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MCHENRY PLAINDEALER lloHlNRY, --- T PLAIND1AUER OCX . • ILLINOIS. B Judge John H. Reagan has decided ;>r i ^that he is far enough recovered to at- tend the Confederate reunion at Dal* las. J. S. Rogers, who has been station <agent for the International and Great . Northern at Columbia, Texas, since \ H**' I860, has just celebrated his eightieth Vv/'birthday. J- B- Cooksey, a prominent citizen >.v.f'T?ot Rosenthal, T£>xas, is dead as the ^; 'i result of a blow received in a diffi­ culty with Henry tiriffls, with whom he had a business disagreement. Six million feet of lumber, required for the new packeries at Fort Worth, is being sawed at Beaumont, Texas. L. H. Mulvey and Jame3 Dow of Houston, Texas, were attacked by a negro footpad, whom they beat off, but "not before Mulvey had been stabbed . in half a dozen places and seriously "wounded. A Masonic temple will be built at •'^Oklahoma City to cost $100,000. The house of Dave Croft, living near "West Point, Texas, was entered while the family was absent and $1,700 in -currency stolen. The postofflce at Rockdale, Texas, was robbed of $120 in cash and about ^$500 worth of stamps. The rise in the Brazos, the big river i^of Texas, continues, and the small f ^-ftstreams are sending considerable wat-\ ,er into it, jf/ i' Granville T. Wood of New York, the "Black Edison," received two patents lV from Washington, which he says es- - tablish his rights as the inventor of .^jf^the electric controller used on the new -J" >electric cars of the Manhattan "L." , J. H. Quick, special master in chan- ;icery in the United States court, found • tor Chicago parties in the Buit on bonds brought by them against Sioux tiiri Ia- The decision means payment jV"|i j *'by the city of $150,000. * ?. ; The bank of Montreal will establish branches in Havana and other Cuban $4 {Vjjf - cities. m The G. H. Hammond company has -awarded the contract for its great eW-i. plant at the Union stock yards, Chi- >cago, and work will begin at once. '.'The contract provides for buildings ag- • gregating a cost of about $2,000,000. Ipp;Emma Sink, aged 20, was burned to % death near Clay City, Ind., by her dress ip- ' taking Are at a pile of burning rub- gf,v;bish. , The whole business portion of Bar- " ton, Ala., was destroyed by fire. Vl i.r. The Sisters of the Order of St. Jo- !£\ > seph have ordered an architect to draw it,# • UP plans for a three-story hospital to % -cost $350,000 and to be built on the ; block of land they bought in South |gi McAlester, I. T., at the government ' ' < s a l e . fv< Charles Groth, a hotel keeper, died ,4.., at Jefferson City, Mo. ,' Frank Barnaby died at Joplin, Mo., wounds administered by robbers. Governor Ferguson of Oklahoma has been called to act in a reported Ku- ; klux case in Cleveland county, where \ ,v a colored woman, to whom was award- ^ V'^. ed a valuable claim by the govern- PV'- i ment over a white contestant, was the ' victim. She says that fifteen men en- ' tered her home, gave her son fifty . lashes and ordered her to leave the ^ , county within fifteen days. . Agent Roderick of the machinists met the labor bodies interested in the Illinois Central strike at Waterloo, Iowa, and says if demands are not |L; C ' met men on the entire system will be lit;h called out. A strike involving nearly all the street car lines of San Francisco is probable in v'.ew of the tacit refusal of Manager E. P. Vining to grant the men a flat rate of 25 cents an hour or to reinstate discharged union men. The Arkansas Federation of Wom­ en's clubs has adopted a resolution which opposes any step whereby col­ ored women may enter the General ^ Federation. A complete counterfeiters' outfit was discovered in the basement of a building at the United States barracks in Cincinnati, and Abraham Martin, a civilian employe, placed under arrest. An agreement affecting 15,000 brick­ layers in seventeen unions in New " rYork, by which the wages are ad- vanced 5 cents an hour, has been en- - itered into between the Master Build- r «rs' Association and the local unions. The Great Northern "flyer" was wrecked in collision with a freight near St. Cloud, Minn., one woman pas- r „ \ senger and four train men being slightly hurt. ,|y*y Alexander Woodward, aged 63, was ? assassinated at his home near Ellijoy, Tenn. J. N. Ogle, who lives on a near- #|T'l>y farm, is under arrest charged with W/-"'tho crime. Aaron Lovell, head of the well |b' , : known publishing house of that name, l&v.is dead at his home in Brooklyn. ||i ' An International Association of Or- namental and Architectural Iron Workers was organized at Pittsburg with 2,000 