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McHENRY, Striking McHenry Plaindealer. and Pub. ILLINOIS. ST. LOUIS HAS A MOT. Fl^WULY «j^Uf«K>N MAN m •' WOUND Elk Plasterers Seriously Hart Other Workmen and Fire Upon the Police--Indian Farmers in Arizona Are Facing Starvation-Other News. strikers Shoot, to Kill* Striking plasterers precipitated a riot fejjfaf.'llt "We Hodiamont, at the western limits **" of St. Louis, in which William Kane, a non-union worker, was fatally wounded and three others seriously hurt. Mounted t police responded to a riot call and were met by a fusillade of bullets from the strikers. The police replied with a nufti- • ber of shots and a charge on the crowds, dispersing them and resulting in the arrest of Nat Brown and Joe Lee, xfho are thought to be the ringleaders. For some . time there has been a strike on among ^ , the plasterers of that city and vicinity / ' , , < > > , f o r h i g h e r w a g e s , b u t n o s e r i o u s t r o u b l e I \ ••'•"2 - ^ad resulted. About 1 a. m. strikers •v , &T-* ;-C-' gathered in considerable force near Gerv I ry's saloon in De Hodiamont to prevent nin-un»on men from going to work on * '* 8ome buildings near by. Derisive and - \ (abusive words led to the throwing of mis- i <siles, and finally one of the strikers drew !}<,** • -tjl'i.l1'8 revolver and fired into the crowd of "i • -i- ®«n-union men. This was followed im- mediately by a volley from the strikers and Kane fell, mortally wounded. When i the mounted police appeared on the scene they were met, in their efforts to disperse the rioters, by a volley of bult£ts. The strikers fled, and Capt. McXamee at once * called out all the policemen available to chase and capture them. The chase de- . veloped into a running fight between the police and some of the strikers, in which several were Reported to have been in­ jured. ' Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs la the National Baseball League: W. L. W. .83 43 Philadelphia. 61 40 Pittsburg ... .64 50 Louisville . * .55 52 Brooklyn ... .46 58 Washington. 41 54) St. Louis.... .34 iL*' > | Boston .. 1 Baltimore ,J3U Cincinnati Cleveland , t Chicago ' ̂ .78 .79 .72 .70 New York.,. .67 '8 standing of the clubs '^S| in the Western League: . . :% w. L. w V i * Kansas City. 85 50 St. Paul.,, ...78 i Indianapolis, 81 48 Detroit .50 si Milwaukee ..79 55 Minneapolis. 40 $ Columbus .. ,72 53 St. Joseph 41 tor in Destroyed the Crops. $ -A tKHnmunication from Supia,Arizona, • >Bskipg for aid for the destitute Indians » v V*. there has been received by Mrs. John Mer- fttjC \ - ^ rill, president of the Red Cross Society °f San Francisco. It was immediately /£.;' <• forwarded to the Secretary of the Inte- jfe, "u"-~ ^ ^ **9*- -A- recent storm destroyed all the Wl* J crops it Supia, and left the Indians to face jfe" - ,|j starvation in the winter. Supplies to the & ^ " aske-d^ °f from $3000 t0 15,000 are BREVITIES. / 1 Gov. Ellerbe has been re-elected in „ A* ' ,/ Booth Carolina by a safe majority. fS *Jt ^t is announced that diplomatic rela-< > - tions between Italy and the republic of >• Colombia have been severed. The Robinson livery stable at Sturgeon, ^°m burned. Ten horses and all the ve- "K~~' '/ ~'V> *"eles were destroyed, without insurance. At West Point, Miss., an incendiary r* fire destroyed the paint and storage es- >1**.' >'v, tablishment of S. X. Murff & Son, entail- "'$0?* ^ a ,0SS °f i The Argentine minister at Paris says y ,v -* that the boundary dispute bettreen Chili a*-i, -4 ®nd Argentine will be submitted to the arbitration of Queen Victoria. V D. Gruen, president of the Columbus, \5; < Ohio, Watch Manufacturing Company, filed a Petitlon in bankruptcy in the Fed- ^1^.; eral Court. The company is in the hands of ex-Mayor P. H. Bruck as receiver. Four hundred cigarmakers, members of the Cigarmakers' International Union, were locked out from the factory of Carl ^ Upmann in New York. The lockout re- Boited from a dispute over the wage scale. ' "H ,.'v$ George E. Cheney, a well-known bank- er °' Crete, Neb., walked into the ele- Tator at the Drexel Hotel at Omaha KfV-v and was kil,ed the fall. The elevator .« conductor had gone up, neglecting to close * the door.' F. C. Wade, crown attorney of the ^ '4 Klondike, estimates the gold output this > season at $8,000,000. A recent census 4 shows that there are 16,000 people in Dawson and 10,000 rivers and creeks in . •. the district. • ^ An attendant of the criminal court of ./< Jersey City pushed open the door of Franz * Muller's room in the Hotel Washington, Hoboken, to summon Muller to appear in •m c?art-and found Muller dead in bed. Sui- ' cide is suspected. - , The engine on a freight train out of Em­ poria, Kan., on the Santa Fe was blown jf; up near Quenemo. Fireman J. J. Mur- , ray killed instantly. Ben Weist, a brakeman, and Engineer Tom Brady were both injured. Brady will get