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rw • ------ MfcHdiry Plabidealer. PtAlNbEALER CO.. Psbs. MQHENRY, m • ILLINOIS. HUMMA&Y OF NEWS. K*j', .During a heavy thunderstorm the •s * ; * ^ttsburg towboat Advance, which had | V " , Undergone extensive repairs at Middle- 4::s- ' port docks, Pomeroy. Ohio, was struck ik> by lightning and consumed by fire. The f,„ f crew of five escaped with great difficulty. J.*" The United Supreme Council Thirty- third Degree Colored Scottish Rite Ma- * Wins began their thirtieth annual meet- tog in Cleveland. The Imperii** Grand ' * Conncil of the Ancient Arabic Order of " Mystic Shriners will assemble there ^ • '..""Wednesday. "New York Typographical Union,„ No. J*v • ^ has devoted all of its fund, estimated At $40,000, to support the union compos- f"'* Itors who have struck iu the Sun office. ,vV-; The printers walked out because they had learned that non-union printers were ^ * to be employed. Twenty excursionists were drowned by :$ *'• ' .the breaking of the Mount Desert ferry \!K' bMp or gang plank at Bar Harbor, Me., "and about forty more were injured; The ^ accident was due to the collapse of the > slip during a frantic rush to get aboard, the steamer Sappho. % ' The cellar beneath the formefc Aineri- «ii" > Can National Bank at Lima, Ohid, rob- * bed of over $18,000 last Christmas, has if ^ been searched by several officers of the jjS* (Onner bank, but the cash was not found, r,' The cellar was searched by Pinkertons at-the time of the robbery. A north-bound passenger train on the "s St. Paul and Omaha road was wrecked. at Tekaniah, Neb. A switch had been left open and the train collided with a gravel train standing on the side track. B. C. Olesen of Sioux City, fireman of the gravel train, was fatally injured and t#o traveling men were slightly hurt. So bountiful are the crops in the West that farmers have been unable to get belp enough to harvest them. In Ne­ braska farmers offered $2 a day for farm hands, and fould not get them, and re­ ports from tne wheat fields of South Da­ kota tell of the demand for men, which Wfcs also quite as great in western Iowa. Recently J. H. Johnson of South Mc- Alester, I. T., one of the leading and' progressive negroes of the territory, call­ ed a meeting there, the result of which . » was the drawing up of a petition praying skjV , the general government to aid colored t< k*%, people in emigrating to Liberia. The pe­ aty- jjf - - tition has been numerously signed and will be presented to Congress. v The standing of the clubs in the Na- E,*' tioual League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn .. .61 30 Cincinnati ... 50 42 fe"; Boston 57 34 Pittsburg .. .47 45 |$U>, •' Philadelphia 56 37 Louisville ...40 50 f.-v Baltimore ..53 38 New York...35 53 Chicago 51 41 Washington. 34 60 St. Louis....51 42 Cleveland ...17 80 . Following is the standing of the clubs ."ll the Western League: !V - • • W. L. f W. L. Indianapolis 54 32 St. Paul 42 49 Minneapolis. 54 38 Milwaukee . .40 49 Detroit 47 43 Buffalo 39 51 Cfeind Bap„4fi 43 Kansas City.38 55 Bradstreet's says: "All signs indicate ^tke maintenance of general trade and in­ dustry in an unprecedented midsummer Volume. Western and Northwestern trade advices tell of expanding fall trade. Shipments on fall account from Minne­ apolis tax the facilities of the jobbing houses. Increased demand is noted at Chicago. Wheat (including flour) ship­ ments for the week aggregate 4.711,014 bushels, against 3,300,432 bushels last week, 4,111,312 bushels in the corre­ sponding week of 1898. Since July 1 the exports of wheat aggregate 18,508.906 bushels, against 14,426,122 bushels last year. Corn exports for the week aggre­ gate 5,027,706 bushels, against 3,700,320 bushels last week and 2,856,923 bushels In this week a year ago." HEWS NUGGEXJB. tlnoiT t)(v?con n T-nnner farmer near , ' Gratiot, Ohio, was killed by lightning in an open field. , Rev. J. H. Bomberger of Columbiana, J \ pbio, has declined the presidency of Heidelberg University at Tiffin, Ohio. -I-. . Davis Dalton, a swimming instructor, ^|as drowned near Hog Island. N. Y., * v *While giving an exhibition of swimming. ? * Death was due to apoplexy. The body »• Was recovered. Judge Dorsey W. Shackelford of ; • JRooneville has been nominated for Con- i jress by the Democrats of the Eighth Jlissouri district, to succeed the late * Jttchard P. Bland. • " • A. Sutherland, a merchant, was shot t -v \ and instantly killed at Ardmore, I. T., j\ %y E. W. Fairman. Fairman, who is f&^Under arrest, claims Sutherland slander- v5?'