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k YAH ILYKE waaker one# were borne down aad badly * but will mow. |MdiM the destruction of the tent, maay ot tha droits people lost their properly. '• ... WESTERN. MANY BANKS SUSPEND. SPREAD OP THE COLUMBIA •* NATIONAL DISASTER. ; - jjWMto kBd Ohio Express Train Rlflefl--A 9k, Lonb Horror--The Campsols Fairly •coots Acroifi the Atlantic--Great Drouth *| Jtafttad. Le; fe ' .' ?f\yi '• fe i \rid«-S|tfMd DliMMk ' %* the failure of the Colombia Wa- : tional Bank of Chicago, banks have been closed in many towns in Indiana, > IllinoiB and Michigan. In Indiana these U6 affected: Kokomo, Shelby ville, Newcastle, Valparaiso, Delphi, Port­ land, Rochester, Brazil, Columbia City, Geneva, Fowler, Green­ wood. In Illinois: Martinsville, Keiths- burg, Bloomington, Chrisman, Hoopes- •; ton, Mount Carmel, Ottawa. Michigan: Kalamazoo, Lawton, Charlevoix. Ohio: * Williamsburg. The failure of the parent mod branch institutions seems to be as bad as possible, and the developments are watched with great interest iat£e •• entire Northwest. . • " * Expr«inC*rL(MtMt* AT 10 o'clock Thursday night a3 the north-bound passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad stopped at Laketon, Ky., to take water, two masked men approached the engine. Cohering the engineer and firemen with revolvers they * compelled them to get off the engine and go with them to the ' express car, where they demanded the 1 express messenger, S. H. Kay and H. C. Peat8on, his assistant, to open the ; doors of the express car. This the : messenger refused to do and • began hiding the contents of the safe and valuables. The messengers were informed that if they did not open ^ the car it would be blown open with dy­ namite. They refused, whereupon a charge of dynamite went off, blowing a hole In one side of the car. One of the robbers then put his gun in and de­ manded that the doors be opened. , Under promise of not being hurt the messengers opened the door and the robbers secured everything that was left in the 6afe. and then left the car and escaped into the timber. The amount 6tolen is not over $1,000. None of the passengers were molested. Av explosion of natural gas at Ander- derson, Ind., wrecked two houses, fa­ tally injured two persona, and badly bruised several others. GEORGE W. STONE, of Lansing, ex- Btate Auditor of Michigan, was appoint­ ed receiver for .the Central Michigan Bavlngs Bank or Lansing. MRS. CHARLES JOHNSON, of Bates- ville, Ind., was killed by a "Big Four" train as she attempted to oroaa the railway track In front of it. AT Cleveland, Patrick Moran, for the murder of Frank Blakeslee and .Tames Fox last Christmas night, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. JTTDGE WILLIAM E. NIBLACK, one of the conspicuous figures in the political and judical history of Indiana, died at Indianapolis in his 71st year. AT New Lisbon. Ohio, the coal opera tors have conceded an advance of five cents for mining, and will leave local questions to arbitration The Heath- ington Coal Company, the lttgest opera­ tor in the Ohio Valley, has signed the -jttfoera' aoale. Hnsband's FlendHh Crime. IK a most horrible manner John Daly, Louis machinist, murdered his wife. The family of husband, wife and seven children live at 23*29 Chouteau avenue. After the woman and children had retired Daly reached home ; from a "night out." Entering the g- bedroom he found all asleep. .V awakening anyone he drew a knife, ^forced his wife's head back and cut her ' throat twice, also crushing her skull i-Jk*' *" ' with an ax. He left the house and cut 7 his own was found by an ft, * him and then investigated, finding the ' woman dead with a 10-months babe f, : • still nestling in her arms. The Dalys SL^,-. had not lived happily, but no such,de- nouement has been thought likely to result. WASHINGTON. PRESIDEXT CLEVELAND has issued a rule declining to receive office-seekers who wish for a personal interview. MB. STEVENS has been renv&ted as our minister to Hawaii and Mr. Blount, who acted' as commissioner during the recent flurry, appointed in his place. JTTDGE WILLIAM LOCHREN has re­ signed from the bench in Minnesota and left for Washington to assume his duties as Commissioner of Pensions. SECRETARY HOKE SMITH has ap­ pointed a commission consisting of Capt. Anderson, U. S. A., the acting superintendent of the Yellowstone Na­ tional Park; Assistant Commissioner Bowers of the General Land Office, and W. L. Campbell of the office of Assistant Attorney General Hall, to consider the question of the needs of the Yellowstone National Park as to hotels and transportation, and to formu­ late regulations to govern the Same. POLITICAL. N > Two WESTERKERS filed applications at the Treasury Department: H. P. Fleming, of Chicago, to be Special Agent of the Treasury, and Hollis F. Knapp, of Jackson. Mich., for a position In the public building at that place. THE National Republican League met In convention at Louisville, Ky. The Without • °Pera house was