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NEWS NUGGETS, NEWS NUGGETS, | 0<0«UttY]E«6, THE PLAINDEALER J. VAl? SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ILLINOIS. (ROADS ARE HAED HIT FREIGHT AND PASSENGER POOLS WILL DISSOLVE. finpreme Court's Decision Is a Stun­ ning.Blow--Discord in tbe European Concert--Reported Plan to Make Beet Sugar at Denver. Hits tbe Railroads. Frederic It. Coudert of New York City, one of the receivers of the Union Pacific, is in Omaha, attending the meeting of the receivers. In speaking of the Supreme Court's decision on railroad associations, he said: "There can be no doubt but that the effect of this decision of the Supreme Court declaring the Trans-Missouri Freight Association illegal will be very far-reaching. It may very likely be, as the dispatches from Chicago announce, that ajl freight and passenger associations will be dissolved because of the decision. It looks as though the Union Pacific and all other railroads that are in the hands of receivers would be most keenly affect­ ed by the decision. The receivers of a railroad are really a part of the court and no part of. the court can take a position adverse to that of the.,,Supreme Court. The whole matter is of such very great importance that I should not care to give ®ny Opinion until I had first read the full text of the decision." The Chicago, Bur­ lington and Quincy Railroad Tuesday withdrew from all traffic associations, its action being even more radical than the Santa Fe system, which withdrew only from the freight organizations. grant an injunction jo restrain1, the Joint' Traffic Association from operating. The decision is a victory for the railroads and was won only after a long and earn­ estly contested fight. The Government alleged the railroad pool was in restraint of traffic and violated the interstate com­ merce act and the anti-trust law. Dr. E. H. Wilson, bacteriologist of the Brooklyn Board of Health, reported on experiments he has "recently made qn the effects of the bacilli of; the bubonic plague, which the authorities are fearful may be introduced into this country. Dr. Wilson says in part: "Germs sterilized at 150 degrees Centigrade for one hour and then kept at thermal heat on paper, glass,, and blankets, have survived up to date--forty-two days--proving, great virulence and showing the germs could easily be brought alive to this country in ships." Dr. Wilson's conclusions arer The thermal death point of this organ­ ism is one or two degrees higher than that of the majority of patrogenic bacteria sporulating variety. Differing widely from cholera, sunlight and desiccation cannot be relied upon to limit the viabil­ ity of this bacillus under commercial cir­ cumstances. It has been found that an exposure for two hours to a 1 per cent, solution of carbolic acid suffices to de­ stroy the life of the bacilli. WESTERN. Great Britain Withdraws. Constantinople dispatch: The change in the policy of Great Britain foreshad­ owed in press dispatches has assumed (definite shape. The recent massacre of Armenians at Tokat, the danger of fur­ ther outbreaks in Anatolia and the action of the porte in semi-officially pointing out to the Turkish press and provincial offi­ cials that the blockade of the Island of Crete by the fleets of the powers and the pupport given to the Turkish forces by the (foreign fleets was a triumph for the pol­ icy of the sultan, have had their effect in (showing that theChristiaUs in Armenia are in danger of extermination. Conse­ quently it is semi-officially stated fhat the British admiral in Cretan waters has been notified not to send any warships of Great Britain to take part in the proposed blockade of the ports of Greece. At the same time, however, in order, apparently, to avoid an open rupture with the powers, Great Britain will acquiesce in the block­ ade of the Greek ports. Beet Sugar in Colorado. John E. Searles, secretary and treasurer |f the American Sugar Refining Company. fs in Denver. Although he refuses to talk jn regard to the object of his visit to Colo­ rado, the Denver Republican says: "It is nnderstood that, in association with David {I. Moffat, the Denver banker and mine owner, the sugar trust is about to inau­ gurate a gigantic project for manufactur­ ing beet sugar in Colorado. If carried to V successful issue, it will involve an out- jay of from .$2,000,000 to $5,000,000. When approached on the subject recently Mr. Moffat is quoted as having said that jie stood ready to invest $1,000,000 in the industry, provided proper conditions for I of the Ohio, Maude Wrightman, a pretty 1S:year-old girl of Saginaw County, Michigan, who a Week ago in a fit of jealousy married aft aged „widower, now seeks a divorce that she may wed her discarded youthful l o v e r . v - ' • \ - i Settlement of the long-contested Stur- ges-FiirWeil suit was effected in Judge Tuley's court at Chicago. By order of the Supreme Court the widow of Mr, Sturges, now Bes'sie MeLeod Leggett, re­ ceives §75,000 in eash. The'removal of the Wheeling and Lake Erie shops from Norwalk to Massillon, Ohio, has been decided on by the re­ ceivers. The decision creates considera­ ble bitterness in Norwalk, owing to the fact that the city contributed $32,000 to the erection of the buildings. Discoveries just made add $16,000 to the embezzlement of Cyrus E. Breder, de­ faulting cashier of the First National Bank of Bethlehem, Pas>, who disappear­ ed a few weeks ago leaving a shortage estimated at $13,000. He also stole $1,000 