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' r* 1 'iFV THE PLAINDFALEB J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. ILLINOIS PROFIT IN BOGUS COIN ONE ALARMING DANGER OF CHEAP SILVER. §&f s . iCounterfelters Can Make Twenty-fonr Half-Dollars from Eleven Mexican Dollars and Cheat Your Uncle Sam | Ont of $7.50. Harvest for Counterfeiters. One of the most alarming circumstances connected with the recent sharp decline •in the price of silver is the additional profit which it gives to counterfeiters of silver coin, and scarcely a day passes that the secret service detectives of the Treas­ ury Department do not arrest one or more persons who have been tempted l»y the enormous profits in view to engage in making counterfeit coins. When the mar­ ket prige of silver was.near its coinage value the counterfeiters were compelled to make some metal alloy which would resemble silver as nearly as possible in weight, color and "ring," but which was cheaper than that metal. Since the com- mercial value of silver has fallen off this Is not nefcessary, and counterfeits have come into the' possession of the treasury authorities which were not only heavier than the genuine coins, but contained pur­ er silver than is used by the mint. Most of the coin counterfeiting seems to be done in the West, and within a week the secret service men have arrested P. Joly at San Francisco, a manufacturing jew­ eler, charged with making counterfeit half dollars and counterfeit five-dollar gold pieces; C. L. Reid of San Francisco, charged with having and passing counter­ feit silver dollars, and William Lewis and 'Jesse Davenport of Chicago, charged with Snaking and passing counterfeit half dol­ lars and nickels. Some of the officials of jfche treasury believe that counterfeiting is carried on to an alarming extent along the (border between the United States and Mexico, and that Mexican coin is largely used by the counterfeiters. With Mexi­ can dollars selling, as at present, at a frac­ tion over 39 cents in American money, a counterfeiter working along the border, either on the American or the Mexican side, can make no less than twenty-four American half dollars out of eleven Mex­ ican silver dollars. . «OYer, and the others are all in serious condition. The shooting grew out of an attempt of the miners who* are still at work to get some of the foreigners and negroes who are striking'to go back to work. The striking miners encamped ab<!>ut the De Armit mines experienced less inter­ ference from the deputies Monday morn­ ing than at any time since the decision of the court in the injunction* proceedings. The campers were permitted to march in small groups, but were not allowed to get within speaking distance of the working miners. There was no evidence that the depn.ties intended to carry out the rumor Which was spread that an effort would be made to break up the camp. In fact, Dep­ uty Samuel i.Young, who is in charge at Plum Creek, said Monday morning to Capt. Uriah Bellingliam that there would be no more arrests made until a decision was had in the cases of the five men ar­ rested Saturday. Capt. Bellingham has rented a barn at "Center and will have fifty men quartered there all the time, so th,at they may be able to get into the town the first thing each morning. Twenty-five strikers succeeded in eluding the deputies during the night and visited the working miners at their homes. They returned in the morning and claim to have been quite successful in securing the conversion of a number of miners. A raid was made on the camp of negro railroad laborers at Unity. Constable Carson and four as­ sistants, heavily armed, went to the camp and after destroying the gambling tables, demolished the unlicensed liquor saloons and set fire to the ruins. fendant preacher. Families fell out over the .case, and lifetime friendships were sundered by the difference of views on this one subject of interest. Now that Baney has "confessed" the old contention has been aroused and many families, not only in Hendricks Gounty, but throughout central Indiana, and many newspapers, are in a ferment over the possible out­ come of the second trial. SOUTHERN. WESTERN. Ip ppi Pencil Makers Must Pay. Oue of the heaviest penalties ever ex­ acted from a commercial house by Uncle Sam for violation of the tariff laws has been imposed tipon the firm of A. W. Faber, the leading pencil manufacturers, whose works are in Germany and whose .New York offices are at 78 Reade street. For twenty years the firm has been im­ porting goods at the same valuation. Re­ cently the treasury agents began an in­ vestigation which resulted in the decision that for twenty years A. W. Faber's pen­ cils had been coming into this country at prices much lower than the real value. The firm was accordingly fined $30,000. The greater part of this sum was paid into the treasury last week. The firm of A. W. Faber is a German concern and one of the largest and wealthiest in the world. It owns and controls valuable graphite mines in Siberia and has branch houses in every big city on the globe. The principal factory is at Stein, near Nurem­ berg, in Bavaria, and the main office is in ^Berlin, It was the invoices sent with some recent shipments from Berlin that excited the suspicions of the customs offi­ cials. * tnmlintr of the Clnb*. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. .72 33 Philadelphia. 47 '59 | t::y' ill .Boston 'Baltimore . Cincinnati New York. Cleveland . Chicago .. .67 .62 .62 .53 .49 32 Louisville 36 Pittsburg ... 37 Brooklyn .-.. 47 Washington. 56 St. Louis... .46 .44 .44 42 .27 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis.. 77 29 Detroit 57 Columbus ...66 39 Minneapolis..38 .68 44 Kansas City..36 .66 46 G'nd Rapids..34 8t. Paul ... Milwaukee BREVITIES. i yln October Spain will send 15,000 or 20,000 more soldiers to Cuba. The prisoners confined in the county da.il at Bedford, Ind., mutinied at an early tour Thursday morning and tried to set ifire to the building. The feature of the Nebraska Republi can State convention, held at Lincoln Was the speech of United States Senator Thurston, announcing that he would not !be a candidate for re-election at the ex piration of his present term. The railroads centering at Birmingham, 'Ala., are doing the biggest business for jfive-years. Tuesday the Louisville and Nashville moved thirty-three freight (trains out of Birmingham, three of which Iwere laden solidly with pig iron for ship pnent to Europe. V " New discoveries of valuable deposits of pearls in lakes and rivers in Arkansas ihave added greatly to the excitement al­ ready existing over similar discoveries, jand thousands of people are ivading ^through the water in different parts of the State searching for the gems. The negroes of prominence all over the United States are making preparations to Jhold a mammoth convention in Atlanta in (October to protest against lynching. iBishop Grant leads the movement and it jwill condemn lynching as strongly in New & jYork as in Georgia. Many famous ne- jgroes throughout the country have signi­ fied tbeir intention of attending. The entire Chinese colony was raided __i St. Louis-by the Federal authorities, {who took the Chinese to the United States Sta? >:/..*. [District Court, where they , were exam- lined as to their right -to stay in this coun­ try. Fourteen, whose credentials were toot forthcoming; will be sent to San Fran cisco and deported under the Geary ex­ clusion act. Stelili & Co., leading silk firm of Zurich, liave decided to establish a branch fac tory ir- this country. Bakers in New York and Indianapolis have decreased the weight of loaves of bread because of the higher price of flour. m SlSSfe EASTERN. Warren Bush and Charles Glasner of ^Chicago and Frank Weber of Buffalo were carried over Niagara Falls and tdrowned while sailing on the Niagara iriver. J. F. Whipple of New York filed a mortgage in the record office at Baltimore Ifor $18,000,000, covering the properties land franchises of the Baltimore, Cincin- mati and Western Railway Company. Eight men were seriously injured Sun­ day afternoon in a riot that occurred Among the strikers at the Unity.mine, dear Pittsburg. Two of-them cannot re- ' VK : : • >• ' ; : • V* At an early hour Saturday morning Elmer E. Struble, cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Shepherd, Mich., was shot by unknown men, who afterward robbed the bank of a large amount of money and es­ caped. Mr. Struble died without having regained consciousness. farmers throughout central and west­ ern Kansas are using every means possi­ ble to get their wheat on the market at the present high prices. Teams block the streets of many towns and mills and ele­ vators are crowded to their utmost capac­ ity. The railroad yards in many of the larger towns are blocked with loaded cars hich cannot be moved. The shipments were never before so large. As a result of the boom in wheat several large sales of farm property have been made and holders have increased values 25 per cent. Bears had an inning on the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday. They followed decline of wheat in Liverpool amounting to 5*4 cents by sending the price of Sep­ tember down from 96 to 91% cents a bushel within two hours of the opening. December made still greater lunges down­ ward. It opened at 96% cents, or % cent above Monday's closing, and after varied fluctuations braced itself at 90% cents, a range of nearly 7 cents during the fore­ noon. May wheat opened at 96% cents and dropped more than 3 cents in the first two hours. Strangled in midair by a guy-rope, "Tom" Allen, a parachute leaper from Ottawa, Iowa, lost his grip »n his trapeze bar at Electric Park, Chicago, Friday night and dropped 200 feet, to his death. Five hundred men arid women saw him shoot upward with the rising of the bal­ loon; saw him swing and balance and smile down at them from the jerking yard­ stick beneath him; saw one of the anchor ropes that