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THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. mciienry. t l l inot« SEEK CANADA'S AID. ©OM IN ION GOVERNMENT ASKED TO HELP A COMPANY. Advocates of St. Clair and Eric f liip Canal Want a $5,500,000 Bond Issue --Trouble Between Nicaragua fHjd Costa Rica Over a Boundary. ) St. Clair Ship Canal. A proposaf to guarantee the bonds of the St.; (flair anil Erie Ship Canal is be­ ing considered by the Canadian Govern­ ment. A deputation of representative men from the counties interested, accom­ panied by several members of parliament, presented a request that the petition of the St. Clair and Eric Ship Canal Com­ pany. asking for a guaranty of 5'. per cent interest for twenty years bn an issue of J?o,500,000 of bonds, be granted.. .The . more important of the points touched up­ on by the delegates were the shortening oStbe .distance between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie by seventy-nine. miles, which Would decrease the, sailing distance, and thus increase the number of trips in a fieason, the 'avoidance of the dangers and <lelays of the Detroit river route, the less­ en iiig , of the. cost of transports between- Fort William and Lake Erie, and, locally; the making effectual of drainage over a very large area of fertile land now only 'imperfectly drained at a great cost and the bringing of a market equal to that of ia large city to the very doors of the farm­ ers and gardeners. It was also shown that the Government would not be called lupon to pay any of the interest guaran­ teed. as the company would provide for it iduring construction, and after that the tolls on less than one-third of the tonnage tiow passing through the Detroit river •would pay the interest on the bonds and 'all expenses of maintenance and opera­ tion. The impression of the delegation is that the Government will do all in its power to grant the canal company s re­ quest. Trouble in Central America. The President of Costa Rica has an­ nounced at a public audience that war with Nicaragua was inevitable, and that preparations for it had been made. Two British warships are at Fort Limon and •the United States gunboat Newport is at <5reytown. The bone of contention is the Atlantic boundary line of the two coun­ tries. The quarrel has been of long stand­ ing. By the treaty of April 15, 1S58, "the channel of the Rio San Juan del Norte at its exit into the ocean" was spoken of as the eastern boundary line- between the countries, but owing to changes in cur­ rents and the accumulation of drift at the river's entrance the channel of the San Juan is a number of miles farther north than it was in 1858. Costa Rica's conten­ tion is for the old exit, and the settlement of her claim must be of great interest to the United States. The old exit, if al­ lowed to stand for the boundary, would ijring the entrance of the proposed Nicara- guan canal in Costa Rican territory, giving Costa Rica such rights that construction of the canal might be still more delayed. Nicaragua contends that the boundarv should be placed where the river now flows into the sea. Gen. TUcClcllan, a member of flie House of Representatives from the Twelfth dis­ trict of New York. President McKinlcy has promised," if business will permit,, to be the guest of yond control. In a ver.v sh'ort time the flames were communicated to the H. Childs & Co.'s nine-story building at 813 Perin, and from there to the building of M. Oppenheimer-& Co. at Sll, The tire was a furious one, and a general alarm was necessary. 'The losses are: National Wall Paper Company. $100,000, complete­ ly covered by insurance; J. F. Haney & Co., retail wall paper dealers on the first floor, $15,000, insured;- T. A. Gillespie, owner of the building, $30,000. insured; the H. Childs company, wholesale dealers in boots and shoes. $100,000, fully insur­ ed; M. Oppenlieimer & Co., wholesale clothing dealer^, loss, mostly by water, will fcach $15,000. insnrcd. -- WESTERN. NEWS NUGGETS. Simon L. Lazard, founder of the bank ing house of Lazard Freres, is dead. Prince Tai Wan Koon, father of the Emperor of Corea, died at Seoul, accord­ ing to advices received by the Corean le­ gation. The national conference of the leaders of the liberty party at Columbus, Ohio, agreed to make the Pittsburg platform their enunciation of political principles. Chicago capitalists are interested in a deal for the purchase of 1,000,000,000 feet of sugar pine on the Klamath river in northern California. The price is $1,- 000,000. The condition of Mrs. William C. Whit­ ney, who was recently hurt while going to a hunting party at Aiken, S. C., is re­ garded as serious. Evidence of paralysis has set in. Rev. John B. Fitzmaurice, D. D., here­ tofore rector of the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo at Overbrook, Pa., was at Philadelphia consecrated bishop coad­ jutor of the diocese of Erie. Fire which originated in the rear of Council's plumbing shop, destroyed the Badger block at St. Joseph, Mo., causing a loss of $50,000. The Volksblatt, a German paper, was burned out. The United States Brewers' Association has sent to Congress a statement request­ ing the discontinuance of the issue of in­ ternal revenue stamps of smaller denomi­ nations than those for one-sixth of a bar­ rel. Six