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iiiWtr • ; ^Y>r*r? W- McHenry Plaindealer. P. K. QRANOER, Publisher. McHENRY, ' i l ILLINOIS. Mf- EFENTS OF THE WEEK l/Ttae United States steamship Raleigh ' #ms placed out of commission at Ports- * mouth, N. H. AH of the officers have been transferred to various stations, while the crew has been sent to New York and Bos­ ton. Director of Census Merriam has com­ pleted his official technical staff by the ap­ pointment of S. N. D. North of Boston chief statistician in charge of the division tot manufacturing and mechanical indus­ tries.. John Cunningham, a resident of Chi­ cago, was killed on the West Shore Rail­ road at Palmyra, N. Y., by falling from a freight train. A passing car struck him, breaking his back. He was 38 years of ate. The Rev. Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, announced that he would resign the pastorate of that church immediately to Accept the presidency of Brown Univer­ sity. Twenty-five hundred children's jacket- makers employed by contractors or mid­ dlemen in the sweat shops of the east side of New York struck to compel an increase ~4t wages. The increase asked for will average about 30 per cent. A dispatch to the London Daily Tele­ graph from Cairo says Janos Rigo. the gypsy musician, who eloped with Princess <Ie Caramari and Chimay, and who, it was recently reported, had died of the plague in Alexandria, has gone t© China with the princess. President Robinson of the Mexican Cen­ tral Railway estimates that Mexico will probably produce $12,000,000 worth of gold this year, and predicts that when the richer mines are reached by railways Mex­ ico's gold production will rise to $25,000,- 000 or $30,000,000 annually. J. G. Murphree walked into the post- office at Mansfield. Tex., and without warning shot and killed Sherman Goulden, the assistant postmaster, and wounded R S. Goulden, the postmaster. Citizens of Mansfield say Murphree's mind is un­ balanced. . Survey work preliminary to the laying of a cable between Germany and* the United States by way of the Azores was practically completed when the British cable steamship Britannia arrived at quar­ antine, New York, after having taken aonndings between Fayal and Sandy Hock. One of the worst floods in the history of southern Kansas has been raging. Miles of railroad tracks and thousands of dol­ lars' worth of property have been destroy­ ed. Two deaths are reported from the • floods. At Peck, Neeley Duncan, while attempting to cross a swollen stream, was drowned. At Goddard Harry Hills, while attempting to rescue his brother from the river, was caught by a sudden rise and drowned. The standing of the clubs In the Na­ tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. __Brooklyn_~-~36 1 ftincinnaft . .23 23 Boston .....31 14New York...21 25 Chicago 28 20 Pittsburg 19 2t' Baltimore .. .26 19Washington. 17 30 Philadelphia. 26 19Louisville ...14 34 St. Louis 27 20 Cleveland ... 8 35 Following is the standing of the cluhe in the Western League: W. L. W. L. ®t. Paul 22 17 Milwaukee .. .21 19 . Detroit 21 18Columbus ...18 19 Minneapolis. 22 19Buffalo ..... .17 21 Indianapolis. 21 19 Kansas City.. 15 25 The following report is made by Brad- street's: "Exceptional firmness in prices at the highest level as regards general Staple values yet reached, a seasonably small rate of business mortality, undimin­ ished industrial activity, perhaps most manifest in all branches of trade in which iron, steel and other metals enter, and large batik clearings, reflecting to some ex­ tent the improved tone of stocks, but like- , Wise large payments on previous profita­ ble business are among the features not necessarily new, but still noteworthy, re­ flected in trade advices. Wheat, including 'flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3.158,047 bushels, against 3.576.065 bush­ els last week. Since July 1 corn exports aggregate 160,149,425 bushels, against 186,697,320 bushels during the same pe­ riod a year ago." of $3,500 being charged against him. The Oocheco National Bank, of which Hough was' tiller, has also suspended. GJeorge Gordon Battle, attorney tar Ro­ land B. Molineaux, who is in the Tombs, charged with sending cyanide of mercury through the mails to Harry Cornish, made application for the release rof the prisoner on hail, fudge Newburger placed the bail at $5,000. After being lost in the woods near New Britain, Conn., for forty-six hours little Annie Escholtz was found on Shuttle Meadow Mountain Monday. The child was weak from lack of food, but, except for a few scratches from briar bushes and the marks of innumerable mosquito bite* she was uninjured. < no oqthe part WESTERN. BREVITIES. J. P. Burton, one of the largest coal operators in the Massillon field, died at Massillon, Ohio. * The gristmill belonging to F. L. Worth & Co. at Springfield, Mass., was destroyed by fire. Loss $125,000. George B. Ward, a St. Louis commis­ sion merchant, committed suicide by in­ haling gas. No cause known. Plans are now being prepared in Phila­ delphia for two large steamships for the International Navigation Company. Fire broke out in the St. Denis Hotel, New York. The house was filled with guests and a panic followed the alarm of fire. No one was hurt. The head camp of the Modern Wood- men of America hm selected St P/ifil ni the place of meeting in 1901. Tht^ vote .was 199 to 163 for Grand Rapids, the only other candidate. Antonio Barrios of San Francisco, who has been charged by the president of Guatemala with trying to fit out a filibus­ tering expedition against Guatemala, de­ nies the