from a building association. Breder's bondsmen died and his bond was not re­ newed, so the bank had to make good the shortage of $30,000. Breder is said to be in Denver, and it is likely that steps will be taken to have him brought back on charges of forgerj*. An examination of the books shows that he began his steal­ ings six months after he became cashier of the bank. A sensation has been caus­ ed by the receipt of a letter from Breder, in which he threatens to expose certain unnamed citizens of Bethlehem who as­ sisted him in his peculations. Advices from Caruthersville, on the Mis­ sissippi river bank in the extreme south­ eastern part of Missouri, are to the effect that a levee fifty miles below that place is reported to have broken and that seven­ teen lives have been lost. The river con­ tinues to rise at Caruthersville and the pressure on the levee is great. All weak spots are being strengthened, but the work is handicapped by rain, as the earth used in repairs is turned into mud. Many families on the river bank in the country have abandoned their houses and taken refuge in Caruthersville. A large amount of stock has been lost on the Tennessee side of the river, almost the entire bottom for miles being inundated. The levee near Cottonwood, about eight miles from Ca­ ruthersville, is expected to break almost any hour^ and overflow that part of the country. From many points in the valleys Missouri. Tennessee and carrying it on could be secured. As a preliminary to planting beets and building j-efineries, it is authoritatively stated, the projectors of the scheme have secured control of the La Junta and Lamar Canal the large tracts of land that underlie Racine County, Wisconsin, farmers ob­ ject to the extension of the Sheridan drive and have petitioned the Governor to veto the bfll now before the Wisconsin Legis­ lature. 'I Obituary: At Peoria, 111., Peter E. iSpurck, 6G.--At Virginia, 111., John Menckel, 61.--At Detroit, Mich., Dr. The­ odore Burr, 81.--At Richmond, Ind., Rev. jOliphant M. Todd, 75. J At Reading, Pa., the large plant of the Acme bicycle works was destroyed by fire •early Wednesday morning. All the valua­ ble machinery was destroyed, making the itotal loss about $75,000, covered by in- jsurance. The building contained material •for fully five thousand bicycles. . j John Newman, alias Butler, alias Lee iWeller, having exhausted every other •means of averting his requisition to Aus­ tralia, confessed at San Francisco to hav dng murdered a sergeant of the Second Cavalry, whose name he cannot remem ber, while stationed at Walla Walla, Wash., in 1886. The authorities have imade inquiries which leave no doubt as to the falsity of Butler's confession. Sixteen apprentice boys have deserted jfrom the United States gunboat Adams at San Diego, Cal., in two days. The offi­ cers say that different tactics in training (the boys must be pursued or wholesale de- jsertion in every port will result. Tuesday ievening an officer went ashore in a launch Jwith a crew of eleven apprentices. When {he returned to the launch all the boys {were missing, and he had to hire a boat (man to take him to the ship. At a large meeting of hotelkeepers, irailroad men and merchants and manufac­ turers, held at the Mayor's office in Cin­ cinnati, a beginning was made of organiz­ ing the "Cincinnati Conventions League." jMayor John A. Caldwell was elected pres­ ident and other officers will be appointed [by him. The purpose of the league is to encourage and promote the holding of con­ tentions in Cincinnati. A liberal guaranty (fund was subscribed to back the move­ ment. ->• Hop and Wah, Chinamen, were found murdered in their laundry at Clayton, N. M. The murders were committed with a club, an ax and a knife. Robbetfy was the motive. Several arrests have been paade. The sheriff says he has evidence [that a conspiracy had been formed for the (murder and robbery of a number of (wealthy people. George Harris of Dubuque, Iowa, has sued a camp of Modern Woodmen for $20,000 for injuries received while being initiated. He alleges that he was blind- jfolded and thrown about until he fell on feMlihe floor. smaller streams in the great basin come reports of vast damage either already done or certain to ensue. Wife murderer Michael J. O'Brien of Chicago will spend the rest of his natural life in the penitentiary. Judge Ball pass­ ed sentence upon O'Brien Tuesday. As the words fixing the term of his sentence were pronounced O'Brien gripped the back of a chair he stood beside. His face was pale and his eyelids red and swollen. He gazed at the floor and an expression of suppressed emotion swept over his face. He recovered his composure quickly. On •the way back to his cell he lighted a cigar and smilingly said to a guard: "Well, it is all over and I'm glad of it. I did not ex­ pect a life sentence, though." In passing sentence Judge Ball carefully reviewed all the facts connected with the murder and the trial. He concluded that O'Brien's sprees had not seriously affected his mind. "His business ability was excellent," said the court, "so that in spite of his many excesses he was successful. When he re­ covered from a spree he seemed to have a recollection of what he had done while intoxicated, for he apologized to some of those he injured or insulted and always promised to reform." SOUTHERN. National Bank of El Paso, Texas; 5 pec •cent, the Columbia National Bank of Chi­ cago, 111.; 45 pei^ent in favor of the stock­ holders of the First National Bank of