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McHenry Ptaindealer. P. K. QRANQER, Publisher. MCHENRY, . ILLINOIS. SUMMARY OF NEWS. ,/V • -v.. Edward 1<\ Powell, who inherited $250,- 000 on reaching his majority a year ago, tried to amuse his young lady friends at Norriatown, Pa., by showing them how fast he could run backward. He stum­ bled and fell, breaking his neck, and died immediately. Fire in Laurpl, Del., destroyed Seveniy- •ight Imildinjrs. including two hotels, * bank, the postofflce. two drujr n e a r l y a l l , t h e b u s i n e s s h o v - j ^ . ' tomes of the most v ; *na n'1 the Place The ' resident* of corrt nnn ! ,-voft* *vniw*ted at ovist TTV- ^ -«rt«nr*H<v $2<V0»H>. tt is belie v; -ctrtff the fire wa* caused by iuf-en- rk«s who wished to rover up a murder. At Toledo. Judge Millard set aside the verdict of the jury in the case of the Man­ ufacturers* railroad, which desires to oc­ cupy certain streets of the city as a right «f way. The jury granted the petition «f the railroad. but * warded the city a dan*.are of £50,000, A motion has been na*ie f*r a new trial by the road aud Millard of the pmbate court set «skte she verdict and granted the motion. M5Vf \IclV*w»}d. aged 20. employed by the F. \l. I^ac Ssrup Company, as the re*«l* of a wajjer with some fellow-em- j pioyes, dived fn»m the renter span of (he Eada briiige at St. Louis. badly injuring himself an J narrowly escaping death. The distance from the bridge to the water is. 115 feet. McDonald alighted on his shoulders and the upper part of his back, tod but for the prompt assistance of a boat and crew in readiness he would have drowned. ' Word has been received at San Diego, Cal., that a party of twenty miners, bound for the Sierra Pintada placers, lost their way in the desert and wandered around a long time, finally dying of thirst. The information came in a letter received by J. P. Cantlin, one of the charterers of the schooner Thomas S. NeguS, which took a party of sixty prospectors to San Roquc landing, from L. J. Allen, purser of the Negus. The corpses of the lost miners were accidentally discovered in the desert by another party bound in the same direction. The standing of the clubs in the Na­ tional League race is as follows: W. L. Brooklyn .. .45 14Cincinnati Boston 37 19 New York Philadelphia. 35 21 Pitts Iraftaf to the Metropolitas Katlonal f swefrt awayby Bank at Bostoa. He escaped to New : The town Kafc'a ixj*al«tlan York, where he was captured six hoars1 * * * " later. The Cambria Steel Company of Johns­ town, Pa., has posted qotices of a general advance of wages of 10 per cent. About 8,fJQ0 men are affected by the advance. Charles E. Littlefield, Republican, has been elected to Congress to succeed the late Nelson Dingley of Maine, defeating John Scott of Bath by an overwheltoi' ^ majority. Positive information that Gfe*- Wheeler will lead Mrs. GeOr- ^^oseph of Philadelphia to the r' Childs day has been given v at. an ear^ acquainted wit*^ ' jODS iBtiroatelr ^.atidred e^pjjjygg 0f the CJcw- Gnicas St. Lo B 2j^iurrfsville . "^6 W ashington 25 Cleveland ". W. L. .28 29 r.£» 31 .23 31 .20 38 18 42 .10 45 Is the standing of the clubs Item League: jr. L. W. L. leapolis. til 22St. Paul 27 25 lianapoiis. 29 23Milwaukee ...25 28 Columbus ...27 24 Kansas City..21 31 Detroit .... .28 25 Buffalo 21 31 Bradstreefs views the trade situation thus: "Less than the average effect of ap­ proaching mid-summer influences is dis­ cernible in current trade reports. Prices, too, show a strength unusual at this pe­ riod, and particularly in view of recent steady advances. This is notably mani­ fest, of course, in the iron and steel indus­ try, where the tendency of values is still upward. Hopes of improvement in the wjolen goods industry have materialized in an active demand at leading markets for the manufactured product. Improved crop reports are responsible chiefly for lower quotations of products declining in price this week. Cotton crop prospects have continued to improve, and the raw product is lower. Raw sugar is lower on unanimous reports of improving crop pros­ pects the world over, but refined sugar is in heavy domestic demand and firm. Lumber retains all of its early activity and strength alike as regards movement and prices. Wheat, including flour, ship­ ments for the week aggregated 3,740,718 bushels, against 2,790,471 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggre­ gate 2,872,432 bushels, against 3,285,301 bushels last week." lan^ A . rounar^ company struck because j&eir foreman r0(je jn a car manned by no«Wr,ion men and the company re- ™ /iischarge him for the offense. Eno^a Eavanoski's young wife Emma ant^iois infant daughter Emma were burn­ er/to death at Pittsburg