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McHenry Plaindealer. J. VAN SLYKE, EMttr aid Pub. MCHENRY. ILLINOIS. SUMMARY OF HEWS. A rear-end collision occurred on the ^^Pennsylvania Railroad, three miles' from t. « Jllabway, N. J., resulting in the loss of two , lives and scriongthough not fatal injuries , f|| -\h%o four persons. Thick fog is blamed .for if*"' the accident* Commissioner Herrmann of the general j: land office announced the logging of dead fef ! jpnd down timber wilt resumed on the V- Chippewa Indian reservation in Minne- jaf ; Hot a this winter, but will not be continued f\ . |,fter this year. i : -a, Adjt. Gen. Corbin has issued the pre- ^'p.^iminaijr orders ptWiding for the muster •'x 'Out at 50,(IW voludteers in the next tnonth. This action marks the final pass- $ng of the volunteer army organized for V \ <|lie war with Spain. > The provincial court at Berlin has ac- jhuitted Fran& Ivnaak of New York of the ^ Jtharge pf lese majesty in referring to Em- , fjeror William as a sheep's head,, because, .'jhs it appear^, ̂ Jr. Kuaak was drunk when , i s |»e CQmmitteii the offense. f-":\ ' 1 William Si aims, a soldier, who murder- ' i>d Robert Norton, a citizen of Town • ;Creek, six miles from Decatur, Ala., while «"• *t a country dance, was dragged from the i,tx)UEty jftil by a mob of &D0 men and lynched,' His body was riddled with bul­ lets. A special reports a fight near Flat Top, ?A Ky., between revenue officers and moon- shiners in which Sam May of Coburn. Va., one of the reveuue raiders, and two of his companions were killed. The fatali­ ties among the moonshiners are not known. The jury in the case of W. S. Jewett, formerly president of the Lake National . Sank of Wolfboro. N. H.. charged with .feir flhe embezzlement of $25,000, said to have Committed while settling the affairs of the tank, brought in a, verdict of guilty at -fJoston. £Th£ Brake & Stratton Company of Pittsburg has received a contract from the United States Government for, the Construction of a great dock at Havana, .Cuba, and a short railroad to Morro Cas­ tle, costing altogether about $500,000. The Company has dispatched 500 laborers to '<®he island. Miss Margaret Dodge. 30 years old. a <rell-known literary worker, was found dead in a gallery pew by the janitor of V • J(he church of St. John the Evangelist in 7/>lJoston, Mass. She had hidden in the j .church after the evening service and end- ••d'lier life with cyannide of potassium, a Yial by her side revealing this fact. David Shea, an ex-convict, deliberately Vommitted suicide in a rooming house in "it. Louis by shooting himself in the head. n a pathetic letter left by Shea he says be was driven to death by a private detec- ; . ..five agency as a result of being hounded y l>y the agency. Shea declares he was un­ able to obtain work to sustain himself honestly and he decided to die. ji •^fter * two days' meeting at Toledo. j.'. "the American Sheep Breeders' Association V' adjourned. Following are the newly elect- 4-4 ted officers: President, John E. Webb. In­ dianapolis; vice-president, S. R. Halliday. Ionia, Mich.; secretary-treasurer, E. V. Burnham, Woodstock, Ohio; directors, Dwight Lincoln, Illinois;,W. S. Hanson. Utah, and Mr. Benner, Belle Center, Ohio. Gov. Johnson has offered substantia] re­ wards for the arrest of some Mississippi soldiers who committed a cowardly deed in Alabama. The First Mississippi volun­ teers had been mustered out of the ser­ vice at Columbia, Tenn., and were passing ^through Alabama en route home. As the f %rain roiled through Eutaw a number of ^he men fired through the coach windows Into a party of women and children who --',*-%ad' assembled to honor their return. One '.' Toman w#s killed and a little girl's eye '« •' Ivas shot out. The train kept on its way * , $o Meridian, Miss., not many miles away. *4 ft is difficult to locate the offenders and a fffeole company may be arrested. •A BREVITIES. while it was aMetrncked in the railroad yards at Jersey City. Windows were broken, plash seats torn out and costly decorations mutilated. - Lem B. Schloss, 28 years old, a theat­ rical manager and the hnsband of Lottie Gilson, the actress, shot himself in his jroom in the Hotel Vendome, New York. He fired four shots from a revolver, but only one of them hit him. inflicting a slight scalp wound. Schloss declared the shooting was accidental. Preliminary plans have been laid at Philadelphia for the formation of a pow­ erful combine to control the street light­ ing business, now in the hands of private companies, all over that part of the Uuit- ed States east of the Mississippi river. George W. Elgins is to be president of the company, which wll hare a capital of $12,000,000. Baldwinsville, N. Y., was visited by a disastrous fire. The fire started in the plant of the Kenyon Paper Company and spread rapidly to a building occupied by the New Process Rawhide Company, the stone mill of Hotaling & Co. and the building of Clark. Mercer & Co. The loss, estimated at $116,000, is nearly cov­ ered by insurance. bfvde* the British ambassador's real* dence at Washington with brickbats, smashing dodrs and windows. Ferdinand W. Peck of Chicago, com­ missioner general of the Paris expostion, has been confirmed by the Senate. An immense order for coffins has been placed by the War Department with the National Casket Company of Pittsburg. The coffins will be sent to Cuba and Porto Rico for the remains of United States soldiers buried in those countries. The bodies will be brought to the United States and turned over to relatives or friends. FOREIGN. MS'" "7 • g Colombia will grant