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H OF NEWS. 5^1 .»» * & ||N» furnished by the State _ Ji* the assessed valuation of J&ota at $158,722,704, an in- «C f40,142,208 over last year. In tal about |13,000,000 is corporate bfj'Ai i$9 !« A. E. Woodson of the Ninth car- tendered his resignation of the of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe at Darlington* Ok., a position Wfrfch he has held for nearly six years, den. Gharlee Kins, retired, is mentioned lis Ms probable successor. ?• Through the treachery of Sergeant of tit* Guard Crawford of the Fifth United ,,r Mtrtw cavalry, who is believed to hare .. bifai bribed, eight prisoners confined in \* «fca Wardner (Idaho) prison escaped and fled t6 the hills. The faithless sergeant ; ji\< ; of the guard also is missing. At Lima, Ohio, stockholders of the late . , JT* American National Bank, which was 1, / . „*; atiwteijbusly robbed of over $18,000 on t § last Christmas eve, have filed a suit *, Against N. L. Michael, vice-president, k und Gus Kalb, cashier, to recover the iMnount taken, with interest. > * J' % Martin Nessler was robbed of $70 st 1 •} the First National Bank in Milwaukee, ra Vs;"1 *<JH»e money was seized by one of three jk ' ' #»en. Two of the men escaped with the i - . * money. The third was captured after an . Exciting chase. He has been identified |;J K Ms William Barrett, a general thief. * Albert Scheuer, a Metamora, Ohio, JST* 4 •, Ifonth, 17 years old, was accidentally "i . Aot, the charge entering his abdomen «nd penetrating upward through intes- *- , 1 tines, stomach, liver and lungs. He walk- $ , «da mile to his home, his wounds were - *//'" sewed up, and he is now said to be out tt . . .«f danger. % T It is estimated that there will be a ft -'J Calling off of the crop of cotton in the IX:: %>ntt» this year of about 30 per cent. W' In some parts of the cotton belt the f- damage is the result of excessive rain; In others it has been caused by wind­ storms and floods, and in other placet brought, hot weather and nut have in­ jured the crop. The steamer which burned off Fair- port, Ohio, was the Sir S. H. Tilley, a "Canadian vessel of 750 net tons. The fre started in the engine room and it aipread so rapidly that the engineer did Hot have time to shut off the steam and crew and passengers, about twenty In number, had difficulty in escaping. The Itilley is almoaft a total loss. ; R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of grade says: "Actual payments through sJtjhe principal clearing houses for the Week were 23.1 per cent larger than last ? * 4 '. , jear, and 56.2 per cent larger than in the % n aame week in 1892. For the month thus far the daily average of payments has keen 26.3 per cent larger than last year, /' and 56.0 per cent larger than in 1892. *. Tonnage from Chicago in three weeks •v. r<>" ; !•', has been 80.7 per cent larger than last and 74.6 per cent larger than in Failures for the week have been 163 in the United States, against 179 last year, and 16 in Canada, against 26 last tw tfa* . A. R. which convenes dept. 4 at has rNtirtd President McKlnley's .aa-: ' ceptance of the invitation to review the ' (ande iii attend the banquet Sept 5 should nothing prevent his attendance. Juanita Teressette Terry, aged IS years, who was killed with her half-aba­ ter and nephew by a train at Seabright, N. J., was the only daughter of the late Juan Pedro Terry, the Cuban million­ aire, and would have inherited between *6,000,000 and $7,000,000 from his es­ tate. Caspar Bubert, a sculptor known l>y his works all over the United States, de- 1 signer of several of the famous groups in the decorations of public buildings at Washington, was found dead in his atudio in New York City, from apoplexy. He had been working on the Dewey arch at the tinje of his death. Carl Trenkhaus, aged 40, and his wife, while at work in their bakeshop at New Milford, Conn., were, shot by Trenkhaus' brother Edward, aged 55. Mrs. Trenk­ haus was killed instantly. The murder­ er was pursued, and when he was about to be taken he turned about and sent a buU«t tJt»rott£ii his own temi^ WESTERN. jt); tP v*. |'i . Several prominent farmers and busi­ es 4 *ess men of Topeka, Kan., have orjran- |S feed "The Farmers' Federation of the Mississippi Valley" with a capital stock if';-" «f $20,000,000. The purpose is to con­ trol the price of farm products, and es­ pecially ©f the enormous corn crop of , Kansas. The trust will establish ware- „ houses and maintaiu agents at Cincin­ nati, St. Louis and Chicago, where the grain raised by the members will be . x ' marketed. The cities having the ware- f*' 'Itonses will become outlets for the grain #nd products of the middle and western y, 1*tat es. It is believed in Topeka among '-i ̂ conservative business men that the jJ-r'Ulcheme will succeed. " ' The standing of the dubs In the X«* tioual League race ia as follows: f W. L. W. * Jirooklya .... .73 35 Chicago 56 + , Boston/ . ... .67 42 Pittsburg .. .55 Philadelphia 69 44 Louisville .. .49 «|| Baltimore . .