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wr̂ r THE PLAIN^ALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENPY, - - - - ILLINOIS. •fmmmmmmmm i. • I | 11. .gg. MORA CLAIM IS PAID. STATE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES DRAFT IN FULL. Government Crop Estimated Are Dis­ credited--No Alarm for the Treasury Reserve--War in,Germany On Amer­ ican Meats--Sumner is Suspended*' Spain Settles at Last* ' Senor do Loteie. tho Spanish minister, at Washington. Saturday delivered to Mr. Adee, acting Secretary of State, a draft for the equ 1 valenPdf$l,449,000,0rawn on the Spanish financial agent in London in settlement of the Mora claim. This marked the close of an international,ques­ tion that has dragged along for twenty- six years, giving ri§e to fiery debates in the. Spanish cortes and protracted com-, mitfee inquiries in both branches of our own congress. Having settled the inter­ national feature of the case the State De-. partment ,is^iww lijjc^iy to encounter some difficultly at home in disbursing the money. Much litigation is threatened, as was.evi­ denced by the taking out of an injunction by one of the. assignees S'atu^.ay to re­ strain the. State -pepartmeijt from.paying over all the money to the claimant. Mora. During the years of, tho pendency of this: great claim Mr. Mora has been obliged tOriiake assignmeiits of .part of if. the "larger if<jms being oh account of legal ex-- pienses; . Some-of these assignments ha ve been recorded in the'State Department, Sumner Is Puriished. The NavyJlepaxtmoiit has mndepublic its action in the case of Capt. George W. Summer, late in command of the United States cruiser Columbia, who was- tried recently by court martial at the Brooklyn navy yard on charges growing out. of the injury sustained by his vessel in docking at Southampton in July last. On the first charge, culpable inefficiency in the per­ formance of duty, the court found him guilty in a less degree than charged. The captain was found guilty of the second charge of suffering a vessel of the navy to be hazarded in violation of the naval regulations. He was also found guilty of the third charge, neglect of duty, and the specification under that charge was proved--namely: that he paid the charge of docking without protest. The sentence of the court is as follows: "To be sus­ pended from duty only for" a period of six months on waiting orders pay, and to be reprimanded by the Honorable Secretary of the Navy." Commerce and Crops. v Ii. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly re­ view of trade say: A slight setback, which may mean much or nothing, ac­ cording to the final outcome of the crops, -is not unexpected at this season. If the government crop reports were correct Jhe situation would not be encouraging. But not much confidence is placed in the re­ duced estiijia^e of corn, none at all in the estimate'of wheat, and oven the most en­ thusiastic bulls do not think it worth while to quote the government report as •to cotton. The fact is that we are be­ ginning to market not far-from 2.200.000.- 000 bushels of corn (though only about 500,000.000 bushels will be moved from the counties where it is grown); about 450,000,(100 bushels of wheat, of which u the farmers are unwisely holding back a large proportion; and about 7,200.000 bales of cotton, if the later indications are not erroneous, as they very easily may be, to add to the stocks carried over. Fighting American Meats. v An agent in Southern Germany for a Chicago packing firm complained to the Consul that restrictive measures enforced by local authorities at Freiburg had prac­ tically destroyed a formerly prosperous trade in that city. Similar restrictions were threatened at Carlsruhe. The mat­ ter was at once sent from the United States Consulate to the embassy at Ber­ lin with the expectation of preventing the objectionable proceedings threatened at Carlsruhe. It is found that the official ^hostility to American meats is due to an agrarian spirit which would frwm self-in­ terest seek to exclude all foreign food products which compete seriously with the domestic supply. Syndicate to the Rescue. The attack of the gold reserve assumed formidable proportions Friday, and the probability of another bond issue, ap­ peared in the eyes of many almost a cer­ tainty. But apprehension was allayed when the bond syndicate authorized the following statement: "The bond syndi­ cate fulfilled all its obligations to the gov- . eminent in June last and has not since been bound in any way to the treasury. So far as Oct. 1 is concerned, it has no relation to the action of the syndicate, and it will continue to deposit gold until Nov. 1, and Dec. 1, and .Tan. 1. if neces­ sary," ago,' and the subsequent collection of $10,- 000 "insurance on his life for Holmes, led to the unveiling of the hitter's remark-' ahle criminal record. u " Tli€^ first fair ito be held in the United States }n aid of thO wounded patriots of Cuba opened Monday at the Spanish- American Methodist ..Episcopal" Church, Brooklyn, it is under the auspices of TOO fair women of Cuban birth or extraction, who Tiro banded together in an orgatviza- tion called the "Hijas de la Libertad," or the Daughters of Liberty. All the ar­ ticles displayed fc/r'sale havo been made by members of the society and afe most­ ly of southern pattern. The gross re­ ceipts of the fair will be used exclusively for the purchase of