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concern English sy 10,000,000. the firm of ed for taxa ital stock a valued at $200,000, ai try outside , teens to an estate of $.45,000,000 In Hol­ land. The documents wore drawn up un­ der instructions from the Holland Gov­ ernment. There were preseut at the meet­ ing heirs from Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Iowa. The principal heirs are i David B. Staller of Cressona, Pa.; Henry Sterner of Pottsville, Pa.; Frederick Wagner of Friendsburg, Pa.; Mrs. Daniel Fessler and A. W. Sterner of Mount Car- mel, Pa., and A. H. Webber of Schuyl­ kill Haven. ' Penniless and a physical wreck, James S. Parsons, the fugitive president of the Continental Life Insurance Company, re­ turned Monday to Hartford, Conn., after ten years. He has an incurable disease of the stomach and can live but a short time. Parsops has been in Canada most of, the time since the wrecking of the company, but for a year intimate friends have known that he was in a Boston hos­ pital. He is 60 years old, and his long exile and disease have wrought sad havoc with his physique. He was hunted out of the United States by the officers of the law and returns in the hope that he may breathe his last in his own home. He has taken great chances, but the. prospects arc that death will got ahead of the law. Parsons' defalcations amounted to $150,- 000, though what he did with the money was a mystery. Four indictments are outstanding and 'will probably be served on him by the State's Attorney. month for living expenses In addition to his traveling expenses. , The" Department of Agriculture officials have had their attention called very fre­ quently of late to the wide discrepancy between commercial and official estimates of the wheat crop. The official estimates indicate approximately a crop of 450,000,- 000 bushels, while commercial estimates range from 500,000,000 to 550,000,000. It is very plain that there will have to be a radical change in the governmental methods which tiow obtain of collecting crop statistics or they will be entirely dis­ credited in every quarter. The crop re­ porters of the Department of Agriculture are nearly all farmers, and therefore di­ rectly interested in placing a low estimate on production. Yefar after year the ship­ ping and milling results show that the de­ partment estimates have been too low, oftentimes ridiculously so,, but neverthe­ less the same system of gathering data is in force now that obtained fifteen years ago. It is altogether probable at the next session of Congress a new plan will be vigorously discussed, and it is barely pos­ sible that the crop-reporting bureau may be entirely reorganized. TJNDJ3R MARTIAL THE PLAINDEALEB J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. STRINGENT MEASURES TAKEN TO GUARD DE ARMIT MINES. ILLINOI* MoHENRY, Cereal Advances Five Cents in Twenty-four Hours. RUDYARD KIPLING JR REACHES 883s GENTS, TALENTED ENGLISHMAN AGAIN A HAPPY DAD. Latctt Arrival the Only Boy of a Family of Three--Uncle Sam May n Soon Have to Discipline Pprn-Hic o Piano Deal. Sudden Spurt Due to Cable Reports of Small Yields. Highest Price Since 1802--Short Crop at Home and Scarcity Abroad Make the Market Active--Veteran Oper­ ators Think It Will Keep on Climb- ins: Upward--Say It Will Be Cheap at a Dollar--Pandemonium in the Pit. JULYS [Aug i2 mmm. Kipling Jr. Arrives. '• Dr. .Tames Couland of Brattleboro. Yt., received a cable message of three words Wednesday which made him chuckle in a knowing fashion. Somehow or other the information it contained so pleased the , doctor that he could not keep it to him­ self and presently "hitched up" his team and drove down the road a piece into Brattleboro and exhibited the message to half a dozen residents. This is how it read: "Rottingdean. England, Aug.: 18.-- Boy; both well.--Rudyard Kipling." The author of the "Jungle Book" is a near neighbor of Dr. Couland When he lives at "The Bungalow." as his recent eccentric hillside residence in Buffalo is called; and the cable had" been anxiously expected for several da.vs. The Kiplings now have , - thrive children, the other two being daugh­ ters. Mrs. Kiplingtwas Miss Ballestier of Brattleboro, a sister of the late Wolcott Ballestier. who collaborated with Kipling In writing "The Nauhlak^" ; _ :ii-; ' Peru Slow to IV.y. Relations between this Government and Peru are" badly strained. The trouble grows out of an attempt of the Hailed States to collect a claim against Peru on behalf of Victor H. MeCord, a eit'zei of Pennsylvania. This is a claim for $50,- 000, and the present