as the result of an explosion of an oil can with which the woman attempted to start a tire at their home. The death is announced of Simon Fry, grand commander of. the Ancient Accept­ ed Scottish Rite for the United States. He succumbed to an operation for appen­ dicitis at a A'ew York hospital. He was 40 years old. , f . M iss Rose Lincoin Edwardes of Cam­ bridge. Mass.. and William Wilson Sloan, Jr., of New York were married* at Lynn, Mass., on the day upon which Miss Ed­ wardes was to have become the bride of Geo. H. Boeck of St. Louis. Sloan was to have been an usher at the wedding* The United States practice vessel Ches­ apeake was launched .from the Bath, Me., iron works yard. She was christened by Miss Elsie Bradford, daughter of Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment at Washington. The launch­ ing was successful in every particular. Actors and actresses may fight duels on the stage in New York with swords or pistols, but if they attempt to use their fists they are liable to arrest. Henceforth sparring acts are barred in New York, and variety performers who have made a specialty of boxing must change their acts. hundred McoticMw of the _ Their houses were adobr Vforer dam. melted away when th ,-*» which quickly them. There was j^high water struck G. F. Swift tess of Ufe- pany, Cf»® the Swift Packing Corn- Worth closed a deal at Fort dre- ^o'ftxas, for the rdnch of the Ohil- * ><**Land and Cattle Company, in Chil- -^rfess County, in the Texas panhandle. The ranch is a fine property of 90,000 acres and well stocked with high-grade Durhams. Captain M. P. Donlett of the steamer Independence has brought to New Or­ leans a piece of the wreck of the naphtha launch Paul Jones, lost in the gulf last January, vrhieh throws still more mystery on that disaster. The Paul Jones was thought to have been destroyed by the explosion of her naphtha tank. The tank was discovered by Captain Doullett iritact and uninjured, and still three-fourths fulL TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION WROUQHT BY WISCONSIN AND NEBRASKA FOREIGH. WESTERN. NEWS NUGGETS. The Queen Regent of Spain has signed the bill for the cession to Germany of the Caroline Islands. At Hamilton, Ont., Benjamin Parfott, was hanged for the murder of his mother." The murderer left a confession. Henry Bradley Plant, owner of the Plant railway system, a line of steani- •hips and much real estate in the State of Florida, died at New York. Fire damaged the More-Phillips Chem­ ical works at Camden, N. J., to the extent of $100,000. Three large buildings used in the manufacture of phosphates were destroyed. At Hartville, Mo., a desperate attempt was made to break jail by the MaeComb train robbers, but it was frustrated by the guards. All the prisoners were then handcuffed. While alone at the home of H. M. Beckett at Ridley. Tenn., the house caught fire and Edith Beckett, aged 5, and the 3-year-old son of J. P. Cawthorn ere burned to death. - ^ „ The Music Teachers' National Associa- tion convention at Cincinnati adjourned fe,"' after electing A. J. Gantvoort of that city W"' president. Next year's meeting will be P®\, at Des Moines, Iowa. . Frederick Sehatz of Graytown, Ohio, Who d:ed at the home of his wife, was ^ - not killed, but died of heart disease. Wm. Ife >? Sehatz stated that the dispatches s^?nt WpPi . ®"t,to the effect that his father was mur- Lt: v H*rcd bJ' tlle are absolutely false. *M~ A--number of mirror manufacturers IP"' Who control the business of the United '•>'%% States in that line have formed a com- Vv ^ne <'0_r the regulation of prices and Mb'" , ' ®J'0(lnictj0n; J. M. Conroy of Conroy, ^ • " k ' ' was president. £ lt »* announced that the Keystone t 0 ; . W a t c h C a s e C o m p a n y a n d t h e R i v e r s i d e % ^ Watch Case Company of Philadelphia ?»•' ra»<t,v^\ have consolidated. t -,The Atlantic transport line steamer fWi "^JMontana, from Baltimore, reached Fal- "«^°uth, England, with its i»ropeller shaft The Akron, Ohio, street car system was tied up by a strike the other day. Lorenzo Danford of St. Clairsville, O., died of heart disease, aged 70 years. J. G. Wickersham, a Petaluma, Cal., banker, died, leaving an estate valued at $1,000,000. The Montello "Hotel, a fashionable apartment house at Tacema, Wash., was partially destroyed by fire. Loss $25,000. At Evansville, Ind., non-union colored miners were fired upon by unknown par­ ties. Six men were shot, three probably fatally. The Standard Oil Company is reported to be about to abandon business in Ohio because of the prosecution by the State Attorney General under the anti-trust law. Steps have been taken by representative colored citizens ©f San Francisco toward securing for the race a national academy of music to be located at Washington D. C. Dr. C. W. Super has been elected pres­ ident of Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. He occupied the position twelve years, previous to 1890, when he declined the honor. An east-bound Northern Pacific freight train collided with an excursion train one mile east of Linton station, Ore. One man on the Astoria train was killed and five injured. Captain L. B. Chapin, a veteran of the civil war and captain in the Third Ohio cavalry, a well-to-do resident of Benton Heights, Ohio, committed suicide by hanging. Ex-Senator Benjamin E. Harding is dead at Cottage Grove, Ore. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1862 to fill out the unexpired term of Sen­ ator Baker, deceased. Four small children of the name of Christensen were drowned in the Platte river at North Platte, Neb. One fell into the water and the others were drowned while attempting to rescue it. John Henry Collins, who is in the Kan­ sas penitentiary under death sentence for the murder of his father, has written a book on prison life which has been print­ ed in the penitentiary office. The Nebraska State board of public lands and buildings has closed the ar­ rangements for the purchase of a resi­ dence for the Governor. The price paid for the estaj)lishme^|. which includes the house and furniture as it stands, is $20,- 000. The body of St. Julian Bahaud, a wealthy farmer residing at Julian, Neb., was found in his residence in a mutilated and partly decomposed condition. Ba­ haud lived alone and was believed to have had large sums of money concealed about his place. The largest soda ash factory in the United States is to be erected at Barber- ton, Ohio, by capitalists identified with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company. The corporation will be chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania with a capital stock of $3,000,000. The Pinkerton Brothers' Grocery Com­ pany, doing a large wholesale grocery business at Zanesville, Ohio, has assign­ ed under the State laws to Sherwood M. Pinkerton. Liabilities $00,000, assets $50,000. The Pinkerton Tobacco Com­ pany is not affected. It is announced that, as Gov. Stephens has signed the street railway bill, the negotiations for a general consolidation of all the street railroads of St. Louis, which have been in progress for some time, are now practically completed. The deal in­ volves nearly $100,000,000 in all. A military prisoner named Wringer, who was serving a two years' sentence in the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Ivan., for desertion from the Sixteenth infantry, made a break for liberty and was shot and killed by Private Olson, Troop F, Sixth cavalry, who was on guard duty. The settlement is announced of the coal miners' strike in the States west of the Mississippi, which has been in progress over two months. As a result of the set­ tlement 22.000 of the 30,000 strikers in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory and Arkansas will return to.work at once New South Wales h*« Voted f«l -Australian federation. > < Rev. Dr. Wood, former president of the Wesleyan conference, is dead at London. The Government of Trinidad has decid­ ed to adopt the Marcoui system of wire­ less telegraphy for communication with the dependency of Tobago, » Malietoa Tanu has abdicated the Sa­ moa n throne. The joint commission ap­ pointed by the powers will recommend a republican form of government. Robert Ashcroft, Conservative member of the British Parliament for Oldham, is dead. He; was born in 1847 and Was president of the Oldham Law Associa­ tion. At Pulaski, Va., John Raines and Mad­ ison Pratt, while bathing, became apgry. Both left the water, ran to their clothing, secured revolvers and began firing. iSoth were killed. Several European banks are said to be suing Prince Leopold, ex-hereditary Prince of Izenberg-Bierstein, for 350,000 marks, which the complainants s%y was lent to the prince that be might make a visit to the United States in search of a rich wife. The news of the safety of the British steamship Ethel wold, Captain Hensiiaw, which sailed from Philadelphia for Port Antonio, Jamaica, was contained in a cablegram received by the Quaker City Fruit Company from Nassau, N. P., which harbor the vessel has just reached. The riots in southern India have spread to Travaneore, where the police have been severely beaten and forced to retire. The rioters have seized a number of guns and a quantity of ammunition. They have been cutting off the ears of their op­ ponents in order to obtain their earrings more expeditiously. About 450 bouses have been burned at Samboovadagarai. Gen. Pelloux, the Italian premier, pro­ rogued