well, but ' thtare is not much hope for Weist. The Turkish Government tias^ent a cir- . cnl.af to the Powers, alleging that the British provoked the disorders at Oandia,< claiming that the present situation is due to the measures adopted by the powers in Crete pnd protesting against the bombard­ ment of Candia. The Porte announces Its refusal to withdraw " the Turkish troops from Crete, in spite of the decision of the admirals that such a step is abso­ lutely necessary. Canadian papor and pulp manufacturers by resolution ask that an export dut/ be immediately placed on all pulp wood ex­ ported from that country. Elijah Brainerd, a contractor, was found dead in the hallway of 402 West Twenty third street, New York. His neck was broken, apparently by a fall. He lived next door. ' • James H. Kyle, United Statej^SenatOr from South Dakota, was suddaffly strick­ en. with apoplexy ata the Forest City House, Cleveland, Ohio. IIi8 condition is considered serious, though it is believed he will recover. 1ftria Hunt of that city at night for the Mtpote of committing a felonious assault. Ftoher is to be hanged on Oct. 7. ^ The entire plant of, the Waumbeek woolen mills at Milton, ^X. H„ was burn­ ed. Loss, $100,000. The mills have been idle since 1890, but arrangements recently wore completed for resuming work, and tbey were to start again, giving employ­ ment to 300 hands. While the origin of the fire is unfefiown, it is supposed to ha*e been caused by spontaneous combustion in the picker-room. . The dismembered body of a young wom- nn, mysteriously murdered and mutilated, has been found in the waters of the Yel­ low Mill river at Bridgeport, Conn. The upper hAlf, with the arms attached, was in one package, while the lower part of the body was in a second package. The upper half of the body was wrapped in what appears to be half of a black rubber carriage blanketv There were two eyelet boles in it. The abdominal part of the trunk was swathed in a white rubber sheet, such as is used in surgical operat­ ing rooms. This latter circumstance, to­ gether with the plain evidence that the body was severed like the legs and the head, by using a keen knife, and a perfect edged saw, leads the police to the convic­ tion that the mutilation, and presumably the murder, was done by a surgeon. The first discovery in this tragedy was made when two boys-found a bundle in the Yel­ low Mill river that contained the legs of a woman. They were wrapped in clotb in a white rubber sheet such as is used by physicians and nurses. One leg was chopped in two. Both were cut off at the thigh. Another bundle was found a little later containing the head of a woman 25 years old. A piece of muslin in the wom­ an's mouth indicates that she was gagged with it or perhaps smothered. ? WESTERN. tXA- : Judge Thomas M. Cooley, the noted jurist and constitutional lawyer, died at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. At St. Joseph, Mo., L. E. Purcell of Bedford, Iowa, attempted to commit sui­ cide because his betrothed refused to marry him. The town of Jerome, Ariz., was com­ pletely wiped out by tire, entailing a loss of over $1,000,000 in property. Eleven bodies have been recovered, while a score or more are said to be in the ruins or mi6s- ,ing. At Indianapolis, William H. Tucker, of the firm of Tucker & Dorsey, manufac­ turers, committed suicide at his home by shooting himself. Mr. Tucker had been despondent since the death of his wife two years ago. He had been a prominent citizen for many years, was wealthy and conspicuous in Grand Army circles. At Walla Walla, Wash., the plant of the Hunt Manufacturing Company, which supplies a large portion of the harvesting machinery used in Walla Walla and Pa- louse valley, together with Roberts' foun­ dry, two dwellings and a warehouse, were completely destroyed by fire. One hun­ dred men are thrown out of employment. Miss Baryl Hope, the leading lady of the Salisbury stock company, which is playing at the Davidson Theater at Mil­ waukee, assaulted Arthur Weld, the critic of the Journal, in the lobby of the theater. Miss Hope took exception to the criticisms of her work by Mr. Weld and attacked him, using her fists until she was restrained bya other members of the com­ pany. A serious and fatal accident occurred upon one of the main thoroughfares in Wichita, Kan., in, which two were killed and two others will dift. The south-bound Rock Island p«sscnger collided with a wagon containing fifteen people on their way to the evening performance of the Wild West exhibition of Buffalo Bill. The driver of the wagon was warned, but he refused to heed and the train struck the wagon squarely and threw the occupants of the vehicle forward and ran on. One woman was twisted almost in two at the waist and carried fifty yards. A man had his limbs cut into several pieces and died soon after reaching the hospital. A woman was