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' ' ' -•evfr- • .K** • •? 4,„ jn."* " r, t •*•> -> " "• >v -• l' mm McHenry Plaindealer. THE PLAINDEALER CO., Pufeft. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. If- '̂ 7*' PX i -< * SUMMARY OF NEWS. , At 8 o'clock the other morning Hie great smelting plant of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Com­ pany, three miles from El Paso, Texas, was discovered to be -on fire. The stamp­ ing works were totally destroyed. David C<x>P and George Black, boys 16 years of age, were arrested at Lawrence, Kan., on a charge of having set fire to a barn, and have made confessions that they bare started eight fires in various parts of the town within the past two years. Two negroes were killed outright and another fatally shot in a fight at IshkOda, Ala., between striking miners and the negroes imported from Georgia io take their places. The killing seems to be the result of a. plot. ydDeputies have restored order. ' A large proportion ,of the 7,000 m#n employed on the lines of the Brooklyn. N. Y., Rapid Transit Company have gone out on strike. Scenes of lawlessness and riot attended the opening of the strike, and several persons were injured by thrown missiles. ^ The combination of wholesale grocers of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, for the purpose o?l purchasing goods in large quantities, ttook definite form when the Western Brokerage Company was incor­ porated at Des Moines, with a capital stock of $100,000. . . _ The Board of Regents of the t^niver- sity of Nebraska has accepted the resigna­ tion of Chancellor McLean and appointed Dean Charles E. Bessy acting chancellor. A committee of regents was appointed to pursue a quiet inquiry for a fit successor to Chancellor McLean. While the returned Jamaica delegates to Washington maintain reserve regard­ ing the terms of the reciprocity treaty, during an interview one of them inadver­ tently intimated that coffee would experi­ ence a material reduction, if not obtain a preferential duty over Brazilian coffee. James Irwin, a half-witted individual, baa incurred the displeasure of a gang of toughs at Black Springs, Ark. He was stripped, rubbed with lye soap and shaved from head to foot, being badly lacerated in the fiendish operation. He was then brutally beaten and finally placed in a rain barrel and churned up and down un­ til txrasciousness 4eft Mm. Several arrests have been made. Prank Ray, with his sweetheart, Cath­ erine Wimsey, and Clifford and James Shannon, started on an excursion up the Ohio river from Cincinnati in a naphtha launch. The launch had a small flat-bot­ tom, known as a 5 "John boat," in tow. Roy playfuJJy jumped into this boat, and all the others, against his protest, follow­ ed. The boat filled and sank and all but Ray were drowned. Bradstreet's, reporting the latest devel­ opments in crop production, says: "New features in the general trade situation this week are of an almost entirely un­ favorable character. Late unfavorable reports from Russia point to a still more pronounced diminution of crop yields in that country this year. The olllcial French crop estimates have also been whittled down, and the outlook seems to favor the probability that Europe will bay nearly as much wheat in America aa It did in the last fiscal year." The standing of the clnbs in the Na­ tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...52 ,24Cincinnati ...30 37 Philadelphia. 46 27Pittsburg ....33 39 Boston 47 28New York..,33 42 Chifcago .....43 20Louisville ...30 44 Baltimore ...42 30Washington. 25 51 8t Louis 44 32Cleveland ...12 G2 Following la the standing of the clnbs fct the Western League: W. L. W Minneapolis. 42 30St. Paul. .<...35 Indianapolis. 38 30Kansas City..34 Columbus .. .36 34 Milwaukee .. .33 Detroit .... .36 35 Buffalo 30 BREVITIES. pwrttee h» Id* painters' supplies and wall * of David Carr, «M of the wealthiest uM paper store ia New York, and his wife | in East Tennessee* disappearedr;Several an\! son were burned to death. j days ago from her home at Otjt" Town, Eteekiel T. Cdoper, who was serving an eighteen months' sentence in the New Jersey State prison for abstraction of funds from the First National Bank of Dover, Dei,, died in the prison. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad was sold at Cincinnati to E. R. Bacon, George Hoadley, Jr., and J. Chauncey Hoffman, as a purchasing com­ mittee for the security holders, for $3,- 510,000. Albert Crosby, formerly of Chicago, questioned before a referee in bankruptcy at New York, declared that his only as­ sets consisted of old clothes and admitted that his wife now has all the property he once owned, It has been decided by a sob-committee of the 1,080 that the Dewey celebration In New York shall be of two days' dura­ tion, ana tiiat one of the features shall be • mammoth arch of triumph, on which $10,000 will be expended. The Metropolis Tunnel Railroad Com­ pany, with a temporary capitAl of $50,- WK\ was incorporated in Albany to bui.'d a $7,000,000 tunnel to connect Brooklyn and Jersey City under the two rivers and the Island