charge. Congressmen Payne of New York, Dal- wll of Pennsylvania, Steele of Indiana, Hull of Iowa and Heatwole of Minnesota are on their way to Alaska, where they attempt to settle the boundary dis­ pute. Simon Brooks (colored) was lynched by a mob of 500 negroes near Sardis, Miss. Brooks, with another negro, had atteinpt- r ed to murder and rob a colored woman. „ An American missionary and his familv at Mequinez, Morocco, haVe been ill treat­ ed by the ruling pasha. It is understood the United States consul general is taking action in the matter. John L. Mount, a highly respected farmer near Sc-ottsburg, Ind., who held the office of trustee of Fiuley township for years and resigned recently owing to failing health, committed suicide after fa- tally wounding his wife. Ilf ! EASTERN. Marcus R. Mayer was publicly horse •{* Whipped at New York by Ida Orme, th< fe ; ^nsstress and actress, who alleges tha ihe manager had persecuted and calumni Gov. Mount of Indiana is seriously ill with congestion of the lungs. Ten of the twelve members of the Mich­ igan congressional delegation met in secret conference and decided to support Hender­ son for Speaker. Delegates representing the 8,000 employed in the railway mail service at­ tended the annual convention of the Na­ tional Association of Railway Mail Clerks in Indianapolis. C. H. Rowan, conductor of the matri­ monial bureau at Milwaukee, who was accused of using the Uiiffced States mail in an attempt to defraud, was acquitted by a jury in the United States Court. Leonard Mason, a well-known business man, and William Anderson, who just graduated with honors at the Renville high school, were drowned while bathing in the Minnesota river, near Renville, Minn. Congressman Richard P. Bland is seri­ ously ill at his home in Lebanon, Mo., and his friends are alarmed over his condition. For the last two months he has been con­ fined to his room, attended daily by a phy­ sician. W. D. Robertson has beeh convicted of forgery at St. Paul, Minn. He attempted to organize a life insurance company and forged several names to the articles of incorporation* also pocketing all the pre­ miums he could collect. W. H. Haynes, the stockman, of Hidal­ go, 111., had $800 in his pocket when he left home, and the Chicago police believe he was killed by robbers and thrown on the Illinois Central tracks, instead of hav­ ing been struck by a train. Trusts received a stunning blow in In­ diana Tuesday when the State Supreme Court unanimously held that existing laws are sufficient to protect the public. In a word, the courts can take the charters from the offending companies. The American Shipbuilding Company of Chicago has closed a contract for the four largest ships ever built on fresh water. TW^e huge steel carriers will be 500 feet long and have a cargo capacity of 8,000 tons. Their cost will be $1,400,000. The date of the Chicago Civic Federa­ tion's conference on trtfsts, which was called for .Tune 26 to 29, has been changed to Sept. 13 to 16 in response to a general demand for more time made by many of the public officials and organizations invited to participate in the meeting. A car load of new wheat, the first of the crop of 1899, was received in St. Louis Wednesday from Waco, Texas. It graded No. 2 red winter and tested sixTy-one pounds to the bushel. On being auctioned off on 'Change it brought 90 cents a bush­ el, 15 ccnts more than cash wheat was quoted. Attorney General Frank S. Monett of Ohio served notice on Henry O. Have- meyer, president of the American Sugar Refining Company, that the company had been adjudged a trust" under the laws of the State of Ohio, and that, according to such laws, the company was liable to the payment of a forfeit of $50 a day for each day that it continued to do business in Ohio after the service of the notice. When taking water at a tank near Hick­ man. on the Colorado Midland Railroad, a locomotive broke away from its crew and started on a wild run down grade. Near Buena Vista, Colo., the runaway crashed into the east-boun<J passenger train. Both engines were wrecked. Fire­ man George Boswick was killed and En­ gineer Arthur Lalonde received fatal in­ juries. No passengers were hurt. The two children of Mrs. Carl Dettloff, aged 1 and 3 years, were run over by a freight train and horribly mangled at Pop­ lar Grove, 111. The mother had gone into the depot at the village, leaving the chil­ dren in their carriage on the "platform out­ side. A gust of wind started the baby carriage, and it rolled off upon the track directly in front of the through freight, running twenty-five miles an hour. The mother got out in time to witness the acci­ dent, and made a desperate effort to res­ cue the little ones. She is crazed with grief. SOUTHERNr Fred llriedenheimef, an ex-clerk of the Citizens" National Bank of Louisville, was arrested at Cincinnati suspected of swin­ dling the German National Bank of Louis­ ville out of $5,000 and confessed to the police. At Louisville, W. B. Tate began suit against the Drummond Tobacco Company and others for $125,000 damages. He ac­ cuses the defendants of declaring a boy­ cott against his tobacco warehouse and raining his business. The Harrison County (Texas) court house at Marshall, recently finished, was burned with its contents, causing a loss of $75,000. Adjoining property was also burned, swelling Insurance only partial. Gov. Sayers of Texas has sent a tele gram to all the Governors and Attorney Generals at the Southern States, announc­ ing that he has called an anti-trust con­ vention to meet in St. Louis Sept. 20 for the purgose pf securing