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CO* toto. ILL1NOI8. OF THE WEEK Indians continue their dep- Sooora. Mexico. The to suffer at the hands and if reports be true from New York have been recently murdered in the Sohuaripa dis­ trict. The oil producers oo the Lima, Ohio, Oil fields, Including the territory in Ohio and Indiana, arc forming an -organization to sospend drilling for the next month and send the market higher. The largest producers in the field are in the move­ ment. While preparations were being made to "shoot" the Bayl oil well on the Ridingw farm, near Welltmlle, Ohio, the well over­ flowed and the oil ignited from the fire nnder the boiler, causing an explosion that killed tw^> men and injured three others. f On the stage *>f the Chattanooga, Tenn., new opera house Julia Morrison, leading lady in the "Mr. Plaster of Paris" company, shot and killed Frank JLeiden, stage manager of the company. JLeiden and Miss Morrisqn had quarreled •t rehearsal. Isaac J. Turpen of Louisville, employed as salesman at the wholesale clothing tuHlSe of Stix, Krouse & Co. of Cincin­ nati. while showing goods to a customer on the fourth floor suddenly ran to a back Window and jumped to the ground. He •was killed instantly. A Big Four freight train dashed into a Tiffin-Fostoria electric car at the Crossing of the tracks in Tiffin, Ohio, demolishing the rear of the car. Ten passengers on the electric car jumped. Miss Mae Grie- tter, Tiffin, and Miss Pierce of Anderson, Ind., sustained serious injuries. The owners of the Cripple Hill gold mines, six miles from Hot Springs, Ark., have discovered platinum in paying quan­ tities in their mines. The find was acci­ dentally made while assaying for gold. The assay shows five to six pounds of platinum to the ton. This metal is worth $185 a pound. The standing of the dabs In the Na­ tional League race is as follows: W. L W L .91 40 Chicago ..VV70G6 isa M 4&;' Brooklyn Philadelphia 86 Boston 82 Baltimore . .78 &. Louis...77 Cincinnati ..76 51 Louisville .. .68 70 33 Pittsburg ...67 71 54 New York...53 78 61 Washington. 48 87 63 Cleveland ...20125 Satisfactory trade Bradstreet's says: and price conditions apparently still Xeign. So few, in fact, are the reports of poor trade that favorable reports may be said to be almost unanimous. An ex­ panded volume of fall trade is indicated ay the aggregate of bank clearings for V^e week, though reports from some mar­ kets point to the greatest rush being over. 'Prices as a rule maintain all their for­ mer strength, decreases being few and relatively unimportant. In several lines, wttably the cereals, cotton, petroleum, iron and steel, the tendency is toward higher levels. Cotton has been notably strong and active. Wool is higher at London and sympathetically strong here, and expectations of a good export trade fine grades of domestics are enter­ ed. Wheat, including flour, ship- nts for the week aggregate 4,630,765 %shels, against 4,536,552 bushels last eek. Corn exports for the week aggre­ gate 3,794,965 bushels, against 3,282,751 bushels last week. Failures for the week have been 154 in the United States, against 173 last year, and 18 in Canada, 16 last year." ® • :K: •> A* ft'/ . u. ^ *'-V ? BREVITIES. , ; Reuben Hale of Canton, Ohio, commit­ ted suicide by shooting. Trouble with Us wife caused him to commit the deed. Private C. Oswald of the First infan­ try,. who was transferred to Swinburne Island, New York, from the United States transport Buford, died of yellow fever. The wreck of an unidentified schooner tfgas discovered in a cove near Cape Pine, On the southern part of the peninsula of Avakm, N. F. The crew is supposed to have perished. ^ By the explosion of molten metal at flchoenberger's steel works at Pittsburg, four men were dangerously injured. The plosion was caused by the overturning a ladle of hot metal. > Twenty people were injured, eight .freight cars and two passenger coaches damager], and two, engines demolished in a bead-ou collision on the Allegheny Val- Railroad at Parker, Pa. An electric car filled with passengers and running at a high rate of speed, jumped the track at Prince's curve, one mile from Carthage, Mo., turning over on its top. Twenty persons were injured. A Wade Park avenue car was blown up at Cleveland with dynamite. The car was. hnrled from the tracks, the front wheels and truck bring shattered. The motorman and two passengers escaped Mrs. Horace Chenery, wife of a wealthy resident of Larchmont Manor, N. Y-, either jumped or fell from a fourth-story wmdow of the Hotel Majes­ tic in «#w' York, and was instantly killed. « • The Massachusetts Democratic conven­ tion nominated a State ticket) headed by Bobert Treat Paine, Jr., of Boston for Governor. George Fred Williams heads the State delegation to the national Dem­ ocratic convention. Mrs. Mary Bridgens, an aunt of Mrs, Andrew Carnegie, was found drowned in a mill pond near Oyster Bay, L. I., with Indications that she committed suicide. Since her husband died about a year ago ahe had become subject to melancholia. The Duluth-Superior Elevator Com­ pany has leased for one year all the ele­ vators of the United States Flour Milling Company at the head of the lake. Absalom Kesler, a miserly farmer of Paw Paw, Md.; Albert Cross, his hired man, and Anna Doman, a domestic, were £tturdere<|L. and burned in the house , by robbers. : Rev. F» i . H. Bennett, Presbyterian thissionaljf'-at Aitoswoifth, B. C., accident- Ally shot himself and died. He was hunt­ ing high up on a mountain and slipped a cliff. The gun was discharged, blowing offhis arm. EASTERN. 