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7 1 V MeHenry Plalndealer. teres* ed , ;;i ;,... is -8 m»;*.. * * . vnmm -- ------Vice- F the failure of a play in which he «u in- J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY, ILLINOI#. EVENTS OF THE WfiEK k'C Vif' Mflj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and "Cor- "T"" -pnral" Tanner were among the distin- C * finished guests at a banquet given by tlic 'ti>- " Washington lodge of Elks in honor of the j|s members of the lodge who served in the late war. <»•* The passenger steamer Pacific, owned i, by the Great Northern Transit Company. 1 *"* turned at the Grand Trunk wharf at Col- |tf Jingwood, Ont. Thfe' rilhray freight sheds X filled with Canadian Jind American goods g&ivl' Irere also destroyed. jffj,.*; The Secretary of the Interior has TP- l| teived unofficial advices that the Creek Indian nation in Indian territory has ratl- rV • fied the agreement reached between its P] commission and the Dawes Indian com- mission in the reorganization of Indian territory. Three hundred girls employed at the' American Encaustic Tile Works at Zanos- Ville, Ohio, struck for an increase of 50 cents per week. ' The management a creed to increase the pay of all who were de­ serving and the girls continue at work pending further action. Mrs. Florence George and Miss Kate McAfee, both of Washington, were killed by a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train at Langdon, Md. They had been attending a party and were crossing the tracks to take a train for Washington when they were struck by,an express train and instantly killed. . ' ' - , John Meadows shot and killed John and Clayton Mathews, brothers, at Pineville. Ky. Mea (lows was a school teacher. Meadows surrendered and is now in jail. Eagan,r the most prominent witness, was found dead in his storeroom, where he •lept for years. The indications are that he was murdered. Eugene Weidman of East Hebron. Pa., was found dead near his home, half im­ bedded in quicksand. He had been miss­ ing five days. Beside him was found a hastily written note, which said he had been unable to extricate himseJf, that he yr&s suffering terribly from hunger ano thirst, and that he was about to make * gl~«i^rayer for relief. • w.' The Turkish governor of Crete has ir.- formed the foreign admirals that he has J/ Jleen instructed to cohiply with the de- t •*•• Itoands of the powers for the withdrawal »f the Turkish troops. The last of the ? Ottoman troops to embark will be a force ;Im -•if 550 soldiers, who will remain in the inland provisionally to assist in the ship- Vent of war material. The War Department has issued a gen­ eral order for the movement of troops to Qaba. The first troops will leave on or ifbout Nov. 22, and will comprise a brigade t|nder Brig. Gen. Carpenter. The brigade . trill he taken from the Seventh army .Corps, and one of the regiments to jro will be the Third Georgia. The brigade will tie sent to Neuvitas, Porto Principe. An improvement in the electrical appli- i~:;; "•Knee at the penitentiary annex at Colnna- * lias, Ohio, was tried oil Charles Nelson. ' ; Colored, with eminent success. The new ^i'-i^jievice is a wire hat lined with sponges . saturated with salt water, which is ad- f 'I -Justed after the victim is strapped to the ell, chair. Nelson was sentenced to death for the murder of James Zimmerman at !>•!-. Bowling Green. ' 'j* Millionaire Sdwin Gould is the president l-t <>f a match-making Company in Passaic, jfi. J. He has a strike on his hands. One liundred Hungarian girls who have been ff',< employed as packers have refused to sub- ^ mit to a redaction in wages. They have ' \ ibeen making from 80 cents to $1.25 a day. jj? ^They do not want to work for GO cents a |"'f day. Even the reduced scale represents ' /• Wagts higher than usually paid to factory" ^T^lpris in any employment. , A New York World correspondent ca- Jfcles from Paris: Direct from Austrian | I «ourt circles the sensational announce- teaent comes that the Austrian emperor, , JFrancis Joseph, contemplates a second y- j marriage as soon as the time of official "Court mourning has expired. The Arch- ^'-^Alduchess Marie Therese, daughter of Don ;4 iMiguei, is said to find most favor in his a^iZ-inajesty's ey*«. The prospective hasty marriage is the result of a desire for a direct heir to the Austrian throne, and all the friends of the emperor are urging him to take the contemplated step. President IJobart had a narrow es­ cape from death at Philadelphia. The Horses attached to his carriage ran away, but were finally stopped by a heroic po­ liceman. The executive committee of the citizens' State party, New Ygrk, has decided not to fill the vacancy on the State ticket caused by the death of Col. George E. Waring, candidate for State engineer. - . Nancy J.. Barker, Qenter County, Pa., centenarian, is dead, aged 106 years and 1 month. Two months ago Mrs. Barger fell and broke a limb, and owing to her advanced age the injury would not heal. Despondent because he recently failed to pass an examination at the Philadel­ phia College of Pharmacy, WilliataJjercH, a student, drowned himself in a quarry ho!e near his home at DanielsviJIe, Pa. He was 22 years of age. ' John Reed, the "Napoleon of the green goods fraternity," did not fpee charges of swindling in the Superior Court at Wor­ cester, Mass. He escaped from a Worces­ ter jailer late the preceding night, and the detectives have not been able to find any trace of himr. ^ WESTERN. BREVITIES. Col. James C. Biddle, who was. a mem­ ber of Gen. Meade's staff and served with distinction in the civil ^ar, died at his home in Philadelphia, aged G3. The Boston mine, in the northern part of Humboldt County, Cal., comprising 3,000 acres of placer mining ground, has been •old to Charles Foote of Chicago for $140- 000. Jennie Holderman, a quarter-blood Cherokee at Pryor Creek, I. T., killed her­ self because her Indian lover, John Wat- ka, met death while resisting arrest. She took morphine. Emanuel S. Kuh, who has been in the horn, hoof and bone business in New Yo?k for eighteen years, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The nominal liabilities are $68,484; no assets. H. R. McLean, who with his wife has been stopping at the Holland House in New York, was the victim of a diamond robbery the other night. The value of his loss is placed at $3,000. Gen. Wood found that a transport about to leave Santiago with sick soldiers lacked proper delicacies and medical supplies. Hereafter he will personally inspect every transport before it sails. The business portion of Divide, Colo., has been wiped out by fire. George W. Sadler's merchandise store, Harkin's drug store, several saloons, a boarding house and other business places were burned. At Columbus, Ohio, Ben Wheeler, while handcuffed, jumped from the window of a Panhandle train running at the rate of sixty miles an hour and made his escape. Miss Edith Tod, daughter of tbe late John Tod and granddaughter of the late • David^Toti, war -Governor' of Ohio, was ' married in Cleveland to James R. Sheffield -• of New York. Ifrs. Anne Maria Lee, mother of Maj „ Gen. Fitzbdgh Lee. died at the home or her son, Capt. Dan l>*e, in Stafford Coun­ ty, Va. She was nearing her eighty-eighth birthday and had been totally blind tor years. Hey death resulted from a fall. Henry E. Waterman, captain of the United tSates engineer corps, died at St Louis from spinal meningitis. President McKinley has issued his an­ nual proclamation and set aside Thursday, Nov. 24, as Thanksgiving day. The Second National Bank of Spring­ field, Ohio, has decided to go into liquida­ tion. Capital stock, $200,000. First Lieut. Frederick W. Wientge, Troop I, Roosevelt's rough riders, died of typhoid fever in Santa Fe, N. M. The output of ore in the Cripple Creek district in October is valued at $1,488,130, the highest in the history of the camp. An order has been made in Cincinnati by the insolvency court restoring the Gib­ son House to the Gibson House Company. The Massillon, Ohio, Stoneware Com­ pany has restored the 12% per cent cut in wages made last winter and will increase its force. James Robinson, formerly champion bareback rider of the world, who has been dangerously ill at Lake Delavan, Mo., is recovering. Adam Hammer, a machinist at Beaver Dam. Wis., became violently insane and shot nine men (none of Them fatally) be­ fore he was arrested. William Elliott, formerly of Chicago, killed Miss Fannie Lashell, who had re­ fund to marry him, in Lenora, Kan., and then committed snicide. At Portland, Ore., George A. Steele and George A. Steele's corifpany have petition­ ed the United States Court to be declared bankrupt. Assets, $150,000; liabilities, $411,000. L. H. Fielding & Co. of Kansas City, dealers in books, stationery, notions and fine art goods, have assigned, with liabili­ ties of $90,000 and assets estimated at $120,000. At Bellaire. Ohio, an explosion occurred in the main boiler room at the Bellaire Steel Company's plant which completely demolished the entire building and fatally injured six men. Asa Van Wormer, a wealthy retired merchant of Cincinnati, aged 80 years, haa made a gift to the University of Cincin­ nati of $56,000, to be used foT the erection of a firepjroof library building. The Cuyahoga Falls barns of the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio) Rapid Transit Company were destroyed by fire, and with them sixteen cars. The loss will be $20,- 000, fully insured. Incendiary. Two bodies were taken from the ruins of the Union Elevator fire at Toledo, Ohio, ^ne is thought to be that of Bert Wain- wright. A total of eighteen dead is the result of the fire, which occurred Sept. 20. Artie Smoke, aged 18, of Kirkersville, Ohio, out on a lark, went into the cornfield of Thomas Randall to procure some corn. He was mistaken for a thief by Randall, who shot him in the head, killing him in­ stantly. Judge Ricks of the United States Court in Toledo." t>hio, has taken the Columbus, Lima and Milwaukee road out of the hands'of the receiver and turned it over to the stockholders, all claims having been adjusted. John F. Coyle, a member of the Nine­ teenth United States infantry, was shqt to death at St. Louis, Mo., by John Doer, a member of Company A, Twenty-first United States infantry. The tragedy oc­ curred in a saloon on Greer avenue. An explosion near the rear entrance to the eastern barracks at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, resulted disastrously to four sol­ diers, who are now lying burned and bruised in the regimental hospital. They are all members of the Nineteenth infan­ try. SOUTHERN. made by the Acme Wrecking Company of San Francisco, which proposes, if the Government will give it a clear title to the vessel, to undertake the job wholly with­ out expense or responsibility on the Gov­ ernment's part. If the company succeeds the vessel is to belong to it absolutely. Rear Admiral Dewey's request for more light draught war vessels is to be prompt­ ly complied with. Following close upon the Buffalo, the gunboat Helena will soon start for Manila by way of the Sues canal. The Yorktown will be ordered from the Pacific coast to the Philippines, and an auxiliary.cmiser will probably be sent. The cruiser Brooklyn will sail for Manila with recruits and supplies for Dewey. . •. " FOREIGN. • A cyclone at Camberwell, London, an- roofed houses and wrecked cabs, windows, trees and lamp posts. The English Government has awarded a contract for the construction of new ad­ miralty docks and harbor works at Gib­ raltar, to cost £2,500,000. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt made a success­ ful appearance in Paris at the Theater de la Renaissance in Catullo Mendes' version of "The Medea" of Euripides. President Zelaya of Nicaragua, in his message to the congress at Managua, in> dorsed the new canal project of the syndi-. cate represented by Engineer Cragin of Chicago. Three Central American States--Salva­ dor, Nicaragua and Honduras--have en­ tered into a coalition and began life the other day as the United States of Central America. Delegates from Porto ftico cities met at San Juan and adopted resolutions demand­ ing territorial rights, the cessation of the present military, rule and the installation of regular civil government. The American commission at Havana has presented a note rothe Spaniards say­ ing evacuation must end Jan. 1. The Americans assert this will be the last note they will pass on this subject. M. Dupuy has been entirely successful in the task entrusted to him by President Faure of forming a new cabinet. The only man who declined to accept the port­ folio tendered him was M. Ribot. A great fire in Serinagur, one of the capitals of Cashmere, in the vale of Cash­ mere, destroyed all the public buildings and many residences. One man was kill­ ed. The damage is estimated at 10 lakhs ($500,000). The report of the late Col. Waring on his investigations in Havana and his sug­ gestions as to sanitary improvements in that icty, for President McKinley, were practically completed before his death. The quarantine was lifted from the house in which Col. Waring died. The German minister to China has pro­ posed to the representatives of the pow­ ers at Peking a joint occupation of the railway from Shan-Hai-Kwan to Peking, thus securing communication with the coast, unless the Chinese Government promptly withdraws its troops to a safe distance from the line. * IN GENERAL. Frank B. Leefe, convicted with J. N. Wolfson of having robbe(Lthe Union Na­ tional Bank in New Orleans, died in the parish prison. William Shockley, an insane man, cut the throat of J. D. Bishop, a fellow pas­ senger on an Atlanta street car. Bishop died instantly. Nearly the entire business portion of Tuskogee, Ala., including thirteen busi­ ness houses, the telephone exchange and opera house, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; insurance, only $1,G00. Fire at Shreveport, La., burned out Crawford, Jenkins & Booth, wholesale grocers, and Morris, Dickson & Co., wholesale druggists. Adjacent establish­ ments were damaged by water. Total loss estimated at $125,000; partly insured. A female burglar is at work in Louis­ ville. Ky. According to the police she carries skeleton keys, burglars' tools and all tbe appliances of the well-equipped hotise breaker. She was surprised by Mrs. Solomons in the act of rifling her house. There was a short struggle, but the wom­ an succeeded in getting away with some booty. The Rev. Augustus Brown of Nottoway County, Va., is charged with marrying twice more than the law allows. Amanda Ginnings of Newport News became the first Mrs. Brown in January, 1895. Octo­ ber of the same year, it Is said, found the reverend gentleman again a benedict, Ag­ nes Lynch being the blushing bride. It is further charged that wife No. 3 was ac­ quired by the minister last year, while both his other wives were living. Hts ar­ rest was effected by a member of the Petersburg police force. The net cost to the United States of the war with Spain is about $160,000,000. Mexican officers report three deaths from yellow fever in Monterey, with four new cases. Private information indicates a greater mortality and an increase in sickness. The employes of the London, Ont., Street Railway Company are on strike, and a mob of sympathizers wrecked sev­ eral cars and bombarded the company's office with stones, driving off the clerical force. During the past season fourteen vessels of the Gloucester, Mass., fishing fleet were lost, eighty-two men drowned, twenty- three women made widows and fifty-five children left fatherless; property loss, $170,000. A combination which has for its purpose the control of the production of white, black and salt-glazed stoneware in the United States and the fixing and maintain­ ing of prices has been formed. There are twenty-six Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylva­ nia concerns in the trust. The special naval train was derailed east of Rat Portage, Man., by a broken rail. The tender, two baggage cars and three colonists' cars went over an em­ bankment ten feet high. Frank Fleck- ney and William Miller, from the training ship Agincourt of Chatham, England, were killed. Samuel Harrison, stoker, of Edinburgh and Thomas Burns, seaman, were injured. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "Business has been more af­ fected by foreign affairs than many real­ ize. London's apprehension of war first caused advance iu wheat and fears of monetary pressure here. Then came con­ fidence in London, with a flight of French money across the channel, and stock mar­ kets advanced, while wheat fell. Mobs in Paris did not mean to influence American interests from New York to San Fran­ cisco, but electric wires have made the tforld small. So the wires moved a cargo of wheat from the Pacific coast, started $2,500,000 more gold from Australia to this country on London account, and the selling of American securities one day and buying the next. There has been no do­ mestic change of much importance. Fail­ ures for the week have been 226 in the United States, against 219 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 25 last year." TO BULK ALL EGYPT GREAT BRITAIN WILL DECLARE A PROTECTORATE. !N THE HOLY LAND. MARKET REPORTS. EASTERN. (U.l^usatuck, Conn., men with millions at command are about to organize a com­ pany to fight the rubber trust. Rev. Samuel Mutcbmore. aged 68, one of the most prominent ministers in the Pres­ byterian Church, died at Philadelphia. An apparent shortage of $6,600 has been found in the accounts of Postmaster Frank E. Foss of HuH, N. H., and he has been arrested, charged with, embezzling $6,290. Nathaniel Childs, press agent of the .Way Down East company, committed sni- ; dde at Philadelphia bile despbndent over Trm MmiiIsi of th* Activity i» the Britialt Foreign Office -- Prance Agrees to Retire from Fashoda, but Other Powers May Act. Advices from London say that Great Britain's secret is out at last in the opin­ ion of well informed men of affairs who have been keeping close track of the re­ cent extraordinary preparations for war.: Of far more importance than the possi­ bility of ^Tittle brush with France, which^' would be a repetition of the Spanish- American war, is the declaration that England is about to take the bull by the horns and proclaim a protectorate over all of Egypt. This is the theory that is now generally accepted as l>eing the true solu­ tion of the problem, and it is the only one on which the remarkable activity of the war office and the admiralty can be satis­ factorily accounted for. All probability of trouble with France vanished with the receipt'of positive state­ ments from Paris that Major Marchand w-ill be unconditionally withdrawn from Fashoda, but the war preparations have been continued since then with more en­ ergy than before. The proclamation of Egypt as n pftrt of the British empire would set all Europe by the ears and would undoubtedly result in war were it not known that England was prepared and- looking for trouble. There is reason to believe that the Ger­ man Empehir abandoned his trip to Egypt so as to be out of the country when the proclamation was issued. He is thought to be fully aware of England's plans. The British naval and military prepara­ tions are being pushed to an extent with­ out precedent since the 'Crimean war. England was about to declare a protecto­ rate in 1884, urged to do so by Prince Bis­ marck, and it was only at the last min­ ute, when all the preparations had been made, that the scheme was abandoned for a more favorable opportunity. That opportunity seems now at hand. England's occupation of Egypt is based on might and has frequently been de­ nounced by the khedivc himself, by his* suzerain, the Sultan of Turkey, and by France as illegal, while the other powers have quietly tolerated the act. WASHINGTON. Gen. Joseph Rodman West is dead at his home in Washington, aged 76 years. A cablegram received at the Navy De­ partment in Washington announced the arrival at Bahia, Brazil, of the battleships Oregon and Iowa, The President has appointed John W. Lutz of Ohio consul of the United States iu Aric-a, Chili, and Edward E. Garrett receiver of public moneys in Boise, Idaho. Commissioner of Pensions II. Clay Evans says that up to Sept. 30 the war with Spain had caused the loss of the !ives of 2,906 American soldiers and sail­ ors, and that the pension list would likely be iucreasied that number of names. The Navy Department is considering a bona fide offer to raise tbe Maine. It is Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, N>. 2, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2, 52c to 53c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping-, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, N-o. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.60 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 70c; cotn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 27c; rye. No. 2, 51c to 53c! Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, '67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, -26c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; .hogs, $3.25 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 72c; corn, No. yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 52c to 54c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 53c to 54c; clover seed, old, $4.60 to $4.70. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 34c; oats, No, 2 white, 25c to 28c; rye, No. 1, 52c- to 53c barley, No. 2, 46c to 49c; pork, mess, $7.50 to $8.00. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice $3.50 to $4.00; 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, $8.