of Mauhattdfi. Agents of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company in New York receiv­ ed a cablegram announcing that tile Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived at Cherbourg in the record-breaking time of five days twenty hours aud fifty-five minutes. " * Former Gov. Swineford of Alaska has been made recorder of the new Ketchikan mining district in southeastern Alaska. The Spinish cabinet has accepted the offer of the Queen Regent to assist the finances of the country by giving up an­ other 2,000,000 pesetas from the civil list. The new geyser which recently broke out before the Fountain Hotel in Yellow­ stone National Park has been named "Dewey," in honor of the hero of Manila Bay. Four bombs were exploded in different parts of Barcelona one morning recently. No serious damage was done; but the ex­ citement was intense. The author of the outrages is unknowu. Maj. John Calhoun Courtney, president of the Virginia Society of-Atlanta, sec­ retary of the Capital City Club and man­ ager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, died at his home in Atlanta, at the age of 65. WESTERN. Herbert H. Brooks of Medford, Mffss., Boston manager of the American Circular Loom Company of Chicago, died sudden­ ly, aged 44 years. At St. Paul, Minn , the new directory shows ail increase of 3,159 nanies over last year, and is believed to indicate a present population of 191,672. The highest price for wool in Montana for live years was paid at Fort Benson, a clip of 17,000 pounds, sheared by John Washesha. being sold at 19% cents. The Iron Molders' Union of North America at Indianapolis took steps to pro­ vide for assisting apprentices in foundries to attend technical schools where they may learn the iron molding trade. Advices from White Rock, Shoshone Indian reservation, say there are pros­ pects of disturbances on that reservation in connection with the Indian school, and that the fourth attempt to burn the school building has been made. One thousand men employed at the Omaha and Grant smelter at Omaha are idle as a result of the closing of a num­ ber of furnaces. The company says it is duetto--the coalfamine incident to the strike of Illinois and Iowa miners. Frank Tepley, a well-to-do Bohemian farmer ten miles from Stanton, Neb., killed his wife with a carpenter's ham­ mer and then committed suicide "by tak­ ing poison. He objected to his wife vis­ iting a disinherited daughter and son-in- law. L. M. Crawford, manager of the Craw­ ford Opera House, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court at Topeka, Kan. His unsecured liabilities amount to $388,730, and those secured to $50,450 more, making a total of $448,180. Word was received at Crystal Falls, Mich., from Stambaugh township that Otto Westerberg had shot a man named Carl Anderson while out in the woods hunting. The men were "headlighting" and Westerberg mistook the light on An­ derson's head for a deer's eye. Three tramps were killed and five oth­ ers were Seriously injured by the wreck­ ing of a freight train on the Chicago and Alton road near Glendale, Mo. The wreckage consisted of ten car loads of merchandise, hogs and cattle. The train left the track on a sharp curve. A collision between a freight train and a passenger train bearing delegates to the National Educational Association conven­ tion at Los Angeles occurred at Newman, Cal. Two passengers, Mrs. Thomas of Seneca Falls, N. Y.. and Mrs. Harris of St. Louis, were killed and five others slightly injured. John D. Molines, a well-known Omaha character, was found in a dying condition at Douglas and Fourteenth streets. His head was badly cut and he was otherwise injured. The cause of the man's injuries is not known, but five hackmen are under arrest, the police claiming that they know something of the affair. Municipal ownership of Detroit street railways has taken a fresh*start, in spite of the recent adverse decision of the Michigan Supreme Court annulling the appointment of the street railway com­ missioners. The Common Council by a vote of 19 to 14 has passed the so-called security franchise ordinance. The Alaska flyer Humboldt reached Seattle with 150 Klondikers and about $500,000 in dust. The richest man on board was C. A. Voskeller of Chicago. He shipped $183,000 by the river before leaving Dawson, and brings the balance of a $200,000 output with him. He has been iu the Klondike for three years, and got all of his gold from one Bonanza Creek claim. John Blake, a wealthy Pennsylvania farmer, has been spending the last ten years traveling over the country to find a long-lost sister. His wanderings appear not to have been in vain. Recently he stopped at the Hunt Hotel at Wakeman, Ind., and there became enamored of the woman proprietor, to whom he afterward proposed marriage and was accepted. In and no trace of her has since* /fated se­ cured. It l« rumored she was kidnaped by two men, bat her family do not believe it. They think she committed suicide. South-bound passenger train No. 1 on the Colorado and Southern Railway was robbed by four men at a point five miles south of Folsom, N. M. After