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"W'" McMenry Plaindealer. ^ J. VAN SLYKE, Editor Atd Pub. • MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. EVENTS OF THE WEEK Cincinnati Cleveland „ -Chicago .-«i. L. 62 •68 75 76 88 94 •U:- "* % , jAafr?..,. * * "r 'i' • fi|j|FIorence, the 12-yenr-old daughter of "Mrs. Alexander Carmen, died at Liver­ pool. Ohio, of hydrophobia. The child was bitten two weeks before by a, pet dog. Soon afterward the animal displayed ' "Signs of rabies and was killed. ' Relatives have fully identified the body found in the pond near Bridgeport, Conn., as that of Emma Gill of Socthington. Charles A. Plumb of Stratford and Harry ,|Juilford of Bridgeport are under arrest fWft suspicion of complicity in her murder. 'J-'he first railroad built in Alaska is now ©grating between Skaguay and Lake Lindoman, a distance of twenty mile®. The promoters of the road are confident that by next spring the road will be ex­ tended to Lake Bennett, twenty-five miles farther. > J. Sterling Morton, secretary of the De- partment of Agriculture under Cleveland, lias been asked by Senor Roeco, president Of Argentina, to come there and build up a department for that Government. A Jtendsome salary is offered and Mr. Mor­ ton may accept.- ,» ".'The southern part of Spain has been "•tested by terrific floods. At the village Of Berrera, near Cadiz, eighty persons have been drowned. A great number of cattle have perished and the olive harvest is lost, especially in the provinces of Se­ ville and Granada. After eight years of litigation the , Hawkeye and Pluma mining companies of Deadwood. S. D.. have settled their grievances, and the two companies have been consolidated and incorporated under the laws of South Dakota ahd named the Hawkeye-Pluma Free Gold Mining Com­ pany. 'At Oskaloosa, Iowa, James Raymond was stabbed and almost instantly killed by Jacob N. Moyers at the latter's board­ ing house. Moyers was insanely jealous of Raymond* who had been attentive to Mrs. Moyers. The husband found the two talking in his wife's room and the encounter ensued. , , >? '^Methodist women have for some -time Sheen- trying to get a standing in the courts ®f the Methodist Church of Canada, but the clergy will not permit it. The matter •came before the Methodist general con­ ference at Toronto and a motion to admit women to the courts of the church was al­ most unanimously defeated. j.-'Jfollowinrg is the standing of the clubs is the National Baseball League: v * * WTL. w Boston .,...88 44 Philadelphia, 66 Baltimore .. .85 46Pittsburg ... .67 .82 '53 Louisville ...58 .74 57 Brooklyn ....48 .73 63 Washington«. > 42 New Yor£,..70 62 St. Louis 35 « ^There is much suffering among the min­ ers tH Hocking County. Ohio. Three ,, thousand five hundred people are in dire -need of the necessaries of life. -:1B many . localities families are reported to be starv­ ing. The children are living skeletons. The miners have had but twenty-two days' work since April 1. Gov. Bushnell contributed $2,500. Australian papers reportthe Wfeck of ^ the schooner C. C. Funk, at Fliiider's Isl­ and, with ten of her crew. Only two seamen, Albert Krough and John Peter­ son, were saved. and but one body had been recovered when the Alameda sailed. It was that of Petel^fijeilson. The vessel was driven ashore by a"gale and went to . pieces in the surf. \ News of a tt^ible double tragedy near Center, I. T./has just been received. In g moment of passion A. B. Harding killed fcis wife. He was captured by citizens and put in a wagon and bound down with ropes. J. A. Page, the murdered woman's • tether, learned of the deed, and at once went in search of the murderer and shot him to death as he lay, utterly helpless, in the wagon. Page was arrested and is now in the United States jail at Paul's ^^lley. _____ BREVITIES. J Herr TheodoVe Fontane, the German writer and poet, is dead. He was born in 1818. \ T. J. Lewis obtained a divorce from his Kfife at Mexico, Mo. Within an hour they Were remarried. Acting Governor Foster W. Voorhees has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of New Jersey. , Col. William Edwards, honorary presi­ dent of the National Trotting Associa­ tion, dropped dead at Cleveland. The schooner-yacht Rebecca, owned by XSdward Dudley of Philadelphia, bound fimm New York for Philadelphia, foun­ dered near Delaware breakwater. , Alice Walters, aged 10, daughter of Jdhn Walters, who operates a pony track At Chicago, was run over by a heavy wag­ on at New Carlisle, Ohio, and killed. George Mulligan, a Klondike miner, lost :m, purse containing $61,000 in caBh*and Oiecke in a San Francisco street car. Grip- man John Donahue found it and restored it to him. . Charles Hecking, arrested in New York •to a charge of defrauding Mrs. Marga- "*©tta Does out of $400 on a promise to marry her, declares a trolley car would "sot hold the women he lias married. / Perry A. Symonds, a Stanford Univer­ sity student, has been selected by the British Museum to make a thorough zoo- .logical collection tour of South America, fiom Ecuador to the Straits of Magellan. =jffBy mistake Mrs. Tally Thompson