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V . a>wiiy, the Adams House suicide. ; Mimi­ cal Examiner Draper said he wad' will-1 Ihg Brodie should do so if no one ap­ peared having a better right. Brodie stays the only reason he had for making the proposition to bury the woman was that the case attracted his attention and he could hot bear to see the body con­ signed to the potter's field. XI Hung Chaft^jnust die. The wound is in the face, and the bullet, which the sur­ geon had not succeeded in extracting, is apparently beyond reach. Moreover. Li is 70 year's ot age, and although a giSnt physically, his years arc against him." LIKE A BANK'S DRAFT WIPED OUT BY FIRES, J. VAflfSLYKE, Editor ,and Pub. NEW MOfJEY ORDER TQ BE OF SIMPLER FORM. 1 FLAMES CAUSE OVER $1,000,000 - . DAMAGE. ILLINOT: McHENKY. •^jpn . '... "" • --. ' It. Will Be Used as Soon as Arrange­ ments Can' Be Perfected far-Printing the Designs--Will Su persede^tlie Old Order as Rapidly as Possible. IT WAS NO SHAM RIOT. Milwaukee's West Side Business Dis­ trict Scourged--Half a Dozen Mer­ cantile Firms and the Plankintoa Estate Losers--Loss in Chicago. A private letter received in San Fran­ cisco from Potosi, Peru, says that war is threatened between Chile and the Argen­ tine republic, which, if it results, will draw in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador as allies with Argentine against Chile. Depredations by the Government forces marked the opening of hostilities.on Tuesr day in Lima. The troops sacked the .jUnion and National Clubs and many shops. Then diplomats and the papal nuncio. Mgr. Machi, intervened. An armistice was arranged for twenty-four hours to give an opportunity to bury the dead and remove the dead horses from the streets, as there was danger of pesti- the Ijuiults." u.iiffy were coi- lcted iu a pile and burned in the jPJaza des Armas. As aresult of the three days' fighting more than 1,500 combatants were killed and wounded on botli sides. During the fighting all of the foreign le­ gations were exposed to the firing. The United States legation was in a particu­ larly dangerous situation, Mrs. McKen- zie, wife of the United States Minister, narrowly escaped being shot.. -More than fifty refugees sought an asylum in this legation. ,,, ' - . The House of Commons at London by a vote of 170 to 158 adopted the resolu­ tion offered by Mr. Allen "providing for the payment of members. No more rad­ ical measure probably ha3 ever passed, the English House of Parliament. For centuries a seat in the House has been open only' to those who had the social position to insure a successful, canvass and the money, to enable them to live in an expensive part of London the greater part of the'year. This has been the prac­ tical situation until five years ago. Wealth was the. one thing necessary; ability or popularity went for nothing, for it took a handsome income to be a member of the House of Commons. The change came when John Burns was elect­ ed as one of the members for South Lon­ don. Burns was practically the first workingman--and a poor^ one at that-- to take his seat in the House and the party which elected him found itself con­ fronted with the problem of how his ex­ penses were to be met. This was finally done by public subscription and the need of it directed public attention to the-fact that only wealth was represented in Par­ liament. It,.took long for England to do more than think about it, but at last a bill was prepared providing for the pay­ ment of the expenses of those members who were unable to meet their own. This bill was defeated, but it was the point of the wedge and the father of the pres­ ent bill. . VICIOUS CONDUCT OF GIRLS IN THE CHICAGO HOME. . • Designs to Be Used. A new form of. money order will be used in the Postollice Department as soon as arrangements can be perfected for printing the design shown herewith. There is a marked difference between the old form and the new money order, the latter having been condensed until it is more like a bank draft. This was agreed upon by the postal authorities as the most eon- voniexit pnVi<l ^• * will supersede the one now in use an rapidly as possible. While the old oiders will not be called in by the-Post- office. Department, no further issues , of them will be permitted, their places be- , The Cream City Ablaze. Lower Grand avenue, the heart of the west side; of Milwaukee, was the scene early Wednesday morning *>f one of the most serious conflagrations in the history of the city. The fire is the most disastrous "since the Third Ward conflagration of Oct. 28, 1892, and the pecuniary loss will ^exceed $1 .