable aerial display of fireworks discharged under an American flag nearly 400 feet long, sus­ pended at a high altitude by means of bal­ loons, there was a reproduction of the battle of Manila on an artificial lake in which 700 men engaged. HONOR QUEEN'S NATAL DAY. England Celebrates Eightieth An­ niversary of Her Birth. Queen Victoria was 80 years old Wed­ nesday, and all England honored the event. The Queen observed the day at Windsor, where the festivities began at 10:30, with a serenade by a choir of 250 voices in the castle court yard. The sere­ nade with the national anthem was fol­ lowed by the jubilee hymn and several madrigals. The Queen listened in the breakfast room, where she was surround­ ed by members of the royal family. Later she witnessed a parade of the Scots Guards, who fired an honorary salute. In the evening the castle and grounds were brilliantly illuminated. A banquet was served, and later a performance of Lohengrin** given in the Castle Theater. The Queen received telegrams of congrat­ ulations from all colonies, and hundreds of messages from societies and individuals. Among the congratulatory telegrams was one from President McKinley conveying the regards and well wishes of the Ameri­ can people. BUFFALO STRIKE ENDED. Amicable Settlement Reached, and Grain Shovelers Go to Work. The grain shovelers' strike at Buffalo has ended. Tn the agreement under which the men return to work Contractor Coo- ners conceded practically everything, with the exception of the abrogation of the contract. He agrees over his signature not only to live up to all the previous agreements entered into by the lake car­ riers, but he agrees also to the appoint­ ment of a committee of five, three mem­ bers of which will represent the grain shovelers, which will have absolute power to determine whether or not any of the men employed by him as scoopers shall be admitted into the new Grain Shovelers' Union and be permitted to work. Under the terms of the agreement, Con- ners is to submit to this investigating com­ mittee a list of the names of the men em­ ployed by him as grain shovelers for ex­ amination. Conners also agrees to the suspension of all .so-called objectionable bosses and to the appointment of bona fide monthly men as their successors, who shall act as boss scoopers pending an in­ vestigation of the charges made against the suspended bosses. Patent leather trust--$15,000,000. Will Hughes, 17, drowned, Parkers- burg, IC. Va. Southern Presbyterians, next year, wiH meet in Atlanta. ' Hixon-Rodbourn mill, Rod bourn, Ky burned. Loss $60,000. Claude Branton, banged at Eugene, Ore., confessed to having killed Joha Linn. || WAR NEW5 IN BRIEF. The rainy season has begun. Gen. Lawton, with the main body of his troops, reached Malolos Wednesday. The Oregon and Minnesota volunteers have returned to Manila for a needed rest. A typhoon prevented the sailing for the United States of the California volun­ teers. For some days past the rebels near San Pedro Macati have been engaged in buildt ing new trenches. Twenty insurgents were killed and for­ ty wounded in the engagement with Maj. Bell's scouts west of Bacolor. Brig. Geo. «Williston has relieved Gen. Hughes as provost marshal of Manila. Gen. Hughes will go to the Visayan Isl­ and. At Maraquina, the Colorado volunteers had a brush with the enemy, whom they dispersed with severe loss. One Colorado volunteer was wounded. A raft, which was being used to trans­ port the Twelfth infantry across the Pa- sig river, was overloaded and sank in mid­ stream. Five of the soldiers were drown­ ed. Gen. Lawton says he is convinced from evidence found at San Isidro that Ameri­ can prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos, particularly the captured men of the York- town, have been subjected to outrageous indignities. Detachmentl from the Twelfth United States infantry and from Idaho volunteers dashed out from their lines and drove the insurgents away after a fierce fight. Two of the Americans were killed and two wounded. The insurgents' loss was heavy. During Oie last mouth Gen. Lawton has fought twenty-five engagements, lost six killed and thirtyfive wounded, two men dying from their wounds. He ha« taken 1,000 prisoners. Civil government, under his direction, has been established at Sa.i Miguel Balinag and Saa Isidro. The rivalry between Mrs. Davis, wife rj of Senator C. K. Davis of Minnesota, and 5;,; Ji .Mrs. Merriam, wife of Director of the CenBus Merriam, * also > > • of Minnesota, which is ^ now. attracting atten- tion in Washington, ' Jy has existed for ten or , x fifteen years. Mrs. , Davis, whose maiden * § name was Miss Anna ; -:Z * Agnew, was originally is; a dressmaker in St. PauL At that time : ^ KB8. MKftniAM. Mrs. Merriam was, as . ., she still is, a leader of society in the Saintly City. After Senator Davis mar- - ried Miss Agnew, having secured a di- vorce from his former wife, Mrs. Merriam was at some pains to show her disapproval of the marriage. Finally Mr. Davis was elected to the United States Senate and removed with his wife to Washington. When President Mc­ Kinley was making up his cabinet the name of Mr. Merriam was suggested for one of the portfolios, but it is said that the outspok­ en opposition