members. Tlfe president tfy* v is B. K. Duncan of Philadelphia. n"' M. P. Grover, a prospector, who has been at Michipicoten, Ont., in the min- - lng fields, reports a discovery of a big E; y - % deposit of iron ore on the north shore pt1'*-'- of Lake Superior, forty-five miles west || , vof Michipicoten. The ore assays 65 ' 'iper'cent. William W«iisenberger of Jfew York was arrested at El Paso, Tex., charged llv i . with smuggling jewels worth $6,000 'yV; from Mexico. Wholesale meat dealers at St. Paul, , representing big Chicago packers, are on trial, charged with using borax as ^ •- a meat preservative. Neben, Schulz ft Co., the coffee im- ' • porting firm of Hamburg, which has , . long been in difficulties, its liabilities |Nj|^ being estimated at 3,000,000 marks, *jip has made an assignment. The credi­ tors have been given until May 28 to '7 ' - §0m tlMlr claimj. sK", John EaBtburg, a well-known man, was struck by a train and instantly killed at Kewanee, 111. George Wale, chief of the Kansas City fire department, is accused of meddling in politics and may be ousted. Admiral Dewey has declined the in* vitation to attend a banquet in honor of General Funston at Denver May 1. Rev. M. Harwood, pastor of the Congregational church at Fairview, Kan., who is accused of heretical views, has resigned. At Lexington, Ky., William McCar­ thy, a railroad brakeman, shot and killed his wife on hearing that she had sworn out a peace warrant against him. At Toledo, Ohio, Daniel Rosenbeck- er, aged 13, pleaded guilty to killing his playmate, Arthur Shanteau, aged 7, and was sentenced to twenty yeans in the penitentiary. Richard Roan and Arthur Rogers, aged 12 and 15 years respectively, were killed by lightning at Akron, O., just before the beginning of a ball game. Several others were shocked. Moritz Marsch, a Union veteran, died at Waco, Tex., and was buried with honors by Union and Confederate vet­ erans. Barney McGill, a Cripple Creek pio­ neer, who left for Thunder Mountain, in Idaho, dropped dead of heart dis­ ease twenty-seven miles out from Sil­ ver City. Moline members of the Scandinavian Mutual Aid Association of Galesburg, 111., have sent out letters to members favoring reinsurance in the Northwest­ ern National Life Association of Min­ neapolis. Pacific coast fire losses in the first quarter of this year have been over $100,000 more than In the same period of 1901. The factory of the Bradley White Lead Co. in Brooklyn was burned, causing a loss of $100,000. One hundred and fifty molders and apprentices employed at the Rathbone, Sard & Co. stove works at Aurora, 111., have struck because the management refused to make the foundry a union shop. The American Federation of Labor executive council decided at Philadel­ phia to hold a meeting at San Fran­ cisco July 21, and that en route to that city and on the return meetings should be arranged to confer with the work­ men in the. different sections of the West The council also found defects in the Chinese exclusion bill as passed by the Senate, and decided to ask Con­ gress to re-enact the essential provi­ sions of the Scott act. Five thousand persons heard Wm. Redmond, member of the English Par­ liament, plead the Irish cause at Ex­ position Music Hall, St Louis. More than $3,000 was subscribed to the Irish cause. It is understood that owing to the increasing trade between Hamburg and the United States the latter has decided to raise its consulate in Ham­ burg to a consulate general. Col. Maximoff has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for killing Prince Wittgenstein in a duel at St. Petersburg. The court recommended that the colonel be pardoned. M. Santos-Dumont will probably give a series of exhibitions in his air ship this summer in New York. His principal feat will be an attempt to fly around the statue of Liberty. Julio Jose Marquis de Apezteguia, a Spanish grandee and former leader of the conservative party in Cuba, is dead at his home in New York, after a lingering illness. Hyatt Leatherland, the son of wealthy parents in l£vansville, Ind., who is a United States soldier and who deserted some time ago, surrendered to the authorities. The J. P. Coates company (Limit­ ed) at Pawtucket, R. I., has reduced all of its time hands because of the recent legislation reducing the hours of labor to fifty-eight per week. The Beck-Walker Coal Company of St Louis filed an assignment, assets being $42,000 and liabilities unknown. Henry Cross, a negro in Jail at Washington Court House, Ohio, for beating his child, fatally stabbed hi3 wife, who called to see him, and at­ tempted suicide. George Roberts went to sleep on the railroad track and was beheaded