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VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. demons v. ILLINOIS ACTION AT PULLMAN. REPAIR SHOPS ^RESUME. m:r* Senator* Declared Innocent of |nf«r Speculation--Chicago Lumber Dto- v Jlrtat Ag-aln At>la>e--ITellow Dragon ot :fUn Vtotwioat la a XwrMk Bsefe: Pullman Shopi Rmmt. \.*MACHINERY in the Pullman shops ["'* "' ill started Thursday morning for the i;' Unit time since t^e; great strike was Inaugurated May 11. Work was re- £ ' mined in the repair department, in , which the accumulation during the \ , months of idleness has been the great- r / <B«t. About 4t.O men reported for work. t"'>This force is about half that which ^ f > was employed in the department when the orJer to strike was * « >given. Two hundred applicants from 1j the strikers were sent to work and the sipv Other 11W who are at work came from S,'/ points in the neighl orhood. Many nai been employed at Harvey, and be- fag throwa out of work at that town accepted the Pullman proposition. No «Uempt at interfererce was male by the strikers who have not surrendered. !N»lice officers from Kensington were •ent to the saops in anticipation of a i ) outbreak, but their services were not ! --fled. • • _ t r f. j Vtomm Fotmd GWlfc. ^ . ' SEN AT OR GRAY, Chairmlh, "ftrcfeent- •d the report of the sugar investigat- ! log committee to the Senate, and asked that , the committee be dis­ charged. The committer says: "There lias been no testimony presented be­ fore you.- committee, and your com­ mittee has been unable tj discover any tending to show that the sugar •ckedule was made up, as it then stood fa the proposed amendment to the tariff bill, in consideration of large o: any sums of money paid for campaign purposes of the Democratic party. No Witness has testified before "your com­ mittee that such was the fact, and all tke Democratic members of the finance «ommittae and all the Senators whose names have been mentioned in the public press as especially interest J in protecting the sugar refining indus­ tries, or in whose States sugar refiner­ ies existed, have under oath denied that such was the truth, or that they bad any knowledge or information as to any sums of money, large or ether- wise,having been paid for campaign purposes of the Democratic party by the sugar trust, by those connected with it, or by anybody, as a consider- atioa for favorable treatment of its interests by said party." S&rV: % •'• r * -N r ** ' 0 - • Chlcaco Vlre Epidemic.' For the second time within .twenty- fear hours the Blue Island avenue lum­ ber district, of Chicago, was swept bv a maelstrom of fire Thursday night, •ad but for the favorable direction of the wind the loss would have been «ven greater than that of the previous night. The John Spry lumber eompam- was the sufferer, one-third of its st >ok burning at a los? of $100,000. Simultaneous y with this fire, arotber was raging in the seven-story manu­ facturing building at Nos. 158, 160. lt>2 and 161 Van Bure.i street. The wind, which blew at the rate of forty miles an hour, carried sparks and burning brands lar and near, and for two hours, while the fire department struggled for Hie mastery, the great manufacturing district of the West Side stood in peril. The building was occupied in several stories by tewin? machine and' picture frame works. Th^ cr>mbustible stock augmented the fury of the blaze, and made more difficult the work of the firemen. Tbe once got beyond con­ trol and crossed into the building at No. lor1, occupied by the Con-olidated Copying Company. It was fought back. kewever, and restrained tc half of the great buildinsr where it started. Total loss *13 SOW). --i tr* Many .Japs Slain. IT is estimated that more, than 2,000 'Japanese were slain by the Chinese A. ^rrific ; Ma:on. a busy town of Bayfield County; ya8 fought and the victory of 1 was burned. To the southeast in For- the Chinese forces was ' complete, the k est and Langlade Counties the flames Japanese withdrawing to Seoul. The 1 made destructive p ogress. Appeals w . men 17 and single men {$ a week, A ma ority of the strikers are living in a big cathp at Homestead, while the hoa-uaion men are housed and fed inside the factories at Pittsburg, It is Intimated that the union tbus far has expended •275,000, a part of which has been sppnt in buying off new men and paying their /arc home again. j\7cni;~ while the company ha* been operating its works with non-union men more or less successfully, and at the recent meet'ng of the stockholders it was voted to operate all the factories of the company, a dozen ah told, in Pitts­ burg, Wheeling, and ohio, with non­ union men, and if that bccame impos­ sible to close them. The President of the company, who is conducting this remarkably protracted strike, is Ralph Bogally. who is also the leading man in the