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r: TjE PL^MDEAIER "~jTv;AN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY. 1 LI/IN NEW WOMAN SCORED. SAID BY MRS. BOOTH TO BE A REVOLTING CREATURE. Chinese Soldiers Forced to "Beat'* Their Way Home-Capture of Life Insurance Swindler Fraker--Excur­ sionists Rnn,Down b.v,a Wild Engine A" '• r i • •X jf •';;, v.- The Mannish Woman. The address of Mrs. Ballington Booth before the Salvation army encamped at Prohibition Park, L. I4. on "The New tVonian" is attracting considerable at­ tention. Mrs.-Booth said in part: "The revolting creature,, gaudily attired / ip man's clothing, possessed of strange no­ tions about the home, wifehood and. motherhood, scorned and slimmed by the men, is not thy idea of "the new woman. The Hew woman, according to the. popu­ lar acceptance", speaks of children as 'brats,' says they tire and aggravate her, and so she bestows ail her love upon some ugly little pug-nosed dpg. wbich she car­ ries in one of her mannish pockets. She . is' also a man-hater, and ,jii going forth to ; s^ek emancipation and a world-wide rule for her sex. she declares it to be her mis­ sion, to down ithd belittle him. A.s for re­ ligion, it is top simple for her strong mind. She is entirely independent and a free thinker, I believe in the advanced wo­ man. I believe she is capable.of making as good'a mother and wife as though she had never stepped upon the platform nor been admitted to the bar. Let the edu­ cation of women go on, only, while you are training the mind do not forget to de­ velop the heart." Work of Disbanding Soldiers.' Chester Holcoxr^b, who has just re­ turned from China, after twenty-one years' service in the American legation at Peking, says the recent massacre is traceable to the restilt of the recent China- Japanese war. "At the commencement of the recent war between China and Japan," said he, "it was generally feared the lives of foreigners in China would be in great danger as long as the war lasted. As a matter of fact, there was practically' no danger as long as the war lasted, and it is only since the hostilities ceased that the danger has commenced. We have proof of the fact in the recent massacres, andT think I can~ explain the reason. In the first place, the great massofChinese are disappointed with the result of the war and are taking revenge on all the for­ eigners whom they can kill With impunity. In the second place, the killing and pillag­ ing receive great encouragement by rea­ son of the depredations committed by hordes of disbanded soldiers all over the country. The Chinese Government has a peculiar method of disposing of its troops at the close of a war. When the soldiers are no longer heeded they are discharged from service at the place where they hap­ pen to be at the time. The fact that an army may be several hundred or a thou­ sand miles away from home when it is disbanded, and the fact that the soldiers may not possess any means of getting home, does not interest the government in the least. That they should pillage and commit: depredations is therefore natural, and tranquility will not reign in China for some time to come." to headquarters-after parade apparently • as 'well as usual when the fatal attack seized him. ; ~ ' -s At Pittsburg James Getty, an ex-coun­ cilman and a wealthy liquor dealer, was shot and killed.by Alexander Hutchinson.. formerly- proprietor of the Merchants' Hotel,. Getty was the owner of the. Hotel Willey and the murder was the re­ sult of a dispute over the leasing of the hotel to» Hutchinson, llutchihson gave himself up. The coroner's jury at New York which lias been inquiring into the caiise of the fall of tbe building in West Broadway 011 Aug.,-S,..'by which fifteen workmen were killed, were charged by the coroner that it was the changing of the concrete from 18 to 12 inches that caused the col­ lapse of the building. The ironwork on the pillar,-while it was not of-the best, he charged with attempting to assault. """A held, could not be held responsible for the "* " disaster. • - ~ ' Iterates o'nd llyderhbad," perished in tha flames. Loss about $70,000. Near Texarkana, Ark., Jim Thomas and Bishbp Lane quarreled over a guitar . on a train. The train was in motion and J3uHniUi_jdi:eH:_a~pistol and sljot Lane as he was running to escape to the next coach. Lane fell between the cars and was horribly mangled. . ,v . Albert Dean, 29 years' old, has been landed in jail at Hudson, Ivy. He was arrested; at Canaan, Conn.t charged with being instrumental in attempting to ab­ duct little girls. He was identified bv one of the little girls, and her father. Herman Preusner, attempted to kill him, but was restrained by the officers. There was almost: n lynching in New­ port, Ivy., Wednesday night. Billy Tim- berlake, a white man, aged 50 years, was KNIGHTS IN TWENTY-SIXTfT GREAT TRI.EN- . NIAL CONCLAVE. Thirty-Thdusand Templars and Their Friends, from All Parts- of the Country--The Great Parade--A .Week of Much Gayety. erected, each artistically decorated, and it is estimated that the-seatiug accommo­ dations for the