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flN6 HER tAT IT. MAVAL t'i>* -Vjlf perate Naval Battle In WlUefc - Mmmy Cbtneee Are State--Chinee* BMtlcSMp ChM-faM Sank tod t#» ITrlt-ClMi ,'Cndsem Cipt«r«d or OMtrajr*^::; ^ ̂ : ' _ <' • .• i * • the Chinese Out-ClaMeil.,5; > v *" The Japanese have been victorious l|i tbe fiftt Wgj&aval batt e or the war osrer ConB»«nd lMiv« sunk next to the largest batt «ship in the Chinee e navy. The battle was fought Monday and .was dMperstely contested. both. n»> tfons being represent ad by large and strong fleets. The Chinese, however, did not understand the handling of their ships a* well as the Japanese, *»d that put them at a furious disad- vantage. The full details of the fight are not a>t hand, tut it is known tha-theGhen- Ifuen was sunk and two other large Chinese vessels, believed to be first" Cla8B cruifers, were either captured or 'destroyed. The loss of life was great' •'so. Tfc e Ch inese fleet carried near y 1,000 men- and ew, if any, e cape a. Two German officers, who were in com­ mand o; the Chen-Yuen, are leported to be among the ost a so. Throughout the engagement the Japanese showed greater skill and ability in the Handling of their boats, and consequently had things much their own way. Their work with the jfuns was effective, and they also Showed that they thoroughly under- < stood the handling of torpadces. The Chinese did the best they could, but they were lacking in seamanship and also in ability to handle their guns ef­ fectively. They demonstrated the truth of the claim that they have nothing like the ability and training of the Japanese seamen and gunners, and are at a big disadvantage on the water. Cruisers Battt by the Arn»atron*«. ; The two cruisers said to have been Captured or destroyed are believed tj be the ones built for China by the Armstrongs. They were modern war V%§s§ia_ajr»d. among the best ir the . t >; :< • a &£ ;V Si ' "V :XN vi -V-JA-S •m£?M KIHG or COREA. Chinese navy. Their loss will seriously cripple China on the water and materi­ ally increase Japan's advantage. A harder blow could hard y have been dealt China in a single battle than the destruction of their two cruisers and the big warship Chin-Yuen. The lots of life is insignificant compared to it, although that was severe for a naval battle. The Chen-Yuen was a battle-ship of 6,400 tons displace aient, carrying 14i inches compound armor at the water- line. JHer battery included four li.'- inch guns, protected by an armor breastwork, and two smaller Krupps. She was also furnished with eleven Hotchkiss camion and tubes for White­ head torpedoes. In addition, the C'hen- Yuen had two 8t-inch and 6-inch Krupps in her main battery and a sec­ ondary battery of Hotchkiss revolving cannon. The Chen-Yuen was built for China at the Stettin Works. She was a sister ship of the Ting-Yuen and was tho most powerful warshio in the Chinese navy with the exception of Ting-Yuen. •Tapnn'a Official 8Ut»raen'. - The following official statement of (the difficulties betweeen China and Japan, which led to the outbreak of hostilities between these two coun­ tries, has been issued by the Japanese Government: Japan and China were approaching a settlement of these dif­ ficulties,when China suddenly request­ ed Japan to withdraw her licet from Corea and to give a formal compliance SSPEBOB or JAPAN. with the Chinese demands by the 20th; otherwise the whole Chinese forces wera to land and a sea advance upon the part of China was to be made. The Japanese regarded this as an ulti­ matum: but. acting under the advice of the friendly powers, they agreed to the proposals in principle in amended form, at the same time declaring that if the threatened Chinese advance was made on the 2i»th it would te regarded as an overt act. It is conjectured that the Japanese naval commaiylera were instructed to be on the watch for the Chinese war­ ships and, seeing the latter advancing on ,iuly 2"i, they opened fire. The Japanese do not believe that the Kow Shuntr, the Chinese transport sunk by a Japanese cruiser, was flying the British flag, but were that the ca^e they regard it as being a ruse. The Japanese indignantly deny the charges of brutality brought against the officers and ciew of the cruiser which sunk the transport. No official report has been received at Yok&hauaa of this engagement. Germany Mittpioiou* of Samlib The German press regards with sus­ picion Russia's attitude toward the Japanese-', hinese conflict, although the comments of the Russian newspa­ pers indicate that the St. Petersburg government is far from pleased with Japan's energetic action. The Voss- ische Zeitung says: "The germs or further conflicts are already in the air. If the efforts to re­ strict the war to collisions such as have already occurred fail