The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

tZANllBA) E M 0 A M f l R O T S B . m a b u n d a n e m p i r e BMSOI AND N^ATABEL E L ANty t > A M A H A L A N D , COUNTRY 'KT'V V £ rC ' iSuujtf il ,KtPUflMC&L BRITISH ' BF.CH UANA LANO1 CI\EAT ^=fo&0K fov< N A M A O U A JOMHNt ' iSvJ TORT NTf.l, <£.» PE ®'@ t © Eff cape town TI1E FLA1NDEALER === J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENBY. ILLINOIS GRANVILLE LETTERS; CREATING! MUCH COMMENT LONDON. IN Said to He Antagonistic to Great Brit­ ain's Claims in Venezuela--Bis Phil­ adelphia Company Forced to Assign --Hostilities Suspended at Zeitojagi. New Phase of the Row. The dispiiteh to tho Loudon Daily Ohroniele from its special commissioner at Washington, giving hitherto unpublished correspondence between tho Governments of Great Britain and \ enezuela during the period between November. .1840, when Robert Schontburgk was appointed to sur­ vey the 'western territory of British Gui­ ana,-and April. 1K42, when Great Britain finally removed the boundary .posts1 which heiiad se t . a t various points in that terri­ tory to l 'orai the so'-called. Seliomburgk line, is) ' 'attracting niuclv . attention in London. The chronicle calls it a mo­ mentous dfspatrh'" and heads it. A New Paw1 ' 1o th# holirr^rexsy: t he Seliomburgk Line F'seless. ' Some .startling 'L)is-• patches." • A ;foreign office, Officii! saul that- llnh <'orresjk>ndcnee, quoted was CQi'r rect "Si> f;?r ;is i-t goes.- ' and added: But there is much which is unpublished espe­ cially tite' letters of Seiior I' orti 'fjue • (t .lie Venezuelan minister.to Great Britain at the time). These give a_ different light upon the whole matter. AN e might, for in­ stance. take jwrtions of Secretary Olney s document and transform it into a state­ ment which would be'entirely antagonistic to the'American side of the question. All Kyes on Sout^/Africa. The greatest alarm existed in London BaturiiaV. because no further news had arrived from the Transvaal. Forty-eight hours had elapsed since the confirmation of the report of the capture of Dr. Jame­ son and his invading force by the Boers. ] There came a very significant message from the German Emperor to the presi­ dent of the Transvaal republic, congratu­ lating him upon the successful repulse of the British force. This aroused a storm of indignation in Great Britain, which was quickly .succeeded by a feeling of ap­ prehension over an unconfirmed rumor that an uprising had occurred at Johan­ nesburg. and that the English were being driven out. It is believed a great crisis is on. In Charge of an Assignee. The Solicitors' Loan and Trust Com­ pany of Philadelphia made an assignment to Col. T. I)e Witt Cuyler. one of the di­ rectors. The trouble came about through the outside operations of .T. It . Ritter, who has charge of the company's real estate department. An examination of the books shows that the assets are all right. The company has assets of about $1,-00,000, most of which is tied up in Western mort­ gages. It was founded in 1880, with a. full paid capital of $500.000. Its stock disappearance strengthens Jliis belief. 'About three weeks ago George W. John­ son, president of the bank, was appointed receiver. He discovered that Gerold's accounts were1 wrong. AttaelintQnts have been placed upon Gerold's property in Brookfield and in Hampden County. The Pittsburg tow-boat Harry Brown ran aground at Glasshouse Riffle. Brun- not's Island, Monday morning. The pilot attempted to b»<?k into deeper water to re-, lease the fleet, when a heavy cable part­ ed, the ends striking Jonathan Wood and a deck hand btiown. as "Whitpy." The latter was instantly killed and Wood was seriously but not fat ally injured. » Two coal boats and one barge, containing 00,- (KK) bushels of coal, are at the bottom of the liver as a result of the accident and the channel is blockaded. Tin®1 sunken boats will be bloWn out with dynamite by the Government. The loss will be very heavy. ° WESTERN. William Evergat shot and killed Arthur Jones, aged lo. near Bainbridge, Ohio. Evergat bet Jones he could shoot his hat off his head without hurting him. Jones won .the bet. . < Walter Sanger, the bicycle rider, and Miss I)ora Kotzenherg, of Chicago. man­ aged :to steal, a way from a skating party at Milwaukee Friday evening long enough to get married. Mrs. J. Sam Brown, wife of a national banker; Mrs. Ifamlin, wife .of a merchant; tind Miss Laura Riiticoe, principal of one of the public schools,, bantered each other to take a bide in the "hurry" wagon from the J'nion depot in Wichita,, Ivas.. ') to tlie city jail through flu? main thorough­ fare of the city with a policeman. Mr. Rrqwn, the husband,, not only consented, but" secured ..the, wagon from the chief of police. .The thing was unknown to the public, a lid as the. wagon'dashed through the street with Mrs. Brown, who is a society queen, it caused a great sensation. Five hundred people followed theni to the jail. „ For lack of a pied piper of Detroit Swart Brothers, proprietors of the Hotel Cadillac. Detroit. Mich., desire