reviewing of the parade exceeded 150,000. The stands seated anywhere from twenty-five to 5,000 per­ sons and were erected by the different comanderies of the "city and also by pri­ vate individuals for speculation. Iif ad- dition to these every available window in every house along the line of march was bought up by speculators, and even the front doors were utilized for seats and Owned the Town, Boston has had rather more than its share of great gatherings this summer.. Scarcely had the Christian Endeavor cohorts .departed with their banners than the Knights Templar veterans were seen rallying to the city of bri.ins and beans to Fraker Is Not Dead. George Fraker, of Topeka, Ivan., who was supposed, to have been drowned in the Missouri River two years ago, was captured in the Woods near Tower, Minn. Praker's life was insured for $58,000, and the heirs brought suit in the Kansas courts to recover. The case went to the Supreme Court, and was one of the most famous insurance cases of the country. The insurance, companies were defeated in the final decision, which was recorded last month. It was always maintained by the companies that Fraker was alive, but his whereabouts were unknown.. Re­ cently it became known in some way that he was near Tower, where he was known under the alias of Schnell. Attorney Robert T. Harris and Deputy Sheriff Wilkinson, of Topeka, went there and or­ ganized a party to search for him. Fraker was found in the woods and his capture was effected by strategy. He was taken to Topeka at once. Fraker went without a requisition. He has been living near Tower for six months. He admitted his identity and said he did not leave home on purpose to defraud the companies, but that while he was near the Missouri River he fell in. He swam across the river and got on land. The next day he read in the papers that he had been drowned and concluded to carry out the deception and allow his heirs to collect the insurance. "Appalling JMsarster at Sea Beach. One hundred persons were injured by an appalling disaster 011 the New York Sea Beach Railroad at 3:40 o'clock Mon­ day afternoon. Twenty of the injured are expected to die. A train of seventeen cars on its way to Coney Island had stopped at Woodlawn Station. The cars were packed almost to, suffocation. Up the track there came thundering a wild en­ gine, with no one at the trottle. The loco­ motive crashed into the rear car, which was broken into splinters. Its human freight was buried in the wreckage. No one was killed, but Brooklyn hospitals are> filled with maimed and dying, and hardly a. person on the train escaped a terrible shaking up. BREVITIES, A London Chronicle dispatch from Ber­ lin says the Vossische Zeitung has news from Tiflis that 5,000 soldiers and 10,000 Kurds under Sako Pasha attacked the ArtnShian toWn Ivemakh and several vil­ lages. They plundered the churches and monasteries - and * burned the houses. At Hickman,. Ivy., William Butcher, a desperate negro, Was taken from jail and lynched by a mob. His head was shot off and his body riddled with bullets. The Atlantic coast was startled by three earthquake shocks. No serious dam­ age was done, though many windows were1 broken and a few people were thrown out of bed. William Alsup, driver of a hearse, was killed by lightning in a cemetery near ~ iltimore. * Mtt**JyillMcDonal(L United States fish commission?^ dij^Mn Washington. He Was born iu Virginia fifty-eight years ago. WESTERN. Jauies iStewart, better known as Capt. Paul Webb, the swimmer, died at Spo­ kane from injuries received jh sliding down! a log chute in a barrel oh July 4. ? H. M. Romberg, of Decatur, Ind.. has been sentenced to twelve years' impris­ onment-, in Gerhiaiiy for whipping a Ger­ man army officer.. The offense wiis com­ mitted before Rombergcame to this coun-J t r y . , \ I • • • ' . : • • ' . . • Three little children of a Sullivan, Mo„ widow named Jenkins went to a place near the Jiafn to gather eggs. .The place was,rather out of the way and dangerous, owing to snakes, which are numerous in that region. One child thrust its hand, into what" St supposed was the hen^s n'esit' and "quickly withdrew it, exclaiming that the hen pecked it. ' The other two children put in their hands with the saftie resiilf. The mother ran-.to the, assistance: of the three;children, who, had been bitten by* a rattlesnake. During the excitement her little babe fell into, the well and was drowned,; and the' three other children also died. Harry Brown, the well-known comic opera comedian, whose home is in Port­ land, Ore., after years of ill-luck has obtained a fortune in a peculiar manner. While tilling an unprofitable engagement in Cleveland he cured a' hitherto incurable melancholia patient, the young son of wealthy parents. The boy was afflicted with suicidal mania and accidentally saw Brown and laughed for the first time in his life. Brown became young Kel- logg's physician and cured him. When Mrs. Kellogg died recently she bequeath­ ed a comfortable fortune to Brown. Brown will go to San Francisco and to the south of France, where he will spend the