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.j?*****, ^ .4" *, * y j , *>?•«* !> , 1 ' , ' Henry Pfaindealer. THE PLAINDEALER CO., Pnbs. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. WEEK'S NEWS RECORD A platform on which were thirty prom­ ises* Jews of Cleveland fell a distance of several feet, resulting in serious and perhaps fatal injury to some. A new synagogue had been completed and was being dedicated. A large platform had been erected for the occasion. Orders have been issued for the re­ sumption of all idle coke ovens in the country, and all ovens heretofore on five days a week will be put on full time. This means the resumption of thousands of ovens that have been idle for years. Many more men will be given employ­ ment. The trial of the slayers of Gen. Luna, the Filipino leader who was assassinated by the guard of Aguinaldo's residence, is ended. The accused were acquitted on the ground of self-defense. The testimony showed there was a conspiracy on the part of Luna and other officers to kill Agninaldo and make Luna dictator. An iron box containing $2,611 shipped by the American Express Company for the J. ,H. Somers American Express Company to Sherrodsville, Ohio, to pay the men in No. 5 mine, has been myste­ riously stolen from the Cleveland, Can­ ton and Southern Railw ay depot, in which the express company has its office. Dick Williams, a negro charged with the murder of two white men, was lynch­ ed at Alma. Kari., by a mob of white men. The mob left the negro hanging to a telegraph pole. Six minutes later he was cut down by the town marshal and taken back to the county jail, where Hie recovered consciousness. Williams cannot live. Fire was discovered shortly after mid­ night in the Lindoll Hotel at Lincoln. Neb. Smoke filled the corridors and a panic among the guests was narrowly averted. All the inmates escaped, with­ out their belongings, and in some cases without personal attire. The building, a four-story brick structure, was completely destroyed. The standing of the clubs in the Na­ tional League race Is as follows: W. L. 22 Cincinnati 26 Pittsburg . 26 New York 27 Louisville 29Washington. 23 28 Cleveland .. .12 Brooklyn ...48 Boston .. .42 Chicago 41 Philadelphia. 40 St. Louis 41 Baltimore ...38 W. .. .34 . .34 . .30 . .27 ft*.1 Following is the standing of the dubs lit the Western League: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis. 38 28Kansas City..32 35 Indianapolis. 36 28 St. Paul 31 34 Detroit 34 31 Milwaukee .. .32 36 Columbus ...33 32Buffalo 27 39 Bradstreet's views the trade situation thus: "Holiday observances and semi­ annual stock takings have worked toward quiet in general trade and industry, but it is significant of the favorable condi­ tions ruling in this, as compared with pre­ vious years, that trade advices point to rather more than the average business being done, notwithstanding the checks to demand and shipment above mentioned. Additional results of the season's work brought to light are fully as favorable as j those indicated in Bradstreet's report last week, and fnrnish an adequate basis for the general air of confidence with which the business world faces the last half of the year. Business failures for the week number 136, as against 158 last week, ' 241 in this week a year ago, 213 in 1897, 219 in 1806 and 266 in 1895. Business • failures in Canada for the week number 25, as compared with 23 last week, 16 in this week a year ago, 34 in 1897, 32 in 1896 and 30 in 1895." has been flooded the venerable byterlan Church of the most noted Oeaipsn.v at New Brunswick, N. Jn was dWroyed by fire. The loss is about 1100,000 sod, i* partially covered* by In- •ttrikBce. At Pittsburg, Vnited States secret ser­ vice agents arrested five men oa suspicion of their being impiicii^d in a counterfeit­ ing scheme. The ci with bogus dollars. Dr. James I. B pastor of the First of Washington and o divines and prominent educators in the United States, is dead, aged 82 years. The Supreme Court at Brooklyn grant­ ed the New York Bank Note Company an order restraining the sale of the Kings County Elevated Railroad and the Fulton Street Elevated Railroad for twenty days. A charter has been granted at Harris burg for the National Glass Company of Pittsburg, a combination of the table glassware manufacturers. The new com­ bine will probably be capitalised at $20,- 000,000. Charles R. Pope, for many years well known in commercial circles in St. Louis and United States consul at Toronto dur- iug President Harrison's second adminis- tration, and a member of the Players' Club, died at New York. At Canada Lake, N. Y., Lafayette Van- derpool, former supervisor of the town of Caroga, and his adopted daughter, Miss Morey, were dro.wned. Vanderpool en­ deavored to save his daughter, who was in bathiiig and had gone out beyond her depth. A monument in St. Mary's Cemetery, Pawtucket. R. I., to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ryrne, who were impli­ cated in the tragedy in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, May 5, 1882, was un­ veiled. O'Donovan Rosa delivered the oration. Edward H. Fallows and Henr/ Puster have been appointed .revivers for the Metropolitan Building Company, a New Jersey corporation, having principal place of business in Jersey City. Daniel N. Morgan, ex-treasurer of the United States, is president of the company. Frank E. Lundy, 19 years old, a clerk ita the postoffica at Sheepshead bay, is un*- der arrest charged with robbing the mails. Lundy received a salary of $500 a year, but maintained a yacht, was