Russia prob­ ably will ii ter'ere. This almost cer­ tainly will force England to act." Tne writer concludes that the Euro- itarorofJapaa t-OGICAL DISCUSSION OF DE­ MOCRACY'S ATTITUDE. , :vinjr» are officially expressed at MadHaretfarding the possible result to the Philippine Islands in the event of Japan becoming the dominant power LI NTMO cHAira. PKIM MIHISTC* OV CBIKA. in the far east. It is said to be possible that Japan mtght utilize the troubl at Mindanao Island, Malay archipel as a pretext to execute her amfeil designs. _ HOPE FAST FADING. VarfliMrft 9prealator< and Railroad MM. Alarmed at tbe !Pre*p«efc ^ • The corn crop last, year was worth $6tu,<>00,000 on the farm--almost three times as much as the larmers got for their wheat crop; and la,t year's crop was a comi aratively small one and the "•average farm price was low, o7 cents. In i8?l the corn crop wa> worth $900,- 000,000 to the farmers. The corn crop ii always worth to the country as much as all the other grain crops put to% gether; sometimes worth a good deal more than all the others put together. It is no wonder, consequently, that," the prospect having within two weeks suddenly changed from one for a full corn yield to one for a corn failure,' everyone is excited,,grain speculator;? railroad maiager, htock speculator and" merchant. ' • • The government report issued Juljft 10 indicated a corn yield of more than 2,000,00, ,000 bushels. The acreage was- put at 7t?,000,00 J; the condition, verjl high. Only once was the acreage any larger, in 188#, and that year saw the record-breaking yield, 2,112,000,000 • bushels. ; Up to the middle of July th«M&" seamed nothing to mar the promise §1 the most important crop of the count try. There had teen dry. weather, but a drought can last a /long white without creating an,' alarm! It is onl& after one hope io.* raia after another has been disappointed that tbe farmeff bagins to worry, and only a.ter the farmer has told of his fears for a weel$, or more that the speculator, railoader* or merchant begins to borrow trouble* Sem.-faille Over tlie « o n Crop. But now every interest, fiom the flrjt to the last, is in a semi-panic over the corn crop which began with such amazing promise and which has now apparently beeu almost overtaken vith disaster. "Wo don't dare to say," said General Manager fct. John, of the Rock Island Railroad, "how bad we believe the corn situation to be. Half which the great granger roads haul takes its origin irom the corn crop. There is the grain it­ self, about 4uC,00J,000 btshels, being hauled by the roads; 100,0.|0,01K) bush­ els of it to Chicasro alone in good years. There are the hogs and thtf cattle, both dependent on the crop. It is not any wonder that the railroad officials are afraid to tell all their fears; nor any wonder that the shrewd ones in Wall street are getting out of their holdings of the great corn roads, the Burlington, the Rock Island and the others. The ves­ sel men get three-quarters of their tonnage from Chicago from this crop. The elevator owner knows it is the grain which pours into Chicago all winter to pour out again in the spring at the opening of navigation. The gen­ eral merchant is well aware that a cur­ tailment of the important crop of the country, which feeds the live stock and furnishes all the carriers the bulk of their tonnage, cannot be cut short without cutting down the purchasing power of that part of the country which makes good times or bad--the West." low* Crop* Nearly Rnlnefl. The drought has baen severest in Iowa and ivebraska, the two. States which raise usually about 400,000,000 bushels of corn, about one-fourth the entire yield. There has been dry weather everywhere in Illinois, Mis­ souri, Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska; but there has been partial relief of late except in the two biggest States. Half this crop is made in the seven States named and a quarter in the two States where the heat and dro.'ght have been the fiercest. "Nobody in Chicago," says James Windsor, the well-known Des Moines porkpacker, "appreciates the condition Of things in Iowa. Toere is no salva­ tion left for the largest part of the corn. It is dead. Ihe heat and drought have bean enough even to kill the hay. On my farm, where 1 had « 0j tons of hay last year. 1 out forty- five tons this year." Rain would, of ccurce, relieve the situation everywhere. Even in Iowa and ^Nebraska there would bj a rem­ nant saved, possibly 200.001*.000 bush­ els, where at• 0,00D,000 was originally promised. Illinois has had the most ?rain and i* in tho best condition. The ac eagre in Kansas is very large and showers there have helped to relieve the exigency. But rain delayed now every twenty-four hours means millions more corn lost. That iB why the signal serv.ee map is the