is cast loose when the moment for the ascent comes twist in past the limp folds of the closed parachute, circle the neck of the pink-clad figure on the bar; saw the aeronaut throw up his hands to tear the hemp away, lose his balance and whirl over and over in his last flight to earth. Sensational charges are made by his wife, Madalon, against Dr. James O. Ducker, one of the professors of the Post Graduate College and a member of the Chicago Medical Societj*. The wife charges the doctor with having employed Charles Hill to throw vitriol in her face because she refused to live with him. Mrs. Ducker swore out warrants for her hus­ band's arrest before Justice Underwood and Ducker was arrested, but later was released on bonds of $3,500. Ducker and his wife have been separated since Jan­ uary iast and a suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Ducker is pending. It is alleged by Mrs. Ducker that her husband made a bargain with a stranger named Hill, whereby the latter was to receive $10 for throwing the vitriol in her face. Hill called at the house of Dyke V. Keedy, 6334 Monroe avenue, where Mrs. Ducker is staying temporarily, with the intention of throwing the acid, but at the sight of her he broke down and confessed his part of the plot. Detectives were placed on the case and their investigation resulted in the arrest of the doctor. As the result of a bold attempt to loot a bank in Canton, O., one of the four rob­ bers engaged in it lies dead. Three other men who were with him in the attempt to crack a vault have escaped. The raid was the most daring ever attempted in Canton and has aroused widespread interest from the fact that the robbers selected the Sav­ ings and Deposit Bank as their prey, an institution located but a few doors from the court house, and on a street where people pass at all times of day and night The four men engaged in the job had planned their work with care. They play ed for a big stake and lost. The bank car­ ries in cash from $75,000 to $100,000. The money is kept in a vault which is solidly built from the cellar up. It was the cellar that had been selected as the place of at­ tack, and the burglars were armed with explosives consisting of bombs of gas pipe and dynamite, nitroglycerin and dyna­ mite; they had plenty of burglars' tools and blankets to aid them in their work, and had cut an electric wire to be used oh the vault. All the tools were left behind. The robbers were foiled by Charles Hem- minger, hired by several business men as night watchman. He was making his round of the bank building and was leav­ ing the place by a rear stairway when he was fired upon. He drew his revolver and fired seven shots at his assailant. He brought down his man. while he escaped with a few bullet holes in his clothing. The groans of the wounded man and "the sound of shots soon brought help for Heniminger. Three men were seen leap­ ing over a gate eight feet high, which opened from a court in the rear of the bank to an alley. They escaped. The wounded burglar died with closed mouth. Noah Baney, an ex-convict, is waiting in the Marion County, Ind., jail for a Hendricks County grand jury to indict him. He says that he, with two others Guy Van Tassel and "Kid" Whitney were the real slayers of Mrs. Tliurza Hinshaw. Van Tassel is in jail with him, both having been rearrested recently upon the expiration of a term of prison life brought on by stealing. Van Tassel says Baney is a common liar and that he (Van Tassel) had nothing to do with the killing of Mrs. Hinshaw. He expresses the opin­ ion that the real killer was Rev. William Hinshaw, who is now in the penitentiary serving a life sentence for the crime. Hinshaw' and Baney were in the prison hospital togetlier. and there, according to Van Tassel, the scheme was hatched which Baney is trying to carry, out---i. e., to cast deep suspicion on the verdict un­ der which Hinshaw was sent to prison, and eventually to lead to the pardon of Hinshaw. Baney and Van Tassel will be indicted early In September, and their trial promises to add a sensational chap­ ter to the most celebrated criminal case in the history Of tlie State. It promises to revive the tense feeling that prevailed during Hinshaw's trial. Every man and woman in Hendricks Corinty held an opin­ ion us to tho guilt or innocence of the de- The neighborhood of Martin's ore mines, at Woodstock, Bibb Gounty, Ala., is in a state of terror. George Brown, a white man, fell out with his employers ovelr the amount of wages due him and was dis­ charged. He afterward came to the mines with a shotgun on his shoulder and for­ bade the miners, largely negroes, to "strike another lick." Several of the ne­ groes sided with him. but others insisted on £oing to work. This brought on a row among the negroes and culminated in a free-for-all fight. In the battle Lizp Green's head was punctured with a pick, and Dave Thomas had his head crushed with a club. The result in each case was death. Both sides by common