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ILLINOIS. F THE WEEK t <•* ^ 1 ! B, /,> /> * ,.l:v IHBUB, QET A MOVBON YOUf .... - - St* SITUATION, n )*X .••*ri M started at Thomas- of N. B. Boyle's erv business house ia {orningstar & Go. and was burned. Very ,4V •&:> itH^i aaved from any of the '.iH£r *1 tmfldtigs. The Pittsburg plants of the Americau TinplateCompany are preparing to shut iflowtf' indefinitely. They will be idle, " probably, after Nov. 15, and just when they will start up again, if ever, is a question in which some 700 workmen are much interested. , Officials of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies deny that V ' those corporations are in any way inter- * ' ( ested in the Telephone, Telegraph and :/ * - j,* Cable Company, which will soon be *""" *' launched with a capital of $25,000,000 to tight the Bell company. In Boston, at a meeting of representa­ tives of the majority of the largest con­ cerns in the webbing and goring indus­ tries in America the work of the prelimi- l4r4r Vj, aif.ry organization of a national combina- ™ perfected The combination is ^'capitalized at $12,000,000. I|"* , In Kansas City half a million dollars' A>* fa »• < 'w'ort^ °f property was destroyed by fire >" that started in Jones Bros.' big depart- ^ • " -• , ment store and spread to half a block of '**}, " / J*,-. \ other buildings. The aggregate. insurance <'* Is estimated at $375,000. Jones Bros.' f|&v > -? •£,•-'V- stock, valued at $300,000, was totally de- p' " • ; etroyed. • - - : ** At Moscow, Idaho, the jury returned a y%7- ,t' t i verdict of guilty in the case of ten and » not guilty in the case of three ot the - Coeur d'Alene miners who have been on ; , , .* trial in the United States Court on a- ^ f;,r. charge of conspiracy and stopping a \< ^United States mail train at Wallace on ; '{'• April 29 last. Rolla J. Guerin, aged 30. years, a huck- \^y,'ster, was shot and killed in his home at f- y ^Kansas City. Later William Lamphere, • aged 16 years, and Will Kiper. aged 18, if 7 wh° had worked for Guerin, were arrest- 1,1 s * „ed. Lamphere confessed he had done the " .'i* , -J, killing, claiming that Kiper planned it. £*5 ,Z' *\1 The motive was robbery. f*f?t %J *" " George H. Bartiiel, assistant manager Si* of the Simmons sporting goods store at LLjp < /t» \t t^'St. Louis, probably mortally wounded his r °* 4 wife and his father-in-law, seriously in- ,'»r* ' ' jufred his mother-in-law and committed "• J ' suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be the jsjfV* - "' ? cause of the crime. Barthel and his wife -is had been separated for more than three / , * years. .',r / i Twelve piano and organ factories/in e ' 1' , ' Chicago have <4osed their doors for an indefinite time, locking out 3,000 work­ men. By this action the manufacturers stole a march on the Piano and Organ Makers* Union, which had threatened to •call the men ou$ if the manufacturers did not accede to their demands for a recognition of the union. ,4 A petition in voluntary bankruptcy was ' 'filed in the United States Oourt.at .Co- l, f/;* lumbus, Ohio, by Turlington W. Harvey, f l'1" who gives Marietta as his present place IC -%]<' of residence, but who, until recently, re- ^ f ' h sided at Harvey, 111., where he was for §L/l -.'s number of years at the head of the ^ '• Harvey Steel Car and Repair Company. X His total indebtedness is scheduled at Iff-/ 1 5 * .' $238,340. Assets are nominal. '&* ~X' Gosnell, a farmer living four ^ miles from Monnt Pleasant, Ohio, was J ~v assassinated and the murderer escaped 5^;f. *iv in the darkness. There is no clew as to S'C> si -T. identity. About 7:30 p. m. Gosnell ' **• was seated in the kitchen, talking to his I? ' ̂ | family, when two loud reports were Sim . heard, followed by the crashing of the |% ^"window. He fell dead. The members t* ',. f ' of the family rushed forth, but could not C s ^ ' find trace of any one. A shotgun loaded ||r ^ ^uc^^ot was used. r-5 4, y. Bradstreet's commercial review says: p!f3g&-"fiwSfi "If the aggregate of bank clearings in !! "the country outside of the metropolis is ^ a trustworthy index, as it no doubt is, >' the country's trade reached its highest %>" - mark in the month of October. Prices certainly show marked strength in view -?