a member of several expensive sporting associa­ tions and bet heavily on the races. Lundy is said to have confessed. A glove trust with a capital of $15,000,- 000 is in process of formation in New York. Its promoters are meeting with considerable success. The originator is Oviagtoa Ross of Evanston, 111., a mem­ ber ©/ the Hall & Ross Husking Glove Company, -Chicago. Mr. Ross has been for several weeks in conference with the Western manufacturers, and some days ago he went to New York, the glove-mak- ing center of America. He made the rounds of the concerns there and met with much encouragement. STARVING. badly injured, apparently, but loeil^fcfw' sicians say Mrs. Perry's neck it kww and that she will ftcover. [ Hp* dwelliaf of the Rev. N. C. Sims •* ) • '- "j • XV. " •--^.X:' ̂ 2, "-"V " Highland Place, a suburb of Terre Hants, r*gntlKtlf r _ ";"^"pffP IXfOT Ind., was wrecked with dynamite. Mr, Sims, who, with his wire escaped injury, hurried out of the door, revolver in hand, and saw two men running away. He fired at therh, bnt did not stop them. Th« foundation of the house was shattered and every window was broken. ^iS SOUTHERN. •s - <f *• WESTERN. NEWS NUGGETS. The Tasmania legislative. council and house of assembly has voted for Austra­ lian federation. An advance of 20 per cent has- been made in the wages of 300 miners at the Whiteside mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. Two large brick buildings occupied by the American Curled Hair Company of Chicago were destroyed by fire at Kan- ; aas. City. The loss is estimated at $75,- 000. For the quarter ending March 31 last there were 7.846.108 money orders issued, amounting to $52,383.1)38. This is an in­ crease over the corresponding quarter last year of $3,890,306. Ambassador Choate and Lord Salis- ; bury are almost deadlocked over the mo­ dus vivendi fixing the Alaskan boundary, k Neither side will accept the provisional line proposed by the other. Willard E. Baker, formerly emploved by the Adams Express Company in Bos- - ton, and wanted there for embezzlement, • made his escape from the officers sent to San Francisco to take him back East. The vali of Van, Turkish Armenia, re­ ports an incursion of an armed band of * revolutionary Armenians from Persia. In the conflicts with Turkish troops it is reported several persons have been killed. The wholesale liquor dealers of Cincin­ nati met G. W. Wilson, commissioner of internal revenue, and protested against his recent ruling extending the privilege to the distillers of reducing proof whisky to 90 per cent. Fire and an explosion in the house of Captain Dickins of the United States navy at Washington resulted in the shocking death of Mrs. Dickins, who was - fearfully burned and died before medical assistance could reach her. Admiral Cervera and the other com­ manders of the Spanish fleet destroyed in the battle of Santiago, whose conduct has been the subject of inquiry by special court martial have been acquitted and formally liberated at Madrid. Otto von Ohlen, aged *24 years, whose father is said to be a wealthy manufac­ turer of Columbus, Ohio, was drowned in the Delaware river at Philadelphia. Chairman Mortimer C. Itankin of the Populist national committee says his par­ ty will form no fusion with the Demo­ crats in 1900, but will write its own plat­ form and name its own ticket. ; The New York Central and the Penn­ sylvania railroads have entered into a compact unprecedented in railway his­ tory. Under its provisions the t%vo great properties become for practical purposes IK-- •<: •**-• - - EASTERN. Actor William Barton 'Arnold, aged 67, Is dead at New York. Captain Benton Pratt, aged 65, died suddenly at Washington. Brig. Gen. Horatio G. Wright is dead «t Washington. He was 79 years old. .Poison from the bite of a "kissing bug" is/imported to have caused the death of a #»year-old boy at Philadelphia. Henry Bash, a merchant of New York, •ged 59 years, fell dead suddenly in his room at the Burnet House, Cincinnati. The large plant of the Beacon Light WW* The corner stone of the new State cap- itol at Helena, Mont., was laid the other day, with imposing ceremonies. Edwin Jacoby, president and incorpo­ rator of the Toledo and Bowling Green Railroad, died at Toledo, aged 65 years. A Denver and Rio Grande passenger train was wrecked eight miles west of Leadville, CoL Nine persons were in jured. Mrs. Elsie Scheib of San Francisco ate of some candy received by mail and has since been seriously ill with symptoms of arsenical poisoning. Mrs. May Wright Sewall of Indianapo­ lis was elected president of the Interna­ tional Council of Women, which has clos­ ed its session at London. James McAfee was hanged at Carth­ age, Mo., for the murder of Eben Brewer, a merchant of Joplin, whom he attempted to rob nearly two years ago. William Ludwick killed his sweetheart, Miss Bertha Whitesides, and himself at Des Moines, Iowa. Tl^young lady had rejected Ludwisk's offer of marriage. Fire destroyed the building occupied bj the Western Paper Stock Company in Chicago. Seven women were injured in leaping from the windows and many more jumped in safety. August Becker of Chicago was found guilty of the murder of his wife, Rachel Becker, and the jury, which named the death penalty, dealt justice in record- breaking time--one hour and ten minutes. William J. Elliott, the former Colum­ bus, Ohio, editor, serving a life sentence for the murder of Albert C. Osborne, was pardoned by the Governor on condition that he leave the State and never return. Although the golden jubilee Sangerfest of