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00] wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; butter, creamery, 15c to 24c; eggs. West' ern, 20c to 22c. END OF THE EXPOSITION. Seventy-five Thousand Visited Oma­ ha's Show the Last Day. The Tranamississippi International ex­ position has closed. The closing hours of the enterprise were the most brilliant in the history of the five months' exhibi­ tion. Seventy-five thousand people crowd­ ed the grounds during the closing day. Up to the last morning 2,552,388 people had registered at the turnstiles, so the grand total will considerably exceed 2,600,000. The exposition was a financial success, something over $400,000,remaining to be divided among the stockholders. A frac­ tion less than $2,000,000 has been received and $1,500,000 expended. The exposition owed $200,000 when the gates were open­ ed; $390,000 was subscribed for the ex­ position and all but $90,000 of that amount paid in. In addition corporations donated $150,000. It is estimated that the sub­ scribers should receive back 80 per cent of the subscriptions. STATEMENT OF PUBLIC DEBT. Net Cash Balance in the Treaanry la Placed at $300,233,275. The debt statement issued by the Treas­ ury Department shows that in the month of October the debt of the United States increased $43,487,717. The intefest-bear- ing debt increased $36,678,360, and the cash in the treasury decreased $7,319,228. The debt on Oct. 31 stood: Interest- bearing debt, $1,026,766*960; bearing no interest, $383,191,367. The cash in the treasury is msd€ up of the following items: Gold, $275,224,071; silver, $505,929,775; paper, $55,529,238; other cash, $96,566,313; total, $933,249,- 397. Against this there are outstanding" gold certificates, $36,940,149; silver certificates, $398,753,504; certificates of deposit, $20,- 105,000; Sherman notes, $97,833,280; oth­ er liabilities, $79,379,189, leaving a cash balance, including gold reserve, of $300,- 238,275. MONEY HANDLED BY UNCLE SAM Official Figures on October Receipts and .Disbursements. The monthly statement of the Govern­ ment receipts and expenditures shows the receipts for the month of October amount­ ed to $39,630,051, and the disbursements $53,982,276. The receipts from customs amounted to $15,555,234, against $9,713,- 494 for October, 1897. Intefnal revenue, $22,356,511, against $13,614,872 for Octo­ ber last year. Miscellaneous, $1,718,305, against $1,063,047 one year ago. The increase in receipts for the month as compared with October, 1897, amount­ ed to about $15,250,000. During the four months of the present fiscal year the re­ ceipts exceeded those for the correspond­ ing period in 1897 by over $60,000,000. RESENTED A PRACTICAL JOKE. Wisconsin Man Goes Gnnninic for Human Game, Adam Hammer of Beaver Dam, Wis., became insane, and securing a gun, wounded nine men and was finally shot to prevent his doing further injury. Ham­ mer was the victim of a practical joke. He procured a shotgun, and, in a frenzy, shot at every one iu sight, threatening death to his brother, who endeavored to pacify him. Lieut. Arthur T. A. Tibbetts of Com­ pany K, Second regiment, was selected by the marshal to shoot the madman in such a manner as to bring him down without killing him. The soldier's aim was Jtrue, the madman being shot through the shoul­ der. None of the wounded will die. NEW CABINET FOR FRANCE. Names of M. Dnpny Announces the His Colleagues. Following are the members of the new French ministry, organized by M. Dupuy at the request of President Faure: M. Dupuy, Premier and Minister of the Inter.or. M. Lfliitt, Minister of .Justk-»;. M. Do Fn-yoinct, Minister of War. M. Lockroy, Minister of Marine. >1. Delcasse, Minister of Foreign Affair*. "M. Peytral, Minister of Finance. M. Leygus, Minister of Public Instruction, M. Deioncie, Minister of Commerce. ^ M. Guillainc, Minister of the Colonies. M. Vigter, Minister of Agriculture. M. Krantz, Minister of Public Works. M. Itibot was the only man who declin­ ed a portfolio. WIDOW'S DREAM WAS TRUE. Historic Spot Which Emperor Will* iam Is Visiting. The visit to Jerusalem of Kaiser Wil- helm II. excites intense interest, not only because it is one of the most spectacular journeys of recent years, but off account of its possibilities of changing the political future of Palestine. The German Em­ peror has a desire to be known in history as William the Colonizer; it is believed that some deal between himself and the Sultan, for the acquisition of Syria and Palestine, is already in progress, and his visit may, therefore, be an epoch in the CHURCH OF ST. MARY'S. history of the ancient city, which has seen during its 4,000 years changes innumera­ ble in politics and government. The Em­ peror entered Jerusalem Monday and for several weeks will devote his time to vis­ iting spots of historic interest. On Sun­ day the Emperor assisted in the dedication of the Church of St. Mary's, which is built on an historic site. Since he has been visiting the holy places, the site of Solo­ mon's temple, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the tomb of David, the tomb of Rachel and the Garden of Gethsemane are among the thousand and one historic places upon which the Emperor's feet will tread! THE SITUATION AT VIRDEN. 8oldiers Are Returning Home and Conditions Becoming Normal. There have been no important develop­ ments lately in the coal mining situation at Yirden, 111,, and affairs are monotonous­ ly dragging along. The company's works are at a standstill, and it is thought that no further attempts will be made to im­ port negro miners. The most exciting incident of the situa­ tion since the fight of Oct. 12 was the de­ parture to Chicago of Manger Fred W. Lukins. He was conducted to the train outside the stockade by a large body of soldiers and hastily put aboard. It was feared that an attack would be made upon him, but none was attempted, and, accord­ ing to a dispatch, the community breathed a sigh of relief when the train bearing him to the general offices of the company-in Chicago pulled out of the town. Earlier in the day Lukins had given a bond of $1,000 for his future appearance on the charge of conspiracy to murder. The same charges have been made against T. C. Loucks of Chicago, president of the com­ pany, and other officers. Meantime the situation has toned down to almost normal