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enry fraindealer J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHEWRY, ILLINOIS SUUMAfiY OF NEWS. Fred Hess, Jr., who sued the San FVah- is/r eisco Typographical Union to recover $25,000 damages for having been forced out of employment by the union, he being a non-union man, has been awarded $1, fet/ - 200 by a jury in the Superior Court e T h e B u c k i n g h a m T h e a t e r a t L o u i s v i l l e was destroyed by fire. The fire was onus Iftir «d by a live wire in the scene room, and 'Li.-'/') although a general alarm was turned in burned so fiercely that the entire place ' was soon gutted. The loss is placed at 1>, $60,000. $ ^ ,» • Another (Hash is imported in Samoa. The ^ v German consul released a German sen- vJp ^tenced to imprisonment by Chief Justice ?.„• Chambers, and now the American ami f -4v 'British consuls refuse to recognize the Ioniser's representative until an apology "'i'- *s forthcoming. j J T ; T h e Y o r k F a r m c o l l i e r y , o p e r a t e d b y ,.,the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at *-4.^ ^Pottsville, Pa., has closed down indefi- • ||J,v^nitely. Nearly 400 men and boys are • . .^throwti out of work. The colliery has >J ,„J -.been >n operation seven years and, it is t^.-';,j«aid, has lost money. In some unexplainable maoner the Unit-States express car attached to the new '.transcontinental fast mail train caught V*afire on the Milwaukee road as the train ^neared Brookfield and was destroyed. f.' £*Only the money and bonds ju tae safe K >1^were save^* " • ': > American missionary. Rev. William ^.%-v^Deck, reports that there is unrest and -,s|dissati8faction in Liberia with President Coleman, and that neighboring tribes are encroaching and inciting to rebellion, i,„t? - '^'hile France and Germany are also f o- , plj^Mtnepting trouble. • , N ; « ' | Frederick Laubray, of Chicago, jump­ ed from the window of a hotel in Hobo- ken, N. J»=, when* he was stopping, and Sustained (serious internal injuries. Lau- brau weht East intending to sail for Ger- J__i._T4nany, but missed his boat. Since then ^fie had been despondent. A ^ T h e r e i s l i t t l e h o p e f o r t h e s h i p P r i n c e s s f^r' Edward that left Baltimore nearly nine ir " Inonths ago for Honolulu to load sugar. ; , When the Coptic, just in at San Fran- * l! - , tisco, left. Honolulu the Princess Edward .Jhad not reported. *tlie Princess Edward > ^Carried ^ cPe w of twenty-seven men. A panic prevailed in the Hotel Nether- > yt . |ands, in New York, when a fire was dis- : ' iJtovered in a rpom on the fifteenth floor. //id/She alarm spread through the hotel and J , Employes trained for such an emergency Appeared with the hotel apparatus. With f the aid of the firemen the blaze was soon f>ut out. jf \ • A family of fivewas eatirelywipedout t ' » In the little town of Bowman, Ark., with- yln. the last two days, all dying with pneu- . J fnonia. Esquire Gwynn, his son Charles iSB; son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. ii ̂ , 1 Richard Nobles and Mrs. Dot. Carpenter, IL^. x r^fcuothec /daughter, were all buried at the ||; , *ame.time in the same-plot of ground., 1 • *?* For1 love o£ her. child Mrs. Fione Van k * Nfcohaack has withdrawn the two suits of P- * ' -1 *^125,000 Against her father-in-law. Peter 'J Wan Sehaaek, the millionaire Chicago |p ^Bfttggist, and has written "satisfied" |p\ 1 Across the judgment of $65,000 for alien- fe'.* '5*tion of her husband's affections, which a ? • »• ' 'iBrecfctyn sheriff's jury gave her in 1808. & j ^ Directly the steamer Spartan Prince, it* * , £om Genoa, reaehed quarantine at New TV * "%"ork, secret service agents boarded her |^/ , . -®nd arrested three members of an allegi'd -r cf Italian counterfeiters. A fourth <&i\ - - , x arrest was afterward made at the barge - Office. The agents of the secret service | have been looking for this gang for some . vtime. m 1 The south-bound passenger train on the ®&j . ^ »•*" ^Kansas City and San Francisco road was ??', / > ; "•lowing up for a railroad crossing near P.,-,. < w Pittsburg, Kan., when the roadbed for a F?V : ifJst«nce of sixty feet sunk from under fe; eil^ne aQd train. The engineer put SrfV. 9D a fu^ head of steam and succeeded in ralue of f10,000 died at New York. tta Dame was Mynah, and it had been for many years the pet of Miss Emma Thurs- by, the singer. At a meeting of tbt directors of the Flint and Per® Marquette Railroad fa Boston the first dividend sin,ce 1893 was declared. It is of 1 per cent on the pre­ ferred stock. The net earnings for 1808 were about $140,000. A gang of twenty-six tcach^ repair ipen were working on the railroad at the w«st- fra of the tunnel, Altoona. Pa.. v.'I>oa they were struck by a train. One man was instantly killed, one died in the Alt«ona hospital and six­ teen were afcriously injured. The curfew bell of Vineland, N. J., is a steam whistle. It blew for the first time at 9 o'clock the other night, nine consec­ utive times. The curfew law was not ob­ served. Hundreds of children who ordi­ narily wonld have been in bed at that hoar thronged the streets to laugh at the whistle. They were not arrested. WESTERN. fulling the entire train out of the hole * V, Jh3 on solid ground. It was found that the roadbed was over a coal mine and the V«»£round had sunk to a distance of six feet v. .