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PLAINDEALEB for ten years past. It addB that the whole future trade of the city is involved and that no expense upon the part of the Government to stamp out the plague can be too costly. Washington dispatch: The amnesty proclamation to bo issued by the Span­ ish government on the king's "saint day," it is said, will give pardons in full to all political prisoners now confined in Cuban jailg. Among those to be released by its provisions are: The Competitor prison­ ers, Captain Alfredo Laborde, William Gildea, Mate John Melton, Dr. Elias Be- dia and Teodora Mata; Julio Sanguilly, who has been condemned to what is prac­ tically life imprisonment; Henry Delga- do, said to be a corresponhdent of a New York newspaper; Dr. Bfctancourt, who was arrested recently under suspicion of aiding the rebels. Many other American citizens are said to be in jail in various parts of the island, and in the general jail delivery contemplated on young Alfonso's birthday they will be set free. The Ma­ drid Heraldo asserts that the United States has refused to continue the nego­ tiations to restore peace in Cuba on the ground that the time for such negotiations has passed. In official circles, however, It is reiterated that such negotiations' Were never instituted. Advices from; Bombay say: The plague continues, as/bad as ever and there is lit-. tie proljPfc %r- its. abating for some time to eomwpjffihe official records are getting neai^r i^pr truth now. but the real state of affairs is certainly alarming. The panic has been renewed and the exodus from the city has commenced with a ven­ geance. Indeed, it may fairly be said that thousands of people are running ,away from the place. ..Going toward the Bun­ ders the other day your correspondent saw crowds of people running along the road, carrying bundles of their belong­ ings with them and dragging their chil­ dren behind them. A few of them were asked the reason of their haste, and the answer was that they were going off to their villages down the coast to get away from the plague and the authorities, who were anxious to secure the lives of 10,000 people for the recent outrage of the queen's statue. They seriously believed that 10.000 innocents were to be slaugh­ tered and were determined not to be among the number of victims. Hence they were hurrying to catch the steamer. "But," it was pointed out, "there is plen­ ty of time. Why hurry? The steamer will not start for four hours more." The answer was returned that thousands more would be hurrying to the spot directly and they were afraid of being left behind. been a familiar landmark for more than a century. General Washington's troops were quartered there on one occasion dur­ ing the revolutionary war. AH the live stock was saved. UNITED STATES SENATOR SHERMAN. Ohio Statesman Chosen for Secretary of State in President McK . Cabinet. SLAUGHTER IN CUBA. , > Desperate Battle Takes Placet in Which Many Men Are Lost. The New York Press claims to have re­ ceived hews through private channels that Gen. Maximo Gomez stormed and cap­ tured the important city of Santa Clara on Jan. 9, and is now moving on Havana with 8,000 men. The famous cavalry leader, Quintin Banderas, was mortally wounded, according to the Press, and Gen. Luque, commanding the Spanish, was also wounded. The news received said that the losses were: Spanish, esti­ mated, killed and wounded, 900; prisoners, 700; cannons captured, 18; battle stand­ ards, 4; rifles in the Spanish arsenal, 5,- 000, with plenty of ammunition. Cubans killed and wounded, 1,500, which is 600 more than the Spanish loss. The Press quotes Carlos Roloff as saying the report is credited. , A Havana dispatch to the World says couriers who have slipped through the Spanish lines in Matanzas province bring the news that Gen. Gomez is un­ doubtedly marching on Havana slowly but surely, and that his advance guard is laying in waste the country as they proceed. In less than a" week the ad­ vance guard of Gomez's.army has destroy­ ed by fire twenty-one of the most valuable estates in the province of Matanzas, and the work of destruction continues as the army moves along. The people of Ha­ vana are at last becoming thoroughly alarmed at the situation, and all who pos­ sibly can have already left the place. Those who have been detained are mak­ ing preparations to leave with all possible haste. Many of those who have been out­ wardly loyal to Spain have lost all confi­ dence in. Gen. Weyler's ability to handle the insurgents, and they now actually fear for the safety of Havana. Skir­ mishes occur every day in Pinar del Rio. The insurgents are under command of Ruis Rivera. inley*a J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. i i I '• • -- MoHBNRY. - - - ILLINOIS. IRK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW- MAKERS. WESTERN. Richard C. Kerens has been nominated for United States Senator by the Repub­ licans in the Missouri Legislature, defeat­ ing Chauncey Ives Filley. Captain Walt Brounough, of Henry County, Mo., is