Clearfield, Pa. ^Washington dispatch: It has become vividly apparent that the Senate is con­ templating a long discussion over the tar­ iff bill and that there is' very little hope of the measure becoming a law, until July, and possibly not before August. Senator Allison, who is chairman of the Appropri­ ations Committee and also an important member of the Finance Committee, says he does not see how the Senate can give the bill the necessary consideration its importance demands before the 1st of Juiy. Senator Cullom names no date, but expresses the same general ideas. Sen­ ator Morrill, chairman of the Finance Committee, is anxious to give'the country the benefit of prompt action^ but is of the opinion that the Senate will not feel called upon to act hastily in the matter and that it will go very carefully over' the bill, which will be turned over to it by the House early in April. i FOREIGN. Salvador Cisneros, president of the Cu­ ban republic, is reported to have died at Camaguey, and to have been succeeded by Vice-President Bartolome Masso. A special from Galatz, Roumania, says it is announced there in Greek circles that a plot is being hatched among the Greeks at Constantinople, where there are 30,000 well-armed Greeks living, to re­ volt against the Government. It is added that there are few Turkish troops now at Constantinople except the sultan's body­ guard, and that it would be impossible to hurriedly recall troops frdm the Greek frontier in the event of a revolt at Con­ stantinople. The Russian Government, according to United States Consul General Karel at St. Petersburg, is acting with vigor to pre­ vent the spread of the dreaded bubonic plague into Russia. A sanitary commis^ sion has been created, with a fund of 100,- 000 rubles to draw upon, and it has added new measures of precaution to the exist­ ing regulations. It has prohibited for this year the pilgrimage of Russian Mussul­ mans to Mecca or to other suspected places, and forbidden Russian Christians visiting the holy places of the East. Meas­ ures have also been taken to send medical help to threatened localities. It was re­ ported that several Indians who had come to Afghanistan had died at Kandahar last December. In consequence the Russian and Persian Governments have establish­ ed military cordons on the Afghan fron­ tier and cut off intercourse, though there have been no additional cases reported. Constantinople dispatch: Authentic de­ tails of the outbreak last Sunday at Toka, in the Sivas district of Asia Minor, when the Turks attacked the Armenians while the latter were in church, show that 100 Christians were massacred. The Arme­ nian quarter and bazaar were given over to pillage for eighty hours. The repre­ sentations of the ambassadors of the for­ eign powers regarding the condition of Anatolia have made little impress on the sultan, who, relying upon the support of Russia, is convinced that he has nothing to Jfear from the so-called concert of the powers. Meanwhile the war preparations of Greece are continuing night and day, and there are no indications of a back­ down in that quarter. Money does not appear to be lacking for the equipment of the Greeks. If war is declared the Greek army from Larissa will probably try to enter Macedonia with the Crown Prince Constantine and a second Greek army will attempt to enter Epirus from the vi­ cinity of Arta. It is still possible that ar may be averted by timely concessions to Greece, such as the withdrawal of all Turkish forces from Crete and the selec­ tion of Prince George of Greece as Gov­ ernor of Crete, with the understanding that when quiet is restored it shall be de­ cided by a plebiscite whether or not the island is to be annexed to Greece. DEATH BY TOM ADO. CHILDREN KILLE& IN A DE­ MOLISHED GEORGIA SCHOOL. John Sloane, head of the great carpet house of W. & J. Sloane of New York, is critically ill with pneumonia at Jekyl Isl­ and, off Brunswick, Ga. Two New York physicians and two trained nurses nave arrived to assist in attending him. At Newport, Ivy., Jackson and Walling, standing side by side, firm to the last, e{>.ch declaring himself innocent of the murder of Pearl Bryan for which they paid the penalty with their lives, were hurled into eternity at 11:41 o'clock on Saturday morning. . A cyclone Monday cut a path of death through Arlington, Ga. It left eight chil dren dead in the ruins of Arlington Acad­ emy. Many others and one of the many teachers will die. Thirty-five children and the teachers went down in the wreck, and not one escaped injury. The horror came upon the town at 8:30 in the morning and without a warning. There was a sudden roar, which passed away as quickly as it came, and the harvest of death had been reaped. Walter Hughes, carpenter and ex-em ploye of the Southern Pacific Railway triet his death at Houston, Tex., at the hands of Detectives Ellison and Proctor Some time ago Hughes proposed to Sol Edel, a saloonkeeper, to abduct the chil dren of Berry N. Camp, a rich lawyer, and Frank Dunn, a wealthy pawnbroker, and to demand from the fathers a ransom of |40,000. Edel did not give Hughes an answer, but informed Chief of Police Heims of the proposal? Under Heims' advice, the plan was consummated, and a posse was ready for Hughes with guns WASHINGTON. EASTERN. - Mrs. Katherine Tingley, the theosophn leal leader, wq& seriously injured on a! Pennsylvania mid' Thursday night, while* on her way to Fort Wayne. Ind. For some reason the air-brake was applied withoulj (Warning and the train stopped suddenly: Mrs. Tingley was thrown against a car Seat and stunned. . She soon recovered consciousness, however, and is reported to be resting easily. The United States Government has fail-, ed to bre%k the railroad pool. The Fedv eral Circuit Court of Appeals of the New 'York district affirmed the refusal of Cir­ cuit Judge Wheeler in June, 1896, to The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Joseph L. Bris tow of Kansas, to be fourth assistant postmaster general; Binger Hermann of Oregon, to be commissioner of the general land office; James D. Elliott of South Da kota, to be attorney of "the United States fOr the district of South Dakota; Ernest G. Titnme of Wisconsin, to be auditor for the State and other departments (fifth auditor);. Commodore Joseph N. Miller, to be a rear admiral. x The Comptroller of the Currency has declared dividends in favor of the cred itors of insolvent national banks as fol |lows: Ten per cent, the National Bank of Illinois, Chicago, 111.; -10 per cent, the First National Bank of Sedalia, Mo.; 20 per cent, the First National Bank of Hot Springs, S. D,; 10 per cent, the El Paso IN GENERAL. A boat of the lost steamship St. Na- ziere was picked up by the steamer Creole, which arrived at New York from New Orleans. Six dead bodies were in the boat; no one alive was in it. Obituary: At Kenosha, Wis., Captain Wallace Bullen.--At Manitowoc, Wis., Lyman Emerson, SI.--At Jefferson, Iowa, William N. Brown.--At Bloomington, 111., Mrs. Caroline Bardridge, 49.--At Lyons, Iowa, Henry Klindt. 83.--At Ellsworth, Joseph Jennings, 80.--At Beaver Dam, Wis., Warner Hathaway, 65. Obituary: At Leitersburg, Md„ James Freeman Leiter, brother of L. Z. Leiter.-- At Las Palmas, John Biddulph Martin, 56.--At Louisville, Ky., Col. John Church­ ill, 78.--At Elizabeth, N. J., Walter Scrymser.--At Paris, M. Salis, founder of Le Chat Noir.--At "Milwaukee, C. D. Nash, 78.-- At Milwaukee, Captain James W. Martin, 40. Miss Frances Willard is in communica­ tion with the leading women engaged in philanthropy and reform asking if there cannot be .a combination of influence whereby women throughout the country will agree to give their patronage only to the newspapers that avoid furnishing ex­ tended accounts of prize fights. She also asks that a protest be made by the wom­ anhood of the country on the ground that the arbitration treaty and the "Nevada bruising ring" present in combination the most incongruous spectacle. Eight Bodies Taken from the Wind* wrecked Ruins of an Academy at Arlington--Many Fatally Injured- Entire State Ravaged by Hurricane. Storm in tbe South. A cyclone cut a path of death through the little town of Arlington, Ga., Mon­ day. It left eight children dead in the i-uins of Arlington Academy. Many oth­ ers and one of the many teachers will die. Thirty-five children and the teachers went down in the wreck. Men who were re­ moving the ruins became sick at heart. The horror came upon the town at 8:30 in the morning and without a warning. There was a sudden roar, which passed away as quickly as it came, and the har­ vest death had been reaped. No larger than a: "bed blanket was the cloud in which the cyclone was hid. It rushed down from the northwest, missed the business section by a bare block, tore through the residences of W. D. Cowdry and Dr. W. E. Saunders, demolished them and then took the little academy and twisted it into fragments. Luckily liobody was in. either of the two residences, and so the death list is confined to the academy pupils. Persons who heard and saw the death Cloud were startled. * Nobody dreamed, however, that it had caused a horror un­ til a scream came from the direction of the academy. The town is a Jiffies one,, and it' did hot take' long .for the' news, to spread that there was a disaster. Men left their work and women their homes. Nearly everybody hail a* child in the school,, and when the white-faced men and weeping and screaming women saw what had hap­ pened the scene was heartrending. Chil­ dren, wounded and bleeding and unable to walk, were creeping and crawling and staggering out from under the wrecked building. Others, alive but helplessly fast­ ened down by broken beams and flooring, were piteously pleading for assistance, while others, silent and mangled, told a tale all too terrible for the parents who looked upon the work of the small cloud. . Rescue work was soon begun. Men and women, too, tore at the twisted timbers, sobbing and screaming. Occasionally na­ ture was kind to a mother and she was tenderly carried away unconscious. Other towns were asked to send aid, and doctors came from far -and dear. All that was possible was done for the mangled little ones, while the dead were borne to homes of sorrow. Nearly every household is stricken, and in every street were women wringing their hands, sobbing men and children weeping because some little chum was either dead or dying. The cyclone formed on the western gulf and was deflected inland by the Appala- chicola river valley.a Tearing up the val­ ley, wrecking buildings all along the way, it split at the junction of the Chattahoo- SCENES IN THE OVERFLOWED DISTRICT ALONG TARIFF DEBATE BEGUN. Mr. Dingier Explains His Bill and Gen. Wheeler Denounces It. The first day of the tariff debate in the House was rather tame, from both a spec­ tacular and an oratorical standpoint. The opening/of the debate was delayed over two hphrs by the full reading of the bill of 162\ pages, and this, to begin with, had a somewhat depressing influence. Only