the Italian parliament without having secured the passage of the Gov­ ernment bills to modify the rules of par­ liamentary procedure and to restrict the liberty of the press and freedom of speech. It is reported that these meas­ ures will now be enforced by royal de­ cree. If so they will probably cause fur­ ther trouble. Mi®* % ' « & V f i m IN GENERAL. Commodore Oscar Cj. Badger, U. 8. retired, is dead, aged 76 years. Admiral George Dewey has been elect­ ed a life member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. The directors of the Pennsylvania Rail­ road have elected A. J. Cassatt to be president of the Pennsylvania company, the corporation which operates the lines west of Pittsburg. By an accident to the hoisting appara­ tus at the Black Sturgeon mine at Rat Portage, Charles Adams of Nova Scotia, Charles Haas of Sudbury and John Howe of Rat Por^ge were killed. Jacob Bais, ex-charge d'affaires of Honduras at WaiAiilugton ahd for many years consuf* general in 'NeW York for Honduras, Salvador aud Guatemala, is dead at his home in New York, aged 5G years. The supreme lodge.of. the Ancient Order of United Workmen fleeted the following supreme officers: Master workman, John C. Bickford of Manchester, N. H.; fore­ man, W. A. Walker'of Milwaukee, Wis.; overseer, A. C. Harwick of New York; recorder, M. W., Sackett of Meadville, Pa.; receiver, Jphn J. Acker, of Albany, N. Y.; guide, Alexander Pratt of Winni­ peg, Man.; watchman, A. B. Jones of Wilmington, D^h; medical examiner. Dr. D. H. Shields of Hannibal, Mo. Three men who left Dahl' river, Alaska, on Dec. 5 for Jiintowm were not heard of again and they were supposed to have been lost. The men were Michael Daly, Victor Ediar and Provost. They were from Providence, R, I., Woonsocket, R. I., and Brockton, Mass., respectively. Their bodies were discovered seventeen miles from the mohth of Old Man's creek, they having lost the trail aud become be­ wildered. Daly's body was found partly eaten, in a tent on the stove, just as it was left when death overtook the others. The other two men were found dead live miles away from the tent. The fact of the tent flaps being shut down when found would seem to preclude the possibility of Daly's body haviug been eaten by ani­ mals. » ii &«cd for six days lijy the steamer Elderslie. yi At Lima, Ohio, two men called at the «ity transfer barns aud wanted Frank liarris, night, manager, to give them Hittoney for beer. When he refused they pbot hip via the-groin, making a fatal %round. SOUTHERN. is. s . .EASTERN. ( petition in bankruptcy has been filed : u New York by John W. Stevens, build- ; ' '*fr. Liabilities $130,113, no assets. : , The drying and finishing room of Rob- ert II. Foerderer's morocco works at Phil­ adelphia was destroyed by fire. Loss |70,000. At New Haven, Conn., Clarence A. » , , Alexander of Dayton, Ohio, a Yale law , School senior, was badly injured in a base- * • - |»all game. George Sl^ea, also known as Philip &ambele, who is said to hail from Chi- walked ^srith $10,000 in cash be- • M The Texas Court of Appeals has declar­ ed the law against railroad ticket scalp­ ers inoperative and void because of its bungling and incomprehensible wording. A jury at Scranton, Miss., passing upon the death of a negro who had been lynch­ ed, rendered a verdict to the effect that the negro climbed a tree, ventured too far out on a limb and fell, breaking his neck. At Fort Pickens. Peusacola. Fla.. one of the old-style magazines at that post exploded. One man was killed by failing debris. The explosion was caused by a fire, which is thought to have originated ic the kitchen. News comes from Conway, S. C.„ that negroes attempted to lynch a white youth named Sam Dowe, who had killed a ne­ gro named Green. The negro ran into Dowe with a bicycle. Dowe'i father drove away the lynching party with n shotgun. The old town of Carizo, Texas, vr«t« fIJeK^Tl0ne'WreCke1i0W"°f RIch™ond» WIs- °n the rI&ht of the Picture in the distance is the partly „burned Catholic church into which •cores of bod es were carried The bridge in the center of the picture is over Willow river, which is scarcely more than a creek, and was nStlT £" T „cr , "J (PC,t,t"2 T tbe ruln" of a 901,001 lousc- (2) Tents '«• New Richmond's boneless people provided by The WteconJta authorities (3) Section of devastated Mala street In New Richmond, from photograph taken on morning after the cycline. (4) S«ne ln thl w^S of the terrible storm at Herman, Neb. J v ' 01 ra lDe wane FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES. Bnppoaed Friendly Filipinos Surprise American Troops. Gen. Wheaton occupied Perez das Ma­ rinas Tuesday morning after moderately heavy fighting. Gen. Wheaton bivouacked in a field