center of interest early each morning, and wny the weather predictions are scanned so eagerly each noon, and why special dis­ patches frcm the corn States ar&i&ul first -of all each' morning; '• : Facts la Few Worjh. ' THE steamship George Sealv is ashore at Old Providence. No lives lost. AMOS HARRIS, of Bourbon, Ind., was drowned in Soldier's I&ake, Ind., while bathing. HENRY NILSOX, a seaman on the cruiser Columbia, w»4 drownfcd in the Delaware. JENNIE KINO, aged 20, committed suicide in the canal at Hamilton, Ohio. ; She was despondent. THE Samoans have sent Emperor William a petition praying that Ger­ many annex the islands. UNKNOWN vandals desecrated a I cemetery at Angola, N. Y., destroying tombstone? valued at $10,000. j L. KILTY'S mill, lumber Y^NJL and three cars of lumber at Farfcr$ge, i Minn.,, were burned by. a rarest tiro, i Loss, $20,000. I MRS. JOHN SHOC, a restaurant* j keeper at St. Cloud; Minn., has sud­ denly fallen heir to $1(0,000. Luther- Bryant, a rich uncle of Bidd^fprd, jfe., left an estate of over 3l,COO,0OO to b* divided among eleven heirs. ,| foNlMt fitan ot W«ot--Tlw Boarbwi Looted til*' Treasury--Havemayer 1B a Wolf la ShMp'i ClottMBff--Might : v * , -OsinacxatSib »|se|WM8., 4 " Just before the country pifiisaS lEhto^ eontrol of tbe present administration, says the American Economist, January 31, 1-8 AS, the gold reserve in the -Na­ tional Treasury amounted to #108.000,- 010. A year later. January 21, 18t>4, it had been reduced to ft»5,"0X),00.). By the aid of a $50,000,000 bond gold loan, and the premium i of 98,000,<m.O on that loan, the reserve wa* again restored above its legal limit of $100,000,00 ). Last month, July 2?, the gold reserve had again fallen *:> $60,375,61*5. De­ ducting therefrom the S 5.*,000,000 gold loan and the f-1,03 ),000 of premiums on the loam, we would have only $2,375,09.> remaining a s the balance of the Treas­ ury's gold reserve to maintain the credit of the country after less than eighteen months of a Democratic ad­ ministration that has threatened the untry with free trade. Thus: NAflONAX OOU> fttSaXVE. Jannarr ai, .ties,ooo.ooo Jvly 28. .......... WlMM D e d u c t ^ , ,s; * ;.y;V iowi. Premiums.*.....8,QOO.O*I , Balance without loan &,3?5,G9 > V No account has here been, taken of -- w o u l d b e a s d e a r o r deatwr 'UuHi it ever wai under the Mc- Kb^eylanf Hnemtjrtr'i Kvldeac« Vail ot VfeHchoaii. I spoke of the different grades of refined, the higher Kfkdtt ot raf ncd being made from hl*h«r (rada« of raw. and the low grade* of reflnsd--tbo poor man's sugar-- Ifi'Off Mads froni the lover, it not being possible to be .made oat of tbe big her '9 # * * * * 4 * The discrimination against the ar­ ticle which supplied the poor man *;th suear and a|Ealost the article on which the greatest anidimtof capital and labor employed ii its manufacture and the COST, of miiitufa£ ureuenprally !sexpended. The foregoing paragraphs are taken trom the testimony of Mr. Henry O. Havt me^er, the President of the Sugar Trust, in answer to questions pro- poundeti by Senator Gray and Senator Davis of tlis Senate invest gating com­ mittee. Those were the statements of Mr. Havemeyer Now for the faets. The facts are that over 70 per cent of the sugar imported into the United States is ni jh grade and less than 30 per cent, is low grade. "The poor man" useB high grade granulated sug­ ar, which can be made out of both high and low grade raw sugars. The yell i\v sugars are not found now on the tables of the people, and tho darkest colored sugars are used mainly for to­ bacco curing and such purposes, very little indeed, go.ng into direct human oonsumption. From Mr. Havemeyer's testimony it is plainly inferred, and was meant to be inferred, that "the poor man" would be oppressed by a specific tarftf on raw sugar, and there is further inference ii3§a8 the$tyof * passion. A monthly teoof d of the volume of bank ^learii^gs t nroughout the country during thenrst year of the present aimtttl Oration. compared with the clearings during the corresponding months of the previous year, from April 1, 1893, to March ill, 18.+), showed a loss in the volume of trade in the i/iiiUiii iiUivo Si i'tipuiuni «tl iiiiiJ-STB dmbtoii'ii uliwa mu iuuung to more than* thlrtaen and a half billi :ns of dollars in ro mey. investigating this same in­ teresting sub ect during the second' year of the present administration we find that from April 1 June 30 the bank clearing 4 at the same fifty-five different cities ha e been oven less than they were during the same three months of 189?. And comparing thesa three months of the present and two preceding yearj we have the follow­ ing: BANK N,EABIN*GS AT FIFTT-FIVE CITIES. 18S*. 18M. 1892. , April ..«,097,8i5,m $4926,1(9,8*6 tB.088,»lP,TM Hay... 6,AJ».3».3^A A,OK>,9«4,SIB Jane.. 3,*76 316,8 » «,6W,K».S4t 4.V31,513,933 Tofls.»U,133.