conditions, and many of the soldiers have been sent home. The services of all of them will perhaps be dis­ pensed with soon. The future develop­ ments in the troubles between the miners and the coal company will likely be in the courts of Macoupin County. APPLES WILL BE A LUXURY. Crop in the United Btates the Small­ est on Record. The Orange Judd Farmer says: "The apple CTop of the United States is smaller than it has been since reliable statistics have been collected. The total supply from the 1898 crop of the United States is 27,700,000 barrels, compared with some­ thing over 40,000,000 last year and 70,- 000,000 in the record breaking crop of 1896. The failure is widespread, reaching from the Pacific coast to Maine, and in none of the States does the output of fruit approach an average. In the great apple States ^ the West the crop is almost an absolute failure, although the situation in Michigan is better than elsewhere, tbat State having about two-thirds of the bumper crop of- '96. New York has only one-fifth of a full crop." in Robbery of a Grave Discovered Peculiar Manner. At Kansas City, Mo., a peculiar coinci­ dence that led to the discovery of the work of ghouls terminated in the opening of a graVe from which the body had been re­ moved. About a week ago Michael Kelly died and was buried in the Mount St. Mary's Cemetery. Since then his widow has twice dreained that his grave had been robbed. In company with her son, she went to# the cemetery and had the grave opened, and it was cUscovered that the body had been removed. It is supposed that It fhipped to some medical college. aih The army is short of staff officers, and no more will be mustered out at present. Spain's expenses during the late war are said to have amounted to $800,000,- 000. The cost of guns alone for United States coast defense during the war was $4,821,- 000. Quiet rules in Porto Rico, and residents accept American government without pro­ test. The gunboat Yorktown will go into com­ mission at San Francisco and will be sent to Manila. Two men were killed and another seri­ ously. wounded in a fight at Carter's Creek, Tenn. Gen. Blanco is.concentrating the Span­ ish troops in Cuba, preparatory to em­ barkation for Spain. The War Department has issued a coto- Eilation of notes on the Philippines, both istorical and geographical. Secretary Long will ask Congress to increase the number of sailors allowed for the navy from 12,500 to 20,000. All the coast lights of Porto Rico, ex­ cept the one at San Juan, destroyed by the bombardment have been relighted. Uncle Sam is establishing coaling facil­ ities for tbe navy along the Atlantic coast from Eastport, Me., to Port Royal, S. C. The United States representative on the Island of Guam, in the Pacific, adminis­ ters all of the offices from Governor down. President McKinley has ordered that Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, be made as large a military post as any in the coun­ try. Radical autonomist deputies at Havana have signed a document declaring theil allegiance to the new "political status" in Cuba. Germany is so short of apples tha\ American dried apples and preserved fruits are likely to find a larger market there. , Unless Spain requests that Minister Woodford be returned to Madrid a new man will be appointed after the conclusion of peace. Gen. Gomez has appealed to the United States to help the Cubans in Santa Clara province, where dozens are reported to be dying daily of starvation. The Navy Department has decided to send the big ocean-going tug Iroquois, now in San Francisco, to Honolulu, for the use of the naval station to be established ther* TO TAKE PHILIPPINES UNITED STATES DEMAND8 THE ENTIRE 3 This {Country Will Assume All Obli* nations Incurred In the Improve­ ment of Islands and Not a Cent Moras. -Spain Must Pay the *War Debt; The American peace commissioners dur­ ing the session in Paris Monday presented to the Spanish commissioners a written expression of the purpose of the United States to take the entire group of Philip­ pine Islands, and to assume such propor­ tion of the Philippine debt as has been spent for the benefit of the islands or their inhabitants, in public works, improve­ ments and permanent betterments. It was also set forth that the United States would not assume{any part of the Philip­ pine debt which had been incurred by Spain for the furtherance of military or naval operations to quell insurrection of the natives. The sessiou was adjourned until Friday, in order to give the Span­ iards time to prepare a reply. The news that the American peace com­ missioners had presented the United States Government's demaud for the en­ tire Philippine group caused no surprise in Washington, according to dispatches. It was well known there that such would be the outcome and that the $40,000,000 debt would not be guaranteed. Such por­ tion only of the debt as was incurred for the benefit of the islands will be carried by this country. This has been long set­ tled, though as a feeler a story that the entire $40,000,000 would be assumed was sent out. As anticipated,- it brought forth violent protests from all parts of the coun­ try. Spain must now^show how much of the $40,000,000 she spent in improving the islands. It is said that the President's recent trip to Chicago and Omaha convinced him that the country is in favor of retaining all of the territory taken during the war. Up to that time, it is said, he personally fav­ ored expansion, but was in doubt as to what stand to take. BRITAIN IS WARLIKE. Naval Preparations Are Being Pushed with Great Activity. England is preparing to strike