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LACK OF VESSELS FREIGHT" FOR ASIA REFUSED ON - ; r t w $ A c o o u P T f m • S^RTby President Hill, of the Great Northern Railway, Wn Obliged to ^ Decline the Hani of Cotton aid Steel i for China and Japan. A correspondent of the American ^Economist, referring to a raeCnt ex­ pression by James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, in fa­ vor of a bounty of $2 per ton on all :- «xport tonnage as a means of reviving Ithe American merchant marine, makes >jthe following caustic comment: f j "It seems that J. J. Hill is merely a !f*jsubsidy hunter and an advocate of free L^ships. Our steamship people are all !f-|-jthat kind, pretty much: All they want J, is support for their lines, and let the .t;natlon go to the dogs. Tliey don't want gl'|4too many lines in competition with theirs, even if American. Non>, what we want is the national interest at­ tended to first, private enterprise sec­ ond. Subsidy is monopolistic. Three , great corporations comprise most of the German steam marine. That will never do' in the United States." There is much force in these terse observations. American sentiment in favor of a fair open field for individual enterprise will not take kindly to the policy of subsidies, free ships and ma­ rine monopolies. That is not the kind of a merchant marine to suit the peo­ ple of the United States. Subsidy car­ ries on its face the fact of favoritism, and an export tonnage bounty is only another name for subsidy. If American shipping were as effici­ ently protected in the oversea traffic as it is in the lake and coastwise trif- fic, President Hill would not now be refusing the transcontinental haul of " ^. . 11 1 ' 11 1 r ' " "M. permitted to rfrn his meetings hi his own way. He did not make stump speeches; he delivered non-partisan lec­ tures on free silver. The Republicans who believed then that he was more in­ terested In silver than In the Democrat­ ic party will suspect now that he is more interested in the Democratic party than he Is in silver. To the politicians of both parties the appointment will signify that the old stand-by contributors to the Democrat­ ic campaign fund have tightened the purse strings aud that tlio managers have come to the pass-around-the-hat stage of raising campaign funds. As the moneyed men of the party will not open their purses if silver is to be made an issue in the next campaign, and as Altgeld aud Bryan insist that silver be made an issue, Ilarvey, as the friend of silver, will pass the hat. This meajGU^ that the farmers of the West, who were carried off their feet by the sil­ ver craae. will be assessed to bear the expenses of an anti-war, autl-expan- sion, and un-American, campaign.-- Chicago Inter-Ocean. gratlon from Wales to the United States. It all comes of protecting the manufacture of tin plate in the United States. Now we are making the greater part of the tiu plate used here, aud the cost to the consumer has steadily fallen to the lowest point ever known. To have forced the largest manufacturer in the world to dose up his Welsh plant and Invest his millions in an American plant, where the Amer­ ican rate of wages must be paid, is an­ other of those Protection victories that have been coming thick and fasVln the past yeaft PEIDE OF THE NAVY. MAMMOTH BATTLESHIP HOIS IS tAUNOHiii 1LLI- Bteel Monster Will Probably Be the Moat Powerful Fighting Craft Afloat --Nnclena of the "Now NaT*" -Coat Will Exceed $3,000,000. Make It an Open Fiucht. In the last presidential campaign, the Democratic ..party, seeing before it com­ plete defeat on its tariff record, sought to avoid the inevitable by giving the place of prominence to the silver ques­ tion. No device, however, cotikl save the party whose elevation to the con­ trol of the Government had brought de­ struction to American industries and suffering to American homes; no de­ vices could save the party which had saddled on the country the infamous Wilson-Gorman bill. The people knew it for the same old free trade party whose success at elections had always been followed by disaster to the Ameri­ can people; and it was buried out of sight by the avalanche of votes cast for McKinley and protection. In view of the attempt of the Demo­ cratic party in 1890 to blind the peo­ ple to the fact that the question of pro­ tection or free tra<Je was at issue be­ tween the parties, it is interesting to FOR LACK € £ i Phonld Iteclive Karljr Attention. If Congress will pass a bill to give the same protection to American ship­ ping that it does to American manufac­ turers and farmers and mechanics, there will be profitable business for the investment of the millions now going abroad at low rates of interest. We shall eventually save the three hundred millions now annually being paid to foreign ship owners for carrying our foreigu trade. l>esides building up the greatest industry in this country--ship­ building. It would be no more, difficult to build up American shipbuilding aud give to our people the profits of our carrying trade than it was to build from nothing the tin plate industry which now sup­ plies the country and has almost entire ly shut out the foreign product. Section 22 of the Dingley bill was in­ tended to do this work, but it was fault­ ily drawn. However, the Elkins bill, or any similar enactment, providing for discriminating duties in favor of goods carried in American iHJttoms, would do the triclf. Something in this line should receive the early and earnest attention of Congress. All sections of the United States are interested in the success of such a measure, but none more so than the Pacific' Coast States.