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* * * T*i y^m fWvT*? >• TJr • Vj®$> - •?^ ^!>r»"i-^ir:. -E^ •; V- ' "7'c;*i McHenry Plaindealer. J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. M'fcHENRY, . » ILLINOIS. WEEK'S NEWS RECORD ffMClltly in Xllss £\iAa Arthur's company, I drawn Wpon the oflk.e At which it is issued, shot and killed himself in a Kew York j provided such office be not a 'United theatrical boarding house, Inglis ha4 I money order office.'The ndviee of a money The Standard Consolidated 'Mining 'I Company's i!0-stamp mill at Bodie, Cal.. was totally destroyed by fire. The fire started iu the boiler room. The adjoining offices and the cyanide plant were saved. 'Q?~ '.The'estimated loss is ?."H),000, partly in- _ cured. ^"V- < Upon, her deathbed. .Mrs. Jeffrey?! of ?•; * Hillsboro, Ohio, confessed that she assist­ ed in the murder ofr Louis Ball at Wash­ ington Court House eleven years ago. She implicates another Vroman and four men. all of whom reside about the city. Ball's •head was cut off with a razor. The Supreme Court in Brooklyn has de- rifled that surface railroads which issue transfer tickets are obliged to accept the same even if the time limit has expired, providing the person holding the ticket has been unable to secure a seat in a oar , before the time spcified has passed. Following is the standing of the clubs i in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. .98 45New York....73 70 .92 50Pittsburg .90 58 Louisville .81 65 Brooklyn been dismissed by Miss Arthur's manager. Robert Coveney, 15 years of age, died at the Boston city hospital as a result of injuries sustained while playing footbajl on Franklin field, that city. Three play­ ers fell upon him and caused an injury to his spine, which resulted in total paral­ ysis. At a meeting of thfc trustees of the Utti* versity of Pennsylvania it was announced a number of valuable properties valued at over $400,- 000. * A sad accident, resulting i'i the dro%vn- jng of a small child, occurred at the home of Emanuel Noll, at Bellefontaine, Pa The cistern, containing nine feet of water, had been left uncovered by an inmate of the house, and Anna Lamb, 5 years old, toddled to the reservoir and fell in. order so drawn, until payment is made or until the order has become invalidated by age (more than one year having elapsed since the last day of the month of issue), should be filed among the unpaid advices, the same as if received from another post- office. ^.aaa , . m,*1 *>i. foreign.' ""•* V General Rios, Spanish governor of the MOUh* VesyVIUS. WHICH jias aqain become active. • t: f." Eight United States Troops Killed! and 15 Wounded. that Col Joseph M. Bennett, the »ato--Vi as Islail(,; ts that PhiHppiue merchant and philanthropist, had be- in ms havo iuvad0(1 the visnyas queathed to the institution " Boston . . Baltimore Cincinnati Chicago .. Cleveland .70 .65 .51 V-. : V % 73 80 86 .77 62Washington. 50 94 Philadelphia. 71 68St. Louis 38 105 James R. Wicker and John C. Gentry, owners of a sawmill in the South Park, Colo., and Benjamin Wolf and Matt Dol­ phin hate been arrested on a bench war­ rant from the United States District Court charging them with the theft of fWXUKX) feet of timber from Government lands in the South Park. John L. Rusr sell. Government timber inspector, caused the arrests to be made. George W. Clarke, under sentence to" he hanged at San Qnentin, Cal.. for the murder of his brother, has made a confes- ' Bion. in which he states he alone is respon­ sible for his brother's death. Clarke was enamored Of his*, brother's wife and thought that should his brother be put out of the way the woman would marry him, and he made the confession for the pur­ pose of exonerating her of any complicity in the crime. Coroner Doten has completed his in­ quest into the death of Emma Gill, whose dismembered body was found in the Yel­ low Mill Pond at Bridgeport, Conn., a few weeks ago. finding that she came to her death by felonious homicide at the hands of Nancy.A. Guilford, assisted and abetted by Alfred Oxley and Rose Drayton." The grand jury has indicted Nancy ffuilford for murder in the second degree. This will facilitate her extradition from Eng­ land. > - * The Canadian police are completing the establishment of a chain of police stations along the Upper Yukon, from Dawson on ^Jto Lake Bennett. The stations are now About thirty miles apart. Five men have "tieen detailed fbreacfc post. Each station supplies for two years and numerous " dogs. The soldiers are to carry dispatches and facilitate the forwarding of mails, and are instructed to assist all travelers, of whom from 6,000 to 8.000 are expected to come out over the Tee. J. M. Edmondson, a prominent attorney of San Antonio, Texas, formerly of Dal­ las, hais sued the Pullman Palace Car Company in the United States Circuit Court at El Paso, Texas, for $15,000 al­ leged damage^. The plaintiff's grounds for the suit are somewhat novel. He claimed that while journeying in a Pull­ man car from San Antonio to Denver he was drenched with rain water through a hole in the roof while asleep in his berth. From the effects of the wetting, he says, he contracted a severe cold, which result- e^n consumption. * Fireman Thomas Duckwall of Chicago ^ was killed in a wreck on the Northwestern Railroad a few miles south of Milwaukee. The