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CONTRAST IS MARKED FAMINE AT DAWSON, Upward of 3,000 people tried to organ­ize a demonstration in the early evening in front of the foreign office building, but this was prevented by closing the ap­ proaches to the palace. After 8 o'clock the city was quiet. The judge of the Pro­ vincial Criminal Court discharged Herr Wolff from custody; There were dem­ onstrations also at Gratis, Prague and Asch, in .Bohemia, but they were not of a serious character. The riotous obstructionists won anoth­ er victory Saturday in the unterhaus at Vienna. Themitting had to be postponed, the President announcing that members would- be notified by maU of the date of future sittings. Herr Wolff was further humiliated by being dragged to a police station aaid there locked up for a time. Police charges were made on mobs in Vienna and in Gratz, the capital of Styria. In the lat­ ter place the military took a hand, and two rioters were reported killed and many wounded. The performances in the lower house of the Reiehsrath have developed each day new features of astounding interest. Dep­ uties have exhausted the vocabulary of abuse and the engineery of obstruction. There is nothing in the history of parlia­ mentary government in Europe that can -compare with the proceedings which cul­ minated in riots on the public streets and in demands that Count Badeni be sent to the guillotine. - *- employment by the previous depression, and the difference generally between con­ ditions in railroad circles now and a year ago shows a remarkable change. A Comparison of Deficits. It is poor taste and bad politics for the Democrats and the Democratic newspa­ pers to point at the deficit of something over three million dollars for the second month of the Dingley law, when the sec­ ond month of the Wilson law, as every-.- body knows, ran up a deficit of thirteen and a half million, or about four times as much, notwithstanding the fact that the conditions at the time of the enactment of that low tariff measure were most fav­ orable to it. while the reverse is the case with the Dingley law. According to the treasury officials, the Dingley law will be making expenses before very long. The Stings of Competition. Carolina ^wants more mills. The surplus money of the State is put into cotton mills, and each mill directly or indirectly leads to another mill; and the fetate entertains the hope that every county will attain to the economic' eminence of Spartanburg .Countjta--Birmingham (Ala.) Herald. Transportation Affects Silver's! Price The matter of transportation has cut nn important figure in determining the supply, and consequently the value, of the stock of silver in the world. Prior to the building of the Pacific railroads the sil­ ver producing sections of the United States were devoid of transportation fa­ cilities, and. simultaneously with the cre­ ation of these transportation facilities, the production of silver began to increase enormously, and the price began t^fall. "The fact that every pound of silver repre­ sents several hundreds of pounds of ore shows the close relation of transportation to silver. Practical Workings of Silver. Countries which are operating upon a silver basis have been bordering on panics during the last year. Silver has decreas­ ed twenty per cent, or one-fifth of its value, during that time. Thus, if % man loaned $500 he would receive but $400 in payment; he would receive five hundred silver dollars in payment for the five hun­ dred silver dollars which he loaned, but, they would be worth in the markets of the world but four-fifths of the value, loaned. This is a condition which would exactly suit the people who were last year j clamoring for an opportunity to pay their j debts in depreciated money. They Are Deserting the Ship.. It is an actual fact, rather than a cam­ paign story, that the advocates --of the free silver theory are gradually and grace­ fully breaking away from their former convictions in regard to the wliite metal and are looiking about for other "issues." Many men who supported free silver in last year's campaign, seeing the way the drift is going, are dropping the silver the­ ory and coming out squarely in favor of absolute fiatism. It is, however, but a step from free silver and the issuance of money worth forty cents on the hundred to unlimited paper money with nothing behind it to assure its redemption. Why Does He Want a Toga. Mr. John 11. McLean of Washington, D. C., owns the bulk of the stock in the Washington Gaslight Company, capital­ ized at $5,000,000, also shares in the Cap­ ital Traction Company, a street railway monopoly, capitalized at $12,000,000. The prices of gas in Washington and the fares which railways may charge the citizens of Washington, and other such details, are regulated by Congress, which acts in the capacity of a "board of aldermen" for tne District of Columbia. Nobody has any idea, therefore, why .Tohn It. McLean wants to get into the United States Sen­ ate. Our Pitiable Condition. It is a pity that this country should