winter. ...... Thirteen miners in the Sleepy Hollow mine, Central City, Colo., were working Thursday .afternoon in -tb.e drif.ts, when suddenly a torrent of water came stream­ ing down the shaft, and, sweeping debris before it, choked up the entries and pas­ sageways. intombing the workmen. Two Italians working above were caught in the mighty rush of the flood, and they, too, were sacrificed. The season has been unprecedented in the amount of rainfall. The hills have, been soaked to repletion, and the giant pumps of the big mines have had a difficult task to perform in beating down the waters. The disaster is due solely to greed of the operators. The danger was not unforeseen, but the mine is in litigation, and the operators would not spend money enough to properly equip the plant with pumping apparatus. The Illinois State Board of Live Stock Commissioners issued the following re­ port of cattle inspection at the Union Stockyards, Chicago, during the last week: Number cattle inspected. 175 Passed in the yards..: 102 Held for post-mortem examination. . Passed on post-mortem examination. Condemned as being unfit for food and - ordered tanked The board reports that an official in­ spection of the outbreak of Texas fever at Mount Sterling, Bro-«n County, shows the disease to have been brought into Illi­ nois by cattle shipped from the stock­ yards at St. Louis, the cattle coming from the southern portion of Missouri. Those sent to Chicago were thoroughly exam­ ined and five head Of cattle were con­ demned with the fever upon them. The disease is under control at Brown County and no further fear is felt. At Cleveland James Beckmeister fell five stories, from the topJof the World building to the sidewalk, and was in- stanty killed. The body of the., falling man struck John Nickson, who was walk­ ing along the sidewalk, with terrific force, breaking the back and both legs of the lat­ ter, and he is dying. Beckmeister was en­ gaged with a number of other men in placing a large sign 011 the building. The accident was caused by the slipping of ropes supporting a swinging scaffold. Two other men named Lewis and Corm­ ier, who were on the scaffold with Beck­ meister, had a desperate struggle for their lives, which was witnessed by horri­ fied spectators in the street. Lewis was thrown from the scaffold and caught with his hands the narrow coping under the windows. He managed tp work along till he reached the fire escape and was then easily rescued. Cormier clung to the rope for some time and was finally rescued by a man in the building, who stepped on the window ledge and swung him into the room with one hand. More peaches came into Chicago Wed­ nesday-by-boat than on any previous day this year, and it is claimed that the rec­ ord of any previous day in the history of the fruit trade was also broken. Ship­ ments were not confined to any one partic­ ular point on the east shore-of Lake Mich­ igan, but every peach orchard from the Indiana State line to the pine regions of the north seemed to be represented. St. Joseph and Benton Harbor were, as us­ ual, the heaviest contributors, the City of Chicago bringing in ay immense load, while the Puritan was well filled. By shipping points the receipts were as fol­ lows: Place--" Fifth bu. St. Joseph 24,400 South Haven. .15,000 Saugatuck ... .12,000 Glenn 5,200 crowd of tnillmen chased Timberlake for j . j,',. twelve hlneW hnt h. f»)i the number of 30,000, witlf half as many more ladies in their,illustrious train. twelve blocks, but lie fell into the hands of the police and was quickly jailed, out Of the reach of immediate vengeance. A bloody war between two "factions resulting from a long-standing feud has been fought in the Cumberland Moun­ tains;- Seventy-five miles north of Bristol, Tenn., on the Virginia and Kentucky lines. Members of the Boyd ami Thomas families, with Winchesters, met at an illicit distillery,, where the battle began. Four men--'John Boyd, William Cox, Jack Thomas and Jfloyd Thomas--are dead, ind several .others wounded. This twenty-sixth triennial conclave of the Knights of the Temple-was remark- FO REIGN, 20 •17 Rev, C. F. Gates^f Chicago, has been elected president of Euphrates College, at liarpoot, Turkey, Newspapers announce that the cotton firm of Staub & Gtiyer, of Cornigliano, near Genoa; Italy, has failed for over 1,000,000 lire. . • - ; V'-/ Fire: at Hooge Zwaluwe, Brabant, de­ stroyed forty-three' houses. Fifty fami­ lies have been rendered homeless. No loss of life is reported. The Moscow Gazette is informed that Japan has consented to accept 30,000,000 taels as indemnity for the relinquishment of the Liad Tung peninsula. According to a Kingston dispatch Capt. Gen. Campos has written a letter declar­ ing that the struggle against the Cuban insurrection is hopeless and that the con­ ceding of autonomy is the only means by which Spain can avoid losing the island. It is reported at Hong-Ivong that all the members of the Ku-Cheng eoiniriis- sion,are in good health, and it is said that the Chinese officials are assisting active­ ly and thoroughly in the investigation be­ ing made