^jjielow the level. \'u^ A decision of the greatest importance in rfij^aokraptcy proceedings throughout the t -vflountry has been handed down by Judge Seaman in the United States Circuit Court at Milwaukee. The court holds that the file of a petition in bankruptcy jjjfaives the constitutional privilege of re- t to give testimony under the plea , tfihat it may tend to criminate himself. / $he decision is rendered in the contempt proceedings instituted against Louis Sa- a Waupun bankrupt merchant, for •: -failing to produce hi&liooks of account. VC> : MEWS NUQGETS, . Jockey Tod Sloane is reported to have «vleleared $400,000. by th^ recent boom in ^jjtocks. 9 :a 4 M. Grecoff has former a new cabinet, with himself as premier and minister of foreign affairs of Bulgaria. Dr. A. W. Hitt, of Chicago, who spout several years in India, says there are 532 cases of leprosy in the United States, ten of which are in Chicago. j * Half a block of fine buildings in the fepsrt of the business portion -of .Columbus, Ohio, were burned, the loss reaching f750,000. Several firemen were caught ^ . beneath falling walls. • Dr. Theodore von Holleben, German ambassador at Washington, says Ger- . v many recognized the justice of the Unit­ ed States war with Spain and the right of the victors to control the Philippines. ^ tH i.John Johnson of Spring Grove, Minn., >'•' J -f Jfo11 of ob°Hity- He weighed at his death if ..-2^ poun?s* Five -VPars a«° weighed - ^ "200 pounds. His increase in flesh was at- ^ t^ributed to his enormous appetite and the |,v ^tlise of intoxicating beverages. '0$J Colombia's finance minister officially an- rt : ©ounces that Colombia is disposed to A#M?rant an extension of time for the I'an- #ma canal. HP ' Gen* Milos has Published another state- > W,,#^ent repeating his charges that l>eef fur- fiished the soldiers was too nauseating to PIT".•""" sud declaring that he has aliipio" evi­ dence to .sustain his statements. « -lepreseniatives or the ice trust hcin- to control the ice business from -#laine to Wisconsin have made a cash "»ffer for the property and business of the y Wagner Lake Ice Company of Sandusky rg|^ -;phio, valued at $200,000. EASTERN.~~ Kashare & Hymen, picture frames, and Walter M. Isaacs, novelties, were burhed S?5;j>ut in a $50,000 fire in New York. It is announced that the Federal Steel ompany of Chicago has purchased the > furitan coke works, located at Latrobe, Pa. , Theodore Kirschner, aged 60 years, shot i|||%nd instantly killed his wife Paulina, aged #5 years, in their house at Newtonville, ^ ?•> by the careless handling of a gun, 8^" / .»'• ^hich was accidentally discharged, p A parrot that had more accomplisb- 4&<nta than a vaudeville atar and a market t*% . &k\ * . , ii-Mkflf-'Tt. R. llerridU of ClrvWand is dead, aged 73, In a snowslide, which occurred at Apex, Colo., Mrs. W. H. Rudolph and her two children, aged. 2 and 4,/ears, were killed. A valuable mahogany stock belonging to J. Rayner in Chicago was destroyed by fire. The damage will amount to $200,- 000. ^ Six prisoners eacdped from the county jail at Canton. Ohio. They were aided by a trusty, who left their cell doors un­ locked. At Lima, Ohio, striking union printers have begun issuing a daily paper to fight the local dailies, which refused to sign the new scale. At Nelrark, Ohio, Charles Moore, In­ dicted for murder, pleaded guilty to man- alaughter and was sentenced to the Re­ formatory. Henry William Sebastian, president of the St. Louis Bridge and Iron Company, has been appointed receiver of the Farm­ ers' Elevator Company. At Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Charles Baum went to the barn, leaving an 8-year-old girl in the house. When she returned the child was burned to a crisp. Jerome Colton & Co., stock dealers in Cincinnati, have brought suit for $75,000 damages against an association of stock dealers of the city for an alleged boycott. A south bound freight on the Valley Railroad was wrecked at Sandyville, O., by the dropping of a brake beam. Grant Slutz, a brakeman, was crushed to death. Cleveland waiter girls have formed a onion and affiliated with the Knights of Labor. The name of their organization is the "Lady Waiters' Industrial Associa­ tion." In a quarrel at Ardmore, I. T., over a trivial matter, John Edwards shot and killed Richard McSwain. McSwain had attempted to stab Edwards. Both men are prominent. F. A. Torrey entered Kessler's saloon ill West Toledo and shot down Thomas Black, a well-known employe of the Mich­ igan Central Railway. An old grudge appears to have led to the crime. Practically all the apples west of the Aileghanies, it is announced, are cornered in Indianapolis by J. L. Keaeh and his associates. The stock is in cold storages and is being held for further advance in price. A marvelous strike of almost pure gold reported in the Isabella mine at Cripple Creek. The vein in sight is said to be six feet wide, twenty feet long and six inches thick, and the ore assays nearly $300,000 to the ton. police, by too predpitatefy arresting four of th« plotters, enabled several others to escape. M. Hohne, director of the international postal bureau, is dead at Berne, Switzer­ land. P. & M. Shields, hankers of Belfast* Ireland, h*Ve failed. Their liabilities are $000,000. China's dowager empress is said to have selected a auecesaor for the emperor whom she deposed. «.