Westinghouse Air Brake Com- paaft3 * FJ'R-FV ~WESTERHT* Miss MADELINE POLLARD and Miss Winnie Davis are both summering at Colorado Springs. SPECIAL dispatches to the Denver News from six counties in Eastern Col­ orado, along tbe Kansas and Nebraska lines, report- that owing to the hot winds the crops will be a total failure. Many farmers ari leaving in search of employment and many more would go if they could get away. Great tutTe> ing and hardship will surely result, *3 the crop was very light last year. . ••••• ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL J„ E. DODGE was in Racine, Wis., en route to Washington from California. He has been taking testimony in the case of Mrs. Gen. John C. Fremont against the government for $1,000,000. Mrs. Fremont claims the property where Fort Mason now stands, and the suit is brought to recover pay for the laad and its use by the governmeat. A SPARK from a passing locomotive started a fire in the large lumber yard of the Shevlin-Carpenter Company on the west river bank at Minneapolis Monday afternoon. It proved to be the third big blaze in tbe his­ tory of the city. It destroyed 25,000,- 000 feet of lumbar, the oifica of the Shevlin-Carpenter company, and twen- ty-tive freight cart, the round-hcuse, and the gas works of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company. The i:ss is $500,000, and the insurance will amount to $350,OoO. The Omaha company is protected by a blanket insurance. THE whaleback steamer Pathfinder ran down a small schooner, thought to be the Glad Tidings, on Detroit River between Mammy Judy and Grassy Isl­ and lights about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. It is believed that the crew of four on the unknown boat were drowned, a < not a vestigo of the wreck can be seen. There are two ves-els trading at Detroit nimed Glad Tid­ ings. The one supposed t:> have been sunk is the smaller .one, engaged in bringing stone from Kelly's Island, on Lake Erie. She was due Sunday. Two OF a crowd of reckless bathers were drowned in the shallow surf at Windsor Park Beach. Chicago, Tues­ day afternoon. The dead are: Julius Greenburg, 24 years of age married; c erk at "The Fair." Minnie McGann, 22 years of age; lived at No. 2007 Ar­ mour avenue: home, Sugar Grove, I1L These two were washed off a raft anchored in five feet of water off a bathing establish­ ment near the foot of .titn street. The raft apparently was overcrowded with merrymakers and a higher wave than usual swept the whole party off. When the rest, laughing and spluttering, waded ashore two were missing. They hai drowned in the mid*t of at least LOJ bathers. Some of the other people on the raft had clcee escapes from be­ ing drowned in the heavy suru NORTHERN Wisconsin on Friday was swept by the worst forest fires in the history of the State. The losses amount to millions of dollars. Re­ ports indicate that several towns nave been burned within a radius of a hundred miles of Ash­ land. To the south Phillips, the county seat of Price County, a thriving town of :\00J inhabitants, was wiped out, and Fifield, just no.th of Phillips, was destroyed. Taylor Coun­ ty, directly south of Price, was laid w«ste. To the southwest of Ashland, life s ,, is. w. monttag Wft& IfcTausea an aip cwl that resultad la the fire dispatch: The *». public" of Hawaii will not be rec­ ognized by this government quite as quickly as was expected. The President expected to extend his format recogniti n immedi»tdjr lye had dige-ted the contents of Minister Wil­ lis' dispatches co ntaining all tbe facts tni t in-1 »i't it^,, 'i iitS Ufr«- ouicuua tame Saiuruuy. rTtie Presi­ dent and Secretary Gresham spent a good pa t of Sunday reading them. When they had finished reading the constitution they concluded to put the responsibi!it/ of recognizing the new "republic" onto Congress. So the cor­ respondence from W illl containing a copy of the Hawaiian "repub ic's" con­ stitution, was sent to Congress. Until Congress acts the Piesident will do nothing in the matter. The word "re­ public" is here quoted because the President believes that it hardly ex­ presses the true character of the Ha­ waiian government "A c'ose corpora­ tion" wpuld beamed fittingfcertu in his opinion. f. « 4- POLITICAL. MAJOR W, H. Upham, ol4 Woot County, wa? nominated for Governor of Wisconsin on Thursday, by the Re- Eublican Stats convention, on the first allot of the day and' the seventh of the convention. MICHIGAN Republicans in convention a£ Grand Grand Rapids,, Tuesday, placed the following ticket in the held: Governor John T. Hloh Lteoteo&nt Governor Alfred Ml)nea Secretary of State. ,.R«T. Washington Gardner Treasarer James M. Wilkinson Auditor General Stanley W. Turner Attorney General Fred A. Mafoard Land Commissioner William A. French Snpt. of Public Instruction.. .H. R. Patten aril) Member