--Tacomar Ledger. Declining Woolen Imports. The enormous decline in the imports of woolen goods during the past year is a clear demonstration of the beneficent effect of the Republican tariff of 1897. During the last year of the Wilson tar­ iff measure, the Imports of woolen goods reached the enormous sum of $49,100,000, which drove woolen manu­ facturers in this country to despair. The fiscal year just closed has wrought a great change, the total imports being less than $15,000,000. This means that during the last fiscal year the American people consumed nearly $35,000,000 worth of American woolen goods in ex­ cess of the last year of the Wilson bill. In other words, American woolen mills and American labor was benefited to that extent. This is an Industrial im­ provement that cannot be denied.--Kal­ amazoo Telegraph. SOUTH ATLAHT1C CYCLONE. "The Great Northern road alone has been compelled to refuse the shipment 60,000 tons of steel rails and 30,000,000 pounds of cotton--all demanded by . Asia--simply because there are no water facilities by means of which this merchandise may be transported to Atlantic ports."--President J.„J. Hill in a recent Interview. , steel rails for Japau and raw cotton for j note that Hon. L, F. McKinney, the China because of lack of ships to carry j contestant in the First Maine district the freight across the Pacific ocean. He | for Speaker Reed's seat in Congress, has already solved this problem as re- made the tariff the sole Issue of his gards rail and lake carrying, and he | recent campaign. If this is any indica- would solve it as readily in the matter | tion of the policy to be pursued by oth- of rail and ocean traffic if the conditions were the same. The trouble is that while the lake carrying trade Is amply protected from alien competition, the ocean carrying trade is wholly without protection. Some years ago Mr. Hill undertook to reduce the cost of transporting a bushel of wheat from the granaries of Minnesota and the Dakotas to the ter­ minal elevators at Buffalo. He order­ ed a reduction in the Great Northern's charge for hauling the grain from In­ terior points to Duluth, only to find that the hoped-for addition to the price re­ alised by the wheat grower was promptly wiped out by an equivalent increase by the lake transportation companies in the charge for delivering the wheat from Duluth to Buffalo. President Hill thereupon took matters into his own hands. He caused to be built and put in service between the head of Lake Superior and the f'joi of Lake Erie a fleet of fast steel steam- Ships. each with a freight capacity of over 3.000 tons. From that moment he was master of the situation, and the power of the Great Northern Railroad t6 make and maintain a rate was once for all established. Lake shipping was protected then as nCw by laws which made it impossible for foreign vessels of cheaper construc­ tion and cheaper payrolls to compete injuriously against the new Northern line. If oversea traffic in American bottoms were similarly protected to­ day. President Hill would not now be refusing freight for lack of ships to take it across to Asia. Long before this the Great Northern Railroad would have had in operation its own line of steamships to handle its traffic with China. Japan, Australia and the Philip­ pines. With a systen* of discriminating du­ ties in force these ships could be cer­ tain of return cargoes at remunerative rates, instead of having to take their chances with the underbidding tramp steamers manned by underpaid foreign crews. Discriminating duties made and maintained the American merchant ma­ rine from 1780 up to the time when that wise and sensible system was abandoned- for . the folly of "marine reciprocity." Then the American flag gradually disappeared from the sea, until to-day It is not displayed at the foretop of move than one-twelfth of the ships that carry American commerce! Bring back the policy that in times past made our shipping industry fore­ most ill the world's carrying tsade and you will bring back tlie marine suprem­ acy that, has been lost for nearly forty years. Then and not until then. Parsing the Hat. The appointment of W. H. (Coin) Har­ vey as financial manager of the Demo­ cratic party will ochnc as' a shock to the Bourbons and the silver Republi­ cans. To the former it will seem like the appointment of a receiver and the beginning of the end in winding up the affairs of the old party. To the latter it will be loss of faith in the non-parti- | s&nship of the Silver question. Two | years ago Harvey would not train un- j dhr the Democratic flag unless iie was | er Democratic candidates for Congress, in other States, the friends