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•ip co, wm. McHEHRY, ILLINOia kVA.' W: \ /v, SUMMARY OF NEWS. kt Brason, Minn., Miss Trank, 67 jPNlrs old, tried to climb over a stock train while on her way to church, wben the tntfn started with her on the bumpers .%*><* carried her to Willmar, thirty miles away, in fifty minutes. The Berliner Tageblatt declares that the German Government intends to doa­ ble the strength of the navy. The reason given is the great increase of the navy In America, which is evidently destined to become a great sea power. %r. H. Greer, United States deputy revenue officer, was shot by Bill Hunni- cuit, a noted moonshiner, and died near Slk Park, X. C. Deputy Sheriff Wftt Phillips was fatally shot hy Hunnicutt an attempt aft arrest was made. By clever work Capt. Sehmittberger and his detectives have captured three of the boldest wire tappers and pool room swindlers, ever apprehended in New York. The police also hold a 16-year-old girl who helped the men in their work. In a wreck near Langtry, Texas, caus­ ed by a double header freight train breaking in two, J. It, Constable of Han­ nibal, Mo., and Patrick Cullen of Del- rio, Texas, were killed. Trainmen B. L. Glenn and Felix Rimmett were badly hurt. At Forsythe, Mo., Alexander Kesse, aged TO years, who married 15-year-old Dora Garrett, has been granted a di­ vorce. The child wife's maiden name Wat, restored and she was granted $4,000 alimony. The couple lived together «mly about a week, The sheep pens at the Kansas City stock yards, covering an entire block, were destroyed by fire. <100 sheep being cremated. Four firemen were seriously injured by falling walls, and one of them, Charles Peterson, may die. The loss la estimated at $30,000. - In an address to Southern cotton man­ ufacturers and planters at Charlotte, N. C., John Barrett, former United States minister to Siam. said the time will soon come when the far East will consume all the surplus cotton, manufactured or raw, that the South can produce. Michael Hatal, a magician, died in BeHerne hospital. New York, from bal­ let wounds inflicted by his assistant, Frank Beqya, in an east side hall, while they were performing a feat of magic in which Hatal was to have seemingly ©aught in his teeth bullets fired at him from a gun by Benya. , New Boston, three miles east of Ports­ mouth. Ohio, was almost wiped oat by lire. The blaze started in the Portsmouth Heel Company's factory and spread to that of the Standard Shoe Company. •Riese wesre entirely destroyed. The fire was caused by an explosion of chemicals. The loss is about $25,000. Bradstreet's commercial report says: "As regards the current activity in trans­ portation. it may be said that east-bound traffic from Chicago in the last month has been more than double that reported in the same period a year ago, and nearly twit® as large as that reported in Octo­ ber of 1892, Record period of good trade. lets decreasing in er, among the metals, l££aJ»!e, the latter claim- Jtfftloetion approaching |f$Fith demand. The sit- Ind steel is perhaps the most notable one yet presented. The fea­ ture of the market is the reported book­ ing by the steel rail mills of the country of nearly 75 per cent of their capacity for nett.yfafs delivery. In all 1,500,000 tone of rails are reported to have been booked. Wheat, including flour, ship­ ments for the woek aggregate 6,416,405 bushels, against 4,160,018 bushels last week, and 5,560,991 bushels in the corre­ sponding week of 1898. Corn exports aggregate 4,525,519 bushels, against 5,- 058,697 bushels last week and 2,424,376 boshels in this week a year ago." ed to%e inereto* nation iron p. ' ' W£W3 NUGGET8. i * Howard Fairehild Berkley of St. Louis, P5 : » #'<Jornell sfeudent, was drowned in the f. canal at Geneva, N. Y. Lawrence Godkin, editor of the New. ^••>5*4]' York Evening Post, has severed his con- ~ nectioe with that paper. " Marconi's wireless telegraphy was test- Vy * . «d Suecessfnl'l^ 'be tween the warships , New York and Massachusetts, jfc - Ex-Tfeflstyrpr Frank Parker of Vernon * County, Missouri, lias pleaded guilty to ; • Jhorta&e of $20,000 in county funds. 211 Brig. Gen. Guy V. Henry, U. S. A., until recently governor general of Porto Rico, died at New York, of pneumonia^ .. Christopher C. Chew, 49 years old, a Ww;1'"- department store owner of Camden, N. %!"