«7(*.3» tU.?V8,100,6J9 $lfi,Otl.M9,(31 Here it is seen that where the first three months of a Democratic admin­ istration in It9 i resulted in a compara­ tively trilling loss of some MI 0,000,000 to trade in the United States as com­ pared w th the bu-iness during the same months of 189', a year later we flr.d that the aggregate shrinkage of business for the corresponding period of 1894 has exceeded $ y>00,000,000 as compared with 1813, while this year's loss as compared with that of the' pros­ perous vear of 1892 shows the enormous i.m "'i - i f i" i f ALL ILLINOIS NEWS CONCISE Disastrous ISftscts of the Dro«Mfht--Ml N Most Flih or Cut Bait--Veterans* Orte*- •aeos Adjistod- PreaoherV. Wife Pwnrtt THE THREATENED INVASION OF AMERICA ^ A 'V V'JL ill WKR AH H WlfiHiO ' j""t " --^iserican ̂ oonomlsi the $10,00^,000 In gold secured (ram New York bankers last month, by a transfer of funds, in order to re ieve the Treasury gold fund. Without this $10,000 000 and without the loan the gold reserve would have been com­ pletely wiped out of existence, and there would have bee a a deficiency of $7, 024.035 in meeting the demanfls for gold that have actually been male upon the Treasury, with not a dollar of gold security left for the payment of Treasury gold notes. This is the result of less than eighteen months of a Democratic administration ar.A the iear of free trade. The Workman's Call* ,~ 3eed labor, heed your children's criss, and let free traders see /•The nation's once proud 6orerel2n la his * peerless majesty, Uake cities shake and traitors quake be­ neath your ruii(bty tread. The voice that sin:ts protection's hymn •boa id wake the very dead. Tell Cleveland now. and Cockraa, loo. and Wilson with his bill. That they stand in bo»tile attitude to workmen's expressed will Tell tbat horde of free trade lords who no# in Congress rave. They'll bear the brand of Arnold to a foal, dishonored grave. Before as stand the fabrics grand proteo* tlon laws have raised, Qbeir silent lootus their ruined homes, and labor now debased; The giant twain of hand and brala free traders have struck down And tbe nation's onoe proud sovereign Is a pauper on tbe town. The home of peace and wifelike grace Is cold and cheerless now. Free-traders' work has left its mark on tbe weeping mother's brow, j The naked walls and wtnd swfpt balls the saddening story tells. Oar youth muse And some shelter kind In the city's gilded belli Who Is tbe knave tbat madly rarsa tsr Wilson'.4 free-trade plan . -H1 In Congress hall to plan the fall of tlie once proud workingmun? Base Cockran first, who held oar trast, against us has engaged. He's playing tbe clown and low buffooe on Cleveland'^ free-trade stage. Some other name that labor claims will fight our battle still. They will espouse the workman's cause and smash the Wilson bill We daily note each word and vote patssd In that Congre&s ball. The man that now strikes labor down, his time has come to fall. CfIAHL.ES JORKtbg, = 1358 Lexington Avenue. New York,; that "the poor man's* sugar consti­ tutes the bulk of the sugar refining business, not one person in half a mill­ ion out of the total popu ation of the United States knowing to the contrary. We have compiled the imports for tbe whole pericd under which that tariff was in ope rat'on. beginning with the year ending June 30, 18W, ana closing with the year ending June 80, 1891, and give the aggregate import) fer the eight years and the average imports for each year, according to each degree, as follows: IMPORTS or BAW MUOA.B *0* BIGHT YEABS BND&O JUNE 30, U81-1841. Average Imports each year. above ' Foundn. Pounds. 1,18*,774 TGl.iftO 4,941,175 «S,U(»,'80 lT,«'4,82i 90,(8 *,414 21,684,727 M»p747.«8*i Hl.'G'AYJI Grade-no » degrees 78 regreea 77 degrees.. 78 degrees..... 7J de#rreee .. 80 degrees.. 81 degrees . 82 degrees..,« 83 decrees.. 84 degrees....; 85 degrees..... 8f> degrees . .. 87 degrees....; as degrees...;,. 89 degrees...., Ufi degrees..... #1 degrees..... »2 degrees..... OT decrees 84 degrees.....; 95 degrees...,., % degrees ; »7 degrees....,; 98 degrees.....; Oil degrees...%, Totalc Bounds. . #.»M>.87S e.ew.wK M.vit'.WKi •»,4<1,UU 4*,74J,444 14l.288.S07 160,643,31* 17 <,477,818 l,133.'JtW.»->6 ma,c2/,7S8 80S,r.84,01L> *W,2.6,!»71 883,471,076 #.131,817,058 130,<M4,400 1 8,23",<i2 I 3l«,OiU,'2-:t ««,027,ft55 e,««7.8iM.8r> 764,':W,!W7 413,321,666 S0,74O,r«» 3,411,842 decrea e of almost 94,000,000,000. The clearing house reports to Brad- street's during the first eix months of the present year show a shrinkage of over $9,00.),((€0,000 as comparel with the first six months of 189?, a loss cf 29 per cent, in the country's business. This is an economic record of Demo­ cratic mal-administrat on ihrough the fear of tariff tinkering that cannot be extinguished. Hetateeto WALtKK ALUOt drophobUl. indoeed at the Presbyterian hi PETER Er.KiNS.a farosernaar B ington, died, aged 55 years. Sm cousin of Stephen.B. Elkins, late See> S retary of War. ' ^ ̂ STRIKING miners at Spring Valley, itljiij iil i ax cleasiiig and re- 4M^7.846 63JI7.),C«I 44,7H4.ii'21 41.SW.884 680.327,112 I8.ses.