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.*•> 5.,. ^ * • ' _*£ i < '_d * ti - >__i -r\' I 1J2 w lllaittdealrt^ I. VAN SLYKi, Editor and Publish*. UcHENRY, ILLINOIS. »OmGS OP THE DAY. SUMMARY OP LATE NEWS BV h' ' • WIRE HwulAil RiiH>«alnci in B«mt KMWII Hemisphere--Fire*, Aoci(l*nt«, Crime*. VllMlUe*, Religion, Commerce and Crop* BaMwiched with Minor Affair*. h f ' *. * p « CO.'S WEEKLY RBVIBW. Prices for Farm Products Give a New Jmpetus to Trade. H. G. DUN & Co.'S weekly review of Jlfade .says: ' During the put Week Attention has boen absorbed by great excitement in grain. There is little room to doubt that the for­ eign demand will be greater than ever if prices here are uot so advanced as to check It. The general business of the country does well, with cradual improvement ia nearly all branches, based on actual in­ crease Of demand from farming States. W»e general feeling Is cautious and con­ servative. Though the prospect of larvre trade Is bright, in scarcely any branch is there seen a disposition to venture upon large speculative purchases.. Yet the vol­ ume of business Is probably as large as ever before at midsummer. The business fail­ ures during the last, seven days numbers United States 199. Canada 17, as compared With a total of 227 the week previou*. Far tbe corresponding week last year ITS In the United States and SO in Canada. ( BASE-3ALI*. Itinding of the Different Clubs According t« the Latest Contests. FOLLOWING is a showing of the stand- tag of oa::h of the teams of the diffeicnt associations. NATIONAL LKAQCH. ^ * w. L. Chicago 61 89 Bostons, ....36 40 Mew York...33 38 Ftoilacielp's. 50 47 .tl iBrooMytiS . » # .6® ("levelands. .46 51 .5® Cinclnuatl8..iK> 00 .S15|ritt»burg8..37 61 AMBRICAN- ASSOCIATION. W. Lu Vo. W. L. Soetons 71 »x .oacolumbos.. .4-4 5b f*. Ix>nts....68 38 .»4sijMilwankeeB.4* 57 Baltimore*..55 44 .656]Louievilies. .37 70 Ptkiladel]>>8..S2 48 .S20; \\ ashiugtn.3) 64 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. W. Ij. ?r.> W. L. Stonx Citys.52 46 f8l Lincolni 46 40 JUnne*po's..52 47 .5*5 Deuvers 41 G6 *M«asC'ys.52 48 .oJ0!bulutiw.....89 4U Omaha* 46 43 .5171 .46U .304 .876 Vc. .462 .441 .346 .34 J Pc. .484 .422 •WO Scheme to Corner Cotton. . V AN Important scheme has been forrau- ^ Jfcted in Columbia. S. C. It is proposed that trust companies with a capital of $20,000 or §30,000 each be formed in each county in the entire cotton belt, and re­ ceive as subscription to the capital one- third of the cotton crop made by each cotton raiser in the county. It is calcu­ lated that under the present price a farmer whose crop is nine bales of 500 pounds at 0 tents a pound would receive Only §270, whereas, if throughout the whole cotton belt one-third is withdrawn, bis six ba'es at 10 cents would bring him $500 and leave him to start next year's with three bales on hand.. f V-' 1 ti>, t ^ "4 Wrect cf the El Dorado. THE steamer El Dorado, which was V, -wrecked near Bahama Islands, will •A, prove a total loss and the greater part of her cargo is so badly damaged that none of the Pacific coast freight. Comprising nearly fifty carloads of high ilass goods, can le forwarded to the coast. The Southern 1 acitic Company's loss will foot up >:.'f>0,000: no insurance. „ The steamer was owned by the Southr »ern Development Company and was valued at >5i:0,000, fully insured.. Mutiny on the High Sea. ; Ow the last western trip of the Obdam the firemen and the coal passers refused to work, drove the chief engineer on deck and threatened violence. Tho •teamer drifted in the face of an ap- > broaching storm. The ringleader, Peter „ Duzen, approached Capt. Bakker tlireat- <ii". «ningiy, and was shot through the body. - - , He died two hours later. The mutineers -A were finally compelled to work at the atnzzles of pistols. Paying for a Dead Chinaman. AT Chattanosga, Tenn., a month or Wore ago Yen Wee killed himself in the laundry of ( han Yee, in which he was an employe. According to the law of the flowery Kingdom, when a man is found dead the man nearest the body is held lesponsible for the death. As a result, '"fee wa« compelled to pay the funeral jftxpenses, and tn sell his laundry to meet 4»ther claims. , . V . ' ' 1 Y"\. .?? Paris Dresses Seise#,* ; AT New York, Special Treasury Agent Cummings stopped four cases of Paris costumes for various fashionable women. They came from Charles Lauer, of Paris. Lauer is the man dressmaker, 83,000 Worth of whose Paris dresses were seized fecently for undervaluation. He had to pay $50,000 in duties and penalties to lejure their release. it#d. Tlie track and grounds wtfl ha sferred a the close of the present n-eeting. •* . AT Bridget ort, Pa., Frank Ffultra, a Ituagiirian, is tn the hnspftal suffering from a dislocated neck, sustain* d six weeks ago. He has meanwhile contin­ ued his work In a foundry. The sur­ geons, pronounce tho case unparalleled. Wnii.K protecting the foreman of a brick-yard from an attack by four Italians . at Exeter. N. H., Policeman Thurstop had his s! ull fractured. The Italians fed to the woods, pursued by citizens anl police. A CARRIAGE containing H. C. Mulli­ gan, of Greenbush, and J. F. Hickey, of Troy, delegates to the Firemen's Con­ vention at Herkimer. N. Y., with John Lawton, of that village, as driver, was struck by a train. All were killed. RKV. DR. JOHN HKNRV HOPKIXS, a dis­ tinguished Episcopal clergyman, died at Troy, N. Y. Two WOMEN inmates of the Buffalo jail committed su'eide. Anna Gosso- worska, suppose^ to be insane, was found hanging by a rope made from her clothing. Mrs. Catharine Smith was also found dead hanging by her skirt, which she had twisted into a rope, MRS. JAUES LVOXS was shot and killed by her husband at their home in Pawtucket, R. I. The woman had a baby in her arms and the