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Biwi •i'v -*5r flaindralrt Solomon £ $ . CMwMitaMWMr. ILLINOIS. DOINGS OF THE DAY. HAPPENINGS IN IVttT KNOWN HEMISI'LFFIFTE. •Mm latcrMting Summary of tins let*)' Kevrs by Wlm-Flr««, AocWMitt, Crimes, , iPontiei, Religion, Commerce »n« ©**»•• SMdwIohed with Minor AflMrs. COUNTERFEIT $IO GREENBACKS .;#l>qr Imitations of a Genuine Note raid to Be ^ Numerous In Indianapolis. ^ IHOlANAJPOiiis, Ind., is flooded with counterfeit $10 greenbacks. The bill is \ i»ot a good imitation of the genuine one, kilt it looks enough like money to de­ ceive. It is designed to pass for bills of the same denomination, series of 1878. The genuine is a legal tender, bearing Daniel Webster's likeness and the Foca- hontas scene. It has the small red Treasury seal on the left hand side, with the larger lathe work seal "ten" to the right of tlie center. The false note h?.c •*»«« r»iny \reli executed, but the likeness of "Webster is execrable, the paper is poor and pale, and the lettering ft all in a line, whereas in the genuine the capitals and first letters of words rise above the others. There is • probability thnt these bad bills pre part of tho lot printed in 1878, or that they nre printed from plates whose existence be- came known to the Federal authorities. In that year a nest of counterfeiters wa« discovered on an island in the Missis* sippi below St. Louis. Abont $32,000 in counterfeit tens, same series as the above, Was captured, but the maker escaped :^h his plate. _____ AROUND THE DIAMOND. p 111 Tlslllils Competing for the League Cham* iSj pionship. • THS official standing of the ball clubs that are in the race for the championship Of the associations named is given below National Leagw ; - 'Won. liOlt, Per ct. Pittsburgh...... Hhiladerpliia Boston Indianapolis Chicago -- New York Washington...... ..... Cleveland. a 1000 l 1.000 •l 1 .500 l- . j •»» V 1: .. '.no t ' .... 1 J 1 .500 Western. W. Omaha S Denver > 8k Paul S ,Bt. Joseph...2 Milwaukee.. 1 Sioux City. .2 Des Moines. 1 Minneapolis 0 II c| American. W. .7501St. Louis....7 1 .750; Athletic.... .6 1 1 .750 Baltimore.. .6 1 1 .666 Kansas City.5 3 s .250 Cincinnati,. .3 5 s .500 Columbus.. .ft 5 2 .833 Brooklyn.. .1 6 4 Louisville. .1 7 .875 .857 .837 .685 .375 .885 .142 .135 Favored by the Powers. BX-GOVEKNOB WILIIIAM M. STONE, of has been appointed Assistant Com­ missioner of the General Land Office. Division Inspectors of the Poetoffice Department have been appointed as fol­ lows: Gen. Warren P. Edgarton, of New Jersey, assigned to Philadelphia, vice Timothy O'Leary, resigned; George A. Dice, of Illinois, assigned to ist. Louis, •vice B. F. Guile, resigned; Geo. L. Sey-- bolt, of California, assigned to San Fran* eisco, vice L. A. Kirkwood, resigned; W. C. Baird, of Illinois; J. D. King, of Illinois; and J. Q. Culver, of California. • have been reinstated as Postoffice In­ spectors on Mail Depredations, under Civil-Service Rule No. 10, they not hav­ ing been separated from the service more (ban a year. George W. Gitt, Chief of - Division in the Pension Office, ^"ta been dismissed. The Secretary of the Treas­ ury has appointed Daniel A. Grosvenor, Of Ohio, to be Chief of a Division of the , Meat Comptroller's Office. lie in a btafbgr - Beprpsentative Grosvenor. » The Obituary Becog& / , ' THE Hon. E. M. Haines, ex-Speaker of ,, "the Illinois House of Representatives, •lid a member of the Thirty-sixth Gen­ eral Assembly, died at his home in Wau- kegan, 111. •: « . EX-CONGBESSMAX E. J. ELLIS af ltfm- ttiap* died in Washington. \ Fatally Injared in a Wr»ct 4 * .A FBEIGHT train on the North and West Branch Bailroad ran into a burning bridge over Roaring Creek, in Pennsylva­ nia. The engine and t£n cars went through the bridge mul the rest of the train piled on top. The wreck caught Are. The engineer, fireman and one brake man ' %*re fatally injured. 1 ( Either a Fool or LunaMe. s^. - OLIXVEB PEKBV LEWIS, of New York, sS ffcedthe day and hour of his funeral, •ent invitations to his friends asking them to attend, and then, arrayed in a full dress suit, went to Central Park ^ drowned himself in a reservoir. .?< A Large Woman Buried. ; '•.. ;I MBS. D. C. M, PIEBCE, "the big worn- • of Dover, N. H., has been buried; It required eight persons to put the body in the casket, and all the trimmings had to be removel to allow the casket to pass jhetween the doors. i t An Insane Billlardfst. A. SHKBIFP'S jury at New York declared Joseph Dion, the well-known billiard player, insane. He is now in the Bloom- dale Asylum, and believes himself to a religious reformer. 4-;. &?; "On lu Last Lfji" * V - FBOM the fact that J. J. Waldo has ac­ cepted the position of traffic manager of / lie Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road, it l| assumed that the International Railway Association is "on its last legs." ^ Heard by Wire, i. STAHBBIDOE; Quebec, has been de- JKtroyed by fire. The loss is 925,000. 1 THB Connecticut Legislature has vote d •to submit a prohibitory amendment to ghe people. V OWING to illness and financial losses, Andrew W. Bogart, a real estate dealer at few York, destroyed himself. J . ' , * EASTERN OCCURRENCE. POSTHASTES PBABBON, of New York City, is dead. His affliction was tumoi / *pf the stomach. He was about forty- Seven years of age. THE proposed prohibition amendment ito the Constitution was defeated in Mas­ sachusetts by about 44,000 votes. STAKTOK BLAKE, a well-known ettian . of Boston, died, aged 52. • WESTERN HAPPENINGS, §K TKH application of the Hamilton Cot** (y Saloonkeepers' Associat on Jor incor­ poration has been denied by Secretary of State &van, of Ohio, on the ground that ' the objects for which the society was or- ?;anized--i. e., the antagonism of the iqtior laws of Ohio--is unlawful and not to be encouraged. The Secretary an- ; nounces that he will incorporate no body ? proposing to subvert State government and organized for the sole purpose of raising funds to fight the laws"already on js the statute books. He says it is against :ii^the best interests of the people and public Kt'jj policy. - ;• A HOBBIBIIX death from hydrophobia is reported from Jacksonville, a smalltown • twelve miles west of Crawfordsville, Ind. About nine weeks ago young man of 22 years, was_ bitten „ dog, but not until recently did he show any symptoms of the disoMe. He then became no violent that he had to be hand­ cuffed. He died in terrible agony. An­ other farmer, named John Todd, who was bitten, will not recover. A number of eat- tie which were attacked and bitten by the dog have also died of hydrophobia. MAJOR DANIEL C. O'PBTSCOIII*; "for many years a lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio, but recently a pension agent at Wash­ ington, has been convicted in the United Sti.tes