an extension of six years to the Panama Canal Company. .ft. . Seventeen of Baltimore's brewing eom- ft-- j>anies have consolidated under the name the Maryland Brewing Company. ^ John A. Henry, a proofreader and for- jgl , inerly an associate of the Chicago anarch­ s"- ists, committed suicide at New York. Galileo's original manuscript treatise on the tides has been discovered in the Vat­ ican library. It was completed in 161G. Alexander Nimick, one of the oldest and best-known steel and iron manufac­ turers in Pittsburg, died, aged 78 years. The Merritt & Chapman Company has made a contract with the Government for the raising of the Spanish warship Reina Mercedes. Samuel Gompers was re-elected presi­ dent of the American Federation of Labor by a practically unanimous vote at the eighteenth annual convention of that or­ ganization in Kansas City. A fire ruined the big dry goods ware­ house of S. Greenshields' Son & Co. at Montreal, one of the largest dry goods houses in Canada. Losses on building and stock amount to $500,000. Prof. Irving Fisher, one of Yale's most promising younger professors and an American authority on finance,- has,re­ signed from his professorship for a year because of a pulmonary trouble. John Kerrigan and Walter H. Holbrook were killed in a collision between electric cars in Leicester, Mass., and several oth­ er passengers were dangerously hurt. The collision occurred during a dense fog. .William Steele, former cashier of the WTecked Chestnut Street National Bank, Philadelphia, was sentenced to six years and six months',imprisonment and to pay a fine. He was convicted of conspiracy. Former Queen Liliuokalani has se the United States Senate a pnJtest against the appropriation of the crown lands of Hawaii by the United States. According to a Rome dispatch the Pope has declined to receive Don Carlos, thus ending the pretender's hopes of getting his holiness to rescind bis decision to support the Queen in the expected revolution. The Postmaster General announces the appointment of Maj. E. (1. Itathbone of Ohio, ex-fourth assistant Postmaster Gen­ eral, to take charge of and conduct the postal service in Cuba, with the title of director of posts. WESTERN. At IIHlsboro, Ohio, two girls have died from trichinosis, contracted by eating pork. A receiver has been appointed at Butte for the Boston and Montana Mining Com- pany. 6 A successful test of wireless telegraphy has been made at San Francisco, where Professor Albert Van der Naileu has in­ vented an apparatus by which messages can be sent through solid brick vralls with­ out the use of wires. At a mass meeting of citizens in Omaha the Greater America and Colonial Expo­ sition Company was organized. More funds than the promoters desired before starting the organization was subscribed and paid up. The exposition will open in July. A romantic wedding took place in the county jail at Milan, Mo. John Green, aged 19 years, under penitentiary sen­ tence for burglary and larceny, married his 17-year-okl stepmother, whose 50- year-old husbantj is iu the penitentiary for horse-stealing. Thomas V. Beekwith, the self-confessed embezzler of $15,000 from Niles Brothers, meat dealers, who surrendered to the po­ lice of Chicago, was arraigned in court in Boston. He pleaded guilty and the court sentenced him to the reformatory for an indefinite period. John D. McCrellis, a retired business man, and for thirty years a leading citizen of Carthage, Mo., shot abd mortally wounded W. J. Gilfillan at the latter's home. Gilfillan is charged by McCrellis with ruining his home. McCrellis gave himself up and was released on bond. At Cincinnati Judge Taft issued an order for the sale of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad on the claim of the Metropolitan Financial and Industrial Company. The sale will be for $1,000.- 000, subject to mortgages of $0,000,000, and must be made within three months. Fire destroyed the large department store of G. Hartstein Sons at Milwaukee, entailing a loss of $70,000. of which $50,- 000 was on building and $20,000 on stock. Losses to adjoining property will make the total loss foot up in the neighborhood of $100,000. partly covered by insurance. Witten McDonald, manager of the Old Fruit Farm in Howell County, Mo., and formerly a banker n Kansas City and former owner of the Kansas City Times, has filed a petition of bankruptcy. He alleges that most of his assets are worth­ less. and places his liabilities at $108,158. At Chillicothe, Ohio, two boys, Elmer and George Butler, aged, respectively, 20 and 13, were found guilty of manslaugh­ ter and will serve a term in the peniten­ tiary for the killing of Daisy^ Browser. In the trial it was proved that* the girl had been shot down from ambush for no cause whatever. The car faming became so serious that the entire grain trade of St. Louis was crippled, and exporters found it almost impossible to obtain cars to carry their grain to the seaboard. Every railroad running into the city suffers from the shortage of equipment. At one time thfe ifoads were 1,000 cars behind on orders. The flour trust scheme is dead so far as Minneapolis is concerned, and without Minneapolis it is futile. At a meeting of representatives of the big milling con­ cerns of the city it was unanimously agreed that none of the Minneapolis prop­ erties should go into the scheme. The mills in Milwaukee atod Duluth will be obliged to follow the lead of the Minne­ apolis millers. The Kansas State canvassing board de­ cided a tie between A. E. Scott, Republi- •^n, and L. M. Marks, Populist, candi­ dates for the Legislature from Jefferson