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KKIELEYTAKESBEST OMAHA'S BiG 3HOW. TheTrans-Mississippi and Interna" tional E xposition. - The Trans-Mississippi arid Interriatioi* al Exposition will be held in the city of £)maha between the 1st of June and the 1st of November, 1898. This exposition had its origin in resolutions adopted by the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con­ gress at its session in Omaha in 1895, rep­ resenting the twenty-four States and ter­ ritories west At the Mississippi, including the greater half of the continent lying be­ tween the Gulf of Mexico and Puget Sound. The purpose"of the projector* is and another week had passed before tlw President could reach the scene ofactio'ri. Jefferson never ventured further away than his Monticello home, in Virginia. He was a splendid horseman, and when there was a hurry call from the capital he could make the journey by many changes of horses in a very short time. * President Polk made a record by stick­ ing to the White House winter and Bum­ mer, and the hottest weather could never drive him into the country. Not much was known about sanitary matters in those days, but it was known that the White House reeked with malaria in the summer months. This had no effect upon Polk, and as a result, when his term ex- WOMEN AID THE STRIKERS. Lend Their Efforts to Assist the Coal Miners--The Present Situation. The week has seen, no change in the coal miners' strike. The men who are out still maintain their resolute-stand,.and declare that they will not go back until their just demands are acceded to. The women of the Turtle Creek valley of Pennsylvania have joined hands with the strikers. Their attention has been call­ ed to the fact that the lnjunction which prevents the strikers from venturing upon "the property of the New York and Cleve­ land Gas Coal Company applies to men only and that nothing iti it is said about women. They have been urged to go Where the men are unable to and sidd their entreaties and" prayers to those <Sf the strikers in their efforts to have the men wjio are yet at work lay down their tools. The women will enter heart and soul into the work and do all in their power to coax the men out. A bomb was thrown into the camp of the striking miners at Sandy Creek when the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company refused to pay the wages due its men,. A bitter tight will be made in the courtis by the United Mine Workers to gain the money for the strikers. The • New York- and-Cleveland company has individual contracts with all its men that are binding and tight. One of the pro­ visions is that ift case the rileu quit work voluntarily, against the Wish of the com­ pany, they sacrifice all wages yet unpaid in the hands of the cOmpariy. This Dis­ trict President Dolan of the Mine Work­ ers, who will make the fight in the courts for the men, considers grossly illegal and will make a test of the legality of the con­ tracts with the men as early as possible. He says the company violated them in J two instances and that they have thereby | dissolved all binding obligations-on the mfn* T.lle amount due the Sandy Creek miners is their wages for the first two weeks in July. The miners are acting in a peaceable and orderly manner and although several mass meetings have been held during the week no violence of any kind has been threatened. TO WED MRS. LANGTRY. Austrian Prince Who Is to Marry the "Jersey Lily." Prince Esterhazy De Galantha, who, it is announced, .will soon lead M?s. Langtry to the altar, is a noted character in Eu­ rope, although not well known in Amer^ ica. He. is prominent in Austria and is very favorably known at the court of his J. VAN SLYKE, Jditor and Pub. PRESIDENT IS INDULGING 114 A VACATION. ILLINOIS McHENRY. STORY SEEMS FISHY Chief Executive of the Nation and ' Mrs. McKinley at a Lake Cham plain Resort--Hot Weather Outings of Other Presidents. INDIANA OFFICIALS DON'T BE­ LIEVE A CONVICT. At Bluff Point. President McKinley is now installed iu the Hotel .Champlain in the picturesque Lake Champlain resort, Bluff Point,, where he will pass his summer vacation free from the wearisome importunities of office sfreker;?. Those who accompanied the President and Mrs. McKinley to their summer resting place were Secretary and Mrs. Alger, Secretary Porter, Assistant Secretary A. L. Pruden, Executive Clerk Cortelyou, Mrs. McKinley's maid, the White House steward and several of the White House employes. In a short time several other, members of the cabinet, to­ gether with their families, will