Circuit Court at Cleveland of vio­ lating the pension laws. O'Djrisooll was charged with withholding $l,000of $1,100 pension obtained by him for Mrs. Phoebe Rich. Bail was refused and the prisoner was committed to jail. JAMBS W. HVLM, who mysteriously disappeared from Danville,*111., in March, has returned to that city. He says that when he left home he was in a trance from which he recovered in Silver Springs, Fla. He can give no details of the trip. AT Muscatine, Iowa, Drummond Wil­ son, aged 16, son of the Rev. W. G. Wil­ son, a Methodist minister, was killed by a switch engine. A BOjiD attempt at bank robbery was made at Ventura, Cal. ,by a man nanied Mc­ Carthy. He entered Collins & Sons' bank while the Collins, was cons to lunch, leaving Jt>ck close. Mc­ Carthy entered and complained of his poverty, and the desperation which had drawn him to think of suicide. He laid a package on the counter which he said was dynamite, and drew a six-shooter and demanded $30,000. Morrison dodged be­ hind the counter and ran out of the back door. The robber then seized a tray con­ taining about f 4,000 and walked into the street. Morrison gave the alarm and peo­ ple gathered on the street, but no one was armed. The thief had his horBe hitched near the bank and wa« making for that. The Sheriff happened to be near, but was without firearms. He stepped into a hard­ ware store and seized a shot-gun, when the robber suddenly surrendered. The money was all recovered except $20 which was probably lost on the street. A SPECIAL from Ozark, Mo., Bays • guard has been placed over the condemned Bald-Knobbers. Dave Walker intimated very plainly thatthe Sheriff would not have an opportunity to tie the halter around his neck if the Governor should fail to inter­ fere, and as soon as tho officer heard of this declaration the guard was placed in the jail to prevent the Knobbers' chief and his associates from making any at­ tempt to cheat the gallows by suicide. It is not thought that John Matthews Has nerve enough to seriously meditate sui­ cide, but the Walkers are made of inueh sterner stuff, and, when the hope of com­ mutation deserts them, no one woold be surprised should .they attempt to cheat the gallows by self-destruction. A STABTLiNG tragedy has occurred among the colored population of Lincoln, Neb. Robert Woods, an old, good-nat­ ured colored man who worked for the city, was Bhot in the head and neck with a shot-* gun, causing almost instant de ath. He was aslaepinbed and the assassin shot through a window over the bed where he was asleep. He was discovered when hie wife came home. The gun was loaded with slugs. John Taylor and Charles Curtiss, both colored, were arrested for the crime, and Taylor confessed that he did the shooting with Curtiss' guu and that iho latter to pay him $50 for committing the deed. THE slaughter house and pork-packing establishment of F. A. Laidly k Co.. on Spring Grove aYenue, immediately north of the stock yards, at Cincinnati, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire. How the fire started is a matter of surmise. The es­ tablishment was of brick, very large and finely appointed. The loss was complete, and will be between $225,000 and $250,- 000. The establishment was well insured in various companies,/ THE Supreme Court of Indiana hast handed down three dpinions, one affirming the decision of the court below in declaring unconstitutional the board of control bill passed by the last Legislature. This bill had sole reference to Indianapolis and placed the various departments under one con­ trol. The principal point lay in the alle­ gation that it deprived the people of local self-government. . The other decisions upset the police and fire board bills of Indianapolis and Evansville for the same reason. The result was anticipated in Indianapolis, as the police authorities have refused to surrender to the new boards, but in Evansville it will restore the old condition of things. Judge Mitch­ ell has filed a dissenting opinion. ' E. L. WHITTAKEB, bookkeeper and con­ fidential clerk for the plumbing firm of Smith <fc Connors, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been arrested for embezzling the firm's money. The shortage is said to be $11,000, 'Whittaker had been employed by Smith & Connors for five years. He declares that he is a member of the firm, wd that the shortage can be explained, W SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. '•THE safe in the law office of Hubbard St Conley, at Elkton, M<L, was blown by burglars, and $4,800 in money and notes taken. George Jones, a colored man, was arrested, charged with complicity in the case. He confessed, and was bound over tos the Criminal Court. ONE of the heaviest rain and hail storm* ever known at Atlanta, Ga., occurred re­ cently. It was a veritable cloudburst. At the time it began the members of the fire department were insido the Jackson Building, which burned lately. The storm burst suddenly, and before they could get out the Bryor street wall fell in upon them, killing Firemen W. P. Leach and Henry Howell and.injuring others. A WHOLESALE shooting took place at Bickley's Mills, near Lynchburg, Va., while an election on the liquor-license question was progressing. William Porter was shot three times and expired almost immediately. Joe Sargent and Martin Johnson received mortal wounds, and Swin Howell was shot in the breast, but will probably recover. Several other persons were slightly wounded. The trouble grew out of an old gradge. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. * i» »e)e«« in the manual labor. IN one day First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson appointed one hundred and seventy-five fourth-class postmas­ ters. Of this number- about 75 per cent, were made to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation. Mr. Clarkson Raid that practically no changes are being made in fourth-class offices, ex­ cept upon sustained charges against the postmasters or to improve the loca­ tions of the offices, and whose the post­ masters had held office about four yeses. In these cases, he said, changes would continue to be made upon the recom­ mendation of members of Gon£resg or other competent persons in '.whose dis­ tricts the offices are located. > , ACROSS THE OCBAN. S mmmmm TKBR was serious rioting In Vienna, arising out of the strike of tram-oar driv­ ers. Workmen in sympathy with tho strikers blocked the streets and overcame the police. A force of cavalry had to be called out to quell the disorder. Many persons were injured and a large number arrested. A VIENNA special states: "The strikes of the tram-car men are nearly over, but the rioting for which the strike was made the pretext continues. A formidable mob stoned the cavalry and held them at bay f