into the recent massacre, of missionaries. Ten Vegetarians," "it " is added, have already been convicted, and the trial of others is proceeding. There is sail] to be no danger of any fresh dis­ turbances in that district during the sit-'-, ting of the commission. The Paris Estafette protests against statements made in some of the American papers relative to the sentence and impris­ onment of ex-Consul Waller, saying that if Frenchmen sold arms to the enemies of the United States, Americans would never tolerate any interference on the part of the Cabinets.of Europe. "More­ over, our line of conduct should be clear­ ly marked," continues the Estafette. "We need not pay any attention to the idle complaints of these American papers. In­ deed, Waller ought to have been imme­ diately shot for his glaring treason." IN GENERAL Marie Burroughs, the actress, has been granted a divorce from Louis F. Masseii. Torpedo-boat, No. 14, capsized in the North Sea. Thirteen persons are report­ ed to have been drowned. The official report on emigration of the English Government for the month and the seven months ending Aug. 1 show that the movement of wageworkers toward the United States is on the increase. For the month of July departures for the new world from England, Ireland and Scot­ land aggregated 9,500, an increase of 3,000 over the same month of last year, while 0,(500 emibrants from continental countries embarked at English ports. The total British emigration during the last seven months to the United States was 71,314, as against 40,791 for last year's corresponding period. To Canada during July, the total British emigration amount­ ed to 1,557, of which only one-teuth were Scotch and Irish. The following is the standing- of the FI.ORAXi CROSS- AN1) .SHIELD ON BOSTON PUBLIC OARDKN. MOST EMINENT SIR IIUGII M'CURDT. : sold to the highest bidder. Every avail- J able window on Dartniouth street was i sold for prices varying fiSfcm. $15 to $30 : -for every front room above the first floor. OolumbuS avenue for its whole. length was one reviewing stand,, and the seats were disposed of at an average price of $3, Whjl'e window space: was taken by visiting knights for their friends at prices ranging from $25 to $50 for front rooms above the first floor. ' ; - • , So great was the demand, for Window space arid points 6f yhntage for seeing the parade'that enormously high prices have been been paid. Ajbarber in Wash­ ington street offered his window space for $25 for the day and a slireWd customer in-one Of his chairs took it up. ami later sold,-the pri vilege for $75, Not less, than- $1,000,000 changed, hands for the pleas­ ure of witnessing the greatest parade in point of splendor ever held in this coun­ try. able Tn more ways than one. It was the largest gathering of the kind in the his­ tory of the order. This not only means that there is financial hopefulness and prosperity in the circles to which the Sir Knights belong, but it calls attention to the fact that the great and beneficent Expense of the Conclave. The estimate of the expense of the grand conclave-to'the members of Massa­ chusetts and Rhode Island commander- ies, who are the hosts, was $350,000. In addition to this each member procured special regalia, and several thousand dol- rt-.TVhW-»rii Half bu Bu. 1,300 400 150 o00 clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore 102 66 36 .647 Cleveland 112 71 41 .634 Philadelphia . . 105 60 45 .571 Boston 104 59 45 .567 Brooklyn 106 59 47 .557 Pittsburg 108 59 49 .546 Chicago 107 57 50 .533 New York...... .105 55 50 .524 Cincinnati 104 54 - 50 .519 Washington . .. 99 32 67 • .323 St. Louis. 107 34 73 .318 Louisville 105 26 79 ,24S WESTERN T.EAOUE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League Per P. w. L. cent. Indianapolis.. .105 69 36 .657 Kansas City. .. 108 63 45 .583 St. Paul 105 60 45 .571 Milwaukee .... .108 53 55 .491 Minneapolis . .. .108 52 50 .481 Terre Haute. .. .109 48 61 .440 Detroit . 115 4!) 66 .426 Grand Itapids.. .109 35 74 .321 primej grades, EASTERN. ,-I^. Frank M. Vernon, who claims Chicago as his home, and who has been cutting quite a swath in.New Yosk,.was pum- meled by two young women in that city mid then carried away in a cab. Electric Lineman Harry Sherman, of the^.^rush ,\vorlcsv Rochester, N. ¥., re­ ceived a shock or between 1,000 and 2,000 volts. He was picked up apparently dead, but after liard work was resusci- tated. ' : * *••• , Total .. .50,000 23,800 2.350 This makes a grand total of 82.750 bas­ kets, or 25,010 bushels. It is doubtful if receipts of peaches will exceed these fig­ ures agaitvtliis'season. The charred remains of Howard Pitzel were pulled out of a chimney in a house, iu Irvington, the college suburb of Indian­ apolis, lnd., Tuesday evening. II. H. Holmes occupied the house two or three days last October. The chain of circum­ stantial evidence connecting Holmes with this find is even more complete than that which was turned up in Toronto, where the bodies of the two Pitzel girls were dug up. There are several witnesses who saw, Holmes and the little Pitzel boy at the house, and