kill- her infant child at Hicksville, Ohio, by , giving it morphine tablets intended for fcer own use. They looked like tablets Containing sublimate of bismuth for tto ^be- - .S Francis Emerson escaped from the pen­ itentiary; at Columbus by getting in a box #0d beingt shipped out. H« was recap­ tured before he could get out of the city. • :>Tbe Dayton, Ohio, city authorities •greed upon plans for a new $500,000 ^IgQion railway station. The plans submit- by Eisner & Anderson of the Big •w«or» sheeted. The New York grand jury has returned viKb indictment Cor murder in the first de­ cree aga ins* Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy, who Jsnccused of the murder of Emeline C. Reynolds, better known as "Dolly" Rey­ nolds, In the Grand Hotel, Aug. 16. EASTERN. Philadelphia is to have a peace jubilee •Oct. 26 and 27. ^ .. J^/.'The New Yofk building, a three-story brick structure on West Park street Butte, Mont., collapsed about 10:30 O'clock the other morning, cacrying down Sixteen persona, burying some, but killing *o one. The lower floor was being remod Wed. -, * Vice-President Dodd of the miners' * pinion and forty-one strikers have been , V. ' .*rrested in Monongahela City, Pa., on a charge of inciting the miners to riot. a]'/r^jUnong the prisoners are the members of the miners' band, who played while the strikers were marching. The Spaulding Machine Sc*»w Com­ pany of Buffalo, N. Y., went Into the hands of a receiver preparatory to volun­ tary dissolution. The attorney for the company stated that the assets were about $150,000 and the liabilities, outside of the capital stock, $200,000. The coal miners' strike in the third pool at Monongahela City, Pa., is over and work has been resumed in all the pits pending a settlement of the differences by arbitration. About 2,000 miners were affected by the strike, which threatened to spread to all points in the Pittsburg district. The steamship Gloucester of the Mer­ chants and Miners' Transportation Com­ pany, which arrived at Boston from Bal­ timore, reports that she collided with the Gloucester schooner Alice Jordan off Mar­ thas Vineyard, and that nine of the Jor­ dan's crew were drowned. Seven of the crew were saved. Andrew Cassagne was strangled to death by three men in the tenement house in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which he occupied with his wife. Two of the burglars choked Mrs. Cassagne nearly to insensibility, while the third mau search­ ed the room, finding $500 under the mat­ tress of the, bed. WESTER*}. Farmers in the vicinity of Crary, N. D., are alarmed over the prevalence of hydro­ phobia among stock. The Radulovich Mercantile and Office Building and other structures at Tucson, Arizona, were burned, causing a loss of $75,000. The Boston bark Lapland, 524 tons, on her way home from the west coast of Africa, was wrecked on St. Vincent dur­ ing the hurricane. Captain Gates and crew had a miraculous escape, landing in their own boats during the height of the storm. Isaac Fitz-and James McClellan, farm­ ers near Yale, Iowa, quarreled over a line fence. 'As McClellan mounted his horse to return home, Fitz shot him with a shotgun and killed him instantly. Fitz was arrested and spirited away to avoid lynching. . , v • v The following appointments have been announced by the President: George H. Plekerell of Ohio, to be consul in St. Nich­ olas; Fred Page Tustin of Oregon, to be commissioner for the district of Alaska, to reside in Wrangel: Thomas Ling, inter­ preter to the United States consulate in Fuchan, China. Deputy United States Marshal Morri­ son arrested Pug Onary Keshing and Sha- bon Dash King, pillagers, at the Leech Lake Indian agency, and while trying to get thejp on board a gteamer to take them to Walker, Minn., they were rescued by their band. The Indians refused to give up the criminals and are much excited. The. Exposition building at Tacoma, Wash., the largest structure of its kind in the Northwest, was completely destroyed by fire. Fifteen minutes after the flames were discovered breaking out in the build­ ing the vast structure was a mass of fire. The building was owned by the Tacoma Land Company. There was no insurance. The total loss will aggregate $100,000. Dispatches from Chicago state that P. D. Armour, Marshall Field and Norman B. Ream have secured control of the Bal­ timore and Ohio Railroad. Ten million dollars is said to be the price paid. They have gained for Chicago and the North­ west practically a trunk' line from ocean to ocean by way of the Great Northern, and it will be controlled by Chicago cap­ ital. As the result of an attempt of a party of twenty-two non-union men to enter the works of the American WTire Company at Cleveland, where a strike has been on for some time past, a pitched battle took place between the strikers and the non-union workmen. Clubs, stones and slungshots were freely used, and while no one was seriously hurt, a number of men were se­ verely bruised or cut. The President signed an order altering the boundaries and area of the Black Hills forest reserve in South Dakota. A portion of the reserve was unsuited for