1 Actor B. F. McClannin dropped dead "while eating supper at Hartford, Conn. He was 62 years old. » Louis Ingwerson of New York has been elected supreme commander of the su­ preme lodge, Knights of Pythias. Rev. Julius Ehrhart, a well-known Lu­ theran clergyman, is dead at ais home in SSMt Orange, N. J., aged 74 years. ^||||Mdore B. Basselin's large sawmill at ind, N. Y., and ten acres of lum- r-fhnmed, cansing a loss of $250,000. ssman Daniel Ermentrout of Is dead, aged 62 years. He mite* W: f C 3 w v f i j r <^eaed its' doors a t New T&k. It nineteen plants and has a <*pital of $8,000,000. Charles P, Daly, chief justice of the court of cotDiaen pleas of New York County from l87l to 1886, and president of the American Geographical Society, died at Sag Harbor, L. I., aged 83 years. Locked in an iron cage. Mile. Morrelli foaght with an enraged leopard at the Philadelphia exposition grounds. The lit­ tle French woman conquered, but now lies in the University hospital with se­ vere wounds in her left arm and breast. The organization of the American Hide and Leather Company has been com­ pleted in New York. The properties of the several constituent companies have passed into the control of the new com­ pany, which will hereafter operate them. Another strike has been inaugurated at Cramps' shipbuilding yards in Philadel­ phia and 150 ship joiners laid down their tools. These men presented demands to the firm asking that nine hours constitute a day's work and the pay be 30 cents an hour. * « } : • • , • i ' ,-feae J <•*%*• WfcSTfcRH. v In the sisal and hemp warehouse of the Hoover & Allison Cordage Com­ pany at Xenia, Ohio, caused a loss of $15,000 or $20,000. The Government has taken steps to se­ cure possession of Mission rock, San Francisco, which Mb been held by the California Dry Dock Company since 1870. „ . , Four men were killed and three seri­ ously injured in a rear-end collision be­ tween two freight traina on the bridge across the Des Moines liver near Win- dom, Minn. ,*• Thomas W. ItfcFarland, a former real ertate agent of Chicago, was arrested at Pittsburg by Detective Hitnley of Chi­ cago. It is said be embezzled $<j00 be­ longing to a landlord. The United Railway Company of St. Louis has filed with the Secretary of State a certificate of increase of its cap­ ital from 15,000,000 to $40,000,000. The fee paid was $20,000. Gen. R. A. Alger has given ont a letter written by himself in New York Sept. 8, in which he announces his withdrawal from the candidacy for United States Senator from Michigan. Rev. Dr. L. M. Kuhns, one of the best- known preachers of the Lutheran Church in the West, dropped dead at the Omaha exposition grounds. He held the leading pulpit in Omaha for a generation. Sheriff H. F. Farley of Monterey Coun­ ty, Cal., was shot and killed by George Caesar, whom he was trying to arrest for arson. Caesar, who had been drinking, threatened to shoot fonr officers And burn up the town. A passenger train, north bound on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, collided with a freight train fifteen miles southeast of Kansas City. Four persons were killed and four others more or less seriously injured. At Port Huron, Mich., Mrs. Judson Harrendeen fired three shots at her hus­ band from a revolver and then killed her­ self with a shot in the head. Harren­ deen may recover. The woman's jeal­ ousy caused the tragedy. Masked men attacked the sheep camp of the Warren Live Stock Company, twenty-five miles northwest of Sterling, Colo., beating the herder, a young man named Crain, nearly to death, shoot'ng about 100 sheep and scattering 1,500 more. The Chickasaw Legislature, in session at Tishomingo, I. T., passed a bill rais­ ing the fee for marriage licenses from $50 to $1,000. The measure is aimed at white men who would marry into the tribe to profit by the annuities and lease money drawn by women Chickasaws. Ah order restraining Hugh J. Brady from enforcing the department store law, enacted at the recent session of the Mis­ souri State Legislature, and under which he was appointed license collector for St. Louis, has been issued by Judge Zachritz. The petitioners include every large dry goods firm in the city. Several persons were injured and prop­ erty valued at $275,000 was destroyed in a fire which swept over a large area of the Union stock yards in Chicago. The stock yards hospital, Dexter Park pavil­ ion, several horse sheds and two resi­ dences were destroyed, and twenty horses perished in the flames. Fire almost destroyed the six-story brick building at Nos. 35 to 59 North Jef­ ferson street, Chicago. The great prompt­ ness of the firemen's response and the number of engines placed the fire under control within half an hour after the first alarm was given. The building is owned by J. Harley Bradley. The loss on the building is $10,000. A shooting occurred at Greenfield, Ohio. Hervey Greaves, colored, an employe at a livery stable, owed a small bill at Dye's restaurant and the proprietor called for his "money. A quarrel followed, when Greaves knocked Dye down. Val Dye, son of the restaurateur, borrowed a re­ volver and shot Greaves, making a wound which the doctors pronounce fatal. The Thirty-first regiment. United States infantry, known as* the "Presi­ dent's Own," and composed of fighting men from Ohio, • Tennessee and Clay County, Kentucky, is encamped on Angel Island, San Francisco bay, at the Federal quarantine station. The regi­ ment was removed from the PreBidio on account of the spread of smallpox among the men. - • Fred B. Harvey, until recently corre­ sponding clerk of the Preston National Bank at Detroit, Mich., was locked up on a charge of embezzlement. He has confessed that he robbed the bank by a system of false entries. The amount of his peculations is said to be about $11,- 000. Harvey had been employed in the bank eleven years. He is married and 35 years of age. The planing mill of the Illinois Car and Equipment Coimpany at Hegewiseh, near Chicago, was destroyed by fire, and for a time the entire plant of the company