passenger train which left Chicago at 110:30 p. m.ran into the rear end of a freight that had stopped a short distance south of Cudahy station. Several freight cars were derailed and the wreck at once took fire from the passenger engine, which was ditched. The mail car was destroy­ ed, together with the caboose, and one oth­ er car of tie freight train. Duekwall was killed outright. Engineer Lane, who «*eaped unhurt, claims that he was not girezt the proper signals, bat the Hall au­ tomate device was founrf to be working all r.srhi and the freight train crew claims that 'be usual precautions adopted when a train scope on the main track w ere taken.. BREVITIES. WESTERN. Over 200 people narrowly escaped death by the collision of the steamer Santa Rosa with one of the derelict log rafts now afloat in the Pacific, Ocean. The col­ lision occurred off Pigeon Point, Cal. Near Guthrre, Ok., a uegro attempted to take the daughter of Monday Cat, an old Creek Indian, to a dance and when the old main attempted to interfere shot him through the heart and escaped with the girl. The Roseburg-Myrtle Point (Oregon) stage was robbed about one mile of the latter place by a highwayman at 4 o'clock the other morning. The robber secured the registered mail sack, containing be­ tween $S00 and $1,000. Edward Ruhling, a well-known assayer, committed suicide at San Francisco by inhaling gas. Ruhling some months ago married a Chicago widow and recently began suit for a divorce. He was 66 years of age, while she was 35. Two hundred striking miners of Pana, 111 ., captured a train load of negroes from Washington, Ind., who' were being im­ ported to work in the Pana mines. The capture was made at Tower Hill and the negroes returned whence they came. Frank Stevens, a middle-aged man, has been arrested in St. Louis by Postoffice Inspector Mayer of Chic . o on a charge of stealing postage stamps. Stevens had sent $604.65 worth of stamps to a Chi­ cago firm as payment for goods he had or­ dered. 1 Captain Thomafe Young, who was stab­ bed at Sedalia, Mo., by J. H. McManigal, while the two were talking in a saloon, is dead. McManigal is in jail under a heavy guard, as threats of violence have been made against him by friends of the dead man. W. M. Thompson, president, and J. C. Van Blancon, cashier, of the Commercial Bank of St. Louis, have bought the Whit- taker packing plant of Wichita. Kan. It has been idle several years, but has a daily capacity of more than 1,000 hogs and 300 cattle. Packing operations will be resumed. ; One hundred and fifty coal miners from Pana, 111., wept to Washington, Ind., as­ sembled at the fair grounds with the home union miners and organized. They got to­ gether, all masked, and visited the shacks where the colored miners lived, and about fifty of the negroes were corraled and at the point of pistols run out of town. Fourteen business houses in the busi ness district of Lowell, Ind., were de­ stroyed by fire early the other morning. The blaze broke out in Dr. Bacon's barn, in the. rear of Main street, and as the town has no fire protection the flames spread rapidly and laid a whole block in ashes. Among the buildings burned were Nichols' opera house, the postoffice, Wat­ ers' drug store, the Yiant building, Hay- ward's studio. Gersham's tailoring estab­ lishment, Spindler's store, the Lowell Rec­ ord printing house. Hacker's saloon, George Death's hardware store, a hiilli- nery store and several others. ThAjoss ( will probably reach $40,000, with littleYn^ lurahce. At Joplin, Mo., an old murder mystery that has puzzled the police for months has been solved by the confession of the murderer. The many old abandoned mining shafts in Joplin and Galena have enabled murderers to quickly dispose of their victims by dropping them down into the shafts. Last February an old miner known as "Lengthy Bill" Smith sudden­ ly disappeared. A few days later his body was found in an old shaft with indica­ tions of foul play, bat the murder remain­ ed a mystery until a dispatch from La Grande. Ore., stated that a man named Weed had confessed to murdering Bill Smith at Joplin last spring. Weed will be brought tq-Joplin for trial. SOUTHERN. fit it asuMUK-ed at Madrid that Admiral Cervera will be appointed a life senator. Wright Smith, colored, was taken from Jaii at Jones Station, Ind.. by a lynching party and his body riddled with bullets. _ The Democrats of Massachusetts nomi­ nated Alexander D, Bruce for Governor. The platform declares for silver and op­ poses expansion. A special dispatch from Shanghai, China, says that 1.000 lives were lost in a great fire which partly destroyed the city of Hankow on last Sunday. Trustworthy indications are that Che cotton crop in Georgia will be cut down at least 300,000 bales by the recent severe storm. The money damage will amount to nearly $5,000,000. F. G. Rudblph. administrator of the es­ tate of Charles Craft, a young man who committed suicide in June, has filed a suit for $10,000 at Paducah, Ky., against C. M. Merquoit, the druggist who sold Craft poison. All the sugar refining interests are now openly selling granulated sugar at 5 cents a pound. Owing to rebates to the groofers the net return to the refiners is such that the trade is agreed that the present price leaves j>o margin of profit to the refining Interests. Samuel Wolfstein has been appointed