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THE PLA1NDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. - - - ILLINOIS v ' V; • • ' . $20,000 IN DIAMONDS. MYSTERIOUS THEFT IN A NEW YORK HOTEL. Mrs. Alice Norton, a Wealthy Widow, Loses a Fortune in Jewels--Guest at the iJartholfli -Claims Pasteur Stole His Germ Idea. A Fortune.'iu Jewels. Oapt. George MeCinskc^-, chief or the det^tive bureau at New York police" ^headquarters. and a score of tlie ablest . men mider liis command have'•been en­ gaged during tjie past week in trying to ^^Cflve, the mystery of' a great-diamond Jobbery. Mrs. Alice Norton, a wealthy young widow, living at' the Hotel ,Bar- left hef room in the hotel. over Tammany's headquarters one evening last week to take dinner with-a woman friend, who also lives at the hotel,, Mrs. Norton had a large collection of diamonds, Many 6f them having been bought abroad. They were considered of great- value. When M rs. Norton left her room she locked the door and put the. key in her pocket. In a drawer in a bureau were the jewels she did not wear that evening. Ther-e were several diamond rings, a large sunburst, which had been purchased in Paris, and a brooch valued at $1,000. The exact value of the diamonds left by Mrs. Norton is not known, but it is esti­ mated to be about $20,000. When she returned at 11 p. m. her jewels were gone, and there is no clew to the thief. Claims Pasteur Stole His Idea. Major John S. Mellon of St. Louis will appear in Washington this winter with a bill against the United States Govern­ ment for services rendered humanity as original discoverer of the germ theory. According to the grizzled veteran it was be who laid the foundation stones to the elaborate structure of bacteriology. Pas­ teur, he claims, caught his first glimmer­ ing of the germ idea from an article which appeared in the old St. Louis Times in the year 1800. It stated that Major Mellon had made the discovery that chol­ era and diphtheria were caused by what he termed a parasite.- In order to cure the disease it was necessary to kill the parasite. Major Mellon offered a recipe which he claimed would accomplish that result. self in the head. He died almost instant- i upon them by. their credentials it has been ly. Mr. filling was for ten years pre­ siding jiid^tjf Monmouth County Court, retiring uiQiut five years ago. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., the grand jury re­ turned a true bill against Sheriff Martin and his deputy for the Lattimer shooting. The true bills included nineteen for mur­ der. one for each man killed and one for the victims considered collectively. Thirty- six true bills were found in the same way for felonious wounding against the same defendants. The likelihood is tliat<Sheriff Martin and his deputies will elect to be tried together. - A riot occurred at Scottdale, Pa., in which Henry Gillespie, John Jordan, and Manager Skemp, of the Scottdale Iron and Steel Company, were badly injured. The previous day a union man, Frank Iveltz, was beaten into insensibility by nori-union ironworkers, and Keltz's feliow workmen vowed vengeance. Manager Skemp, fearing trouble wnen his men quit work, "formed thirty or forty of them in line jind marched up Pittsburg street. •At Broadway a large crowd had gathered and four of the marchers with drawn re­ volvers stepped to.the front and ordered the c^rowd back.. Just then some one threw a. stone into the crowd of non-union­ ists. This was responded to by a shot,- f olio wed by a regitlar fusillade,, fully fifty- shots being-fired, nearly all coming from th<? non-union: men. thought desirable to cable to St. Peters­ burg for final instructions. The Japan­ ese delegates are understood to have felt at first that the proposition would not be in their interest, but on fuller conference Mr, Fujita determined to cable the sub­ stance ot the proposition to his Govern­ ment, accompanying it with a recommen­ dation of its acceptance. Little doubt is entertained that Russia will accept the' proposition, and in view of Mr. Fujita's recommendation it is believed that Japan also will join in it. The greatest" secrecy is preserved in all official quarters as to the nature of the proposition, and'it is not officially admitted that any proposition has been made. <• FOREIGN. WESTERN. Burned by Molten Iron. Five men were injured by the bursting of k blast furnace at the Illinois Steel Company plant in Milwaukee. Two can­ not live. The iron worked through the furnace into the water jacket, causing an explosion which let all of the iron in the furnace out in a molten mass. BREVITIES. Sir Rutherford Alcock is dead at Lon­ don, aged 89 years. „ Rain has fallen at Milan, Mo., breaking a drought of five months and causing general rejoicing. Prince Mohammed Ali, brother of the Khedive of Egypt, is reported to be en­ gaged to an American lady. Gen. Thomas L. Clingman, former United States Senator, died in the Mor- ganton, N. C., insane asylum. Frank Phiseator, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has sold his three Alaska gold mines to an English syndicate for $1,- 000,000. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Vanderlip is in New York City to select a number of banks to act as depositories for the Union Pacific money. Two of the Belle Fourclie bank rob­ bers, who escaped from the Dead wood jail, have been recaptured, and the Sheriff has the other two surrounded. Joseph Chamberlain, British secretary of state for the colonies, has been install­ ed as lord rector of the Glasgow Univer­ sity, which conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. The pilot boat Thomas S. Negus, hav­ ing on board Captain Joseph McClure and his company of eight men, bound for the Klondike to prospect for gold, sailed from New Haven, A dispatch from Barcelona, Spain, says that 112 persons who have been confined in the fortress of Montjuieh for a year on suspicion of complicity in anarchist plots and outrages were released. The Bulgarian Government recently de­ livered an ultimatum to Turkey threaten­ ing to declare the independence of Bul­ garia unless the berats to the Bulgarian bishops in Macedonia were granted. Miss Anna Blythe Holly well, a comely member of the class of 1001 of the Uni­ versity of California, whose home is in Redlauds, committed suicide in her room at Berkeley by means of a dose of mor­ phine. The report that Spain has recently pur­ chased cruisers in England is disbelieved in London. A British firm finished six "torpedo boat destroyers for Spain a year ago, and is still holding four of them to secure payment. The Berlin Post states that the difficulty which recently arose between Count Schvverin, the German Minister to the republic of Hayti, and President Simon Sam, over the arrest of a German subject named Linders has been already closed .- "in a manner consistent with the dignity of Germany." "The "P. F. V." through vestibule train from Cincinnati to New York on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad plunged , into the Rivanna river about three miles east of Charlottesville, Ya, Four .people were killed outright and a large number badly injured. The accident was caused by spreading rails. . *. • South African securities were depressed ©n the London Stock Exchange by a re­ port that Cecil Rhodes had died in South Africa. The British flagship Imperieuse, which went to Cocos Ifeland to seek for the al­ leged treasure buried there, has returned to Victoria, B. C. It is said it has $15,- 000,000 aboard. John Davis, colored, was brought to the Cincinnati jail by officers from Brown County to- escape lynching. His crime was shooting and fatally wounding Judge John M. Markley of Brown County Com­ mon Pleas Court in Georgetown. The business portion of Hea.ldsburg, Cal., was swept by a tire, which destroyed $50,000 worth of property. ,T. M. Ilobart, who entered a plea of guilty in the United States District Court in St. Louis, was fined $25 by Judge Ad­ ams. He wrote a letter containing im­ proper language to Miss E. L. Friteh. Gen: A. S. Weissart of Milwaukee, Wis., and Gen. Paul Vandervoort of Oma­ ha, Neb., each an ex-grand commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Gen. R. N. Adams of Minneapolis, have just secured 22.000 acres of land in 'lie coast region of Texas, 'on which to colon­ ize veterans of the late war. Nine persons were injured in a head-end collision between the Logan sport accom­ modation on the Pan-Handle Railway any a freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago line at Hartsdale, Ind., thirty-three miles from Chicago. The engines collided with such force that they were completely telescoped. Richard P. Marvin has been appointed receiver of the Werner company, the big printing "establishment, with works at Akron, Ohio, and a branch in Chicago. The action is designed to protect the com­ pany as well as the creditors. The liabili­ ties are given as $800,000 and the assets at $4,000,000, the company being capital­ ized for $3,500,000. At St. Louis, while sixty-five workmen were on a large scaffold extending the whole length of the Wabash building, which was recently partially destroyed by fire, a section of the platform gave way, falling to the floor below. It carried eight men into the mass of debris. Two were fatally injured and four others were se­ riously hurt. At St. Louis, December wheat bulged again. At the opening it was V^c below the price asked at the close the day be­ fore, selling at $1.00%. It quickly ral­ lied to $1.01. was offered at $1.00% to $1.00%, rallied to $1.00% to $1.01. fluc­ tuated within a narrow range, finally ad­ vancing 1O $1.03 and closing at that. May closed at $1.01. Drought in the wheat belt had a bullish effect on the market. An expedition to view and photograph the eclipse of the sun in India Jan. 22 has left Oakland, Cal., for Hong -Kong on the steamer Belgic. It is headed by Prof. Charles Burekhalter of the Chabot observatory. Prof. Burekhalter has an invention of his own which he expects to give the best results ever obtained in photographing the eclipsed sun. He took it to Japan with him, but a heavy storm prevented it being tested. Frauntze U. Jean, a Frenchman, for­ merly employed by the A. O. Jones Brick and Terra Cotto Company at Zanesville, Ohio, has confessed to setting fire to the plant. A few weeks ago the factory, which was one of the largest of its kind in the country, was destroyed by fire. In­ vestigation was at once commenced with the above results. Revelations of a high­ ly sensational order are expected. Someone broke into the Sumner High School (for negroes) in St. Louis through one of the windows, went downstairs and turned on the'full water pressure into the boiler. The water shot up through the steam pipes into the radiators and escaped through the valves. It soaked through the flooring and flooded