County, by ordering the drawing of lots. Mr. Scott won, but did not demand his certificate, going home with the expecta­ tion that it would, follow in the mail. The next morning the mid-Pacific ocean vote cast by the Twentieth Kansas, en route to Manila, was received. Upon examina­ tion one vote was found for Mr. Marks. Accordingly the State canvassing board reversed its decision and issued a certifi­ cate to Mr. *Marks. James Foster of Cleveland, detective for the Panhandle Railroad, caught two men robbing a freight car at Columbus, and was shot twice. He returned the fire, but fell from loss of blood. An hour later Fred Deering. a special policeman, went to August Brokawski's home, suffering from a pistol shot which passed through his stomach. He was taken to a hos­ pital, where he died without making a statement. A revolver with three empty chambers was found on him. Brokawski was afterward arrested, a lot of stolen goods being found in his house. Deering was 45 years old and previously bore a good reputation. The Russian Government has drilg#d ten new destroyers for the Pacific squad­ ron, to be completed within two years. The first train from Merv, Russian Turkestan, 300 miles southeast of Khiva, arrived at Kusk, In the Jamshidi province of Afghanistan, the line thus being com­ pleted to within ninety-five nilles of Herat. Advices by the Empress of India say that Russia has sold 500,000 obsolete Berdan rifles to China at a large price through the Russo-Chinese bank. Man- chu troops throughout the empire are to be armed at once with the rifles. Count Casa Sola, in an interview, has confirmed the reports that savage cruel­ ties have been applied to the Carlists arrested at Bilbao, Spain, in order to ex­ tract information from them regarding the armament and designs of the Carlists. According to a dispatch froiti Shanghai the rebels have seized the town of Chung, Yang, fifty miles southwest of Ichang, province of Hoo Pe, on the north bank of the Yang-tse-Iviang, 200 miles above Chin Kiang Foo. They have massacred a French priest and 100 converts. In the Italian chamber Signor del Bao- no asserted Without ministerial contradic­ tion the existence of an agreement, equiv­ alent to a treaty, between Italy and Great Britain for the maintenance of the statu quo in Africa along the Red Sea and the Mediterranean as well as in the Soudan'l According to a dispatch to the London Morning Post from Hankow, on the Yangtse-Kiang, about 700 miles from the sea. a French expedition has been dis­ patched up the river to Kwei-Chau, and one gunboat is already above Nanking, the "southern capital" of China, about ninety miles from the river's mouth. Captainy General Castellanos has for- bidd<tift#'the letting of any important con­ tracts for public improvements in Ha­ vana while he remains in office. This ac­ tion was taken at the request of the Amer­ ican commission, the object being to pre­ vent the railroading through of big con­ tracts before the time of American occurv pation. The British steamer Pierremont, which arrived at New Castle-on-Tyne and sub­ sequently sailed for the Mediterranean, has been in collision with the British steamer Ilios. The collision took place in the North Sea under conditions not ex­ plained. The Ilios foundered and the Pierremont was badly damaged. It is believed that twenty persons were drowned. / News has come from Major McDonald, who is at the head of an expedition from the south, that shows the last link in the British chain "from the Cape to Cairo" is complete. The Major has estab­ lished stations all the way northward from Uganda to Lake Rudolph. He is now about to descend the River Sobat, which empties into the Nile, and make his way^toward Fashoda. IN GENERAL* THE PEACE TREATY. BRIEF OUTLINE OF ITS SEVEN­ TEEN ARTICLES. IHapoaltion of Cnba, Porto Btco and the Philippine*--Commercial Treaty Will Not Be Effected Until the Peace Agreement la Ratified. Extraordinary precautions were main­ tained by both the peace commissions to preserve secrecy as to the contents of the treaty. Each commission has two copies, but even the commission attaches were not permitted to peruse the documen^. The State Department was advised that the text of the treaty is entirely too long to send by telegraph, so a copy will be mailed or brought to Washington by the American peace commissioners. The de­ partment's advices are that the treaty consists of 600 typewritten pages, prob­ ably the longest document of the kind in the world's history. The correspondent of the Associated Press obtained from a source usually reliable the following out* line of the treaty: Article 1 provides for the relin­ quishment of Cuba. t Article 2 provides tor the Session of Porto Rico. •• • • Article 3 provides for the cession of the Philippines for $20,000,000 aft compensation. . • Article 4 embraces the plans for ' • the cession of the Philippines, in­ cluding the return of Spanish p£l»- .oners in the hands of the Tagalosr General Shafter says the Cubans are not fit for self-government. Salaries of $75 and over are to «e cut 10 per cent Jan. 1 all along the Quincy branch of the Port Arthur route. Train and yard men are not included. General Manager Hays of the Grand Trunk Railway has recognized the Rail­ way Telegraphers' Association by deput­ ing ' General Superintendent McQuiggan to discuss the grievances of the employes of the road with them. i, The Mexican Congress has confirmed one of the largest concessions for many years. The concession was granted to Captain A. B. Smith of Los Angeles, Cal., and his associates, for colonizing, steamship and railway enterprises of the firBt magnitude. The colony lands include many leagues of the Gulf of California, with conditions that a railway be con­ structed at once from the lands to Yuma, Cal., and a steamship service be placed from the head of the gulf to the southern Mexico boundary. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "December is adding a sur­ prising close to the most surprising year of American history. November surpass­ ed all other months of the century in vol­ ume of business and production, and thus far December is doing even better in pay­ ments through clearing houses, in rail­ road earnings, in foreign trade, in output of pig iron, in activity and strength of securities. The woolen industry also comes to the front wjth very extensive purchases of wool by large houses and small. In cotton the foreign demand is really inexplicable, considering its volume in comparison with movements of goods from Great Britain. Failures for the week have been 261 in the United States, against 329 last year, and 31 in Canada, against 28 last year." MARKET REPORTS. EASTERN. • &•- Hew ¥e*k is suffering from an epidemic of grip. Benjamin Davis, aged 38, a night roller, was killed at the Sharon, Pa., iron works. He was engaged in putting in a liner on the 12-inch mill, when bis arm caught in the boxing. In an instant his body went through the small space, horribly mutilat­ ing it. His head was crushed and his neck broken. Detectives of the Pennsylvania Rail­ road are endeavoring to get some clew to *fce vandal* who destroyed the interior of f**veral cam of the Chicago limited train 4, - - SOUTHERN. Unknown men entered the store of Mrs. Ida Meyers, in Josie, Ala., and after fatally wounding Mrs. Meyers, killing her married daughter and badly beating an employe named Cook, stole $3;000 and then burned the store. Nearly the whole of the business part of the town of Tifton, Ga., was burned the other night. An oil lamp in a board­ ing-house exploded. The Masonic hall and ten stores were destroyed and a ho­ tel and large luttber miii were damaged. Thomas Jones, living near Greer, W. Va., attempted to light a fire with crude oil. An explosion occurred and the cloth­ ing of his twin daughters, aged 6 years, ignited. Jones was too badly burned to assist them and the children were burned to death. Dr. Frank T. A. Borcek of Fayette County, Texas, was murdered while asleep in his bed tJy some one who entered the house and shot him through the bead, without awakening, so they say, any of the occupants of the house. J. B. Com- ins, a farmer and lumberman, was shot dead in his house at the village Of Garri­ son by an assassin, who fired through a •window. Article 5 deals with the cession of barracks, war materials, arms, stores, buildings and all property pertaining to the Spanish adminis­ tration in the Philippines. Article 6 is a renunciation by both nations of their respective claims against each other and the citizens of each other. Article 7 grants to Spanish trade and shipping in the Philippines the same treatment as American trade and shipping for a period of ten years. Article 8 provides for the release of all prisoners of - war held by Spain and of all prisoners held by her for political offenses committed in the colonies acquired by the Unit­ ed States. Article 9 guarantees the legal rights of Spaniards remaining in Cuba. Article 10 establishf^the relig­ ious freedom of the Philippines and guarantees to all churches equal jeights. Article 11 provides for the compo- "> sit Ion of courts and other tribunals in Porto Rico and Cuba. Article 12 provides for the admin- - ^ istration' of justice in Porto Rico and Cuba. , Article 13 provides for the contin­ uance for five years of Spanish copyrights in the ceded territories, giving Spanish books admittance free of duty. Article 14 provides for the estab­ lishment of consulates by Spain in the ceded territories. Article 15 grants to Spanish com­ merce in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines the, same treatment as to American for ten years, Spanish shipping to be treated as coasting ' vessels. Article 16 stipulates that the ob­ ligations of the United States to. Spanish citizens and property in Cuba shall terminate with the with­ drawal of the United States author­ ities from the island. Article 17 provides that the treaty must be ratified within six months from the date of signing by the re­ spective governments in order to be binding. For some time to come the United States and Spain must get along without any treaty to regulate commerce between the two countries. An effort was made at Paris to secure an arrangement with the Spanish commissioners looking to the re­ vival of the old treaties until they could be replaced by others, but this having failed, no negotiations for new commer­ cial treaties will be undertaken before ratification of the peace treaty. C. 8. BRICK. rlan minister. OALVIN a BWtOE IS DEAIX ' MsM Flnaacler Bnccuaaba to mm At1 tack of Pneumonia. Galrln Stewart Brice, the well-known inancier and former United States Sena­ tor from Ohio, died of pneumonia Thurs­ day afternoon at his home in New York. Mr. Brice was first taken 111 on Saturday, but his condition was not regarded serious until Monday, when symptoms of pneumo­ nia appeared. Calvin S. Brice was born in Denmark, O., Sept. 17, 1845. He was the son of the Rev. W. K. Brice, a Presbyte- After having received a common schodl education young Brice en­ tered Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. He was then but 13 years old. When the war broke out he was among the first to volunteer in the