by the cars at Lima, Ohio. Ida Hennessey, 17 years of age, who has been asleep since April 12. died at Oswego, N. Y., without regaining consciousness. The Santa Fe railway has begun work on 500 miles of extensions in In­ dian Territory, it is said, to ofTset alleged advantage gained by the Rock Island. For alleged illegal fencing of gov­ ernment land over 100 ranchmen near Casper, Wyo., have received notices to remove barriers within sixty days. Judge John H. Baker, in the federal court at Indianapolis, refused to grant an injunction against striking mold­ ers in the Rockwood plant. Miles Dougherty, member of the na­ tional executive board of the United Mine Workers, says the possibilities of a general strike in the anthracite coal region are growing less, and hints at a peace move in the near future. A strike at Mahoney City, Pa., has been averted. Buried deep beneath the clay on the farm attached to the house of correction, at Chicago, deposits of fine marble, said to be valuable enough to pay off the bonded debt of the city, have been discovered. The deposit lies fully 100 feet beneath the surface. Booker T. Washington denies that he has bought a summer home at South Weymouth, Mass., byt says he will rent or lease one. The Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Indiana at South Bend elected Sidney W. Douglas of Evans- ville grand commander. Reports submitted at the first an­ nual meeting of the Pennsylvania Steel company's directors showed the net earnings from operations to be $2,- 879,272, with $323,559 additional from rent and income from investments and interest. The contractors and union carpen­ ters of Cleveland have reached a com­ promise on the ^age scale, and 2,000 carpenters will receive an advance of 20 cents a day beginning May 1. The men will be paid 35 cents an hour, the contractors to employ only union workman WEEK'S DOINGS Business Transacted by the House and Senate in the National Capital. EULOGIZE LATE COLLEAGUE 8«n»Wri Expraaa Sorrow *t DMlk of Mr. RfU of South Dakota, Pay Fit­ ting' Tribute la Speech, and Adjoora aa Hark of Respect. Tuesday, April Iff. In the senate the Chinese exclusion bill occupied most of the day. The house bill legalizing the manual of surveying instructions of the general land office was passed. The addition­ al urgent deficiency appropriation bill was passed with a minor amendment. The usual executive session preceded adjournment. An unsuccessful effort was made again by Mr. Payne io secure an agree= ment to limit the general debate in the house on the Cuban reciprocity bill. When the house adjourned there remained thirty-five members who de­ sired to speak. The debate during the day was without particular interest The speakers were Messrs. Swanson (Va.) and White (Ky.) for the bill, and Messrs. S. W. Smith (Mich.), Dayton (W. Va.), Burgess (Texas), Meyer (La.), and Sutherland (Utah), against it. Wednesday, April""1®. The provisions of the present Chinese exclusion act were extended until Dec. 7, 1904, by the senate, and applied to the Philippines and all oth­ er insular possessions of the United States. The senate took this action by a vote that would have been unan­ imous had Senator Hoar consented to cast his ballot for it. The drastic exclusion bill which was framed by congressmen from the Pacific coast and given the committee's indorse­ ment was defeated. The bill as passed was in the form of a substi­ tute proposed by Senator Piatt of Connecticut. It was carried 48 to 38. Some minor conditions were made, admitting Chinese persons connected with national expositions, and pro­ viding for certificates of identification for Chinese in our insular possessions. Mr. Lodge secured an agreement mak­ ing the Philippine civil government bill the unfinished business. After a brief executive session the senate ad­ journed at 6 o'clock. The day in the house was again oc­ cupied with discussion of the Cuban reciprocity bill. Thnrcday, April 17. The day in the senate was mainly occupied by a speech by Mr. Morgan on the Nicaragua canal bill. The reso­ lutions offered by Mr. Culberson (Tex.) directing the secretary of war to send to the senate a statement of money paid by the United States on account of the Philippine commission and a statement of the amount of money ex­ pended for sending troops to tho Philippines and for their maintenance were agreed to. The senate Chinese exclusion bill was substituted for the one passed by the house in order to facilitate consideration of the measure. The senate then at 4:50 went into ex­ ecutive session, and at 4:55 adjourned. The opponents of the Cuban reci­ procity bill occupied most of the day in the house, the