by Judge Hollister receiver for the wholesale jobbing firm of David Hahn & Sons of Cincinnati, upon the application of Jonas Hahn, one of the partners, who alleges failure to agree among the partners and increasing debts. The assets are estimat­ ed at $30,000, with liabilities amounting to $00,000. ' * Indians and Gen. Bacon's soldiers fought a desperate battle. The scene of the conflict was u promontory in Leech Lake., near Bear Island, thirty'miles from Walker, Minn, Several were killed on either side. EASTERN. I Caroline M. Hoyt. the aetro** and wife of the playwr at New York. Peter Crick, Peter Corwal. John Lor- onski and Martin Simototitch, miners, were burned to death by a gas explosion in the Lehigh shops of the Lehigh Val­ ley Coal Company in Midvale, ' -a'A special frpm Dover, N. II., says: N. A. & J. Sawyer, woolen manufacturers hate assigned. Liabilities are estimated i iC* f* $1,000,000. Ex-Governor Charles H. 1 •' trjfki&yjge-i* P^esi^ept of.the corporation. ; - *..,/* ** * Scott IngUs, 35 years old, an actor until For eighteen hours Savannah, Ga., was in the grasp of a West India tornado. The damage in the city was slight, but th<" rice growers of the vicinity suffered heavily. Their log* will undoubtedly reach $200,000. The mammoth United States battleship Illinois, one of the three latest additions to the navy and probably the most power­ ful fighting machine afloat, was launched at Newport Ne'-rs, Va., under auspicious circumstances. Rev. H. M. Dubose of Nashville, Tenn., general secretary of the Epworth League, reports to the conference of the Methodist Church South, at Oakland, Cal.. that the present membership of the league is 252,- 725. The board of missions received $1,- 077,388 during the last four years. At Mobile. Ala., Francis P. O'Connor, 17 years of age. a molder's apprentice, stabbed John Kitchen in the heart in de­ fence of his mother's honof. O'Connor surrendered to the police immediately af­ ter the stabbing. Public feeling is on his side, and it is not expected that the law will hold him. At Mobile, Ala., -Francis P. O'Connor, 17 years of age, a molder's apprentice, stabbed John Kitchen in the heart in de­ fence of his mother's honor. O'Connor surrendered to the police immediately af­ ter the stabbing. Public feeling is on his side, and it is not expected that the law I will hold him. WASHINGTON. Colonel John Hay has been fcworn into office as Secri?i:;ry of State. The cere­ mony took place in the President's room at the White House, and the oath was administered by Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court. The comparative statement of the gov­ ernment receipts and expenditures for September shows the total receipts to have been $39,778,070 and the expendi­ tures $54,223,921. This statement takes no account of the receipts from the war loan. The Ilussiau and English ministers at Peking have ordered armed guards to pro* ceed to the Chinese capital, where drunk­ en rioters are assaulting foreigners. The Rome Tribuna announces that all the European governments have uow con- sented to Italy's proposal for a conference for the suppression of the anarchists. A late dispatch from Shanghai says it" is semiolliciall.v announced there that the Dmperor of China committed suicide on Sept. 21. Turkish advices from Van say fighting has occurred at Alashgorb between the Turks and a number of Armenians from Russia. About fifty Armenians were killed. A dispatch received at Madrid from the Visayas Islands says the Tegales have landed in the Antiqua province and have been completely defeated by the Spanish column after a sharp fight in which nine­ ty-four of the insurgents were killed. The British steamer flilleraig, Captain Gibson, from Fernandina, via Norfolk, for Hamburg, has been in collision with the Dutch steamer De Reuyter, bound from Cronstadt for Dordreicht. The collision occurred near Helvoet. The Hilleraig pro­ ceeded and the extent of damage to her is as yet unknown, bnt- De Reuyter was bad­ ly damaged. A terrific storm swept over Japan re­ cently, The wind did great damage to shipping. Rivers soon became torrents, flooding many sections. A summary of the loss of life and property follows: Deaths, 250; houses swept, 164; houses overthrown, 1,195; partially wrecked, 11,- 460; houses inundated, 15,597; river banks broken, 78. The latest advices from Japan bring news of the death of Rev. Thaddeus S. K. Freeman, chaplain, of the United States steamship Baltimore, at Nagasaki. From all accounts Freeman committed suicide while in a condition of mental depression consequent upon his failing health. He jumped overboard from the Zealandia and was drbwned before any assistance could be rendered him. New pearl fields of great richness have been discovered off the coast of New Cal­ edonia on the west side, according to United States Consul Wolf at Noumea. He says that one shell contained the fabu­ lous number of 256 pearls and one little boat of one and a half tons furnished last year twenty-two pounds of pearls. Up to this time the water has not been sounded to a greater depth than six feet seven inches, but the fisheries are to be further exploited by French and Austrian syndi­ cates. Mr. Wolf says that the quality of the pearl shells is remarkably fine and he urges that Americans profit by the dis­ covery. IN GENERAL. Refrigerator manufacturers