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BIG BOOM. IN TRADE. _ • ; WESTERN MERCHANTS BUY HEAVILY OF QOODS. this Is Made Necessary to Meet In­ creased Demands of farmers and Workinjjmen-Plenty of Money Is Now Being Put in Circulation. Silver Question Dead. Special Washington correspondence: Washington business itself is per­ haps a little slow in feeling the effect of increasing volume, but reports of business improvement continue to come in from every direction aiul business men from all parts of the country are in the East buying their fall, stock. Some of them stop over in Washington en route with good news of activity,, good prices, mortgages being paid and a marked change in the vieWs of the people. "You could not realize what a change has come ove? the people," said one gentleman who had just come from the Pacific coast. "I came through that great Northwestern country where the free silver epidemic was raging-at this, time last year and was absolutely as­ tonished at the change. The demand for the free coinage of silver lias dis­ appeared and thousands of men who advocated it a year ago now admit that they were wrong. Tens of thousands are indicating their gratification that it failed and I did not hear of any who regretted his vote for McKinley, sound money and protection." "What has brought this change in so short a time?" "Improved business conditions, im­ proved confidence, improved wages and improved prices. They have all come steadily since the election of McKinley and especially since it became known that a protective tariff law would be promptly passed, and they have come in the face of a steady fall in the value of silver. This fact shows to even the most unthinking that they were being imposed upon last year by the state­ ment that prosperity could only come through the free and unlimited coinage of silver and has thoroughly disgusted them. I never saw so sudden a change in so short a time." "But the silverites say that the high price or wheat is due to the shortage abroad and that the silver question has nothing to do with it." "On the same theory it might be ar gueu that the low price was due to the surplusage abroad and that the silver question had nothing to do with that and that is just about the truth of it. too. But it is not the advance of wheat alone that convinces tliem that the 'hand-ln-hand-with-silver' theory was a humbug. They find undoubted proof of this in wool, which is a great staple with them, as it is in Ohio. Wool lias advanced 50 per cent in the past year, and yet silver has fallen meantime. And there is no excuse for the state­ ment that this advance is due to bi foreign demand. The wool of this coun­ try is consumed at home. This country has been within the past few months jammed full of wool and yet t-e price of our product has advanced 50 per cent in the face of this large supply and also in uie face of the fall in silver. Mow do you account for this? Simply because silver has nothing to do with it, but protection, prosperity and home manu­ facture have everything. And the peo­ ple are seeing it and are seeing how nearly they came to being made mon­ keys of in last fall's election." Kiistlinc Business from the West, Parties arriving here from New York say that city is full of bustling, eager merchants from the West, who have come there under a special excursion arrangement made for the purpose of taking them to New York and bringing them into closer business relationship where practicable. The crowds of buy­ ers who visited the headquarters of the Merchants' Association were even larg­ er than had been expected. It was found necessary to make use of a sec­ ond register for the names of the visit­ ors and two lines were formed by those who wished to record their arrival. The number registered was twice as large as that which registered on the first day of the first excursion from the same ter­ ritory. Many of the merchants brought their wives and children under the re­ duced rate privilege granted by the Joint Traffic railways. They came mainly from the section bounded in the west by the Mississippi, in the south by the Ohio river and in the east by Buffa­ lo and Pittsburg. The indications are that another $50,000,000. at least, will go into the pockets of New York mer­ chants before the excursion is over. They generally brought good reports of the busiuess condition, and their presence a.nd cheerful confidence prov- • ed very encouraging to the mercantile community and added to the weight of evidence of return of prosperity. ALBERT B. CARSON. has been, with the Democratic ex-Pres- ident Grover Cleveland, notoriously in­ terested in the Chicago tJas Trust. This monopoly, together with the Standard Oil Trust, the Ice Trust, the Bread Trust, the Cigarette Trust, and the Sugar Trust, aggregates a combination of capital that has been fostered under free trade, or by other Democratic alli­ ances^ for the stifling of competition,, the enhancement of prices and the op­ pression of the poor. No Mystery'in It. It is very amusing to observe the struggles of the free trade press to as­ certain how the discriminating duty clause was "slipped into" the new tar­ iff. There is nothing strange about it. The section as read, and as passed, was submitted to every member of the Ways and Means and Finance Committees by the friends of Ameri­ can shipping. The clause was revised by United States Senator Elkins of West Virginia, and general informa­ tion on tliis subject was furnished to the members of the committees to­ gether with a draft of the section by the American Protective Tariff League. There was nothing of a mys­ terious nature about the proposition; nothing accidental. It was purely in­ tentional, for the' sole purpose of ex­ tending the policy of protection to American transportation interests both by land and sea. . Bland aatl Tillman. The Hon. Richard Parks Bland and the Honorable Benjamin Pitchfork Tillman are both before the country with statements as to wheat and pros­ perity. Neither sees any signs of ac­ tual prosperity anywhere in the land. They admit that the farmers may get a few hundred million out of the rise in wheat, with which prospect they really express themselves as pleased, but the whole business, they say, will not amount to anything, and the prosperity of which they hear murmurings will soon collapse into nothing. Mr. Till­ man characterizes the prosperity wave as a "hot-balloon affair," and Mr. Bland carefully analyzes the situation in the country and sees nothing hopeful in it. Probably not. nothing hopeful in.it--for Richard Parks Bland. year. This means higher priees for corn. And yet silver continues, to fall. Means Mony Dollars. While our wlieat production is very large this year, our home consumption is increasing with returning prosperity and we will have to hold the major part of it for our own people. It is es­ timated that we will have in the neigh* borhood of 200.000,000 bushels for ex­ port, which means not far from 200;- 000r000 golden dollars to be distributed among the farmers. Rach Has His Own. Way. Our American cousins have certainly a way of their own.--Glasgow Citizen. This ds equally true of our British cousins. ̂ Theirs is a free trade way. No Kick Cominc. Mr. Bryan and his co-laborers last year promised the farmers a idollar a bushel for wheat in free-coinage-silver dollars if tliey would only put him in the White House. The free-coinage dol­ lar is now worth 40 cents. As the farm­ ers are, now' getting in the neighborhood of 100 cents for their wheat in money good the world over, they- have little regret at their failure to accept me Bryan-silver-doilar-a-bushel " proposi­ tion. ______ <•' ° • O'ntsrr.nwth of Demopracy. That trusts are the outgrowth of Democratic policies and maladminis­ tration is clearly proven when we see Mr. Roswell P. Flower, Democratic ex- Governor of the State of New York, coming to their defense. Mr. Flower The Free Trade Papers. ih n« fneejfu ABOUND A BIG STATE BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. English Lunacy Commissioner In­ spects the Asylum at Kankakee-- Big C6mpany lixceeds Its Corpora­ tive Powers --Boiler Kxplodes--Notes. Telling the wage-earner how he is op­ pressed by his "boss." M F G /My;/,// Asking the "boss" for an advertise­ ment to support the free trade paper in creating strife between capital and la­ bor. Fiscal 1881 . 181)2 . 18!): \ . 1S94 . Value. $53,052 20, "8!) 24,058 13,855 28,oi;? 000,741) 1,404.705 2,565,497 1,575,070 Our Cattle Imports. vear. Number ' 9,052 2,030 3,119 1,280 Protection average. 4,022 1895 134.825 1890 217.094 1897 328,773 Free trade average.220,897 -This final comparison of the results of protection and free trade will be of interest to those American farmers who are cattle raisers. During each year of the Democratic tariff there were nearly 227,000 head of foreign cattle shipped here from Mexico and Canada, and the money sent out of this country to pay for the foreign cattle averaged $1,575,070 a year. Hereaf­ ter. as before under protection, this money will be kept at home for circu­ lation among American farmers. Hich Prices for Corn. And now there is prospect of higher prices for corn. The Europeans are taking our corn in great quantities, and here is Statistician B. W. Snow of Chi­ cago. one of the ablest experts on crops in the country, with an estimate that the corn crop of the country will be no more than l.SOO.OOO.OOO bushels this year against 2,283,000,000 bushels last Brief Comment. A bushel of. wheat now calls for two ounces of fine silver. Last year one ounce was more than sufficient. Advices from Mexico show that statesmen there are urging steps look­ ing to the adoption of the gold stand­ ard. Mr. Bryan should hurry up jpitli his Spanish lessons. If lie doesn't hasten his trip to