the train had been brought to a standstill and the crew had been intimidated by guns, the robbers used dynamite with good effect, blowing open the sides of iihe express car. Supt. Webb and the Wells-Fargo express agent. Glover, both state positively that nothing* was secured by the robbers. WASHINGTON. The Presiident has appointed Col. Al­ fred E. Bates paymaster general of the army to succeed Gen. Asa B. Carey, re­ tired. It is announced from Washington that Secretary Russell A. Alger's resignation of the war portfolio is now in the hands of President McKinley. Secretary Long has received a letter from Osborn F. Deignan declining the appointment to the naval academy offered to him in accordance with an act of Con­ gress. ^ Col. John M. Ewing, deputy auditor of the treasury for the Navy Department, a Wisconsin man, has been notified that he will be\transferred from his present posi­ tion to that of deputy auditor of the Postoffiee Department. The United States Government has de­ clined the proposal of the Government of 'Austria-Hungary to arbitrate the claims for damages arising from the death of Austro-Hunganan subjects during the rioting at Hazleton, Pa., in September, 1897. Herbert H. D. Peirce, first secretary of the United States embassy to Russia, says: "The relations between the United States aud Russia were never on a more cordial basis than at present, and the friendship which is traditional between the two countries finds constant expres­ sion in Russia, not only .imong officials, but also among the people of all classes. There is a great opening in Russia for American capital and for the introduction of American machinery Ind methods of doing business." AFRAID OF THE BORES FOREIGN. British officials deny the story that Ca­ nadian mounted police are to be sent to the Porcupine region of Alaska. M. Deniel has been removed from the governorship of Devil's Island for perse­ cuting Dreyfus in order to extort a con­ fession. American soldiers in the Philippines are enduring the discomforts and dangers of the rainy season, which has now set in in earnest. 0 Cardinal Teodolfo Mertel, vice-chancel­ lor of the Holy Roman Church, who was raised to the cardinalate in 1878, died at Rome, in his ninety-third year. Jacob Backus, an old American resi­ dent and head of the Backus-Johnson Brewing Company and also of the mines and smelting establishment at Casapalca, died at Lima, Peru. Foreign Minister von Bulow of Ger­ many, who was knighted recently by Em­ peror William, has been given the Order of the Grand Cross of Charles V. by the Queen Regent of Spain. IN GENERAL. The situation of the American Line steamer Paris is most favorable. She1 is fully afloat, and clear of the rocks. News has reached Victoria, B. C., of a discovery of rich beach diggings at Wrock Bay, five miles from Ucluclpt, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. With the crudest appliances $9 a day is being washed out. It is announced that copper ore of al­ most incredible extent and richness has been found in the Parry sound district within about seven hours' railway dis­ tance of Toronto. The discovery was due practically to an American mining expert of the name of Forbes. James G. Batterson, Jr., vice-president of the New England Granite Works, con­ firms the report that a combination of various Eastern quarries is under way. There are about fifteen properties which will be included in the combine, which will represent $12,000,000 capital. Contrary to common belief, the trade between the United States and Brazil last year showed a falling off, both in ex­ ports and,imports. The figures quoted in a report to the State Department by United States Consul Hill at Santos show that while the exports to Brazil decreas­ ed $500,000 in the last year, the imports fell off no less than $12,000,000. The big whisky trust, with $125,000,- 000 capital, which has absorbed the old whisky trust and its principal rivals, tiled its articles of incorporation at Trenton, N. J. It is the third in point of size of the immense industrial corporations in ex­ istence, two greater being the Federal Steel Company and the lead trust. The companies absorbed by the Distilling Company of America, as the new corpora­ tion is called, are the American Spirits Manufacturing Company (the old whisky trust): the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company, the Spirits Distrib­ uting Company, and the Standard Distill­ ing and Distributing Company. WITH ALL. HER STRENGTH, EN< GLAND SHRINKS FROM WAR. m - •EtKS BAN ON OAttAU |SIO ENOtAVOR MCCtlNG EN DEL Frank Cody, Sam Towns and George Smith were arrestedg^n 'Evaosville, Ind., charged with counterfeiting. They admit­ ted making dimes, quarters and dollars the courji o£ time learned that she is " *«---•- 11 ' ^ kjS own long-lost sister. William McQuaid, president of the Eureka Coal and Mining Company at few l^- and said they threw their molds into Pigeon creek. A scheme to establish a negro colony at Oak Grove, near Flemington, N. J., is as­ suming form. Maps have been prepared on a large scale by competent engineers providing for every