of protec­ tion have no need to worry. It is al­ ways easier to fight in the open, and with the issue drawn squarely between protection and free trade, „or between protection and that elusive, chameleon­ like "tariff reform," there Is no doubt of the outcome. The country wants no more free trade and no more "tariff re­ form" of the Cleveland-Wilson-Gorman type. Canae of Humiliation. It is humiliating that the United States, which can furnish a navy to match the world's best, as. compared man for man, should possess uot mer­ chant marine worth speaking of. It is doubly humiliating when we consider that the fault is wholly our own; that the only cause of our lack of a mer­ chant marine is the failure on the part of our legislators to apply the same doc­ trine to our commerce which they have applied to ^Ita^utaalutJng industries that it is due to their failure"*'"" protection to American shipping as they] have given protection to Anjerican dustries. By protecting American pro­ ducts we have put the United States at the head of nations Industrially. Let us put the United States at the head of nations on the sea. Proper protection to American shipping will do it. A Protection Victory. The proprietor and manager of the largest tin plate plant in the world, William Williairis. has sold his Welsh interest and will locate in Pittsburg. The Worcester and Upper Forrest Works, at Morristown. Wales, were sold in August at a public sale for £88,- 000. The plant was equipped with fur­ nace aud steel mills, but had been idle for some, Two sons of Mr. Wil­ liams spent -seme time in the United States last spring, and. It is understood, leased land in the vicinity of Pittsburg for a tin plate plant. The loss of the groat American mar­ ket. the heaviest consumer of tin plate in the worlc:. has necessitated this mi- BiRht ort of Annoyancea. A strong protest was made by the free traders when the Dingley tariff Imposed a duty ou the wearing apparel of returning tourists purchased in for­ eign countries. They said it was petty and annoylhg and the revenue that would be derived from it would not amouut to enough to pay Jior the collec­ tion. The record shows that during the last year under that head $343,518 was paid, as against $87,425 the previ­ ous year. It might have been anuoying to the wealthy tourists who paid this snug sum, but Uncle Sam is that much richer, and uone^of it came out of the pockets of the laboring people. Let us have more such annoyances.--Rome (N. Y.) Citizen. Pointing &ith Pride, We point with pride to our fulfillment of the promise of tariff reform.. With a return to protection there has come a change in the balance of trade. Un­ der Cleveland we were shipping mil­ lions of gold to Europe in exchange for goods bought from foreigners. Under McKinley Europe is shipping millions of gold to us in exchange for our pro­ ducts and manufactures. We point with pride to the revival of trade, the in­ creased demand for labor, the advance of wages, the improved condition of the agricultural class that we predicted as a result of return to Republican policies. The coming winter will make no call for free soup houses for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed.-••Chicago Inter Ocean. Let l!a Have a Merchant Marine. All in all, just 1,792 ships passed through the Suez canal last year, of which 1,190 were British. How many^ do you .suppose, were American? Only four, and no more--only four! It is time for the American merchant marine to get Into the water and begin to do i business.--New York Mail and Express. Carious Kind of Rain. The record of failures for the month of August in this country is the best in five years. And the financial, currency and tariff conditions have been identi­ cal with the conditions that Bryanites have claimed were plunging this coun­ try into hopeless ruin. -Keokuk "Gate City." A Horrible Pnspicion. Those soldiers who persist in return­ ing from the front in robust health will be sure to be suspected of being mere minions of Wall street or tools of Mark Hanna. Low Interest Rate. Five per cent farm loans are adver­ tised in Kentucky. The gold standard, there as elsewhere, has brought the cheapest money ever known. DIGQINQ UP A "GENERAL MANAGER" FOR THE DEMOCRACY. Rvtvjg- The mammoth United States battleship Illinois, one of the three latest additions to the navy and probably the most power­ ful fighting machine afloat, wsis launched at Newport News, Va., Tuesday under auspicious circumstances. As the steel monster trembled in its flight from earth to sea, Nannie Letter broke a bottle of sparkling champagne upon the vesael'i prow and pronounced the words that made it the godchild of the great Western com­ monwealth and caused 25,000 people as­ sembled to send up a cheer that could be heard for miles. Gov. Tajiner of Illinois shook hands with the Governor of Vir­ ginia, the newly floated ship rose proudly from its initial dip, and the launching was pronounced a success. From many points of view the launch­ ing of the Illinois was the most important of the kind in the history of the country. The vessel is the largest fighting ship ever floated under the Stars and