a car­ load of cats. They desire \hein imme­ diately. At present' the visible supply of rats in the house is in excess of all de- I mands. They don't annoy the. guests so j much as they seem to annoy one another. I The back part of the house, where the guests do not sleep --not - the rats either-- is filled by night with noises indicating that Rodiyit College and the University of Mils are playing a serial intercollegiate football match. What is chiefly desired are cats with a rat appetite. From It) to 25 cents will be paid--the-bigger the cat and his appetite the larger the price. The last week of James C. Roach, in his Irish comedy drama, "Rory of the Ilill." is on at MoYicker's Theater in Chicago. The business has been extreme­ ly large ami all who have seen the play enjoyed ii immensely. Mi;. Frank Mayo will fo l low "Rory of the Ilill" at._McYick- er's in his dramatization of Mark Twain's novel. "I 'udd'nhcad Wilson," which has achieved an enormous success in -New York and other Eastern c'ties. It is said that frank Mayo has en -rged from the shadow* of the past and gone success "Davy Crockett" in the quaint role he has created in "Pudd'nhead Wilson," and some predict that Joseph Jefferson's mantle as Nestor of the American stage, and Jefferson'?- place in the affections of the recently dropped about $10 a share. NEW$ NUGGETS. The Northwestern millers' trust has been reorganized. Kansas Republicans talk of nominat­ ing Justice Brewer for President. Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria has formally renounced the throne of which the crazy King Otto is the normal incum­ bent. A report has been received by the Knox- ville, Teun., revenue office to, the-effect that seven men were killed in a battle between moonshiners and officers near the Tennessee and North Carolina line. It came to light that several St. Paul and Minneapolis banks have been victim­ ized to the extent of some $0,000 by a clever forger. He worked under the names of Esch and Charles E. Rhodes. ..and did the work chiefly by means of a bank cashier's certification stamp. At Madrid, it. is announced that the Danish Government has expressed the opinion thai: the steamer Horsa, flying the Danish flag, which conveyed a filibus­ tering expedition to Cuba in November last, frotn Philadelphia, ought to have been regarded as a pirate, in spite of the contrary decision of the United States authorities. The Turkish Government has ordered the commander of the Turkish forces sur­ rounding Zeitoini to suspend hostilities pending the negotiations which the repre­ sentatives of the powers have.entered into in order to bring about the surrender of the Zeitounlis. The ambassadors have given their respective consuls at Aleppo full liberty of action in regard to the steps which they may think necessary to take to prevail upon the insurgents to sur­ render. The new city bill which has just passed the Quebec Legislature, provides that hereafter every alderman of the city of Montreal who votes grants in excess of available appropriations shall be person­ ally responsible therefor, and shall leave the right of setting in the City Council for five yearn. It is also provided that the city treasurer shall be personally respon­ sible for every sum of money which he shall pay. knowing it exceeds the appro- . priations voted by the Council. Montana produced in metals about $47.- 115,000 during ike year 1805, taking the value of the silvei\it the coinage rate and estimating the lasV two months of the year on a pro rata baSds. The production of gold was $4,100,000; of silver. 4,500,000 ounces; of copper, 212,000 pounds, and of lead, 24,500.000 pounds. The output of copper is estimated' as being 05 per cent, of the production of the United States. The receipts of bullion at the Helena assay office during 1K95 were 10 per cent, greater than last, year and 471/. per cent, greater than during 189o. A semi-official denial was made at St. Petersburg of the announcement.made'in the Neue'Freie Presse of Vienna, saying that Ru*ja and France had actually promised diploma tie support to the United States iu the Venezuelan question, and thaty&ussia was prepared to facilitate the United States loan with her own gold reserve. Russia is negotiating for the creation of a branch of the Bauque Imperiale Russe in New6 York. prof. L. S. Luther, of Trinity College, has been elected president of Kenyon College at Columbus. Ohio. public are destined to bo Wharod by silver-haired majestic Mayo. Chicago has the lowest death rate of any city of 200,000 or more population in the world. This is shown by the annual report of the city health department, completed Tuesday. The death rate, based upon the unrevised figures, is 15.11 in a population of l.OOO. as against 15.24 for last year, less than any previous record' for the city. The whole report shows the health ot the community to be in excellent and the sanitary condition of the. city to be good. The low death rate, however, is the best evidence of the healthful condi­ tion of the city. Next in point of interest