the whole build­ ing. School was dismissed until it can be dried out. About $500 worth of damage was done to the plastering. There is no clew to the perpetrators, but it is supposed to have been done by someone in the neighborhood, as a protest was made when the school was built. The freshness and charm of Bronson Howard's comedy, "The Henrietta," are perennial. With Stuart Robson as "Ber­ tie, the Lamb," "The Henrietta" is now at McVieker's Chicago theater. This is by no means a new play, but it is one in which Mr. Robson has made his greatest success and one which the public always wants to see. It has not been done in Chicago for four years. That the fresh­ ness and charm of this comedy does not die out. lies in the fact that it is by far the brightest, and dramatically the most ef­ fective comedy yet written. The wit of . "The Henrietta" is seintillarit and silken. Its language is a model of simple and un defiled English. While it may be that the primary object in it is to amuse, it nevertheless carries with it a moral in its ringing protest against greed of money, in its satirizing of the extremities to which men go in the pursuit of wealth and in its trenchant treatment of the folly of aban­ donment to that misleading and delusive chase.' During the second week of Mr. Robson'.? engagement "The Comedy of Errors" and "She Stoops to Conquer" will be played. Gen. Weyler has sailed from Cuba for Spain. • , • A disastrous powder explosion occurred in the Amari'las shaft of the Grand Cen­ tral iniiie at Minas Priostas, Mexico. Thir­ teen men were killed outright and three sustained probably fata? injuries. Geh. Ramon Blanco's first act after he was sworn in as Governor General 'of Cuba was to issue a proclamation promis­ ing a policy ©f generosity and reform, but announcing a stern determination to crash the rebellion. - - _' ... 'Dr. Otto Nordenskijold, the well-known antarctic explorer, will superintend an, expedition,;to be fitted out at the joint ex­ pense of Norway and Sweden, to ascer­ tain whether any trace of Prof. Andree's balloon can be found hear Prince Charles promontory. Three French missions are now on-their way to Khartoum, by forced marches, as the result of an understanding with the mahdi, reached in lSyti, by which France recognizes the Soudan as an independent State under the suzerainty of the Sultan of Turkey, in return for certain conces­ sions. Andrew Carnegie, according to a Paris dispatch, has offered the Carnegie armor plate works to the United States Govern­ ment. If the offer is not accepted the firm will sell them abroad. He says he only took up the armor business from a sense of duty to his country, and that the works have.never paid. United States Consul W. F. Powell at Port-au-Prince. San Domingo, has noti­ fied the State Department at Washington that an English syndicate has secured control of that island's revenues by loan­ ing the Government $7,500,000. The Britons will collect the revenues for 100 years, and may also secure possession of Samaua bay.^ IN GENERAL. In Tuesday's election the Republicans were victorious in Ohio, Iowa, Massachu­ setts, South Dakota and Kansas, while the Democrats carried Virginia.and Ken­ tucky. Van Wyck (Tammany) is elected Mayor of Greater New York, Philadel­ phia chooses a Republican and Detroit a Democrat. Nebraska sticks to silver and Maryland probably returns Gorman to the Senate. Bradstreet's latest commercial report says: "General trade retains most of the features of a week ago, with a continued check to the movement of staple merchan­ dise. At larger Eastern and central Western cities sales of seasonable goods have not equaled expectations, and at none of these points has the volume of business increased. At Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Now York and Providence there has been a decrease in the volume of business in some lines. The Northwest continues to make relatively more favor­ able reports us to trade, although at Mil­ waukee and Minneapolis mild weather has checked distribution. Wheat is again above a dollar, on continued heavy ex­ ports. Our wheat export movement, ag­ gregating more than 70,000,000 bushels within thirteen weeks, is unprecedented, and points to a keener appreciation of the statistical strength of wheat by European importers than by many American trail­ ers. Exports of wheat, flour included as wheat, from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week amount to 5,091,391 bushels, against 5,- 552,000 bushels last week. Exports of In­ dian corn amount to 1,589,193 bushels this week, compared with 1,177,000 bushels last week." The steamer Portland arrived at Seattle from St. Michael's, Alaska, with $125,000 in gold belonging to the North American Transportation and Trading Company. The Portland left St. Michael's Oct. 18, stopping only at Dutch Harbor. It brought down confirmatory news of the release of the river steamers Alice, Mer- win and Mare Island, which were caught in the ice in the Beliring Sea off the mouth of the Yukon. The ice floes broke about three weeks ago, allowing the steamers to proceed on their way up the river. All the river steamers operating on the Yukon had left St. Michael's and the Portland was the last of the ocean vessels to leave. About 150 white people will winter at St. Michael's. The steamer Excelsior, Cap­ tain I-iiggin-s, has arrived at San Fran­ cisco, fourteen days from St. Michael's and eight and