need of a thoroughly np^to-date town. Leseuer, Minn., was startled by the suicide of M. M. Segelbaum. He shot himself, dying instantly. Worry over business matters is supposed tt> be the cause, aud there is no doubt that the act Was premeditated for several days. At Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph Riley, a Woodworker, with a wife and six chil­ dren, was fatally stabbed in the abdorne* John Miller. "George W. Holladay was shot and probably fatally wounded by his wife, Annie, at their home at St. Louis. Mrs. Holladay declares that she acted in self- defense. Two lynchings took place in Texas in one day recently. Abe Brown, a negro, who murdered a Bohemian woman, was shot to death near Gilead, and an un­ known negro was hanged near Iola for Mue^ering Lemuel Sharp, a boy. Kbobnoster, Mo., who was arrested in Chicago on the charge of having obtained $1,000 from the Bank of Knobnoster by false representations, has instituted suit at Warrensburg against the bank. He demands $25,000 damages, on the ground that the bank refused to honor his checks when he had money more than sufficient to meet them, and thus caused the failure of the Eureka company. SOUTHERN. EASTERN. 'The large steam bakery Of Henry , Wauklin, located at Roxborough, Pa., Wiis entirely destroyed by fire, entailing ft loss of $75,000. f*./'^>ifrhtning' caused the destruction of half the business portion of Frewsburg, N. Y. Loss $20,000. The village has no apparatus for fighting fires. • * The kissing bug left fatal stings on the arm and leg of little 2-year-old Helen lieersch at Trenton, N. J. She died three days later in fearful agony. ^ Abraham Finkelstein was probably fa- . ^ explosion of tur- V'i* t\ W. S. Taylor was nominated for Gov* ernor by acclamation by the Republican State convention at Lexington, Ky. Gen. James A. Walker has been ac­ quitted at Bristol, Tenn., of the charge of shooting Attorney Hamilton with intent to kill. A 12-year-old daughter of David Cri's- well, a farmer at Leon, Ky., died, and all the members of the family were plac­ ed in a dangerous condition from poison put into the bread. Elias Hatfield, the noted desperado and son of "Devil Anse" Hatfield, leader of the Ilatfield-McCoy feud that cost 141 lives, surrendered to Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia in person at Gray. Lister Witherspoon, a leading trotting horse man and capitalist of Midway, Ky., fought with Matthew Martin, a brother to State Senator Henry M. Martin. Mar­ tin had a pistol and Witherspoon was un­ hurt, Martin's pistol not being fired. The depot at Yankee Dam, W. Va., was blown up with dynamite. A freight car some distance away was burned and oth­ ers were broken into. The outrages are supposed to be the work of revenge of an i organized gang operating in Clay County. Miss Ida Carr, aged 26 years, daughter Well) Bha May, for the Fonth Africans An Magnificent Fighters -- In the Event of War, the Foer* Will Be Led by an American. Should the difficulties between the Transvaal republic. South Africa, and Great Britain lead to war, tha conflict will be exceedingly bitter and sanguinary In the end, by exercising her supreme strength, Great Britain will conquer; but the effort will cost her beavily in life and money. English' officers are well aware of this and have no hesitancy in so ex­ pressing themselves. One of them, Lord Cecil Douglass Compton, now in this country, and who has seen service in South Africa and knows the Boers well, thus discusses the situation: "The Boers of the Transvaal," Be says, "are magnificent guerrilla soldiers. Their history has proved it, and they aro fully GBN. JOUBEBT. up to their standard t^day. They are ex­ pert marksmen, bo4£$?rough riders, such as your own cowboys, and their courage and tenacity is undeniable. Individually they are as good military stuff as the world possesses. They also are thorough­ ly convinced of the justice of their cause and would die to a man at the word of Oom Paul. But asidedfrom their, morale and their fitness, the Transvaal country is one ad­ mirably adapted for the purposes of de­ fense. It is inland, with large uninhab­ ited spaces. An army invading it must have a distant base, and its supplies must be brought up through a semi-tropical country under the most disadvantageous conditions. Cape Town is a thousand City of St. Ziittla Will Ask Issuo of an ' Injunction. Proceedings will be instituted soon in the Federal Court at Chicago to prevent the operation of tlie Chicago drainage canal. The city of St. Louis will be the plaintiff, represented by City Counselor Schnurmacher. This was decided at the meeting of the joint committee of the St. Louis City Council and house of dele­ gates which was appointed several weeks ago to investigate the drainage canal en­ terprise and recommend steps to protect the city's interest. Various plans were discussed for pre­ venting the pollution of the city's water supply, proceedings by injunction being regarded as the most feasible. Afterward the committee asked Mr. Schnurmacher for a written opinion as to the standing the city would have in tbe courts. The