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CO.**. iLLiNdta OF NEWS. &0B account of the quarantine regal*- tfons neither mail nor passengers were permitted to bo landed from the steamer Oeftfc at San Francisco. The Coptic made the trip from Yokohama in fifteen days. The remains of Gen. Antonio Maceo pd Francisco Gomes, son of Gen. Max­ imo Gome*, have been exhumed and placed in a temporary shrine. The per­ manent mausoleum will be begun imme­ diately. Interest in the Baker family's troubles has been revived in Boston by the issu­ ance by Mrs. Baker of an appeal for ma­ terial assistance on the ground that she Is in poverty. She is the* widow of the pttrdered postmaster of Lake City, S. C. Advices from Sonora show that Chief Tetabiate of the Yaquis, who remained loyal to the Mexican Government in the recent Indian outbreak, was seized by the rebels and cruelly tortured, being strip­ ped, slashed with knives and his body mutilated. Dr. C. K. Harris, a young physician, was assassinated at Jaeger, W. Va. He Was going to bed, when A. J. Mann, liv­ ing near by, stole up in front of the house and fired at him through a window. Har­ ris dropped dead with a bullet hole through his heart. Mann fled, but was captured. it'c aa4. QteitaitiMt "% Ml I I| ~V • tMNii freight train. The accl#Sirjli,;;waa caused by a misunderstanding of noitiers. Massachusetts ProhibHAoniats have nominated the following State ticket: Governor, John W. Baer, Medford; 8ms retary of State, John B. Lewis, Reading; Treasurer, Herbert B. Griffin, Winthrop; Auditor, Franklin A. Palmer, Stock- bridge. John King and his wife, an aged couple of Fiskdale, Mass., were killed by their son Peter, who was erased from the ex­ cessive use of liquor. The skulls of both were crushed by a heavy instrument. The murderer also attempted to kill his brother. The Richardson & Ross Asphalt Block and Tile Works at Philadelphia was de­ stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $100, 000. The blaze was caused by the boiling over of crude oil and asphalt. Albert EL Lewis, a fireman, wn s^vefcely injured by falling girder. Fifteen hundred members of the Amal­ gamated Journeymen House Painters' Association went on strike at Philadel­ phia in consequence of the failure of the master painters to sign the agreement presented them by the association. The union demands an eight-hour work day at 35 cents an hour. WESTERfc. Lv. With a newspaper train carrying the place. New York Sunday papers and consisting Of three baggage cars and a locomotive, the Lackawanna Railroad beat all ree- ords between New York and Buffalo for ft train, covering the 410 miles in the ac­ tual running time of 'seven hours and twenty-three minutes. . Alfred Day, representing a Philadel­ phia syndicate, is shipping men and ma­ terial to Alaska for the construction of the second railroad in that territory. The road is to be fifteen miles long and to be used in connection with the development of 25,000 acres of coal lands on Kachke- mo bay, Cook inlet. The standing of the clubs in the Na­ tional League race is as follows: W. L. Brooklyn .. .88 38 Chicago ... 4S Pittsburg . 50 Louisville . 53New York.. 59 Washington. Penfieldtownship. Ohio, was visited by an earthquake. The Western League baseball season has closed, Indianapolis finishing in first W.L. .67 64 ' Philadelphia 83 Boston .....79 Baltimore ..74 St, Louis....75 Cincinnati . .73 .62 ,.C0 .53 48 .19 118 59 Cleveland Eight women were seriously hurt, one perhaps fatally, in a cable car accident on the Twelfth street line of the Metro­ politan street railway system at Kansas City. It was on the "incline," by which the cars descend the west bluff to the union depot. A drunken, man fell off a car, and it was stopped to pick him up. Another train crashed down the grade and telescoped it- George E. Phillips, a wealthy business man of Woodstock, N. H., disappeared on the eve of his intended sailing for Europe with his wife. He went to Boston, and with his wife visited his father-in-law in Worcester. The other morning he left the house, ostensibly to get shaved, and had the earth opened and swallowed him he could not have more mysteriously dis­ appeared. He carried a large sum of money and the police believe that he was killed and that they have a murder mys­ tery to solve. _ NEWS NUGGETS. . lL Rider Haggard gefttt to the Atlin go, A German Lacroix-sur-Me< Robert Vertigo the novelist, has Ids. arrested at tricken with ore a Hanford, authorities are con- bstion of establishing a consumptives. Fare under arrest at Guysboro, with wrecking vessels and ling insurance companies. plant of the American Fisheries at Promised Land, L. L, was syed by fire. It is said the machin­ ery was worth nearly $100,000. AgulnaSdo is reported to have refused $5,000 a year said to have been offered by the Sthurman commission, to be paid while the Tagalos remained peaceful. In a pitched battle between negro and white miners, fought in the main street of Carterville, 111., seven of the colored men were killed and two others wounded. At 3:30 o'clock the other morning the • safe of the bank at Davenport, N. D., •liver and a number of valuable papers was blown open by burglars and $200 in taken. The United States cruiser Boston has gone ont of commission at Mare Island navy yard, California. The members of her crew have either been discharged or transferred to other vessel Charles Alfred Pillsbury, one of the leading men of the Northwest and con- jptcuous as one of the founders of the flouring mills center in Minneapolis, is dead of enlargement of the stomach. . Fire almost destroyed the large build­ ing on East 128th street, New York, oc­ cupied by A. S. Nichols as a factory for wood and granite „ mantels and grates. I>amage to stock $80,000, to building 120,000. John Shepherd, a farmer, 50 years old, lend Homer Robinson, 17 years old, were instantly killed by a freight train on the r, I*high Valley Railroad at Berkshire, N. % * The men were driving across the prt .: track with a load of lumber. £ Advices from Skaguay say that three |( " 'S*°nounced earthquake shocks occurred && * < £?ere- They, were strong that clocks ^ tf "* stopped, and dishes were shaken fF0™ shelves and houses swayed, causing | their occupants to run into the streets. _The fl°ur mil,era of Tennessee, Georgia, H Kentucky ftnd in secret con- t0 advan"' ^ price of «• "Oar abottt 10 per cent on Oct. 1. " ^ ' ®ft^Tennessee has furnishwl more sol- V ' , fr&fr1 capit\ to the volunteer forces '% " has any other section of the United *•'. „ ue?.rd being one 8°ldier for , - <wery 856 inhabitants. a chair combination has been arranged for. About 85 per cent of all the manu- w . ^cturers in the country are interested in the union. The financing of the aggre­ gation is all that is necessary to permit " >n, F > , •: EASTERN. - < - <tVvv_ -- sw '/'.'-ID. B. Murdock, a retired merchaat of ' •* 'f , Pittsburg, Is dead at Queenstown. i * 4 'The residence of Samuel B. Sexton it Hyde Park, N. Y., was destroyed by tire. The loss is $60,000. ^Cornelius Vanderbilt is dead at New $*»![. Death was cansed by a stroke "of partly*!*, the second which he suffered. Rev. James C. Caldwell, a well- J&omm Preebyterian minister of Philadel- isstantly killed in a runaway nerident. »tion has been made for a new the caw of William A. E. Moore, > . y,- Henry and Alfred Stockman were killed at Beanel City, O. T„ by the explosion of dynamite. Judge Melahctbon Wade Oliver of Cin­ cinnati died suddenly at Twin Lakes, Wis. He was 75 years old. John Blauchard, for nine years editor in chief of .the Minneapolis Times, died, after an illness of several months, aged 57. The National Association of Harness- makers will meet next September in Chi­ cago. John Banholzer was elected pres­ ident. : It is stated that Mrs. Phoebe Hearst will erect at least two of the buildings of the new University of California at Berkeley. J. T. Sargent, editor of the Dakota Herald and a prominent Democratic poli­ tician, dropped dead of apoplexy at Yank­ ton, S. fit Mrs. Paul Giimore, wife of the actor, died suddenly at Dubuque of heart fail­ ure. She is survived by twin babies 2 days old. Rev. 0. H. Sproui, presiding elder of the Methodist Church for the Aberdeen district, died suddenly at Korthville, S. D.. while preaching. ( Wellington. C. Lewellyn, accused of killing Police Officers Clifford and Grif­ fiths in Denver, Colo.. Aug. 13, was ar­ rested at El Reno, O. T. Malcom T. MacAuley, formerly book­ keeper for the American Exchange Bank of Duluth, Minn., has been indicted by the grand jury for forgery. At Newark, Ohio, fifty skilled machin­ ists in the Baltimore and Ohio shops struck, their principal grievance being the employment of "scab" labor. West-bound Panhandle passenger train No. 41 ran down and instantly killed Mrs. Harrison McVety and three children at a crossing east of Logansport, Ind. The G. Meyer Grocery Company of St. Louis "has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court. The liabilities are $33,392 and assets $42,572. Peter Bateman, a prospector, has been found dead on the Harquahala 'Desert, Arizona, only three miles from water at Cullen'* wettsk- Bteath plainly had been of thirst. The National Association of Hospital Superintendents was formed in Cleve­ land. Tj^e chairman is J. S. Knowles. The object of the association is to per­ fect the conduct of hospitals of all schools of medicine in ail parts of the country. The wild man who was seen in