Monday night, and early in the morning advanced on the rebel stronghold of Perez das Marinas, near which place Monday the insurgents in force ftere so gallantly resisted by a small reconnoiter- ing party under Maj. Bubb. Gen. Whea- ton's advance was contested by the rebels, but after moderately heavy fighting the Americans occupied Perez das Marinas. After occupying the town, Gen. Wheaton examined the sanitation, which he decided was so bad as to make it dangerous to garrison the place. The rebels mutilated American dea.d. The bodies of two sol­ diers of the Fourth infantry, who fell in the running fight back of Imus, were left behind by their comrades. The bodies were afterward found with the right ears cut off, throats cut and slashes across the face. An all-day battle between Gen. Whea- ton's force and the insurgent army was fought near the city of Imus Monday. One battalion of the Fourth infantry, while reconnoitering, was attacked in the rear by a baud of supposed friendly na­ tives. The Americans stood, their ground pluckily and were out of ammunition when Wheaton led a strong force to their help. The insurgents fought well, taking ad­ vantage of the woods, and were driven back with difficulty. Little progress was made until late in the afternoon, when the native force was dislodged, from a dense timber. Tbe Americans lost five in dead and twenty-five in wounded. It is known that the Filipino loss was very heavy. On effecting the capture of Perez das Marinas Maj. Bubb's battalion, composed of 300 men belonging to the Fourth in­ fantry, was surrounded on all sides by the Filipinos, who were about 2,000 in number. Nothing but the most determined brav­ ery saved the Americans from being en­ tirely wiped out. Maj. Bubb's battalion had been sent from Imus to take posses­ sion of Perez das Marinas. On arriving within two miles of the town the alcalde" met them and formally surrendered the place. The houses along the road were filled with Filipinos of the friendly va­ riety. These pretended to welcome.the invaders. When within a short distance of Perez daj Marinas Maj. Bubb discov­ ered that the enemy had lines running parallel to the road and ,tha..t his force was practically hedged in. Gen. Wheaton was fired on in a road and had a narrow escape. Later the Third battalion was ordered to the front and formed on the Las Minas road. Fi­ nally the Americans secured a quantity of Filipino arms which had been aban­ doned in the woods. The scene of the fighting is over twenty miles from Ma­ nila. MARKET REPORTS. 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 $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2, 34c to 35c; oats, No .2, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 60c to 62c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice new, 52c to 65c 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 $4.25; wheat. No. 2 rfid, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. , St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogv, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2, 50c to 58c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37r; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 66c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $8.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 7Pe to 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; ryefi 59c Jo Oic. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c; clover seed, new. $3.95 to $4.05. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 7pc to 76c; corn, No. 3, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1, 59c to 61c; barley, No. g, 41c to 43c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra. $4.50 to $6.25. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25 wheat,, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c butter, creamery, l$c to 30e; eggs, Weat era, 14c to 16c. • ANGLO-VENEZUELAN DISPUTE. Difficulty that Nearly Cause! A Rup­ ture with hngrland. Ex-President Jlarrison is in Paris repre­ senting Venezuela at an international tri­ bunal of arbitration to settle the question which nearly caused a rupture between Eng­ land and this country four years ago. Great Britain and Venezuela both claim the same territory along the bor­ der between Venezuela and British Guiana. Mr. Harrison is Vene­ zuela's chief counsel. Having made a thor- BEN HARBISON, ough investigation of all the claims involved, he has come to the conclusion that England has rights only in a narrow strip of land in the eastern part of the disputed territory. He will contend for the Venezuelan Government that the proper boundary line should be near the 59th parallel of latitude. Great Britain has claimed it to be westward of the 63d