to the general public is that part of the report devoted to the crusade made by -he authorities against impure milk, bad ice and the treatment of diphtheria. All of these, it is shown by figures that cannot be disputed, are the several causes that, with the general healthfuhiess of the Chicago air, have pulled down the dea h rate until the city stands first in the World in t hat respect. the Sultan's Ministers that ah additional indemnity will be demanded for the bene­ fit of Americans who suffered loss of prop­ erty at Matash a few weeks later. This second demand will be formally made as soon as the exact losses, as sustained by Americans at Marasli, can be officially detrinined. It is not expected that the sum of the indemnity Will be less than $ 100.OOO^aml it may be more. 'The Gov­ ernment does not expect that the Sultan will respond quickly to these demands, and in that j>Vent, after a reasonable time for compliance is given, an ultimatum will be issued to the Turkish Government. Great Britain is said to be greatly in­ censed over this demand. Washington dispatch; Senator Chand­ ler is probing into a Navy Department scandal of large proportions. By direc­ tion of the Senate the Senate Committee WHIP THE BRITISH. VICTORY FOR .BOERS IN TRANSVAAL BATTLE. THE pr* Jameson Surrenders--Remnant of His Forces Now Imprisoned at Jo­ hannesburg -London Instructions Disregarded--Parallel to Venezuela ' South Africa Excited. The invading English army in the Transvaal has been disastrously defeated by the Boers* A score.or more have been killed, many wounded, and Dr. Jameson . . . . i s a p r i s o n e r a t J o h a n n e s b u r g . O n e o f on Naval Affairs will inquire into various j uiost impudent acts of aggression ever little miftters relating to the construction of warships, and incidentally it! will be learned to What extent officers of the Ord­ nance Bureau are interested ill patent processes'1 by which,- it: is said, the Gov­ ernment is robbed by extortionateCharges out of between $500,000 and $750,000 on every vessel built. Secretary Herbert wanted to let the contracts for the tvyvi warships about ' to be built, as it was thought better results could be obtained .thereby, ifiit he -found himself -strongly antagonized; by!-the. Ordnance "Bureaa, though the' other experts of the i-lepatc- niejnt cordiajly indorsed the position he hail taken. The stubborn resistance of the Ordnance K lire an finally prey-ailed, and the Secretary announced his.intentioii to Jet the'eontracts in the old way. This decision set,tongues 'Wagging. and mem­ bers of Congress'-were solemnly assured tlut 't . there <was rank, fottetitiess in .1 he Navy Defiaf.tnteut..and'that officials were using their positions to'divert publi\ ' mon- ' -ey„s to their own pockets by eotjuptly in­ fluencing contracts, whereby tin; Govern­ ment was forced iipo buying patented processes in which they were financially interested. The instructions given .he Naval Committee will afford an oppor ­ tunity if or investigation into the alleged abuses. It will also serve to prevent the 'guilty parties from escaping by the us.tal method of defeating inquiry. The charges are now being aired, and the Navy De­ partment must purge itself by proving tin1 charges to be unfounded or else locate and cast out the guilty officers who .ife accused of bringing discredit on the coun­ try and disgrace upon the department. FOREIGN The young Duchess of Marlborough is seriously ilUin Rome with typhoid-fever. The fever was eontneted while she was in Spain. An explosion of firedamp occurred in a colliery at Waldenburg. Prussian Silesia, forty-three miles southwest of Bresl.au, Tuesday. Fifty persons are known to have been'killed or injured, and sevent>a n others are missing. Princess Frederick Leopold. while skating on the ice on the Gnebnltzsee, near Berlin, had a narrow escape from drowning. The ice gave way aifil the Princess was immersed in the water un­ til she was rescued with the aid of a plank by a passer-by. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Yienna Freie Presse telegraphs that Rus­ sia and France have actually promised diplomatic support to the United States -in the Voric;:uoliin troublmtiTrHiiat Ru-s?4ar committed even by British arms has thus met with swift retribution. The details "are meager of. this inglo­ rious finale of what was intended to be a "brilliant-piece of bravado, which success might justify but which failure would make a crime. All that is known is the Government messengers, with dispatches from .London'ordering Dr. Jameson to re­ treat to the Chartered Company's terri­ tory, reached Dr. Jameson Wednesday morning. lie pocketed the Queen's or­ ders, fold the messenger 'laconically that he wou ld attend to them, gave the-com­ mand to his troops to saddle-, .and march­ ed, not On the,back track,"but on toward Johannesburg.