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THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY. - - - ILLINOP MERCHANTS REVOLT. NEW TURN IN THE MILWAUKEE :/•"? STRIKE. Boycott Is Strangling Business--Czar Welcomed to Moscow by the Crash of Guns and Clangor of Bella- Fought in the Dock. Merchants Issue a Manifesto. The business men of Milwaukee have revolted .against the boycott incident to the street railway strike. Thursday morning the commission merchants unit­ edly took the initiative in the movement by issuing the following manifesto: " 1ho undersigned, while expressing no opinion as to differences between the street rail­ way company and its forpjer- employes, nevertheless emphatically assert oUr.right and that-of our families, employes and "our patrons to transact business with $ueh bankers, riierchants, manufact arcrs and 'Other persons and to' patronize: such public and private conveyances jis may: IT Suit ourrcohvenience. and hereby give no­ tice that we shajl defend our rights^, in these matters by all lawful means." 1 he. boycott is strangling -business, and it i». expected that merchants in all branches of trade will join the counter .movement for self-preservation. «. Festal Scenes at Moscow. The Czar and Czarina of- Russia made their triumphal enti'y into Moscow Thurs­ day afternoon amid the thunder of bat­ teries of artillery, the clanging of count­ less bolls and the cheers of a vast multi­ tude of loyal Russians and equally enthu­ siastic visitors from all parts of the world. Probably never in the history of nations has there been such an assemblage of peoples. Possibly the gorgeous scene may never be repeated inj its grand entirety. The entire route from Petrovski Palace, about three miles on the road to St. Pet­ ersburg, to the Kremlin was so densely packed with people that movement except on the outskirts of the immense crowds was out of the question. The signal far the commencement of the day's move­ ments was a salute of nine guns from a battery outside the city. This was fol­ lowed by the dull booming of the big bell of the Cathedral of the Assumption and the assembling of the troops at their vari­ ous mustering points. The Turkish sul­ tan's presents to the czar upon the occa­ sion of the. latter s coronation consist of a number of rich carpets and other costly articles, including a diamond pin valued at 810,000, intended for the czarina. In addition the sultan lia-s sent a high deco­ ration to the czar and has forwarded pres­ ents to the principal members of his household. Standing: of National Lcacae. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: \Y. L. W. L. Cleveland ...17 S Philadelphia. 14 13 Cincinnati . . 1 it Boston 17 Pittsburg ... 15 Baltimore .. ,15 Washington. 14 'J Chicago ,... .15 IT 10 Brooklyn ...,11 l."> 10 St. Louis 9 IS 12 New York. . . 0 IS 13 Louisville . .. 0 'J1 Western League Sta-ndintr. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Detroit 17 5 Kansas City..11 10 St. Paul 14 i) Indianapolis. 10 11 Minneapolis. 15 11 Columbus .... 7 10 Milwaukee ..15 11 Grand Rapids G 10 Czar Gets Our Gold. The State Department has received a report from United States Cousul Gen­ eral Laarel, at St. Petersburg, that he has seen no less than $30,760,115 in good United States gold coin in the coffers, of the Russian Government. While the coin­ age of all the nations of the world was represented in this particular pile of gold, no other nation save Russia itself came anywhere near the store contributed by the United States to tli(^ Russian coffers. At the same time the Government bank had a stock of 3,933.823 United States gold half-eagles, amounting in value to 25,4015.945 roubles. , Battle Between Ex-Convicts. At London, the trial of Henry Fowler and Albert Milson, laborers, charged with the murder of Henry Smith at Muswell Lodge, Muswell Hill, Feb. 13, resulted Thursday in sentence of death being pro­ nounced upon both men. At the close of the trial there was a terrible tight in the •dock between the two prisoners. Buth men are ex-convicts ami the crime was committed as the result of a burglarious entry into the residence of .Mr. Smith, where the prisoners obtained considerable booty. to New York, and almost equaled tljo one made by the steamer New York of the same line on Sept. 14,' 1894. The tune of the St. Paul's trip was 6 days 9 hours and 5 mi <'*s. for 3,112 miles, an average of 20.34 kn is an hour. WESTERN. Four persons were killedjtotitright .and a number injured by a cyclone which swept over Falls City, Neb., Sunday night. Reserve, Ivan., was almost wiped out[ of existence by Sunday's cyclone. Hardly a house remains standing, and wreckage Is strewn everywhere. The white popu­ lace is homeless and great confusion pre­ vails. Four were killed outright, and twenty-one injured. "The Great Diamond Robbery" was produced at McYicker's Theater the other evening before an audience that crowded every available space. The company which Messrs. A. M. Palmer and Edwin Ivnowles presented the stirring drama with has seldom been equaled. The cast includes Madame Janauschek, Mrs. Annie Ye:*mans, S. Miller Kent, W. A.. Whitecar. George Boniface, Lillian Law­ rence--and others of equal prominence. The play is on fdr a riih of four weeks, and will be followed by a musical comedy entitled "-Lost, Strayed or Stolen.'