committee met to consider Mr. Schnur- macher's advice. This was t<J the effect that the city or any re«ident of St. Louis could enjoin the operation of the canal if it could be shown that any interest would be threatened by the pollution of the wat­ er. Resort should be5 had to the United States Court at Chicago, in Mr. Schnur- macher's opinion. The committee dis­ cussed the matter for an hour and a half, and then drafted a joint resolution di­ recting the city eoyiselor to institute such legal proceedings hs might be necessary. The action of the committee following di­ rectly on the visit to St. Louis of the State inspectors from Chicago is consid­ ered significant. RURAL DELIVERY 18 GROWING. Western Headquarters Fixed at In­ dianapolis. The Western headquarters of the rnral free delivery of mail has been established at Indianapolis, and the following special agents met with Frank M. Dice, general superintendent: Henry Casten, Madison, Wis.; Charles Lynn, Chicago; W. F. Conger and George Olsen, Wisconsin; Thomas Howard, St. Paul; W. V. Aqnin, Phoenix, Ariz.; XS. B. Rathbone, Wheel­ ing, W. Va.; IS. H. Hathaway, Indiana. The agents made reports concerning the growth of the movement. They said that while the undertaking was largely in its preliminary stages, it was growing rapid­ ly and was the "coming" department of the United States postofflee business. A new year began July 1, and there is now $300,000 available for the service this year. Indiana heads the list of States in the demand for the service and Iowa is second. TEACHERS DIE IN A WRECK. Excursion Train Crashes Into Freight , Near Newman, Cal. A special train of nine coaches, in charge of S. R. Drury of the Burlington road, on the way from St. Louis to Los Angeles, and loaded with teachers bound THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS. A SBPORR HIS COKVICTIOX. / WHEIF ML1ASID FBOM PRISON. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3,00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 59c; butter, dhoice creataery, 10c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice new, 55c to (»5c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.25: sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to--36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to £9c. St. Louis--Cattle; $3.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 00c to 62c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 64c to 6<>c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toleclo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c ttf 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 2, 57c to 59c; cJover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.05 Milwaukee--Wheat/ No. 2 spring, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 35c; oats, M" 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 1, 56c to 58( barley, No. 2, 40c to 42c; pork, mess $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth ers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.00. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25 wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, West era. 15c to 16c. miles from the Vaal river,'and if an at­ tack were to be made from Natal there ^o>uld be mountains to work through and much tropical growth. The question of transportation would be serioo8. We would need thousands of mules, which mnst be brought from Sooth America. The ocean distance and the ] adverse climate would kill the animals off by the hundreds, and the actual work would entail even greater losses. Will Need £0,000 Men. There is a question of strategy as well. The Boers would be difficult to hit in a mass. Indeed, they might not be mobil­ ized in a European sense at all. In an arid, rocky country, filled with splendid shots, with no real objectlre point to capture, with a disaffected or actively hostile population on your flank or rear, the conquest of the Transvaal would be one of the moat arduous undertakings we ever entered upon. In my opinion no less than feO,000 men would be required. Your own Philippine war is not so difficult. In­ deed, it is folly to underestimate the mili­ tary strength of the Transvaal, which proceeds not alone from the material character of the population but also from the nature of tbe country itself. "And the Boers are armed to the teeth. The money .raised by taxation of the Uit- landers has been spent in arms and artil­ lery, so that tbe republic repeats on a small scale tbe miliary camp which the continental powers exhibit on a great scale." How excellent a marksman the Boer is may be inferred from England's past ex­ perience with him. In one engagement in the *80's out of a total English force of between 600 and 700 tbe loss in a few hours was 283 killed and wounded--near­ ly half the force. It is a literal fact that the great majority of the dead soldiers were found to have been shot through the head, a hole in the helmet of each of the fallen showing tbe mark at which the farmer rifleman had aimod. The commander of tbe Boers in the event of hostilities will be Gen. P. J. Joubert, who has successfully measured