the child was never seen afterwards. The entire body, or what was left of it, was crowded into the stovehole. The body was evidently burn­ ed in the stove, and then the stove was cleaned out. the remains being thrown in­ to the chimney. There were a great inai^y cobs about the place, and it is evi­ dent that the fire that burned the child was mncLe from cobs. Such a fire is one o.f the very'hottest. Buttons from the clothing were identified. ̂ .; SOUTHERN. Lampton, Crane & Ramey, dealers in paints, oils and varnishes at Louisville, were burned. out. Loss. $100,000. \\ilh^m -QaiUard,. of Palestine• Com- inandery, Ny. 0, Knights Templar, of. The breeding establishment at Castle- New London. Conn., .dropped dead fronj ton, Va.r of James R. & F. P. Keene was at Boston. He was returning i burried to the ground. A number of val­ uable horses, including the imported Ival- apoplexy MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 02c to 03c; corn. No. 2, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 42c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, 30c to 35c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 3c to 51/{>c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 01c to G2e; corn, 'No. 1 white, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5,00; wheat, No. 2 red, 03c to 04c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 38c to 40c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $1.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 03c to G5c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 43c, Detroit--Cattlfe, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.(»0 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50 wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye? 41c to 43c. Toledo---Wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c corn , No. 2 yellow, 38e to 39c; oats, No 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2, 43c to 44c, Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 61c to 62c; corn, No. 3, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; barley, No. 2, 41c to 42c;' rye. No.. 1, 42c to 43c; p3fk, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. I New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; -wheat, No. 2 red, 06c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs West­ ern, 14c to lGc. MASONIC TEMPLE, WHERE THE CONCLAVE WAS IIELI). Masonic brotherhood which has been in­ woven with the most important features of our national history is experiencing a healthy and continuous growth. The fact that there are now in this country upward of 100,000 members of the order of Knights Templar alone is full of encour­ aging significance. It is maintained that the Masonic fra­ ternity, not to speak of others scarcely less influential, has, done an incalcuable amount of good in conserving respect for the basic principles of true religion among a class of men most likely to be prolific in scoffers. And not ?ess im­ portant is the part played by this order in the perpetuation of patriotic sentiment throughout the Union. From the laying of the corner-stone of the national capital at Washington, a century ago, to the lay­ ing of the corner-stone of the Masonic Temple in Chicago, this society has played an important part in the public and semi- public events that have made up our his­ tory as a nation. It is forty-five jears since Boston has been the scene of Knights Templar grand conclave, and the members of the order in the city exerted themselves to the ut­ most to outdo all that have taken place since. Boston boasts of the largest com- mandery in the United States, and this one body appropriated $35,000 to be spejit in making the guesfs appreciate their welcome. Even with such an ex­ ample the visiting cotnmanderies were de­ termined not to be excelled, and though none of tbeiP expended any such sum of money, all planned to more than do their part in the festivities. Special trains were chartered from all parts of the country to carry the members of the visiting eom- manderies to the East, and in many in­ stances the trips were arranged ~.nd add­ ed to so that the route included not_only Boston but many other Eastern cities and points of national interest. The representation from States as recorded at the triennial headquarters at the opening of the festivities was as fol­ lows: • Alabama .... 80 Missouri .... 1,003 Arkansas . .. 58 Nebraska .... 130 California . .. 370 Montana .... 40 Colorado .... 134 New Ila'ps're. 1,117 Connecticut .. 864 New Jersey. . 618 Delaware... 200 New York... 1 ,(>S0 Dis. Col'bia.. 5(50 N. Carolina. . 38 Florida 30 N. -Dakota1. .. <>'* Georgia ..... 70 Ohio ...... 1,515 Illinois 1,005 Pennsyi'via . 2,084 I n d i a n a . . 6 8 5 S . C a r o l i n a . . . 2 5 Iowa 343 Tennessee .. . 125 Kansas ..... 363 Texas 1 Kentucky ... 280 Vermont .... 670 Maine. i1,085,Virginia .... 441 Maryland . 527 Wiso msm . ..- 500 Massac' setts Wyoming . . . 20 and R'de I'd. 0,218 i.udi in Ter. .. 45 Michigan* . .. 1,545 Minnesota .. 