shots were fired at such c ose range that the burn­ ing powder set iire to the infant's clothes. The murderer was arrested. J5'-' Utates > Harbin Given a Respite. GOVERNOR FRANCIS has granted § six »eeks' respite to Harbin, the Sedalia, Itfo., murderer, who wa< to be hanged at Poplar Bluff. A convict in the peniten­ tiary has confessed to the murder for f- which Harbin was sentenced to be V'7 kau god. _____ v*- Spreckels to Join the Trust. „ IT ic rumored that Claus Spreckels will t •' . |0ln the Sugar Trust, and that his son, Adolph, will be elected a Director of the - • Amer'ean Sugar Refining Company. &v fingar certi ficates advanced seven points |a three days. * ; Substituted Brown Paper. " ONE of the Canadian Express Com- pany's sealed bags, containing money y »nd valuables, was rifled at Richmond, Lt ' Ohio. In place of the contents was sub- iBtituted brown paper; i l f e * • W i l l F i n i s h t h e S h i p R a i l w a y . IT is said that the British and United Governments will subscribe $1,500,000 to complete the building of the Chignecto, *Xova Scotia, Ship Rail- way. The British Government wiU tor- Bish two thirds of the amouut. Didn't Know Their Luck. INDIANA railway men thought $69,- 000,000 too high for their assessment, but they may be taxed on $400,000,000 if fX"1, the Board of Equalization adheres to its latest figures. .• , • EASTERN OCCURRENCES. ]£' PSESIDENT WIT^ON, of the New York f flealth Board, has announced that thei # 'jChiuese lepers Ong Mow Tow and Tsang ..JDing, have been remo.yed to North IHrofchers Island, where they will be :, <plac©d in a hospital tent, isolated from the other buildings. THE extensive paper warehouse of A.; G. Elliott & Co., at Philadelphia, Pa., was gutted by fire. Loss, $$5,000; fully insured. THE sale of 90 pe* cent of the stock of the Saratoga Racing Association to the Hudson County Jockey Club is com- WESTERN HAPPENINGS. IPHK Rod Lands Motor Road, at Fail Bernardino, Cal,, was washed out by (he heavy storm which occurred in the Mountains east. These continued storms and sultry weather are the result of the flooding of the Colorado Desert. If the storms continue the summer climate wi 1 be less pleasant, but it Will be b3t ter for irrigation. « A FIENDISH crime has just been com­ mitted in Osceola County, Iowa. Mich­ ael O'Hearn, a man of very violent tem­ per, found that the pigs had eaten up some cabbage: he became wild with an­ ger, and began to abuse his daughter. To escape abuse she started to a neigh­ bor's. The inhuman father grabbed a revolver and sent a ball through her body. The father is lodged in ja 1. Should the girl die O'Hearn may be lynched. WHILE Henry Rharer, of Blooming- ton, Ind., was Cleaning up a meadow near his residence, he found a large amount of old coin of the value of S102. There are 142 half-dollars, none of which is later than 1837 and fom<! 'are of the past century. There are also a number of Spanish and Mexican coins reaching a very old date. VIOLENT storms prevailed throughout Central Indiana, accompanied by the heaviest rainfall of the year. In Indian­ apolis three persons were struck by lightning, one fatally. AT Minneapolis at a sewer excavation a.delaycd blast terribly mangled C. Lar­ son and C. Picrson, tbe former, it is thought, fatally. •NEWS comes of the killing of Dep­ uty United States Marshal Barney Connelly in the Cherokee Na ion by ex- Deputy Marshal Sheppard. Connelly had a writ for the arrest of Busby. Connelly was one of the most active, efficient and pbpular officers in the district Gov. HrMi'intET of Kansas offered a jreward of 8300 for the arrest and con­ viction of Jeremiah E. Lansbury, of Chase Couuty, who was murdered near M&tfield Green. FOUR1 men were locked up at the Cen­ tral Police Station, Chicago, for conspir­ ing to blackmail SieJtel, Cooper .& Co out of 820.000. rI heir names are Thomas Higgins. William Dalton, John Ander­ son, aid George Washington. Tho last three named are negroes. He "ore the lecent fir : which destroyed the big no­ tion house of Hegel, Cooper <fe Co., and caused a total loss of about $1,000,000, the men wre employes of the firm. \Miile the ruins were i-till smoldering, the men undo- arrest and two others en­ tered into a plot to get 820,()(M) from the insurance c:>iiipanics by offcrin? t > show that tho fire was of iuceiidiary o:i >in, and that members of the firm had put a torch to the building. CLARK WOODMAN, of Omaha, Neb., one of the wealthiest and most promi- hent citizens of that place, was found dead iu his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel. Chicago. Apparently he posses­ sed everything in this world for which a man could wish, yet it is thought that the man ended h's life through tho agency of chloroform. THE conferring at Milwaukes of the pallium on Archbishop F. X. Kat'.er, the successor of the late Archbishop Heiss, took place in St John's Cathedral. Cardinal Gibbons was the bearer of the vestment, and he conferred it in person. The occasion was given unusual interest by the presence of no less than seven hundred prelates and priests,, represent­ ing almost every State in the Union. Ji SHOCK of electricity from a motor at Chicago prostrat d Motorman James Boyd. Falling upon the motor, his right arm was caught between the wheels and horribly crushed. The arm will be amputated. The accident oc­ curred when he was polishing the motor wheals with a bit of sat d:a per. THE pastofllce at Zumbrota, Minn., was entered by burglars. The safe was blown open and .