/'< X, committed suicide by shooting himself. I Twenty men and boys were bedd up by WX-- highwayman on a box car going trough the Otoe Indian reservation, and the robber secured considerable booty, fer* >i * The entire family of John Reccius, a merchant of Louisville, Ky., was poison- f.,\ ed by eating sardines. Mr. Raccius and •> .s: , bis three children were desperately ill for sometime. ,"4 Lem Jackson, aged 85 years, an eccen- |,f trie mountaineer of Greene County, Ten- i 1 * aeesee, was shot to death by three mask- men and robbed of $000. His son is •I charged with complicity in the crime, 'v, * M James M. McCullough and his fam- ^•a were engaged in making sorghum ffif * ' ,-y Poteau, I. T., two small children ac- :}• , _ jndentally fell into the large vat of boil- ,<-? fog molasses and wore cooked to death. V*/' ' , In Philadelphia, the triangular block >• 1 bounded by Canal and Second streets and 2f7naDt?un ?venue was almost entirely ' < destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of more "toa-n $150,000, on which tbere is a par- r.;, t; ,.*iai insurance. . .Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian premier, 'does not indorse the opinion that the * , , temporary agreement on the Alaska .-boundary is to be permanent, 'i - , Walter Ford, who murdered his sweet- , ; fceart, Lucinda Moore, in June, 1898, was Hanged at Waco, Texas. He died with- «Wt faltering, saying he was going ' (straight to heaven. w-'. ' '• ' The United States Circuit Court of •j^4v • Appeals hfcs l-efused a rehearing in the (*%*•*'mse ot Wilkins of Washington, « l D. C., and Howard Butler of Philadei- ^ phia, defendants in the famous oleoma r- : , giriae cases. • EASTERN. . y L. Davis, the negro song writer, 1 la dead at New York. . New York Central Railway will buy j • 12,000 new freight cars. Frank L. Henry, a well-kn'owe New ^4' .^°rk banker, is dead, aged 40. - > Greater New York has 476,717 voters, p" Recording to the registration just com- ®leted- ii'i* undergraduate kissed a shopgirl ' \t "tn a cafe. Each was seat to Jail for fif- t days. ,.^AX Wakefield, Mass.. fire destroyed I# • • 4 H. Hafhaway'c latfe arable,, witb its nluMe contents; an engbia IMMNW ths ^arUas block. Porter's la«B4or *ad •grMrdw^liog bouses. like loat exceeds Harry St Clair, pdae «iarri«d man of Rochester. N. Y., wi» sentenced hy Judge Sutherland on a Charge of bigamy. 8t Clair pleaded guilty and was sent to Au­ burn prison for five years, one year for every wife he had married. The Butler accommodation train on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad ran into a freight train at Undercliff, Pa. The passengers escaped with a severe shaking up, but four trainmen were seri­ ously injured. The accident was due to the heavy fog and a misunderstanding of signals. A There are more than 1,000 loaded grain cars in the freight yards of Boston wait­ ing to unload and be returned to the West, where a car famine exists. The Avar in South Africa is responsible for this condition. About thirty ocean freight­ ers out of that port have been taken by the British admiralty, and since their withdrawal the grain elevators there have been crowded so full not another carload can be stored in them. More grain comes iu every day from the West than can be shipped out, and very soon Boston will have more loaded cars than it can take'care of. ^ 1 4:'*v • WESTERN • Chief. tfcf Pplioe Whit* Omaha is dead. A: Rev. P. M. McCabe of Waseca, Minn., is dead. \ " Postmaster Ira C. Crawford of Day­ ton, Ohio, is dead, flged 60. Nebraska's corn , yield, 244,125,093 bushels, breaks State's records. A company with $10,000,000 capital will control Joplin-Galena zinc mines. Mrs. Mary Ruby, a sister of Car­ son, died at Warrensburg, Mo., aged S7. John K. Pollard, United States consul at Monterey, Mexico, died at Carthage, Ohio. ^ A Sunta Fe cattle train was wrecked at Argonia, Kan. Two hundred head of cattle were killed, and 100 more crip­ pled. One*trian was killed and one probably fatally injured by the collision of a Chi­ cago General Electric car with a lumber wagon in Chicago. F. R. Leonard, G. C. Webeter,N E. J. Fisher and E. C. Kester of Chicago have arrived at San Francisco with gold from the Cape Nome district of Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Deering of Chicago, who had been lost in the snow in northern Colorado for a week, safely reached a ranch on Williams river. Andrew Carnegie has offered to donate $50,000 to the city of Duluth to erect a building for the free public library con­ ditioned upon a satisfactory site being provided by the city. Five prominent Mormons were a nested at Richfield, Utah, and fined on the charge of polygamy. The court warned all that the fines imposed were not to be regarded as a criterion. At Findlay, Ohio, the city home and