was threatened with annihilation. The loss, it is estimated, will reach $150,000, the greater part of which is on toe ma­ chinery. This was only recently placed in position and is of the latest and cost­ liest patern. The property was fully in­ sured. -- " S. "~'i SOUTHERN. At Williamson, W. Va„ Elias llatfie& who killed II. E, Ellis, was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. John L. Hanna, chief of police at Dal- ton, Ga., was shot and killed by three moonshiners whom he was trying to ar- jrest. „ At Norfolk, Va., the main building of St. Vincent's hospital was burned. The bodies of four inmates were recovered from the ruins. The British steamer Angola cleared from New Orleans with 108,172 bushels of corn and 100.000 bushels of oats, the largest cargo of grain ever taken frofa that port. The contents of a cannon fired during a soldiers' reunion at Ceredo. W. Va, paM through a coach of a Huntington •U«« lore by IMiftiSltiiis ' • a« Tu HsHbrar* Wm i nirk of M kfodly public Use. the Queen's manner in wfa&fc the Spanish population of that city was treated during the re­ cent war. Elijah Hall shot and killed his father, Henry Hall, in Pike County,x Kentucky, for abuse of his mother. The father was a preacher, but was very quarrelsome and abusive toward his wife. The son interfered in one of these scenes, and re­ ceiving, some abuse froip his father, in a moment of passion shot him dead and fled. , FOREIGN. It'll laid that an Italian steamship company will establish a service to the Chilian coast. According to advices brought by the steamer Empress of India from the Ori­ ent, the empress dowager of China is said to be seriously ill. Li Hung Chang has been recalled to power. Marius Jokai, the celebrated Hunga­ rian poet and novelist, who is 74 years of age, was married at Budapest the other day to Arabella Groasnagy, a pretty Jew­ ish actress of 23 years. A boat containing the captain and eleven men from the French steamer Dunrae, reported to have foundered off the island of Elba, in the Mediterranean, is feared to have sunk with all on board. The Russian Abyssinian expedition has discovered a new range of mountains be­ tween 8:30 and 6 north latitude and 36:30 longitude. By permission of the Csar, the mountains have been named the Nich­ olas II. range. H' The ship George Stetson of Bath, Me., from Portland, Ore., for Taku, China, has been burned up at Loo Choo. No lives were lost. The George Stetson registered 1,845 tons and'Was dWned by Arthur Sewall A Co. f Corea has at la&t a written' 'constitu­ tion. It has nine artistes; all dwelling up­ on the powers and prerogatives o| the Emperor, and containing no mention whatever of any rights or privileges be­ longing to any oth^r person, io tfaetrealm. The United States consul in Cape Town has gone to Bloemfontein at the request of the Government of the Orange Free State to confer regarding the Transvaal crisis. The Orange Free State executive is anxious to secure American interven­ tion. The Aftonbladet of Stockholm has re­ ceived a telegram from the master of the Norwegian cutter Martha Larszak, say­ ing that he had found, oq the north coast of King Charles Island^ an anchor and a buoy marked "Andrei Polar Expedi­ tion." IN GENERAL* "flM&btf^ftrthquakes, ra^nfl%eek, are reported in the vicinity of Juneau, Alaska. 4 The association of iron and steel sheet manufacturers has -hdtanced the price of sheet $3.10 to $3.25 a toq* to take effect at once. ' Prof. Swingle '^tbe^^fitiltural De­ partment has gone to California fdjf the purpose of giving the fig growers of that State who are attempting to propagate the Smyrna variety of figs, the, benefit of his information on this subject. " The formation of tljie Tampa cigar' syn­ dicate has practically bepn completed. Ed­ ward Maurara of the l'bor-M&nrara Company is slated,for president and Jo­ seph Earando of Se$denber& & Co. Will be general manager. The syndicate will be capitalized at $25,000,000. A large share in the Central and South­ ern Pacific railways has been bought by Speyer.& Co., bankers of New York. In San Francisco, it was reported that 340,- 000 shares, worth $13,000,000, had been sold by George Crockfer, who thus had disposed of his entire interest to the Speyer firm. The Navy Department has directed that the Eagle and Yankton be complet­ ed at the Portsmouth navy yard by Oct. 17, as they are needed for survey work about Cuba and Porto Rico and will be thus employed all winter. The Navy De­ partment has awarded the contract for building the Portsmouth dock to John. Pierce of New York for $1,089,000. The American Window Glass Company has come into control of the leading win­ dow glass plants in the Indiana gas belt. Deeds of the Elwood Window Glass Com­ pany, the Indiana Window Glass Com­ pany of Pendleton, the Clyde Window Glass Company of Franfeton, the Victor Window Glass Company, i nd the Ander­ son Window Glass Company of Anderson and the Frankton Window Glass Com­ pany's property have been recorded in favor of American Window Glass Com­ pany. The amount paid for the Elwood Window Glass Company was $18,000; the Indiana Window Glass Company, $22,500; the Clyde Window Glass Com­ pany, $22,500; the Victor Window Glass Company, $15,000; the Anderson Win­ dow Glass Company, $25,000, and the Frankton Window Glass Company, $5,- 050. These values are but nominal, as the assessed value of the Victor plant Is $55,000, and the Anderson $115,000. The other plants are worth more than the prices named. MARKET REPORTS. CONFEREf V . INQ IULTSIN rORM- ^AL'«p0*^r ago--Cattle, common to priifie, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat,"No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, uoc to 58c; iraifcr, choiee creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, freab, 15c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice tight, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn. No, 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2, 22c ti 24c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 57c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 60c to 71e; corn, No. 2 'mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 62c to 63c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogp, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to »4.50; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, 50c to 00c. Toledo--Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 69c to 71c; corn, No, 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c; clover seed, $5.00 to $5.10. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 08c to 70c; corn. No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats, JKo. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye. No, 1, 57c to 50c; barley, No. 2, 45c to 47c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.75: lambs, common to extra. $4.50 to $5.50. New York-Cattle, $3.25 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00: wheat. No. 2 red. 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2, 8»c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white; 28c to 80c; butter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, west­ ern. 13c to 18e. •/"' Call for a Convention Will Be Issfted thortljr, Peudiug Oric«nlx«tion All Over the Country--Closing of tit* Big .. Meetina la Cbicaco. ^ ' ;l As the result of the tru^t conference in Chicago a new anti-trust organization, national in scope, has been formed. The object of the organization is the crystal­ lization of the anti-trust spirit throughout the country, which the promoters assert has been greatly strengthened by the de­ liberations of the convention. The meet­ ing was attended by many of the dele­ gates to the conference who believe the time is ripe for the formation of a body whose strength shall eventually over­ throw oppressive capitalistic combina­ tions. With that object in view a huge anti-trust conference is to be called in the near future, the date and place of meeting to be arranged by an executive committee which has the 'matter in charge. Fifteen addresses were listened to by the delegates to the conference on the second day of its session. Many addi­ tional delegates were present at the con­ ference, whole delegations having come from some States, and an increasing in­ terest in the problems and the means of utilizing the suggestions made about them for the public good was manifested. After deciding in the morning to have a special committee to receive and consider reso­ lutions concerning trusts, effects of the tariff in causing the growth of trus ts were considered. In the afternoon the confer­ ence listened to .several accounts of the industrial situation from the farmers' point of view, end also to an anarchist's solution of the truts problem. The even­ ing meeting was the liveliest and most exciting yet held. Enemies and advocates of trusts followed each other in quick succession, making all of them strong assertions of their confidence In their positions. The day had many humorous moments, both during the debates and while the papers were being read, and the attendance on the part of the Chicago public was larger at each successive ses­ sion. Bourke Cockran was the speaker at the third day's session, whose address was most eagerly listened to. What he would »ay for himself, and what for .the New. York delegation, of which he is perhaps the most prominent member, had been speculated upon since the opening Of the convention. The evening program was changed by the omission of Mr. Bryan's address, and a great audience which had gathered in part to hear that leader was disappointed by being Informed that the Democratic leader was to talk Saturday morning. The session of the conference Friday morning was devoted in the main to the addresses of labor advocates, among whom Gompers, White and Gar­ land* were mest prominent, Many speeches denunciatory or approving in tone were made upon the trast problem in the afternoon, and one or two new proposals for remedial legislation were brought out. W. J. Bryan Talk*. William J. Bryan spoke at the trust conference for nearly two hoiurs in the morning session Saturday, and the gal­ leries, paeked an hour before he spoke and attentive and enthusiastic while he talked, emptied themselves when the Ne- braskan had taken his seat again among the delegates. The audience was with Mr. Bryan before he rose. The galleries went wild over his periods and shouted and stamped and applauded all his strik­ ing sentiments. At the conclusion of the address Mr. Bryan grasped an outstretch­ ed hand here and there and made his way to a seat, only to arise twice in acknowl­ edgment of the prolonged cheering. As Bryan had been the striking feature Of the morning session, there was an­ other and similar scene in the afternoon and final session, when he and Bourke Cockran were plunged into a debate on the platform, where the evening before Mr. Bryan had explained that it was agreed to be not in keeping with the character of the conference for them to debate. Nevertheless that was what happened after the general discussion of the final afternoon had gotten into full swing. There was no interruption for Mr. Bryan save that which came from applause and brief and indistinct interpo­ lations. But with Mr. Cockran it was different from beginning to end. Thomas J. Morgan and others wanted to start a mixed debate and partially succeeded. Finally the New York man was led into a continuous closing argument with a per­ oration that took the auditors fairly off their feet. "***" CHASING THE NEGROES OUT, Towna in Texas and Louisiana Drive Them to New Orleans. The recent outbreak against