<100 in stamps, 825 in silver and two registered lett rs secured. One letter is known to have contained over •'*200. No clue ti the robbers. Brakwman C 8. Thomson fatally In­ jured by a rear-end collision at vytduct bridge, Md., on the B & O. railroad. One engineer is said to have boon asleep. AT Chattanooga, Tenn,, the Masons and Knights of Pythias laid with due ceremony the corner-stone of Parouess Erlanger Hospital. Tho structure will stand in a beautiful grove and will accommodate 120 patients, and will cost,s when completed, $100,000. POLITICAL PORRIDGE, ... .O. McM. GBFOO J. W. MORRISON State Auditor. State 'i'rrHurn TUB Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met at Harrisburg, and 011 first ba'lot. chosa the gentlemen named above as candidates for the respective offices. The convent on took a lively in­ terest in the surface indications, but committed itself to no candidate for tbe Presidency. Tho 1 la t for in adopted favors the free coinage of silver. AT Hastings. Neb , the Independent State Convention completed Its labors by placing in nomination J, W. Edger- ton, of South Omaha, for Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, and Pro­ fessor' D'Alemand, of Furni-s County, and E. A. Had'ey, of Stromsburg, as regents of the State University. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. UNITED STATES MARSHAL HITCAICOCK telegraphed one of his deputies at Peoria to arrest any men found interfering with the United States mail trains pass­ ing through there. Not only can they not interfere with a mail ear, but under a decision in the Philadelphia District Court the entire tra'n in which is but one mail car must not l e molested. The strikers now ignore the movements of thfc mail trains, but all ofcb^fa. sure 8topped. ^ N , FOREIGN GOSSIP. ' THE people of Switzerland had hardly recovered from the rai'road scare caused by tho terrible accident at Moenchen- stein in June last, by which over 130 persons 011 an excursion train lost their lives and about three hundred were in­ jured, when they were again startled by another wholesale loss of life by reason of a railroad accident. This last disas­ ter occurred on the Jcra-Simplon Rail­ road lines, near the village of Zolle- kofen, not far from Berne. A special train carrying a large number of excur­ sionists from the country districts was on its way to Berne. This excursion train was stopped at Zollekofen in or­ der to enable it to be shunted into a siding to let the Paris express pass. By some gross negligence, apparently upon the part of the railroad officials, the Paris train, loaded with foreign trav­ elers, was not warned to look out for the excursion train while passing Zollekofen, and the result was that the express dashed into the special train. The exact number of dead ami wounded is not known, but twelve corpses Have already been recovered from the ruins, and it is known that many people have been seri­ ously injured by the collision. M. DYRROWSKV, the explorer, has telegraphed from De Brazzaville, West Africa, that the failure of Crampel's mission is certain. THE official organ of the German Gov­ ernment says that no reduction will be made on the duties of grain imported into Germany. THE last mail from Panama brings a copy of a manifesto issued by the Execu­ tive Council of the Chilian revolution­ ists. It is a long, boastful declaration and contains nothing of general interest. THE foreign Ministers to China are said to have made a concerted demand for reparation for the lives of Europeans and Americans, kil.ed in the recent riots in'the Celestial Empire. THE failure of the British Bank of Australia, with liabilities of $800,000, is announced. THE United States Consul at Mar­ tinique cabled the State Department that "a hurricane destroyed every sail in port Houses all damaged and many lives lost " siiriiiiGTON's' mil® CHILI tit'"?! BR REVOLUTION/ FAME. WAR A KeWe Bhaft Brented tnfHoaor ^4* <l«a- •nl Stark** Victory I One Hundred Veer* Ago--The Little iStwo Filled with EnthuKlaallc Patriots. Historic Bennington. The ceremony of dedicating the mon­ ument erected to commemorate the bat­ tle of Bennington crowded that little Vermont town to overflowing. The presence of the President of the United States and members of his Cabinet, as well as the Governors of three States, gave the event more than local interest. It brought people from all part* of the United States, but particularly from the New England States, to witness and take part In the ceremony. Probably In the whole history of Bennington no such distinguished gathering will be held again. At the encampment grounds around the Soldiers' Home, where the Interest of the event centered during the early part of tho day, the soldier boys were aroused by the reveille call early in the morning. The crowd was up with the soldier.-, for with the first "break of dawn the streets began to assume a lively appearance and the roads leading into town commenced to empty their stream of wagons and car­ riages Into the camp grounds. Every private as well as every public house in Bennington was crowded and many slept on tho lawns, while hundreds were glad to find sleeping quarters in tents which afforded little protection to tho chill night air. When the first of the special FRESH AND NEWSY. THREE more Chinamen, making fifteen fn all, were arrested in San Antonio, Texas, while trying to enter the United States from Mexico. They will be sent back to China by way of San Francisco. THE" White Star steamship Teutonic smashed the ocean record by crossing the Atlantic in 5 days 1<> hours and 31 minutes. She a'so made the best record for a single day's performance, covering 517 miles. The best previous record was made by the Majestic, of the same line-- 5 days 18 hours and 8 minutes. BECAUSE the tanks would not go to tho rescue of the American Wheel Com­ pany, a corporation that manufactures nine tenths of all the wagon-wheels used in the United States, that corporation's affairs have been placed in the hands of a receiver for the protection of all cred­ itors The receiver appointed is Noble C.Butler, of Indianapolis, Clerk of the the United States District Court of Indi­ ana. The assets of the company, ac­ cording to a bill filed in Judge Blodgctt's Court by Attorney Ja ob Newmaivag- gregate S4,105,001), while the liabilities are only $1,800,000. The company's works are in Indiana, Oh o and Michi­ gan, New York, Pennsylvania, Massa­ chusetts and Kentucky. 