timber growing, and this has been ex­ cluded and a large tract extending into Wyoming, 443,000 acres, has been added to the reserve. This action was taken at the solicitation of the people living in the vicinity of the reserve. C. C. Cunningham of Milton, Ore., shot and killed O. Young and seriously wound­ ed Mrs. Julius J. Worcester at the O., R. & N. depot at Pendleton. Cunning­ ham, with a cocked revolver, chased Miss Effie Worcester for a block, firing three shots at her, but the young woman ran into a saloon and eluded the murderer. He ran through the saloon into the Great Eastern Hotel, where he snapped his re­ volver twice at Mrs. Johnson, the pro­ prietor's wife. Cunningham was crazed by drink. SOUTHERN. The Federal Steel Company has ac­ quired possession of the Lorain and Wheeling Railway. Wardy Wolfe, an insane man of Churchville, W. Va., shot his father and his brother and then killed himself. The grand jury indicted every coal mer­ chant in Frankfort, Ky., charging con­ spiracy. The coal men combined and have been supplying the trade -at prices agreed on by the combination. In a clash between the First Georgia soldiers and the Thiid North Carolina regiment, colored, at Can^p Holland, Jinoxville, Tenn;, 100 shots were fired. Several men are reported wounded. At Durant, Miss., the Commercial Ho­ tel, owned by the Illinois Central Rail­ road, has been destroyed by fire. The loss on contents is $7,000 and insurance $2,- 000. The loss on building is unknown. Miss Effie McKibbon was probably fatally wounded by a pistol shot from a negro while riding home from a negro camp meeting near Birmingham, Ala., with George Noble. The negro was caught and lynched. A special from De Funiak, Fla., head­ quarters of the, Florida Chautauqua, says that a fire began there in the Iprge store of W. L. Cawthon and destroyed fifteen stores and hotels, besides a number of smaller building^. The loss is estimated at $100,000. _ 0 ' T" Gov. Bloxham of Florida has issued a call fpr a national harbor defense conven­ tion in Tatnpa, Fia., Ful». §, 1899. The Governors of the various States are re­ quested to name delegates. A call for a convention for the samte'date and place was also issued to discuss reorganization of the militia service of the States. M. Bristol! and Gen. Chanojne ar* de­ termined that nobody, however high'his position, shall be sheltered. It is said Zola will soon return to France and continue his championship of Dreyfus. ' :y. At Bradford, England, an electric street car was derailed while descending a hill. Fifty persons were seriously injured, sev­ eral of them fatally. A high Russian official says the famine in the Volga district will necessitate the importation by Russia of 80,000,000 bush­ els of wheat this ycai. Jt is reported fffom Memel, Prussia that a number of fishing boats wefe wrecked in the Baltic sea; during stormy weather and twenty fishefracrr were drowned. • . Franco has assumed a conciliatory atti­ tude toward Great Britain, ahd has de­ clared that the expedition k>f Major Mhr- chand to the upper Nile is quite unoffi­ cial. . . A commercial panic in San Domingo threatens to make seriotts trouble. Ex­ change has risen 100 per cent within a month. The situation of the present Gov-' ernment is unsafe. The imperial Chinese Government has granted to the Peking syndicate of Lon­ don, England, the right to open and work mines and to construct and operate rail­ roads in the empire free from Chinese control. This is the first concession ever granted by the Chinese Government to a foreign syndicate. Mail advices from Japan state that an­ other formidable rebellion against Japan­ ese rule has broken out in Formosa, this time in the southern part of the island. Two battles have been fought, one near Taichu, the other near Taihoku. The tribes were defeated by the Japanese troops and the police." ^ As a result of the French cabinet's de­ cision to appoint a speciaf commission to review the documents in the Dreyfus case, Minister for War Zurlinden and Minister of Public Works Tillaye have resigned. Gen. Chanoine was appointed to succeed the former and Senator Godin was given the place vacated by the latter. J. W. Jago, formerly chief officer of the W hite Star line steamer^ Britannic, and John Kynaston, third officer of the same steamer, both of whom have been con­ victed of robbing the mails on board the Britannic, were sentenced in London, the former to eight and the latter fto one year's imprisonment at hard laborl At Seoul, Corea, it is reported that a high official of the palace, named Ko, has made a confession that he ordered the cook of the royal household to poison food intended for the king and crown prince, both of whom became seriously ill. The official further confessed that the poison­ ing plot was instigated by a former, inter­ preter attached to the Russian legation there. IN GENERAL. The ,^er,ve barns of the Montreal, Que., Street Railway Company caught fire. Loss, $150,000. Gofil dust aggregating in vaiue between $150,000 and $200,000 was brought to Seattle by the fiteamer City of Seattle, which also had on board 150 Klondikers who left