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CARLISLE IS HOPEFUL professing that faith, having refined the ministrations of a Catholic priest Smith killed Margaret Drown July 29. Frank C. Miles, Treasurer of the Bos­ ton Safe Deposit and Trust Company, is a confessed defaulter for a sum approxi­ mating $100,000.^, The defalcation was discovered late Friday afternoon by President Stone and a meeting of the directors was immediately called. The company holds a responsible bond of in­ demnity in the sum of $30,000., Miles has been Treasurer of the institution since it began business in 1875. The com­ pany has a capital of $1,000,000 and does a regular- trust, company business. Edward M. Field, favorite son of the' late Cyrus W. Field, college graduate and one-time owner of a beautiful resi­ dence on the Hudson, stood in the pris­ oner's dock in Yorkville Police Court in New York Friday a pathetic figure. He was there under the old bliinket charge of drunk and disorderly. The memory of his father and the assurance of liis attorney, J. I. Connaughton,, saved him from a serious sentence. He was re­ leased in the custody of his attorney. Ed Field has been on the down-grade for some time. When his firm--Field, Lind- ley, Wiechers & Co.--failed in 1891 seri­ ous charges were made against the senior member. His subsequent history in­ cludes a sojourn in an"lfe?ane- asylum at Buffalo. His wife and two children live in up-town New York, but his haunts are mostly in Eighth avenue Raines law hotels. $80,000. The books cipnd record* were saved; A mob that beleaguered the Russellvill^, Ky., jail all Thursday night early Fri­ day morning took Arch, Dink and Bill Proctor out of their cells, hanged two of them and shot, the other to death. Arch killed two men, Doc and Aaron Crofton, of Adairville, Nov. 24, 1895, and the brothers were accessories. All have had three trials. The mob went to the jail at 2 o'clock Friday morning, and after battering down the front door arid forcing the-jailer to give up the keys went to the cells for the Proctors. The. oldest, Will Proctor, cursed the . mob and w^s shot dead in his cell. The other two were taken out and hanged. The mob num­ bered about one hundred, and did the work quietly and with dispatch. Bill Proctor had been tried three times for murder. Jim Stone, a negro, was taken from jail by a Mayfield, Ky., mob Sunday night and lynched. At 10:30 o'clock about 500 masked men assembled a few hundred yards from the courthouse and marched to the county jail, and after breaking the doors of thg prison entered and secured the negro. He was carried to the courtyard and swung up to a limb at 2 o'clock. Several of the mob fired shots through his body. The jailer at­ tempted to defend the negro, but the mob overawed him and he was forced to sur­ render him. The prisoner made a state­ ment "to- the effect that another negro committed the crime, but the mob paid no attention to his words., The negro of­ fered , prayer while knives were being plunged into his body. A placard pinned on the body contained the names of sev­ eral other negroes residing in the city, who were notified to take fair warning. Stone was charged with assault Nov. 24. He was arrested by Sheriff Cook the day after the crime was committed. Stone denied his guilt, but the evidence was overwhelmingly against him. Three at­ tempts had previously been made to lynch him. TIME FOR ACTION. • Senate Committee Makes a Report to Accompany Cuban Hesolutions. Senator Cameron, of the Committee on Foreign Relations, presented to^the Sen­ ate a report to accompany the Guban res­ olutions, which were adopted by the com­ mittee. It is a document of very great length, and deals thoroughly, though briefly, in its opening, with modern pre­ cedents of European intervention where independence was the issue involved, ,the committee having, as its report mentions, examined with care all the instances which have occurred during this century of people claiming independence by the right of revolt The opening lines of the report read: "Congress, at its last session, after long and patient consideration, adopted with practical unanimity the view expressed by your committee that the time had come for resuming intervention with Spain for the recognition of the inde­ pendence of Cuba. Spain having Reclined to listen to any representation founded on an understanding between herself and the insurgents, and Congress having pledged itself to friendly intervention, the only question that remains to be decided is the nature Of the next step to be taken, with proper regard to the customs and usages of nations."; _ Six precedents in foreign countries have,made it plain to the committee "that Europe has invariably asserted and prac­ ticed the right to interfere, both collec­ tively and separately, amicably and forci­ bly, in every