tastefully decorated ' with flags and banners and the front of the stage was tanked up with flowers and tropical foliage plants. When the ! delegations had all been seated, Presl- throat, but not fatallv. He ! <*ent J- 8* Clarkson of the league called officer, who arrested | convention to order, and the Bev. Dr. W ood, pastor of the t nitanan Church of Louisville, invoked the blessings of the Deity upon the as­ semblage of Bepublicans. At the close of the prayer Mrs. J. Ellen Foster was ushered on the stage, and her presence was greeted with a storm of applause. Col. Andrew Cowan, a member of the local Republican league, then intro­ duced Mayor Henry S. Tyler, who wel­ comed the delegates. "In the name of the city," he said, "I extend to you the freedom of the city. We welcome you, and you will find the latch-string al­ ways out, and that you will be welcomed wherever you may go while you remain our guests." The Mayor was heartily applauded both when he came on the stage and when he finished speaking. Open Fair Sundays. MEMBERS of the Chicago World's Fair Directory passed a resolution Fri­ day that the World's Fair should be open Sundays on and after May 21. In­ asmuch as the big,exhibit buildings may sot be entered by the visitors, the direc­ tory proposes that a charge of but 25 cents be made to enter the grounds Sunday6. Members of the National World's Fair Commission are disposed to resent the assumed right of the local board to open the gates, even If the ex­ hibit buildings remain closed. • 1 ' 4 mm- vr The Campania's Qalck Passage. THE new Cunard steamship Campa* Ala, Captain Haines, which , sailed from New York, arrived at Queenstown, having made the passage from Sandy Hook in five days seventeen hours and forty-two minutes--the quickest passage eastward yet made by any steamer. After passing the Paris at 109 miles eastof Sandy Hook, the Campania did ndt sight her rival again during the voyage. , 1 " BREVITIES. . annuai report of the Westing- house Electric Company has been given out In New York. It places the com­ pany's profits from manufacturing for the year at $1,604,583. THE revolution in Nicaragua has proved successful. It is said that the rebels have overthrown the government and are in possession of the Nicaragua Canal. The United States ship Alli­ ance has been ordered to sail from San Francisco to assist the Atlanta in pro­ tecting American interests. Uncle Sam will thus have a war-ship at both the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific ends of the canaL THE drouth of the last eight weeks bas caused a great loss of farm and market garden products in the south of FOREIGN. THE German army bill, the Kaiser's pet measure, was defeated Saturday, and the Reichstag was immediately dis­ solved by imperial decree. . MICHAEL DAVITT, anti-Parnellite member of the British House of Com­ mons who was recently adjudged a bankrupt, has applied for the Chiltern Hundreds. THE Jew-baiter and member of the late German Reichstag, Hector Ahl- wardt, has been arrested and will be re­ turned to prison to serve his sentence lor having libeled the Loewes small arm6 manufacturers. The period of his immunity expired with the Heichstag. *. „ IN GENERAL IT is reported that the collapse of the revolt In Cuba is due to the Spanish Government's buying off the leaders. FOUR THOTSAXD government troops and 6,000 insurgents fought for six hours near Uruguayaua, Bio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Both sides claim a victory. A CONVENTION of Liberals will be held in Ottawa, Ont. It will hold ses­ sions four days and will be attended by 1.2(H) delegates, representing every eounty in Canada. Chief debate is ex­ pected on the propositions to adopt -as Wi MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.... $3.25 HOGS--Shipping Grades Jfc50 SHEEP--Fair to Choice TOO ? "" W, £*» England. Grain, vegetable, and fruit' a party Plalform unrestricted reciproci- -crops are withering throughout wide with the United States, or a more strips of country. A plague of cater- 8eneral policy of free tirade with tho pillars is destroying the leaves, bios- soms, and small fruit in the apple and pear orchards. In Hampshire, Devon- Shire, and Cornwall streams and wells drying up and springs are running LOW. THE liabilities of R, R. Robinson <fc Co., the suspended Wilmington, Del., banking firm, are placed at $326,000 and the assets at $20<»,000. Stanislaus Willey, Supreme Master of the Ex­ chequer ot the Knights of Pythias, says that he had a large amount of the or­ der' s money in the bank, but that it is fully covered oy collateral. He does not say what the amount is, but it to placed as high as $70,000. Wiiley is Mayor of the city. GENERAL E. D. TOWKSEND, who dur- _ ing the war filled the important post of crasr--No?' Adjutant^ General of the army, died in a2 " * CINCiNHATL WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 KYE--NO. 2 J. ! BUTTEK--Choice Creamery Eo.os-- Fresh POTATOES-3--New, per bu INDIANAPOLIS. - CATTLE-- Shipping