Dawson City Sept. 2. Word was received at Victoria, B. C., from Ottawa that checks had been issued to individual beneficiaries under the seal­ ing award. The total amount $300,- 188 damages and $172,968 interest. A telegram from Lillooet, Alaska, states that 800 ounces of gold amalgam has been stolen from the Golden Cache mine. It was the result of a three weeks' clean-up and was worth about $10,000. There is no clew to the robbers. The Cripple Creek mining companies have already declared $250,060 September dividends. Total dividends for li^8 thus far aggregate $1,325,525, against. $1,262,- 925 for 1897 complete. Prior to 1897 $3,- 346,624 dividends were paid. Information in a private message from Manitoba is to the effect that the wheat crop of Manitoba this season will be 40,- 000,000 bushels, against 20,000,000 bush­ els last year. The highest estimate of the Manitoba crop a month ago was 30,000,- 000 bushels. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "Business is passing through the difficulties that attend the winding up of a war, which are generally greater than those involved while war is in progress. The rush of orders kept back while war lasted by those who thought it shrewd not to take any chances has lifted prices a. little and caused, a larger demand for the time than can continue, but though it has passed there is an evidence that the consuming demand is very large. Wheat has come forward much more freely, and the price has a'dvanced 2 cents. It is supposed that the advance is largely due to milling demand coming upon a nar­ row supply. Exports are large--3,007,- 976 bushels, flour included, from Atlan­ tic, and 201,052 bushels from Pacific ports, and for two weeks 5,697,320 bush­ els from both coasts, against 10,796,853 last year. Receipts of wheat for two weeks of September have been 14,663,- 895 bushels, against 14,697,106 last year. Tin is quiet at 16.05 cents and lead at 4 cents, with copper strong at 12% cents and spelter at 4.80 cents, in spite of a sen­ sational rise at London. Heavy sales ahead have blocked the project for a tin- plate trust at present. Failures for the week have been 174 in the United States, against 204Jast year, and 23 in Canada, against 40 last year." •FOREIGN. It is reported that King Menelek of Abyssinia is helping the French in an occupation of Faskoda. ' The Italian Government has proposed to the powers that international action be taken against anarchists. Forty-three of the ringleaders in the recont Cretan riots have been surrender­ ed to the British admiral at Candia. McDou^all 's flour mills and other fac­ tories in Mill Dock, London, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is esti­ mated at $325,000. According to a Paris leport a vessel has already started for the Isle du Diable in readiness to bring Dreyfus to Paris, and MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No/ 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 48c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; 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 $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 46c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, Nb. 2, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2. 46c to 48c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, 47c to 48c., « Toledo--Wheat, No, 2 mixed, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 49c; clover seed, $3.45 to $8.55. Milwaukee--Wheat, No, 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1, 47c to 48c; barley, No. 2,r 42c to 45c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle,: good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $8.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to chojce weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.00;. lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2. 35c to j|J6c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; butter, cfcamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Western. 10c to 18c. -Si* PARTICIPANTS IN TLFB OMAHA MONETARY CONFERENCE. CK4&. tkinson norac* A.J Warner J.3. C.H. ODD FELLOWS IN BOSTON. Representatives to the Fovereiarn Grand Lodge Welcomed. An official welcome to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellow^rons given in the Y. M. C. A, Hall in Bfestort Monday. The members of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, 200 in number, and the women representing the Order of Rebekah were escorted to the hall by committees. J. W. Venable of Hopkihsvil^k Ivy., grand chaplain of the Sovereign *.ir>md Lodge, began the exercises with prayer. Charles N. Alexander of Boston, chair­ man of t'he executive committee of the grand lodge of Massachusetts, then an­ nounced Gen; F. B. Appleton of the Gov­ ernor's staff, who welcomed the grand lodge and members of the Rebekah branch in behalf of the State. Mdyor Josiah Quincy spoke for the city of Boston. The other speakers included Charles Terrel, grand master, for the grand lodge of Mas- 1 w THOMAS W1LDET. Pounder of American Odd Fellowship. sachusetts; Charles C. Fuller, grand pat­ riarch, for the grand encampment; Gen. Edgar R. Emerson