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THEPLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. <«CHEKRY. ILLINOIS SIX MILLIONS SHORT. FIGURES OF GOVERNMENT DEF­ ICIT FOR OCTOBER. JRomc Badly Shaken and Her People Panic-Stricken--Death of a Pioneer Chicago Attorney--Honor ' for Bay• ard--Nicaragua Canal Slatters. The National Exchequer. The treasury statement of receipts and ___ ^isburs€inent«'"for™Oetc^r'Tipd"th?"1tet yY3n9m a lffiiM^stbryTwra5d^rof the Osborne Brockway gang of5 counterfeiters, jtvas found guilty of having in his possession plates fob printing hills. Dr. Bradford re­ fused the aid of counsel, and .made a speech t© lithe jury asserting that he had- worked %itli the 'gang fbr the purpose of repealing their plans to the secret service officers. William Thorpe, a wealthy railroad contractor of New York; recently pur­ chased fourteen hundred acres of-land in the lower end'of Lu zerne County, Penn­ sylvania. If e erected a number of build­ ings, planted trees and built fences. The buildings have been destroyed by incen­ diaries, the trees torn up and the fences destroyed.- Detectives are now at work on the case. It is alleged that people liv­ ing in the vicinity said after Mr. Thorpe had made his purchase that fourteen hundred acres of land was too much for one man to own. H. A. McCausland, a traveling sales­ man for the Michigan and Ohio Plaster Company, * .either tMew1 himself OP fell four months of the current fiscal year af fords some comparisons which will inter­ est business tm>n.. The October deficit was whittled down during the last ten days from $10,500,000 to $0,161,000, which reduces the total shortage for the four months to $1(5.045,000, or $4,000,- 000. which is the almost exaW average monthly deficit during the thirty-two months of-the Cleveland regime. The October receipts footed up $28,000,009 and the disbursements $84,0!K),000.. The governmental income and outgo for the first four months of 1895-1896, as com­ pared with the corresponding period of last year, is set forth with some detail in the following tabulation: t. . ! ,i< . RECEIPTS, Tit is ' . . . . f i s c a l y e a r . 'Cus^ms . 58,143,054.00 Internal r e v - en UP Mlseel 30,547,102.11 4,783,(504.03 Last, fU-r;rl rear. 759.301.40 05,438,354.^4 3; 789,0! <8.70 House, at Auburn, N. Y., Wednesday morning. Although conscious when found, he died four, hours afterward. It was impossible to secure from him a con­ nected statement. TwiOe he said that there had been persons in the hotel room With him, but as the door was found to be looked, with the > key .•> inside, all thoughts of foul -play were abandoned. McCausland was about 30 years old and his home was in Saginaw, Mich. ;* • Total r'epts. ?lig,473.820.S0 . .$11(5,987.414.54 EXPEXDITUJtES. Civil and mis- • ; cellaneous 32,300.071.41- ? -33,508.886.07 War Navy Indians . Pensions interest 22,101,974.05 8.900,383.21 3,971,975.91 47,056.374.50 14.588,164.3S 20,435,051.36 11,079,143.01 2.995,951,60 47.880.195.03 13.441.44(5.22 K Total expen.$129,519,543,415 $131,341,273.29 Excess expen­ ditures over _ „ -'receipts ....$ 16,045,722.66 ? -14,353,858.65 The Qctober receipts, however, are $9,- 000,000 greater than for the correspond­ ing month of 1894. Internal revenue receipts are now running $200,000 or $300,000 a day heavier and customs re­ ceipts a very little heavier than last year. Earthquake at Rome. A • severe and prolonged earthquake shock was felt at Rome. Italy, at 4:38 Friday morning. Many houses swayed badly, walls were cracked, pictures and other articles fell from the walls and other places, people ran panic-stricken into the streets and a serious disaster was for a time apprehended. Happily, the first shock seems to have ended the seismic disturbance. So far as is known no serious damage was done. An inspec­ tion of the public buildings will bo made to determine the extent of the injuries, WESTERN. The population of Iowa is 2.057,250. A destructive .fire raged in the oil re­ gions south of Toledo, Ohio,* but.is^under control. Onfe estimate places, the loss at $150,000.. , - , \ j" ' •/, '. At Findlay, Ohio, Charles Ypcum was, arrested charg^fewith forgery, by whiflh* he secured $l,fl66 from a widow he; had , promised to marry. The Lincoln monument at: Springfield, 111., is fast crumbling to a ruin. It is found to be a pile of rotten brick, with a veneer of stone. It will be razed, and a suitable shaft erected in its place. Ross C. Van Bokkelen. the embezzling teller of the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, of Chicago, has been assigned to the knitting department at the Joliet penitentiary, where he will knit socks. A committee of eight representing the various lodges of the American Railway Union went to-Devil's Lake, N. D., to re­ vise the schedules for submission to Pres­ ident Hill. The main ground for conten- j tion is that a low-paid man with a griev­ ance is entitled to as much consideration as a high-paid man without a grievance. As further cause for complaint it is claimed that Mr. Hill, ever since the union won the great strike in 1894, has been systematically violating the agree­ ment made at that time. At a few minutes