Stripe®, is the costliest ever built by the navy, and ex­ perts believe it will be the most formida­ ble warship ever put in commission by any power. There was never such a crowd in New­ port News at any previous ship launching. They came from everywhere, from the North and South, and especially from the West. Long before the hour of the launch­ ing throngs began to gather about the spot, and by 11 o'clock standing room was worth its area in nickels everywhere with­ in a block of the Illinois. = Enthusiastic - Chicago Tribune. •epetition of the Great Hnrricana and tidal Wave of 1893. Reports of the damage caused by the hurricane and floods which swept the At­ lantic coast Sunday say the property dam­ age will reach into the millions, while the loss of life cannot be estimated, al­ though it is known to be great. It was the worst flood since the sea islands were swept over, covering an area of seventy miles. It is now estimated that 1,000 houses and stores have been swept away. It is feared that the city of Darien has been swept out of existence. Darien was t city of about 7,000 inhabitants, being situated on one of the smaller islands. The land is low and marshy, being utilized ex­ clusively for rice growing. It is the stop­ ping place for all boats running between Savannah and Brunswick, but has no tel­ egraphic communication. It was in the direct line of the flood, and is thought to be completely inundated. Reports brought to Macon, Ga., by the Southern Pacific train state that the dam­ age done by the flood is enormous, and that hundreds of lives were lost, being swept into the ocean, beyond any chance of even being saved. Whole families per­ ished, their homes being entirely submerg­ ed in water, and the inhabitants being un­ accounted for. In Jacksonville, Fla., the rainfall dur­ ing twenty-four hours was 3.57 inches, and was sufficient to swell the St. John's river to such an extent that many houses within seventy-five feet from shore were flooded. The camps presented a. deplora­ ble picture. Tents were flat on the ground, while every man within camp radius was wet through and through. The Third di­ vision hopsital was blown down and the sick were drenched. The Joss caused by the flood at Fernan- dina, Fla., is estimated at $500,000. As yet only three people are reported dead, but a further search will undoubtedly swell the list. Almost every dock on the water front has bee* washed away, with oil that was piled on them. Advices from different parts in South Carolina shows that the rice crops have been injured from 35 to 50 per cent by the floods. Breaks in the banks occurred on the Pou-Pou, Ash poo and Combahee riv­ ers, and these sections have suffered se­ verely. SPAIN IS ASLEEP. BATTLESHIP II.I.TNOW. --" - As tt will look when completed and under head­ way. --F. cheers greeted the arrival Of the distin­ guished guests. Few in the vast crowd could hear the words spoken by Miss Lei- ter, but nearly all were able to see her, and when she raised the bottle of wine in her hand and dashed it against the steel of the battleship, the action was a signal for their enthusiasm to break foi*th with full force. There was a groaning from the timbers, the ground trembled as the thousands of tons of steel shot downward and the spray that was sent aloft arose higher than the platform on which stood the little woman who had named the new craft. Shriek­ ing whistles and a volume of applause which swept over the vast throug like a tidal wave of sound greeted the ship as it gracefully floated out into the srtream. Again and again tumultuous cheers rang out for the Illinois as the officious little tugs fussed around and drew the marine champion back to the shipyard pier, where it will receive the finishing touches. The Illinois, with the lvearsarge and Kentucky, now uearing completion at Newport News; the Alabama*, being con­ structed at Philadelphia, and the Wiscon­ sin, under construction at San Francisco, are to constitute the nucleus of the "new navy," which is to stand comparison with the best in size and fighting qualities. She is a trifle less than 373 feet over all, and her width is somewhat greater in propor­ tion to her length than that of the other battleships. Ten thousand-horse power is to be developed by the engines which will be used to propel the big ship. Considering the size of the vessel, rapid progress has been made in its construc­ tion. It is built under an act of Congress passed June 10, 1800, providing $2,505,000 for the hull and machinery. The contract for the building was signed Sept. 20, 1897, and three years were allowed to complete the vessel. It is calculated that the en­ tire cost will exceed $3,000,000. The crew will comprise 500 officers and men, in­ cluding about one hundred marines. NEGROES DRIVEN OUT. White Minora at Washington# Ind.» Drive Out Blacks. Dispatches from Washington, Ind., state that 150 miners from Pana arrived there and routed the negro miners, who were compelled to leave the city at the point of revolvers. One negro who refused to go was fired upon, and it is said was killed. Masks were worn by the miners, and the police of Washington were unable to ar­ rest