the North- American Sangerbund was a great success at Cincinnati from a mu­ sical standpoint, the local committee finds a deficit of $55,000 with the great hall still unfinished. A north-bound passenger train on the Burlington road went through a culvert near Waldron, Mo. Fireman Charles Welty of St. Joseph, Mo., was killed and several passengers are reported to have been seriously injured. The Michigan Supreme Court has de­ clared unconstitutional and void the act passed last winter providing for the mu­ nicipal street ownership of railways in Detroit, and creating a commission to ac­ quire and operate the system. A passenger train was wrecked near Elko, Nev., seriously injuring several per­ sons, among whom were Mrs. C. Clawson of Grass Valley, Cal.; Mrs. M. S. An­ drews of El Dorado County, California, both old women, and James Barnett of Milwaukee. In the great pastures along the South Canadian River in Cleveland and Potta­ watomie counties, Oklahoma, and across the line in the Chickasaw nation, flies are swarming on the cattle' as never before known. Dead cattle are found daily in every herd. Two young men, Leonard and Piless, from Steubenville, and the owners of four shanty boats, engaged in a shooting affray at Mahon Flats, Ohio, fifty shots being exchanged. Leonard was shot twice and a shanty boat man named Mills was shot in the breast. A destructive cyclone passed two miles from Ainsworth, Neb., killing Mrs. Wil­ liam Lockmiller, wife of a well-known farmer, and doing great damage to prop­ erty. Houses, barns, fences and bridges were demolished and many families were made homeless. Fire in the large plant of the Illinois Can Company in Chicago caused damage the amount of $150,(XX) and imperiled the lives of over 600 employes. The lat­ ter escaped by means of the tire escapes and stairways. Some had hairbreadth ex­ periences and two were injured. Robert Hill, who was soon to sail for Paris to arrange for an exhibition of fine glassware at the exposition, fell from a wagon near Tiffin, Ohio, and was crushed to death by the wheels. He was the head of the glassworkers' union and superin­ tendent of Ball Brothers' big factory at Munci^ Ind. Mrs. Mary Perry of Toledo, Ohio, is at her home with a fractured neck, but in a fair way to recover, after passing through a remarkable accident. With her hus­ band and son she was driving across the Lake Shore tracks, when a fast train cut the wagon in two just back of the seat. Xoae of the occupants of the wagon was John P. Richardson, aged 69, predeces­ sor of Senator Tillman as Governor of South Carblina, died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Columbia. The eighth annual convention of the Southern Grocers' Association, the largest in the history of the organisation, was held at Asheville, N^.CLy with about 300 members in ^ttendapce. } Fire at t'aris, lena, caused at least $50,000 loss, it originated in a livery sta­ ble, destroying buildings on the public square and frt adjoining Streets. An ex­ plosion of firt^wbrtfe is the supposed cause. Gov. Atkinson of,7Wefet Virginia ap­ pointed delegates to the auti-trust conven­ tion to be held in Chicago in September under the auspiees, of the- Civic Federa­ tion. The Governor also signified his in­ tention of attending. ... Thirteen persons are dead and hundreds of others were placed Jn, peril from the flood at Brookshire, Teias,, where the Brazos riv6r wki said to tie ten miles wide. . : Elias Hatfiefd, Jr., son df '"Devil Anse" Hatfield, shot and kitted H. E. Ellis on a Norfolk and Western passenger train near Williamson, W. Va.' r There had been bad feeling between them* for a long time, Ellis being ta McCoy sympathizer in the Hatfield-^fyCoy feud. ""FOREIGN. Dowager Queen Kapiolani died at Hon­ olulu. She was 65 years old. Followers of Jiminez have started an­ other revolt in San Domingo. Political guessers at Berlin believe Prince Herbert Bismarck will succeed Prince Hohenlohe as chancellor. Sir Alexander Armstrong, K. C. B., formerly director general of the medical department of the British navy, is dead. German delegates to the peace congress have announced the Kaiser's assent to Pauncefote's proposal for a permanent ar­ bitration court. Former King Milan, father of King Alexander of Servia, narrowly escaped assassination at Belgrade. The would-be murderer is under arrest. The London Daily News says that the Pacific cable conference has arrived at a satisfactory basis. Unless a hitch occurs the cable will be an imperial affair in the fullest sense of the word. M. Bertillon has been discharged from his place as head of the French anthropo- metrical department because his testi­ mony as a handwriting expert in jthe Dreyfus case has proved to be erroneous. Late oriental advices state that twenty ringleaders of the rioters who destroyed and burned the electric tramway cars of Seoul recently were executed in public at Corea's capital. Their heads were cut off and exhibited in public places^as a warning to all evil-doers. The Pall Mall Gazette, London, says the secretary of state for war, the Mar­ quis of Lansdowne, in conjunction with the military chiefs, has completed ar­ rangements to dispatch 40,000 to 50,000 troops of all arms to South Africa in the event of matters taking a turn for the worse. It is added that all the necessary arrangements have been made there for the distribution of the tro,ops on their ar­ rival. tfrr TEXAS FLOODS. People of the Brssoe Valley Face Death Famlna and Flood--Fully Three hundred Negroes are Kaoprii to Have Perished. ' v ' IN GENERAL. The