<i5 42 New York...48 1^; St. Lonis... .64 51 Washington. 37 Cincinnati ..60 49Cleveland ...19 i Following la the standing of the dubs ,'||n the Western League: W. L. r»^ Indianapolis 67 38 St. PmL„, .51 •s,; Stfinneapolis. 69 42 Milwaukee . .47 g::|j^v;S}rand Rap..56 55 Buffalo .....45 •5u: Detroit .....55 53 Kansas City.44 f 1 !> S \ / $sWZ~'- If# ' . ' ̂'*' • ••P'* \? W •' • BREVITIES. :^';LP * • ' i. • - . ,f*1Wre $5,000 damage in the cotton |factory of J. Burton & Co. in Chicago. William Schnyder, a miller at Higgins- rt, Ohio, was shot dead on the street. The Secretary of the Treasury has au- thorized the commencement of eondemna- tlon proceedings to secure lot 36, in In- dlanapolis, for the erection of a public ' >uilding. ^ A great railway accident occurred at \ 'JjlSantiago, Chili. An entire passenger »train fell into the river Mapoeha, which ,;|runs through die city, and many lives •' .-'-' Were lost. 4 « The Great Northern proposes to erect, , 't'^/lhas let dredging contracts f^r and is pre- tV' plans of construction for an ore >i Idock seventy-three feet high and sixty- (, '.three feet wide at Duluth. -v-% ine suitan of Morocco has notified the powers that he is destroying the native i , V k°ats on Kiff coast and is establish-ing ? sunboat service in order to protect s foreign shipping from piracy. i,< JInformation from Para announces that ,e. lnhabitants of • Acre, the territory 1# T c aimed by Brazil and Bolivia, have pro- ?c i daimed their independence and consti- L „ » *U^ef+«,a new •4mfrican common- , i ^PeaItfc* ** "nn^ fire_lt •^nnona» Cal., destroyed $30,- ^ 5ncl«ding a large «A" , season's crop of raisins. "A social from Deadwood, S. D. eava ih»tjQi\r In^s, John Swift, Longhorn, ttJ, a¥ Xoisy Own, have been 3- °Ter -1% )Ae murder of Yellow Supposed to have been pounded to with Clubs. ' 1' V; - The army worm la creating havoc with the crops about Burlington, Colo. At Albany, Mo., James M. Chittlm, a prominent stockman, was gored to death by a bull. j. Fire destroyed Merriam's planing mill and adjoining buildings at Conneaut, O., with a loss of $9,000. Fire has utterly destroyed the busi­ ness portion of the city of Victor, Col., causing a loss estimated at $2,000,000. Frank W. Howell, lately of New York, in a fit of despondency at Webb City, Mo., killed his wife and fatally wounded himself. At St. Louis, Mo., a voluntary petition In bankruptcy was filed by John P. Herrmann, Jr. Liabilities $167,202; as­ sets $32,311. The !City Council of South Omaha, Neb., has adopted resolutions cal'ang up­ on Mayor Bnsor to resign, under threat of impeachment proceedings. At Columbus, Ohio, Miss'Deasie Gar­ rett was struck by a West Broad street car and injured so that she died within an hour. She was riding a bicycle. Six men were killed near Joplin, Mo., by the explosion of live boxes of giant powder. The plant of the Marguerite mine was also completely destroyed. The yards of the Uhrig Fuel Com­ pany and of the Forest Lumber Com­ pany at Milwaukee were badly damaged by fire. The total loss amounts to about $150,000. Miss Viola Horlocker, charged with poisoning the wife of her employer at Hastings, Neb., is said to be a patient at Oaklawn Sanitarium, Jacksonville, 111., a private insane asylum, enrolled as Miss Allen. All Kansas City cattle records were broken the other day, when the receipts at the stock yards were 18,300 head, or 265 head more than on Sept. 20, 1898, when the previous record was estab­ lished. Harry Staininger, 17 years of age, was instantly killed and Frank Murdoch, also 17 years old, mortally wounded by Henry Baftholmua, whose watermelon patch 8ix miles east of Ouray, Colo., they were raiding. { Harrison Hamilton and Ira Cooper, two wealthy ranch owners in Day Coun­ ty, O. T., to settle a few. repaired to a cyclone cave, and stripping off all clothes, fought a duel to the death with corn knives. The bodies were found covered With gashes. Four puddlers were terribly burned in a waterworks tunnel explosion