in Jefferson City obtain­ ing the signatures of Senators and Rep­ resentatives to a petition to the Governor of the State of Minnesota to pardon the Younger brothers, now in the penitentiary at Stillwater. It is said he has obtained 115 signatures to the petition. • Honolulu dispatch, via San Francisco: The death of United States Minister Al­ bert S. Willis, which took place Jan. 6, resulted from an attack of pneumonia. Soon after the death of the minister all the consular, Government and shipping flags were lowered to half-mast. Expres­ sions of regret were general, and the wife and son have the sympathy of the w?jo!e community. The Missouri House of Representatives has shelved the Piper resolution asking for an investigation of the St. Lotiis po­ lice department by a decisive vote. The bills prohibiting the playing of football Thanksgiving Day and baseball Sunday were giyen the same treatment. A bill has been introduced, in the House by re­ quest of the Missouri division of the Trav­ elers' Protective Association reducing railroad passenger rates to 2 cents a mile. Much Kaffir corn was, raised in the vi­ cinity of Emporia, Ivan., the last year, and most of the farmers have- been feed­ ing it generally to all kinds of live stock. For some, time past the butter made in Lyon County has been tainted some, and many complaints were made by custom­ ers. What the cause was could not be ascertained until Friday, when J.,B. Ben­ der, a farmer, reported to the officers of the Dairy Association it was caused by feeding Kaffir corn to milch cows. He says he made the discovery by happening for a few days to run short of Kaffir corn for the cows, himself and family imme­ diately noticing the improvement in the taste of the butter. The association will take the matter up at its next meeting, and warn farmers not to use much Kaffir corn in the future. Hundreds of excited and indignant the­ ater-goers took the high hat question into their own hands Sunday night at the Columbia Theater in Chicago by hisses and yells that amounted to a tumult. They compelled every woman who was present at the first night of Sousa's "El Capitan" to sit bareheaded through the performance--all but those in the boxes and one woman in the parquet, who, in spite of the yells and catcalls that came down at her from the balcony and gallery, kept her wide-brimmed headgear on all through the opera. The noisy demonstra­ tion began before the curtain went up for the first act, and continued till after the opera had begun, drowning out the music and for a few minutes threatening to break up the performance altogether. No­ body knows who started the demonstra­ tion. From the suddenness of the out­ burst it might have suggested itself to a hundred persons at the same instant. It began with yells of "Hats off," that were interspersed with hisses and groans as some of the women showed a disposition not to obey. When the hisses came the hats in the parquet and dress circle went off as.if they had been caught by a gale from behind. Every woman who entered the theater with her hat on made a nerv­ ous grab at the hat pins as soon as she di­ vined the import of the demonstration, Never did hats come off so quickly from feminine heads as they did for the five minutes before the performance began. Women came down the aisle with hair disordered from the quick withdrawal of hat pins, and with faces more red than the plush upholstery of the seats. THE TRAITORS _ . JJ_ S _ _ • A Week's Proceedings in'the'Halls of" Congress--Important Measures Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An Impar» tial Resume of the Business. (THE GALLOWS TREE FOR REC REANT CUBANS. The National Solons. : The proceedings in the House Friday, were very tame, il was private bill day, but the whole time was consumed in pass­ ing House bills favorably acted upon in committee of the whole before the holi­ day recess. The widow of the late Maj. Gen. John Gibbon was the beneficiary of one of the bills passed, carrying $100 per month, and the widow of Brevet Gen. W. A. Nichols of another, carrying $75 per month. The free homestead bill, which came back to the House . with Senate amendments, was referred, under a ruling of the Chair, to the Committee on Public Lands. At the evening session fourteen private pension bills were reported with ,a favorable recommendation. •'Among them wer e bills granting a pension of $50 per month to the widow of Gen. Green Clay Sffiitli and $75;per month to the1 widow of Gen, Henry A- Morrow. The last mentioned bill was advocated by Rep­ resentative Mercer, who had the amount- increased from $50 to the amount named. A bill has been reported to the House for a subsidy of $100,000 a year to the Pacific Cable Company of New York, in which James Scrymser and J. Pierpont Morgan are interested. " Secretary Frartcis' nomination was con­ firmed by the Senate in executive sessio:* Monday. The Senate also voted to take- up the Nicaragua canal bill. This gives the measure the parliamentary advantage of being the unfinished business of the Senate, so