university company, and in 1862 he was enrolled as a member of Company A of the Eightyrsixth Ohio vol­ unteers. After serving for a year with the arnly in West\Virginia, Brice returned to the university, being^gmduated in 1863. Early in the following year he recruited a company, which was assigned to the 180th Ohio volunteers. When he left the army Brice had been, promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. * At the close of the war Col. Brice took up the study of law, and was admitted to practice in 1866. He practiced with great success until 1880, when he abandoned the profession to take charge of various enterprises in which he was interested. While practicing law Col. Brice became interested in politics. He was chosen delegate-at-large to the national Demo­ cratic convention held at St. Louis in 1888, and as a reward for his services at the convention he was elected chairman of the national campaign committee. Col. Brice was elected United States Senator from Ohio in 1890, to succeed Senator Payne, and served one term. He had lived in New York City two years, but maintained a residence in Lima, Ohio, lie rieaves a widow and five children, three sons and two daughters. CAPTAIN SIGSBEE TOO LATE. Fails to Beech Fortress Monroe in Time to Bail on Texas. Captain D. Sigsbee did not have the satisfaction of sailing into Havana har­ bor, his first visit there since the destruc­ tion of the Maine, in command of his own ship. It was considered in naval circles as a rather dramatic thing for Sigsbee's ship to be the first to reach Havana in response to a call for the protection of American interests there, just as he was sent to the Cuban capital in the Maine for a similar reason. f,But they do things in a hurry in the navy howadays, and Captain Sigsbee could not reach the Texas before she steamed' out of Hampton roads. A tele­ gram was sent to Captain Sigsbee at Fortress Monroe by the department tell­ ing him to take the first train for Tampa and take passage on the regular passenger vessel, thence to Havana. CARLISTS LOSING GROUND. Spain Wants Italy to Watch DonCarloa and Prove It* Friendship. The Carlist movement in Spain is evi-' dently beginning to lose ground. As a result the Spanish Government has be­ come more aggressive. It is now anxious to locate Don Carlos, who has slid out of view since his reported appearance in Austria. The army is being slowly mo­ bilized in Navarre and the Basque prov­ inces as a check to Carlist movements. These provinces are in northern Spain, bordering the French frontier. Spain has asked the Italian Government to prove its friendship by watching for Don Carlos in Italy. WALL'S SLAYER CAPTURED. Was Being Held on a Charge of Bnr- ulary at Ppokane, Waah. A prisoner in thfe county jail at Spo­ kane, Wash., awaiting trial on a charge of burglary, and who is also accused of having shot ex-Alder­ man Davidson while in the act of highway robbery committed in that city a month ago, has been positively identified as being Otto Mattias, a coal miner, wanted at Staunton, 111., for the murder of H. W. Wall, a wealthy ci.ti- OTTO M/ i. zen Qf place, on Aug. 16 last. For this crime a reward ot $2,000 was" Offered for Mattias' arrest. The prisoner, who gave his name as B'red Wood, was identified by Dr. P. A. Hox- sey of Spokane, who was in Staunton when the crime was committed, and who knows the prisoner. WASHINGTON. Mrs. Mary T. Throekmoi'ton is dead at Washington, aged 88. Joseph W. Pearson, a printer, who ob­ jects to an Anglo-American alliance, 'bom- Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; bogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, So. 2 fed, 6uc to ore; corn, No. 2, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 56c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 50c to 52c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; 1 wheat, No. 2, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white,' 29c to 30c; rye, 54c to 56c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.55 to $4.60. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1, 54c to 56c; barley, No. 2, 44c to 49c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3 .(X) to $5.75; bogs, common to choice, $3 .25 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn, No. -2, 41c to 43c; oats. No. 2, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, West­ ern, 35c to 27c. FRANCHISES STIR NEW YORK. Attempted Deal in C hicago Has Awak­ ened K nicker bockera. The trouble over franchises for street railways in Chicago has quickened the attention of the city officials in New York to the sale of franchises there. Fran­ chises to lay double tracks and operate electric cars on eight thoroughfares are shortly to be sold to companies. Two important conditions of the sale to be determined are, whether the city shall accept a grosp sum for the franchises or a percentage of the earnings, and wheth er, at the end of a 25-year term, the rail­ roads shall be put under municipal cos- trol. WANTS TO RAISE THE MAINE A New York Wrecking Concern Makes Proposals ti the War Departtaent. A New, York wrecking concern has of­ fered to raise the Maine and tow her to New York for $250,000 and one-third of her value, and to float and deliver in New York the Cristobal Color, for $1,000,000 and one-third of her value. Th£ Navy Department has the Maine offer under consideration, but will not consider the other offer pending the examination by the Swedish wrecking company that has sent engineers to Santiago to determine whether the company can profitably un­ dertake to save the vessel. I2TH U. S. GOES TO MANILA. Regiment