Ka V*4-**n guv ft I large detainment of infantry. A charge was then made upon the crowd, and many of them were wounded. A large number of arrests were made and tha mob finally dispersed. Thegworkingmen have steadily refused to join the mob, which is mainly composed of merely anti-Semitic hire­ ling* and socialist ruffians." v » ^ NEW EL DORADO. SraUUlIXQ 8CKNBS AM> UrClftEKTS AT GUTHKljE, OKLAHOMA. FRESH AND NEWSY. . . SIB JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, the ne.wly appointed British Minister to Washing­ ton, has arrived in this country. ALL of the passengers and craw of the Danmark were saved. Mr. Roben, the first officer, who is among-them, reports that on April 4 the Danmark's shaft was broken. The next day the disabled steamer met the steamship Missouri, from London, March 28, for Phila­ delphia and Baltimore. The Missouri towed the Danmark until the 6th, when the latter seemed to be about to sink. At first the Missouri was only able to take aboard twenty of the Danmark's passengers, but after having thrown over a portion of her cargo she found accommodations for all the crew and passengers of the Danmark. The Missouri then proceeded to the Azores and left there the first and second officers and 320 passengers. She then continued her journey to Philadelphia, Pa., with 340 passengers and the remain­ der of the crew, where she arrived safely. The Captain and three engineers of the Danmark left the Azores the 14th for London. The Danmark was about 800 miles from Newfoundland when the ac­ cident occurred. Ix is reported that Wellington R. Burt, of Michigan is to go to London forthe pur­ pose of securing $10,000,000, with the ob- jecct of controlling .the entire salt business of the United States, the details of which -have already been arranged. It is not the intention of the syndicate to advance prices, but to handle the, product in a cer­ tain economical manner that will result in ths BBvtiig of ubuai $500,UUU yearly. IN accordance with his own request, the Rev. Henry Truro Bray has been de­ posed from the Episcopal ministry by Bishop Tuttle. Dr. Bray's case is cele­ brated in church circles. After serving several ytears in the ministry a spirit of disbelief took possession of him, and he became an agnostic. He was rector of the church at Booneville, Mo. He wrote a let­ ter to the Bishop, in which he outlined his religious platform. In this letter he set forth that he did not believe Christ was God; nor did he believe in revealed re­ ligion or the God of the Bible. In an interview he asserted that disbelief is widespread in the pulpit, and that a Bish­ op told him that he did not believe in the Bible, but thought Plato was better than the Bible. ' PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT8 Those Who Have Been Successful In Their Aspirations. THE President has appointed the fol­ lowing Western postmasters: Indian*-- Michael C. Garber, Madison; Mrs. Mar­ garet L. Howe, Worthington; R. F. Be- bout, Rushville. Ohio--John W. Steel, Oberlin; Samuel C. Moore, Findlay. Iowa--John E. Pickering, Alta; William H. Turrell, Waverly. Nebraska--Mrs. A. A. Signor, Luddington. Kansas--Harnr H. Tusk, Parsons; Henry E„ Cowgill, Baldwin. Missouri--Orin D. Austin, But­ ler. Arizona--George H. Cook, Flagstaff. Idaho--Edward Angel, Hailey. THB President has appointed Willis Sweet, of Idaho Territory, United States Attorney for the District of Idaho. The Postmaster General has promoted W. B. Cooley from Chief Clerk of the Money-Order Bureau to Chief Clerk of the Postoffice Department. He has also appointed Edward G. Carlin Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service; John A. Chapman, of Illi­ nois, Chief of the Inspection Division; L. H. Terry, Superintendent of Mails at Nashville, Tenn.; Frank H. Smith, Su­ perintendent of Mails at Baltimore, and S. G. Sullivan, Superintendent of Mail* at Cincinnati. James H. WardlO, of New* York, has been appointed Chief of Divis­ ion to the Census Office. A T»wn of Fifteen Thousand Population Without Sholter or Provisions^-A Graph­ ic Recital of the Confusion--Disgruntled Boomers Bound to Have Homes. [Ark&nsws City (Kan.) spocial.] NFORMATION from Gut hrie, 1. T., of the 23d inst., is to the ef­ fect that, that town in plunged in seem- in g 1 y inextricable confusion, a Btato of affairs that pertains throughout the en­ tire Oklahoma coun­ try. Tho differences of rival factions that seek to control the town have baffled the efforts of half a dozen public meetings to settle them. The ex­ citement is at very, high pitch and confidence is beginning to wavar. The suffering of the 15,000 uiiKheltered and up- provisioned poople something that could D6 endured only amid such ft furor. The Guthrie correspondent continues: Thousands are fla*.* inn the town and the country, but thou­ sands morn have poured in. There is a feeling of wild uncertainty and apprehension that* amounts to distraction. There is no food, no vater, no cover' from the hitter cold of the nights and the withering heat of the day. The railroad is gorged with business and is tempo­ rarily inoperative. The town Bite is changed every hour by the rival parties, as each secures m tpirmnrnry flottiinflTicy. Not* a bniVMm; has been * startc-u, »n»l tenin hr.vo been reared. Nobody knows . where the streots are, every one is just now yielding all things else to a clamor for food, drink and shel- ter or Mieans ot thght. The sight at Guthrie upon which the BUB rose this morning was probably never before wit­ nessed in the history of the world. The majority of the 15,000 peoplu lay blauketless upon the ground, either guarding their claim8 or slumbet- ing where they Jiad fallen of fatigue. Upon the de­ pot platform they lay as close as corded wood, and in the few tents ihey crowded in huddled masses. : As many as could took the meager shelter afforded, but there quickly came a limit to capar city, beyond which neither tears nor bribes oould prevail. Among the thousands stretched on the ground were women, many of them of respectable quality. Those who could not ..sleep--and they were legion--in the sting­ ing cold crouched in groups, swearing 5 oohT -mwKMT A NEW TOWN SITE. or weeping as' suited their spirits. The sun fairly leaped out of the prairie and within two hours the cold had been supplanted by a Sahara heat. The wind rose, but without cooling effect. It blew a hot sirocco that scorched the flesh and filled the air with blinding alkali dust. To complete the general misfortunes the only large tent, accommodating 150 people, fell un­ der stress of the furnace blast. It could not be repaired and other tents could scarcely be mounted. The climate provokes an Insatiable thirst, and water was the first supply to fail. There Is' a little stream near by, but the water is too strongly