-, • v- At 4..o'clock in the afternoon lie encoun­ tered the Boers at Krugersdorf. There was liard lighting until suuddwu, and .the British troops-suffered severely. - The 'fa-, mows marksfSanshiii, of the Boers \yas no less deadly-than in their gallant defense against the same enemy fifteen years ago. Twenty men, including three officers, ' were killed,, and fifty prisoners were taken before Dr. Jameson surrendered., A London dispatch says: The world SOUTHERN. South Africa extended only to latitude 30 degrees.south of the equator. To-day the provisional boundary Of the British South | African Company's protectorate is at latitude 10 degrees south. How this has been accomplished the world knows. PAUI. -KKI.-O.ER, PBESIDpJfT OI? THE REP1'Bl.lf? OF THANSVAAL. N-ev.tir were irregulars "in time of «wai given freer rein than Rhodes and Jame­ son and the cape colonists'generally ha ve had in the butchery of natives and the seizure of territory. The Avar oil poor old Lobengula, instigated and directed by this same defeated Jameson, was an ttii- EASTERN. Alfred N. Tripp hapged himself in his barn at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He had but juBt come into $300,00O, left him by his father,. Vincent Tripp. The last two months Tripp has been much depressed and has said repeatedly there was no longer any charm in life for ; him. His coachman found him hanging by a piece of.clothesline from a.rafter in the barn loft. - CJ7 » , Herman P. G^eroid, cashier of ihe Brookfield, Mass., Savings Bank, has dis­ appeared It is believed be is a defaulter for between $10,,000 and §15,000. and his is prepared to facilitate the United States loan with her own gold reserve. Caracas, 'Venezuela, dispatch: All the Latin-America,n republics are said to be in a socreT^ ragrre and will aid Venezuela, it is expected, in case of a war against England. Colombia has responded to Venezuela's request,, it is whispered, by promising to contribute NO,000 troops :i.id agreeing to give the British Minister iiis passports unless England consents to submit the Guiana question to arbitra­ tion. Brazil is to send 100,000 men. armed and equipped. • Mexico is counted upon to aid with a fleet. By calling out its militia Venezuela can place 250.000 men in the field. The Venezuelan For­ eign Office is active. It will send imme­ diately extra envoys to all parts of tin; IN GENERAL Mayor Oakley, of Fort Wayne. Ind.. or­ dered the Empire Variety Theater closed. He has issued an order prohibiting any theatrical events on Sunday. The United States cruiser Boston has received orders to proceed to the China station. It is believed that the order in­ dicates a desire on the part of the admin­ istration to preserve the strength >f the Asiatic squadron until domestic affair 's jn China become quieter. The national Armenian relief commit­ tee appeals to the people of the United States for immediate and generous con­ tributions to relieve the needs of 350,000 Armenians who are destitute. Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the Uni­ ted States, is chairman i\£ this committee, which includes Archbishop Corrigan, Chauncey M. Depew, John S. Kennedy. Alexander E. Orr, Bishop Potter, Jacob Schiff, Everett P. Wheeler and Spencer Trask. The committee announces that the immediate need is for money, which should be sent to the treasurers. Brown Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and Boston. The only supplies that can be used are grain, coarse cotton and woolen goods in the piece, but no such contributions should be forwarded without previous communication with the committees. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades. $.'5.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 55c to 57c; corn, No. 2, 25c to 20c; oats. No. 2, 17c to INc; rye. No. 2, . '{2c to 33c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, $20 to $45 per toil for QC!-D MCAni*"7 [i-izac CThf SOUTH AFRICAN TERRITORY IN WHICH will now be overwhelmed with disavowals from everybody concerned except Dr. Jameson. Nobody will.be louder in pro­ testing their innocence than the Chartered Company and Cecil Rhodes, but nobody w^ll believe them. Nothing will change the popular convict ion that what has hap- T11 F. •d blot TROUBLE OCCURRED. •nth century civ-on ntnett Witiiin two miles if Lebanon. Ky.. early Sunday morning a n-entless mob burned a woman, wt"> was to become a mother, and riddled her gray-haired para­ mour with . bullets. The blackened .and disfigured corpses of-the victims. Mrs. Thomas West and William Deveres, were found in the ruins of the woman's home by the 14-year-old daughter of the dered man. The murders were among the most brutal ever enacted under the grewsome sway of dread Judge Ljnch. Despite the pleadings for her father's iifa of a half clad, frightened child and the prayers and tears of the ill and helpless woman, the mob went through with its work in cold-blooded, cruel 'deliberation and only left when certain that both nian- nnd woman were de&d. The" affair was the outgrowth of theUild story of faith­ less wife* and vengeful misbjind. Deveres had himself killed the misbanxi of th woman. The Louisville express, west-bourtcl, and the St. Louis express, east-bound, on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern col­ lided about 7 o'clock Monday night near Sekitan, Ohio. Two unknown men were killed and nine injured, five of them fatal­ ly. The trains met on a curve. The west­ bound train was going fifty and the east- bound thirty miles an hour. After the engineers saw etfch other so great was the speed of the trains, they did not have time to whistle for breaks. The trains came together With terrific force, the en- ines rushing against each other and rearing up. end to end, forming an acute I jKjor to choice. angle with their pilots toward the sky. j Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to Two empty express cars on the St. Louis j $4.r,(j ; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; pened and reckle: was thepn ers in Job ! parallel . i lization. The feeling in Germany is amply war- | ranted by the situation. The colonists I have acquired, by persistent advances all j the enormous stretch of land in the inte- I r ior from the southern lino of the Congo ! State to the Cape of Good Hope, except | the Orange Free Stale and the Transvaal j Republic. With these two independent Governments in their possession the Brit- j ish would hold all the territory between j German 10a.st Africa and German South- 1 west Africa. Nothing could be more nat­ ural than that the Boers should seek the aid <• I Germany, although by the terms of the treaty of 1SS'4, which was wrung from Great Britain by the sword, they i are bound not to conclude any treaty or engagement with a foreign Government except the Grange State. But a eonven- j lion disngarded by one party is not bind- ! inj; oil the other, a ud in I l ie t reaty of INS I . England stipulated that she would not to Which all are gradually • t ime has not I t l ie extension been precipitat ion. a high-hain the nations i a wakening •oinc to fo f Brit ish d< I by the ras il ad vent uri MEET DEATH BY FIRE MAN ANC/WOMAN BURNED ALIVE IN KENTUCKY. Mrs. T. J. West Cremated and W. A I>everes Biillet-liidden--Prayer of a I/ittle Child Has No Effect on the Band of Brutal Outlaws.- ^ j. Mob's Awful Deed. * 7 Th Marion County, Ivy., the other night a mob of about, fifty men surrounded-the house of Mrs. T. J. West and called for W. A. Deveres, Mrs. West came to the door and asked What was wanted. The mob fired on her and she ran back. The men continued to firt% and as Deveres did rfot make his appearance they applied the torch to the house. The blackened and disfigured corpses of the victims were found in the ruins of the woman's home the next day. The tragedy was one of the most brutal ever enacted. Despite the pleadings .for her father's life of a half-clad, frightened child, and the pray­ ers and tears of the*ill and helpless wom­ an, tho mob Went through with its work With cold-blooded, cruel deliberation, and only left when certain.that both map and woman were-dead. Several motiths ago, Dover'es. a middle- aged widower, and Thomas West, a pros­ perous farmer, be^an a quarrel Vyhicli con-' tinned throughout the fall until West in­ stituted divorce proce'odings and declared' .Deveres must, -die; . The men met in Leb­ anon. West Knapped hia revolver,: Which missed fire', and,Deveres killed him.on the spot. ' . On the., plea-of seir.-defense the murderer secured bail and scandalized the neighborhood by taking li-is two daugh­ ters and moving into West's house. The relatives of- the murdered husband swore vengeance, and Saturday night it came. Close to 10 o'clock a band of men rode up to the West homestead and demanded adn'ilu a lice. "Tom West is dead. Now' it 's your turn," the spokesman called, and Deveres awoke to find the house surrounded. Mrs. W est rushed to a darkened window and began a wild appeal for mercy. A dozen bullets answered her cries, and the de­ mand for immediate surrender was re­ peated. A hurried consultation was held inside the house, and then, white and ter­ ror-stricken, the little girl of Deveres was thrust out to plead with the mob. Clad In her night robe, barefooted and unpro­ tected, she bravely walked out info the moonlight and sobbed out a prayer for her white-haired father's life. "Get out. Ion re liable to ^et shot yourself," a ruf­ fian said, anil thoroughly panic-stricken the child fled to the cabin of a negro neighbor. .Mrs. West then appeared at the door and made a last appeal for mer­ cy. It was unavailing, and in another moment the house was tired. The -shrieks of the imprisoned wretches failed to move tJi«•»•;*- torturers, who, after tho flames reached ,he living-room, could see the man and woman in the agony of death by lire. Just before the roof fell the woman was seen to reel across the room and plunge headlong into tin* fire­ place among the burning coals, and tlierg she died. Wild with pain. Deveres, at the last, moment. i\iade a dash for liberty, but a score of bullets stopped him half n dozan steps from the door. In the morn- ing the little girl led her negro protector to the scene, and there the bodies, scorch­ ed beyond recognition, were found. BOND BILL PASSED. a Ma- .1A MI ' . s o N . (lliVKIiMil! Ot," M