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SLYKE, Editor art ftMlslfl* ILLINOIS. is FINISHED WORK. L U.ON, THE GREAT FINANCIER, 18 DEAD. T«(U Terrorlied by Incendlartee-- Home Inmates Object to Pt- »•««** Their Pension*--MunUroB* •t fort Soott, Kan. -FMtittOW pttoa. I The lAwiiMkMtb } Aa attempt was made to secure the pas- Mfe of bills on the private eaten* jlar in the House on the 10th, and aftef two hours devoted to attempts to secure a boor urn and repeated calls of the House,* tale programme was abandoned. Many: bills authorizing the building of new midges were passed. Mr. Wise (Dem.). °' Virginia, submitted a report from the Com- fenlttee on Interstate Commerce on the reso­ lution for an investigation by that com-' tmlttee on the Reading Railroad combina-| tlon deal and asked that it be considered; On the 13th. The resolution was ordered Jjrtnted. The House then adjourned until lfa« 13th. Dillon, the Millionaire, Dead. ( SIDNET DIIIIIOK, THE New York finan­ cier and railroad magnate, died at his residence, No. 23 West Fifty-seventh street, New York, at 11:10 Thursday morning. For more than a year Mr, Dillon has suffered from indigestion. 'Although attended by eminent physi­ cians he;could get no relief and grad­ ually became worse until twelve weeks kgo when he was compelled to take to his bed. Kidney Dillon was born in North­ ern New York 79 years ago, his parents having emigrated from Ireland many lyears previous. His father's poverty Jras so marked that when Sidney was but 7 years old he determined to strike out ior himself, and secured the position of "water-carrier on the Mohawk and Hud- teon Road, then being built between Albany and Schnectady, receiving $1 a Week and board. In a few years he bought horses and carts, and soon had la paying sand and water hauling busi- feess. iWhen quite a young man Dillon blade his debut in New York City and devoted his attention to carrying out railroad contracts. Mr. Dillon was known as Jay Gould's right bower. In 1884 his wealth was estimated at $25,- 000,000 in railroad stocks and bonds and fe few million in Government securities, but lately his possessions increased at a rapid rate. Would Murder the County Attorney. AT Fort Scott, Kan., W. H. Young, who beat his wife with an iron poker so badly that the physicians attending her tay she will surely die, was released from the County Jail on a bond of $3,000. Immediately thereafter he hastened to find County Attorney Boyle and swore he would kill him on sight. Just before he reached the office of Attorney Boyle the Sheriff and a deputy with pointed six shooters ran him back to the jail. Where he is now held upon the charge of murder without bail. A search was made at his house by the Sheriff, and in the cellar were found forty barrels of Cider and a keg of whisky. Behind the door of his bedroom were found two axes and a shotgun loaded with six inches of t>owder, buckshot and nails, together With two loaded revolvers. Will Test the New Lav. Forn inmates of the Grand Rapids, Mich., Soldiers' Home have begun a salt against Governor "Winans and mem­ bers of the Board of Managers to pre­ vent the enforcement of the rule requir­ ing veterans to turn over to the com­ mandant all pension money in excess of $5 per month. The veterans claim that the rule assumes to exeroise guardianship over the inmates and forcibly take possession of the pen­ sion money. It compels applicants for admission to deposit the pension certifi­ cated with the money without due pro­ cess of law and is contrary to the spirit of the law creating the home. The pe­ titioners have remonstrated with the managers, but the latter threaten dis­ charge unless the rule is complied with. Two Incendiary Fires In Las Tepu. WHAT is supposed t:> have been an Incendiary fire was discovered at Las Vegas, N. M., in the ruins of an old building next to J. H. Stearns' grocery store. The flames were extinguished, after having gutted the place. While this fire was burning another con­ flagration was discovered in a private hotel, a square away from the first out­ break. This was evidently of incen­ diary origin also, and, for a time, the whole of East Las Vegas was threat­ ened with destruction. Eighteen build­ ings were destroyed before the fire was gotten under control. The loss is es­ timated at $35,000. A stranger in the town has been arrested, with plunder taken during the fire in his possession. Killed Htmsel While Despondent. MB. J. W. WooiiBBiDGE, aged be­ tween 35 and 40, was found in his room at the St. Paul Hotel, in Cincinnati, with his throat cut. • Papers found upon him showed that he was connected with the City National Bank of Austin, Texas, of which A. P. Woolbridge is president. Eighteen hundred dollars was found on his person. The only elew to the cause is a notification from a life insurance company that his ap­ plication for a policy had been refused on account of lung trouble. * . ' • Jte© of business, and exchange tfce stock for the stock of such corporations. CLERGYMEN of all denominations have begun a crusade In Brooklyn for tLe en­ forcement of the excise laws. A dele­ gation of more than fifty, having a peti­ tion signed by nearly 200 Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, and Jewish rabbis, called upon Mayor Boody and urged that the laws against the sale of liquor Sunday and to minors be en­ forced. Mayor Boody, who promised to do all he conscientiously could in the matter, was furnished by the visitors with the names of half a dozen most fla­ grant violators of the law. Gov. PATTISON, of Pennsylvania, was about to take the cars with his wife for Gleneoe, Md., to be present at the graduating exercises of the seminary at­ tended by his daughter, when he learned of the awful disaster in the oil regions. He at once canceled all engagements