past 9 o'clock Wed­ nesday night the casting of the great"bell for the tower of St. Francis de Sales' Church, Cincinnati, began, and the flow of metal was continued for about two hours before the work was completed. It is the largest bell in the United States, and fifteen tons of bell metal were used in the casting. In addition to this, the if any, that have been sustained. The •prison of Regina Colli was so badly sbak- ^ alreadj cast, weighs en that the terrified prisoners broke out ,u,>, igto open revolt and tried to escape. The situation became_ !?o_ serious that tne tr6ops from a neighboring baujek wyrg. hastily summoned. The" inmates were driven back to their cells at the point of the bayonet. Tlte Vatican buildings were severely shaken!" The series of shocks ;lasted about eleven seconds. Two clocks in the observatory were stopped, and the old tower of the Roman College was cracked. Earthquake shocks were also felt at Rocca di Papa, but, although the people were thrown into a panic, no se­ rious damage was done. . , (<•: Old Chicago Lawyer Gone. William T. Burgess, who was admitted to the bar of Illinois fifty-five years ago, died Thursday afternoon at Chicago, •from the effects of an unsuccessful surgi­ cal operation. Mr! Burgess is said to have been second only to Judge Lyman Trumbull in point of length of practice before the Chicago bar. In the organiza­ tion of special courts in Northern Illinois Mr. Burgess was one of the most prom­ inent participants. William T. Burgess was born in 1810 at Magra. Canada. His parents were among the earliest settlers of Northern America, where his father engaged in trading and mercantile pur­ suits. Mr. Burgess was educated at pri­ vate schools in his native city, and at the age of 19 crossed the lake to Buffalo. After spending several months in the East he came to Western Illinois. H^p first settled at Rookford. and transacted legal affairs for the residents of several counties. His eligibility to the bar of the State of Illinois dates from Oct. 6, 1840, when Illinois, was still unexplored and infested with Indians, ~ h Durrant Will Hang;. Theodore Durrhnt. assistant superin­ tendent of Emanuel Baptist Church Sun­ day school at San Francisco, Cal., was on Friday convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont, for which he has been on trial since July 22 last. The jury was out twenty minutes, and arrived at the verdict on the first ballot. As there was no recommendation of mercy the punishment was fixed at death. BREVITIES. The report that Capt. Isaac Basset t, the veteran doorkeeper of the Senate, is .dying at Washington is not confirmed. He is suffering from stomach trouble, but his physician says he is not danger­ ously ill. Capt. Bassett is 76 years of age, however, and quite feeble, and the physician does not think he will be able to perform his duties much longer. United States Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard, who is now sojourning in Scot­ land, has accepted an invitation to de- Hve'r'the annual address to the Edinburgh Philosophical Society. The invitation to deliver this address is looked upon as the highest literary honor in Great Britain. Among those who have made the address in previous years are Right Honorable John Morley. late Chief Secretary for Ir<^ land, and Right Honorable A. J. Bal­ four, First Lord of the Treasury. M. Bourgeois has formed a new minis­ try for France as follows: Bourgeois, Minister of the Interior and President of the Council of Ministers; Ricard, Jus­ tice and Worship: Cavaginas, War; Lock- roy, Marine; Berthelot, Education; Dou- mer, Finance; Guyet d'Essaigne, Public Works; Mesureur, Commerce; Combes, Colonies. Fire at Dauphin, Pa., caused by a spark from a locomotive, destroyed 4,000,- 000 feet of lumber,.,worth $75,000. Gotham society is in a flutter because invitations to the Marlborough-Vander- bilt wedding are advertised for sale. r640 pounds. The main dimensions of the bell are: Diameter of the ring, nine feet; diameter of crown, five feet. It is seven feet high. Swung in the tower, the bell 1 js to cost $10,000, , The explosion of the tug T. T. MorfonJ - ' 011 Chioego River, resulted in th^ death of John Erickson, fireman; John Fergu­ son, captain, and Charles Dick, engineer. The Morford had in tow the grain steamer Ionia. The tug is a total loss--$18,000. Destruction of the Morford deprives Chi­ cago harbor and Lake Michigan this win­ ter of the protection afforded for the last eleven years to storm-tossed and wrecked vessels by that remarkable product of the shipbuilder's art. On Lake Michigan there is no boat to take her place, either in the "bucking" of ice or in the power to steam through ice to the rescue of a dis­ abled vessel. A mob, composed chiefly of farmers, stormed the Seneca County jail at Tiffin, Ohio, early Sunday morning in an effort to lynch Lee F. Martin, the murderer of Marshal Shultz. The Sheriff's jail force fired on the mob, instantly killing two men. Several more men were shot but not fatally wounded. . Sunday was the day of Shultz's funeral, and the sentiment against Martin broke out with redoubled fury. The mob was composed mostly of neighbors of the