one-half days from Una- laska, the only intermediate port at which she stopped. She brought 8,000 ounces of gold, all belonging to the Alaska Commer­ cial Company. No miners came down on her. The rush to escape from the gold fields exceeds the influx, nr\d the indica­ tions are that a large colov y will winter at Fort Yukon. It is not expected that much, if any, more gold will come down this season, unless some of the miners succeed in reaching sailing points by land routes from the interior. MARKET REPOSTSi BATTLE OF BALLOTS Results of the Elections Various States. in APATHY IS A FEATURE Contest Hottest in Ohio, Iowa and New York City. Van Wyck Given 84,000 Plurality in New York City-- Bushnell and His 8ta j Ticket Associates Claim Vic­ tory -- Senator Hanna in a Close Fight--Shaw, in Iowa, Is. Given About 25jOOO Plurality-Democrats Have Maryland, Virginia,- Ken­ tucky, Nebraska^ Colorado for Silver. The elections held in the year immedi­ ately following a presidential contest are almost invariably marked by a lack of in­ terest and the chief feature of the contests in the various States Tuesday was the apathy manifested by the electors. There is a falling off in the vote of both parties, and while the Democrats show relative gains when compared with the phenome­ nal presidential vote of last year, the stay- at-home vote is made of nearly an equal percentage of both parties. Though the elections were for the most part for offices of little national impor­ tance, the result was awaited with con­ siderable interest. In Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, New York, Nebraska arid Massachusetts the fight waged fiercely. Ohio and Iowa elect­ ed Governors. In Maryland and Ohio a special national interest was involved on account of a United States Senator hav- ms ex- em to d the icated ritv. aim- f .to the ROBERT A. VAN WYCK. Chosen Mayor of Greater New York. iug to be elected from each of those States. Great interest attached in Ohio, Maryland and New York. In Ohio, the Democrats endorsed the Chicago plat­ form, and the silver forces contended for the establishment of their doctrine and the election of a Senator. The Republi­ cans made a fight for the present gold standard, for Republican principles and for the election of Mark Hanna. to the Senate. In Maryland the important fight was over the senntorship. In New York, where interest centered almost solely in the Greater New York mayoralty fight, the situation was badly mixed. The Dem­ ocrats were divided into silver and gold factions, Tammanyites and anti-Tam- manyites. The Republicans had to con­ tend with a division of their forces on aeqo'unt of the independent nomination of the'^itizens' Union in New York City, and faith a small fragment of the anti- Platt Republicans. Then the dramatic death and the funeral of Henry George, the nominee of the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson and author of "Progress and Poverty," on the eve of the election, an unprecedented event in the political his­ tory of the country, if not of the world, and the selection of his son Henry George is his political heir, brought about com­ plications which had never before been encountered in a municipal campaign. In Iowa very important local considerations entered into flip fight. The Democrats, in addition to making a fight on the other Bryan lines, attacked the record of the Republican State officers, accusing them of extravagance, etc, and a hard fight was made by both parties. In Nebraska, the Democrats, Populists and silver Republi­ cans were united. In Kentucky it was a struggle between Blackburn and the Car­ lisle- Lindsay gold Democrats. In Penn­ sylvania there was a fight between the Quay and the anti-Quay elements in the Republican ranks. In Virginia the Re­ publicans had no regular ticket, and Dem­ ocrats will elect a Governor. In Colorado there was a great mix-up among the sil­ ver forces. / New York. The State of New York has reversed a plurality of 208,409 for McKinley to a Democratic majority of 84.000 for A. B. Parker as chief judge of the court of ap­ peals. The Republicans may also have lost the Assembly, in which last year they had seventy majority. New York City has elected Robert G. Van Wyck, the ma na gers of wi nn i n g, plain theise gains by att the heated municipal ca: trading of votes. Early ri that the Republicans will Assembly by a largely dec: More surprising, pc-hap turns on the State and tickets were results of the paigns in the large cities: Buffalo, Rochester, Bing cuse, Utica, Albany, Troy tady elected Democratic bany the conditions jwere those in New York. Two Rep didates split up the vote of tha allowed the Democrats to win. bined Republican vote was 2, of the Democratic vote. In New York City, such a polls has never been known except in pres­ idential years. The registration was ab­ normal. The, total of 507,250 was ohly 11,452 behind that of 1890. Last year, only 0.00 per cent failed to vote for Pres­ ident, and the estimated total vote this, year of 528,000 shows that, the falling off does not much exceed that of 1890. The vote for Tracy, the Republican mayoralty candidate, was divided by the candidacy of Seth-Low upon a Citizens' union ticket. Low was second and Tracy third iri' tlie contest. The George vote was inconsid­ erable. The death of its leader evidently disintegrated his following, apd thousands evidently voted for Tammany candidate!?. It is