*Jid Mrs. Fairman. m" " charcbesand tf*wlheeters were badly NartWra Railroad damaged. Carrabelle was almost com- IpimratMK «(# pletely destroyed. , activity among oil A New York policeman, Thomas F. O'Brien, pleaded guilty to stealing jew­ elry from the body of George R. Rhoads, president of the Stuyvesant Fire Insur­ ance Company, who was killed by an electric car on June 10. Thieves forced their way Into the Pan- . _ attp>N veyed, traverse* a vast oil Aril ta eottera Texan which haa hitherto been Inacctesi- Mi for lack of railroad facilities. WASHINGTON. The Nary Department has decided in the case of new*giinshops ait Washington handle Railroad station at Crafton, Pa., | navy yard that Workmen must not be and after sandbagging James Parnell, employed more than eight hours a day. . Dr. C. W. Adams, who was one of the , tonnders of the University Medical Col- ,'Jege of Kansas City and for five years • dean of the faculty, died on the street from an overdose of chloral. Deputy United States Marshal J. A. Blair was shot and fatally wounded in f. , florgan County, Ky., while trying to ar- * rest L. F. Lewis, an alleged moonshiner. *v Blair killed Lewis after receiving his own desperate wound. The tenth annual convention of the Young People's Christian Union was closed in Pittsburg with a missionary rally and a reminiscent meeting. It was announced that half of the $50,000 an- ------liual thank offerings had been raised. ^,K au8e ker 10-year-old daughter Ruth , ( wwartz had loved unwisely, Mrs. Cather- ff:.' »: .1ne Wise of Greentown, Ohio, cut her SU "^throat while she was sleeping, and then , committed suicide by jumping into a pool , of water in an abandoned stone quarry. ^The Republicans of the Eighth Mis- •/.. souri congressional district in convention ;) -at Jefferson City nominated J. W. Vos- %,AS hall for Congress by acclamation. • • Frederick W. Pope, the 14-yoar-old son \ot Charles A. Pope of Columbus, N. j„ \ : is paralyzed as the result of an applica- ssftion of cocaine by a dentist. He has v also lost the power of speech. ' 1 A trolley car containing upward of r . : forty persons went over a trestle fifty ;,Jfeet high at Peck's mill stream, about §|five miles from Bridgeport, Conn. Thir- ty-five swnwns were killed and twelve Injured. the agent, and his assistant, Melvin Har- rah, carried off the contents of the money drawer, amounting to nbont $500. A strike for shorter hours has been de­ clared by the boilcrmakers and iron ship builders on the Atlantic seaboard. Shops in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Port Richmond, Green Point, Hoboken, Jersey City, Bli«- abethport and Bayonne will be affected. WESTERN. v Gen. Nelson A. Cole died at St. Loals. Toledo has contracted for a city gas plant to cost $250,000. Gov. Leslie M. Shaw was renominated by the Iowa State convention at Des Moines. Clyde Jones, alias Clyde Johnson, the abductor of Miss Nellie Berger of Sey­ mour, was captured near Freetown, Ind. The plant of the Little Rock Cooper­ age Company in North Little Rock, Ark., was destroyed by tire. Loss about $75,- 000. Several Americans and Mexicans have been .-killed in towns in the Yaqui rivet1 valley east and southeast of Ortiz, Mex.. by the Yaqui Indians. At Dell Rapids, S. D., a gasoline stove exploded while it was being filled, fatally burning Mrs. Amanda Cochrane and daughter. Miss Hawley. At Jefferson City, Mo., the Populists of the Eighth congressional district nomi­ nated W. R. Hale of Phelps County to succeed the late Richard P. Bland. Walter Cavanaugh and John Wilson, San Francisco, quarreled over the for­ mer's sister, with whom Wilson had been living. Cavanaugh was shot and killed. Rioters resumed their disturbances at Cleveland by blowing up a car with nitroglycerin in Jennings avenue. None of the passengers was injured. The car was badly damaged. The Hotel Eisenbeis at Port Townsend has been leased by the United States Government, and will be used as a hos­ pital for the sick and wounded soldiers from the Philippines. In Chicago the grand jury voted a true bill against W. A. S. Graham, former secretary and business manager of the Board of Education, charging him with embezzlement of $34,000. The Canadian Cree Indians who have been infesting Montana since late in the winter are killing game and stock, and neither the State authorities nor the Fed­ eral Government seems able to suppress them. James H. Turpie, one of the best- known residents of Lafayette, Ind., com­ mitted suicide by plunging headforemost from the third-story window of the Ho­ tel Lajir. There is no known reason for t£e' act. A hail storm swept over a stretch from Tynes to Glasston, N. D., twelve miles long and five miles wide. The destruc­ tion is total. The damage amounts to $250,000 and is in one of the finest wheat sections in the State. Congressman James Hamilton Lewis has ieft Seattle for Washington to pre­ sent claims for damages against the Ca­ nadian Government of Americans debar­ red as aliens from locating placer claims in the Atlin mining district. During a dance at Wellsville, Ohio, the floor of the room gave way and 200 per­ sons were precipitated into the cellar, a distance of twelve feet. Many persons were