Board of Kdnoation..Perry F. Powers THf EE TOWNS SWEPT WITH ¥HE BESOM OP DESTRUOTfOH. rtouuP»t Wis., M« B«lle Platne aad Bronk- iTm, Iowa, Almost AnnlhUated--ThirlMito fctvss Kaewa to IfnrTCCcdenlcil I>l8a»tflff Ban Bm* LMNAi , of Horrors. ^ ̂ *Fhlrty*lllne buildings out' of' TOO stand amid smoke and ashes < n the site of what was Friday the flourish­ ing city of Phillips, Wis, the county fWlii :•«€• Brice County, and one of the wealthiest and most prosperous of all the towns' in the timber regions of Wisconsin, Three thousand people are homeless and, except those who have been offered shelter-in the neigh­ boring towns, have no covering for their worn out bodi?s. Worse than all, at least thirteen people are known to havo lost their liVea The dead are: James LOCKO, xotcbar, WILE and ttvoctatl- dren. Frank HIM. In charse ot the dry kilos of the Jol* R D.ivis Lumber Company, *i»d f-year-o«4. ch'tld. ; MrA David Sryde i. wife of the foreman or the Fayette Shaw Tannery, and two cuii- dren. Mr. Brjrden w»« tUo supposed to have died, but returned bom) that night, having been away from tbe city, only to hear that bis family had perished. Unknown man. All the dead were drowned in Elk La^e while trying to escape l'rom the Are, except the unknown man whose body was found in the ruins of the house of F. W. Sackett, editor of Phillips Times. uting liberally of cash. the XOWA TOWNS MWFKH* Ball* Plain* and Brooklyn Los* Cpmird of Half a Million. A fii;e which started in a Belle Plalne. Town, hlnoksmit.h shon, on Saturday afternoon resulted in the nearly total destruction of the business part of town, only three buildings remaining. Tne loss is esti­ mated at So»ii',0v0, with perhaps insur­ ance amounting to $.06,000. The llames, owing to the buildings being very dry, were soon bwyond control. From Krohl's livery stable the flames leaped across the street into another livery stable and the engine-house and spread up the main street west to the Henry Hotel; then across the street into a billiard hall, and continuing east engulfed the entire business part of the city, leaving ruin and ashes in its wake. It was a terribly fierce fire, and with one engine, hook and ladaer truck, hoss carts, and other apparatus noth­ ing could be done to check the llames which speeded from building to build­ ing with great rapidity, people liv­ ing in the upper stories of buildings were comp lied to flee tor their lives, and in one instance the family ot Jqljn B. Leicht were rescued from the f _«c- ond story of the drug store of Vancae- ter <fe Co. by means of ladders, so fast was the spread of the flames. Hrooklyn. low •, XtrkM«ii, A disastrous fire broke out in Wood & Kibby's furniture and undertaking establishment at Brooklyn. Iowa, Sat­ urday iporning. and in two hours ev­ ery business building on Front and Jackson streets was in ruins, incluiing the Chronicle office, the postottico, and FOREIQN. - ^5 . . . . . PA*FER,a well-kn^Bf' ' and critic, died at Oxford, England. NEARLY $4,000,000 in gold wa3 ex­ ported in Friday's French and English steamers. ANOTHER naval battle between the Chinese and Japanese fleets was fought Monday. After a fierce fight the Chinese ironclad man-of-war Chen Y ueo. the largest and most recently built ship the Chinese navy, wai surk and tnto^crui^ers built by the Armstrongs /at lElsewick were captured by the Japaneaib. About 1.000 Chinese were slain. , THE police of France are investigat­ ing what is probably a remarkable robbery, and it is bel'eved that the police authorities of the United States will be askifd, if they have not already been so requested, to take a hand, in the investiga ion. Jn poie unaccount- aole manner a cask of gold from New York, valued at $50,000, has been stolen while in transit from Havre to Paris. The French line stea nship La Touraine, Captain Santell, left New Yo k on July Zl for Havre with' forty casks of American gold on board, valued at $2,000,001) and consigned to vat ious concerns, fc'he arrived Sunday. The forty casks of gold are believed to have been safely 'anded at Havre, and they are also said to have been placed complete on boar J the train running between Havre and Paris. But when the precious casks were counted upon arrival here there were only thirty- nine of them, one cask containing $50,- 000 in American go'.d had by seme means disapf eared. * ,"V- , IN GENERAL * J ' . ^ftrson Cordage CoJ&My life bean absorbed by the United States Cordage Company. ARCHBISHOIP CORRIGAN, in a letter to the editor of the Wine and Spirit Review, declares that Mgr. Satolli's ruling r&ga: ding Catholle liquor deal- *ers will be enforced. THE clubs of the National and West­ ern Leagues stand a« follows in the championship race: MATIOKAI. LKAOCK. Per, L. cent. 1 kt«» HAP SHOWING LOCATION OF FOREST FIBER HS#WI .;.JM Baltimore .41) New York. .60 Clevelands.4& Pittsburga.iS Brooklyns_i2 %* W Sioux City .60 Toledo 45 Kansas C'y.43 Mlnne'p'lisit .