taken froba the pilot of the engine unconscious, but, aside from a few bruises, uninjtfred. Mrs. Wllhelmina Linsenback, aged 45 ars, with her daughter, aged 6 years, red at 383 Spitler avenue, Dayton, O. Mrjr. Linsenback quarreled with Eer hus- band and he did not speak to her for three days. Despondent because of this, it is supposed she barred the doors of her home, gave the child chloroform, took some of the drug herself and retired. The husband, being angry, did not look for them. The following day the neighbors broke the door down and discovered mother and child dead. The woman had given 25 cents to a neighbor and told her to feed the chickens, for she was going away. The little girl told her playmate that she was going to die, and accordingly gave her little friend her doll, flowers and pet bird. The coroner claims both deaths were caused by chloroform. A Joliet, Chicago and Cleveland steel syndicate, of which John W. Gates, presi­ dent of the Illinois Steel Company, iB said to be the head, has finally closed a con­ tract with the Alabama Steel Ship-build­ ing Company to erect at Ensley City, near Birmingham, Ala., steel and wire nail and rod mills. The new syndicate is thought to be in control of the Federal Steel Com­ pany, and it is believed the output for the Ensley plant will be shipped abroad. The proposed plants will cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. Another step has been taken by the Illinois Central in its effort to enter the Alabama coal fields. First Vice President Johp C. Welling, General Manager T. Harahan and En­ gineer G. B. Fitzhugh of the Illinois Cen­ tral have been authorized by the Secre­ tary of State to secure subscriptions to the Canton, Aberdeen and Ashville Rail­ road. &..V tp- . ' r $ SOUTHERN. bees warned to leav* HOME AGAIN NEWS ftp TROOPS. STATES TO KUPsJWfL "HOL£ ISLANDI^? ' FOREIGN. killed. Tbey bid (he county, and had paid no attentkm to the warning. Otker similar incidents arc wsrsj" formerly densely populated by negroes, not a colored man, woman or child mains, according ro the stories told reached TexarJMM^ Diphtheria is imaging fo Belfast, In­ land. Manuel Estrada Cabrera has been elect­ ed to the presidency of Guatemala. Six hundred persons are said to have been slain in the Cretan massacres. "Blanche Roosevelt," the noted singer, composer and author, died in London; The Spanish* Chamber of Deputies has adoprted the Hispano-American protocol. Li Hung Chang's dismissal from the Chinese foreign office has been confirmed. Xat Goodwin was thrown from a horse near Woolwich, England, and had a leg l>adly fractured. The Spanish Senate has adopted the Hispano-American protocol by a sitting and standing vote. ^ The Stars and Stripes were raised with the British union jack at a reTjew of Brit­ ish soldiers in London. Lafayette Post, No. 40, G. A. R., pro­ poses to present an American flag to each of the 596 schools in Porto Rico. Three hundred followers of the dead rebel leader Prospero Morales were shot during election riots in Guatemala. If any effort is made in the revised Dreyfus case to implicate Emperor Will­ iam the German ambassador will be call­ ed home. Elizabeth, 'Empress of Austria, was stabbed to the heart at Geneva, Switzer­ land, by an Italian anarchist named Luc- chini. She died almost immediately. The Pope received in audience Mgr. Sharriti, auditor of the papal legation at Washington, who reported that the Unit­ ed States is disposed to respect church property in Cuba and the Philippines. Prince August Wilhelm, foflrth son of Emperor William, is suffering from diph­ theria at Berlin. The younger children have been removed, and the empress alone remains at the new palace with tlte pa­ tient. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger says that a fortnight ago an attempt was made to as­ sassinate Queen Wilhelmina near Amers- fort, province of Utrecht, on the road be­ tween Castle Soostdyt and Baara. A man emerged from behind a tree and fired a re­ volver at her majesty. The bullet missed the queen, but plowed the cheek of a lady in attendance. The .^rould-be assassin was arrested. He is supposed to be an English anarchist. According to advices received from Bar-, bados since the death of the Hon. Mr. Pile, speaker of the assembly, on Sept. 2, from the effects of the recent attempt to assassinate him, the Governor and five public officials have been anonymously warned that a similar fate has been de­ creed for them "as a reward for their op­ pression." The worst feature of the Pile tragedy is that the Government reward of $1,000 for information regarding the conspirators fails to induce their betrayal. IN GENERA^. A combination including most of the large manufacturers of flint-glass bottles has been formed. Colonel James A. Sexton was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army - m 4.U _ T» ti!