8OUTHERN INCIDENTS. THE last Texas Legislature made an appropriation of 850,000 for the scalps of predatory animals at the rate of $5 for wolves and SI for jack rabbit-. In one day the Comptroller paid out S.j,(K)0. Reports from all South Texas counties are to the effect that if the present con­ ditions continue the whole State will be bankrupt in a year. AT Birmingham, Ala, Willie Arml- tage, aged nine, while bathing in the creek ventured beyond his d pth. Two sisters, aged ten and fifteen, hearing his cries, went to his rescue. All were drowned. AT San Antonio, Tex., Autonio Car- rasci, a noted bandit chleftaiu and des­ perado, and the slayer of eight men, has added another victim to his list Terrl- bio Pastraiigo, a deputy sheriff, who had secured ovidence showing that Car- rasci was the murderer of Charles Fusselman, a sergeant of Tfex- as rangers, attempted to arrest the bandit at a- fandango givon on the Texas side of the river. As the Deputy Sheriff advanced into the room the bandit chieftain drew a revolver and shot Pastrango dead, after which ho made his escape Fifty Mexican rangers have followed his trail into the moun­ tains, but it is unlikely that he will be captured. AT Crab Orchard, Ky., Town Marshal Will Sanders shot and killed Police Judge A. M. Egbert. The men quarrel­ ed over a conflict of authority. ALBERT BRYANT, a brakeman, was killed and Conductor G. W. Rubey and 1.50 8.50 S.54 .90 .62 .81 8.50 4.50 .99 .63 .29 10.25 3.60 4.00 8.00 & 6.75 & 6.60 & 4.23 & .90* & M & .32 m 5.75 (.00 Hi 1.03 ffl .63 (<9 .80 (S 10.76 VABKST KlUDUm, CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.... 93.50 @ 6 25 HOGS--Shipping Grades 4.00 6.to biiKEP 8.00 9.00 WHEAT--No. 14 Bed J.02H® I.O814 CORN--No. 2 : ,67 V@ .68)5 OAT»-- NO. 2...... .29 Ktb--No. 2 .Shi @ .81 BUTTER--Choiee Creamery 21 @ .23 CBKKTE--Full Cream, flats 08l$<$ ,U9^ EGGS--Fre h 14).J<9 15)4 POTATO* New. per bu 40 <A .45 1N1) IA N AP OLIS. CATTLE--Soipp ug. Hons--Choice Id ht SHEEP--Conns ou to Prime Wbkat^-NO. 2 Ked CORK--No. 1 Whito. OATS--No. I White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE HOGS. WHEAT--No. 3 Bed. CORN--No. 'A OATH--No. 2 PORK--MESA CINCINNATI. CATTLE, 8.60 & 5.25 Hoo«.... 4.00 5.M SHEEP 8.00 @ 5.00 WHEAT--NO. 2 Red. .93?$ CORN--No.2... (8 4$ .64 OATS--No. 2 Mixed 31 ,8'ZVS DET&OL9.V CATTLE. B.00 & 5.23 HOG* jj.oo # 5.26 SHEEF 8.00 ^ 4.50 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed .97^® .98)4 CORN--No. 2 Yellow. .C3^@ X4H OAT*--No. 2 White .34^# TOLEDO. w WHEAT--New i.oau<3j 1.(8 ' CORK--CASH «S A ,I7 QAT»-NO. 2 White. .» # .81 BTB .tv 1at .00 BUFFALO. BEEF CATTLE 3 50 @ 5.75 LIVE HOG« 4.25 <GB 6.00 WHEAT--No. 1 Northern ........ j.i< «t 1.135$ CORN--No.A .?2>6® .73)1 - MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring set COBM--No 3 64 OATS--No. 2 White 82 BTE--No. 1 .88 BABLEY--No. S. .66 Ponx--Meat,... 10.00 NEW YORK. CATTLE Hoq8 SHEEP WHEAT--Ne. 2 Bed.... CORN--No. 4 OATH--Mixed Western BUTTER--CrfMnerjr trains arrived the gayly decorated streets were well filled. Among those prominent in national affairs were the President and his cab­ inet, ex-Gov. Prescott, of New Hamp­ shire: Gov. Page, of Vermont; Gen. Veazey, of the G. A. R.; Edward J. Phelps, and others. The celebration was the culmina­ tion of a series of events covering a century. The anniversary of the battle of Bennington is td the people of South­ ern Vermont what the Fourth of July is to the nation. Fcr nearly fifty yearft there has been more or less preparation for the building of a suitab e monu­ ment The first organized effort was made in 1853. The Vermont Legislature in that year appropriated $3,000, with the condition that the corner-stone of the proposed memorial be laid on the 16th of August following, and that the sum of $7,000 be raised by private sub­ scription. While those conditions were not fulfilled and the appropriation lapsed, the agitation continued. In 1875- 7<ithe Bennington Historical Society, and subsequently the Bennington Battle Mon­ ument Association, were organized, the latter chartered by tho Sta'e of Vermont, with an appropriat'on of $15,000, condi­ tioned on the raising of $5,000 more The celebration of 1877 followed. These events, and the subsequent action of the States of New Hampshire and Massa­ chusetts and the national government, have conspired to cause the erection of the noble shaft on the site of the conti­ nental storehouse, the object poiht of Col­ onel Kaum's expedition in 1777. The cost of the monument and site has been In round numbers $100,000. Massachusetts contributed $10,000, New Hampshire $7,500, the national government ¥40,000, and Vermont the $15,000 aforesaid and a supplemental appropriation for'the site. The balance has been raised by private subscriptions. The monument stands on a command­ ing site 283 feet above tho Walioomsac River. This river flows through the vil­ lage of Bennington. The foundation of the monument is the solid rock of the mountain, on top of which was the Ben­ nington of the revolution. The struct­ ure is an obelisk, built of native stone, and faced with Sandy Hill dolomite. The height from the base to the top of the cap­ stone is 301 feet 10?