concerted action against Irusts. ^ Jane Shippery, a young married woman living near Spartanburg, S. C., climbed into a cherry tree in her yard to get some fruit for breakfast. She lost her balance and fell, her feet catchiog between two limbs. She made no outcry and hung there until dead. whiefe^ltivs fraud or irrt of the importer! Assistant Secr*tariiU|kfej^>p has pro­ mulgated immigrant regulations for the island of Cuba. These regulations are sub­ stantially the same as those now in ijorce for the United States,, except that the regulations for Cufoa make no distinction between aliens arriving from Canada and other fgreijgni^ouqjlftjjfr^ ; Admiral Dewey's1 flagship Olympia sail­ ed Tuesday from Hong Kong for Singa- pore, returning"to tlie United States. The French Government has taken stepa< to renew actively negotiations for a reci­ procity treaty with the United States. Both native factions of Samoa, the Mal- ietoans and the Mataafans, are disarm­ ing. Mataafa has surrendered 1,800 guns. August in Daly, the well-known theatri­ cal manager, who, with his wife and Miss Ada liehan, arrived at Paris a .few days ago, died there of heart failure, following pneumonia. Advices from Hong Kong state that the black plague has caused 1,000 deaths in San Ning, China, during the past month. Business is paralyzed and the greater part of the population has fled to the country. Princess Chimay gave birth to twins Monday in the beautiful villa that she had rented in the suburbs of Alexandria, where Rigo, her gypsy husband, was host. Now she is a widow, Rigo having died of t£e plague on Tuesday. The steamship Lake Huron, from Ba- toum, Russia, with 2,300 Doukhoubour immigrants on board, is detained at the Grosse Isle quarantine station above Que­ bec, Canada, with smallpox on board. There were fffl-e deaths on the passage. A cablegram from Manila to the Navy Department states that Commander Seth Aekley, who only recently was sent out to take command of the United States steam­ ship Concord, has fallen ill and has been sent -to the naval hospital at Yokohama. Five men killed and nine wounded--a loss of fourteen to the Americans--is the cost of two days' campaigning by Hall's men under Gen. Lawton during terrible heat, through Cainta, Taytay, Antipolo and Morong. The insurgents' loss is re­ ported to be heavy in killed. According to a dispatch from Mandal, the most southern town of Norway, two boys on May 14 last found on the north coast of Iceland a small cork case, con­ taining a slip of paper dated July 11, 1897, signed "Andree, Strindberg, and Fraenc- kel," and bearing the words: "All well. Thrown out about longitude 81, latitude unknown." A French royalist mob, led by Counts Boni and Jean Castellane, attacked Presi­ dent Loubet at Auteuil races. Countess Castellane led a band of young royalists during the manifestation and presented the odd spectacle of old Jay Gould's daughter and son-in-law leading a royslist manifestation against the president of the French republic. IN GENERAL. The American Steel Hoop Company has announced a general advance in wages at all its plants. The tonnage men, which ncludes all the skilled workmen, will re­ ceive an increase of 10 per cent. Superintendent of Police Peter A. Clair and his 4-year-old daughter Margaret of Hamilton, Ohio, were killed by an express train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad while driving. An order has been placed with a New England factory for a $600 sw%rd to be presented to Gen. Funston on his return from Manila. This sum has been contrib­ uted by Funston's admirers in Kansas. The whaler Charles W. Morgan of San Francisco made a fortunate find of am­ bergris in the north seas, according to ad­ vices from Hakodate. The lump weighed sixty-eight pounds and is worth $20,800. James P." Wright, Jr., second vice-pres­ ident of the. International Navigation Company, said that the company had defi­ nitely abandoned all plans to save the steamship Paris from its position on the Manacles. Admiral Dewey will attend the laying of the corner stone of Chicago's new Fed­ eral building on Oct. 9. President Mc- Kinley is authority for the statement. The chief executive so informed Senator H. C. Payne of Wisconsin. Justice Beach in the Supreme Court has appointed William J, Arkell as permanent receiver for the Arkell Publishing Com­ pany, on application of a majority of the directors for voluntary dissolution of the corporation. Assets $536,330, liabilities $750,126. Between twenty-five and thirty Indians, including men, women and children, were drowned in the Lake of Clouds, near the Canadian Pacific Railway, while crossing to the reservation to attend a potlatch. They were traveling in boats rudely man­ ufactured of cariboo skins, when the long boats collided. Both vessels were over­ turned and the entire party was lost. Scenes almost equaling in excitement those which marked the departure of pros­ pectors for the Klondike at the first an­ nouncement of the gold discovery were en­ acted in San Francisco when the steamer Homer and the schooner Salvator sailed for St. Michi'vl, the first craft bound thith­ er this season. Both vessels' cabins and holds were filled, many persons desiring passage bein£ refused accommodation for lack of spac»-._ MARKET REPORTS. TWO MttNDREO DIE ON f*S *D> MONTON TRAIL. Starvation, Drowning aad Disease Cat Off Klondlkera-Bome Had Been Striving for Twe«jpf Months to Reach Gold Fields. WASHINGTON. felted her. ;j,«i An explosion of oil in the hardware ston of J. S. Myers at Lyons, N. Y., resulted ii ^ "* ' jjlfcvyitlie most extensive conflagration