be so completely at the mercy of the "gold power" of England. Gold has been pour­ ed into the United States, at San Fran­ cisco, New York and all the great ports, until our gold circulation is fifty million more than it was a year ago, while the total increase in circulation is nearly a hundred million. There really seems to be no way to stop these schemers in the old countries from flooding us with their gold and sweeping away the underpin­ ning of the Chicago and other free coin­ age platforms. Pound Another Cause. The silver trust is preparing to attack the railroads. It has just occurred to the members of the trust that the cause in the fall in the price of silver is due large­ ly to the fact of cheapness in transporta­ tion of silver ore. A ton of ore con­ tains five or six dollars' worth of silver, and it is apparent that transportation cuts an important figure in the price of the white metal. It is therefore evident that the rapid opening up of railroad lines has had much to do with the fall of the "money of the Constitution." AROUND A BIG STATE An, entire business block in Dallas Oltjr was destroyed by fire. Loss, $17,800. In the special election for Mayor at Sterling, David L. Miller was elected oyer Francis E. Andrews. Lucius P. Hoyt, a wealthy manofac- .. furer and pioneer settler of, Aurora, is dead, ^e was aged 70. At Louisville, Willie Jennings, aged 10, was assailed by a crowd of rough boya and beaten so that he died. Judge Joseph E. Gary has been selected to preside at Adolph L. Luetgert's second trial for murder at Chicago. John Dewester of Shelbyville was de­ capitated by a train while saving his lit­ tle daughter from being run over. A special session of the General As­ sembly and senatorial reapportionment oC the State are now almost certainties. Mrs. Elmira Armitage was homed by the explosion of a kerosene stove in Chi­ cago and died at St. Elizabeth's hospital. Capt. A. Z. Blodgett, for thirty years station agent at Waukegan for the Chi­ cago and Northwestern Railroad, has been retired on a pension, j. E. Moore of Evanston succeeds him. The Secretary of State has licensed the incorporation of the St. Louis and Belleville Suburban Railway Company, with a capital stock of $350.0<)0 and witk the main office at East St. Louis. It runs from Belleville,to.St. Louis. Several prominent Chicago people are interested, .in • a • rich mining property. Beat Jamestown, Tuoluhine County, Cal. The mine, known as the Alameda, has recent­ ly developed into what its owners con­ sider a "big thing." „ Judge Blanehard of the La! Salle' Comi­ ty Circuit. Court has decided that a deed- of 109 acres of land in that county, from E. S. Peddicord to Dr. John Kellogg of the Battle Creek, Mich., sanitarium, was prima facie void, and set it " aside, the property, valued at $13,000, reverting to the children. A fire that threatened to wipe out ev­ ery house in the Lime lake district start­ ed at the southern end of the district ia the tall, dry grass, and raged for forty- eight hours, when it was finally extin- guished.Jjy the farmers, who worked all night, l^he flames worked north into Hancock County, where several houses and barns were destroyed. John De Silva, the Portuguese who was arrested at Pana for burning the barn of his employer, Fritz Dahler, by which five head of houses and thirty-five head of cattle were burned, was indicted by the grand jury in the morning and in the af­ ternoon pleaded guilty to setting fire to the barn and also to another criminal offense. Judge Farmer sentenced him to the penitentiary. A murder was committed at the mining town of Gilchrist. Michael Cherkee shot and killed John Ozingo because the lat­ ter refused to admit him to his house. Ozingo fell almost on his own doorstep, shot through the breast, and died -in about two hours. Both Cherkee and Ozingo, alias Hazourka, are miners. Cherkee surrendered and was taken to the county jail. Ozingo was 28 years old, and leaves a widow and four small children. A telegram was received by the Order of Railway Telegraphers at Peoria, say­ ing Judge Sanborn of the United States Court at St. Paul, Minn., had decided in their favor a suit against the receiver of the Union Pacific, holding that railroad employes are entitled to representation on the board of trustees of the railroad hos­ pital. The amount of $75,000 in the hos­ pital fund is ordered paid back pro rata to employes who contributed it, and the property is ordered sold. People in the village of Chebanse and vicinity are discussing with much inter­ est the restoration of, the siglft of Mrs. Michael Brazill, 70 years old. Mrs. Bra- zill had been blind two years, but believed ]i(H- vision would ho restored by prayer. During the forty hours' adoration at the Catholic Church of Chebanse recently, she slowly made her way to the altar and prayed. In a few moments she was able to distinguish objects clearly. She at­ tributes her restoration of vision to her faith. ' - "" f?1 J Jolin 13., Peter W. and Spencer L. Wei- don, and Mr. and Mrs. Scott, well-known followers of Schweinfurth and