« l Pbirdelp'a tl .62* Cincinnati .39 .«U7 Chicago 39 .673 St. Louis ..35 .N* Louisville .27 .5£S Wasbingt'iiSi WBSTKBN LEAOCS. Peri L. eent. W. 27 .tityliidln'p'lis 3J S3 ,67i Grd Rapldsto M .r«i Detrolta....Sl ae .54* I Milwaukee. 21 Per L. cent. m .*sa 42 .481 it .443 51 .407 fiS .825 *9 .m Per L. cent. 41 .48ft 4a ,4>W 48 .9»J 48 .Mi M %}? ; ffiKS - tf <3hiaese force? were commanded by Gen. Yes. Twenty thousand Manchur- ] tan Chinese troops have ^.crossed the! CSorean frontier and are marching upon j Seoul. In consequence of the declara- ! tits of war upon China, proclaimed by J Jaoan, the Chinese Minister will leave Tckio. The Japanese flag wa6 hauled 4own from tbe consulate in Shanghai «pd the light has bean removed from nte m >uth of the Ning Po River. It is Wmored that eight Russian warships, with troops aboard, have left Vladivo- rtecic under sealed orders. According to teport, a boatful of men escaped from ibe transport Kow Shung befo e she Went down, and reached Shopiau l||aad in safety. NEWS NUGG3T8. a P. HUNTINGTOM. ot New York, law decided not to occupy his 12,000,000 palace just completed at 57th street •ad Fifth avenue, owing to a super­ stition, which he cannot overcome, that his own luneral would te the first function calling his friends together in the new ie idence. RETURNING to town from a fishing tslp to Lake Cont ary, John Lahr and (Miss Nattie Nold, of St. Joseph, Mo., were held up by highwaymen and rob­ bed. Lahr relented an insult of­ fered the young woman during the fwarching process. Toe robber there­ upon shot her, inflicting fatal injuries. _ AN underground fire on the farm of flenry Walsh, near the town ot Onslow, f?wa, is creating givat interest. The y1* started some time ago to ex­ terminate thistles. It penetrated to me peat and has spread over half an r™ V? a depth of from one to three t&SKSL0* *terrUc a^A?N*ubave Prtialli' subdued forest gres in the neifjhb6rhood of Phillips, •tXSSUSSS" «tb° EASTERN. liOH'ilirfG struck a camp on the north shore of Lake Onata, Mass. in- ! •tantly killing George B. Caske. Four ' •there were seriously injured. 1 A SMALL yacht carrying six persons I |u ;was capsized Sunday in the Hudson ! |Rlver, opposite Hastings, N. Y., dur-1 tag a severe squall and thunderstorm " that passed over the river, and three • ^ the passengers are reported to be and 18 'eared they **re { ". THE strike of the workmen of the •f,,: fjnited States Glass Company, of Pitts* for aid to fght the fire pouted "intr> | 0i TradA saw Ashland all ihe afternoon and even- OI lraae ^y8- R. G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Review even­ ing. Relief trains were dispatched, bnt in nearly every instanca th -y en­ countered burned bridges and were iorced to return. Being walled in by flames it was p actically impossible to get as istance to the towns frantically asking it. Cut off from all outside suc­ cor rains were tbe only source of re­ lief? and there was no sign of rain. •The Hames swept through the woods as though so much kindling, carrying a menace of destruction to all the tfywm *nd farms of Northern Wisconsin. SOUTHERN7 ^ J DICK GREEN, a negro, was hanged at Mount Pleasant, S. C., for killing Nancy Drayton, colored. THE northern districts of Mississippi were swept by a fierce hail-storm Thursday night, causing great deJ struction of crops. A TELEGRAM from Tustepec, Mex., announces the death of John A. Mur- ray, of Topeka, of yeliow fever. He was a prominent member of the Kan­ sas Legislature which passed the pro­ hibitory enactment, introducing the measure which is often called the "Murray law." DOLLY JONES, of Laura Furnrfce, Trigg County, Ky., arranged to elope with her lover. Joseph Colston, nam­ ing the time. Casslus Hicks, a rival, overheard the arrangement, and on the night appointed, with the a d of a confederate, decoyed Miss Jones to his own buggy, and forcing her to enter drove her to the house of his friend, where for ten days she was kept a pris­ oner, each day refusing Hicks' propo­ sals of marriage. Meantime notice was conveytd to her father, who has­ tened with an armed posse to release his daughter. Her captors ignomini- ously fled, and now Miss Jones is to marry Cdlston witHout an elopement. WASHINGTON. COMPTROLLER ECKLES does not ap> prove of the proposition made bv a firm of Chicago bankers to take the assets of the Chemical National Bank now remaining in the hands of the re- i ceiver and pay all its obligations, un- | der an agreement to be repaid the j money advanced by them, with 0 per 4 OS 9 00 -- «S ' I t • 40 i 20 * 11 'Y 50 9 00 4 00 2 00 :• 44 41 S2 : 0ft 00 lue heavy uutjo ot cold, the (all of the treasury reserve and of tne price of wheaS to tbe lowest point on record and the In­ creasing uncertainty