Mexico, another "crime" against silver is liable to be committed. Over $2,000,000 in British . money coming into San Francisco from Ans-- tralia to pay for American ,wheat! How is this for British gold-bug con­ trol? . ' / ; - The silence in the vicinity of the Yellowstone Park, where Mr. Bryan is neglecting to speak up about the rela­ tive values of wheat and silver, is becoming painful. If anybody croaks about the light receipts in the first month of the Ding- ley law, remind him of the enormous importations of the months which pre­ ceded its enactment. "Comrade McKinley" was cordially greeted by the old soldiers at Buffalo. He is the first president who served in the ranks as a private soldier and will probably be the only one. Advices from abroad show that the foreign rye crop is as badly off as the wheat crop, and as rye is largely used for bread in European countries, this development indicates a still greater demand for American wheat. Will Orator Bryan address his Ohio audience at the proposed free silvti camp meeting in Spanish? They ough'i to have some sort of a novelty to make it worth the $1,500 which it is said Mc­ Lean and Clmpman have been obliged to guarantee to get him there. With several shiploads of gold com­ ing in at the Western ports from Klon­ dike, others from Australia, and many more coming in at the East, in pay­ ment for their golden grain, the farm­ ers are not spending much time lis­ tening to free silver speeches this fall. "Blesssed is the country whose sol­ diers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, their own lives to pre­ serve it, because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in all her history."--Presi­ dent McKinley at Buffalo. - Gcttiner Ideas for London, An important event at the Illinois East­ ern Hospital the other day was the visit of John M. McDougall, chairman of the Board of Lunacy, of Loudon. His errand to the United States is to inspect insane hospitals, with a view to securing ideas that may be used to advantage in similar institutions of London. London is to have several new insane hospitals. One thou­ sand acres of land have been purchased in the* city as a site, and buildings will be erected at a cost of $8,000,000. At present there are eight insane hospitals in London, sheltering 20,000 patients. In addition to these there are 8,000 patients boarded privately at the expense of the county. The new institutions are-design­ ed for these last. The Kankakee institu­ tion impressed Mr. McDougall favorably. He said it was^ the nearest approach to a model of any he inspected. He was in­ terested in the cottage system, wliich he would recommend for chrouie but not acute-insane cases. « Kxceecls Corporative Power. The - Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission is preparing to proceed tigainst the Union Stock Yards and Tran­ sit Company of Chicago. It is claimed that the company has exceeded its corpor­ ate powers and is violating the lawd of the State by doing other than a railroad business, for which it was incorporated; is collecting revenue for work being done; is operating eight miles of main track and eighty-nine miles of siding in Cook County; has rolling stock in considerable quantity; handles coke, pig iron, iron ore, coal and other commodities from South Chicago to the plant of the Illinois Steel Company at Bridgeport, and when that plant is operating hauls its products from the plant to various railroad yards in Chicago for transportation to other rail-, roads. Vegetation on Glacial Moraines. In the Century John Muir writes of "The Alaska Trip." Mr. Muir says; .The wilderness presses close up to the town, and it is wonderfully rich and luxuriant. The forests almost rival those of Puget Sound; wild roses are three inches in diameter, and ferns ten feet high. And strange to say, all this* exuberant vegetation is growing o& moraine material that has been scarce­ ly moved or modified in any way by postglacial agents. Rounded masses Cooking School I* Decided On. At a meeting of the State Board of Ag­ riculture the exhibit of a "cooking school" or department at the coming State fair was considered. The petition of a large number of women favoring the employ­ ment of Mrs. Rolirer of Philadelphia to take charge <of this department had been laid before the board, as was one favor­ ing the appointment of Mrs. Sickles of Chicago, Col. Judy, in order to keep down all discord, moved that the board provide for such an exhibit, appropriate $100 for its use, and appoint Mrs. Saun­ ders to take charge. This motion was unanimously adopted. This will prove one of the most interesting departments of the coming State fair. Found Dead in His Bed. J. R. Conn, one of the oldest and oest known citizens of Decatur, was found dead in bed. He retired in fairly good health and when called in the morning no response came. When the room was en­ tered he was found to