at Cleve­ land. Crib No. 1, in which the explosion occurred, is more than a mile from the shore. The explosion was caua«d by the rtiutting off of the air from the tunnel, causing a congestion of gas. Gen. Charles W. Blair, of Kansas City, attorney for the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad, died at Coronado Beach, Cal., after a lingering illness. He was 70 years old, and for fifty years had been a prominent figure in politics in Ohio and Kansas. Danie} Montgomery, a wealthy Milan. Mo., farmer, crushed his wife's face with a hatchet and attempted to kill his little boy, and then cut his throat with a razor. Montgomery had been sick for about a week, and it is supposed that he was in a delirium when he struck bis wife. Tom Ryan, a cattleman, was shot and killed by Frank Coil, a young sheepman, fifteen miles southeast of Chadron, Neb. The affair is the result of a feud that has existed between the cattlemen and the sheepmen over priority of light on pasturage land. Coil gave himself up. In Cincinnati St. Paul's German Cath­ olic Church was partly destroyed by fire. The parish school adjoining was dam­ aged by falling debris when the dome fell. The church was being remodeled for its golden anniversary. The fire started from the supplies of the frescoers and painters. At Newtown. Ohio, Jacob Christman, aged 87, attempted to kill L. D. Drake and then committed suicide. Christman fired a shot at Drake, but missed him. He then rushed back into his house, from which a pistol shot was heard, and sim­ ultaneously flames burst out and the house was consumed^ -A boiler exploded at the Ahwiekert Planing Mill at Appleton, Wis., killing two men and seriously injuring eight others. The entire factory was wrecked and windows in the vicinity were broken by the concussion. The end of the boiler was carried through the engine-room roof and fell 100 feet distant. The loss is estimated at $50,000. An attempt was made to >*fn the city building at Delaware, Oiiio, valued at $150,000. A man was seen running from the rear and fire was discovered in the hay used for the fire department stock. The horses were nearly suffocated before they could be removed. After two hours the flame# were under control. "LMM $1,000. / < . ' ' 7W by an t> '• Y- . */ J "tot™ jUlke. ufsturbanee appeared to pass from southeast to northwest and % was of several seconds' duration and of rsoSlSf^?! tbfawnken people from - *4 ; - EASTERN. . ye** killed and three lnju|i^ #|^£t#hright, N. J., while driving by being ru» down by a train of the New Jersey Southern Railroad. The resignation ot Thomas B. Reed as Congressman in the First Maine district lias, bees received by Gov. Powers. The resignation is to take effect Sept. 4. Tfce Supreme Court of New York State ha* decided that, according to law, negro ptqpBa may be excluded from public schools where white children attend. Fire caused a panic in the Kings Coun- penltentiarr, New Xatk. With 250 VaTiffcttis vrOVptpt* tw« brother* Po«r. shots back, causing At l J Brucevill^ of a Di speech in factor _ Harris, chnhiaa at" mittee, took Ing affray shot in the near editor made a Dr. J. B. 'opulist com lik.~ A ateot Harris being US ' "" " O'Brien in the right aide. . Harris rs dead. O'Brien's wound is not considered fatal. >• •-/ 'Wkjsfcm. l̂ ^Jltean ministry has - " Forty thousand persona are said to, tave died from-fafflfiae on the east coast of Africa. ^ 5 The Khedive of Bgypt has decided to take the "cure" at Graefenburg, Silesia,, where he will remain several weeks. t According to the present outlook, theH hop crop in Alsace and Baden will be a partial failure, both' as concerns yield and Quality. The Mayor of Dublin and John Red­ mond are said to be coining to this coun­ try to stir Up interest in the Parnell statue fund. The Shanghai ' Mercury publishes a communication from Peklu to the effect that the Emperor has developed symp­ toms of insanity. The Sultan of Sulu has signed the treafy presented to him by Gen. Bates, acknowledging the supremacy of the United States Government over the en­ tire Sulu archipelago. The English steamship Nettleton, load­ ed with coal, from Norfolk, Va., has been wrecked on Marica Island, between Rio and Montevideo. The crew was saved by the United States warship Montgom­ ery- Prof. Edward Charles Pickering of die Harvard observatory is in Jamaica seek­ ing a location for the largest telescope in the world, which is being constructed at Cambridge, for observing the new planet which is due to pass close to