about the tariff have eatlraly overshadowed other industries. Business delayed for months, by two great strikes now crowds the r^llrokds and swells returns and glees the Impression of revival in business. Bnt it Is not yet clear bow far there is an Increase In new trafllc, distinguished from that which had been merely blockaded or deferred. In some branches there has be on mora activity, but In others less, because events early this week led many to infer that DO change of tariff would bo made. The internal rev­ enue receipts on whisky suddenly dropped inore than half, and sales of wool greatly Increased. But the uncertainty 1? not re­ moved and much of the business done seems to be In the nature of Insurance ass Inst possibilities. | MARKBf~RBPOr.^|, , CHICAGO. CAITlife--Common to Prime..,.' HooaMshipphtft Grades SHEEP--Fair to Choice.. WHEAT--No. 2Red.. COKN--No. 2 Ovrs-m -2 }...K I..' ItTE- NO. 2 ' BUTTXB--Choice Creamery.;.., EGGS--Fresh POTATOES--Sew. per bo... INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping Hoos--Choloe Light BHEKP---Common t« Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--Mo. a White O A TS-N O. 2 W h i t e . . . . . ; *T. £oU& CATTLE...:... i.i Hoos WHEAT--No. 1M COBN--Ko. 'i OAIK-SO. % RYE--Mo. % CINCINNATI. CATTLE Hoos HHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red.^ CORK--No. i Mixed. OATS-NO. 2 New..... RTE-MO. X,.-.-. ' . DETROIT. ^ . CATTU,. Hoos.; " ' SHEEP WHEAI CORK OATS TOLEDO. WHEAT-NO. 2 Red a COBN-NO. ? Yellow........ *4,^5 4« OATS--No. 2 White .........r...1 31 ma--N«.a...^..........sz..-sJ,•> 40 BUFFAIiO. WHEAT--Na i Wbtte. ft No. 2 Red. 63 Cow--No.9 yjellew.....61 OATS-NO 2. WWt^new.^. ss S-NaS:28prin* • 47^4 4i UH 40 «i S 7» ® IS <0,. 47 & S3 43 & 91 13 & SO % * 7» *4 • M A1N 0 45 « 4T 0 S3* 0 111 <& » » 4SJ6 43 SW 41 9 «0 i00 9 (>» 40 , 48 **4 7# # # 78 «« 3 79 & 49 m 4SH <S 43 cent, interest and 40 percent, ol the balance collected by thrai. ' RTS^OTI^ THE Washington police have ar- ~ f ** rested W. T. Harris, an inventor of a gaso ine m jtor, on suspicion of having caused the Knox building fire, in which iTe?r m.en '°8t their lives and over a half million dollars worth of prop- PORK. Mens.......... " **w; CATTLE. Hoos... BHESF.. WHKAT-Ksw 9 Sid,. COBK-NO. 9 ;!T. OATS--No. 3 White "reamcry. f^^etssrf w*i»--na 1 n B^TTEa^-Cre' '» 76 The property loss cannot at this time be Accurately estimated, but it will reaoh at least $1,250,0JO. The immense plant of the John R» Davis Lumber Company is a total loss, amounting to between $500,0X1 and $600,0'.0. On this property there is an insurance equal to at least four-hfths the value of the plant. Of the rest of the city about half the property was insured. Many of the poorer people carried no insurance on their homes, and they have lost everything. There were many tine business blocks and private residences in the city, and every one was burned to the ground. Many of the residences cost upward of $3,0:,0. and were handsome even ior a Northern Wisconsin city. Not since the cyclone of fire that wiped out the existence of the village of Peshtigo, when many people were burned to death, ha^ there been a hol­ ocaust of the character of this one. Four gales of fire following each other, as soon as one had accomplished its work of destruction, cut four swaths through the city, leaving stand­ ing only the Lutheran Church and some dwellings near the southern lim­ its, and freakish y jumping over the Woester Town Hall and a group of dwe;lings in the very heart of the burned district* A system of water works, which would ordinarily be ample protoction against the blazing forests, was ren­ dered useless by the burning of the pumping station in the first fire. Kellef Come • Quickly. In almost no time provisions consist­ ing of bread, butter, colfee and canned articles had been received from Fifield. Prentice, Dorchester, Med ford and Butternut. Te egrams were received from the mayors of Ashland and Stev­ ens Point. The former telegraphed that he would send what was wanted, and a man was at once sent to superin­ tend the shipment. Stevens Point sent a car-load of provisions. Satur­ day night eight car-loads of provisions had been received. Major Upham, who has had experience with the ter­ rors of fire, telegraphed that relief was on the way from Marshfield as soon as he arrived home from Mil­ waukee. Governo.' Peck eent the following message from Oco. om Tvoc: Will orlng you relief at once. Wire hie at onee what Is most needed. Keep a stiff upper Up We s?» rnmtn-j an soon as cars can run. A telegram was sent to the Governor in reply, asking him to send blankets and tents, together with me^s tents, for 1,00j people. In response ta this the Governor telegraphed that there were no tents available at present, but that he would be there in the morning with sheathing, hammers