feature being a vig­ orous speech by Cushman (Rep.. WaBh.) against the measure. Mr. De Armond (Mo.) delivered a forcible speech in favor of tariff reduction on trust articles. The other speakers were Messrs. Pierce (Tenn.), Douglass (N. Y.) and Lacey (Iowa) for the bill and Messrs. Jenkins (Wis.), Gaines (W. Va.), Warner (111.), Gardner, (Mich.), Jones (Wash.) and Loud (Cal.) against it. Mr. Loud declared that directly and indirectly Cuba al­ ready had cost the United States $1,- 000,000,000. Friday, April 18. In the senate consideration was be­ gun on the bill temporarily to provide a form of government for the Philip­ pine Islands. The measure was read and the committee amendments were agreed to tentatively, but no action on the bill was taken. Mr. Rawlins of­ fered a substitute for certain sections of the measure relating to the method of government in the islands, the op­ eration of the courts, and extending to the Philippines the land laws of the United States. Mr. Rawlins also of­ fered, on behalf of the minority, a substitute for the entire measure, granting, on the condition of the res­ toration of peace in the archipelago. Independence to the Filipinos, and pro­ viding for the formation of a constitu­ tional government in the Philippines. Mr. Carmack ofTered two amendments, one providing that no person or cor­ poration shall hold persons in slavery, under penalty of a fine of not less than $10,000, and the other declaring that the United States regards with extreme disfavor the admission of the Instruct for Ben T. Cable. Danville, 111., special: The Demor cratic county convention held in Ver­ milion county instructed for Ben T. Cable for United States senator and John B. Baker for clerk of the third district appellate court. Nominat'ons Sent to 8*na'te. Washington special: The Presi­ dent has nominated Col. Charles Bird, Simon Snyder and William Auman to be brigadier generals in the regular army, to fill existing vacancies. VaTon Nelson Bill* Washington dispatch: The senate committee on interstate commerce heard R. S. Lyon of the Chicago board of trade in favor of the Nelson bill to strengthen the interstate commerce commission. Philippine Islands as a state of this Union. Fifty-five private pension bills were passed, as were also bills to ratify an agreement with the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Indians of the Red Lake reservation, Minne­ sota, and appropriating $1,000,000 to carry the agreement- into effect; to prevent any consular officer of the United States from accepting any ap­ pointment from any foreign state as administrator, guardian, or to any other office or trust without first exe­ cuting a bond with security to be ap­ proved by the secretary of state; , ap­ propriating $60,000 for enlarging the public building at Kalamazoo, Mich., and provide a commission to obtain designs for a monument or memoria1 to Abraham Lincoln, and appropriat­ ing $25,000 for the purpose, the com­ mission to consist of the chairmen of the library committees of .the house and senate and the secretary of war. The conference report upon the legis­ lative, executive and judicial appropri­ ation bill was agreed to. The usual executive session preceded adjourn­ ment. . The house devoted the day to con­ sideration and passage of the Cuban reciprocity bill, after adopting an amendment removing the differential on sugar, which was carried' by th«=> aid of thirty-four Republican insur­ gents and the combined Democratic host. Saturday, April 19. The conference asked for by the house on the Chinese exclusion bill was agreed to in the senate and Messrs. Piatt (Ct.), Dillingham (Vt.) and Clay were named as the senate conferees. Bills were passed granting permission for the erection of a monument or statue in Washington in honor of the late Benjamin F. Steph­ enson, founder of the G. A. R.; to con­ strue the dependent pension act or 1890 so as to include all persons who served ninety days during the civil war and who were honorably dis­ charged, Dut excluding those of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth United States Volunteer In­ fantry who had prior service in the Confederate army or navy; to place Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Major General Alexander Stewart Webb on the retired list of the army; to in­ crease the pensions of soldiers and sailors who have lost limbs in the service, and fifty-eight private pension bills, including one increasing the pension of the widow of General Ludlow to $50 a month. The house bill providing for reciprocal relations with Cuba was referred to th© com­ mittee on relations with Cuba. Mr. Gamble called up the resolution