injured, several had bones broken, but no one was fatally hurt. The business portion of the village of Minto, N. D., was wiped out by fire. Twenty-three buildings, all frame struc­ tures, were burned. Two banks and store buildings escaped destruction. The loss will exceed $100,000, with $40,000 insur­ ance. A railroad to connect the Northern Ohio Rail way at Copley and the Cleve­ land, Lorain and Wheeling at Warwick with Barberton is to be built by a com­ pany being formed by O. G. Barber and J. I'l. Kcti---3d Mztsi' Company. M. J. Real was shot in his saloon at Keokuk, Iowa, by Aid. Timothy Hickey. There were no known witnesses. Hickey went to police headquarters and gave himself up. Real died from his wounds later in the day. He was married and had a family. Fifty tramps took possession' of the little town of Poseyville, Ind., and for three hours the officers were unable to do anything. They marched through the main streets of the town terrorizing the inhabitants and looting the residence of Mrs. Florence Duff. Fire destroyed the palatial residence of Mrs. Mary Hayes-Chineweth at Eden- vale, San Jose, Cal. Loss $175,000, in­ surance $75,000. A second fire destroyed the. fruit warehouse of J. B. Inderreiden & Co. of Chicago, causing a loss of §40,- 000, iasurance $25,000. David Connell was shot and probably fatally wounded by an unknown man at the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad depot at Cripple Creek. He had been soliciting miners to work in the Coeur d'Alene country and sev^tnecruits whom he had secured were with\ bim when he was shot. Jack Holly, L. Priest and Will Bobo, prisoners at -the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., ferociously as­ saulted with shovels Guard F. Knief, and after beating him over the head and neck, almost severing his head from his body with the crude weapons, made their escape. Jack Holly, the leader of Ihe trio, attempted to board a fast-flying Santa Fe train, missed his foothold and was cut in two. At Washington, Elihu Root was sworn in as Secretary of War. Two hours later Gen. Alger, the retiring Secretary, was en route to his home at Detroit by way of Philadelphia. The United States has been brought ipto the Dreyfus case through a publish­ ed statement ascribed to former Ambas­ sador Euatis, in which he is made to say that Dreyfus la culpable and that he could prove it. J. W. Bate heller, a gunsmith of St. Jo­ seph, Mo., has been summoned to Wash­ ington by the War Department officials, who desire to make experiments with a new device invented by him for boring out guns. The device will be tested at the navy yard. It is for choke-boring gun barrels, large and small cannon, and for cleaning guns when they are i-usty. Secretary Gage has upheld Customs Collector Stone of Baltimore against the civil service commissioners in refusing to allow Special Deputy Collector Dryden and Cashier Montell to take the examina­ tion ordered by the civil service board. The collector held that he did not think an examination at this time would be necessary, as both men had been employ­ ed in the customs service nearly fourteen months. * < FOREIGN. Two of the assassins of President Hea- reailx of San Domingo have been captur­ ed and shot. Congressman Lovering of Massachu­ setts was robbed of $13,000 by pick­ pockets at Ostend, Belgium. Col. du Paty de Clam is reported to have been ae^iitted of criminality in connection with the Dreyfus case and to have been released from prison. The death is announced at Paris of Al­ bert Menier, from typhoid fever. He was a brother and business associate of Henry L. Menier, the chocolate king. U Corriere de la Sere of Milan de­ clares that Italy has abandoned all idea of territorial acquisition in China and is only negotiating in connection with com­ mercial matters. A dispatch from Manila says that the rebels atempted to recapture Calamba, but were easily repulsed. One American was killed and six others wounded. The Filipino loss was heavy. Percival Spencer, the famous aeronaut, with a companion named Pollock, recent­ ly made the trip to Dieppe, France, from the Crystal Palace at London. The bal­ loon reached an altitude of 12,000 feet. The Samoan commissioners sailed from Apia, after signing the agreement abol­ ishing the kingship and president, and agreeing to an administrator with a leg­ islative MMtncil of three tripartite nomi­ nees. IN GENERAL. "Kid" f^avigne, the pugilist, has en­ listed in~4he volunteers destined for ser­ vice in th^ Philippines. Captaiq Joseph Coghlan has assumed charge of the Breiututon naval station, relieving Captain Green. Thomas Ba.u, member for Wentworth, Ont., has been elected speaker of the Ca­ nadian House of Commons. Gen. Ludlow, military governor of Ha­ vana province, has suppressed the Cuban newspaper El Reconcentrado. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to create a pension and sup­ erannuation fund for its old employes. Canada has refused to allow the United States warship intended to be used as an Illinois training vessel to pass through the St. Lawrence. Dr. A. L. Lee and Gideon Kratzer of North Baltimore, Ohio, who left for the Klondike, were drowned at Crook's Inlet, together with twenty others. John Zaohert, a San Francisco mining expert, declares that the old Russian boundary of Alaska is defined by monu­ ments placed at short intervals, and that inclosed it each is a chart of the Russian possessions. The speaker of the Dominion House of Commons. Sir James Edgar, died unex- l»ectedly at Toronto. Recently he under­ went an operation for Bright's disease and was believed to be rapidly recover­ ing when complications set in. The uneasiness engendered by the an­ nouncement of the Jacques Cartier bank suspension at Montreal had the effect of causing a sharp run upon the other French banks. The banks met all de­ mands and confidence was rapidly re­ stored. C. G. Anderson of Fulton, 111., leading a party of twelve prospectors, has arriv­ ed at Dawson, Alaska, with sensational news regarding a copper find at the head­ waters of the White river in American territory. Anderson and bis companions are said to have found chunks of pure copper, ranging from the size of a hen's egg to pieces weighing twenty-five pounds. SOUTHERN. EASTERN. Solomon Jones, a negro, was banged by a mob near Forrest, Ga. William Jarrels shot and killed Jerry Fowler and his son Joseph at Burrs Fer­ ry, twenty miles west of Leesville, Ga. The first bale of new crop Texas cot­ ton sold at auction in New York for $2,- 000, which will go to the flood sufferers. Beulah Sanders, Birmingham, Ala., shot Hattie Hill through the heart. Quarreled over the affections ef a young man. Linwood Wiggins, 17, Gatesville, N. C„ killed his brother William with a ^stick of wood. Quarreled over a game of draughts. Boston messenger boys are on a strike \V. A. Hamilton of Chicago has been president of the Beta. TUeta PI fraternity. Maryland Democrats nominated John Walter Smith of Worcester County for i IGovernor. - Louis Pulleraon and Michael McDonald ^ were put to death by electricity in Sing 1/ > , - Ping prison. •t Elizabeth, N. J., and Carrabelle, Fla., p W1* wwtained considerable injury by a recent i "Moleat atom. >» ffiiixiwh Five leading coal companies in Elk horn, W. Va., advanced the mining rate 15 cents. .Three thousand miners are affected* Officers of the traafunissiggtpoi com mereial congress decided to hcrid the next sessio« of the congress In Houston, Tex April 17 to 21 next. In -on encounter on a mountain road in Letcher County, Ky., William Small wood killed his uncle, CleUand Small wood, and the younger man was himself fatally wounded by his unele. -- ^ It is announced at Houston, Texas, In Elizabeth three I that the Gulf, >Beanmoat ^Wtd HEtoat CROIt LAID WAS!*!. DtVAST, :fi STORMS«W!EP OF GRAIN. Lom Tkra^ont the Nortbwaat "Will Reach the Million*-Growing Grain Beaten Into the Karth by Torrestt of Hail and Heavy Winds. TH* ItiOH •- '•'••I***1-#" flliOKH Reports received from nearly ali of the grain-growing States in tM wfcsfoftr: Mis­ sissippi valley indicate thbt tanSe*sura<- ble and widespread datna'ge to crope has been done by hail and wind. The States that have suffered the most are Minneso­ ta, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska In Iowa Moiaday night a terrific storm of drenching rain, accompanied by a furi­ ous and devastating wind, mowed down the grain, and where the damage did not amount to a total loss it left the fields in such condition that the farmers in many sections have practically given up hope of saving half of the crop they planned on. The storm took on frigidity and the accompanying element of disaster as it spread over Minnesota an$ South Da­ kota. The rain was turnfed to sharp- edged hail in many places ajjd to sleet that, cut the grain with al{$bst>iai^ evi^ last year, results in others. ? ^ After lnndlr No accurate figures on the tbt|(l dty can be made, but it is enough to say that fully half W?jbillion acres of richly fruited crops have been leveled by the storm. Not obly oae ce­ real, but ail of the various kftfcls that are particularly easy prey to wind and hail met injury. Corn was crushed or torn up altogether; unharvested wheat was flattened, and wide strips of country cut down as if by a mighty, aU-powerful' clipper of an angry god. K ... j Dispatches indicate that the storm was central in Iowa, where it seemed to gath­ er and to leap along on its northerly and westerly course. Not only damage to crops is reported, but many farmers haVe the added loss of barns and'sheds tKat were overturned or unroofed .by the furi­ ous gusts of wind. Northwestern Iowa was among the firqt sections visited by the gale. Plymouth and O'Brien coun­ ties tell of the most serious loss there. Hail