the earth eighteen months hence. * IN GENERAL. SOUTHERN. While bathing at Loch Loniond Lake, near St. John, N. B., Melvin Stackhouse, aged 19, was drowned. The Hearst interest--one-third--of the great Homestake mine at Deadwood, S. D., is to be sold in London next month. Four thousand masons in Havana held a conference at which a strike was agreed upon. They asked $3.50 a day for ordinary work and $4.50 for special, work. The towns of southeastern Alaska have issued a call for a territorial con­ vention to be held at Juneau Oct. 9. The convention will be composed of seventy delegates. A colored man, believed to be Tom L. Johnson of Toronto* a delegate to the Colored Masonic grand lodge in Wind­ sor, Ont., drowned himself in the river near there.. The rural guard and a number of Cu­ ban soldiers had a conflict the other night at Cuevitas, a small town, near Santiago de Cuba, in which five were killed and ten wounded. ' Mexican troops under Gen. Torres de­ feated the Yaquis in three sharp engage­ ments before Vican. Two Mexicans were killed and 22 wounded, while the Yaqui loss was 40 killed. Secretary Root has signed the order for the Cuban census. The order ap­ points Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Sanger director of the census and Victor H. Olmstead assistant director. The steamship City of Columbia has been abandoned at sea, in a water-logged candition, and the crew of thirty-eight men was left in Honolulu. The City of Columbia sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong with a cargo of scrap iron. No lives were lost. f It is reported in New York that both the American Writing Paper Company, the corporation recently formed by con­ solidation of many writing-paper manu­ facturing concerns, and the independent mills, will before long raise the price of paper. The advance is attributed to the increased cost of raw materials. News was received at Halifax, N. 8t, from Maitland, fifty miles north, of the drowning of four men in a cofferdam at South Maitland, where the Engineering Contract Company of New York is build­ ing a bridge for the Midland Railroad. Something went wrong with an air pipe and water rushed in, drowning the four men. Contracts have been let for the con­ struction of the Ontario & Rainy River road from Stanley, 108 miles westerly. Stanley is twenty miles from the Lake Superior terminals of the Port Arthur, Duluth & Western road, which is now a part of the Ontario & Rainy River, and 108 miles will take the road to Stur­ geon Falls on the Upper Seine river, among the gold mines. Upton-* iii ,aoie Ary Confu--a by boaa'aac*. of thie trUi fry of tncldent it Btmhe* Hon- There was a large attend* at the opening of court, hi. piJsiSns deemedTt remam quiet. Wben It that the dlltlnirallMd lawyer Would not partidpate in the-pro- dtf aftc* ia tft* defense. best tor became kne wm*: Henderson Pierson, living near Daven- port, Tex., in a fit of jealous rage shot and killed his wife and ber mother. The murderer was arrested by his neighbors and lodged in jail. Peter Louin and his 15-year-old son, who were under arrest at Eie»rtric, Ala., charged with shooting Hall Jordan, a re­ spectable citizen, were taken fiom jail by a mob of masked men and killed. Two negroes were killed outright, two were painfully burned und shocked, and eighteen others severely shocked while engaged in the reconstruction of the St. ' Charles.avenue electric car line in New Orleans. , Martha Daniels crossed the river from Kentucky to Thacker, W. Va., and go­ ing in the back door of a house, cut Mr*. Belle Collins to deeth, and lied back to Kentucky. The woman was literally cut to pieces. , xhlrty persons are. known to have lost; * MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 19c to 21c; rye. No* 2, 53c to 55c: butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 30c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $S.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $0.59; bogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00* to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; bogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye. No. 2, 56c to 58c. .. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 25c; rye, 58c to 59c. Toledo--Wheat, • No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 55c to 50c; clover seed, new, $4.00 to $4.10. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 3, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye. No. 1, &4c to 55c; barley, No. 2, 41c to 43c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, the such and to W W M at the Jbegi a.salutaty lawless etataefct, n of life and aTv A«rtlu»sAora (My W«y< «#«M£ cttdala as cue voio- ' to met war With say to way for settling the dispute Is as the eotocial office Is nonc«*h pro- btit It has been admitted, h«r- .»<<«? de* in place of accepting mi'&" advantage o{ inquiry, Kruger subUiJit* ot the terrible and mysterlou« t#Ut»tion j » number of new projwsals, tbat art of gie Kuklux Klan to ave^p W* «ne*n an open defiance to Bn- selves upon those for whom they had . **5^ , ... . _ . . , conceived an enmity, and it finally degen-1 • wlnan offlci&l*, however, would erated into a gang of desperadoes that rather haVfc received a curt, defiant were worse than the element Which it i t&e Boers than the teraporia- sought to punish. <iag and "soft word" answer, which it is It was no infrequent occurrence dor- | require considerable expUma- ing the latter days of the klan for some a°y ®?gre^l™L *1?™°J? peaceful, citizen to be taken from his DRETFU8 SALUTES THE COT7BT, (From the London Dally Graphic.) ceedings a large number of disappointed persons quitted the court-room, leaving perceptible gaps along the benches. < The accused entered the, Courtyard looking pale and careworn. He stools more than formerly abd never smiles. There is a settled look of gloom on Drey­ fus' face as though ho realized the im­ mensity of the forces arrayed against him. Gen. Fabre of the'general staff was the first to testify.. He related how he com­ pared a captured letter conveying treas­ onable documents to the handwriting of Dreyfus, ana What a remarkable resem­ blance there was between them. The witness said that besides the general con- home and maltreated by a gang of ruf­ fians led by some member who had de­ cided that it would be for his personal gain that the citisen should be made to leave the community. Many were the dark deeds of violence done under cover of the night and under tW cloak of the Klklux Klan long after the more respec­ table class that originally belonged to It had withdrawn in disgust and had joined in the effort to atone for past errors by assisting in putting down the klan and bringing the perpetrators of such deeds to_ justice. MERCIER A FORGER. A#Mriaa Military Attache Will Pros­ ecute the Frenchman* Chief among the topics of conversation in Paris is the reported action of Col. Schneider, Austrian military attache, who is to prosecute General Mercier for forgery. -The case will come before the Paris Court bf Assizes. This is the hardest blow yet delivered the military cabaL The anti-Dreyfus journals have been boasting that Schneider falsified. They said he was a tool of the triple alli­ ance. This boast is now an empty one, and their own reputation for veracity is among missing quantities. Mereier's of­ fense consists in having adduced a docu­ ment in .the Rennes court purporting to be a report on Dreyfus from Schneider THE SPOT AT RENNES WHERE LABOR! WAS SHOT. The cross marks the place where be fell. $3.00 to $6.00; ho^s, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.?5. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.25; hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter, ewemê , i§» to 38*; eggs, Wen- era, 12C TO 16ft duct of the accused was suspicious. M. Demange asked Gen. Fabre why he was so positive about these things, when at the court-marital in 1894 he claimed to have had no personal knowledge of Drey­ fus. Fabre's previous evidence to this effect was then read. As the wide dis­ crepancy between that and his present testimony became evident, the witness grew red and stammered an explanation. CoL Aboville then testified to the same effect as Gen. Fabre, telling of the iden­ tification of the prisoner's handwriting with that of treasonable papers. He was sure Dreyfus had written them. M. Cochefert, the detective who arrested Dreyfus, next testified. He told of the test made by de Clam, who dictated part of the bordereau to Dreyfus. He said the accused exhibited great emotion, as he had also when placed under arrest. Next came Gribelin, recorder of the general staff. lie argued that Dreyfus was guilty, and that Col. Picquart's evi­ dence was manufactured. Capt. Dreyfus then arose, and, speaking calmly, pro­ ceeded to refute the testimony of Coche- fort and Gribelin. He related the scene of the dictation test. "I remember it per­ fectly," said Dreyfus. "I came in from a cold room, where I had been waiting. The difference between my writing