223 Total.. lars represent the expense of badges for exchange. Every frater was supposed to carry an exchange badge; in fact, a pocket full of them, and when another frater met him on the street without the ceremony of an introduction badges were to be exchanged. Iu this way vast collec-' tions of badges were procured as souven­ irs of the triennial meeting, and a com­ plete collection of fhose worn during the week will be worth fully $1,000. A series of receptions and social festiv­ ities were held during the-convention ami visiting knights were taken to view all interesting points about Boston. Many public, as well as private, buildings were elaborately decorated during the conven­ tion. and old Boston assumed an air of brightness and gayety such as she has rarely known before. WHEAT CROPS OF THE WORLD. Russia and the United States Have Nearly a Billion Bushels, Details of the Government estimate of the wheat crops of the various countries, the total for which was stated in a recent dispatch, shows the following in bushels: Great Britain, 46.811.000; France, 301,- 573,000; Germany. 103,550,000; Austria, POTATO NOW IS KING. Ftirmers Bes'iniUng to Realize that v There Is Money in Tubers. - The potato has at last taken rank as king among the tillers' of the soil. For years Secretary of Agriculture Morton has been appealing to the farmers of the United States to grow potatoes, as he be1 lieyed that they would be their salvation. They have finally taken his advice, and now they are beginning to realize that they will profit by planting1 more ground to the tubers instead of wheat and corn. There is at all times a steady demand for them, and they are quite as stapl£ as wheat and not subject to the fluctuations of the latter. With the low price of wheat and corn the farmers have looked about for some more profitsble crop and investi­ gation shows that the United States lias never produced enough potatoes for home consumption. Thousands of bushels are bought in foreign markets every year and if there js a profit for powers abroad, with small areas to devote to the crop and the additional expense of ocean freight rates, there ought to be money in the business for the farmers iirthis country, who. have larger tracts of land and cheaper freight rates. The imports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, were 3,022,578 bushels, of the value of nearly $1,250,- 0 0 0 . . - v ; ; . . . Last year 2,737.973 acres were devoted to this crop, and that was an increase over the year before of 83,000 acres. The pro­ duct of .1894, on account of an unfavor­ able Reason, was. 2,240,000 bushels short of the y ear before, notwithstanding the in­ creased $creagC.'\ But in. measuring the popularity of the potato as an article of farm product,' the product is scarcely worthy of .consideration, for the increase in the area of land devoted to the crop is plainly the index of- its popularity. All the Evidence available indicates that there a re now 3,000,000 acres of potatoes grow­ ing in the United States. The fact that there has been a steadily decreasing acre­ age of wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn, which continues this year, is considered by the Secretary of Agriculture to indicate an increased acreage of potatoes and other substantial small products. . New York has steadily led all the other States as a potato producer. .Last year 378,728 acres of land were devoted to the crop in New York, and the product, aggre­ gating over 2d,000,000 bushels, was sold for half as many million dollars. Michi­ gan was second, with 215,270 acres and a product of over 13,000,000 bushels, which brought the growers nearly $6,000,000. Pennsylvania was third, with 206,879 acres, which produced almost the exact number of bushels produced by Michigan, though the acreage was vastly less, than Michigan's. Tlie acreage in Ohio was in round numbers the same as that in Penn­ sylvania, and the aggregate of the crop was the same within a few thousand bush­ els. showing".'that both Pennsylvania and Ohio raised a larger crop than Michigan with less acreage," The other big potato- growing States are Iowa, Illinois, Wiscon-" syi, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, in the order named. Iowa had 170,605 acres last year; Kansas, 108,213. The aggre­ gate of acreage gradually decreases from' Iowa to Kansas, excepting that Illinois and Wisconsin had almost the same acre­ age--that is, about 166,500. While Mis­ souri, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jer­ sey, Virginia, Kentucky, South Dakota, Colorado, and a half-dozen other States are good potato growers and have a large acreage, none of them approached 100,000 acres last year, and in nearly all of them less than 50,000 acres of land was devoted to potatoes,.,,.,., * Notes of Curi-ent Kvents. S. A. Abbey, supposed to be a victim of the Denver hotel disaster, is alive at Pueblo, Col. Alfred Paxton has been appointed re­ ceiver for the Davis Carriage Company at Cincinnati. Postmaster Harmston at Vernal, Utah, has been arrested, his accounts showing' a shortage of $2,800. Ilderim, Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht, defeated the Mineola, owned