are plan­ ning to organize a combine with $6,000,- ()00 capital. The ipsane wife of Joseph Clothier, a farmer of St. Severin, Quebec, killed her, four children by cutting their throats. James R. IveeUe is reported to have made $1,500,000 during(the last few days speculating in Tobacco stock in Wall street. The American Public Health Associa­ tion elected officers at Ottawa, Ont., and adjourned. The president is Dr. George H. Ross of Baltimore. P; J. Tuohy of Chicago was one of sev­ enty Kiondikers who arrived at Port t^Townsend. Wash., on ihe bark Hayden wown. He spent the season in Circle City, and reports that claims iu that dis­ trict are yielding well. John Stanley, Mayor of Skaguay, Alas­ ka, who is now in San Francisco purchas­ ing apparatus*for a fire department, says: "The Pacific and Arctic Railroad, now being built from Skaguay to Selkirk, is well under way. Rails have been laid to White Pass, and up to that point the road is in full working order. Over thirty-five tons of freight is daily shipped over this spur. Seven hundred men are working on the road. Last month the pay roll was $129,000. From White Pass to Lake Bennett, a distance of thirty miles, freight is transferred, by sledges. ^Laborers on the road receifp 85 cents an hour." R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly re-, view of trade, say: "Failures in Septem­ ber have been about .$6,700,000, and for the quarter about $22,875,000. The re­ turns indicate a smaller aggregate of fail- ares than in any other month in many years, except iu August of this year, and smaller for the quarter than in any other quarter sin^e 1892. In fact, excepting one quarter in that year, no other appears to have shown a smaller aggregate unless, more than ten years ago, when the volume of solvent business was very much smaller than it is now. Evidently'the complete returns will show that the state of busi­ ness is in that respect more satisfactory that it has ever been, unless in one quar­ ter of 1892.y BEAR ISLAND BATTLE. Minnesota Indians Begin Afia<& By Firing Volleys from Ambush. i! Leech Lake District I« the Scent of the Worst Conflict with Redskins in Recent Years -- Soldiers, Returned from Cuba Anions 'those Reported Massacred-General Slaughter of White Residents Feared--Secretary of War Orders Re-enforcements and Artillery to the Scene. < Word received in Duluth,'-Mlnn., Tues­ day night from Brainerd was to the effect that the entire force of soldiers sqnt to Bear Lake Island under command of Gen. Bacon had been wiped out of existence. There were 100 men iu the force of regu­ lars, most of them veterans of the battle of Santiago. A Minneapolis report denied that the troops had been wiped out, but said the Indians got the best of it. An­ other report said that there were fifty dead India (is within a mile of the landing. A special from Walker, Minn., says: Major Wilkinson, six privates and one In­ dian policeman are dead. Major Wilkin- ; son was shot and killed while walking up and down admonishing the men to keep their heads low. Thirty Indians are dead. It is feared that the Indians will attack the settlers on and around the reservation. If a general uprising takes place 3,000 fighting braves will be in the field. The message to Brainerd came with a request to wire Washington for 5,000 troops. A St. Paul, Minn., dispatch reported disbelief there that a general massacre of m DEATH IN ITS FLAMES. SCENE OF INDIAN TROUBLE. troops had taken place at Bear Island, al­ though the situation was acknowledged to be one of extreme gravity. Secretary Bliss received a telegram in Washington from Inspector Tinker an­ nouncing a fight with.the Bear Lake In­ dians. It did not say how many were killed. Marshal O'Connor wired Attor­ ney General Griggs that a general Indian uprising was imminent. On receipt of these advices Secretary Alger ordered re- enforcements sent to the scene at once on a special train, and with a GatLing gun if needed. Fight Lasted Three Honrs. The battle which took place at Bear Island was between a detachment of the Third United States infantry and 250 Pillager Indians. The combat lasted three hours. The first shot came from Bog-Ah- Me-Ge-Shirk's house, while the troopers were drinking coffee at noon. The ball broke the arm of Ed Harris, ex-marshal of Walker, a half-breed. The firing he- came general, the Indians shooting from ambush. m Three of Gen. Bacon's men dropped dead. At the first shot the line of blue coats vanished as the men sought protec­ tion by dropping on the ground. "Steady, men," shouted Gen. Bacon, who stood straight up by the side of Major Wilkin­ son, looking straight into the fire fftun the red men. At the second volley from the busTies the cracking of the Krag-Jor- gens'en ritles rattled out and six braves fell in their tracks. The Indians had fired twenty-five shots before the troops return­ ed the fire. The reds could not withstand the deadly fire of the troopers and were routed. CAUSE OF THE OUTBREAK. A plan has «bcen effected between the th*e"p"a y wr i ght^arierYLHov't, died Jiv*'0"' 4aml /h;' and V«w York ur asiiry Departments by winch pension­ ers will hereafter bo permitted to have <!nnr <'in-iks cashed at all money order postoflii-t s free of charge. It is estimated tlmt this will result iu a saving to pension­ ers of $2-">U,000(per annum. The PoTtoflice Department has made an important change in the money order I'Lws. v.