. ' Mrs. Mary. Ashkraft, a Wichita; Kan., widow, and Etta, her daughter, were ar­ rested- on a warrant sworn out by .'L\ A, FawCett, a tailor, charged with throw ing kisses^at him and, calling niivt pet nan.es, thus disturbing his pea'ce. Tbi;case was tried in police court. Thu wido"w said she did not throw's kiss at Mr. I'awcetti but did waft" one oyei : toward his wife, and if it. went wrong and hit Mr. FaWcett she thought it did not: hurt T.im much, ns there was no malice iiv .it. Miss Asli- kraf.t,.who is petite'at^d pretty aud jfist: turned IS, pleaded guilty to throwing kisses at. Fawcett. She h-t'.ei! J-'awcett's wife, and so threw kisses to make her jealous. It developed that the two fami­ lies, who are next-door neighbor:', have beeu at daggers' points ov.-r trivial dif­ ferences. The judge discharged the widow, fined her daughter $5 and gave Mr. Fawcett h severe rebuke for bring­ ing such a case into his court.. Miss Ash- kraft begged the judge to remit the fine, promising neyer to throw kisses again, and the judge relented to the extent of suspending the tin? during good behavior. Only one man was hanged in the Cook County jail at Chicago Friday. Alfred C. Fields, murderer of Mrs. Ellen Ran­ dolph. was hanged at noon, and thirteen minutes later the suspended body'df the young negro was pronounced a corpse by a jury of thirty-six doctors. Dissolution was the result of strangulation and shock, the fall having failed to dislocate the cerebral vertebrae. Joseph Windratli', convicted of the murder of Carey Birch, gets a stay until June 5. pending an ex­ amination into his sanity. Nic Marzen. also convicted of murder, will get a new trial. The crime of Alfred C. Fields was apparently without motive. On the morn­ ing of Feb. 2(1 Fields murdered Mrs. Ellen Randolph in her home at 245S Dearl>orn street. He beat the woman's brains out with a flafiron and a lemon squeezer. Mrs. Randolph was a colored woman 27 years old. and the wife of Bev­ erly Randolph, a Pnllman palace car por­ ter. She kept a lodging hou- e, f.nil Fields haM lived there for nearly four years. It was a quarrel over the money he owed Tor room reut~that led to the tragedy. After beating the woman to death Fields laid her upon a bed and set lire to the bedding. lie then stole $25 the woman had in a purse nnd left the house. Milam iz Mark ha m Buried in tlie Ruins, At Buffalo. N. Y .. the Seneca street side of the Brown building, formerly oc­ cupied by the Western Union Telegraph Company, collapsed Thursday and a score ©t more people were buried iu the ruins. Two were killed outright, two are missing and sixteen are badly hurt. SOUT.tic.KiN. Fire at Atlanta destroyed Peterson's livery stable, the House, Washington House. Atlanta Hotel and several other buildings. The loss is $300;uo<». A cave-in occurred at the opal mines near Querelaro, Mexico, Wednesday, and ten men were buried under earth and Btones. Four of the miners were killed and several others injured. During a terrific electrical storm a large frame house on the farm of T. J. Cramer, near Ocean View, Ya., was struck by lightning and burnod to the ground, and two of its occupants perish­ ed in the flames. A crowd of armed men assembled at a watering tank near Nolan, W. Va., on the Norfolk and Western road, to rob the1 north-bound express train. The train crew were notified by wire and passed the tank at a high rate of speed. The rob­ bers attempted to stop the train with, a red light. The Iter. Mr. Rhodes, living twelve miles east of Timpson, Tex., while plow­ ing his field, unearthed 30.000 Mexican dollars. The money was buried in leather satchels, and they were almost rotten.., Mr. Rhodes bought the place two years ago. For Several years unknown persons have been digging in the vicinity at night. A terrible wind s^orm struck the .town of Sherman, Texas, Friday afternoon. Over sixty were killed outright, and near­ ly a hundred hurt. Other towns in the northeast part of the State report great loss of life and property. In the country districts vast damage was done to live Stock and buildings. Relief measures were promptly taken. NEWS NUGGETS. The Missouri river is booming. All streams on both sides of the river for 1WO miles north of Omaha are bank full and flood damage is imminent. The fortifications bill which.passed the Senate appropriates the liberal sum of $10,703,888. The House Committee on Ap propriations appropriated $5,845,837 for. coast defenses, but the Senate increased the amount by $4,918,051. The main question of the importance of having this large appropriation made was conceded without objections in the Senate, so that the fortifications bill passed unanimously Nikola Tesla is reported to have in­ vented an incandescent bulb which op crates by vibration and may revolutionize the present system of electric, lighting. President Daniel C. Gilmaq. of Johns Hopkins University, is said to have signi­ fied his willingness to accept the po'st of superintendent of Greater New York- schools. . - A dispatch to the Paris Figaro from Havre says that considerable excitement has been caused there by the action of. the American consul in preventing the ship ment of a cargo of cattle destined for the United