that it will be considered from day to day until final action is secured. The canal bill provides for an issue of $100,000,000 of Maritime Canal Company stock, of which the Secretary of the Treas­ ury, in behalf of the United States, is to subscribe for $70,000,000 worth of shares. The company is to issue bonds up to $100,- 000,000, these to be guaranteed by the United States. The building and control of the canal are given to American engi­ neers and a board of eleven directors, of whom five are to be appointed by the President. It is substantially the measure passed by the Senate in the last Congress. The House passed three bills of public importance and devoted the remainder of the day to eulogies of ex-Speaker Crisp and to District of Columbia business. One bill passed prohibited the sale of intoxicat­ ing liquors to the Indians, one amended the existing patent laws in conformity with the recommendatiqps of the Ameri­ can Bar Association and another provided for the use by the Government of patents secured by navSl officers at a compensa­ tion to be fixed by a board of three officers. In the Senate Tuesday Senator Turpie spoke against the Nicarauga Canal bill. Senators Quay. Hale and Blackburn were appointed as conferrees on the army ap­ propriation bill, and at 5:45 p. m. the Senate adjourned. There was a pathetic incident in the House in connection with the first bill called up. It proposed to grant a pension of $12 a month to Mar­ garet O'Donnell, a volunteer army nurse who devoted her services from 1862 to 1865 to the wounded of the Twenty-sec­ ond Regiment of New York light artillery. Her claim has been pending before Con­ gress for several years. When the bill was brought up Mr; Thomas (Rep., Mich.) moved that it be laid on the table. "The relief carried by the bill for this poor woman," said he, "comes too late. Our committee has just received word that th« beneficiary is dead." Several bills to grant pensions were passed. At 4 o'clock the regular order on the calendar was abandoned at the request of many members, so that each could, if recog­ nized, call up any bill in which he was interested. In the Senate Wednesday Mr. Petti- grew of South Dakota opposed ratification of the Venezuela arbitration treaty with Great Britain, and spoke in support of his resolution calling for a report of the work of the commission. The resolution was referred. Mr. Turpie resumed his speech opposing the Nicaragua Canal bill. The Senate then resumed consideration of and passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. The House spent the day debating the Yost- Tucker contested-election case from the Tenth Virginia District, but no action was taken. The conference report on the army appropriation bill was agreed to. After a two days' debate, in the course of which considerable partisan passion was aroused and an ineffectual attempt made to filibuster for the purpose Of gain­ ing time, the House Thursday decided the contested election case of Yost vs. Tucker from the Tenth Virginia district by denying the seat to Mr. Yost and confirming Mr. Tucker's title thereto. The Republicans were badly divided, fifty - four of them joining with the Democrats and supporting the claims of the Demo­ cratic contestee. In the Senate Mr. Mor­ gan, in charge of the Nicaragua canal bill, was determined to secure a time for a final vote. This was resisted by Mr. Turpie and Mr. Vilas. Mr. Morgan an­ nounced that he would ask the Senate to "sit out" the bill until a vote was forced. Mr. Vilas finally made a dilatory motion, which, on roll call, disclosed the absence of a quorum. Mr. Turpie concluded his speech against the Nicaragua canal bill. During 'the day Mr- Chandler presented the credentials of John Edward Addicks, claiming the vacant seat as Senator from Delaware. The claim of Henry A. Du- pont for the same seat has already been presented. Mr. Hill of New York spoke against trusts and monopolies in general as a serious menace to the public welfare. Sparks from the Wires. Cardinal Richard of Paris has forbid­ den the priests of his diocese to attend dramatic performances. The Russian Academy has elected aa honorary members Lord Kelvin and Dr. Simon Newcomb of Washington. The Argentine Republic Senate has adopted a scheme providing for the issu­ ance of $10,003,000 of cedulas for the purpose of advancing loans and promoting agriculture. Rev. Dr. Kirkpatrick, pastor of the Second Universalist Church of Rochester, N. Y.,-who was arrested charged with im­ personating an officer, has been unani­ mously acquitted by jury trial. - An autopsy on the body of William H. Sinclair, the railway promoter and con­ tractor of New York and Galveston, who died suddenly at Rochester, N. Y., shows that his death was caused by apoplexy. In the matter of summer tourist ratost the trans-Missouri committee of the Western Passenger Association found" that the question could not be settled uutil the committees had been presented with a4 detailed plan of ticket which shall reduce the opportunities of scalp­ ing to a minimum. The