parallel, including several exceed­ ingly rich gold mines. It will be recalled that the United States took no stand as to what was the true boundary between the two states mention­ ed, but insisted simply that Great Britain submit to Venezuela's demand for Arbi­ tration on the subject. Great Britain re­ fused and President Cleveland issued the memorable message which resulted in an American commission of investigation to determine tihe true boundary. The com­ mission did not have to finish its work because, after a long correspondence be­ tween Lord Salisbury and Secretary of State Richard Olney, Great Britain final­ ly consented to arbitration, and by a spe­ cial treaty agreed with Venezuela to ac­ cept the decision of a given tribunal on the disputed territory. The land in dispute is over 60,000 square miles in extent, greater than the areas of New York, Connecticut and Massachu­ setts combined. Venezuela lays claim to all the territory west of the Essequibo river. Venezuela's claims are based on the rights acquired by Spain, of which coun­ try the present republic was, up to 1810, a dependency. KAISER REFUSES TO YIELD. tbe Dr. George W. Chittenden, who died at Janesville, Wis., at the age of 79, was the oldest practicing physician in Wisconsin, and was widely known th^ughout the State. Mrs. Mary P. Coats of Philadelphia cel­ ebrated her 102d birthday on Thursday. Her family was represented in every war from that of the revolution to the civil war, and it was a great sourcc of grief to her that her sons were too. old to enlist in the Spanish war. The pallbearers at the funeral of Miss Mary Baterman, who died last week at the age of 70, were, in compliance with her particular request, all young bachel­ ors. Miss Baterman was a resident for a long time previous to her death of the town of Spark ill, N. Y\ The death of Mrs. Julia A. Hedges, 98 years old, of senile decay, at Indianapolis, developed that her husband, who is still living, is 106 years old. Mr. Hedges still hears and talks readily, and he is physical­ ly quite active, but his memory is treach­ erous. Their only support is a pensipn on account of a son killed in the civil war. Mr. aud Mrs. Hedges had lived together seventy years. Several of theii; qhildfen are still living. *. J Harrison ltecd, whose death at Jack sonville, Fla., at the age of 80 years, is announced, was the first editor of the Mil­ waukee Sentinel, and was a member of the constitutional convention of Wiscon sin. During the civil war he held an office in the Treasury Department, and at its close he moved to Jacksonville. In May, 1808, he was elected Governor of Floe^a, and served two terms, until January, 1873. In 1878 he was elected to the State Assembly for two years. Siace then he had lived in retirement at Us hone im I Booth Jacksonville. _ 1 Germany Will Never Accept British Arbitration Plan. Dr. Zorn, the German delegate, has returned to The Hague from Berlin, where he went to explain the arbitration proposals to Emporor William, without apparently having accomplished anything. It was hoped that the Kaiser would make concessions and agree to one of the plans now linder discussion, but this now seems more improbable than ever. The Hague dispatches say Dr. Zorn re­ fuses to talk of the outcome of his mis­ sion, but advices from Berlin indicate-that no change in German policy is likely. In fact, it is declared positively that the Emperor will never consent to the propo­ sition of Sir Julian Pauncefote, the Brit­ ish envoy. The representatives of the other great powers may go ahead with their work on the mediation tribunal, leaving Germany out, on the chance that, after it is approv­ ed by the leading nations of the world, the Berlin Government will decide to give it an indorsement. CYCUONE SMASHER. A Chicago Man Claims that He Can Head Them UfF. The invention of the "cyclone annihila- tor*' is announced by E. D. Betfls, a Chi­ cago man. The.device has been offered to- the United States Government by the in­ ventor. The annihilator is a small can­ non with a weather vane and an air trig­ ger. Tie weather vane is for the pur­ pose of aiming the cannon, which rests upon a vertical pivot.. When a cyclone approaches, the vane turns the cannon so it points directly at the funnel-shaped cloud. When the wind reaches a velocity of sixty-five miles an hour it will spring the trigger and fire the cannon. The pro­ jectile fired into the revolving cloud will throw it off its balance and it will scatter into a harmless zephyr. (Cyt^one Not the Act of Ood. In\u*ae pulpits at Eau Claire, Wis., Sunday the cyclone at New Richmond was the subject of sermons. The general sentiment expressed was that it was a notorious dispensation of Providenee, b^t the