_ oi iuc ut'ifuuuC. A special committee has vindicated Dr. J. D. Barbee, book agent of the publish­ ing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, on charges of immorality. W. Treadford, who was sent to the Alaskan gold fields by the London Min­ ing Journal, has returned to Vancouver, B. C., and makes the statement that all the recent rich strikes have been made on the American side. Bradstreet's says: "Heat and holidays have imparted an irregular appearance to speculative and general distributive trade this week, and therefore to bank clearing returns, more particularly at the East, but with the arrival of cooler tempera­ tures some improvement is reported at those markets. Generally speaking, fav­ orable basic features already noted still continue moat ih evidence, and the atti­ tude of quiet confidence in future good trade.is unabating. Conditions in many leading industries, but particularly in iron and steel and its various products, are of continued and in some cases growing Strength. The general level of prices of staples is the highest reached for five years past; railway earnings, favored by the enlarged movement of wheat to mar­ ket, are showing larger gains than have been recently reported, a good export de­ mand for agricultural and manufactured products is reported, failures remain at a minimum and reports of poor trade are conspicuous by their infrequency. Less favorable crop reports from abroad and good export inquiry are reflected in a rath­ er steadier tone in wheat and in advanced quotations for ocean freights. Corn con­ tinues to experience a weather market, but prospects of yield are still regarded as favorable. Unabated activity is reported at Chicago and dry goods shipments can­ not be made fast enough. Railroads are reported buying two to three months ahead of time. Business is active at Kan­ sas City, Omaha, Cleveland, Louisville and throughout the entire Northwest." EASTERN. New York's public schools are open, and 15,000 children who wish to attend school can find no room. The Ocean House, in Bellevue avenue, one af Newport's fashionable summer ho­ tels, is a mass of smoldering ruins. Fire started in the servants' quarters in the fcixth floor of one of the wings, and the great structure was reduced to a pile of ashes. No lives were lost. The Delaware' Supreme Court sus­ tained the sentence of death upon" Rev. W. H. Fisher of Wilmington, charged iirith' breaking into the, house of Mrs. • ' JfwvRfV- The Memphis (Tenn.) Grain Elevator and Manufacturing Company and the Ea­ gle Mills were destroyed by fire. The loss will reach $242,000. Charles McLaughlin, 23 years old, a glass-blower, was shot dead and his broth­ er seriously injured in a street duel on Market street, Wheeling, W. Va. A passenger train on the Texas and Pa­ cific Railroad, consisting of an engine and four coaches, plunged through a bridge twelve miles south of Texarkana. Four persons are reported killed outright and a number of others more or less seriously wounded. The accident was due to high water. A bridge had been weakened by the heavy rains. When the train struck the bridge the structure collapsed, precipi­ tating the engine and four cart into the waters beneath, Texarkana, Ark., is in a state of alarm over the large number of idle negroes who throng the town, and the citizens are or­ ganizing vigilance committees for the pro­ tection of their property. The.unusual influx of negroes recently is due to the operations of bands ofrwhitecaps in Titus, Cass, Red River, Hopkins, and other counties in the cotton districts of North Texas, whence thousands of negroes have fled on account ot notices being posted, and in some cases violence being used, to run them out. These people, being run out of the cotton fields, have sought refuge in the towns, and Texarkana has been the refuge of a large number. A trustworthy colored man from Titus County says that while a number of his race were at work in la field a mob of whitecaps, concealed in a fence corner, opened fire on them. The negroes fled, leaving three of their number behind, wounded, and, perbaus, SENATOR GEORGE GRAV. Appointed as the Fifth Member of the Peace Commission. Senator George Gray of Delaware, who has been appointed the fifth member of the peace commission, completes that body, which is now ready to begin its work, The personnel of the commission SENATOR OUAT. MARKET REPORT8. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 46c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $8tO$ to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $£w0 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 62c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. ' St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 48c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.23; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, 45c to 46c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 46c; clover seed, $3.35 to $3.45. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62c to 64c; corn, No. 3, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c; barley, No. 2, 42c to 44c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo--Cattle, goofl shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50*r hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.75. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. V;2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 16c to 17c. is thus: Secretary Day, Senators-Davis, Frye and Gray, and Whitelaw Reid. Sen­ ator Gray is one of the landmarks of the upper house and a prominent man in the public life of his country. He went to the Senate by appointment on the retire­ ment of Thomas Francis Bayard when that statesman was made Secretary of State in Mr. Cleveland's first cabinet. He has occupied a seat in tbe Senate ever since then. ' ,a WHERE IS G£RALD IAPINER? An Abducted Chicago Boy for Whose Return $12,500 Is Offered. Chicago iB deeply interested in d strange abduction case that rivals the kidnaping of Charley Ross. Three months ago Ger­ ald Lapiner, 2% years old, disappeared from the home of his parents, 4835 Prai­ rie avenue, and in spite of the most dili­ gent search no clew of him has yet been found. A reward of $12,500 has been offered for any trace of the boy and this large sum has led the police and others to make strenuous efforts, to locate him, but they have proved futile. The child was playing in front of the father's home when a strange woman came along and OKKALD LATIN ER, THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII. Annexation Committee Decidea on a Form of Government and ji Name. It will be the "Territory of Hawaii:" That is the name which the annexation committee has decided to recommend to Congress. The form of the government will be modeled on that of existing terri­ tories. Local self government will be given through the extension of the mu­ nicipal idea. The islands will be divided into municipal districts having control, under restrictions and limitations, of purely local affairs. Hawaii may be di­ vided into two districts and Molokai, Lenai and Niyhan may be attached to some other municipal district. The ques­ tion of territorial legislature has not been fully settled. There will probably be one, but with limited powers. All the attrib­ utes of sovereignity, however, will be exer­ cised by the national government of the United States. The people of Hawaii will be called on to consider themselves Amer­ icans, looking to the national government as the source of national power.' JUDGE COOLEY DEAD. Famous Jurist Passes Away at His Home in Michigan. Judge Thomas M. Cooley, the noted jurist and constitutional lawyer, died Monday at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. Three months ago he returned from a pri­ vate sanitarium at Flint, Mich., where he had been treated chiefly for mental Weakness. He was then so much im­ p r o v e d i n m e n t a l health that he was able to recognise ac­ quaintances. He re- e a l i z e d h i s w e a k '/ p h y s ic al condition zhomab m. cooley and his failing men­ tal abilities, and often expressed a wish that death would come. Several weeks ago he relapsed into a comatose condition. During the e&suing interval the only intelligible utterance he made was once when he inquired for his eldest son. His demise had been expected for weeks past. DEATH IN BIG FIRES. Invited him to go with her. He took her hand trustingly, trotted away and has not since been seen. 4 The abduction was witnessed by but one person, a little girl playmate of Ger­ ald's living across the street. She saw the missing lad go away with the woman, but thought nothing of it until it became known that the child was stolen. Two other people saw tAe woman and child together, but did not know it was a case of abduction. The motive for the kidnap­ ing has proven a puzzle to the police. The whole city has been scoured by search­ ing parties, also the surrounding territory, and the police of other cities and towns have been notified to be on the lookout for the lad. The shock has so unnerved Mrs. Lapiner that it is thought she will not survive long. Westminster, B. C., and Jerome* Ari­ zona, Are Destroyed. New Westminster, B. C., and Jerome, Ariz., have been almost literally wiped off the map, by fire. The loss to property at New Westminster is estimated at $2,- 500,000. The number of lives lost is not known. Fanned by a fierce wind, al­ most a gale, the fire, which started on the water side by sparks from a passing steamer, spread with such awful rapidity that ten streets were blazing in three hours and only smoking ashes mark the spots where scores of houses formerly stood. Handsome blocks, banks and churches went up in smoke. Hundreds ot people are helpless and homeless. Food, clothing and aid were dispatched from Vancouver. At Jerome the fire was started by Ital­ ians on a drunken carousal. Loss to property is estimated at $1,000,000. Eleven bodies were quickly recovered from the ruins, and thirty more are be­ lieved to have been cremated. A high wind was blowing and the flames spread rapidly. The fire did not get beyond the business section of the town. Hundreds of people are homeless. One hundred and fifty residences, thirty merchandise stores and many saloons are burned.' 