States. WASHINGTON. sit is believed that danger is past and that I BuluWayo is safe. The people are resum­ ing their ordinary vocations.' A party under Cttptains Grey and Wrey attacked and'routed a body of Mntabele near Theba Induus. killing nearly eighty. The latest report from Johannesburg says the four leaders of the reform com­ mittee--Col. Francis Rhodes, John Hays Hammond. Lionel Phillips and'George Farrar--will be. fined $125,000 each and will be sentenced to ten years' banish­ ment - The German foreign office regards with astonishment England's aijd Italy's inac­ tivity concerning the opening of the new French war port at Biserta, on the.coast of Tunis. The harbor already is stocked with two ironclads and pletitv of war ifnterinl. It forbids the Itajian designs on Tunis and menaces England. It is, capable of interrupting the connection be­ tween Malta and the Suez Canal. Adispateli from Vladivostock to the St. Petersburg Novo Vremya says that quiet has been restored to Seoul, Corea, and that the king will return to his palace from the Russian "legation, where he has been since the deposition and massacre of the late ministry. The Russian marines are returning to their vessels. The dis-, patch aiso says that a Russian company has received a gold mining concession for fifteen years. Puerto Principe, Cuba, dispatch: The large? number o£ desertions from the Spanish ranks is alarming the authorities.. The entire garrison in Gibanicu has been, relieved by order, of the governor; who accidentally discovered a conspiracy to go over to the rebels in a body. The cap­ tain and lieutenants were placed, under arrest, while a . corporal and a ,private Were publicly shot: A sergeant.belonging to the saiue company had previously de­ serted to the rebels. -Tlie principal cause of discontent among the Spanish troops is'ill treatment and lock of pay. ' The London Times publishes a let ter from a correspondent iu Havana, in the course of which hie say 's: "It ; is quite use­ less to hide the real si tuation. The whole island is in revolt and the Spanish troops are merely acting on the defensive. I t is impossible that they can prevent the land­ ing of supplies and war materials for the rebels. Even the posit ion of Maceo's forces, confined in Pinar del Rio. is not of a desperate nature, as the Spaniards make believe. Only a few isolated retx ' ls have taken advantage of Captain General Weyler 's offer of amnesty. Spain has lost the power to protect l ife and property in Cuba. Widespread inquiries fai l to jus­ t ify the charges of cruelty against Cap­ tain General Weyler, but the rebels ' de­ struction of property cannot be just if ied. The wanton burning <X some £1,000.000 worth of property belonging to inoffensive people is not war." The let ter proceeds to dilate upon the economic ruin wrought by the breakdown of the sugar crop, which has rendered thousands desti tute, ' while the tdbacco trade is iu a st i l l worse condit ion. IN GENERAL. The exports of domestic merchandise during April , as stated by the bureau of stat ist ics, was $09,313,023. as compared with $03,958,041 during April , 1895. For the ten months ending April 30, 1890, 1 here was a gain over the same period in 1895 of $50,073,000. The imports of mer­ chandise during April was $58,705,299, as against $08.749.958 during April, lS0r>. Of the total imports it little less than 50 .per cent was free of duty. For the ten months there was a gain in imports over the same months last year of about $02.- 000,000. During April the exports of gold amounted to $3,782,200, i ts compared with $2,893,010 for April. 1S95. In all the Roman Catholic churches it) Quebec province a mandate signed by the archbishops and bishops was read Sun­ day night dealing with the duties of the faithful in the approaching general elec­ tion. The mandate concludes as follows: •'Therefore, all Catholics should only and solely engage themselves to vote in par­ liament in favor of the legislation giving to the Catholics of Manitoba the Hchool laws which'were recognized* as due 1o them by the privy council of England. This grave duty imposes itself on all good Catholics, and you would not be justifia­ ble, neither before your spiritual guides nor before God Himself, in setting aside this obligation." R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trada says: "It is now too late for busi­ ness to change materially until the pros­ pects of coming crops are assured and definite shape has beeu given to the presi­ dential contest by the .conventions. Until the future is mo?e clear there is a prudent disinclination to produce much beyond orders or to order beyond immediate and certain needs. If this waiting spirit pre­ vails two months longer it will crowd into the last half of the year an enormous business if the outlook then is good. For the present there is less business on the whole than a year ago, though in some branches more, and the delay following months of depression is to many trying and causes numerous failures. The most fortunate of the chief industries at pres­ ent is the boot and shoe manufacture, which is not only shipping to customers within 0 per cent .of the largest number of cases ever forwarded in the first half of May, but is getting many new orders, and there