alkaline to drink. The railroad tank that takes its supply by a gravity pipe from a distant elevated spring afforded the only pas­ sible drinkable water, and it is brackiBh. It was attacked by thousands of people until the railway peoi>le called the military to protect it, nnder a pretense that they needed the water to operate the road. The tankman, however, sold tiuu Muter at a cents a pint thereafter, as did the locomotive engineers from the tanks of their engines. ••• The railrc--d seems to be completely pros­ trated and doeB not deliver the baggage of the suffering throngs. Pneumonia and sunstroke are beginning^to claim their victims, but the sick have neither refuge nor sympathy. The whole scene, in its countless, varied, and painful details, is simply indescribable. Here stands a big city out of dcorg and without supplies. Only one train left over the crippled road, and it was crowded beyond additional space for a mouse on the floor or a sparrow on the roof. Those who could not get on cheered defiantly as the train p till eft oYit and another just as crowded pulled in from the north. The correspondent secured a footing on the pilot of the ^locomotive to reach Arkansas City, nearly eighty miles north, with this dispatch. Along the route during the long hours of the laggard ride, scorces of boomer wagons could be seen forging northward across the Cherokee ^^MLFRKET RL KEPOBT8. @ sjn .*0 <20 THE President has appointed the fol­ lowing commission to negotiate with the Sioux Indians of Dakota: Gen. George Crook, XJ. S. A.; the Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, and the Hon. William Warner, of Kansas City, Mo, Irving Miller,, of Chicago, a son of Justice Miller, is ap­ pointed secretary and disbursing officer of the commisBioiT. Paul Vandervoort ; h*s been appointed superintendent of I mails at Omahft, Mel., and Henry A. : Thomas superintended of mails at Bos* > ton, Mass. C<JRPOKA1J TANNER, t*>e Ccmmissioner j of Pensions, at U'»sWnfftonv. T). f'.j has rendered an important decision on the ap CHICAGO. OaTTUt--Prime Good Common. Hoos--Shipping Grades SHJSBP WHEAT--No. 2 Coax--No. 2 OATS--No. 2. RYK--No. 2 B OTTER--Choice Creamery..., CHEESE--Full Cream, flats..,....* .11 EGG-H--Fresh >10)£(£$ .11V| POTATOES--New California, W bu 1.50 & 1.75 Poaifi--Mess... 11.50 & 12.00 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash T COBN--No. 3....*. j OATS--NO. 2 White RTK--No. 1 T BAIILEY--No. 2...,,.,...,....... POBK--l£e»s.... DETROIT. CATTL* Hoos I SHEEP I WHEAT--No. 2 Rod : COBN--No. 2 Yellow........ OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT-NO. 2 Bed........ COHN--Ca«h OATS--May. strip, retracing the hard journey they had but just completed. Hundreds and probably thou­ sands of them will halt on the strip and >Jl OHAND PALACE HOTEL,, GOTHBSS. try to force a Settlement. They are strapped and desperate, and the Gov­ ernment must yield this fine region, now uselessly sequestered, or cause great trouble. Good-humor is splendidly maintained in the face of these hardships. One boomer, hailed from the train as to whether ho was northward bound, shouted, "I'm going back to nr' "~ _ Everybody of whom inquiries were made on the train declared that he was disappointed in the country and would not put up with the suf­ fer ing for the scant chance of gam. Guthrie is filling up with gamblers, thimble-riggers and thieves, and the shrewdest and most unscrupu­ lous scheming is practiced. Tom Needles, the newly appointed Marshal om Illinois, is here with 300 aepi demonstrated his fitness by a wholesale gobble of property. Nothing, however, can be done to remedy the rascally conduct of the Federal au­ thorities and their favorities until the courts are invoked. It was so evident from the first that controversies must occur that it was easy enough to stop rumors of bloody collisions. The report was sent out last night that three men had been killed near Guthrie. This proved' utterly false. The story finally settled down to one man killed and the names and location were given. The correspondent rode over to the scene, about three miles west of Guthrie, and found that the two men had di vided the dis- h noon on ua soouwrn une.'Witn me »o. as witnesses, and ran. his horse atwoei intervening twelve milM and the two adian JUvrrR u<, oklohoma Cfty in forty mic ^ntb^llne;*iM.«ur«^ torse aovoes the Can- >Uoh6maCfty ln forty minutes. He filed a ateAd elaim on the town site, and although the deputy marshals and railroad employes there haa already done so, Davi* alone conformed to the law. Every town slto in the Territory and half the lots and home­ steads will be in the courts, and a stupendous tangle of legislation is bound to ensue. A young man named Coinpis, who had failed to secure a lot in Guthrie, filed a homestead claim about two miles northwest of the town. He was accompanied by a friend, name un­ known. The two had scarcely driven stakes when a man, armed with a Winchester rifle, issued Jrotn the bush and ordered them off. Compis showed fight, when the man shot him through tho breast. The wounded man was dra ;ged into the timber by his friend, and there died in half an hour. When the news reached Gut hri < a posse of thirty'men organized and overt" ik ihe murderer about twelve miles north. He rel ased to surrender Mid was killed at a vol- w .A KARBHALI INTIMIDATES A HOOVER ley. Reference to entry books show that lite name was probably C. Y. Land, USBOX ALREADY A CITY. • it • .78 ® ,33V,@ .27 <» .42 .57 1LS0 & .44 @12.00 S.00 & 4M 4.00 & 6.00 AM .90 .34 <$ .28 & & 5.00 .91)4 .34* •282 M .83 & .M NEW VOUX. CATTLE Hoos. ,4 IS HEEP... - .- WHEAT--NO. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--White v... PORK--New Mess ST. XjOUM. Cattle Hoos , ...../..v............L. W HEAT--N o. 2...... . ...T... COBN--No. 2....... *.75 <® 8.00 6.00 & 5.75 • 4.50 & 6.00 .85 & .86 .45 & .47 .35 & .40 18.00 <$18.70 0.75 © 4.60 4.25 & 4.75 .30 <d> .81 .23 & .24 .68 <3 .70 8.75 # 4J0 4.50 & 5.00 3.00 & 4.00 .4.00 & 6.00 4.00 m 5.00 puted claim and were sleeping in the same tent. Pistols were drawn twice last night and to-day in the town, but in each case one party retired before forcing trouble. Some substantial news fatnlittei; in other parte of the territory were brought in by Deputy Marshal J. G. Varnum. He said that Martin Colbart, a wealthy resident of the Chickesaw Nation, was Khnt and Wiled over on the eastern border by a man named Nolant, who escaped. Fourteen miles west of Oklahoma City a man named Martin was found by a patrol industri­ ously &uildiug s sod house. A few yard# dis­ tant • men lay shot through the body and dead. plication of John Webb of Indiana for an increase of pension fiom to $30 a | " INIilANAPOLIS. month. Webb is receiving the former rate CATTUC for varicose) veins of the left leg, and Hoos... asked for the increase o'i the ground LAMBS. " • •.. .. . that total disability in the foot now ""' """"cVNCiNNA'iii" exists. In granting the increase asked Hoos--Butcihers'........... for the Commissioner says in his opinion 2 Bod" '2Sf that it was not the intention of Congress QATS--NO '•>. '* & '.28 in using the words "total disability" to , USE-- No. 2.... .50 & .61 debar claimants from pension from tha , ^OM--^ss..................w.. 12.25 @12.70 benefits of the act unt 1 the hand, foot, I CATTLK--Good. prm, or leg is a worthless incumbrance. Common!.'