join the party at the lake. So Will Vice-President Hobart and his family. A son and daugh­ ter of Secretary Alger are already at the lake. There are five cottage^ in the grounds, surrounding the hotel, but all of them were taken, and the President and his party have rooms in the hotel anriex. A corner room and, the one adjoining were prepared for the President.1 When the manager was in Washirigton he learned of Mrs. McKinley's liking for decorations in blue, so he sent to New York for a paper in a delicate frobin's egg blue, light­ ed up by a small pattern in pink. With this paper the room was decorated. Al­ though the President's suite of rooms, is not privaflkithey are cut off from the other rooms in the annex.. by hanging portieres along the hall. For further privacy a boy is stationed at each entrance to the anriex. He has orders to keep any but the guests of. the hotel away from the hallway. ~ The President does not, have u private dining room. The public dining hall has four rows of tables from one end to( the other. On each side of this hall extends the broad hotel piazza. At one end, cutting off the piazza on the lake side, is a circular room containing about ten fhlok thlkt Baney Simply Seeks to Obtain His Release--Coal Miners Will Test .the Court's Injunction-- Sultan's Rule Is in Danger. Do Not Believe the Convict. Noah Baney, the Indiana State prison convict, now says he was with John Whit­ ney and Guy Van Tassal the night they visited the village of Belleville and mur­ dered the wife of the Rev. William E. Hinsliaw. The developments, startling ps they have , been, have not served to alter the conviction of the authorities; that the minister murdered his wife. At midmght Tuesday Baney was taken to the leeue of the tragedy at Belleville. Oil the way out he admitted that he had been concealing the fact that he was with Whitney and Van Tassal on the night of the rixurder. The reins were handed to him as-the village was approached and he drove direct to the Hinsliaw homestead. Leading the attorneys and the newspaper men into the house, he pointed out the positioi)s/©f various pieces of furniture on the. night of the murder and told in detail of the fight with the minister and his wife arid how the murder occurred. His state­ ments as to the arrangement of the fur­ niture were remarkably accurate. The convict was taken back to Indianapolis, where he set about' verifying other points in his story. The general belief is that the convict is either seeking notoriety or hopes to secure his own release from pris­ on. Gov. Mount puts little faith in the story, and believes that if Baney should be released from the penitentiary and ar­ rested and charged with the murder he would declare that everything he had said was false. Defy the Court's Order. * The striking miriers at Canonsburg, Pa., have determined to force the injunction issue by continuing the daily marches and meetings in the neighborhood of the Me- Govern and Canonsburg mines, in spite of the order of. Judge Mcllwaine of Wash­ ington, forbidding marches on the public roads leading to the mines. The' purpose is to have the men arrested in order to test the legality of the injunction. Patrick Dolan stated that it had been determined to keep up the marches, and as fast as one group is arrested another will take its place, until there will be so many of them in jail that the public opinion of the com­ munity and country will be aroused on the question of the alleged new form of in­ junction. In this movement the support of all the leading trades unions of the country is said to have been pledged as a result of a secret meeting at Columbus during the last three days, and which was presided over by Samuel Gompers, presi­ dent of the American Federation of La­ bor. Information has been received by the Pittsburg operators that the miners of the Bell, Lewis & Yates company have struck in the Reynoldsville field, and that all the mines of the company are idle. The company is one of the heaviest tonnage producers in the northern field, and ships extensively to the Buffalo and New York State markets, as well as to the Eastern seaboard coaling docks. About 8,000 men are employed. Athletes of the lKaniont. Following is the standing of the clubs •f the National Baseball League: W. L. \V. L. Boston G4 28 Philadelphia. 42 51 Cincinnati . <58 30 Louisville 43 53 Baltimore .. .58 30 Pittsburg 41 51 New York. . .52 3G Brooklyn 38 52 Cleveland .. .48 43 Washington. 