administration hr»s assumed the attitude of backing it and of enforcing its collection. The Peruvian Government has never offered anything but the flimsiest excuses for the wrong committed against McCord, and the jus­ tice of his claim, which is now ten years old. has never been seriously disputed. He was simply held up and robbed of a large sum of money by men who weie then representing the revolutionary gov­ ernment. which was successful and is still in power. The disposition of the Peru­ vians is to temporize and delay, under cover of pretended further negotiations, bot inasmuch as this sort of thing has been carried on for several years it is not likely that the administration will permit another postponement of a payment of the claim. Farmers Kill a Fiend. Farmers of Leydeu township, Cook County, II!., Thursday killed a man whose identity is not known and who had as­ saulted Mrs. Pauline Fenske, the young wife of a German farm hand living two miles north of Mannheim. Guns, pitch­ forks and stones were used by the enraged farmers, who surrouuded the fugitive in a corn field! " They riddled his body with bullets and pitchfork tines and bruised it terribly with stones. Mrs. Fenske was so badly beaten by the assailant that she may not recover. She was able to crawl a quarter of a mile and give the alarm at a neighbor's house, when she fell uncon­ scious. No one has recognized the body of the man. The farmers in the mob as­ sert that they killed the man in self-de­ fense and that he was a robber. He was armed with two revolvers and fired at his pursuers when brought to bay. Piano Business Transferred. It is reported that the present members of the piano manufacturing firm of Stein- way & Sons of New York have completed a deal whereby the extensive business of passes into the hands of an te. The price paid was In 1806 the real property of Steinway & Sons was assess- taxation at $3,000,000 and the cap- stock and surplus at $2,250,000. The buildings containing the general ware­ house and salesrooms and Steinway Ilall valued at $170,000, the piano factory on Park avenue at $181,000, the factories near Astoria, Long Island City, at *4-15.- 000, and the employes' houses there i»t $68,300. The factory in Hamburg was t $225,000, that in London at and the salesrooms in this coun- of New York were estimated be worth $230,000. Athletes of the Dinmon l Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. .G7 31 Pittsbnrc ... .43 52 .03 31 Louisville ...43 5(5 .60 32 Philadelphia. 42 57 .58 36 Brooklyn ....39 57 .51 44 Washington. 38 58 .48 51 St. Louis. .. .26 73 Boston Baltimore .. Cincinnati , New York.. Cleveland . Chicago .. The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below4 W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 70 29 Detroit 52 Columbus .. .62 36 Kansas City.35 St. Paul <>(i 4() Minneapolis. 34 Milwaukee ..64 41 G'nd Rapids.32 BREVITIES. Albert Kneeland, the alleged bigamist, arrested iij New Mexico and taken to St. Joseph, Mo., for trial, according to letters received, has ten wives, nearly all of them living. They live in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. Kneeland is a traveling artist, and was married the last time at St. Joseph about two years ago. He was first married at Columbus, O. His fourth wife, living at St. Louis, is pushing the prosecution. At 2 o'clock Friday morning a mob from Russell Gulch, armed and masked, broke into the Central City, Colo., jail by- effecting an entrance through a door in the rear, and demanded the keys of the steel cell from the jailer. In this cell were confined four prisoners held on sus­ picion of the murder of Alex. Goddard, an American miner, who was stabbed dur­ ing a saloon row with Austrians Monday night. The mob was after Domiek Eck, believed to be guilty of the murder. The jailer refused to give up the keys, where­ upon the mob fired through the bars into the cage. The four prisoners escaped death by hiding behind the mattresses and bedding in the cell. The members of the mob. supposing they had killed all four, left the jail. Four leaders have been arrested and a strong guard placed about the jail, but further trouble is feared. The oft-repeated threats of the crusad­ ers who are trying to induce coal miners to strike to force their way into the vil­ lage of Coffeen, 111., were carried out amid great excitement Tuesday afternoon. They formed eight abreast, 400 strong, the Staunton band of eleven pieces bring­ ing up the rear. Sheriff Randle placed twenty deputy sheriffs, armed with mus­ kets and with fixed bayonets, across the highway. The other deputies