miners in the Robertsdale and Wood vale coal districts of Pennsylvania have struck because one of the mine driv­ ers was not given his regular mule team to drive. The Wood vale miners quit through sympathy. The strike occurred just as work had commenced on a large order that would have kept them steadily- employed. •' ,* (Bloody Affray Between Opposing Forces--Nine Sailors Perish Off Lone . Island Coast--Critical Situation in Iowa Coal Fields. Fought in a Church. . Ranchuelo, in Santa Clara Province, fciuba, garrisoned by 500 Spaniards, was jBurprised*' a few days ago by a Cuban {force under Major Gerio, with 300 men. • (One fort was captured before the garri­ son had time to rally and the other sur- jreodered. The Cubans began sacking the feown, but the Spaniards soon received Ire-enforcements and drove off all the in- ( purgents except about fifty, who barri­ caded themselves in the stone church, fr-he Spaniards, finding they could not {take the church by storm, managed to piineone end and blew it up, killing twen­ ty-five Cubans. The insurgents returned jwith an increased force and routed the {Spanish. More than seventy-five Spah: Sards are said to have been killed and jthirty-eight taken prisoners. Major •Gerio was wounded in the head. Several (Spanish officers were killed. The Cubans icaptured 100 stands of arms and some Provisions. Three of their prisoners, who (were Cuban born, were hanged. v r Nine Brave Tars Perish. The schooner Nahum Chapin, of Rock­ land, Me., was wrecked near Quogue, L. Thursday morning and the crew of nine tnen perished. The names of the niue vic­ tims are: S. E. Arey, captain, Maiden, . iMass.; A. Ej Davis, first mate, Maiden, Mass.; L. A. Maddock, second mate, Oam- Ibridge, Mass.; John Neiber, Albert Dowe, E. O. Anderson, Victor Strachen, Oscar p • jOscar, Antonio Aucyanich. The resi- 'pyidences of the seamen are not known. They were shipped in Boston last Novem- te--\ |>er. The vessel went ashore during what is reported to be the severest storm of the iwinter. Before the schooner broke up six tnen were seen clinging to the foremast rigging and three others on the jibboom, trat owing to the heavy surf and the strong wind the life-saving crew was un­ able to launch the lifeboat to render as­ sistance. The name of the schooner was learned from pieces of wreckage which iwere washed up on the beach. The cargo was valued at $3,400; the schooner at *15,090. Both were partially insured. , • Sent Back to China. United States Commissioner Shields has decided that Li Foon, a Chinese boy who [was arrested at the Grand Central depot et New York last September, crossed the Canadian border at Malone, N. Y.. with­ out the proper certificate. He ordered the boy's deportation to China. Li Foon, under the law, cannot be returned to Can­ ada, but must be shipped from San Fran­ cisco to his native country. The trans­ it; portatiou of the lad across the continent and the expenses of a couple of United States marshals from New Yorkgto San Francisco and back will cost the Govern- &=st nearly $1,000. Li Sung, the alleged ||' father of the boy, who is said to be a " leundryman at Newark, is under arrest. NEWS NUGGETS. ' The wholesale grocery establishment of Charles E. Moody & Co., a six-story gran- •" ite warehouse at Boston, was burned, camsing a loss of nearly $100,000. Martin R. Parker, the defaulting as- ••H'""' sistant money order superintendent of the iBnffalo postoffice, has given himself up to the authorities. The shortage is now stat- <ed to be about $2,000. ; ~ *Fire at Peterboro, Ont., destroyed the jnewly equipped flour mill and elevator of the Consolidated Milling Company and a large four-story vacant frame building. The loss will amount to between $60,000 and $70,000, with an insurance of about $55,000. The epidemic of smallpox at Havana. Cuba, continues and the daily death rate from'all diseases is 35 per cent or more. is calculated that there were 5,000 I cases of smallpox in Havana some time since. All of the physicians paint the pic­ ture of the sanitary condition in awful . colors. The mortality is frightful and for several days past has increased to 45 •sjfe-Per cent. Jerueo also reports an epidemic of smallpox with many victims. Since the first day of January pneumo- •nia and other pulmonary troubles have been increasing in Chicago. The number of victims they have claimed is alarming-- Jy large, and physicians say that unless ||p colder and drier weather sets in soon ^pneumonia may become epidemic. In (December, 1895, there were 147 deaths due to that disease. But during twenty {\ -days of January, 1897, it claimed 167 •Victims in the citv. It is almost certain that there will be a i big miners' strike in the Des Moines, la., district, Involving about twenty thousand . miners, as*a result of the coal war which has compelled operators t6 reduce wages. The business is so badly demoralized by ;the price cutters that all effort to con- m' duct it at living prices has been given up. lip The miners will meet in convention and deliver an ultimatum, which will