medicines; arpica, Ab­ sorbent cotton aud-jother necessaries for the wounded patriots of the isle of Cuba. "western. At San Jose, Cal;, fire broke out Mon­ day morning hi the Siin , Jose Lumber CompanySr^y.rfrd, and destroyed property to a verAhirge amount. ---- Twentl-five Milwaukee mail carriers have been notified to show cause why they should not be .removed or suspended. They sure charged with various offenses. Ida/Gruel, of Janesville, Wis., 19 years old,/u0i?pcd a lighted lamp while curling her hair, ) Blazing oil covered her, and she w-a$/burned to death oiT~the porch, Winnie. Andrews, a Port Towusend, \Vash., nurse girl, received a letter noti­ fying her of-the death of -her grand­ mother, who died in Boston leaving $30,- 000. She has quit work and: will go East to get the money. -. ,-v . At Sacramento . the forty-fifth- anni-; versa ry of the admission of California into the Union 'was celebrated oh Tues­ day by the order of the" Native Sons of the Golden -West with a parade in' which over' foifr thousand-participated. ' Liter­ ary exercises were held in the. open air •on the Plaza, a regatta was held on the river, and a reception at the historical Sutter's Fort. Monday evening there was an electric carnival, the chief feature of which was the parade. The feverish spasm of high temperature which afflicted Chicago in common with most of the area of the. Mississippi Val­ ley relaxed about 10 o'clock Thursday when, on a shift of the wind to the northeast, the mercury in the thermome­ ters began to descend,.and during a quar­ ter of an hour declined at the rate of one degree a minute. So rapid a change in temperature has seldom been noted by the weather observers. The pronounced alterations of the temperature of the air may'be accounted for on the theory that the unreasonable and unseasonable' weather of the last three days was caused by unusual meteorological conditions held in- such unstable relation that the return of the normal was sudden, once the ten­ sion was removed. At Fort Wayne. Ind., after receiving a ten years' sentence to the Northern pen­ itentiary for shooting Deputy Sheriff Har- rod. John C. Stone astonished Judge G'Rourke, the jury and the audience by rising in the prisoner's box and confess­ ing tliat he and Wallrath. his pal, who was killed in the battle with the police, were members of the gang of train rob­ bers which a few months ago held up a Lake Sh<jre train near Wasepi, Mich, tie gave the Sheriff two gold watches and three railroad switch keys that he took from the trainmen that night. The rail­ road people have been after the switch keys without success ever since the train was held up. Stone, it is supposed, be­ longed to a band of train robbers, as they fought like tigers when arrested at Fort Wayne three months ago. They opened fire as soon as the officers approached theni. Wallrath was shot dead in his tracks and Deputy Sheriff Harrod was wounded in three different places. F. PitzcI, whose mysterious dfnth a yeaffi fecal year ending June, lg96 A port' n n<riv nml the suhsemienf sin _ 0f this sun is tq be expended upon the two Proposed battfte-slilps. contracts foi Which wills-be let about Jan. 1, Tfte re­ mainder will be used for general 'repairs to the hulls and thi machui5Fy~~of the vessels in commission. " 1" Women as professors in a Catholic uni­ versity is a supposition that the average Catholic or Protestant, has hitherto re­ garded'as almost beyohd belief. .But from Washington comes the news that the Catholic University of America, in that city, is. about to throw open" its full academic course to women. The date is even given on which the innovation will take effect--namely, Oct. 1. It is further stated that the trustees of the university after debating at length the advisability of the step, have finally decided to or­ ganize a separate department in the uni­ versity devoted, solely to women, and in which the full course of academic in­ struction will be given by women' pro­ fessors. FOREIGN. The second race of the series for the America's cup between the English yacht Valkyrie and the American sloop De­ fender, which was sailed off Sandy Hook Tuesday, was won by the British boat by forty-seTeh seconds. The Defender's, top­ mast' was broken in going over the start­ ing line. She entered a protest, claiming that she was fouled by the end of the Val­ kyrie's boomin goini^ over the mark. The .Defender sailed the third, cup con­ test heat Thursday alone. Lord Dun- raven refused to answer any questions regarding the motives of his course. In , the usual jockeying for a start the crew of the "Valkyrie seemed to make no effort to put the British craft' in. fast racing trim. The Defender crossed the line: at 11:20:24, and the Valkyrie at 11:21:59, but while the Defender flew over the im­ aginary line with a1Q sails "set and pulling grandly, the Valkyrie had-hot. hoisted its club topsail. It is possible'that the' Val­ kyrie was blanketed slightly by. pilot boat 19, as she flew a protest flag and luffed to return to the committee-boat al­ most immediately after crossing the line. But in view of the slight preparations •made and of the prompt hoisting of the flag of the New York Yacht Club, signi­ fying a surrender of the race, it does not seem possible that the Valkyrie was at any time intended to race. If the course had been absolutely clear, she would sim­ ply have made the start to establish a race. The protest was simply