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McHENRY, la<>$# »% ~ t %: ~zr >*#» H>W* ** Y '"' * 'V -?.v^" «i*'.v., r w/ ^ t *?«<» 2 ** 115 f"Vs. \ k*'* 1 -3.s $0$, p>r* ": t $< McHenry Plaindealer. J, VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ILLINOIS. EVENTS OF THE WEEK "While the fire department at Climax, Minn., was steaming up for practice a •mall boiler used to keep the water warm In the main boiler exploded, wrecking the Inside of the building and injuring four anen. ; Dispatches from Vermilion, S. D., say Prof. Droppers, recently returned from a Jiine years' sojourn in the Orient, has boon fjhosen by the repents to succeed John W. llauck, resigned, as president of the State ^University. Both branches of the Kansas Legisla­ ture have passed the bill reducing tele­ graph rates. The bill reduces the charge for day commercial messages of ten words from 25 to 15 cents, and other tolls in proportion. A. K. Willis, a farmer living near Brighton, Colo., has been robbed of $7,- fliOO. which he had in a bureau drawer. Herman Matson, a tramp, to whom Willis frad given shelter, has disappeared and is ^ fjuspected of having taken the money. t At a meeting of citizens it was decided to hold an international exposition in San S . Francisco in 1901. Appropriations will be f' *sked for from the city. State and nation. t'7 .""ft '8 expected to lay the corner stone of *the administration building Sept 9, 1900. The President has pardoned the twelve ^ I^eech Lake Indians sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and fined at the .s" l®te term of the United States District p ̂ -• Court for Minnesota for resisting the United States marshal in making an ar- . „ ,«e#t. Advices received at Vancouver, B. C., ' i,#rom Alaska say very severe weather has . IkHm experienced on the pass. Lake Ben- • J®** has at last begun to freeze over. The ' » "White Pass Railway, which is now being k > 1>uilt in Canadian territory, has commenc- #d on its last tunnel. % . * Several months ago Judge Tarvin of . Covington, Ky., sent several councilmen ^ t» jail for contempt of court in disobeying ftiV ®n order of court to furnish supplies. Now vjf the five councilmen imprisoned have sued I Judge Tarvin collectively for $10,000 for false imprisonment. Particulars regarding the recent battle % *n the Blue Nile have been received in •r'v|U>n<Mn. Col. Davis, it appears, when he *outed the Emir Fedil, the last remaining formidable Dervish chief, killed 500 of tis followers and made many prisoners, 'he Emir succeeded in escaping. |y ;; The Bock Island depot at Peabody, '."iCan.. was robbed early the other morning l>y unknown persons. The thieves cut the Vires, shutting off all communication, al­ though no one was in the depot. The safe ' %as successfully blown and all of the con- , fents secured. The exact amount is said v -*> be $1,800. Grace Fuller, John Wesley, Jr., and ? |3ugene Jerome Wesley were suffocated If the home of John Wesley, near Catons- ; tille, Md. The parents were at work and ^jhe children had been left at home. Dur- ; . ing their play a Christmas tree caught >:?||re and when the neighbors brofce into ,the house all three were dead. i The Ohio crop bulletin for January p Shows that the growing wheat crop has ;(tot been impaired so far by winter freez­ ing. In some counties damage has been fflone by the Hessian fly and the white Eh, but in other counties the plant has roved, so that on the whole the condi-is 100 per cent of a full average. The mysterious disappearance of At­ torney A. R. Macall of East Liverpool, "•TgJhio, last July while insane has been cleared up by the finding of his skeleton in : -favine almost in sight of the home of his i parents. He had hanged himself to a tree ty a strap, the body falling, owing to de­ cay. He was 35 years old. The identifi- : cation is complete. 19 A passenger train on the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad Company's St. Louis branch . Was derailed fifteen miles north of Me­ tropolis, 111. Conductor William Mertz s A •:/x Fifteen passengers no one was killed. ed the other day when the big factory of the S. H. Howe Shoe Company and two other smaller establishments, controlled typthe company, resumed operations after • shutdown of more than two months. Dominique Ivrathofski was hanged at Springfield, Mass., for the murder of his stepdaughter, Victoria Pingus, 16 years of age. The murder was committed on the morning,of Jan. 17, 1897. It was the result of jealousy and anger, the latter the result off a complaint made to the po­ lice by the victim, whom he had treated with the utmost cruelty. A surface cave-in caused a rash of Quicksand in No. 2 slope of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company at Wa namie, Pa. Two hundred men were at work at the time, but all succeeded in making their immediate escape but eight Two hours later live of the eight made their way through the sand and some time afterward the remaining three men came to the surface. WESTERN. „ was seriously hurt •pr^7.#ere injured, but | -" " yVmong those injured were: John Riddle, T' ?* Creal Springs, 111.; Conductor William IT ""^lertz; Nellie Varns, Clinton, 111.; J. E. d J "Bylatt; R. M. Hogan, Alton, 111.; Nellie p*' -Wheeler, Great Bend, Kan. Every car '•? tvas overturned, but the engine was not • derailed. _ i > BREVITIES. v/ . * *Iyrtle Brocee, a variety actress from fX Chicago, late of Vancouver, committed ^ .suicide in a saloon at Dawson City. The Connecticut Supreme Court has fit : ̂ rendered a decision that the property of ' 'Yale University is exempt from taxation. ^ Mr. and Mrs. E. Mithoff celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. Mithoff is one of Ej,, . "the foremost business men and capitalists of Columbus, Ohio. jj§^rct. A petition in involuntary bankruptcy I, has been filed against M. C. Spencer & Co., dry goods merchants of New York, iKiv whose liabilities are said to exceed $160.