have died during the night. Mr. Gorin was almost 80 years old and had resided in Decatur for sixty- four years. He was quite prominent in Sunday school and Masonic work, having served as State president of the former association, and was grand master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois In 1807 and 1808, being the oldest living past grand master, Mr. Gorin served one ses­ sion in the legislature in 1850-57. Fatal Holler Explosion. The boilers in a two-story brick build- in}* used as the electric light power house, water pumping station and general mill at Morton, blew up, killing two people, seriously injuring another and slightly hurting others who were standing near the place. The building was completely hers were blown hundreds of yards away, several houses in the vicinity being dam­ aged. The top of the tower, 150 feet away, was blown off and iron thrust into the sides, dislodging bricks. Fireman George Grimm cannot explain the cause of the explosion. of hard, resisting rocks rise everywhere . , . along the shore and in the woods, their wicc'vltl an(l pieces of the iron and tint- scored and polished surfaces still un­ wanted, telling of a time, so lately gone, when the whole region lay in darkness beneath an all-embracing mantle of ice. Even in the streets of the town glaciated mosses are exposed, the telling inscriptions of which have not been effaced by the wear of either weather or travel. And in the orchards fruitful boughs shade the edges of gla­ cial pavements, and drop apples and peaches on them. Nowhere, as far as I have seen, are the beneficent influences of glaciers made manifest in plainer terms or with more striking contrasts. No tale of enchantment is so marvel­ ous, s«> exciting to the imagination, as the story of the works and ways of snow-flowers banded together as gla­ ciers, and marching forth frt*n their encampments on the mountains to de­ velop ,the beauty of landscapes aud make them fruitful. Paul Dunbar, the negro poet, is beiu lionized in London in a most flatterin, fashion. The color line is not drawn in English society, and the colored versifier, being the latest literary nov­ elty, is much sought for. His readings of his own verses have been highly praised by the press, nor are criticisms of the verses themselves less friendly. THE LATEST EUROPEAN CONCERT. --From the Detroit Mich., Journal,- August 4, 1897. More Forced Paper Appears. New forged paper lias come to light in the Durand bank affair, a large amount being held by Chicago, Beloit and Free- port banks. Representatives of these con­ cerns in calling on farmers whose notes they held at collateral for loans find near­ ly all forged. Norton is believed to have started fur the Klondike mines. Presi­ dent S. A. Blake, Norton's father-in-law, says hi' will make good the loss of cred­ itors so far as able. Drive Out Tramps. Areola was the scene of wild excite­ ment the other night. Of late the tramps who are unwilling to work have boldly plundered the gardens. Frequent com­ plaints have been made by farmers living north of the city concerning the depre­ dations. Sheriff Bagley. with the regu­ lar police force and eight, sworn depu­ ties, made a raid on the tramps. Over 400 of them were driven out of the city, headed northward. Fultbu Asks for a Hearing. Fulton citizens have addressed to Judge Gest of Rock Island an open letter in the Modern Woodmen case, briefly reviewing the legal status of the trouble over the proposed removal of Head Clerk Haves' office from Fulton, and asking him that they be permitted to have a fair hearing in open Court at a regular term, when the matter may be determined upon its mer­ its. State News in Brief.. Harry Mills Cole of Chicago was found dead in New York. The barn and contents, belonging to William Hoover of Flora were destroyed by fire. Sunt. Lane expects an enrollment of 235,000 pupils in the Chicago schools this term. New buildings and extensive ad­ ditions to old ones are needed to accommo­ date the children. " 1 he trial of Rev. R. A. Brown, pastor of the Methodist Church of Normal, on the charge of lying, ended in his acquit­ tal by the unanimous vote of the commit­ tee of preachers. Melvine Philion, 2 years old, the daugh­ ter of'a Chicago theatrical man, pressed too hard against a window screen on the' third floor and fell to the ground. The child died in a few minutes. At Galesburg a remarkable wedding anniversary was celebrated by Mr. and' Mrs. Harvey Jerauld and their descend­ ants. They were married in Galesburg fifty-seven years ago. At the anniversary celebration there were present four chil­ dren, twenty grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. A double wedding took place at Monet- ta, Ohio, Wednesday, at which two of Elgin's well-known educators became brides. Miss Julia Pierce and Rev. Leon­ ard Riley and Miss Marguerite Pierce and. Rev. Fred p. Boughton were the principals. The