vessels, the City of Topeka, Cleve­ land, Noye, Protection, Augusta and Sco­ tia,. are overdue at Seattle from Alaska. Their non-arrival causes no apprehension, as it is supposed they have sought shelter from the storm. The planing mill of the A. M. Stevens Lumber Company, together with twenty or thirty dwellings, many bales of cotton and N. W. Calluek's stove factory, at Dyersburg, Tenn., were burned, causing $200,000 loss, with small insurance. Sawyer, Manning & Co., dry goods com­ mission merchants of New York and Bos­ ton, are involved in the failure of three mills, for which they were selling agents. They are the Burlington Woolen Com­ pany, the ^Yinooski Worsted Company and the Colchester mills of Colchester, Vt., for which receivers were appointed in Boston. Sawyer, Manning & Co. are indorsers on mill paper for about $1 000 - 000. § Postmaster General Gary has offered a reward of $300 for the arrest and con­ viction of the persons who burned the postoffiee at Lake City, S. C., and a re­ ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of those who murdered Baker and his in­ fant at the same time. He has also is­ sued an order to discontinue the office at Lake City. Senor du Bose, the Spanish representa­ tive at Washington, has admitted that the authorities at Havana planted sub­ marine mines in the harbor, but claims they v ere not placed in the anchorage, but in the channels. I-:: - -• . EASTERN. Howard Gould, the owner of the $500,- 000 pleasure craft Niagara, which was launched at Wilmington, Del., Saturday, says that if necessary he will gladly turn it over to the Government in case of war with Spain. The story told by Gen. Lew Wallace at the Lincoln day banquet in Lebanon, Ind., Feb. 12, in effect that Lincoln had on o&e occasion told him confidentially that he (Lincoln) was waiting for a boat lo take him to Harrison's landing to pre­ vent Gen. McClellan from surrendering the Union army, has been pronounced Tid- iculous by Gtx»rge B. McClellan, a; son of At Runeberg, Minn., Olaf Karlmen, postmaster, was burned to death. Every gambling" house in Youngstown, 0., was raided by the police. A well of petroleum has been found on vacant land in. the heart of Tacoma, Wash., opposite the -exposition building. George W. Dickinson of Chicago, for­ merly general manager of the Northern Pacific Railway, has just paid $80,000 for twenty- acres of land where the oil well, is situated. • The large establishment of the Nied- ringhaus House' Furnishing Company at St. Louis, of which Charges Niedringhaus is president,: was. partially destroyed by fire', resulting in, a loss of more than $50,- 000 to the stock and' building; fully in­ sured. The stock carried by- the,business: is valued at $110.000., , Representatives of some of the largest dynamite and fuse manufacturing com­ panies of the United States have com­ pleted the preliminary arrangements for establishing a large plant in Denver. A new company is to be incorporated, the stock already being subscribed. The com­ pany represents millions of capital. As a solution of the difficulty at the Colorado industrial school for girls, where there have been of late numerous violent outbreaks among the inmates, it is pro­ posed to hypnotize, the incorrigibles, and while they are in that state suggestions will be made which may influence them toward better lives. The physicians who will make the experiments, it is said, have used the hypnotic' power extensively in their practice. Three masked men entered the residence of Newton Baldwin, in the vicinity of Selma. O., by breaking a frout door panel. Baldwin and his two sisters, Eliza and Ellen, were awakened by the report of a pistol fired close to Baldwin's bed. Bald­ win made an attempt to get up, but was threatened with death. The sisters were choked and Baldwin was beaten about the head. The doctor says all will recover. The robbers took $20 in paper money and an unknown amount of silver, and a gold watch. A reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the robbers is offered. The Liliputians have begun their en­ gagement at McVieker's Chicago theater. The Liliputians were never seen to better advantage than in "The Fair in Midget- town," which, with its interesting plot, witty dialogue, beautiful sceneries and decorations, handsome costumes and num­ erous effects, especially the fatal cine­ matograph and the Geisha parody, is the finest ever seen. The three grand bal­ lets, "The Five Senses," "Ncwspaper- dom" and "Victorious Armies of the World," form one of the main features of the evening's entertainment. The audi­ ences seem to be especially delighted with the march at the end of the third act, during which the Liliputians appear as George Washington, Gen. Grant, Napo­ leon I., Czar Nicholas II.. Queen Vic­ toria, Bismarck, Moltke, and--saluted by all the other nations--to the tune of the German national hymn. Emperor William 1. The stage picture at the end of this act is dazzlingly beautiful and evokes storms of applause. proTal of the organized milling Interests of the country. They want all mixed flour branded to show its trqe nature. The President of th£ United States has presented loving cups, each duly inscrib­ ed, to Jose Mendoz y Herrera, sub-lieu-, tenant of Spanish marines, and Eugenio Montero y Reguera, lieutenant