four speeches were made at the df»y ses­ sion. Mr. Dingley, the chairman of the Wals and Means Committee, opened in an hour's speech for the majority. "In re­ vising the tariff," he said, "the committee has endeavored to discard mere theories and frame a practical remedy, at least in part, for the ills which have for so many months overshadowed the country. "It is a condition, and not a theory, which confronts us. Our problem is to provide adequate revenue from duties on imports to carry on the government, and imposing duties t6 secure this result so to adjust them as to secure to our own people the production and manufacture of such articles^ as we can produce or mrfke for ourselves without natural disadvantage, and thus provide more abundant opportu­ nities for our labor. No economic policy will prove a success unless it shall in some manner contribute to opening up employment to the masses of our people at good wages. When this is accomplish­ ed, and thus the purchasing power of the masses restored, then, and not until then, will prices cease to feel the depressing effect of underconsumption and the pros­ perity of our people ri*e to the standard of 1892." - " / > In closing Mr. Dingley said: It mast lie obvious from any point of view that prompt action by the two houses of Congress is indispensable to secure the rev­ enue which the impending bill is intended to yield. The exigency is an unusual one. The people, Without regard to party affilia­ tions, are asking for action. Business awaits our final decision. With this great ques­ tion of adequate revenue to carry on the government settled favorably by such an ad­ justment of duties as will restore to our own people what lias been surrendered to others during the last 'four years, with re­ stored confidence in tiie future, there is rea­ son to believe that gradually and surely there will come back to us the great pros­ perity which we enjoyed in the decade prior to 1893, and which the greatest of living •English statisticians so strikingly eulogized when he said in 1892 that "It would be im­ possible to find in history any parallel to the progress of the United States in (then) the last ten years." Gen. Wheeler of Alabama opened for the opposition. Mr. Wheeler began with the statement that the bill had been secret­ ly prepared by the eleven Republican members of the Committee on Ways and Means, and framed almost in the lan­ guage of the petitions presented by pro­ tected interests. Since the star chamber measure came to light on last Monday, He said, the conservative press of.the coun­ try had denounced it in unmeasured terms. The bill increased the du>ypn many arti­ cles far above the McKinley rates and in some instances exceeded the McKinley rates by from 50 to 100 per cent. Nearly every paragraph was changed from the ad valorem rates under the Wilson bill to either the specific or compound rates, the MISSISSIPPI. NATIONAL SOLON REVIEW OF THEIR WORK ' . WASHINGTON- Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House--Bills Passed or Introduced in Either Branch--Questions of Mo­ ment to the Country at L>arge. The Iiesrislarive Grind. Immediately after the reading of the journal in the House Friday Mr. Dingley reported the tariff bill. Mr. Bailey se­ cured unanimous consent'to extend for two days the time in' which the minority report may be filed. The sundry civil bill, carrying $53,147,551, and the general deficiency bill, carrying $8,166,214, were passed. The Senate open session lasted fifty mihptes and was-given almost entire­ ly to the introduction of bills. Most of itlie day was spent in executive session, the international arbitration treaty beiuz under discussion. The Senate confirmed the nominations of John Hay of the Dis­ trict of Columbia to be ambassador of the United States to Great Britain; Horace Porter ef New York, to be ambassadof of the United States to France; Henry White of Rhode Island, to be secretary of'tliS embassy of the United States' to .Great Britain; Perry S. Heath of Indiana, to be first assistant postmaster general; C. U. Gordon, to be postmaster at Chi­ cago. The Senate- adjourued till Mon­ day. "'.•'-'•yj-.-V?"'" The House Saturday pushed through the two. remaining "left over" appropria­ tion bills according to Friday's schedule, the agricultural bill carrying $3,182,902 and the Indian carrying $7,670,220. After the appropriation bills were passed a res­ olution for extra mileage and stationery for this session of Congress was adopted. The debate on this resolution was rather lively, and a question as to whether Mr. Holman, "the watchdog of the treasury." who opposed it, had taken the extra mileage voted by the Fifty-third Congress was used to greatly embarrass the econ­ omist. He finally declined to answer it on the ground that it was "impertinent." Debate upon the tariff bill was com­ menced in the House Monday. Mr. Bailey of Texas presented a minority re­ port on the, bill. The Anglo-American arbitration treaty was advanced toward final ratification in the Senate. All the amendments recommended by the Com­ mittee on Foreign Relations were agreed to. These amendments provide for rati­ fication by the Senate of all agreements between this Government and Great Brit­ ain; eliminating " the United States Su­ preme Court as members of arbitration tribunal; and abolishing the provision for an umpire, thus dispensing with the ser­ vices of King Oscar of Norwav and Swe­ den. On Tuesday, the speech of Mr. Dolliver, of Iowa, was the feature of the tariff de- TJfl8Wff>TT'B^lllk i * "* ' ~ . "T~ . chee and the Flint rivers, ascending both valleys and sweeping in broken parts over the country in which lies Arlington, Blake- ly and other points heard from. As the greater part of the country traversed is removed from communication the damage can only be surmised from that reported. It may involve hundreds of lives if the record is maintained. Another storm swept from the Florida Atlantic coast, northwestward, but no disasters have been reported from its path. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, 2c to 6c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 80c to 82c; corn, No. .2 white, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. " St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 96c to 98c; corn, No. 2 yel­ low, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 34c to 35c. . Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to^ $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25 wheat, No, 2 red, 89c to 91c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, 35c to 37c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c corn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; oats, No 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c clover seed, $5.25 to $5.35. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 3, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c;» barley, No. 2, 28c to 32c; rye, No. 1, 34c to 35c; pork, mess $8.50 to $9.00. JBuffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 2Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. ' New York---Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hpgs $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to .S4.75 wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 8ljc; corfif^To. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, West­ ern, 10c to 11c. Is it not violating fcthe law to handle the fighters, "withotit gloves?"--Chicago Tribune.' Of course the country has a good navy, but it really should have been made water- proof.--Florida Times-Union. When Gov. Bradley begins to sass Mark Hanna, he is talking like a, man who hankers to retire from politics.--Detroit Tribune. ' . y . - There is one admirable thing about the Sultan. _ He doesn't talk nor issue ulti­ mata that are not ultimate.--Providence Journal. Tbe barrel organ and the peripatetic strawberry can give the . robins cards and spades as record breakers in arriving early.--New York Press. o The revolutions in Brazil,; Uruguay, Ar- 1 gentine and Peru are doing as well"as could be expected without proper atten­ tion.--Cincinnati Tribune. It is to be suspected that the legislators who are endeavoring to prohibit cartoons will, instead, of suppressing cai'-icatures,' furnish new material for them.--Washing­ ton Star." The Piute Indians of Nevada are saidj to have looked upon the prize fight with5 Contempt. They evidently are too highly] civilized to take an interest in such mat-, ters.--Chicago Times-Herald. j From President pro tempore of the Uni­ ted States to a reporter of prize fights1 is a pretty long jump, but Mr. Itigalls haw taken,it with agility, and he will dispatchr the result.--Chicago Dispatch. Charges of corruption are bandied about in both houses of the Oklahoma Legisla-| ture and several Senators have resigned.; Oklahoma is evidently qualifying herself, for Statehood.--Buffalo Express. The same theory whiehdeads lawyers in! damage suits to place tbjf damage claims? at several times the amount they can ex-r peet to get seems to apply in the cases of applicants for Federal offices.--Chicago! Record. The Sultan of Morocco is about to mar­ ry again. As the Moorish sovereign is' allowed 3,333 spouses, not much popular1 interest is aroused by his present soli­ tary matrimonial intention.--Chicago In­ ter Ocean. The cruiser New York distinguished it-i self and nearly extinguished itself by de-; veloping a fire in its "forward magazine.", That, is the penalty of New York for having such a forward magazine.--Chi-' cago Tribune. \ A scientist says that a diet of carrots1 ameliorates harshness of character and- reduces nervous irritability. The atten­ tion of the chef of the German Emperor; Jfhould be called to this statement. St.1 >ouis Globe-Democrat. _ i RAILWAYS LOSE THEIR FIGHT. Supreme Court Reverses the Trans- Missouri Freicht-Pool Case. Railway traffic associations are a peril to commerce and a violation of the anti­ trust law. So the Supreme Court said Monday in one of the most important de­ cisions of recent years. Railroad men everywhere will be startled by its force, and an entire change in the methods of distributing freight traffic will be caused by it. The case is that of the United States against the TransmisSouri Freight Association. The opinion was rendered by Justice Peckham, and reverses the decision of the court below, and holds the anti-trust law of 1890 to be applicable to railroad transportation and the traffic agreement of the pool illegal. Justice Peckham said the mere dissolu­ tion of the association did not determine the question, as thgre was still relief to be had. Taking up the case on its merits he said the court had reached the con­ clusion that the Sherman act covers the question of railroad transportation, and that the agreement between the various roads is within the prohibition of the act. Hence the decision of the lower court, which was favorable to the contention of the railway companies, was reversed and the case remanded. Justices