• The Buisdi'iaa ca^oet has resigned* owing, it is believed, to the discontent aroused hy the adherence of Stoiloff, the premier, to the schemes for Macedonian autonomy, which are considered to be an­ tagonistic to Bulgarian aspirations for obtaining predominant influence in Mace­ donia. The Norwegian bark Danea, from Car diff for Peruam^uco, was towed int Queenstown harbor disabled, after bat­ tling fifty-one days with storms in the Atlantic. Five different steamers had had her in tow, but in every case the hawser broke and the would-be rescuer was obliged to abandon the bark. The crew was almost dead with exhaustion when finally succored. The movement begun recently in Chi­ cago to secure the release of Mrs. Flor­ ence May brick, the American woman con­ victed of poisoning her husband and now serving a sentence in an English prison, will probably succeed. The prisoner is nearing the completion of her term undeci life sentence,; which in England means t-venty years, less nearly one-third, in the case of females, for good conduct. Alonzo C. Yates of Syracuse, N. Y., died suddenly at Nice, France, aged 27 years. He was left a large fortune by his father, who was one of the wealthiest men in Syracuse. Young Yates quickly scattered his fortune between Syracuse, New York, Newport and Europe. He married his cousin. Leila Yates of Mil waukee, a few years ago. His wife left him a short time prior to his departure for Europe in December last. BLOWS ICY BLASTS.! wuconsihOOHTMT«WDED. WAVE SWfEPS FROM THE NORTH. Below-Zero Weather, Reported from Various Parts of the Country-Ex­ tends Ov«r Greater Portion of West- StaSca, Tffre*! Suafferlaa. 1 HE whole country " has experienced * taste of the bittei cold wave which swept down from the frozen regions of the north. Weather report* from various parti of the United S t a t e s s h o w e d great differences in temperature. Tele­ grams to the Chi­ cago weather of­ fice showed the en­ tire middle West to be affected, temperatures of from 15 to- 20 degrees below zero being recorded in many places. Fears have been express* ed for the winter wheat, as the cold came when there was but little or no snow on. the ground. The following table shows emperatures at various points: , , Joseph V. Qttarlea, of Milwaukee, Wins the Senatorial Ssce. Alter a long and bitter.-fight Joseph IF. Quarles secured the unanimous Republi­ can caucus nomination for United SUtea Senator from Wisconsin and his election by the Legislature was afterward a mere matter of form. Congressman Joseph W. Babcock, chairman of the national Repub­ lican congressional committee, Who has J. V. OUARLI8, i Winnipeg --30 Swift Current.. --30 M l n n e d o s a . -- 2 8 IN GENERAL. At Los Angeles, Cal., A. C. Bradley, the old soldier who shot Gov. Smith, of the Soldiers' Home, at Santa Monica, has been found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, but recommended to the mercy of the court, > At San Francisco, Charles Schulte, known there as a bartender aftd & Evans- vilie> Ind., as the ceiled son of a mi¥Ron- aire lumber dealer;- was foupd dead in a lodging hoose ^nd liis body was taken to the morgue. - Col. A. fe. Patton filed a : petition in bankrupt jn the United StattSCourt at' Columbus, Ohio. His indebtedness is placed at $125,000. It is claimed that much of the indebtedness, perhaps three- fifths, is secured. Arthur Brown jumped from a sixth- story window of the building at Ninth and Washington avenue, St. Louis, after cut­ ting his throat with a pocket knife, short­ ly before noon the other day. He died at the city dispehsary twenty minutes later. He was married only the previous day. W hen John Conallin, a wealthy mer­ chant of Fort Scott, Kan., died he* left a •rill declaring that Miss Mary Margaret Gonallin of Chicago was not his daugh­ ter, but the daughter of his divorced wife. In the will he expressed a desire that neither of the two should ever receive a cent of his property. Notwithstanding this, the young woman entered a claim for the entire estate as next of kin, and gets five-twelfths of the estate, city and mining property. ^ SOUTHERN. The Ninth Ohio Batallion, colored, Maj. Young commanding, was mustered out at Bummerville, S. C., and left fror home. Five residences and the large store of Babbington Brothers were destroyed by fire at New Orleans. Loss about $20,000, little ijftgurance. At Hillsbty-o, Texas, the Windsor and Commercial iiolcls were destroyed by fife. Two guests, Ross Lcary and John Griz­ zle, perished in the flames. Emil Me8singschlager, 35, living at Morningview, Ky„ while under the influ­ ence of liquor, shot ayd fatally wounded N. Baker at Ivcnton Station. The memory of Franklin Buchanan, who commanded the first iron-clad, the Merrimac, will be honored by the erection In