and went to the executive department, where he opened up communication with Col. Connelly of his staff. On receipt of confirmation of the news he at once Issued his proclamation, calling on the people of the State for aid. He re­ ceived dispatches from Titusville and Oil City informing him of the great loss of life and destruction of property and the fact that the loss will be at least $1,200,000 in each city. He re­ ceived a pitiful dispatoh which said: "Out misery is greater than we Can find words to express. The dispatches are not exaggerated in the least; indeed not half the misery and distress can be told." The Governor WES MUCH pleased on reoeipt of Mayor Stuart's message giving the action of the Philadelphia Relief Committee appropriating $10,000. Later dispatches received by the Gov­ ernor from Titusville and Oil City are to the effect that matters are being sys­ tematically arranged. WBSTERltr A TERRIFIC wind and "hail storm vis­ ited Fitchville Township, near Norwalk, Ohio, Wednesday afternoon. Immense damage was done to wheat crops by the hailstones, which were as large as wal­ nuts. At J. Gifford's farm several acres were totally destroyed, houses unroofed, trees and fences blown down. While D. H. Hodges had two horses killed by lightning. The fluid struck Hodges' left elbow, jumped to the truss he was wearing, followed around his body down his right leg into the ground, tearing off the sole of his boots. NEAR Forest City, Mo., Stephen Shaler, a boy 16 years of age, was run­ ning across a foot-bridge over the pond, when he fell overboard. His mother and sister, the latter a girl of 15, jumped into the water to rescue him. Instead of saving the boy, they found them­ selves, struggling for their own lives. The father, Stephen Shaler, Sr., sum­ moned by the cries of his drowning wife and children, although unable to swim, at once jumped into.the water. The fight for life only lasted a short time, and when the neighbors finally reached the spot it was only in time to remove from the water the bodies of father, mother, and children. Five other little children are left orphans by the accident. Coii. L. L. POLK, of North Carolina, President of the National Farmers' Alli­ ance, is dangerously ill at his residence in Washington, D. C. Mr. Polk has been ill about ten days, suffering from hemorrhage of the b l a d d e r , c a u s e d probably by a tumor. This has caused blood poisoning, and it is now thought that there is no hope for his recovery. His son-in-law, Mr. Denmark, is with him and his wife has been telegraphed for. IN the United States Circuit Court at Chicago, Judge Woods recently decided a case wherein the Hostetter Co. was plaintiff and G. A. McKee defendant. The plaintiff make and sell Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and defendant kept what is termed a department store in West Madison street, and sold an imita­ tion of plaintiff's bitters, but in the genuine bottles, which had been once filled with plaintiff's bitters. These bottles still had the original labels, but the coiks were sealed with a counter­ feit metallic cap, and they were eold at what the druggists call "cut rates." Im­ mediately upon close of the arguments by Mr. Clarke for plaintiff and E. C. Dahms for defendant, the court granted a decree of perpetual injunction, with costs, etc. WITH all the majestic solemnity that attends the launching of a great ship, amid the deafening shrieks of many whistles and the reverberating roar of thousands of voices, the mighty Mari- tana, the mistress of the inland seas, the largest vessel that was ever built to steam on fresh waters, was formally given to its natural element Wednesday afternoon. The launching took place in the Calumet River at South Chicago, in the yards of the Chicago Shipbuild­ ing Company. The arrangements were as perfect as skill and attention could make them, and, at the word of com­ mand, the magnificent vessel, the build­ ing of which has marked a particular time in the history of marine con­ struction on the Great Lak^s, moved down the ways and settled into the water of the slip as easily as though it had been a toy rather than the levia- athan that it really is L. I* POL*. NEWS NUGGETS. ' A HIGH official in the Public Works Department at Quebec is missing. It Is said that he is implicated in the Mor- rissette forgery. He is thought to have gone over the border. PRESIDENT DIAZ, of Mexico, says it Is immaterial who is President of the iCnited States. The relations between the two countries, he Bays, are too friendly for any one to disturb them. THIEVES entered A1 Flannigan's store •t Westfield, lnd., and carried away clothing, jewelry, etc., to the amount of $1,000. THE members of the Joliet (111.) Woman's Christian Temperance Union visited the penitentiary and left 1,550 feouquets, one for each convict. SELLS ®BOS.' menagerie and circus arrived at San Francisco from Australia CB the steamer Monowai. The show Went to the antipodes last October, be­ ing the second time an American show •ver visited that part of the world. SOUTHERN. Immigration Committee the bill rfe« ported to the House by Mr, Stump, ot Maryland, to facilitate the enforcement of the present immigration and contract labor laws. Che most important pro­ vision requires the steamship companies to prepare, on the other side of the ocean, descriptive lists of the immi­ grants for the use of the inspectors on tiiis side. AT 12:45 o'clock Mr. Blaine tendered his resignation as Secretary of State to the President, and within seventy min­ utes thereafter it was accepted. Follow­ ing is the correspondence: DEPARTMENT or STATS, I ^ \ WASHINGTON, D. C. f To the President: I respectfully be* leave to submit my resig­ nation of the office of Secretary of St ftt«*>t the United States, to which I was appointed by you the 6th of March, 1889. The condition of public business in the Department of Stats justifies me in requesting my resignation may be accepted imtnortiately. I have the honor to be. Tflrv ifiAitcctiuily. youx obwllcut servant, * jamks O. BLAINE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. 