Rev. Joseph Moran of the Epis­ copal Church said it was the devilish work of an un^novn power aud not the act of God. • °a» Newa of Minor Note* Another effort will be made to organise a pottery trust. The Turner-Taylors and Lees threaten­ ed more bloodshed, Pinesville, Ky. Flne"!buildings will take the place of the fire traps recently burned at Coney Island. Capt. Rafferty of the Seventy-first New York, erroneously reported dying of yel law fever, is at weefc hi Trinida4- IN TENTS^AND CELLARS. Herman's Homeless Citizen* Fed and Housed by Charity. Five hnndred homeless citizens of Her­ man, Neb., are leading a very primitive existence in the devastated place. At night they crawl into tents provided by the good people^ of the State, or burrow into the cellars 'of their wretched homes like so many rats. The picture is a most distressing on<^ At meal times they crowd around the church, the only remaining structure, which is used as a morgue, hos­ pital, relief depot and telegraph and repo- torial office for the correspondents. The property damage is $200,000, with prac­ tically no insurance. A special police force of thirty men was necessary to dis­ courage vandalism. The place was being denuded even of the broken and dilapidat­ ed household goods. No one pretends to be able to pick out his property. It is ail thrown into one great pile, which covers several acres. But it is practically value­ less. The twister formed from a mass of fleecy clouds in Dane valley, half a mile from Herman. The vapor-like mass sud­ denly seemed to turn black as ink, and with a roar like a thousand railroad en­ gines traveling up a grade started down the valley, beating into splinters every­ thing it touched. It seemed to churn the very earth. The freaks of the great black ball were numerous. Anderson Hopkins'was blown through the side of his barn, and the kitchen stove, in which a fire was burning, followed him* The debris was ignited and the farmer burned to death. Farmer Len­ nox saw it coming and got his family into a storm cellar, but he was carried high in the air and hung up in the branches of a tree. Later a horse passed through the air like a cannon ball and dislodged the farmer. A party of traveling men took refuge in the cellar of the hotel at the vil­ lage. The hotel was swept away and a struggling horse was suddenly deposited in the midst of the frightened commercial men. The animal began to rear and plunge, and the drummers, as a matter of self-preservation, threw the animal to the ground by main force and sat upon him until the cyclone had passed^' Maj. Burdick, being asked what the re­ lief committee should send in, as indicat­ ing the extent of the devastation, remark­ ed: "We need anything and everything required by a well-regulated family, ex­ cept kindling wood." Had it not been for the farmers of the surrounding country, Who came into the village with supplies, the people would have starved. Vistors crowded the village by the thousands, and what little had been sent in they helped eat. The people have not only to be fed but clothed. Relief is being furnished by all Nebraska and Iowa. NATURAL GAS GONE. Ohio Pipe Lines Costing Million* Now 1 " Only Old Junk. A Findlat," Ohio dispatch says: This year will witness the passing of natural gas as fuel in -northwestern Ohio. The mighty systems of pipe lines which car­ ried gas to Toledo, Tiffin, Sandusky, Nor- walk aud many smaller places, are being abandoned and the pipes taken up. The pump stations of the Northwestern Nat­ ural Gas Oompany, the Standard's repre­ sentative la"the gas business, are shut down for good, as are those of the city of Toledo, whjch invested a million and a half In the effort to give its peopje.a cheap fuel, and now has only the old junk to show for its money. Even in this place, the "city of hatural gas," there is not enough pressure left to supply the wants for domf|tic fuel, and in the cool days of May .housewives were compelled to use wood to keep their cook stoves going. Yet it is but a few years since gas seemed to be es free and permanent as air, and one had only to punch a hole a matter of a thousand feet into the earth to secure a seemingly inexhaustible supply. The waste of this fuel in-the early days of its discovery was one of the greatest mis­ takes in the world's industrial history. Ten years ago the capacity of the wells in the Findlay field was about 200,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day and to-day this is diminished to a few millions, with the pressure so low as to be of bnt little ser­ vice. BIG CROPS IN AI.L LANDS Condition Tends to Decrease the Exports of America. Good crops in all the world in the year 1898-99 will probably make our export figures for