35 55 Chicago ... .45 50 St. Louis... .25 70 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: w. L. w. L. Indianapolis. (JG 27 Detroit .... .50 51 Columbus .. .01 31 G*ud Rapids.31 04 St. Paul 61 39 Minneapolis. 32 09 Milwaukee ..Gl 41 Kansas City.30 70 Fp'rit of Revolt in Turkey. _ Printed placards have been found post­ ed on the walls of all the ministries at Constantinople, demanding a change in the system of government in the Turkish Empire, and threatening violence unless this is effected. The placards declare that otherwise blood will flow as during the Armenian massacres. The minister for war, Itiza Pasha, has sent a circular to all the Turkish commanders directing them to w atch their officers stricflv. This step is attributed to the increasing dis­ content visib'e in Turkey against the pres­ ent government. THE M'KWLETB' PARLOR, pired he was the next thing to a physical wreck. , •• ' Right here it should be stated that the custom of the President leaving the cap­ ital during the suirimer did not .originate, for vacation purposes, but for the pres­ ervation of life. All of the American cities a century ago were anything but healthy, fyicnuse of their lack of Sanita­ tion. Epidemics were of frequeftfc occur­ rence, and the danger to life and health was tenfold compared with the present day. Every one'who could manage to.do it lived in the country, simply as a matter of-necessary precaution. • President Buchanan never stayed in Washington more than he could help, and •coincident with the adjournment of Con­ gress he would start for Bedford Springs and enjoy life surrounded by the belles of the period. Sometimes he would leave f°r Bedford Springs while Congress was still in session, and his political enemies never tired of berating him for this, charg­ ing him with the neglect of public duties. The war kept Lincoln in Washington The four-story brick building at the. southeast corner of Eleventh and Howard streets, Omaha, Neb., burned Thursday night. The building .was occupied by the Reeve Printing Company and the struc­ ture and contents were fully insured. The loss is uncertain, but estimated at $40,000 on stock and $75,000 on building. At Vermilion, S. D., the jury in the Walmsley case brought in a verdict of. ac­ quittal as to Anna Walmsley, and man­ slaughter in the second degree as to Ma­ rion Walmsley. The court pronounced judgment of thice years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. The Walmsleys killed Albert Darrah in a fight in their house last April. Judge Campbell of San Francisco has held Theodore A. Figel to answer to seven charges of embezzlement and two of for­ gery, ami fixed his bail at 538,000. The defense offered no testimony, but when the prosecution rested u.oved to dismiss upon the grounds that defendant's em­ ployer. Isaac Hoffman, deceased, had giv­ en Figel permission to sign his name. The motion was overruled. Great excitement prevails. at Trinitj Center, Cal., and vicinity over a rich strike made by tlie Graves brothers and Henry Carter in the drift claim of the Coffee Creek: In four days they took out three water buckets full of gold, valued at .$(58,000. The largest piece was worth $12,000. Tbey expect to take from $159,- 000 to $201),000 out of the pocket. The gold is coarse, and lies between walls of porphyry, and resembles melted gold pour­ ed in the scams. A tad accident occurred at a balloon ascension at Johnson's Island, near San­ dusky, Ohio, at 0 o'clock Sunday evening. Upward of 5,000 persons gathered to sec two aeronauts go up in separate balloons. Arthur Ledyard of Toledo, manager of the exhibition, gave the signal to release the balloons by firing a pistol, which he supposed was loaded with blank cart­ ridges. An accident happened to one of the balloons just as he had prepared to fire, and in his excitement he shot and instantly killed F. C. Linder of Chicago Junction, a spectator and Democratic pol­ itician. Linder leaves a family. Ledyard is under arrest. Bernard Bons, a Bohemian tramp, con­ fesses the murder of^Miss Pearl Morrison at Crystal Falls, Mich. The confession was secured by the Pinkerton detective who had been employed in the case.. In order to secure it a clever ruse was adopt­ ed. The detective entered the cell of the prison dressed in the garb of a Roman Catholic priest. He wore the black cas­ sock and his head was covered by a cowL Bons is a Roman Catholic, and in this disguise the detective had little difficulty iu securing a confession. Bons told how he had awaited the girl's coming on the road near where her body was found. He drngged her behind some bushes and kill­ ed her. After taking a breastpin from her dress lje