Lyom / : has experienced in years. The loss ti ,, buildings and contents was about $40,000 i-partially insured. Harry Hough, treasurer of the Coehec< jSavings Bank of Dover, N. H., has beei 4 T>< .arreted and the bank closed, a shortag The steamer Lamade brings news to Seattle from Alaskan porta telling that the deaths of miners through hardship and disease along the Edmonton trail already foot up over [200 out of the 2,000 who started in over that route. Many of these got out last year, but it is believed that many more fatalities will be reported among those who remained behind. Of those still in the camps, ^low estimate of those lying sick of scurvy and similar afflictions places the number at 400. Heartrending details were told at Wrangel by some of the survivors, them­ selves at death's door, after the.terrible sufferings of a year in the interior. Only the most vigorous have been able to make their way to the coast* and several hun­ dred are still in peril. Those who reached Wrangel are mere skeletons. They were totally ignorant of the happenings in the outside world for nearly a year before they reached Glenora and listened open- mouthed to the details of the war with Spain. After three or four months on the trail the prospectors gave up all hope of reach­ ing the Klondike, and thought only of saving their lives. Some had lived on de­ cayed horse meat, and others on such game as they could kill. They tell terrible tales of the sufferings at the scurvy camps at Mud river and Dease lake, to which places the Hudson Bay Company and the Northwestern po­ lice are preparing to send assistance. Among the scores of deaths reported are those of Arthur M. Collins, an old British Columbia miner, and C. Richter, a New York business man, who shot themselves in despair. C. P. Smith of St. Louis and W. P. Munson of Chicago were drowned trying to cross Mud river just before the freeze up. P. Nealy, a prospector from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was found dead in his tent on Laird river. A. M. John­ son, formerly a.farm hand near Chicago, is one of those who succeeded in reaching Wrangel. EXPRESS CAR TORN TO PIECES. Wyoming Train Bobbers Show Them­ selves Experts in Their Lini, Although the railroad officials deny that the bandits who held up«the Union Paciftfc express train in Wyoming'* secured more than $1,000, well-posted Omaha fiien de­ clare that the amount was nuich greater. The general impression is that the job­ bers' booty is not less than $100,000. The through safe never contains anything but money, bonds, diamonds and jewelry, and it is known that three sacks were filled with the plunder. The express car was so badly wrecked that it was consigned to the scrap heap SHATTERED EXPRESS CAR. as not worth repairing. The frame was twisted to pieces and the wheels cracked. Experts in explosives assert that the men who did the work knew exactly what they were doing. The manner in which the road agents went through the safe shows how expert they were. Had a pound too much dynamite been used on the safe it would have been torfl to pieces and with it all tJhe money it held. As it was, the big treas­ ure box was merely split in four pieces like it had been donp with a big ax, and the money and other valuables were lifted out unharmed. Bad Wreck on Pittsbnrs 'and Golf ftoad Near Graudview, Mo. Nearly fifty passengers were more or less seriously and three perhaps fatally injured by the derailment of train No. 4, south bound, on the Kansas City, Pitts­ burg and Gulf Railroad, three miles* south of Grandview, Mo., Thursday night. The train left Kansas City late, and was run­ ning at a slow rate of speed on account of the bad condition of the track occa­ sioned by heavy rains. Two miles beyond Grandview the train was derailed by spreading rails. The smoker, which contained most of the in­ jured, and the chair car immediately fol­ lowing were turned on their sides into a ditch; the Pullman left the track, but re­ mained upright. The engine and combi­ nation baggage and mail car remained on the track. The chair car took fire, but the flames were extinguished by quick work of the train crew. President McKinley has accepted an invitation to visit Milwaukee in Octqber Brig. Gen. Charles King, who recently arrived at San Francisco from service in the Philippines, has been honorably dis charged from the volunteer army, to take effect Aug. 2. , Figures furnished by the Secretary of the Interior show the public domain con si»ts of 1,835,617,092 acres, and last year 8,453,780 acres were disposed of by* the Government to settlers. The Navy Department has ordered the Buffalo to be put out of commission, thus indicating the abandonment of the pro­ ject of maintaining a regular naval trans­ port service across the Atlantic and by way of the Mediterranean to Manila. By-direction of the President the acting Secretary of War has issued an order for the re-establishment of the military de­ partment of Texas and the assignment of Col. Chambers McKibben of the Twenty- first infantry to command of the depart­ ment. The Attorney General has rendered an opinion in which he holds that the Secre­ tary of the Treasury has no authority un­ der the law to compromise suits brought to recover additional dntiea on ' | Chicago -Cattle, common to prlftft*; $3.00 tc $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.