President has approved the sen­ tence of the court-martial in the case of Captain John M. Neall, Fourth cavalry, convicted of financial irregularities at the Presidio, and the officer has been ordered to be dismissed from the military service. .Bush fires have been very disastrous in the Quebec province. At Grande Mere, where immense pulp works are owned principally by Gen. Russell A. Algerj the chip conveyor was destroyed. The town of Garthby has been entirely destroyed and 400 persons were rendered homeless. The loss there is $80,000. News has been received at Seattle that the members of the Folger party, suppos­ ed to have perished in the wilds of inte­ rior of Alaska, are still alive. Almost crazed by hunger and hardships they dragged themselves into Arctic City, where they were tenderly cared for by the Winthrop miningpeople. Jacob Amos, vice-president and general manager of the United States Flour Mill­ ing Company, confirms the statement that his company has purchased the mills of the Consolidated Milling Company in Minneapolis. His company now has twenty-four mills under its control, with a daily capacity of 50,000 barrels. The formal contract has been signed whereby J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York, S. Bleichroder of the Deutsche Bank, the Dresdner Bank, in Germany, and J. S. Morgan & Co. in London under­ take the conversion of the entire foreign debt of the Republic of Mexico, most of which bears 6 per cent interest, by the issue of new bonds at 5 per cent interest. The total number of lives known to have been lost in the Brazos and Colo­ rado river floods, that are spread over a great area of central and southern Texas, is fully 300. There; are unauthenticated reports of many more cases of drowning. Nearly all of the victims were negroes, who refused to heed the warning of the Impending overflow and seek higher ground. In Burlesen County a party of twenty- two water-bound negro men, women and children were rescued from tree tops, where they had been stationed for two days. They were in a famished condition. The water is subsiding along the upper ;source of the Brazos, but is still rising near the gulf. It is now many feet above the highest water mark ever known. In Waller County there is great destitution among the sufferers and appeals have been sent to the mayors of all the larger cities of the State for aid in the way of clothing and food. Through railroad traf­ fic On all the principal roads of the State Is still suspended. Gov. Sayers received a telegram signed by a committee of citi­ zens of Fulshear, Fort Bend County, say­ ing that thousands of people in that coun­ ty are starving and appealing for immedi­ ate aid. Twenty-two counties are submerged to a greater or less extent, and thousands of acres of cotton lands are under water. The loss of cotton yield is estimated at from 15,000 to 30,000 bales in each coun­ ty, entailing a monetary loss of fully $8,- 000,000. It is estimated that the damage to other property, including loss of live stock, will approximate $7,000,000, mak­ ing a total'due to the floods of $15,000,- 000. Terrible stories of destitution and dis­ tress, of hunger and death, to come in from the flood-swept belt. In the Brazos river bottom near Brookshire, a station on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, thirty-eight miles from Houston, comes an appalling account. The meager dis­ patches received from there state that in the Brazos bottom men, women and chil­ dren are lodged in trees and are dying from hunger and Exhaustion. Hundreds of people, mostly negroes, are the victims. Around Brookshire people are huddled like sheep on little knolls and in other places df temporary safety. A report received at Fort Worth by tel­ ephone from south Texas flood points gives additional appalling accounts of the disaster fraught by the unprecedented flooding of the Brazos river. Fully 200 lives have been lost near Sealey, at a point called The Mopnd. The spot is a small upland entirely surrounded by the raging waters, extending three or four miles in all directions. On this spot were congregated 800 negroes. The waters Beemed to be closing in on them, with no avenue of. escape. On another small patch of ground, out in the river, near Brookshire, was'another bunch of 400 negroes, who were in danger of being swept away. The situation, the dispatches say, is frightful and people are panic- stricken and unable to lend the unfortu­ nate ones succor of any kind. From indi­ cations the loss of life will reach 500, un­ less imprisoned negroes are given assist- ance. Reports received from Calvert and Brookshire, 100 miles down the river from Calvert, portray a fearful state of desolation and suffering, particularly among the plantation negroes hemmed in by the raging torrents. The river is seven feet higher than ever before, and the lash­ ing, leaping waters cover an expanse of more than five miles. Plantations along the river, near Hearne, are all under wat­ er and crops practically ririned. It has rained continuously for eight days throughout the flooded districts, the great­ est rainfall since 1842, when a similar dis­ aster befell the people along the Brazos river and hundreds were drowned. The War Department has granted the request of the Governor of Texas for aid for flood sufferers. Such Government boats as are available will be placed at the disposition of the Governor, and . the rations asked will be issued at once. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 61c to 63c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, , 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice new, 45c to ' 60c per bushel. I Gen. Wheeler of Alabama entered West Point from New York. Emerson's Essays are Queen Victoria's favorite reading nowadays. Lord Salisbury never walks, even the shortest distance, when he can avoid it. John M. Ward, once famous as a base­ ball player, is winning laurels on the golf links. For seventyr years RosWell Beardsley has been postmaster at North Lansing, N. Y. Jonas Brooks of McPherson, Kan., walked thirty-seven miles to Salina to at- ! tend a circus. Ambassador Choate's son acts as his private secretary. He has been out of college two years. G. L. Watson, designer of the famous English yachts, has never owned even a rowboat of his own. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; I .Mrs- Li Hung Chang has a more exten sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; sive wardrobe than wheat, No. 2 red, 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; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 74c to 76c; corn, No .2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 28c; rye. No. 2, 57c to 59c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, I $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 66c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 78c to 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31 e; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 59c to 61c; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.00. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 29c; rye, No. 1, 60c to 62c; barley, No. 2, 42c to 44c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.25. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25j wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 82c; butter, creamery, 16c to 19c; eggs, West­ erly Ho T,Qf- TO RAISE TEN iretitmgllTS. Ballstweaf^f Volunteer* for Service isttM IplivplaM Is Ordered. . The order for the enlistment of ten nev regiments of infantry was issued Thurs­ day by the Secretary of War. It is the Intention of the President to raise ten regiments of volunteers besides filling up all the vacancies existing in the regular army now at Manila. Two. of the volunteer regiments have al- ready been organized at Manila, and of the renaming eight ope will rendezvous and be drilled at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., two at Camp Meade, Pa., one at Co­ lumbus Barracks, one at Fort Thomas, Ky., one at Fort Sheridan, 111., one at Leavenworth, Ivan., one at San Antonio, Texas, and one at Vancouver Barracks. Regular army officers who commanded volunteer regiments in the war with Spain will be assigned to command the nine vol­ unteer regiments, and these officers will be directed to proceed immediately with their captains to the post at which their respective regiments will be recruited and drilled and take measures to enlist m£h in all parts of the country without reference to the regular recruiting stations. By this means the War Department expects that by August all the men necessary to form the regiments will have been obtained and that by the following month they will be in shape to sail for their destination. The total number of volunteers who will be enlisted will be 13,781--11,781 for the nine regiments to be organized in this country and 2,000 in Manila. Each regi­ ment will leave fifty officers, so that the regimental strength will be 1,350 men. Some slight changes have been made in the recruiting instructions, which are in­ tended to be broad enough to cover the enlistment of both regulars and volun­ teers. 1 GREED OF CANADA. " Agaltt' Upsets Negotiations for Settle" ment of Bonndary Dispute. Late developments in the efforts of this Government to effect a temporary settle­ ment of the Alaska boundary dispute have demonstrated the futility of hoping to accomplish anything by the means usually employed when diplomatic ques­ tions are concerned. * The latest evidence of the greed of the Canadians is contained in their claim to the Porcupine district, and their demand that it shall be recognized in the modus vivendi as Canadian territory. This pre­ posterous claim affects the rights of over 2,000 American miners. It has shown the President and Secretary Hay that conciliation and concession are lost upon the Canadians; that the time has come for the American Government to stand against further greed. The instructions to. Ambassador Choate have been very positive regarding the stand he is to maintain. He has been directed to notify Great Britain that the United States cannot entertain the most recent proposition for a temporary Alas­ kan boundary. He has been told to say that, if the proposition Is insisted upon, this Government cannot continue negotia­ tions. The position of the United States is almost an ultimatum. ANXIOUS TO QUIT. AgiiiofAll Realizes that His Fight Against America Is Hopeles*. A San Francisco dispatch says that in the face of all the Filipino-American "news" that is being received from Ma­ nila concerning the invincible rebel chief, Aguinaldo, there comes the information from an altogether unprejudiced source that the leader of the insurgents in the Philippines has tired of the fight, and that his army consists of a lot of bloodthirsty bandits who are in holy fear of Ameri­ can bullets. A copy of the Japanese Times was se­ cured from the steamer Nippon Manx, and in it is an account of the arrival at Yokohama of two Spanish priests who lately escaped from the insurgent camps. One of the fathers, who is described as a man of splendid