murdered marshal, and the marshal's brother acted as leader. Martin was a prominent Dunkard, and killed Shultz while resisting arrest for a trifling offense. Xhe militia was called out to guard the jail. 1 0 Tuesday night at 11 o'clock the two Kirk wood accommodation trains over the Missouri Pacific Railroad collided at King's Highway and Manchester, just inside the St. Louis city limits. Both en­ gineers were killed, and their bodies hor­ ribly mangled. The firemen, too, were buried in the wreck, and fatally crushed. The dead are: William Catrin, of St. Louis, engineer of the east-bound train; John Harper, of Webster Grove, en­ gineer of the west-bound train. The fatally injured are: George Dunbar, of Webster Grove, fireman of the west­ bound train; George True, of St. Louis, fireman of the east-bound train. Others injured: J. H. Baylis4 brakeman. Kirk- wood;,Henry A. Davis, lawyer, Webster Grove; Harry Feldott, conductor; Pat­ rick Hanley, passenger, St. Louis; Burt Taylor, passenger, Webster Grove; W. A. Williams, conductor. The west-bound train was laden with suburbanites refus­ ing from theaters. The two trains crashed into each other around a sharp curve, and the engines were ditched by the fearful force of the collision. Kankakee marsh, the famous hunting ground in Illinois, was swept by a prairie fire Saturday, and trees, brush, and grass were all burned to the ground. The roar­ ing blaze, headed so as to include towns and farmhouses in its destructive sweep, had its course changed by a fortunate shift in the direction of the wind. This gave the homes of the farmers on the border of the marsh a chance. This swamp fire is responsible for the'Grand Trunk disaster near South Bend on Sat­ urday, in1 which eleven persons were in­ jured. The cause of the wreck was a weakened culvert, which was burned, but [ which owing to the dense Smoke that swept across the tracks was obscured from the view of the engineer. Crown Point, Hammond, and Kouts, Ind., were threatened by the fires. Kouts had the closest call, and was saved only by the extreme efforts of the citizens, who fought the flames until the wHid aided th0m and changed the course of the flames. Black- j ened and weary the men who maintained for twenty-four hours the unequal fight against the fires, which were fanned by | a wind that at times blew almost the vio­ lence of a cyclone, retreated in dismay. -ing the ni&ht, but at 9 o'clock all were pronounced out of .danger. v The Executive Committee of the Texas Live, Stock Association Jias adopte l res- olntio'is declaring that the importation of Mexican cattle along the entire border from Oct. 22, to Dec. 31 of this year"will not exceed 100,000 liehd, and consequent­ ly will not in the least affect prices or in any way prove detrimental to the cattle interests of the State. | The "Coochee-Coochee" is under the ban in Georgia. The House of Represen­ tatives passed a bill making it unlawful to perform thf dance in the State. The bill was introduced last year by Ed Jones, a society young man, who witnessed the dance a couple of years ago. Considerable sport was made of its aufhpr at the time, but the fact that th^ ^Streets of Cairo" are now conducting the-business on the exposition grounds so shocked the mem­ bers of the Legislature that their first ac­ tion was to take up Mr. Jones' bill and rush it through by an alhiost unanimous vote. '.«•' Augusta, Ga., was visited by the largest fire ill years Friday*'afternoon. The lum­ ber mill of Jesse Thompson & Co., the largest in the South, was burned to the ground, with 2,000,000 feet of lumber in the yardsv The lossto, them, as $75,000, one-third insured. The fire then spread for two blocks. Forty-two dwellings oc­ cupied by operatives were entirely con­ sumed. Three hundred are homeless. The loss on these buildings is $40,000, with lit­ tle insuranpe. The entire fire department Was called out. but owing to the distance from water and a gale from the south nothing could be done. The flames stopped when everything in line was burned. . \ CAPITAL CITY CHAT. NEWS AND COMMENT IN AND ABOUT WASHINGTON. Russia's Secret Treaty Is Doubted-- Congress Likely to Tackle the Cur­ rency Question--Cleveland and Cuba --Reed as a Presidential Candidate; niifimi FOREIGN, • At Loidon Sjir, Robert Peel ha§ ^com­ promised with hi# creditors sit 60 per Cent; Mrs. Langtry, who, it was rumored about a month ago, was contemplating marriage with Sir Robert as soon as she obtained a divorce from her husband, was among .the persons to whom he was in­ debted. He owes her about £4,500. A dispatch from Madrid says that Lieutenant4Generals Marin and Macias have been ordered to Cuba. Santiago ad­ vices report that Hongolosongo was burned by the rebels. The inhabitants fled to Santiago for refuge. From Bay- amo comes the report that a fight oc­ curred near Baire, Rabi, the rebel leader, being repulsed and left twelve dead on the field.,. Several new bands of insur­ gents hre reported to have been seen near Vuelta Abfljo. The insurgents have, burned the buildings of the Jinfiguaybo and San Rafael sugar estates, and Amer­ ican property near Remedios. Prussia has just published the result of the