<XMo $4.'X); sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 57c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13ci potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shippingr $3.00 to $5.75; hog^, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, com Dion to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 whitej 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis--1Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4:00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,57c to 59c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, N<v 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 66c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to 11.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2» 78c to 80c; corn, No. yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 62c to 64c. Toledo--heat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 78c; corn, So. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixej, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c; clover seed, new, $3.70 to $3.80. Milwauk->>--Wheat. No. 2 spring, 74c to 76c; corit No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No 2 white, 26o to 29c; rye, No. 1, 56c to 59c barley, No. 2, 39c to 41c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8. £0. 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 t3 $4.75; lambs, common to extrp, $4.50 to $7.00. New York- Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.30; sheep, *3.00 to $4.75 wheat ,No. 2 red, 82c to 84c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 34c butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, West era, lie to lfle. NEARLY FIFTY HURT. MAY LOSSES ARE $9,091,900. Decrease in the Destruction as Com­ pared \vith Previous Years. The New York Journal of Commerce KILL INFECTED CATTLE, M««aarea Taken to Check the Spread of Tuberculosis. Recently twenty-seven cows affected with tuberculosis, according to the tests made, were killed at Wolf's slaughter house at the Chicago stock yards and city health authorities attended the dissection of these cattle. The cows came from the Loose dairy farm in Sangamon County, near Springfield, which had been furnish­ ing the Governor and other occupants of the executive mansion with milk, butter and other dairy products. Examination proved that the animals were suffering from tuberculosis In the most virulent form. Out of the whole number of cows killed in the presence of the Governor only two were found whose disease was not developed to such an ex­ tent that their carcasses had to be con­ demned and consigned to the "tanks," there to be'turned into tallow. In the two exceptions to the condemnation process the freshly killed cattle, it developed, were also infected with tubercular germs, but not in such a pronounced degree as the majority. After the post-mortem examination of the tuberculosis cows killed Gov. Tanner Baid^ "I am convinced that tuberculosis has made a more general invasion of live stock than is generally bejieved, and I also am confident if not remedied by pro­ per laws and a liberal appropriation by the State will have results more serious than the mere loss of cattle. I shalj rec­ ommend at the next meeting of the Legis­ lature that the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners be given an appropriation of at least $50,000 with which to carry on the work of exterminating tuberculosis cattle. My observations lead me to be­ lieve that it is unsafe to,drink milk which is not known positively to be non-tubercu­ lous. The cattle which I have seen slaughtered and dissected, and which I aaw were saturated with tuberculosis, ten days ago were furnishing milk to my fam­ ily. I never questioned its pur^y. I am glad my eyes have been opened. The re­ cent awakening of public interest on the subject will have practical results." The bureau of milk inspection has been at work for some time preparing state­ ments of the prevalence of tuberculosia in Chicago's milk. TWENTY. FIVE ARE DROWNED. Cloudburst in Texas Does Damage to Life and Property. Human lives and property to the value of thousands of dollars were destroyed by a cloudburst in Texas, which transformed the rivers and smaller streams into raging torrents, sweeping everything before them. Meager reports from the devastat­ ed districts all tell of the loss of life. A careful estimate puts the number at twen­ ty-five, but later returns, it is feared, will1 swell the grewsome total. Reports came from San Saba and Manardville, small towns ninety miles north of Austin, in the mountains, saying that both towns had been swept by the raging floods and were badly devastated. In San Saba eight peo­ ple were drowned and the entire town is reported under water. The river at that point is one mile wide and running like a mill race. At Manardville thirteen houses were swept away. San Saba is located in a valley, and vast tracts of wheat fields are under water. These crops will prove a total loss. Many persons had difficulty in getting^ to high land before the rise came. " ~ "' The situation at Manardville is even more serious. A small town located to the right and in the bend of the river in the valley, it proved an easy prey to the rag­ ing torrents. Seventeen people are known to have been drowned there and there may be others. Of those drowned two were young white girls. The others wer<? all negroes. The town has been laid to waste by the floods and all the surrounding coun­ try is inundated. MODERN WOODMEN. WHEAT PHdsroovBLtBS bWk «f Vitality ghown itt CmI Planted X>aat Fall, The June crop report of the Orange Judd Farmer shows a condition of winter wheat of 70.8, against 72.6 on May L There has been severe decline in the prom­ ise in the Ohio and Missouri valleys, and aome decline in California. Insects and rust are reported over an