were sta­ tioned to guard the mine, where 100 men were at work getting out coal. President" Traylor ordered the column of marchers to halt. With regular step they marched on, brushing the village president aside without ceremony. The strikers in the front ranks grasped their guns and the column by sheer force of numbers pushed the deputies, many of whom were consid­ erably frightened, from their places. Sher­ iff Randle asked for troops, but was again refused. J. E. Mitchell and wife, Miss Jeane McFarlane of Sumner and Sergeant Will A. A. Hall of Puyallup, Wash., were near­ ly starved and frozen to death at the top of Mount Tacoma. They were held pris­ oners for three nights and four days by a storm. As the party was ascending the mountain the storm gathered and increas­ ed to a hurricane just as they scrambled over the rim of the crater into a place of shelter. They remained huddled together during the first night and not an eye closed in sleep. The next day an attempt was made by the men to prepare to es­ cape. but the wind blew them back from the crater's rim. The second night was passed in a sheltered ice cavern, with the sulphur-laden steam rising on all sides. Prunes and hard tack, softened by the storm, was the bill of fare, and before the morning of the fourth day every morsel had been devoured. In addition to the prospect of freezing to death the party was face to face with starvation. The storm broke on the fourth day and all es­ caped. The Mitchell party reports that the Mazamas burned for firewood the big flag pole which Oscar Brown of Cle- Elum risked his life to carry to the top of the mountain five years ago. On this pole the largest American flag ever un­ furled at a three-mile altitude was hung. Mountain climbers from all parts of the world carved their names on the staff. SOUTHERN. The L nited States coast and geodetic survey steamer Hassler has been sold at Port Orchard to H. L. Mc-Guire of Port land, Oregon, for $15,500. Five prisoners charged with burglary overpowered Jailer Ben Carroll at Raw­ lins, Wyo.. choked him into insensibility, bound his bauds and feet, took his re­ volver and keys and escaped from jail. The most prominent manufacturers and capitalists of Dayton, Ohio, are consider­ ing a proposition to start a manufactory of horseless carriages under Chit-ago pat­ ents. electricity to be the motive power. A committee is goiug to Chicago to inves­ tigate. The eompauy will be largely cap­ italized. Circulars hav been received by several women in Los Augeles, Cal., from the Woman s Exploration Company, with headquarters in rooms 7 and 8, Marchon- ville building, San Prancisco. announcing that 150 women arc wanted to join an excursion to the Klondyke on the f i rs t steamer next spring from San Francisco to Dawson City. Lena Collinsworth of Claiborne County. Tennessee, is dead from the effects of a fifty-pight-day fast. She quarreled with her husband, they separated, and she tow­ ed that she would fast until he returned to her. EASTERN. Madrid dispatch; Michel Angiolillo, the anarchist assassin of Previer Canovas del '6astillo, who was tried by court martial at Vergara, was found guilty and was sentenced to, death. Upon hearing the sentence Angiolillo turned deathly pale and had to be assisted from the court room. Angiolillo will be gurroted within the prison. » A practical application for the homeo­ pathic priuciple of like cures like is de­ scribed by Consul Germain at Zurich, Switzerland, in a report to the State De­ partment, transmitting- a treatise upon snake bites. In brief, it shows that the bile of poisonous serpents like the cobra, adder and rattlesnake is a powerful anti­ dote for the venom Of like snakes. A special dispatch from Milan, Italy, says that three anarchists were arrested there, and that the police Seized a num­ ber of documents, bombs and explosives. The documents captured by the police, it is further stated, include letters from Causa Cassario Santos, the assassin of President Carnot, .and Pietro Acciarito, who attempted to assassinate King Hum­ bert last April. Other arrests are expect­ ed to follow. The Italian police claim they have conclusive evidence of the existence of an international anarchist plot. The invading insurgents have begun their work in Santa Clara province, and the Spanish commanders throughout it have taken the alarm. It is feared that Villa Clara City will be the next point of attack. The town of Esperanze was captured by them easily Thursday, and they will hold it. The raiyroad tracks both ways from that place have been torn up, and all communication between Villa Clara