tSe negroes of Orange, Texas, just acrosq the Sabine river from Louisiana, is obly a repetition of similar outbreaks that have occuri-ed in the black belt of eastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana during the last few years, and which will make itself felt in the next census. Through uli ihia region, almost as great as' New York, jthe negro is being rapidly driven back :|and is taking refuge in the larger towns, particularly in New Orleans. When the White men of a town desire to get rid of the blacks, notices are posted on the mills warning the employers not to hire negroes. This means fire for the mills if the notice is not complied with, and as a result the negroes find themselves unable to get work. When they cannot support themselves they are .driven from the town. In consequence all the coast coun­ ties of Texas and Louisiana have been growing steadily whiter by the departure Of the negroes and the coming in of whites. The consequence'Of the emigration of the negro from the- rural districts is to drive them into the towns, and particular­ ly into New Orleans, where there has been an extraordinarily large increase of blacks. The census will show an in­ crease of from 40 to 50 per cent In the decade, in spite of the excessive mortal­ ity, running up to 36 in 1,000 in a year. USED DEATH AS A REMEDY. be be* dotMwttfc groups of fouf, though fanner, who makes a herd a prominent feature of his htt4i^|ir»' *111 have 'his entijre crop^§|^||ed in circle round the Boimpp west of Ms corral. At interfa'ft̂ Sender &tatnns of smoke tell of a "steawfcjf^t work from dawn till dark. A s|^|pr in the country seeing the iili nrmlif'itfiiwSlMjj. flp® one job to another might easily |||p|ke the outfit for an innovation in riytt^ttrl- ing. First comes the traction eniHi^ibt unlike a locomotive , engine, although smaller and painted in brighter colors. Immediately behind the engine is the ten­ der wagon fitted with a rack for hauling straw. Nearly every engine in the North­ west nowadays is a straw burner. Then comes the separator, a monster machine with 36 to 48-inch cylinder; and often a. 00-inch separator. Behind the separator comes the tank, resembling very closely a Standard oil distributing wagon, which hnuls water for the engine from the near­ est windmill pump. Then the "trap wag­ on," carrying the loose paraphernalia of the outfit, and 'the clothes and bedding of the men. If the threshers board with the owner of the grain this constitutes the train, but if, as is generally the case, the owner of the machine boards his crew, the "grub shanty," an ordinary house wagon, bring* up the rear, making a train from 100 to 150 feet long. The modern separator comes pretty aear being the "whole thing." Instead of the threshing crew of our boyhood days--drivers, feeders, oilers, bandcutters, four to six pitchers, measurers and half a dozen straw stackers--the crew consists of a manager, usually the owner of the machine; engineer, oiler, waterman, six pitchers and a cook. Twenty years ago $1 a bushel was con­ sidered only a moderately "paying" price for wheat. Ten years back, when the market had worked down below 75 cents, the wheat farmer faced certain bankrupt­ cy with a groan. Now, farmers in the Northwest are selling wheat, and making money, at 50 cents a bushel. Many fac­ tors contribute to make this possible, but heavier crops and lower wages are not among them. Lower prices on nearly ev­ erything he buys, especially machinery, Jeave the farmer a larger surplus from a given sum, but the result is brought about most Qf all" by the improved machinery v.« .'Mwm Physician I>eclares He Has Killed ?nf- farine Patients. Dr. Nehemiah Nickerson of Meridian, Conn., has created a sensation by declar­ ing that he bad put an end to the suffer-' ing of patients wiio were ill beyond hope of recovery by administering chloroform, thereby causing a peaceful and more speedy death. "Tliere is no reason," Dr. Nickerson said, "why the sufferer should not be given chloroform if he requests such ac­ tion and be assisted to pass oot. I have administered chloroform under such con­ ditions, and have always thought that I was doing a humane act. Why a person should be oblig«d to suffer by the aid of medical skill is more than I can see. Ac­ cording to my mind a person has'a per­ fect right to say what shall be done with his life. He may live or die. Suicide is jnstilabio in many cases, provided the suicide has no obligations. I do not be­ lieve a doctor should hasten a patient's death without full consent y>f all mar teiatives qpd the patient himself." v I - Points Made by Trust $ Conference Speakers. £ WM. J. BRYAN--I want to start with the declaration that monopoly in private hands la Indefensible froih any standpoint and In­ tolerable. * * * The entire defense of the trusts rests upon a wrong argument. • * • But I protest In the beginning'against set­ tling every question upon the money argu­ ment. I protest against the attempt to drag every question down to the low level of dol­ lars and cents. • * • Money was made to be 1 he servant of1 man, and 1 protest against ail theories that enthrone money and debase mankind. • • • The first advantage of a monopoly is to lower the price of the raw material furnished by the people to that combination. • • * When there is compe­ tition every employer has to get a good man to meet competition. * • * I believe we ought to hive remedies in both State and nation, and that they should be concurrent remedies. * • • What is the first thing to be expected of a trust? That it will cut down expenses. What is the second? That it will raise priceB. • » • When you pros­ ecute a trust in the United States Court It hides behind State's sovereignty, and when you prosecute it in the State court it rushes to cover under Federal