and nails, -and to be ready to bagin the con truc- tion of temporary quarters. Ba '.wjy Officials Render AM. General Manager Whitcomb, of the Centra!, tent the following telecram to all officers and agents: Von have heard of the disaster that has overtaken PtillHps and other points on our 11 net Use your best efforts to «et together supplies that will be Immediately useful and forwHrd them to meet the emergence. Ail supplies consigned to the authorized relief committee will be transported free, •Mid you will give preference over 01 ber freight. if necessary send supplies on IiUMMtier tialus to tuees.iniiitediate wants People Have Been Courageous. In the face of the calamity that has befallen the people of Phillips they have manifest 3d a courage that is re­ markable, and have really seemed in 4t good spirits. Every effort put f rth * " » Y , - the opera house. The loss is over $150,000 and the insurance nearly $80,• 000. The National and Niagara In­ surance Companies are the heaviesl losers. Others are tbe Continental. Home, Hartford, Farmers', Council Bluffs Capitol, North British, JEtna, and Phoenix. The following are the losses, with the amount of insurance carried: Brooklyn Chronicle, $5,000, partly insured; Butts' barber shop $10b, no insurance; Wood & Kibby $3,000, in­ surance $1,500; Dr^. Conawty and Bus­ by $1,000. no insurance; Scott, Reed & Scott $.;00, no insurance; Poweshiek County Bank $3,5 0, insurance $L\300; Boston Clothing House f 5^000,insurance $3,000; Post office $2,500, insurance $1.- 500; J. H. Wood $1,(J0«J, insurance $830; Ray burn & Le9 $1,800, insur­ ance $I.5GC: Dr. A. C. Landes $1£0, insured; Charles West $700, insured; E. H Talbott $500, insured; C. T. Ralnsburg $5,f.0\ insurance $3,503; Leonard Bro?. $I0,0D3, insurance $7,000; William Han key $1',0'J0, insurance $(!,0J0; Graham Bros. $.->,000, in uranee $4,500; Dr. A. F. Anger $1,000, insur­ ance $600; I. O. O. F. hall $10,000: in­ surance $6,200; George Kraft $3,000, by damage: Farr Bro3. $1:',0 0, insur­ ance $1U.C03; J. W. Johnson $6,030, partly insured; Mills' variety store S^.OOu, insurance $800; Mustaplier & Butts $1,000, no insurance; F. P. Shra- de - $5,000 insurance $3,500; W. I* Paul $300, in >urance $^00; I. L. Drfrice $15', insured: Wil iam Manatt $6,000, no insurance; Phil Kilmer $1,000, in­ sured; Wocd & Derrance $S.000, part­ ly insured: First Bational Bank $103, insured; Sterling & Tabott building $100, insured; Bowers building $200, insured; Boughton, jeweler. $50, ia» sured; E. R. Bigelow $400, insured; Westley Man .tt $4,000, no insurance. Telegraphic Clle't*. FIRE at Fort Wayne, Ind., cau?ed>* loss of $100,00». FRED and Dude Sackbauer have dis­ appeared from Burlington, Iowa. > THE Southe n Pacific Railroad shops at Sacramento, Cal., have lesumed operations. AT Philadelphia, Paul Frevost died, after having lived four days witlt a broken neck. >1 R. C. SOHOFLEL.D. unole-of Gen. John M. Sciiofield, died at Freeport, I1L, aged 82 years, , . DR. JAMES PHILLIPS was acquitted of pension frauds at Sk Paul, Mmn. AT Evansville, Ind., James Myers, 14 year< old, was rtttt over by a hosf» cart and killed. EVERY pottery plaat in East Liver­ pool, O., has resumed operations after the long sttike. S. RTSCHE'S & tore at Vincennes, Ind., was robbed by burglars of $500 in cash and a gold walch. CARDINAL GIBBONS was entertained at Cape May at a dinner party 6n the anniversary of his b.rtb. THE Minne ota Iron Company has closed a deal for a tixth mine on the Mesaba range--the "Virginiar POLICEMAN THOMPSON, of Bruns­ wick, Ga., was murderei by a drunken negro whom be attempted to arrest. A TRAIN at Greenville, Miss., ran over the body of a negro who had been murdered and placed on the track. THE eropj in the vicinity of Chilli- cothe. Mo., are threatened with de­ struction by the prolonged drought. FORTY-NINE Great Northern strik­ ers were held at Minneapolis in $-<,100 <1 ^ V? CONP tlONS IN CHICAGO. Gfeataat Blase Sine* the Memorable Flro of 1871--Flames SwreepOver 300 Aeres-- Three Mm Killed aiitf lRlffht Inf«r«4l- Loss Over ai.RGO.OOO. 'Workef Flre-Bn^s. fiauwy thousand? of persoatia the mburba it appeared Wednesday night as though all of Chicago was burning up. TheJtane*,reflected on the clouds, were seeh more than fifty miles away, and recalled to many the terrible fire of* J871...» The conflagration, which proved to be the most debtructive known ia the city in over twenty years, started in the lumbar yards of the S. K. Martin Company at Blue Island ave­ nue and South Lincoin street, and, be­ fore it could be gotten under con­ trol, swept over a district lour blocks wide ani nearly a mile in length. About ten million feet of lumber and the plants of a dozen man­ ufacturing. establishme its were de­ stroyed. The estimated loss is over a1 „ _ one? third of the lumber contain.d ia