Norfolk, V a., or Baltimore of a mag­ nificent monument. The four eighty horse-power boilers of the Shreveport, La., oil mills exploded with a terrific report. A brick building 100 feet square was torn to pieces and four men were k^cd. A lot of drunken negroes, belonging to the Tenth United States cavalry, tried to run the town of Texarkana, Ark. Local officers interfered, but.the guilty persons could not be identified, so no arrests were made. Word has been received that the deal combining sixty of the important distil­ leries in Kentucky into one great corpora­ tion has been about successfully conclud­ ed in New York City. The company is to be capitalized at $32,000,000. FOREIGN. Harry Bates, the British sculptor, died at London. _ Baron Ompteda, the novelist, died at Wiesbaden. Fourteen persons were killed by an ex­ plosion of gas in the Palin mine near Mazarron, twenty miles west of Carta- geua, Spain. Col. Kitchener's column, which was sent in pursuit of Khalifa Abdullah into Kordofan, has abandoned the attempt to overtake him. Trusts-in prunes, Derby hits and buggy whips are the latest. Five of the crew of the halibut fishing schooner St. Lawrence, which was wreck­ ed off Piper Bay, Alaska, were brought to Victoria, B. C., on the Rosalie. The seven men aboard the St. Lawrence got ashore and managed to live for ten day$ when they were rescued by the sloop Nora. According to a dispatch from Port Ar­ thur, the Russian post in the Liau-Tong peninsula of China, bad water is causing terrible mortality among the Russian troops. Two hundred and fifteen men died during th^ months of November and December, and the average mortality is now four deaths daily. On one of the Bass islands, in Lake Erie, h«js lived a family named Robson. A young child died. Preparations were made to convey the remains to the Ca­ nadian mainland. The entire family, with the hired man, set out in a small boat. The boat has been found badly battered and this leads islanders to believe that the little craft was jammed to pieces by an ice floe and that the funeral party went down to death in the lake. Commissioner Kasson, one of the Amer­ ican members of the joint high Canadian and American commission, was confront­ ed with a map brought from Ottawa as a result of which the United States loses 800 Square miles of territory and $1,000,- 000 worth of pine lumber growing upon it. The possession of Hunter's island in Lake Superior was the matter determined by the map, which was one made to illustrate and authenticate the treaty of Ghent, de­ termining the northern boundary of that part of the United States which is now Minnesota. It bears the signature of Daniel TV ebster and other men prominent in the affairs of the country at that time. It was brought to Washington to disprove the contention of the American members regarding the boundary line. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weeing review of trade says: "The country is in a stronger position than a week ago. Remarkable strength in its industries is an important but not the chief element. Public confi­ dence in the business of the country and in its securities has been tested to an un­ usual extent by the sudden fall in stocks and the subsequent rise. Confidence in the value of wheat, corn and cotton has been shown by the markets, and at rising prices the world buys because it has to buy. The vast supply of unemployed cap­ ital has been shown impressively and the new and startling independence of foreign money markets fixes attention. The lum­ ber movement is unusually large for the season, with prices of low grade sharply advancing. Railroad earnings and ton­ nage have shown surprising gains. Wool grows weaker because forced by specula­ tion a year ago to prices which the mar­ ket for goods could not sustain and has been much embarrassed in trying to sus­ tain ever sinct?' The 'ales of wool are still small. Cotton is higher %c and goods have been strong. Pig iron has risen at* Chicago because higher freights from the South and at Pittsburg a shade for Besse­ mer and gray forge because of growing demand, but for the moment the rise of 2 per cent in pig is exceeded by the rise of 2 per cent in products. The demand is heavy in all lines. Wheat has risen 8 cents, with much buying based on extra­ ordinary exports. Failures for the week have been 224 in the United States, against 342 last year, and 33 in Canada! against 34 last year." MARKET REPORT8, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $8.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.66; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; coriy.No. 2, 38c to 3»c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 59c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 87c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $8.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00-to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 79c to 80c; corn, No 2 yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c- rye, No. 2, 56c to 57«. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 63c to 64c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $2.