residents of his "heaven," south of Roekford. have closed a deal for the purchase of 1,700 acres of choice land adjoining and partly in the village of Portage, Wis. The pur­ pose for which the land was purchased, so the Weldons say, is to establish exten­ sive stock farms for the raising of blood­ ed horses and cattle, but there are ru­ mors that Schweinfurth is to remove his Winnebago County heaven, or at least, establish a branch there. Fannie Brutz, 9 years old, died in agony as the result of playing with matches. The child was left alone in the kitchen in the home of her parents in Chicago, and her screams attracted her mother, Mrs. Annie Brutz, who found her child in flames. The frantic mother attempted to smother the blaze with her hands, and^ being unsuccessful in this, snatched the burning clothing from the body of her child, burning her own hands severely. The little girl was frightfully burned, the flesh peeling from her arms and her breast scorched to a livid hue. She suffered ex­ cruciating agony and died three, hours after being removed to a hospital. The big department store of D. Heencn & Co. at Streator was set on fire by the accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp in the millinery department, and a blaze followed which involved a loss of from $250,000 to $300,000. The flames spread throughout the entire building, consum­ ing that, together with the ^xtstoffice block, and badly damaging adjoining properties. The total loss on the building is placed as follows: Stock. $140,000; fur­ niture, $15,000; building. $45,000. Other principal losers are: H. F. Howland. fur­ niture; Palace shoe store, Union National Bank; J, C. Ames, M, Pureell & Co., dry goods; Julius Moses, clothing; H. N. Ry­ an & Son, attorneys; C. R. Taylor, dent­ ist; O. C. Chubbuck & Son, attorneys; Home Building and Loan Association, Scliarfenberg Brothers, clothiers; B. T. Keating, $1,000. President McKinley will probably be ia Rock Island during the National Unjeu Veterans' Union encampment next Au­ gust. Commander-in-Chief Street has written to Rock Island to that effect. Alfred D. Langlois, a Bvmber of the senior class of the Evanston High School, was killed by a train on the Northwest­ ern road. Charles Sittegleman, a laborer, walking along the track on his; way home, saw him lying between the< rails of the south-bound track. The body was still warm when picked up by the police. The young man must have been struck by one train while alighting from another. Frederick W. Griffin, who as assistant cashier embezzled $50,000 from the North, western National Bank of Chicago, aed who was sentenced to five years in the Joliet penitentiary, has been pardoned'by President McKinley. Commissioners to locate monuments on positions occupied by Illinois troops in, the Chickamauga battle have accepted plans for a $7,000 monument to be erect­ ed on Orchard knob. The planss were made by George Craig of Galesburg. Th» monument will be of the csmopy-^rder^ surmounted by a round column aM a. figure of a standard bearer above; height 43 fnet and outside measurement of tb* bottom 14 feet iquare. ,• HOW THE DINGLEY AND LAWS COMPARE. FEAR OF STARVATION CAUSES DREAD ALARM. 1LSON BRIEF COMPILATION OF NOIS NEWS. First Four Months of Each-- Dingley Measure Meets Expectations of Its Most Sanguine Friends--NoW Recov­ ering from Early Heavy Imports. Officials on the Yukon Urge the Peo- • pie to Flee from Certain Suffering and Disease-Notice with Startling Words Is Posted. The Grddt Coal Strike Is Ended--In­ ternal Revenue Collector Found Dead at Columbia--Anti-Trust Is Declared Void--Coal Stride at Bethany. Getting on Its Feet. Special Washington correspondence: The new Congress will find that tariff law which it placed upon the statute books in the extra session called last spring has done about all that could have been expected of it during the four mouths of its operation. It was not thought by its fraiuers that its first four mouths would be much of an indication of its ca­ pacity as a revenue raiser, as conditions were so broken up by the heavy importa­ tions just previous to its enactment. Of course, importations almost ceased imme­ diately after its passage, but it is "get­ ting on its feet,'? as it were, sooner than was expected by most people. During the Ihy^monihs which preceded the enactment <jk the new law, the'impor­ tations were about $100,000,000 in excess of the normal importations for that pe­ riod, and the revenue for the first time in the history of the Wilson law was suf­ ficient to meet the running expenses of the Government, averaging during these tiv.e months $3(i,0tK),000 . per month,' against an average of $25,500,000 per month during the other thirty months of the history, of that act.. It was not sur­ prising. then, that the men who framed the Diligley law left- Washington, after placing it upon the statute books, in the expectation that its earnings in the first few months of its existence would be ex­ tremely light. In the four months in which the Jaw will then have been in operation, its earn­ ings will