instance, except that of Poland, where" a European people has re­ sorted to insurrection to obtain inde­ pendence." ' : • - Then, with particular reference to Cuba, the report declares the government» of the United States has always regarded Cuba as within the sphere of its most active and serious interest. As early as 1825 the United States sought to inter­ pose its friendly offices." Reference is made to the action taken by Congress in the last session request­ ing the President to interpose his friend­ ly'offices with Spain for the recognition" of Cuba. "This actjon was," the report declares, "taken on great consideration and on just principles," on a right Of in­ tervention exercised twenty-seven years ago, and after a patient delay unexampled in history. The interval of nine months has proved the necessity of carrying it out to completion. The regular organization of an insur­ gent governinent. the adoption of- a con- ' stifution and election of a president is alluded to, then military force, "sufficient to battle the exertions of 200,000 Spanish soldiers" and their civil administration at work is given consideration, and the committee says: "The only question that properly remains for Congress to "consider is the tfiode which should be adopted for the step which Congress is pledged to take. "The government has none bht friend­ ly feelings for Spain, and there is no friendly office which Spain could ask which the United States within the limits of their established principles and policy would not be glad to extend. „ In the pres­ ent instance they are actuated by an earnest wish to avoid the danger of seem­ ing to provoke a conflict." The report ends with recommending the joint resolution recognizing the inde­ pendence of Cuba and proffering friend­ ly offices to Spain in order to bring the war to a close. BIG BANKS GO DOWN. J. YAH SLYKE, SECRETARY REVIEWS NATIONAL V FINANCES. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW- MAKERS. NATIONAL OF ILLINOIS CAUSES OTHERS TO FAIL. ILLINOIS, MoHBNBY. Despite a Deficit of $25,203,245 at Present and Larger Deficiencies Probable in 1897 ancl 1S9S, He Takes a Cheerful View, ALTON TRAIN STOLEN, A Week's Proceedings in the Halls of CongrcsB--Important Measures Dis­ cussed Mid Acted Upon--An Impar­ tial Hesnme of the Business. '-v.,--The National Solon*. The Senate Thursday passed the immir, gra'tion bill known as the Lodge bill, with a new section providing that the exclusion shall not apply to. persons arriving from Cuba during the continuance of the pres­ ent disorders there. As passed, the bill amends the immigration laws so as to ex­ clude from admission to thp" UnTretT States all persons over IG^years of age who cannot read and write the language of their native country or some other language, but an admissable immigrant, over the age of 10, may bring in with him, or send for, his wife or parent or grand­ parent. or minor child or granchild, not­ withstanding the inability- to read and write. The House passed the third of the regular appropriation bills, that for the support of the army, and entered up­ on the consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial bill. The army bill as passed makes no provision for the army and navy hospital at Hot Springs. Ark. The House also passed several bills relating to the District of Columbia and three resolutions for the use of (lags of the war department, government reser^ vations, etc.j on the occasion of Mr. Mc- Kinley's inauguration. Friday was private bill day in the House, but most of the session was de­ voted to the passage of the thirty-seven pension and relief bills favorably acted upon by the committee of the whole Fri­ day. The bill to pay Flora A. Darling, the Wife of a Confederate general, $5.- 683 for Tennessee and Louisiana bank notes taken from her in 1864 while under a flag of truce, which was attacked by Mr. Dalzell Friday, was laid on the table. Only five bills were favorably acted upon. One of them, a bill to refer a claim of Thomas B. Reed, a Pennsylvania sol­ dier during the war, to an unpaid bal­ ance of salary to the Court of Claims created some merriment owing to the fact that his name was identical with that of the Speaker of the House. The "other bills were to" pay the officers and crews of the United States gunboat Kineo and Chocura $12,474 prize money; to pay William B. Isaacs & Co. $16,9S7, the finding of the Court of Claims; to pay George McAlpin, the sutler of the Elev­ enth Pennsylvania Cavalry, $6,006 illeg­ ally collected from him; and to repay' Matliias Pederson of Spring Valley, Wis., $300 paid by him for a substitute during the war, Pederson not at that time being a citizen of the United States. The Sen­ ate did nothing of importance. A report presenting additional views on the Cuban question was presented to the Senate Monday by Senator