(>00.000- It. furnished o mo**- nificent .spectacle for the thousands that filled the avenuaend watched it from sur­ rounding buildings. There were, however, luckily, no fatalities. The buildings owned by the Plankinton estate were the large brick structure cov­ ering half a block, occupied by Landaur & Co., wholesale dry goods dealers, and the Tanner Company, furniture, adjoin­ ing Landaur & Co. to the east; the bui'd- in the. rear Of Landaur & Co., occupied by the Reliance Storage Company, and the library building at the northwesf cor­ ner of 4th street and Grand avenue. The estate will suffers loss of about $250,000 on the buildings occupied by Landaur & Co., Tanner & Co., and the Reliance Stor­ age Co., which were . practically new. They were, totally destroyed.The insur­ ance on them is estimated at 80 per,cent., which would make the loss the insurance companies are to bear approximately $200,000 on that,structure alone Max- Landaur, of Landaur & Co., said the .stock,carried at present by his firm was valued at $400,000, and he usually carried about SO per cent, insurance, which would make the actual loss of the firm $320,000. The Tanner Company's loss was said to be about $100,000, though no member of the company could ^be found to give any accurate estimate. It was thought the furniture stock was insured for about 75 per cent, of the value. Big Clothiers Burned Out. The Davidson estate was the owner of the building at 313 and 315 Grand ave­ nue, located between part of the Plankin­ ton building that was occupied by* the TaniMi£_£omPany nnAthe Mathews build­ ing. in which the retail house 0f Morgan & Co. is located. The duly occupants of the storerooms in this building were Bar­ ling & Wambold, retail clothiers, but there were a few offices in the upper part of the two stories. The structure was one of frame, with .a veneer-of brick, so the fire underwriters say, and wn> worth $20,- 000 at the outside.. The insurance was said to foot up to about $15,000. Barling & Wambold had just received a large consignment of Spring goods, and the entire stock as well as the building was lost. With the new goods the stock was worth $1)0,000 or more, so one con­ nected with the firm in a responsible ca­ pacity said. The insurance was about $70,000. Roebel & Reinhart, art goods and picture frames, were partially burned out and the stock wholly ruined by heat and water; insurance, $00,000. Young Men's Christian Association Building on 5th street was burned; loss, $75,000. There are many minor losses, including small stores and flats. . Farmers Make a Mess' of a Train Rob-> bery--Canaseraga, N. Y. j Swept by Fire-Wheat Crop Needs Hain Badly --Nashua Bank Fails. THft MOVABLE'TABERNACLE. '• ..""iwnuiiun. lhe building lias fohling benches which will seat about 500 people;- Everything used in the erep- tioii of the bujlding is turned to some good-. account.; Hv.en -the derrick, on which the frame and sides are raised, is'afterward turned into a rostrum for the speaker. When the building is' in piecea this derrick forms the wagon bed on which the sections are loaded for transportation. Mr. Crawford, who invented-and con­ structor the .building, has been in the missionary work in Des Moines County lor five years, having" graduated from Moody's institute in Chicago, and came directly to this field, and has been doing some excellent work since; He has found in his travels through the county. matiy places where the people wanted services, but had no hall or room "large enough for the purpose, and in many cases no room at all. The idea of such a buildilVg as'tlie 'one herein-described occurred'to him, and he was not long in drawing up the plans and putting them into execution. Mr. Crawford sa.Vs this building will settle a very perplexed question of evangelical work in the poorer portions of the cities, where rents are high. The building can be transported to some vacant lot, set up and the services held with very little expense, and he thinks his idea will be adopted by other missionaries in a short time. The cost of the building was about $500. '•* * " r SOLON HAS NOvHONOR. Heaps o' TrG7tble. Queen Li! and-Minister Thurston can commiserate with one another. Like the parrot, they both talk too much.