education, a student of many languages and an authority on isl­ and affairs, stated that the power of Aguinaldo will be broken immediately on the arrival of American troops to garri­ son towns taat are taken. GOOD CORN CROP REPORTED. dresses number 3,000. Mrs. George Gould's children have head nurse, two assistants, two gov­ ernesses, two grooms and two footboys to t minister to their wants. j Augustus J. C. Hare has a room fur­ nished entirely with articles formerly the • property of Pope Pius IX. Three times Sarah Bernhardt has been on the verge of bankruptcy, but friends have come to her rescue. I €>ir Edwin Arnold says that he can do I his best work when there is plenty of noise In the room where he is writing. j WThen Dr. S. Weir Mitchell began to write poems his friends said it would in- , jure his reputatiou as a physician. I Lord Rothschild confines his reading to the London Times. He has read only one novel, Beaconsfield's "Young Duke." j Paderewski is a farmer and knows good deal about horticulture, but his spe­ cialty is stock, his favorites being bogs. I Secretary Holls of the American com mission to the peace conference can write equally well with either of his hands. | Canon Farrar knows the gospels by heart and can recite them from the first verse of Matthew to the last of John. Enemies of C. D. Walker, a Kansas candidate for Congress, claim that he wears a plum-colored silk dressing gown. Henry C. Frick, Hbad of the new Carne­ gie syndicate, ma/e his fortune by an early appreciation-^of the possibilities of the coke industry. Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri Send Encouraging Kewa, The Corn Belt in its monthly crop re­ port says that the corn outlook is good. "Nebraska--Sixty-seven reports out of the 323 received say the stand of corn is excellent; 214 Say it is good, 18 that it is fair, 4 that it is poor., This indicates an excellent stand. "Iowa--The present condition of the crop as it stands is by 14 reports called excellent, 50 say it is good, 14 that it is fair, 2 that it is poor. Missouri--Reports from 29 counties in the northern one-fourth of the State. Four reports say the stand is excellent, 40 that it is good, 18 that it is fair, 2 that it is poor." FAMOUS CASE IS DECIDED. Wisconsin Supreme Court Delivers an Important Decis on. An opinion that will stand as an impor­ tant legal precedent in the legislat¥6n of Wisconsin was made by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in deciding th& famous Plankintou Bank case in favor of the creditors. The terms of th^ alternative writ of mandamus are made peremptory, and, while there are no hard words, in the Su­ preme Court's opinion every prayer by the creditors is grahted and Judge John­ son's famous order of May 9 confirming the report of William Plankinton up to July 1, 1898, is declared to be void at law and of absolutely no effect. WILL FIGHT THE STEEL TRUST. Large and Strong Company Is Formed at ^ t. Louis. AT company has been formed at St. Louis to build the largest steel plant in the West, which, it is understood, will be prepared to tight the trust. The capital­ ization will be $500,000, to be increased in the near future. BIG BEUGI0US MEET. rp. #• IMMENSE THRONG ATTENDS DEAVOR CONVENTION. Christian Workers from All States and Canada Are Present--Detroit Bids All Hearty Welcome--Old Officers Re­ elected --Year's Progress Reviewed. Fifteen thousand Christian Endeavor* ers attending the eighteenth annoal in­ ternational convention at Detroit march­ ed into Tent Endeavor on the opening night singing hymns and waving the flags symbolical of their order. Officials of the society announced from the speakers' stand that this meeting established a new record for a Christian Endeavor conven­ tion, both in numbers and enthusiasm. Fringed about the thousands who were seated within the canvas auditorium were other thousands who tiptoed and pressed over and against their neighbors in their anxiety to see and to hear. From the moment the great audience rose and sang the first inspiring song to the last dying strain? of the orchestra that played dur­ ing the reception following the set pro­ gram, through the thousands of people ran an indescribable exulting flood of re­ ligious sentiment. At sundown long wavering lines of young folks from various directions cross­ ed the green fields about the white-tented city, all converging toward Tent En­ deavor, beneath whose broad, spreading canvas the welcoming rally was held. The crowds poured in through the four en­ trances on each side and down the six broad sawdust covered aisles, until the great tent's capacity of 10,000 was filled, after which a crowd of outsiders obtain­ ed sight and hearing through a dropping of the tent walls at each side. The Christian Endeavor red and white was suspended in hundreds of broad streamers from the lofty roofs of the eaves. Flags of all nations, draped with the Stars and Stripes, hung bverhead at intervals. The coat of arms of the States were attached to the tent poles. The Christian Endeavor monogram shone from large red and white electric globes over the resonator, suspended above the speaker's platform. Higher up the union jack and the Stars and Stripes intermin­ gled. Great Choir Furnishes Music. A thousand white-eapped young men and maids composed the choir on the big stage, the front of which was occupied by the officers and clergy. Promptly at 7:30 o'clock arose the swelling strains of "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," followed by "There Shall Be Showers of Blessing," "Onward, Christian