hospital building was destroyed by fire. By heroic work the helpless patients were removed, the last being taken out but a moment before the walls fell. The loss is $50,000. At the National Hereford Association show at Kansas City, John Sparks of Reno, Nev., paid $2,500 for Armour Rose, a blooded Hereford heifer. This is the highest price ever paid for a Here­ ford heifer. Five masked men, armed with a heavy plank, broke in the door of Warren Irvin's residence in Harris township, Ind., bound all the occupants, and then robbed the house of several hundred dol­ lars in money, watches and jewelry. At Paris, Mo., Alexander Jester was indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree. His alleged victim was Gil­ bert Gates, brother of John W. Gates of Chicago, who disappeared twenty miles west of Paris in 1871 while in company with Jester. Farmers all over Kansas are calling for help to gather the big corn crop. In Marshall County many women have gone into the fields, assisting the men in gath­ ering crops. It is estimated that 500 Kansas women have been engaged in gathering corn. City Councilman J. L. Reilly of Cleve­ land has fallen heir to $80,000. Four years ago, while in San Antonio, Texas, Mr. Reilly stopped a runaway team, probably saving the life of the driver, John Wallace, a wealthy farmer of Palmer, Texas. The dead body 'of Rupert Hoffman, aged 70, was found in a shed at Pleas­ ant Run, Ohio. He had been dead sev­ eral days. There were two large gashes in the throat. Hoffman was by common report a miser, and it is thought he Was murdered for his money. The Spruce Mining Company has filed articles, with a capital of $1,000,000, to open and operate the Eveleth Townsite mine, which was discovered under the village of Eveleth, Minn., and from over the top of which the removal of the vil­ lage has just been completed. Herman Hundhausen was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment by a jury in Judge Baker's court in Chicago as an accomplice of Richard Honeck for the murder of Walter F. Koeller, who Was stabbed to death at Is boarding house in that city the evening of Sept. 2. As a Rapid Railway line car, Detroit bound from Mount Clemens, was crossing Beaufait street, Detroit, it was run into by a freight train. Conductor Tony Schneider of Mount Clemens was killed. There were twenty-five passengers on the car, many of whom were injured, several very severely. M. C. Campbell, chairman of the Kan­ sas State live stock sanitary commission, says that Kansas will have no open sea­ son for Southern cattle this year, aut cattle from south of the quarantine line may be admitted into the State from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31 on passing a satisfac­ tory inspection. An attempt was made near Watertown, 8. D., to wreek a train on the Chicago and Northwestern by placing obstructions on the tracks, consisting of planks spiked down and ties piled across and braced with iron bars. A boy named McDowell discovered the obstruction, secured a lan­ tern and stopped the train. Otto P. Th. Grantz, owner of the strike southwest of Deadwood, S. D., has re­ turned home from Denver, where he went with a carload of ore to be treated. Mr. Grantz has announced that he re­ ceived $79,000 in cash for his ore, mak­ ing it the richest carload of ore ever shipped from the Black Hills. Sidney Clarke, chuirman, has issued a call for a meeting in Oklahoma City Nov. ' of the Oklahoma statehood executive committee, "for the purpose of taking such action as may be deemed best to se­ cure the passage of an enabling act by Congress providing for the admissio nof Oklahoma into the Union as a State." brains dan, sfeot and kilted Janie and then blew out his ov saloon at Paducah, Ky. At Pinckney, Ala., John Franklin, a miner, choked his sleeping wife to death and then went into the woods near bis home and blew out bis brains with a pistol. A charter was issued at Charlestown, W. Va., to the American Mineral Mud Bath and Hotel Company of Chicago, with a subscribed capital of $1,000,000, to be increased to $2,000,000. The in­ corporators are E. W. Settle and others of Chicago. Fourteen people were burned to death at Faires, Ala. The dwellings of Harry Goodlow and Samuel Smithson were burned and all the occupants of both houses perished. The families formed part of a colony that had recently settled in that region. They were from Iowa* FOREIGN. Siecle says that M. Jalee Cambon, French ambassador to the United States, will not go to Vienna to represent France, as has been reported, but will return to Washington. Telegrams