recent census. The entire population June 14,1895, was 31,491,209, an increase of 1,535,928, or 5 13-100 per cent, since December, 1890. The males increased 773,051 and the females 762,877. In Ber­ lin the increase of females was two and one-half times thdt of men. One of the surprises of the .new census was the small increase of Berlin's population, all the more startling owing to the unpre­ cedented increase of Berlin for the years between 1S70 and 1890. It was only 36,288, or 2 2-10 per cent., for the last four and a half years. The census shows a continuunce of the movement towards cities from the country, in which Berlin had not its usiiftl share , News has bOeii received at New York of a revolution in Hayti. President Hip- polyte, it is said, has retired to his palace in Port au Prince, where he is guarded by the army which he brought down from the north with him when he overthrew Legitime. Commercial houses in New York which, do business in Hayti have been expecting this outbreak for several, weeks. "When dispatches came sayinpr that Hippolyte had proclaimed a state of seige in Port au Prince they were not un­ prepared. Their private dispatches we're to the effect that several of the -leading men of Port au Prince had been arrested,, as well as many who had come in from the country to help swell the army of the revolution. Hippolyte proclaimed the state of seige 011 Wednesday, and imme­ diately ordered out a certain number of his prisoners to be shot. Though the old friends of Legitime are couperned in the present movement it is said that Gen. Mauigat is not at the head of it. The army of Hippolyte has been concentrated about his palace and he intends to make his final fight. IN GENERAL Obituary: At London, Dr. Robert Brown ("Campterianus"), 53.--At Bloorn- ington, 111., Flayius J. Briggs, 84.--At Metropolis, III., ex-Judge Robert W. Mc­ Cartney.--At Burlington, Iowa, Charles Whit Smith. The storage battery patents of this country have passed into the control of a trust. The trust's official name is the Electric Storage Battery Company. It is capitalized at $10,000,000.. Its headquar­ ters are in Philadelphia. W. W. Gibbs, of gas trust fame, is it-s president. The backbone of the trust is the Widener- Elkins-Yerkes combination. Hamilton Disston, the saw manufacturer, is heav­ ily interested in the deal. This combina­ tion controls not only the patents of the United States, but has bought the Amer­ ican rights to the Tudor patents, probably the most valuable of the foreign inven­ tions in this line. It is an open secret in the electrical world that great improve­ ments are expected in the storage of elec­ tricity and its transportation and use. It is suspected that these improvements are already; in sight, and that the trust has read the future more clearly than any one else. MARKET REPORTS. eastern. Patrick Callahan, of New York, known as "King" Callahan, jumped from the highest point of Poughkeepsie bridge, 212 feet, and was so badly injured that he died a few hourg'later. Senator Chandler's paper, the Evening Monitor, of Concord, N. H., declares that "War between the United States and En­ gland is inevitable," because of the lat- ter's encroachments on the American continent, and that Russia will be our ally- . Dr. Orlando G. Bradfprd, the New York dentist who was arrested with the SOUTHERN. President Lane of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association has just returned from a tour of the South, and says the cotton crop will be six and onedialf mill­ ion bales. He predicts January cotton will sell for 10 cents a hundred. - Henry Hillard, a negro who assaulted and then'murdered young Mrs. Bell Mon­ day night near Tyler, Texas, was cap­ tured Tuesday, taken to town, and burned to death in the public squarejo A large crowd of citizens witnessed his dy ing agonies. At Huntington, W. Va., twenty guests at the Adelplii Hotel were taken sudden­ ly ill at 1 o'clock Monday morning. Tiib doctors said that the symptoms indicated poisoning. Several were seriously ill dur- Report Is Premature. Washington correspondence: H I L E t h e n e w s t h at comes by way of Hong Kong and London about a secret treaty re­ cently concluded between C h i n a and Russia for a railway through the 'Liao'ii-Tung peninsula and the occupation of Port Arthur must be re­ garded as prema­ ture, for it is be­ lieved impossible that the emperor of China should have made this great sacrifice without external pressure. Again, it seems impos- sible'because Japan has not yet evacuated the Liao Tung peninsula, and has three months to do so after the payfiaent of the first installment Of'the war indemnity, which wiil not be due until about the 1st of January. It is not very probable that Russia will show her hand and attempt to occupy the territory until Japan has evacuated it. There is nothing strange about the Story that the Russian war fleet has left Vladivostok. If it does not get away from there pretty soon the ships will be all frozen in and be utterly helpless until next spring. The ice begins to form in that bay about the 1st of No­ vember and it often lasts until the middle of May. The freshest and most accurate politic­ al news from China comes by way of St. Petersburg, and it can generally be re­ lied upon. That which comes by way of England cannot be relied upon. The Russians just now have access to the authorities in Pekin which is denied to the representatives of other .