.".'.' "Hereafter, he says, total disability shall j _ _8tockers...., be held to exist when the affected mem­ ber, by reaeonof wound, injury, or disease, V. The Citizens Claim to Have the Liveliest • Town in Oklahoma. [Lisbon (I. T.) special.] Lisbon, or Kingfisher, as it is sometimes called, is a large town already. Chicago avenue is hall a mile long. The town, however, is yet a city of tents. Capt. Woodson gave the settlers nnder his direction a fair start on the line on the 22d inst. The horseback men dashed reck­ lessly across the prairie, the wagons and car­ riages following in haste and confusion. The first arrival at Kingfisher was W. B. Guthrie, From Custer County, Nebras­ ka. He rode a slim bay mare, and covered the twenty-five miles in one hour and three- uarters. Not twenty feet behind him was W. Yocuni of Harper, Kan. The two rode side by side nearly the whole way. W. H. Donley of Harper and Jerry Netter of Leoti came just be­ hind. They were after town lots. The greater majority of those to whom Crtpt. Woodson gave the starting signal went directly to their claims. Many passed through here southward. Almost every Kingfisher man wears a six-Bhooter, and wears it where he can get it very easily, but all are good-humored and disputes will probably be Bet tied by law. The town is spreading over the whole section. Accounts from the line say that the start from there was an exciting spectacle. The line was formed at 10 o'clock and was ten miles long. At the signal the noise that broke forth was terrific. Wagons were broken in the rush, and others broke down in the gulleys and sharp turns in tho road, and all the way from here to the line the road is strewn w.ith wrecks. Among the first vehicles OKLAHOMA OB "BUST." to arrive was a light wagon drawn by a splen­ did pair of horses. The occupants were George B. Norris and W. R. Brownley, both for­ merly of the Larned Land Office, and George Worrell, of Larned. They took , lots in King­ fisher. Two young ladies named Gillit took a claim this side of the north line. The men gave them a show, and their claim is not dis­ puted. They were in an open buggy, drawn by a mule, and with a tent dangling Vie hind. A man named Hoper haa a lot here, and his sign reads: "Keep off this claim. I have a gun." This evening the ladies were on hand and strolling about as spectators. The lawyers' signs are out. The "Rock Island," which is an alleged "crack hostelry," is full of guests. Unless Guthrie or some other of the eastern Oklahoma towns beat this town this is the liveliest place in America to-day. BOUND TO HAVE HOMES. Disappointed Boomers Resolve to lavade the Cherokee Strip. [Arkansas City (Kan.) telegram.] A meeting of Oklahoma boomers, disappoint­ ed in securing claims in the Territory, was held here. There was a large and enthusiastic at­ tendance. Speeches were made denouncing the manner in which Oklahoma was settled. It was freely declared that large bodies of men served as United States Marshals in order to get into the country and seleot the best claims, and that this was unfair to law-abiding settlers. They caine hero to secure homes, and as they could not get them in Okla­ homa they were going to have them in the Cherokee strip. About five hundred men in this town have pledged themselves to go to the Cherokee strip and take claims, let the conse­ quences be what they may. There is a iressure of tho surplus people driven ack here from Oklahoma, and awaiting in the territory the first, chance to get out, that must be relieved. The baffled settlors are earnest and undismayed. They will execute their purpose. Tho troops in this region, fortunately, are in command of Capt. Jack Hayes, an old frontiers­ man and a eool and discreet officer. There is, nevertheless, going to be great turmoil on the FEOSPECtS AntQPBIXO OUTLOOK XX XHKCOULIX - GEOWISO REG10H8. „ Atmadiat Wains Have Given ll ssimiweii lif • ftieh Harvest--Oats and Wheat 6raw- tag Nleeljr -- Farmers Beady for Cera Plan tin*. Crop reports from mmerous correspond­ ents throughout the country, summarized for the week ending. April 10, are as fol­ lows: WTiile the eonntry, particularly in the North­ west and Southwest, has enjoyed during the last ten days hardly a normal seasonable de­ gree of temperature or an average amount of sunshine, yet it has been blessed with copious rains, the first experienced for many months. These rams were most timely, coming as they did At ft period in the growing crop se&Bon 'WIIQII they were absolutely essential to the success of the spring seeded crops. There is, therefore, to-dav but exceedingly small areas where rains are absolutely essential at the present time. The month of April so far has been a remarka. bly fine one for seeding and the preparation of ground for the com crop. GROWTH OF TOE flMON HOW STAB AWE* STAB HAg. BEEX ' A3TOKD TO TBI fXAQ. Fanners everywhere are ahead at least twenti aays with their spring work. The 20th of Api " 1888, they had hardly begun to seed oats. Now, B with the exception of smne portions of Minnel sota and Dakota, the oat crop is all seeded up, and from throe to four inches high. Heavy rains fell, extending all over the central portion of the oat belt, which has given this crop new life, and in many portions of Northern and Central Illinois the ground now is well covered and the oats are growing rapidly. Southern Dakota reports that the first seed­ ing of bats is np and the crop has made a great Hisn _ _ _ pver BATS IIIXIII UPUSCN W IISU YWU-, are at least fifteen days ahead of the season. Plowing for corn is well along, but planting will not commence for ten days yet. Iowa reports in the western portion of the State fine rains, which have entirely counter­ acted the effects of the dry weather of the last six months. The oats are coming up finely. There has been considerable com planted. There is a great deal of old corn still back in farmers' hands, and receipts have been exceed­ ingly light since January. In Eastern Iowa all reports go to show that the oat crop haa made an excellent stand, and the grass also shows great improvement over ten days ago. All over Southern Iowa the acre­ age or oats is reported fully as large as last year. The