--hereby the postoffice can be used by patrons r.s a savings bank in placed where there ure no banks-. The change is ninde by amending section 1240 of the postal laws and regulations so as to read as follows: "A money order may be IARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; bogs, shipping gritdes, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75: wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 22c; rje, No. 2, 44c to 46c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis--'Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red,#65c to 67c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31^; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 To $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 65c to 67c; corn. No. yellow, 28c tQ 30c; opts, No. 2, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 49c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 66c to 08c; corn, No. mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2. 47c to 49c. Detroit--^Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25 wheat, No. 2, 67c to 69c; corn. No yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye. 49c to 50c. Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29e to 31c; oats, No. 2 white. 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 46c to 47c; clover seed, $3.70 to $3.80. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 3, 29c to 31c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 1, 46c to 47c; barley, No. 2, 43c to 45c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra. $5.00 to $5.75. New York--Cattle. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No". 2 red, 73e to 74c: corn, No. 2, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2, 25e to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West­ ern, 17c to 18c. HE OUTBRKi ts to Arirest CI Marshal Attempts to Arirest Chief of the Pillager Tribe. The present trouble with the Bear I^ake or Pillager Indians started eight months ago when Depnty United States Marshal Warren of White Earth tried to arrest Chief Bush and nine other Indians of Bear Island, but they resisted authority. Some were charged with the illicit sale of whisky and others were wanted as wit­ nesses. All but the chief gave themselves up and were sentenced to 30 and 60 days. Chief Bush Ear kept out of reach, how­ ever, until two weeks ago, when he came to be paid his annuity. When he was be­ ing trfaken from the Indian reservation jail to a boat for transmission to Duluth a large band attacked the d*<puty and his posse and Chief Bush Ear escaped. Sept. 30 twenty men from the Third In fantry under Lieut. Humphrey Walker, Minn., went to assist the marshal in rear resting Chief Bush Ear and to take those who assisted the old chief to escape. The Indians kept away from the reservation and mrfde ugly threats ns to what they would do if any of their members were taken prisoners. It appeared evident that a trip by the twenty troopers to Bear Isl­ and would result iu their meeting with overwhelming defeat. Re-enforcements were ordered from Washington to assist in making the desired arrests. The full seri­ ousness of the situation was then made knowu. Eruption of Vesuvius 'Threatens De­ struction of Naples, Vesuvius, the greatest volcano in the world, is again in eruption, belching forth great masses of fire and molten lava, which threaten destruction to the city of Naples. Nine new craterjs have formed within the past week around the central crater. The smoke, in a brownish yellow cloud, overhands the mountain like a great pall. The lava torrent is half a mile in width and divides into three principal streams, each seventy to eighty yards wide. These as they pour down the moun­ tain side subdivide into numerous smaller streams, carrying death to everything liv­ ing, and advancing at the rate of forty yards an hour. Lava in a volume of a thousand tons a minute pours out of the volcano. It has filled Vetrana valley, a deep ravine. The ashes lie several inches deep for a long distance down the sides of the mountain and in the adjacent villages. At night the volcano is splendidly awful. The crater belches forth a flame, which rends the frail of smoke, reaches to the heavens, and at times takes on the colors of the rainbow. The lights are reflected in the broad wat­ ers of the Bay of Naples, the loveliest in the world. Tremblings of the earth and subterra­ nean explosions precede the outpourings of lava, and the wells on the mountain sides are beginning to dry up. A great stream of lava threatens to overwhelm the observatory built on that part of the vol­ cano known as Monte Contaroni. This observatory is on a hill 2,200 feet above the sea level. This observatory was es­ tablished for the purpose of giving warn­ ing of all eruptions to those living on the mountain. Vesuvius is eight miles from Naples, whose bay it overlooks, at the eastern ex­ tremity erf a chain extending to the island of Ischia. It is believed that the* whole gulf of Naples was once an immense cra­ ter, the northern end of a great rent in the earth's crust, Aetna being the south­ ern end and Stromboli about the middle. At its base Vesuvius is thirty miles in cir­ cumference. Its height varies after its eruptions, but the average is about 4,000 j feet. Its great crater is some 2,000 feet In diameter and about 500 feet deep. WILL CHRISTEN THE WISCONSIN Honor la Given Miss Elizabeth Ste­ phenson of Marinette. Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, who has been selected to christen the battleship Wisconsin at San Francisco Nov. 26. is one of the fairest daughters of the Badger State. She is the child of ex-Congress­ man Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, nnd 1s just 21 years old. The Wisconsin MI8S ELIZABETH STEl'IIEXSON. sponsor was born in Marinette and was educated at Milwaukee-Dower College and LaSalle College, near Boston. She was graduated from the latter institution with high honors. Miss Stephenson is a magnificent specimen of young . woman­ hood. She is almost six feet tall, and slen­ der. She has dark eyes and a bright, at­ tractive face. Her father is quite wealthy, and he wi'! take his daughter across the continent with a large party of Wisconsin people in fine style. OUR CHEAP VICTORIES. It Cost Leas than $150,p00 to Sink Montejo's and Cervera's Fleets. Instead of the American squadrons off Cavit? and Santiago de Cuba expending a fortune in accomplishing the destruction of Montejo's and Cervera's fleets, less than $150,000 fully covers the cost of the ammunition which they expended. The bureau of ordnance has received from Rear Admiral Dewey a full state­ ment of the amount of ammunition fir<»d by the vessels under his command in the battle of Manila bay. The bureau has also received the reports of all the vessels which participated in the battle of San­ tiago de Cuba, with the (exception ot that of the commanding officer of the battle­ ship Indiana, regarding the number of shells fired in that eijgagement. As the Indiana was compelled to stop firing early in the engagement on ac­ count of her inability to keep within range of the fleeing Spanish men-of-war, the amount of ammunition she expended was much less than that fired by the battle­ ship Oregon. However, the authorities have been able to compute about the cost of the powder and shell discharged in that battle, and they fix the cost at between $90,000 and $100,000. Rear Admiral Dewey's victory was lees costly. Only $45,000 worth of powder and shells were used during the battle of Manila bay, distributed in this way: One hundred and fifty-seven 8-inch pro­ jectiles. 635 6-inch, 622 5-inch, 1,987 6- pounders, 648 3-pounders and 47 mm. and 1,632 1-pounders and 37 mm.; total, 5,681. So far as the reports received by the bureau show . the ships which partici-, pated in the tiattlfy wkh Cervera's .fleet! fired these numbers of rounds from ithe gups named: Brooklyn--100 8-inch, 473 5-inch, 1;200 6-pounders and 200 1-Dounders. Oregon-- 36 13-inch. 145 8-inch, 41 6-indh, 1,564 6- pounders and 141 1-pounders. Iowa--31 12-inch, 35 8-inch, 251 4-inch, 1,056 6- pounders and 100 1-pounders. Texas--8 12-inch, 97 6-inch. 400 6-poivnders and 331 l-p^utiders. Gloucester--589 6-pounders and 783 3-pounders. New York--2 4-inch. The reports show that most of the shell fired were common shell, the Brooklyn using the largest number of armor-piercing shell. It was due to this fact that the cost of the ammunition was so compara- tifely small. And notv the dons^are alarmed over tho report that Vesuvius is throwing out red, white and blue fire.---Pittsburg Post. And so it seems that it was the move­ ment to cut off the pigtails that occasion'* ed the latest squealing ip China.--Boston Herald. - \ Admiral Schley has enabled Admiral Sampson to reach Havana without the loss of a single man--Memphis Commer* cial-Appeal. - For some soldiers to bring home small pigs as trophies is no evidence they were living on^he fat of the land whije away,-- Philadelphia Times, The Sultan is such an artful dodger that' it may become necessary for Uncle Sam to send one of our admirals over to sit on his doorstep.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. The rough riders are to have a tourna­ ment in New York. At least such a pro­ ject is--like the riders themselves--afpot. --Cleveland Plain Dealer. ~ Before we get around to discussing t£e location of the Schaumberg fine again-let us ascertain if England is wid us on the Turkey question.--St. Paul Dispatch., < Tornado reports indicate that our West India acquisitions can at least compete with Kansas and Nebraska in ability to raise the wind.--Philadelphia Ledger.,/ The idea that Admiral Sampson did ino damage in the recent war will have to be abandoned. Didn't he destroy the Cristo­ bal Colon?--Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Two Connecticut farmers went to New York and bunkoed a lot of green goods men. No wonder the papers of that city are demanding more facilities for educa­ tion.--Philadelphia Times. The suspension of Admiral MoQtejo looks as if Spain proposed to hold hnn responsible for the destruction of his fleet ill Manila bay. This is all wrong. Charge it up to Dewey.--Boston Herald. Hobson is going right on raising Spanish ships, but he is making no move toward raising the Merrimac. In view of that vessel's previous history perhaps it is just as well to let her lie.--Philadelphia Ledger. After he has had a few more meetings with IJewey and Otis we shall not be stir- prised to hear of Aguinnldo as candidate for the position of delegate to the Czar's universal peace conference.