France at all of her vulnerable spots simultanc~ ously in the event of war being declared, and from the great activity displayed at all of the arsenals and dry docks it i^ evi­ dent that a peaceful way oat of the 'ashoda water is not yet clear to the Gov­ ernment. Under orders from the British war of­ fice the cruiser Amphion left the North Pacific naval station at Esquimault, B. C., for the Society Islands," France's posses­ sion in thp South Sep. A British warship also left Vancouver for Tahiti, another French colony, and it is expected that sim­ ilar orders will be issued to other vessels. At Devonport, the site of the largest arsenal in England, the Government is hurriedly assembling a powerful emergen­ cy squadron which it is understood will be sent to Gibraltar to await developments. Warships are constantly arriving, and 200,00p tons of coal has been ordered for their supply. The North Pacific fleet has been assembled at Esquimault, and the vessels are all being put on a full war footing. REVISION IS ORDERED. Court of Cassation Reaches Decision , in Dreyfus Case. The court of cassation at Paris has granted the application for revision of the Dreyfus court martial, but refused to or­ der the release of the prisoner pending the result of the revision. Dreyfus will be taken to Paris from Devil's Island, oft the coast of French Guiana, Where he is now in prison. Emotion among the spec­ tators in the court followed the reading of a pathetic letter from Dreyfus. A significant point was the revelation of the fact that Gen. de Boisdeffre gave or­ ders, after the Dreyfus case was supposed closed, for the dossier, containing the bor­ dereau, to be1 burned, and expressed sur­ prise afterward to find that his orders had not been executed. Judge Day and Senator Gray of the United States peace commission visited the court upon an official order. Upon their entrance the fifteen judges consti­ tuting the court bowed a dignified greet­ ing, without verbal welcome. GROWTH OF POSTAL SERVICE. Length of Domestic Mail Routes la Now 480,401 Miles. The annual report of Second"Assistant Postmaster General Shellenger contains a summary of domestic mail service, show­ ing that on June 30 there were in opera­ tion 33,795 mail routes of all kinds, an increase for the year 1,304. Their length was 480,461 miles, an increase of 10,429 miles, and $he number of miles traveled was 434,332,691, au increase of 13,482,- 212. The rate of cost per mile traveled was 11.83 cents, a decrease for the year of .01. He requests a modification of the civil service promotion rules, by the appoint­ ment of promotion boards In each of the eleven districts in place of a central board at Washington. Other recommendations are for legislation to punish persons who attempt to enter a postal car by force tc assault postal clerks on duty, and for the establishment of postal stations in railroad stations. LIVES LOST IN THE WAR. Commissioner of Pensions Fays Exact Number Was 2»9G6, Two thousand nine hundred and six lives were lost in the late war with Spain, ac­ cording to Pension Commissioner H. Clay Evans. Of this number 2,600 died in camps. The statistics of his office, he also says, show that the percentage of death in camps from disease was much less than during the civil war. He says that dur­ ing the rebellion 40,000 men were killed in battle and 360,000 perished in camps and prisons. From May 1 to Sgpt. 30, 1898, the total deaths were 2,906, of which 107 were offi­ cers. At Santiago the loss of life was 222 privates and twenty-two officers. At Car­ denas one officer wTas killed, and since the first battle on Cuban soil sixty-one men have died of wounds received while in ser­ vice. The loss of life resulting from the destruction of the battleship Maine will be placed on the same basis as mortality in battle. CHILDREN GIVE LIBERALLY. Subscribe More than Asked For to the Monument Fnnd. Contributions by the school children to the fund for erecftng a monument to Gen. Lafayette in Paris have exceeded all ex­ pectations. The amount desired was $250,000, and it was estimated that one cent from every child would be sufficient to complete the fund. Sevejral schools in Iowa have sent in more than one cent for every resident in the town in which they are located. So far contributions average $5 a school. At a church festival at Brenham, Texas, there was a row in which John and Archie Gole fought Dan Jenkins with jocket knives. John. Cole was killed and his brother badly cut. Jenkins received one bad wound. He Is i& jail. France and Her TrouUBfes. It wouldn't be surprising to see France- close the nineteenth century as a mon­ archy. The French people love the show and glitter of a <<ourt.--Boston Traveler. France should not make the mistake of* going to war with a foreign foe in order to prevent trouble at home. Spain tried that and, in addition to getting licked, re­ tained .her domestic woe.--Washington. Post. This is the first time since the republic was founded that the congress of France- has subordinated the civil to the military power. Unless Frenchmen are unlike oth­ er nationalities they are dangerously near a revolution.--Kansas City Times. The Brisson ministry, opposing revision, found in July a solid chamber behind tt. The Brisson ministry in October advocat­ ing revision, finds itself beaten by 296- against 243. Evidently truth' is mighty and will prevail.--New York Times. If there were in France now a strong, bold, ambitious man he would have a great opportunity. Such a man could lift the Government off its hinges. But there is no such man, France has no Dan-ton, no Napoleon I,, not even a Napoleon III.