consent then separated. Next morning the two factions met at the mines again and Brown also appeared. v The quarrel was .renewed and pistols, knives and rifles came- into play. Elisha Snow was shot through the heart and instantly killed and a half dozen others were wounded, some fatally. Brown disappeared while the butchery was in progress. Work was sus­ pended at the mines and on the neighbor­ ing farms and every man in the whole county, which is remote from telegraphic communication, is carrying arms. The settlement has divided on the Brown ques­ tion and other collisions are expected at any time. • PAGEANT OF PEACE. FIFTY THOUSAND OLD SOLDIERS PASS IN REVIEW. President McKihley Leads the Vet* erans in the Grand Army Parade at Buffalo--Martial Columns Are Cheered by Half a Million. FOREIGN. At Constantinople, an imperial irade has been issued commuting the sentence of death to be imposed upon the nine men who were engaged in the massacre of Ar­ menians at Tokat, in March last, to penal servitude for life in Tripoli and Barbary. Consul General Lee at Havana has re­ ported by telegraph to the Secretary of State that James T. Carry (probably Carey), who is said to lia"ve been employed with Messrs. Zeigler & Co. of Chicago, surrendered himself to the Spanish au­ thorities on account of the condition of his health. It takes $2.45 Mexican money to buy an American doflar containing less silver than the Mexican. This enormous depre­ ciation of the Mexican dollar is ruining Mexican merchants. They are canceling all orders for imports, and many will close their stores, as they cannot sell the stock on hand at a rate high enough to replenish them. They believe that the price is un­ naturally depressed, and is due to a con­ spiracy abroad. The persistent fall in the price of bar silver has caused a panic among the producers in Chili. Many of the principal mines of the republic will be closed soon, and if the price continues to fall ruin will be the only result. ° Touch Elbows Again. Nearly 50,000 war-worn veterans, with the I'resident of the United States at their head, made the triumphal march of the Grand Army of the Republic in Buf­ falo Wednesday. For more than six hours the grizzled but undaunted remnants of the armies of the republic poured through the streets, in lines of undulating blue, amid the martial crash of bands and the frenzied huzzas of a. patriotic populace. Nearly half a million spectators watched the glorious pageant and bombnrded the marching legions with the roar of their ceaseless cheering. For two hours. President McKinley stood in the reviewing stand, with Com­ mander-in-Chief Clarkson arid Gov. Frank S. Black of New York at his side, and acknowledged the greetings- of the battle-scarred hosts passing before him. The. President was deluged with cheers and songs, shouts and flowers, and .through all the riot of noise and adulation bowed and smiled and moved his com­ rades to renewed ecstasies of enthusiasm. Buffalo was in fitting mood and garb for the inspiring spectacle. Its people, re-en­ forced by 200,000 from outside, choked the walks and lawns from the brick walls to the wire stretched along the line of march at the curbstoue. They tilled 10,- 000 windows and roofs, packed a score of big stands, took to the trees in flocks and squeezed irito every nook that afford­ ed a view of the procession. The martial columns moved for miles between two solid, shouting walls of humanity, such a living mass as had never been seen be­ fore in the Empire State outside the me­ tropolis. , The city was swathed in red, white and blue. Public and private buildings w*ere smothered in the Stars and Stripes. The trudging battalions were hemmed in on both sides with fluttering flags, and float­ ing streamers hung from every window and pinnacle. The decorations were on a lavish scale and included many gorge­ ous designs. Noble arches spanned the ed west in North street, passing beautiful residences of a later generation, arid; marched through the circle to disband in the parks of the lake shore. President McKinley rode at the head of the parade as far as the reviewing stand, which was at the end Of the two- mile march. Two hundred young women scattered along the route, attired in gowns of red, white and blue, scattered flowers before his carriage.: When the President, standing on the reviewing stand, caught sight of the tattered war flags of the armies of Illinois he put down his hat abd clapped his hands, exploding a demons!ra­ tion which rolled down the line like the booming of cannon. The whole route was over smooth as­ phalt pavements, the first march of the kind, Gen. Alger said, he had ever be­ held. The President's reviewing stand MAIN STHEKT IliliUMlNAXICIl ARCH. wheat imports for Europe, including En#- land, range all the way from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 bushels. Europe's wheat crops for 1895, 1894 and 1893 averaged about 1,500,000,000 bushels. In the fam­ ine year of 1891 it was only 