<«<i 17,028,827 3d,761,410 83,003,414 76>,S7.\605 M,S42,4»( 51,64(1, IM 10,0V2,S71 >01,480 The Lnmbermin'i Fix. .... .19,148.742,966 2,166,093,866 An analysis of the foregoing figures will show that out of the annual aver­ age of imports of less than 2. £00,000,000 pounds of raw suga • there were 1,'<20,- 00.1.000 pounds imported between 9J and 99 degrees test, leaving only 736,0 JO,- 003 pounds imported between the range of 7i> and 89 degrees test. In other words, during the whole of this period of eight year^ there was at least 70 per cent, of" high grade sugar imported inti> the United States, while only 30 per cent, was low grade or "the poor man's sugar.* According to Mr. Havemeyer's theory there must be very few "poor men" in the United States. In tact, they must constitute in all below 30 per' cent, of ou • entire population, which is remarkably gratifying proof of the prosperity of the country and of the people under a protective tariff. Since the operation of the McKinley tariff the cheaper price ot the' high grade sugar, such as granulated, has resulted in its much greater consump­ tion, with a con equent lessening of the demand for the low grade yellow tugars "on which the greatest amount of capi­ tal and labor is employed in its manu­ facture and ihe cost of manufact ure generally is expended fere, it is quite fair to assume that more than <0 per cent, of the sugar re­ fined now cousists oi high grade sugar, and that less than ^0 per cent, is "the poor man's Buga*\" the cost of manu­ facture, therefore, having been de­ creased proportionately. Help iM (Mt tbe Tariff BUI. Threatened free trade, during the dresent administration, has caused the mcst general depression and actual suffering known in & generation. De­ preciation in values and lessened em­ ployment, the like of which has been t seldom, if ever, known, followed the j had free-trade verdict of 18w2. During this period of suspense awaiting foreign in­ vasion, the free-trade Wilsrn bill has roached its last stage of decomposition or power for destruction. The most careful legislators at Washington ad­ mit that the Wilson bill can be defeat­ ed, but add "it Will probably pass." Members of Congress to-day need the moral support of every true Ameri­ can who b?Heves in the policy of pro­ tection. Tbe Ameri.an Protective Tariff league calls upon every friend to immedia el ° urgj the members of the House of Representatives and United States Senators at Washing­ ton that pending tariff legislation be defeated or delayed until the peorle can give their instructions by their votes. Nominations are already made in many Congressioral districts, and Nov. 7 the people \yill decide whether they want free trade and poverty or protection and prosperity. The peo­ ple nm|t be heard. ^ r ^ „ Free Trade In Wool# By giving us free trade in wool the Democrats will have destroyed the American wool industry, worth to the nation $200,00 i.COO, and will have les- j consequence the flccks increased from sened thQ ability of the American wcol- j 43,5.0,000 in JH^8 to over 47,' 00.010 in • 8'au*ht«r Hone Democracy. In 1873 the wool clip of the United States was 170,000,030 pounds, but In 18^, whf n the stimulating effect of the tariff of 1807 had ceased, our wool clip had increased to 340,0 M',000 pounds. President Cleveland was first elected in 18-<4, and under the attempt to put wool on the free list during his administra­ tion the number of sheep decrea-ed from ;"0,<500,000 s?heep in 1'81 to 43,500,- 000 in 1888--a decrease under President Cleveland's first administration of 7,- 100,0U0 sheep. When Mr. Harrison was elected the prospect of increased protection induced the growers to stop the slaughter of their sheep, and as .Lumber Men Suffer. ' P¥6im prerent indications the mtnt-er business which has been one of ths leading industries in Western South Carolina, must go down. Some of'our largest lumbermen say that unless there is a speedy change they will be compelled to abandon the business. As a consequence, every other industry in this section is simply dragiinar along, and, one by one sinkinz i;.to oblivion. The country is full of tig, strong men going in every direction "hunting a job." This dreadful situation is due to the threatened free-trade nolicy of the present administration, Gjye us pro­ tection. and we will sooii >dJrsft baak te prosperity. "Vj" - * A TARIFF bill was finally suit the House, and now, after hara work, a tariff bill has been framed to suit the Senate. The next thing is to frame a bill that will suit both houses There-! an<* th® President. Framing a tariff bill that will suit the people is out of the power of this Congress.