-- Atlanta Journal. 'v The present crisis'Was brought about by rascality and corruption endeavoring to conceal rascality and corruption. The Dreyfus case is at the bottom of it,, and the Dreyfus case may pull down the re*- public before it is well over with.--Mem­ phis Commercial-Appeal. Paris is kept in order only by the display of a large military force and there is no certainty fhat the military and the mob- might > not at any moment fraternize,ror that part of the military might not side with one mob or another part with a rival mob.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. The French republic is that oniy .In name. It has already fallen. It now oiltjr remains to determine what sort of Govern­ ment will follow the despotism which the- army is in a fair way to establish by the will of the people, and which itself can­ not endure.--Washington Times. Once France at the sound of foreign alarm rushed to repel the assault of the oppressor on her borders, no matter were his forces fivefold her own. Now when the same note is struck it incites her only to the fiercer persecution of the oppressed within her boundaries.--New York Press. Under whatever nominal form the ac­ tual administration in France is essential­ ly military. While this is in one sense a security, it is always a cause of weakness in the civil government, and just now the drift appears to be toward some sort of avowed militarism.--Philadelphia Times. As long as militarism prevails in Franc* it can he a republic but i-u name. The pro­ motion of the rights of the people, the es­ tablishment of personal freedom and all the elements which enter into republican government are at war with the idea of military supremacy.--Atlanta Constitu­ tion. The internal weakness of France at the moment of England's aggressive stand on the Fashoda question, causing the for­ mer's pitiable repudiation^ of Marchand's mission, was largely due t4;the demoraliz­ ing effects of the Dreyfus scandal in its influence upon- the national spirit.--St. Louis Republic. Spain Takes the Debt. His death is a reminder of how hercu­ lean and dangerous is the task of cleaning Havana, that will be the first duty to fol­ low our occupation of the city.--Boston Traveler. That Spain has consented to assume that debt means to the holders of Spain's securities--not alone of the Cubam bonds, but of practically every description not specially guaranteed--serious -loss.---St. Paul Pioneer Press. , A nation floundering in practical bank­ ruptcy has no ally. It is getting ready to be dismembered- and sold out by its creditors or to seek a power that will as­ sume its debts at the cost of absorbing if entire.--Boston Globe. - The game was well worth playing, and it is no wonder, therefore, that the Span­ ish commissioners went to the verge of breaking off negotiations in their efforts to win. But American firmness and in­ sistence upon the terms of the protocol have triumphed and Spain yields at last to the inevitable. She cannot shift the pen­ alty of her wrong doings in Cuba upon her conquerors.--Detroit Free Press. But it should be made clear to Spain that the purpose of the United States m this war was to free Cuba from oppres­ sion. One of the grossest and most noto­ rious forms of oppression was the effort fo saddle Cuba not only with the debt cre­ ated for her subjugation, but with scores of millions of Spanish stealings in addi­ tion. To permit any of that burden to be perpetuated would be a gratuitous nullifi­ cation of our object in this war.--Pitts­ burg Dispatch. Col. George B. Waring,- In his youth Col. Waring fought for the honor of his country. In his advanced age he cheerfully accepted a mission t;p pro­ mote her safety.--New York Journal. If, in the irony of fate, one of the great­ est sanitary experts in the United States dies in the pursuit of his duty, we can , honor his memory in tfo better way than by seeing that his sacrifice is not in vain. --Philadelphia Press. In the death of Col. Waring there is something of the heroic. His life was sac­ rificed so directly in the interests of sci­ ence and his duty, as he saw it, that his death certainly rises far above the com­ monplace.--Cincinnati Commercial Trib­ une. Col. Waring was a brave soldier, and an expert of whose quality his fellow«-Ameri- cans are justly proud, but he was at the same time that still better thing, an offi­ cial whose public service wtfs faultlessly rendered and on whose record as the na­ tion's servant there rests not a single stain.--St. Paul Pioneer Press. His efforts to save their lives has cost him his own, and the only reward is that in the last "roll-call" the answer to his name must be. "Dead on the field of honor and dnty--dead that others might live." As he died so he lived. Kis life has been one long public service, often at great cost to himself.--New York World. COAL IN THE\PHILIPPINES.' Admiral Dewey $ays It Is to Be Found in Large Quantities. Admiral Dewey has submitted to the Navy Department by mail a detailed re* port in regard to some of the extensive mineral resources of the Philippiue Isl­ ands. The report gives special attention to coal. The admiral says that coal in large quantities and good quality is to be found on Luzon and adjacent islands. He repre­ sents that khe ooaluiiqes, are not far re­ moved from the sea coast in some places^ and that by a minimum investment of cap­ ital the product of the mines can be brought to the oceajU. Naval coaling stations in the Philippines can be kept supplied in the future with fuel without incurring the necessity of bringing it long distances in colliers.