fell in pelting showers and the only comfort the farmers got from the storm was the subsequent rain, which fell in torrents, over one and one-half inches of water being precipitated in Sioux City. From Marshalltown, Iowa, is wired in a story of exceptional damage. Thou­ sands of dollars' damage was done to crops by the wind. Corn was injured here as much as grain, and many farm build­ ings were also blown down and windmills «mm Ckleaaro Mttiiaaair** Hard Sit by tfca Tax Oatftwrer. The Cook Coonty board of revfaw has been inquiring after the heretofore un- dertaxed fortunes of some of Chicago's straggling million­ aire, and the fig- ares set opposite the names of some Of the rich men have been turned upside down. The reviewers did not stop with sweep­ ing off the records values fixed by the maBshall field. Board of Assess- rs in cases where schedules were not led. They proceeded to demonstrate that the assessors who had turned in sworn statements were equally deficient as guessers, and raises ranging all the way from 10 to 3,000 per cent tell the story in convincing figures. In point of aggregate of Increase the hardest blow was dealt to Marshall ^Field, who must pay personal property taxes on a full value of $2,500,000, in­ stead of the $1,250,000 at which the as- sossors had rated him. This means that the dry goods merchant's assessed valua­ tion for 1899 is $500,000, as against $21,- ^,, After landing on Mr. Field, the review- a^k developed reserve po%er by jumping tiveT return of Otto ' --' ' v Young of Otto Young & Co. from $15,000 to $500,- '000. This consti­ tuted the greatest percentage of in­ crease, though it was nearly equal­ ed in the case of .Harlow N. Higin- botham of Mar­ shall Field & Co., Schedule of* $24° philip d. aShocb. 485 read $500,000 when the "O. K." stamp of the review board decorated its face. Mr. Young's new assessed valua­ tion is $100,000. It was $1,500 in 1898. Mr. Higinbotham's for 1899 amounts to $100,000 also. When he paid taxes a year ago it was on the basis of $2,000. Charles T. Yerkes felt the effect of the reviewers' action to the extent of $900,- 000, as they raised his assessors' esti­ mate of $100,000 to an even million. The late street railroad president's 1899 as* sessed valuation will be $200,000, as against 1898's record of $0,000. Nelson Morris keeps Mr. Yerkes company with a boost of $650,000 at the hands of thq revisionists, the assessors' rating in the packer's case being raised from $100,000 UHBEBi rtSHi i NAQA UNCLE SAM MAT FBKL, LIKE TBAmXO jCLSKWHKBE 17 DOG ISN'T CALLED OFF. --St. Paul Pioneer Press. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.0U to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 71c; corn, Ko. 2, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 51c to 53c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh. 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime. $3.25 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Lords--Cattle, $3.50 to $0.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 53c to 55c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 08c to 69c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 56c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75: wheat, No. 2, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, ,No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 09c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 84c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 51c to 53c; clover seed, new, $3.85 to $3.95. Milwaukee--Wheat. No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; cora. No. 3, 31c to 33c; oats, No 2 white, 23c to 26c;lrye, No. 1, 51c to 53c; barley, No. 2, 9Q& to.41c; pork, mess $8.25 to f&75. Buffalo^-Cattle, gocd shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice weth «rs, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.50. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn, No. 2. 37c to 38c; oats. No. 4.L 27c to 29c; butter, c*m»JS£ry, 15c to 18c; eggs, Western, 10c to 14c. wrecked, the whole loss being beyohd es­ timate. Minnesota evidently suffered more from hail than from rain and wind. The hail grew in size and the impetus behind it seemed to increase when the gale reached South Dakota. The damage in this State, where the crops are ready to be harvested, is unknown, but it is under­ stood to be heavy. But little grain in this Bection that lay in the path of the storm had been cut, so the injury is be­ yond estimate. Corn and uncut grain in Nebraska were knocked ^at by the wind and then drenched and thrown into soddy heaps by a heavy rain. A number of buildings were also demolished. These reports are duplicated in a thousand others from all parts of the States which fell under the aim of the storm. Farmers generally were anxious "for a little rain, but most of all they dreaded wind and hail. Coming at this season of the year, which