^govern­ ments, and the min­ ister cables long dis­ patches full of in- ^ teresting informa- CZAR OF Russia. tion to the foreign office in St. Peters­ burg every day. He has practically camped in the Tsung Li Yamen. The British minister at Pekin does not enjoy the same facilities for gaining informa­ tion, and when he does get it arid tele­ graphs it to the foreign office in London it is generally suppressed, because just now all of the events in China are un­ favorable to British interests, and the government does not consider it wise or ,cheerful to communicate them to the pub- lic. 7. That the Russians are getting on very well with the Chinese may be inferred by the fact tliajt the emperor has conferred the Order of the double dragon upon M. Shishkin, assistant minister of foreign affairs at St. Petersburg, and upon Count [Kaplist and M. Lissowski, the chief and jvice chief of the bureau of Asiatic affairs in the foreign office. This is a very un-, usual' distinction and carries great sig­ nificance. Such honors have been con­ ferred upon very few foreigners, possibly five or six, including "Chinese" Gordon, who assisted in putting down the Tai- Ping rebellion; Anson Burlingame, the •American who first introduced China to the world; Sir Robert Hart, who has .for twenty-five, years been collecting the im­ port duties for the Chinese Government, mid one or two others. Never before, 1 be­ lieve, has the honor been conferred upon Active officials of another government,, ex­ cepting kings and regents. Work Ahead for Congress. Without any doubt the currency ques­ tion will be thrust upon Congress again during the coming winter. Mr. Cleve- TIIOMAS p. REED. ons doubt whether ho will bo In the front of 'the column next spring. That will to a great extent depend upon himself. No man in the United States'has a more dif­ ficult rOie to 'play than that which, will fall to Mr. Reed's lot during the coining six months. No man will be more close­ ly watched or severely scrutinized than he.. He, as Speaker, may be diametrical­ ly opposed to many matters which Mr. Cleveland may favor. And it is not at all unlikely that the President»,may win to s&me of his projects the support of in­ fluential members o? the opposition, when Mr. Reed would find himself between the upper and the nether millstone, with the reduction pressure screws working auto­ matically. Grover's Loyal Brother. 53 The President's clerical brother "is in a peck of trouble. Forty-three of the eighty-eight members of the Presby­ terian Church at Chaumont, N. Y., of whicli he, is the pastor, have petitioned the Presbytery to dissolve the pastoral relations, on the ground that he has de­ stroyed his usefulness and made himself unpopular with the people of the parish by offensive partisanship in polities^ Chaumont is a little village of only a few hundred inhabitants up in St. Lawrence County, near the shores, of Lake On­ tario. There is said to be only one Demo­ crat in Parson Cleveland's congregation. The Republican members are in the habit of expressing themselves freely 011 polit­ ical matters, and their comments regard­ ing the personnel' and policy of the na­ tional administration have not; always! been favorable. William has always been loyal to Grover, and resents with vigor any unfriendly criticisrii made by the Republicans of Chaumont. His dis­ position to do so has resulted in alienating n R H. HOLMES ON TRIAL. for Notorious Criminal Arraiened the Murder of > Pitzel. . .... H. H. Holmes, who, "according to his own remarkable confessions, stands at the head t of modern criminals, was put on trial in Philadelphia Monday morning for' the murder of Benjamin F. Pitzel. Holmes sprang a sensation at the open­ ing of the trial by requesting his counsel to withdraw after they had ma^de an in- H. HOLMES. ieffdetual attempt to secure a postpone­ ment. The prisoner is conducting his own case. - • -y So many aliases have been worn by the man 011 trial during the course of hie spectacular career that his baptismal name, Hershan Mudgett; has almost been \'Y,:v • M. FELIX FAURE,;- ;V ' . 'V President of France, Whose Ministry Has Been Shkttered by an Adverse Vote in the Chamber, of Deputies. a more than haJf the congregation, who called a church meeting some time ago and passed resolutions asking him to re­ sign his pastorate. This he declined to do, and now the malcontents who are de: termined to get rid of him have brought the matter into the PresJJytery. The peti­ tion was referred to a fecial committee, which is to make an investigation and re­ port. GET OUT UNDER FIRE. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to .$5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2. 