an inci­ dent. The pitiable condition of the survivors of the Armenian massacres and the al­ leged'efforts of the Turkish authorities to retard the work of relief are described in a communication just received at Washington from an American gentle­ man now the scene of the Sassuon massacre. The letter says in.part: "The missionaries in charge of the relief funds '"are now here, but the opposition of the Turkish Government is so great that they can make but. little progress. Two vil­ lages, samples of the thirty-two that were destroyed, are now marked by crumbling walls, the roofs so completely destroyed by the incendiaryrsoldiers that not a chip remains to show they'ever had roofs. The mass of the survivors of the massa­ cre were scattered about among the vil­ lages of the surrounding region and sup­ ported by those scarcely better off tha? themselves. Many have only a few boughs to cover a corner of their former homes and furnishings are bare--a little hay to sleep on, with possibly some filthy rags to throw over them. Food is very scanty and working tools are lacking. The first estimates of the slain were ex­ aggerated. Probably not more than 4,000 really fell at the time. The others died of want, but the tales of lust and fiendish outrage that come to our ears exceed all we had dreamed of" THE GtJP AGAIN 0UBS. VALKYRIE HAD NO CHANCE AND ™ DUNRAVEN KNEW IT. Beat^i in the. First Race, He Fouls the American Boat in the Second andDemnrs to, the Ctub'a lXceiB'o n.-- Sulks and Refuses to IJlay. •Story of the Fiasco. *~ N'ew York correspondence; GAIN thp Amer­ ica yachting cup stays on this side of the At­ lantic, and the Britishers who have vainly tried since 1851 to wrest it from our Yankee boats may this time add to discomfit­ ure over failure chagrin attach­ ing to childish behavior of their champion. In the first heat the Defender on t - sailed the Val­ kyrie so clearly on every point that it was confidently expected she would win three ^straight heats. Just before the start of the second heat, the British boat, possi­ bly not intentionally, put none the less in violation of the racing rulek, foiled the Defender, and crippled her} so that she could not carry two Of her sails. • Val­ kyrie crossed th£:starting line nearly two minutes ahead of Defender; but crippled as she was, that-gallant yacht gave her opponent such a chase that at the finish there was but 47 secdnds between them; she was more, glorious in apparent defeat than she would have,been in a repetition of the first victory. But the club commit" tee, conforming, strictly to the rules, gave the heat to Defender, and it is believed this was what caused the remarkable display of pettishness on the part of Lord Dunraven in Thursday's contest. He made no attempt to put his boat in racing trim, but loafed across the starting line with short canvas, and what was spread was slovenly. Hardly had he made the start when he put about, and with the signal of acknowledged defeat flying, laid his course for the club house. The Defender sailed the course alone, and was awarded the cup. Dunraven alleges as cause for his-action that he was ham­ pered by excursion boats. The incidents of Tuesday's race are worth recital. Both boats were stand­ ing for tho line, wind on their starboard beam and booms, to port. Valkyrie yeas leading by fifty yards, fully 100 yards to the protest would be decided against him andhislwi.t disqualified', but that woujd give him the opportunity he was seek­ ing--namely,- to refuse.-to sail the last race of the series and thus throw up the contest. It is'deplorable to bef forced to this conclusion, but Dunraven's conduct fully warrants it. * v ' Earl, Dunraven gave an exemplification Thursday of the English sportsman that it not pleasant to American eyes. The attitude .of the sulker-and the churl is not THE FIRE ENGINE. r It Was Slow to.Gome 'and SlojW to Be Adopted. •' --- It Is a highly Interesting article on apparatus for extinguishing fires that John G. Morse contributes to the Popv ular Science Monthly. It Is believed, says Mr. Morse, that the first hose used for the extinguishing of fire was made from the gut of an ox.-v This was at- a creditable one under any' circumstances; tached to a bag filled with water, Which in the field of international spprt it is at belngpre-ssed, would force out a "jet? squarely in thu^.attitude, and forfeited Chiist Gtesibus of Alexandria is said the respect of sportsmen the world over By crossing the line with bare topmast, to have invented a fire engine, and Hero, in 150 B. C., invented and had "en deshabille" a$ it were, and at once : made a fire enging that was provided putting about, he deliberately intended ' to insult the American people, but he has injured hint-self- and the name of English sportsmen far more than he has affronted his hosts. _2. FALLS HKE A TRAP. with an air chamber, and therefore j played a continuous stream. During the middle ages fire engines seem to have been forgotten, and it is doubt­ ful If syringes-were kept in use. In 1518 "water syringes- useful at fires," are spoken of, and from that time on­ ward mention is made of fire engines in Denmark^ Germany, Holland, France and Great Britain. In 1632 there was a patent granted in England for a fire engine, and in 1057 one was made in Nuremberg-which, when worked by twenty-eight men, would play a stream "eighty feet in length. Although many different engines had bee -invented,, buckets . and syringes were in use in England and on the con­ tinent until far into the seventeenth century. The largest of the hand syr­ inges were of .brass, and held no" more than a gallon. Two men were required with each, one to hold the syringe,.and the other , to direct the stream. In the sixteenth century larger ones were made and placed on wheels. These were capable of holding a barrel of water and had no hose. The direction of the stream, or, more properly speak­ ing, of the series of squirts, could be changed up and down, as the syringe rested on pivots. To change the direc- froni fifty to seventy-five persons taken j fion from side to side the entire ua- oway by friends in vehicles. They assist- j ehine, wheels and all, had' to be re­ ed at; least as many more to got back on I moved. With the exception of the gut the street behind the stand. All the am- 0f an ox already mentioned hose was balances and patrol wagons in the city j not known until 107"> were summoned, and those only slightly rrh- ,,, injured were taken to the hotels at j , 7 e.,y sett,ers ln America paid no which they were stopping or to their i att:en"01t toward protecting themselves homes. j against fire, and the different colonies On the portion of the grand stand which i had grown into fair-sized communities Grand Stand at Louisville Gives Way, Injuring: Many. Many persons were injured Thursday night by the falling of the section of the grand stand erected on. the river front ftt Louisville, Ivy., for the purpose of wit­ nessing ,the fireworks in honor of • the G, A. it. V The portion of the grand stand which fell was about 400 feet long and sixty fivt wide.- It Was the lower part, aivd only elevated about two feet. * Immediately behind this part were seats elevated eight to, twenty feet. On the entire stand there Were 50,000 people,. That no one Was killed > is one of the 'marvels. , As the, stand careened the planks were forced together, and the feet and legs of hun­ dreds of spectators were caught as in a huge trap. The noise of the . exploding bombs and the fireworks and the cheering of the -crowd was, so great that only those1 adjacent to the portion of the grand stand which fell could hear it. Had it become generally known a panic would have fol­ lowed. As to the exact nuiiibor of people injured it will probably never be known, Four policemen who were standing at that part of the stand say that they saw fell there was a-scene of horrifying con­ fusion. Mr. Vreeland, assistant city ed­ itor of the Courier-Journal, was present when the aecident occurred. "It was awful," he said. "I saw men and worn*n falling everywhere. Wheth­ er they wore fainting from fright or pain SOUTHERN. IN GENERAL NEWS NUGGETS. Mrs. Emma Riggs and her 19-year-old daughter Helena were burned to death in Philadelphia. The younger woman's balloon sleeves eatight fire at a gas stove. Win. Connor, a well-dressed stranger, called upon the sheriff at Indianauolis, Ind., demanding protection from his ene- ^nies. He was detained as an insane per­ son. He gave his home as Pullman. 111. Friday a systematic raid on China­ town by -Federal authorities was begun at San Francisco. -Every •Chinese laborer who cannot produce a satisfactory cer­ tificate, accompanied by a photograph, will be arrested and held to answer un­ der the deportation law, commonly known as the "Geary a«L" The decision of the collector of the port as to. the rigljt of the Chinese to remain here will be final. The United States Attorney General au­ thorized Marshal Baldwin to begirt the raid. The lay electoral conference at Ann Arbor, Mich., of the Detroit Methodist Conference allowed eleven women to be seated, practically without any opposition. The Committee on Credentials made no objection whatever to the women taking their seat*, and the conference ratified the aetiphvby-.adopting the report on an almost unanimous vote. James Tinsley, of the fertilizer firm of James G. Tinsley' & Co., of Richmond, announces the organization of a combine of fertilizer firms* The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company is the name of Senator Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, in a communication to the chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Texas, comes out squarely and vigorously against the free coinage of silver at a ratio of Hi to 1 by the United States, independently of the other commercial9 nations of the world- He contends that in taking this stand he is following the example and teachings of the fathers of the Demo­ cratic party and its greatest leaders in recent years. Leading business men of the South are now organizing for the purpose of devel­ oping the industrial interests of that sec­ tion of country and promoting trade rela­ tions with the North. A syndicate is' io be formed composed of representatives of the different Southern States. The capi­ tal stock of this syndicate is to be not less than $300,000, of which §100,000 will be in founders' shares, and $200,000 in pre­ ferred shares. Each Southern State is expected to take not less than $10,000 of the capital stock, and each subscribing this-amount will be entitled to one direc­ tor in the company. The plan contem­ plates the creation of an exchange and actual market in each o£*the principal trade centers of the Nortn. An agent in the South Wni be expected to procure for the company the most attractive business in his territory. An