increasing area, but the main trouble is the lark of vi­ tality in the plant which resulted from the root damage of the severe winter. The acreage which last fall was reported at nearly 30,000,000 has been reduced by plowing up and abandonment to 24,574,- 000, or nearly 6,000,000 acres less than was harvested last year. The maximum possibility may now be conservatively placed at 275,000,000 bushels. The spring wheat area is reported at 19,233,000 acres, or 100,000 acres larger than last. year. In Minnesota and the Dakotas it is reported 500,000 acres small­ er, but the increase in Iowa, Nebraska and the Pacific coast a little more than offsets this loss. The average condition is reported at 91.9, against 99.1 a year ago. It is lower only because the crop is started a little late. The plant is vigor­ ous and covers the ground well. Should present condition be maintained till har­ vest the crop result might easily reach 275,000,000 bushels. The corn acreage is the largest ever planted, the preliminary report reaching fully 84,000,000 acres. The crop is start­ ing rather poorly and -too much rain has interfered with planting, encouraged weed growth and caused unusual rotting of seed. The stand is rather ragged, bat there is yet abundant time for recovery. The oats area is reported at 28,931,000 acres, or less than 1 per cent increase. The condition is reported at 81.6, which, while not especially high, is not low enough to indicate any permanent impair­ ment of the plant. LOUBET ASSAILED BY MOB. and Commercial Bulletin says: "The fire loss of the United States and Canada during the month of May, as compiled from our daily records, amounted to $9,- 091,900. The following comparative table will show the losses by months: 1«)7. 1SJS. 1899. January ..$12,010,700 ?0,47--',500 510,718,000 February March .. April ... May ... 8,«70,7.j0 10,.T02,«J50 lO.SW.OOO 10,11)3,GOO 1-\;11»,?H0 18.460,000 7,tMr.,200 11,493,000 8/J11.UOO 9,213.000 11,072,200 9,091,901) Totals . 256,000 $49,030,200 158,984,900 "During May there were 162 fires of a greater destructiveness each than $10.- 000." News of Minor Note. Body of Solomon Furguson, 18, found in the river, Cincinnati. Wm. A- Jones, New York, on accoant of ill health, killed himself. Postal Cable Compay will lay a new ca­ ble to Havana from New York. Body of Clay Houseman found in Paint creek, near Bainbridge, Ohio. John Coyl, Buffalo, N. Y., was horribly mangled by an explosion of dynamite. Jockey John Horton, 28, died from in­ juries received in a steeplechase at Brook­ lyn. Wm. Butcher, Gray, W. Va., was killed in a drunken row in which about 1Q0 par­ ticipated. Private Clarence Bowlen, light battery A, Second artillery, Buena Vista, Cuba, died of typhoid fever. Spanish newspaper Oceania suppressed at Manila. Editors in jail. Said mean things about Uncle Sam. Adjt. Gen. Corbin has been named aa one of the committee to look after the Dewey house, Washington. Miss Frankie E. Bailey, actress, New York, has sued for an interest in the es­ tate of Frank Robinson, Cincinnati, claim- I tog that she is bis wife. Great Biennial hog' Rolling la Held in Kansas City. The biennial convention of the Modern Woddme&of An^rica^^^leld^Tvausas City last w»ekr* Thousands df-l^en from many States ,.wete there's Jt is estimated that Thursday, when the grand parade and prize drills occurred, there were 100,- 000 Woodmen in the city. The streets were decorated with multi-colored lights and arches and entertainment of all kinds had been provided for. A number of im­ portant changes in the laws of the Wood­ men came before the convention^ The order has a membership of 400,000. Preaident of France Is Struck Over the Head with a Cane. President Loubet of France narrowly escaped death as the result of a hostile demonstration. It is the general opinion that a carefully arranged plot for assas­ sination was the cause of the rioting which occurred during the executive's visit to the races at Auteuil. Crowds surrounded the president's carriage and only for t£e he­ roic efforts of the police would have reach­ ed Loubet. As it was Count Christiano, a clubman and society leader, aimed a blow with his cane at the executive's head, crushing his hat. A second attack was prevented by the arrest of Christiano. One feature of the demonstration was that it seemed as if the royalists and anti-Semites were the leaders. The common people re­ mained indifferent. All along the route to the races denun­ ciation^ and epithets were shouted at Lou­ bet. When the carriage stopped the dem­ onstration became serious, the crowd at­ tempting to reach the vehicle. Many ar­ rests were made and blows were exchang­ ed between the police and the rioters. Countess Boni de Castellane, formerly Miss Anna Gould, took a prominent part in the disturbance, marching at the head of a shouting throng crying, "Vive l'armee." SUN HOLDS SWAY. Tin)© Dawson City was a warm town for a while, anyway. Plans are being laid to free Syria. This will be a Syrias matter. Gen. Fred Funston is unquestionably the brigadierest little hero in the country. Spain is taking her Philippine capital home and Aguinaldo is still carrying his with him. y Perhaps we lay too much stress on the Cubans' guns. They never did the Span­ ish any harm. 1 Smooth Swimmers and Rough Riders sound well together, if they did fight a long way apart. •• • -- •. •. --•• •• • Two St. Louis girls have been poisoned by eating cream puffs. Let that pure food inquiry keep busy. The I-stood-on-t he-bridge- with-Dewey fellow must give way to the I-swam-the- Bag-bag-with-Funston. Filipino and American peace commis­ sioners held an eight-hour session. It was good policy to work overtime at it. Kansas is to give Gen. Funston a sword. It is to be hoped that he will soon have occasion to beat it into a plowshare. There are nine murderers awaiting electrocution in Sing Sing, N. Y. Ju all seriousness, this is a shocking affair. The Hague peace conference is getting along with great amiability, no opinions or other horrid things being introduced. Aguinaldo tells his people he has killed 80,000 Americans. In all the fighting ao far he came eut, it might be said, with flying colors. That house idea for Dewey gets far­ ther confirmation in the suspicion that when he arrives the nation is likely to raise the roof. Missouri's Legislature passed a bar­ ber's license law. Those statesmen will probably get a good many close shaves before they die. The Filipinos are annoyed at the lack of military courtesy shown by Americans in estimating the amount of travel which ought to constitute a retreat. The most recent cftiiinant of fame is a woman, who says she jilted Fred Funston some years ago. This will scarcely en­ hance the reputation of the lady for fore­ sight and judgment. A telegram from Paris says Procurator General Deroulede made a fantastical speech in his own defense, charged with inciting mutiny. Very little happens in France that is not fantastical. . Arkansas City has a woman who claims to have jilted Fred Funston and married •Mtfeer nan five years ago. Wave of Torrid Temperature l* Felt Throughout the Country. The hot wave has broken all June rec­ ords since 1895, and its duration has been unusually long for this time of year. Chi­ cago on Monday was the center of a heat- affected area, the official thermometer in the Auditorium tower, the coolest plaoe in the city, registering as high as 87 de­ grees *duj,ing the day. Here are some fig­ ures from other cities: Parkersb'g, W. Va.96| Dodge City, Kan.. .84 Vicksburg, Miss.. .94| Indianapolis, Ind..92 Washington, D. C.'J2j Fuebl.o, Colo 88 Cleveland, Ohio.. .92; Detroit, Mich 93 Palestine, Texas. .901 Kansas City, Mo...82 Atlanta, Ga 881 North Platte, Neb.84 Norfolk, Va 31jLlttie Rock, Ark...90 Charlotte, N. C....92]Memphis, Tenn 92 Albany. N. Y 94| Omaha, Neb 82 "Des Moines, Iowa.82|Nashville, Tenn....94 Buffalo, N. Y 82iNew York.. 90 Cairo, 111 92|Philadelphia 92 Cincinnati, Ohio. .92| Pittsburg, Pa 92 Denver, Colo 84| St. Louis, Mo 94 The following figures are in strong con­ trast:. Salt Lake City 681 Williston, Mont....C4 Bismarck, N. D.. .68] Lander, Wyo 48 Helena, Mont 4€jSan Francisco, Cal.66 CITY OF PARiS ABANDONED. American Liner Turned Over, to the Marine Undertakers. James A. Wright, second vice-president of the International Navigation Company, said in New York Monday that the com­ pany had abandoned' the ̂ American liner Paris, stranded off the Cornwall coast, td the marine underwriters.? The ship i$ insured for- $1,000,000, which is divided among about fori y pompanies, fifteen of which are in New York. Therunderwrit- ers will make one more effort to drag the ship off the rocks, and, if they are un­ successful, they will break her up. The cargo of'the Paris, which has been taken out of her, was insured for $242,- 000. The salvors will claim about one- third of this. Mr. Wright says that the American line has received Captain Wat- kins' report of the stranding, but that it will not be made public until the investi­ gation by the Government of the cause of the accident. VOLUNTEERS STARTING HOME. lbs Second Oregon la Coming from Manila. The homeward movement of volunteer troops from the Philippines began last week, when the Second Oregon regiment sailed from Manila. The regiment will be landed at Portland, Ore., and go thence to Vancouver barracks for muster out. The other v&lunteer regiments will follow in the order of their arrival in the Philip­ pines, unless there should be delay through the failure of organizations in other isl­ ands than Luzon to reach Manila by the time the transports are ready to depart. In that event other regiments will be sent without reference to the date of their ar­ rival. New* of Minor Note* Pope Leo will hold the consistory, June 19. Tug GSrie ran on the rocks and sank near Erie, Pa. Crew saved. John Fox, 80, Frederick, Mo., was mar­ ried to Ivittie Zimmerman, 21. Havana dry dock will be sold by Spain, Jurte 9. United States will bid. Kansas City is preparing a big reception for Gea. Funston when he returns. Madame Dis de Bar failed to leave New Orleans as requested and she got thirty days. Harry Halle, 4, Cincinnati, was killed by a baseball thrown by his 7-year-old brother. Judge advocate has made a ruling that the War Department has 41 right to loan Cuban trophies. Lightning struck a tree near Rawson, Ohio, and injured six men, Rosco Frencfa was paralyzed. Missouri Assembly failed to make any appropriation for the pan-American ex­ position at Buffalo. Joseph Gregg, New York, was fonnd dead in his office. A revolver at his side indicated suicide. Fat'ily claims it's Bur 4er. f - -- * i i No more volunteer troops will be called for at present, as President McKinley »i?g his advisers have decided to await further developments in the Philippines. The President is strongly opposed to making another call for volunteers, and as Gen. Otis has within 6,000 of the number of troops needed, the President believes theae can be withdrawn from Cuba, Porto Rico and the garrisons of the United States. While there are now only abcut 12,000 troops in Cuba,' the encouraging reporta received from Gen. Wood, the governor of the' province of Santiago, lead Presi­ dent