demand finally the restoration of the scale. ^PJ^:T^roEn Johnson and Arch Joiner, who murdered the Cotton family near New Or­ leans, were taken from jail and lynched by a mob at AmitiUity Wednesday morn­ ing. The crowd at first decided to burn Johnson at the stake, but finally, cpuclud- Spll «d to hang him. Both negroes were there- . . jfore hanged and shots fired into their ibodies. The same mob also lynched Gus Sp*! Williams, who was accused of murdering • . his wife. All three of the men t?xecuted •by the mob were colored. At the close of Wednesday's cabinet I. meeting at Madrid, the premier, Senor Hi Canovas del Castillo, declared that, al- E though they had full confidence in the suc­ cess of the military operations in Cuba, the Government was prepared to grant reforms to that island and to submit a de- ^withthat object in view to the coun- A petition was presented in the Detroit jClty Council to oust Gov. Pingree from £he office of Mayor of the city, the claim feeing made that he cannot fill both posi- jpiltrasat.the same time. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS FOR 1896 Statement Relating to Merchandise* Gold and Silver Issued. The monthly statement of the exports and imports of merchandise, gold and sil­ ver for the month of December, 1896, and for the twelve months of the calendar year 1896, shows as follows: Exports of domestic merchandise during December, $'16,128,334, and for the year, $986,871,- 256. This is a gain of $25,052,000 for the month, as compared with the December, 1895, and a gain for the year of $179.- 128,000. The imports of merchandise during December amounted to $57,956,- Wl', ^(TI'css Trimmings to match. DOES AWAY WITH WAR. tory claimed by either of the parties of the treaty. If in any (Scase the nominated bodies designated to decide upon questions which do not involve territorial disputes shall fail to agree upon any umpire as provided in the treaty the umpire shall be appoint­ ed by the King of Norway and Sweden. Either of the high contracting parties, however, may give notice to the other that, by reason of material changes in constitutions as existing at the date of the treaty it is of the opinion that a sub­ stitute for his majesty shall be chosen. M The high contracting parties shall al once proceed to nominate a substitute fc* the King of Sweden and Norway; and thj same shall hold good in the event that hi at any time desires that a substitute shal be appointed. In the case of the deatw absence or incapacity to serve of any al bitrator or umpire another arbitrator (1 umpire shall immediately be appointed IS his place in the manner provided for til original appointment. J The Arbitration Treaty Between Un­ cle Sam and Queen Vic. The second week of the new year has gone down as one of the most eventful in the history of the United States, sig­ nalizing the greatest stride of the century in the direction of the progress of civil­ ization. By the treatx of arbitration to which Secretary of State Richard Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote, ambassador of Great Britain and Ireland to the Unit­ ed Stiites, placed their signatures, war­ fare between this country and the king­ dom over which Queen Victoria holds sway is made virtually impossible. An event of so happy a nature should be made the occasion of public rejoicing throughout the land and in Great Britain. While this treaty has nothing to do with the settlement of the boundary dis­ pute between Great Britain and Venezue­ la, it is really a result of the conferences which %ere held by the members of the commission which was appointed by Pres­ ident Cleveland in that connection, with prominent members of the British Gov­ ernment. It is in a measure experimental. It is the first treaty of the kind which has ever been made between this country and any other and in fact is the first of the kind in the history of the world. The manner in which it will work will be watched with the greatest interest by the civilized world. Its importance in the line of progress cannot be overestimated. The treaty, which is for a term of five years, provides for the arbitration of all questions in difference between the two contracting parties which have "failed of solution by diplomatic negotiation. All claims of a pecuniary nature amounting to less than £100,000 ($500,000) and which do not involve the determination of territorial claims are to be submitted to an arbitration commission of three mem­ bers, one of them appointed by each of the parties to the treaty and the third to be elected by the two thus appointed, or, if they cannot agree, in a manner provided. The award of a majority of such commis­ sion shall be final. All pecuniary claims which shall ex­ ceed £100,000 ($500,000) and all other matters in difference in respect to which either of the high contracting parties shall have rights against the other, .provided that such matters do not involve territo­ rial claims, shall be dealt with and de­ cided by a commission of five members., two of whom shall M appointed by each