1,200,000,000. The impression is gaining ground that Eu­ rope's wheat crop this year is even less than in 1891. But this is not the worst of it. Europe uSually produces its much rye as she does wheat. It is the bread grain of the masses. The rye crop of the principal European countries (Russia, Germany, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Roumania and Italy and the low countries and Sweden) has averaged about 1,300,- 000,000 bushels annually for 1896, 1895, 1894 and 1893. This season the rye crop of these countries cannot' much exceed 875,000,000 bushels. Quite as bad is the potato prospect. Only about 1,850,000,- 000 bushels of potatoes will be harvested in these countries this year. Without re­ gard to ther United Kingdom or other European countries, there is a shortage of some 1,000,000,000 bushels of potatoes. European shortage m bushels compared with the average follows: Wheat ... 300,000,000 Rye 325,000,000 Potatoes .1,000,000,000 TALKS TO VETERANS. M' KIN LEY RESPONDS j6 TOAST AT BUFFALO. Old Soldiers Give a Banquet in HI® Honor--Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand People in Attendance--' 31st Annual Encampment, Total .1,625,000,000 MINE OWNERS AT SEA. was at the intersection of North street and Richmond avenue. Approaching the stand the army moved west in North street. Double rows of trees, whose branches met overhead, made a green can6py above the last half-mile of the march. It looked as if the army was com­ ing out of a fairy-book forest. To the west, the situation was the same. The foliage heightened the colors of the flut­ tering flags as the army wound past the stand. Railroad officials say that 300,000 is a low estimate of the number of visitors1 in Combine of the- Big Coal Operators Is Badly Shattered. At Pittsburg Wednesday, the coal op­ erators practically split and went home. They held a session in the forenoon and gave out a statement that they would "contiriue the struggle along the lines that may appear to be. the most productive of the results desired in the interests of miner and operator alike." None of them could explain what this meant. In the afternoon, after a conference of some of the leading shippers to the lakes, another statement was given out by Op­ erator J. C. Dysart. It contained the in­ formation that another committee had been appointed to continue the work of getting the mines in operation, which had been started last week in Cleveland. As the statement issued in the forenoon said that all committees had been discharged, the conflict of statements caused some in­ quiry as to what the operators really meant. Inquiry failed to bring any re­ sult except the impression that they are trying to fintl "where they are at." At the forenoon meeting some of the anti-lake shippers proposed that the op­ erators pay the 69-cent rate pending ar- IN GENERAL. The Postal Telegraph Company nas se­ cured control of the telegraph lines of the Mexican National and Mexican Central railways. At the opening on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday September wheat was 3% cents above Thursday's close and within a minute the price was 91% cents. After another slump it rose to 93% cents without any material decline. December wheat also fluctuated wildly. In New York September wheat sold up to 99, amid the shouts of a big crowd Of spectators. The day in Philadelphia wris the most exciting ever expei«enced in the history of the exchange. Quotations jumped up 4% cents and brought the price beyond the dollar mark. There were sales of No. 2 red at $1.02. This is the highest quota­ tion there in many years. In Minneapolis wheat sold for $1 per bushel. Advices to the Agricultural Depart­ ment from private and indirectly official sources confirm the predictions of a con­ siderable deficiency in the European wheat crop, while rye, which is the chief bread grain of eastern Europe, is also short. This fact, a special report of Sta­ tistician Hyde of the department says, as well as the wheat deficiency, will tend to restrict the exportation of the latter from those European countries which usually have a surplus of that grain. As to non- European countries other than the United States, their aggregate contribution to the European supply will be materially affect­ ed by the fact that India, denuded by the famine, will have practically no wheat to export. Five children were drowned in the To­ ronto, Ont., harbor Sunday afternoon by the capsizing of a float. The bodies of three were recovered. The float was twelve feet long and six feet wide, and was made of rough timber aud used for conveying workmen from the mainland at the foot of Cherry street to the break­ water, a distance of about 100 yards. The float is worked by chains attached to the bank on one side and the breakwater on the other side. Sunday afternoon thirty- one children, boys and girls, ranging from 8 to 13 years of age, crowded on the raft intending to go bathing at the breakwater. Half way across the