brides are sisters and have been teachers at the Elgin high •eliool. The grooms are college chums. The Louisville roller mills were destroy­ ed by fire. ' Frederick Lawrence, a Chicago planer, 45" years old, was found dead in his bed. James Williams, a colored barber at Sterling, was killed by a Northwestern freight train. Tlie death of Joseph Stallayd, aged CO years, occurred in Trenton, the result of a kick by a horse. The old Swedish settlers of Knox Coun­ ty held their fourth annual picnic at Lake George Park, and the attendance was large. . Justice Hoglund lias decided that Con­ gressman Lorimer must pay the Chicago Bill Posting Companj1 $183 for work done during the campaign. The presence of a large number of lay­ men, as well as ministers, marked the sessions of the Central Swedish Methodist conference at Kewanee. At Elgin the sixth annual convention of the Young People's Alliance, Illinois con­ ference branch of the Evangelical Asso­ ciation, was very interesting. Martin B. Madden and Thomas Gxhan have returned to Chicago after an ab­ sence of two months with their families in England, Scotland and France. The first meeting of the Illinois Wom­ an's Alliance was held in the Sherman House, Chicago, with the president, Mrs. Minnie Eastman Steebe^, presiding. The body of Nels Hellesnarz, the Uni­ versity of Michigan medical student drowned in the lake at Chicago, was washed ashore near the marine hospital. The Town Board of Cicero has pro­ posed an ordinance to compel the placing of all electric, cable and feed wires under ground. It will likely become a lsw. Capt. Adolph Frietseh of Chicago, who crossed the Atlantic in the little yacht Nina, lias bought the schooner George Sturges and proposes to sail iu her for the Klondike. Edward Winkler, Mayor of Belleville, was arrested at the fair grounds on a warrant sworn out by the Rev. A. J. Klene. The charge is permitting book- making at the fair. The board of naval officers appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to examine facilities for the manufacture of armor "late Investigated the plant of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago the oth­ er da v. J. C. Cox, merchant and postmaster at Ayors, was struck dumb while smoking his pipe in front of his store. Otherwise Mr. Cox is in good health and attends to business with the assistance of a slate and pencil. Miniature prairie fires raged in Chicago Sunday, and in three instances the fire department was required to prevent dam­ age to adjacent property. Most of the blazes were caused by sparks from rail­ way engines. F. P. Moulton, assistant division super­ intendent of the Wisconsin division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and Section Boss McMicken, of the same road, were severely injured in an accident which occurred near Palatine. The corn planter works of the Deere «& Mansur Company at Moliue are closed on account of a geiieral sympathetic strike of all the employes. The trouble began about five weeks' ago, when the 'foundry employes asked the company to discharge a foreman. The fourth injunction against the Mod­ ern Woodmen of America by * he city of Fulton was dissolved by Judge Gest. The Court disposed of the injunction, as-well as motion for change of veuue, without argument, regarding the question as one already adjudicated. Confined in an elevator cage that was slowly moving upward. Adam Wilson, engineer in the postgraduate hospital, at Chicago, battled for his life with Samuel A. Smith, colored, elevator conductor, iu the institution, the latter being armed with a razor. Smith escaped. Thirty days were deemed insufficient time for the preparation of an explosion or carnival at the Colisucm the week of Oct. 9 under the auspices of the business men of Chicago. This was the decision reached by the quorum of a committee appointed to discuss the project. The State Board of Labor Statistics met, and outside of the transaction of rou­ tine matters announced the appointment by Gov. Tanner of Edwin J. Enos, of Alton, representing the painters and dec­ orators' union, as a member of the board to succeed A. J. Yeager. deceased. Louis Jordan, wli' is found dead in a Chicago lodging ln>i . was ill excellent circumstances. He f« nierly was a pros­ perous shoe and clothing merchant of Peoria, and his relatives and friends are making strenuous efforts to tear away the mystery that surrounds his taking off. The Bluff City electric railway is to be extended this fall from North Chicago to Highland Park. The village of Ladd is all worked up over the operations of a gang of firebugs and burglars in that neighborhood. Three buildings were set on fire last week, end every indication is that it was the worl of incendiaries. The village hosehouse was set on fire, and the next night Presi­ dent Rolando's icehouse was burned to the ground. A farmer named John Kin­ der, living a half mile from