surpass by several millions the earnings of the Wilson law in the corre­ sponding four months of its history, and have at the same time shown a recupera­ tive power which indicates clearly that when the normal conditions return it will be ample as a revenue producer. Start­ ing its work with a month in which its importations were barely half what they had averaged during the closing months of the Wilson law, its earnings for that month, August, were $19,023,014, increas-. ing nearly three million dollars in the month which followed and again in the third month, making nearly as large an in­ crease, while the earnings of the present month will reach a .round $25,000,000. And this has occurred with no revenue of consequence from sugar, wool or many other revenue producing articles with which the warehouses of the country had been filled to overflowing just prior to the enactment of the law. Treasury officials express the belief that the revenue from sugar alone, after the stock now in the country is exhausted, will reach $5,000,- 000 per month, while that from other sources must increase sufficiently to <pdd from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 per month. It is apparent from the work which the new law has performed under the adverse conditions which have surrounded it that members of Congress, when they come to­ gether a week hence, may feel well satis­ fied with the work which they performed in the special session in placing this act upon the staStute books, and may confi­ dently expect that it will, AVithin a very short time, prove ample in its revenue pro­ ducing prfwer. It is expected that the im­ portations of sugar will be resumed early in the coining year, probably in January, and that there will be a marked increase in other lines of importations, so that there is good rcason'to expect that the receipts will average a million dollars a day early in the coming year and that the receipts in the calendar year, 189S, will be equal to the running expenses of the Government. The receipts under the new law have been published from month to month since it went into operation, but a com­ parison of the receipts with those of the corresponding months in the history of the Wilson law is interesting at this time. The Wilson law. it will be remembered, came into operation with the warehouses and shelves of the country empty, wait­ ing large imports under the reduced tariff rates which it offered, while the Dingley law came into operation with conditions exactly reversed. In view of these cir­ cumstances in which the importation dur­ ing the first few months of the Wilson law were in excess of the normal, while those of the first few months of the Ding­ ley law were far below the normal, a com­ parison of the earnings of these two laws in their first four months will be especially- interesting to those who desire to judge of the comparative merits of the two acts. Treasury receipts during the first four months of the Dingley law, compared with the receipts during the first four months of the Wilson law: Ueceipts Dingley law- August. 1897 910,023.014 September. 1SSJ7 21,933,008 Oetofter. 1S97 24,391,415 November, 1S97 (estimated) 25,000,000 Total $90,348,127 Receipts Wilson law- September. 1S!>4 ?22.012,22S October, 1S94 19,139,240 November, 1894 19,411,403 December, 1S94 '... . 21,800,136 Total $83,038,047 A. 15. CAItSON. Great Railroad Improvement. The railroad employes of the country are not regretting their labors and votes of last year in favor of McKinley, sound money and protection. The gross earn­ ings of the year just ended for the rail­ roads of the country arc $75,000,000 greater than in the year preceding, and the number of people employed has largely increased, with a higher scale of wages- in many cases. Railroad shops have start­ ed up all over the country on full and overtime, giving employment to thousands of old hands who had been thrown out of Must Go or Die. Famine and starvation are threatening the people of the Yukon Itiver between Miuook Creek, Alaska, and Stewart River, Northwest^ Territory. There are over 1,000 persons in Dawson City with­ out provisions. An equal number, in-, eluding women and children, are lying in tents, and a heavy snow has fallen. Men are arriving at the rate of seventy-five a day, many of whom have less than half enough rations to last through the win- tor. Beans, four, rice, bacon antf other provisions are selling from $1.25 to $1.50 a pound. Jack Dalton of Juneau and -one or two other stockmen arrived lately with a few -hundred head of live stock and tem­ porarily relieved the situation. Advices from Dawson City via Seattle say that no powei* on earth, can prevent a famine. The people appreciate it to the fUHest extent, Caches are being robbed nightly. One man was detected in the act of-stealing food and was shot. He was driven to' desperation by hunger. A dozen MB,n have been arrested for robbing caches. . ,•-••••. •.'