- ̂p ooo. II! ^ Paul Brooks, a member of the banking p|i.T v¥,®rin Brooks & Co. at Santiago, and I* *i Alate United States consul at Guantanamo, tj? died at Rutland, Vt., of pneumonia, in his - sixtieth year. K • < Through information received from a %: • ./crook the Boston police were enabled to F prevent tlie carrying out of a scheme to -jLyV-' . rob the Shreve, Crump & Low company P'J-i of diamonds valued at $10,000. f' r ; El Reconcentrada, the Cuban organ at Havana, openly charges that Zecarias Bresmes, a Spanish judge, now a fugitive |p- >, ^from Havana,, engineered the plot which ai resulted in the destruction of the Maine. , Gen. Maximo Gomez has issued a proc- Isolation to the Cuban soldiers advising §1:X t^em not t0 disband until the proceedings *t Washington regarding the payment of R- .i insurgent troops have been completed. ~ The indeterminate sentence act, so- called, has been declared to be unconsti- 'Wm tutionai by the Supreme Court of Massa- ' chusetta. 't"""' Hamilton S. Wicks, organizer of the Ci" Deilirer and the Kansas City expositions in the '80s, a^d one of the founders of the •'fte:v Chicago Heflitd, is dead in Brooklyn, , X. Y., aged 51 years. J0" George Tyler. 21 years of age. was kill- r ed in an impromptu prize fight in Jersey H? r , City by Thomas Foley, a young mail feyj1 about 23 years old. Foley landed a right yfi " swing on the point of Tyler's jaw. Tyler !%•dropped. His neck was broken. . ===== hy EASTERN. . JfMtkfe Dunwell, on application of a di­ rector and a large stockholder, has ap­ pointed William Schaefer of Rochester temporary receiver of the Union Brewing Company of Rochester. Miss Susan S. Thomas, aged 16 years, and'Calvin Chamberlin, aged 19 years, who were riding with five other young people in a surrey at Utica, N. Y., were fatally injured by an Ontario and Western train striking their vehicle at a crossing Hear Latham's Corners. Another stage in the general strike of ifarlboro, Mass., shoe workers was reach- i.#/ .-..i'di'st . .. Frivate Starr Dare, Company E. First infantry, whose home is in San Francisco, died at the Second district hospital in Huntsville. Ala., from a gunshot wound. Mack Lightfoot, Dare's murderer, has been committed to jail without bond. Attorney General'Fitzgerald of Califor­ nia has begun suit for the forfeiture of the franchise of the Giant Powder Company, consolidated, of San Francisco, and to compel the company to pay a fine of $5,000 on the charge of preventing competition. The statement comes from a reliable source that the absorption of the Cleve­ land Roiling Mill Company by the Ameri­ can Steel and Wire Company, known as the wire combine, is already accomplished Vy the purchase of a majority of the stock. Itev. Dr. William Maxwell Blackburn, Eresident of Huron College at Pierre, S. >., and for twelve years prior to 1881 professor of history in McCormick Theo­ logical Seminary. Chicago, was found dead in his room at his residence in Pierre. John Wellner of LaFayette, Minn., was fehot in the head and hip by two tramps whom he had given shelter. The tramps bound Mrs. Wellner to a lounge with a rope, which she chewed in two after four hours. She found her husband dead in the yard. The Central Savings Bank of St. Jo­ seph, Mo., has suspended business and gone into voluntary liquidation. This ac­ tion is due primarily to the failure of G. C. Gillett. the missing Kansas cattle king. The bank held several thousand dollars of his paper. Several men were injured, one-of them fatally, in a strike riot at Memphis, Neb. Night men working on Armour & Co.'s icehouse wished to strike for an increase ©f pay, but the day m6n refused. The two factions had a conflict, in which the night men were badly routed. ' At Seaside, Ore., Charles Willard, a desperate character, shot and killed Sher­ iff J. W. Williams and Deputy Lamers and wounded Deputy Miller and was him­ self killed by State Senator R. W. Fulton. Willard was suspected of burning Senator Fulton's summer cottage after robbing it, and the officers were searching his house for stolen goods. By the action of the City Council the Illinois Central and the Chicago Great Western will be admitted to the heart of Omaha. A franchise was granted the Omaha Bridge and Terminal Company to use certain streets for railroad tracks. This is the end of a long fight, the roads mentioned being the power behind the terminal company. Eight of fifteen foundries in Cleveland have conceded the demand of the core- makers for a wage rate of $2.50 per day. The general strike of coremakers there­ fore did not take place. The officials of the coremakers' organization state that the remaining seven foundries are willing to compromise on the wage question, but anything below a minimum rate of $2.50 per day will not be accepted by the men. At Ambrose, Mo., H. C. Cobb and his son Andrew went to the house of William Barton to arrest Barton and get the re­ ward offered for his apprehension on the charge of murder. Barton began hostili­ ties at once, killing young Cobb and fatal­ ly wounding his father. Barton's house was soon surrounded by a sheriff's posse. Henry Winger, who approached a win­ dow, was shot and killed by Barton, who then cut his own throat and surrendered. Miss Nettie Ziegler, clerk of the State Board of Agriculture, was probably fa­ tally burned by