Hoo«--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to. Prime WHEAT--No. 2 : CORU--No. 2 White OATS--No. 2 White I ST. LOUIS. I CATTLS. HOGS., WHEAT--No. 2 Bed •7fl .42 .30 •57 .14 .60 & 6.26 & H.00 <$ 5.75 & .7« & AS 9 3 § ROBBING Satlii( a Costljr Habit at the Fair--Sh*I-p Devices for Extortion--Sample* of the Am*Ltlte .at OMM Out* la Cheap, v Chicago correspondence: If eleven beans cost 40 cents the sec­ ond week of the Fair and deposits are required for the return of egg shells, how long will It take boiled potatoes to bring $1 each? If one nibble of cheese and one of crackers can t-ell for 35 cents and rice pudding retail at SO, how long must a man with a big appetite and a moderate salary go hungry * If staff hft«f made on tho grounds U worth .60 cents a cut and skinny pie is sold at 25 cents an eighth, what wilt the average visitor take for his eating habiti1 These are some of the perplexing" questions which now bother the patrons of the Fair restaurants. Once within the fence there is no chance to slip out for a snack and the only alternative for the person with a stomach that needs daily attention is to choose in which f>articular language he desirfes to be re-eased of his savings. There are French cafes where it costs, to sit down, and English taverns where the barmaids serve and guess at the bill; Polish re­ sorts. with strange and deadly cook- tails of benzine, absiuthe, and vitriol; German victual houses with"the fra­ grance of lusty boiled dinners, and the great casino where thousands shiver in the lake winds ana sit in amazement at the rates per plate. . - An appetite is an unnecessary ad- juiioi, aiiu to tiatiutt- Suolvtui uuCOiufuft- abletJiingat the World's Fair grounds is simply air impossibility to a man of or­ dinary means. About all that is left fbr the person who has not a pocketful, of money, and a big pocket at that, is to go down to the lake front any tim6 he gets good and hungry and get filled full of fresh air and scenery. This is not a diet conducive to obesity, but it is bet­ ter than losing flesh and many pounds sterling^-which will result from an en­ counter witb the average bill charged just for an average meal without any frills. It is not necessary to get into the realms of fa&cj dishes to be fright­ ened out of a year's growth by the fro*, <Mi l| not it'll new It; aad th«;ita!i$^ici('%' Brtng yoar «|>P ̂. jf**. Save It aa a curioatty to show your ft*:i relic taet from the forty thieve* Toil may grow th!n If you attend the £afr often or for an extended period, hut either forget your digestive apparatus pr take a lunch and orawl off by some lagoon when you eat it. Complaints concerning the extortion practiced were so long and loud that President Hlginbotham disguised - him­ self and made a personal investigation. He found these restaurants to be regu­ lar robbers' roosta, and the officials have now decreed that the extortion must cease. In a previous letter I said you could see the fair for 50 cents. Bo you can, but you can't monkey with a World's MO'KC Pifftsc ftfrvp* EGCSHlLtS TO WA|Tf R BOMS BESTAITBANT PBicsa FORTY CENTS rOR DlBOPPISG YOUR FORK. gigantic proporions of the "Please pay the cashier." One of the guards--and they are the wisest people of this generation--in a moment of extravagance ordered a piece of pie and a cup of coffee, and nearly fell in a tit when he had to pay a half-dollar for the epicurean repast When asked by a brotner guard why he did not eat a regular dinner, he replied: "I couldn't; I only had $6 in my clothes." They Have ft Diwi Pine. ** ' • ' The restaurants have the problem Of extortion figured out to a nicety. Vis­ itors cannot get out of the grounds and get back on ihe same admission. That, of course, would be an Injustice to' the exposition company; BO with the people inclosed in the stockadge, they must either curb their appetites or let the rein£ loose on their pocketbooks. One of the many pleasant devices for extracting money from the man that is ^thirst Fair restaurant for anything like tEat amount; " Random Fair Notes. THE attendance at the fair on May 3 was 31,274. THE Workmen employed on the Al­ gerian Village are on a strike for back pay. ONF of the Arabs who took part in the riotous outbreak In the Arabian vil­ lage was sent to the Bridwell for thirty days. THERE is mourning in the Javanese camp at the Fair, news having been re­ ceived of the death of the Sultan of Solo, the Javanese ruler. ALBERT BECK, in charge of the Aus-* trian exhibit, "tipped" a man who trans­ ferred his goods to him. The man was a customs officer and Herr Beck was arrested. . THE order against smoking on the grounds has been countermanded. It was the bugaboo of the Columbian Guard*, who each aver&ged enforce­ ment of the order ten times a minute. Two MONTHS ago "Count" Heinrlch von Bludzen was arrested in New York City for a series ot audacious swindles. He was tried in court and released. He has just been found in a World's Fair restaurant, acting as a walt'er. DURING the