of the Spanish navy, in recognition of their hu: inane services to the captain and crew of the American brig Wau-Bun, wrecked Oct. 25, 1897, off the, Cuban coast. FOREIGN. MARTIN AND MIS MEN. WLLKESBARRE JURY HOLDS 69 LIVES IN ITS HANDS. Progress of the Trial Resulting from the Shooting Of Coal Miners by Deputy Sheriffs at Lattimer--Prose­ cution Would Prove Murder. SOUTHERN. The Transvaal Government'is reported to be making extensive warlike prepara­ tions. Citizens of Switzerland, by a popular vote of 384,140 to 177,130, have approved the proposed State purchase of railroads in the republic at a cost of about $200;s 000,000. The Paris court has just handed down a decision favoring the heirs in the contest over the will of the late Dr. Evans, the celebrated. American dentist, who died recently iii the French capital. The Pekin correspondent of the Lon­ don Times says that China has agreed to open all her inland waters to navigation by steamers, whether foreign or native owned, under regulations to be framed subsequently. - 4 Right Honorable Sir James Stemsfield is dead at London, at the age of 78 years. He had held the offices of lord of the ad­ miralty, undersecretary for India, lord of tlie treasury aiid represented Halifax in parliament from lSi39 to 1895. .-The British ship Asia, Capt. G. N. Dakin, Jjound from Manila for Boston, has been wrecked somewhere in the vicin­ ity of Nantucket and her entire crew of twenty men and Capt. Dakin's wife and three children have been lost. The Asia has been expected for a month. A traveler returned from Dyea, Alaska, says: "For the past month men have been pouring into Dyea by thousands. There is a congestion of freight along the trail and at Dyea. The Chilkoot Railroad and Transport Company Railroad ^s complet­ ed. but has been unable to run for several days, because men were unable to live on the summit of the pass. The chaotic con­ dition of things cannot be conceived by those who have not seen it." IN GENERAI A delegation of Southern cotton mill men appeared before the Judiciary Com­ mittee of the House at Washington to oppose the passage of the joint resolution proposed by Representative Lovering of Massachusetts to authorize Congress to regulate the hours of labor in the different States. James Moore's, wife's dead and mutilat­ ed body, tied in a sack, was found float­ ing in Trinity river, near Dallas, Texas, on the night of Feb. 12. The day follow­ ing Moore was arrested on suspicion of having murdered her. Several days later, while being subjected to a severe exam­ ination by the grand jury, Moore broke down and confessed that lie had been jealous of his wife for a long time, and three weeks before her body was fouud he murdered her while she slept. Booker T. Washington, the prominent colored leader and educator of Tuskegee, Ala., in* an open letter to the constitu­ tional convention in New Orleans, La., after explaining the motives which prompt him to address the convention, among other things, says: "Since the war no State has had such an opportunity to set­ tle the race question, so far as it concerns politics, as is now given Louisiana. The negro agrees with you that it is necessary to the salvation of the South that restric­ tion be put upon the ballot. I know that you have two serious problems before you--ignorant and corrupt government on the one hand, and on the other a way to restrict the ballot so that control will be in the hands of the intelligent without re­ gard to race. With the sineerest sympa­ thy with you in your efforts to find a way out of the difficulty, I want to suggest that no State in the South can make a law that will provide an opportunity or temptation for an ignorant white man to vote and withhold the same opportunity from an ignorant colored man without injuring both men. Any law controlling the ballot that is not absolutely just and fair to both-races will work more perma­ nent injury to the whites than to the blacks. I beg of you further that in the degree that you close the ballot box against the ignorant .that you open the school house. More than one-half of the people of your State are negroes. No State can long prosper when a large per­ centage of its citizenship is in ignorance and poverty and has no interest in gov­ ernment." Testor & Co., wholesale confectioners of Montreal, have assigned. Assets near­ ly $70,000; liabilities not stated. J. W. Beall, a mining expert of New York, has arrived at Victoria, B. C., from Skaguay. He has been up the Stewart river, which, he says, is practically an unknown stream. He and his compan­ ions reached McQuesten creek, 125 miles from the mouth of the river, but failed to make a paying strike. They started on the return trip on Dec. 3, with eighteen inches of snow on the ground and the thermometer registering 72 below zero. Continuous snowstorms, intense cold, and difficulty of making their way made the trip more than usually severe even in those regions of hardship. Once two of the men in the lead, breaking trail, fell through the ice and were rescued only with great difficulty. Nine and a half days were occupied in making 35 miles. Beall says they found bars on the Stew­ art river very rich in flour gold, easily saved, but in various gulches and streams they prospected nothing was obtained ex­ cept light