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c; clover seed, new, $3.90 to $3.93. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 58c to 59c; barley, Mo. 2, 45c to 53c; pork, mess. $9.50 to $10.00. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.25. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.20; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; • sheep, $3.00 to $4.35; wheat, No. 2 red, 84? to 85C; corn, No. Qu'Appelle Bismarck ;..... Chicago ........ Duluth Huron Marquette ..... Green Bay...... Milwaukee ..,.. St. Paul Des Moines Omaha North Platte --28 --20 --13 --12 --10 --10 --10 Dodge City Kansas City.. Springfield, Mo.. St. Louis..,..,.. Cairo Denver ......... Cheyrune Salt Lake City.. Helena Philadelphia .... Washington .... New York....... Boston New Orleans.... Jacksonville .... The great differences in temperatures shown in this table were due to the sit­ uations of the places with reference to the cold waves and a low pressure storm cen- beeu one of the hardest fighters for the plum, threw his forces to Quarles when he saw that his own election was impos­ sible, and Isaac Stephenson, Judge Webb and ex-Congressman Cook, the other can­ didates, followed suit. It required 100 legislative and caucus ballots to end the fight. : •• . GOMEZ ASKS 880,000,000. Refuses to Dlaband Cuban Army Until Thia Bam Is Paid. Maximo Gomez, the Cuban commanding general, is determined to retain his alleged army unless the sum" of $60,000,000 is forthcoming from the United States. The insurgent leader is to all appearances un- I^TtiE STATE LEGISLATURES. | j * ^ iv % " , •; /• l S i . In ULlrkihsas "a measure was" introduced" appropriating money to fight smallpox. % In Indiana the House of Represent*- 3 tives. killed Got. Mount's antMynchtag- J* bill. g; Colorado a reselatioa was istrodse- 'J «d opposing the ratification of the peac* 91 treaty. . f; Charges were openly made at Olympia, Wash., that opponents of Senator Wilson ^4 were trying to buy votes. 51 In Delaware, Nebraska, Utah, lion- 'i§ tana, Washington and California ballots 1 were taken without breaking' the 'dead- K lock. ^ p In Wisconsin the Republican caucus te SECRETARY ALGER TE5TIFY1NQ BEFORE THE WAR COMMISSION. A Constantinople correspondent says: 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c- A p l o t t o a s s a s s i n a t e t h e S u l t a n h a s b a t t e r . e n » » m » r o 1 * « * w )J m M ter which had developed in the southwest and brought milder weather as far as it extended. . ' Even the balmy South did not escape from the wave. 'A storm swept along the Florida coast, and was attended by pre­ cipitation throughout the Southeastern States. In the interior of Alabama and Georgia the fir|t real snow of the winter fell. New Orleans shivered with the tem­ perature near the freezing point, and resi­ dents at Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla., plunged through the rain with umbrellas at an angle of 45 degrees to windward. The people of New York got a taste of the cold wave, and the people of .Boston had weather 15 degrees above zero. Only San Francisco and the people beyond the Rockies were safe from intrusion by the cold wave, and San Francisco basked in the sunshine with the temperature at 54 degrees. The cold brought with it great suffer­ ing for many people, especially among the poor in the cities. The homeless wander­ ers of the tramp and "hobo" classes were by no means the worst off, for they collect­ ed in the police stations, where they had at least shelter and warmth, even if the quarters were crowded and uncomforta­ ble, But in many poverty stricken homes, where there was no money for fuel and hardly any warm clothes for the protec­ tion of the inmates, the suffering was very severe. Since 1871 only nine lower temperatures in as many years have been noted by the Chicago observers. In December, 1872, the mercury wont to 23 degrees below zero. Three years later a minimum three degrees higher was placed ofi the weather office charts. During the seven other years the story is told in the following figures: 1879, -18; 1883, --18; 1884, --18; 1885, --17; 1887, --15; 1888, --18; 1895, --15; 1897. --20. FAMOUS WAR MINISTER DEAD. the Sultan has been denounced by a conspirator, but the batter, creamery, 14c to 10c; eggs, West- era. l£e to lde. Sev. Myron Seed Passes Away at a Hospital in Henver. Rev. Myron Winslow Reed died in St. Joseph's hospital in Denver Monday morning, after a protracted illness. Nerv­ ous prostration, which developed insom­ nia, was the direct cause of Mr. Reed's death. Mr. Reed was the well-known chaplain of the Eighteenth Michigan infantry dur­ ing the civil war. In 1883 Mr. Reed be­ came pastor of the First Congregational Church in Denver, which position he re­ signed on account of ill health, and lately he had been preaching to large audiences in the Broadway Theater, forming an in­ dependent church. FALCON ISLAND IS SINKING. Now Three Fathoms Below tbe Sur­ face of the Water. Officers of the British man-of-war Pen­ guin have discovered that Falcon Island, which arose from beneath the sea ievel in 1885, is gradually sinking and is now three fathoms under water. The Penguin has returned