sworfs before with the English. Gen. Joubert is an American, having been born in Uniontown, Pa., in 1841. SAD END TO FISHING PARTY. Mrs. M. Bk Ten Eyck of Chicago Plea in l^tke SuptrioA Details of a fatal accident in Lake Su­ perior, in which one Chicagoan lost her life and two others narrowly escaped wat ery graves, have reached Chicago. By the overturning of a skiff near tbe shore of Isle Royale, in which were M. S. Ten Eyck and wife and Mrs. E. W. Andrews, Mrs. Ten Eyck met death, while her hus­ band, after two attempts to save her, was towed a&hose completely exhausted, with one arm encircling his wife's dead body. Mrs. Andrews wai kept afloat by a tight ly buttoned mackintosh, which apsead out like a parachute, and her presence of mind is clinging to the bottom of the cap­ sized boat. PLANS *OR DEWEY'S WELCOME. Committee at New York Outlines Fro- crow fw a Calcbratkxh Plans for tbe Dewey celebration at New York were outlined at a meeting of the committee on plan and scope Monday. It has been decided practieally that there shall be a two-day celebration with both a land and navel parade. Admiral Dew«y will pass under a large triumphal arch to be eonstructed either in City Hall park or Madison Square park at a cost of $10,* 000. It was decided also to have two lane* fhrlc float* in the naval parade. for the national educational convention, ran into a freight train near the depot at Newman, Cal., early Monday morning, with the result that three ladies were killed and eleven other passengers were injured, one most severely. The special was going at a speed of forty miles an bonr and was supposed to have a clear tsack, when, irf the early morning, it crashed into a feed train which was taking water on the main track with no light out. The tender of the locomotive was forced into the end of the forward sleeper, there being no bag­ gage to block it. The freight cars took fire, but the Ne-wman volunteer fire de­ partment tnrnfd out and saved the pas­ senger train from the flames and also most of the freight train. A special was mads up and the injured passengers were sent to San Francisco. The other pas­ sengers proceeded on their way to Los Angeles. INGALLS RE-ENTERS POLITICS. Endeavors to Bring; Abont a New Deal in the Republican Ranks. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls in an au­ thorized interview announoes.that he pro­ poses to re-enter Kansas politics, and that he will endeavor to bring about a new deal in Republican politics. He intimated that he would not be a candi­ date for either the United States Senate or for Congress. He de» clared that McKinley will be renominated, and the issue of the next campaign will be JOHN j. IJJSALLS imperialism and mili­ tary domination, with the. silver question on the side. The practical solution of the question of trusts, he said, rests with the State Legislatures. The solution is taxation, just as the Government destroyed the State banks by imposing the 10 pef cent tax. The law at present existing is prac­ tically sufficient in hia opinion. News of Minor Note. ' Next saengerfest will be held in Buffalo a 1901. Ivn\ghts of St. John will meet in Phila­ delphia next year. Ex-Mayor Collier, Petersburg, Va., committed suicide. Engiueer Callaghan was killed in a wreck, Matte wan, N. Y. Fred W. So bach tie, New York, killed by an explosion in a brewery. My Yon Sheong, San Francisco, was fhot while in bed by a highbinder. I Memorial tablets in honor of Gol. Har­ ry Egbert were unveiled at Cincinnati. K. L. Smith, Washington, Ga.f was per­ forated with bullets shot by C. L. Groves. Family racket. Clarence Williams, Paris, Ky., for Wil­ ing Martha Tillman will quit the world on a scaffold. Emanuel Souders knifed Frank Reed. Pittsburg. Ky., because he wouldn't pay $2. Reed will die. Because she was jilted, Estella Cork, 16, Asbury Park, N. J^ committed sui­ cide. Carbolie acid. William Brunt, Itahwoy, N. J., it Is be­ lieved, was killed by tramps and his body placed oa the railroad. Francis J. Nulty, NVW York, who mur­ dered his sweetheart, Mamie Remley, last Christinas day, has been seatenoed t* prison tor life. ! : if..... TUB KISSING Detroit Convention Is Cloood and tbs Delegate* Depart. The eighteenth international convi of Christian Endeavorers closed at troit Monday night amid scenes of impres­ sive solemnity attending the utterances of "The Last Word" by the president and secretary in each of the great tents re­ spectively. following responses from each State and country represented,, and last exhortations from Bishop Vincent of Kansas and Evangelist Chapman of New York. A number of telegrams and cable­ grams read in both tents were portions of correspondence between officers of the convention and Commissioner Andrew D. White, member of the peace conference at Hague; President McKinley, Lord Minto, governor general of Canada, and Queen Victoria. President Clark's last words to the del­ egates *were as follows: "Take this con­ vention home with you. New responsi­ bilities are yours. Yon have now more to account for before the throne of God. Un­ less you Endeavorers who came to this convention