McKinley to believe this-aumber can be further reduced. In the event that only about 10,000 troops should be needed there may not be a call, but the President may simply appoint a number of commissioned officers and authorize the recruiting offi­ cers to enlist the number of men needed* There is confusion in the Postofflce De­ partment on account of the non-uniform­ ity observed in the spelling of the names of postofflces. In the bonding division the name of a small postofflce will often be spelled in one way and in the postal guide in another. This is because the fourth assistant Postmaster General names the fourth-class offices, as they are established, and it is in this class that nearly all the differences occur, while the postal guide is edited in the office of the chief clerk of the department. Between the editor of the guide and clerks of the fourth assistant's division there is little harmony and hence we have in so many instances two sets of postofflce nameti. Roberts, the alleged polygamist from Utah, is on the roll of the next House of Representatives in the office of Clerk Mo- Donald. His name cannot be erased by any process known to the law, and he will vote for Speaker just as much as Uncle Joe Cannon or Gen. Henderson himself. Petitions and charges were poured in up»n the last House, which had absolutely noth­ ing to do "with the matter, but for some reason the protests seem to have been dropped, now that the new House has be­ gun its legal existence, for Roberta ia already entitled to pay as a member. There will be no more bodies of Ameri­ can soldiers buried at sea from United States transports. Recently the War De­ partment has received ma^iy letters from people who have relatives among the vol­ unteers in the Philippines beseeching the department not to permit the bodies of their kinsfolk to be interred at sea should death opcur in transit. These requests have been heeded, and it has been decided to equip the transports with every facility, including metallic caskets, for the preset vation of the dead. --There are already over 30,000 nppllcft- ~ tions for the 3,000 clerkships in the census 'Office at Washington. The other day the first lot of twenty-four applicants were grven a preliminary examination design­ ed to 4how their fitness for the work. On« of the applicants fainted when the first question was asked, and all the remaining twenty-three failed to solve a simple prob­ lem in arithmetic. The services of the great majority of the 3,000 clerks will not be wanted until after June, 1900. Statements made in the newspapers that the President may call for volunteers have served to deluge the War Department with letters and telegrams from those who are anxious to serve their country ia the list of commissioned officers of the volunteer service. It has been necessary to write to each correspondent and explain that no action has yet been taken and the probable decision cannot be anticipated. President McKinley is beginning to con­ sider the me£ns of turning over the Island of Cuba to the natives. This event may not come for some time.^but the methods to be emplojypd .will require careful consid­ eration. . Tft(e,yt7nited States holds the isl­ and in trust «ihj purely a^ a military pos­ session. It";c® be turned over to the Cubans withoi& consultation with Con­ gress. . The Industrial commission, which is inade up of Congressmen and civilians of all parties, has issued an official request for complaints," statements or general in­ formation as to" trusts, to be sent to the secretary of the commission here in Wash­ ington, and the promise is made that all such charges of illegal combinations wiH be thoroughly investigated. The first definite steps in the work of re­ placing the present condemned Govern­ ment printing office building with a new, modern structure were taken last week when the destruction of a score or more of old buildings on the site of the new building was begun. It will be severai years before the new building is complet­ ed. - ....20c to 0Qc ....24c to 60e ....19c to 72c ...,25c to 54e 20c to 46c 32c to 42c Russia, it is feared, may rival Japan when manufacturing once gets a good start in the vast kingdom of the Czar. A correspondent of the Loudon Times has compiled the following figures showing the wages paid to different classes of mechan­ ics in Russia, which are somewhat start­ ling: Cotton weavers Dyers Weavers and spinners Papermaker* SlioemaUera •••' Brewers It is estimated that, without interfering with the development of agriculture, the labor of 15,000,000 people in Russia wiB be available for manufacturing purposes. Comptroller Dawes in his next annual report to Congress will renew his recom­ mendation for the appointment of a com* mission of financial experts to investigate the entire subject of the extension of bank­ ing facilities of this country to its new dependencies. Before the next Congress concludes its first session Col. D. B. Henderson will have reached the three score mark. It is, therefore, difficult to realize that he lost his leg in the war before he was 23 years old. Telegraphic Brevities. Mattie Myers, Baltimore, turned on the gas and expired. Henry M. McDonald, Jr., 29, Balti­ more, Md-, took morphine. Chicago will give an international live feird shoot in the fall. Wm. Burns, colored, Benton, Mo., was hanged for murdering his wife. Five miners were killed at Siegen, Ger­ many, by stones falling on them. Pnderewski will arrive in October for a six montfcs' twur of the United States. Store house of the United States fish hatchery, P«U<-ie-B«y, Olu*, burned. Total