to Sydney, N. S. W., after taking soundings between the Island of Longe and Auckland, New Zealand. The same officers also procured the tempera­ ture of the sea at a greater depth than it has ever been taken before--at 4,762 fath­ oms. The thermometer registered 35.5 degrees under a surface temperature of 82 degrees. FOR ALASKA MAIL ROUTE. Eoldiers to Be Sent Into the Copper River District. Advices state that the Government will send three detaclimcnts of'soldiers into the Copper River district of Alaska next spring to lay out a mail route to the Yu­ kon river and establish posts. The pur­ pose is to establish an aH-American route to the Yukon. It will extend from the mouth of Copper river to Eagle City, six­ ty miles below Dawson. mindful of the fact that Calixto Garcia, the former Cuban commanding general, shortly before his death agreed while in Washington to have the United States advance $3,000,000 to the insurgents who are still under arms. This amount %as to be paid iu order to secure the prompt re­ sumption of labor on the plantation* of the island. One hundred dollars was to be paid to each of the 30,000 soldiers when the army was disbanded. Gen. Gomez opposes this scheme, which heretofore met with general satisfaction to most of the Cubans. Gomez says he is entitled to $11,000 for his services as lieu­ tenant general, which he claims is the American pay for that grade. Gonzales Quesada and Robert P. Porter will go to Cuba and endeavor to persuade Gomes that he is wrong. BRIGANDS AT WORK IN CUBA. American Restrictions on Lawless­ ness Causes a Revolt. Reports of incendiarism and brigandage in unfrequented parts of the province of Santiago de Cuba are being received daily. Postmaster Kempner has reported that a courier named Arturo Varrios, who was sent by Gen. Ewer from Mayari with sixty-five letters for San Luis, has disap­ peared. It is believed he has been mur­ dered. Captain Lee reports that it is nec­ essary to maintain a constant guard along the telegraph and telephone lines in order to prevent their being cut. The American restrictions on lawlessness are arousing the same spirit of revolt as prevailed un­ der Spanish authority. #500 for a Dime. One man in New York has offered $500 for a dime. He isn't a coin collector, and the piece is not of a rare issue. Though the $500 offer has been standing several days, no one has brought the dime to get its face value 5,000 times over. •iesii? It takes 378 employes to look after tffe wants of Missouri's lawmakers. Last year New York State spent nearly $22,000,000 on various public charities. The beneficiaries of this enormous sum uUuibered 2,500,000 persons. San Francisco's city hall is completed at last. It was begun twenty-seven years ago and the salary of the men in charge of it was sufficient inducement for them to prolong it to the limit. There are sixty-five Democrats in the lower branch of the Massachusetts Leg­ islature to 165 Republicans, though at last year's election the Republicans carried every county iu that State and had a popular plurality of 83,000. Ex-Gov. Leedy of Kansas expresses publicly the private opinion that office- holding is unprofitable--for an honest man. Speaking about his late job he says: "It's ouly $3,000 a year, and the way they pull a Governor's leg he has little left." Judge Ross, successor in the Senate of the late Justin S. Morrill, has long flow­ ing white whiskers, surpassing the crop that drew attention to Senator Peffer. The Senator is very proud of them. He parts them in the middle and rolls them evtr Us shoulders. . The House on Saturday continued the consideration of the army reorganization nill until 2 o'clock, when the members paid their tributes to the memory of th» late Representative Simpkins of Massa­ chusetts. Very little progress was made with the army bill. The time before the eulogies began was chiefly devoted to a continuation of the debate on the advisa­ bility of retaining the Philippines. spirited debate was precipitated in the I took its nineteenth ballot without chosing Senate while the diplomatic and consular I a ®enatorial candidate. In the Senate ii> appropriation bill was under considera- j anti-Pnss hill was introduced. Thp Appropriations Committee was In Michigan the Assembly adjourned to S n e Li'l C1Se,d f°r DOt r°Jiding ade" Feb- 7- A bi» introduced providing quate salaries for some of the consular three intermediate courts of final juris- officers and secretaries of legations of this diction. Notice was given of a bill, to ««•«*».