walked to the home of Mr. Brooks, where he gave the pin to one of the girls. The confession was heard by two reputable citizens, who bad been plac­ ed in adjoining cells for the purpose. ADMINISTRATION ARCII. to improvise an object lesson of the re sources and productive industries of the Trans-Mississippi region. Under the act of Congress, approved by President Cleveland in June, 1896, the Trans-Mississippi and International Ex­ position is granted recognition as a na­ tional arid international exposition, with privileges for the admission of foreign ex­ hibits free of duty, the right to strike memorial medals through the United States mints, and all other privileges here­ tofore granted to international exposi­ tions, pledging the United States to par­ ticipate in the exposition -by the erection of suitable buildings and the placing of a Government exhibit therein. Iowa was the first State to make a pre­ liminary appropriation to cover the cost of representation at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. This act was passed at the legislative session of 1S9G, and it is con­ fidently expected that the Legislature the coming winter will increase the appropri­ ation by not less than $50,000. The Leg­ islature of Nebraska has appropriated $100,000 for buildings and exhibits, llli^ noisJias appropriated $45,000 for a build­ ing and exhibits. Montana appropriated $15,000, while individual citizens have pledged a like amount, making $30,000". Utah appropriated $8,000. Other States and territories will send large State ex­ hibits as a private enterprise, relying up­ on their Legislatures to reimburse them later. It is predicted that the mining ex­ hibits from the States of South Dakota, Colorado, Montana*, Idaho and Utah will be the grandest exposition of the products of American mines ever made. The city of Omaha has contributed $30,000 through its park commission and will doubtless increase this sum to a total of $100,000 by expenditures for beautifying an^TmproVing the exposition grounds and approaches thereto before the opening day of the exposition, while Douglas County, of which Omaha is the seat, will issue $300,000 in exposition bonds. The reve­ nue from exhibitors promises to be very large. To date more space has been allot­ ted to exhibitors than was taken "at the Atlanta exposition up to three mouths prior to the opening of the gates. WEATHER IN ALASKA. Winters Are Extremely Rigorons in the Klundyke Region. Under the direction of Secretary of Ag­ riculture Wilson, Chief Moore of the weather bureau has made public a state­ ment in iegard to the climate of Alaska. In this statement Mr. Moore says: The climate of the interior, including in that designation practically all of the country except a uarrow fringe of coastal margin and the territory referred to as tem­ perate Alaska, is one of extreme rigor in winter, with a brief but relatively- hot summer, especially when the sky is free from cloud. ; Ip the Klondyke region in midwinter the sun rises from 9:30 to 10 a* m. and sets from 2 to 3. p. m., the total length of daylight being about four hours. Re­ membering that the sun rises but a few degrees above the horizon and that it is Obituary: At San Jose, Cal., Col. Au­ gustus G. Bennett, 61.--At Marietta, O., Dr. Leven Peddy.--At Bloomington, HI., John A. Kerr, 61.--At Chester, Pa., Aetor Wallace Campbell.--At Memphis, ex- Mayor .lohnjPhrk, 85.--Af'New York, George Green, 49.--At Lacon, III., Mrs. John S. Thompson.--At Martindale, Ind., Robert B. Mitchell of Salem.--At Bloom­ ington, 111., Patrick Lenehiin, SO. There has been a considerable increase in the exports of domestic manufactures. Comparing these with 1S92 (the largest previous export year), whfen they v?ere valued at $158,510,937, or 15.0 per cent of the whole, the year 1897 shows that they amounted to $276,357,801, or 26.7S per cent of the total exports, which is an in- ciease over the fiscal year ended June 30, 1890, of $47,780,683. The smallest pre­ vious-percentage was in 1880, when the percentage of domestic manufactures ex­ ported was 12.45 of the. whole. The gross earnings of twenty-one roads for the month of July aggregated nearly $7,500,000, and of these fourteen report­ ed increases over the same period lasts year of about $600,000. The aggregate decrease of the seven roads reporting' is $120,000, but considering the roads and tire tonnage usually hauledby.ithem,.their, showing is not regarded important. The improvement in earnings is found chiefly on the Southern and Western roads. The enormous crops along the granger lines in the Northwest and in the South­ west, which are beginning to be moved, and the consequent picking up in business, are responsible for the marked improve­ ment in earnings. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Four years ago failures in. July amounted to over $60,000,000, while in last month failures have been only $7,117,727. the smallest in any month since 1892. The statement of failures by classes of business for July and for forty- six months shows that in manufacturing failures have been smaller than in any other, mouth except one, and in many branches of each department smaller than in most months of which records exist.' Last month was the first for four years of which the volume of business reported by clearing houses was larger than in the same mouth of 1892, and the telegraphic dispatches from all parts of the country given this week show a gratifying im­ provement. This is partly flue to a large yield of wheat arid good prices, though the crop is probably not as large nor are prices thus far as high as in 1892, but of cotton the price is higher, and the yield probably larger, than in that year. Other farm products are realizing good prices, and the possible decrease in yield of corn may help to market the enormous surplus brought over from last year. It is the wrong season to expect much from indus­ tries, and yet there has been material in­ crease in the number of hands employed in the iron manufacture because of the satisfactory adjustment of wages dispute; while the coal miners' strike seems each day more likely to end in a permanent set­ tlement beneficial toboth parties. Mean­ while the demand for most finished pro­ ducts is steadily increasing. Manufac­ turers are buying hnt little, though they are rapidly increasing the output, and are able to obtain an advance of about 10 per cent in prices of goods with rapidly in­ creasing orders." HOT%i PL A IN, WHERE THE PRESIDENT AND PARTY ARE STOPPING. - tables. At one of these the President , and his party eat. Secretary Porter and his family hav6 another. The other ta­ bles are used by the regular guests of the house. While the President is away from Washington all public business will be tranpafl^d,. as usu^il, through the. White House. . A,"j«tily packet of mail will .be sent between Washington and Bluff Point containing executive papers and announcements. The President says that he does not expect to work much at Bluff Point. He says he is tired out and pro­ poses to take a good rest. . » . One of the principal diversions at Bluff Point, aside from bathing and boating, is to fish, and„ although Mr. McKinley is not the luckiest man in the world when it comes to fishing, he occasionally tries his hand at the sport. In following the1 fish as a summer's diversion the Presi­ dent is doing what many of the Presi­ dents of other days have done during the. heated term. In Washington's time, how­ ever, the President did not have much leisure for fibbing or any other pleasure. Washington spent his first presidential summer in touring the New England States liid healing the many political dissensions Which existed at that time. Traveling about in those days was a very tedious matter, and the journey from New York to Boston in a small carriage over the^rough New England roads con­ sumed a *»eek. At every small town he stopped to make a speech, and he return­ ed to New York by a circuitous route, so .•is to cover a new district of disaffected places. • • Later, when the nation's Capitol had been established at Philadelphia, he un­ dertook a longer journey through * the South. This was in the summer of 1791, and he vent as far as Savarinah. The country wa? very wild in those days and the dangers of the trip were many. He returned by an inland route and reached Mount Vernon in the latter part of Sep­ tember, after-covering 1,887 ti»le8f-some of it on horseback, but most of it in. the same carriage that he used in his New England trip. , John Adams spent much of his time on the road between his Quincy home and winter and summer. The insufferably hot days he spent in a cottage on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, on the outskirts of the city, but a prolonged stay at any place distant from the capital was out of the question. - The first hot weather during Gen. Grant's term was always the Bignal for a family move to Long Branch, where the admirable roads gave him a splendid chance to enjoy his favorite sport, that of driving a pair of fast horses. The ocean, on which? his house fronted, also gave him immense pleasure. Like