of the Patriarchs Mili­ tant, and Mrs. Mary O. Nevins, represent­ ing the Rebekah branch of the order in Massachusetts. Grand Sire Fred Carle- ton of Austin, Texas, responded, and the exercises were at an end. The members of the Sovereign Grand Lodge then marched to Copley Hall, where their se­ cret deliberations began. Grand Sire Carleton reported that a request had been received from Brother Bradley, who is with the United States army in Manila, for permission to establish the order i^i the Philippines. A request has also been received for the establishment of the or­ der in the Argentine Republic from W. L. D. Mayer, United States consul in Buenos Ayres. Grand Secretary J. Frank Grant presented a voluminous report cov­ ering a vast amount of detail of interest solely to the members of the order. The Odd Fellows sent a message to President McKinley bearing greetings to him and to the soldiers and sailors of the army and navy, with congratulations upon the glorious victory which their valor has achieved In the war with Spain, and to the sick and wounded heartfelt sympathy, with hope for their speedy recovery and restoration to home and family. The feature of Monday's program was a banquet in Music Hall, when Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Mayor Josiah Quin­ cy and Attorney General Knowlton were the speakers. The election was held Tues­ day. Wednesday was practically a holi­ day in the city in honor of the great pa­ rade which took place that day. WILL DO NO SPEAKING.5-- President Decides Not to Talk for Campaign During His Trip. • The President has decided against ap­ peals which have been made to him to make political speeches in Ohio ahd In­ diana or anywhere else during the cam­ paign. He gave Representatives Over- street and Faris to understand that on his way to Omaha he would make stops at Indianapolis and Terre Haute, but not to make speeches. On his way back he may make two or three similar stops in Ohio, but on none of these occasions will there be political speech-making by the executive. Turk Accuses Britain. The Turkish Government sent a circu­ lar to the powers alleging that the British provoked the diapjders at Candia, claim­ ing that the present situation is due to the measures adopted by the powers in Crete, and protesting against the bom­ bardment of Caudia. The Porte an­ nounces its refusal to withdraw the Turk­ ish troops from Crete, in spite of the de­ cision of the admirals that snch a step is absolutely necossary. Soldier* Are to Vote. Ex-State Senator S. S. Steel of Pitts­ burg, Pa., has left for Manila, where he will receive, supervise the counting and carry back to Hnrrisburg the votes of that band of heroes who are marching in advance of the American flag on the other side»«>f the giobe. The election will be held Nov. 8 under the laws of the State, and the effort will be made tp have every vote counted as the soldier voter intended in casting it. / Northwest Prosperous. --"Jffr. Henry W. Cannon, president of the Chase National Bank, New York, has just returned from a trip of 8,000 miles throughout the Northwest, in company with his fellow-directors in the Great Northern Railway. Mr. Cannon is grati­ fied over the solid progress in the North­ west. He says there has been no boom, but a gradual advancement of prosperity of all interests, which bids fair to be per­ manent. -y ^ Chairmen Byntim Resigns. W. I). Bynum, chairman of / the na­ tional Democratic party, tendered his res­ ignation to the executive committee Wed­ nesday, and George Foster Peabody of New York was elected ns his successor. The resignation was a great surprise to the leaders of the gold Democratic uarty. ^•rOUFt LIST OF KILLED., Thrirtjr-th,ree Officers and 231 Men Lost in War with Spain; The official records of the War Depart­ ment, as far as completed, show that there were thirty-three officers and 231 enlisted men of the army, 264 in all, killed in bat­ tle during the war with Spain. These casualties include all the lives Jost by the army in the battles in the Philippines as well as those in Cuba and Porto Rico. The percentage of officers killed is strik- juAJ lar8p- and is said to be unprecedented in the battles of the world. The contrast is especially striking in the case of the battle of Omdurman, where,"although the loss of life was heavy, the list of killed included only one officer of the British army. The wounded, 1.450. The esti­ mate of those killed by disease is placed at 1,500. Lives lost in navy and marine corps: Officers killed in battle, 1; men kill­ ed in battle, 13; men drowned, 1; men wounded, 38; total, 3,267. TROOPS FOR GARRISON DUTY. Eighty-five Thousand Volunteers and Re&nlara. It is said at a conference, between the President, Acting Secretary Meiklejohn and Gen. Miles it was decided that the army of occupation of Porto Rico shall consist of 12,000 troops,' Cuba 50,000, Philippines 20,000 and Hawaii 3,000. These four armies will be made up. .of both regulars and volunteers. The forces to be sent to Hawaii and Manila will con­ sist almost entirely of infantry, while the armies for Cuba and Porto Rico will em­ brace