an explosion of gas at the capitol in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Martha A. Shute, secretary of the board, was also severely burned. The two women ran screaming from the building, with their clothes and hair afire. M. S. Crawford, who was passing, extinguished the flames and in doing so sustained burns. Gas had been escaping in a vault and the explosion was caused by striking a match. The capitol was not much damaged. Work on the battleship Ohio has been commenced at the Union iron works, San Francisco. The Ohio will be the largest ship ever built on the coast and one of the three largest ever built in the Ameri­ can navy. She will have a displacement of 12,500 tons and her dimensions will be as follows: Length, 388 feet; breadth, 72 feet 3 inches; draught, 23 feet 9 inches. The new battleship will be twenty feet longer than the Oregon. The Ohio's con­ tract speed is two knots faster than the Wisconsin and three knots faster than the Oregon. SOUTHERN. men and ts to be admitted free under tha tariff law of 1890 and also under the pres­ ent law. The Nicaraguan Canal Commission fav­ ors the Lull . oute across the isthmus in preference to the Maritime company's routes and estimates the cost of a canal on that line at $125,000,000, FOREIGN. Oliver E. Boddington has been appoint­ ed counsel to the United States embassy at Paris. The Brazilian congress has approved • treaty of extradition with the United States. The duel between M. Horanszky, mem­ ber of the lower house of the Hungarian diet, and Baron Banffy, the premier, was bloodless. Both men appeared to be timid, and the affair was ludicrous. Col. Kitchener, brother of the sirdar, has started with re-enforcements to com­ mand the expedition organizing at Du- lim, Nubia, to operate against the khalifa, who has been raiding Arab settlements. Berlin newspapers comment on the ar­ rival of an American warship at Apia. The Vosische Zeitung fears America, backed by Great Britain, will paralyze the slowly acquired German preponder­ ance in Samoa. Russia is beljeved to be beginning a campaign against the Nicaraguan canal. The Novoe Vremya publishes an article not only warmly advocating the Panama scheme, but filled with bitter dislike of the United States. The R; M. S. Warrimoo, from Honolulu and Australia, brings news from Sura that a report reached there that a lieuten­ ant and thirteen men of the French war­ ship Eure had been killed by natives in the New Hebrides. Sovereignty in Cuba has been formally transferred from Spain to the United States. The ceremony took place at Ha­ vana, when the Stars and Stripes were unfurled above the houses of government amid booming of many guns. Gen. Rios cables from Manila confirm­ ing the report that all the Spaniards at Balabac, an island of the Philippine group, situated thirty miles south of Pala­ wan, have been assassinated with the ex­ ception of the women, whose release is be­ ing asked for. Russia has ordered the payment of 75,- 000,000 rubles out of the free cash re­ serves in the ^Imperial treasury for the redemption of ftj^rge portion of the state debt to the Imperial Bank. The issuance of the ukase is regarded as disproving the reports abroad of Russia's embarrassment and of her efforts to contract a loan. Siam is occupying the attention of France just now in view of the recent ag­ gressions on French subjects by armed forces. The Journal des Debates says: Siam appears to be in a state of an­ archy," and it suggests that united action might be taken by France and England in order to bring thin situation to an end. * IN GENERAL. John . Shaw ha's been re-elected Mayor of Toronto. Many of the unacclimated Americans at Havana are seriously sick with fever. At Victoria, B. C., fire destroyed the Heathery block, causing a loss of $35,000. Rev. Dr. Bartholomew Price, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and canon of Gloucester, is dead, aged 31. The Toronto World warns the people of Canada that the United States is like­ ly to absorb the dominion if the appetite for expansion continues to grow. Plans for the new navy may be blocked by lack of facilities, big shipbuilders hav­ ing notified the Navy Department that their yards are now being pushed to their utmost capacity. J. McFadyne, a New York correspon­ dent, reached Victoria, B. C., by the steamer Danube, direct from Dawson City. He brought news of rich gold finds on Victoria gulch and Sutherland creek, which flow into Bonanza creek. Since Jan. 1, the letter postage from Canada to the United States has been 2 cents per ounce. Postmaster General Smith has been so notified by Mr. Mulock, the dominion postmaster general. The re­ duction is a reciprocal one. that rate now being in force from the United States to Canada. Bradstreet's says: "Holiday quiet in general demand, sustained activity in in­ dustrial lines, particularly iron and steel, exceptionally large shipments of goods on orders, liberal cereal exports and specially heavy dealings in speculative markets are features calling for notable mention in the closing week of the year. Firmness in price is likewise an encouraging feature in most staples. Wheat, though showing a reaction, is higher on the week on large export clearances, and other cereals are in sympathy. Pig iron demand grows and prices for this product and for steel rails, steel billets, plates and wire rods are all higher on the week, while the volume of foreign demand for even finished metal products apparently increases as the year draws to its conclusion. Concisely stated the reports received as to the year's busi­ ness in all sections of the country point to an unprecedented volume of domestic and export trade, which is reflected in bank clearances, that break the high record of 1892. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 6,292,625 bushels, against 5,515,231 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,659,745 bushels, against 4,103,673 bushels last week." George Frazier, a prominent young farmer at Sergeant, Ky., gave a holiday dance, to which John Stidborn came un­ bidden. Frazier ordered Stidborn to leave, and on his refusal to go shot him dead. Frazier gave himself up. . It has been announced that the offer made some time ago by .Dr. D. K. Pear­ sons of Chicago to give $50,000 for the endowment of Berea College, Kentucky, if the trustees would raise $150,000 by Dec. 31, 1898, has been made binding by the fulfillment of the condition. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2, 28e to 29c; rye. No. 2, 54c to 55c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 25c to 27c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 By the explosion of an infernal machine I ^0 oats» ^ white, 29c in the railroad depot at New Albany, e. ; . _ . . ma M . Miss., five mei^ were terribly injured, some $6.00; bogs, men fatally. The machine was cleverly con­ structed and encased in wood in such a manner as to be set off by the opening of the box lid. It had been sent from Holly Springs, Miss., to a man at New Albany, who was under indictment for murder. The wreck of the north-bound Houston and Texas Central passenger train at the East Fork bridge, thn^^niles north of McKinney, Texas, was complete save the engine, which kept the track. The mail, express and four passenger ears were com­ pletely demolished. The miraculous escape from death of the sixty-five passengers aboard is all the talk. The train became detached and tumbled from the trestle, which is about fifteen feet high. About forty passengers were badly bruised, some seriously. WHAT THE WAfi COST WASHINGTON OFFICIALS SAY IT WILL REACH »250,000,0Q0. * this Is About the Amount Estimated by Careful Observer* at the Time tht Protocol Was Signed--Mexican Am- > basoador Dies from Appendicitis. The cost of the Spanish war, including garrisons in the dependencies during the remainder of the present fiscal year, will probably fall within the limit of $250,000,- 000. This was about the amount estimat­ ed by careful observers at the time of the signing of the peace protocok>in August, and the estimate has been sustained by subsequent events. The signing of the protocol was far from putting an end to the expenditures, and the net cost of the military and naval ser­ vice above the cost on a peace basis was actually larger in September than in Au­ gust. The figures for later months have shown a gradual decline of several mill­ ions per montli, and it now looks as though existins revenue laws would pay most of the expenses for garrisons until the close of the fiscal year on June 30 next. Stated in round figures the combined cost of the army and navy service above the cost of 1897, when both services were upon a peace basis, was $19,000,000 in May, $23,000,000 in June, $i!!UX>0,000 in July, $22,000,000 in August, $25,000,000 in September, $20,000,000 in October and $17,000,000 in November. The cost dur­ ing December has been about $15,000,000. These, expenditures are not entirely for the maintenance of troops now in the field, but involve the settlement of con­ tracts entered upon in the spring, the man­ ufacture of arms and supplies at the ar­ mories, which is still going on at a higher rate than before the war* and the pay­ ment of troops who have been mustered out of service. The following table exhibits the war­ rants drawn upon the treasury for the ser­ vice of the War and Navy Departments for each month since the emergency ap­ propriation of $50,000,000 was made by Congress, the warrants drawn for the same months of 1S97, and the excess of the warrants this year over those of last year, which indicates substantially the additional military and naval expense im­ posed upon the country by the expulsion of Spain from Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines: FOR THE ARMY. Warrants drawn 1S98. 1897. $5,159,571 $3,04t5,103 4,287,020 Month.. March .. April ... May .... June ,.. July August . Sept October . Nov Dec. 1-28 6.221,814 17,093,595 17,723.804 ai,774,153 25.lKi.235 24.643.374 22, S >5,( 29 20.391,876 13,944,000 4,214,955 2,886,016 10,736,758 5,622.852 4,376.022 5,208.718 5,376.080 3,043,000 Excess In 1898. $2,113,468 1,936,794 12,878,640 18,837,788 24,037,395 19,540,383 20,367,352 17, t(2U,311 15,015,796 10,901,000 Totals.$19'J,012,451 $48,757,524 $141,254,927 FOR THE NAVY. J5.241.443 $2,694,835 2,744,079 March .. April ... May .... June .... July ... August . Sept .... October. Nov .... Dec. 1-26 12,556,982 9.093,575 9,506,021 8,514.279 6,386,277 7,231,219 5,314,5 4,676,181 4,168,000 2,537,576 3,563,922 2,998,80!> 2,672,691 2,787,-53 2,988,575 36,454 2,426,COO $2,546,60S 8,812,853 6,556,001 5,942,099 5,515,470 3,713,586 4,443,963 2,325,992 1,939,727 1,742,00.) Totals. $72,688,496 $28,150,194 $44,638,302 Ag'r'te. 262,700,947 70,907,718 185,793,229 Av. per month. 