--Kansas City Journal. Ir must be a cruel blow for those people who allege there is no tin-plate manufacture in America to read that the employers and employed have just signed a scale of wage 4 and that there are forty plants concerned.--Boston Journal. More Rain Is Kceletf. Effingham County rep rts the heavi­ est harvest for twenty years. The drought there and at Alton, Hillsboro, 8h >id )ii, and Vandalia has been broken, but more rain is needed. Centi al Illi­ nois nas never, within the memory of the oldest settTer, passed through a summer of so i.itense and unceasing neat as this, and no hope of relief 6eems to be in sight. The mercury for nearly two months has most of the time been very near the century mark, while it has on a number of days reached a notch or two above it. Nev­ ertheless. the general healta is good, and the crop prospect moat satisfactory and enc >uraging. The wheat crop and the oats have turned away above the average in quantity and quality. The oats especially have yielded abundant­ ly. Thsv run from forty-tw > to sev­ enty* two bu hels per acre, with a prob­ able average of fifty-five. These crops have been harvested m the best of con­ dition. Corn wa < in great danger un­ til the heavy rain of a week ago. Some of the corn is still in great need of i ain. A heavy rain just now would re­ move this danger and produce a very ideal condition of things on the farm and in the garden. The canners are rejoicing over the excellent prospect lor the tomato and sweet corn crop. Small fruits have yielded lightly, owing i to the drought. This has especially affected blaenberries and raspoerries. 1 Miners Mast Work or Starve. 2, The Whitebreast Coal Company's Tbiners at Dunfermline, St. David and Bryant have been notified that they 'Will be given work if they wish to re­ turn at the scale fixed by toe Columbus conference. The miners have been furnished food at tr e county's expanse ior the la*t two weeks and when the Offer of Paul Morton, president of the 'Whitebreast company, was brought to the attention of the Board of Super- .visiors they decided to withdraw eounty aid. The miners will now have to return to work, seek some other employment or starve. A few who had savei a little money have moved to other places The Carbon Coal Company, at S\ David, resumed work 9nct is paying its men the same^cale as last year, which is 10 percent, high­ er than that offered by the White- breast company. £. Takes Them Into His "Confidence. I At Yorkvil'e at the clo<e of the Con- jfreghtional Church service Sunday morning the pastor, Rev. J. G. Haigh, created a sen ation in announcing to his people the desertion of h!s wife from his household. He said that she hai gona and that her whereabo uts was unknown to him. Mrs. Haiarh and their two children, girls of 11 and II years, respectively, had, he said, Thursday m rning last taken the ex­ cursion train for Cowdrey's Park and were to return late in the evening. When they failed to return to the pastor's household he began an inves­ tigation and found that his wife had taken all the clothing and personal ejects of herself and children. Mr. Haigh has preached at that church eight years. Better Itreari for the Veteran I. The investigation at the Cuincy Soldiers' Home will result in better bread for the old soldiers and a better understanding between the trustees. Captain feteinwedell and Ceneral Par­ sons were considerably disturbed over the co resptnJence, which ha; re­ cently passed between Colonel fcexton and Governor Altgeld and demanded %n explanation trom Colonel Sexton. !*4ie Colonel explained thathis words been misconstrued, and stated that if he had eaid anything deroga­ tory to the character of his colleagues on the management of the home, he apologized. The apologv was accepted and the trustees at once became better iriends than ever. J ' Poisoned bjr »Iryehulne. A mysterious case of poisoning oc­ cur! ef in Rushville Sunday. While Robert Rippetoe an I family were eat­ ing Mr. Kippetoe was taken sick sud­ denly. A physician was called and 4bile he was attending the patient Mrs. Rippetoe was also taken ill". Both soon became unconscious and Mrs. Rippetoe died, it is thought that Mr. Rippetoe will recover. The physician pronounces tho poison strychnine. Two other members of the family ate at the tame table, but were not poisoned. The coroner will investigate the case. Maroh, 1893, when President Cleveland was inaugurated, an in.rease under protection of 8* per cent. The assault upon th3 industry by the free wool police has so discouraged