ASIInN A I. A V I). Even that e rather than South Africa -England if G Mouse Would egal. but i Ilill it Would •rniany and too tiain crushed together and broke the force of the shock. The express car. a combination smoker and- baggage car. and two coaches on this train piled up in a confused mass all badly shattered. The five cars of the Louisville express were heaped together bttside the track. There were several doctors on the wrecked trains, and these, together with physi­ cians from Sekitan and Delhi, attended the injured, who were taken into private houses near bv. WASHINGTON. An order was issued from the War De­ partment Tuesday, by-authority of the President, dismissing from the United States army Lieut. Samuel S. Pugue, Fifteenth Infantry. Lieut. Paguc, who' was stationed at Fort, Sheridan, near Chicago, was found guilty of shooting at his superior officer. Col. Crofton, com­ manding Fort ^Sheridan, within the lim­ its of the post last sunnper and was sen­ tenced to dismissal. Subsequently he was examined by medical officers because his sanity had been questioned, but it was found that alcoholism was the real cause of his actions, and the President therefore has approved tli£ findings jfod sehteiiee of the court-martial. ' Secretary Olney has dire^ed Minister Terrell, at Constantinople, to demand an indemnity of $100,000 from Turkey.^for the benefit of American missionaries who suffered loss of property iu the Kharput outbreaks in November. Minister Ter­ rell has also been instructed to inform wheat, No. 2. <!3( white, 2<ic to 27c; to 23c. St. Louis--Cattle, S.'UiO to $5.00; hog* $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, t»4c i Otic; corn. No. 2 yellow, 23c to 24c; oats. No. 2 white, 10c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 31c to 33c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2, 0(>c to 07c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 mixed, l 'Je to 21c; rye, No. 2, 39c to 41c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, tide to 07c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 27c to 28c; oats, No.. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye. 37c to 38c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 00c to <!7c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2, 37c to 38c; clover seed, $4.25 to $4.35. Milwaukee---Wheat, No. 2 spring, 55c to 56c; corn, No, 3, 25c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; barley. No. 2, 32c to •34c; rye. No. 1, 35c to 30c; pork, mess, $7.50 to $8.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.22; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red.- 08c to 71c; corn.f NO. mid go in bably go in T coilllt t ies did not make too nvuoh .fuss about it. Hence the wires were cut and L)r. Jame­ son. with 7<H> men. dashed in at the ap­ pointed time to carry out their part of ihe plan. The faint-hearted foreigners in Jo­ hannesburg failed to begin the rebellion, and Dr. Jameson's rescue expedition be- The -issui the earth whether th cibly preVel minion luu ad of Jam. of a type more patiently considered in the Iteydey of piracy than in our own time. It. is inconceivable that the secretary for the col.inies should not have been able to stop 1 he South African Company's agent. Private letters prove that ihe sortie was in contemplation a month ago. Mr. Cham­ berlain's lamentations are tardy. The predicament of the imperial Gov­ ernment is extremely awkward. On the one hand they have to restrain the lust and pugnacity of high-spirited colonists who have never feared to speak of the slenderness of the ties by which they are bound to the parent State. On the other hand, tliej* face a brave people and the possibility of European complications. Let no one imagine the Boers will not fight. The English are disposed to dis credit their courage, but they showed steadiness and daring at the Drakens- AACKR" i A FR1C DEFENSIVE POST) AN WARFARE. | came a horde of lawless Jreebooters, in- I vailing a friendly State. Such is the I true aspect of the situation in the eyes of Englishmen. The British Government ha£ already disavowed everything; so has Cecil Rhodes; so has the Chartered Com­ pany, through its directors in London. | It is by no means certain that the trou­ ble in the Transvaal is at an end. Brit­ ain Thursday night was given the interest­ ing spectacle of the British colonial sec­ retary sending a beseeching appeal to President Kruger that , the Boers deal leniently with the wounded and other prisoners. Tho reason of this is that great social pressure was brought to bear on Mr. Chamberlain to rescue a dozen offi­ cers of the guards, several noblemen's sons and other young bloods with high connections, who are included in Dr. Jameson's force of invaders. Cause of the Trouble. There is no Seliomburgk line in South Africa:,. There is no other line, says a correspondent, which the -imperialist pas- 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, sion of Great Britain and the greed of 22c to 23c. British colonists will recognize unless one New 