channel, where the water is very deep, the raft capsized, and all the children were thrown into the wat­ er. There were many boats in the neigh­ borhood. and these were quickly at the scene of the accident. All of the children were rescued except five. "£=|w.rvi. £ y^*.s 11« • n 1.1 Jilliiliil.ll,] -•i. LiBi i.'l-'l «illi. VIi«•'.IWt.l III* THOUSANDS OF VETERANS IN LINE. MARKET REPORTS. % Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 97c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 32c; oats, So. 2, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; new potatoes, 55c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 97c to 99c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 2lc; rye, No. 2, 56c to 57c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 51c to 53c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 54c to 50c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c5to 20c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c; clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. .2 spring, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 3, 31c to 32c; oats, No." 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1, 55c to 50c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 48c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. - Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hog*, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.05; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.07 to $1.09; corn, No. 2, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; butter, creamery, 12c to 19c; eggs, Western, 14c to 16c. streets to typify the triumph of the army in blue. A living shield of 2,000 children stirred the hearts of the veterans to responsive cheers by singing "Marching Through Georgia," "Rally Round the Flag" and other songs of happy memory. A band of pretty maidens in tri-colored costumes Btrewed the pathway of the President with flowers and ferns, and were reward­ ed with his kindliest smiles. Paeans 6f Joy at Kvery Step. Through such scenes, with the glories of the flag on every hand and paeans of joy at every step, moved this pageant of peace, this relic of war. The heavens, too, smiled benignantly. The day was perfect. A shower during the night freshened the atmosphere. Dur­ ing the parade the sun shone brilliantly, but there was a pleasant breeze, and the weather was not uncomfortably hot. The myriad of proud banners glinted in old Sol's rays in their brightest luster, and the faded, tattered battle flags, many of them furled to save their wasting rem­ nants, were kissed into new radiance and glory. The day was ushered in with a sunrise salute of forty-five guns. At 8 o'clock Buffalo. The police arrangements were admirable.' Persons having grand stand tickets found their seats readily, and the 500,000 persons who wanted to see the parade were kept well in hand. Keceptions of the Evenine. Despite the fact that President McKin­ ley was exceedingly weary, he met the local committee at night just after din­ ner, and accompanied by Gov. Black, went to Music Hall to meet the general public. The stirain of the day was, how­ ever, too much for flesh and blood, and after he had greeted about 3,000 persons individually he was compelled to leave the hall. Fully 20,000 persons blocked the streets in the vicinity of tho hall and ex­ pressed their disappointment at not being permitted to shake the President's hand. Leaving Music Hall, the President was driven to the Buffalo Club, where he re­ ceived the Loyal Legion. At 10:45 he went to the Niagara Hotel for the night. bitration. This was opposed by the repre­ sentatives of the big companies, who have been running the meetings. The meet­ ing adjourned without either side coming to any conclusion. BORDA IS ASSASSINATED. DOLAN ARRESTED. TYPES OF OLD SOLDIERS. Main street was choked. An hour later drums were beating and a hundred bands were playing, echoing and jarring each other's accents. Mounted officers were dashing hither and thither, giving their sharp orders. Sabers and burnished shieldsflashed in the sunlight. There was everywhere what seemed to the civilian's eye confusion and consternation, but not so io the sturdy old soldiers in the blue coats. It was all orderly and beautiful to them. They loved it. It was a taste of the old life. It was shortly after 10 o'clock when a squad of mounted police left the terrace, a square in the business part of the city, and the crowd announced the beginning of the parade with shouts of "Here they come." It was nearly 5 o'clock when the last weary veterans trudged by the re­ viewing stand, two miles from the ter­ race. The line "of march was up Main street to Chippewa, uience to Delaware avenue, and north on that aristocratic thoroughfare, lined with the'liomes.of the old families of the city. The column turn- Miners' I-icader Is Charged with Vio­ lating Anti-Marchincr Injunction. Patrick Dolan, district president of the United Mine Workers of America, Was arrested in Washington County, Pa., while leading a body of marchers on a public highway past the Allison mine of Cook & Sons, near McGovern station. Ever since the strike started the miners have been making daily marches from their camp to the mine. From the mine to the railroad there is a tramway, under which runs the public road known as the Washington pike. Wednesday morning, with a band at their head, about 40!) marchers tramped along the pike and passed under the tramway.