from Brussels announce that in the Transvaal legation circle it i« stated that France and Russia will not permit the annexation of the Transvaal and Orange Free State to England. Russia, it has been learned, has at last agreed to arbitrate with the United States the claim resulting from the seis- iire of sealers in the Bering Sea, which has been pending for about eight years. H. B. Christie and W. O. Criek, Lon­ don brokers' clerks, charged with stealing £10,700 in Buenos Ayres bonds and flee­ ing to Canada, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to three and fotrf years' impris­ onment respectively. Anti-Semitic riots broks out at Halles- chau, Moravia. Jewish houses were ston­ ed, stores were pillaged, a bouse was burned and the gendarme charged the rioters, killed three persons and injured several others. The military finally re­ stored order. Intelligence is brought by the Rtnsa Maru that a recent typhoon proved even more disastrous on land than on sea. In Tokyo and Yokohama it raged with great fierceness. Hundreds of houses were wrecked in all districts, though the storm seems to have been attended with less loss of life than usual. The German ship Erik Rickmers, Cap­ tain Wurthmann, Bankkok for Bremen, struck Sciily Rocks in a thick fog and foundered. All on ooard were saved. She was a steel vessel of 1,952 tons, hail­ ing from Bremerhaven. The French bark Paramo, Captain Jeannot, from Trinidad for London, went ashore at Seilly and filled with water. Her crew has been landed. She is an Iron vessel of 325 tons. IN GENERAL. Admiral t)ewey has his new house. New warships will not be asked of Congress. Price of bedroom furniture raised 10 per cent. Many fire Insurance companies may show losses for 1899. Iron ore companies have control of lake carrying trade for next year. Navy made successful experiments with Marconi wireless telegraph. Peter Mitchell, one of the framers or. the Canadian federation, died at Mon­ treal. Next year is likely to be best ever known in the steel industry. Famine un­ likely. President McKinley has issued a proc­ lamation designating Nov. 30 as Thanks­ giving day. Director of mint's report shows gold production of $287,428,600 in 1S98. South Africa leads. When gunboat Viking was about to cruise it was found it had everything ex­ cept room for provisions. The United States training ship Alli­ ance, from Tangier and Madeira, baa ar­ rived at St. Thomas, D. W. I. William P. Lord of Oregon haa been appointed envoy extraordinary and min> ister plenipotentiary to the Argentine Re­ public. Senor Antonio Regidor, said to repre­ sent Aguinaldo, is on his way to Wash­ ington to present new terms for ending hostilities in tbe< Philippines. The Kansas City and Eldorado Rail­ road has been sold to the Missouri, Kan­ sas and Texas Railroad Company for the amount of its bonded indebtedness, $225,- 000. Canada's final proposition for a perma­ nent settlement of the Alaska dispute is very different from her former de­ mands and was delivered to United States Ambassador Choate by the Cana­ dian minister of marine and fisheries, Sir Louis Henry Davies. It is as follows: "That the boundary line be arbitrated upon terms simila'r -to those imposed by the United States.aM Great Britain over Venezuela. Thatv. asia condition prece­ dent to and absolutely preliminary to ar­ bitration, Skaguay and Dyea would be conceded to the United States without further claim if Canada received Pyra­ mid Harbor." Iq. other words, Canada gives up much of the disputed gold coun­ try in return for a .seaport. t >1 ••v. SOUTHERN. a"' ^'a!ker Davidson shot and killed his young wife and then shot himself. Davidson will die. Montgomery, Ala., labor unions have boycotted the street fair there because colored laborers were refused a place in the parade, i " Murray Gilbert," % weli-known msai- j'/'V,)".-'. SfeiSf: MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime* $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 24c; rye. No. 2, 64c to 56c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, (3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light; $2.75 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 Ao $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye. No. 2, 63e to 65c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, 61c to 63c. ^ Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c; clover seed, $5.45 to $5.55. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 Northern, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye. No. 1, 57c to 58c; barley, No. 2, 45c to 47c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. N Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; bogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hoga, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oatsf No. 2 white, 30c to 82c; butter, creamery, to 25c; egga, west* era, 14c to 19c. " 0 c --St. Paul Pioneer Press. i A," , ^ ̂f j'n Hlh't'l ill- 1 WAR WILL BE ACTIVE. . Campaign in the Philippines to Open Foon on All Lines. Secretary Root hopes the campaign in the Philippines may be opened all along the line within the next three or four woeks. Although there have been some military operations recently, he says the campaign is not fairly on yet. Gen. Lawton has been sent north to occupy San Isidro because of its strategic im­ portance, but this is only preliminary to the regular campaign. Secretary Root has been informed that the rainy season Is about over, but the country is still suffering from its saturation. There are many inundations, and the soil generally is so soft as to make military movements exceedingly difficult. Army officers vaty from three to six weeks in their esti­ mates of the length of time it will take for the country to dry sufficiently for the American forces to move with rea­ sonable facility. The plans of the War Department are matured for active work as soon as it is possible to advance with ease and the American lines will be pushed in all di­ rections against the Filipinos. It will be possible to maintain this movement, be­ cause of the steady stream of volunteers to be poured into Manila aa re-enforce* stents. Much attention has been given to mak­ ing provisions for the sick and wounded. The present hospitals have accommoda­ tions for about 2,000 patients, and Col. Wood hull reports only 1,847 beds occu­ pied by patients, including convalescents. The War Department is making arrange­ ments to have accommodations for 8,000 patients, which is believed to be more than ample even for the enlarged army in an active campaign. ANDREE'S PLAN TO SEND WORD. Had Buoya for Decrees of Latltnde»One to Be Dropped Panning the Pole. There is no doubt that the buoy re­ cently picked up by a Swedish vessel was that carried along in Andree's balloon to be dropped when he passed over the pole. He took carrier pigeons, and arranged to drop a cork buoy bearing the Swedish flag at every degree of latitude and one when he crossed the North Pole. These, he believed, drifting either on the ice or in the ocean currents, would bring the news of whatever discoveries he might make to civilisation. Each buoy consisted of a hollow bulb of cork encased for protec- FLOATING BUOYS CMRYIN6 MAIL ROME OF AXDBXB'S BUOTS. tion in a copper netting and painted in blue and yellow, the Swedish colors. Ex­ periments were made at first with buoys made of wood, but it was found that cork best stood the tremendous concus­ sion resulting from being dropped out of a balloon. The cork was found to resist a pressure of thirty tons without crush­ ing. In the upper eud there was screw­ ed a small flagstaff made of German sil­ ver wire and surmounted at the top by a Swedish flag made of sheet metal. 8TATUARY AT PHILADELPHIA. One of the Handsome Groups Shown at the Export Exposition. The accompanying illustration shows one of the very handsome groups of stat­ uary on exhibition at the National Ex­ port exposition which is now taking place in the city of Philadelphia and will con­ tinue there until Nov. 30. This group is typical of the woolen trade, and is a <W!k good example of the different representa­ tive groups to be seen at this unique ex­ hibition. HOW BOERS ARE ISOLATED, Cut Off from the World Except at the Pleasure of the Knslish. One great disadvantage under which President Kruger and his doughty burgh­ ers labor is the fact that they are entire­ ly isolated and cut off from coiuuiu uica- tion with the outside world, except at the pleasure of their enemy, the English. Not only are the Transvaal astf the Or- MAP SHOWING SOUTH AFRICAN CABLKS. ange Free State without a seaport, but they cannot send a word by telegraph outside of their own little territories without the permission of the English Government. The cables which encircle both the east and west coasts of Africa, as shown on the map, are owned by the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company, which is, of course, under control of the British Government, The popular idea that all South Africa is not far removed from savagery is con­ tradicted by the facf that in Cape Colony alone there are 6,609 milea of telegraph poles, carrying many times that