ex­ pressive of the sorrow of the senate at the death of Senator Kyle of South Dakota, and he and Messrs. Cockrell, Cullom, Morgan, Foraker, Nelson and Kittredge paid fitting tribute to his memory. After the adoption of the resolution the senate at 4^ 25 p. m., as an additional mark of respect, ad­ journed. In the house the fortification appro­ priation bill, which carries $6,562,455. was passed, and the conference re­ port on the legislative appropriation bill was agreed to. The former was amended so as to allow the purchase o>. the exclusive rights to use the high explosive, thorite. A bill providing for two additional associate justices in Oklahoma was also passed. RATHBONE BOND IS ACCEPTED Surety Company Permitted to Qualify by Cuban Authorities. Havana cable: The court accepted the bond of $100,000 offered by a fidelity company for the appearance of Estes G. Rathbone. The court requires, how­ ever, that this bond be drawn before a notary. This involves much time and expense, as the notary's fees t^d a state tax must be paid. Rathbone's attorneys insist that the habeas corpus proceedings be contin­ ued and claim that the bond should be drawn before the court, as is cus­ tomary, without further delay or fur­ ther expense. In the habeas corpus petition Rathbone's attorneys declare the court's delay illegal and intimate that the court may be impeached for such action. . Illinois Men at Vlekburg. Vicksburg, Miss., special: The Il­ linois commission to locate the posi­ tions held by Illinois troops in the siege of Vicksburg, headed by General John C. Black of Chicago, arrived here and was taken over the old battle­ field by guides. Gov. Yates of Illinois will join the commission here next Sunday. The government is building a military park here. Parisian Journalist Dead. Paris cable: Aurelien Scholl, the well known author, journalist and duelist, died here as the result of an operation. He was best known as tbj editor of the Echo de Paris.. Widow Recovers Big Damages. New York special: Mrs. Lottie G. Dimon, widow of Henry G. Dimon, who was killed in the Park avenue tunnel accident on the New York Cen­ tral railroad several months ago, was awarded $60,000 damages against the railroad company by a Jury in White Pjfilns, N. Y. Son* of the Revolution* Washington dispatch: The Sons of the Revolution held their business meeting in the banquet hall of the Manor house at Mount Vernon, this being the first time in it3 history that the house has been thrown open foi the gathering of a public organization. British Loan Largely Oversubscribed London cable: The portion of the new British war loan offered for public subscription, £6,000,000, has been oversubscribed thirty to forty times and is now quoted at 1 per cent premium. Vonilaate^Chnrtes E. Fuller. Piano, 111., dispatch: The Republi­ can convention, for the twelfth con­ gressional district was held at the Piano opera house. Charles E. Fuller was nominated by acclamation. Italian Reservists L)l« banded. Rome cable: The war minister, Lieut.-Gen. Count Di San Martino, has ordered the disbandment of the reser­ vists, who were called to the colors, Feb. 23, to prevent the then threatened railroad 'strike. Twenty-Second District Democrats. Lebanon, 111., dispatch: The Demo­ cratic congressional committee for the twenty-second district has decided to hold the congressional convention aft- East St Louis on June 2. SWEPT BY FIRE Pyromaniacs Cause Property Valued at $400,000 to Be Destroyed FIVE INJURED, TWO FATALLY LarffMt Printing Plant 1* tbo South Wiped Ont--Pour Firs* Bora Simulta­ neously--Fire Chiefs rivs-Is .r-Old Son 't Hart--Incendiarism I« Charged- Four fires, starting in different sec­ tions of Dallas, Texas, and believed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed property estimated to be worth $400,- 000, tm which there is an estimated insurance of $275,000. Five persons were hurt, two perhaps fatally. The first fire started in the large printing plant of Dorsey Brothers, which occu­ pied an entirely new building 100 by 200 feet, three stories high. The loss in the Dorsey fire is stated to be $200,- 000. The plant was the largest of the kind in the South. While the Dorsey fire was in full progress and more than half the de­ partment of the city was fighting it, a second alarm announced a fire on Lamar street, near the agricultural Im­ plement district. The wind blowing from the south saved the implement district and railroad property adjoin­ ing from destruction. Twenty build­ ings were almost destroyed, about one half of them being second-class busi­ ness-houses and dwellings. About a dozen smaller manufactur­ ing establishments were also de­ stroyed, losses running from $1,000 to $3,000 each. The dozen frame cottages used as dwellings and boarding-houses were destroyed, but part of the con­ tents was saved. These losses are es­ timated at $15,000. Chief Magee of the fire department was overcome by heat in one of the buildings and rescued by the police. He remained unconscious several hours, but is reported to be out of dan­ ger. His 5-year-old son fell from a second-story window and received in­ juries which, it is feared, will prove fatal. William Spurr, a member of No. 3 engine company, was struck in the face by falling debris. His condition is critical. James Robinson of engine company No. 4 and James Roe of chemical No. 2 were overcome by heat and smoke, and rescued by the police. While the Dorsey and Lamar street fires were in progress fire broke out on Fisher lane, in South Dallas. Four dwellings were burned. Insurance agents claim this fire was incendiary. At Nacogdoches, Texas, six brick store buildings, a frame hotel and two dwelling hoiises 'burned. Losses are estimated at $30,000 to $40,000. TESTIMONY IN ANDREWS CASE £vldence Showing Method ' of Oolng Business in Detroit Bank. State Banking Commissioner George L. Maltz, at Detroit, Mich., resumed his testimony at the police court examination of Frank C. and Henry R. Andrews, charged with mis- approbating the funds of the de­ funct City Savings Bank. Additional checks and drafts drawn on the bank by Frank C. Andrews were introduced in evidence, making a total of sixty- two, on which $917,213.88 was paid out. Mr. Maltz also introduced copies <of the reports of the bank's condition at the close of business Oct. 4 and Sept. 30, 1901. Fred W. Hayes, the expert account­ ant who examined the bank's books for the county, testified at length in regard to Frank C. Andrews' over­ drafts, as shown by the bank's books. His testimony also showed that the books of the institution were very loosely kept. The records of the outstanding certified checks of Frank C. Andrews were kept in a little pass book, the "stamp book," so-called. Coulterville Miners on Strike. After a controversy between District Superintendent Bagwell of the Ooul- tervllle (111.) Miners' union and the operators of the Consolidated coal mine of that city a strike was ordered, throwing the entire force out of em­ ployment. The operators decided to run but a part of the shaft during the summer in order to cut down ex­ penses. The miners hold that this ac­ tion was taken in order to get rid of some of the employes objectionable to the operators. A prolonged strike is feared. Illinois* New Adjutant OeaeraL Col. Jas. B. Smith of Clay City, for the past five years assistant adjutant general, was appointed adjutant gen­ eral by Gov. Yates, to succeed the late Adjutant General Jasper N. Reece. Col. Theodore Ewert of Springfield, who has been chief clerk in the adjutant general's office for five years, was also promoted, being named assistant ad­ jutant general to succeed Col. Smith. Recover Body of Mine Victim. Neguanee Mich., dispatch: The body of Angelo Carill, the last victim of the Negaunee mine disaster, Jan. 7, has been recovered. The body was within twenty feet of the shaft, where most of the other bodies were found. Kansas City Has 900,000 Fire. Fire destroyed the building occupied by the Depot Carriage and Baggage company in Kansas City, causing from $40,000 to $50,000 loss, fully insured. Forty-six horses perished. Boy rails Fifty-four Feet* St. Joseph, Mich., special: Willie Nichols, 9 years old, fell from a via­ duct fifty-four feet high. With the ex­ ception of a number of briuses the boy was not greatly injured and the physicians say he will recover soon. Cable Aceepts OhalrmanslApk Washington dispatch: It is stated that former Congressman Ben T. Cable has decided to accept the chairmanship of the new Democratic congressional campaign committas. r POLICE KILLSOCULISTS Five Radicals lose Their Lives During Riot at Louvain, KING LEOPOLD TO ARBITRATE Though Beaten In Parliament, Reform Leaders Will Bequest the Belgian Ruler to Settle the Question of Uni­ versal Suffrage. Five Socialists were killed, twelve, wounded, and many policemen injured at Louvain, near Brussels. The fight between the socialists and the soldiery was the direct result of the rejection by the Chamber of Rep­ resentatives of the Socialist demand for universal suffrage. The streets of Louvain are barri­ caded and the war department is in charge. Rioting is reported from Bruges, where the police charged the mob with drawn swords, wounding ten Social­ ists. M. Van Dervelde, the Socialist leader, declared that, beaten in Parlia­ ment, the Socialists would