jurisdiction. * * * Congress should pass a law providing that no corporation organized in any S;ate should do business outsiile of the State In which it is organized until It receives from some pow­ er created by Congress a license authorizing it to do business outside of its own State. • * • If It is unconstitutional and so de­ clared by the Supreme Court, I am in favor of an amendment to the Constitution that will give to Congress power to destroy every trust in the country. W. BOURKE COCKRAN--The remedy, .then, Is simply to define a practical penalty, a serious one, and theu provide for publicity, and if you provide the proper statute of pub­ licity you need not enforce the penalty. • • • Our patience, our vanities, our hopes, our ambitions are but tJie delusions which bind us to the cause of hriman progress, making each one of us discharge some tribute which he owes to all humanity. * • • Any industrial system which operates to swell the volume of production should be commended; anything that operates to re- Strict it should be suppressed. * * • I believe a close study and careful examina­ tion will satisfy everybody of this fact, that the great strikes of tnis country have arisen from the refusal of the employers to discuss the question at Issae between them and their employes with the agents that the employes select. • * * An industry or a combina­ tion of capital, or anything you may choose to call It. that dominates a market through a restricted competition that delivers the con: sumer to it on its own terms neeesearily de­ pends upon a narrow output and large prof- Its, extorted, not from the excellency of Its service, but from the helplessness of those With whom it deals. • • • Thes? are ray suggestions: Publicity for corporate mis­ management, prohibition under penalties for special favors, right of action against any corporation whose service Is suspended ex­ cept an absolute defense proved that it was at all times ready to discuss with its em­ ployes qusstlons at issue between them by agencies of their selection. GOV. PINGRKE--The trust Is theforerun- ner, or rather the creator, of Industrial sla­ very. • * • Increase of wealth of the country, is greatly to be considered, but If the people are to be degraded to Industrial slaves wealth under such conditions Is a curse. • • * 1 favor complete and prompt annihilation of the trust--with due regard lor property rights, of course. I care more for the Independence and manliaess of the American citizen than for all the gold and silver In the world. It Is better to cherish the happiness of the American home than to control the commerce of the glob?. • • • The degrading process of the trust means much to the future of a republic founded upon democratic principles. A democratic republic cannot survive the disappearance of a democratic population. GEN. G. R. GAITHEH--The eoftfro!. regu­ lation and direction of all trusts, whose bus­ iness is carried 011 In more than one State, should be placed under the jurisdiction ot Congress. A similar jurisdiction over such combinations operating In a single State should be reposed in the respective State Legislatures. SAMUEL GOMPERS--It has been said that organised labor Is a trust, and I want to say in connection with this that to out minds that is an absolute misnomer. We try to prevent by all means with.n our pbwei anyone from leaving or getting outside of the union. You cannot break Into a trust. SAMUEL H. GREELEY--Railroads an the "mother of trusts," special rates 01 freight the food that prolongs their exist­ ence. When freight rates are as stable as postage stamps monopoly will then receive Its first blow. JOHN W. HAYES--I further assert and maintain that these great combinations are an assault upon the inherent and constitu­ tional rights of the citizens: that the real and yltal advantage to be gained is the des­ potic cOtitrol over labor. JEK1TERSON DAVIS--We have got to re­ construct our Judiciary. I am here to say that if we ever have another civil war--and God grant we may not--it will be brought about. In my Judgment, by Judge-made law. EX-GOV. FOSTER--There should be es­ tablished a national bureau, from which all trusts must secure licenses and to which they shall report. BENJAMIN R. TUCKER-AUarchy wants to call off the quacko and give liberty--th£ graat cure-all--a chance to do Its perfect work. ' Grand Army sf the Republic. Over 7,000 posts. Members number more than 300,000. Lftst year's encampment was at Cin­ cinnati. New York has store members than any other State. First post organized at Dacator, BL, on April & 1866. HORSE TRAN8I1 Attack ivild^aga hnrlrti iy Acres-Ac*r«ita*e Loss to « of Btrncturas «294lOOO-Han- dreds «f Horses fi«ampe<ta. For the second time in has wiped out mammoth hotftie aale sta bles at the Chicago stock Tbe Dexter Park pavilion, two residences and three detached horse barns were destroy: ed. and the old stock yards hotel, the Transit House, was badly damaged. For awhile it was feared the flames would spread to the stock yards proper, but hard work on the part of the tire de­ partment, aided by a strong southwest wind, whi<h carried the flying embers in the opposite direction, averted this dan­ ger. Tne property loss is estimated at between $300,000 abd $400,000. About 2,500 horses were in the pavilion When the fire broke out and these were turned loose. In the stampede which fol­ lowed three persons were injured, none, however, seriously. Two hundred guests of the hotel were forced to rush from the building, many of them leaving their ef­ fects behind in the scramble for places of safety. The fire was discovered at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon in the southeast corner of the huge pavilion. The first alarm brought four engines and a hook and-lad­ der truck, but by the time they arrived the