number of miles of wire. In one way, and that a financial one, the Dreyfus trial at Rennes was a direct benefit to France. All the telegraph and telephone lines In the republic belong to tbe Government, and the great demand for news of the trial increased the re­ ceipts from telegrams $120,000 and from telephone messages $60,000 while the case was on. Now that the natural gas in Indiana and Ohio shows signs of giving out tbey have discovered a plentiful supply of if in England. In 1896 gas was struck neai Heathfield station in East Essex, and the station and railroad yard are now lighted with it. It is believed to be th< first practical usage of natural gas in Europe. If the reports of the Criminal courts of the State of New York may be taken as an index it is safe to say that crimt is on the decrease in the United States. In 1897 there were 4,523 convictions, a* against only 3,567 in 1898. This showa a decrease of 596, or nearly 20 per cent. A inew probteaa is pressing for solution on the Pacific coast. It promises to be­ come even more serious than the "Chin­ ese question." According to the census of 1890 there were at that time 2,039 "Japs" in the United States. Since then the immigration has steadily increased until the total number of Japanese who came to the United States in the fiscal year 1899 was 3,395. To-day, according to the estimate of the Japanese consul at San Francisco, there are no less than 20,000 "Japs" in this country, most of them on the Pacific coast. The purchase of a large number of horses in the United States for the use of tbe English army in South Africa is made necessary by the fact that even with the elaborate horse registration sys­ tem in force in Great Britain it is im­ possible to secure all the animals needed for immediate service at home. In time of peace the military establishment of England requires for its use a total of 13,500 horses. In time of war this total jumps at once to 28,749. Horse buyers for the army are now at work, not only in this country but also in Canada, in Australia and in Austria. In demanding that each member of his church pay over one-tenth of his total in­ come, "Dr." John Dowie is simply fol­ lowing the example of the Mormon Church. As an example of what such contributions may amount to in the eoursc of a year, it is stated that last year the Mormon Church received from tithes alone over $900,000. This year it is esti­ mated that the income from tithes will reach $1,500,000. As a further indication of the financial prosperity of the Mormon Church, President Snow states that the last of the twenty-year bonds, of which $1,000,000 worth were sold i* 1897, will be redeemed within the next £ve years. DAY IS SIT. Preaident HeKinky lowing T9uutka^ving j^laatttipB A Mtlonal CWoiB jIw to tke bwru ot tiie Mojpie eaSts for tbe settt«g apart of one day:each y«ar*a .aa < " tiUUfeHmc to Almighty _ . bigs of tbe preceding year. observance acooires with time a ten4«m significance. It enriches domestic fife. It summons under the family root the absent plldren to glad reunion with those they Seldom has this nation had greater cause for profound thanksgiving. No great pesti­ lence has Invaded our shores. Liberal ess-, ployipent watts upon labor. Abundant envt have rewarded tbe efforts of the husband­ man. Increased Comforts have come to the home. The national jtnanees have been strengthened and public credit has Seen sns-, talned and made firmer. In all branches of lndastry and trade there has been an tin- equaled degree of prosperity, while there has been, a steady jfaiu in the moral and educational growth of our national char­ acter. V Churches and schools have flourished, iuneittien patriotism has been exalted, wese engaged in maintaining the honor «f Jw flag with such signal sacoesa have Seen m a large degree spared from disaster and disease. An honorable peace has been rati­ fied with a foreign nation with which we were at war, and we are now on friendly relations with every power on earth. The trust which we have assumed for the benefit of the people of Cuba has been faith­ fully advanced. There is marked progress toward the restoration of healthy Industrial conditions, and under wise sanitary refla­ tions the Island has enjoyed unusual exemp­ tion from the scourge or fever. The hurri­ cane which swept over our new possession of Porto Kico, destroying the homes and frroperty of the inhabitants, called forth the nstsnt sympathy of the people of the Uni­ ted States, who were swift to respond with generous aid to the sufferers. .While the In­ surrection stili continues in