• • * r The gold commissioner could not get, enough provisions to feed his office force and was compelled to send several clerks and • assistants down to Fort Yu­ kon, where 1,000 tons of food is stored. The winter has commenced. On the Alas­ ka side of the Yukon River there are fully 3,500 people, and there is less than 1,200 tons* of provisions to feed them. The 'Dominion police are sending scores of men down the river to Circle City and Fort Yukon to relieve the local situation. In Circle City a week or two ago two steamers, the P. B. Weare and the Bella, were stopped by thirty men armed with rifles and relieved of thirty tons of pro­ visions, There is no concealing the true status of affairs. Before spring thou­ sands of men and scores of women and children will be suffering from the pangs of hunger and disease. Provisions will be needed in February and March to prevent great suffering. The commercial companies are doing what they can to relieve the situation by equalizing the division of food supply. Hundreds of men are in camp with a sack of flour each, forty pounds of bacon, twen­ ty-five pounds of beans and five pounds of coffee to last until next June. No man can perform hard work on such meager . food. The situation cannot be overdrawn or exaggerated. The Canadian authorities have issued bulletins urging the people •to go to Fort Yukon for provisions. It is a sad prophecy to make that by May 1 hundreds of new graves will fill the little cemetery back of Dawson City, but it is being heard frequently. Hundreds of val­ uable claims Which could not be bought a month ago for any price are now being traded for provisions, and men with any amount of property or money are sacri­ ficing nearly all of their worldly posses­ sions for food. Following is a notice posted in Dawson City by the Canadian mounted police: OFFICIAL WARNING--LEAVE DAWSON OR STARVE. • The undersigned, officials of the Canadian Government, having carefully looted over the present distressing situation irj regard to the supply of food for the winter, rind that the stock on hand is not sufficient to meet the wants of the people now at Dawson, and can only see one way out of the difficulty, and that is an immediate move down the river of all those who are now unsupplled to Fort Yukon, where there is a large stock of provisions. Within a few days the river win be closed and the move must be made at once. It Is absolutely hazardous to build hopes upon the arrival of boats. It is almost beyoud a possibility that any more food will come to this district. For those who have not 4ald in a winter's supply to remain here any longer is to court death from starvation, or at least a certainty of sickness from scurvy or other troubles. Starvation now stares every man in the . tface who is waiting and hoping for outside 'relief. Little effort and trifling cost will place them in comfort and safety, within fa few days, at Fort Yukon or other points below, where there are now large stocks of •food. C. C. CONSTANTINE, Chief Mounted Police. D. W. DAVIS, Collector of Customs. THOMAS FAWCBTT, Gold Commissioner. PLAN OF UNCLE SAM'S EXHIBIT. Coal Strike Is Over. The coal mining strike in the northern Illinois district is ended. Twelve thou­ sand have gone back to work in the Coal City, Carbon Hill, Lodi, Seatonville, La Salle and Oglesby fields. One thousand men remain out at Streator;,. the only point where miners and operators have not agreed. A settlement there is expect­ ed within a week. Victory is with the miners, although they have not won all they asked. Their chief demand was for a "mine run" price, that is a rate per ton as the coaJ comes from the mine,;un­ screened. This has been conceded in some places. Where the rate remains fixed on the price per net ton of screened coal, a substantial advance has been won. The increase in wages all through the district amounts, approximately, to 10 cents a.ton over the schedule made last May. The strike had been on since July 4. . Anti-Trust taw, Void. . A Verdict in the. case of the Lycoming Rubber Company, a Pennsylvania cor­ poration, against Wright &. Barber, a Rock Island shoe firm, was returned by a jury in the County Court, the plaintiff being awarded $50.25." The amount sued for was $200, alleged to be due on a bill of goods bought by the defendants. One of the co&tentipps made by the defense was that the Lycoming company was a member of the United States rubber trust, and as such could not collect its bills. An alleged discovery which gives an air of unusual importance to the case was made during the hearing by C. J. Searle, one of the attorneys, who found that by an amendment passed by the last General AsseniDly tne anti-trust law was made in­ operative. Finds a Long Lost Parent. Charles E. Pixley, assistant storekeep­ er of the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee, received a letter ac­ quainting him with the whereabouts of his mother, whom he had not seen since he was 5 years old, and whom he believed dead. Mrs. Rachael Henrietta South- worth, for his mother had married again, Is an inmate of the ^Western Virginia Hospital for the Insane at Weston. She could be discharged from that institution If