10rk--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.2o; hogs, or the other of the great powers, iiji i ts $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; own interests, arbitrarily fixes a linebe- yyheat, No. 2 red, 09c to 70c.: corn, No. 2, yond which the advance guard of Brit- 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; ish trade and British rule may ndt go butter, creamery, 23c to 25c; egzs. West- with, safety to the imperial Government, ern, 20c • to,22c Twenty years ago English dominion in berg Pass and on the height of SpitAkop. and in these battles as elsewhere their marvelous riflemen potted the English calmly and accurately. '1 he feeling of Africa is with them. In their rebellion they had the sympathy of the Orange State, and it would not require much to revive President Kruger s cry of "Africa for the Afrikanders, from Zambesi to Martin's Bay." It is a signfieeant. coincidence that on the day of the appointment <>f the Vene­ zuelan commission England gave proof of the spirit of greed and oppression that moves her agents everywhere. The Parasite Fig. The parasite tig, indigenous to the tropics, is a most extraordinary plant. Its seeds are distributed by birds,-and if one drops and lodges in a fruit tree it will germinate there and send a long root to the ground stfid draw nourish­ ment through it. It , then rapidly spreads over the unfortunate tree and strangles it. > A carpet tack trust has been formo;i. We hope Attorney General Harmon will see the point. • ' | The camphor trust ' , lias doubled prices. You canlt get so much now for a scent. H o u s e A d o p t s t h e M e a s u r e l > y j o r i t y o f T h i r t y - f o u r , The house Saturday passed the bond bill by a vote of 170 to 130 and thus hav­ ing discharged the task for which it has been sitting during the holiday recess, effected ail agreement by which the House should adjourn three days in order to give members an, opportunity to spend New Year's Day at their hollies. The closing hours of debate were lacking in spirit and there was practically 110 excite­ ment until a vote was taken. A margin of thirty-four by which the first section of the bill, against which 'Republican op­ ponents of the measure massed their op­ position, was passed and showed that the friends of Ihe measure had marshaled every available vote in its favor. As it was, forty«seven Republicans refused to act with the majority of their party. The bill as passed, amends the "resumption act" so as to permit the issue of 3 per cent, coin bonds redeemable after five years at the pleasure of the Government and payable in fifteen years with a spe­ cific proviso that nothing in the bill shall be construed to repeal the act of 187S for a re-is'sue of greenbacks and that the bondft shall first be offered for sub­ scription at the subtreasuries and de­ positories of the United States. The second section of the bill provides for an issue of three-year 3 per cent, debt certifi­ cates of denominations of $20 and multi­ ples thereof in amounts not exceeding $50,000,000 to meet temporary deficien­ cies. News of Minor,Note. Max Ivcbaudy, a wealthy French sport, is dead. Miss Hannah Levett died at Nashua, N. II., aged 100. Spanish troops in Cuba are dying like sheep froin fever. Ten business houses were destroyed by fire at Gurley, Ala. Judge AN". R. Bright committed suicide with a revolver at Corsicana, Texas. Danziger & Co.'s department store at Pittsburg, Pa., was closed by the sheriff. Marshall Bigelow of the American con­ sular court at Constantinople' died of dropsy Lucius Wakeley is now general passen­ ger agent of the Burlington lines in Mis­ souri. William Carson, of Fairfax, Mo., hanged himself in his barn. It ir. believed that he was temporarily insane. Jacob Cewe. an employe of the Spring Valley Coal Company, fell down a shaft and was horribly mangled. Joseph Cook, the lecturer, has reached San Francisco from the Orient, broken in health and an invalid. John 'Bailey, a farmer living near Co­ lumbus, Ind., was attacked by a large boar and terribly cut by the animal s tusks. Henry Menier jumped froin the Wa­ basha street bridge at St. Paul, Minn., a height Of 125 feet, and escaped uninjured. Sain Emery, of Murray, committed suicide bv shooting himself through the heart, lie had suffered for years with a cancer. Sovpn lives were lost by the -sinking of the steamship Nansemond by the steam­ ship Mexico, near the Dutch Island Island of Aruba. The Lawrence reduction works at Crip* pie Creek were destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000; insured for half ^hd amount. Wm. Cummin, a saloonkeeper, struck a man named Shaw on the head with a •stone at Carbon, Ind., killing him in­ stantly. '---"-T" Dalt and Ilenry Arnold, sons of a ireacher of Frankfort, Ky.. who were' reported drowned, are said to be with tLs Cuban army. Hundreds of rabbits are corraled in Illi­ nois on high points of land in the marshy places by the high water. Boys and men go and kill them with guns and clubs and the market is loaded. The weather k sUl) 1 cold and the water »'t ft «t-and*Ull. GROVEIi NAMES FIVE. PERSONNEL OF THE VENEZUE­ LAN COMMISSION; Brewer and Alvey Head the List-- Andrew D. White, Frederic R. Cou- dert, and Daniel C. Oilman Are the Other Appointees. All Accept. 