- the moid. <*». « parsimony of the nation m this respect I tions. V was denounced as a disgrace. The bill which appropriates $1,710,533, was finally passed. A bill amending the law rfliating to the apportionment and election of rep­ resentatives in Congress so as to permit Ueuse of voting machines was passed, The House put in a hard day's work on the army bill Monday, and when it ad­ journed thirteen of the twenty pages had been completed. Much of the time was occupied in short speeches on the general proposition to increase the army and an- iHex the Philippines, and there were sev­ eral lively personal controversies. At the opening of the session of the House Mr. Hopkins (Rep., III.) reported the census bill and gave notice that he would eall it up the next Monday. An effort on the part of Mr. Allison to obtain considera­ tion in the Senate for the Indian appro­ priation bill precipitated a running debate which occupied all the time until the Sen­ ate, at 2 o'clock, went into executive ses- sion on the peace treaty. The President a Senate correspondence on file m the State Department bearing upon the pease treaty, and it was read in the ex ecutive session. The bill to reorganize and increase the standing army to about 100,000 men, but giving the President authority to reduce tbe size of infantry companies and cav­ alry troops to sixty men each, thus fixing a minimum of about 50,000 enlisted men ^ Housc on Tuesday by a vote of 168 to 12o. Mr. Burton (Rep. O) chairman of the River and Harbor Com- mittee, called up the river and harbor bill. 1 he House went through the form of go- lng ^ into committee in order to put the river and harbor bill under consideration. Ihe committee then rose ntrtl the House at 4:3y p. m. adjourned. During almost the entire morning hour the Senate had under discussion the policy of this coun- try to be pufcsued in the Philippine Isl­ ands. Mr. Berry (Ark.), in a speech upon the resolution offered by Mr. Vest dis­ cussed the policy of* expansion. An at­ tempt by Mr. Bacon (Ga.) to secure a vote upon his resolution which, in brief declares that the United States Govern­ ment will not make war upon a people seeking for their freedom, precipitated a lively debate, which was participated in by Mr. Piatt (Conn.) and Mr. Teller (Colo.). No action on the resolutions was taken. A bill was passed at the opening of the Senate session granting extra pay to the officers and men of the temporary force of the navy--two months' extra pay to thosjjAvho served beyond the limits of the United States and one month's pay to those who served within the United States. The House entered upon the considera­ tion of the river and harbor bill on Wed­ nesday, and made rapid progress. Fifty of the eighty-eight pages of the bill had been completed when the House adjourn- ed. The bill appropriates directly about ,$12,500,000 and authorizes contracts to the extent of $18,000,000 additional. The general debate was unusually brief. Its feature was a speech in opposition to the bill by Mr. Hepburn of Tovva. Practically the only amendment adopted was one striking out an appropriation of $250,000 for a channel from Galveston to Texas City, Texas. Mr. Rawlins (Utah) ad­ dressed the Senate upon the Vest anti- expansion resolution. Mr. Lindsay (Ky.) offered a "resolution declaring that terri­ tory not a part of the continent of North America shall not be adniitted into the Federal Union as a State or States. Dur­ ing Mr. Rawlins' speech a message was received from the House transmitting the army reorganization bill. It was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. At the conclusion of Mr. Rawlins' speech the Bacon resolution was laid before the Sen­ ate. Mr. Sullivan (Miss.) then offered his own resolution as a substitute for the Bacon resolution. Senators Teller and Hoar were the speakers in the executive session of the Senate. Mr. Teller made a set speech in support of the treaty, and Mr. Hoar replied. A notable speech was made in the Sen­ ate on Thursday by Mr. Spooner of Wis­ consin. He took for his text the anti-ex­ pansion resolution offered by Mr. Vest, but did not confine himself closely to that proposed declaration of policy. The ex­ ecutive session of the Senate was merely a continuation of the legal argument which started with Senator Spooner's speech, in the open Senate. The river and harbor bill, carrying slightlv more than $20,000,000, passed the House by a vote of 160 to 7. A bill WJJS passe'd to pay the heirs of JohiyStnith $1,000 in satis­ faction of a judgment against Gen. John R. Brooke for trespass and false impris­ onment while he was lieutenant colonel of the Third infantry in 1800. Connnbialitiea. A Kansas City couple gave as an ex­ cuse for marrying suddenly that both had the "bhies." Baron Rolf Zederstrom, who is to mar­ ry Madame Patti, is only 28 years old. The diva is 55. 4 The "marrying squire" of .Teffersonville, Ind., is dead and his books show that he had performed 9,000 marriage ceremonies. Miss Annig Fowler, one of the most prominent of tlie volunteer Red Cross nurses, is engaged to be married to Al- l>ert Van Schelle of the Belgian Red Cross, whom she met for the first time and worked with in the hospitals at San­ tiago. Jesse Lewissolm, who is reputed'to be willing and under contract to marry Lil­ lian Russell-Braham-Solomon-Pertigini as soon as she is sufficiently disentangled from the bearer of the last name, is a New York merchant well known in the copper trade as a busy, prosperous, shrewd man of affairs. Saturday. ^ , In Montana W. A. Clark of Butte ^ elected to th# United States Senate. I ,In Wisconsin the week closed without S material change in the senatorial eitua- 1 tion. • In Nebraska charges looking to the im- ¥ peachment of Judge C. R. Scott were ^ filed. • • In Utah, Delaware and Washington