and Cieufuegos has been cut off. This has so alarmed the Spanish com­ mander that he has mustered every able- bodied citizen of the town into forces for defense, and great numbers of them are busily at work strengthening the trenches and earthworks that have been depended upon to hold the town. The insurgents have managed to leave Weyler's entire central tiocha in darkness by gapturing the town of Colonias, where the captain general had an electric light plant which supplied the whole litfe. The insurgents held the town long enough to cripple the machinery and lines by blowing up the engine with dynamite. They managed, too, to raid the commissary headquarters in the place, carrying away with them a vast supply of food, blankets and mixed ammunition. The raiding party then moved on westward, it is said, to join the forces of Gen. Gomez. The north-bound Ivaty train was wreck­ ed Friday morning near Caddo Mills, Tex., by some miscreant who removed the fishplates and bent the rails. Every car except the rear sleeper was turned over. W. H. Rollins, baggageman, was killed and three negro passengers slightly wounded. No one else was injured. The rails of the track were displaced evident­ ly by design, but whether for the pur­ pose of robbery or through spite is not known. Reports from the Chattanooga Trades­ man's special correspondents at promi­ nent business centers of the South con­ tinue encouraging, and both merchants and manufacturers are looking forward to a large volume of trade in the fall. As to iron and steel, prices are firm, with some advances, and inquiries are iucreas ing. The demand is active, and idle fur­ naces are being repaired and blown in. Lumber is moving freely, and Southern cotton mills are supplied with orders and for the most part running full time Among the most important new indus­ tries for the week the Tradesman reports the following: Flouring mills at New De­ catur, Ala., and Francisco, N. C.; the Cold Storage, Ice, Power and Water Com­ pany, capital $65,000, at Ennis, Texas; railroad shops at Montgomery, Ala.; an extensive rolling mill and spike factory at Sheffield, Ala.; the Economic Medicine Company, capital $25,000, Paris, Tenn. and the Oil City Company, capital $10, 000, to develop oil property at Corsicana, Texas. The Southern Cotton Seed Com pany, limited, capital $100,000, has been chartered at New Orleans, La., to erect an oil mill, and other oil mills will be lo cated at Memphis, Tenn., and Wills Point, Texas. A knitting mill will be built at Macon, Ga., a $50,000 cooperage plant at Little Rock, Ark., and a $200,000 company has been organized to operate saw and planing mills at Cameron, N. C Rear Admiral Pallier, commanding the British Pacific Bquadron, has detached the second-class cruiser Amphion from the Pacific squadron for service in the Bering Sea. Obituary: At Passaic, N. J., Col. James R. Haskill, 65.--At Duluth, Edward C. Chandler, 38.--At Winthrop, Me., Frank Bowles of Chicago, 60.--At Rockford, Me., Mrs. Gertrude Tompkins of Boston. --At Palmyra, Wis., Christopher Oleson, 4.--At Elwood. Ind„ Henry Wilson, 88. The battle ship Indiana was success­ fully placed in dry dock Thursday morn­ ing at Halifax, N. S. Captain Taylor said: "The ship is resting easily. The dock is a solid structure. The ship's bot­ tom is moderately foul, sufficient to de­ crease the speed. The examination of the bottom is practically complete. The pipes are all right. There was not a bare patch of iron discovered." R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Every city reporting this week notes increase in trade and nearly all bright crop prospects. The great change in business is emphasized by the presence of a multitude of buyers from all parts of the country, by their state­ ments of the situation at their homes, and more forcibly yet by the heavy pur chases they are making. The strong rise in stocks, the growth of bank clearings and railroad earnings, the heavy specula­ tion in many products, but most cf all in wheat, have made the week one of sur­ passing interest even to those who remem­ ber the upward rush in 1879. The great crops and the haste of foreigneis to buy and ship wheat, in view of shortage else­ where. have made the week memorable. Taking of profits by a pool lowered the price three cents, but it afterward rose five cents." While the steam yacht Enquirer was en­ tering Buffalo harbor a small cannon on the upper deck broke from its fastenings. Edward Smith, a sailor, attempted to pre­ vent the cannon going overboard and took hold of it in such a manner as to bring his stomach directly in front