18c to l9c; rye, No." 2, 37c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, 2^c to 4c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to jirime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 wnite, 21c to 22c. St. Louisr-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50: hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 2 yellow,, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to' $4.25; sheep,- $2.50 to $4.00; wheat/'No. 2, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 19c to 2jc£*rye, No., 2, 40c to 42c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.5Q; wheats Nb. 2 red, 64c?ito 65c;'corn, No. 2 yellow, 30t to 32c; oats, No. 2 whit#, 21c to 23c; rye, 41c to 42c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, -No. 2 fellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 43c£ Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 2 3 c t o 2 4 c . ' v - , . . 1 Milwaukee--Whea^, No. 2 spring, 56c to 58c; cora, No. 3, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 39c to 41c; rye, No. 1, 40c to 41c; pork, mess, $7:75 to $8.25'. . New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4,00; sheep, $2.00. to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c.tc^,70c; corn, No..2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter,1!creamery, lOo to 24c; eggs, West­ ern, ISc to 21c. land set out long ago to break the "end­ less chainj" and whether the country is with him or not, Mr. Cleveland has a fashion of going ahead with the things he lias set his heart on. There will be some foreign questions, top, and on these the President will have the first word, The President is said to be eager to find a leader who will rise to the height of a great occasion and sound the watchword of no party in the face of a possible foreign foe. In view of these issues, great interest centers in the men who are the acknowledged leaders of the Republican party. Cleveland and Cuba. It is impossible to obtain at Washing­ ton either confirmation or denial of the re­ port that President Cleveland, while in Atlanta, suggested a postponement of the day set apart by the managers of the ex­ position for expression of sympathy with Cuba. It is known, however, that for some time Senor de Lome, the Spanish Minister, has been protesting to the Sec­ retary of State against the use of an organization which has received the offi­ cial sanction of the United States'Govern­ ment, as is the case with the^Atlanta ex­ position, for the purpose Of pro-Cuban agitation. Senor de Lome has expressed the view that with private meetings of cit­ izens for such purpose the Government may have nothing to do in a free country like this, but has argued that the case is quite a different one where the exposition is concerned. The Government made an application for an official display there and has given it a certain recognition in the eyes of the world. It is also known that President Cleveland does in a mild way deprecate the holding of sympathy .meetings in this country. This is not because he lacks sympathy with Cuba as an individual on his own account, but be­ cause lie does not think any good purpose is to.be served by carrying on an agitation which may have an undue effect upon Congress. Reed's Horoscope. ^ Thomas B. Reed is now admittedly the leading Eastern 'candidate for the Re­ publican nomination for President. Here afrithe capital no one is disposed to deny that the big man from Maine is at the present moment the greatest figure in the contest. There is at the same tinaie seri- Grave Charges of Fraud Cause a Cabi­ net Crisis in France. France is again without a cabinet. President Faure has accepted the resig­ nations of the ministry headed by M. Ribot, which were offered because of a government defeat in the Chamber of Deputies during the debate 011 the south of France railway scandal. The crisis was precipitated by M. Rouanet, who was active in exposing the Panama Canal scandal, he moving that the re­ port of Expert Flory, the official account­ ant .011 the finances of the railway, be made public. This motion was resisted by Premier Ribot, but was carried by a vote of 275 to 196. Amid radical cheers the members of the cabinet then left the chamber, which thereupon adjourned for a week. The defeat of the government is not surprising in view of the sweeping charges made against senators, deputies and even ministers involved first in the Panama syndicate and more recently in the south of France railway scandals. The charges culminated recently in the sentence to imprisonment for a year of M. Edmond Magnier, formerly senator of the Var and editor-in-chief of the Evenement,, who is said to have received 87,500 francs as part of the profits of the syndicate referred to. It will be recalled that the fall of the Dupuy cabinet, which resulted in the res­ ignation of President Casimir-Perier, grew out of a debate 011 the government railways. The government held that its guaranty of interest to the railways ex­ pired in 1914, but the council of state, to which the dispute was appealed, decided that the guaranty was perpetual. The Chamber of Deputies censured the min­ istry for having submitted the question to the council of state and the cabinet resigned, the president following suit the next day. WORST OF ALL DROUGHTS. lost sight of. Not so his manifold ex­ ploits in half a dozen of the big cities of