the 0, Legislatures voted without breaking the $ deadlocks. J . In Idaho the adoption of a memorial tS advocating the seating of B. H. Roberts & of Utah was indefinitely postponed. In Arkansas the Legislature is seeking a way to prevent Colorado using all the water iu the Arkansas river for irriga­ tion. In Pennsylvania the Quay opposition, fearing a plot, remained away from the session, so that only thirty-two ballots were cast when the vote was taken. Monday. ' In Kansas a bill was introduced to j late undertakers. In Indiana a new bill to punish lynch­ ers was introduced by Representative Noel of Indianapolis. In New York the Assembly unanimously adopted resolutions urging the Senate to ratify the peace treaty. In Nebraska, Utah, Delaware, Wash­ ington and California the senatorial situa­ tion remains unchanged. In Pennsylvania there were qnly thirty. nine votes cast when a ballot for United States Senator was taken. In Wisconsin the Republican caueus unanimously nominated Joseph V. Quarles of Milwaukee !for United States , Senator. . , *- Tuesday. In Minnesota two new bills regulating insurance companies were introduced. * " In Wisconsin"Joseph Very Quarles was formally elected United States Senator. In Missouri resolutions were adopted Ad­ vocating election of Senators by direct vote. In Washington the Republican caucus nominated A. G. Foster for United States Senator. In Utah, Delaware, California and Ne­ braska the senatorial deadlock remained unbroken. In New York amendments to the Sun­ day laws making them more liberal wfera introduced^ t Gov. Sayers of Texas has sent a spe­ cial message to the Legislature indorsing measure to punish freight discrimination by railroads. The Arkansas House of Representatives refused to appropriate $5,000 to check the spread of smallpox, not wanting to ac­ knowledge it existed in the State. Wednesday. In Kansas the Assembly was flooded with protests against amendment of pro* hibition laws. In Pennsylvania the Senftte adopted amendments to the jury laws .favorable to Senator Quay. In Montana Republicans explained their reasons for voting for Clark for United States Senator. In California, Utah, Nebraska and Del­ aware the Legislatures voted! for Sena­ tor without a choice. In Washington Addison G. Foster was duly elected United States Senator by the Legislature in joint session. In North Dakota the bill making a year's residence in the State necessary to secure a divorce was passed. In Pennsylvania a resolution was intro­ duced providing for investigation of rail­ roads violating State revenue laws. In Wisconsin, a memorial to Congress was adopted in the Senate urging election of United States Senators by popular vote. Thursday. In Idaho a bill was passed prohibiting all gambling in the State. ' In Kansas a bill was introduced-provid- " ing punishment for dishonest practices designated as "grafting." In Pennsylvania, Utah, Nebraska, Dela­ ware and California ballots were taken for United States Senator without a choice. Iu New York a new income tax bill was introduced^ Gov. Roosevelt declared be would sign no bill allowing privileges to volunteers not granted to regular soldiers. Telegraphic Brevltiea. John Daly, the alleged dynamite plot­ ter, has been unanimously elected Mayor of Limerick, Ireland. At Norristown, Pa., a negro burglar was tracked by corn whiqh sifted through hole in his coat pocket. Twelve members of the family of John Peterson of Ohiowa, Neb., were poisoned by eating dressed hog meat. The output of ,the mines at Cripple Creek, Colo., in 1808 was 416,556 tons of ore containing $15,735,757 in gold. Rosa Bonheur's great picture, "The ] Choice of the Flock," was sold at the Powers sale in New York for $4^200. Told in a Few Lmea. Mr. Choate is the fifth citizen of New York to be honored with the English mis­ sion. William R. Cox, secretary of the Sen­ ate, is said to be one of the swiftest writ­ ers of "long hand" in the country. J. J. Lowery, who owns an orchard of 3,000 peach trees in Pettis County, Ma,, reports that the buds are all killed. The public school at Finch, Mo., has •Veil ordered closed for thvee weeks be­ cause of the prevalence of measles. Yfee Deu, said to be the only Chinese professional burglar in New York, has- been sentenced to one year in the pei^> tentiary. The big freight steamer building at Cleveland, Ohio, for the Cleveland Steam- T ship Company, will be named "Senator AL L A. Hanna." Henry Havemeyor, the sugar magnate " ' is a man of Regular hours. He rises eveiw morning at 7:30 and goes to bed at 10:3® every night. During 1898 the exports of breadstu<fo : ; and provisions from this country aggrf^S#1 gnted $7S9.<K;7,394, compared with $693> 610,747 in 1897. i . The pension claims on account of the "A Spanish war now amount to abdut 5,000. Most of them allege malarial poisoning as the cause of disability. * '342 The Southern Lumber Manufacturer^ * 'V Association at Memphis, Tenn., petitioned ^ Congress to establish a department " commerce and manufactures. ^ The Anglo-American commission ha*! J practically agreed on all questions befort -B it except that of reciprocity, the €aa*» s. iaos standing ,out for free lumber