small grain is all up. Farmers have sold but little corn or oats this winter but with the present crop prospects they are beginning now to feel like making room for another crop. With good weather free deliveries of both corn and oats are looked for within the next thirty days. Wisconsin reports good soaking rains, which have changed the grain prospects SO per cent. for the better over last week, and farmers are $t least ten to fifteen, days ahead of last year with their work. Farmers in the Bed River Valley are well along with their seeding, from fourteen to twdnty days earlier than last year. A much larger area of wheat has been sown this season than for the last two, otf ing to the fact that the weather has been so fine for getting in the crop. In the central portion of Dakota the early sown wheat Is coming up, while rain is gener- •ally needed. Copious raina are not looked for until the last of April. In Southern Dakota ample rains fell last week to start the grain and the outlook to-day is good. ProEpects fully 25 per cent better a year ago at this date. In Southern Minnesota the wheat, oats and i ^™ . .. . barley deeding is completed. The hist few days \ gu8*10' J82}: YaB °?e the most mem this area has been visited by good rains, and admissions, for the act authorfeim conditions now are favorabla.for wheat getting an early start, atid the season is far ahead or what it was a year ago. The early sown wheat is up and the stand is good. Even the Province of Ontario reports that the present week will see seeding about all over and that the acreago of spring wheat sown is much larger than usual. Taking the w inter wheat crop as a whole from Michigan to Texas, and from Texas to the Pa­ cific, and from tho Pacific to the lakes, the gen­ eral condition of the crop could not be much better than it is to-day. In Texas the early wheat is now in the "boot," and will average twenty-four inches hiijh. Oats are also aa prom­ ising as could bo asked. Little wheat is moving and little left in the country except that which is in the hands of large millers. The early har­ vest will begin about the 2oth of May, which is about the same date as last year. Northern Tennessee reports In some areas tho early wheat sg heading cut. Hescrvcs of v,hcat are almost entirely cleaned u£. The milling sit­ uation dull. Stock of flour large. Tho wheat for milling is now nearly all coming from the West. Kentucky reports good ratns. In some fields wheat is eighteen inches high. Hervest will be a week or ten dayH earlier than last season. Many of the mills are not running because they cannot find saies for flour." -Southern Kansas reports the prospects for wheat as never better. The earlv sown is from six to eight inches in height and the late sown from three to six inches. Owing to frequent showers and rains, oats and flaxseed have been seeded, some later than usual. Southeastern Kansas reports that there has never been a finer prospect for fruil than at the present time. Peach trees that have, not bloomed for six or eight years are laden at the present time with bloom, and the same condition ex­ ists with the cherry, apple, pear, and plum trees. In this connection it is proper to state that reports from the largest fruit growing sections in Southern Illinois are flattering at the present time. Strawberry growers say the prospects now are that the crop will be so large the market will be glutted and that prices will be low for fruit. Eastern Kansas reports'wheat from four to eight inches high. Harvest from two to three weeks earlier than for several years. Central Kansas reports that the early sown wheat is from ten to twelve inches liigh. The early harvest will begin about the 30th of May. Northwestern Missouri reports the early wheat twelvo inches high With the present weather, which is all that, could be desired, har­ vest will begin early iu June. The supply of wheat in farmers' hands Is melting away fast. Take all tho reports from Central and South­ ern Illinois and they are quite uniform. Wheat stands all the v av from 6ix to ten inches high, twenty to thirty days in advance of this date for A. GENUINE OKLAHOMA SQUATTER. Cherokee strip unless the government at Wash- ton interferes. MAIL BOCTES IN OKLAHOMA. The Authorities at Washington Will Profe. ably Open Several. Second Assistant Postmaster-General Whit- ford has under consideration the establishment of several star mail routes through Oklahoma. The Secretary of the Interior has received tele- raphic n ioned at Kan. The former a good class of people in charge of affairs." Guthrie land office in full operation. Kingfisher Will open at once. The people will settle the town site question quietly and await legislation to perfect their titles. Inhere is absolutely no rund for iidministVative uneasiness. A pub-meeting held was as orderly and conserva­ tive in character as it would bo iu New York." graphic reports from department inspectors sti_ fioned at Guthrie, Oklahoma and Arkansas City, former says : "Everything quiet here; IBs of people in charge of affairs. the last throe years. Farmers' receipts of wheat are light. Flour trade dull) the whole country at the present time seems soaked and buried hi flour, and there seems to be little demand for it except at a big cut in prices* Southern Indiana reports an average height of wheat from eight to ten inches, with indica­ tions of harvest from a week to ten days earlier than usual. The season continues to be all that oould be desired. Mills are doing practically nothing. Southern Ohio reports wheat from six to eight Inches high. Harvest from ten to fourteen days earlier than last year. The recent rains have been benelicial to the crop, and wheat is making up the loss occasioned by the dry and freeaing weather in March. Michigan reports the condition of the wheat crop healthy: that it is in a position to stand the effect of insect life or future dry weather that it seldom attains so early. Merchant mill­ ers of Michigan claim that tVere is little wheat left to grind. In fact they are now drawing on Sain centers for considerable grain, particu-rly at the present prices. The wheat is not more than four inches high. The outlook of all the great grain-growing areas of the country is found in as favorable condition as it is possible to have them at so early a date iu the growing season. There is no present danger from drouth. Corn is up from six to eight inches in Texas. It is coming up in Tennessee and Kentucky. Corn planting lias been delayed in Kansas and Missouri owing to too much rain. Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana will uiuleV existing conditions be- gin planting next week. The most favorable change which has taken place in th# crop situation since the report of the 13th inst. is the great improvement in the grass crop. It haa taken a wonderful start, and the weather is just mild enough and the ground wet enough to give ample pasture for allpractical purposes within ten days. The flour trade seems to be stagnant. Har­ vest of winter wheat promises to be from ten to fourteen days earlier than last season. Fruit prospects are fine. Plenty of strawber­ ries at ruinous prices to the growers. •< bttwrestta* Historical Vfeete Cfea«erttli% the Union Hot Generally KnoWn -- From ' Etovfen States in 1789 Thai* Ar« Kaw ^ Forty-two. K' TATBS of the Union, on March 4,1789. when government under the Constitntioc began, nnxn- Mi beredoMy eleven. North Caro- Una formally came In on No vein- *$£ her it, of that year, and Rhodo P IHland,then the only one awaiteri < of the original thirteen, ratified rJ the Constitution on the 29th of 4: May, JTO0. Had the tardy little %£ State delayed much longer sbo might have been outstripped by 1$ a newcomer, for, nnder the act M of March C, 1790, Vermont ba3 ! been formed out of a part of the ' territory of New York, and on February 18,1791, an,act of Con- M press admitted her for the 4th of # March follow ing. It luay not be 8% :» leraMy known that, p!though W Vermont was thus the first, new State added to the original tMr- i: teen, the act admitting Ken- tucky was really passed and iS approved a fortnight earlier than the one admitting Vermont. Kentucky's application had been two months ;'?>& earlier than the Green Mountain State's, but; #• the act admitt inG her was framed so as to take - A-i effect only on June 1, 1792, so that sh» came in 26 second. Fifteen States joined in thf> election ol ^ President Washington for his second term. ,4® As New York had set off Vermont, and Vir- ;v; fdnia had set off -Kentucky, so in December. Sfi T J7SR, NORTH S«T. «WD,N,} «*"f early the following year this Territory was for- mally conveyed to the General Government, ? \ and by it accepted. Six years later its people, in convention, adopted a constitution and ap- plied for admission into the Union, which ap- plication was promptly granted, to date from ,0 June 1, 1790. Long before that time the North- west Teriitory had been established nnder the famous ordinance of July 13, 1787. During the .y remaining years of the century this tract was 31" slowly settled, and an act was approved Aprii , 30, 1802, Allowing the eastern portion of it to be- gg come a State on forming a constitution. This ff¥ wan effected on November 1 following, and full compliance with the law on November 29,1802, so that Ohio' then became the seventeenth State.. • - Nine years and more passed ljefore the admis- Bion of another State. Louisiana had been JS formed out of the territory ceded by France un- A der the treaty of April 30, 1803. The following year this French territory had been divided by Congress into two parts, the southern being > called the Teriitory of Orleans and the northern ' the District of Louisiana. The people of the • • former, early in 1812, formed a government un­ der an enabling act passed by Congress eleven months previous, and the act for their admis- sion as the State of Louisiana was approved * April 8, 1812. Louisiana was followed by In­ diana December 11,1816; by Mississippi Decern- ber 10, 1817; by Illinois December 3, 1818, and by Alabama Deeember 14, 1819, making four new States in four -successive Decembers. In­ diana and Illinois, of course, had been formed kfrom the Northwest Territory; the other two from territory ceded > to tho United States by South Carolina and Georgia. Maine also quickly fol­ lowed, March 15,1820, being formed out of a part of Massachusetts; whUa Missouri, which was formerly the District of Louisiana, and had re­ ceived its new name in 1812, was admitted Au­ gust 10,1821. Hers was one of the most mem­ orable of all admissions, for the act authorizing it was also entitled an t^ct "to prohibit slavery in certain Territories," passed March 6, 1820. The memorable debates on that subject resulted In the appointment of a joint committee of Senate and House, which reported a "resolution • providing for the admission of the State of Mis- > souri into the Union on a certain condition," which condition was formally accepted. , The nine years from 1812 to 1821 had thna been ' fruitful to the extension of the Federal system, having resulted in the admission of seven new - States covering a large area. This activity in State-making was followed by a lull lasting fif­ teen years, during which no State was added. But when the first half century of the Govern­ ment under the Union drew to a close the event was prefaced by the creation of two new States --Arkansas, formed out of the French Territory, admitted June 15,1836; Michigan, formed from the Northwest Territory, admitted January 26, 1837. Thus tho fifty years closed with twenty-- six States in the Union. ' Si Another long interval followed boforo a new ; period of State-forming activity. Spain had ceded Florida to the United States unaer the treaty of February 22, 1619, and twenty years. • afterward, in 1839, its people sought admission as a State. But a contest arose over the pro­ posal to divide the teriitory for the purpose of .... ultimate admission into the Union of East and West Florida. The wariness which had for i,1!; many years existed regarding the admission of A a great preponderance of either Northern or Southern States prolonged this dispute, and meanwhile the great Northwest had begun to. ; ; grow rapidly. The consequence was a double . admission, 'the first' in the history of the < country--though now outdone by the recent quadruple admission--the Territories profiting by it being Iowa and Florida. There was some- ' thing very significant in the extreme southeast ' : and the extreme northwest of the thin popu- ' lated regions being brought in together as if to offset each other. It happened, however, that the admission of Iowa was not consummated till 1846, and meanwhil? Texas came in ahead of her. The act of March 3, 1845, followed the usual formula except for Including two States • instead of one: "That the States of Iowa and Florida be, end *0 the same are hereby declared to bo, States of the United States of America, and are here >y :'i admitted into the Union on an equal footing , u with the original States in all respects what­ ever." The entrance of Texas, which occurred near the end of 1845, was exceptional as the first ad­ mission of an independent republic, and also, of course, in its being followed by war with. Mexico. In 1848 Wisconsin came in, and Cali­ fornia followed in 1850. Another interval of eight years then occurred without the admis- it sion of a State, succeeded by a period of nine years during which no fewer than six States were admitted. These were Minnesota, in 