th» yards. NO SENATOR SPECULATED. """v. :-- gf'.v" Snjir Inratlfiiloii Committee KikM l|pk Report to the Scnrtr, Senator tiray, ehuirmnn of the sugar Investigating' co 1 mittee, presented the report of the com nittee to the Senate. *nd asked that tbe committee be discharged. The report, which htt the ' tt»6 full committee, re- Citeii»eiHB»e« wbich led up to 1 he ill- s vesti|9wHhiaat»d-«[<nbtes the article irons tne r hiladfripnii Press on .which th« rharg^mpt^ta t Senators were ba edu It also recite the fac'.s, whieli have been published already, as to the r^i. fusat of the correspoi dent Edwards 15> ' answer questions p$t b\- the commit­ ted. Sec retary Car isle 19 exonerated, ani the parts of the article reflecting , on him are declared to be without foundation. The conduct o Mr. *4* wards, sjys the report, in publishing specific charges against public men without having per onal knowledge q>i? the lacts, ca:ls or the s rious rep rob** < tion of the Senate. The cofcmittoe ! also Eays: 1 There no testimony presented -'4" F % • . • * 1 OJKlNG SOUTHWARD ON WOOD 8TBRE% 3f,f0^,000. Three men were killed and eight others injured during the prog­ ress of the fire. Ch ef Swenie was obliged to call out fifty engines and both tire-boats, the largest force ever employed at a fire in any city in the world. The wind, which at times was almost a hurricane, scattered the blaz­ ing embers in all directions and added greatly to the difficulty of fighting the llames. It was only by the greatest efforts that the flames were prevented from crossinr the river and extending into the residence district. According to a Chicago dispatch the 300 acres lying between Hoyne avenue on the west, Ashland avenue on the e^t, Blue Jsla ,d avenue on the rorth and the Chicago River on the south are a desolation, a desert of ashes ara blackened embers. Wedresdav this sp ce resourdea with the hum of i> du try. Whirring m chinery filled the sir with its noises, some 3,00 j men were at work, vast piles of lumber covered the ground and at the docks la.r many 1 den vessels. Now a few smoldering heaps cf char­ coal wre all that remain of the millions of feet of lumber. Broken and twisted cogwheels and shafting in­ closed by crumbled brick walls mark the site > of the big mills and manufac­ tories, and the ships are gone. Of the long trains of railroad carx that stood on the tracks in th .s great area, only the wheels and axles remain. Every­ thing combustible feriBhed in the fiame* that swept with a besom of de­ struction this busy spot: Seldotp has property been so com- Sletely annihilated. Acres of the urnt'district are enti ely bare, except tor the deep carpet of hot ashe^ that covers them. The largest lumber piles were reduced to small hummocks of blazin? charcoal, cn which the worn- out firemen threw st earns of water all dajr Thursday. In one of the canals lay the fireboat Geyrer, almost a wreck. Every pane .of glas- in her uppe • works was b '< ken and tne wood at her tide 1 was scorched and blacked by the flftTie-i that beat over the vessel wi h such fury and robbed brave Lieutenant John McGinn of his life. More Flerr Ktilrv. On Thursday night at about the same hour and fbr the second t:m? within twenty-four hours the Blue Island ave nue lumber district was swept by a maelstrom of fire, and but for the favor­ able direction of the wind the loss W.u'd have teen even greater than that bf the previous night. Engines were responding to an alarm of fire on West Van Buren street short y after 8 o'clock when a watch­ man for the McBean Cedar Post Com­ pany at Ashland avenue and the west bra ch of the river saw flames shoot­ ing up between two piles of lumber MI the yards of the John Spry Lumper Company. Sect nd and third a'arms Vad already been sent in for the West iifce fire, and when the box at the Ash- before your c jinmlttei. aujif yoiir* cdmniit- », 1 tee has been unable to discover any, tend**-•>M Ins to show that >he su,'ar schedule was •' made up as It then stood In the propose® 1 umeodment to the tariff bill In c^nsldera- 3 tlou of large or any sutas of money paid for campaign purposes of the Democratic J party, No witness has testified before your, -.-tJ committee that such was the fact, and all <5 the Democratic niernter.