--Omaha Bee. ' . ' Uncle Snmuel's fist is doubled up in spite of himself. Those foreign fellows are getting too "sassy" for any living use.--New York Recorder. We cannot shoulder Nicaragua's re­ sponsibilities; there is nothing in the Mon­ roe doctrine which requires anything like that of us.--Springfield Republican. If, to an abject apology for their wan­ ton attack upon our merchant steamer, the Spaniards should prefer recourse to war, they can unquestionably get their fill of it.--New York Sun. Hawaii should give Mr. Willis his pass­ port. If Minister Thurston is persona non grata with the Cleveland administra­ tion Mr. Willis certainly must be with the Hawaiian republic.--Cincinnati Ga­ zette. If England were to attempt to absorb the whole of Venezuela, in other words, to destroy its government, it would be the duty of the United States to inter­ fere. To refuse to do so would be to abandon the Monroe, dpctriue.--Denver Republican. Sells Seeds Given Him for Distribu­ tion and Will Be Kxposed. Secretary Morton's next annual report will set out in detail, with names and ac­ companying particulars, the facts in a transaction which will make interesting reading. ' Some weeks ago Mr. Morton wrote to the purchasing agent of the seed division of the Department of Agricul­ ture informing him that members of Con­ gress had been charged with disposing of their seeds in a way other than was con­ templated by law, and instructing him to either verify or disprove these charges in the most substantial way. In less than a week the agent brought to the Secretary the written order of a member of the House of Represntatives for his entire quota of seeds/ which he proposed to sell to the department's agent for $75. The purchase was directed to be made, and, instead of cash, the agent gave his check, which was properly in­ dorsed by the vender and the money was withdrawn from bank. So it happens that Secretary Morton now has the Seeds issued to this member, turned over on his written order, and also the check through which the money was paid, and bearing the signature of the member who sold the seeds. The department officials decline to men­ tion the name of the Congressman, or to locate him, but the assurance is given that the whole transaction, names and all, will afipear iu the report as a strik­ ing example of the evil to which the Sec­ retary has so frequently called the at­ tention of Congress. The full quota of seeds furnished a member of Congress by the department consists, on an average, of 1,400 pack­ ages* of flower seeds, 15,000 of vegetable, and eighty-two quarts of field seeds, grasses, etc. The total cost of this quota to the department is between $225 and $245. The department in this transac­ tion got the whole lot back for $75. The Secretary is making an effort to abolish the free distribution of seeds en­ tirely, for the reason that it has grown into an evil that was never contemplated when the original law was enacted. Obituary: At Milwaukee, , Colonel "Henry A. Starr, (55; at Washington, Lvcurgus Dalton, postmater of the House of Representatives, 50; at Pittsburg, ex- Adjutant General Walter W. Greenland; at St. Louis, Captain'C. W. Bellairs; at Oskaloosa, Iowa, ex-Justice J. Seevers; at Gardiner, Me., Dr. Caleb S. Whitman, 9!); at Waukesha, Wis., Edward Porter, 77; at Beardstown, 111.. Charles J. Nor- burv, 84; at Ottawa, 111., II. J. Dicken, SI; D. R. Gregg, S9. «. George Marshall Graham, of Toronto, Ont., after a hard fight with fate for thirty years, has just been, identified as heir to the Scottish Earldoms of Stratli- ern, Menteith and Airth. Two senior branches Having become extinct the title and estates pass to the third branch, of which the Toronto man is the represen­ tative. The new Earl is entitled to a seat in the British House of Lords, and will claim it as soon as some necessary pre­ liminary. arrangements are made. Gra­ ham has for some time been working as bookkeeper in a florist's shop. The police of Victoria, B. C., have de­ cided that bloomers are not suitable for street wear, even when worn as li cycling costume, and have taken steps to enforce this decision. Miss Ethel Delmont is an •enthusiastic wheel woman, pretty and graceful. The other week she made her appearance in the bloomer costume, and if Lady Godiva herself essayed a repeti­ tion of her famous ride the sensation could not have been greater. The town came forth to gaze and for the moment the policemen were petrified with amaze­ ment. Then they aroused to action and Miss Ethel received an official visitor, who informed her that a repetition of her appearance in the objectionable cos­ tume would,mean a police court summons on the charge of creating a disturbance on a public street. Miss Delmont's bloomers are discarded. li. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "Indications of improve­ ment in business grow more distinct. The most obtrusive of them, the speculative advance on cotton and in stocks, is the least reliable; nor can either of these be said to reflect actual improvement in business conditions. Railroad earnings are scarcely better and the speculation is largely based on expectation of more ef­ fective monopoly in coal and some other products. London was buying largely, but likely to sell on any rise. Cotton does not rise because there is more demand for goods, but that there is more demand for goods because cotton is dearer. More vft'limbic indications are that the volume of^rioinestic trade gains a little, money is j/i much better legitimate demand, and 'the force of hands at work gradually in­ creases in some industries and in others is restricted only by strikes, which are presumably temporarily." Strong-Minded Oliio Women. Ohio women are different from.. Ohio men. Four of them have refused nom­ inations.--Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Four Ohio women have declined to be candidates for office. This constitutes a great surprise in Ohio.--Pittsburg Dis­ patch. The Ohio idea is that women who are brave enough to acknowledge ttiat they are over 21 ought to be allowed to vote for school directors.--Exchange. The women of Cleveland, Ohio, are be­ ginning to take a genuine interest in their limited franchise. They loudly protest rja^ainst the rule requiring voters to dis­ close their ages.--Kansas City Journal. Now that the Ohio women are actually participating in politics the Ohio man will be deprived of the time-honored ex­ cuse f§r staying out late at night. His wife will also attend the caucuses.--Ex­ change. This dreadful question confronts the women of Cleveland: Does the privilege of ,voting repay us for the humiliation of telling our ages? In about 90 out of 100 cases it lias been decided that it does not. To make a woman tell her exact age is against the Constitutional provision for­ bidding cruel and unusual punishment.-- Kansas City Star. THE BELL IN FLAMES. THE NEW POSTOFFICE MOXEY ORDER. Big Clothing House in Chicago Suffer^ Its Second Fire. ' Fire which imperiled many lives and caused a loss of $176,000 broke out in the basement of the Bell clothing store, State and Quincy streets, Chicago, at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The Bell building's contents were nearly all de­ stroyed. Total insurance is $100,000. The -fire started near the furnace and shot up the rear stairways with great rapidity, spreading to each of the five floors. A panic ensued among the 100 employes. Many on the upper floors rushed to the windows and screamed for help. Charles H. Smith, a salesman on the second floor, climbed out of a win­ dow on the State street side, and in try­ ing to catch hold of a projection to sup­ port himself lost his balance and fell to the sidewalk, badly crushing both feet. Richard1, Burins, a 17-year-old elevator boy, displayed/great presence of mind. When the alarm was given he ran his eie- vator to the fourth floor and led Miss Mar- tc 11, one of the bookkeepers, to the car and brought her safely to the ground, where she fainted. Miss Jennie Levy, the cashier on the first floor, had her desk on a sort of platform from which a stair led to the second floor. She ran up the stair and through Manager Curtin's office, crying "The store is on fire," and reached the elevator in time to catch it on its last trip down. Then the traps in the shaft, operated by, electricity, fell, and the ele.vator could be run no longer. A confidential employe of the Bell Clothing Company said the value of the stock in the building was $200,000, anc^ from what he could learn the damage was in the neighborhood of $150,000. He could give no accurate figures con­ cerning insurance, but said he thought the concern carried $75,000 to $90,000. The shoe stock, he said, was not more than half covered. Jacob II. Colin,--tW> head of the firm, left for New York Monday afternoon to finish buying the spring stock. He was informed by toegraph of the fire and re­ turned to Chicago at once. A serious fire occurred in the same, building Aug. 28 last. The loss on the stock at that fire was $93,000. The loss on the building was $5,000. Oppressed Cuba. Before Cuba can ever hope to become an annex to the United States it will have to cure itself of the .revolution habit.