Morgan of Alabama, in behalf of himself and Sen­ ator Mills. It indorses Senator Camer­ on's views and discusses the action of the Committee on Foreign Relations in 1S59, on the bill to facilitate the acquisition of' the island of Cuba. The report reviews the alleged misgovernmeut of Cuba and messages by former Presidents on the subject, and then refers to President Cleveland's attitude, whose message, it affirms, is in corroboration of all former testimony on the subject. Debate was sharp and rancorous. Mr. Vest offered a resolution to the effect that Congress, and not the President, is vested with ao aouopnadaput ozmSooaj o; ja.vsod belligerency of any insurgent people. De­ bate was stopped by Mr. Hale, upon a point of order. Mr. Hill introduced a resolution looking toward recognition of the Cubans as belligerents, aud pledging neutrality of this government. No final action was taken. Nothing of importance was done by the House. The attention of the Senate was unex­ pectedly diverted Tuesday from Cuba to the Pacific railroads. Soon after the session opened Mr. Pettigrew of South Dakota called up his resolution appro­ priating $10,000,000 to take up the trust notes of the Pacific railroad. This opened the entire question and Mr. Morgan of Alabama followed with a bitter arraign­ ment of the Pacific roads, charging them with fraud and crime on a gigantic scale. The speech lasted until shortly before 3 o'clock, when the morning hour expired, thus sending over the Cuban question un­ til after, the holidays. Further than this the session was uneventful. The House passed the legislative, executive and ju­ dicial appropriation bill and then, adjourn­ ed for the holiday recess. Tltis is the first time in the history of Congress that the legislative bill has passed before the holidays. The day was devoted to the annual debate of the civil service law and, as usual, the attempt to strike out the provision for the commission was overwhelmingly defeated. Reflections of a Bachelor. Lots of men think they ought to get their wives' affection oi} credit. Men who are at heart most romanti' always pretend to the last not. to be. * Pretty teeth are very often at ta« foundation of a girl's reputation for jollity. There's such a thing as having too much l-egard for the feelings of the neighbors. The velvet on the peach may be pret­ ty to look at, but it sets your teeth on edge to touch it. There are pome women who nevei' find occasion to bewail the passing of the days of chWalry. When a man says that nobody cares whether he lives or dies, he isn't adver­ tising himself very well. When a woman tells you some gossip about another woman, she always be­ gins by sayingr"Isn't it awful how s>he has got herself talked about 1" When a woman gets an idea she must be economical she hunts around and finds an old skirt to rip up. A man isn't likely to enjoy hearing nls wife talk with a woman who remem­ bers him when he was a boy. There never was a woman who wasn't awfully conceited about the way she could love if she tried. i A man hurts himself more in bis wife's estimation by being brutal to other peoplfe than he'does by being bru­ tal to her. * Some glris' mothers must be forget­ ful, or else they were so good when they, were young that they didn't need watching. Women seem to have an idea that be­ cause they haven't got a Greek face they have to frizz their hair all up with a hot Iron. No matter ho.w ashamed a girl feels the first time she kisses a man. U nevei occurs to her that the man may feel that way too. Lots of men who don't.jjet married because they can't afford it give a lot or money to help the poor man alon* with his famiJ*. * Eckels Scores Officials-Comptroller Says the Suspension-Is Due to Beck- less Methods -- Managers Received Warning. ROBBERS APPEAR IN BLUE CUT AGAIN. • ------------ The annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, as transmitted, to Con­ gress, deals extensively and in detail with the financial situation. Mr. Carlisle summarizes the.condition of . the treasury, and after reviewing his former recom­ mendations for early , and effective legis­ lation to provide for the retirement of treasury notes, goes on to say: "The maintenance of a policy which necessarily imposes upon the government the burden of furnishings gold at the pub­ lic expense to all who may demand it for use or hoarding at home, or for export to otbeivcountries, cannot be justified up­ on any ground of expediency or sound financial principles, and even if the periodical and frequently, recurring de­ mands for gold did not weaken the foun­ dations of our entire currency system, thus imparing confidence and depressing business, it would nevertheless be the duty of ail who are charged with any de­ gree of responsibility for. the adoption of proper financial methods to insist upon the reformation