are more faithful, fnore loyal to your church, better supporters of your pastors, more inspired with missionary enthusiasm you have lost your opportu­ nity and God will hold you responsible. Take this meeting home with you--you cannot keep it to yourselves and remain guiltless. Take it to your church, your city, your home. Make this country a better country because we have held oar eighteenth international convention of Christian Endeavorers." KISSING BUG BITE IS FATA1* Little Girl at Trenton, N. J.» Falls a Victim to tbe Insect. Little Helen Leersch, the 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Leersch of Trenton, N. J.. died at her home, a vic­ tim of the "kissing bug." Three physi­ cians, who had been called for consulta­ tion over the peculiar condition of the lit­ tle girl, found themselves unable to slW her life. Despite the efforts of the doc­ tors, she was dead within three days from the time she is believed to have been bit­ ten by tbe "kissing bug." Little Helen's body was swollen to twice its normal size before she died, and her sytjtptoms were most unusual. WATKINS OWNS HIS FAULT. Captain of tbe Paris Takes Blame for Its ^trandine. The report of Captain Watkins on the stranding pf the American line steamship Paris was made public Monday by, the New York board of steamboat inspec­ tors. Captain Wat- kins makes no at­ tempt to evade re­ sponsibility for the accident, but, on the contrary, says frankly that the stranding of the ship was the result of an unaccountable error on his part. The accident, he CAPT. WATKIHPS. says, was not due to any want of thought or anxiety about his vessel, but resulted from a mistake he made in calculating the position of the ship. The inspectors suspend^ Captain Wat- kins' license as master of ocean steamers for two years. Captain Watkins is still in charge of the Paris and is acting In the interests of the underwriters, to whom the shfp was turned over by the American line officials. Captain Watkins has followed the sea as his profession since the year 1851, and has held a Brit­ ish master's Certificate since the year 186p, and an American master's certifi­ cate since the year 1893, in which year he became an American citizen. STEAMER GOES ON THE ROCKS Portia Misled by Foghorn on Nova Pcotia Cost. During Monday night the steamer Por- tiVwas misled by a foghorn and ran on to the rocks of Big Fish Shoals, off Sambro Island, fifteen miles east of Halifax. Great confusion prevailed, but the cap­ tain and his crew were perfectly cool and soon restored order. The Portia sustained considerable in­ jury and through a dozen great gaps the water poured into her bold. The panic- stricken passengers rushed for the boats. Captain Farrell and crew drove the frightened people back and restored order in some degree, in tbe lowering of the borts jrnd taking off the passengers. A landing was made at Inner Sambro Isl­ and, where the , seventy-five passengers and forty-one members of tbe crew found temporary shelter in the fishermen's huts. The steamer filled and sunk during the night The Portia was an iron vessel of 732 tons, fifteen years old. BROTHER OF THE CZAR IS DEAD. Grand Dnke George Has Succumbed to Consumption; GradQ Duke George, brother of the Czar, and heir apparent to the Russian throne, died at Abbas Touman, in the Caucasus, from a sudden and violent hemorrhage resulting from phthisis, which for years had rendered his life most precarious. He bad for a long time resided at Abbas Touman, his disease preventing him from living anywhere but in the pure air of the Caucasus, and oc­ casionally, for a short time, on the shores of the Mediterranean. The Grand Duke George Alexandro- witch, second son of the late Emperor Alexander HI., was born' at Tsarskoe- Selo on May 0, 1871. He became heir apparent upon the accession of the pres­ ent Czar, Nicholas, wbo was then un­ married. In default of the birth of a son to the Czar, whose marriage to Prin­ cess Atix of Hesse took place on Nov. 26, 1804, he retained the title of heir appar­ ent. A Pavement of Human Skulls. At Gwandu, In Africa, which con­ tains between 10,000 and 15,000 inhab­ itants, the town, which is oval in shape, is surrounded by a palisade of tree poles, tbe top of every pole being crowned with a human skull. There are six gates, and the approach to each gate is laid witb a pavement of human skulls, the tops being tbe only parts that show above ground. More than 2,000 skulls are used in the pavement leading up to cach gate. Tbe pavement Is of snowy whiteness, and polished to the smoothness of ivory by the daily of hundreds of naked feet. INDIANS DEFY THE NATION. ' Walla Tonka la Put to Deatk in Spit* of Co art's Order. William Goings, the Choctaw Indian, known also by the name of "Walla Ton­ ka," was executed at Alikichi, I. T., for the murder of his uncle. Mason Goings. The execution took place at 2 o'clock, and was a sickening sight. A quilt was spread on the ground near the court house, and near it four Indians placed a coffin. A few minutes later the prisoner, in charge •f Sheriff Watson and a deputy, and es­ corted by twenty light