next three weeks 1,500 employes of the Exposition Company will be dropped from the pay-rolls. General orders have been issued for a eweeping reduction of the force of clerks, stenographers, draughtsmen, and other employes. UNCLE SAM doesn't stand very high at the Fair. Deputy Collector of In-, ternal Revenue Frank E. Stanley was denied admission when he showed his badge and sa d he had been sent to ex­ amine a cigar factory in the Plaisance. He was told to buy a ticket "like any other guy." SHOCKED TO DEATH. The infiimotu Murderer of His Child Wife IMM In the Electric Chair. Carlyle W. Harris, convicted of ad­ ministering poison to his child wife, was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison at 12:40 o'clock Monday af ternooa. Thus the last act in one of the most noted and in­ tricate murder trials on record is closed. Y o ii n g Harris had been a medical stu­ dent and played the role of a fast youth at Ocean Grove CARLYIJ; HABBIS. when he was first ta- , troduoed to Mary Helen Potts. The and hun- ' rest of the story is easily summed up: gered is a neat little appendix to the bill ot fare watch announces that coflee is 10 cents per cup and in the opposite corner the brief announcement that cream is 15. cents. -The man who or­ ders coffee is asked as to whether he is used to taking cream when he is at home down on the farm. Certainly he is, and he lolls back and thinks of the big Jersey cows and the cream that he sells his neighbors at 15 cents a quart. When he comes to settle his bill, by^«to^»Uow her to be dead reckoning, by latitude and lonai- ! buried under his name, tude or by logarithms, ha is generally 15 cents to 4 bits behind-the official count. "Oh, I thought that 'Cream, 15 cents,' meant a glass of cream." "No, it means cream tor coffee." If he is a wise man he pays and de­ parts with an internal vow of bringing i Clandestine meeting^, a secret mar­ riage, an illegal operation twice per­ formed to hide the fact of their union, discovery by the girl's mother and a demand lor a public marriage, pro­ crastination by Harris, and finally the preparation of some headache pills for his young wife which caused her death by morphine poisoning. Harris showed no concern at her death, and lefused a ham sandwich in his pistol pocket for the morrow's repast and drinking water frcm the pale-blue tanks tha' a e about the only free things distributed around the grounds. If he is unwise and irate < Suspicion was aroused, ! trial and conviction ! followed, Gov. Flower { refused a pardon, and the executioner's chair ! ended a base and \ blighted life. The fact that Harris Mh .15 Washington on Thursday. SPRING LAKE, near Grand Haven, Mich., a summer resort, was nearly de­ stroyed by fire, eighty families being burned out. Loss, $20u,000. THE will of Bishop E. R. Ames, of the Hethodist Episcopal Church, who died In Baltimore fourteen years ago leav­ ing a valuable estate, Including lands ttoar Chicago, is being contested in the Maryland courts. F EASTERN. 3.25 & 5.73 8.50 @ 7.75 9.00 & 5.00 .65^;® MX .13 <a> .44 M & JS1 *00 0 6.28 tt.00 ($ 7.75 .71 9 .72 .40 <3 .41 .55 & .51 spent his last hours ; preparing a written statement of his inno­ cence is In keeping : j with his character,and 11 Kt p* HARRMu ' only shows his remarkable powers ot secretlveness and self-control. It was natural that he should wish to preserve the name of his family from utter obloquy and to sustain his mother's unwavering faith in the inno­ cence of her boy. The saddest scene in this remarkable drama--more tragic far than that which ended all In Ihe death-room Monday--was that lmwhich the mother, after having, fought off death for a year with all the intensity of a mother's love, stood before her son's prison cell to say a last fari.well. Few mortals co:ne to know the anguish of such an hour. The Harris tragedy is only one of a class which must con­ tinue as long aa there are men who look upon women as flowers to be plucked and flung away, and as long as there are.women left to be deceived. new HAVE A PASS Biron vov CAS EAT. CATTLE.. Hoas. 8HEBP WHEAT--So. 2 Bed Coas--No. 2.. OATS--XO. 2 Mlxea. KTE--No. 2 „J DETROIT, CATTLE Hoos 8HKEP WHEAT--No. 2 RED ». COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOL.EUO.- WHEAT--No. 2. COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White IUe BUFFALO. CATTLE--Common to Prime . V HABKIS was executed by Electricity in the death house of the ! prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., at 12:4U I Wheat-^0- o'clock Monday afternoon. The official time of the first electric contact was ' 12:40. Current on 55J seconds. The execution was a perfect success. 'AT Johnstown, Pa., while the per­ formance at Walter L. Main's circus was In progress the dressing-room tent took fire. There were 5,0<'0 people in the main -tent. The cries of fire and the glare through the canvas started a ter- *lbie stampede. A number of the No L. White . MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. a. OATS--No. 2 White. BYE--No. L BABLEY--No. 2 L'OBK--Mess NEW YORK. CATTLE Hoas WHEAT-NO.' i Eed.V.'