flake gold, which it is almost impossible to save except with quicksilver. The Stewart river enters the Yukon about sixty-eight miles above Dawson City. The gist of Bradstreet's report for the week is summarized as follows: "Favor­ able features dominate the general busi­ ness situation as a whole, and few com­ mercial conditions present themselves which can be regarded as in any degree disturbing. Chief among those factors which make for continued or growing strength in commercial lines may be men­ tioned the renewed tendency toward ad­ vances. in quotations of all staple arti­ cles and the steadiness of prices in other lines where increases are not at the mo­ ment reportable. Perhaps second in the list of suspicious features is the continu­ ance of marked activity in nearly all branches of the iron and steel trade, more particularly in the central west, where it is authoritatively reported over 90 per cent of the pig iron furnace capacity is in blast. The failure of the southern fur­ nace men to reach a price agreement is of course a depressing feature In that particular section, which, however, finds a counterbalancing factor in the inten­ tion to advance prices reported from the Bessemer ore producers. The volume of distributive trade shows an -increase, no­ tably in dry goods and groceries. At the West iron and steel mills are reported gen­ erally busily employed and unwilling to take orders for early delivery. At Chi­ cago 20,000 tons of steel rails have been sold in the last two weeks. The bicycle trade is reported starting up well at the West. The price situation is one of local strength. Compared with a week ago, not one article of staple use is reported lower. Prices of nearly all kinds of grain, but notably wheat, corn and flour, and most metals, and particularly s' iel billets, copper, lead and tin, have ad-1 inced. Ce­ real exports tend to increase Exports of wheat (flour included) for the week | aggregate 3,932,744 bushels, as agaiuat | 3,419.000 bushels last week. Indian corn j exports for the week are also larger, the total amounting to 5,055,000 bushels, as compared with 4,508,000 bushels last week." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.06 to $1.08; corn, No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 50c to 51c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 15c; potatoes, common to choice, 5i3p to 05c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 97c to 99c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c. Echo of the Strike. The fourth week of the trial of Sheriff James Martin and his 08 deputies on the charge of murder finds interest in this most remarkable case growing instead of decreasing. Never before in the history of the country have twelve men held in their hands the lives of so many, and" ac- cording to a Willtesbarre, Pa., correspon­ dent, the jury are showing the strain that is upon them. The deputies, however, seem undepressed. You could not dis­ cover in their bearing that they are on trial- for the grave charge of murder. They occupy five rows of seats to the left of the judge and so indifferent do some of, them feel to the proceedings that they frequently close their-eyes and fall into ,1 doze. Most of them are young and al­ most all of them fairly well connected. Among them are many college'graduates and almost albof them were in some ca­ pacity connected with the' coal mining companies of the. region. These coal mining companies have not forgotten them in their present position. They are paying all the expenses of the trial, and should any of the deputies be convicted the companies will look after the welfare of the families of the convict­ ed men. Perhaps the knowledge of the. strength and influence that are back of them may have something to do with ren- dering( the deputies so confident; in any case there is not a trace of fear or even of anxiety observable in their appearance. • The evidence thus far adduced by the prosecution goes to show that the march­ ing miners, nineteen of whom were shot and killed at Lattimer on Sept. 10 last, were orderly, well behaved and unarni- "There Was a struggle between the two parties at West Hazleton, in which the strikers used sticks and stones and the deputies clubbed with their rifles. The very fact that the deputies hesitated to fire at \Vost Hazleton made the strikers more confident and obstreperous when they arrived at Lattimer. We will show that the sheriff met the strikers up the roadj before they had come within a hun­ dred yards of the deputies, and that he used every means in his power to have them turn back. He was overpowered; and hustled out into the ditch, and the strikers rushed by him at the deputies. "The deputies had just three things to do. They could run, or they could hold their ground without firing and have their guns taken away from them, or they could fire and drive the strikers back. This lat­ ter they did, and if the officers of the law are to be convicted of murder for doing what was plainly their duty we may as well turn the country over to the mobs of foreigners that infest it." STRENGTH OF MILITIA. Enrollment by states and Number of Men Available. Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn has transmitted to Congress an abstract of the militia force of the United. States. The returns from Arkansas show a mi­ litia strength of 2,020 men. The number of men in Arkansas available for mili­ tary service is ,250,000. The militia force of Illinois is reported as 6,260. The number of men available for military service is 750,000. ( • . ' Kansas has a militia force of 1,463, and 100,000 men available. ; . Kentucky, has a militia force of 1,371, and 361,137 men available'. , Mississippi has a militia force of 1,795, and 233,480 men available. . The total strength of the militia force in Missouri is 2,349. The number of men reported as available for military service is 400,000. Tennessee has a militia force of 1,696, and 180,000 men available. Iowa has a force of 2,470, and 294,000 men available. Texas has 3,023 men in its militia, and 300,000 men available. II u THE COURT HOUSE AT WlLKESBARRE1, PA. WASHINGTON. Commissioner-Hermann of the general land office at Washington'has ruled that a claimant has a vested right to mineral land if he maintains his claim in con­ formity with local laws and regulations, and it is not necessary to file a notice in the land office. The United States Supreme Court lias rendered an opinion in the case of Alexan­ der Murphy <fc Co., the effect of which is to include worsteds in tariff paragraph 395, . covering dress goods "composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the camel, etc." Senor Du Bose, the Spanish charge d'affaires at Washington, says that Lieut. Sobral, the naval attache whose recall the State Department was about to su gest on account of his criticisms upon the American navy, resigned,a mouth ago and is now a private individual. ° The hearing on the Pearce wheat flour adulteration bill was closed by the means and ways committee. Millet's made an uu.eE': plea for the bill as having the ap ed. It shows that the majority of those killed and wounded were shot in the back and while they were fleeing to places of safety. It shows that the deputies or at least some of them were anxious to go gunning for the strikers and that some of them afterward boasted of the number they wounded and killed. There is a great sameness of testimony among the witnesses and the examination of the lat­ ter. bringing out no new thing, is very tedious. The defense, however, intends to demol­ ish the side of the prosecution. A good idea may be had of the deputies' side of the case from statements made by former Attorney General Palmer. In discussing it he first defined the powers of the sher­ iff as given by Blackstone: "As the keeper of peace, both by com­ mon law and special commission, lie is the first in - the county, and superior in rank to any therein during his office. He may apprehend and commit to prison all persons who break the peace or attempt to break it; and may bind anyone in rec­ ognizance to keep the peace. He may, and is bound, ex-officio, to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons and other misdoers, and commit them to jail for safe custody. He is also.to defend his county against any eneirtves who come into the land, and for this purpose, as well as for keeping the peace and pursu­ ing felons, he may command all the peo­ ple of the county to attend him, which is called tin? posse eoniitatus, or power of the county, and this summons every per­ son above 15 years old is bound to at­ tend upon warning under pain of fine or imprisonment." Side of tlie Defense. Commenting on this, Mr. Palmer said: "You will also find that the sheriff pos­ sesses powers of a judicial character. Now, then, to get down to this case. The sheriff was on the ground in his official character and in the performance of his duty. His deputies were in exactly tin; same position. In the opinion of the sher­ iff it became necessary to fire upon what lie considered a disorderly and dangerous mob. "If the sheriff made a mi stale e in judg­ ment he is no more liable to punishment than a judge of the court who should com­ mit a similar error in a criminal trial and •thereby cause the execution of an inno­ cent person. But we will prove that the , sheriff made no mistake. | "The real charge against the sheriff and ! his deputies is that they used unnecessary | force in dispersing the strikers on that i day, and that some of them were inspired i by malice and a burning desire to commit murder. You have heard only one side of I this case, given by witnesses who are not i only intensely prejudiced and personally j interested, but who have been thoroughly I drilled. "The way their stories agree is simply j marvelous. They were not going to do anything; they were entirely unarmed; St. Louis Cattle, $3.00 to $5.j>0, Jiogs, they were as peaceful as lambs; they were have a little to force the New Mexico lias a force of 652 men, ana .»;>,000 men available. Oklahoma has a force of 547 men, and 50.000 available. The aggregate militia force of the Unit­ ed States is 111,353, and, including the territories, 114,362. The grand aggregate of men available is 10,301,339. CAPT. D. L. BRAINARD. Man Who Will Head the Klondike Relief Forces. Capt. David L. Brainard, of the sub­ sistence department of the United States army, who has been selected to take charge of the expedition for the relief of CAl'T. DAVID I. . I lRAIXAni) . $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.going over to Lattimer to wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.02; corn, No.