she had any place to go, for, according to the superintendent, her mind is per­ fectly clear. Her step-children have tak­ en all her property, so that she has* not even her widow's third. Falls from a Moving Train. Madison C. Stookey of Belleville, dep­ uty internal revenue collector, stepped out on the platform of a Mobile and Ohio train as it was crossing a trestle near Columbia at night, lost his balance and fell off. His neck was broken. The body was found the next morning. The cor­ oner's jury returned a verdict of acci­ dental death. One passenger states that Stookey left the train at Columbia. If this is correct he is supposed to have walked up the track and fallen off the trestle. None of his valuables was gone and there is no suspicion of foul play. Strike Coal at Betliany. While Willis and Henry Muiholland were boring a well one-half mile east of Bethany they struck coal at a depth of IIS feet. They bored into the coal bed five feet and are not through the vein yet. The prospects are that a bed of coal ly­ ing that near the surface would prove im­ mensely profitable. Madison Car Works Absorbed, The car company, whese plant Is at Madison, has been absorbed by the Mis­ souri Car and Foundry Company. The Madison Car Company's plant is o.ne o 1 the finest in the country, and the com­ pany owning it was capitalized for $1, 000,000, , State News in Brief. At Louisville, Robert Mikeworth, aged 12, was killed while horseback riuing. The monument to the Nineteenth Illi­ nois regiment was formally dedicated at Chattanooga, Tenn. Four hundred men were thrown out of work by the wrecking of the big Corliss engine at Deere & Co.'s plow factory in Mqliue. The damage to machinery will amount to several thousand dollars. Elec­ tric motors will be installed at once and used henceforth. On account of the prevalence of scarlet fever, diphtheria, black measles and chicken pox, the City Council of St. Elmo has ordered the public schools and churches closed for an indefinite period. All persons under the age of 10 years are prohibited from appearing on the streets. Henry Sherman Boutell, the Republi­ can nominee, was elected a member of Congress from the Sixth district (Chi­ cago), receiving 10,212 of the 19,902 votes cast. His plurality over Vincent H. Per­ kins, the Democratic nominee, was 853, and he received a majority of 522 over all his competitors. Gov. Tanner has announced the appoint­ ment of W. G. Cochran of Sullivan and Benson Woods of Effingham as trustees of the Soldiers'.Orphans' Home at Nor­ mal. It is understood that Maj. E. A. Blodgett of Chicago, who was offered the third appointment, declined to serve and urged the retention of Trustee Page. Dr. Nicholas Senn was placed on trial at Galena for contempt of court. By grace of the court, however, he escaped a fine or other punishment. The charge of contempt grows out of the fact that Dr. Senn did not answer a subpoena to ap­ pear as a witness in the case of criminal prosecution brought by the State against Dr. Sheldon of Ashton and Dr. Vaughn of Dixon. A 500-pound sea turtle, 14 years old, was captured and killed in Chicago harbor by two fishermen. Old lake men say this is the first sea turtle that has ever reach­ ed the southern end of Lake Michigan of its own volition. At Freeport, the corner's investigation of the murder of young John Bauch was brought to a close, the jury stating in their verdict that "Bauch came to his death by a wound in the abdomen caused by a 38-caliber bullet fired by some person to us unknown." There seems little prob­ ability that the mystery will ever be clear­ ed UD- A rare specimen of the American bald eagle was captured near Palmyra by Wil­ liam Chase. The bird was seated in a tree and it required seven shots to bring it to earth. Cha^ hald his clothing and hands severely Lacerated before he could capture the e<agle, Avhitfh measured nearly eight feet from tip to tip, weighing fifteen pounds. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Glen Oak and Prospect Heights Electric road, Monroe Selberling was authorized to sell the property to Walter Barker, president of the Peoria Central Railway. The deed was filed for record a few min­ utes later and Mr. Barker immediately took control. BODY IN A DITCH Murdered. Chicago Woman's Remains Are Found Buried.. " • • Pauline Merry's body, bruised and bat­ tered, was;found in a ditch by the side of a lonely stretch of road at Western ave­ nue and S7th street, Chicago. It waa taken to the county morgue the mute Svit- ness to clear away part of the mystery and corroborate the testimony of her prat­ tling 3-year-old boy, who told that she was murdered by the man she acknowl­ edged as her husband. The body was be­ ginning to decompose. The neck was black and blue, and the imprints of a hand were visible. There was a cut an inch long over the left eye and another of the same length on the right side of the temple. The face and nose were crushed "in. Guided by Thomas Hiekey, a compan­ ion of Christopher Merry, a detail of police started out in search of the wom­ an's body. Hickey's