26,270,094 7,630,771 18,579,322 These fignres show an expense for the war amounting to $185,893,229, which is likely to be swelled to about $188,000,000 at the close of the present month. The figures for December will be between $14,- 000,000 and $15,000,000, but a further shrinkage is likely to occur during Janu­ ary and still further decline during the following months. It is not unreasonable, therefore, to estimate the average war ex­ penditure for the remaining six months of the fiscal year at $10,000,000 per month, which would add $60,000,000 to the ex­ penditures already incurred. This would bring the total expenditure for the fiscal year close up to $250,000,- 000. What it will be in the future cannot yet be determined, but it is probable that a considerable portion of the expense for garrisons will be defrayed fronjKthe reve­ nues of the new dependencies, i SENOR ROMERO DEAD. WASHINGTON, Senor Don Matias -Romero, ambassador of Mexico, died at Washington, aged 62 years. The Supreme Court of the United States has validated $289,90-1 worth of bonds is­ sued by Pima County in aid of the Ari­ zona Narrow Gauge Railroad. The United States Supreme Court de­ cided in the case of the United States Versus the Buffalo Natural Gas and Fuel Company that natural gas is cr^Se bitu- $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 53c to 55c. Cincinnati-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; bogs, $2.50 to $3.75; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, 56c to 58c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7fc to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 56c; clover seed, new. $4.55 to $4.65. p- Milwaukee--Wheat. No. 2 spring, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1, 54c to 55c; barley, No. 2, 44c to 50c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice,- $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. b New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sfoeep, $3.00 to $4.76; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2,44c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, West­ ern, 28c to 28e. MRS.BOTKIN GUILTY OF MURDER California Jury Sentences Hsr to Life Imprisonment. At San Francisco, Mrs. Cordelia Rot- kin was found guilty of murder in the first degree for causing the death of Mrs. John P. Dunning by sending a box of poisoned candy to her temporary home in Dover, Del. The condemned woman will be spar­ ed death on the gollows, however, the jury imposing the penalty of life imprisonment. The verdict was unexpected. An acquit­ tal was confidently awaited by the de­ fense, while the prosecution, feared dis­ agreement. The crime for which Mrs. Botkin stands convicted is one of national interest, ow­ ing to the peculiar circumstances con-, nected therewith. On Aug. 12,1898. Mrs. John I*. Dunning, her sister, Mrs. Dean, and a number of others partook of some candy at the home of Mrs. Dunning's father, in Dover. Del. Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Dean died, and investigation show­ ed that the cardy had been heavily dosed with crystallized arsenic. In the box of candy was a note signed "Mrs. C.," sending love to Mrs. Dunning and her baby. By a wonderful chain of circumstances the crime was traced to Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who had become in­ fatuated with Dunning during his career in San Francisco. Mrs. Dunning had. previous to receiving the candy, received anonymous letters, which Dunning de­ clared had been written by Mrs. Botkin. Handwriting experts declared positively that Mrs. Botkin wrote the note in. and the address on, the box of candy. Clerks at a candy store testified to the very day on which Mrs. Botkin had purchased the candy. . " BETTER MAIL SERVICE. From New York tos Chicaeo Time Is Considerably Cut Down. The Second Assistant Postmaster Gen­ eral and the superintendent of the railway mail service have agreed on a general change in the transcontinental mail ser- vice. The time of the fast mail leaving New York at 9 p. m. on the New York Central road will be shortened three and one-half hours between New York and Chicago, arriving at the latter point at 8:30 p. m., instead of midnight, as now. From Chi­ cago fast trains will leave for Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and for Omaha. Mail heretofore reaching St. Paul at 1 p. m., and Minneapolis at 1:40 p. m., will arrive about 8 a. m. and 8:40 a. m. respec­ tively. The overland trains now leaving at 1:30 p. j|L;i*!ill leave about 9:30 a. m., thus effeotijlg a material gain throughout Minnesota and expediting the mails all the way through to the coast. Mail now arriving in Omaha, Neb., at 2:40 p. m. will arrive about 8 a. m., and will connect at Union Pacific transfer with the overland train-leaving Omaha in the morning over the Union l*acffic rail­ road, instead of the one leaving in the af­ ternoon, thus effecting a gain in transit of from ten to thirteen hours at points be­ tween Omaha and San Francisco, arriv­ ing at San Francisco at 8:45 p. m., in­ stead of 9:40 a. m. the following day, as at present. Nearly the eiftire State of Cali­ fornia will receive this mail practically for business purposes about twenty-four hours earlier than it does at present. Bast-bound there will be a correspond­ ing gain. Mails from the West via Oma­ ha, now arriving at Chicago at 6:45 a. m., will arrive at 2:30 a. m., and mails now arriving from St. Paul and Minneapolis at 7 a. m. will arrive at 2 a. m., connect­ ing with fast mail trains leaving Chicago at 2:30 and 3 a. m. Mails from the West now arriving in New York at 10:35 a. m. will reach that city at 5:35 a. m.. in time for the first carriers' delivery. The Bos­ ton mail which now reaches that city at 2:10 p. m. will arrive at 7:32 a. m. There will be a corresponding gain for nearly all Eastern points. WAKE ISLAND. Ambassador of Mexico Passes A Way at Washington. Senor Don Matias Romero, the Mex­ ican ambassador, is dead. He had been confined to his room at the legation in Washington suffering from appendicitis. Mr. Romero underwent a