claimed that young George lost many votes through tlie failure of inspectors to affix his paster to mayoralty tickets. The" inofficial vote for Mayor follows: Van Wyck, "2115,800; Low, 149,873; Tracy, 101,833; George, 20,380; Gleasou, 521. The vote for Van Wyck is about 44.25 per cent of tlie total vote cast, or less than the 45.21 per cent cast for Bryan in 1890 in the same territory. The united vote for Low and Tracy shows 14,127 more than Van Wyck received. The metropolitan district is normally Democratic and the plurality for Van Wyck is a return to nor­ mal conditions in an election not influ­ enced by national issues. Ohio. In Ohio the official count will be^neees- sary to satisfy tlie contestants. At the time this is written the more the respec­ tive parties figure on their returns the smaller their pluralities seem to become, while their claims increase in opposite di­ rections. The closeness of the vote has caused intense feeling arid the usual cry of fraud. When the result was in doubt in 1885 it was discovered that the tally sheets were forged. Tuesday night the Republicans telegraphed to all their coun­ ty committees to beware of the frauds of 1885. And when the Republicans were claiming the Legislature by only one or two majority on joint ballot the Demo­ crats telegraphed their county committees to beware of all sorts of fraud and to re­ member that it was a majority of one by which the great crime of 1877 was com­ mitted that defeated Tilden. The State headquarters will be kept open until the official counts are made in all of the 88 counties of the State. Meantime, the managers at both the Democratic and the Republican State headquarters claim the State. The Dem­ ocrats claim the election of Chapman for Governor, and their State ticket on such a close margin that it will require the offi­ cial figures to determine the plurality. Chairman McConville claims that the Democrats will have a majority of seven in the Legislature on joint ballot for Sen­ ator. lie says the Republicans are claim­ ing counties that are doubtful and others that the Democrats have carried by small pluralities. The Republicans claim that Bushnell for Governor and the rest of the Republican State ticket has been elected by a good 8,000 plurality, and that the Re­ publicans will have a majority of two on eratic or Republican. Both parties clan> it. Gorman's friends claim that it i& reasonably certain he will be returned. Colorado. - - Colorado has probably been carried by the silver men, although the result is in doubt, owing to the delay in getting re­ turns from outlying districts. Violent storms kept many voters indoors. Wom­ en, counted upon'to help the silver men, were unable to get to the polls. Kentucky. Kentucky has gone Democratic. "The returns up to a late hour indicate that Sam J. Shacklefprd, the silver Democratic candidate for clerk of the Court of Ap­ peals, lias from 5,000 to 7,00() plurality. Louisville has elected a Democratic May­ or by at least 4,000. --•' Virginia. Virginia has elected the Democratic State ticket, headed by J. Hoge Tyler for Governor, by a majority exceeding 50,000. lionACK 8- CHAPMAN. Ohio Democrat c Candidate for Governor. Returns indicate that not a Republican or Populist has been elected to the Legis­ lature. There was a very small vote. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania held its quietest election in many jears. The feature was the ex­ tensive scratching of the name of James S. Beacon, candidate for State treasurer. Returns indicate a substantial Republi­ can majority. POSTAL BANKS NEEDED. WASHINGTON. EASTERN. Thirty-five New York women will start Dec.! 1 for the Klondike by way of Cape Horn. Edward B. Hamilton, one of the most prominent men in banking circles 9&(Wpr- cester, Mass., shot and.killed his wife and two children and fatally shot himself. When found he said he, wished to die. Hamilton was 51 years old and was a member of one of the oldest families. Former Judge Alfred Walling, one of the best-known Democrats in Monmouth County, New Jersey, committed suicide .shooting him- Tlie public debt increased $8,441,188 duriug October, and is now .,$1,020,- 503,001. President McKinley has issued a procla­ mation appointing Thursday, Nov. 25, for national thanksgiving and prayer. The President has made the following appointments: James Longstreet of Georgia, commissioner of railroads, H'ice Wade Hampton, resigned; Henry S. Pritchett of Missouri, superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey; Mifflin W. Gibbs of Arkansas, consul of the United States at Tamatave, Madagascar. Gen. Miles, acting Secretary of War, announced that after careful considera­ tion by the Judge advocate-general of the report o£ the court cf inquiry in the Lov- ering-Hammond scandal at Fort Sheri­ dan, 111., it had been decided that the evi­ dence in the case was of such a nature as to call for a court-martial, which would be assembled soon. , In reliable quarters it is stated that the conference between Russia, Japan and the .United States at Washington, in ref­ erence 1o sealing in the Bering Sea and the North Pacific, has advanced to ari important stage, and that a proposition has been reduced to writing which, if ac­ cepted, will bring about a complete change in tlie. sealing question. The proposition is said to be acceptable to the United States. It is understood to be acceptable similarly to the Russian delegates there, tret ions placed Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 00c to 07c, corn. No.