of and press­ ed against the muzzle. In some manner "the spring which operates the lock was touched and the cannon was discharged. Snflth was instantly killed. A% Schuylkill Haven, Pa., heirs of John Christian Webber have just 'made ou.t papers to prove the claim of American cit- TMiS" 1 mUm WASHINGTON. There is no truth in the report of a mis hap to First Assistant Postmaster Gep eral Heath. The report grows out of an accident to Mr. Heath's brother. The first assistant postmaster general is in Maine. The compensation of Major Moses P Handy as United States commissioner at the' Paris exposition is fixed at $5,000 per annum, with actual traveling expenses, He will be expected^to defray his living expenses out of his salary allowance. Liejit. Baker of thenavy will be subject i to his orders. He will receive $250 per IN GENERAL. September wheat sold at 88% cents on the Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday and the cash article was quoted at from 90 to 93 cents, according to its quality. This, up to that day, was the highest price since March, 1892. There was nothing as high as 90 cents in 1893, 1894, 1S95 or 1890. The advauce last year culminated around 85 cents. Wednesday's advance was 5 cents, making an advauce of almost 25 cents within five weeks. July 0 Sep­ tember wheat sold at 64% cents. There has not been such an advance as Wednes­ day's since the days of the Russian pro­ hibition, that sweetest memory of the man who never thinks wheat high enough. And men who think they know a thing or two about the pit--at least other men in the pit listen respectfully while they express their views--are talking about "wheat cheap at a dollar." It has been six years since the price of wheat was boosted so high in a single day. The lowest price for wheat Tuesday was 83% cents a bushel and the highest price Wednesday was 88% cents a bushel. This is a net advance of 5 cents a bushel, which is considered a big thing by those who have it to pay. The traders in the pit climbed over one another in the excite­ ment that was occasioned by this unusual advance. When the trading for the day was clos­ ed the men who emerged from the pit looked as if they were tired and their clothes did not fit them. They had been having a hard time during the trading hours. Every cable dispatch relating to wheat prices that came told of advances and the reports on crop estimates from the wheat regions told of small yields. The two kinds of information re-enforced each other in making the price of wheat go up, and every time it advanced a point the noise in the pit was increased and the gesticulations of the traders became more violent. Wheat fluctuated in a manner sufficiently lively to cause some 4,000 ex­ tra yells in the pit. Wheat closed Tuesday night at 83% cents. When time was called in the morn­ ing the bulls laid their horns under the cereal, gave a concerted heave and threw it to a height of 85% cents. All over the pit could be heard the moaning of hooked bears, and the strongest men turned pale to see the way in which some of those fat old millionaires grew purple at the WHEAT MAKES A GREAT CLIMB. years since such a tremendous bulge has been recorded. September opened at 91 cents, an advance of % cent over the clos­ ing price of the day before; from that it sold'down to 90% cents and fluctuated back to 91 cents; then down to 90% cents, went back to 91 cents and started off on the wildest kind of a flyer after call. On the call cash wheat was 91% cents bid, with 92 cents asked, while it sold by sam­ ple at 92 cents for No. 2 red and 89 to 90 cents for No. 3. Wise in New York. High-water mark for the season was reached in the New York wheat market Wednesday, not only on values, but as to the volume of transactions as well. Prices advanced 41A to 5 cents for the day and sales reached the total of 16,315 000 bush­ els. Excitement prevailed in the market from stirt to finish, but particularly in the last hour, when the advances became so rapid that frequently the fluctuations were marked by %c fractions instead of % and l-16c, changes that are ordinarily seen. The total range on September was from 91 Vi to 94%, against 89%, the lowest price of Tuesday. Not in years has there been such an extraordinary movement in wheat values as took place Wednesday. Even the old traders were amazed at the stubborn advances, while those who have heretofore scouted tiiv dollar wheat the­ ory were obliged to admit that there was every prospect of September going to that figure. The day in the San Francisco wheat pit one of the biggest booms ever seen oc­ curred. There was a