* On their re­ turn they.were stopped by deputy sheriffs and told they could not pass under the tramway, but must return to their camp by crossing a field and coming down the railroad. The marchers decided to remain where they were and communicated with Presi­ dent Dolan by telegraph. He arrived shortly after 4 o'clock and made a speech to the strikers. He said the deputy sher­ iffs had no right to stop them from march­ ing on the public thoroughfare as long as their mission was a peaceful one, and told them he would lead the procession. The band, with Dolan at its head, and the marchers following, then started down the road to go under the tramway and on to the camp. When Dolan reach­ ed the trainway he was told by the dep­ uty sheriffs that he could go no fnrther. When he wanted to know the reason why he was told that such a move was a vio­ lation of the law and the injunction. This Dolan denied and the arrest followed. He was taken to Washington on the first traib, while the marchers returned to their camp. SHORTAGE IN EUROPE. President of Uruguay Is Shot Down at Montevideo. During a national fete which was held in Montevideo President J. Idiarte Borda of Uruguay was shot and killed by an as­ sassin. The weapon used was a revolver. The assassin was arrested. Senor J. Idiarte Borda was elected president of Uruguay for the term extending from March, 1894, to 1898. The fete at which he was assassinated was being held in celebration of the independence of Uru> guay, which was achieved on Aug. 25, 1825. The assassination of President Idiarte Borda of Uruguay was not altogether a surprise to officials in Washington who have watched the recent outbreaks in Uruguay. This was the second attempt on tho president's life, the former being Cereal and Potato Crops Are Small and the Situation Is Grave. An extensive inquiry into European crop conditions conducted by the Orange Judd syndicate of agricultural papsrs in dicates that the food crop situation abroad is very grave. Estimates of the needs of "Put 'Em Off at Buffalo." The incoming rush of Grand Army vet­ erans and their womenfolk to attend the national encampment at Bufflllo was at its height Tuesday. The different rail­ roads centering there gave estimates of the number of passengers landed in Buf­ falo during the twenty-four hours endedi at midnight. The total footed up 145t,000- As all tlje railroads expected arrivals for Wednesday at least equaling those of the previous day, it was estimated that there would be at least 150,000 more arrivals before the big parade, which would bring the grand total of encampment visitors up to 350,000. President McKinley. was the lion of the hour, it being the first time in the history of the organization that a President of the United States put in an appearance at the national encampment. TSe ban­ quet which was tendered. Tuesday night to the President arid other distinguished guests was a notable affair. Covers were laid for 500 guests at the Ellicott Club. The hosts were representatives of every department in the organization and sub­ scribed liberally toward the function. The President was escorted from the Niagara Hotel to the club by a Chicago post and an. impromptu reception preced­ ed the banquet. Speechmaking was in order at 6 o'clock, as the President de­ sired to leave early to atterfft some camp meetings. Col. James A. Sexton of Illi­ nois was the toastmaster. President Mc­ Kinley responded to his toast as followsr I wish I might frame fitting words to- make suitable response to the more thaiv gracious welcome which you have accorded me here to-night. I come with no set form or speech; I come with no studied phrases to- present to you; but come in the spirit of companionship to talk with you as we have- so often talked in tlu> pi'st around the camp- fires iu war, as well as the camp-fires in peace. To me, I see by the program, has been assigned the toast, "Tho Country and Its Defenders."' My fellow-citizens, blessed is that country v.'hose defenders are patriots; blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have--the best that any man has--their own lives, to preserve it because they love it. Such an urmy the United States has al­ ways commanded in every crisis of her his­ tory. From the war of the Revolution to the late civil war the men followed that flag- In battle, because they loved that flag and) believed in what it represented. That was the stuff of which the volunteeer army of" '01 was made. Every one of them not only fought* but they