Bu­ chanan, his political adversaries took ad- PRINCE ESTliRIIAZV DE GALANTIIA. country. Mrs. Langtry's prospective hus­ band is 54 years old, but it is said that he does not look or feel his age by twenty years. His marriage may provoke no end of comment in continental journals, but, it is highly probable that Prince Paul will care little what the journals say about him. Mis. Langtry's recent divorce leaves her free, to wed* OHIO POPULIST TICKET. Middle of the Road Men Nominate- Coxey for Governor. Governor -.Jacob Coxey Lieutenant Governor.. .Morris Whit comb Supreme Judge. D. C. Pomeroy Attorney General C. A. Reider State Treasurer .F. M. Morris The above ticket was nominated by the Ohio Populists at Columbus in one of the most exciting conventions ever held in the State. It was a turbulent assembly, and the efforts of the police were necessary to, preserve a semblance of order. Charges were made that Senator Hauna and John R. McLean furnished money to aid the cause of afiti-fusion amf fusion, respec­ tively, and several fights were indulged in on the floor. The middle of the road element carried the day, and nominated their ticket, headed by Jacob S. Coxey. Charges of corruption were openly made against delegates, who, it is alleged, re­ ceived money for railroad expenses, and a committee was appointed to investigate. Mr. Coxey addressed a large ratification meeting at the State House at night. WASHINGTON, MRS. M'KINt.EY'8 ROOM. Corrected tables about to be published by the bureau of statistics in connection with the monthly summary of finance and commerce will show that the domestic exports for the fiscal year ended June 30 were the largest in the history of the country. Their value amounted to $1,- 032,001,300. The next largdst was the year 1S92, when they amounted to $1,- 015,732,011. The increase over exports of the preceding year was $108,800,813. The pension roll of the United States has almost reached the million mark. Com­ missioner Evans has just issued a state­ ment showing that at the beginning of this fiscal year the pensioners numbered just 983,528, an increase of 12,850 for the past year. During that year 50,101 new pensions were granted and 3,971 persons were restored to the rolls. Old age and disease, however, are working great in­ roads into the lists, for there were 31,9G0 deaths during the year. Other sources of loss were 1,074, from remarriage of wid­ ows; 1,845, orphans attained majority; 2,683 failures to claim pensions, and 3,560 losses from unrecorded causes. An official of the State Department is authority for the statement that the claims already filed by Americans against Spain growing out of and incident to the Cuban revolution ̂ aggregate not less than $75,000,000, and that the amount is in­ creasing daily. Only a few sensational claims have been brought to the attention of the public, but hundreds ef those now before the Department of State are as just as the Ruiz or-any of the claims, and can he forced' to a successful" issue just as certainly. In the slow process of dip­ lomatic adjustment of claims filed against Spain 75 per cent of the parties concern­ ed will drop out of sight and their de­ mands be lost sight of, but the remainder, who have gi eater persistence or superior acquaintance with the agencies employed in the business, may eventually get some­ thing back in the way of reparation for losses sustained. It is safe to say, how­ ever, that not 10 percent of the original claims will ever be realized, unless they should be provided for in the terms of set­ tlement "when the isjand finds shelter under the protection of Uncle Sam." If Spain anil Cuba should conclude the war and maintain their existing relationship the claims of Americans for property losses will then be referred to a commis­ sion. vantage of his prolonged stays at his sum­ mer home and charged him With all kinds of misdemeanors fix regard to his duty to the nation. President Hayes consumed his summers in touring the country on the finest trains that had ever been seen up to those times. In the summer of 1877 he journeyed through New England in a vain effort to subdue the feeling which had been arous­ ed by the events of the election the pre­ vious year. From New England Mr. Hayes went to the Middle States and then to the South as far as Atlanta. Com­ ing back, he stopped at all of the impor­ tant towns before reaching Washington. - StrangelycHough, the Southern people were more cordial to him than thoSb of the North, and the pleasantest part of the trip was the Southern end of it. Succeed­ ing summers for the most part were spent by Mr. Hayes in traveling to different sec­ tions of the country to open State fairs, preside at monument dedications and sim­ ilar functions. In this respect he was the record President. Garfield would probably have been a patron of the seashore, as he was going to Long Branch when he was shot. Presi­ dent Arthur made th(? longest trips of any President ill vacation times. Hngft Tyler of' Pulaski has been nominated for Governor by Virginia Dem­ ocrats. - Spanish troops are reported to have been routed iu a decisive battle with Cu­ ban insurgents in Matanzas. Obituary: At Belmont, Mass.. Henry P. Marcy, president of the Fitehburg Railroad.