-- Kansas City Journal. Cuba is probably the most tax-ridden spot on the earth, the "mother country" being solely to blame for the home ruie spirit there.--Boston Globe. In sentiment and patriotism jt .-is, al­ most an alien island. Spain/cares ' for Cuba only for the money there is in it> and Cuba cares littte for Spain.--Cincin­ nati Enquirer. f If the island is for sale there can be but one purchaser--the United States. And it is very certain that if Spain ever chooses to risk a war with us she will do so with the certainty of losing Cuba for- e\er.--Minneapolis Journal. There is no doubt but a majority of the people of Cuba are anxious to put an. end to Spanish lamination on the island. For half a century Spain has practically sub­ sisted upon the revenue derived from Cu­ ban industry.--St; Paul Call. John Martin was shot and killed at Hot Springs, Ark., by Mrs. Larry, a widow. Jim Morrison, the Alabama murderer, was killed at Toadvine, Ala., by a deputy sheriff. Governor McKinley is ill with the grip at Thomasyille, Ga. His ; symptoms threaten pneumonia. Robert McDonnell, a Chicago sign painter, was killed by falling from a scaf­ fold at Greensboro, X. C. A bed of solid rock salt has been dis­ covered on Joe Jefferson's Island, near Abbcyville, La., at a depth of <>S0 feet. The Galveston (Texas) Grand Jury has indicted City Collector Gilbert and ex- City Auditor Tiernan for malfeasance in office. The Louisville School Board has grant­ ed the use of about forty public school buildings for the G. A. R. encampment next September. / Walter Bark was hanged at TahlequaX, I. T.; for murder. Joseph Yalsin ;*vas banged at Natchitoches, La., for murder. Both protested innocence. The negroes went to work on the levee in New Orleans Monday morning without military protection. The soldiers are held in their armories in case of trouble. As many of the so-called rioters who made the murderous assault on he col­ ored laborers two weeks ago are under arrest, it is not believed there will be any further violence until the murderers are well out of their present trouble with the law. HE winter's almost au ' soon the u wiU blow- ' 11 ' S Tll° sn"w'll melt, (®| the b 0 ° k s The tramps'll come a-beggin' full of whisky and of woe, The robin trill his merry roundelay. An then there'll be a spell o' mud--there always is, but still It won t take that so very long to pass. An when it does, the buds'll be a-burstin' witlf a will, An the butter be a-tastin' o' the grass. The cows'll have a twinkle in their peace­ ful lookin' eyes, To see the medders gettin' green again; An' the haughty, struttin' rooster be so full o' pleased surprise, . That he'll crow real kind o' crazy, now an'then. The violets will be peepin' jos' ez bashful ez can be, The dandelions a-sproutin' bold ez brass. Together with the daisies an' the temptin' cherry tree, While the butter keeps a-tastin' o* the grass. The National Game. The mind that!"'can be kept from care by baseball is not the best kind of mind to have.--Exchange. The City Council is getting decidedly goody-goody when it suppress^ baseball. --Atlanta Journal. " Politics will have to get a good deal livelier if they expect to keep up, with the interest iu baseball.--Exchange. Northern baseball players are starting to come South before the wild geese have commenced to fly North.--New Orleans Picayune. Baseball managers have found out th.a* the player who holds out for a higher sal­ ary is something like a woman--he may be won by perseverance.--Baltimore American. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $•">.75 to $0.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5; wheiYk, No. 2 red, 54c to 55c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2, 28p to 29c;, i ye, No. 2, 55c to 50c;„ butte^/ choice, creamery, ,19c to 20c; eggs, frash, 10c to 11c; potaotes, carilots, per b/ishel, 75c to 85c. ? ; Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3 to $5; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 54c to-54%cI corn. No. 1 white, 45c to 45V&c; oats, No. .2 white, 33c to 31c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3 to $0.50; hogs, $4 to $5; wheat No. 2 red, 54c to 55c; corn,' No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2, 30c to 30%c; rye. No. 2. 