sharp and big ad­ vance that hit hard a good many of the bears. Though no failures were announc- month ago it was predicted that the yield would amount to 200,000,000 bushels, while now the most sanguine say it will not be over 140,000.000. Many others place it at a much smaller figure. The crop will be the smallest for years. Re­ ports received in Duluth are more dis­ couraging every day. The acreage was very large, but thousands of a ores have been drowned out. Instead of twenty bushels to the acre, is was figured a month ago, the yield will not average over from ten to twelve bushels to the acre in most sections. Rust and smut are also appearing all over the wne.it country and over 50 per cent of the wheat cut so far has failed to grade anywhere near the best. On high lands wheat will probably be of fair quality, but on !«w lands what little there is of it will not grade at all. HARD WORK TO LIVE. Not One of Pleasure./ From the latest editions of jrfie Alaska Mining Record and thp^Altfska Miner, published at Juneau, the following is taken: The first mall to come down from the in­ terior under the "Corwln-Hayes" contract, which calls for two mails from Circle City a year for a consideration of $1,700, arrived yesterday. The mall was brought down by Hugh Day and cost him $1,250 of his $1,700. It took him forty-five days: He had a rough experience. Ice on the river was very rough, and for 120 miles the trail had to be chopped out for the passage of the dogs and their twenty pounds of mail matter. Food foV man and beast became short. At Circle City flour sold at $50 a sack, and he had to pay $215 for dog feed, consisting of ham so decayed that it could not be cook- UNCLE SAM HAS WHEAT TO FEED THE WORLD. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 2, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 47e; butter, choice ereamfery, 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; new potatoes, 60c to 70c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25;<i sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 92c to 94c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 47c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 87c to 89c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, 40c to 48c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; oats, No 2 white, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 47e to 48c; clover seed, $4.30 to $4.40. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 3, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 1, 45c to 47c; barley, No. 2, 36c to 43c; pork, mess, $7.50 to $8.25. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs^ $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 94c; corn, No yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50 wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 97c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 17c; uggs Western, 14c to IGc. thought of losing a brick or so out of their new corner mansions. Then the bears inserted their claws and began to jerk. At 11 o'clock wheat had fallen to 84% cents and the agonized bel­ low of the average bull filled the pit with a babel of sound that resembled nothing so much as a convocation of terriers with cannon cracker in a barrel. Up and down shot the prices--only an eighth or so at a jump--and the roaring yells of "An' five-eighths! An' a half! Gotcher! Come on, come on! Take 3,000 bushels at that! Wow! Woof! Who said three-quartersY Take it! Hold on! Only three-eighthsV Oh, murder!" rang and rattled along the walls till the women in the gallery wanted to know why they didn't get axes or use dynamite on one another. Several places sent in reports of esti­ mates of the wheat crop which had a ten­ dency to force up prices early in the day. It was previously believed the wheat yield of Manitoba would be 30,000,000 bushels, but advices from there were to the effect that one-half of that figure would be about right. The crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas was previously reported as amounting to 200,000,000, but a report came that 80,000,000 would be about right. Notwithstanding the break in prices Tuesday the cable brought word from Liverpool that wheat had jumped 1 cent, and on top of this a dispatch from Paris that the market opened after a two-day holiday with an advance of 6% cents. The clearances from Atlantic ports of wheat and flour in three days was equal to 2,- 500,000 bushels of wheat. The short crop at home and the scarcity abroad when brought to the attention of traders in such forcible manner was what made wheat jump 5 cents a