cavalry, artillery, infantry, engi­ neers and signal corps men. BATTLE8HIPS' LONG VOYAGE. Oregon and Iowa to Hake an 18,000 Mile Trip. The Navy Department has ordered the battleship Oregon, Captain Albert S. Baf- ker, and the battleship Iowa, Captain Silas Terry, from the Brooklyn navy yard, on their 18,000-mile voyage to Manila, by way of the Straits of Magellan and Hon­ olulu.: The armor clads will be accom­ panied by five colliers, two of which will accompany them all the way to Manila. They will make a short stay at Honolulu on their way to join Admiral Dewey's fleet. Their journey will require some three months' time. • Shafter Before and 'After. How the Santiago campaign affected the corpulent American commander. WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. Eighty-three Spaniards died on the way from Santiago to Santander, Spain. Admiral Schley will be restored to his old position as chairman of the lighthouse board. The Treasury Department has received $180,000,000 thus far from the sale of war bonds. Eight regular army regiments now sta­ tioned at Montauk have been ordered to their former posts. Capt. Jewell of the cruiser Minneapolis has been presented with a ' handsome sword by the members of his crew. It is understood that Spain will ask the peace conference for the privilege of re­ taining a part of the Phil^jpines. Contracts are to be given out by the Government for the construction of twen­ ty-eight torpedo boats for the navy. Gen. Gomei, in a letter to Senor Palma, says that the Americans have been "cold and dry," but that they are the benefac­ tors of Cuba. A delegation of prominent Philippine natives, appointed by Aguinaldo, is on its way to Washington to confer with Presi­ dent McKinley. Secretary Alger is pleased over the re­ sult of the President's visit to Camp Wikoff. He says the conditions of -the place were found to be all right. Fo«r of the old single-turreted moni­ tors now at League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, are to be utilized as coast guards off shore at Porto Rican^ports. Surgeon General Sternberg, who has been inspecting Camp Wikoff, says he has found the hospitals in excellent con­ dition, and that the camp site is good. Troops will be held in readiness at Hon­ olulu to go to Manila if necessary. Agui­ naldo, the Philippine chief, is becoming restless, troublesome and even danger­ ous. Senor Silvela. now the leader of the largest section of the Conservative party of Spain, refuses to allow any member of his party to serve oif the peace commis­ sion. The trip of the monitor Monterey to the Philippines demonstrates that with good weather, this class of vessel may, with her own steam and a tow, cross the Pa­ cific octjan. President McKinley has instructed Miss Barton to pay the fine imposed by the Spanish authorities at Havana on the Red Cross cargo of provisions for the starving people of that city. " A London dispatch from Madrid says that the lower classes of Spain are dan­ gerously impressed with the ghastly ap­ pearance of Hie Spanish soldiers recently returned Xr^m Santiago, Cuba. jiKi i1 "'ift i^ i - . I. 11 i i ni-i\ • QUESTION* AT issue. American-Canadian Disputes Discuss* ed at Quebec. Since the assembling of the joint high commission at Quebec, several topics not originally submitted for consideration have been suggested. Some relate to dis­ putes that have afflicted and irritated the two countries for the greater part of the century. The remainder have arisen of recent years in the rivalry of interests and the development of the frontier. Up­ on most of thorn the commissioners can easily rench an understanding. That is evident from the conciliatory and liberal Spirit shown by all concerned. Matters of detail only will have to be adjusted. The dispositions of both the Canadians and the Americans are to yield to each other wherever it is possible, and not dwell upon unimportant issues. Both are anxious to remove forever all causes of irritation, and both are willing to mike sacrifices to accomplish that end. The lake fisheries offer a perplexing problem for which no solution has yet been suggested. The boundary line between Alaska and the Northwest territory will be determin­ ed by a corps of experts. A treaty will be made for a reciprocal law relating to wrecks and salvage upon the great lakes and the St. Lawrence river. In the question of mining rights the commissioners of Canada express their willingness to adopt any reasonable sug­ gestions that the United States commis­ sioners may offer. / Jt is proposed to settle permanently the long-standing dispute over the seals of the north Pacific by having the Congress of the United States appropriate money to buy the ships and outfits of the Cana­ dian sealers. It is probable that the long-standing controversy over the enjoyment of the bonded privilege by Canadian railways will be hung up, because there is such a difference of opinion in the United States upon this subject. The labor troubles will be settled by the passage of a law by the Canadian parliament similar to the immigration law of the United States, shutting out pau