°f the proportions of earlier advances. * Wheat (including flour) shipments for the 'C.v;-week aggregate 3,046,850 bushels, against 4,416,495 bushels last week. Corn ex- •_ ports aggregate 4,503,425 bushels, against 'W 4,525,519 bushels last week Business "i embarrassments for October furnish very . < . satisfactory comparisons with correspoad- ^ r >,*t ing months jof the other years. There •V , " we^re 816 failures, involving $6,774,000 in ^ liabilities, a decrease of 21 per cent in r,y.' number and of 54 per cent in liabilities ' i»«» * from October a year ago, and compari- :r"'. " - sons with earlier years are even more ̂ ' iavo«tt»le." ^ BREJYIT1ES. B. McLean, Demo- Jtor Governor of Ohio, llfrW&t ;':W#la«end died suddenly at bii^home in New York, aged 73 years. Ne«rly forty years ago he founded, with Frederick G. Havemeyer. the famous sugar refining firm of Havemeyer, Town- send & Co., now Havemeyer & Elder. The Haekettstown, X. J., Seminary was destroyed by fire. The fire orig­ inated in the basement of the maiu build­ ing and is believed to have been started by a hot-air furnace. All the students got out uninjured, but many of them had narrow escapes. The new administration building at Sing Sing, X. V., prison, built by con­ vict labor under Warden Sage, and con­ sidered to be oue of the handsomest structures of the kind in the country, was half destroyed by fire, The foss is about $50,000; uninsured. Mrs. Robert L. Webb, wife of the pas­ tor of the First Baptist Church at Need- ham, Mass., met death through a hair­ pin penetrating her brain. While cooking Mrs. Webb was taken with an apoplectic fit and fell. A large bone hairpin inllict- ed a severe wound and g^gatji f^aii^ed within 1 tew minutes. V -Z WESTERN. "'i • J Foot men were killed, two injured and one a narrow escape from death by ' ' * a rush of dirt in the mine operated by I % Lawrence & Brown near Mahanoy Plane, Pa. #*" r Sherwell Kershaw, formerly cashier of -: the Detroit Copper Company of 239 Lake *. street, Chicago, surrendered to the police * > in St. Louis. He confessed to having embezzled $6,000. ." An in-bound Louisville and Nashville f( * train struck a Fourth avenue electric car J£ ; at Fourth avenue and G street, Louis- Ji( ville, completely demolishing the car and . injuring nine people. * Itear Admiral W. S. Schley was eothu- 'M. «ia«tically welcoiried; to Atlanta. The ?' * events of the day culminated in the pub- «• is-• presentation of a handsome loving cup ? " from the people of Atlanta to the rear v. admiral. f - .^Mountain View, Mo., Avery Smith i Killed George Humphrey, beating him to ' ..f'i death with a baseball bat. Both were nchoolboys 15 years old. They quarreled over a game, and Humphrey, it is said threatened to use a knife on ftnith. Robert C. Alexander, editor of the New York Mail and Express, died of Bright' disease. At Oakland, Cal., from the effects of in­ juries sustained in a game of football on the college campus at the State Univer­ sity, Jesse Morris Hicks died at the East Bay sanitarium. He was struck in the mock while making a hard tackle. Richard Honeck, who pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter F. Koellcv. was . sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge ' 'it*\ Baker of Chit-ago. He declined to * anything * - ;S^v'n*mnced. Helen Gould has shipped to Wichita, Kan., one of Tiffany's best hall clocks as a, gift U> the Wichita hospital. The steamer Bertha has arrived at San Francisco from Cape Nome with 380 pas­ sengers and $2,500,000 in gold nuggets. Workmen^ while tunneling a hill at the California powder works, Santa Crus, dug into a bed of live clams 300 feet beiow the summit of the hill. The collapse of a six-story building on West Lake street, Chicago, and its sub­ sequent destruction by tire, killed four persons and caused a property loss of $200,000, The Women's Foreign Missionary So­ ciety of the Methodist Church at its meeting in Cleveland declared against a proposition to unite with the Home Mis­ sionary Society. A fire which broke out in Green Springs, Ohio, was confined to the Pear­ son block, a two-story wooden block, oc­ cupied by a b&kery and feed store. The loss will not be large. Ex-Gov. Alvin Saunders died at Oma­ ha. His daughter is the wffe of Maj. Russell Harrison, son of the ex-Presi- dont. . The infirmities of old age caused the .exrXIovernacji. death. Near Hutchinson, Minn., William Rahp, 17 years old, a son of Elder Rahn •f the A'dventtst Church,, was killed by the discharge of a spring gun while par­ ticipating in a skylarking expedition. Max Meyer, a son of S. Meyer of Hot Springs,, Ark., was seriously wounded by police officers. The shooting was the re­ sult of' misappr&iension, the officers be­ lieving they were firing upon burglars. Safe-blowers entered the saloon of An­ ton Jaeobsen in Cmcago and blew open a large safe with nitroglycerin, securing $1,Q00 