then and my usual handwriting was alone due to my cold fingers." Commandant Lauth, formerly of the general staff, a bitter enemy of Picquart, next took the stand. Lauth related evi­ dence similar to the others who testified before him, and then told a long story of how Col. Picquart had sent him to see a German spy in Switzerland who was sup­ posedly anxious to enter the French se­ cret service. The witness was a*" decoy mission, and Picquart was seeking to en­ trap him. A long discussion followed this relation as if Picquart was the real accused. Under cross-examination Lauth denied that the petit bleu had been alter­ ed or was in two handwritings. Col. Picquart created a sensation by announcing that in view of the Insinua­ tions against .Ijkim, he would demand a court of inquiry examine his use of the secret funds while chief of the intelli­ gence bureau. > % Capt. Junck, an intimate friend of Col. Henry, was called to the stand. He said Dreyfus was allowed to see papers from •11 the bureaus because he was preparing a paper on the difference between the French and German artillery. In this way, he said, the accused obtained' the knowledge which he treasonably commu­ nicated. Junck showed an intimate knowledge of the whole Dreyfus affair. The session wound up with a scene on account of the extraordinary conduct of Col. Jouaust, president of thf> court, who permitted himself to make an unwarrant­ able display of partiality. M. Bertulus had been confronted with the last wit­ ness, Capt. Junck, and Gen. Gonse had defended the latter when Col. Picquart rose and asked to be allowed to refute sotne of Junck's remarks. Col. Jouaust made a gesture of impatience shonted: , "What, again T* An outburst of baolng and hissing came from the audience at such a display of unfairness from the president. Judges and gendarmes quickly suppressed the noise, but Col. Jouaust understood the well-merited rebuke administered him. tuned red and ttlutee later. to his government. Throughout France the conservative press severely condemns the action of Mercier in trying to drag foreign powers into the Dreyfus affair. It is regarded as particularly unfortunate that he should do this right after Em- peoror William's eulogies of French sol­ diers at the inauguration of the St. Privat monument. There is nothing at all new or nnex- COLOKEI. PICQUART. . Dreyfus' Stanch friend at Trial ot the French Officer. adjourned tea I V 1 • ? < 1 / * ; - v."f - , * • & ,> < s \ i - ! i1" m ' a, \ ,t i J > pected In the Dreyfus trial, saya a corre-' spondent. A thousand witnesses like Mercier, Roget, Cuiquet and Fabre would not convince those who believe Dreyfus the victim of a conspiracy that Jhe is guilty. The anti-Semitic element is too blindly prejudiced against the prisoner to care anything about the evk, dene*. JOHN BROWN'S RAIDERS* Seven More Victims to Sleep Near Their Old Leader's Grave. The bodies of seven of John Brown's raiders who fell at Harper's Ferry have recently been exhumed and sent to North Elba, N. Y.,' where they will be buried Of the other three raiders who wer% killed at Hnrper'B Ferry, the remains of one, Watson Brown, were recovered and buried near John Brown's body in 1882. Where the other two are no one can tell. They were taken from Harper's Ferry after the fight and were used in a medi­ cal college for anatomical purposes. Wat­ son Brown's body was taken away for the same purpose, but it was traced and recovered by Mrs, Brown many years afterward. The two whose whereabouts are unknown are Jeremiah G. Anderson and Lewis S. Leary, the latter a negro. Ceremonies were held at John Brown's grave when the seven bodies arrived and Rev. Joshua Young, who buried John Brown and who suffered social ostracism for It, took part. He is now living in Groton, Mass. A monument Is to be erected over the graves at North Elba. The bodies re­ covered are those of Oliver Brown, Stew­ art Taylor, W. H. Leeman, William Thompson, Dauphin O. Thompson, John H. Kagi and Dangerfield Newby. A fragment ot the bearskin overcoat in which, according to tradition, Oliver Brown was baaed, was found in one of eyes of the world and English mi aority, which still declares that war Wouk| be an outrage. It has developed that the war office ha» been aware of the nature of the Transvaal's reply for several days, hence It la-believed that Great Britain will de­ lay t^e denoofoent as little km possible, and U Mr. Chamberlain has his way the cbunter proposals of President Kruger will meet with scant attention, thus