is bigh tide in harvesting, the damage is necessarily much greater than it would have been had the storm been timed differently and of a different nature. ,The storm was very severe over the northern part of Nebraska. COURT AWARDS MILLIONS. Old Patents Held by a Tooth Crown Company Are Valid. A decision rendered by Judge Town- send in the United States Circuit Court at New York is estimated to affect claims amounting to $10,000,000. The de­ cision is in favor of the International Tooth Crown Company and sustains the validity of 1881 patents held on the sys­ tem of applying tooth crowns. Although the patents expired during the litigation, the decision confirms the right of the complainant company to collect royalties on all infringements covering the whole existence of the patents. to $750,000. When Mr. "Morris settles his tax bill next spring it will be on the basis of an assessed valuation of $150,- 000, instead of $1,000 for 1898, Philip D. Armour was not so heavily punished as his fellow-millionaires. The reviewers only added $450,000 to the as^ sessors' estimate of $300,000 in his case, explaining afterward that they regarded $750,000 a fair valuation of the packer- philanthropist's personal wealth, on the ground tttat the great bulk of his money­ ed capital is invested in the firm of Ar­ mour & Co. and its various allied inter­ ests. Nevertheless, Mr. Armour will come to the support of Cook County on an assessable basis of $150,000 for $4;- 000 when he last contributed. WITH TATTERED FLAGS. #4* Wt. m 'MM,! ON ASTOR'S NATURALIZATION. London Paper on His Becominga Brit i*h t abject. The announcement that William Wal­ dorf Astor has become a British subject is commented on by the London Chroni­ cle in ironical fashion. The paper says: "We fear that New York will fiercely resent its loss. And just as' we' were" hoping that the last obstacle to an Anglo- Saxon understanding was removed, here comes a new one." Only three other Americans ever be­ came British subjects. They are Bene­ dict Arnold, Judah P. Benjamin, Secre­ tary of State in Jefferson Davis' cabinet, Hall, pnttc May^r of £ - - • Nebraska and Utah Volunteers Parade in Sail Francisco. Two hundred thousand persons is a conservative estimate of the crowd which gathered along Market street, Golden Gate and Van Ness avenues. San Frau- cisco, tftd gave the Nebraska volunteers a welcome home which the men will re member as long as they live. The sight of their once spotless silk flag, which wax presented to them by the people of Ne­ braska, coming home with only the blue field and a few tattered ribbons of stripes left, set the people along the line of march wild with enthusiasm. Another feature that made the thousands mingle tears and cheers was eight ambulances filled with the sick and wounded at the d^d of the procession. Many of the sick were consumptive, going home to die, and all bore the stamp of hardship and suffer­ ing. The spectators showered the poor fellows with flowers and cheered them from the time they left the dock until they turned into the Presidio military reservation. The volunteers and the Utah light artillery were in heavy marching order. They looked like seasoned veterans. All of the business houses along lower Mar­ ket street suspended business for half an hour while the regiment passed in re­ view. The gun stores vied with one an other in an endeavor to make tb<p most noisei and the factories blew their whis­ tles, while the steam craft in the bay responded with loud toots to the shrill sounds front the shore. " * The parade was led by a detachment of police and the Nebraska band, with a "de­ tachment of regulars. Then followed the Nebraskans. The sick men of the regi ment were conveyed in ambulances from the Presidio. The Utah battery was next. The Nebraska men carried their Springfields and rolls of blankets. Aft the ambulances with the Utah sick cane battery. O, Third artillery, and troop O, Sixth cavalry. The proudest men in the TROLLEY CAR DISASTER NEAR BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Hurled frip a Trestie ud Fifty Vest Down a Havlne-Thirty-five Persons Killed and Twelve Injured--No One on Board Kscapea. Forty-three passengers on a trolley car on the Shclton street railway'were dash­ ed down a ravine at Peck's mill stream, five miles from Bridgeport. Conn., at 3:13 Sunday afternoon. Twenty-six-were killed outright and two died at the hos­ pital. Over Peclfls mill stream is an iron bridge 650 feet long. The distance from the top of the structure to the bed of the stream is fifty feet. All uf the water was drawn off a few months ago to per­ mit the buttresses for the bridge to be laid. The street railway line was open­ ed to the public the previous Thursday for the first time. The car jumped the rails on ihe trestle over the stream and plunged down the embankment fifty feet below, where it was buried In the mud. The