belonging to the Walhalla and Walkyrie societies--Danish organizations. Mrs. Frank E. Tyler of Kansas City ^received > telegram from Alpine, Colo., stating that her husband had been burn- fed- to death in his cabin near his property there. Tyler was a well-known mining operator* The schooner yacht Chiqoita was cast on the beach <?t Lake Michigan off Mil­ ler's Station, Ind. The corpse of a man wasyjound on,the deck, the rest of those on board hiring evidently been washed ovVtxiard. * Fire delayed the performance at ih»» Columbia Theater, Chicago, the other evening and almost caused a panic among the persons who had gathered to see the play. The blaze was in an ad­ joining building. Dense fog was the cause of a collision between a local passenger train on the Wabash Railroad and an electric train in Chicago. The trailer was demolished, the motor car was wrecked and three persons were hurt. Burglars blew to atoms the safe in Burke Brothers' saloon in Chicago, wrecked the interior of the store and made their escape with $150 and two gold watches which were in the strong box, besides $18 taken from the cash drawer. * In San Francisco, Mrs. George Fife, daughter of the late Nicholas Luning, has sued George Whittel for $750,000. She alleges that in the settlement of her father's estate she was not given the full amount due her under the will. She was allowed $500,000. A freight train on the Big Four Rail- road crashed through . a bridge a mile west of Guilford, Ind., killing Edward McCreary of South Bend and injuring fatally W. D. Clark of Somerset, Ky. Fifteen cars loaded with lumbar were piled in the creefc. - . An 11-year-old school girl named Owens, returning from school at Morton- ville, Ohio, had some trouble with the other children. She ran to her home, se­ cured a musket and deliberately fired-into group of children, fataily wounding a boy named Bebow. A coal famine is threatened in South Dakota. There is already a large short­ age and wholesale dealers find it next to impossible to get their orders filled. The railroads have been using their fuel very carefully for several weeks and are fear­ ful lest they be left Bhort. "Tom" Hayden, a negro, aged 24, was taken from the officers who had him un­ der arrest for the murder of Andrew Woods, a young white man, and hanged him to a tree eight miles west of Fay­ ette, Mo. The killing was the reault -of a fight over a game of craps. At Weir City, Kan., Gus McArdle, a bartender, was shot and killed, and in less than two hours his supposed mur­ derer, George Wells, a negro miner from Scammon, was swinging to a telephone pole, the victim of a mob which had forcibly taken him from jail. The dead bodies of A. H. Patterson and his wife were found in a room at Bartl's hotel, 353 State street, Chicago. The woman was wounded twice in the breast and Patterson was shot in the mouth. It is supposed the man did the shooting after a couple had quarreled. SOUTHERN. s court decided a before isenttvucc was pro- - tMnjr wi# ̂ towiTW ,̂ . _ $10,000 was in the car, according to re­ liable estimates. # The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided that no work house, city, county or State prison keeper has a legal right to svhip a prisoner therein. The court sustained a judgment for $500 returned by a lower court against the keeper of the Knox County work house for whip- pang a colored woman who was unruly. The escape of George Isaacs, a life convict, from the Rusk, Texas, peniton tiary by means of a forged pardon was one of the most remarkable in the crim­ inal annals of the State. Isaacs walked out of the prison gates on Sept. 30, and the prison ottk-ials supposed that his par­ don was legal uutil by mere chance the attention of Gov. Sayers was called to the fact that Isaacs was at large and cla^Dfd to have been pardw^^iics&fgi • ' "• . ^1^ I |„| _ ' v FOREIGN. The North China Daily News has a dispatch from Chun King, saying that a native " revolt has broken out at Jen- Huaih-Sien, province of Kuei-Chow. A magistrate has been murdered. The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says that Great Britain has offered Germany the Gilbert Islands and the British sec­ tion of the Solomon Islands if Germany will renounce her claims in Samoa. The Brazilian foreign minister, Gen. De Castro Cerqueira. and the Bolivian minister at Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Para- vicini, have &igned a protocol settling the boundary question between their respec­ tive countries. Reliable dispatches announce that the production of oocoa in the regions of La­ mar and