thought; and many or • them did their own thinking, and did not al­ ways agree .with their commanders. Note- that young soldier, who In the late war,, upon the battle line, ahead with the color guard hearing the stars and stripes away In. front of the line, but the enemy still in front of him. The general called out to the color- bearer, "Bring these colors back to the line," and quicker than any bullet that young sol­ dier answered back, "Bring the line up to- the colors." It was the voiee of command; there was a man behind It, aud there was patriotism in his heart. < "So near to grandeur Is our dust, i So near to God is man, When duty whispers, 'Lo, thou must,* The youth replied, 'I can.' " And so more than 2,000,000 brave men thus responded and made up an army grander than any army that ever shook the earth with its tread and engaged in a holler cause than ever engaged soldiers before. What defenders, my countrymen, have we now? We have the remnant of this old, magnifi­ cent, matchless army of which I have been speaking, and then as allies in any future war we have the brave men who fought against us on Southern battlefields. The army of Grant and the army of Lee are to­ gether. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, In purpose and in invinci­ ble patriotism. Aud therefore the country is In no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag, all one. Secretary of War Alger, speaking to the toast, "The Army of the United States," said in part: ( It is hard for me to speak about the army with the President present. The army of the United States, as far as it went, was the best on God's footstool. He had been in London, and had been asked what if the United States was at­ tacked by the great military nations. E answered that in thirty days we couM put millions of fighting men in the field! and back them up with a wall of fire iu the persons of the veterans. At the same- time he thought that the army should be- strengthened somewhat. He compliment­ ed the national guard and said that it would prove a great bulwark of the nation* in time of need. C. Porter Johnson of Chicago, respond­ ed to the toast, "The Volunteer." Henry Estabrook spoke to the toast, "The Gen­ eral." Charles W. Anderson, a colored orator, spoke of the colored troops, aud John S. Wise spoke upon "Under One Flag." Mr. Wise, who was a Confeder­ ate officer, was received with much enthu­ siasm. Archbishop Ireland was the last general toast orator, and was received: with vociferous applause. The feature of the morning was the- second parade of the celebration and the- first in which G. A. R. men took part. The Naval Veterans' Association and the- ex-Prisoners of War Association, to­ gether with the survivors of Erie County regiments and other organizations cojn- posed the Grand Army contingent of the parade. The naval veterans wore the uni­ form of the United States naval service and made a splendid appearance. As they passed through the streets in the rolling gait of men-of-warsmen the crowds cheer­ ed them to the echoes. PKKS1DKNT JUAN IDIARTE BORDA. made April 21 last by a crazy student named Revecca. The last issue of the Montevideo Times, received in Washington, states that the president remained away from the state house in evident fear of his life. At the time a junta of those seeking to overthrow the government had established active operations at the capitol. The assassina tion of the president doubtless will bring the country to a revolutionary crisis, which has been logg impending. The rev olution thus far had been confined to the country districts, where several extensive engagements had been fought, the Gov­ ernment forces securing the advantage. Ther-e is no Uruguayan representative in Washington. v At the time of Senor Borda's election he belonged to the official party, and was elected by a narrow majority^ The peo­ ple, it was said, were sadly disappointed at the result, but order and quiet was maintained. The leading papers of Uru­ guay deplored the election of Senor Borda and declared that it marked a reaction in .the country's progress. TWO WOMEN SHOW PLUCK. Seek the Gold Fields of Alaska*. IrnveHnsr by the Overland Route, Mrs. M. L. D. Keiser and her niece. Miss Georgie Osborne, both of Jackson­ ville, 111., have gone on a quest for Alaska gold. Thesp brave women will risk the perils of the overland trip from Juneau over the Chillcoot pass. They gc to Se­ attle, remaining there a week, and then- taking the steamer for Juneau. They will cross the pass and push forward by MRS. KKISER AND MISS OSBORNE. laud to the gold fields. They will make­ file trip from Seattle with W. D. Mitch­ ell, also of Jacksonville. „ Mrs. Keiser is a vigorous woman of 40,. who has traveled around the wirld, climb­ ed mountains, and-gone through other ad­ ventures of aiy experienced traveler. Missi. Osborne is n slight young woman of 22. who is less fitted to withstand the hard­ ships of the trip. She is undaunted by the- prospeet, however.