are many urgent requests to anticipate orders for June and July deliv­ ery, indicating that 'distribution to cun- suniers has much outrun expectations." SAFE FOE M'KINLEY. GEN; GROSVENOR CLAIMS 662 VOTES ON FIRST BALLOT. EASTERN. Lillian Russell was knocked from her wheel by a "scorcher" at New York aud had her ankle sprained. Bernard Koch drowned himself Thurs­ day in a reservoir at Irwin, Pa., after poisoning |»s brother-in-law, his wife and two children. His wife will probably die, but the others will recover. Koch was injured about a year ago by a train, and has acted strangely ever Isince. It is supposed that he was insane. The American line steamer St. Paul, which arrived at New York Friday nigh', broke her own record from Southampton By a vote of 0 to 41' the Senate refused to take up a resolution to investigate the alleged election frauds in Alabama in the Kolb-Oates election contest. A conflagration which resulted in the loss of $250,000.and in which two firemen were killed and three seriously injured by falling walls occurred in Washington about 8 o'clock Monday night. Four oth­ ers are missing. Washington dispatch: Speaker Reed is definitely out of the presidential.race. He has discharged his press agents, Aldrich and Mauley, (> /and shut up his literary bureau,.locked the door and thrown away the key. "Joe" Manley has gojie back to Maine to attend to some, private business that had to be looked after before the meeting of the national committee in St. Louts, and Aldrich has thrown tjjp his hands. His political machine for the de­ feat of McKinley ran down and stopped without any warning whatever. As for the speaker himself, he is saying nothing for publication, but those who are closest in his confidence no longer keep up the pretense that he is in the field or that he expects to be put in nomination at St. Louis. Mr. Reed does not believe in car­ rying a bluff to the limit of absurdity, and has quit. He may not publicly and for­ mally retire from the race, bnt he haa just as certainly and positively renounced his candidacy as though he had written and signed a letter of withdrawal. A large majority of the New England delegates favor McKinley, and with Reed,out of the way the McKinley column will be swelled not less than fifty votes not hitherto in­ cluded in tabulations. FOREIGN, A caisson of the new extension of St Andrew's fishdock at Hull, England, broke suddenly qPriday, and the rush of water swept all the vesselsjn the docks from their moorings and jammed them into a hopeless mass of wreckage. The damage is estimated to amount to $500, 000. No lives were lost. Gefl. Martin has arrived at BuluWayo and has assumed command of the forces In Any Event He Bays the Ohioan Is Sure to Becelve the Nomination, and the Point ot Interest Is Who Will Be His Running Mate. Twenty-nine States for Him. The naming of delegates to the Repub­ lican national convention has closed'. The greit body of "kingmakers" has been com­ pleted and a conservative analjvsis of its composition shows, to a Washington cor­ respondent, that McKinley will have more than enough votes to nominate him on the first ballot. •Sen, Grosvenor, of Washington, th;; chief spokesman of the McKinley cam­ paign, gave out his final bulletin at the, capital the other evening. It was as fol­ lows: "Last week closed the election of dele­ gates to the St. Louis convention, and McKinley was indorsed by. all the States that expressed an opinion during the week--Washington, Wyoming, West Vir­ ginia and North Carolina. The free silver States refused the indorsement of .Mc­ Kinley, and their delegates are unin- strucfed as to persons, but they have re­ ceived very peremptory orders-as to prin­ ciples. There are now elected 918 dele­ gates, but four ,in Arizona, four in New Mexico and four in Oklahoma must de­ pend upon the future action of the na­ tional convention for seats in that'body, the official call authorizing them to" elect only; two delegates in each of the. terri­ tories. "The following States have elected either solid McKinley delegations ot; delegations with a majority of McKinley nten. so that it may be conceded that McKinley's fol­ lowing will control these States, to wit: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecti­ cut, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, BACK TO THE ERMINE. VUH|(m Lochtren Quit* Office of Com­ missioner of Pensions. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: William Lochren, of Minnesota, to be United States district judge for the district qf Mjnnesota, vice Rensselaer R. Nelson, resigned; Dominic J. Murphy, of Pennsylvania, now firs^ deputy commissioner of pensions, to be commissioner^ of pensions, vice William Lochren, resigned; Napoleon J. T. Dana, of New Hampshire, to be first deputy commissioner of pensions, vice Dominic .T. Murphy, nominated for commissioner of pensions. Judge Lochren was appointed commis­ sioner of pensions at the beginning of the present administration. He^Wasrthen a district judge in Minnesota. Judge Nel­ son, whom lie succeeds, was appointed in JUPGK WILLIAM LOCI-IBEX. 1858 by President Buchanan, and had seen. the.longest service of any judge in the United States courts. ' . ' •> Ever since Judge Jjoehren's appoint­ ment as commissioner of pensions it had been the desire of his friends to have him promoted to tlie bench in case Judge Nel­ son would resign. It has been known that his preference has been for the bench rather than an executive position. Lead­ ing lawyers in Minnesota have petitioned for his appointment as United States WARNING TO THE ARROGANT SPANIARD. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattl^, common to prime, $3.50 to .$4.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2i50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 01c to 62c; corn, No. 2, 28c tc* 29c; oats, No. 2, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 30c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 10c; eggs, fresh, 8c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel, 12c to 20c; broom corn, $25 to $50 per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 04c to 00c; corn, No. 1 white, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 00c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 32c to 34c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 06c to 68c; corn, No. mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2. 37c to 39c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75 wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to 09c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 36c to ,38c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c; clover seed, $4.55 to $4.65. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 3 spring, 61c to 63c; corn, No. 3, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; barley, No. 2, 32c to "33c; rye, No. I, 37c to~38c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c;, oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 29c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 12c to 10c; eggs, West­ ern, 9c to 11c. !-y PERISH IN THE LAKE. FIVE OF A SCHOONER'S CREW DIE IN THE WAVES. The ftlnry D. Ayer Sinks as the Result of a Collision with . the Steamer Onoko--Vessel Floats Help* lesaly for Hours a Prey, to the Gale. Coll ision OfF Racine. The schooner Mary D. Ayer collided with the steanier (jhpko, in Lake Michi­ gan, off GrossC Point. Eleven hours later, while the steamer City of Duluth was trying to tow it ashore near Racine, tlie schooner sank, and five of the crew were droWned and the remaining two were saved and taken to Chicago. From the time of the collision until she was picked up, the Ayer drifted a dis­ tance of forty-five miles. The spot where she was taken hold of by the City of Du­ luth was about fifteen miles from shore. --There was a dense fog on lhe lake at the time, and with but an instant's warn­ ing the schooner loomed up'directly ahead of the steamer. The long.jib-boom of the Ayer ran into the pilot house ot' the Onoko, barely missing the"wheelman, and then tore its way out through, the end. The rail from bow to quarter was torn -from its fastenings by the jib :boOm, and at last that spar gave way. The bow.s of the schooner were broken in by the im­ pact of the collision, and her master imme­ diately ordered her anchor'overboard,. The Onoko, which is one of the few iron boats oil the lake and . belongs to the Minch fleet of Cleveland; was coming up Lake Michigan loaded with; iron ore for the Il|;nois Steel'Company at South Chi­ cago.- The Mary D. Ayer. one of Ed E, Ayer's- fleet of cedar vessels, was bound down the lake light from Chicago to Al­ pena. Rain had been falling heavily all the evening, making it impossible to see any distance. FRON.THL fj.y.tftRAtOi UNCLE SAM--'-DON'T FIRE I IT MEANS WARl" Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebras­ ka, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Vir­ ginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wis­ consin, Wyoming and' the territories of New Mexico and Oklahoma. Only three of these States have contests for the en­ tire delegations, and, throwing them out, there would be left twenty-nine McKinley Tlie shaded portions of the above Map show tlie territory whose delegates to the ISt. Louis cnventlon McKinley managers now claim for their candidate. States and territories to elect members the committee on credentials." The delegutes elected are as follows: '20Ohio lOOklahoma 60regon 18 Pennsylvania . . . . 8South Carolina.. . . 22South Dakota 40Tennessee HOTesas 5 20 Vermont 11 Virginia 16West Virginia 10 Wisconsin 28North Carolina.. . . 18North Dakota 18Connectlcut 34Indlan Territory.. 16 Washington 16 Wyoming 4 'J Total Alabama Arkansas Arizona California . . , . , Florida Georgia Illinois . . . . . . . . Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louleana Maryland . . . . Michigan Minnesota Mississippi . . . . Missouri Nebraska New Jersey.. . . New Mexico. . , New York Of 592 CURES LUNGS WITH AIR. Klgin Physician Han Perfected a Re­ markable Inlioler. A form of artificially saturated medi­ cated air is the apparently successful cure for lung trouble now being offered byJDr. W. A. Shepard of Elgin, 111. The air is charged in that manner in recognition of the fact that rare air of mountainous re­ gions is beneficial to persons afflicted with weak lungs. The doctor took the cue for the remedy he says he has worked out from that truth, and his announcement of his method is it multiplies several times over the IK*nefits received from a trip to the mountain districts. The prospective patient who enters Dr. Site parti's office is introduced to a brass and nickel-plated, queer-looking cylindri­ cal-shaped apparatus about eighteen iuches high, to which are connected two tul»es for the purpose of inhaling and ex­ haling. The physician considers the lat­ ter as important a duty on the part of the consumptive as the former, and he has at.