.'.V.V.I^.'! COBN--No. a OATS--Mixed Western. BUTTEB--Beat Fou--Sew Mesa. .74 <9 .75 .57 1 .64 & .66 20.75 21,25 3.80 0 6.00 3.00 <& 8.25 3.00 & 7.50 .81 H& .82*4 .81 ® .52 •36 & .88 •» & .30 21.25 <& 21.75 he makes a rumpus, only to have the head waiter come around with a con­ temptuous air and do a simple problem in arithmetic for him while those who have been through the mill titter aloud at the individual who does not know that 10 and 15 are 25. Telegraphic CURICH, THE jury in the case against Frank Hauck for killing John Murphy at Du- luth, Minn., returned a verdict of man slaughter In the first degree. THE building at New York, coiner of Broadway and 44th street, used as bar racks by the Salvation Army, was de stroyed by fire. Loss, $125,000. THE schooner Booth Bros, sank* off Atlantic City, N. J. The crew of nine PROGRESS AT THE WORLD'S PAIR MOT R A PI t>o Many; people do not care for soup or a course dinner, but those who are incau- < left the vessel in a yawl and were res- tious enough to order soup pay for the 1 cued by a steamer twenty miles at sea. same at the rate of 25 cents a throw and think that they have received two doses, on settlement. Good olid wrii beef and cabbage fluctuates between 40 cents and half a dollar, while a tiny dish of Boston's pride with h small chunk of Cincinnati's principal industry is worth 35 cents Without i Sprig of parsley to garnish the dish. Then, too, the beans furnished are of a small and inconse­ quential growth, resembling BB'fthot rather than a vegetable product. It can he easily figured up just what a good, comfortable meal will -cost the average man who baa no secondary appetite or who has not burdened himself with a false ono by the use of liquors, which one of the bills calmly declares are 35 cents a gulp. Julienne, 25 cents; roast of beef or gigot de presale, 75 cents; l'ageolets \>ois, torn a'e a 1'American, 50 cents; coffee, denc-tassfc, 10 cents; total, $1.60. MRS. KNC X who, together with her husband, Hobert J. Knox, was recently sentenced to imprisonment at the City of Mexi.-o for forgery, has been pardoned by President Diaz. THE search liaht display by the naval vessels In New York harbor did not take place owing to rain and fog. Fifty thousand people had assembled to wit­ ness the display. CORNELIUS VANDEEBIXIT IS about to double the size of the building now oc cupied by the Railroad Men's Club of New York, defraying the entire ex­ pend himself, at an estimated coat of about 1:80,000. FROM Spain comes a report of the drowning of twenty people. A religious procession was crossing a pontoon bridge and the structure collapsed. Tha disaster occurred hear Santa Eulalia. : Province of Sarago^sa. KxhlMta for Many Departments Seem to Be la Slow Hand! and Many Dtjra Be- qabwd for Complete i •iw talla of the fM« Balldlaga. **• Week at Jaeksoa fearfe! r Chloaco correspondence: Progress In the installation of exhibita in most of the World's Fair buildings la being made much more slowly than there was reason to expect on the open­ ing day of the Exposition. The promisee of several of the chiefs that the mechan­ ical work would be completed and tha refuse cleaned out within ten d.t^rs wIS hot be fulfilled. At the present gait it id doubtful if the sound of hammer and saw shall cease to be heard wit,hin twice the promised ten days. This prolonged ielay can no longer be charged to the railroads; about everything which will be shown on the Exposition grounds lje' within reaoh. There are no labor trou­ bles and no burdensome exactions front the Exposition management. Every ex­ hibitor is free to make haste. He did hurry before the opening, but he seema to be making life as easy Jor himself aa possible. The weather at present la most favorable for manual labor, and there are too few people in any building to' cause the least inter­ ference. Some work is done at night. The chiefs of every building say they cannot get sufficient light and re­ fuse to issue any peremptory orders lot night work. The exhibitors will not inr cur the additional expense of overt!mC labor bills until they are compelled to. In Manufactures Building Great Britain is in most presentable shape. Thi3 is accounted for, in part, by the fast that she built no elaborate pavilion or facade, as Germany and France are doing. As in the American section, each exhibitor has acted Independent of all others. But, unlike tho American, the British exhibitor constructed his pavilion or booth at home, and it came along with the exhibit. On arrival there was noth­ ing more to do than put it together and arrange the goods within it. This has bean quickly done, and the visitor may abfeto ted It . the gallery aailgned to France, Germany, and Auatrfa, „ is much vacant apaoe to fill, although It Is fo haw«ll t*ea iuttHi In Mines and Mining Building; New South wlfclaa peasants an exhibit tha most nearly aomplete of thoaa from for­ eign ftouatries. Germany and Austria