forc­ ing the Boers into a position where the anlJT wpy to avoid war will be by a com­ plete back-down, which is not at all prob­ able. All England Is talking war. Even the man in the street who knows nothing of what is going on behind the scenes Is confident that an appeal to arms is now file only solution left for the Transvaal problem, which has reached an ugly •tkge. That- the Boers will yield all is tMte'bellelr&J," and this idea is strength- en^d by the'feverish preparations which bWb'wides have been making for hostili­ ties within the last month. ^Shcoughout the Orange Free State and Gape Colony Sunday was observed with prayer mud humiliation by the populace advocating* a peaceful settlement of the QMktaa^raal dispute. A dispatch from Pre- tarta«eays: "President Kruger, while PfeMonally conducting a public church prayed that if war was unavoid- might find right and truth on titeaide of the Afrikanders." if̂ TOlTY RUINED BY FIRfc Stnafea I>estroy the Business Portion of Victor, Col. *'>Mre has destroyed the business por­ tion of the city of Victor, Colo., causing a loss estimated at $2,500,000. Begin­ ning shortly after noon Monday the fire raged until evening, consuming every­ thing in its way. It had its origin, it is thought, in the Merchants' catp, adjoin- Jatgroie Bank of Victor, 3d street and Victor avenue. A strong wind from the south fanned the flames, and in a few minutes all the surrounding houses ,were afire. > Help was summoned from Cripple Creek, but the town had been built in •ho early days of the camp, and was of pine timber, for the most part,«ou buiii- ed like paper. Efforts were made to stop the progress of the flames by blow­ ing up buildings In their path, and all afternoon the hills have roared with the explosions, but the effort was in vain. The fire claimed the Bank of Victor* the postoffice, on the corner opposite^ crossed 3d street and followed the row of blocks between 3d and 4th streets to the north, taking the Victor Banking Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company's office, the office of the Colo­ rado Telephone Company, the Hotel Vic­ tor, on the opposite side of 4th street, and the three great shaft houses of the Gold Coin Mining Company, and its ore bins, among the largest lh the Cripple Creek district. The scenes of the great Cripple Creek fire were duplicated. Hurrying before the roaring flames went men, women and children, carrying what they could snatch from the fire, racing for their lives. The crash of buildings torn asun­ der by dynamite and the crackle of the flames as they consumed the dry timbers hastened their Sight, and the pall of smoke added a terror-to the spectacle. The residence portion of the city has suffered little, but the business part is paralysed, and suffering Is bound to fol low. OEMOCRATS TO ACT EARLY. May Hold National Convention In Feb* roar; or March, lOOO. The next Democratic convention may be held as early as February and not later than March, 1900. A. Chicago dis­ patch says that sentiment among party leaders has been crystallizing in favor of an early convention, and it may find ex­ pression at a meeting of the national committee, which will be held in Wash­ ington very soon after Congress convenes in December. Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri, as acting chairman of the com­ mittee and pjrobable manager of the cam­ paign of 19W, is the originator of the plan for holding the convention in Feb­ ruary or March. The underlying motive for holding an early convention is te enable the men who will have to shoulder the responsi­ bility of conducting next year's battle, to raise money. By holding the 4bnclave in February or March, nominating Mr. ®ryan for President, selecting a running mate fbr him and adopting a platform, ex-Governor Stone is convinced that the intervening time until September, when the actual campaign will be begun, can be profitably employed raising a fund big enough to enable the national com- mitee to make a handsome showing. Mr. Bryan, it is understood, favors the plan. Mr. Bryan is regarded as the nominee now. The choice of his running mate will be largely a matter of ex­ pediency, . GREET LABORI WITH CHEERS. ton* peri|^^p' la and ing 'AtHi8lB tain wiH^tt encejjbe seen ture. - !3^»v SVendi. autho, _ _ _ this and <did thetr utmost to effect a »e- cret landing, but all their.