agent in the North will be expected to take to the company the best people who are looking for or £pn J»e induced to make investments in the South. A horrible accident resulting in the death of six and the wounding of several members of the Louisville Legion oc­ curred shortly after 5:30 Wednesday morning by the explosion of a caisson. The dead are: Corporal A1 Robinson, Pri­ vate Charles Gestrich, Private Charles Woods. Private McBride, Private Hutch- ilis. P.riyi.t.te-JJ.owurd Irwin, Private Driv­ er William Adams (colored). The wound­ ed are: Fred Cohn, William Hobbs. All the men excepting the colored driver were members of Battery A of the Ken­ tucky National Guard and all resided in Louisville. The place where the accident occurred is one of the finest residence dis­ tricts in the city. Few people were on the street, owing to the early hour, or the list of killed would have been greatly in­ creased. Every window in the block was blown out: Nearly every one in the neigh­ borhood was asleep, and aS half-clad men apd terrified women came running from their homes a most horrible sight met their eyes. The body of the colored driv­ er, mangled almost beyond recognition, fell on the front porch of a residence fully 300 feet from the place where the acci-; dent occurred. Two of the bodies were blown over t he house tops and were hor­ ribly mangled. The wounded have been removed to the hospitals. T\yo horses attached to the cannon were so horribly mangled that they will be killed.' All the killed Were members ef. the First Kentucky Artillery of Louisville, which has always been considered the finest, in the State. Richard Mansfield, the actor, is dan­ gerously sick with typhoid fever and may not appear on the stage this season. Advices from Alaska by steamer Willa- pa, which arrived in Seattle, Wash., .say the Chilkoot and Chilkat Indians engaged in a free fight near Dyes recently, during which two Indians were shot dead and a squaw badly wounded. The cause of the bloody affray was whisky, and it is feared that more bloodshed will follow, owing to the war-like nature of the Chilkats. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National L eague Per P. W. I>. cent. Baltimore ..... 115, • 70' 39 .001 Cleveland 120 75 45 .025 Philadelphia . . 118 71 47 .002 Brooklyn 117 04 53 .547 Pittsburg 119 05 54 .540 Boston' 117 (>3 54 • .538 New York..;. 118 03 55 .534 Chicago 117 02 55 .530 Cincinnati .... 115 59 50 .513 Washington . . . .113 37 70 .327 St. Louis .110 30 St) .310 Louisville 117 30 87 .250 WESTERN' I.F.AGUE. The following is the" standing of tho- clubs in the Western League: / Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis . . .110 77 39 .004 St. Paul .110 07 49 .578 Kansas City... .118 07 51 .508 Minneapolis . . .117 00 57 .513 Milwaukee . .. .120 50 04 .407 Detroit .118 55 03 .40(1 Terre Haute. . .110 51. 05 .440 Grand Rapids. .119 38 81 .319 AMERICAN YACHT DEFENDER. ENGLISH YACIIT VALKYRIE III. windward. The committee boat was about 200 yards ahead and somewhat to wind­ ward of Valkyrie, which was not at all close hauled. Defender was in no posi­ tion to interfere with Valkyrie. The start was close at hand, and if, as has been claimed by some of the Englishman's apologists, Valkyrie was in danger of crossing before gunfire it could have avoided doing so by luffing, which would have put it still more to windward of Defender and in a still more advan­ tageous position. Instead, it bore broad off and run down on Defender so straight that to many spectators seemed the English boat was going into the American. Then, by rounding up sharply on Defender's bow, Valkyrie's boom was made to describe an arc over Defender's deck, with the result that the American's starboard topmast shroud was torn from its fastenings at the spreader. The essential objection to this maneuver is that Valkyrie had no business to make it. It was forbidden by the rules of the New York Yacht Club and the sailing regulations of nearly every yacht club in existence, besides being contrary to the rules of the road on the high seas. be blamed for the accident? It must be said again the effort to place the blame on Defender was at once ridiculous and dishonest. As to Dunraven's charge that the excur­ sion boats interfered with him in Satur­ day's race it is well founded, but he suf­ fered less from their interference than Defender, 6o that except for the expres­ sion of a querulous disposition he had I could not say. Then a panic followed. Those who escaped being caught in the trap made a mad rush for tho entrance, trampling over those who had fallen, while those who had been caught scream­ ed for aid. Meantime the vast multitude on all sides continued to cheer and ap­ plaud tho grand firework^that continued to explode and light uplue sky." A number of Grand Army veterans who were witnesses of the accident said they aided a large number of people who had been bruised and injured about the legs to carriages and sent them to their hotels and homes. THE EARTH GAPED OPEN. Terrible Iloaduras the Scent of Disaster. The earthquake in Honduras was the most frightful calamity of the kind that ever befel that country. The shocks com­ menced Sunday in the Yetapan district, continuing all day at interval's, there be­ ing much damage. The city was filled by refugees from the mountains and outlying villages. Tuesday morn-, ing the shocks ceased, quiet was re- How, then, could Defender! stored