are getting into shape slowly, except­ ing the great dlaplay.of the former near the center of the building. Quebec ia hidden awajrbehind Ontaria wi&, * dia- •V 1 Wf #0HTAII TO BEtorcsr's play of minerals, principally phosphates and mica. British Columbia, adjoining, strikes the visitor with amazement by ah exhibition of what appears to be a pyramid of gold ingots, some ten feet high and five or six feet square at the base. Gn closer examination the blocks prove to be cheaper than dross, for they are nothing but bronzed plaster. The pile is^Bupposea to /give a comprehensive idea of the proT- Hnce's pioduction of gold, as the bars i ap ill VIEW FitOMl THE WEST GALLERY OF MANUFACTURES BUILDINO. walk through the British section and see as much now as he ever will here of the products ot the three isles over the sea. The Canadian Display. Canada was induced by Chief Allison to Inclose her space, which appropri­ ately adjoins that of the mother coun­ try, and there is no mistaking her typ­ ical facade on Columb'a avenue. With­ in there is a display of manufactured articles, but the American idea that quantity is more Impressive that quality apparently prevailed. France moved so slowly with her staff ornamentation as almost to seem not to move at all. French exhibitors have tired of waiting for the completion of the ornamental work and are installing their wares in the rear of it. But they find it neces­ sary at once to surround their booths with canvas to. keep out the staff dust, ana visitors get little benefit from them, to Bay nothing of the fact that they are almost inaccessible. These goods are of the choicest kind, and pe­ culiarly attractive to Americans because of their artistic excel­ lence. The exhibitors profess to sell only by sample, or with the reservation that the goods cannot be removed until after the close of the Exposition, as the rules of the Fair require. But they are permitting customers to take away al­ most anything they are willing to pay the big prices for when the customs offi­ cers are not on watch. American ex- VJ represent in bulk the amount ot refined gold sent jbo market since the mines have been systematically Worked The compound value is $5V,» 0 '.COO. Eng­ land shows a good deal of coal, one 'piece weighing fourteen tons having been installed. South Africa has a large space inclosed and a model of a mill set up, but no exhibits opened. Mexico is inclosing the largest individual epace in the building, and has her cases ready to be filled with minerals. Chill is already prepared to give a good idea of the nitrate industry. She boasts of the fact that 1,0 jo, 119 tons of this mineral were .exported in 1890. Samples of crude nitrate and as prepared for a fer­ tilizer are in place. In the agricultural building Wiscon­ sin is ready to entertain visitors and Iowa nearly so. The incomplete ex­ hibits at the end of next week in this building will be the exception and not the rule, as in some others, If work proceeds as rapidly next week as it has this. It is already second iu popularity to Manufacturers building, apparently; a crowd of visitors lingered in it all dav and reluctantly withdrew at night. The big engine in Machinery hall is turning a thousand wheels, and an air of early completeness pervades the building. In spite of the delay in hand­ ling the ponderous machinery there is a prospect of a finishe I exhibit before many days. Electricity may be able to reach a specified point in a very short space of time, but the installation of the machinery and appliances through which it operates is slow bej oad com* parison. Apparently, the Electricity building will be last on the list for the visitors. Transportation building has no new surprises, but is monotonously slow In some departments. The carriage ex­ hibit is about complete and of a high order. TOWER OF OBANFJEB. HORTICULTURAL BUILD­ INO. hibitors are giving evidence of an inter­ est in the Exposition, and tlieit booths are filling up with a little more rapidity than heretofore. A very few may be said to have completed their work. Austria needs to do but little more, while Germany will have her hands full for many days yet, Switzerland can sit down and wait for sightseers In her completed pavilion. Belgium, just across the street, Is Teady for guests. Other countries have little to exhibit except unopened boxes and miscella1 neous debrk,--not including Japan in this category, which is more than half ready. «Muc ttloual Kxhlblt Adv uiced.. The educational exhibit is well ad­ vanced, and some things in it will bear close inspection. This is especially true of that of Pratt Institute, of Brooklyn. - This Is an industrial school, and the specimens of work in all the practical arts are excellent. They show what a pupil in school can be taught to do In architecture, building, plumbing, iron work, millinery, dressmaking, evtc. The exhibit Is presented with good taste. The Chicago educational ex­ hibit, if present at all, has hidden its light under a bushel; no one has been mmm. WEATHER BUREAU BULLETIN In Most Localities the Heeding- Season Is About Ten Day.