Huanta, Department of Ayacu- ch*. Peru, will be very small, owing to the damage done to the plants by insects. Prices for cocoa are now double those prevailing last year. Count de Almenas declared in the Spanish senate that owing to the ignor­ ance of the Spanish-American peace treaty commissioners three islands of th« Philippine group, the two Batanes and Calayan islands, were not included in the scope of the treaty. < • The Berlin Tageblatt hears from Pe-< tersburg that the construction of the pro*- jected Russian railway in Persia is as­ sured. M. Schanski, the emgineer, is oi> ganizirlg a body of engineers and survey-" ors to carry out the preliminary work. French capitalists are furnishing money for .building the line. T. Katayama, architect in chief of the imperial household of Japan, is at Ta- coma, Wash., en route home. He has been in the East for the last two months letting contracts for material and equip­ ment to be used in- the erection of a grand palace for the Prince of Japan. He says .the taJRlratls alone for the palace wiU cost J! IN GENERAI^ Admiral Dewey has been" unanimously re-elected comnfander of the Naval Order of the United States. The steamer Lady of the Lake went down In Lake Winnipeg with a big cargo. All on board were saved. Admiral Schley qnd the South Atlantic squadron are to be ordered to the scene of hostilities in South Africa. Gen. Funston has directed his attorney to sue Archbishop Ireland and a San Francisco Catholic paper for criminal libel in connection with the charge that he looted church property in the Philip­ pines. Capt. Nicoll Ludlow has been retired with the rank of rear admiral in thte navy on his own application, after thirty years' service. Capt. Ludlow is a son-in- law of Mrs; Wash McLean and brother- in-Iaw of Mrs. Hazen. The October >Cripple,Greek gold output aggregated $2,003,00() from 28,300 tons of ore treated. The advance of $300,000 over the September record and the breaking of all previous records are due to increased facilities for shipping ore. It is stated tha^ the organization of die Pacific Coast Biscuit Company is an as­ sured fact. The syndicate is capitalized for $4,000,000. Among those interested in the combine are Henry E. Mclntyre, the flour trust magnate; one of the War­ ner brothers, of proprietary medicine fame; Turner A. Beall, and John G. Hanrahan, New York capitalists, and C. E. Ide, a wealthy Syracuse, N. Y., attor­ ney. A company has been formed at Toron­ to, Ont., to take over the right* and business of four large bicycle concerns doing business in Canada--the American Bicycle Company, the E. & D. Cycle Company, the E. C. Stearns Company and the Christie & Wheeler Saddle Com­ pany. The new company will establish a factory in Toronto capable of turning out 30,000 wheels a year. The amalga­ mation was brought about by Lemuel H. Foster of Detroit. Some time ago John Hagel disappeared mysteriously and detectives at Lacombe, in Canadian Northwest, theorized that he had been murdered near that place. Tbey arrested the missing man's wife, with a view of scaring her into confes­ sion. This plan was successful, and as a result Mrs. Hagel's brother, Alfred Quigley, has been arrested at Fish lake, close to Kamloops, B. C. Mrs. Hagel says Quigley planned the murder of Ha­ gel, presumably for the insurance. Disastroos Result of the Btttle Sj • •• " *yV' •. ARE VICTORS. EASTERN. Mra. Jessie Wood, dramatic critic und humorous writer, died at New York. William H. Webb, aged 83, is de#d at New York. He was known as the father of American shipping. Sunday was a busy day at the New Fork barge office, more than 3,000 inuni-' grants passing before the inspectors. At launch of tqrpedo boat Shubrick at Richmond, Va., President McKinley *f*»ke of development of United States. The engagement of Admiral Dewey to Mrs. w. B. HUM, widow of Gen. Ha.- *"»» formerly chief, of the signal corps. s court decided any combination in restraint of trade illegal, even when prices are reduced. The American schooner Napoleon Boughton sank off Wilmington, N. C. The crew of seven has reach«d New York, having, had a narrow escape from drowning. A dispatch from Charleston, S. C., saya-the steamer George L. Colwell, Cap­ tain Gaskill, froih Fernandina for New York, has foundered. The captain is the only one saved. The strike of coal miners in the New River district, W. Va.. has been officially declared off. The strike started for an advance of 5 contra ton. The advance was granted by thirteen of the forty-five mines in the field. At Asheville, N. C.. Mrs. Alice Bafle. wife °f Past Assistant Surgeon Santuei W Battle, retired, of the United States navy and daughter of Rear Admiral Geo. E. Belknap, retired, is dead. Consump­ tion was the cause of her death. A daring train robbery occurred with­ in the city limits of Denison, Texas, Svnaai and Capture Three Refimeoti lie Qwea*« .