surgical op­ eration on Wednesday, which lasted One hour, notwithstanding which the patient came out of the ordeal in a condition that was encouraging to his physicians and friends. Soon after Thursday midnight, however, the pntient began to sink rap­ idly, and his death occurred at 4 o'clock in the morning. Senor Romero was one of the most emi­ nent statesmen and diplomats of Mexico. He was born at Oaxaca Feb. 24, 1837. He first entered the foreign office in 1855. In December, 1859, he canie-to Washing­ ton as first secretary of the Mexican lega­ tion. He returned to Mexico in 1863, and, after serving as chief of staff for Gen. Diaz during the war against the French, he was, in October of that year, accredit­ ed by President Juarez as envoy extraor­ dinary and minister plenipotentiary to Washington. Senor Romero returned to Mexic&tin January, 1868, and was appointed secre­ tary of the treasury. In 1880 he served as postmaster general, and in March, 1882, came back to Washington as min­ ister, and has remained here ever since, with the exception of ten months, when he again served as secretary of the treas­ ury of Mexico. A few weeks ago his offi­ cial rank was raised to that of ambassa­ dor. THEY DID NOT ADVERTISE. Noticeable Fnct Regarding Ten Failed New York Firms. Since Christmas there have been over a dozen failures of New York concerns that made a specialty of goods intended for holiday presents. Some of these car­ ried large stocks and were entitled to the designation "big." In one or two in­ stances the stocks were valued at more than $250,000. The noticeable thing about each of the collapsed concerns is that it did not advertise in the newspa­ pers. The stores that did advertise were crowded with customers from the com­ mencement of the holiday season to the hour of closing the night before Chris- mas. They all report the greatest holiday business in years. Uninhabited Speck in the Pacific to Be Used as a Cable Station. The steamship that left San Francisco last week for Honolulu is said to carry instructions and dispatches to the com­ mander of the Bennington, now at Ha­ waii, directing him to proceed to Wake Island and take possession of it in behalf of the United States. The island is unin* habited and valueless for general pur­ poses, but it is wanted by this Govern­ ment as a cable station. A Pacific cable connecting the Philippines and Hawaii with the United States is one of the first necessities imposed by the treaty of Paris which has so materially changed the map MAP OK WAKK ISLAND. of the Pacific. As the American peace commission did not succeed in obtaining one of the Carolines as a cable station, Wake Island, situated in latitude 19 north, longitude 168 east, will supply the place. The island lies about 2,00(£ miles from Nihau, the westernmost of the Ha­ waiian group, and 1,300 miles east of Guam. Being in almost the direct line between the United States and its Pa­ cific possessions, it is admirably adapted to the purposes of a cable station. VIRGINIA FAIR TO MARRYi HOSTILITY TO Da MORRISON. Nebraska Episcopalians Object to His Consecration. The refusal of the standing committee of the Episcopal diocese of Nebraska to give its consent to the consecration of Dr. Morrison of Chicago as bishop of Iowa has created a sensation. The committee bases its decision on what it terms "out­ rageously corrupt methods" „by which Bishop Morrison was elected after I>r. Greene of Cedar Rapids had been chosen. The committee also charges "political double dealing of the enemies of Dr. Greene, in charging him with conduct to disgrace the church and cloth." Her Knsasrement to William K. Van* derbilt, Jr., Is Announced. The engagement of Miss Virginia Fair to William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., is announc­ ed. Current gossip has betrothed Miss Fair so many times in the last few years that the report was not credited at first, but it was soon con­ firmed by her sister, Mrs. Herman Oel- richs. Miss Fair is a daughter of the noted Pacific coast million­ aire, from whom she inherited about $3,- 000,000. Young Van­ derbilt, of course, has, KXisviKQiNiAi Ain. 0r will have, a great deal more. His father entirely approves the match. Young Vanderbilt is now a student at the Harvard scientific school. He is about two years younger than Miss Fair. Russia Will Retaliate. It is reported that Russia will do a bit of retaliating on Germany for the recent expulsion of numerous Russian subjects from Germany, by expelling an equal number of German workmen from Rus­ sia. Russia will receive the support of Denmark and Austria in this measure of retaliation. Baltimore Merchants Victimised. Chhrles S. Woodward and Clara L. Ames, who posed as the man's wife, were arrested by detectives as they were leav ing the Metropolitan Church in Washing­ ton. They are charged with victimizing Baltimore merchants out of goods money by the use of forged checks. RACE OF MAIL TRAINS. Spirited Contest Between the North­ western and the Burlington. The most important event in the his­ tory of railway mail transportation in the last quarter of a century transpired when the Government's fast mail train left New York on its run of 3,342 miles to the Pa­ cific coast in ninety-two and one-half hours, based on Eastern time. On Sept. 13, 1875, the famous "white mail" was put on rails between New York and Chicago, but the enterprise lasted only one year, because the Government would not pay the Vanderbilts their price for running it. The service was resumed in 1883, at which time the Burlington and St. Paul fast mails were put on. Since /OWA eat a CENTER OF PAST MAIL SERVICE. then