-, tached a mechanical contrivance which registers in cubic inches the lung power shown. The healing sir passes through a bottle partly~filled witli JPfhu'dical sohi- tion and from it receives the charge which is to do tlie good to the lungs. The composition of this"sohition, how- over, Dr. Shepard guards. Its strength and intensity vary with the condition of the patient. That is all the information he will gife to inquirers. He has work­ ed for approximately six years in develop­ ing this branch of the profession, and not until lately, though, has he reached a. point where his labor has brought him •uncess. judge. Mr. Lochren was indorsed by the Minnesota Legislature unanimously for the position he now holds. The successor of Judge Lochren, Mr. Murphy, was cliief clerk of the pension office during the first administration of President Cleveland. To him has been largely intrusted the de­ tails iu the office and much of the execu­ tive management. He was first deputy before'.Tudge Lochren was appointed and was active in the reorganization of the office. HARRISON M'KEE'S ILLNESS. His Condition Keniuinn Unchanged -- Hie Fame as "Baby" Mckee. The condition of Benjamin McKee, ex- President Harrison's grandson, who is suffering with what is believed to be pneu­ monia, was unchang­ ed at last reports. Master McKee's se­ rious illness recalls the literature cur­ rent about him when he was a baby. He is the son of J. H. McKee, who married Mr. Harri­ son's daughter, and "Baby McKee" was ever a favorite with h i 8 distinguished grandfather. When Mr. Horrison went to live in tlie White House his precocious grandson shared with him the brunt of all the personal gossip that usually fol­ lows a presidential election, and "Baby McKee" became as much of a national character as any Senator or Congressman or member of the cabinet. During the campaign of 1888 little McKee was as much, written about as anybody, and the pet name given him by the press stuck to him even after he had grown up to be a big boy. He is an interesting child, and his illness is the concern of till of Gen. Harrison's friends. IS NOT A POLITICAL MACHINE R. II. M KEK. j j^FRICKEN BY CLCLONE. Three Counties of Kansas Are Devas­ tated by a "Twister." Nemaha, Marshall and Cloud Counties were swept by a death-dealing cyclone late Sunday afternoon. Dismantled buildings mark tlie path of the fierce storm, fourteen persons are known to have been killed, from forty to sixty are reported injured, several of whom will die, and scores of families are homeless. The small number of casualties is ac­ counted for by the fact that nearly all of tlie people lied to their cellars and cyclone caves. Seneca, the county seat of Nemaha County, appears to have been the chief sufferer. One third of the resident part of the town, according to a dispatch, is in ! ruins, five persons wer" killed and fifteen badly injured, and ."»00 people have no roof to shelter them. The property loss at Seneca is .estimated at $100,000. Sa- Uetha. ;«lso in Nemaha County, according to report, was a severe sufferer. A brief dispatch states that twenty or twenty- live persons received injurious more or less severe", and lh.at. at least three or four of the victims will probably die. Twenty •families lost all their worldly possessions and are temporarily dependent upon char­ ity for subsistence. Sabctha is, q small place north of here, near the Nebraska line. After leaving Salietha the cyclone took u narrow path toward Falls City, uproot­ ing trees and dismantling farm buildings In its furious progress. In Frankfort, in Marshall County, the entire western and northwestern part of the town is in ruins. The property damage was far greater than at Sabctha. but the number of hu­ man victims of the storm's fury is hap­ pily considerably less. As far as heard from there was no loss of.life there, and the number injured was hardly more than a dozen. Probably three-score of build­ ings were razed to the ground. Some of the best residences of Frankfort were blown to atoms, and reports from the sur­ rounding country, where heavy damage has been done, will materially swell the loss. Many 'head of horses, cattle aud other stock were killed. Two couriers reported that everything in the village of Reserve was demolished by the cyclone, and' that six people were killed at Reserve and nmny others injured. The little hamlet of Bodaville, in Riley County, was entirely swept, away by the cyclone. At Spring Valley, some six miles south of Barnes, it tore down a church, in which l.">0 people were worship­ ing. Many were injured. GIRDLED THE GLOBE. Message Sent Twice tl ie Distunce Around tl ie Earth. A message around the world by tele­ graph was the feature at the national electrical exposition in Now York Satur­ day evening, and on that occasion Dr. Chauneey M. Depew delivered an oration on "Progress