--Milwaukee Sentinel. FRENCHMEN NOT FAVORABLE. The General Atmosphere of Paris Does Not Incline Toward America. While the reception accorded to the United States peace commission at Paris is all that could be desired, and while the French , foreign office has taken great pains to treat the American and Spanish commissioners in precisely the same man­ ner, it must be admitted that the general atmosphere of Paris, especially the diplo­ matic atmosphere, does not incline to­ wards America. It is ihe general impres­ sion that the American commissioners have instructions to provide for the re­ tention of Manila and the Island of Lu­ zon, "and fpr a commission to pretend tc negotiate is a farce," said a prominent diplomat. He continued: "America wil- put herself, diplomatically, in the wrong when she exceeds the provisions of the protocol, which both nations signed. I know the Spaniards have come prepa-red to make concessions; but. if the Ameri­ cans' instructions are of an uncompromis­ ing nature, which is generally believed to be the case, you can rest assured that the work of the commission will be futile. The Spaniards will retire and America will at least have to threaten ft resumption of hostilities befttre she will gain her point." The French newspapers, l»e^ond announcing arrival of the com sions, make no comment upon the matter CUBANS THREATEN HOSTILITY. ,Maroons in Jamaica are seizing valuable property owned by Englishmen. There is an agitation in Japan in favor of the State purchase and operation of all railroads in that country. Special Treasury Agent Murry, in charge <>'f the seal islands, reports rf gen­ eral decrease of the seal herd. ,It has cost Spain nearly $400,000,000 to get whipped by Uncle Sam. This does not include the loss of^her fleets and her colonics. The trial of Lncch'mi, the Italian anar­ chist who assassinated the Empress of Austria, will begin at Geneva, Switzer­ land, Nov. 3. At Cincinnati, Edward Kritzinger was arrested for trying to sell at the stock yards Kentucky cattle afflicted with the black tongue. Ministers at Pittsburg, Pa., have en­ tered a protest against the faying of cor­ ner stones of new public school buildings by the Masonic fraternity. NOT AS A STATE. Hawaii to Coine Into the United States as a Territory. Hawaii is to come into the United, States as a territory, with all the Govern­ ment machinery of an embryotic state, according to plans reached by the com­ mission which has returned from its visit to the Islands. In a dispatch box, which is carefully guarded by a sergeant-at- arnis, lies the draft of a bill for the gov­ ernment of the new territory. It was carefully considered by t^ie entire commis­ sion, section by section, and while it has not passed to final approval, it contains all the salient features which will be fottnd in the report which the commission makes to Congress at the opening of the session in December. The American mem­ bers of the commission arrived in San Francisco by the steamer Gaelic, after nearly two months' absence, and started for the East. They will meet again in Washington Nov. 14, when they will be joined by the Hawaiian members, who are expected to come to this country about the fiaet of next month. KILLED AN AMERICAN.* Spanish Troops Mistook American goldiers for Outlaw*. Word lias readied San Juan. Porto Rico, that a Porto Riean residing at Agua- dalla. near Mayaguez, asked the protec­ tion of both American and Spanish troops against depredations by outlaws, which it was predicted would qccur. In response to hi« request, the American authorities sent to his residence two* soldiers of a Kentucky regiment, who arrived there Sunday evening after dark. The resident had not notified the Spaniards that he had requested American protection and some Spanish soldiers who had been sent to guard his house, arriving after the Ameri­ cans, mistook the latter for outlaws. In the confusion resulting the Spaaiar fired, unfortunately killittg »afc^ of t Americans Would Fight Americans Unless Their. Independence is Granted. • Reports from Guines, province of Ha­ vana, say that no farmer or landholder or tenant has turned his hand to the sowing of crops iu that vicinity, and the district, therefore, will have no potatoes, tobacco, cane, cabbage, or other vegetables this year. This will further impoverish the district, and add to the distress. From now until February it will be impossible for farmers to sow crops and in February the ground will be prepared for spring har­ vest. Therefore the next six months will see a great deal of want and misfortune in that vicinity. This state of affairs is directly due to the unsettled condition o 1 the country and the attftude of a cerain portion of the Cubans who openly threaten hostility to the United States and are pre­ paring to take the field/and wage a guer­ rilla warfare against Ihe Americans il any form of government short of absolute independence for the Cubans is establish­ ed in the island. This matter is openly discussed in the public meeting places ol the Cubans at Havana, the plan finding many advocates among certain classes ol people. t HARD LUCK OF KLONDIKERS. Out of a Party of Twenty-Six Only One Succeeded in Reaching I'awson Out of a party of twenty-six men that left San Francisco early in the year to gc to Dawson via the Stikeen trail. Herman Long of Seattle, Wash., is the