the service out. of Chicago has grown to sixteen fast mails. The race for fame and contracts be­ tween Chicago and Omaha was a fight all along the 500-mile route. It was a friendly struggle. The Burlington has been carrying the Government mail from Chicago to Omaha and return for about fourteen years, and it desires to continue in the same role. The Northwestern, with characteristic enterprise, is just as ambi­ tious as the Burlington. Both roads achieved glory. It was a magnificent dash across ibuntry. It was an ear-split­ ting, hair-raising, brain-torturing run. €t was a long rush, a mad whirl through vil­ lages and hamlets, over plains and across high bridges. The Northwestern ran into Council Bluffs just eighteen minutes ahead of schedule time, and the Burling­ ton steamed into the transfer station in the same city eight minutes quicker than its schedule demanded. The average speed was something under a mile a min­ ute. If the general managers of the two roads had said "Let her go, boys," instead of cautioning the engineers, the whole dis­ tance could have been negotiated in less than a mile a minute. ^ The really remarkable apeed of the east- bound mail on the Burlington Monday night is an indication of what the modern locomotive can do when there is a call for it. Because of delay at the Union Pa­ cific transfer in Council Bluffs, the east- bound fast mail found that there was a total of one hour and two minutes to make BACB OP PAST MAIL'TRAISH. Snap shot of the Burlington fast mail on Its way to Omaha. up. The run was made under these press­ ing conditions in 9. hours and 23 minutes, or in 563 minutes. This train came in from Burlington, Iowa, to the Union sta­ tion in Chicago, a distance of 206 miles, in 213 minutes, including stops aggregat­ ing 13 minutes. Therefore the actual run­ ning time of the flyer was 206 miles in 200 minutes, an average of better than one mile in one minute. MORE TROOPS FOR MANILA. Misguided Natives May Attempt to Resist Americana. Advices from Gen. Otis do not indicate as grave a situation at Iloilo as is indi­ cated by press dispatches, yet Washing­ ton officials are worried. According to the reports received at the War Depart­ ment Gen. Miller found evidence to con­ firm the suspicion that the Spaniards had abandoned Iloilo for the manifest purpose of embarrassing this Government. More than that, it is evident that the Spaniards, upon turning over the forts to tb£ Fili­ pinos, had inspired them to defy the Unit­ ed States forces. Gen. Miller reported he had sent emis­ saries to confer with the Filipinos and in­ form them it was i\pt the purpose of the United States to harm them, but, on the contrary, i to befriend and protect them. BBT«ADIKRC OESEBAL MILLER. In command of the United States forces sent by Maj. Gen. Otis to occupy Hollo. Their minds having been poisoned by the tricky Spaniards, it became necessary that he use diplomacy to secure confidence and peaceful possession if possible. The ab­ sence of Aguinaldo from Manila compli­ cates matters and arouses the apprehen­ sion that his mission to the interior may be for mischief making purposes. The expedition to Iloilo consists of two regi­ ments of infantry and one battery of ar­ tillery, aided by a naval consort. This did not materially weaken thi» forces at Manila, but to send any more would re­ duce the force below a safe limit. While the officials at the War Depart­ ment say they do not anticipate a general uprising of the Filipinos, they have taken steps to re-enforcc Gen. Otis without de­ lay. The situation is to be dealt with firmly. If the Filipinos are not disposed to listen to reason they will be made to understand that they must keep within certain bounds. LARGEST COINAGE SINCE 1890. Mint at Philadelphia Tnrns Out • Money Valued at $27,634,462. A statement of the coinage of the Unit­ ed States mint in Philadelphia for the year 1898 shows that the output for the year just ended Was the largest since 1890. The total number of coins made was 100,258,433. The gold coined was 170,470 double eagles. 812.197 eagles, 633.495 hulf eagles and 24,165 quarter eagles, with a total valuation of $14,759,257. Total silver coinage was 5,884.735 dollars, 2,956,735 half dollars, 11,100,735 quarters and 16,- 330,735 dimes, a total valuation of $11,- 770,395. There were 12,532,087 nickels and 49.823,079 cents coined, giving a grand total of $27,(554,452 for the year. There were also coined 511,873 pesos for the Government of San Domingo, and or­ ders for 200,000 more of these coinings kave been received^ ^ The first session of the Senate after the holiday recess was held on Wednesday and occupied only fourteen minutes, al­ though in that brief time two open ses­ sions and one executive session were held. The galleries were filled with spectators^ the general expectation being that the peace treaty would be presented. The senatorial members of the peace commis­ sion appeared on the floor and were given a hearty greeting. In the absence of the Vice-President Mr. Frye (Maine), the president pro. tem., called the Senate to order, and after the chaplain had extolled the late Senator Morrill of Vermont Mr. Frye recognized Major Pruden, assistant secretary to the President, who presented a message containing the treaty of Piiris. On motion of Mr. Davis the Senate went into executive session in order that the treaty might be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and upon being re­ convened in open session Mr. Allison an­ nounced the death of Senator Morrill. The usual resolutions were adopted, and as a mark of respect the Senate adjourned at 12:15 o'clock. The