Soldiers," etc., in all of which the great crowd enthusiastically joined. Devotional exercises were led by Rev. J. G. Butler of Washington. The welcome of the local committee was extended by William H. Strong, its chairman. Mr. Strong dwelt upon the beauties of Detroit and greeted the dele­ gates not only on behalf of the local Christian Endeavor societies, but also On behalf of the young people's religious so­ cieties, allied to special denominations, which had collaborated in all efforts of the general committee. Rev. Charles B. Newman eloquently welcomed the con­ vention in behalf of Detroit pastors. May­ or Mayberry also welcomed the En­ deavors. Greeting from Foreign Lands. Next on the program came responses In behalf of Endeavorers from foreign lands. As Rev. William Patterson of To­ ronto came forward to speak for Canada some one struck up "God Save the Queen," The Canadians on the platform took up the strain and in a moment the huge tent was reverberating with the swelling chorus of the British anthem. The friendly relations between Canada and the United States, particularly with reference to religious matters, formed the burden of Dr. Patterson's address. Rev. Dr. H. J. Tressider, secretary of the London council of Christian Endea­ vor, answered the greetings in behalf of Great Britain. "Perish the mad dream," said he, 'NkaS a conflict should ever come between our two countries. It is the work tend the duty of the Christian En­ deavorers to make impossible such an idea." * For Australia response was made by Rev. Joseph Walker of Queensland; for China, by Rev. Elwood G. Tewksbury, a missionary in the vicinity of Pekin; for Turkey, by Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, for many years a missionary in that coun­ try; for Japan, by Rev. Otis Carey; for Mexico, by Rev. C. Scott Williams, and for the United States by Rev. Arthur J. Smith of Georgia. Trustees Review the Tear. At the meeting of the trustees the busi­ ness before the United Society was quick­ ly transacted. Treasurer Shaw's report showed expenditures during the fiscal year of $9,678, and $352 now in the treas­ ury. The report of George B. Graff of Boston, agent of the publishing depart­ ment, under whose direction the Chris­ tian Endeavor World is published, show­ ed cash on hand at the beginsing of the fiscal year, June 1. 1898, $1,110; receipts during the year, $67,956; expenditures, $06,628; cash on hand, $2,439. The Western office of the publishing depart­ ment, located at Chicago, reported expen­ ditures of $12,563, and $664 now in its treasury. The old officers of the United Society were unanimously re-elected upon recom­ mendation of the nominating committee, as follows: President, Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark; secretary, John Willis Baer; treasurer, William Shaw, all of Boston. Representatives on the board of trus­ tees of the United Society were elected from each State, territory and the prov­ inces of Canada. ' The Moon May Come Back. Professor Darwin of Cambridge pro­ phesies that the moon will ultimately return to the earth, whence it was cast off in the remote past. Sparks from the Wlrea. Postofflce, Congers City, N. Y., robbed of $300. England orders a battalion of fusileers to the cape. Fifteen miners reported drowned, Gals- ton, Eng. Germany will pay $4,187,750 for the Caroliues. Silver workers, Niagara, returned to work. Robert Love, Trimble, Ohio, killed by Hank Kelley. Troops in Cuba and Porto Rico may be sent to Manila. "Malt tonic" saloons in Indian Terri­ tory have been closed. Hiram Rogers, business man, Winches­ ter, Ivy., killed by a train. Nelson \Valters, Altoona, Pa., fell into a vat of boiliijg liquid. Dead. Domiuick Tauro, Niles, Ohio, died irons a stab received in an Italian fight. Schooner Benson sprung a leak, San­ dusky, Ohio, and went down. Minister Bryan at Rio Janeiro cables that Brazil wants to buy thirty milen of street car rails. Says the Negro Is the MIssinK Link. Rev. Gottlieb C. p. Hosskarl, D. D., pastor of the Second Lutheran church of Chnmbersburg, Pa., has undertaken to prove by scriptural history that the negro is not descended from Adam and Eve, and is not of the progeny of Ham, but is Darwin's missing link. He af­ firms that the negro's main superiori­ ty over the gorilla, orang-outang and baboon is that he utters sounds that could be Imitated and understood by Adam. ^ Criminals in the Prencf^ Army. An examination of 4,000 criminals in the French army has been concluded by Dr. J. Marty, the criminologist. The result is curious. It proves that the criminal soldier is a far better spec­ imen of the human form than Is the ordinary military man, whom he sur­ passes in height, weight, che6t meas­ urement, muscOlar power and general condition. Dr. Marty suggests that it Is only the very strong who can sur­ vive the wretched condition of French criminal families. All fMparations have been made St tile- War Department to enlist the full pro­ visional army of 35,000 men, which will make in all 100,000 men under arms. It is the intention of the officials to call for ten more regiments • after the twelve or­ ganizations now being recruited are filled. When enough men have been enlisted to give those organizations their full quotas it will be given out by the department that five more regiments will be enlisted, making twenty-seven in all, which is the number authorized by Congress. In fact, there will be no cessation of enlistments, but from this time on all able-bodied men who present themselves will be accepted until the army reaches