those en- V ; '^4-' j. , « . * *. > A- .'te. grower to purchase clothing. They will have destroyed a market for 45,'- 000,0X) bushels of ccrn and 200,0JO,000 pounds of hay previously consumed by our 45,000,000 sheep. They will have lessened the value of the sheep farm; ! gaged in wool growing that more sheep they will have paid an awful price for | were destroyed in the first year of *free raw material, and, at the end of ; President Cleveland's second alminis- tett years, after de Proving the Ameri- ' tration than were destroyed during the can wbol supply, which is one-eighth whole ftur years of his flratadminie- Will It Be ^ Tatal Kelt f s \ - 5 - ; "•*'V Keeord of th* Wee'{. HANS TOLFSSN, aged 70, was killed at Moline, by falling from a haymow. THE P., C. & St. L. and the P., C. & Ft. W. roads demand $60j,C0) da aages irom Chicago, in.licted during the strike. A. B. YOUNG at Harmony shot John Molt in the face w.th a shotgun during aquar.el. Molls w.unds are apt t> p ove fatal. ROOER TAYLOR, aged 16, fe 1 under a tra'n at Bloomington and had both his legs cut off. He died. He was from Chicago. BLANCHE MONROE, of Chicago, aged 17, moved by jealousy, swallowed a dose of carbolic acid on the bt.*eet and died in great agony. W. B. STEVENS, Chief of Police of Urbana, was shot Saturday night. Ab^ut midnight, while passing a dark alley, he was accos'.ed by two men one of whom said with an oath: "We have got you."* The ball struck Stevens in the leg below the hip. THE 7-year-old daughter of Jacob R'gg er t>t Huntington was terribly anl it is thought fatally injured in an attack from a v cious dog. AT Stanford occurred the death of Mrs. Mary Whita, aged 68 years. She was the wife of Rev. J. C. White, the mo t noted ant .-Catholic lecturer in the West. THE Chicago ani Alton are letting their old trainmen go in large numbers On a-count of the part whicri the m6n tooK in the strike. It is bilieved that every man who was at all prominenJ in the strike will ultimately have to find work elsewhere. Some h'ive been dis­ charged who took no part whatever in the strike, but did not report for duty as usual. NEAR Effingham Mrs. Elizabeth Tay­ lor and a girl, 13 years old. were oaught on the Vandalia railroad bridge by a freight tr^in. Mrs. Taylor was thrown Irom the bridge and killed, wh'le the little girl displayed rare presence of mind by lyin^ doern on the edge of the bridge outside the guard rati and was unhurt. LEWIS MAAS, a (ierman. went to Bushnell Friday and commenced drink­ ing heavily. While in the police star tion he managed t» get a half-pint of clea • alcohol, which he drank without taking a breath. During his trial he was taken with spasms but wasfinallv ouieted- JBe fett intaa & dmnkaat &t«- por ;rom which he never awa'cene l. ;:±W •vrV-s 't*r- Ma re «rtcr! a pr3pi nloytr} nt of men pairing. Ar Farmer City J. H." Smith warn shot and killed by James Kirkenbaugh. ; The t-hoot ng wa> the result of a quar­ rel ab^ut rent. WALTER G. SEYMOUB, of Kankakee, committed suicide by drinking cartelio , acid. He was lormer.y a patient aft ' the insane asylum. IN the case of Rev. Mr. Whltinaa. F against the First Baptist Church .Toliet for il.OJo back salary, the jury ' (OUMI no cause for action. Ar Kankakee, Mrs. Peter Herbert, who was severely burne 1 by the ex- : plosion of a gasolin? stove, aied froaa; the effects of her injuries GEORGE TROWBRIDGE has sold Id* j hou?e at Wilmington to the Woman's Relief Corps of Illinois for a home for ; old soldiers and their Wives. A CORONER'S jury which inqi into the c eath of Howard G. Seyi charges the medical staff at the ern 11 inois Ho pita lor the Insane w] incompetency. r HARRY LYNN, aged 20. of Chicago, went in bath in j la the DesplaitiM* . River and was taken with cramps aiift W | drowned. He was employed by Mar- shall Held & Co.. of Chicago, and- leaves a widowed mother, of whom he wan the enly support. JAMES F. SHIELDS, known to n^arljf " every cna who visits the 1 nnkilroci insane asylum, has been missing siree July lv\ at which time he le t for Mil-? waukee, Wis , t J remain three days. > A maa who was sent there fail:d to 5,; find a ^y trace of him His actions are * inexplicable, as his accounts are all i: j- correct a d h's flaas have all been - -W made for the future. * rf T.IE coroner's inquest in regard to . % the death of Mrs. Robert hippetoa*',' '̂|j ^ from st ychnine poisoning, in Ir.ualh ••ft i - 3 ville, proVed that Rippetoe and wHa '-' V . 