• Irlsk Fttsileers, Tenth Monti tain Bat­ tery and Gloucester Regiment Capit* , »I»te--General White's Staff Officers •nd Bight Cannon Included Amonff die Captures--News of tlie Disaster to British ~*Arnts Canses Gloom In . ^London. Gen. White, at the head of 12,000 British, and Gen. Joubert, commanding 10,000 Boers, measured arms in the vi- einity of Lady smith Sunday and Mon*] day, and the result was a crushing defeat tor the Britons. Three whole regiments were surrounded and captured &hd eight:, cannon were taken. The Britisfh admit casualties of from eighty to a hundred; men.' The twai; armies on Monday fought from daybreak to the middle of the at- tenaoon. Joubert began the fight about 5 o'clock In the morning, firing several 100-pound shells in the direction of that part of the British force stationed near the railway station. Their ammunition was good and their aim excellent. Gen. White first ordered the artillery fire re- V iV- b- ' • 0! I •RN. SIB GEO ROB WHIT*. . MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs,, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 -to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 09c to 7<k>; corn, No. 2. 31c to 32c; oats. Np. 2. 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 56c» butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 25e to~35c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime. $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27 c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.35; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2, 23c to 25c: rye, No. 2, 54c to 50c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.30; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mix<»d, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 61c to 63c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 72c; eorn. No. 2 yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 62c to 63c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c; clover seed. $5.35 to $5.43. Milwaukee--Wheat. No. 2 Northern, 66c to 67c; corn. No. ,3, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 1, 56c turned and then ordered out a large force of cavalry and infantry to advance upon Hie Boer positions. White's forces fol­ lowed up the supposed advantage, but aoon found themselves face to face with a large army of Boers, who were all well armed and full of fight. The fighting raged fiercely until shortly before noon, when White withdrew without having forced the Boers within their laagers, and with a heavy loss. The column of troops, consisting of the Irish Fusileers, the Tenth Mountain bat­ tery and the Gloucester regiment, sent against the Boers Sunday, was sent rounded in the hills and after losing heav­ ily, had to capitulate. A Boer orderly came in to the British lines in the even­ ing under a flag of truoe with letters from the survivors of the captured coJ- nmn, asking assistance to bury the dead. Among those captured are Maj. Adye of Gen. White's staff; the lieutenant col­ onel, the majors and all the captains and lieutenants of the Irish Fusileers; the majors, captains and lieutenants of the Gloucester regiment; Maj. Bryant of the Royal artillery, all the lieutenants of the Mountain battery and also the chaplain of the Irish Fusileers. Many of the cap- tared officers and men were wounded. The Boers in the meantime kept np their artillery fire, and, besides playing havoc with the British troops, stampeded about forty mules used for transporting the heavy guns. The British were so busy using their small arms that they were unable to look after the mules, with the result that eight canaon were lost. Charge Upon Big; Onna. It seems Gen. White's first purpose was to charge the positions of the Boer batteries and capture, if possible, the big guns, which played so important a part at Glencoe. The charge was con­ sidered successful at first, but upon their arrival at the point where the Boer guns had been located the British found them gone. How Joubert managed t? remove the awkward, heavy weapons is a mys­ tery to the British, as they are said to weigh fully four tons each with their" carriages. One London newspaper, trying to ac­ count for the British retirement, says that presumably the Boers were driven back until they reached strong positions, which