the woods near North Baltimore, Ohio, dur­ ing the summer has been captured. The man is demented, but gives his name as Timothy Curley of Chicago. He is a powerful fellow and says he was a black­ smith. Mrs. J. M. Williams, wife of a Missouri Pacific briakeman of Sedalia, Mo., satu­ rated the clothing of herself and 2- months-old babe with coal oil and then set fire to the garments. She was burn­ ed to death and the 'babe was fatally scorched. m Private Thomas McVeigh of the First Wyoming volunteers, sentenced to death for attempting to kill an officer, has had the penalty commuted by President Mc- Kinley. He will be confined at hard labor for three years on Alcatraz Island, California. Mrs. Beatrice Markalana and her daughter, Angelina, aged 1G years, were burnedr to death and Joseph Markalana, the husband, badly injured at their home in Cleveland as a result of an attempt by the girl .to start a fire in the cook stove with coal oil. There was a big wreck on the Great Northern four miles west of Harlem, Mont. A passenger train was derailed from some unknown cause, the engine, tender, baggage and mail cars and two coaches leaving the track. Seven persons were injured. Dog-in-the-Pot, a member of the Ban­ nock tribe of Indians, committed suicide at Virginia City, Mont., because of un­ requited love. Dog-in-the-Pot was in love with Ramona, the belle of the In­ dian camp, and sought her hand in mar­ riage. His offer was rejected. The little town of North wood, N. D., was completely destroyed by fire. The blaze started in the National Hotel through carelessness, on the part of a do­ mestic, who was using gasoline. The toss is estimated at $200,000. Fifty business firms lost their entire belongings. J. T. Kretzinger, a lawyer of Chicago, was found dead in bed at the Hollen- heck Hotel, Los Angeles, Cal. A physi­ cian said the cause of death was heart disease. Mr. Ivretzinger was a member the law firm of Kretzinger, Gallagher & Rooney, Monadnock block, Chicago. In a finish of a twelve-hour champion bicycle race at Zanesville, Ohio, between Tillie Anderson, Lfuzie Glaw and Dottie Farnsworth the handlebar of Miss Glaw s wheel broke, throwing her vio- lently against a post, breaking her collar bone and causing probably fatal injuries. WASHINGTON. Un-ted States Senator Shoup of Idaho, chairman of the Senate committee on _ ; pavy y*l CHtlsens ofatiJugjjr sections will be disap­ pointed to lettn tbat the appropriation atailable for the «xt*Bsk>n of tlie free delivery sorvtcrfeaa beeft m* that the. Postottc* P.partm<»|; iasned notice titot the service eaii»t: jfe further extended until Congrees Hut mmi» a new allowance. July 1 $800,000 Be­ came available for the service, one-half being set apart for the maintenance of the service then in existence. Of the $100,000 left for the extension of the serrlee $18,000 remains, and this will t>e Jfejr emergencies. Sgf-kj FOREIGN. Bain has improved the crop ontlooit In western India, and the fears of a famine have been remoVed. The British Association for the Ad­ vancement of Science has granted £1,- 000 toward the expenses of an antarctic expedition. A cyclone swept over Bermuda recent­ ly. Houses wve blown down and others were unroofed. No lives were lost, but heayy damage was done to public and private property, fruit and cedar trees. A dispatch from Kobe, Japan, says that the captain of the United States transport Morgan City says there are good prospects of saving the vessel and that divers have been engaged to try to float her. Advices from K,alisch, in Russian Po­ land, say that thirty-two persons were crushed to death in a panic in a syna­ gogue there, caused by the upsetting of a lamp. The victims were all women and children. Many others were injured. The rapid rise of the rivers Salzach, Ems and Traun has,flooded Upper Aus­ tria, interrupting road and railway com­ munications. At Ischi and Ebensee sev­ eral bridges have been destroyed and many families have been driven from their houses. Dr. Edward Bedloe of Philadelphia, United States consul at Canton, has been cleared of the charges preferred against him by the Chinese Government and, it is said, will be either restored to his post in Canton or clothed with an office in the consular service equally as important. A monument commemorating the Schleswig wars was unveiled at Copen­ hagen. Denmark, In the presence of King Christian, the Cxar, the Czarina, the dowager empress of Russia, the King of Greece, the Princess of Wales and other members of the Danish royal family. Neither the State Department nor the German embassy has any official advices on the reported acquisition of a large tract of land nearly 1,000 miles square in Brazil by the German Government. The report probably grows out of the work of colonization societies in Brazil. *tN GENERAL. / Alaska, has a bso rbed Itfr rtval city, Dyea. Fishermen 'Who have returned from the cod fishing grounds on 'the Labrador coast report an almost absolute failure. The arctic steamer Windward has ar­ rived at Brigus, N. F., with news that Peary has established winter quarters at Fort Conger.