'AM had frequent quarrels, and during the . last one, a month, ago, he made the;*1 assertion that he would get rid of her. ; In the Rippetue residence a b ttle ofK; poison was lound, but in some manner^ it was got out of sight. I SAMUEL INMAN, aged 22 years, son cf L'rew Inman. a well-Known dry gocds dealer, att2mpted suicide byv cutting his throat with a ra^or in father's 8tcre. The young man an ugly ga9h, but did not reach ;'ugular vein, aijd the physician^ hastily summoned, thought his life?' might be saved. Young Inman bad: planned his self-destruction delibar-r ately. Up to a year ago young Inman had been leading a roving life, and h» then settled down and worked hard during the day, but at night he was; seen at the gambling places, and a&v ^ great loss of money is the only known 'reason for the dee*!. He had. ust lost • ^ f. $50 which he tojk from his father*, safe-. . , WHEN the tremsndous two-and-bmlf- million dollar fire at the Qhicago Inm- ber yards was at its height, against the low-hanging clouds a deep-toadl/ very heavy fringing of fiery red eotht be made out for miles. So pronoiuieMl:. was the spectacle that it was seen ae far north as Racine, and as far rmHh . as Kankakee. The fusion of the eoloff& formed a beautiful sky. ani niauK" thought it to be a sunbur.-t. H.todiMB^ of inquiri&j from suburban points gan to pour into the newspaper offioaa . and the fire-alarm station. Sana: thought the Stock Yards hfed gone in smr)ke. Others as ociated , wi h incendiaries in the railroad stUMPfe ' . v The view from the top of the AuaiMH rium tower and the r jof o" the Maaoaift Temple was an impres ive one. -^BaMi , of these prominences were crawdad. From their towering tops a full •4afr.i/.t' into the center of the crateir ooald obtaiied. It looked »s though DM flames in their irad riot eould.aayw be stayed under the propulsion ef •ha- - gale then blowing. The strewneihraww V > on the nre appeared like so many ~>f- of stea-n, di»sipated into lines of •awtafcr long before they reached .the Santoa,"-' " proper. At Pacine the tr3 lookadi ,v- 1 though it were at Kenosha. AV tltoe»;7\ latter c ty the feiti7en* placed tlM at Gross Point or the Marine Hospital.* " t* ;. The streetcar lines leading to the» >4; ' •'£ vicinity of the fire were soon crowded-;;'7^v . ^ and thousands upon thousands of curl- v jk osity seekers in|bde for the burning die- % trict.. ^ | AT a meeting of the State Live Stock Commissioners, at Springfield, it was reported that during the month .'jH of July ninety-five h;ad ot cattle were inspected in the Union Stock Ya ds. at» *•%, Chicago. Of these fifty-three passed, . ^ and forty-two. which were condemned1 as unfit for food were slaughtered.' ^ Dr. Trumbr /wer, State Veterinaii m, • re per ted cases of glanders in horse > in # Union, White, (iallatin and Cook Coun- s\ ties. An outbreak t f anthrax was re- , M ported in Hamilton and White Coun­ ties, where a numb *r of horses, eatt'e ? and h< gs have died. The Secretary „ was instructed to prepare a circular calling attention to the fact, the dan- , gerous character of the disease, and the necessity of fighting it by every known means. It is said that there is danger of it becoming located, and it is almost certain to spread if bodies of animals that have died of the disease are not properly cared for. It is re- • \p garded as little less than criminal to t^| permit such bodies to lie in streams * V lr-m which ether animals drink. A communication was received from the Texa-i Sanitary B ard relating to a • "j series of experiments that is 10 be con- * ;'JS duct ?d by the Illinois, Kansas. Miss- uri •< v:! and Texas b ards. under the super- ^ vision of the Nati nal Department oi '• Agriculture, to as ertain whether Texas cattle that have bean e'ea lsed of ticks will co nmunie^te Texas fe.et , . t) native cattle. r > A* Fairbury, DP. James P. "Fralef died at the hump of his son, D. P. Fr* ley. at the age of 83 years. He wa* probably one of the I est-known eiti- zens in that section, having practiced - *JjL his profession since 18tt:'. 1 * 4 ROBERT SIO?ER. Alfred W. Patton, . Mack Parlow, John Sullivan, Barry v. J." «.• ^ Richards end Fraak Ferso\ all ot i T" Bluffs, Scott Cou ty, were arre-tei on ' * / ^ t w o c h a r g e s , o n e o f c o s p ' r a c t h e „ other of contempt cf court by obstruct- wi ing the mails in viol >t on of the in* r- junction is-ued bythe Un ted St.taa v Court. They were held to hill on e: ch chacge in 1 he sum of $300. H. B. AVERY, of Fairbu-v, died at the home of lya --on, O. F. Aver v. Pontine, Mich.,* aged 80 year< He was en esrlv pioneer of" Hillsdale County, Michigan; and also favorably known in Warsaw. Ind.. where he re­ sided a number of yca:s bet ore his re­ moval to Illinois. GEOR<;E KLAUS®?., who ha> lived In Milstadt. St. Clair County, few a halt century, applied for naturali/ati< a papers Wednesday. "What * exclaimed the county official. "Have you lived in this county for fifty years and never voted?" "Veil, I gues* not." rep.led the would be American cit xen "I've vust been voting for forty- th raa j eawk* J*rll papers wer^ grautal f Sii ',fr, v v fc* 1*.