of the high contracting parties and the fifth in the same manner as in the commission- first mentioned. A controversy which shall involve the determination of the territorial claims shall be submitted to a tribunal consist­ ing of six members, three of whom shall be judges of the Supreme Court of the United States or judges of the Circuit Courts, to be named by the President of the United States, and three of them judges of the British Supreme Court of Adjudicature, or members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to be nominated by the Queen. It is provided in this connection that in case the ques­ tion involves the territorial rights or l^rom the latest Alaskan advices it is apparent that the former lawless spirit prevalent in the territory is being sup­ planted by a wholesome respect for law; and order of the District Court, which' has just finished the winter session in Juneau. A notable incident was the in­ dictment of Joseph Murray by the Grand Jury for libel. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The greatest growth and prosperity the country had ever seen came suddenly in 1879, after several months of disappointment because specie resump­ tion had not yet brought the benefits ex­ pected. It takes time for new confidence to reach through easier money markets, large orders, resuming mills, expanding employment and large distribution, to the results which make still greater and last­ ing gain possible. Such gradual and steady improvement has been in progress for more Chan two months. Money mar­ kets feel a steady increase in demand for commercial and manufacturing loans. Ad­ ditional works went into operation each week in January and the working force is larger than at any other time for six months. Best of all, there is so little crazy excitement that the gain may be ascribed to the deliberate judgment of the ablest and most prudent men In business. It is not a time of high prices. Many who are anxious to get early hold on the mar­ ket are making for the moment lower prices than they could afford to maintain. Some have secured orders enough for months to come, and begin to be less keen in competition." The Chicago Evening Post of Monday says: "Housewives who believe their gro­ cers are charging too much for eggs, but­ ter and vegetables would do well to re­ mind tradesmen that the conditions on South Water street do not warrant fancy prices on these necessaries just. now. All over the city to-day grocers, with few exceptions, asked customers 22 cents or more for eggs. If your suave grocer charges you more than 15 cents for eggs this evening when you do your marketing for morning so as to save an early trip out in the cold, refuse to pay that price. Tell him that the merchants on the street would consider themselves fortunate if they could dispose of large lots at 13 cents a dozen. Receipts of eggs continue largo and besides there is a cold-storage stock of 40,000 cases, each containing thirty doz­ en. Seldom before at this time of the year have eggs been so plentiful and so cheap in the market. There is a bounti­ ful supply of vegetables, fruits and prod­ ucts of the dairy, all very reasonable in price, but the grocer who retails affects dense ignorance of this fact. By wilfully keeping up his prices the retailer is tech­ nically guilty of dishonesty. Those who pay cash for their purchases need not have any trouble on this score; the 'book' customers might try threats of transfer­ ring their trade from the greedy grocers." 0. H. FAR THEY GALL IT A MURDER, Indiana Farmers in a Frenzy Ov<J» Brutal Acts of Gamekeepers. |5 Lake County Indiana, has been greatS stirred by the shooting of four farmcjf by the gamekeepers'of the Tolleston G « Club. In Hammond, Whiting, Tollest®5 and Crown Point the farmers gather® and threats were not only freely maM- against the men who were concerned M~ the shooting, but against the property®! the gun club as well. Threats of orgBI iziug to "clean out" the gamekeepers, s§| || the property and blow up the dam offfl 1 gun club were not infrequent. On point the farmers were agreed, and v* was that if there was to be any mL. shooting about the gun club's ground they would not be the only ones who werK carried from the battlefield to the hos­ pitals. The history of the Tolleston Gun Club is streaked with blood. Two hunters have lost their lives and two watchmen were shot and killed by an intended victim. Trespassers have been beaten and driven off the preserves time and again. The members of the club are mostly rich Chi- cagoans with a taste for sport. Edward F. Daniels is the president, J. W. Brooks the vice-president, George Manierre the secretary and C. D. Peacock the treas­ urer. The club owns 2.600 acres of marsh land in Indiana, some of which is still being disputed in the Indiana courts. Poaching on the club grounds had given its caretakers much trouble of late, and seven gamekeepers, well armed with shot­ guns and pistols, were on duty when the fourteen young men, members of the fam­ ilies of neighboring farmers, invaded, a duck swamp and prepared for a day's sport. The watchmen bore down on the boys in a body, and hailing them from a considerable distance, ordered them off the club's grounds. When the poachers did not comply the gamekeepers opened fire at three rods' range and five young men fell to the marsh ice. riddled with shot, two mortally wounded. The sheriff arrested Barney Whitloek. the Blackburn brothers and Alfred Taylor and lodged A complete line of Groc< Call, inspect our goods i West McHenrv, 111., 18! L_ .