- A Hamilton, Ohio, firm has shipped to Yokohama for the Japanese Government equipment for one of the finest paper mills in the world. Owing to the laws of Mexico prohibit­ ing the removal of bodies from that conn- try until two years after death, the body of Frank Ivest, the former champion bil­ liard player, who died at Progreso, ban- not be brought to this country for burial. Adjt. Gen. William C. Liller of the Spanish war veterans, received a tele­ gram from Miss Helen M. Gould, who was unanimously elected national spon­ sor of the Spanish War Veterans' Asso­ ciation, thanking . the" society foe the honor. At Sydney, N. S. W., Right. Hon. George Houston Reid, the premier, treas­ urer and minister of railways, and the other members of the cabinet resigned in consequence of the action of the assem­ bly, which passed a resolution declaring a lack of confidence in the ministry. The first authentic news of the disaster to the Jessie party, which occurred at the mouth of^ the Knskowim in June, 1898, and by which fourteen persons lost their lives, was brought to St. Michaels, Alaska, by Dr. Romig of the Romig mis­ sion at Bethel. Dr. Romig had with him many articles taken from the bodies of those washed ashore at different points. Six bodies are reported to have been found. The steamer Cleveland has been libeled for $5,400 by eighteen second-class pas­ sengers who arrived at Seattle from St. Michaels, Alaska. The suit grows out of trouble the vessel had between St. Mi-' chaels and Dutch Harbor, when^ by rea­ son of running short of coal, the second- class passengers were employed to break up for fuel all the loose lumber and su­ perfluous woodwork on the vessel. In addition to their wages libelants sue for damages for the discomforts suffered on the voyage in consequence of poor Sleep­ ing accommodations. IBINW Amibly lipfllMe #br the' Diversity of Weaa e|t£ Xhtereate Represented --t%» Ti-anagort Tartar le Permitted to Clear from Hoag XOSB, When FraJtefai H. Head, president of the Civic Ft iffiulon of Chicago, called to order tMvftjipiiti conference on truata and comMtqjttolie Wednesday morning not all the aimts In Oeotml Music- Hall were take0. >Many delegates had not ar­ rived in .OUiMeo. Xuch time was taken up in giiflipflug'. an organisation after the introdM&ry addresses by President Head Of tht Civie Federation, Dr. How­ ard &twpreaenting Chicago,̂ and Attorney General Akin, representing Illi­ nois. y Thirty-five States were represented, the calling of namos occupying one hour's time. It waa afternoon before any move was made toward preparing a program or permanent orgnnifcation. As soon as President :BEtad announced that the meet­ ing watt li«# in the hand« of the conven­ tion it became apparent there was to be a clash in the selection of a committee on program. First came a motion, which was lost, that a delegate from each State be appointed to form the committee on program. It was unanimously decided that the committee on program be comprised of one delegate from each State appointed by the Governors and from each organ­ ization represented, said committee to be selected by delegates in private confer­ ence at the midday adjournment of the convention. This matter being settled, President Head announced that, the Civic Federation had already prepared the morning program hi two papers, short ones, to be read by Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks and Prof. Henry Carter Adams on "Problems Before the Conference," and requested the indulgence of the confer­ ence to hear them before the morning ad­ journment. • The first day's sessions of the confer­ ence on combinations and trusts proved INiftS KRUQBB m PiThL, KKUAXIA. Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic, is the man of the hour. Oom Paul, as everybody calls him, is a unique figure in hbstery. Bismarck called bltn the greatest natural diplomat he had ever met. Although a dictator he Hves in democratic simplicity in hie own house in Pretoria. He xfaes at break of day, and afteryfcfa cup ef coffee and daily Bible reading, steps out upon the porch to greet his regular morning audience, which be­ gins to accumulate before sun up. He goes to the Government buildings at 9, attended by a bodyguard of six armed po­ licemen. Returning at 4, he sits on the veranda, smoking his old wooden pipe. His only beverage is coffee, and of this he drinks a great deal. "When I am thirsty I drink coffee and smoke; when I am thinking I smoke and drink coffee," he says. His religions creed ie austere, HTHE AWAKENfNQ OF JUSTICE IN FRANCE. --Chicago Trib territories, has gone to Alaska to study the legislative needs of that territory. The armor for the battleship Wiscon­ sin, in course of construction at the Lnlou iron woi'ks, San Francisco, is now arriving, but the vessel will not be turn­ ed ovei to the Government until next spring. ' According to a Washington dispatch to the Memphis Eommercial-Appeal Chief Justice Chamber* of Samoa has handed ^ i ^ ' / '/ $" <i „ MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 32c: oats. No. 2. 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c; butter, choice creamery, 21e to 23c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, choice, 4fl« to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 34c, oats, No? 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4-50; wheat, No. 2, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 80c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 24c to 2f»e; rye, No. 2, 54c to 5«c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25: wheat. No. 2, C9c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, tiOc to 62c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 23s to 25c; rye. 58c to 60c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 69c te 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32e to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye.i.No. 2, 56c to 58c: clover seed, new. $4.85 to $4.95. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, -CiSc to 70c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1, 56c to 5Hc; barley, No. 2, 44c to 40c; pork, nleas, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.25; ho|s, common to choice, $3.25 $S $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wetb ers. f%50 to $4.75: iambs, common t« extri conclusively the widespread interest in the subject of discussion, as well as the breadth of information, the variety of opinion and the diversity of aim on the part of the delegates. It made it clem- that the conference met a great natioiral need, and that whether it results in rec­ ommendations for legislation or not, it will be" in every sense a success. The three sessions of the conferenee developed impassioned arraignments of trusts, and equally vigorous defeases of them. The day was more notable, however, for the thorough and scholarly statement of the many problems to be met by college men who have long given the subject careful study. The conference was organized by the delegates themselves, and taken out of the hands of the Oivic Federation. Of the permanent officers elected more were opposed to trusts than favorable to them. It appeared that the majority of the dele­ gates believed that the trusts were evil in many of their effects, but also that they believed these evils could be removed by constructive legislation. On the .whole, the proceedings fulfilled every require­ ment of fair aad free discussion. Anti­ trust delegates perfected an informal sep­ arate organisation in the evening, but there waa no Indication that any one fac­ tion desired to secure an unfair advan­ tage orn the others in the control of the conferenoe. - Attendance at Thursday's session was much larger than Wednesday. Many prominent delegates arrived during the night and were given seats at the open­ ing of the morning session. The great nationul conference on com­ binations and trusts has met with the most sanguine expectations of the pro­ moters, the officers of the Civic Federa­ tion of Chicago. Although many leading lights, who were expected to attend, failed to put in ai%appearunce, the distinguished gathering at Central Music Hall fully justified the great purpose for which It was intended. .This great meeting, at­ tended by this country's most distinguish­ ed statesmen, orators and deep thinkers, will be handed down in history as one of the most notable gatherings in the nineteenth century. - ^ • . PHILADELPHIA SHOW OPEN. National Expo«itioii Pnt In Operation by Frti'deiit McKlaler. Thursday morning at 8 o'clock Presi­ dent Mc Kin ley, by pressing an electric button in the White House, put in motion the machinery at the national exposition^ in Philadelphia. This act opened the exposition to the public. Although han­ dicapped in point of time, marvels have been accomplished, and when the gate* were thrown open the exposition was in as good shape to receive visitors as any big show that has been held in this coun­ try during recent years. FOUR CLAIM A FORTUNE. fonr Mm. SnttoM the Blchos'of m Stead Klondike Miner* Four wives claim the estate of William