and Future of Electricity" to 10,000 people. The message was writ­ ten by Dr. Depew and addressed to Ed­ ward I). Adams, president of the Cataract General Electric Company. It was trans­ mitted over the lines and connections of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, from New York via Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Canso, to London, and back via Boston to New York. The message was started at 8:34 o'clock, and was received by- Thomas A. Edison at 8:38 o'clock. The Western Union Company and con­ nect Rsiis also transmitted a copy of the message from New York through Mexico, down the west coast and up the east coast of South America, thence to Spain and back to New York, the- time occupied be­ ing two minutes. DEBS FOR PRESIDENT. Commander Walker Warns Members of the G. A. K. Commander-in-Chief Walker, from the headquarters of the national G. A. R„ calls attention to the fact that some posts have engaged ill political work, and some officers have been using their official posi­ tions to further the interests of certain candidates. Among other things the or­ der says: "The country is entering upon a season of political excitement, when partisans will try to exert every influence for their friends. Such action and viola­ tion of our rules and regulations, if per­ mitted to go unrebuked, is liable to breed dissensions in our ranks, and the good of the order demands that it be discontin­ ued." TcleKraj>hic l lrevitie*. John Houlihan,die.] at- Britain. Conn., from the effects of a blow received in a prize fight with "Patsy" Noian. Miss Frankie Brewer, daughter of Jus­ tice Brewer of the United States Su- preme Court, died of consumption in San Antoaiio, Texas. The malthouse of the Ilinchcliffe brew­ ery in Paterson_N. J., and a silk factory and a d w^luu^irerc burned. Loss, $213,- 000; insurance, .$100,000. 4 'Miss Alice Lukens, of Chicago, who was visiting Mr. and Mr*. Andrew P. Wilson in Everett. Mass., committed sui­ cide by hanging herself with bed clothes toaher bed. Cliicajro Labor Congress Names the American Railway Union Leader. Eugene V. Debs was named for the presidency of the United States by the Chicago Labor Congress at its regular meeting Sunday afternoon. The resolu­ tion, introduced by Victor B. Williams of the printers, provoked a discussion which consumed .(early three hours, but it final­ ly was adopted. It was recited in the res-' olution that as the corporations, syndi­ cates and trusts are seeking to have presi­ dential candidates nominated who are in sympathy with the existing order of in­ dustrial things, labor, organized and un­ organized, should be equally solicitous that a man be nominated who is known to be friendly to workers and wealth pro­ ducers. The congress expressed the be­ lief that Eugene V.. Debs is best fitted to become the leader of the industrial classes. News of Minor Note. A trip of inspection of many of the local land offices in Minnesota. Montana, Ida­ ho, California and Colorado will be made? during June by Commissioner Lamoreux SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW- MAKERS. A Week's Proceeding in the Halls or Congress--Important Measures Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An Impar­ tial Resume of the business. oTThe general land office. Assistant General Manager P. P. Shel­ by, of the Great Northern, has sent his resignation to President Hill. So far as known there has been no friction and Mr. Shelby leaves of his own accord. Four firemen were severely injured when fighting tire in P. W. Terpot Co.'* fuel and feed store si «.>env>er, being buried under a falling wall. The damage by the fire amounts to only a few thou­ sand dollars. The National Solons. The Senate was occupied Thursday With discussion of the Dupont contest case and immigration matters. The House devoted the whole day to private pension bills. They were disposed of at the rate of about one every five- minutes-, fifty-eight in all being favorably acted upon before adjournment Among them were bills granting pensions to the widow of Gen. O, M. Poe, $50; the widow of" Gen. Jameson, $50; the widow of Gen. John Newton, $75; the widow of United States Senator George E. Spencer of Alabama, $50, and ex-Congressman Smalls of South Carolina* $30. By a vote of 31 to 30 the Senate Fri­ day determined that Henry A. Dupont was not entitled to fa seat in the Senate from the State of; Delaware. This closed a long and animated controversy which had become one of the most notable con­ tests' of its;.kind in the history of tlie Senate The unseating of Mr. Dupont makes no,difference in the complexion of the Senate.' The contest over Mr. Du­ pont's seat grew, out of the question whether Lieut. Gov. Watson had a right to vote as a. Senator when he was acting as Lieutenant Governor. There was a tie vote in Delaware and Watson broke, it by voting for Dupont, The Seifate having decided that the vote was void; it vviil be ruled that no election was held. There is consequently' a senatorial vacancy in Delaware. The balance of the day was passed iu tariff discussion. The House occupied itself in passing the private pen­ sion bills which were favorably acted up­ on during the two special days given to their consideration. Thirty-four wer® held up because