0.-- To the Secretary of State: Your letter of this date tendering your resignation of the office of Secretary of State of the United States has b»en received. The term* in which von state votu desires Ere such as to Joave mc no choico but to accede to your wishes at once. Your resignation is therefore accepted. Very re­ spectfully, yours, BENJAMIN HABBIBOX. The lion. James G. Blaine. POLITICAL. ABOUT one-half of the vote of the State of. Oregon shows that Moore (Rep.), for Supreme Judge, has 3,275 plurality from sixteen counties out of thirty-one. Webster (Rep.), for At- terney General, has 1,500 majority. The Republicans control the Legislature by twenty majority. IN the Massachusetts House Repre­ sentative Bennett of Everett stated thai! two members of the Legislature had in­ formed him that they had been offered $100 each to vote for the Cape Cod canal •bill, and $500 each to refer the endow­ ment orders bill to the noxt Legislature. He offered an order for an investigating committee. The order was unanimous­ ly adopted. THE Iowa People's Party State Con­ vention at Des Moines had about 200 delegates and visitors. W. H. Robb was chosen Chairm&if of the State com­ mittee; Richard Olney, Secretary; and M. L. "Wheat selected to present the name of J. B. Weaver for President at the national convention. The platform indorses the 6ubtreasury scheme or something better apd 2 per cent, loans, the increase of money to $50 per capita, a graduated income tax, postal savings banks, asserts that land is the heritage of all the people, and that the Govern­ ment should own and operate railroads. A separate resolution was passed de­ claring that James B. Weaver is a proper man to make the race for the Presi­ dency and commending him to the Omaha convention. FOREIGN. EASTERN. & F AT Boston there are said to be two inore indictments against Maverick Bank officials, placed on the secret files. THE long-talked-of combination of Wall paper manufacturers became an ac­ complished fact when a certifiaate was filed with the New York Secretary of State incorporating the National Wall s : «aPer Company, with a capital of $14.. *4 «00,000, divided into $100 shares. The .•44"' r-.-«ompany is to manufacture and deal in %all paper and other interior house deo- V orations, or may hold stock in other cor- • ^orations having anything to do.wtyh its FRISCO trainmen reaching Paris, Texas, report a fall of snow at Wister Junction. It was very cold there. Two FREIGHT trains on the Nashville and Owensboro Railroad collided near South Carrollton, Ky. Four train hands were killed. BELOW New Orleans the river Is up to the top of the levees all along, but only a couple of crevasses were announced, and all below the city. BABBETT'S distillery, regularly regis tered, capacity twenty bushels a day, located near Somerset, Ky., was raided and the proprietor arrested for taking whisky from the warehouse to escape the payment of taxes. AT New Orleans, while out walking, Charles Malison, aged 23, was suddenly stricken blind. So swift was the visita­ tion that he could not at first realize his affliction, but when convinced that it was day and that his eyesight had left him his cries were piteous. TOOF, MCGOOWAN & Co., wholesale grocers of Memphis, Tenn., assigned to W. W. McDowell and L. B. McFarland as trustees. The liabilities are $121,000 and assets are placed at a figure nearly double that amount. General business depression, slow collections, and the low prices of cotton are given as the cause. THE steamer Alert, bound for the island of New Jersey, in the English channel, and loaded with excursionists, was wrecked in a fog at La Corbiero Point on the island. When the passen­ gers heard that the vessel was stranded a terrible panic ensued. A great many thought they were going to the bottom at once and that they had no chance of safety. One of them rushed to the cap­ tain and offered a gold watch to be saved. Scores of women fell on their knees and begged heaven for mercy, but all were saved. THE Tory and Moderate LlDeral pa­ pers of London, especially those of the provinces, comment bitterly upon the effort of the Times to prevent the re­ printing of its matter by other journals. They rejoice that the attempt resulted in substantial failure. Some recall with regret the consideration shown by them toward the Times at the period of that paper's confusion over the breakdown of the Pigott conspiracy. The St. James Gazette indulges in language which will probably cause the Times to bring an action for libel. It alleges that Mr. McDonald, late manager of the Times, died of a broken heart, crushed by his fruitless efforts to save the honor of the Walter family from the effects of the Pigott disclosures. IN GENERAL A IIABGE number of prominent and influential citizens of Brazil have been sent into exile by acting President Peix- otto, because of public or private utter­ ances regarding acts of £he administra­ tion, which he construed as inflamma­ tory. HALF rates each way have been granted by the Transcontinental Asso- sociation on all exhibits from the Pacific coast States intended for the World's Fair. This action was taken by the as­ sociation at the instance of big Califor­ nia fruit shippers and Vice President Phelan of the California World's Fair Board. AT Indianapolis, the Indiana Grand Lodge. Knights of Pythias, elected of­ ficers as follows: Grand Chancellor, Dr. E. L. Siver, Fort Wayne; Grand "Vice Chancellor, James E. Watson,Win­ chester; Grand Prelate, J. M. Hatfield, Huntington; Grand Master of Ex­ chequer, Henry D. Gray, Union City; Grand Master-at-arms, C. F. Neal, Lebanon; Grand Trustee, George W. Powell, Indianapolis. MARKET REPORTSI CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime 18.60 HOGS--Shipping Grades 3.60 SHEEP--Fair to Choice 4.00 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring .85 COBN---No. 2, new .51 OATS--No. 2 93 RYE--No. 1 7» BUTTER--Choice Creamery 17 CHEESE--Full Cream, flats .09 KG os--Fresh .15 POTATOES--Choice old. per bu.. US INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping a.25 HOGS--Choice Light 3.50 SHEEP--Common to Prime 3.00 WHEAT--No. 2 Red .86 COBN--NOJ 1 White .49 OATS--No. 2 White .86 ST. Loura CATTLBI 3.00 HOGS a.50 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed............ COBN No. a SaiiSdi XIIALTI OAtti--NO. ' KYE--No. a.. •45>v@ .»2 & CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON. SECRETARY TRACY'S transfer to the State Department is among the possi­ bilities. MB. WHARTON, Assistant Secretary of State, will, by request of President Harrison, act as Secretary, pending the appointment of Mr. Blaine's successor. SENATOR CHANDLER reported from th/j CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--N0/2 Red".! 1 COBN--No. 2 OATS--No.2 Mixed... DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Rod COBN--No. % Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLKDO." WHEAT--No. 1 COBN--No. 2 White OATB--No. 2 White ItiK EAST LIBERTY. BEEF CATTLE--Fine Good Common Hoos--Prime SHEEP--Choice LAMBS . MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN-No. 3 OATS--NO. 2 White RYE--No. 1 BAELEX--No. 2 NEW YOBK. CATTLE... HOGS SHEET % WKEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--MLxed Western........... BUTTER--Creamery BY FIKE AND FLOOD. 9ISA6TER IN THE PENNSYL­ VANIA OIL REGIONS. INCMAU oPciBQuttA-now. DOINGS OF CONGRESS, .50 4.00 3.00 2,00 4. SO 4.60 6.60 .55 8.50 LOO @ 4.60 <® 4.76 5.75 .93 .93 .63% .30 .83 tW0 Hundred nA lUljr Peopto n.*o|4ii •o Be Bwmd jn Death or Dmni»4- Oil Taaka Poor Forth Their Destructive Contests. In Sees of Flame. The oil regions of Pennsylvania were visited Sunday by a disaster from fire and water that is only eclipsed in the history of the State by the memorable flood of Johnstown, just-three years ago. A Pittsburg dispatch says: It is im­ possible at this time to give anything like an accurate idea of the loss of life and property, as chaos reigns through­ out the devastated region and a terrible conflagration still rages in Oil City. It is safe to say that not less than 150 lives have been lost. Nearly one hun­ dred bodies have already been recovered and many people are still missing. The number may far exceed 150, but this is regarded as a con<s«rvativo estimate. The property loss will reach far into millions. AtgTitusvllle the loss is es­ timated at $1,500,0(10; Oil City, $1,500,- 000; Corry, $60,000; Meadville, $150,- 0C0, and surrounding country probably a million more. For nearly a month it has been rain­ ing throughout Western and Northern Pennsylvania almost incessantly, aim: for the last three or four days the downpour in the devastated regions had been very heavy. The constant rains had converted all the small streams into raging torrents, so that when the cloudburst came Sunday xhorning the streams were soon beyond their boundaries, and the great body of water came sweeping down Oil Creek to Titusville, vhlch is eighteen miles sou'.h of its source.' The lower portion of the town was soon inundated. The flood eame so quickly that the people had not time to reach a place of safety. The water soon swept a number of oil tanks down the stream, and in some way not known they were ignited. In less time than it takes to tell the story the flames spread to the surrounding buildings and before they could be subdued five blocks had been burned. 1 The oil from the scores of broken tanks ran into the creek and was ig­ nited by floating debris. In a few min­ utes the creek was ablaze from shore to shore, and as it was carried down the stream death and destruction followed in its wake. Everything inflammable took fire and by the time it reached Oil City all the bridges between the two points were consumed. btoty of t»« Disaster. At Oil City a large proportion of the Population was distributed along the banks and bridges of the Allegheny River and Oil Creek watching the rise of the flood in both streams. At the' time an ominous covering of oil made its ap­ pearance on the crest of the flood pour­ ing down the Oil Creek Valley, and the foreboding waves of gas from distillate and benzine could be seen above the Burfaoe ot'the stream. People began to slowly fafrback from the bridge and the creek, but they had hardly begun to do so when an explosibn was heard up the stream which was rapidly followed by two others, and quick as a flash of light­ ning the creek for a distance of two miles was filled with an awful mass of roaring fiames and billows of smoke that rolled high above the creek and river hills. "Run!" yelled a hundred voices, and the people turned like stampeded cattle and started for the hills. The panic- Btricken crowd shrieked madly in their efforts to escape. Women and children were trampled under foot, and about twenty were severely bruised and had to be picked up by a few of the cooler heads and can-led out of harm's way. Almost as quickly as the words can bo written fully 5,000 people were on the streets wild with terror, rushing to the hills. Men forgot that they were men and scores of men, women and children were knocked down and trampled upon both by horses and people in the mad flight for places of safety. Just as this frantic mase of humanity had started up Center street the second explosion occurred, knocking many people down, shattering the