-i of the (inane* i committee and alt the Senators whose names have been mentioned in the public I press as especially interested in protecting ^ the sugar-refining Industries, or In whose- States Mi?ar refineries existed, have un« ^ der oath denied that such was the truth, . ^ or that they had any knowledge or inform; matloti as to any sums of money, large of otherwise, having been paid for campaign purposes of the Democratic party by th# ;. '3 sugar trust, by those connected with it, or by anybody, as a consideration for favor­ able treatment of tig interests by said party. £ The committee also reports the sub* stam e of the testimony of the Hii^ar refiners as saying that the campaign contributions were made only to tne lccal committees and not for the pur­ pose of influencing national campaigns^ or for the purpose of securing and de­ feating national legislati- n. The committee also unites in saying that no evidence has fceen adduced tsnding to show' improper conduct oa the part of those engaged in the fram­ ing of the sugar schedule in the tariff bi.L "Though perhaps outside the scopa of the duty imposed upon your committee," they say, "they take occa- | sion to i trongly deprecate the impor? tunity and pressure to which Congress and its members are subjected by the representatives of great industrial combinations, whose enormous wealth tends to suggest uadue influence and to create in the public mind-a demoralr izing belief in the esis erce of corrupt politics." The committee reports in the nega­ tive upon the question, whether any Senator has been speculating in sugar stocks during tbe consideration of the tariff bill. As to the latter branch ol the inquiry, which brought out a pho­ tographic copy of an order to buy susrar stocks, dated March 1' and purporting to be signed by Senator Camden, and' says that Battershall, whose testimony was expected to bear upon the infer­ ence from the photographic c py, is a man of doubt'ul character. Senator Smith is also exonerated from blame. iLumming up, the committee say that "no charge or charges have been filed bafcre them alleging that the action cf any Senator has been corruptly or improperly influenced in the con side it­ eration cf the tariff bill and no attempt has been made ta influence legisla­ tion. " All the testimony taken by the committee is submitted as a part of the repo.t. Messrs. Davis and Lodge, Rep ubli­ cans submitted a supplemental report devoted entirely to the tub ect of the influence of lhs sugar trust, so called, cn the making of the sugar scheduln SCENE WESTWARD FROll" land avenue bridge was pulled by Mc- Bean's watchman it created consterna­ tion at fire alarm headquarters. Ten minutes later a second call for engines came irom tbe lumber dis­ trict and this was eoon followed by a third call. v Special calls were now being turned in by Chief Swenie for the fire in Van Buifn street, as the bla" e threatened to sweep a large portion of the West Side. Special t alls were earning in to head­ quarters from the lumber district and the West Side fires at the same time. In less than an hour from the time or the discovei y of the lire in the lumber-yard thirty engine companies and five nook and ladder crews were on the ground. The fire boats Geyser and Yosemite. which had done such valiant service at the previous nights fire, were also there. The wind was blowing from the north, and it was in a great meas­ ure due to this fortunate circumstanca that th,e entire lumber district along Twenty1-second street wa* not laid in ashes. Had the win I shifted to the west or east, no fire department in the world could have stopped the flames that wound through the millions of fCCt of dry lumber. Tbe John Snry Lumbar Company. Which fortunately escaped the fury of the flame* Wedne day night, will lose • 100,000 by Thursday night's blaze aail.traliMh,. .,4 5Pl© iasuraac* .ia ^ as it now stands in the tariff bill. They say that "no evidence has been sub­ mitted to the committee which proves that the sugar schedule was made up in oilier to fuiriii obligations to the sugar trust for campaign contribu­ tions," but they consider it their duty to go into some detail as to the method employed in making up the sugar schedule, for which the Democratic members of the Finan e Committee, it is pointed out, are publicly responsi­ ble. They say : It is HISL) admitted and it Is proved by tbe sworo testimony of every w.tneb* c tiled that tbe present form of the sched­ ule was that desired by the reyresentailvea. of the reflueries or the sugar trust Tbe sugar trust, by tbe evidence of its Presi­ dent and Treasurer, bas contribute 1 freely to the; State and city campaign funds of both parties, and their contributions have bcea made la years wben national elec­ tions v ere hold. Tiiis is a thoroughly cor­ rupt form ot campaign contribution, for such contributions being given to two op­ posing parties are not for the purpose of pto-notlBi; certain political principles, but to establish an obligation to tbe giver ou the part of whatever party comes Into power. The trust does not give to political parties for the promotion of political prin­ ciples in which it believes, but for the pro­ tection «>f its o*n Interests, as appears by the same testimony. The fact tbat it gives to both political parties !s sufficient proof of the purpose of its contributions and of ttb»lr diOBjayw Mature. - .'V:. "^itaLv- '• .W. ,5 • few'*; m&'fi