--At Excelsior Springs, Mo., Col. II. C. Fish.--At Danvers. 111., Wil­ liam Strehle, 58--At Muncie, Ind., Mrs. B. Frank Bratton, 52.--At Kokorno, Ind., Peter Miller. The Spokane Spokesman-Review has crop reports from special correspondents. The estimated wheat yield as given by the reports is as follows: Washington- Spokane County, 4,000,000 bushels; Wal­ la Walla, 4,000,000; Adams, 3,000,000; Whitman, 13.500,000; Lincoln, 13,400,- 000; Eittas, 400,000; Yakima, 300,000. North Idaho--Latah County, 2,000,000; Nez Perces, 1,000,000. Total, 41,600,000. The Peter Adams paper mill at Buek- land, Conn., was destroyed by fire. Loss, toward of $35,000. The mill was owned by- J. D. Pickles & Bro. News was received from Coffee Creek, Cal., to the effect that $40,000 more of gold dust and nuggets were taken out from the pocket out of which the Graves brothers took their $42,000. In their home, three miles south of Belle- fontaine, Ohio, George D. Dietrich, a wealthy fanner, and his wife were found murdered with an ax. They hnd been dead three days. The supposed object was robbery. •» Authony Hope, the novelist, is coming to America to give a series of readings. James Fetumore Cooper's old home at Cooperstown. N. Y„ is to be turned into a park. Mrs. Marion Crawford, wife of the nov­ elist; has dark eyes and golden hair, a rare combination. Secretary of State and Mrs.' Sherman will celebrate their golden wedding anni­ versary nest year. J. Nat Harbin, Senator Hearst's old mining partner; thought to be dead for fifteen years, has been found living in Mexico. Friends of Gen. Lew Wallace are ac­ tively managing his campaign for ejec­ tion to the United States Senate to suc­ ceed Senator Turpie. Senator Peitigrew, who recently lost his voice temporarily while addressing the Senate, will take, a long rest. He will sail for Japan on Aug. 2. Mark Twain and his daughter will spend the winter in Vienna, in order that the latter may receive musical instruc­ tion from Prof. Lesehetizky. Mrs. Alexander Campbell, widow of the founder of the Campbellite sect, which now numbers over 1,000,000 communi­ cants, died lately at Bethany, W. Va. The venerable Horatio F. Sinirall. ex- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, is a member of the Board of Supervisors of Warren County, Miss. There is a 15-year-old widow at Coving­ ton, Ivy. The girl was married a year, ago to a 10-,vear-old boy. all the parents consenting. Her husband died a few days ago. United States Senator George o Frisbee Hoar of Massachusetts and Senator Ju­ lius C. Burrows of Michigan are study­ ing modern Greek iu Washington with a Turkish tutor. . Ambassador Hay and his family are al­ ready popular in Loudon society, »Misa Helen Hay iu particular having won so­ cial success. Miss'Hay has also mado her debut as a poetess. > MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 43c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; new potatoes, 40c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 80c to 82c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 42c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 43c. - Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; ohts, No. 2 Vhite, 21c to 22c; rye, 42c to 44c. Toledo--Wheat,; No. 2;red, tyaitoMc-, corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28ci oats,"!No. 2 white, 16c to 18cj rye, No. 2, 42c to 44c; clover seed, $4.30 to $4.35. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 81c to 83c; corn, No. 3, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 1, 41c to 43c; barley, No. 2, 34c to 38fc; pork,? mess, $ j .50 to $8.00. *' ...* - Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50: sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2. white, 21c to 23c. . , « New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00- to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c: coru, No. 2, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter creamery, 12c to<;16c; eggs, Western. 