and people left town for their homes. At 9 o'clock that night heavy rumbling noises were heard, followed by a reappearance of the flames in tho mountains, which shot up several hun­ dred feet Frightened people again flock­ ed to town. At midnight the church tow­ er fell, carrying with it tho roofs of^hree houses. Nine people were killed and eighteen wounded. Just before daylight another prolonged shock rocked the whole EASTERN. The New York Central's "flyer" ran from New York to Buffalo, 44.0 miles, in seven'" hours. Dr. Nash, pastor of the First Univer- salist Churcji, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has accepted the presidency of Lombard Uni­ versity. Cadet Thomas C. Butterly, third class, died suddenly at West Point from hem­ orrhage of the stomach. He was ap­ pointed from Nevada. H. H. Holmes, the alleged murderer and swindler, was indicted by the Phila- delphiaVgrand jury for the murder of B. WASHINGTON. The grand jury of the District of Co-J iuinbia assembled for the autumn meet-; ing Monday. Tho most important mat­ ter to be brought to its attention is the killing of Ernest Green, a colored boy. by Miss Elizabeth Flagler, daughter of the .chief of ordnance of the United States army. - rlhe verdict of the Coroner's jury exonerated the young woman from mur­ derous intent, but Acting District Attor­ ney Tagglirt decided that the matter was one for the Grand Jury. The combined estimates of the Bureau of Construction • and Repair and Steam Engineering of the Navy Department for construction and steam machinery dur­ ing the next fiscal year amount to only $5,800,000, which is $2,500,000 less than was appropriated for this work for the MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 lo $4.50: sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 50c to 57c; corn. No. 2. 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 30c to 38c; butter, choice creamery. 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel, 25c to 35c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 3c to 5V^c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 00c to 02c; corn, No: 1 white, 33c* to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 20c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $3.50 tO $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, o9c to 00c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No, 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c. , Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50rto $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75: sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 02c to 04.c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 34c to 30c; cats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rve," No. 2; 42c to 43c. Detroit--pat tie, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 lo $4.75; slieepV $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 59c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 4lc to 43c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red,' 57c to 58c; ..corn, No. 2 yellow. 34c to 35c; oats, No. • % -white, 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2. 42c to 43c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 02c^t<j. 03c; corn, No. 2 yellowy39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 20c. •' f Milwaukee--Wheat. No. 2 spring, 55c to 50c; corn, No. 3. 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23o barley. No. 2, 42c to 44e; rye. No. 1, 38e to 40c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, J2.50 to $4.00; wheat,'No. 2 red, 01c to 02^; corn, No. 2, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white,.23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West­ ern, 15c to 17 c. town as if it were a cradle. Many fleeing people were killed by rocks, which fell in a shower like a hail storm. Smoke from the mountains to the north­ west rose to an enormous height, fol­ lowed shortly after by the bursting of flames from the mountain sides and the throwing out of rocks and lava. Shortly after streams of molten lava set fire to a number of houses on the mountain side. Cattle grazing near by fled and were killed, being engulfed^in the lava which continued flowing in im­ mense streams, ft is reported at Yeta­ pan that seventy-one houses were de­ stroyed. One hundred and fifty-three dead bodies have been recovered and many more are missing. At Covajuanca thirty-seven houses were destroyed. Ninety-five bodies were recovered. At Cavtrecat twenty-nine houses were de­ stroyed, and eleven bodies were recov­ ered. • It is impossible yet to give a full ac­ count of the disaster. Many small set- i'HE AMERICA (TP-THK TROPHY FOR WHICH THE DEFENDER AXD VAEIvYRIE III. FOUGHT. with several Industries well establish |ed before any stops were taken in that direction. About the earliest mention of a definite method of fire protection jWas. made at Salem, Mass., in 1044, when each inhabitant was ordered to "be supplied with a ladder under pen­ alty of a line of five shillings. In 1048 four fire wardens were appointed in New York City. These men passed a law to fine everyone whose chimney be­ came foul or whose house was burned by his own careiessness. The money so obtained was to be used in the pur­ chase of ladders, hooks and buckets. These were not provided, however, un­ til some years later. Boston also took steps In this direc­ tion and in 1054 the purchase of an en­ gine