-2, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 40c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 10c; new potatoes, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 93e to 95c; corn, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; oats, No. % white, 21c to 22c. St. Lo a is--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 00c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white', 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 47c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 95c to 07c; corn, No. mixed,'25c to 20c; oats,,No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 48c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3#Q to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00: wWeat, No. 2, 90c to 97c; corn, No. yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 White, 22c to 23c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 98c corn, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; oats, No 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 50c clover seed, $3.20 to $3.25. Milwaukee--Wheat. No. 2 spring, 87< to 88c; corn, No. 3, 20c to 28c; oats, No 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 49c barley, No. 2, 40c to 45c; pork, mess $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs ?3.00 to $4.00;, sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to 00c; corn, No 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 20c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hoes. $3.50 to $4.25: sheep, $3.00 to $4.75 wheat, No.'2 red, $1.03 to $1.05: corn. No, 2, 32c' to 34c;" oats, Np. 2 white, 24c to 25c;, butter, creamery, 15c to 24c; eggs, Western. 18c to 19c. I.ESI,IE Sr. SHAW. Repub lean Governor-!? ect of Iowa. ASA S. BUSHNEIX. Republican Claimant of the Ohio Gube natorlal Office. Tammany candidate, as Mayor by plurality of 82,000. Seth Low, the Citi­ zens' Uuion nominee, finished second in the race, while General Benjamin F. Tracy, Republican, and Henry George, Jcffersonian Democrat, follow in the or­ der named. In the State the Republican landslides of the past two years have been reversed by the changing of something like 240,000 votes. Gov. Black's plurality last year was over 200,000. John Palmer, the Re­ publican Secretary of State, won the year previous by over 100,000. The indications are that'these. enormous pluralities have been swf'pt away, Sind a reverse plurality of between 30,000 and 50.000 is given. The greatest surprises of the returns are the great gains made in the Asseriibly by the Democrats, many of them being in counties and districts where there was no expectation on the part of the Democratic expectati '• " the joint ballot of the Legislature for Senator. The Republicans concede that they will not have a majority in the State Senate. The Republicans claim 17 of the 30 Senators, with 18 conceded to the Dem­ ocrats and one doubtful. They claim that ">7 members of the House are theirs, con­ ceding 48 to the Democrats, with four loubtful. Iowa. Iowa elects L. M. Shaw and the Repub­ lican State ticket by about 25,000 plu­ rality. The Republican State committee claims 30,000 or more. The Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. It is fig­ ured that the Republican vote in tne State fell off 25 per cent, while the fusion vote is only reduced about 10 per cent. The fusionists admit their defeat by an ad­ verse plurality of 15,000. McKinley's plu­ rality last year was 05,552, but it included the votes of many thousand sound money Democrats, who scattered this year. Chairman McMlllen, Republican, con­ tends that Shaw's plurality will reach to more than 30,000. Chairman McMiilen's estimate of vote follows: Republican. 230,000; Democratic, 200,000; Prohibi­ tion, 7,000; gold Democratic, 5.000; Pop­ ulist, 3,000. The Democratic State com­ mittee concedes Shaw's election by 15,000, i but claims gains in Legislature. Demo- j crats concede 39 Republicans in the Sen- ] ate, counting newly elected members and hold-overs. Democrats claim 38 members ] of the House; Republicans concede them 37. Republicans claim 03 in the House out of 100, and 40 out of 50 in the Senate. , South Dakota. South Dakota polled a light vote. Dem­ ocrats joined with the Republicans against the Populists. Of the eight Cir­ cuit judges, tlie Republicans elect five. In the second district a Populist majority of 1,000 was overturned. Republicans winning by 500. Later returns may add to Republican victories. Nebraska. Nebraska has gone Democratic. At j midnight the' fusion State chairman ] claimed the State by from 20,000 to 25,- 000 plurality. The Lincoln State Jour­ nal (Rep.) at that hour conceded the de­ feat of the Republican State ticket. The chairman of tlie Republican State commit­ tee made no statement. Massachusetts. Massachusetts re-elects Wolcott. Re­ publican, Governor bjr 168,000 votes, against 8O.0OO for Williams, Democrat, and 17,500'for Everett, gold Democrat. The lower hou^g of the Legislature will stand 200 Republicans to 40 Democrats, while the Senate will stand 33 Republi­ cans to 7 Democrats. „ Maryland. • > Maryland i?turns up to midnight Tues­ day leave it a matter of doubt whether the Legislature which will choose a suc­ cessor to Senator Gorman will be^Demo- Indiana Financier Tells "Why They Would Be Popular with the People. At a recent