any of them, although a tire alarm was sent in and a number of citizens were sworn in as deputy sheriffs. The strikers visited every .house in the city occupied by the negroes, who were brought from Kentucky a year ago, and the blacks were lined up. and then com­ menced a«.march west on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern tracks. Upon reaching White Iliver, Winchesters weru pointed at the negroes and they were giv­ en orders never to return to Washington; that if they did they Tj-oufd meet^ with more severe treatment the nex? tLnio. A crowd of armed strikers visited the Cabel Company mines with the intention of cap­ turing the negroes who dwell in a shack near the mines, but the negroes had evi­ dently been notified of their coming and made their escape. The strikers fired sev­ eral shots into the air, and this led to the report that a battle was in progress. A consignment of 200 guns aud-100 re­ volvers has been received by the miners' organization and hidden away. The pro­ vost guard is still on duty patrolling the streets. Reports that 150 more Ala­ bama negroes were on their v. ay there caused more bad feeling among the min­ ers, and many threats were made. Notes of Current Kventa. The President has darided that he will be unable to go South this year. The Nebraska corn crpp is estimated at 150,000,000 bushels, worth $.'57,500,000. Capt. Brooks was murdered oil his yacht Chispa, off San Francisco, by two pirates. This year's income iu Oregon from grain, hops aud wool is estimated at $14,- 000,000. The agitation in Jamaica for annexation to the United States has almost provoked open violence. . An old Georgia law, requiring negroes to sit on the three rear seats in street car$ is being enforced. Sir Arthur Curtis, an English baron, ia reported to have been murdered by Ia- iians in the Klondike. ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SQBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. ,/T Wheelman Shoots a Farmer--T.wo Men Killed With Drnxited< Liquor at the State Fair-- Hazing la Fatal to a Youth--Gaa Explosion. Chris Henney, a farmer of Bristol, was shot and killed the other evening by an unknown wheelman. Henney was driv­ ing home in a wagon. About a mile and a half below Oswego, at a point where the road is dark and narrow, the wheelman passed him, then turned back and said with an oath and the remark. "Now I've got you," and shot him in the stomach. The murderer escaped in the darkness, going, it is thought, toward Aurora. Hen­ ney had strength enough left to drive to the nearest house, where he asked for aid. He was taken to Yorkville for medical treatment and afterward moved to his home, where he died. Henney did not get a good view of his assailant in the darkness and could not account for the shooting. He leaves a wife. Snd several children. Drugs Cauae Two Deatha,. Drugged liquor is supposed to be respon­ sible for the death of two visitors to the State fair a* Springfield. One victim was John Zimmerman, a prominent Gibson City farmer, who. after being drugged and robbed of $50 and while still in a semi- stupor, was run down and killed by a train. The other case was that of John Lee of Harristo\¥n. who was found lying in the streot unconscious, and who died at the city prison, without regaining con­ sciousness. His case was evidently one of poison administered in liquor, but it is not possible to, say where he obtained it, as none of his friends had seen him during the night. It is not known where Zim­ merman was drugged and robbed. Only a short time before he was killed by the train he told of the robbery at the depot, but was unable to give the location of the place "where he got the liquor. Urf# A receiver }ias been asked for the Tilka., an& tfurt'tt*l*Compiiny#orgparta. Frank Southeott of Shelbyville, aged IS '* years, was killed by a train at Tower Hill. jp ^ * The Alton naval militia has been rep*- ganized in order to get the company into service of the State. Miss Eva Marshall Sbontz, president of the Chicago Young People's Temperance- % Union, has partially regained her sight. Dos Moines, Iowa, Baptists have called ' Rev. W. S. Walker of Elgin, pastor of one of the largest Illinois churches, to that, 5 city. '1% The State Auditor has registered $280,- 000 worth of White County 4% per cent bonds, refunding a like amoant of 0- per i ,} , cent bonds. w ^ The overall factories fa Dekalb have ' r- 'M shut down, throwing many men, women and girls out of work. The factories may • s?Jg " reopen later. . - Sergeant Clarence Hall of Vandalia, a '-"J member of the Fourth Illinois regiment, •" died in Jacksonville, Fla., of typhoid fever. He leaves a widow and one child. r Abram Slimmer, a wealthy retired stock-' jAj man of Waverly, Iowa, has offered a cash donation of $15,000 to the Chicago Lying- \ ^ in Hospital, providing $45,000 additional" , yA •• is raised by Dec. 1. ^'^4 Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.