^2 - talk; they were not going yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 2<c men Lattimer to quit work, but they to 29c; rye, No, 2, 49c to 50c. ^ were only going over to persuade them. Cincinnati Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, they took along 300 men to do the $3.00 to $4.25; ' sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; persuading. wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 51c to 53c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 98c to $1.00; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No.'2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, 1 No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 50c to 52c; clover seed, $3.15 to $3.20. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 3, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 50c to 52c; barley, No. 2, 38c to 43c; pork, mess, $10.75 to $11.25. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.00 to $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. New Y'ork--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.09 to $1.10; corn, No. 2, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, i Western, 15c to 16c. •--* - "The Supreme Court has decided that in circumstances of this kind the very fact the miners in the Klondike territory, is well fitted by experience for the task. His work as second in command of the Greely arctic expedition showed him to be a man of great executive ability and unflinching bravery. The manner in which lie han­ dled the food supply for the starving ex­ pedition and himself daily fished for the few shrimps that could be caught through the ice. thus prolonging the lives of his companions, until he became so exhausted that he lay down to die, is among the most heroic deeds of arctic exploration. Capt. Brainard enlisted in the army as a private soldier and fought in many of the Indian battles in the West. WtfS&f/VDS, WOUNDED WITNESSES AT THE T1UAE. of so great a number of men being gath­ ered together is an exhibition of force and cpercion. But when it comes our turn we will show that the sheriff did not use unnecessary force. The strikers were not so lamblike as they would have you be­ lieve. They were just as anxious for a Cght as the deputies and more so. The Point Breeze race track, Philadel­ phia, is be cut lip into house lots. Jack Donovan of Cleveland knocked out Frank Mayo of New York at Dun­ kirk, Js. ¥., in five rounds. James Ruddy, the veteran Chicago horse owner and racing man, intends re­ tiring from the track and from all busi­ ness. Judging from the number of new tracks which will appear about Greater New York this year, a boom of public interest in cycle racing is being anticipated. Earle Reynolds has accepted the chal­ lenge of John S. Nilsson, the champion speed skater, for races from one-quarter of a mile up_ward for the championship of the world. Of $42,000 worth of small herring nets seized in Michigan last year 30 per cent of the catch of the owners proved to be trout and white fish, according to Deputy Warden Brewster.- Tlie Coney Island Jockey Club an­ nounces the Rosebuds, a stake for 2-year- old fillies, at four and one-half furlongs, with $750 added; the Coney Island Grand National steeplechase, with $750 added, to be run over the full steeplechase course, and the Bay Hurdle race, at two miles, over eight hurdles, on the turf, also with $750 added. These events will be de­ cided at the June meeting, and entries will close March 15. ZOLA is FOUND GUIL+Y. Sentenced to a Year in Prison and a Fine of 3,000 Francs. Emile Zola has been sentenced to im­ prisonment for one year and to pay a fine of 3,(X)0 francs. M. Perreux.l manager of the Aurore, the Paris newspaper which printed Zola's open letter to President Faure, is sentenced to imprisonment for four months, and to pay a tine of 3,000 francs. Zola's appeal to the justice of his country has been in vain. The spec­ tators within the court and the mob in the streets howled with joy when the sen­ tence was pronounced. The mob, yelled "Death to Zola" and "Down with the Jews." Had it not been for the strong guard of police the mob would have drag­ ged Zola from his carriage and killed him. This result has been expected ever since the complaint was filed;-- The charges were skillfully confined" to Zola's criti­ cism of the Esterhazy court martial, and ignored the Dreyfus question. * The court steadily upheld this limitation of the is­ sue. The jury was out less than half an hour. The court promptly gave Zola the limit of the law. , It is inadequate to describe that dis­ tracted country by saying that Frauce is no longer a republic. It is better and truer to say that France has never been a republic. No man dares cry "Vive la republique!" iii the streets of Paris. "Zola has been condemned, and the army is avenged," cries the press and the public. Zola has been sentenced to a year -in prison for denouncing a gross public out­ rage upon justice, and Paris is gay and light-hearted over the belief .that at last she has rid herself of the hated incubus which for weeks and mouths has tram­ meled trade and pleasure.' The last day of the trial saw the culmination of the excitement and passion of the fourteen days already