£ in hes The monu­ ment at the base is 37 feet 4 inches by 37 feet 4 inches, running to a point at the top. The walls are thick at the base, but de­ crease gradually to a thickness of two feet at the apex. The outside stone is inlaid with "stretchers and headers." The inside walls rise to a height of 200 feet, after which the atones extend through the wall. Inside the walls are left in the rough rock: outside the stone is rough finished, and at the right angle corners with tho shaft and nlso at*the windows and other openings the stone is finished in quar- ter-iuch draft lines of arris. This gives the structure a finished and artistic ap­ pearance. The look-out room is 188 feet above the foundation, and !•< reached by an iron staircase. This room is marked on tho outside by two entablatures en­ circling the monument. From this look­ out the battlefield is plalo'y visible seven miles away. The first room in tho mon­ ument contains four ttiblete, three of them ins< ribed respectively to tho States of Massachusetts, New Ha npshire, and Vermont Th® fourth is blank. Tho outlook room contains four hi? toric gran­ ite tablet^, platsed there by the Vormo t Historical Society, the Masonic frater­ nity, which laid the corncr-^tcno in 1877, the Older of Odd Felloes, and the Grand Army of the Republic. OVER A DOLLAR. AFFAIRS A WILD RUSH IN THE PRICE OF WHEAT. f . PORE--NEW !/•,»»... * & 1.03 & 66 3» .» .90 «• .<H @10.60 @ 5.73 <fli 6.00 t.tk) C* 1.18 « 0 .87 2*3 On 'C1»»<ife at Chicago ItTakes wa .Un­ precedented Spurt and Rises Mine Cent* la One Day--Conservative Broker* Sky It's a htampede--Fell Nearly a Mile. Wheat Brokers Exciteci. Wheat at $1.08 a bushel, and next to none to be had at that rate! This was the sensation on 'Change in Chicago the other day, says a dispatch. The news of wheat at a dollar a bushel had spread far beyond Board of Trade circles, and when tho Board opened the following morning the galleries were crowded to suffocation. Scenes on 'Change are interesting even at ordinary times, but when the market is at fever heat; when there are no reasonable indications where it will stop in a wild upward ru>h; when, on the other hand, all signs point to the existence of f strong syndicate in control of the supply, then tbe pit be­ comes a veritable bedlam, a pande­ monium such as only several hundred howling, shout'ng and madly excited traders can produce. Now this was the case. While every­ body ^s prepared for a rise, each on­ ward revolution of the hand on the big indicator ^ras greeted with yells that Would have done credit to a gang of Apaches on an attack. The spectators caught tlie infe tidn, but inasmuch as they were so closely wedged together that motion was impossible they could do nothing else but j,erspire. Many of them even shouted as wildly as the trad­ ers below, though there was no earthly jeason why the visitors should yeil. They simply did It by contagion. December wheat opened at $f.02, with­ in a very small fraction of 2 cents above the closing price of the preceding day, but it did not remain longer than a few minutes at that, figure. Presently the in­ dicator marked $1.02%, then $1.03, and at this interesting point the rumor gained ground that Jim Keene and B. P. Hutch' inson, backed by a syndicate of wealthy New York men, were manipulating the market This caused a jump of 2 cents, and from that point the market ad­ vanced by quarters and halves t«$1.08, where it remained until selling brought It down again to $1.06>£, which was the closing price Experienced brokers claim that they see nothing cxtraordinaiy In the rush, and they maintain also that It cannot last very long. At preseut the farmers deliver little or nothing. The spring wheat is not yet harvested, and the sup­ ply of winter wheat is exceedingly small. All commercial exchanges have an up­ ward turn, so have the domestic markets, and everybody seems cra/.y to get wheat. This was illustrated on 'Change, when the price at one time was bid up 2 Cents, and not a pound of wheat could be had at that i'? i" j-T'i' 'W-"j FE1X NKAKLY A V : Woman Killed White Attempting to itiVe a Parachute t>rop tn Ohio. One of the recent attractions at Coney Island, near Cincinnati, was a balloon ascension by Miss Annie Harkness, whose home is in Terre Haute, Ind. At the appointed time the young woman came forwaid and stepped into the car. The ropes were loosened at once-and the balloon rose rapidly. At an elevation of about 5,000 feet the parachute was let go. The buzz fr. ni" the gazing multi­ tude was at its height. The on-lookers watched with trembling delight The paraehuto slowly began to unfold Sud­ denly there was a dreadful hush like the silence of death, 'lhe para hute had closed and with its human buiden was falling with frightful velocity. Then the silence was broken wi h shrieks of fainting women, with children wailing and crying, and men turned away their faces to shut out the awful sight Sud­ denly there struck upon the cars a dull, sickening sound--the end had come. A life had gone out in the midst of pleas­ ure. Annie Harkness had made her last parachute descent > • To Be Kend In a Minute. THOSE who are not present always need and lack a defender. THE fiercest eaule in the sky imagines it is an innocent dove. PEOPLE dislike to hear nonsense, bat they hear a great deal of it BEFORE believing the bad* stories a man tells ou another, find out his motive. THE serious man is tbe dangerous man. Humor is incompatible with vic- iousness. A GREAT many women imagine that they are flies, and that all the men are spiders. IF a nan's record is a bad one*, he can't travel so fast that it will not over­ take him. TWO-THIRDS of your life is spent in waiting for some good luck that will never come to you. A MAN keeps hVs friend's secrets b^ hind a veil, but he keeps his own behind a lock and4key. A tiiiKAT deal of the bad luck yon hear men complaining about is simply pun ishment for folly. FLIKA are so foolish, and spiders so wise, that a hungry spider is as rare a sight as a fly without a scar. THE best peop!e in the world are those who have found out for themselves the folly of being wicked. HAVE ASSUMED A MOMENTOUS ASPECT. • THE PUBLIC PULSE, 'f . j-*- THE WORLD'S FAIR. THE earth will be in Chi cago in earn­ est.