1858; £*•; Oregon, In 1859; Kansas, in 1861; West Vir­ ginia, in 1863; Nevada, in 1864; Nebraska, in 1667. Then, after another nine years, came Col­ orado, in 1876. Finally, after an interval of thirteen years, we see the first century of the Union rounded out by four new States, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and Mon­ tana. A mnr TOW* THAT PROMISES TO BECOME ropo- LOUS. Hogs--Choice... Medium 4.00 @4.00 3.00 & 4.00 2.54 # 3.75 4 90 0 t«0 4.26 # 4.M Martin said that he had left his family on the southern border and bad run his horse to the claims he had in mind. He had found it occu­ pied by a boomer, who had laid for days in the fauetes, and in a quarrel had killed him. The dead man could not be identified. The patrol and Martin buried him, without box or shroud, in a shallow grave on the claim. When the case was reported, Gen. Merritt ordered Martin's ar­ rest. The excitement in the southern part of the Territory is as great as in the north, and Plant? of OfHce-Seekers on Hand* Candidates for ciiv umwr wr cwnsanm Guthrie and other towns for votes. About twenty-five men are anxious to servo Guthrie as Its first mayor. Prominent among these is an Illinois man who is well-known throughout the 'State Gen. Jasper N. Recce, Tom Needles, the marshal, and a dozen others. Illinois is In a fair way to obtain recognition of her greatness. 'fl • A CALIFORNIA paper asserts that one of the tramps of the Santa Cruz chain gang wears kid gloves when sweeping the streets. FRANCE is Burning country in the greatest snuff-oon- the world, using 18,- 0UTL00K FOR WHEAT. Indications that the Crop Will Be One the Heaviest Raised for Years. The St. Louis (Mo.) Republic has printed reports on the prospects of the wheat crop from sixty counties in Mis­ souri, forty-nine in Illinois, forty-eight in Kansas, forty in ndiana, thirty-three in Kentucky, and eighteen in Michigan, for the week ending the 20th inot. The reports sho_w that there is an improved condition in all of these, each State being taken as a whole, Michigan being the lowest--107 per cent of last year's condition, with the greatest improvement in Kansas--158 per cent of •last year's condition. _ The mild winter, absence of late freezing and late frosts, few bugs, etc., are accountable for the Benerally fine stand in theBe^States. ^ There is a decrease cxcept Kansas, which averages 171 per cent, of last year's acreage, and Ken­ tucky,which has the same breadth as last year. Missouri is 90 per cent., Illinois 80 per cent., Indiana S»8| per cent., Michi­ gan 89 per cent. The wheat is reported strong, vigorous, and of good color everywhere, except in Michigan, where damage was wrought by ^ alternate freezing and thawing. To sum- j »8 essentials were unknown, or known-only as mari/.c the average condition of the six i luxuries, 100 years ago. The tomato plant was States rompared with last year this time ! used only for ornament, its fruit being consid- ^ • •• c»n acrairrfl Hlfii • ered poisonous, and called the love apples. ge acreage it oj . oranoes. bananas, and other tropical fruitt OCR CENTENNIAL. ~ A Statable Event in the History of AMii- can Liberty. • ^ The oentennial celebration on April 30 marks the most interesting and most important event In the history of American liberty. The declara­ tion and the war of the revolution which established it was the beginning of a new epoch in the history of nations, but all the labors and sacrifices of that time would have been in vain bad not a government been devised which har­ monized to a great extent the conflicting ideaa of State and national authority. After experiencing all the inconvenienoes of an inadequate and powertess central autllbrity,. and staggering along under the confederacy for eleven years, tho States finally adopted the present Constitution, though not without ex­ treme reluctance. Tlie f ramers concluded their labors in Philadelphia September 17, 1787, and provided that the ratification of the conventions of nine States for the establishment of the Con­ stitution should be sufficient as between the States so ratifying, so little faith had they that all tho thirteen would accept the instrument. It was not until midsummer of the following Vear that the consent of the requisite nine States ^s obtained, with the ratification by New Httmpshir6, Then followed Virginia and New York, making eleven Btates, and the Continental Congress ap­ pointed the first Wednesday of January. 1789, for the States to choose electors; the first Wednes­ day in February for those electors to choose a President and Vice-President, and the first Wednesday in March for the new Government to go into operation at the city of New York. The last-named day fell on the 4th of March- That day has long been familiar to every Ameri­ can, ana it is a puzzle to many minds now why the 30th of April shoukl be the anniversary of tiie celebration and not the 4th of ICareb. ft the latter day had been fixed for this centennial observance all would have understood it, and yet It would not have been the proper day. One Hundred Years Ago. One hundred years ago Daniel Boone was fighting the Cherokee Indians iu Kentucky. TOie Territory secured by treaty at the close ot the revolutionary war stretched from the At- • lantic Ocea* westward to the banks of the Mis­ sissippi and from a line running along the great lakes on the north it spread southward to the thirty-firs tiiarallnl and the southern border of Georgia. Inis extensive tract was parceled out among the original thirteen States. And yet with all this vast expanse of territory the States were but little better than a great wilder­ ness. Pittsburg was a military post and St. Louis a mere trading post one hundred years ago. In 1789 the population of the United States was little more than 3,500,000. In 1789 Albany was a sleepy Dutch town of 4,000 inhabitants, New York nad 15,000, and Philadelphia 32,000. While Washington was serving his first term two stages and twelve horses sufficed for carry- ryiliK WAV VA t* vclci a a,AJU. ijuuuii POBDUXg tween New York and Boston, then the commer­ cial centers of the country, making from twenty- five to forty miles a day, according to the season. There was no protection for the mails, and the inquisitiveipoBt-rider often beguiled time-on the road by reading all letters in IUH charge. Ocean voyages were rarely taken a hundred years ago, as nothing short of the most urgent business could induce a mall to shut himself up- In a packet from one to three months and breathe the foul air of a dingy cabin. Many fruits and vegetables now considered 23,000, Boston is 125| per cent., the average Oranges, bananas, and other tropical fruits were seldom seen, even on the tables of the rich. Kgg-plai, t and cauliflowers ware not recognised' as edibles. H