motorman, George Hamilton, saved himself from death by jumping on the trestle as the car plunged into the abyss. The alarm was given and hundreds of farmers from the vicinity were soon on the scene. Other cars that were follow­ ing the fatal one arrived, and in a short time hundreds of volunteers were at Work, The work was retarded owing to the difficulty of gaining a secure foot passage in the narrow ravine. Farmers and their wives and daughters came with blankets and woolens, and all of the physicians in Bridgeport and Stratford who were available were summoned. . - The car was soon separated, the bottom Sortion being lifted off. The top was uried several feet in the mud and the bodies of the dead and dying were strewn about. The seats were smashed to splin­ ters. Strange to say, few of the bodies were badly mangled. All of the persons killed sustained fractured skulls. As fast as the bodies were taken out they were placed in ambulances and the vehicles provided by the farmers. The dead were removed to the town hall in Stratford, where the coroner and Ifis as­ sistants examined the effects found upon- them. John and Daniel Galvin of Ansonia, as far as is known at present, were the only ones except Motorman Hamilton who es­ caped being hurled into the ravine. They were on the rear end of the car, and when it left the rails they took no chances, but jumped and landed safely on the trestle. The cause of the accident is uncertain. The car is too badly wrecked to give an indication of possible defects of its wheels. South of the trestle is quite an incline, on which the car ran down at a very high rate of speed. After it ran on to the trestle for about ten feet the truck^ left the rails and the car contin­ ued on the ties for about seventy-five feet, when it went off the trestle and dropped into the ravine below, over­ turning completely add up-ending. When the car struck, the motor, which weighed four tons, and the heavy trucks crushed into it, instantly killing many of the passengers. c * SCORE ARE DEAD. Maine Excursionists Near Bar Har* bor Drowned by Collapse of a Pier. Twenty or more excursionists from va­ rious parts of Maine were drowned and forty-one Others were injured at Mount Desert ferry, eight miles from Bar Har­ bor, Me., Sunday morning by the break­ ing of an old and weak slip. The Maine Central .Railroad ran ex* cursion trains from all over its line in Maine to permit of people visiting the warships of the North Atlantic squadron, which had arrived in the harbor from Newport, R. I. The trains were switch­ ed of the Boston and Maine road to the short line of the Maine Central, which at Mount Desert ferry connects with the small steamer Sappho, which plies be­ tween that point and Bar Harbor. The first train brought 1,300 persons, and as the crowd had been told by train hands that the steamer could not ac­ commodate one-fourth of the nimibcr there was a rush for the ferry slip as soon as the train stopped. About 200 gained the decks of the steamer and as many more were on the slip, when with a crash that sounded like the explosion of a boiler the weakened structure broke in two in the center and the people were swept off each end into the water. It was high tide at Uie time and the 200 people were penned into a box-like area of 20 by 30 feet and beyond the assistance from the people high above them on the wharf. Their only means of escape was by diving down five feet under .the side wall planking and swim­ ming 'to the shore, Few could dtf this, for the crowd was panic-stricken, and the members of it fought like wild ani­ mals for their lives. The people on shore for several min­ utes kept crowding forward, forcing some fifty more upon the struggling mass of humanity In the water below. The railroad and steamboat employes hastened to the rescue, and with ropes, planks and a ladder quickly aided 150 persons to safety, and there were num­ erous heroic rescues. Fred C. Green- ough. station agent, who was among thp first hurled into the water, held many' women and children up to willing hands of the workers above, and he did not leave the inclosure until every person abo^e water had been got out. He was the hero of the hour, and his nerve and coolness quieted the panic-stricken people more than any other one thing, and when, exhausted, he was drawn; up a mighty cheer went up from the crowd that by the arrival of another train had grown to fully 2,500 people. Forty-one of the rescued were so seri­ ously injured that they required immedi­ ate medical and surgical attention, and they were removed to a hotel close by. i FACK DEATH IN LAKE. Passengers 8pend a Night of Terror on Lake Michigan. Two hundred passengers on the steam­ er City of Grand Rapids, which left South Haven, Mich., for Milwaukee Sat­ urday night, faced death through the long hours of the night in a violent north­ easter, which caused the leaking