H. Sutton, wtio died in the Forty-Mile district,, Alaska,, leaving a fortune of half • million. Three of them are at present "Ml*- Huhna Sutton, Mrs. ~ and Mrs. Donna Bruce description sent by Mrs. n Is thought to be from the but simple. Whatever God sends is right and most be endured without a murmur. TARTAR 16 RELEASED. Transport Allowed to Clear by the British AatHoritio*. Clearance papers have bc#n allowed the Tartar at Hong Kong. It is supposed clearance was allowed upon the sugges­ tion of the British foreign office to the British governor at Hong Kong that It would be unwise to interfere with Amer­ ican transports. The War Department waa officially notified Wedneeday morning of the de­ tention at Hong Kong by the British au­ thorities of the transport Tartar, which they claimed to be overcrowded with men. Gen. Otis cabled the facts. The captuin of the vessel also cabled from Hong Kong. The Tartar is a British vessel and shows the British ensign over her stern to indicate her nationality, although the United States drmy transport Hag flies at her masthead. Her regular service ,was between Victoria and Hong Kong. It is declared that her charter by the United States Government divested her of her mercantile character and made her, for the time being, a regular American war vessel, and as such, under the Ge« neva convention, entitled to full extra territoriality throughout the world. Officials in Washington deny that Great Britain has any jurisdiction over the transport Tartar, and Ambassador Choate was cabled to make strong repre- fMmmm .25 to 10.50; hoS«, p, $3.00 to $5.00; to 76c; corn, No.-2, white, 28c to 20c; to 24c; eggs, west wheat. 38c to DCU10 MVUO %*} UIC SiJ IUSU vwveruuiwii on the subject. Overcrowding is also denied, it being pointed out that remodeling the ship increased her passenger accommoda­ tions by 50 per cent. "JUST OBSERVE YOUR UNCLE THEM* --Chicago Journal. vv--.y . • . 1 mi „f.«* ^ Oddaand Bad* r ' Mail carriers will meet in Detroit in JOOO. Tramps are said to have wsecked tho freight at ©orry. Pa. Maee Johnson, colored, Monroe City, Mo., celebrated his 127th birthday. Chicago Bward of Education has decid­ ed to have &#nish taught In'three of her Ugh school* - Btaeke. Floe fsr Tbcir LIvmi but Aa*I j|jr. B*Ilota;«f. Wbite Sent to *wthe#»loo4ahSd. In a pitched battle between negro and wMtt miners, fought in iSs&S W9Whd«4v It wtfs -only Monflsy of previous week that the State iniL™, . ;#W*fe«!Sd -been on duty there foraovet*!; tfaduawn, frbeitt^-e«*?M-' took new %w, Sunday's the culmhl ffto®. %*h sill twist that the other hraa responsi­ ble for the deadly combat. Thirteen non-union colored miners left their homed at Brush's minea, north of the town, shortly before noon and came down to the Illinois Central station in­ tending to take the Paducah express for Marion. It has been the custom of Brush's non-union negro miners for sev­ eral weeks, or a squad of twelve of fif­ teen of them, to go to Marian every Sun­ day, remain for the night services at the colored churdi and return home on the 11;10 p. m. train. These negroes had been at the Carterville station only a few minutes when twenty-fire or thirty union miners, most of them armed with rifles, appeared on the scene. When they came up they found several of the negroes in­ side the waiting room, the remainder on the platform. The black men were immediately or­ dered by the white miners to leave there and to leave at once. The order was soon repeated to them, with another order to leave the town and that quickly. Ac­ cording to unprejudiced witnesses, the negroes commenced to obey the orders, going northwest on the railroad tracks. •When they had proceeded about 100 yards to where the main street of the town crosses the railroad tracks one of the negroes turned, drew his revolver and fired back at the crowd, which was then advancing toward them. This was a signal - for a general on­ slaught by the white miners. They open- id a deadly fire on the negroes, who scat­ tered like scared sheep. The white min­ ora fired over 100 shots at the fleeing ne­ groes, and it is said that many shots were fired at them from the windows of houses and from barns and outhouses. Every few minutes one of the fleeiug meu would stagger, throw up his hands and topple to the earth. The pursuers did not stop, but kept up their rain of lead until the few survivors had gotten beyond range. These dead negroes fell along the rail­ road track not more than 200 yards from the station. The infuriated miners followed up their bloody work and those of the unfortunate negroes who were not killed when they first fell were afterward riddled with bul­ lets at short range or clubbed to death with the butts of guns. Two of the