make a di­ rect appeal to King Leopold to ar­ bitrate the differences between the So­ cialists and the government. It is rumored that King Leopold has decided to take the initiative and dis­ solve Parliament. The rioting at Louvain Was the most serious of the week. It began with a Socialist demonstration in front of the residence of M. Schollaert, the Presi­ dent of the Chamber of Representa­ tives. The police, in attempting to disperse them, were received with a shower of stones. A similar riot occurred in another part of Louvain, and altogether five persons were killed and twelve were wounded. Some of the mob carried the dead and wounded to the Maison des Proletaries. The rioting at Louvain began at about half past 7 o'clock in the even­ ing. A band of Socialists paraded the streets of the town, smashing win­ dows. They broke through the police cordon in the Rue Tirlemont. The civic guards became hard pressed by the rioters and fired a volley. The guard fired a second volley in front of the Catholic club. It is reported that twelve policemen were wounded. In some quarters the number of wounded policemen is placed at twenty, and several are said to have been mortally wounded. TRADE IS GOOD IN ALL LINES Decided Improvement In the Retail and Jobbing Departments. "Weather conditions have been po­ tent for good during the past week. Retail distribution was greatly accele­ rated, which in turn enlarged jobbing trade and brought more pressure on manufacturers for prompt shipment; agricultural work was facilitated and building operations made rapid prog­ ress; traffic increased at the interior as the condition of country roads im­ proved, which made collections better. Some labor controversies were settled and others were averted. Complaints are still heard regarding tardy deliver­ ies, but freight is less congested, and business has increased to the extent of 6.9 per cent, larger railway earnings for April thus far than last year, and 16.3 per cent over 1900," according to R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Report of Trade. Continuing the report says: Woolen goods are in less urgent de­ mand, purchasers having secured most of the cloth which the American com­ pany was unable to furnish owing to the strike. Buying of dress goods has decreased, and jobbers are beginning to go out with fall lines. Footwear shipments from Boston have decreased, but jobbers are plac­ ing orders for fall and the shops are fairly well occupied. Grain and meats have continued very strong. There was some logical expla­ nation of the advance In corn, interior receipts falling to 857,000 bushels for the week, while Atlantic exports roso to 384,603 bushels, an unusually large tbtal for recent times, although small by comparison with the corresponding week in preceding years. Wheat was sustained by exports from all ports of 4,485,352 bushels, flour included, against 4,613,891 a year ago. Failures for the week numbered 261 in the United StateB, against 206 last year, and twenty-four in Canada, against twenty-one a year ago. Students H • * Professor, Wichita, Kan., dispatch: The offi­ cials of Fairmount college have asked those of Friends' university, both de­ nominational colleges here, to discip­ line the students who on Monday night last met Prof. Gavitt of Fairmount college, escorting a young lady from •"he Friends' college to church, held him up, overpowered him, and sheared off the right side of his mustache. Palma Sails for Cuba. Hampton, Va., special: President­ elect Tomas Estrada Palma sailed on the steamer Admiral Farragut for Cutfa. Several hundred people assem­ bled to bid him farewell. He will reach Cuba on Sunday afternoon. Advance Wage* of Trainmen. New York dispatch: The Long Isl­ and railroad management has decided to advance the wages of all passenger trainmen 7 per cent, beginning May 1. A smaller increase will be made in the wages of freight train hands. Use Pitchforks and Brick* Suffolk, Va., dispatch: A race riot In which pistols, pitchforks, bricks and bloodhounds were used by both whites and negroes occurred here. It was caused by an attack on a negreas by two white men.. Ifacks Chinaman to Death. New Orleans special: Yee Lee, a Chinaman, was found backed to death in his home. A knlfs was left stick­ ing in his body. The object of 'he murder was robbery. Several negroes have been arrested BURN TO DEATH IN STEAMER EIRE h--:-- City of Pittsburg Goes Up> in Smoke on the Ohio River. SEVENTY-FIVE PERSONS DEAD1 Many Are Caught Between Deck» and 8mothered or Drowned--Passea- gers Lose Their Self-control and Iii-- pede the Work of the Beamier*. The steamer City of Pittsburg wa» burned in the Ohio river