1' President Cleveland Wednesday night announced the appointment of t&e'Vene­ zuelan Boundary Commission 'follows::. David Jf. Brewer, of Kansas, Jugfice Uni­ ted States Supreme Court; Iticfiard' H. Alvey, of Maryland, Chief Justice, of the- Court of Appeals of the DistKcC Of Co­ lumbia; Andrew D. White, of.New York; Frederic R. Coudefia^f New York; Dan­ iel C. Gil man, of Maryland. All of the above named persons will ac­ cept the places to wliich they have* been, appointed and are expected to 'assemble in Washington as soon as practicable, with a view to their entering upon their work. In Washington tire . commission is regarded as a very satisfactory one, whose.opinions and conclusions will 'be re­ ceived by the American public with that confidence w.hic'h the standing "of - the-, members of the commission in -the.public eye inspires. ' v. Politically , speaking, the " co'mmissiosi consists of tlir^e Democrats, and two Re­ publicans. Justice Brewer and ijus-tico- Alvey 'are men of the'-highest ' judicial standing, whose, reputations as impartial jurists are well known abroad, as well as at: home. - Frederic R, Coudert, of New- York, is too well known as a.leadet* at the ; bar to require any extended sketch of his scholarly attainments. Andrew,D. White and Daniel G. Gilman stand among the- foremost of American scholars and educa­ tors, and Mr. White has shown, in addi­ tion, unusual skill as a legislator, organ­ izer and diplomat. Both will lie useful members of the commission, and their names will do much to give its findings dignity and weight in the eyes o£ Euro­ pean nations. « The law authorizing the appointment by the President of the Venezuelan com­ mission was passed by the House of Rep­ resentatives on Dee. 17. On Dec. 20 it was adopted by the Semite .without amendment and without a-^dissenting voice. The text of the bill was as fol­ lows: "A bill making an appropriation-for the expenses of a. commission to investigate and report on the true divisional line be­ tween the Republic1 of Venezuela and British Guiana. "Be it enacted by the Senate and Houss# of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the sum of $100,01)0, or as much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the expenses of a commission', to be appointed by the President, to report oil the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana." The conclusions reached by the commis­ sion .will be reported to the President for his information in connection with any further representations and communica­ tions that may be made by this Govern­ ment to Great Britain in connection with the boundary line dispute between the- latter country and Venezuela. RIFAAT PASHA. The New Grand Vizier of the Turk­ ish Kmpire. It is evident tho Sultan of Turkey is a. hard man to please. He recently chang­ ed prime ministers three times in> three- weeks. The new grand vizier, Rifaat Pasha, is a man of long public service. He has been governor of many Turkish provinces. Iiis last office of that charac­ ter was ruler of Smyrna. Before his'pro­ motion Rifaat was minister of the inte­ rior. He is a thorough-paced diplomatist and before advising the Sultan an any point ascertains the innermost 'jfews of his sublimity on the matter in qtuCstion. BIFAAT TASTIA. Advice then is easily formulated- - -It probable Rifaat will hold his jjijiEtfelio long. There is little prospect of JjUture joy for a grand vizier. Keauirf Pasha, immediate predecessor of Rifaat, has been sent to govern an interior town of Asia Minor. Said Pasha, who preceded Keanal, took refuge at the English em­ bassy upon h is removal f rom off ice . He emerged a few days ago. Have a Good Breakfast. "The foreign idea of a liglit^break­ fast has become very popular in this country," said a prominent physician the other day." but doctors are begin­ ning to inveigh against it, anil with considerable show of reason, as they point out that during the night occurs one's longest fast. "It should certainly be broken by something more than a roll and coffee, since it ushers in the hours of hardest work for all our men and most of our women. "The rolls and coffee are not fit pre­ paration for sneh'iaboripus toil. They may do for a nation of idlers, but not for busy men and women. "An intelligent person needs na doc­ tor to tell him when lie is hungry, and the best t ime for a man to eat if? wfien the man is hungry, even if it is late at night. "It is the empty stojnaeh, and.not the comfortably full one, that mates peo­ ple unhappy." Fish Hoot. A new fish book lias been invented. The bait ^holding device is supplied' with self-opening hooks" which are clos­ ed and concealed at their points ami which spring in opposite directions when the slightest tension is put upon the line. One of ihe chief advantages claimed is that when the fish are land­ ed they can be readily released.