fire had gained such headway that a 4-11 alarm was sent in. This was quick­ ly followed by two special calls, each for ten more engines, and in a short time thirty-four engines were at work. Within fifteen minutes after the dis­ covery of the fire the huge building, with its dome towering nearly 200 feet, was enveloped in one seething, surging mass of flame. The.long speedway in the cen­ ter caused a draft, which "carried the flames far out beyond the building, com­ municating with the hotel 150 feet away. Seeing that the pavilion could not be saved, the firemen turned their attention to the hotel. The fire started in the Jiotel in the rear near the elvator shaft, and tip this the flames shot high above the roof, communicating the blaze to each of the four floors. After nearly three hours' work the flames were subdued, but not before, the building was left almost a shell. The total loss to the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, according to the estimate of J. A. Spoor, vice-president and general manager of the company, will reach the sum of $204,000. All. of the property was insured, but with the exception of the hotel the insurance was not equal to the value of the property. RAISING MONEY FOR WAR. Question of HowUnclc Sain Will Raise . . Funds for PhjUipplna War. Secretary Gage, of the Treasury, Ss en­ gaged in the task of ascertaining whence the funds are to come with which to pay the largely-increased army recently deter­ mined on by the President and Secretary Boot. The recipts of the government did not meet the extraordinary expenditures when the army was smaller, and the problem of how to meet the cost of 30,000 additional troops gives the Treasury De­ partment some uneasiness. The administration, it is said, is un­ willing to make another bond issue, but if this cannot be avoided it will be done; and it is asserted that Secretary Gage has ample authority to issue more bonds for the prosecution of the war in the Phil­ ippines, which is regarded as a part of the war with Spain. It seems to be gen­ erally conceded that custom duties should not be further increased and thus the means of raising necessary funds lie in war taxes, or bonds, or both. The following are some of the sugges­ tions that find favor among the revenue officials: The imposition of a stamp tax on all patent protected articles, the theory being that the value of the article is greatly enhanced by the protection of the patent laws of the United States, and that, as a war measure purely, the gov*: ernment would be justified in demanding a fractional part of the profits secure! through the establishment of a monopoly by virtue of the patent laws. - It is also proposed to place a stamp ta^ on all slot machines in which there fs any element of chanoe. It has been found that the manufacture of these machines has attained gigantic proportions. In each of them the percentage of proSt to the propi=ie<oi' is enormous, and the tax would not be oppressive. Of course, thi& would not strike those machines which dispense chewiug gum, for in them there is no element of chance, and the gum already pays a government tax. Another proposition that has met with favor at the hands of the Treasury De­ partment is one to put a stamp tax on all firearms, except such as are used for na- tioaal. State or municipal purposes1: " V H. Bourke Cockran was once a porter for A. T. Stewart. According to the Jewish Chroniclf Paderewski is a Jew. Itussell Sage's sister lives at Oneida* N. Y. She is 93 years old. r ~ ^ Daniel Lamont's private fortune ia now said to reach $5,000,000.; 1 ; ' Mrs. Howard Gould owns a fail for Which her husband paid $100,000. Governor Roosevelt has taken to the Gladstonian exercise of felling trees. T. P. O'Connor gays Mrs. Langtry looks quite as young as she did ten years ago. R. D. Blackmore, author of "Lorna Doone," is a prosperous market gardener. Min Yong Whou, the new minister to Washington from Corea, speaks English fluently. William L. Elkins of the street rail­ way syndicate began life as an errand boy in a grocery. Leopold Carreras of Philadelphia does hot read jokes, as he dislocates his jaw every time he laughs. Manuel Garcia of Spain, the oldest liv­ ing professor of music in the world, was born ninety-four years ago. Sarah Bernhardt refuse* to disclose her age, further than to declare that she never intends to get old. Bliss Perry, the new editor of the At­ lantic, has been a professor of English literature at Princeton. Bela M. Hughes, of Atchison, Kan., recently celebrated the fiftieth amirer- sary of his second marriage. Colonel R&oe of the Twenty-sixth In­ fantry was a classmate of Admiral Dewey at Norwich University. Two divinity students ase working their way through Yale by doing job' ^ B*ine of to Clark ft Watkins. • Chicago Correspondent*: The changed condition marlcats lias beea tiie disCoMfrS in boft rial eteeifcs this week, ratea fe« batk call and titne loaos have beea sharply marked np, and there nat-g\/ *raill Inure bmt at least sympathetic ad- * vanees ip all of fta htrge centers. is doubtless a gaod deal that is artificial in the money situation at moment, but at the same time soa»e:'la> gitimate reasons exist for an adva rates over the level prevailing a weeks ago. The movement of cropl­ and the steady expansion of general -bm-> 1 ̂ ' n e s a a r e b o t h c a l t t n g f o r a m t r t h ! a i i 0 M ^ v 5 ase of tnoney, nnd as Is always -the w; ^ particularly at thia season of the jr*a*w".. ̂ New York is being drawn upon to farttf^$!:§|!f||| a certain proportion of the necessary funds. ! The effect of the higher rates for money ' ,' have been felt principally, and in fact' T_ /' v a l m o s t e n t i r e l y , i n s p e c u l a t i v e c i r c l e s . I n . . . ' - \ * : ' • the stock markets there has been a aharpi.