passed-. The audience threw itself from one spasm of emotion into an­ other until, at the end, after expending its last strength in a delirium of excite­ ment over the verdict and sentence, it went away exhausted. MARYLAND'S NEW SENATOR. Judge Louis E. McComas, Who Suc­ ceeds Arthur P. Gorman. Judge Louis E. McComas, who has been chosen to succeed Arthur P. Gor­ man as United States Senator from Maryland, like his colleague, George B. Wellington, is a Republican, and when he takes his seat Maryland will for the first time in her history be represented by two members of that party. Louis E. McComas, was born in Mary­ land in 1S46. He graduated from Dick­ inson College in 1866 and was'admitted JUDGE LOUIS E. M COMAS. to the bar two years later. He prac­ ticed and lived at Hagerstown, and took an active part in local politics. In 1S82 lie was elected to Congress and served several terms, being one of the conspicu­ ous and able men of the House. In 1S92 he was secretary of the Republican Na­ tional Committee. President Harrison appointed him justice of the Supremea Court of the District of Columbia and he still holds his place on that bench. He will retire to enter the Senate in 1899. BAKER'S ASSASSINS SOUGHT. Rewards Offered for Tlioao Who Killed the Negro Postmaster. The most revolting crime ever perpe­ trated by white men in South Carolina was committed at Lake City, Williams­ burg County, at 1 o'clock Tuesday morn­ ing, when Postmaster Baker, a negro, and his family were burned out of their home, the postmaster and a babe in arms killed and the wife and three daughters shot and maimed for life. Baker was appointed postmaster three months ago. Lake City is a town of 500. inhabitants, and the negro population in the vicinity is large. There was a protest at Baker's appointment, but it was not a very vigor­ ous one. Information of the killing of the post­ master and the burning of his office came to the Postoffiee Department at Wash­ ington in a dispatch from Inspector Wil­ liams, in charge of the district, who has headquarters at Chattanooga. The hit­ ter's telegram was very nrief, and mere­ ly told of the killing of the man and the burning of the office. He will send an in­ spector to the scene of the tragedy at once to investigate and make a full re­ port of the ease to the department. When this is obtained the Department of Jus­ tice will be,asked to prosecute the per­ sons engaged in the crime. The Postmas­ ter General has offered a reward of $300 for the arrest and conviction of the per­ sons who burned the postoffiee, and a re­ ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the persons who murdered the post­ master at the same time. Gen. Gary has issued an order to discontinue the office at Lake City. "®F Tte NeWj In the Zola trial Col. Paly du Clam was silent as an oyster, but he was not an oyster patty, for all that. Gladstone ought to recover if reports are true to the effect that he is now taking his medicine in Cannes. It is again President Potter of the League of American Wheelmen. , Thus for another year the potter's wheel, will whirl. The snows are following each other so fast that it is feared some of them will not have time to save the Kansas wheat crop. One objection to fighting the boy king of Spain would be laying Uncle Sam open to the charge of striking an infant in arms. Senor do Lome probably understands now that an ounce of keep-youf-niouth- shut is worth several pounds of I'm-sorry- I-said-it. Dr. Nansen says he found lecturing in the .United States harder work than hunt­ ing for the north pole. And it may be noted that he failed in both undertak­ ings. The trial of Sheriff Martin of Lattimer, Pa., has served to emphasize the fact that in an exciting crisis no official with a'hairtrigger judgment should be intrust­ ed with a gun. Aside from adoption or the resolution giving the Secretary of the Navy permis­ sion to use $200,000 iu the work of rais­ ing the battle ship Maine, Friday in the House was devoted to a continuation of the debate on the bankruptcy bill. The speakers were Messrs. Sulzer (Dem.. N. Y.), Strode (Rep., Neb.)f Connolly (Rep., 111.), Rixey (Dem.. Va.), Grosvenor (Ilep.. O.), Sayets (Dem., Texas) and Ray (Rep., N. Y.) in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Ivitchins (Rep., N. C.), Linney (Rep.. N. C.), Love (Dem., Miss.), Ball (Dem.. Tex.), Henry (Dem., Miss.), Maguire (Dem., CaU, Bland (Dem., Mo.), Ball (Pop,, Colo.), De Arihond"(Dem., Mo.).• Wheel­ er (Dem.. Ala.) and Lloyd (Dem., Mo.v against it. In the Senate the Maine dis­ aster and the Cuban question occupied the entire day/ •/ . ' ' • . - ' ~ After -four days of • consideration the House on Saturday passed the baukfupt- cj bill reported by the. House Committee on Judiciary as'a substitute for the Nel- son bill passed by the Senate at the extra session-last summer. ' The bill is known as the Henderson bill, and contains both voluntary and involuntary features. It is considered less drastic .'than the meas­ ure passed by the last House by a vote of 157 to S7. Tltff. involuntary feature, however, had but .16 majority. On Sat­ urday a motion, to strike out the involun­ tary feature was defeated, by a majority of 19, and the bill was passed by a major­ ity of 2?,, the vote standing, yeas 158. nays 125. , Eighteen