pers, lunatics, contract laborers and all other undesirable foreigners. It is impossible to forecast what the commission will do with the fisheries dis­ pute, which has been pending since the beginning of the century; and its satis­ factory settlement is vital to the future harmony of thfe two countries. The free use of Canadian canals by American ships, which has been demand­ ed by the Chicago Board of Trade and oth6r commercial organizations upon the lakes, cannot be granted by the Domin­ ion Government for reasons of economy. The extradition treaty now existing will be amended so that officers of the law may convey prisoners from oue point of the United States to another through Ca nadian territory or froth one point 'to, an­ other in Canada throiigh the territory of the United States. my, nrr 1- v sm M Elections This Tear. This may be an "off" year in politics, but the importance of the elections does not make it appear so. Twenty-eight States elect Governors and State Legis­ latures, as follows: Rhode Island (last April), Oregon (last June), Alabama (in August), Arkansas^ (Sept. 5), Vermont (Sept. 6), Maine (Sept. 12), and New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota, Kansas, Tennessee, Califor­ nia, Nebraska, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, New Hampshire, South Dakota, South Carolina, North Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada on Nov. 8. Be­ sides these Illinois elects a State Treas­ urer; Ohio, Indiana and Iowa a Secretary of State; Missouri, North Carolina and Florida justices of Court of Appeals or Supreme Court, and Delaware, a Treas­ urer and an Auditor. The importance of the State elections lies in the fact that Legislatures elect thirty United States Senators. The Leg­ islatures electing are in the following States: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Texas,-Michigan, Wis­ consin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Min­ nesota, Tennessee, California, Virginia, MarylandpNebraska, West Virginia, Con­ necticut, Maine, Utah, Washington, Mis* sissippi, Vermont, Rhode Island, Mon­ tana, North Dakota, Florida, Wyoming and Nevada. In some of these States, aotably Maryland, Ohio and Rhode Isl­ and, the Legislatures have already elected Senators, xhe control of the next Unit­ ed States Senate depends on the State elections to be held. Again, the last congressional elections before the presidential election of 1900 are to be held this fall. Upon their re­ sults depends the composition of the next House of Representatives, which shall de­ termine the future course of the United States relative to the territories acquired by the war, and solve many perplex­ ing questions arising from the war. Democrats of Utah have made the war a political issue. William McMillan is the Republican candidate for Governor of Nevada. The State convention of Colorado Re­ publicans nominated Henry R. Wolcott for Governor. Connecticut Republicans nominated George F. Lounsbery for Governor over John Addison Porter. Senator Thurston of Nebraska, in a speech at Cincinnati, warmly opposed the annexation of Cuba and the Philippines. As a result of the election in Vermont, the State Senate will be Republican and the House will have an overwhelming Re­ publican majority. The silver Republicans and the Demo­ crats of Nevada were unable to agree on terms for fusion; and each party has nom­ inated its own ticket. Frank W. Rollins of Concord was nom­ inated for Governor of New Hampshire by one of Ole largest Rqiwblican conven­ tions ever held in the State. Mrs. Sarah A. Wilson qf Lincoln, Neb., is the regularly nominated candidate of the Liberty, or Prohibition, party, for as­ sociate justice of tjie Supreme Court. News of Minor Note. Many horses in southern Louisiana have died of poisoning by eating fungi in the grazing fields. An undertaker went to Camp Black, L. I., to remove the body of a soldier, and found the supposed corpse alive and well. Sam Ward, a farmer, living near Piloit Point, Texas, was thrown under the wheels of a wagon and his chest crushed to. He died in a few minutes. Since;the beginning of the war the stnal! , telegraph office at the War Department ' *• has sent and received 125,000 telegrams, ' n!" some of which had nearly 2,000 words iifc -JV,, ,• them. Besides these messages thousand^ "IT, were delivered by the telegraph conipan* ies by messenger, and it is impossible ta.- tell at this time the exact number of tel*; egrams handled. It cost the Government .'