Ladd, suffered th-a greatest financial loss. His barn and grain cribs were set on tire Sunday morn­ ing and. together with their entire con tents, destroyed. Before this epidemic of fires Ladd experienced a series of safe burglaries, and nearly every safe in the village was at one time or another blown open. Last week a man named Michael Vacilli was shot and killed by a burglar. Yacilli discovered the man in his house rifling his trunk, and when he started in pursuit, he was shot dead. Some time ago the town hall was fired and shortly after­ ward the lumber yard was eaten up by flames. A well-known politician and for­ mer president of the village board had the tongue of his race horse cut out of its head upon the eve of a race. There seems to be no end to mischief that has been going on iii the village during the past few months and the police seem pow­ erless to check it. Benjamin Arnold, a farmer of Blue Mound, jumped from a fast freight at the depot at Lexington. . Both of his legs were crushed and he died in a few min­ utes. Osville A. Snedeker, of Jerseyville, is dead. He was a member of the XXXVTIItli and XXXIXth General As­ semblies and the author of one of the flag laws. Peace at last reigns in Waukegan mu­ nicipal affairs. Months of factional fight­ ing have, seemingly come to an end and the Aldermen now promise to unite and work for the city's advancement. Miss Belle Carmen, the Chicago actress, shows continued improvement in her con­ dition. She is able to sit up in bed and take; nourishment from the hands of her sister. Dr. Campbell now pronounces the young banjo player to be on the rapid road to recovery from Mrs. Middleton's assault. The speakers' stand gave away at the dc-licatory exercises of the Hibernian monument in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Cook County. No one was seriously hurt. Arthur .T. Flay and Hilda E. Sciiefller were married in the-rooms of flu; Cook County-Democracy, and members of the organization presented them v.-lib a baby STRIKE IS SETTLED. MINERS AT COLUMBUS ACCEPT THE 65-CENT RATE. Recommendation of the Executive Committee Is Adopted--Time Is Wanted to Arrange the Proportion­ ate Scales--Delay of Ten Days Voted. Compromise Agreed Upon. By the action of the national convention of coal miners at Columbus Saturday the great coal strike was brought to a close. Work will be resumed in all the mines in ten days. Some mines at the principal centers may be reopened immediately. The basis of the settlement is at the rate of 05 cents a ton for the Pittsburg district. A proportionate rate for Illi­ nois and Indiana would . be 5G cents a ton. The rate is different in the different districts owing to the greater or fess labor required in digging s ton of coal. Where the veins are rich and thklk and not deep­ ly covered the rate is. less than where the veins are lean and deep under the soil. The resolution adopted by the conven­ tion is as follows; "We. the miners of Pennsylva- . nia, West Virginia, Ohio, In­ diana and Illinois, in convention assembled, do hereby agree to ac­ cept the proposition recommended by our national executive.commit­ tee, viz., 05 cents in the Pittsburg district, all places in the above named States where a relative price can be obtained to resume work and contribute liberally to the miners who do not receive vlie advance, where the tight must be continued to a bitter finish. "The national officers, executive board and district presidents are to act as an advisory boitpl for the purpose of providing ways and means for the carrying on of the strike where necessary. "Provided, however, that no dis­ trict resume work for ten days in order to give miners & other dis­ tricts time to confer With their op­ erators and get the price if pos­ sible." I •4* "' There iyas no arbitration in the settle­ ment. The miners demanded 09 cents a ton. The mine owners offered them 05 cents a ton pending arbitration. If the arbitrators should decide on 09'conts they would make that up in back pay to the minors. If the arbitrators awarded less than 05 cents the miners should work at a rebate until the excess should be re­ funded. The miners agreed to accept 05 cents a ton flat without waiting for the action of 'the arbitrators rather than accept the floating scale offered by the operators with a chance of a lower rate being awarded. In this tjiey were probably wise, as the rate is said to afford living wages. Their losses and sufferings have been great during the strike. The coal operatorg m the I^iUsburg dis­ trict say they, are glad tlie strike Is over, but they have a whole lot of grievances. They etaim that the ten-day clause was inserted at the instance of Illinois and Ohio operators, who profited greatly by every day's idleness in this district. The Pittsburg operators will pay no attention to the ten-aay provision, but will start their mines at once. The operators are discussing the