Republicans voted against the bill and twelve Democrats for it. The Populists, , with one exception, voted against it. Monday was private bill day in the House. The feature of the day was a spirited contest over the bill to p'ay New­ berry College, a Lutheran institution in South Carolina, $15,000 for damages by Federal troops. It was finally passed. On K'otion of Mr. Bailey, the Democratic leader, the House voted--5S to 35--to ob­ serve Washington's birthday by adjourn­ ing over until Wednesday, but Mr. Ding- ley raised the point of no quorum and before further action could be taken the House recessed. For three hours the Senate had under discussion the bill pro­ viding for the taking of the twelfth and subsequent censuses. It was amended so as to place the census bureau under the Secretary of the Interior, but the ex­ tended discussion which followed disclos­ ed so wide a divergence of views as to the various features of the measure that no further action was taken. A resolu­ tion offered by Mr. Allen, directing the Committee on Naval Affairs to make an investigation,-of the Maine disaster, was adopted without debate. In the House on Tuesday Mr. Johnson of Indiana made a sensational speech op­ posing the annexation of Hawaii. Polit­ ical speeches occupied the rest of the day., The sundry civil bill was before the House. The debate was finished. In the Senate a bill was passed increasing the army by two artillery regiments. In ex-! exutive session the Cuban question was1 discussed. On Wednesday a variety of subjects! occupied the attention of the House dur-! ing the consideration of the sundry civil! bill. Mr. Mahany of New York made an attack on the patriotism of some of the social leaders of New York, who. he said, held high revel while the nation was bowed down with grief over the "loss of life resulting from the Maine explosion. The Southern members, who have for years been fighting the appropriation fori "informers" on illicit distilleries, succeed-, ed in killing the appropriation in commit­ tee of the whole, but Chairman Cannon gave notice that he would demand a yea and nay vote in the House. A resolution was adopted inquiring of the Treasury Department what has been done by the United States to prevent the conveyance to the Cubans of articles produced in the United States; also as to the prevention of filibustering. In the Senate the entire day was devoted to debate on the Cuban question. By a vote of 51 to 5. Mr. Al­ len's proposition to add a belligerency rid­ er to the consular and diplomatic appro­ priation bill was rejected. The House disposed of thirty additional pages of the sundry civil appropriation bill on Thursday. The fact that the Gov­ ernment is preparing for. contingencies was recognized when Chairman Cannon, who has been laboring to keep down ap­ propriations, accepted without a word of protest an amendment to increase the ap­ propriation to care for the unused liiachin- lery at the Springfield arsenal, Resolu­ tions which were objected to a few weeks ago for the appointment of two extra naval cadets to positions in the engineer corps of the navy were also adopted. One of them will fill a vacancy caused by the death of Lieut. Merritt of the Maine. A feature of the Senate's session was the ^speech of Mr. Spooner (Wisconsin) on the right of Henry W. Corbett to a seat in the Senate from Oregon under appoint­ ment. of the Governor. Mr. Spooner made a constitutional argument in favo$ of seat­ ing Mr. Corbett. An effort was made to obtain consideration of the Alaskan home­ stead and railway right of way bill, but oil a parliamentary technicality it went over. The resolution offered on Wednes­ day by Mr. Allen (Nebraska) to appoint a committee of five Senators to investigate the Cuban situation was withdrawn by its author when it was laid before the Senate. News of Minor Note. Artificially spotted tobacco raised in Connecticut is said to be on the market., A plague hospital at Bombay was de­ stroyed by fire. Three patients died from shock. George Duffy, an 8-year-old boy, haa confessed to setting fire to houses in Ho- boken, N. J., with malicious intent. A bill has been introduced in the Ken­ tucky Legislature which fixes daily rates In first-class hotels in the State at $1.50; boarding houses, 50c, and restaurant meals, 25c. The handsome farm house of Alvin Feagans, near Kiiobnoster, Mo., was de­ stroyed by fire, and an infant child was rescued from the burning building after its clothing had caught fire. Hearing the cries of an angry mob outside the jail in which he \vas confinedi at RichmAid. Ark., Alexander Johnson, a negro boy, charged with grand larceny, drew a razor and cut his throat. The melon growers of Rocky Ford, Colo., an irrigated valley, famous for its delicious melons, have organized an as­ sociation for (the purpose of testing , the matter of cold storage, in order to better control sales and profits resulting from the overstocking of the market when the melons ripen. John Bachman, a convict, made a dar­ ing attempt to escape from Sing Sing prison. Iiachmann worked in the Clothing department, and managed to stow himr self away in a 6-foot packing case billed to St. Louis. The keeper, however, dis­ covered him and took him back to prison. He* is serving a life sentence for a mur­ der committed in 1895.