-* Behind Time. The Washington weather bureau has issued a bulletin of the progress of the . crops for the past week, of which the following is a synopsis: Sew England--hea-jon cold sad baokw&rd; froet not all out of ground In north. Maryland--Fruit In some sections reported Injured bv heavy rains, hitch winds and frosts; wheat, rye. oats and grass improved; potatoes and tobacco plants thriving. Louisiana--Crops show improvement, but are becoming grassy; some compl&liits of lice in c otton and worms Injuring corn; sunshine needed. Texas-- Ft vorable for cotton and corn; cotton planting delayed bv continued dry weather in west portions: early wheat being harvested. 1 Missour'--< mus advancing slowly; fruit prcpecte improved. Illinois--ci/U JitionB ben; ticial to wheat, but retara o:her crops; fniit prospects impioving; plowing and corn planting making fair prog­ ress: thousands of acres of wheat still sub­ merged and will probably be a total loss; sea­ son about ten days behind. Indiana--Crops on uplands look well; low lands yet inundated; lruit backward, not much injured. W est Virginia--Wheat, oats, grass, rye and tobacco growing finely; promising reports relative to fruit; stock in good condition. Ohio--Wheat, oats, grass, rye, barley, and tobacco made Blow growth; early potatoes rot­ ting; fruit promising; strawberries blooming. Michigan-Crop conditions continue back­ ward. owing to wet and cold: plowing for cora is in progress in most aouthwm counties; trait prospects excellent. Montana- Warm weather during past two days very beneficial. ,, , . _ M'yomlnar- Weather too cold XOT anytniug to grow and too damp for furm work, , ' Arizona- Melons, figs, and strawberries ripe; other fruits promise well. " Utah -Crops have not been much Injured, although set back, and with good warm weather will do well. •Washington Winter wheat doing fairly well; Brass iH improving mora rapidly ana stock Is looking ve.l; all fruit trees but apples era in bloom exc?pt in Wahkiakum County; prospects very goou for large crop in most sec­ tions. , . , California--Grain crop short: cherries,prunes, almonds and berries average; iieaches two- thirds and apricots one-thiid crop; hops im­ proving r&pluly: sugar beets In San Bernard­ ino. Orange and Monterey Counties good. Wisconsin--Heeding will be finished this week and corn planting begun: seaeoa very late: no damage except slight rotting of seed. Minnesota--Seeding general; grass and early sown grain doing nicely; low lands in central and northern districts still too wet; fruit trees buduiug; son.6 com planted. Iowa--Large acreage ready- for corn, aad planting begun in southern districts. TEN MEN WERE KILLED DISASTROUS WRECK ON THS BIO FOUR RAILROAD. ,4*- ; taia Train XiMMres Tisrlf a»«l Crashes Into the D«pot--AU TBM> Trabunea MM Deatk a* O-- Othf Killed on the Platte*. Bgalna Wouldn't Work. Ten men were killed and six were seriously injured by a diaastrous wrack on the Big Fonr Bailroad at Lafayette, Ind., at 1:30 o'clock Monday """'"ir The dead are: E. D. Meyers, a mall olerk of Cincinnati. A. R. Chadwlok, mall etorl Jeaae H. Loaf, nail clcifc. Express Hessengar MoMfchSa, of B. Mdnnls, fireman, urban a, Ohio. Charlea Myecs, has driver, Lafayette. John Lennon, driver mail wagon, Lafayatta. The Injured are: ,^Wv. w^ Lottas Burganhole, Milwaukee, Wkfc William Place, Frankfort, lad. Jeff Beeae.Kempton, Ind. XUchard Jones, Pontlae, l!L Lewis Lefiler. Fowler, Ind. Blchard Jones. XjQganaport, Ind. The accident occurred at the depot 09 a sharp curve and was caused, it ia thought, by the failure of the air brakes to work while the train was entering the city on a sharp downgrade. The engine ' and three cars, including two mail J coaches, one express car, and a combi- nation smoker and baggage car, left the % track while running at a terrific rate. The ladies' coach and three through >v sleepers did not leave the track, Ml < the trainmen were killed, of th« i passengers was injured. As tho sngln® left the track it struck and instantly r- killed three men standing on the plat- . -;'i form. They were Otto Jesselson, who t). had purchased a ticket and was wafting to board the train; Charles Myers, a bus driver; and John Lennon, who was - 1 j in charge of the United States mail wagon at the depot. The dead that lay under the immense pile of wreckagejjfr .1 were not removed for three hours afterf. J the accident, a wrecking tra^.u being , . | necessary to dp the work. i j High bluffs rise on the west banX? the Wabash just opposite the city,"fend there is a long and steep grade at that . point. The ill-fated train must have been a mile up the grade from the river when the engineer discovered that there - ^ was something wrong with the air, for : ' the vigorous whlBtling of the engine for v brakes could be heard when the train |jij was still a mile west of the city. The engineer's desperate efforts to stop the train was shown by the