lack of familiarity with the streets and the fact that the body had been carted away at night made it difficult for him to find the spot where the body was hidden. Two or three times he halted the wagon and then changed his mind and said he was mistaken. At length the party reached the conner of Western avenue and 87th street, quiet spot, and Hickey recognized the surroundings. He stopped and pointed to a spot at the roadside covered, with dry leaves. The policemen were soon at work with their shovels and when some two feet of earth had been removed they came upon a bundle wrapped in bed clothing, which was tied about with a clothesline. The body was id.entified by Hickey and Po­ licemen Ryan and Keefe as that of Mrs. Merry. The disclosure which led to the discovery was the confession of Thomas Hickey. THE "KANGAROO" KICKER. Cold Democratic Comfort. Do the Democratic brethren really feel jubilant? They profess to. Bryan has issued his manifestoes calling attention to gains and the increasing sentiment in favor of silver as shown by the election, but they are intended for people who don't know anythiug. With Mark Han- na as good as elected a Senator, with Gor­ man defeated in his stronghold and throughout his State, with ..Republican gains in Kansas, with free silver again repudiated in New York, Massachusetts, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania, what real cause for comfort and satisfaction the Democrats can find is hard to discover. A Change in Sentiment. Congressman Hopkins of Illinois, in a recent talk about Cuba, expressed the opinion that "unless we are absolutely compelled to interfere from motives of humanity, it will be better for us to main­ tain an absolute neutrality." The fact that Mr. Hopkins' expressions on this subject are being generally commended by the newspapers not only of his own State, but elsewhere, shows a marked change in public sentiment, which a few months ago would have rejected and re­ sented so conservative a view of the duty ol' the United States in the Cuban mat­ ter as thus expressed. Continued Exportations. The exportation of manufactures goes steadily oil under the Dingley law, despite the assertion of the Democrats that a re­ turn of the protective system would re­ duce our markets for American manufac­ tures abroad. The value of exported man­ ufactures, the product of American work­ shops, during the first nine months of the present year, amounts to $212,478,81vf, against $184,807,004 in the corresponding months of last year, while in the month of September, 1897, there was an increase of between one and two million dollars over September of the preceding year. Kicked Holes in the Hopes of the Chi­ cago University Team. Pat O'Dea is the man--a tow-topped son of Australia, but formerly of Ireland. Recently, at Chicago, he kicked holes into the hope of the Chicago University con­ cerning the very important matter of cap­ turing the western collegiate football championship. He stood behind a row of ten Univer­ sity of Wisconsin oaks, and as composed as a woman cutting biscuits from soft dough. He swung a long, sinewy leg with the muscle of a giant. The ball Democrats Keep Mum. The Democratic orators who were ex­ pecting to make mince meat of the feature of the Dingley law relating to exportation of American manufactures have lapsed into singular silence. Nor are they mak­ ing comparisons of the exportations un­ der the new law and those of a year ago under the Wilson law. For their exclu­ sive information, attention is directed to the fact that these exportations aggre­ gated during the second month of the Dingley law $103,300,000, as against $83,750,000 in the corresponding month, of last year. He Makes a Good Thing. The American people must be proud of the record the defeated candidate of the Popocratie party of last year is, achieving in making of himself a drawing card for county fairs through the country. Mr. Bryan "lectured" at the Wichita, Ivan., County fair, under jjii agreement to re­ ceive one-lialf of the gate receipts. rl his was paid him, amounting to $2,400, but it was then discovered that he had been swindled by the management, which had made extra charge for grandstand tickets and for selling beer, the proceeds of which were not divided with Mr. Bryan. "Work of Business Men, The campaign of 1890 was remarkable for the interest, shown and tlie active work done by the business men of the country. 