--- .---- -Ct- .1 i-u-i'-3-""tLffltti*' "EDng3 certainly were a good deal more irritating. --Cleveland Plain Dealer. It appears that there is an impression among some persons that they can make good bank officials of themselves by com­ mitting suicide.--New York Journal. Now New York has begun a war on the tall church bonnet. This loks very like a movement against feminine piety in its most popular form.--Boston Herald. We are sure that this Mr. Angel, who wants to come to the Senate from Idaho, would ieel very much out of place on the roll call of that body.--Washington Post. Georgia is unable to see why such a pother should be made over Kentucky's six lynchings in six days. Georgia some­ times has nearly that many on one limb at a time.--Kansas City Journal. Recent events in Western banking cir­ cles are likely to increase the popularity of the stocking heel and the chimney as places of safe deposit for people of a sav­ ing disposition.--New York Press. It was very thoughtful in the makers of New Year calendars to have the figures so large and black. Hang one of 'em on the wall and you can tell when a note falls due without getting out of bed.--Atlanta Constitution. The delights of holiday buying have now been followed by the equally keen pleasures of post-holiday bargain hunt­ ing, and the soul of the shopping wi^ian is full of energetic peace and joy.--Bal­ timore American. China is establishing schools for the teaching of English. It is not surmised, however, that the demand for teachers will interfere to any considerable extent with the laundry business in this country. --Houston Post. Mayor Pennoyer, of Portland, Ore., de­ cided that his salary was too large, and so he offered to give back one-half of it. There are various degrees of this malady, but it is not very often elected to office. --Baltimore American. White Ghost, a Sioux chief, has gone to Washington to collect a little bill of $200,- 000 said to be due his tribe. If he is suc­ cessful in his errand it will not be neces­ sary for this Ghost to walk back for lack of car fare.--New York Press. Frederick Starr, professor of anthro­ pology at the Chicago University, an­ nounces that thc.American people are de­ generating into Indians. This theory ac­ counts for the increasing popularity of the college yell.--Chicago Journal. One of the most sublime and ridiculous attributes of human nature is the peren­ nial assumption that if a few men will meet and pass a law against an evil, that evil will at .once get scared and flee to parts unknown.--St.: Louis Republic; It is reported that a woman in Philadel­ phia who has been a kleptomaniac has been permanently cured by a surgical ope­ ration. The surgeons have not yet re­ ported the nature of the operation, but if it simplr involves the amputation of her fingers the cure is not a discovery wortfr mentioning.--Indianapolis Journal. United States Minister Willis Dies. .Advices received by the steamer Mo- nowai from Honolulu state that United States Minister Willis died at 8:30 p. m. Jan. 6, from the effects of a severe cold contracted at San Francisco on his return to his post from his recent visit to his home in Kentucky. The London Daily News has a. dispatch from Berlin, which reports that' Dr. Nie­ mann, the well-known" bacteriologist, has discovered a new cure for tuberculosis, being the seriis from goats' blood mixed with the bacilli of the disease. . - j, WASHINGTON. Charles Warren Fairbanks was elected United States Senator to succeed Daniel W. Voorhees by the Indiana Legislature Tuesday. Under the allotment of Government lands to the various agricultural colleges an error was made, charging the Missouri Agricultural College with 24,000 acres of land which it never received. Many ef­ forts have been made to correct the error Without avail. Secretary Francis has just allowed the claim and issued an order permitting the college to select 24,000 acres of Government land in Missouri. Gen. J. B. Douglass, special agent of the university, estimates the land to be worth $20,000. The figures of the Bureau of Statistics, for the calendar year 1896, show that the excess of exports of merchandise from this country over the imports for that pe­ riod amounted to the sum of $325,322,184. This breaks the record of this country's excess of exports over imports. The year that came nearest to it was 1878, when the excess of exports over imports was $305,279,590. Coming at the same time with other conditions analagous to those obtaining in early days at the time of prosperity that began in 