^ the estranged • son of the head of the "Vanderbilt house, . A A is in Chicago working on a salary for theh ^ New York Central Railroad, laying out'." ? sidetracks and switches. ^ The Roekford Army and Navy Leagua^; V " has forwarded $100 to Col. Benpitt for the relief of the Third regiment In Port<* • • f-- Rieo. Complaints from the soldiers have J? been forwarded to President McKinley. Several thousand veterans attended the.5. . Illinois State fair at Springfield, makingf • old soldiers' " day a great success. The men were addfressed by Gen. John C, Black, department commander of the G. - nkj A. R. : :,l The grand temple of Rathbone Sisters ,<."3 elected officers at Springfield as follows: Chief, Mrs. Dr. Margaret O. Mitchell of Aurora; senior, Mrs. Emma King of De* catur; junior, Mrs. Celia Houston of Ca-/ -$£ sey; manager, Mrs. Louisa Hartman of Centralia. Has Not Tet Realized the Completi neai of Her Defeat. According to reports from Paris, the American and Spanish peace commission­ ers are dangerously far apart on the ques­ tions at issue. Some French diplomats who have conversed with both the Spanish and American members even assert that unless one side or the other backs down on material points the war ia evidently not over. The Americans may yet have to sustain their demands with a naval dem­ onstration. The position taken by Spain is believed to account for a desire to keep Blanco in Cuba as long as possible. With his large army he could seriously embarrass the United States should negotiations be de­ clared off. French influence, however, which is very potent in Madrid, is that Spaniards shall accept the inevitable and be reasonable. Frenchmen are indignant at their Span­ ish friends for having learned so little from their defeat. It has been repeatedly suggested to the Spanish commissioners during the last few days that a frank con­ fession of helplessness and an appeal to the magnanimity of the victors would se­ cure for Spain the most liberal possible terms. But the Spanish leaders rejected the suggestions as absurd. The Spanish demands are stated to be substantially as follows: "Nothing beyond a port and a coaling station in the Philip­ pines to be ceded to the United States. A favored tariff in all of the lost territory for Spanish textiles. The power whose sovereignty prevails at Manila to bear the entire Philippine debt and part of the isl­ ands to remain with Spain, which islands may be sold to any other power. The en­ tire Cuban debt prior to thelast revolt to be saddled on Cuba." DEMANDS DAZE THE DONS. Castilian Peace Commissioners Are Amazed at America'a Demanda. The Spanish members of the peace com­ mission are. according to a Paris dispatch, in a dazed condition, owing to the demand made by the Americans for all of the Phil­ ippine Islands. The exact nature of Amer­ ican demands are, of course, not made public, but as they were preseuted after Gen. Merritt paid his respects to the com­ missioners, the tenor of the demands may be conjectured from his already published utterances. Spanish, commissioners are quite ready to give whatever the Ameri­ cans want in the way of coaling stations, but will resist more to the verge of a re­ newal o{ hostilities. The intention,of the Uuited States Gov­ ernment to retain the whole of the Philip­ pine Islands has created a state of stupe­ faction in Madrid, It is semi-officially given out that the Government will vigor­ ously combat 6uch action, which it is claimed tli$ terms c>f the peace protocol precludes. , Spanish troops in Porto Rico are ready to return to Spain and are ouly awaiting the arrival of transports to embark for home. The War Department has decided to send boards of officers to Cuba to investi­ gate aud report upon locations, of camps for the army of occupation. it is said in Washington -that Gen. Wheeler will organize and equip the cav­ alry division for Cuba, but that he will not accompany the expedition. Capt. Bob Evans has been retired from command of the Iowa at his personal re­ quest, agd ba§. been granted le^ve of ab­ sence. Capt. Terry succeeds him. Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard was retirdll, having reached the age of 62 years, but by special order he is to retain his place at the head of the promotion board. The War Department has issued an or­ der that sick or wounded soldiers granted furloughs are entitled to $1.50 per day commutation and transportation when traveling. The rough riders' horses were sold in New York. The best one of the lot was bought by a farmer for $40. The sale realized $30,000 less than the horses cost the Government. The Cuban general, Demetrio Castillo, has accepted a position under Gen. Wood at $3,800 a year, and the friction, between Cubans and Americans at Santiago is ra pimy, dec rea s i n g. One hundred former Cuban and Spanish soldiers are working amicably as labor­ ers on the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa in Guantanamo Bay. Cuba, cleaning her hull aud engines and building decks. Impressive military services were held over the graves of the soldiers buried in the detention hospital cemetery in Camp Wikoff. Gen. Shafter, out of his bed for the first time for a week, was present. Recent advices received at Havana indi­ cate that the Cuban troops are making efforts to enforce law ai d order in the in­ terior of the island. Ti»ere is much suf­ fering