was ordered. Beside it was order­ ed that every house should be provid­ ed With a ladder and a twelve-foot pole to reach the ridge pole. Six good a:<d long ladders were to be furnished by the selectmen. It is doubtful, Mr. Morse says, if the engine ordered was ever made. L ndoubtedly the first fire company organized in this country was formed in New York in 1058. It was called the Prowlers, and was composed of eight men and 250 buckets, hooks, and small ladders. In 1079 Salem purchased two or three dozen cedar buckets, besides hooks and other implements; also, the selectmen and two others were author­ ized to take command at fires, and to blow up and pull down buildings when such action was necessary. This prac­ tice appears to have been much more common before the use of engines than afterward. Boston, on September 9, 3079, ordered that every quarter of the town should be provided with twenty swobes, two scoopes, and six axes. The swobes, or swabs as they are now called, were long-handled mops that could ba used to put out roof fires. The general use of swabs has long since disappeared, but when a slight blaze is beyond the reach of a pail of water and more improved apparatus is not at hand, a long-handled mop is to-day the | most efficient article to be used. In Japan these swabs may be seen on many roof-tops. In 1090 New York ordered that five ladders and also hooks be made. In Philadelphia no mention is made of public precaution against fire until 1090, when a law was passed forbidding the firing of chimneys or allowing the same to become foul. Each house was to have a swab, bucket, or pall. An­ other act was passed in 1700, ordering every household to have two leather buckets. In the following year six or eight books for the purpose of tearing down bouses were ordered to be made. In 1702 Boston bought two fire engines and was the first American city to pos­ sess them. Philadelphia followed suit in. 1718. New \ork had no fire engine until 1731. when two were purchased in England. These were box affairs, with small wheels and axles solidly set. They could not turn corners, but had to be lifted bodily around. The first engine of home manufacture was built in New York.in 1737. The year 1S40 marks the beginning of a great era in the development of fire apparatus. Prior to this time or belonging to "the Cincinnati depart- ment, and mounted the contrivance oa v wheels and a frame. A public trial was made of this*crbde affair, and it worked very successfully, in the short time of four minutes and ten seconds steam was raised from cold water, the en­ gine started and water discharged through 350 feet of hose to a distance of 130 feet from the nozzle. Although this exhibition Was naturally looked, upon with dislike by the volunteer fire­ men, the city government was greatly- pleased and immediately contracted, with the makers for a complete steam fire engine. This was built and put in service with a company organized and supported by the city; Thus the first paid fire company in-the world to op­ erate by steam power was brought Into- existence. .,- The fame of the Cincinnati engines spread, and other cities endeavored to- introduce the system, always meeting with the most violent opposition from the volunteers. But the steam fire en­ gine was bound to come and was advo­ cated by the press. Chicago and other Western cities closely followed Cincin­ nati by organizing paid departments equipped with steam engines. The more intelligent volunteers in the East be­ gan to see the error of their ways, and replaced their hand engines with the more modern apparatus. Boston was the first of the- Eastern cities to organ?;'- ize a paid department which she di> in 1800. Ne>y York did the same in 1805, and Philadelphia in 1871. Other Eastern cities rapidly fell iiito line, but some of the Southern cities, though equipped with the most modern ap­ paratus, continue to' the, present day- with volunteer firemen. New Orleans having only recently adopted a paid force. Half a Pumpkin., The close-fisted and the abseut-mind- minded serve a similar use--they amuse their neighbors. The New York Sun quotes a man from the rural districts as telling a story of a Mr. I'utterby, an old-time townsman of his, whose repu­ tation for "nearness" was evidently well deserved. Locally he was thought to be a prodigy in this respect, but no story of this kind is so good but that another can be found to beat it: One of the coins current in those days was the old Spanish silver-piece, which passed for twelve and a half cents, and was variously called "nine-pence," "York shilling," and "bit." It was the- existence of this coin that enabled Mr. Putterby to achieve his'crowning tri umph in the way of a close, trade. A farm-boy came along one day with a load of pumpkins, which he was ped­ dling about the village^t a cent apiSce. Mr. Putterby looked at them, conclud­ ed to buy, but wanted only half a pump­ kin. "But a whole one is only a cent," said the boy. "How are you going to pay me for half a one V" "Easiest thing in the world," said Mr. Putterby. The pumpkin was cut. he took one- half under his arm, and handed the boj' a shilling. "Now give me the twelve cents change," he said; and taking the twelve coppers from the astonished boy, he walked away with his purchase. The Whipping; Post in Maryland. Since the Legislature of Maryland established the whipping post in that State for wife-beaters, four husbands