of our laws on this' sub­ ject att the earliest possible day. "The issue and redemption-of. circu­ lating notes i3 not a proper function of th<i treasury department, or of any other de­ partment of the government. While the government has power to borrow money, it is not its duty to issue public obliga­ tions merely for tlifc purpose of providing a paper currency for use in the transac­ tion of business, nor has it the constitu­ tional power, in my opinion, to make its promise legal tender in the payment of private debts. • The Secretary refers to the "peril" in which the entire financial system has been placed by the "constant agitation" of the currency and favors the retirement and cancellation of government notes. He says the people will not consent to be taxed merely for the purpose of accumu­ lating and holding a large and useless surplus in the treasury. He claims that no system of coinage that can be devised will furnish the gov­ ernment with either gold or silver, un­ less it pays for it with means already col­ lected by taxation, or by contracting an indebtedness to be paid by the people in the future. He goes at length into the subject of the demand and supply of money, the matter of imports and exports as affecting currency supplies, and the crops in Eu­ rope. The Secretary holds that without a reformation of our currency we cannot safely rely upon permanent accessions to our stock of gold from abroad in settle­ ment of trade balances in our favor. He refers to his recommendation of last year that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to issue from time to time .bonds payable in gold and to exchange them for United States notes and treas­ ury notes, and again indorses that plan, but adds that it.ihay be that so radical a measure would not receive the assent of Congress, in the present state of the public mind on the subject. Mr. Carlisle renews his recommenda-- tions for such amendments to the nation­ al banking laws as would permit tlie issue of circulating notes equal in amount to the face value of the bonds deposited and reduce the tax on notes to one-fourth of 1 per cent, per annum, and that author­ ity be given to establish branch banks for the transaction of all kinds of busi­ ness now allowed, except the jssue of cir­ culating notes. No good reason now is perceived,, he says, why this limitation upon the required amount of capital should not be reduced to $25,000, with­ out regard to population. He again re­ fers to and renews his suggestion that the issue of United States notes, treas­ ury notes and national bank notes of lower denominations than ten dollars be prohibited in order to secure a large and more permanent use of silver coin and certificates. In. closing he says: "For more than a century our tariff legislation has been designed, to a great extent, at least, to aeomplish objects other than the raising of revenue for public purposes. The pro­ tection of capital invested in our native industries and the protection of labor employed in the United States against the competition of the products of for­ eign industries and foreign labor have been alleged as the paramount objects in many cases, and urged as a justification for the progressive increases of tariff taxes and commercial restrictions wheu revenue was not needed, or when the rates imposed were so high as to reduce the revenue. In other instances, revenue duties have been abolished in order that protective duties might be retained or in­ creased, and the necessities of the govern­ ment and just principles of taxation have been subordinated to the demands of spe­ cial interests." The National Bank of Illinois at Chi­ cago failed to open its doors to the pub­ lic Monday morning. This action w?as the sequel to the step taken by the committee of the Clearing-HoUse Association, which Saturday evening decided to suspend the bank^from clearing-house privileges. And 'tfs a- result of this suspension E. & Dreyer & Co. and Wasmansdorff, Heine- niaun & Co.. Wo private banks clearing through the Illinois National, were forced to make application in court for a re­ ceiver. So far as can be ascertained by Chicago advices; the trouble is not likely to reach beyend these three bahks, and in every case it is .stated that, depositors will be paid in full or nearly so. Not since '73 has Chicago banking cir­ cles been shaken up as they were when the news of the closure of the National Bank of Illinois was made known* It has always been considered the second strongest national bank in the city. It was organized in'July, 1871, passed safe­ ly through the Chicago fire, the panic of '73, the troubles of '77, and the troublous times of '93 with a clear record. Accord­ ing to Comptroller Eckels, "the failure is due to injurious, reckless and impru­ dent methods followed by the officers and not checked by