windows in the main part of the town, and almost transforming the day to night with the immense expanse of smoke. Hundreds of people thought that the day of judg­ ment had come, and many prayers wer« heard mingling with the moans and lamentations of the fleeing multitude. The heat was Intense, and the weird and awful spectacle presented to the panic- strioken people was that a cloudburst of fire, bordered and overcapped by 8 great canopy of dense, black smoke. Men wept and women fainted. Man3 left everything behind them, and rai or were helped to the hills, where, aftei they were out of danger, came the anxi­ ety and suspense for relatives anc friends who had been along the creek watching the flood when the avalanclft of flame came. Most of the bodies recovered bear evi­ dence of having met death from burning oil, many of them being burned almost beyond recognition, and several of then; in such a terrible manner as to leave th< bodies without the least semblance ol human form. A bird's-eye view of the situation ac the smoke from the burning oil on the waters rolls away discloses a pitiful sight, nothing but a mass of burned and flooded ruins from Monroe street east tc the most eastern line of the city limits. The streets lie filled full of debris, over­ turned houses half burned, parte of whal were once railroad cars, and empty oil barrels. A great deal of Uve &took wai lost, and it will take days to get th€ streets In a passable condition. The lose in the county by washouts and loss of bridges will be enormous. There is not a county or township bridge for many miles that is not washed out, and the roads in every direction are nearly impassable. The Western New York A Pennsylvania and the Union & Titusville iioads have not attempted to run train's, and will be obliged to spend an enormous amount of money before trains can be run in any direction. Oil City is eighteen miles from Titus­ ville. The towns along the creek are Boughton, Miller Farm, Pioneer, Pe­ troleum Center, Rynd Farm, Rouseville, and McClintockville. Rouseville has about 1,000 inhabitants and the other towns about 200 each. Oil creek flows through a narrow gorge all the way, and as the towns are mostly situated on the Mils it is hoped there was no loss of life. Communication has been cut off from these places, however, and nothing is definitely known. Cwl from the Uellei Committee. As the devastation is so great it has been decided to call upon the outside world to furnish financial means to re­ lieve the distressed, and an appeal has been Issued. Such contributions should be sent by telegraph to Roger Sherman, president of the relief committee, as no malls will be received or dispatched for several days, owing to throe railroads entering the city having their tracks washed out almost entirely for many miles. Titusville gave $15,000 to Chi­ cago, $5,000 to Johnstown sufferers and $2.000»*to the South at the time ol the yellow? fever epidemic, also $1,500 to Russian relief, and has always re­ sponded to all demands upon the puhUo sympathy when oil towns have, been in distress. THE reason the average man is unable to "put himself in your place" la he feels altogether too "dig to HU it. Vtav«heMMUkof)f«yl* AamMi h WML 77 Per Oaptta. The Treasury Department'* monthly statement of chaoses In the ciroulatlon shows a considerable net increase dor* ing the last month. There was a deorease of $6,338,559 in United States notes, $639,124 in na­ tional bank notes, $457,582 in standard silver dollars, and $97„189 in subsidiary silver. On the other hand there was an increase of $6,666,902 in Treasury silver'notes, $3,581,610 in gold oertifloates, $3,520,000 in currency cer­ tificates, $1,295,708 in gold certiflo&tes, and $269 in silver certificates. This shows a net increase during the month of $6,487,98 >. The total circulation of the oountry June 1 is placed at $1,620,- 010,229--a per capita circulation of $24.77, or $115,278,509 more than June 1, 1891. The changes in the circulation of various kinds of money during May. to­ gether with the amounts in circulation June 1, are shown in the following tables: ^ a May 1,1899. Ooidcoin $ 407,615,»49 Standard iher dol­ lars Subsidiary silver..,.. Gold certificates ..... Silver certlflcatoa.... Silver Treasury notes United States notes.. Currency oertifloates. National bank notes . . 57,664,417 62,833,338 153,718,W S27,2«).W» 8i.wi.rjo tm,im.m. :to.2u>,ooo ISti,067,089 June 1, IMS, $ 4M,*11.66? 67,096,925 62,784,834 1(7,396,90S (27,290,168 87,068,fl7t 818,468^02 33,730.000 ,421,966 Totals.... d,620,010,239 $1,604,278,800 The general stock of money coined or issued and in the Treasury June 1 is shown by the following table. Coined or lsened. In Treasury. Gold coin .$ Standard silver dol­ lars t........ Subsidiary silver Gold certificates Silver certificates Sliver Treasury notes United States notes.. Currency oertifloates. National batik notes. 602,486,287 $ 193.673.6W) 413,565,360 77,196,881 rri,2<*,73» ;«o,so4,ooa t!7,8M,086 .016 34,030,000 •179.4U9 J49 856,466,436 14,459,497 14,470,620 3,613,837 10,823,314 28,327,VU 290,000 Totals $2,246,508,510 1626,498,281 During May there was a net increase of $7,910,008 In the Treasury store of money and bullion. There was a de­ crease of $1,758,671 in the store of gold bullion, $1,403,€06 in silver Treasury notes, $337,693 in gold coin, and $1/40,- 930 in subsidiary silver, while there was an increase of $6,332,559 in United 8tates notes, $3,588,919 in silver bul­ lion, $967,532 in standard silver dollars, and $661,898 in the Treasury store of national bank notes. Gold certificates held in cash by the Treasuiy June 1 amounted >to $14,470,520, a decrease during May of $7,460,660; silver certifi­ cates held in cash amounted to $3,613,- 837, an increase during last month of $404,731; and currency certificates held in cash were $290,000, $50,000 less than May 1. The store of gold bullion in the Treasury June 1 aggregated $7,953,- 612, and of silver bullion $72,601,576. WEALTH OF THE WEST. Valuation of Central. States According to the Census. The Census Office has issued a bul­ letin showing by States and geographi­ cal divisions the total and per capita as­ sessed value of property for 1890 and 1880, and "the increase per cent, of such valuation. For the North Central Di­ vision, which, among others, includes the States of Illinois, Indiama, Michi­ gan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa, and Mis­ souri, the following figures are given: TOTAIi A88E68ED VALUATION. State. 