the island of Luson, business is resuming its activity, and confidence In the good purposes of the UL,1- ted States is being rapidly established throughout the archipelago. these reasons and countless others, I. William McKinley, President of the United States, do hereby name Thursday, the 30th day of November next, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed as such by all our people on this eontlnent and In our newly acquired islands, as well as by those who may be at sea or sojourning in foreign lands; and I advise that on this day religious exercises shall be conducted in the churches or meeting plaees of all denomina­ tions, in order that in the social features of the day Its real significance may not be lost sight of, but fervent prayers may be offered to the most high for a continuance of the divine guidance without which man's efforts are vain and for divine consolation to those whose kindred and friends have sacrificed their lives for country. I recommend also that on this day, so far' as may be found practicable, labor shall cease from its accustomed toil and charity abound toward the sick, the needy and the poor. In witness whereof, I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. WILOAM M'KINfcjp» KILLED IN FEUDS. *. Hostile Factions Ctau«e Reign of Ter­ ror in Clay County, Kentucky. Five more men have been reported kill­ ed within the last four days by partici­ pants in the Bnker-Griffin-Philpot feud, and terror reigns in Clay County, Ken­ tucky. Judge Eversole fled from the county seat, fearing to hold court, and the Governor was asked to send troops to restore order. Jim Bob Travis was killed Saturday at Hamlet postofflce. His body waa found in a well. Four men shot to death from ambush is the record for Tuesday! and Monday. Tom Whittemore was am­ bushed and shot through the head seven miles from Manchester Tuesday while he was on the way from Horse Creek to Manchester with Dan Parker, who is to be tried for killing one of the Turners. Parker, who is an old fighter, was also shot, but he threw himself on the ground and escaped with a few wounds/ This is the twentieth time Parker has been am­ bushed by his enemies. Parker and ifi'M TYPICAL CLAY COUNTY IIOMK. Whittemore were friends of the Philpota, and it is supposed they were ambushed by some of the Griffin faction. One of the Philpot faction was am­ bushed and killed on House branch of Horse creek Tuesday as he was coming from the Pigeon Boost district to attend court. A clash between the Baker and White factions occurred on Sexton's creek, and it is reported that two men were killed. Circuit Judge" Eversole, who was to have opened court Monday at Manches­ ter, came within two miles of town, and, when he heard the news, lied, fearing as­ sassination, as he was in the old Perry County French-Eversole feud. The coun­ ty bar held an election and appoiuted Carlo Lytle special judge. Both the Phil- pot and Griffin factions at Manchester are in small armies, heavily armed. THREE MEN STARVE TO DEATH. Perish Miserably in a Blizzbrd, with Belts Full of Gold Unst. William Lafler, who has returned to Tacoma from Alaska, brings a tragic story of the deaths of N. C. Daily and two Frenchmen, names unknown, all of Boston, on the Bonanza river, in north­ ern Alaska, last winter. The men had been searching for gold, but ran out of food and starved to death during a ter­ rible blizzard, though their belts were Sited with gold dust. Daily and ' two Frenchmen got separated from Lafler and his partner during the blizzard, and wan­ dered away almost without provisions and with only scanty clothing. When the storm moderated Lafler's party searched for their missing companions, and finally found their tent. The men's bones had been picked clean by wolves, though their belts and gold dust remained intact. One camp stove in the tent was found. The kettle was filled with the rawhide thongs of snowshoes which the starving men had tried to boil for food. Dawson Offers lOO Kiflemen. Dawson, the northernmost city in the world and the most famous for its age, has offered for service iu South Africa a company of 100 expert riflemen for such time as the empire has need of tbem, undertaking to equip and maintain this force from the time of their departure from the Klondike till their muster otifc Told in a Few Lloea, Geo. Trich, 70, Denver millionaire, is dead. Huntsville, Ala., was damaged $75,000 by fire. Rear Admiral Sampson's family .will reside in Boston. One hundred miners'Wfll go from Ma»> sillon, Ohio, to Utah. Andrew Carnegie w!Tl builtl a public library building