•% $5,000 to notify Gens. Miles. Shafter and < •: Merritt of the signing of the protocol" '-1 which provided for the suspension of hos- , ' ' 1 tilities. The toll to Manila is $2.25 petf V *' word, to Porto Rico $1.84, arid'Santiago * ^ • 5 cents. The cablegrams to tJbe gener* als of the army contained over 1,100=';^, }J words. Aside from this, Admirals Dewey* and Sampson and other naval command*" "5. .'"I ers had to be notified, and altogether ifcV- was a rather expensive, though welcome, , act on the part of the Government. • * * * Instructions to the peace commission,., as finally drafted, are clear and precise,' and stronger than at first supposed. The^ commission is always to proceed on tihefV assumption that the United States has", conquered Spain. The United States will , demand all the Philippine group, claiming that the entire group is indispensable to the establishment of a military base and the opening up of the commerce of the islands to the whole world. At the begin­ ning the President did not want any of the Philippines outside of Manila bay, but finally became convinced that to secure Manila bay tee whole group must fly the American flag. Logical sequences of the possession of the sceue of Dewey's great victory and public opinion were the stron^st motives which induced the Pres­ ident and his cabinet to demand the whole Philippine group. ^ Arrangements for the military occupa­ tion of Cuba and Porto Rico are now un­ der consideration, but it is not the inten­ tion of the President to send an army to Havapa and other ports of Cuba now oc­ cupied until the healthy season arrives. The intention is to wait uiftiLall danger of the Cuban fever is over and to com­ pose the army of occupation almost en­ tirely of r-gulars. The idea is to send about GO,000 men to Cuba and to have an army of from 10,000 to 12.000 in Porto Rico. This will require a force somewhat larger than the regular army and the de­ ficiency will be made up by some of the best, volunteers. * * * " Permission has been granted by the Sec­ retary of War to the volunteer troops whs served in the army during the war with Spain to retain their arms and equipment. Each man will be given the privilege of purchasing his rifle, knapsack, canteen, cartridge belt, and, in fact, everything used by him during the war. Oue month's pay will cover the total expense. As each man will be granted a furlough, this will practically be a gift from the Govern­ ment which will enable every soldier to band down to posterity the weapon he used JD defense of the honor of his coun­ try. • • • The proposition to investigate the ac­ counts of the secretary and treasurer of the Letter Carriers' National Association at Toledo has led to gossip which the car­ riers might well wish had never been started. It brings to light the fact that the letter carriers have been contributing to the support of an agent or agency in Washington for the promotion of friendly legislation in Congress--in other words, that they have been putting up money to maintain a lobby here. • • 9 Regular troops are to be mobilized in the Southern camps preparatory to send­ ing the army of occupation to Cuba and Porto Rico. All the regiments which have been ordered to the army posts oc­ cupied by them before the war will be mobilized at Anniston and Huntsville, Ala., and Lexington, Ky., to get them in readiness for garrison duty early in the fall. • *-• • It has been decided that the Mauser rifles captured from the Spanish shall be overhauled at the Government arsenals and sold, it being believed that the relic hunters will bid more than their actual value. Another batch of live relics will be the horses of the rough riders, which will be sold at auction in New York. • • * The dilatory methods ofTthe Spanish and the apparent lack of good faith in se­ curing the "immediate" evacuation of Cuba put the American commission in a position to demand that all the terms of the protocol of armistice shall be fully complied with before actual negotiations begin. » • • President McKinley tendered ^Sie cab­ inet and pe&ce commission a dinner on Thursday night, at which the President expressed orally his ideas as to how nego­ tiations should be carried on, and there was also a general exchange of views. • • • Ex-Minis&r Denby of Indiana, who has represented this Government for thirteen years at the Chinese capital, called at the State Department for the purpose of clos­ ing up his accounts with the department. Later he called on the President. _ . ^ * • • President McKinley promptly respond­ ed to the Czar's program of disarmament by calling attention to the fact that the United States had n«T*& maintained a large standing army and bad no cause to change its policy. There have i>een only two casualties among the naval reserves. One man died of appendicitis and the other fell down a hatchway and was killed. " Toi«i in a Few Line*. The Boston School Board has voted to cut all teachers' salaries 10 per cent, hard times being given as the reason. A Stickeen Indian youth was put t« death as a witch, and a young girl who was condemned for the same reason was rescued. Nearly all of the recent^rich strikes in the Klondike have been made in Ameri­ can "territory, but little has been said about them. American miners along the Yukon have asked the Government to establish an assay office and Government bank depos­ itory at Circle City. A big steamer, supposed to be an iron ore carrier, foundered in a gale on Lake Superior, off Apostle Island, and all on board were lost. Miss Rebecca Moore of Monroe Valley, the oldest pcrsaai in Lebanon County, Pa„ is dead, aged 99 years and 9 months. In her long lifetime she is said to have as< sisted in preparing over 700 bodies for burial. , A. . ' ..jA'*,: ,2. s, ikjh*