boat to nearly founder and which threatened to rend the vessel from stern td bow at any moment. With the water in the hold within two inches of the tires the cap­ tain put about for South Haven and .af­ ter a desperate struggle with the waves and water the steamer reached that port at 6 o'cloek Sunday morning almost in a sinking condition. One force pump of all on board was serviceable and this lone pump alone saved the passengers from what seemed certain doom. ; -» „ , aqpriss f*«s» ttilrwin^» A K. of P. lodge will be instituted at Havana. . John L. Sullivan, ex-champion pugilist, will open a saloon in New York. Iron mills att Harrisburg, Pa., will in­ crease wages of puddlers 25 cents a ton. Hazelbridge, a horse valued at $3,500, fell dead on the track at Greenville> O. In view of the present strained rela­ tions between Canada and the United States over the question of the boundary, the accompanying photograph Is interesting. It was taken ht the ex­ treme summit of the White Pass, at the point where the boundary line between ON THE BOUNBABT LINK. the possessions of Canada and the Un& ed States is at present fixed. On either side the line is erected a tall staff. From one floats the Stars and Stripes and from' the other the Union Jack. The mei grouped around the flags are officers oC the famous Canadian Northwest ed poitee.' At Salem, Bad., lives W. J. Hattebangh, who boasts of two things. First, he is just one ypar oilier than the State of In- . diana, and second, u often rocked John Hay to sleep when the present Secretary of Stat* was a little Hoosiet baby. Mr. Hatte­ bangh, who is now 84 years old, lives close to the old- fashioned, one-story brick house which was the Hay home­ stead and in which _ , „ John Hay was W. J. HATThBACOH. ̂Dr ̂ to Indiana fr«!fr Keiftftcity' and settled first at Corydon, Harrison County, the first capital of the State. There John Hay's only brother, Edwin, was born. Later the family moved to Salem, where the father practiced medicine, especially distinguishing himself during the cholera epidemic of 1823-24. He also was one of the founders of the Salem Monitor, which strongly supported Gen. Harrison during the "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," cam­ paign. Edwin, the elder son, died in Sa­ lem at the age of 9 and his grave is still . in the little Indiana cemetery. Boston has a new crusade and a new" crusader in Miss Lillian Jewett, who is 24, rather above the medium height a£j| of very magnetical­ ly attractive ways. She is fighting against Judge Lynch. She has been referred to in Boston as the new H a r r i e t B e e c h e r Stowe, sent by heaven in answer to the prayers of the colored race. The colored people of Boston simply * Mtss jewett. adore her. They think she is the first person who has taken up the cause who is gifted with the divine inspiration. The Rev. Mr. Ferris of the church in which a mass meeting was held, in introducing Miss Jewett, said that when God had some great work to the heart of a woman. A J Congregational Church circles are con­ siderably stirred up in the West over the alleged heretical writings of Rev. Dr. G. H. Gilbert of the Chicago Theologi­ cal Seminary facul­ ty. Dr. Gilbert is esteemed most high­ ly as an earnest, scholarly and high- minded Christian gentleman. He oc­ cupies a chair at the. seminary and draws a salary from the church as "' a professor of New * Testament Greek. Dr. Gilbert sets rev. dr. gii>bert. aside the authority of the Old Testament, and claims that its writers were imperfect men, incapa­ ble of reflecting the divine mind. He claims that we have, by our acceptance of their writings, reflected their views, and thut, as a consequence, we now have a religion of reflection. Captain Greene is the army officer who has acted as press censor under Gen. Otis. It has been his duty to read^ the reports of newspa­ per correspondents and to see that nothing was for- w a r d e d w h i c h (bight hamper mili-' tary operations in Luzon. He has charge of the sig­ nal division, and is the controller of the Manila cable to Hong Kong. It is said he hifis made more marks with a blue pencil during the last few months than the city editor of a big newspaper would make in as many years. One year ago Mrs. Blood good, a noted contralto and stage beauty, the wife of W. D. Bloodgood, an aristocratic broker of New York, star­ tled society hy ap­ pearing at a chil­ dren's fair in St. Lonis and with an avowed charitable intention, selling her kisses to the highest bidder. The prices ranged from $100 to $500. Hei husband remon­ strated with .wife and. the num­ erous quarrels that" una, Bt.ooooooB. resulted culminated !n a suit for divorce in the New York court*. Mr. Bloodgood was, however, unsuccessful it) bis suit, the complaint that his wife sold kisses in public being" deemed too trivial. But the South Da­ kota j of the a .. v-JB.::;- :•