its maximum strength of 100,000. Recruit^ for the new volunteer regiments must be from 18 to 35 years Of age, at least five feiet four inches high, and weigh from 120 to 190 pounds. Recruiting officers have author­ ity to overlook a variation of ten pounds in weight and a fraction of an inch in height and chest measurement. Owing to the character of the service expected the physical qualifications of the men will be closely scrutinized. Married men will not be permitted to enlist in the new force except in certain exceptional cases, by special permission from headquarters, when it is shown to be for the direct ben­ efit of the service. -1 ^ Grave apprehension exists among army surgeons as a result of reports received during the last twenty-four hours from Santiago. The yellow fever epidemic which threatens that province was anti­ cipated some time ago, although the dread of the doctors has been carefully conceal­ ed and no« mention of it has been allowed to get into the reports given out at the War Department. Some time ago the de­ partment was advised that the conditions at Havana and at Santiago were not such, even now, as to assure the troops and people there immunity from conta­ gious diseases. It was said the system of sanitation adopted was inadequate, and, coming as it did after the long period of utter disregard of all the rules of public health, it was not to be expected the yellow fever could be kept out. There have been a number of deaths, most of them so sudden that the day which brings the first news of disability often brings later the notice of death. Thsee officers have died of the disease in as many days. The surgeons report that they are making heroic efforts to stay the spread of the contagion, which has gained a strong foothold. Rear Admiral Sampson has received a body blow from an unexpected quarter, and is to be deprived of his admiral's pay from Aug. 10, when he was appointed by the President in advance of Schley, to the adjournment of Congress. Acting Con­ troller of the Treasury Mitchell has held that as the Senate did not confirm the President's appointment he can draw no pay as such, but only since his regular appointment under the navai personnel bill, by which he becomes junior to Schley. The Controller decides an ad­ vancement in rank is not complete until confirmed by the Senate, and hence no pay can accrue until the promotion is legally completed. This decision will tend to stop the Sampson-Schley controversy, for if Sampson is barred out of his extra pay there would be no advantage in re­ opening the matter, as he is now a rear admiral in good standing, and draws pay as such, although still junior to Schley. The revival of the story that the War Department has let army clothing con­ tracts to sweat shops in the large cities, notably at Philadelphia, is pronounced by army quartermasters absolutely un­ true. No large contracts for made uni­ forms have been awarded lately, and all those which are let have a provision that the work is to be done in factories. In­ spectors are employed to observe closely the methods of the contractors, and a re­ port that a manufacturer is having his "finishing" done outside his plant leads to a rejection ,of the material. Under the system adopted by the War Department, the volunteer regiments will be national in character, and yet each command will be made up of men from the same locality, so the regiments will have the necessary local pride in their identity. There will be stragglers in all the regiments, but as a rule the men will be near neighbors and there will be good- natured rivalry in seeing which section of the country is first in filling up its regi­ ment. The first regiment to be fully or­ ganized and drilled will stand the best chance of an early call for active duty.. Col. David B. Henderson, the prospec­ tive Speaker, called upon the President the other morning by appointment, and remained at the White House for more than an hour. Wrhen he left he declined to talk about his conference with the President. Col. Henderson still adheres to his belief that there will not be an early session of Congress. 1-J&L. 'J€£'k ' yp-M&k 1: i : -is Told in a Few Lines* Mr. Fife and daughter killed by a train at Cliuton, Mass. Judge refused to quash indictments against Wardner rioters. Jasper Temple, Tompkinsville, Ky., killed by a man named Atkins. Eight persons were injured in a wreck on the P. & W., near Renfrew, Pa. Steamer Rio de Janeiro brought $453,- 000 of opium to 'Frisco from Hong Kong. Solomon Bornstein, Itahway, N. J., had a "moonshine still" in a fine residence. Captured by the officers. Arthur Hauser, now in Mexico, is wanted in Toledo. He is said to have sis wives. The posse which has been trailing the train robbers in Montana has given up. the chase. While drilling a gas well at Chatham, Ohio, an arrow point was found at the depth of 1,562 feet. Vanderbilts have secured control of the Boston and Albany Railroad, which gives them an opening into New Englaud. Frank Cook, colored, swung to eternity in Birmingham, Ala. Killed a conductor. British gunboat Buzzard near St. Johns, N. F., damaged by running into aa iceberg. Thos. P. Cane, Washington, was ap­ pointed deputy comptroller of the cur­ rency. The 1,400 girls of the Richmond,. Va„ cigar factory who went on a strike have returned to work. Five hundred employes of the Maryland Steel Company, Baltimore, are striking for nine hours a day. Charles Stalnaker, Wrest Union, W» Va., attempted suicide because Mrs. Min­ nie Eagan, a married woman, had refused him a kiss.