wounded managed to get away from the scene of slaughter and walked to within a Short distance of the mines, where their dead bodies were found later in the day. This clash is the outcome of differences between the operators and union continu­ ing over several years. The strike has been more for a recognition of the union than because of wages. Rioting, begin­ ning in June last, resulted in the calling out of State troops, which were with­ drawn from the town only a week before. Gov. Tanner, on receipt of the news of the riot, immediately ordered Lieut. Low- den of Company C of Carbondale to pro­ ceed with his command at once to Car­ terville, procuring a special train if nec­ essary. Two companies of the Fourth regiment, under command of Col. Ben­ nett, were also ordered to the scene of the trouble. KANSAS' GREAT CORN CROP. Yield la the LcrfMt la History. The 1899 Kansas corn crop is ready for harvesting and the number of bushels yielded is far in excess of that ever pro­ duced by any other State of the Union In any one year or by any equal area of the world. The acreage of the State was 9,132,000 acres. The last report of the United States Agricultural Department gave the condition at 106,,putting the State far in the lead of all other States. The condi­ tion was vastly improved since that esti­ mate was made. Kansas has raised 400,000,000 bushels of corn. The human mind fails to grasp the meaning of the expression. To move the crop would require 22,500 trains of cars, giving forty cars to the train. Were each car forty feet long, each train would equal 1,600 feet in length without loco­ motive and caboose, then multiplying the 22,500 trains by 1,600 feet, the length of each train,.we have 360,000,000 feet. Di­ viding that number by the number of feet per mile, to wit, 5,280, it makes 6,818 miles, twice the distance from New York to London. BERMUDA SWEPT BY STORM. Great Dam a tee to Property but No Loss of Life, The Island of Bermuda was swept by a hurricane Wednesday night, which, though resulting in no loss of life, caus­ ed damages to property that will run well into the thousands. The storm raged all night and many buildings were wrecked, including the Government house. It was the worst blow since the hurricane of 1880. There was considerable damage done at'the military camp, where the city ball, public gardens and- hotels were wrecked, and at the dock yards alone the loss is estimated at £100,000. It is a curi­ ous coincidence that the great gale of 1839 occurred on Sept. 11 and 12, and this one was on Sept. 12 and 13. Woten of Current Kvento,. Severe drouth in northern Texas has heen broken. Glass tableware trust formed at J*itt»- burg, Pa. Capital $4,000,000. A line of electric omnibuses has just been started in Berlin, Germany. Silk mill belonging to Julius Brandts, Paterson, N. J., bnrned. Loss $25,000. Georgia has furnished more men for the Philippines than any other State. Terrace House and eleven cottages, Terrace Park, N. Y., burned. Los* &¥),- 000. A. B. Grubb, in Wise County, Virginia, .Wiled Walter Marrow, who loved Mrs. Grubb. Congressman OI instead, Harrisburg, Pa., will marry Miss Gertrude Howard, Lynchburg, Va. Officials at the American embassy, Lon­ don, do not expect war between Englaad and the Transvaal. - James Hoheimer and wife, Annie, in­ dicted on the charge of murdering Ernest Vogel, Owensboro, Ivy. A new counterfeit $2 «ilv«v certificate has been discovered. It is of the 1890 series, check letter "C," Brace register, Roberts treasurer. official urt t there the city, and < 3 . ;, V s .'-r *6, ' '< " "vV' • 4" * " «T* C ^ J**- Jf; ^ gfrpl<hi!t ; the t east andth* '• plana ' the Congressional Library standing room for the expected as spectators. will be a general illuniinatioa and a torchlight parade of civic organizations. Hie ceremony will1 take place immediately after tha reception In ffew'-Xork. ' ' " J -- S - . . < * r . An informal understanding has been reached for ft temporary agreement onn, the Alaekan boundary. The boundary \ •. ] , line is to form a temporary barrier only, ?; , and its location wiil not prejudice the:-%^ i- Government case of either country. The1: '4 modus vivendi provides for a line run-: ning just northward of Kluckwan, andSji? It bars out Ckmada entirely from the Lynn[4 ' -; canal. Arrangements of a temporary character may yet he made, however, to« v.' permit the Canadians to get their goods: '"1 1 across the border, but the jftotocpl as now'< ^ drawn does not provide for such a free;' • i port. The boundary line under the modus vivendi Is a slight concession to Canada,, • v but it is still far inside of the British*, * claim and Is in substance the American^, r>'- line. ' . --t- ' Chinese missionaries, some of theth at .