they were not engrossed, but 100 were passed, leaving about sixty yet undisposed of. Mr/ Howard (Pop.) of Alabama caused a mild sensation by aris­ ing to a question of personal privilege to denounce some published reports made about a few months ago that he had been drunk ou the floor of the House. He de­ nied the story as a base falsehood from beginning to end. He explained that at the time of the alleged occurrence he was desperately ill and had been ill ever since, and only Wednesday had been able to return to the House to denounce hi3 tra- ducers. The Hoge-Otey election case from the Sixth Virginia district was unanimously decided in favor of Mr. Otey (.Dem.). the sitting member. The H ouse adjourned until Monday. The Cuban question was revived in the Senate Saturday, when Mr. Morgan of Alabama, who reported the original reso­ lutions, spoke in fwvor of further and more decisive action toward the recogni­ tion of the Cubans as belligerents. The Senator declared it to be the duty of Con­ gress to adopt joint resolutions on bellig­ erency, which, unlike the previous con­ current resolutions, would require the ap­ proval of the President, and thus fixing the responsibility. At tlie close of Mr. Morgan's speech tiie Senate adopted with- out division the resolutions introduced hy him directing ihe committee on faisSigD relations to inquire into and report on the treaty relations between tlie United States and Spain relating to the Ameri­ cans now under condemnation at Havana, also requesting the President to submit the recent diplomatic correspondence with Spain on this subject. The resolutions have no rc ference to the recognition of belligerency. * In the Senate Monday the entire day after 1 p. m: was given to the bill regu­ lating gas rates in the District of Colum­ bia. The following hills were passedi Authorizing the purchase by the United States and the making free of toll roads passing over the Yosemile national park; regulating the pay of non-commissioned officers of artillery, cavalry and infantry of the army. Quite a number of minoi bills and conference reports were adopted by the House, and bills were passed as follows: To allow the bottling of distilled -spirits iu bond; to expedite the delivery of imported goods in parcels and pack­ ages not exceeding $500 in value; to pro­ vide for the registration of trade marks mi bottles, barrels, corks and other recep­ tacles used in interstate and foreign com­ merce; for the general, distribution of con­ demned canuon by the Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy; to compel the attendance of witnesses before the local land officers. The conference report on the bill to improve the merchant marine engineer service was adopted. The Senate Tuesday passed the Dis­ trict of Columbia appropriation bill, car­ rying approximately $7,MOO,000. A de­ bate on the question of appropriations for sectarian purposes cropped out ou the par­ agraph making appropriations for chari­ ties in the district. On a vote the Senate sustained the committee in providing spe- i^tie appropriations for numerous private charitable institutions, some of them of a sectarian character. A further provision was adopted for an investigation into the charity system of the district, with a view to ascertaining what, if any, part of the public appropriations are used for church purposes Mr. Bacon (Dem.) of Georgia offered a resolution, which was referred, for the loan of exhibits from the various Government departments and Smith­ sonian institution to the Southern States exposition at Chicago from August to November. 1S9<>. The House entered upon a long debate on the immigration bills, ajid summoned the county clerks in the Itiiiaker-Downing contest from Illi­ nois. The Senate took another long step to­ ward adjournment \\;e^uesday by dis­ posing of the fortifications appropriation bill at a single sitting.', Nothing now remains but the deficiency bill and the conference reports on the naval, river and harbor. District of Columbia, Indian, and fortifications bills. The river and harbor and naval bills are still the most difficult ones. The harbor and river conferees made a report Wednesday that they were agreed* on everything except Santa Mo­ nica. It is understood 4hat the House conferees stand out most strenuously against that, and will only agree to the appointment of a commissioner to report on the two harbors and let Congress af­ terward act on the subject. The most im­ portant business transacted in the House was the passage by the overwhelming vote of 10.") to 2(3 of the Bartholdt-McCall immigration bill, as modified by the Cor­ liss amendment.. The Stone consular in­ spection bill, offered as ,'a substitute, was defeated To to 131. Things Worth Knowin;. Brooklyn h;is 11,88-1 more pupils in her schools than a year ago. California produced gold to tlje value of $U!,D2M,1\S1 during tlie lust year. Iu Great Britain the yearly lose in wages ibrough ill-liealtll is £11.000,000. To attack n man with any weapon is a serious matter in Madagascar. It is punishable by death. The Mount Olympus volcano in Wash­ ington is uo\y believed to be tlie burn­ ing of a great vein of coal. Most of the land in the Republic of Me ieo Is held iu almost"feudal tenure by about 7,000 families.