at Jefferson Barracks Or­ dered to Philippines. Orders we're Thursday issued by the War Department to the Twelfth United States infantry, at Jefferson barracks. Mo., to proceed to San Francisco in time to embark on the transport Scandia on h^r next trip to Manila. Upon the ar­ rival of the Twelfth at Manila it is prob­ able that one of the first volunteer regi­ ments to arrives at the Philippines will return to the United States on the Scan­ dia. pal; SENATE AND HOUSE. Ex-Gov. Waite of Colorado has become a rich man in mining. The oil wells of Senator Roger Q. Mills are said to net him about $100 a day. Hobson is said to be writing a memoir of his experiences in the Spanish war. Dr., Conan Doyle is described as tall, bluff, hearty, and an enthusiastic crick­ eter. Admiral Sampson graduated from the naval academy at the head of his class in 1861. Secretary Gage is said to be a passion­ ate sportsman, and a remarkably good shot. Theodore Mcmimsen, the historian, is in Rome collecting material for further work. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is a firm believer in and , a stout supporter of the Salvation army. Dr. Scott Schley, the youngest son of the admiral, has begun the practice of medicine in New York. Isaac Wyman of Salem, Mass, owns a note for $40,000, to which the name of George Washington is attached. Miss Flora Shaw, who is now in the Klondike, is the woman connected with the London end of the Jameson raid. Ian Maclaren, who is to lecture in the West next spring, is said to intend remain­ ing in this country for at least a year. W. D. Howells, the novelist, is said to be contemplating a trip to London, where he will be the guest of Henry James. Captain Sigsbee's artist daughter, Mary Ellen, has won the competition for a scholarship in the Art Students' League. Burnett, the Harvard football player, says that he was not the original "Little Lord Fauntleroy." That honor belongs to his brother. Gov. Pingree of Michigan started life a poor mill hand. Now he is the head of a business, the value of the yearly product of which is about $1,000,000. Russell Sage ascribes his present health and activity to keeping early and regular hours and abstaining from tobacco during the entire 82 years of his life. The empress dowager of China is 64 years ot age. Her title runs as follows*. "Tzu-hsi-tuan-yu-Kang-i-shao-yu-chuang- cheng-sboukung-chin-hsien-cfcang-hsi." The death of Col. Amos Webster of Washington leaves Gen. Horace Porter, now ambassador td JParis, the only surviv­ ing member of Gen. U. S. Grant's person­ al staff. Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind girl who is about to enter Radcliffe Col­ lege, Cambridge, has become a devotee of the bicycle, riding a tandem with Miss Sullivan, her teacher. Col. John A. Watkins, the Indian his­ torian, who died in New Orleans the oth­ er day, was a veteran of the Mexican war, and a direct descendant of Joseph Wat- kins, the follower of Capt. John Smith. Somebody asked President McKinley, the other day why he always wore a black tie. He Is said to have replied: "I don't know. I suppose because I like it, for I have worn nothing but dark ones for th< last twenty years." WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW* . MAKERS* A W*ek*» Proceedings in tlr« iffailm ot Congreaa--Important Measure* Die- caaaed and Acted Upon--An Impar­ tial Kaanma of the Bnalneaa. On Thursday the House surpassed at] records in the expedition with which it passed the pension appropriation bill. Usually one of the most fruitful themes of acrimonious partisan debate, it was passed in twenty minutes without criti­ cism. although carrying $145,233,830. $4,- 000,000 more than the act for the current year. The House then began considera­ tion of the bill to incorporate the Interna­ tional American Bank. This project was recommended by the Pan-American Con­ gress in 1889. An agreement was effected for a vote at 3 o'clock Friday. It was supported in debate by Messrs. Brosius (Rep.. Pa.), Adams (Rep., Pa.), Laeey (Rep., Iowa), and Walker (Rep., Mass.), and opposed by Mr: Cox (Dem., Tetan.), Jenkins (Rep., Wis.), Driggs (Dem., N. Y.), and Bartlett (J)em., Ga.). In the Senate the urgent deficiency appropria­ tion bill making provision for the army and navy for the next six months dis­ placed the Nicaragua canal bill, prevent­ ing even the taking of a vote on the ques­ tion of the postponement of the latter measure until after the holidays, as had been intended. The deficiency bill was passed after a spirited discussion, turning principally on the point of keeping the volunteer soldiers iu the service. The bill to incorporate the International American Bank was buried under an overwhelming adverse majority of the on Friday. The debate upon the measure, which opened Thursday, ,was concluded at 3 o'clodT. Mr. Dingley, the floor leader of the majority, made an ar­ gument in its snpport. The other speak­ ers on Friday were Hill of. Connecticut in its support and Messrs. Bell (Pop., Colo.), Sulzer (Dem., N. Y.), Maxwell (Pop., Neb.), Maddox (Dep.. Ga.) and Swanson (Dem., Va.) in opposition. The vote by which the bill was defeated stood 103 yeas to 148 nays. Tha bill to extend the customs a4nd revenue laws of the United States over the Hawaiian Islands was passed without opposition. The bill, Mr. Dingley explained, carried with it the civil service laws relating to appointments in the customs and revenue service in Ha­ waii. Saturday in the House was devoted to the Indian appropriation bill, which was passed substantially as reported. This is the third of the appropriation bills to pass and it clears the calendar of the big sup­ ply bills. The Senate was not in session. Monday was suspension day in the House, and Several bills were passed, the most important of which was the bill ap­ propriating $350,000 for the Philadelphia exposition of 1899. The vote was exceed­ ingly close. It had but two votes more than the necessary two-thirds. Bills were also passed under suspension of the rules to authorize the distribution of the as­ sets of the Freednien's Bank, to enlarge the scope of the Fish Commission to In­ clude game birds, for the relief of the Fourth Mounted Arkansas Infantry and for the relief of John W. Lewis, of Ore­ gon. The Senate had a busy day, and there were several important speeches. Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, spoke against the Vest resolution, which declares that the United States has no power to acquire territory. Mr. Proctor, of Vermont, and Mr. Hale, of Maine, exchanged divergent views upon the subject of a commission of Senators to visit Cuba. The confer­ ence report on the urgent deficiency bill was agreed to. The Senate then took up the Nicaragua canal bill, and Mr....Berry (Ark.) spoke upon bis amendments to the measure. The House resolution providing for ad« journment of Congress from Dec. 21 to Jan. 4 was adopted by the Senate without division on Tuesday. Mr. Gallinger favor­ ably reported Mr. Proctor's resolution pro­ viding for a committee of Senators to visit Cuba and Porto Rico with a view to as­ certaining the conditions on the islands and reporting on them, with recommenda­ tions. Sepator Teller then addressed the Senate upon Mr. Vest's resolution declar* ing that under the constitution no power is given to acquire territory to be held and governed permanently as colonies. Sev­ eral private pension bills were disposed of, after which Mr. Elkins called up the bill -relating to the registry of foreign built vessels in this country. At 2 o'clock the Nicaraswau canal bill displaced the regis­ try measure, and Mr. Caffery spoke in op­ position to it. The debate on the agricul­ tural bill was signalized by the first speech in the House on the question of annexation of the Philippines. Mr. Wib liams of Mississippi submitted a general argument against their annexation. After Mr. Williams' remarks the agricultural bill was passed. It carried $3,696,322, oi $187,120 more than the current law. Be­ fore adjournment for the day the confer­ ence report on the army and navy defi­ ciency bill was adopted. The last session of the House before the holiday recess was 'held on Wednesday and lasted but an hour. The Bailey reso­ lution directing an "investigation of th« right of the members who volunteered in the, Spanish-American war to seats in the House was adopted, and several bills of minor importance were passed. One of these provided for holding terms of the District and Circuit courts at Hammond, Ind. The absence of a quorum of the Senate saved Senator Proctor's resolution providing for the appointment of a com­ mittee of Senators to investigate the con­ ditions in Cuba and Porto Rico during the approaching long recess of Congress from decisive defeat. An effort was made by Mr. Daniel of Virginia to obtain consider­ ation for the resolution, but his motion mustered only eight of the thirty-eight votes cast. No business ot importance was disposed of at Wednesday's session. Only some routine business, including the passage of a few private pension bills, waa transacted. Adjournment was taken to Jan. 4, 1899. Bparks from the Wires. Prince Henry of Prussia opposes the building of railroads in China by Ameri­ cans. The United States cruiser Raleigh sail­ ed from Manila for New York, via the Suez canal. Fifteen thousand silk operatives at Cal- feld. the German silk manufacturing cen­ ter, are on a strike. Marquis Ito of Japan is reported to have said that there is no man in China capable of saving the empire from col­ lapse, The eonl miners of the district compris­ ing Crawford and Cherokee counties, in Kansas, have organized, and are now identified with the United Mine Workers of America. An attempt was made by burglars to blow up the large safe in the cashier's office at the Missouri Pacific freight de­ pot at Fort .Scott. Kan. They were frightened away by the approach of the. watchman. Waifs are appearing on doorsteps in Newport. Ivy., with startling regularity every other night. The last little one was left in a basket on Dr. Kelly's doorstep. This is the eighth child found in that way in Newport in the past few weeks •IQ FIRE iyr, TERRE HAUTE. Srftsa of Property by Conflagration Ba> timated at itl,oo0»ooa. The worst fire In the history of the dty ®f Terre Haute, Ind., occurred Monday night. The blase started in the big show windows of the Havens & Geddes Com­ pany, wholesale and retail dealers in dry goods and notions. It is supposed that a live electric wire set fire to the cotton with which the window was decorated, and before the blaze could be extinguish­ ed the fire spread to the decorations of evergreens iff the store and the building was wrapped in flames in an incredibly short space of time. A conservative esti­ mate of the damage is $1,000,000, and the following firms are the losers: Haven« & Geddes company $800,600 BreVaig & Miller, furniture. 25,000 Pixley & Co 100,000 Ten* Haute Shoe Co., wholesale... ISO,000 A^brscht & Co., retail dry goods..i. 150,000 United States Baking Company.... 