Field, Gray, Shiras and White dissented, Justice White delivering the dissenting opinion. Summing up .on the point of applicability to railroads the court says: While the statue prohibits all combina­ tions in the form of trusts, or otherwise, the limitation is not confined to that alone. All combination^ which are in restraint of trade or commerce are prohibited, whether in the form of trusts or in any form whatever. We think, after a careful examination, that the ttet covers, and was intended to cover, com­ mon carriers by rail. The claim that one company has the right to charge reasonable rates, and that, there­ fore, it has the. right to entflr-into a com­ bination with competing roads' to "maintain such rates, cannot"be admitted. The conclu­ sion does not follow from an admission of the premise. Justice3 White, delivering the dissenting opinion, said that the agreement in ques effect of which was to increase enormous­ ly the duty upon cheaper articles that are purchased by those who work and lessen the tariff upon the expensive articles that are purchased only by the rich. By trans­ ferring an enormous quantity of wool from class 3 to class 1 the duty on raw wools was increased far beyond any bill ever presented to an American Congress. Wools that paid 32 per cent under the Mc­ Kinley bill would now, lie said, pay an equivalent ad valorem of between 200 and 300 per cent and possibly more. The duty on corduroys used by the poor was increased to about 123 per cent, abso­ lutely prohibitory. The bill restored the duty upon burlaps made from jute used for bagging grain and fertilizers, while the only burlap of this description made in this country was made in prisons. Car­ pets of jute, purchased by the poor, had been raised^ 1« said, to an equivalent of 150 per cent, while those used by the,rich were taxed 55 per cent. The tax upon waterproof cloth had, he continued, been increased from the McKinley rate of 40 per cent to about 120 per cent. Just received, a car load of s only one best, there is only one are agents for it. It costs you not West MeHenrj, Illinois. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, pre-" sented a bill, prohibiting vitascope and kindred exhibitions of prize fights in the District of Columbia and the territories and forbidding the shipment of pictures for these exhibits by mail or through any interstate means. The Senate confirmed, the appointment of Binger Hermann, of Oregon, to be Commissioner of the Gen­ eral Land Office; E. G. Timms, of Wis­ consin, to be Auditor of the. State and other departments, and George E. Tlium- mel, of Nebraska, to be Marshal of the United States district of Nebraska. The four-days' debate upon the tariff bill in the House closed Thursday night, making the bill open for amendment un­ der the five-minute rule until the time set for a vote. The Senate held a half-hour session early in the day, and then, after two hours in executive session on the arbitration treaty, resumed the open ses­ sion in order to go on with the bankruptcy bill. Amended credentials were pre-sent- ed in behalf of John W. Henderson, ap­ pointed by the' Governor of Florida to the seat vacated by Sir. Call. It brought out statement from Mr. Hoar, acting chair­ man of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, that action on the pending elec­ tion cases was delayed by the uncertainty as to committee organization in the Sen­ ate. The revised credentials were re­ ferred to the Elections Committee. Told in a Few Lines. Col. John Churchill, owner of the cele­ brated Churchill Downs, died at Louis­ ville, Ky., aged 78. John Biddulph Martin, who married Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull, died at Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. The Savage Anns Company of New York City have made a contract with the Hawaiian Government to furnish the troops of that country with the best grade of Savage military rifles. The refusal of Queen Olga to receive the Russian charge d'affaires at Athens has made a painful impression in London. The relations betweei^ Russia and Greece are daily becoming more unfriendly. James M. Hagar, lawyer and ship-build­ er, died at his home in Riclimoud, Me., aged 75 years, from injuries received iu being knocked down by a delivery wagon in Boston two weeks ago. He was inter­ ested in the development of railroads and other enterprises in the South and West. A duel with swords was fought in the park of St. Ouen, Fraftce, between the Chevalier Pini, master Of the Italian school of arms, and M. Thomeguex, a French amateur swordsman. The meet ing, which excited intense interest, arose from a letter insulting Pini. Finally M Thomegtiex was wounded in the f^ice and the.duel was stopped. | Samuel J. Ritchie brought suit at Ak­ ron, O., against Judge Stevenson Burke of Cleveland and the executors of the wills of Henry B. Payne.and Thomas W. tion was not an agreement to fixates, but4<3ornell for $(500,000 damages, claiming to classify freights and prevent an in­ crease or reduction of them except upon given notice. Hence the document was not°in restraint of trade or commerce. that stock in Canadian iron and copper mines which he gave them as collateral for loans depreciated in value by an al­ leged conspiracy of the defendants. Tcleeraphic Brevities. Herman Lehuer, a noted authority and writer on chess, died at Berlin, aged 54. Walter Scrymser, a wealthy retired broker of New York, died at Elizabeth, N. J. Bayard II. Ames won the final oratori­ cal contest at the