'nn ' A NEW CONFEDERACY. Leasne of Three Republic* in Central America Formed. Announcement is made that the new United States of Central America has been formed, and that. in December a Federal president and congress will be elected. The new league includes Nicar­ agua, Honduras and Salvador. Guate­ mala, at the northwestern end, atid Coota Rica, at the southeastern end, refused to join in the alliance and will remain outside the fold. Of the States in the alliance, Salvador, with an area of 7,225 square miles and a population of 803,5<J0, is the smallest territorially and the great­ est in population. Nicaragua, with 40, 200 square miles and 300,000 inhabitants, has the greatest area and Hiuallest popu­ lation. Honduras has 43,000 square miles and 396,000 people. Thus the new repub­ lic will have an area of 119.425 square miles, a territory rather greater than that of Illinois and Indiana combined, or less than that of Colorado. The population of the new republic will be I,5i9.5»8, more than that of New Jersey or Kansas. Statesmen have labored for many years to cement the petty Central American republics into one body. WI ether the re­ public will last is d^ubtfril The chnncctf are aet iait* favor. s . . W ' ^ , Keep Away from Klondike. According to Consul McCook at Daw­ son City the output of gold from the Klon­ dike diggings has been exaggerated five­ fold. He advises that no one should at­ tempt to enter the gold fields without a couple of thousand, dollars besides sup­ plies for two years. Destitution is immi­ nent, he says, for many prospectors who have exhausted their resources and can­ not get away. Provisions cost 25 per cent more even than last year, and lodg­ ings can hardly be secured at any price. News of Minor Note. There are at least ten trotting stallions now on the turf that can step in 2:10. Indians fired upon a boat on tbe Yukon river, in Ajaska, and killed one prospec­ tor and wounded another. French papers hitherto hostile to Drey­ fus are now strenuously urging the French Government to grant him -a new trial. / It is Estimated that all the gold mined in California since 1858 could be put in a room 36 feet long, 18 feet wide and 17 feet higb.^,^. Dawson City now has two newspapers --the Yukon Midnight Sun and the Klon­ dike Nugget. Both nre weeklies and are sold at 50c per copy. The population of Palestine is increas­ ing rapidly. Ten years ago there wer^ only 15.000 residents in Jaffa. To-day there are nearly 60,000. Valuable discoveries of amber have been made in British Columbia, which will be able to supply the pipemakcrs of the world for 100ryears. United States Minister Buck reports from Japan that rhere is no dissatisfac­ tion there over the annexation of Ha waii to the United States. Cabinet Decides Upon Policy Regard­ ing Philippines -- Instruction* for Peace Commissioners Arranged-- Io*» *«*d Orejfon to Go to Uewey. Washington special: . ' The American petted '£NuitaB§M #fl! leave for Paris instructed first, to insist on the retention of the island of Luzon; second, to see that special trading privi­ leges for Americans in the other Philip­ pines are accorded on the same basis as Spanish merchants; third, Spain must promise a government in her Philippine possessions that will free the natives from barbarous oppression. Xo hard and fast rules will be laid down for the commis­ sion. C'uba and Porto ltico will not be subjects of negotiation except incidental­ ly. They were disposed of by the armis­ tice, and the future government of Cuba will be established by the United States without referent* to Spanish demands or wishes. The Philippine question will only be open to partial negotiation. Ma­ nila bay, with the capital of the island, Cavite, and the Corregidor Islands, must remain absolutely as the property of the United States. Nearly twp weeks"Will ela!itee before the date for the meeting of the Joint com­ mission in Paris, and it may take two weeks more for the commission to arrange preliminaries and get down to business. In that four weeks the situation may change radically. Intervening events may lead the President to demand all the isl­ ands in the Philippine group. American sentiment or foreign intervention may force the issue. A statement attributed to Gen. Wheeler aroused much excitement in Washington. He is alleged to have said the President expected Spain to refuse to surrender the Philippines