and destitution among the soldiers, b*th Spanish and Cuban. The Illinois State Board of Health Aftx- (% K, iliary Sanitary Association concluded it# $ " two days' session at Springfield. The offirff, 5 cers for the ensuing year are: President,; Dr. A. C. Corf of Carlinville; treasurer,. Dr. C. B. Johnson of Champaign; aecre-_ '{u tary, Dr. J. A. Egan of Springfield. ^ .. ^|j \ Ernest R. Meyers of Chicago was sen* teneed to sixty days and $25 fine in th«, . Circuit Court at Morris. He was indicted*. by the grand jury for playing a confidence, ^ , „ game. He pleaded guilty. About a year * V -5 ' ago he induced Attorney E. L. Clover of , that city to lorse a check which wm» bogus. ^ Mrs. Adele Rollins and her two „'hil-. i dren were saved from death in,a fire the-~-r--^ other morning in a novel maraier. The * i building at 44 Fifth avenue, Chicrto, on 1 i ; the second tloor of which lived the Rollin#', family, had caught fire and the flames ha& ^ • gained considerable headway without _ sj'. awakening the sleeping persons, A me* chanic on a south-bound elevated train* . which was running pk?t the building* . threw a heavy monkey wrench through r, ?'* one of the windows. The crash of giase- " awakened the woman and Iter,children />!«* 1 and they escaped. v ^ ^ Mrs. Marie C. Hunt, wife of a wealthy ' ; farmer in Sangamon County, took her year-old daughter, Olive, and eloped wit)| ; " ^ $ George Davis to St. Louis. She is a plaiji 4| Fair a Financial Failnre. The Illinois State fair of 1898 has pass­ ed into history. It was a great fair, but was a financial failure owing to rain in the latter part of the week. The track was couvertcd into a sea of mud, which necessitated calling off the races sched­ uled, and limited the attendance to per­ haps one-third of what it would have beeu if the weather had continued favor­ able. Rain killed the closing day entire­ ly. There were practically no visitors on the grounds, and nothing remained but for exhibitors to pock up, receive their premiums and get away. All premiums were paid. The financial results cannot be stated with accuracy as yet. It is cer­ tain, though, that there will be a shortage of $7,000 or $8,000, and perhaps more. The gate receipts aggregated $32,000 or $33,000. Woman Diea in the Flamea. A gas explosion in the cellar of J. H. Hudson's grocery store at Peoria resulted in the death of Mrs. Mary Smith and the serious injury of the proprietor, G. H. Porter was struck with falling bricks when the rear wall of the store fell in. Mrs. Smith resided over the store nnd kept her canned fruits in Hudson's cellars Ignorant of the broken gas pipe near the meter in the cellar, Mrs. Smith, with a lighted candle, started to go downstairs. An explosion resulted and set the building ^ ,... _ on fire. Hudson attempted to go down-j woman, 43 years old, and he is but 2$. stairs to rescue Mrs. Smith, but was driv- Mrs. Hunt called at the, four courts anil en back by fire and smoke, and when tak­ en from the building was almost suffo­ cated. Box Killed by a Hazing. David C. Jones, 10 years old, died as the result of injuries received while being hazed at the opening of the Decatur high school. It has been the custom of the boys in the Decatur high school to put all the freshmen oveV the fence the first day. This year there was a lively fight as usual, l'oung Jones received injuries to his back that kept him from getting out of bed the next day and he steadily girew worse. The day after the hazing Principal Hamsher announced a rule that no more hoys should be put over the fence." Robbers Get the Caab. While hundreds of people were passing along the street in front of C. Finfgeld's shot store at Areola, two burglars entered the place and while one attracted the at­ tention of the proprietor the otjher was rifling the safe. Mr, Fiufgeld discovered the thief and was about to give an alarm when two revolvers were thrust in his face. The robbers then backed out of the rear door and escaped with their boot£. In their flight one of the thieves lost a gold watch. Brief State Happenlnga. To avoid going to jail as a chicken thief, James Ha.II, colored, consented to be chained and saw wood for three days at Melrose Park. Dr. John R. Boyington has resigned the presidency of the Chicago Herring Medi­ cal College to accept the post of surgeon in the Sanitarium at Clifton Springs. While L. A. Ferguson of the elevator at Annawan was pushing a carload of grain on the railroad tracks, his 0-year-old son was caught under the wheels and in­ stantly killed. Prof. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, has made a flying trip to Roekford to investigate the process of making paper out of corn husk*. A barn containing hay and all t3e farm implements of tlie county at the institu­ tions at Dunning was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $3,000. The tlamcs were fought by the amateur tire department, made up of the ^employes of the jus a no. asylum, afesisteJ by a "leiail from the Irv­ ing Park fire station. The barn was sit­ uated about 1,000 feet from any of the buildings connected with the insane asy­ lum and there was no danger at any time of the firt communicating with them. The origin of the fire is not known. While camping near Carloek Stewart Morris of Eureka was shot and instantly killed in a quarrel. Leonard Hunter was held to the grand jury, for the crime. Miss Amy Eleanor Wingreu, trhe only woman nurse who represented Chicago in the. city of Santiago during the late, war, has returned-home. > Postoftiee Inspector Price of Chicago has arrested John F. Heath for robbing the mails. Heath was deputy postmaster at Westport. Price sent a decoy letter containing money, which was opened by Heath xitld'appropriated. Heath has con­ fessed, and is now iu jail at I^awreneeville. Fire early the- other day destroyed a large portion of the tannery plajjt at Fleet­ wood and Blanche streets, Chicago, own­ ed by J. *>. Sharp & Sous. The ttknnery had r ;t been in operation for two years, but valuable machinery was damaged to thf- estent of $35,000. William Askins of Dallas. Texas, anu Miss Jennie Gillispie of St. Louis eloped to Nashville, obtained a marriage license and were married in public at the court house by Judge George Veriior. Askins, who is one of the most celebrated animal trainers of the Southwest,'did hot want the marriage made public for a month, as they expected to absent themselves from Bt. Louis for that length of time. -•# said that when they eloped she gave Da­ vis $1,080, the proceeds 6f the sale of •; farm, and that when they reached the city he disappeared and she has not seen hint since. Mrs. Hunt stated that she simply wanted him found and not punished; thait ; she would not consent to have him placed in jail. She says that she met him in th» sanitarium at Springfield, where she hat been to see her brother and where Davie was receiving treatment for his eyes. \; : In the village of Reddick, a furious mob of 100 farmers on a recent night nearlJL killed two lightning-rod agents whose bast- ness methods did not meet with their apr proval. The men were knocked dow% *< kicked and pelted with stones, and on»' of them named Van Dusen, aged 50 years* was seriously hurt. William J. Unz, a German farmer who understands little! English, was approached by the agentay * who agreed, as be believed, to protect hi# " barn and house from lightning for $2Qt • The men finished the work and presented a note signed by Unz for $440. Unz raia» ed a row and the men agreed to take $30Qt I The farmer went to town to borrow th# money,, when his friends induced him t#J have the agents arrested. They wer# finally released, when the crowd set upoa them, knocked them down and clubbed^ stoned and trampled upon them. Thef' finally escaped and were chased a mile out of town. One of the most peculiar freaks of the mail service has just come to light. A letter sent from Areola to Crossville^ Tenn., more than twenty years ago failed to reach its destination until a few days., ago, when it fell into the bands of the per* son to whom it was addressed. March 1878, Crocket Graham of Areola wrote <| letter to "iSfrs. Mattie Graham, who it was supposed resided there at the time. It.: has developed that Mrs. Graham lefltt Crossville the latter part of February of that year and went to Cairo. She re- \ Vr mained in Cairo a short time, when sib#*. ^ moved to Talihina, I. T., her present V/i*, abode. Recently the letter turned up ami . was delivered. In the letter Graham haiv "J'|. spoken admiringly o| his two little Jiovs, ' "•*, Ernest and Elmeh who were "respectively" 4 and 2 years of age. hut who, before tha letter reached its destination, had growaH to manhood, the former now being a mem? / ) her of Q-ompa ny A. Fourth regiment, I life nois volunteer infantry, at Jacksonville. Mrs. Graham, immediately on receipt of - the long-delayed letter, wrote Mr. Gra«>" ham aud told of the arrival of his mes- sage. Where the letter has been conceal* 'i ed during all fljese yeijrs js %';&jny8terj^ %. which has not been solved. ' i ,, «' The 104th Illinois infantry,"'feiSown as ' the LaSalle County regiment, held its an­ nual reunion at Ransom. All of the resi­ dents of Ottawa who were !n ths regi­ ment were in attendance. A number of the veterans have sons in the Third Illi­ nois. now in Porto Rico. Martfja Washington's oven, an old .relic of colouial days, is the property of C. L. Brainard, an Oak Park druggist. Mr. Brainard came into possession of this valuable souvenir through his grandfath­ er. who bought it from one af the descend­ ants of the woman to whom Martha Washington gave it. Bert Nelson, a laborer, who lived at 52® "'*< Milwaukee avenue. Chicago, while walk-«--.e' 4S ing with Mrs. Agnes Johnson, swallowe^ * a quantity of carbolic acid. He was taken * to the hospital in a very precarious eon- "f ditiou. Affection for Mrs. Johnson and her coolness toward him were the com- ? bined cause ol' the act. While Willett Laiighlin and hi* father were painting the. roof of a shed at the rear of their home at ltii>7 West Ohio street. Chicago. Lloyd Roberts, a mau 43 years old, came along and fatally slot the boy. The shooting was the result of & ir thrashing which the boy and his brotbeiK £ .K" t gave Roberts for whipping young Laug^-iSg' lin. The man was arrested ami locked up» »•