80,000 Thorman & Schloss, clothiers 60,000 There w^ye a number of small concerns which were utterly annihilated in the fall of the rear wall of the Havens & Geddes wholesale house, and the loss in their case will more than bring the total losses up to thfe $1,000,000 mark. The fire started at 5:30 o'clock",'"Ivlfen half the employes of the establishment were at their homes for supper. There is a force of 300 or more in the retail de­ partment of the establishment and had the enjtire force been present the loss of life would have been frightful. As it is, Kate Maloney, a clerk in the notion de­ partment, sprang from a window in the second story and sustained injuries from which she will probably die. Miss Luelle Ferguson, a clerk in the same department, jumped just before Miss Maloney, bqt was caught by some men who were watch­ ing for her. She is internally injured, but will recover. Louis Kramer, the trimmer, who was in the show window when the blaze start­ ed, Is frightfully burned about the head and arms. When rescued from the burn-> ing building he was insane from the pain and begged to be killed. Firemen Auster- loo, Walsh and Shay were badly injured in the falling of a floor in the Albrecht building and are now in the city hospital. The fire department worked admirably and there were many narrow escapes among the men. • " ' BRYAN ON ISSUES OF 1900 . Declares that the Money Question Will •Be the Issue. Col. W. J. Bryan arrived in Washington from Savannah. In an ititervifew concern­ ing the Democratic issues of 1900, " he said: "I should s«y the money question, un­ doubtedly. I believe the Chicago plat­ form still embodies the sentiments of the mass of the American people. I can see no reason for a popular change of mind on any of the issues defined in the last na­ tional 'platform. The fact that people are talking about the war does not neces­ sarily Indicate/thAt they have abandoned former ideas which have no reference to the war, People can discuss matters of temporary interest without forgetting their political Tiews and abandoning thelff political principles." KISSER HOBSON BUSY. Merrimac Hero Indulges in Whole* sale Oscillatory Kxetrcise. Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac epi­ sode, who is now becoming better known; as a kisser than be is as an officer of the United States navy, kissed 417 maids and matrons at Kansas City, before jour­ neying west for new fields to conquer. The kissing bee took place at a public re­ ception. * In Chicago, Lieut. Hobson was kissed by 163 Chicago girls at the Auditorium. Incidentally he lectured about the war and and the sinking of the Merrimac. The osculatory ordeal followed the lecture,, when the announcement was made thaC any one who wished to greet the lieuten­ ant could come up on {he stage. CLAUS SPRECKLES GIVES Al&f Subscribes $20*000 for Destitute' Farmers of California. The terrible destitution among the small; farmers in the southern part of Monterey! County, Cal., has led to a general public movement for the relief of the suffering., The farmers are not only out of food, but' out of seed to grow crops and have no1, means of getting relief, as dry weather: tor two years has completely ruined their* crops. They have appealed to Gov. Buddi for aid, but as he has no fund from which he can render aid a special fund will be' subscribed. Sugar Millionaire Claual Spreckels gave his check for $25,000, and! others arc contributing in proportion tw their wealth. j WOMEN KILLED AT FIRE. Fatal Blaze in Fashionable Residence; District of New York City. Two women were killed and another ae' severely injured that she will die as the! r e s u l t o f a f i r e i n t h e m a n s i o n o f C . H . j Raymond at West End avenue and Sev-: enty-third street, New York. Mrs. Ray­ mond, who jumped from a second-story window with Mrs. Underwood, is fatally; hurt. C. H. Raymond and the seitoattta'. were rescued by firemen.' Raleigh Is Kn Route Home. Admiral Dewey has cabled the Navy, Department that the Raleigh Btarted' from Manila for New York by way Of ttMl' Suez. ' Telegraphic BreTitlea. Many discharged soldiers have bee* employed in New York shoveling snow. The estate of Leland Stanford of San Francisco, has p«id nearly $7,000,000 in debts and legacies. The next national encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at Philadelphia Sept. 4 to 9 next. Kate Holden, colored, who was said te be 117 years old. died in the almshouse at Hartford, Conn. John Wallace, after a year's imprison­ ment at Sing Sing, N, Y., under a ten' years' sentence cn a charge of robbery, of which he was innocent, has beefe re­ leased. It is reported from Chicago that Joseph Leiter is at the bottom of a movement for the organization of a milk trust, which is "to regulate the price of milk on the price of butter." During the first nine months of 1898 there were 2.220 miles of new railroads constructed iu the United States. This cxeoeds the total mileage of any entire year since 1893. A. H. Long, a tenant on the Adam Decker farm, near Nittanyv-Pa., this vear raised 1.228 bushels of corn on scant eight acres of grouud. This would be 153V& bushels to the acre. ' Mrs. F. S. Lee and Mrs. H. G. R» Wright were elected from Arapahoe County to the Colorado Legislature. Mrs. Helen L. GrenfeU is elected State Super­ intendent of Public Instruction. There is great indignation in Madrid because the Americans rejected the propo­ sition of the Spanish peace commission­ ers at Paris to appdSnt a joint commis­ sion of the powers to investigate the Maine disaster. It is reported that Nellie Uould was the mysterious giver of $250,000 to the li­ brary building fund of the University of the city of New York. She has, since the laying of the corner tfteae, given addi­ tional smaller tamel tMli