--Omaha Bee. * LET the Emperor come, by all means.-- Richmond limes. THE work of giving Kansas a proper exhibit at the World's Fair goes right along.--Kansas City Jourruil. THAT man, woman, or child does not exist under this government who will not feel the lofty inspiration of the oc­ casion.--Topeka Capital. THE South American States promise an exhibit at the coming World's Fair that may well astonish visitors from Europe.--Boston Globe. OF course itffwould be highly desirable to have France properly represented at the Columbian Exposition, but if the French people don't see it that way the show wiil go on all the same. --Kansas City Star. THE encouragement* givon to the World's Fair of 1803 by foreign nations increases the responsibility not only of the United States Government but of the State governments. -- Baltimore American. THE Women's Department at Chicago will do much toward universal feminine emancipation if it removes even a frac­ tion of the popular foreign prejudice against the participation of «woman in every field to which she may aspire.-- Troy Times. RUSSIA'S BYE. RUSSIA has scored a point against Germany and England, --yew York Mail. IT'S an ill wind to Germany, Austro* Hungary, and our good English cousins^ but it blows good to the American farmer.--Hartford t'ruruiU. THE immediate effect will be to cause an advance in wheat and breadstuffs in all European markets, and, in a very short time, in those of the United States. --Indianapolis Journal* IT affords the stiongest proof of the short crops in Europe creating a deficit which cannot be supplied except by the farmers of this country.--Baltimore Amerloan. WHILE this action is doubtless partly due to the short wheat.and rye crops in Russia, It is probably intended also as a measure of retaliation for Germany's attempt to commercially Isolate France. --Philadelphia Rceord. THE order of the Russian Government forbidding the exportation of rye can be regarded In the United States with en­ tire complacency. The American grain crops will be very-larire this year, and whatever the Germans may lack in rye can be abundantly supplied by prime Western wheat--Philadelphia Times. MACHINE-MADE RAIN. OF course the one experiment is not conclusive. --Minneapulix Tribune. ISOLATED experiments of this sort prove nothing in themselves.--Philadel­ phia Reoord, * THE fact Is, no discovery has yet been made how to make dry rain, or rain without moisture.--Washington, Star. THE coincidence of explosions and rains in one or a dowm instances le not conclusive that thero it a relation of cause and effect. --Milwaukee Se*ui*te/. OF course other tests will be necessary to settle tbe question whether man has actually gained another victory over ike powers of the air, banished drought, and reclaimed the deserts.--Cincinnati Times-Star. BilWMiat'l Power Trembll** *tn the Balance--A Might? Conflict imminent- Further Details or thn Awflil Hurricane in the West In<Ue 4--Less of Life and. Shipping. A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chili, says: The insurgent army ha» effected a landing at Viuintero 'Bay, only twenty miles north of this city. According to the lowest estimate it numbers 10,000 men. They were brought down from Caldera on ei^ht transports, three tugs and four warships. The point of land­ ing Is about fifty miles from Santiago, where Balmaceda's forces to the number of 10,00-J have been stationed. Quintero Bay is the entr..nce to a fertile valley and is in direct line with Santiago and Valparaiso The Balmacedists have for some time anticipated a movement south on the part of their foes, but they be­ lieved that Co juirnbo would be the first place attacked. It now appears that the hovering of the insurgent fleet in the neighborhood of Co uimbo Bay was only a scheme to deceive Balmaceda. By coming so far south the insurgents leave the large force of Balma-edistsatCoquimbo many miles to the north of them and helpless to render any aid to the Government army in this neighborhood. The landing at Quintero Bay was therefore a com­ plete surprise to the President, but as soon as he learned the news he acted promptly. By his command a large force was sent north t > meet the enemy. Admiral Brown, from his flagship, the San Francisco, saw the landing of the insurgents They are all well armed and enthusiastic. The United States warship Baltimore is in this harbor. The Esmeralda, commauded by Hlva Palna, Is just outside the harbor. It is expe ted th&t it will be joined at once by the other insurgent war vessels from Quin­ tero Bay. It looks as If, in conjunction with the advance of the land forces upon this city, the fleet wiil open fire upon the forts that defend this harbor. Valparaiso Bay is st ongly fortified. The forts jnount thirty guns, among which are a ten-Inch muzzle loader, eleven eight- inch and nine-in-h breech loaders, and five Krupp guns of 24 centimeters cali­ ber. The remainder are :-0J-pouiiders. Most of these guns are masked, and offer a small target for s^hips to lire at The gunners are all skilled men, who have a great deal of practice They know the distances across the bay, as they have a range finder. The insurgent fleet has altogether some nineteen guns, including 10-inch, 8-inch, and 6-inch .breech-loaders. Un­ less some of the government gunners turn traitors it does not seem likely that the fleet can silence the forts. So far it is quiet here. It looks as if the most important engagement so far in the his­ tory of