this country, which have been marveled at wherever men can read. Wild and weird, as is the confessed story of his^ life, in which he accuses himself of of­ fenses which would long since have given- a less skillful criminal his quietus, Holmes has been careful to shift the main responsibility for the various mur­ ders with which lie admits having been connected to other shoulders. Thus dur­ ing the thirty-eight years of a life' de­ voted almost entirely to law-breaking this is his first experience as a "felon on trial for his life. The authorities have recognized that this is no common crim­ inal, but one who might be called a tech­ nical and most expert artist in crime. It is, therefore, their determination, in the event of securing his conviction for a capital offense, to "railroad" him to the gallows. 'rieajM f j f . Death Follows in Its Wake Over u Large Section of the Country. The drought which extends over the Middle Atlantic States is declared by the weather bureau to be the most prolonged, most severe and general known since the organization of that department. From Pittsburg comes news that, packc^ traffic on the Ohio and its tributaries has ceased, the river in places containing only twelve inches of water. Typhoid fever is epi­ demic and hundreds of deaths have oc­ curred, all due to the lack of pure drink- i'hg water. I11 the Connellsville coke re­ gion 3,000 workers have been rendered idle, owing to the lack of water in the coke reservoirs, and the winter wheat in many sections of the State has beeti killed.^ ! At Louisville, Ky., navigation is also practically suspended owiug to lack of water in the Ohio. For fifty miles up the river the latter is a stagnant pool of dead water and the beds of former tributary streams are as dry as summer roads. All the way from Louisville to Pittsburg the. river towns are suffering from the scourge of typhoid fever, while diphtheria is general-. Throughout Indiana, Ohio and Ken­ tucky hog cholera is raging and in one county of Ohio hogs to the value of $75.- 000 died in one week. Iu Texas the drought is being severely felt and unless rain soon falls and falls in great ^abund­ ance there will be a heavy loss in cattle ranches. In the Fox River valley of Wisconsin the mills will have to suspend operations unless rain comes, thereby throwing 10,000 people out of employ­ ment. St. Louis is a candidate for the honor of being awarded the national conven­ tions. The Rev. Myron W. Reed, of Denver, insists that illegal voters should be shot down at the polls. Senator Hill at Elyria, Ohio, spoke from from the same platform with Con­ gressman Tom L. Johnson. Gov. Win. A. McCorkle, of West Vir­ ginia. has announced himself a candidate for Seuator Faulkner's seat. The Lincoln County Citizen of Hunt­ ington, W. Va., nominates W. H. Harvey for the head of the Populist Presidential ticket. Senators Gorman and Gibson declare Maryland has been made safe for the Democratic ticket in spite of the split in the party. Anything to beat Chicago! That's the only motive that New York has for enter­ ing into the competition for the national Republican convention. At Columbia, S. C., the Constitutional convention decided new counties should have taxable property worth $2,000,000 and not exceed 400 square milfcs iu area. ExCongressman Breckinridge spoke at Frankfort, Ky., and was received with enthusiasm. He did not refer to his prob­ able candidacy for re-election to Con­ gress. One of the admirers of Col. Bradley, Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky, threatened to put a bullet through a picture of Gen. Hardin, dis­ played at one of Bradley's meetings.. While making an argument in the Uni­ ted States Supreme Court at Washing­ ton Gen. Thomas Ewing was taken sud­ denly to the point of faintness and was compelled to suspend the argument and allow i* to be taken up later by one of his colleagues. He revived after some effort and continued in the courtroom until the conclusion of the argument. Blanche Elkan, the daughter of a promi«ents Hebrew cloakmaker of Bos­ ton, became a convert to the Catholic re­ ligion* while attending school at Bellevue convjnt, Quebec, and upon her return ther'; this fall was enrolled ns a nun in the «rder of the Good Shepherd. SHAKEN BY A QUAKE TERRESTRIAL DISTURBANCE 1 FELT IN MANY STATES. The Tremor Had an East to West Di­ rection, Turned Sleepers Out of Bed, , Shook Dishes Off of Shelves and. Performed Other Antics. Many Were Frightened. The central part of the ̂ U.nited . States experienced a well defined earthquake shortly after 5 o'clock Thursday morn­ ing. The shock and vibrations were felt in several States, the dispatches showing that the disturbance extended from Ken­ tucky on the south far into "Wisconsin and Michigan, throughout Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana, and even-as far as West Virginia, where the shock was also perceptible. The shock and vibrations were of but a few seconds, but created the greatest alarm, and in some instances terror among residents of some of the cities. There was no doubting the nature of the disturbance which shook buildings, slammed doors, .rang door bells, and caused articles to