^a«s weta^ able to get the best of the vlgilinee <#., the eaergetic forelgn correspondents*. Herewith are shown pictures of the p*fi» ties to a Wedding which Miss Stutw tf Warren, 111., claims was performed fak 1890 and which she has just made public. Mr. Carlton, who is now a wealthy Crip­ ple, Creek man, refuses to talk about th» case, and the other day at Cripple Creek, Colo., entered suit for divoree on tlNa grounds of desertlon. \ ; : : Col. A. L. HawRins, eomnla£der «if the gallant Tenth Pennsylvania, the only Eastern regiment which to£k part in th# PulHppine,ca» i •, T € HAWKIST8. gaiakl, Japan. CoL idol of his men. Daign, died Oga £e honMrinuni Voyage. His reg­ iment . reached! San Fraridse* on the transport ^ Senator, with the colonel** body wrapped in a flag, ontha deck. His deatli occurred Joljr 17, two days af­ ter leaving Na - Hawkinswaa m Diitiavsiih^d Connect for • *ame* His Piece la Ctart Maitre Labori was present at the Dreyfus court-martial Tuesday morning. He drove to the court in a carriage and entered the hall at 6:30 o'clock. The audience greeted him by standing up and by a general clapping of hands. Maitre Labori walked briskly, but holding his left arm close to his side in order not to disturb his wound. He met General Mercier and General Billot in the middle of the courtroom, stopped, chatted, and smiled. Labori looked quite well. He was given a cushioned armchair. Captain I>reylas on. entering smilingly shook hands with Labori. Colonel Jouaust ad­ dressed a few words of congratulation to Labori and expressed the profound in­ dignation of the tribunal at the attempt . ̂ 3 . to assassinate the counsel. Labori was the grave* and two lead pencils droppad $ much moved and thanked Colonel Jon- <ra» Ift when it was tate nn. aust in an eloquent speech. Mrs. W. H. Bens of Clay City, Ky._ was the only survivor of a party of fif­ teen prospectors, led by her husband, wh» went to the. Klon­ dike a year ago. A f t e r e n d u r i n g hardships that would have driven moat members of her sex to distrac­ tion, this brave Kentucky' woman, alone in the wilds of the Yukon river country, made her way back to civil­ ization, and finally MBS. BENS. reached San Francisco. She is now her brothers near Clay City. Mrs. Ellen J. Allen, wife of the sha, Wis., millionaire tanner; while at ; the Edgewater, 111., golf grounds, receiv­ ed a message that her baby at Keno­ sha was dying. Im- mediately Mr. and Mrs. Allen took tlia electric car for Br- anston to catch th» first train for Ke­ nosha, only to lean that the train could MRS. ali.en. not be stopped. > They pleaded in vain, but the mother waa 1 not to be daunted by red tape. As the fast mfcil came in sight she sprang <m the track, golf cape in hand. She fran­ tically waved the scarlet garment that n u l l i f i e d r u n n i n g r u l e s , a n d f o r c e d t h ^ f f < engineer to bring his rushing train to^H ft stop almost at her feet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,.whom 6or. Wolcott of Massachusetts hAs made chl|f; justice of the Supreme Court of thie| " State, is a son of the literary genius of the same name. He was born in 1841, is a Harvard graduate, and has taught in the Har­ vard law school. He is a veteran of the civil war, and was wounded at Antietam. His fath­ er had a weary search for the sont JUDGE HOLMES. who was a captain, and his interesting story, "My Search for the Captain," e*|- bodiea the facts of his long hunt for t|a J wounded boy. . Judge Holmes has bei^ •' associate judge of the Supreme bench. ' „ ^ Richard B. Reed, who has just begqm his forty-fifth year of continuous sairlja , as a letter carried in Salem, Mass., danMi to be the oldest i carrier in the cotm* try in point of un­ interrupted servlefe. Buchanan Wain ] P r e s i d e n t w h e n Mr. Reed was first appointed. In tboa^ days letter carriers had no regular sal-. I . ary and depended for compensation on the pennies cei» b. B. mkkd. _ lected from peopla j to-Wttom they defyrered. letters. In 2a*» j uary, 1856, he distributed 3,409 pieces St mail and collected $26,24 from his pa§» rons« ' ,jf • .J Private Joffn McDonough, who been stationed recently at Pittsburg t h e r e c r u i t i n g s e r - ' > • vice, claims to be | the oldest private in point of service in the United States army. He has just completed his thirtieth consec­ utive year, during which time he has served in the cav­ alry, the infantry, and the artillery. He is to be retired o n three-fourths pay Ms life. three-fourths i, M*DOSODiUE>e ' for the Jwt. of. W life. T - ' • ' i :.ys Wa" WA • s r V/ | * l '•*' i *• i » ' ! , •' 4 t-ft ^ ^ * •> i " ' i ' / J} /.V , ;'4 ->3" tr ,