1879, the figures of the Bureau of Statistics cause many persons to believe that a similar era of good times is beginning. The Government is making extraordi­ nary haste in preparing the papers in the Union Pacific foreclosure proceedings. Secretary Carlisle, Attorney General Harmon and ex-Governor Hoadly, on be­ half of the Government and Chairman Fitzgerald of the Union Pacific reorgani­ zation committee, and Winslow S. Pierce, its attorney, on the other side, have been in continuous session^and the formal or­ der has issued to filf cross bills in pend­ ing foreclosure suits to make the Govern­ ment a party thereto. This move is a stab at the Huntington scheme for a commission to settle the Pacific roads' indebtedness. Foreclosure and the sur­ vival of the fittest is the program. A Washington correspondent says: "Squire Woodman, of Chicago, has left the Cuban cause long enough to present an argument before the House Committee on Banking and Currency favoring the creation of a people's emergency reserve fund for use in panicky times when mon­ ey cannot be had through usual channels for love or diamonds. His plan is for the Government to issue $100,000,000 in low interest bonds of popular denominations, redeemable at the treasury, at the option of the holder. This, he thinks, would be a safeguard for the minimization of indi­ vidual bankruptcy in periods of currency construction and business depression. It would be a species, of Federal savings bank, preparations for which should be made in good or normal times." MARKET REPORTS Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.U0 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2, 15c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, 20o to 30c; broom corn, common green to fine brush, 2V4c to o^e. > Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, good to choice, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 87b to 89c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. v ... v St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat,. No. 2, 87c to 88c: corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 92c to 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 35c to 37c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 91c; corn, No..2 yellow, 22c to 23c;*oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, 38c to 40c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 93c; corn. No. 2 mixed,, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye. No. 2, 37c to 38c; clover seed, $5.25 to $5.30. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 3, 19c to 21c; oats, No. 2 White, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 25c to 35c; rye, No. 1, 38c to 39c; pork, mess, $7.00 to $7.50. v Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white! 21c to 23c. New York--Cattlef$3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25: sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West­ ern, 12c to 16c. • " PRINCIPALS IN THE GREAT TREATY. boundary of one of the States of the United States or one of the provinces of Great Britain, a judicial official of said State or province'may be substituted for one of the judges. The award of such a commission by a vote of uot less than five to one shall be final. In case of an award mpde by less than the prescribed majority, the award shall also be final unless either power, within three months after the award has been reported, pro­ test that the same is erroneous, in which case the award shall be of no validity. In^ such a case, or when the members shall be equally divided, there shall be 110 re­ course to hostile measures of any descrip­ tion until the mediation of one or more friendly powers has been invited by one or both of the high contracting parties. •Territorial claims include all other claims involving questions of servitude,^ rights of navigation and access, -fisheries, and all rights and interests necessary to the imuItoi acui enjoyment of the terri- ^Maximo Gomez is reported to have cap­ tured the town of Santa Clara and to be marching on Havana with 18,000 insur­ gents. During the fight at Santa Clara Insurgent General Banders is said to have been killed. At Bombay the situation ^ is growing rapidly Worse and the exodus from the city on account of the plague continues. The official returns issued Monday show that there have been 3,633 cases of the plague recorded and 2,592 deaths from the pestilence. The Times of India com­ plains that the sanitary conditions of Bombay have been allowed to deteriorate ' Thomas H. Piatt won the nomination • for United States Senator in the'New ( (York Republican legislative caucus, de- . feating Rufus H. Choate by the decisive I vote of 147 to 7. Carl ChriBtensen, a professor in Water­ loo, Iowa, College, is under arrest at Bos­ ton for stealing books from the public library* Books from the Hartford Public Library were also found in his possession. He calls himself a kleptomaniac. Fire Thursday night destroyed the fam­ ous Old stone barn, opposite the General JWayne Hotel, Narberth. Pa., Which has