early Sun­ day and probably seventy-five of the- 150 persons on board perished. The exact loss of life cannot be told, as the pasenger list was destroyed. Half of the victims were passengers and the other half members of the crew. The following are known to be dead: Captain Wesley. Doss, Cincinnati; Miss Marie Tessim, Cannelton, Ind.; three children of Mrs. Fannie McCul- lum of Leavenworth, Ind.; Patrick Burt and seven members of his fam­ ily of Owensboro, Ky.; child of Pilot A1 Pretchard; Clay Breeze, wife and son, of Unionton, Ky.; child of Archie M. Allen of Pittsburg; Mrs. Marie Lis­ ter, Carrolton, O.; Mr. Adams of Ohio; Mr. Downs of Memphis; Miss Sweeney of Owensboro, Ky.; L. B>. Hunter of Litinti, Pa. The following are missing: Joe Redding, Fred Jones, Tcftn Smith, William Bollinger, Henry- Thomas, John Bates, Tony Gilfoil. Three bodies have been recovered. They are those of Captain Doss, Mis* Marie Tessim and the youngest of the McCullum children. The burning steamer was quickly headed to the bank. Passengers jumped off, and in trying to swim to- the shore through the swift current, many were drowned. Only one yawl oh the boat was saved without oars, and In this thirty women were taken off. Others were picked up out Of the water. Pilot Pretchard's child was tossed from the burning steamer into the arms of persons waiting to catch it in the yawl, but its head struck on the side of the boat, and then it fell into the river and was lost. One of the surviving members of the crew gave this account: "The fir©' was discovered at 4:05 o'clock in the forward hold. By 4:15 o'clock the entire boat was in flames, and at 4:30 o'clock the steamer was a wreck. The front stairway burned, cutting off any avenue of escape. We alarmed the sleeping passengers, bursting open their doors to awaken them. They ran out without putting on life pre­ servers, and crowded aft. "The officers held them back while one yawl was loaded with women and children. The scene was awful. About twenty or thirty were taken off in the boat, and then some of those in the water were rescued. Many who were not burned up in the steam­ er drowned in the river. "When we reached snore we were unable to stand and had to be helped out of the water. It seemed as though we were crazed by fright, for we were screaming even after we were safe ashore." LATEST MARKET REPORT. CHICAGO. Winter wheat No. 2 red 79 @ .80% Corn, No. 3 yellow 61 @ .61% Oats, No. 3 .41% Cattle .1.50 @7.40 Hogs 5.70 @7.30 Sheep and lambs 3.75 @6.90 NEW **ORK. Wheat, No. 2 red & .83»A Com. No. 2 q .67% Oats, No. 2 (fr .48 ST. LOUIS. Wheat, No. 2 red, cash @ .80^4 Corn, No. 2, ash @ .62% Oats, No. 2, cash @ .43^4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat, No. 1 northern 74 & .74^4 Corn, May @ .61% Oats, No. 8 white @ .46 KANSAS CITY. Wheat, ash, No. 2 hard 71 @ .72 Corn, cash, No. 2 mixed @ .66 Oats, No. 2 white 45 <g> .46% PEORIA. Corn, No. 3 @ .60% Oats, No. 3 white @ .43% MINNEAPOLIS. Wheat, No. 1 northern @ ,7S DULUTH. Wheat, No. 1 hard <fi .79 Oats & .42% Corn @ .60% Cattle •' 1.50 (ft7.00 Hogs 6.85 @7.10 Sheep 4.00 96.7S TOLEDO. Wheat, cash @ .80% Corn, cash & .60% Oats, cash @ .44 Belolt Wins Debate. Beloit, Wis., dispatch: After losing to Knox college for two years in suc­ cession the Beloit debating team won a great victory in the dual debate on the question, "Resolved, That the Adoption of the Fifteenth Amend­ ment to the Constitution of the United States Has Not Been Justified." Union Breweries or No License. Boston dispatch: A mass meeting in Faneuil hall in the interests of the striking brewery workers adopted a resolution which declared: "The fight is on. It is union breweries or no breweries at all, and no license for Boston next fall." Baby Burns In Honllre. Appleton, Wis., special: Wrapped in flames from head to foot and writh­ ing upon the ground in agony, Mamie, a 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kline, was burned in a bonfire until unrecognizable. Aanerlcans After Kngltsh Mite*. Manchester cable: Sites are be­ ing inspected in the Blackley district on behalf of an American syndicate owning cotton plantations in South Carolina, with the view of erecting two huge cotton mills. Filipino General Snrrenders. Manila cable: General Malvar, the last of the important Filipino lead­ ers and head of the insurrection in the Department of the North Philippines, has surrendered unconditionally to General J. Franklin Bell. <lndge Killed by Defendant. Berlin cable: Herr von Baden* bruns, who is on trial at Oldenburg, charged with irregularities in connec­ tion with the Vereinsbank. entered the residence of the presiding Judge aad shot him dead.