bushel. It was confidently asserted by traders that wheat would go. up until a single bushel would be worth $1. The millers are said to be taking ad­ vantage of the advance in wheat to raise the price of flour. At St. Louis it was one of the wildest days ever experienced in the wheat mar­ ket. Ehrly in the morning li strong bull movement set in and before the close of trading for the day the price of Septem­ ber option Had advanced 5% cents over the previous day's close. It has been ed, it is expected that several firms will go under. December futures opened at $1.53%. In consequence of the sharp ad­ vance in Chicago and strong French ea- bles'the upward movement was steady all day. December closed firm at $1.56%. May, 1898, opened at $1.53% and sold freely, closing at $1.55%. The day's busi- OFF FOIJ EUROPE. ness represented about half a million cen­ tals, The estimated crop of the State is 950,000 tons, and at present prices, $1.55 per cental for spot, the value of the State's crop is over $29,000,000. Choice milling wheat is selling from $1.60 to $1.65 per cental and millers are buying all they can secure at these figures. One year ago spot wheat was selling slowly at 95 to 96% cents per cental. WHEAT 18 KUINKD. Crop ThrousrKont the Northwest Snf* - fers Great Damage. Estimates as to the wheat yield in the Northwest grow sma"e: every day. A ed in the house. At Pelly he offered $150 for a dog, but could not get one at any price. Mr. Day says the department should au* tliorizo the opening of sacks at Franklin and American Creek. Both are on American soil. At present letters addressed to parties at these points are carried through to points hundreds of miles north. Dogs are sold in the Klondyke country by weight. The latest quotation was $2.60 a pound. An average dog is good for $200 for meat or service. The necessity of laying in a full year's supplies cannot be too forcibly Impressed upon newcomers. They then stand a good chance of starving before they get out of the country. Telegraphic Brevities. Lillian Russell assures a New York in­ terviewer that she "wouldn't marry for $1,000,000." That settles it, for several of us. 1 George Gordon King, a nephew, and Sarah Birkhead, a niece, have been ad­ judged entitled to the $20,000,000 estate of William H. King of New York. And now it is charged that Cleveland's Indian baseball player has developed too great a thirst for firewater. Big Chief Tebeau should promptly Sockalexis. At the Annapolis, Md., naval academy Cadet Robert Rhea of Louisville had his collar bone broken while wrestling, and a few moments after Cadet John H. Fuvz of. Savannah, Ga., slipped while boxing and broke an arm. A third attempt by incendiaries to buru the town of Moran, a place of 1,000 peo­ ple in Allen County, Kan., almost proved successful. Eight business buildings were destroyed and the loss is estimated at from $25,000 to $30,000. The will of Jacob Z. Davis, who died in Philadelphia a few monjhs ago, which disposes of an estate valued at over $1,- 000,000, was admitted to probate at San Francisco, Judge Coffey overruling the objections of the unsuccessfnl contest­ ants. An unusually large number of candi­ dates were received into the Order of Sis­ ters of Christian Charities in Mallinck- rodt Convent, Wilkesbai're, Pa. The can­ didates tdok the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience while lying prostrate on the floor of the sanctuary. 8heriff Stops the Marching:--Ordert» Arrest of All Persons Violating In­ junction-- A ppliea to the! Women Also--Deputies Patrol All Boada. Ftr leers Must Get Ont. Martial law has, to all intents and pop- poses, been declared in Plum, Patton and Wilkins townships, Pennsylvania, by „ Sheriff Lowry. The three mines of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Com­ pany are in these townships and all roads leading to them will be patrolled by his deputies. Persons walking or driving along the roads who cannot give a satis­ factory account of themselves will be or­ dered to leave the neighborhood and, upon refusal, will be arrested. The sheriff will not attempt to break up the camp of the strikers until the court has passed on the question, but announc­ ed that he is determined to stop the marching and trespassing on the com­ pany's property. No one will be allowed on the company's property who fails to have a pass signed by Superintendent Do Armit. There are now nearly 800 men in the camp at Plum Creek. After the mutiny at Sandy Creek the camp at that point was abandoned and the men went to Plum Creek. In addition 200 men arriv­ ed Irom Belle Vernon. The large