meeting of the Indiana Bankers' Association at Indianapolis, Mortimer Levering of Lafayette, recog­ nized as one of the best financiers in In­ diana, made an address on postal savings banks in which he said: "The government is in a position to manage this thing through its present postofflce system, and will scarcely increase the expenses of that department, while it will enhance the ac­ cumulated wealth of the people through­ out the whole United States. It was thought that building and loan associa­ tions would care for the savings of the masses, but people have become suspi­ cious of them. It is well known that law­ yers in Indiana are making as much as $10,000 a year out of these institutions, and otlicers are making much money out of them. Wo all know that trust com­ panies are not organized as eleemosynary institutions. We want a system of savings banks that are for the poor people. What greater pride could a man have than to think himself a depositor of the United Slates?" Telegraphic Brevities. Carl Gerber, a '4-year-old boy of New York, is dead as a result of eating jinisoii weed. 1 A young lady in Emporia, Kan., re­ cently ^tabbed a young man with a hat pin. lie was quite "stuck up" by the oe- cu rr e nee. Lady Rachel Charlotte Wyndham-Quin, eldest daughter of the Ear) of Dunraven, was married in Limerick to Fitzgerald, the Knight of Glyu. The case of ex-Treasurer Bartley, under a twenty-year sentence for stealing $500,- 000 from the Nebraska State treasury, will be heard in the Supreme Court Thurs­ day. The jury in the Kansas City case of Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard, for killing Freder­ ick J. Jackson, with whose wife it was alleged Goddard had been extremely friendly, reported for the fifth time that they were unable to agree upon a verdict and were discharged. Chief Moore of the United States weather bureau, in his annual report to. Secretary Wilson, calls for an appropria­ tion of $1,044,050 for the next fiscal year, i and says this will admit of the establish­ ment and equipment of new stations in important centers of population. A statement prepared by the bureau of statistics at Washington shows that the number of immigrants arrived in the Uni­ ted States during the first three months of the present fiscal year was 40,290, which is a decrease of nearly 11,500, as compared with the same period last year. J>eep Divinz. A remarkable diving feat was last year performed by Charles D. Meyers, of Cleveland, who succeeded in de­ scending two hundred and twenty-five feet in bis diving machine. According to Siebe, the greatest depth to which any ordinary diver lias been known to descend is two hundred and ten feet, or thirty-five fathoms, which is equiva­ lent to a pressure of eighty-eight and a "half pounds to .the square inch.- A diver named Hooper made seven descents to a depth of two hundred and four feet, thirty-four fathoms, in connection with the recovery of the cargo of the ship Cape Horn, wrecked off the coast of South America, and at one time he remained forty-two min­ utes under water. A diver 11amod Lambert, when recov­ ering treasure from the Spanish mail steamer Alfonso XII., off the Canary Islands, made a descent of nearly twenty-seven fathoms, or one hundred and sixty-two feet deep. * The British Admiralty limit their div­ ers to one hundred and twenty feet, and the leading firm of Siebe. Gorman & Co., London, limit good divers to one •hundred and forty feet, as a rule. The lowest depth to which an average diver will descend is eighty feet. IBest Teacher of Etiquette. The best book of etiquette is that great one, the best society. If you feel awkward or uncertain watch those peo­ ple whose manners show that they are conversant with all that is best. In imitating them you will not be apt to make mistakes. The average Ameri­ can girl lis quick at recognizing her mistakes and seldom repeats oiie afte>* she realizes her error. She is kind of lieart and sympathetic, and because Of her quick wit and these two virtues she will always be a gentlewoman in the best sense of the word.--Ladies^ Home Journal. > The Luetgcrt Trial. The Luetgert jury wisely refused to es­ tablish a precedent for hanging men on expert testimony.--Milwaukee Sentinel. The Luetgert trial should be a warning lest its laxity and irregularities are fol­ lowed in other cases until the administra­ tion of justice in the United States shall fall into utter Contempt.--Boston Tran­ script. There has never been a more conspicu­ ous and disgusting exhibition of judicial unfitness and .professional triviality in the United States than the Luetgert trial, and that is saying a great deal.^Indiahapolis Journal. ' The failure of the-jury in the Luetgert murder ease to find a verdict is- not sur­ prising to anybody in t.^is part of the . country. There is actually matter for surprise that an acquittal was not en­ tered.--New Orleans Picayune. The-result is only a repetition of the experience that the courts in 'all*countries,' and particularly in the United States, have had where expert testimony is intror duced to establish the prosecution or sup­ port the defenses-Philadelphia Times. At present whatever may be the instinc­ tive feeling regarding the guilt or inno-. eence of the big sausage maker, impartial judgment can hardly be otherwise than that his guilt was not proven beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the looseness of proceeding, the lack of intelligent and strict direction of the work and the haphazard method of secur­ ing expert testimony, the Luetgert trial gave peculiar emphasis to tlie faults of practice in criminal trials.