1800. 1880. Illinois. $727,41ft,253 $786,616,394 Indiana. 846,687 797,M8,131 Michigan... 927,577,7'18 617,066,339 Wlsconstu 1 602,8#!),"19 4H8, '.>71,751 Kansas..., $48,4!>9,U44 160,801,680 Iowa 630,6%,141 308,671,251 Missouri 786,343,753 632,796,801 The bulletin says that as the laws of Illinois provide that property shall be assessed for taxation at its true value in that State, but that the Board of Equalization for 1880 officially declared that the assessed value for that year was but one-half of the true Value, the figures of the assessed valuation of Illi­ nois property should be increased four­ fold to show the true Increase during the decade. The per capita assessed value in the same States in 1890 and 1880 is given as follows: State. 1800. 1880. Illinois....... $*0.11 $356.67 Indiana. .386.19 367.90 MiChigdn 442,99 816.34 Wisconsin.... V..v 35K47 838.69 Kansas 244.17 161.53 Iowa f..277.58 346.89 Missouri , 293.50 346.71 For the decade^ ending with 1860,1870 and 1880 tho estimated true value of all property in the United States and the value of real estate and personal prop­ erty as assessed is as follows: Assessed Estimated Years. valuation, true vaiastloa. 1860 $12,084,MO,005 $16,lfitt,616,008 1870 .'. 14,178,986,732 80,068, SIH.ROT 1880. 16,902,1)93,G43 43,642,000,000 1890 24,661,686,466 Should it be found upon completion of the inquiry in relation to the true value of all property in the United States that the same relation exists in 1890 between the assessed valuation and the true valuation as existed in 1880, the absolute wealth of the country may be estimated at $63,648,000,000, or more than $1,000 per capita, as against $614 per capita In 1860, $781 per capita in 1870, and $870 per capita in 1880. Onsastln' Weather. Now, ttrar ain't no use a talkin' 'bout ye* amllin*, buddin' Mays, * Wben the North wind, frost, an' snow* storms have such curious, starttln' ways; For the corn's a sproutln' down'ards an* pertaters floatln' off. An' thur ain't a nabur round us 'thoat a raspip', liackin' cough. Why. It's Jes* as like as any, if they ain't stuck in the mud. They'll be cuttin' ice at Natchez on the last Missouri flood. All the robins an' the. catbirds say they're goln' South again. An* I'm havln* lots o* bother with my old bitown settin' hen. Cos she'd tho't she i;ot May fere®, but she says tho almanac Must a bin an old last year's one, an* I'd better take it b&clc- When I went to town a week ago to get some summer close An' a bonnet fer Mariar--wby, whatever d'ye spose? Why, a big chinchilla overcoat they tried to have mo buy, An' a fur-linod hood aa' tippet fer my wife to take an* try. All thur leeracn got arrested for a-forcln' o' thur trade. While the coaly ards begged protection from a chilly people's raid.. An' I'vo been a-frettin' awful /bout them poets--them us sing All about tho buratin' budleto an' thur sign9 o' early spring, • An' I hope they'll Jes stop writing an* go out an' take a walk. Then they'll And thur off'n the calendar a, month by my blue clitilk; An' to make the rooords jibe, they ought when singiii' out so pay, Jes extend thur rhymes to tako In June aa' leave out fickle May; It'll give 'era Jes a little change--an* us a different tone-- Pur strewn, spoon, boon. moon, prune, noon, coon, dune, loon, all hitch with June. Grains of Gold. HOWE'EB it be, it seems to me *Us only noble to be good. * XTVBB to do good means that yam are continually doing bad. A MA2? with a pure heart ought to be A man with a clean mouth. Wu like the devil becauee he makeens be1iev4 we are somebody. No ForrsxAxw is so small ill art hearrm may not be imagod in ite boeotru Do Norarvo in thy passion; ft is like putting to sea in a violent storm. WHI.H you talk to a man about hiq BH\% jfcn'tetand oyerjij^ w^h > glufe. MEASURES CONSIDERED A1 ACTED UPON. At tts ffattarti Capltal~-Wfcat X* Betag Done iqr the Senate and Hoase--Old Matters Disposed Or and New Ones Con- •Mered. The Senate and House. Mr. Hatch's anti-option bill was passed by the House on the 6th, by a rote of 1»8 to 48. Bills admitting New Mexico and Ari­ zona to Statehood were also passed by the House. C'onferrees were appointed on the river and harbor and naval appropriation, bills. The bill spproprlatlng $60,000 for a pedestal tor a monument to General • William T. Sherman passed. In the Senate the consular diplomatic ap­ propriation bill was laid aside and Mr. Vest addressed the Senate on the resolution re= cently introduced by him to discharge the Flnanco Committee from the further con­ sideration of the bill to place wool on the free list. Without action on the matter the Senate adjourned. The way lu which business was rushed through the House on the 7th led to con­ siderable talk at the capital about the prospects of an early adjournment. Sen­ ator Allison, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and therefore an au­ thority on the state of tho appropriation bills, expressed the opinion that the Senate would be ready to adjourn by July 15. The Senate surpassed all previous records in passing the diplomatic and consular appro­ priation bill in thirty