White naturally refused to attack. Gen. White reports the stampede hap­ pening during the night, as the result of battery fighting. But the newspaper accounts indicate the runaway occurred during the day's action. Knariand Is 8tartled« All England was startled at the news Of the first severe disaster to the British. W'tite, In what was evidently impor­ tant movement, almost lost 20 per cent of his fighting force and eight of bis fifty guns at one crack. Monday he had ev­ ery available man engaged against the Boers, and reading between the lines of the official report and the dispatches of tile Englislrtcorrespondents, he had all he could do to get back to his base at Lady- •mith after making his sortie. It is ap­ parent that he had hoped to march out and strike a blow at one column of the ememy that would weaken the attack on ail sides and give him the upper hand. He lost his left wing in attempting this plan. Three extra battalions of foot and one Sims?: *, 1"'t/ i ^ \ 'vCf - ¥ - ,;-v f; <• --St. Paul Pioneer Press. DEWEY TO WED MRS. HAZEM. ANOTHER INDIAN FAMINE. If'-- The Admiral Announces Hfa Kngaga- ment to a Washington Widow. Admiral Dewey has authorized the an­ nouncement of his engagement to Mrs. Mildred Hazen, the widow of Gen. Wil­ liam B. Hazen. The admiral Monday moved imto his new home, and his anx­ iety to occupy it without delay leads his friends to believe that the marriage of Mrs. Hazen and himself will be an event of the near future. Mrs. Hazen is the daughter of Mrs. Washington McLean, whose Washington residence Admiral Dewey occupied dur­ ing the ceremonies in his honor there, and for a short time thereafter. It is very evident that the admiral and Mrs. Hazen were engaged prior to his return to Washington. Mrs. Hazen is a sister of John Ii. McLean, the Democratic can­ didate .for Governor of Ohio. Her sister is the wife of Capt. Nicoll Ludlow, U. S. N. Gen. Hazen at the time of his death a year ago was the chief signal officer of the United States army. He was suc­ ceeded by Brig. Gen. A. W. Greely, the arctic explorer. (FERRY STEAMER IS SUNK. , Collision in New York Harbor aulta in. Drowning of Two MeS.- 'The Pennsylvania Railway Company's ferryboat Chicago, plying between Cort­ land street, New York City, and the One-fifth of the Peninsula Suffering from Hunger. It Is only three years since thousands of people were dying in India, and now about a fifth of the entire peninsula is again famine-stricken. The wide famine area extends through the interior from DAAKENSBEKtt, ON THK BORDKB. TRANSVAAL northwesterly to central Punjab and embraces nearly 350,000 square miles; and though none of the most densely peopled regions is Included in this terri­ tory, its population is about 30,000,000. No other part of the world suffers eo terribly from famine as India. Two rea­ sons combine to make this calamity fre- j SCENE AT LADY SMITH, NATAL. Headquarters of the British troops under Generals White and Yule. Pennsylvania Railway depot in Jersey City, was cut down by the Savannah line Bteamship City of Augusta about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning as the ferryboat was crossing to the east side of the North river. Within a few minutes of the col­ lision and before the Chicago could make her slip, she supk In seventy-five feet of water. It is not definitely known how many passengers were on board the Chi­ cago at the time of the disaster, but the number is variously estimated at from fifty to 100. One man, John Bryson, is known to have been drowned. His body was recovered. quent and very destructive. One is that the population is so enormous as to re­ quire nearly all the food produced in the country even in the best of crop years. The other is that the monsoons from the Indian ocean which bring the rain are fickle, and when the rains fail altogether DEATH FOR INCORRIGIBL£|| . California Considering the DoingA wajr with Persistent Crlminala. California is considering the advisabil­ ity of putting her incorrigible criminals to death. It has been suggested that the lethal, or smothering, chamber may be called into use to dispose of men who are so criminal in their tendencies that it would be better if they were dead. The case of a prisoner named Oppenheimer, in San Quentin prison, is now being gravely discussed by some of the Califor­ nia newspapers. California criminulugisU think, indeed, that it would be well to put this con­ vict to death, for if he were released he would only commit some other crime which would result in his further incar­ ceration. He has three times made mur­ derous assaults upon his keepers, and it seems utterly impossible to control him. The missionaries and the prison visitors have labored with him in vain. They find that he is utterly without moral sense. He has all the marks of degen­ eracy. Lombroso would find in him a type of the natural criminal. Punish­ ments, solitary confinement, on a bread and water diet, and everything which the GENERAL * JOUBRRT. to 57c; barley. No. 2, 46c to 48c; pork, mews. $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery; 17c t* S8e; est*, west­ ern, 14c to 19c. Willi ARMORED TRAIN USED BY THK HKITISH IN DEFENDING KIMIJERLET. mountain battery, with reserves, will leave England during the course of ten days to make good the casualties. The war office has ordered a second army corps to be in readiness to be called out. The military officials are determined to have everything in readiness either for • demonstration in Europe of Great Britain's capabilities or for sending wea • tartar force to the weemi/t act$c*. prison discipline can suggest have been tried upon this refractory prisoner. There are several other prisoners at San Quen­ tin who are as bad as he is, and some of the experts are solemnly considering the advisability of putting them all to death. There is, of course, no law on the statute books which permit such a thing, as there is talk oC --•k'Wg iacerr>»bitt4» a capital offeaat. . . - or are inadequate the irrigation ditches are empty and the lives of millions of people are in peril. Ten million people perished in the fam­ ine of 1771 in Bengal and Behar. Since that greatest of historic famines twenty- five seasons of food scarcity have come to one or another part of the peninsula and the loss of life in about half of these calamities has been a million or more. A million died in the famine of 1856. The region affected in 1868 was almost identi­ cal with that which is now suffering, and the deaths in that terrible fall and win­ ter numbered over 4,000,000. The fam­ ine of 1877 carried off about the same number of victims, and while people were dying by tens of thousands a day, Cal­ cutta was sending wheat to foreign lands, the famine regions being unable to pay the high price demanded for the grain. Governmental efforts on a large scale t<> relieve such distress as this are proofs of advancing civilization. 0 Telegrophlc BrevitlMb Gas explosion at Wheeling, W. Va., killed Frank Martin. President Gompers, Federation of La­ bor, wants oil well workers to organize. Citizens pf Billings, O. T., have order* ed all negroes to decamp. They'll go. Wm. Higgins, 45. Hoboken, N. J., was fonnd buried beneath thirty tons of coal. Burglars stole considerable jewelry from Gov. Stanley's home, Wichita, Kan. Lewis Wyraer. Troy, Ohio, killed him­ self because hia son was brought home drwk. Chicago Corretpoodencs: ' r As the fall season advances it befeoiBea Snore and more apparent that the favor­ able predictions made earlier in the year are to be realized. There has been no such confidence in mercantile circles since the Baring collapse as exists to-day, and so far as one can see no ordinary condi­ tion can check the expanding movement. A marked feature of the situation is the complaint on the part of buyers of the slow deliveries sellers are making on existing contracts. This is, perhaps, most pronounced in the iron trade, but it also applies to a considerable extent to sev­ eral other departments of industry. Mills have in many cases contracted to deliver more goods than they can easily turn out withiu the prescribed time, and in some lines of manufacture a sufficient amount of business has befen booked to keep the works running to their full capacity well into next year. The favorable business conditions have exerted a strengthening influence on stock market values during the week. Many rates are still too high to warrant any­ thing like an aggressive bull campaign in stocks, but strong interests have been taking advantage of the present oppor­ tunity to quietly pick "Bp- >t}ie standard shares and hold them for the rise which it is confidently believed will come with­ in the next few weeks. London has been quite an important buyer of its American specialties, and wkh positive news of British victories in the Transvaal the speculative fever in London is likely to assume large proportional Inactivity of the trade and indisposi­ tion of the public to take an interest in •the future of wheat were the most promi­ nent features of the dealings in that com­ modity for speculative account. The for­ eign demand for wheat and flour waa eaid by