horsemen, march­ ed down the line of spectators. Goings bade them good-by, and knelt on the quilt blindfolded. The sheriff bared his breast and painted a spot over the heart; he then stepped back four paces, rested a rifle over a bench and fired, but missed the painted spot. Goings fell back and moaned an hour before expiring. Water was poured down his throat a number of times to hasten his death by strangula­ tion. A writ of habeas corpus was granted by Federal Judge John R. Thomas, but when it was delivered by two deputy marshals the sheriff refused to receive it. While the execution was proceedipg Die- trict Attorney Clay remarked: "We are making history." It remains to be seen what action the United States Govern­ ment will take for defiance of the writ. Walla Tonka was a full-blooded Choc­ taw. He was born in the Indian Terri­ tory twenty-four years ago. In his 18th, year he stabbed and killed his uncle, Ja­ cob Lewis, and shortly after engaged in a saloon fight in which he shot and killed Bull Henderson. He was tried on both charges and acquitted, but was convicted Of murder of another uncle, Mason Go- ings, in 1896, and was sentenced to be shot on Aug. 25, 1897. Tonka was a member qf the Choctaw baseball club, and was respited in order to finish the season without the loss of so valuable a player. ON HIS WAY TO MANILA. "FishtlnB Joe" W heeler la Now Bound for tbe Philippines. Gen. Joseph E. Wheeler stopped in Chi­ cago a few hours en route from Wash­ ington to the Philippines on a mission the exact nature of which he says is unknown even to himself. "I- am ordered merely to report to Gen. Otis and do not know what I shall have to do when I set there." It answer to a direct question Gen. Wheeler stated that he did not know the * ^ 5 :'^l| '.Vil ;4 IC'!| ?! GENSBAL WHEBLEB. strength of Aguinaldo's forces and that the published reports of our officers in Manila did not state tbem. He said that no doubt tlsese officers and officials in Washington are well informed, but he had never had a conversation with any official in Washington on the subject and was quite ignorant as to the extent of their information. Gen. Wheeler was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Annie Wheeler, who goes to the Philippines as a Red Cross nurse Without pay. LIE FREELY PASSED. United States Senators Gallingrer and Chandler Hare Hot Tilt. At Concord, N. H., the investigation of charges against United States Senator Gallinger by the civil service commission came near resulting in. a fight. When several witnesses were called and failed to respond, Senator Chsndler made the statement that the defendant had influ­ enced witnesses to stay away from the investi­ gation. Senator Gallinger, pale with rage, chal- jr. H. GALT.INGBH lenged his accuser to make the charge outside the room. The challenge was accepted at once, and both men started for the door, but were pre­ vented from leaving the room by newspa­ per men and the commissioners. Several contradictory statements followed, when Attorney General Eastman, believing he had been accused, rose to his feet, and, shaking his fist at Senator Chandler, said: "You are a liar if you are a United States Senator." Quiet was finally restored and the in­ vestigation proceeded, but tbe episode set the political pot of New Hampshire to boihng. TELLS A REMARKABLE TALE. Mnrderer Swart Relates the Stranse History of His Life. Emil Swart, one of the Meier murder­ ers, has told the Chicago police a remark­ able tale, which he says is the true his­ tory of his life. He asserts that he ran away from home wlien 12 years of age and shipped on a German merchantman for the Indian ocean. The vessel was at­ tacked by pirates in the China sea ai^A Swart was taken to Formosa, where he was made body servaat to the daughter of the pirate chief. After six years of constant companion­ ship the girl feLl in love with him and planned his escape. Tfiey put to sea in an opeu hoat and six "days later were picked up by a vessel bound for Canton, where they lived two years. One day the wom­ an eloped with a wealthy Englishman. Swart went to Australia and worked for a while in the gold fields. One night his cabin was attacked by a band of blacka and when they retreated they left on the battlefield a wounded woman. Swart nursed her to health and left with her for England. At Suez she died. In the same city, a few days later, he met the pirate chief's daughter and the Englishman. The latter, fearing that the" woman would return Lo Swart, cut her throat and fled. Swart then came to America and has since been leading a life of crime. RICH LAND FOR A RAILROAD. Court Awards 1,000,000 Acres to the Northern Pitriflc Kuilway. In deciding that Ashland, Wis., is the terminus of the Northern Pacific Rail­ road, Judge Sanborn of the United States Circuit Court confirmed the road's title to 1,000.000 acres of valuable land along the shore of Lake Superior between Ash­ land and Duluth. The Federal Govern­ ment wa? plaintiff in the case. Suit was brought to void a patent issued to the Northern Pacific Railroad by the land de- ! partsient of a previous administration.