and that hostilities might fol­ low. An inquiry developed'that the seri­ ous condition at the Philippines is appre­ ciated in both army and navy circles and preparations to meet any obstruction to the American policy are being made with alacrity. The Oregon and Iowa, which are to join Dewey's squadron at Manila, would hardly be sent, it is said, to meet insurgent opposition. Their going is plain notice that, while negotiating for peace, the United States will firmly maintain her claims and tolerate no long or tedious de- la*.; • two 8H1P8 TO AID DlfiWET. lowa aad Oregon Are to Be Sent to Ctho Philippines. . The Washington administration is pre­ paring for trouble in the Philippines. The Oregon and Iowa, which are to sail to the Pacific, bound ostensibly for Honolulu, are really going ̂ o as to be in position to re-enforce Admiral Dewey should he need help, As it is known that Admiral Dewey's ships can give but little assist­ ance in the suppression of Aguinaldo and hi* insurgent army, it is evident that the administration fears foreign complica­ tions. Germany's intrigues are still be­ ing closely watched, with special refer­ ence to her seizure of anything in the Philippines that may be unlawfully ceded to her by Spain, such as a coaling station in territory which the peace commission may award in its entirety to America, A The Second Kentucky aad the Second Arkansas left Camp Thomas. The transport Vigilancia carried the lest of Shafter's army from Cuba. The Twentieth regiment of regulars has gone to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. At Decatur, III., the members of Com­ pany H were given an enthusiastic writ- come home. The Third regiment of regulars passed through New York City Tuesday nlgfrt, bound for Fort Snelling, Minn. All the troops except a few regulars have left Chickamauga, but quite a larger number remain in the hospitals. ' Chicago's adopted regiment of regulars^ the gallant Fourth, has returned to the . snug barracks of Fort Sheridan. The Fourth Wisconsin volunteer infant try, which has been at Camp Douglas all, summer, is to be moved to Anniston, Ala. The Government transports Roumania, Chester, Berlin, Mohawk and Mississippi, at Montauk, can move 5,000 troops in one day. r The general movement of regulars from Camp Wikoff began Tuesday, under di­ rection of Col. Kimball, deputy quartet- master general. The army hospital -boat Relief left Montauk Point Monday with 250 sick soldiers for Boston, and they will be plac- < ed in hospitals in that city. The first barge load of Spanish prison­ ers left the Greely cottage landing on Seavey's Island, Monday, to. embark oja the steamship City of Rome. . The Minnesota hospital train bearing - the sick soldiers home from the South ar­ rived in Chicago over the Big Four, aikl " left immediately for the North. It is the policy of the President to re­ move the troops from Montauk Point as rapidly as possible. A large number <ii( sick men are in the hospital there. Company I of the Fifth Illinois volon- teers returned home at Jacksonville and they were accorded a greeting which vied with that given their fathers in '65. Between three and four hundred sick were sent to New York and Brooklyn hospitals from Camp Wikoff on Sunday on the steamer Shinnecock and by rail. Illinois' Sixth regiment is home frem- Porto Rico, ^having arri/red at Weehaw- ken, N. J., on the transport Manitoba - Tuesday afternoon, after a five day's' voy- < age from Ponce. " The third battalion of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment sailed from New York Wednesday afternoon on the trans­ port Berlin for Porto Rico to join the regit: ment for garrison duty. < Three regiments of regulars left New York Wednesday. The Thirteenth goes to Fort Porter and Fort Columbus; the Seventeenth to; Columbus, Ohio; the Twenty-first to Plattsburg, Vt. Crack cavalry organizations from New York and Philadelphia comprised the great majority of those who reached Xew York- on board the United States trans­ port Mississippi, from Ponce,tPorto Rico. The Seventh Illinois volunteer regiment, 1,300 strong, and the Illinois Xaval re­ serves, 500 of them, reached home in Chi­ cago and received a welcome that warm- ed»the chill air for both of them and their , friends. The transport Saratoga arrived Tues­ day from Santiago. Two hundred afpi SPANISH COnniSSION TO ARRANGE FOR EVACUATION OF CUBA. p HpNTORO. aVIOR, Washington correspondent asserts that thfe inside history of the strengthening of Admiral Dewey's fleet by the dispatch of the Oregon and Iowa to Honolulu is re­ sistance to German interference. 