the fiscal year about to end a few million dollars less than those of th# banner year 1898. For the eleven montht of the fiscal year 1899 the total export# V are $1,130,029,572, while in no earlief^f year except 1898 did the total exports of the eleven months reach the billion dollar Hne" The reduction in exportation is en­ tirely in agricultural products, and, in­ deed, the total exports of farm products of agriculture are nearly $50,000,000 less than those of last year. In 1898 the crops in all parts of the world except the United States were un­ usually light, and as a consequence the prices realized for farm products exported were much higher than the average for many years, while in 1899, with good crop* abroad, the prices which our.exporters of farm products are receiving are materially lower than those of last year, though ia quantity the exports of agricultural pro­ ducts are in most cases as great as those of 1898. ,One curious feature in the reduction of our exportations relates to live cattle, in which the exportations of the year are 25 per cent below those of the corresponding mouths of 1898, the total for eleven ^ months being $24,484,823, against $32,- , 352,833 last year. ^ £35* Western man BELLAMY STORER. Kew Minister Takes Up Uncle $amS Work in Madrid. Bellamy Storer, the new United States minister *0 Spain, was presented at court Friday after­ noon. Felicitous ad^ dresses were -made, in which the hope was mutually ex­ pressed that the pleasant relations e x i s t i n g b e t w e e n Spain and the Unit­ ed States prior to the war would be re- sTOKEfc. sewed aad continue iadefiait«lft The election Speaker of the' House of Representatives is regarded in New York as a serious blow to the East. By thoughtful politicians it iB looked upon as the beginning of the end of Eastern control in national affairs. Nu­ merically the East is stronger at the pres­ ent time in Congress than it will ever be again, in all probability. The next cen­ sus, which will be taken a year from now, • will increase the Western representation in the lower branch of Congress at the ex­ pense of the East and South and will give the Middle and Western States more pow­ er than was e^er before centered in that part of the country. The foreshadowed election of Gen. Henderson is therefore looked upon as something of a calamity by those whose line of vision focuses about New York and Boston. The experts at Washington are Inclined to think that the public is apt to grossly overestimate the population, not only of individual cities but of the country as a whole. Assistant Superintendent Wines estimates that the national census to be taken in 1900 will show 77,000,000 people, a gain of 15,000,000 in teu years. Two other experts who have made careful cal­ culations based on the growth of the coun­ try during previous decades, agree with him. At the same rate of increase the population of the United States in 1950 will be 190,000. One argument which should appeal strongly to the conference at The Hague is the fact that almost every nation, with the exception" of Great Britain and the United States, is overtaxed to meet the expenses of maintaining its army and navy. France runs behind to the amount of $100,000,000; Austria has an annual de­ ficit of $80,000,000; Russia of $50,000,000, and Italy of $30,000,000. The smaller powers are, many of them, in a state bor­ dering on bankruptcy. During the last fifteen months the en- lire expense of maintaining the army and navy of the United States has been $366,- * 000,000. Of this amount the army has absorbed $269,000,000 and the navy $97,- 000,000. In times of peace tne cost of the army and navy is approximately $112,,- 000,000. Since September, 1898, the ex­ pense of the naval and military establish­ ment has grown steadily smaller. The first case of yellow fever for the-J/ year is reported from New Orleans. Last^f year the disease existed in Louisiana and - J Mississippi from July 1 to Sept. 29. In New Orleans there were in all but twelve cases. In Franklin. La., there were 106;. * - cases, with but five deaths. In Taylor/4" ..J Miss., there were eighty-two cases, eight Nr of which resulted fatally. % A cargo of shells, originally intended for the use of Spanish guns in the war. with the United Sta^gs, recently arrived at Glasgow, Scotland. The charges hadijf been extracted from them and needy Spain took advantage of the recent rise *; in the price of metal to get hold of an , honest penny by selling them for old iron. Ten years ago the city of Johnstown, Pa., was entirely destroyed by $, great flood. Six thousand lives were lost, 1,800 bouses were swept away, and property valued at $15,000,000 was destroyed. Shift •.'*> ' ' Vv, .**' { 7V-.