^ decline in values, amounting in atHMtl^ ? cases to $6 and $7 a share, in consequence- «' of the liquidation that has accompanied , ^ ^, the calling of loans by the banks. Legiti- > y -1 mate business interests have not as yet. 1 : felt the influence of the advanoe in money5? >' rates to any appreciable extent. There ia,ij: no'stringency, in the ordinary sense of the^,f term, so far as they are concerned, com- m e r c i a l b o r r o w e r s h a v i n g n o d i f f i c u l t y I n . ' ^ V / ' getting ail the funds they need on time ats*® »**< ^ rates which, ail things considered, cannot,* .>* be called at all burdensome. '* In the general business situation no- . ! really disappointing factors have come to : 1-^4} light during the last week. All of the leading railroads report a shortage of cars with which to carry the enormous-;k • volume of freight pressing for transports-1 *; ^ tion. Manufacturing plants are still far b e h i n d o n t h e i r o r d e r s a n d p r i c e s a r e b e - * - y ' M ing maintained on their highest level. weakening in selling values is anywhere >- *j discernible, and consumption continoes a®/*"-" V an extraordinarily large scale. The bulls in the wheat market hadjf|s cause for dissatisfaction this week." With two important matters in their favor the prices were a trifle lower at the close of ' 1/ -J, > the market Saturday than at the end of" j the previous week. The Government , ' , m •' £ 1 crop report, issued Monday, was alto-; gether in their favor, and the daily ship­ ments of wheat and flour abroad were very liberal. A small crop, as less than' 500,000,000 bushels is now regarded, and. £ a heavy export business, were in sufficient to sustain prices in face of large stocks in, ^ commercial channels and weekly addi-' t " / tions to their amount. Argentina shipped to Europe this week over 1,000,000 bush- r - els of wheat, compared with no shipments4 ^ * the corresponding week last year, andij|»^||^'; thos to that extent compensated for ap- ' v* - p r e h e n d e d s m a l l c o n t r i b u t i o n s f r o m R u s - ^ sia and the Danube, which/ as regards ^ the first, at least, is by no means assured,, n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g f a i l u r e o f t h e c r o p s i n ^ ' < important districts of that great empire.' The bulls in wheat have been buoyed by the hope of greater outside speculation asS a r e s u l t o f s o m e e v i d e n c e o f w a n i n g i n -- < • , V j terest In stock investments, but that has { so far failed them. 4 ji An abundant corn crop is now assured, < and owing to the recent warm, dry weath- ' ( e r w i l l b e r e a d y f o r u s e a n d s h i p m e n t . f , much earlier than in ordinary seasons. >'T 4 That state of the weather has also dried ** , ,„.r up the pastures and caused an unusual consumption of corn, and as the climatic ' conditions in Europe have been of a sim­ ilar character the demand for export has maintained its previous activity, so that • there has been no reduction in prices, and the future is full of promise for good re- ( turns to the growers, as well in the mat- . of prices as of yield. ^ , • WANT A WOMAN MAVOlfc, j i What Female Members of the Council Have Done in Lincoln* N. J. The town of Lincoln, N, J., having--; /* d4"-: taken breath after the first great effort ,"£•* •_*" which resulted in a board of women ^ I ^ aldermen, is now " r thinking seriously of having a woman* mayor. There is * V UBS. F. P. WaBXCH. 21 good reason for this. It is that the 300 inhabitants of1 Lincoln have found their council of women great man-i; agers, who have, made the town a thoroughly up-to-. ^ . . date place. In two years the'n-->7'• *:-'% women have se-1 cured for the town all modern improve- 'Jv'-1 m e n t i s . T h e s t r e e t s a r e p a v e d a n d s e w - ' ered, electric lighting has been installed, " and electric cars connect Lincoln with v all the big cities of Jersey. \ y Among the candidates mentioned for. J mayor is Mrs. Flora P. Wrench, a mem- ber of the council. Three-quarters ofS the voting population regard her with v favor. She has arrived at a certain age :>• --not too old, not too young--and Is not, • •? •too pretty to be a successful politician. Yet she is sufficiently comely to repre-, sent the ft>wn with grace. Mrs. Wrench conducts a boarding house with restau- • # rant advantages in the shopa below. Shrewd Mrs. Wrench knows the surest , v , . way to reach a man's heart and' win hia ' vote. ' U HOOfS - grjo fluHa k:~ Boston publie schools are overcrowded. blowing is unusually popular at Har­ vard University. Russia is to establish a system of com-' pulsory education. " J The largest school in San Jaat, Porto iffi Rico, occupies only one room. * Ninety-five kindergarten teachers were licensed in New York in one week. The Northern Indiana Normal School has a brass band composed of students. Bdouard Rod says American universi­ ties require too much of their professors. Every child of school age can now be accommodated by the New York City schools. Daring the month of July 102 Heidel-, berg students were arrested for disorder-1 ly conduct. Nearly all of the conductors of chapel _,ts, exercises at Yale under the'new regime will be laymen. * 4, Harvard has 394 instructors; Yale, 245; ff'.'-'f'/- Pennsylvania, 245; Michigan, 187, and Chicago, 175. ^ A score of Students trom Cuba and nearly half as many from Porto Bie* "" are ut Notre Dame, Ind. Mayor Hoos has put an end to political . *" influence in the appointment of teachers % 1 in the Jersey City public schools. • " w In future Russia will punish disorderly ||' * students by requiring them to serve In p ^ the army from one to three years. || Princeton's new freshman class con- i * tains 289 members, a slight decrease, doe to higher scholarship requirements. \J.JJ • ,..Aj A.„. *1.,