by August Belmont, iu a race at Newport • Ralph Coe, son of George Coe, was drowned in a clay pit at South Bend, Ind., while throwing sticks at a dog. Miss Mrytle Bartimus, aged 20. living near Milan, Mo. was injured by a thresh­ ing machine so that she cannot recover. The ingrain carpet weavers' strike at Philadelphia has been broken, most of 4he companies granting the increase asked for. Chief Webster and three firemen were caught under a blazing roof which fell at an Indianapolis fire and were seriously injured. C. L. Wright, of Honolulu, says the government is about to start an informa­ tion bureau to supply the outside public with data concerning the islands.' Vice Chancellor Emery, at Newark, N. .T., granted the Edison Phonograph Com­ pany an injunction restraining Thomas A. Edison from selling kinetiphones in Eu­ rope. A wonderfully rich placer find is re­ ported on Gold ('reek on the continental divide at the south end of the Wind River range, Wyo. The dirt runs $50 to the yard. Newton B. Eustis, second secretary and „Mr. Alexander, counsel of the American embassy at Paris, have returned from Clairvaux, where they took down a full CHAT OF THKCAPITAL SPECULATION AS TO JAQXSON'S SUCCESSOR. 25,721 The Grand Parade. The conclave was,opened with a parade, which-was the greatest of its kind ever held. More than 40^Q0K nights Templar Were in lino, and fully liOOO-of-these were mounted. In addition to these was the members of th(•Grand Encampment of the United States, as well as other high officials of the order, in carriages. The parade was commanded by Grand Master McCurdy, of the Grand .Encampment, who is the head of the! order. The . decorations of the- city were su­ perb, and all along the route of the par­ ade matnniotb grand stands had been IS KNIGIITS TEMPLAR CAPTURE BOSTON. 45,M92,0(K); Italy, 114,898,000; Belgium, 21.277,000; Spain, 80,528,000: Russia, 415,053,000; Hungary, 150,301.000; In­ dia, 237,450,000; United States, 400.017.- 000: Canada, 51,060,000; Iloumaniu. 02,- 414,000; Bulgaria, 52,482,000; Turkey, 42.555,000; Argentine, <>0;995.000; Aus­ tralia, 35,740,000. . The. Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Por­ tugal and Greece, together, 29,502,000; S e r v i a , 8 . 5 1 1 , 0 0 0 ; C h i l i , 1 8 , 4 4 0 , 0 0 0 ; A f ­ rica. 47,094.000; all Asia except India, 70,950,000; total, 2,402,071,000. ,T. R. Brandon and his son Alonzo are in. jail at St. Louis charged with torfciting. They were arrested iff'Dun­ can County, and in a corn crib near their house was-found, a' complete outfit, for making money, together with $ 1 < o in spurious dollars of 1891. ;• "Gen.". Ooxe.v is touring Nebraska in the interest of free silver. statement from ex-Consul Waller of his trial and conviction by the French mili­ tary court at Tamatave. The Prince of Wales' cutter Britannia has finished her racing season and has gone to Cowes to dismantle, previous to lying up for the winter. She is flying forty winning flags. Lizzie Sherley, a lunatic, Was killed by the attendants at the Long View asylum at Cincinnati. She iniagined that she would die' if she partook of any food and since her advent the attendants have had to force her food down her throat, finally choking Jjer. a . The schedules in the assignment "of Jesse G: Jones, the veteran lumberman, of Indianapolis, show assets of $150,- 323.37.; liabilities, $187,021.87. The heaviest creditors are tlie Security Bank of Boston, $61.5,00; Quincy A. Shaw, of Boston, $50,000; and Eliza A. Tolman, of Minneapolis. , / At Present Bissell Seems to Be the Strongest Man--Marshes of the Poto­ mac Are Beijig Abolished--The Great Congressional Library. An'IBarly Appointment Likely. Washington correspondence: HERE is still ® great deal of specu­ lation as to whom the President will', appoint to fill the place of the late Jus­ tice- Jackson. Some people have won­ dered why the ap­ pointment has not already been made,, but it is pointed out that there is no in­ stance on record; where a justice has iwwMnnr been appointed' dur? iiig the interim be­ tween the, adjourn­ ment and the reas­ sembling q£ 0 o n - grjess. Moreover, there is really no imme­ diate necessity- for the filling-of the va­ cancy and it is not, expected, that the . President will seriously consider the-jofaV ter until his return to tiiis city 'isV;Octo-c ber. Justice Field lias pointed out the necessity of the vacancy btiing filled about that time, as the docket of the court 1st several years behind.. The loss of even a. . single member of the bench would there-; fore be considerably felt and for this rea­ son the Chief Justice and some of his as­ sociates are said to have urged upon the- President the advisability of filling the place as earlj as possible. : The thing which is thought to weigh most with the President against making; an early appointment is that it--might subject the justice selected to the humil­ iation of sitting on the bench for a short time, only to find he was a persona grata to the Senate. Until an appointment is finally made there will continue-to be much guessing as to the appointment. At the