advisability of offering their men inducements to withdraw from the national association and form an or­ ganization of the Pittsburg district alone. The operators say they could satisfy their men if they were not handicapped by in­ terference from the outside, much of it prompted, they say, by competing opera­ tors. The Pittsburg operators say they could then prevent strikes in their district. Tlio miners of the Pittsburg district propose to contiguo the jight against the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Com­ pany, of which De Armit is president, and to wage it more fiercely than ever. The working miners will be assessed to pay De Armit's strikers full wages as long an they are out of employment, and the camps and pickets will be maintained all winter if necessary. The miners blame De Armit for most of their troubles, and are determined to defeat him at any cost. A convention will be held to arrange the details. There is considerable confusion as to what will be done in the Indiana mining field as a result of (lie Columbus settle­ ment. The Indiana operators have not been consulted at any time and have said they will be guided by the result in Illi­ nois. Some of them say they will start their mines at the 50-cent price, which is differential on the 05 for the Pittsbiirg district, but they also say that they are willing to pay this price at present be­ cause the market price of coal will war­ rant them in doing so. They also believe that the Illinois miners will make a strong fight to bring their operators to terms and that at least while this effort is being made Indiana can pay the price, but that if the Illinois operators again begin mining coal under the Indiana price, Indiana miners will have to accept a re­ duction, as they did last May. The mine workers of Ishpeming and Negaur.ce, Mich., promised at a mass meeting to raise $5,000 for the coal min­ ers of Illinois. All the men agreed to give one day's pay to the cause. The most melancholy episode of the strike period was the wanton massacre of many workingmen in Pennsylvania. War­ rants on an accusation of murder have been served on Sheriff Martin and a mem­ ber of his deputies. He declares that he did not give the order to fire. But he had lost his head and his descriptions of the horrible scene differ entirely l'roiu those of "cooler men. ANOTHER BAD WRECK. Seven Killed, Six Wounded on the Iron Mountain Road. A disastrous freight wreck occurred on the Iron Mountain road at Hanson, I. T„ a small station twenty miles west of Van Buren, Ark., resulting in the death of sev­ en men and the serious injury of six oth­ ers. Of the wounded it is thought that two wi:l die, as they suffered internal in­ juries. The wrecked train was local freight No. 45. from Coffeeville, Kan., to Van Buren. While the train was running at twenty miles an hour the forward trucks of one of the cars near the engine broke, wreck­ ing fifteen cars loaded with walnut logs and baled hay. With the exception of two in fn'Jnt and three in the rear, including the caboose, every car of the twenty com­ posing the train was ditched. In the mid­ dle of the train was a car loaded with heavy machinery. From the ruins of this car the seven dead and six serbusly womided were taken. It appears that the oceupmits of the wrecked car were a party of men and boys living at Vian, I. T., who were go­ ing to Van Buren to tiiul employment in the cotton fields. When the machinery car left the rails it fell on its side, nearly all of tlje men being caughtT>y the heavy beams. A car of logs was piled oh top of the one in which the men were riding. Sparks from, the Wires. William Matthews, an actor, blew his brains out in front of his wife's bedroom iu the St. James Hotel, St. Louis. Theodore D.urrant is still enjoyitig lifa in California, though he isn't going but much in society this season. LABOR'S^OWN DAY. Workinsmen In Many Cities Observe Their Annual Holiday, Latest born of the anniversary days which in the United States are deemed worthy of special observance, Labor Day this year again proved good its claim to an endearing place in the calendar. Throughout the years of its existence its purpose and its significance have gained favor and appreciation more and more. In Chicago the public participated gen­ erously ih the celebration. Members of workingmen's organizations, for whom the occasion is the most momentous of the year, because it reflects their strength and their progress, forsook the bench and forge and in peaceful mood checked for the day the Industrial life of the city. When they gathered along Jhe broad pavement in Michigan avenue to form the parade that was the main event of the day they made a pageant whose like has seldom been witnessed on the continent. Thirty thousand bread winners were in line and thrice that number looked on and applauded. * At Toronto the Labor Day procession combined to make the