of Sena--^* tor Davis prevented [ft* its serious considera- ^ tion. Later the same influence is said: to MRS. davis. have blocked Mr. Merriam's path to th* Russian mission. It has been understood that the feud had been recently settled, but the latest reports are that it is about to break cut again with new intensity. Nothing will be done by the War De­ partment to relieve the distress of the des­ titute volunteers in Porto Rico. There is no truth in the story from San Juan which says the deplorable condition of these men is due to neglect on the part of the War Department. Gen. Corbin said the sol­ diers who are pow destitute in the West Indies insisted on being mustered oilt there, and received all their pay, commu­ tation of rations, and travel pay to which they are entitled. If they have spent this it is their misfortune. They are now pri­ vate citizens, and sojfar as money goes have ,no more claim on the Government than any other private citizens, although they will be given preference when the Government needs employes. It is be­ lieved the reports from San Juan have been exaggerated, and that there are com­ paratively few discharged soldiers who are in needy circumstances. After the killing of the negro postmas­ ter at Lake City, S. C., the burning of the postoffice, and the wounding of the postmaster's wife and children, the Post- office Department decided the best thing under the circumstances was to do away with the postoffice at Lake City entirely, and this was done. Now there comes up a wail from the people of that place that they cannot get along without postal fa­ cilities. Lake City has a population of about GOO, and since the postoffice was burned and the postmaster murdered those who formerly transacted their postal business there have had to go a distance of four miles to another postoffice. The Postoffice Department will not even allow the Lake City people to mail letters on the train, postal clerks having instructions to close the drop slot on the side of the mail car before reaching that place. The decision to send the Filipino flag captured at Iloilo to the naval academy at Annapolis disposes of a bitter fight be­ tween the army and navy regarding the capture of the capital of Panay. The sailors and marines from the cruiser Bos­ ton went ashore at Iloilo many hours be­ fore Col. Miller landed. They received the surrender of the town and captured the flag, but Col. Miller was promoted to be a brigadier general, while the navy people have only the flag. That there may be no mistake about the matter, the flag has been decorated with an inscrip­ tion, showing it was captured by a land­ ing party commanded by Lieut. Niblack, Feb. 11, 1899. Secretary Gage has issued an order to the collector of customs at San Francisco directing him to permit the landing of 450 Chinese persons upon satisfactory proof that they are employed by exhibitors or concessionaires of t'he Philadelphia expo­ sition to be held during the coming au­ tumn. This action is taken under the joint resolution of Congress approved March 1, 1899, which makes it obligatory upon the Secretary to admit such number as the exhibitors or concessionaires may deem necessary. Gen. Shafter at San Francisco has been instructed to establish a model camp vet the Presidio for the accommodation of 4,000 volunteers. This is in anticipation of the muster out of volunteer troops sooa to be returned from the Philippines. Re­ ports from Gen. Otis indicate that there will be nearly 2,500 sick to leave the isl­ ands. These, as far as possible, will be brought home in hospital ships. The War Department is making detailed arrange­ ments for the beginning of the homeward movement. Delivered with almost every mail at the pension office are letters from negroes throughout the country making inquiries as to how soon the commissioner will be­ gin the payment of pensions to former slaves. In nearly every instance the writer says that he has paid some agent, lawyer, collector, preacher, club, society, association or individual, who claimed that the pension would be immediately forthcoming, and they are beginning te fear that they are not going to get the pen­ sion. China will not be partitioned by Russia er the combined European nations unless positive assurances are given that the treaty rights of this Government #ill be protected fully. It is realized by the offi­ cials here that before long China will be divided up among the nations, and while this Government will not take a band in the land grabbing scheme it will not per­ mit .the partition project to be carried out if this Government is to be the loser. The President has ordered Charles Ayer Whipple, the American artist, to paint a full length life-size portrait of Mrs. Mc­ Kinley at the White House. Mr. Whipple is just now putting the finishing touches on his large picture of President McKin­ ley, which is also destined to remaia per­ manently in the White House. Secretary Long does not believe Ad­ miral Dewey will take four mouths to reach New York, although it will take some time to put the Olympia in shape for its long voyage. It will remain at Hong Kong to undergo some repairs and receive it* coat of white paiqj;, and many stops Will he made «a route.