present time Mr. Bissell seems to be-, about the strongest man, not only because- of his friendship with the President, but also because of his being a New Yorker,, from which State it is thought the ap­ pointment will be made. It is predicted by many that the President will follow his custom and appoint a lawyer not known to the general public. If the Pres­ ident intends to honor any of his Cabinet with a seat on the bench Secretary Car­ lisle would in all probability be the man. Potomac Marshes. Little by little the marshes of the Poto­ mac, which have so long rendered Wash­ ington unhealthy, are being abolished. When the agitation for the abolition of the marshes began it was maintained that the" upper marshes rendered tile White House unhealthy, while those the eastern branch performed a siminfP~ offense to the united States arsenal and navy yard. The plan which is being fol­ lowed in the matter is either to put the marshes permanently under water or else- to bring parts of them permanently above. That this work, although only in its in­ fancy, has been productive of good re­ sults the death rate of Washington this, summer has shown. Physicians through­ out the city report that there is less mala­ ria in the place than ever before, and) they note a Similar decrease in the sick­ ness caused by marsh miasma. The im­ provement in the river itself is nearly completed, but that on the eastern branch is barely under way. Here the flats choke up most of the waterway and half poison the air. The plan which Maj. Twining, the en­ gineer, is following in this part of the riv­ er will have the effect of straightening out the navy yard channel, which now winds around like a W, while the great mud marshes will be changed into water or high land.. The friends of the late Secretary Gresham always declared that the sickness which ultimately caused his. death was brought about by the exhala­ tions from the marshes near the State Department. At certain points of the wind all the air from these marshes is borne directly "into the departments, and many a man owes his first sickness to- Potomac malaria. Congressional Library. When the great Congressional library is completed members of Congress will be able to get the books they need in a less space of time than by any other sys­ tem on earth. Much of this will be due to the system of shelving which is to be adopted in the library. Many months of investigation took place before the final choice of these bookcases was made. Next to the reading-room there w-ill open out an extensive book'magazine or repos­ itory filled with iron cases consisting of tiers or floors rising sixty-five feet high to the roof. These tiers were put in at this distance to obviate the necessity of using ladders. As each tier of shelves is- only eight feet high it is easy to reach the topmost shelves without help of any kind. Each stack has a shelving capacity of 8,000 volumes. The librarians have also" been investigating the improvements of other libraries, and on the various floors- in the book stacks there will be' elevators and tramways for the transportation of books. Every kind of time-saving niachinery which ingenuity can devise will be put into use to bring books to the tunnel which is to be put into operation between the Capitol and the library. Work on this has already been commenced. A trench 11,000 feet long has been dug across the Capitol park, and in it will M constructed \ a brick conduit six feetjiigh and four feet wide. This conduit will connect the basement of the library building with the basement of the Capitol. Shafts will run both from the library stacks and from the Congressional floors to this tun­ nel. It is proposed to run a small cable- through the tunnel upon which will con­ stantly travel carriers large enough to> hold books. These will move very rapid- idly, and will take up and deliver the books between the two buildings. Tele­ phone wires are to be laid in this con­ duit, and a member of Congress will be able to communicate his wants direetly to the librarian from the cloak-rooms of either the Senate or the House. The tun­ nel is intended to be dry and light, so that a inan can walk ALrough jt if anything- goes wrong. As tjjns book'railway is only to be used to furnish membgrs of Con- ,~ gress with books it is expected that two V carriers will be sufficient. The smalle^J the number the greater the speejd which can be used for the cable,.., BAR ASSOCIATION MEET. Three Hundred Leading Jurists-of the- l^itcd States Gather at Detroit. An intellectual looking assembly of 300 leading jurists and members of the bar was present in Y. M. C. A. Hall. Detroit^ when President James C. Carter, of New York, called to order the eighteenth' an­ nual convention of the American Bar As­ sociation. After thanking the Detroit representatives of the profession for the cordial receptions tendered the visitors, the President read a short list of the most noted jurists .present, who were invited to seats upon the platform. President Carter then proceeded with the reading of his address. The *rent of tb evening--sunset