industrial exhibi­ tion the greatest success in its history. A procession two miles long paraded the streets all morning, and in the afternoon the workingmen went to the show. The jubilee procession of Victorian era tab­ leaux was witnessed by tens of thousands. The railroad traffic, oWiijg to the great crowds attracted here by the fair, was the heaviest iu the history of the rail­ roads. The Labor Day demonstration, in Springfield, 111, was the most pretentions for years. The number of workingmen in the procession was about 2,000, It Was reviewed by the Governor and State offi­ cials from a decorated stand. The tenth annual celebration of Labor Day in Dubuque was more generally ob­ served than ever before. Addresses were delivered by Mayor Duffy and William 13. Burns of Chicago. " H } "•\ The feature of Labor Day celebration in St. Lpuis was an address by W. J. Bryan at Conconjja Park, The biggest crowd ever seen in the park greeted the speaker. His speech throughout was en­ thusiastically applauded, Previous to the •meeting tiryah SfcViowed a parade of WPn. . _ , v Lx-Gov. Altgela of Illinois delivered ah address at Philadelphia, where thousands of persons Tiad assembled to assist the United Labor League in the celebration of Labor Day. The noted jurist and politi­ cian from the Prairie State was intro­ duced to the large audience by President Ernest Ivreft and received a flattering welcome. His speech was listened to with keen interest throughout and frequently provoked outbursts of enthusiastic dem­ onstration. 9! H ;$ " v - • £ 1 UM ' * - • ** . . * .Vi GIVES UP HER FAITH FOR LOVE. • Misa Belknap Abondons Christianity to Become Panl May's Wife. To embrace the Jewish faith and re­ nounce her belief in the divinity of Christ is something of a task for a woman, even though it be undertaken for the man she loves, yet this is what Miss Belknap, .whose fathej was Qjiee Secretary of War, has undertaken. For over a year there has been a love match between Miss Bel­ knap and Paul May, a young man well known and liked in diplomatic circles in Washington. The marriage of the conple was opposed by both faihilies because May is a Hebrew and Miss Belknap, of course, is a Christian. In order to cir­ cumvent the match, if possible, and make the young man forgot his inamorata, Mrs. May secured his appointment a year ago as an attache of the Belgian legation in Japan. But through all the period of his enforced absence his heart was true to the girl he left behind, and now that Miss , t ' r-\ •Sit • • -} MISS BELKJfAP. Belknap has announced her intention of renouncing Christianity and embracing the Hebrew faith there is no longer any objection to the wedding on the part of the May family, and the event will doubt­ less be one of the most brilliant of the social season. As there is iio synagogue in Washington, the couple will be mar­ ried in New York. In order to be received into the Jewish Church Miss Belknap must go before three rabbis, who will explain to her all the tenets of the faith she is about to subscribe to. Then she must give up her belief in the divinity of Christ and re­ nounce the New Testament, and after that she must submit to the bath of puri­ fication. Miss Belknap is a charming young woman about 20 years old. She has spent many years abroad, and her name has been coupled with that of sev­ eral young society men of Washington in the past in rumors of engagements. A PARADISE FOR MAIDENS Two Women ?ecnre Rich Hnsbands in the Klondike. The news is brought by the latest min­ ers that have returned from the Klondike that as a matrimonial market Dawson City has no equal on earth. Women are as scarce as gold dust is burdensome in the metropolis of the new Eldorado. All the men avow that any woman can be­ come a bride with a wedding present of thousands of dollars' worth of gold dust within thirty minutes after arriving at Dawson City if she will but whisper her consent. Ten thousand dollars m gold was laid at' the feet of the lady in a num­ ber of instances at Dawson City before the ceremony was performed. Miss Gus- sio La More, formerly of Juneau, has made the most desirable marriage from * pecuniary point of view. It is a fact that Swiftwater Bill was so smitten with her charms that he called on Miss La More the day of her arrival lyid wooed her with $50,000 'of gold dust in a coal oil can^Tbe next day she became Mrs. Swiftwater Bill. Violet Raymond, a variety actress, formerly of Sail Francisco and Seattle, is now a princess and resident of Dawson City. She married an Italian who struck^, it rich. He is called Prince"S^ouio. Miss Raymond and Miss La More went to Dawson City together. There is but one woman in the town whs is not married. She has refused every single man in Daw­ son, and they have knelt before her with uplifted hands full of gold. Being refused they have told her that she does not know a good thing when she sees it ^ < • hi