59c to 01c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3 to $5; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2. 58 to 59c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; i ye. No. 2, 58c to 59c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs. $4-to $4.-75; sheep, $2 to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 white, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 2 yel­ low. 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 50c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 58c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 46%c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 50c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs, $3 to $5; sheep, $3 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 00c to 01c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 35%c. -Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 50c to 57c; corn, No. 3, 45cv to 45%c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c-to 33c; barley, No. 2, 52c to 53c; rye. No." 1, 54c to 50c; pork, mess, $12 to $12.50. New York-Battle, $3 to $0.50; hogs, $4 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 02c to.03c; corn, No. 2, 50Vac to 57%c; oats, white Western. 37c to 41c; butter, creamery, 13c to 21c; eggs, W estern, 11c to 12c. j Why Some Women Do Not Marry. On^ such woman was used to attack a new science or language every year, and, failing, from her lack of teacher or companion, would pile the text­ books in heaps until walls of dusty volumes shut in every room of the house.? She fell at last into a state of semi-idiocy, and wandered like a ghost around the village, jabbering scraps of foreign tongues which she did not understand. It is a hereditary habit in certain families for the women who have a grief to shut, themselves into a single room, and remain there for ten, twen­ ty, thirty years. Nor are the morbid fancies of these women always gloomy and. sad. They live sometimes in an enchanted land of their own. One whom I know, a woman of sens­ uous temperament and motherly in­ stincts, refused to marry a man whom she loved because he had gone to live In another town, and she would be forced to leaVe the old house and lnilf- acre which were the center of the world to her. The courtship went on for forty years, but shc ̂ wns true To the house! " -.-r Another drove lier lover away on the day of the wedding because she could not bring herself to change the name of Wonson for any other. He was rich and she was poor; he remained faithful and ready as long as she lived. She died at 70, a maiden Wonson still. Could pride of ^blood go further?--Cen- i tury. V- • WASHINGTON, Our Dried Apples. This is too much. Uncle Sam could perhaps stand Germany's prohibition of our beef, but when it comes to stigmatiz­ ing the innocuous dried apple of our com­ merce it is high time to talk to the young kaiser.--Boston Globe. This time it is American dried apples that the German authorities find deleter­ ious "to flie public health. How long will the administration permit these discrim­ inations against American products to' continue?--Boston Journal. Photography. The "Photoret" is an apparatus form­ ed like a watch, and is perhaps a trifle larger both in diameter and thickness than a railway time-keeper. Its duty is not, to mark the flight, of time, but to take photographs. This is brought about by a simple slot movement to change'the position* of a circular film of sensitized celluloid inside the appa­ ratus; and pressure upon the knob of the handle gives a rapid exposure while the Photoret is held in the hand. Six exposures can be made on one film, each little picture being about half an Inch square, but capable of after magni­ fication. CARRIES HIS HALL WITH HIM, ' Charles Broadway Rouss, the million­ aire merchant of New York, is losing his eyesight. The stage running between Cassvilio and Mill Creek, Pa., was held up about midway between the two places, by three men, "supposed to be tramp^.. Five pas­ sengers. two women and three men. were relieved of theTr money, amounting to 590. Watches and other valuables were not molested.( The highwaymen escaped to the mountains. _• "Steve" Brodie, of Bowery fanie, made application at Boston, Mass., for per­ mission, to bury the body, of Miss Hath-