the directors, though their attention had been individually called to the same and over their individual sig­ natures they had promised to remedy the weak points in the bank's condition." The essence of the trouble with the National Bank of Illinois was that the entire capital, $2,000,000, and surplus, $300,000, was practically loaned in one or two hands. The bank had advanced some $1,500,000 on 'Calumet Electric Railroad stock, a property of momentari­ ly, at least, doubtful security, while near­ ly $500,000 was loaned to E. S. Dreyer & Co., who in turn had spreail their capital over an expanse completely out of their power to handle. Other large loans to individuals more than completed the sum of the bank's capital and surplus. When-these facts were brouglit to the at- tention of the clearing-house, a week or so ago, a committee was appointed to in­ vestigate, in order if possible to discover some means of averting the failure. The result of the committee's investigation was to demonstrate that the management of the bank had been drifting into meth­ ods which no amount of bolstering up could offset, and that however willing the Chicago clearing-house might be to go to the assistance of the Illinois National, the most honest, safest and best policy would be to make a clean breast of the whole business and for the credit of the clearing-house itself, to suspend the bank from membership pending a report by the government bank examiner. Ann Off with a Part of the St. Louis and Chicago Express--How a Bank Failure Nearly Spoiled a Honeymoon --Steel Pool Lives. Four additional battalions of Spanish troops embarked at Madrid for the Philip­ pine Islands Thursday, * and General Polavieja, the new captain general of that colony, has asked for re-enforcements of ten additional battalions. El Heraldo asserts that the minister of war at Madrid, General Azcarraga, is preparing'i numerous pamphlets on the geography, toprography and miltary con­ dition of the United States to distribute to the chief officers of the Spanish army. Brazil has declared to the Spanish Gov­ ernment that she will not recognize Cu­ ban insurgents as belligerents. Italy has informed the Spanish envoy at Rome, the Count de Benomar, that she will prohibit the embarkation of Italians for Cuba to aid the insurgents. Caracas, Venezuela, dispatch: The peo­ ple and press of Venezuela are beginning to understand the treaty of arbitration negotiated with Great Britain by the United States in behalf of Venezuela to settle the boundary dispute. The Cha-- cam Guaricio gold mine has been bought by a F,ranco-English syndicate for. $6,- 000,000. Chilian advices say that Sunday, Nov. 17, the steamer Chantery, belonging to Lamport & .Hill of Valparaiso, went on. the rocks at Horcon, about one thousand feet from the spot where the Kosmos Company's steamer Pentaur was wreck­ ed last July. It is expected that the Chantery will become a total loss. The steamer was on a voyage from Guaya­ quil for Valparaiso with a general cargo. The passengers and crew were landed. Madrid dispatch: The explicit an­ nouncement is made that Senor Dupuy De Lome, the Spanish minister at Wash­ ington, has telegraphed to his govern­ ment that he had a conference with Mr. Olney, the Secretary of State, in the course of which the latter assured him that Spain might rest tranquil until March at least, since, despite the atti­ tude of Congress, President Cleveland would not recognize the independence of Cuba. S. W. WOODWARD. Soinffithine About the Probable Head of the Inauguration Committee, S. W. Woodward, who is likely to be chairman of the Committee of Arrange­ ments for the inauguration of President McKinley next March, is one of the lead­ ing merchants of Washington. He was horn in Maine and began his business career as a young man in the dry goods store of Frank H. Converse, a merchant FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Jacob Hay Brown Said to Have Ac- cejjted a Cabinet Portfolio. Jacob Hay Brown, Who is said to have been tendered, and to have accepted^ the portfolio of Attorney General in Presi­ dent-elect McKinley's cabinet, is one of the leading lawyers of Pennsylvania. He is the foremost member of the bar in Lancaster County, a county that for a century or more has been distinguished for its great jurists. Mr. Brown has been eminent in politics for many years, and has more than once been mentioned in connection with very high offices in the nation and in his State. He became The contract of William J. Bryan with the McBee-Bryan lecture combination is said to have been sold for $25,000. Obituary--At Beaver Dam. Wis., John G. Williams; at Joliet, 111., Max Braum, 00; at Canton, Ohio, Paul Field; at Monticello, 111., Dr. B. B. Jones; at Whitewater, WIS., Rev.. James Delaney, The American Sugar Refining Com­ pany, better known as the sugar