the present war is about to be fought. Until the present time it has been nearly altogether a battle of words. Now a fierce fight is imminent On its result depend* in all likelihood the complete overthrow of Balmaceda or of his opponents. The rout of the President's forces would undoubtedly be quickly followed by the capture of both Valparaiso and-Santiago by the victor­ ious army of the insurgents. fS OVER SIX1Y LIVES Terrible Results o the Hnrrleaoe tfeat " Visited Mar.lnlque. The hurricane that swept over Mar­ tinique of the West India Islands, caused greater damage than at first supposed. So far as can be learned there were over sixty deaths as the result of the hurricanes visitation, but it will bo some time before the full extent of the disaster is known. • At Fort de France alone there were twelve lives lost, and at both Fort de France and St 1 ierre, to say nothing of the couutry districts, there have been large numbers of people in ured. Five persons are known to have been killed in St Pierre, but it is feared that this does not represent the entire loss of life in the capital. Communication with the different ports of the island was never an easy matter, and it is excessive y difficult to get detailed news at present As the reports from tho various sec­ tions reach St Pierre it becomes evident that the extent of the devastation has not been much exaggerated. Destruc­ tion of property and h ss of life are re ported from all parts of the coast - The latest report received here from Lamentin shows that there are ten dead in that place alone in addition to a larse number of injuied. At Francois there were sixtee"n people killed and large numbers injured, and at Riviere Pilote there were two or more deaths, and soon fro.n all parts of the island comes the tale of woe and desola­ tion. La Trinite sends in the list of its dead at ten and numbers of more or less severely Injured. The damage done to shipping and property may safely be classed as stupendous. About two-fifths of the Island was under cultivation and the mountain slopes wer.1 covered with forests. Ali the cultivation and all the forests in the path of the hurricane ap­ pear to have been swept away. The numerous sugar, coffee, cotton, and co­ cao p'antations which felt the force of tho tornado seem to have been destroyed. The number of ships wrecked in the several harbors of the island is at least twenty. • < Mid Class e f cenes. Now THAT Chauncey M. Depew is in Greeep, let us hear no more about De­ mosthenes.--Arkansas Gazette. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW is in Athens, Greece. Of course he will visit , the Acropolis and seek out. vhe tomb of Demosthenes. While at Rome he dropped a tear at the ^rave of Cicero (pronounce it kickero, please).-- Dayton Time*. MH. DEPEW IS of the opinion that the brigands In Southern Europe have lost their cunning. They held up a train next to the one in which he and Mr. Vandorbilt were trave ing, but never so much as looked at Mr. Depew's train. The missed a golden opportunity.--Bos­ ton Herald. CHAUNCEY DEPEW has recently visited the late Henry Demosthenes, of Greece, and is said to have remarked that he didn't See how Mr. Demosthenes could have been much of a speaker when thero was no such thing as Delmonico's in his day.--Minneapolis Tim**. THERE are fears that the investiga­ tions of Mr. Depew in the remote and little frequented portions of Greece may, result in his capture by the brigands in­ festing those localities. Well, if our Chauncey does get captured this coun­ try will cheerfully pav the ransom and send the bi 1 to the Government of Greece, rerhaps, by Ben Butler, who will see that the formula, C. O. D., is observed. --Rome SentincL HtMt. Precocious Two-Y ar-Okt. A 2-YEAR-OLD Chicago baby smokes. Th s is pushing the smoke nuisance too tar, evqn for Chicago --New York Re­ corder. CHICAGO \auTts to the front with a tobacco-smoking Infant which is thor­ oughly charged with nicotine at the ten­ der age of two years. It is understood >TT, WI 1 be on exhibition at the great held in that city next year (93, if it lives Ida? enough.-- fy Star. • EUROPE ALARM Eb OVER HEffi • GRAIN SHORTAGE. "t*-; ProMtltiNt CtporistiM of •ta May Campei the Continental triea to Use American Corn -ir so. Will Be Gainers. Until a generation or so ago the stapl* , % bread of the New England farmer was & " mixture of rye flour and corn meal/ popularly known as "rye and Indian.* • ? The main ingredient was the mealj Rye has never been a popular food prod*" V. net in this country, except among thos<* ^ of our people who came from the conti? J nent of Europe. Occasionally the early V,i frost would nip the corn in the milk an<$ ' •% the farmers would be obliged to reljp4 J mainly upon rye. The time seems t<* have come for corn to fully repay all it» indebtedness to rye as a substitute, not only upon the continent of Europe bu here at home, where the indebtedness - was incurred. Wheat has very nearly/: taken the place of all other cereals a$ food for man in this country, unless ifc #- be that the South still clings to corn.| T <f5 The working classes of the world, oi» the contrary, can not afford "white* J btead, * especially at semi-famine prices.; Whatever the producers may realize on • their crops, the Europoan consumer ia ^ bound to pay exceptionally dear for his" ' -p bread, be it black or white *>,. ' The latest edition of Mulhall gave the rye product of Europe as 1,260,003,0CCp\ , t bushels, and of wheat as 1,167,000,000 * •$£ bushels, a difference In favor of rye of ; "4m 123,000,COO bushels. Those figures giv^ Et •" ilk fair idea of the relative vieid of ordin* ary years. Fully one-half of all thav S rye of Europe is grown in Russia which • I produces at least three bushels of rye to> < ' - one of wheat, while the United States ' produces about fourt en bushels of wheat to one of rye Th ;ro are not far" C from 200,000,000 people in Europe who1' /<vlj rely upon rye as the staff of life. When, therefore, Russia prohibits the exporta-- ; tion of rye, as it did the 11th of this ^iXj month, it may be said to take the bread! out of the mouths of many millions ofv people and compel them to either go "ij hungry or eat something else. * 1 Fortunately for the poor of Europe, r *.