̂\ ^ present at home, are back of a scheme *1.! to transplant a modern sawmill fromS New York State to Wu Hu, China. Amer-lf, ican, English and Chinese residents of|: Wu Hu are said to take kindly to the,' proposition, and Li Hung Chang is quot-j ed as having given his consent, and along with it a check for $2,000 for stock In the new enterprise. There Is no modem sawmill in all China, and lumber is saw-I. ed there by the most antiquated methods. | It is said that the value of the proposed^ mill as an object lesson for the natives - will be important, and that for this rea­ son the Government ia looking up?n the;. plan with favor. • There was more go& in ;the^^treasury!, Thursday than the Government has ever had before at one time. The net gold and bullion, Including $100,000,000 re-^ served for redemption of United States ; notes, as reported at the Treasury De­ partment on that day was $251,618,132. The amount never reached $200,000,000 r 1 until August la«t year, when It was a." /J little more than $217,000,000. The actual \ Jj amount of gold coin in the treasury Thurs-jjS;|r1| day was $195,812,840, and of gold bul-1 lion $128,904^21, making a total of $324,-. 4 717,661, against which gold certificates' to the value of $73,099,529 are outstand- ; fj "»*• , . - .f;}, - - • Accoî inf official̂ , rqports at Alio State* DeimriSnent, steps nave'heen taken. to break down the quinine truet, organise-•"'pi ed by German manufacturers. Recently some of the largest and most influential planters in JitVa have organised to control the supply In such a way as to keep the raw material out of the hands of the pyn- dicote and have begun to fffcourage direct trade with the United States. Factories have been established in Java, and since last January, when the new trade begun, 265,000 ounces of sul- . „ phate of quinine have been shipped direct ̂ to this-country. % The people of Florida and Georgia are« N urging very strongly upon the Secretary, . of War the organization of colored regi- >^sj ments for service in the West Indies or' the Philippines, claiming that the black race is peculiarly fitted for serviee hi the: hot countries. In Georgia alone it is claimed that ten regiments of colored troops could be raised within twenty days. United States Senator^ members of Congress and Governors of States are back of the movement and hava jaaitgd in a petition to the Secretary* tt \ It will take more than halfa tnttli&e dollars to repair ships of war during the current fiscal year. The available appro­ priation amounts to $3,000,000, and Rear. Admiral Hichborn, the chief constructor of the navy, says that sum will not suf­ fice for a longer period than six months. He wiil endeavor to make it hold out until Congress meets in December, when the Navy Department Will submit a de­ ficiency estimate of fully $8,000,000 t« carry the work on until July, 1900. When Gen. Shatter retires as a briga­ dier general in the regular army next month he will be continued as a major general of volunteers as a reward for his services around Santiago. The vacant brigadier generalship will probably go to Gen. Lawton. Brig. Gen. Anderson and Maj. Gen. Merritt of the regular estab­ lishment will retire in the next six months, and this will make two new brig­ adiers, who are likely to be Mac Arthur and Wheaton. The blanks for writing tho the Cuban census are twice as'1a the blanks for the same purpose in this country. This grows out of the fact that f the Spanish names are usually about " "p"4' twice as long as American and English names. In Spain it is the general cus­ tom to give a child the surname of hia < < .?»| father and of hia mother, apd this cus­ tom has been follpwed in Cuba for a great many years. rm*. Arrangements have been mad* through the regular diplomatic channels for tho resumption of commercial relations with Spain. To this end Minister Storer at Madrid has been instructed to take such steps as will lead to the usual commer­ cial treaties between this country and Spain. • . .. MID BY THE SOUTH. E Section Famishes More Volunteer* thin Does the Sortie Adjutant General Corbin is making np a statement showing the contributions of the various States and territories to the volunteer army. He makes the surpris­ ing announcement that Georgia has fur­ nished more volunteers than any other State in the country, her quota exceed­ ing that of Illinois by nearly 200 men. He says that in general the South has furnished more men relative to popula­ tion than the North. The District of Co­ lumbia has furnished the largest percent­ age of any State or territory compared with its population. Among the North­ ern States- Massachusetts leads, while Wisconsin makes a« exceedingly yoor showing, ^ 'i t'