trust, lias closed a deal for 1,100 shares of stock of the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, Ohio, being eleventh-eighteenths of its total stock. The price to be paid is $L205,000. Some time ago the Ar- buckles, "the Coffee Kings," branched out into the sugar business. A large re­ finery was built in New York and there­ by the Arbuckles became the competi­ tors of the American Sugar Refining Com­ pany. Then the refining company con­ cluded to flank the movement of the Ar­ buckles and hence this deal. The other houses of the Woolson Spice Company have also joined in the war on the Ar­ buckles,and nt New York Friday reduced the price of its produce one-half cent per pound. The cut was met by the Ar­ buckles, and it is thought a fight is 6n to the bitter end. a. w. WOODWARD. in his native place of Damariscotta. In 1865 he went to Boston, where lie was employed as a clerk in the houses of Shepard Brothers and Cushing & Ames. In 1873 he formed a partnership with Mr., Lotlirop and started in business for him­ self in Chelsea, Mass., where the firm remained until the removal to Washing­ ton in 1880. Though a Democrat in poli­ tics, Mr. Woodward's selection for 'the trying task of arranging for the inaugural parade and ball and the entertainment of the hundreds of thousands of guests who are expected in the capital in March ia indorsed by all classes. CITIES MUST HIRE WATCHMEN. Decision by Indiana Supreme Court as to Railway Street Crossings. The Indiana Supreme Court, by de­ ciding that an incorporated town or city has not the power, by ordinance, to com­ pel a railroad company to keep a watch­ man and erect gates at it& own expense at points where tracks cross a street, up- •set a local police regulation that lias been exercised in nearly every town and city in the State for many'years- The case in which the decision is announced came from Crown Point, where the Pennsyl­ vania Company refused to obey the or­ dinance. Judge Monks, who wrote th<» decision, holds that the watchman and gates, if maintained, must be paid for by the towns and cities. He maintains that a railroad company in crossing a street is on an equality with a citizen. The Parsons-Pelletier Dry Goods Com- ipany, one of the largest houses of the .kind in Sioux City, Iowa, did not open for • ^ business Wednesday morning. The stock is in the hands of mortgagees. - The Bank of West Superior, Wis., did • not open Wednesday morning. It is a - small institution, with a capital and sur- ' ' plus of $100,000. The failure was the di­ rect result of the failures of the Bank of Minnesota and the National Bank of Illi- nois.- ' y : The Missouri State Supreme Court de­ cided that the section of the charter of Kansas City providing that each qualified voter who fails to vote at a general elec­ tion should be taxed $2.50 is invalid. It was a test case, in which the city brought suit against a voter who had failed to 'i vote to recover tlie tax. The court in its decision says: "Who can estimate the 'money value to the public of a vote? It is degrading to the franchise to associate it with such an idea. The ballot of the humblest in the land may mold the des­ tiny of the nation for ages." §||. Reports from Letcher County, Ky., I#- fttate that a bloody battle was fought at ft dance given at the home of David Will­ iams. One hundred shots were fired and Charley Hogg, a prominent mountain teacher, was mortally wounded. Hogg's V friends swear vengeance and a feud may follow. m ,, Fire in the fashionable residence part of . Montreal destroyed portions of the houses of Frank May, the wholesale dry good., ;man; John Gault, superintendent of the :Merchants' Bank; and Judge Doherty. The loss will be about $100,000. JACOB HAT BROWN. prominent in State and county conven­ tions, and his speech nominating Chief Justice Agnew drew to him the attention of political leaders of the State. He was associated with Cameron, Conkling and Logan as a delegate-at-large in the mem­ orable battle of the "306." All these things were more in the nature of means to an end rather than ends themselves. For twenty years in county, supreme and Federal courts he has had a most varied practice as advocate or counselor, before jury or the court, in original or appellate jurisdiction. Mr. Brown is associated with W. N. Hensel in the practice of law. He was urged warmly for the vacancy on the supreme bench of the United States that was filled by the ap­ pointment of Justice Shiras. Mr. Brown is a bachelor and lives in a homestead nine miles from Lancaster. STARVED IN A CAR. A Tramp Who Was Seven Days With- •7"**" out Food or Drink. At Plainfield, N. J., the other day, when a box car containing lumber was opened a tramp was found therein. The fellow had crawled into the car while it stood on a siding^n Ottawa, Canada, sev­ en days before, and while he slept the MARKET BEF'ORT! Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c;. corn. No. 2, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 39c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common green to fine brush, 2c to 5%c pert.pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, good to choice, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 88c to 90c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 35c to Sic. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 91c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 20e to 21c; rye, 36c to 38c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to" 94c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c; clover seed, $5.35 to $5.45. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 3, 21c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 31c to- 35c; rye, No/ 1, 39c to 40c; pork, mess, $6.50 to $7.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to- $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 87c to 88c; corn, No. 2, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs, West­ ern, 18c to 23e- Wheat and Flour Exports. As per the official report of the chief of the bureau of statistics at Washington, the exports of wheat and flour from the United States for the month of November aggregated 15,S35,l36 bushels of wheat, against 11,032,140 for November, 1895. In the last eleven months the exports have been 137,567,740 bushels, against 117,994,307 bushels in 1895. Exports of corn for Novembar were 12,643,000 against 7,713,000 in 1895, and for last eleven months, 113,633,000 bushels, against 50,823,000 in 1895. Exports of oats for November, 2,554,000, against 241,000 in 1895, and for the eleven -months, 26,352,000; against 1,817,000 in 1895. I News of Minor Note. Charles Jackson, of Richmond, Ind., Is a prisoner in Morro Castle, Havana. There are three British warships, one German and one French, at the Philip­ pine Islands. The London Daily News has a dispatch from Berlin'with reference to rumors of reprisals against American petroleum. An accident by which six men are be­ lieved to have lost their lives occurred in the tunnel Of the Holy Cross mine near Red Cliff, Col. The commission to decide whether Santa Monica or San Pedro shall re­ ceive the appropriation for a harbor wiH meet in Los Angeles, Cal. ffffrrrrrn £v>- -- -----' IN A FREIGHT CAR FOR SEVEN- DAVS. Editor John J. Thornton, of Ashland, Ala., who has been making a crusade against lawless gangs, was assassinated by a miscreant who fired at him through a window. Train No. 35, on the Southern Rail­ way, was stopped Thursday night in Fayette County, Ala., by two masked mett who flagged the train on a bridge. One of the express safes was broken in­ to. The robbers got very little for their trouble. The exact amount is not stated. The Illinois Central Railroad freight depot and contents at Jackson, Miss., were burned Sunday, The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have-been coused by a lamp explosion. She loss is estimated at from $50,000 to The National Wool Growers' Associa­ tion unanimously adopted a resolution favoring an extra session of Congress. _ A bill was introduced by Represent.i- t'J1' Bull of Rhode Island, appropriating for the erection in Washington of a monument to James G. Blaine. "Gen." J. S. Coxey, of Commonweal army fame, is in Washington to resum» his effort to secure Congressional actio 1 011 his schemes for good roads and non- iulerest bearing bonds. Members of the House Ways and Means Committee say that the; repots from Washington outlining au elaborate scheme for a duty on silver in the new tariff bill is merely a fiction. car was locked and made up in a train. • When 'the tramp awoke the car was in motion and he was a prisoner. When found the poor fellow Was unable to speak above a whisper, and be was so weak that he could not raise his arms. He looked something like Rip Van Win- kle. ' • . ' ; . Secretary Olney has received a cable­ gram announcing .that Brazil has accept­ ed the rules for the prevention of col­ lisions at sea, framed at the maritime conference held at Washington. The chief maritime nations of the world now have given their assent, to the interna­ tional rules and they will go into effect on the 1st of July next year. Train No. 71 on the Grand Trunk Rail- * way was derailed about two miles below Danville Junction, Me., Monday and four cars were partially Wrecked. Seventeen passengers were hurt, but not seriously. The injured were taken to Boston. The cruse of the accident was a broken rail. The traffic was delayed for several hours. James Smith, colored, was hanged at Upper Marlboro, Md., Friday morning, fimlth had been held at Baltimore; to ft void lynching since his arrest. Prior, to tiis departure from Bialtimore he was immersed by a Baptist minister and'died