^ there is every prospect of the greatest ! ^ corn crop in this country that was ever known in agricultural history. There- seems to bo a disposition in some quar­ ters to condemn the policy of Russia as cruel. If there were no other sources of supply, it would be mean to shut off the exportation summarily and rigidly/ " ' but there is really a gootf quantity of • food in the world, and ample facility for* '$y its transportation. Russia might keep every kernel of Its rye at home, and the United States would co.i e to the rescue^ - J with its corn. The sooner all the par- ' \ « ties in interest know what to expect the i better it will be. * It is highly probable that the lesson* of necessity will outlive the necessity itself, and that American corn will gain.. .A&fl a foothold in Europe during the next*; year from which it can not be dislodged. !.; Russia may be building better for th» % farmers of tbe United States than for*'. ttie Russian peasantry. Crdinarily a ' ^ country is anxious to find a market for< its surplus, and so far from putting an *"*i embargo on exports is happy in ther prospect of a foreign demand. It is' "jj ? probable that American corn will be> ~ ab'e to retain in future years much ot . the advantage it is about to enjoy. If Russia is not careful it will overdo the prohibition policy and Inflict permanent injury on Its own agriculture. Certain^. . it is that corn is quite as good food as- -i rye, and ipany of the millions who try it for a year or so will learn to prefer iticv*^^ That feature of the present relations of ' Jj corn to rye may prove to be the" most 1 y Important of the whole case. 'WM WILL FIGHT THE LAW, Indiana Bankers Wi 1 Refuse to Expose the Accounts of Their Depositors. Tho bankers of Indiana have &n- nounced their determination to tight the?% Proposed effort of the State Board of 'ax Commissioners to compel them to- expose the accounts of their depositors.; With that end in view the associated^ banksof Indianapolis have already taken action, and at a meeting of a special (jom-if mittee, composed of President Haughey,^ of the Indianapolis National; President Gallup, of the ^teridian National; and . President Malott, of the Indiana Na-, tlonal, a course of action based upon the> advice of Addison C. Harris, the attor­ ney for the Clearing House Association, was agreed upon. j Bank officials refuse to say mnch as toe'% the course they will pursue, but the sentl-i V^ ment against the law and its enforce-' ^ ment is pronounced and unanimous.! ~ • \- President Haug'hey says that there is- not a banker but will refuse to make his customer's business relations known. *':'M "A merchant may have a large balance \ on deposit," said he, "and he may have* r ^ given his check for two-thirds of the " ̂ amount: but, as we have not received the check, he is credited with the full balance, aud upon this they propose to* .. tax him. " He may purchase a negotiable certificate of deposit, assign the next^.rf!f| day, but it may not reach us for a» " £ m o n t h , b u t s t i l l o u r b o o k s w i l l s h o w > , ; that man credited w.th the certificate. ' Bankers are justified in resisting the y, law.* • ' As the officers of all the 51 banks in, Indiana have been cited to appety before* ! the board and show their deposits it 1st probable that q test case will be made up ̂ at once and decided as soon as possible.; It is claimed by the bankers that this' feature of the tax law is in conflict witht! the National Banking act, and further­ more, that a compliance with it would „ , ruin the banking business of Indiana. In answer to a question as to how it.." would do this it was replied: "Because" . .JH just before the first day of April all de-? positors who are now in the habit of un-';.,;^ derstating their deposits or not giving"! them in at all, will draw out from the ^ banks and conceal the money. It will • 4' practically compel the banks to call in * v ^ their loans and go into liquidation once a year, and that would paralyze busi­ ness. " .Tame* Russell Lowell. IN every regard James Russell Lowell - • was a grand character, and his life and > work shed luster upon the republic.-- BuffaLo Enquirer. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, poet, scholar, "?Jr. orator, author and diplomat, has passed • away. The whole civilized world willC IT mourn with America the loss of one of^:?^l her most distinguished sons.--^T" - - 2 Chronicle. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL will not\need! a monument of marble or brass to\per­ petuate his memory. "The Biglow, Papers" will keep his fame bright and?| render his influence upon human thoughtg^® « a living actuality for ages to come.-- ? ' Kansas City Tinus. ^ To LOWEI.L has b-cn awarded by the . ^ best criticism of the literary warld place in the first rank of American poets; '.VJu he is without a living peer in the poetic-, al perfection of som-> of his choicest pro- - i ̂ duvtions, but he was not a large produc- er.--Buffalo Commercial. OSTE can hardly find more delightful v " reading than his es ays The same goal- . ities were displayed in the after-dlnner!^^rj| speeches which s > captivated the English^ pejple during his re- iden e among them ' * <J as Minister from the United Scales.-- v ,] Milwaukee Sentinel. - - syg * J