at Conneaut, Ohio. Boston is lighting the gamblers, thirty- six being rounded up in one bunch. • Naphtha launch ldlewild exploded near Maypoefc, Fla., injuring three persons. President Shnrman says the Philippine commission will meet early in November. The "believers," a religious sect at St. Louis, say the millennium will come is 1915. M. CMUCBKCKAV. M. Qgorgca CMttunceau is agtin a ciding factor In French politics. No cab* inet can remain in power, It hi said, so long as be is •gainst it. Few »4ie& have had so ttmantic a history, fie is a doctor of Ipedicine, one of fhe most influential j o u r n a l i s t s I n France, a states­ man who might have had almost any office in the gift of the republic, at'one time an ex-. i!e, and now again the maker and shaker of French cabinets. He was born in 1841. He fought a number of duels, was denounced as an atheist, and was finally arrested and confined in jail at the irstance of the Emperor for preaching the doctrine of Republicanism. Then he came to America and taught French in New York and at a school in Greenwich, Conn., where he met the American girl who afterwards became his wife. In 1839 M. Clemenceau and his family went back to Franc® and settled at Montmartre.; He got home just in time to see the out­ break of the Franco-Prussian war, and immediately developed into an adminis- • trator of the first order. Daring the ; ̂ siege of Paris he was at once Mayor, judge, doctor and governor of the inhab­ itants of Montmartre. In 1871 he was elected to the House of Deputies. He has since served as president of the mo* nicipal council of Paris. Col. Albert D. Shaw, the new com­ mander-in-chief of the Grtlnd Army, elected at the recent encampment at Phil- ^ adelphia, has been prominently connected „ with that organization since 1886. Mr. ̂ Shaw has given his country efficient dip- m .,4'* * 1 cot. AT#)EBT D. SHAW. fe- "i iomatlc as well as martial service, having been consul at Toronto, Canada, and Manchester, England. He enlisted at the time the civil war broke out and served until the end of hostilities. He gradu­ ated from St. Lawrence university in 1867, and was elected to the New York Legislature the same year. In recent T years he has been interested in the devel- opment of electric power at Niagara | Falls. He lives in Watertown, N. Y. •$> The first statue ever made of the lead- '% er of the Confederacy is now being Com­ pleted in New York. It is ceren and & half feet high, and represents Jeffer­ son Davis standing in a characteristic attitude, dressed as he was when cap­ tured by Michigan cavalry in the mountains of Ala­ bama. The statue will be erected on Yhe Davis lot in Hollywood Ceme­ tery, Richmond, Va., and will soon be dedicated. The entire expense of the statue will be borne by Mrs. Da­ vis and her daugh­ ter, Mrs. Hayes of Colorado. At the same time the Winnie Davis me­ morial statue, which is the gift of DAVl* STATU*. % the Daughters of the Confederacy, wiU be dedicated, ^ind it is probable that the >»mony will be of a public nature. v- ; William L. Wilson, former Postmaster General and at present the head of the University of Virginia, is suffering from a recurrence of Kir lung troubles. One lung is said to be practically gone, and his recovery is doubtful. In addi­ tion, his sight is Affected, and he is almost totally slind, being able to work only with the assistance of a seo retary. He cannot ^ read, and has for * \ / V, '_ i^1vprji! been w. i- wiLsos, ' ttnable to write much. Wilson has never been of robust health, and during the preparation of his famous tariff schedule, t^hile he was in Congress, he was obliged to take a trip to Mexico to gain strength for the fight npon which he was about to enter. This is the man appointed by Chief Colleran of Chicago to protect President M c K i n l e y f r o m cranks and design- a Ing people. Murphy M T' i; i is the "living im­ age" of the Presi­ dent, and during the latter's stay there he was put forward occasional­ ly in order to give Mr. McKinley a rest. Last year when the President ^M. MURPHY. was in Chicago, it is said Murphy w<j put conspicuously forward, and mai cheered b im i t s the ch ie f execut ive 6 f tj nation. , Among the stanchest admirers of I** Admiral Sch'.ey is Miss Edna MeCle] >f Washington. Some time ago // started an en w.\ chain to money for purchase o ing cup tf-lf? rear admifi; the fuud ii ing so rarfd promises io V *' snch pi' p / t that th« < 'tki in dia »ns. M*cr.Ei.i,AJr. the fund '• be able to purchnse for hint ajh Washington rcttdeuce. ' ' " ' " Uu ^J. ? , • ' • ^ \ " t'i m :4 f :