topple from shelves, tables, and mantel pieces. In the tele­ graph offices of Chicago the vibrations were strongly manifested, and for a few minutes after the shock telegraphic com­ munication was entirely suspended. Thousands of persons were awakened from their sleep by the shock. In the public librsry, on the top floor of the city hall, books were shaken from the shelves, and in many of the. offices in skyscrapers similar circumstances were noticed. On the street the.milkmen and the policemen feeling the unusual commotion sought shelter in the belief that there was a. possibility that one of the tall buildings might fall. The operators in the Western Union Telegraph room became alarmed and left the building. Clocks were stopped and windows rattled, but no seri­ ous damage was done. The shocks were not accompanied by any rumbling dis­ turbance In-St. Louis the trembling of the earth was so great that many clocks were stopped, dishes rattled, and at the power­ houses of the electric-car lines the cur­ rent was temporarily interrupted. At Indianapolis the shock 1 was preceded by a rumbling noise. The shock was from north to south, and the vibration iu three- story buildings was at least two inches. Many tall chimneys were damaged.* Reports received state that the shock was. .felt as far away as Arkansas and Kansas, and that the wave passed from west to east. LINCOLN MONUMENT UNSAFE. Parts of the Structure Thought to Have Been Marble Are Brick. The Lincoln monument at O.ak Ridge Cemetery, near Springfield, which has for the last twenty years been admired by thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world, will have to be torn down. It is too far gone to be re­ paired, and, besides, its construction is such that it will not admit of repair. In­ stead of being a substantial pile of solid granite, as external appearances would indicate, it is a rickety structure of brick veaeered over with slabs of granite. This is the verdict of State trustees who have charge of the monument. . During the last session of the General Assembly the historic pile was turned over to the State, $30,000 was appropri- 1UIIIII" Boston has been made the headquarters of the secretary of the National Adyisory Council of the A. P. A. THE LINCOLN MONUMENT. ated for repairs, and a law passed mak­ ing the Governor, State Treasurer, and State Superintendent of Instruction trus­ tees of the monument to care for it and make the much-needed repairs. When the trustees set about to arrange for the repairs they discovered that the mag­ nificent monument erected to the mem­ ory of "Honest Old Abe" was a sham and a fraud. What appeared to be huge blocks of granite were nothing but thin slabs laid over brick. "The Lincoln monument is simply a shell." said Governor Altgeld. "It is a brick monument and has a veneering of granite slabs three inches thick. This veneering is coming' loose, just as all veneering will." "Can it be repaired?" was asked. "If would be impossible to repair that monument and make it permanent." "Thevother two trustees and I feel that the great State'of Illinois should have a monument to Lincoln that is not a sham, but a solid structure, and that in order to get this, this brick and veneered monu­ ment should be taken down and in its stead build a monument of solid granite from bottom to top, so that it will last for all ages and require no attention from anybody; We have almost enough money to do this. However, the trustees do not feel like taking so Tadieal a step unless they should be requested to do so by the surviving members of President Lin­ coln's family." The Lincoln monument was completed in October, 1S74, and cost $206,500, which amount was raised by popular sub­ scription. Told in a Few Lines. The Philadelphia cricket team will tour England three months, beginning May 15, 1896. They will play twelve matches. John Woodward attempted suicide at Keosauqua, Iowa. The knife was dull and at the sight of blood he lost his nerve and called for help. Elmer Holling, the confidential man of the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company of Duluth, Minn., was arrested on a charge ->f embezzlement. A medal of honY>r has been awarded to WesleykT. Rowers, late of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Illinois Volunteers, for distinguished gallantry in action at Oostenaula Iliver, ^Georgia, April 3, 1863. Mrs. G. W. Billings, of Ligonier, Ind., was found lying unconscious on the grave of her mother. She had attempted sui­ cide by placing a cloth saturated with chloroform over her face and wrapping a shawl about her head, but will,recover. Freight traifiq. managers of all but four of the railroads which had a membership in the Western trunk line committee met in St. Louis to make an effort to revive and reorganize that comnuttee. Owing to the absence of the four representatives nothing was done. Now it appears that even the Texas, a second-class battle-ship, cannot be docked at New York without waiting for a big tide. This has caused some specu- Ijttioil- f|lniong naval officers as to what would occur if the ship met With an acci­ dent at sea and came into port in a sink­ ing condition. V V