--St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The result of the Luetgert trial is what was generally expected. In a case of this kind men hesitate a long while before sending one of their fellows to the gal­ lows on purely circumstantial evidence supported wholly by expert testimony that the layman cannot understand.--St. Louis Republic. The three dissenting jurors are not with­ out justification for their action. In the absence of positive proof that Mrs. Luet­ gert was really killed, it seems to us un­ necessary to advance any discreditable theory of their pertinacious refusal to, con­ demn Luetgert to the gollows.--Roches­ ter <N. Y.) Herald. The police and the attorneys for the State seemed to have left no stone unturn­ ed in the securing of evidence, and no word unsaid that might add to the pre­ sentation of the case built upon that evi­ dence. T1 ? prosecution of Luetgert was carried on with fierce and unusual ardor from first to last.--Detroit Free Press. The purpose of the Chicago police to force a conviction recalled their ways in the anarchist trials. The espionage of the jury and the intensely prejudiced and one-sided character of the reports sent out, as well as the accounts of most of the Chicago papers, were simply horrible, considering a man's life was at stake.-- Pittsburg Post. There has been no visible endeavor to ascertain the truth. It has been a strug­ gle to vindicate the police idea--un unmis­ takable conspiracy lo enforce a precon­ ceived proposition. Instead of trying to find out whether the accused was guilty,' the authorities of Chicago have made it a matter of pride and of esprit de corps to impress their views upon the court.- It has not been a trial, an investigation. It has been a persecution.--Washington Postr >• PULLMAN'S WILL. Palace Car Magnate I^eft Many Be­ quests to Charitable Institutions. The will of the late George M. Pullman was filed in the probate court at Chicago the other day. Norman B. Ream and Robert T. Lincoln are named as execu­ tors, his wife not being appointed because of his wish to relieve her of the responsi­ bilities of tlie jK>sition. The total value is shown by the petition for a letter of testa­ mentary to be over $7,000,000. Of this amount, $0,800,000 is in personal property and $800,000 in realty. The bulk of the estate goes to the two daughters, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden of Chicago and Mrs. Frank Carolan of San Francisco, who received $1,000,000 each, and also a resid­ uary estate. To his widow he left the homestead on Prairie avenue. She is also to receive $50,000 for the first year and thereafter during her life the income of $1,250,000. "Castle Rest," on one --of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence river, is given to his daughter Florence (Mrs. Lowden), with the furniture, for life. The eighth provision is as follows: "In- as much as neither of my sons has de­ veloped such a sense of responsibility as in my judgment is requisite to, tlie wise use of large properties and considerable sums of money, I am painfully compelled, as I have explicitly stated to them, to lipiit my testamentary provisions for their ben­ efit to trusts producing only such income as I have deemed reasonable for their support." Accordingly the bonds and oth­ er securities set aside yield each an an­ nual, income of $3,000." To Royal Henry Pullman, John M. Pullman, Helen Pullman West and Em­ ma Pullman Fluhrer, brothers and sisters of the deceased, is bequeathed the sum of $50,000 ap'ece. Thirteen Chicago charita­ ble institutions receive $10,000. The sum of $200,000 i» given for the erection of a manual training school in Pullman, which is also endowed with $1,200,000. Five of the old employes are given $5,000 each. The household servants get from $250 to $500 apiece. There are numerous other bequests to relatives ranging from $500 to $25,000. GROVER, JR., IS BORN. Fine Boy Comes to Mr. and Mrs. Cleve­ land at Princeton. To Grover Cleveland came at noon Thursday a boy. He was born at Prince­ ton, N. J., in the white mansion under the oaks in the room where the colonial mantel displays its pretty thin column- ettes of an exquisite ancieut art.. The in­ fant heir has blue eyes, hair thnt is like a mist and lungs that make his cries re­ sound till his sister Marion rolls her eyes in amazement. He is strong and weighs twelve pounds. There is little else to say, since in him the father and the mother have their fondest Wish realized, Ruth Cleveland was born in New York, Oct. 3. 1S91, two years after her father's first administration came to an end. She speaks Germr.n as well as English. Esther was born at the White House. She is the first child born there. She came into the world in October, 1893. and last ye«T sihe said very solemnly to a little girl whom she met on the White House stairs: "Your father is a policeman. Oh, oh, I wish mine was." Marion was" born at Gray Gables, July 7. 1895. All are healthy, bright, interesting children. Their little brother should be happy. » Telegrams* of congratulation were re­ ceived without number. Among the first to proffer congratulations by wire were Joseph Jefferson, E. C. Benedict, Secre­ tary Tiiurber and J. G. Carlisle.