large amount of sand thrown by him on the bridge through which the train came just be­ fore the fatal crash. The speed by that time hod Increased so terrifically, how­ ever, that its control was beyond human agency. With almost light­ ning-like speed the monster en­ gine dashed around the curves and across the long bridge, although the man at the throttle had reversed the machinery, and immense streams of fire were being dashed from the driving wheels running in opposite direction to that of the swiftly flying cars that fol­ lowed. Just after leaving the east end of the long bridge over the \Vaba6h the tracks describe a semicircle, at the mid­ way point of which the Union station ia located. When the engine struck that sharp curve it left the track, followed by the cars in an awful swirl, and they piled upon each other 10(i feet away, after orashing through train sheds and bringing down tons of structural iron to add to the teirors ot the situation. CXTRA SESSION SURE. Flnanoe mnd Tariff Engage the Attention of Congrea*. The recent flurry in financial circles has revived the talk of an extra session, says a Washington dispatch. Before leaving for the West a few weeks ago Vice President Stevenson intimated that Congress would convene in Sep­ tember, and Mr. Cleveland has since stated to a couple of members Of Con­ gress that the extra session would be called between the 1st and 16th of that month. This information was repeated to Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio, who called up­ on the President on Friday, and Mr. Outhwaite now entertains the opinion that the Fifty-third Congress will be in session continuously from September until the following June, barring the usual holiday recess in December. It is deemed probable that financial and tariff legislation alone will be suf­ ficient to engage the attention of Con­ gress until long after the December recess. The two questions will doubt­ less be considered as part of the same general problem, and to that end sev­ eral of the administration leadera are already at work upon them. DON'T BOTHER THE PRESIDENT Ha Cleveland Finds It Necessary to Ea- t.ablish a Few Rales. The following his been is8ued by President Cleveland for publication: EXECUTIVE MANSION. It has become apparent after two months' experience that the rules heretofore promul­ gated regulating Interviews with the Presi- aent have wliollv failed in operation. The time whi-'.h under those rales was set apart for the reception of Senators and Representatives has been almost c-r.fcirsly spent In listening to application* for office, which have been bewy- derlncrln volume, perplexing and exhausting in . their iteration,ami impossible of remembrance. A due regard for jiublSe dnty, which mnst be neglected if present conditions continue, and an obeet-vstatee of the limitations placed npon human endurance oblige me to decline, from and alter this date, all personal interview* with those seeking appointments to office, ex­ cept as I, on my own motion, may especially invite them. The same considerations make it impossible for me to receive those who merely desire to pay their respects, except on the days and during the hours especially des­ ignated for that purpose. I earnestly request Henators and Representatives to aid me in se­ curing for them uninterrupted interviews by- declining to introduce their constituents and friends when visiting the Executive Mansion during the hoars designated for their recep­ tion. Applicants for office will only prejudice their prospects by repeated importunities and by remaining at Washington te await results. DEATH OF MRS. C. M. DEPEW. gfce Faaaea Suddenly Away at H» Home Sunday Afternoon. Mrs. Eli Be Hegeman Depew, wife of Chauncey M. Depew, died at her resi­ dence in New York City at 12:30 Sunday afternoon. Although Mrs. Depew was known to be seriously ill, this- sudden termination of her Illness was not ex­ pected by her family and those who were moat intimately connected with her. Her condition showed no material change Saturday, and early Sunday morning the turn for the worse came. During the last two years Mrs. Depew has been an invalid. She never entire- ly recovered from aa attack of the grip that she bad during the epidemic two years ago. During the recent festivities at Fort Monroe, attendant upon the visit of the foreign warships, Mrs. De- Eew made a trip to that place in the ope of improving her health. This ex­ pectation was not realized, however. She became much worse and was brought home feebler than when she left. Notes of Cnrrent Events. MOUNT JETNA shows signs of eruptiott.. NICABAOUAN rebels have captured the cities of Granada, Masaya and Savaria. PBE.SIDENT CLEVELAND decides not to reassemble the Monetary Conference until November. . THE Hocking Valley Road has ar­ ranged to enter Detroit over the Flint and Pere Marquette. W. W. TRACT, of Illlnola, la in tha lead for the Presldenoy of the Bepub­ lican National League. 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