increase in the number in camp has caused a short­ age of provisions and the men are hungry. It was decided to have the women march, as the injunction did not include them. The order of the sheriff to arrest all persons, however, caused a change in the program and there was no march. Sheriff Lowry said he would disperse the women as quickly as the men, as he in­ terpreted the court's order to mean to enjoin not only the men but all who at-" tempted to interfere with the De Armit miners in any way by a show of force. WEYLER GIVES IT UP. Merciless Spanish Commander - i-n «• Chief Resigns His Office. The Havana correspondent of the New York Herald says he has learned on what seems to be the best authority that Cap­ tain General Weyler has sent his resigna­ tion to Madrid. This report is generally believed to be true. There is no doubt that the resignation of Gen. Weyler is- due to the assassination of Senor Cano­ vas del Castillo, the premier of Spain, through whose personal wishes Captain General Weyler was retained in Cuba. The report of Gen. Weyler's resignation is a cause for satisfaction among Cuban sympathizers and reconcentrados, who,, in the advent of another chief of the loyal CAPTAIN OENEKAL WEYLER. Spanish troops in Cuba, see only relief from the "policy of conciliation" which has resulted in such suffering to the pa- cificos of Cuba. Recent Spanish reverses in Cuba and complications that have arisen in the homo government since the assassination, of Senor Canovas del Castillo have un­ doubtedly brought about the resignation of Captain General Weyler, commander- in-chief of Cuba, who was appointed to that position Jan. 19,1S96, two days after the Spanish cabinet had recalled Captain General Campos. Senor Don Valerian© y Weyler Nieo- lau is, and for a long time has been, one of the most conspicuous figures in Span-, ish military history. His life has been one of gieat military triumphs until he attempted the pacification of Cuba eight­ een months ago, since when failure has- been his fatp, Step by step Weyler has climbed the ladder of rank, beginning as a boyish cap­ tain, reaching the position of commander- in-chief, and wearing a coat that bears upon it every cross and every badge of military honor known in Spain, save those reserved for royalty. With all this, which has been brought about by a carecft that lias met the approval of those above him in rank, he has, by reason of his methods, and through a merciless determination that has brought most sanguinary results, been called "the butcher." His methods have beiMi. Spanish, and are consistent with Spanish history. With an iron hand and with promised mercilessness, Gen. Weyler started to crush the Cuban rebellion. He built troc-has, he made attacks, he burned and otherwise destroyed provisions, he tried to starve and in cases succeeded. He planned campaigns while in Havana and took the field in person. Through most of the months in which the fighting has continued there have been victories in the dispatches arid there have been de­ feats in the field. Death has been on all sides--in the open ground of battle, hidden ambush, the burning building, the . fever-infested swamp, the disease-breeding camp and the hospitals--yet the rebellion remains a living, active, aggressive force, and af­ ter a year and a half of fighting Captain General V^p.vler now resigns, leaving his unaccomplished task for another to take "P.- - --- ' -- Sparks from the Wires. Morris Epp'er, a 14-year-old Dayton, O., ,boy, found a revolver in a box and, trying it on Rudolph Freikel, aged 5, killed him in itautly. Wallace Campbell of New York, known, as "Wally de Forrest," an actor, died sud­ denly at the Pennsylvania Railroad sta­ tion at Chester, Pa. Afriol Paur, who organized the Licder- kranz Society and had been forty-seven, years its leader, is dead, aged 73 years. He was instrumental in bringing over the first German opera company that visited this country in 1851. Edward I'. Wiley of Chicago, assistant cashier of the United States Express Company, and Miss Nettie Shulters, daughter of Mr. Jind Mrs. James H. Shul­ ters, were married at Defiance, O. Harry Bkiyloek, a well-known jockey, had a stroke of paralysis at Hamilton,. Ont., and fell from the hayloft to the floor. He was taken to the hospital, where phy-„ sieian's s.iy he will Jikely die. A child, of Captain Eastbury of the schooner Essex, in port at New York, fell on a shqet of lly paper, which stuck to its face, and was nearly suffocated. William Elmer Rockwell,, well-known baseball player and manager, died at San Francisco of-meningitis, aged 42