University of Michigan with his oration, "Castelar." Charles Simons won second honor. Two burglars visited the home of Cap­ tain Ben Alfoid at Shawnee Springs, Mich., and attempted to terrorize his wife. She sent her little girl for help and one of the thieves was captured. It is announced that June 20 has been definitely fixed upon for the jubilee thanksgiving day for the celebration of the sixtieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. June 22j>\JM be a bank holiday. The English Government will propose to deal with the question of contagious diseases among the British troops in In­ dia by placing the inspection and exam­ ination of women in the hands of women doctors. The London Lancet says that rumors of the ill-health of the Czar from cerebral svmptoins are unfounded, adding that his majesty goes out daily, and runs five furlongs, watching to see if he can do the distance in his average time. Lee Kennedy o.f Lawronceburg. Ind., who was released on a charge of drunken­ ness, went to the home of Huston Wright and assaulted Miss Lizzie Moses, the do­ mestic, aged 17 years. He was captured later in the night and taken, to a barn by a crowd of men, who coated him with tar and feathers, gave hini a few lashes and a ride on a rail. He immediately disap­ peared; Miss OlUe Mash, who was shot in the neck by her brother at Georgetown. O., is 4still alive, aittl the attending" physi­ cians are now of the opinion that she wilt recover. Walter Mash, who accidentally discharged the revolver and subsequently tied to the woods insane from roiuorrie, was found later by a searching party. He was in a pitiful condition from hunger and exposure, and despite all entreaties refus­ ed t£T?l<iturn to his home, but finally was indue^d xo^go to the house of a relative. Administration Echoes. There was never any doubt of the re­ jection of Speaker Reed.--Baltimore, merican. SThe best thing the horde of place-hunt-! Is in Washington can do is to start rightj jic-k home and go to work.--Cincinnati' in'imercial-Tribune. lie medical advice to Mr. McKinley to; oid excitement is on a par with thatj ren the sick letter carrier to take more' iprcise.--St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ibould the late Samuel Jones Tilden. ve looked in on the caucus of the House 'mocrats Saturday afternoon he but liat's the use?--Washington Post, ipresident McKinley has shown rare dis- ^fetion iu asking for an extraordinary ses-i son of Congress. The Congresses of late live been quite ordinary.--Chicago Jimes-Herald. The only trouble with that dreadful) story about the quarrel between Mr. Ol- nev and Mr. Cleveland was that it was not true and that there wasn't any quar­ rel.--Chicagp Record. Office-seekers seem •j have forgotten that Maj. McKinley had quite a severe attack of that "tired feeling" before leav­ ing Canton, and wss obliged to unchain the dog and bar the doors.--New York Advertiser. President McKinley's training as a pe-. destrian is well-timed. He will probably have to walk the floor a good deal before he succeeds in finding out how to control1 his Congressional team of wild horses.-- Louisville Courier-Journal. The President and Cabinet are much; mixed as to religious affiliation. The President is a Methodist, but there are three Presbyterians, a Congregationalist, an independent, a Unitarian and a Roman Catholic. All are Republicans, however.i --Indianapolis Journal. Greek "Fire and Turkish Smoke. G/eece has struck up quite a corre­ spondence with the powers.--Detroit Free Press. Greece grows warm, but she is not the. kind of grease that runs when it gets hot., Boston Transcript. All quiet at Canea, though they still! insist on baking Christians in the publici ovens.--Boston Herald. The powers seem to be realizing at length that King George has raised the ante.--New York Press. The agreement known as the European ccncert is liable to be ruptured by the overture of its own guns--Chicago Inter> Ocean. > The Sultan should he furnished with a scientific frontier in Asia and placed oni his good behavior there.--St. Louis Globe- Democrat. The indications are that before a great while Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, will tremble at the powers.---New 'York' Advertiser. The "sick mar^of Europe" seems to be the only monarch over there just now who is in a position to smile.--Chicago Times-Herald. The six big European powers will com­ bine and attack little Greece, it is an­ nounced, with absolutely ho fedr or trepi­ dation whatever.--Chicago Record, ft Would that Greece had an army and a; navy that could defy the powers, and, make both might and right do battle in a noble cause!--Baltimore American. AVill It Affect the Meter? An account' of the new French meth­ od--due to the inventive ingenuity of Mi Denayrouze--for increasing the il­ luminating power of gas about fifteen> times,-as claimed, lias been extensively; published in the technical journals. Briefly, it appears that a spherical me-, tallic body and a mantle capable of be­ ing raised to incandescence are in-' eluded in the upper part of the lamp,, and in the bqdy is fixed a tiny motor which works a ventilator and receives current from a couple of small accumu­ lators. According to tbe representa­ tions made of this arrangement'the electrical energy required for insuring the result named is only one-third volt and one-tenth ampere, this being suffi­ cient to force air through the madtle and give the flame remarkable bril­ liancy. Lamps of SOO-candle power are made, '