minutes, and many changes were made. Tl.e House had m very brief session. An urgent deficiency bill appropriating fev,6'<4,000 lor pensions and $14:000 for contingent expenses of the House was passed. Bills were alno passed establishing weather bureau stations on Middle and Thunder Bay Islands and Lake Huron, and ceding lands to the city of New Bedford, Mass.. for a public park. The bill forfeiting land grants opposite uncon- structed roeds at the time limited by the granting, acts occupied the remainder of the day. There were just twenty-five Senators present in the Senate during the morning hour, on the 8th, two-thirds of them being on the Democratic side. Vice President Morton was in the chair. A bill to Increase to $1,000,000 the appropriation for a public building at Portland, Ore., was reported and placed on the calendar. Mr. Dolpb read an argument in support of the bill in­ troduced March 0 providing for the irriga­ tion and reclamation of arid lands, for the protection of forests, and the utilization of pasturages. The pension deficiency bill was laid be­ fore the Senate and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The mem­ bers of the House were in a very list­ less humor and went into committee of the whole, Mr. Mont^oiueiy, of Koutucky, iu the chair, for the consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. There was a general debate and the bill was read by paragraphs for amendment. In the House, on the 9th, the day was given to the Committee on Judiciary, who occupied over five hours in discussing measures on the calendar. Among the bills passed were: Providing that a poor person who may sue In a United States court shall not be required to give security for costs and permitting the court to as­ sign counsel in such cases; punishing by death a killing committed in any place un­ der United States jurisdiction; punish­ ing murder in the second degree by life imprisonment or not less than ten years; punishing manslaughter by Imprisonment of not less than one nor more than twenty years; repealing the statute requiring every farmer and planter producing and selling leaf tobacco to furnish a statement of sales and the names of persons purchas­ ing the tobacco. In the Senate, Mr. Mor­ gan, Democrat, of Alabama, called up Sen­ ator Stewart's bill for the free coinage of gold and silver. After Mr. Morgan finished bis remarks, the pension deficiency bill was passed. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, then spoke on the Stewart free coinage bill, after which the Senate adjourned until the 13th. On the Diamond. Following Is a showing of the standing nf each of the teams of the different associa­ tion si NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. <pc. Boston 31 12 .721 Brooklyn. ...37 14 .659 Cincinnati. ..26 18 .605 Chicago 24 18 .671 Pittsburg. ...23 22 .611 Phlladelp'ia.22 22 .600 W. L. $e. Cleveland ...22 22 .60C New York...21 21 .50(1 Washington.18 24 .42S Louisville...18 26 .411 St. Louis 16 28 .864 Baltimore...10 82 .23!i ILLINOIS LEAGUE. W. L. Wc.l W. L. Vc. Joliet 27 8 .uoo R. I.-Moline.ll 17 .898 Aurora. . 19 12 .613 Quincy. 10 17 .87C Rockford 16 10 .600 Terre Haate.10 17 37(1 Evansville...l7 14 .648!Jacksonville T 26 .211 WESTEBN ASSOCIATION* W. L. *c.| W. L. f>c. Columbus.. .80 9 .70S) Omaha 14 19 .424 Milwaukee..18 10 .643 Minneap'lls.11 16 .401 Kansas City.18 16 .529 Ft. Wayne..' 9 18 .838 Toledo ..16 16 .484|Indian'pTB. 6 19 .240 Here and There. THE lifeboat, is the only craft T^AT must run up stream to get to the sea. TWENTY MILLION acres of the land in the United States are held by English­ men. THE bad man's associate eats redhot brickbat and drinks . melted lead for EOUp. THIS is a country in which a man must take the lead or he will neve.* get it. THEBE are over 1,100,000 railroad cars and 33,000 locomotives in the United States. THE negroes in the United States now pay taxes on $264,000,000 worth of property. FKOM 1859 to 1890 Colorado produced $300,000,000 worth of gold, silver, cop­ per and lead. IT is said that he who ventures to eat beefsteak pie in a strange restaurant is a hero at heart. THE juice of a half a lemon in a cup of strong black coffee without sugar will cure a sick headache. THEKE are 20,000,000 dogs in the United States, and it costs $200,000 per annum to keep them. THE Roumanian crown is made of metal from the cannon captured from the Turks at Plevna in 1877. To PREVENT the bursting of potatoes intended to be baked, prick them be­ fore putting them In the oven. THE trouble with the person who is too smart is, that you cannft teach him and are never willing to let him teaoh you. $ , Two THTJNDEB storms occnrred near Abbeyville, La., and during eaoh one a young lady was struck and killed by lightning. A iiiTTtiE chastisement, is necessary as a taste of the hot wrath to come, from which you should teach your off­ spring to flee. THE railioads of the country employ 700,000 men. Each year they lose 2,000 of their number in killed, and 20,000 of them are injured. A NEW design in sugar-plum trays shows a trout approaching a fly on the end of a flshline, and the twists of the line spell the sentence: Have a bite? A NEW YORK man» tried to get the Legislature of his State to pass a bill providing for the death penalty for owners of dogs whose bite caused death. A CINCINNATI man was detected a few days ago in attempting to pass a piece of United States currency that had been raised by the aid of a beer stamp. A BBOOD of chickens was hatohed near Madinonville, La., recently, one of Which began crowing when it was three days old, and has continued to crow ever sinoe. TWENTY-TWO prisoners escaped from prison at Athens, Ga., a few days ago, by digging a tunnel under the walls and joining a religious procession which w*s piling at the time. IT, *•9 , • if" '* ' 't WONDERFUL SHOOTiNO. Bow the Texan B*n«er Wlandtess BOhrer . j M Revolver. . The rangers were the largest men I saw in Texas, the State of big men. And some ot them were remarkably handsome, in a sunburned, broad- shouldered, easy, manly way. They were also somewhat shy with the strangers, listening intently, but speaking little, and then in a slow, gentle voice, ahd, as they spoke so seldom, they seemed to think what they had to say was to valuable to spoil by profanity. When Gen. Mabry found they would not tell their adventures he asked them to show how they could shoot, and as this was something they could do, and not something already done, they went about it as gleefully as schoolboys at recess doing "stunts." They placed a board, one foot wide and two feet high, some sixty fee# off in the prairie, and Sheriff hcheeley opened the hostili­ ties by wipping out his revolver, turning it in the air, and shooting, with the sights upside down, into the bull's eye of the impromptu tar­ get. He did this without discontinu­ ing what he was saying to me, but rather as though he were punctuat­ ing his remarks with audible commas. Then he said: "I,-.didn't think as you rangers would let a little one- penny sheriff get in the first shot on you." He could afford to say this, be­ cause he had been a ranger himself, and his brother Joe was one of the best captains the rangers ever had, and he and all of his six brothers arc over six feet high. But the t<xunt produced an instantaneous volley from every man in the company; they did not take the trouble to rise, but shot from wherever they happened to be sitting or lying and talking to­ gether, and the air rang with the re­ ports, and a hundred quick, vibrating little gasps like the singing of a wire string when it fs tightened on a banjo. They exhibited some most wonder­ ful shooting. They shot with both hands at the same time, with the hammer underneath, holding the rifle in one hand, and never, when it was a revolver they were usiug, with a glance at the sights. They would sometimes fire four shots from a Win­ chester between the time they had picked it up from the ground and before it had nestled comfortably against their shoulder. It seems that to shoot a Winchester you have to pull a trigger one way and work a lever backward and for­ ward; this would naturally suggest that there are three movements--one to throw out the empty shell, one to replace it with a cartridge and a third to explode this cartridge Capt. Brooks as far as I could make out from the sound, used only one movement for his entire eight shots. As I guessed, the trial was more to show Capt. Brooks' quickness rather than his marksmanship. I paid no attention to the target, but devoted myself assiduously to manipulating the lever and the trigger, and aimed blankly at the prairie. When I had fired two shots into space the Captain had put his eight into the board. They sounded as they went off like fire­ crackers well started in a barrel, and minei, in comDarison, like minute guns at sea. The rangers, I found after I saw more of them, could shoot as readily with a revolver as with a rifle and had become so expert with the smaller weapon that instead of pressing the trigger for each shot they would pull steadily on it and snap the hammer until the six shots were exhausted.--Harper's Magazine. The Society He Preferred. On the cornor of Fifth and Hamp­ shire streets shortly after noon the other day stood for a few minutes Mr. William Kerr, of Creston, la. He is a silver-haired gentleman of probably sixty or sixty-live, and is a brother-in-law of Mr. Thomas White; of No." 1806 Broadway. He Jiad just come up from the depot, and held in his hand a street-car transfer ticket. "What car shall I take to go to Woodlawn Cemetery?" asked he of a bystander. "You don't want a cem­ etery car," said the gentleman ad­ dressed, who knew him. "You want a Broadway car. Mr. White lives on Broadway, and the car will take you right to his house." "No," said Mr. Kerr, "1 don't want to go to Brother Thomas'. If I go there they will make me stay two or three days, and I havn't time. I have just come from home, and must go back to­ night" Then his voice quavered with tender emotion as he concluded: "I want to visit my wife's grave in Woodlawn and spend the afternoon." Just then the car came along and he boarded it, but in these few words he had displayed the wealth of affection, the tender memory of the loved one who had gone before, and whose grave he had come hundreds of miles to see.--Quincy Whig. Tame Elephawt* MissC. F. Gordon Cumming, In her recent book on Ceylon, gi\;es a few lines to a pet elephant, who seems to have been a creature of much amiability and intelligence. He had been captured young, and was known as Kurunegalla Jack. He used to go the hospital rounds with his master, a medical officer, who had taught him to be generally useful, and even to administer pills! A Malay soldier one day dropped his pill, whereupon Jack picked it up and dropped it in the man's open mouth, with a puff that blew it safely down I Jack learned to go out shooting with his master, combining the work of stalking-horse and retriever. He could disqjern the game from afar, and wander toward it in the most causual manner, acting as cover for his master, and when the gun was fired he would scamper off quite de­ lighted and return with the jungle* fowl or peacock in his trunk. The Dark Agree. The term Dark Ages is a little elas­ tic, but it is generally considered to embrace a period of about one thous­ and years, beginning about five hund­ red years after the Christian Era and ending with the fifteenth century. During all that time ignorance and mental lethargy were In the ascend* ant, hence the term. SLKIGHT of hand--refusing a mar« riage offer. k*k£5&L