have been lashed for brutally assault­ ing their wives. One of those whipped was colored and the other three were white. The act was passed at the ses­ sion of 1882.0 The first man whipped was Charles Foote, colored, who was convicted of wife-beating Nov. 20, 1882. He was sentenced on the 1st of the following December to receive thirteen lashes and to be imprisoned sixty days. The number of lashes was reduced to seven, which number was inflicted. It was not until June, 1S85, that the whip­ ping post was again used. The second man received twenty lashes and the third fifteen lashes. The last time the whipping post was used was Oct. 9, 1890, when a man received thirteen lashes for assaulting his wife. Since then there have been a number of cases in which wives were assaulted by their husbands, but there have been no con­ victions under the statute prescribing the whipping post as a punishment for the offense. tlemcnts arc believed to have been .de-j In 1830 Capt. Ericsson, famous as the stroyed: A company of soldiers which | left in pursuit of bandits from Yetapah to the coast -has not been heard from, and it is feared they are killed. People are still leaving the scene of the catastrophe in fear of their lives. Help for the victims is being asked f< from tho capital. nothing to,„complain of. In Tuesday's race the interference was much less, but again Defender suffered as much if not more than Valkyrie. . To sum yp the evidence we have D.uiiV raven resting apparently satisfied with the conditions of Saturday's race until Tuesday's race had demonstrated beyond a doubt his boat could not Wail with De­ fender. Then he suddenly displays a querulous spirit while trying to ]>aek up a dishonest claim as a means of escape from an inexcusable breach of the regulations under which he was sailing. The conclusion,, therefore, seems un­ avoidable that, being satisfied by Satur­ day's race hi* boflt could not win a race £roon Defender, and being chagrined at the prospect of returning a second time to England without scoring a single vic- toiv, h« delibefntely planned to foul and disable Defender so as to win at least one race of the series. Undoubtedly he foresaw the raOe would be protested "and Our KJea of a thoroughbred is a man who gets shaved in the morning. builder of the Monitor, designed a steam fire engine in London, but the press and firemen so stoutly opposed it that Ericsson threw up the matter in disgust and soon afterward came to this country. Here be attained no greater encouragement. „ The first steam fire engine ever built or used in the United States wyas one made for the Matteawan Insurance Company, of .New York. The engine was a self-propeller, and when working at a fire was blocked up so that its hind wheels might be used as balance wheels. When housed it was connect­ ed wTith boilers, and fuel was always laid that steam might be got up quick­ ly. The engine was operated at the ex­ pense of the insurance company, but continually met with opposition from the volunteer firemen. Finally, when playing at a fire in Dover-street, the machine did such excellent work that the firemen utterly refused to allow it to be used thereafter, and It was stored away and New York's fire protection was again limited to the old hand tubs. In 1852 a Cincinnati company placed a steam bpiler and cylinder in'connec­ tion with the pumps of a hand engine Feast for Hungry Bohemians. Henry Murger, the historian of Bo­ hemia, would have relished the dinner that followed the unveiling of his mon­ ument in the Luxembourg gardens In Paris. It was given by the real Bohe­ mians in the Latin quarter in protest against the more sumptuous and pre­ tentious official banquet. All the bud­ ding and starveling poets, novelists and philosophers of the regioh made famous to the outer world by Murger flocked to the table and showed their genuineness by drinking,up all the wine before the soup ^aTs served. The unkemptand hungry Bohemians besieg­ ed the waiters in the passages and de­ voured the contents of the dishes be­ fore they could reach the table, while those of them who were prevented by the crowd from getting into the dining- room foraged on the charitable restau- raut keepers of the neighborhood. Telegraph Cable Cut by a Vessel. The sharp kneel.of some fast steamer recently cut in two the telegraph cable connecting Philadelphia with Camden. Since that time telegrams have had to go by other and longer ways to Cam­ den and other New Jersey points. The cable, which lias just b^gen repaired, is made up of many dozen wires and is laid directly over the site of Windmill Island. The vessel which cut the cable struck a shoal where'the cable lay and severed every wire in two, the ends drifting ftp and down the river with the tides. The hardest part of the work of repair was to find the ends and hold them together until the splice was made. To do this ic was necessary to anchor a bargo in the river while the work was being done. The cable is now in good working order again. A Famous Oak. Rollo's oak, near Rouen, the tree on which *he first Duke of Normandy 1,000 years ago is said to have hung up his gold chain as a token of the good order to which lie had brought his province, seemed likely to collapse lately. To save it' a solid core of masonry was built in the interior of the hollow trunk. We gain nothing by falsehood but the disadvantage of not being believed' when we speak the 'iruth. , - 1