'Tlio "blow aimed at business by the free sllverites was recognized as a" heavy and dangerous one, and the best Clements of the business world lined up in„opposition. It is now observed that in States where the money question is an issue the business men are again coming to the front and reviving and keeping up their organizations of last year. Earnings and Prices. It must lie a disappointment to those low-tariff advocates who were expecting to disturb the political atmosphere with groans about increased prices to find that the net average increase in prices of ar­ ticles affected by importation is under the Dingley law less than one per cent, while the increased earnings of those em­ ployed in the manufacturing industries and in agriculture, which depend largely upon industrial activity, have been far greater than that. Increase in the <«o!ii Reserve. The official figures show that the gold reserve increased nearly $4,000,000 in the first half of October, reaching a total of more than $150,000,000. The reserve is how getting so unwieldy as to cause the treasury officials considerable annoyance. This is a novel sensation for the treasury employes whose experience in that depart­ ment dates from the incoming of Cleve- landism. Every Furnace at Work. The reports from Pittsburg announce that every blast furnace in Allegheny County is at work for the first time in three years, and that more furnaces are now in operation in that section than ever before., Yet Mr. Bryan, whose Ohio trip carried him into the iron section of the Ohio valley, insisted.that he saw no indi­ cation of increased activity7. whizzed through the air as straight as an arrow from an Indian's bow. It sailed between the goal posts forty yards away and took with it all the money and ex­ pectations of the men who wore the ma­ roon. It added five points to the score of 4 to 0. It started the tide of defeat which swept on until darkness stopped the slaughter and Chicago limped from the field crushed, humiliated and lambasted to the tune of 23 to 8. The fame was played before the biggest crowd of people who ever witnessed a football game in the West. It is estimated that O'Dea's good right foot kicked $40,000 into the pockets of the backers of Wisconsin's team. They Feed on Calamity. Nothing seems to please the politicians of the Bryan stripe so much as calamity of whatever nature. Ex-Candidate Bry­ an in his speech at Newark, Ohio, the other day, triumphantly pointed out the fact that wheat, which passed the dollar line in August and September, dropped ten cents a bushel after doing so and sug­ gested that the Republican party had not been able to keep wheat at a dollar a bushel. Curiously wheat had again pass­ ed the dollar line, two qr three days prior to this statement of Mr. Bryan, who ap­ parently thought that his hearers were not posted on wheat prices. A Reciprocity Commissioner. President McKinley's action in the ap­ pointment of a reciprocity commissioner to' relieve the State Department officials of duties oj that nature is generally com­ mended. A few Democratic editors and orators as usual attempt to belittle the matteri and decry attempts at reciprocity as unproductive of good to American farmers and manufacturers, but such ac­ tion hurts no one so much as themselves, especially in view of the excellent record made by the Republicans in this line un­ der Ben Harrison, and its complete fail­ ure in the succeeding Cleveland adminis­ tration. Protection nijd Cotton Mills. The mills in the now prosperous town of Spartanburg are taking all the cotton of the county, paying therefor from one- quarter to three-eighths of a cent more than the exporters can afford to pay. The farmer thus receives from $1 to $1.50 more per bale because of the presence of the mills. No wonder everybody in South A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. California to Commemorate the Min­ eral Discoveries in That State. Although California no longer lias a monopoly of the precious mineral it is still . called the "Gold State." - California has produced more than $SQ0,000,000 of gold since the first discovery of it in 1848. The exact date of this discovery has been tix&d officially as Jan. 19, and some Cali- forniaus are now preparing to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of that day on Jau. 19, 1898. It is intended to erect a monument designed to perpetuate and fur­ ther extend the distinction of California as a State rich in minerals and to revive some of the earlier memories of the Ar­ gonauts who poured into California in the winter of '49 and the spring of '50 after the fame of California's gold fields had become national. The monument is to be composed of as great a variety of mineral substances produced in the State as is pos­ sible. It is assumed that the ores, build­ ing stonss, etc., will be given freely by counties, communities ' and individuals, and for the artistic features of the monu­ ment it is proposed to raise a fund of >100,000. " . The mineral wealth of California, though chiefly, is not wholly gold. The silver product of the State, though not as large as that of Nevada or Colorado, is considerable, and California produces more than one-quarter, of the whole world's supply of quicksilver. Copper ajid antimony are also produced, though not in amounts as large as in some other Sta/tes. The monument for which the founda­ tion will be laid on Jan. 19 will not be the only feature of the proposed observ­ ance of this anniversary, for there is also in view the establishment of a permanent museum of minerals, designed to show not only what California has done in this line, but what, also, it is likely to be able to do in the future. A DEAD COCK IN THE PIT.