those who make a specialty of that branch of the business to be depress- ingly small, but notwithstanding the ac­ tual shipments to foreign purchasers from all American ports amounted to the handsome aggregate of 4,416,000 bushels. The market only occasionally gave indi­ cations of a tendency toward recovery of the previous week's decline, and it w°as feeble at best. The chief reason for the heaviness of the market was that not­ withstanding some decrease in farmers* deliveries and liberal exports, additions continue ,to be made to the commercial stocks. In other words, farmers are sup­ plying more than is needed for both home requirements and the foreign demand. _ " ' ^ Corn has ruled strong and 1 cent a .. >i. bushel that was added to its price raised '-5? the value of that crop to the farmers $22,000,000 since a week ago, if they raised, according to the latest estimate, a crop of 2,200,000,000 bushels. So stu­ pendous is the aggregate of that one item of American farm products, therefore, that an addition of only 1 cent a bushel means many millions of dollars to the producers.. While corn did not maintain to the end the entire advance it made during the week, the demand for it is such that the most experienced and best- informed people in the business look with confidence for a considerable further ad- VAoee between now and next spring. • ; . fZ't •M --"MFRQENTHALER DEAD. Inventor of the Linotype 8uccnmba it' / Pulmonary Disease. ... -J;. Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Si- Linotype, a typesetting machine in use in nearly all the large newspaper offices, ; died recently at his %' home in Baltimore, ' Md., of pulmonary ^ trouble. * t.-; Ottmar Mergen­ thaler was born May 10, 1854, itf, Wurtemberg, Ger­ many. He became a watchmaker's ap­ prentice, and in 1872 came to the United States to avoid military ser­ vice. He drifted mkrgk.ni haleW to Washington and began work in a ma­ chine shop. Here he met Charles Moore, a Virginian, who had invented a writing machine. From experiments with this Mergenthaler evolved the Linotype. Hampered by poverty, his invention got into the hands of a syndicate in 1885. Mergenthaler claimed he was frozen out of the syndipate, and will go to the jrrave a comparatively poor man and with a broken heart. He has been able to make a living recently by selling small part* of his machine for repair purposes. X' TOWN OF SANTA ROSA TATCIFV^ Filipinos Routed After a Brisk Fight with Young's Forces. (Jen. Young captured Santa Rosa Sat­ urday after a brisk fight with the Fili­ pino insurgents. The enemy was In­ trenched on the northern side of the Tu- boatin river just below Santa Rosa. The Americans opened fire on them, forcing them back from their positions, and then crossed the river with great difficulty on account of the stream's swollen condition. The insurgents scattered before the American advance on the town. Gen. Long, commanding Gen. Lawton's ad­ vance, lefjt San Isidro Friday for Caban- atuan. His progress was made difficult owing to numerous streams aqd marshy iuntry. Santa Rosa is half way hirtWflftB no insurgents at Cabanatuan,. The gunboat Laguna de Bay dispersed a force of rebels who were engaged in constructing trenches beyond Santa Rosa. The boat was fired upon by a party of insurgents bearing a white flag. It is reported that Aguinaldo and the Filipino congress are still at Tariae, There are about 500 insurgents, before Angeles. Two thousand rebels are at Bain ban, five miles to the north. Gen. Bates ha* been recalled from San Fernando and or­ dered to sail for the Southern islands soon as possible. Ii H M Odd* and Enda> Electricity is supplanting cable; attftf: car Hnes^in New York. Unknown man fatally shot Afcx. jLiftd* berger, New York, and escaped. England will enroll 500 Newfoundland fishermen in the naval reserves. Diamonds in the rough have advance 55 per cent in the past six months. Eighteen cars were smashed at Wi£* liamsport, Pa. Two tramps killed. ' Two trains loaded with refugees coir lided in Cape Colony, killing nine persona. A special mail train dashed into anoth­ er train at Boston. Three clerks were injured. Johs Beran, West St. Paul, Minn., shot his wife and committed suicide. She ufliay recover. • Murray Gilbert, Paducah, Ky., fatally shot Mrs. Jane Hall in a saloon and then killed himself. fi Two men were killed and two serkr.isljr injured by the explosion of a boiler at Beaumont, Teun. Dewey will accept as his home the" Fitch house, 1747 Rhode Island stieet, Washington. Homeftmd eomnUtti«fo^; . ' J r'yy'-M -;5» j » * y - * ' «/ 4 ! ti.j? •