13c to 14c IMIOF. WILMS I„. MOORE. wholly obscured on a great many days, the character of the winter mouths may be easily imagined. In the interior of Alaska the winter sets in a8 early as September, when snow- storms may be expected in the mountains and passes. Headway during oneof those storms is impossible, and the traveler who is overtaken by one of them is indeed for­ tunate if he escapes with his life. Snow­ storms of gieat severity occur in any month from September to May, inclusive. In May the sun rises at about 3 a. m. and sets about 9 p. m. In June it rises about 1:30 in the morning and sets at about 10:30, giving about twenty hours of day­ light and diffuses twilight the remainder of the time. Ground was broken for the pneumatic mail service for New York, which the postofficte contract requires shall be in operation by Oct. 1. The excavatiou was begun in I^ark Row at the point where the tubes are to run into the gen­ eral postolllce. The tube system will pro­ vide twp lines between New York and Brooklyn and eight other lines in the for­ mer city. . . Senator Mason of Illinois is popular among the Cubans because of his efforts iu behalfdof the recognition of the Cuban army as belligerents. Estrada Palma the head of the Cuban junta in this coun­ try, has sent to Senator Mason a machete, to be given to the Senator's little daugh­ ter, Winifred. William Bierkliug, aged 6, was run over by a trolley car in Brooklyn and in­ stantly killed, being the 187th victim, of iho Brooklyn trolley. SAYS WORLD IS SHORT IN WHEAT Rrench Grain Merchant Predicts an Knormotis Demand on America* "The world is short on wheat; prices will advance." That is the way a mem­ ber of one of the biggest grain firms iu Europe slized up the wheat situation. He is Mr. Panzer of the. house of Goidstuck, Haines & Co. of Paris, which has sixteen branch houses in various parts of Eu­ rope. Mr. Panzer, who has charge of the Lon lou house, is now in this country. "France," he says, "is from 50,000,000 to 60,000,000 bushels short-of its normal wheat output That much, will, there­ fore, have to be purchased abroad. The Danube countries are short.' Of Russia you can tell nothing till the last moment, but it is probably short. The Argentina is short. Only the United States has a | big yield. I have traveled all around this country in tire last two months. I have been all along the coast and frontier States on the north and the south, the eapt and the west. I found ships loading with European orders in Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia... I found the same at New Orleans, and even at San Fran­ cisco I found ships loading for the French market. Wheat will be high, but my ad­ vice to the farmers is: DOn't wait too long. Sell when there is a good market and be content." Charles S. Newhall, head bookkeeper of the Agricultural Insurauce Company of Boston, and treasurer of the Melrose (Mass.) Co-operative Bank and the Mel­ rose Highlands Congregational Church, is under arrest at' Bar Harbor, Me., on charge* t>f ec-bezzling $15,000. . William Collier, an insane theological student, vho journeyed from Memphis for the purpose of assassinating Rev. Dr. Edward E% t rett Hale, is locked up in the Kingston, R. I., jail. John Jacob Astor is said to have donat­ ed $18,000 to purchase "Elmwood," the home of James Russell Lowell, at Cam­ bridge, Mass., which will now be turned Into a memorial park and thrown open to the public. A most desperate and bloody attempt to escape from State prison in Charlestown, Jkfass., took place in the rotunda of the MB. M'KIXLEY AS AN ANGI.EK, Chili's new cabinet has resigned. In pursuance of the British admiralty's policy of strengthening the torpedo boat and torpedo destroyer flotillas abroad, the Virago and Thrasher have been commis­ sioned for the Pacific station and the Quail arid Sparrow Hawk have been com­ missioned for the North American sta­ tions. These small vessels will be con­ veyed to their stations by cruisers. Santiago de Cuba dispatches Thursday report the . military arrest, drumhead Philadelphia. As soon as Congress ad­ journed he- Would get into his carriage, and the long journey would be made in very : fast time for those days. In 1799, when President Adams was summering at Quincy, yellow fever became epidemic iu Philadelphia, arid the capital was re­ moved temporarily to Trenton. Urgent public business made it necessary to re­ call the "President, but it was a good .wreek before tb.e messenger reached bim,