8UAFTSR MAKES HIS REPORT. Entire Contents Will Not Be Given to the Public. Major General Shafter has handed to the adjutant general of the army at Wash­ ington his official report of the military operations leading to the capture of San­ tiago. He deals with the Santiago cam­ paign in the most exhaustive manner. Having prepared his report after all the reports of brigade and division command­ ers had been made. Gen. Shafter was able to profit by the statements made by these officers. The result is a valuable compo­ site of the minor reports, although a large amount of original and independent mate­ rial is contained in the statement of the commanding general. ^ THE PRESIDENT'S DIFFICULTY* 1 Hard to; Secure,Suitable Men for the ^Inquiry Co*nmi»9«on. President McKinley is having trouble in making up the commission to inquire into the treatment of the American sol­ dier during the war. White House offi­ cials refuse to tell which of the nine men have accepted or declined, but from other sources it is leafnod that ex-Secretaries of War 'Robert T. Lincoln and Daniel S. Laifaont! Gert: Johh B. Gordon and ex- Senator Charles F. Manderson have de­ clined because of ill health or business en­ gagements. Col. James A. Sexton of Chicago, commander-in-chief of the G. A. Jl„ and Daniel C. Gillman of Johns Hop­ kins University are reported to have ac­ cepted. " . no more Volunteers to quit. Wart Department Announces the Muf- ter-Out Is Complete. Tremendous pressure Is still being brought to bear on the War Department wjlJ me on ino passage »eventv die to have- more troops mustered out ofthe^ wharf ^ d the gjm , . kservice. Efforts in tins direction, now-T *• ever, are of no avail. It is announced with increased emphasis that there will be no more troops mustered out. The pur­ pose when the muster-out bogan wis to muster out 100,000 volunteers. A little over 96.000 have alreSdy been mustered out. The retention of the volunteers now in the service and the efforts to improve the morale of the army has in- view the Philippine" situation more than that of Cuba aud I'orto Rico. 'K fifty colored laborers and' sixty signal corps men were landed at Camp Wikoff. The transports brought about 9,000 Span­ ish rifles. ' -- Wants Names of Heroes. The War Department has issued an or­ der directing the commanding officers of the ntilitary departments, army corps and detached commands to send to the adju­ tant general as soon as practicable the names of such officers, both in the regular and volunteer service, as may be consid­ ered entitled to brevet commissions for "distinguished conduct and public service » ; taittlf<rftbecnt'Uix." The mustering out of the rough riders, at Camp Wikoff Tuesday gave an oppor­ tunity to Col. "Teddy" Roosevelt and his boys to exchange compliments. The men presented the colonel with a bronze rep­ lica, "The Bucking Broncho/? purchased by popular subscription. The 158th Indiana infantry arrived home at Indianapolis Tuesday and was greeted by thousands of people. As the trffins drew near the city the whistles, cannons, bells and nearly everything pos­ sessing any qualities for noise-making were turned loose, and the din was ear- splitting. GOMEZ UAS RESIGNED. General of the Cuban Army Opposed to American Occupation. A report from an excellent source has reached Gen. Lawton at Santiago de Cuba that Maximo Gomez has tendered his res­ ignation as general-in-chief of the Cuban forces, and that the Cuban Government at Camaguey has accepted it. It is un­ derstood thafrfthe reason Gomez resigned was that he did not approve the passive submission of the Cuban Government to the exclusive occupation by the Ameri­ cans of the province of Santiago. The report created a great stir among the Cu­ bans. Gomez's Santiago friends say that he has always favored the absolute inde­ pendence of Cuba, and is credited with having said that the Cubans should try to expel the Americans by force if they should attempt to hold the island Perma­ n e n t l y . ~ 7 | " MANY SPANIARDS DIB. Terrible Death Rate Aitaong the Prttf- oners at Guantanamo, - Th^ condition of the Spanish at Guan­ tanamo priof^to their departure for Spain was, Co£ Ray says, most distressing. The death rate was over eighty per day and Col. Ray believes that more than half will die on the passage. Seventy died on was loaded and there is yellow fever among those who remain behind. Col. Ray had two mules killed for fresh meat supplies to the Spaniards. Xo fresh beef was to be had and the Spaniards were glad*to get the mule meat. Indeed, there had been no meat of any kind in Guantanamo for three weeks. NOT MOVING FA* T ENOUGH. impression that Spaniards Should Be Hurried Out of Cuba. The Spaniards are not evacuating Cuba as fast as many people in this countiy wish them to. It is claimed by those who are urging the (Jovernment to take vigor­ ous steps toward accelerating the retire­ ment of the Spaniards from the island that the Government at Madrid is trying to hold on to the Cuban customs duties as long as possible. If this be true it is a reason that all thrifty merchants cm understand and apprgstialj^,. . ,.v •v.m STJ&6 ' B 'M if > f 'VV Mi , *• ' m S®; -V-4