House spent the opening day, con­ sidering the bill to define and punish crimes in Alaska and provide a code of criminal procedure for the territory. Six­ ty-seven pages were completed, and the bill was made a continuing order until disposed of, not. however, to interfere with appropriation bills or other special orders. The blind chaplain in l^is invoca­ tion refprred feelingly to the critical ill­ ness of Mr. Dingley, the floor leader, and prayed for his speedy recovery. When the Alaska bill was taken up Mr. Moody (Rep., Mass.) said that as the bill pro­ posed a code for the government of a de­ pendency of the United States, it might be well to consider whether we were able to deal intelligently with dependencies generally. He then launched a bitter at­ tack upon that section of the bill which- repealed all existing laws relating to the sale of liquor in the district of Alaska, and made it only unlawful to sell liquor to Indians. It was a monstrous proposi­ tion, he declared. Virtually it meant free mm in Alaska--the sale of liquor without license, without regulation and without restriction of any kind. An amendment was adopted giving a jury in case a ver­ dict of guilty of murder in the first degree was returned discretionary power to in­ flict capital punishment. When the sec­ tion was reached prohibiting the sale or gift of intoxicating liquors to Indians Mr. Moody offered an amendment continuing the existing law, which prohibits the .im­ portation of diquor, except for medicinal, mechanical and like purposes. Mr. Tongue (Rep.. Ore.) said it was utterly impossi­ ble to enforce the present law. The in­ habitants of this district will not uphold officers of the law and liquor is openly sold. Several minor amendments were adopted. The Speaker then laid before the House the Senate memorial resolu­ tions regarding Senator Morri?l. As a further mark of respect the House ad­ journed. Little business except that of a routine character was transacted by the Senate on Thursday. A resolution offered by Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts directing the Com­ mittee on Foreign Relations to report to the Senate whether the treaty of Paris makes any provision for the claims of citi­ zens of the United States against Spain which were in existence before the present war, and the status of such claims after. the ratification of the treaty, was adopted. Mr. Oaffery of Louisiana continued and practically concluded his speech begun be­ fore the holiday recess in opposition to the pending Nicaragua canal bill. Bills were passed to ratify agreements with the Lower Brule and Rose Bud reservation Indians, to grant California 5 per cent of the net proceeds of cash sales of public lands in the State and classifying clerks in first and second class postoffices. The Judiciary Committee had the right of way in the House for three hours aud the fol­ lowing.bills of minor importance reported from the committee were passed: To pro­ vide additional circuit judges for the third and sixth judicial districts; to regulate the terms of'court iu the eastern district of Tennessee and the district of Butte, Mont.; to retire Cassius S. Foster, United States district judge/of Kansas; to amend the Revised Statutes so as to allow the United States five peremptory challenges in criminal cases: to permit ship owners to file"indemnity bonds; to allow legally appointed guardians of insane persons to prosecute patent claims and to release the International Cotton Press Company of New Orleans from liability for $3,489 of internal revenue taxes. The remainder of the day was occupied in continuing the consideration of the bill to codify the laws of Alaska. Some twenty-one pages were disposed of. making eighty-three in all of the 232 pages. News of Minor Note. During the year ending September, 1898. 1,258 criminals were sentenced in Iowa. The auxiliary cTuiser Yosemite "has been ordered to Manila, with-icen and supplies for Admiral Dewey. , The turret of the battleship Illinois, now building, is to be adorned by a bronze bas relief tablet of Abraham Lincoln. While preaching in the synagogue of which he was pastor, in New York, Rabbi Schachmet fell dead in the pulpit. Camden, N. J., has now a plentiful sup­ ply of pure artesian well water. The flow is 20,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. The judges of the New York Court of, General Sessions now appear On the bench in gowns of black silk, with large flowiug sleeves. Judge Perkins of the Circuit Court of Jasper County. Mo., has decided th§t a trust cannot collect debts in the State. The population of Dawson has decreas­ ed to 16.000 and the cost of living has also decreased. Good meals can now be obtained for $1. During this season the price of cattle in Montana lias, averaged 10 per cent higher than during any season in the his­ tory of the State. Patrh-k Haggerty. who would have been 109 years old in March, died in Pottsdam. N. Y. He was an inveterate smoker and read without glasses. The late Senator Briee of Ohio carried $500,000 worth of insurance on his life at the :ime of his death, oil all of which he, had paid but one premium. On Christmas day Admiral Dewey be­ en me the ranking officer in actual servtcfr- ot the United States navy by tlfte retire­ ment of Rear Adu»irft1'/Btlhce. - The-13-year-old daughter of Bt»h Jt>r* dan was burned to death near Pine Bluff, Ark. She had been left at home alone, and the house was destroyed by fire. Fred Bronstein, the wife murderer, who escaped from the sheriff at Kahoka, Mo., was recaptured near where he was first arrested on March 12, 1888. He was ua^ armed. -IT;