only one that pushed through. Two of the numbei were drowned, two are iusane and th« others are far into the interior, regain ing their health at trading points. Iu the swift Chesley river, in the north rivers, seven of their boats were dnsbed ttt pieces on tb$ rocks and thcoutfits were lost. In two of the wrecks Dr. Black nnd a man named Morgan, both from California were drowned. Long says that many ol the men went temporarily insane aftei Jheir provisions began to give out. ns sev­ eral attempts at suicide vyere made. Holding Wheat for Higher Priccc. *"/j£^uri«g-^ifr^.fiil over Kansas-are shut Uf£g «ovn$ they 'inimot get wheal to grind.' It-iS estimated by grain met that nearly KK) flouriug mills in the St;>« have been forced to close for this reason It is declared that the farmers of Kansas have, combine^ to hoM their wheat fo) fitter priMfF^Sifcre thaa 70,000,000 bu«i> els of wheat is beiag held. .' ** Thomas P. Bayard. The late Thomas F. Bayard is not to be rauked among the greatest of American .•statesmen, but he was a man of great abil­ ity, nvihose public service/was clean and ihonoraible.--Omaha Bee. . Thomas F.. Bayard deserved well of the republic, and Americans of e*er.v shade of political opinion will breathe over his grave a heartfelt "requiescat ;in pace."-- New Orleans Times-Democrat. In brief, it may be said that .Mr. Bay­ ard deserved well'of his counffy in his, public capacity, and that those who knew him in his personal capacity had every reason to esteem him a gentleman, a man of upright life and courteous disposition. --Boston Transcript. His influence with his own party was of the best. He was consistently true to his own beliefs and to his political and social inheritance. For thirty years he had filled some of the highest posts iu the na­ tion, to the satisfaction of the, great party which elected and supported him.--Boston Journal. Mr. Bayard was the personification of dignity, courage and courtesy combined. He was truly a chevalier without fear and without reproach. There have been great­ er public men in the history of the coun­ try than Thomas Francis Bayard, but none more worthy of official trust and pub­ lic honor.--Springfield, 111., Register. Mr. Bayard held high place in various forms during nearly forty years, and he was always competent for the most exact­ ing requirements of his position. Wheth­ er as Senator, as Secretary of State or as •ambassador to England, he dignified the office rather than drew dignity from it.-- Boston Herald. The public life of Thomas F. Bayard was clean, strong and consistent. Like, his chivalrous namesake, slain generations ago on the soil of France in the "Battle of the Spurs," he was without reproach, and this immunity applies both to his,pri­ vate conduct and his conceptions of pub­ lic duty.--St. Louis Republic. The country knew Mr. Bayard as Sena­ tor, presidential aspirant. Secretary of State, and ambassador. He possessed ex­ cellent, though not the highest, gifts, and n impressive presence. His personaPin- tegrity was far above the slightest ques­ tion. His claim to remembrance will rest upon his record as Senator.--Washington Star. His remarkable career furnishes a noble? example to the young men of the land, and is worthy of all emulation by the rising statesmen of all parties in this country, for whatever else may be said of this fam­ ous man, all will agree that his life work was shaped by the dictates of conscience and the promptings of the highest eharac-' ter.--Atlanta Journal. The Dreyfus Case. Esterbazy says he knows the secret of the Dreyfus case. As the Only man who knows anything whatever about it, he should occupy a museum.--Chicago Jour­ nal. In trying to prevent a revision of the Dreyfus case the French military is adopting the foolish policy of the man that sat on th esafety valve.--Indianapolis News. Probably Captain Dreyfus could relieve the French Government of an awkward situation by committing suicide, but prob­ ably this will not occur to him.--Chicago Tribune. It ia hard to believe that France courts trouble in Africa in order to cloak the Dreyfus scandal. That would be setting the house afire to cure a smokj' chimney. --Indianapolis Journal. France is again hearing the truth of that old. old saying that nothing iB ever finally*settled in this world until it is set­ tled right. The lesson comes hard some­ times, but it comes.--Boston Herald. . France will assume a conciliatory atti­ tude towards England with respect to the Fashoda matter. Until M. Dreyfus' case is disposed of she will have more impor­ tant business on hand than the settlement of a territorial question in the heart of Africa.--Detroit Free Press. 1 he Cretan Trouble. The Sultan is said to be somewhat trou­ bled and impressed by the fact that Great Britaiu has dispensed with the assistance of the other three powers in Crete and shows a disposition to play a solo wfil^re Abdul had hoped. to hew the soothing strains of the ",Eur<npef»u;concert."---Chi­ cago News. • One of the remarkable truths of the day is the fact that GOO Christian men. women and children should be either btlrned alive or massacred in the rioting which occurred at Candia, on the Island of Crete, right under the shadow of Eu­ ropean civilization, and under the protec­ torate of the powers. It is a disgraceful enisode.--Columbus (O.) Journal. t?.ru &