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P. K. McMCttfiY, ILLINOIS. STENTS OF THE WEEK flfetteer O. Fisher of Bay City, Mich., ex-Congressman, leading Democratic pol­ itician and formerly a wealthy lumber­ man, has filed a petition in bankruptcy In the Federal Court. This action is Che ro­ tate of a series of misfortunes. ORver Ohl, the youth who caused a col­ lision between a freight and passenger train on the Little Schuylkill branch of the Beading Railway, resulting in the low of two lives, was sentenced to three yean and three months and to pay a fine of $200. Fire in the convent, of the Sacred Heart, New Haven, Conn., caused the death from suffocation of Sister Mary Aloysius and $3,000 damage to the build­ ing. There were twenty sisters in the convent at the time, bat all the others es­ caped unharmed. Albert Clements is dead at Williams- town, Ohio, from a bullet wound suffered In an affray at Sherman four weeks ago. Blood poisoning set in. James Tapp is held in $5,000 to answer for the shooting, jrhich has resulted in two deaths. Clem* ents was an innocent bystander. A report summarizing the yellow fewer situation in Santiago has been received by the surgeon general of the marine hospital service. It states that during the present season there had been thirty-five cases and eleven deaths, all but four of which were among American soldiers. Lorin A. Thurston, former minister from Hawaii to this country, who has Arrived from Honolulu, says the outlook in Hawaii is very promising. The sugar crop will undoubtedly be the largest ever itandled. He declares the islanders want territorial government pure and simple. John Hile of Norwood went to Hart- ville. Mo., and got a license to marry Miss Julia Cole. Then Julia changed her mind and notified another lover, Ben Smith of Fontana, Kan., to come and claim her as iris own. Smith came and they were mar­ ried, much to the chagrin of Hile, who witnessed the ceremony. Uhe heaviest storm in fifteen years passed Bathgate, N. D., the other morn­ ing at 4 o'clock. Buildings were blown to pieces, smokestacks and chimneys wrecked, shade trees ruined, churches blown off their foundations and small buildings moved. There was some hail, but no damage to the crops. With heavy . thunder «ad lightning it was a night of terrors . >a A special from Carbondale, I!!., says: "Word has been received that the colored .. men of Pana, 111., who went to the Wil- iiamson County coal field, received an ex­ ceedingly warm reception as they were attempting to reach the mines at Fre- - donia. When nearing the mines they were met with a fusillade of shots, re- *ulting inthe killing of two persons and ^ „ - the wounding of twenty men. " J •; Two men were seen fifteen miles south ;of Kokomo, Ind., having the dead body of a boy in a wagon which they secreted in a thicket. Rose Orem, daughter of Ren Orem, a farmer, was up in a fruit trss and «aw the corpse in the bottom of the wagon. The remains are supposed to be those of Pearl Evans, the lG-year-old son of William Evans, a stock buyer. The boy had been called as a grand jury wit­ ness, but the same day he mysteriously disappeared. It is thought that the ab­ duction and murder were by persons he was likely to involve by his testimony in the grand jury room. The standing of the dab* in the Na­ tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn .. .45 18 Cincinnati .. .29 29 Boston 39 Philadelphia. 37 Chicago 37 -St. Louis... .36 Baltimore .. .33 22 New York. 23 Pittsburg .. 24 Louisville . 27 W ashington. 18 26 Cleveland .. .11 .30 .28 .22 Following fa the standing of the dabs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. y-f Minneapolis. 33 24 St. Paul.... .28 Indianapolis. §2 24Milwaukee .. .28 Columbus ...30 ^27 Kansas City..25 ..29 J27Buffalo BRSVITIES. T of Clarke. Shewas its and ten months Financial eirclea in Philadelphia were greatly. iaterested over the announcement of a $30,600,000 asphalt combine, which was chartered at Trenton. George A. Huhn, one of the incorporators of the combine, is * w$U-knowq financial figure in that city. William Ballard/a colored hostler, waa arrested in New York, accused of the murder of his employer, Clayton Young, a horse owner, in St. Louis, on Aug. 22, 1890. Ballard said he-killed Young be­ cause the latter had frequently beatea and abused him. G. Percival Stewart of New York, pres­ ident of the American Investors' Com­ pany, surrendered to the Syracuse au­ thorities under four indictments found against him by the grand jury charging him with grand larceny. He was ad­ mitted to $2,000 bail. Sadie B. Matthewson, 26 years old, waa murdered by Samuel Rolens, 57 - years old, at. Foster, R. I. Both were drunk. Owens knocked, her down with an ax, stabbed her twice, and then, pouring ker­ osene oil over her, set her on fire while she was still breathing. Her body was burned to a crisp. N Joseph S. Hollinger, a self-confessed murderer, was hanged in toe Dauphin County jail at Harrisburg, Pa., for the murder® of his wife. Hollinger was an ignorant farpier about 50 years old, and was separated from his wife for several months. Last August he killed her, and an hour later surrendered to a justice of the peace. Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau of the Department of Ag­ riculture, and Philander Johnson, a news­ paper writer of Washington, were rescued from drowning while bathing in the surf at Cape May by Congressman Henry C. Loudenslager, chairman of the Pension Committee, anchW. H. Kirkpatrick of the Philadelphia' Press. OTIS HAS DONE •trike OF tMVbtormefc and COB- * *fce OTtiRb- Bail . an til !rt»n a «Mta*ed into . ... id strikers, fcoth aides making concessions. The elder House, at Indian Spring*, a watering place about seventy miles from Mason, Ga., was destroyed by fire. About 100 guests were in the building. All caped but two, who were slightly injured. All the baggage was lost. All south, west and central Texas has been visited by terrific rainstorms, which have practically tied up a number of railroads. Many hundreds of acres of farming iand in south Texaa are under water, and much cotton will be badly damaged. By the sinking of the steamer Apalache, plying between Columbus and Apalachi- cola, Fla., in the Chipola river, near We* wahitchka, Fla., four persons, one of them a Chicago woman, were drowned. The steamer's boilers exploded aa she sank and several persons were injured. After doing business since 1892 the P# ducah Building and Trust Company of Paducah, Ivy., has assigned to R. G. Caldwell. The liabilities are $200,000 and assets the same, largely in property. Adverse court decisions and heavy de­ mands for withdrawal* by stockholder* are given as the cause of the failure. WESTERN. is Ex-Mayor Daniel F. Tieman of New York is dead, aged 95 years. Maj. Gen. Henry J. Madill died at Towanda, Pa., at the age of 70 years. Alderman C. H. Griffiths, a prominent citizen at Weatherford. O. T., waa mur- dered.by "Dan" Ashby. At New London, Conn., all the Har­ vard crews won from Yale, taking the oniversiry, freshman and substitute races. P. Lonllard has resigned as president of the American Tobacco Company, and Tbomas Maioney has been elected as his •accessor.' Hani proposes to reform ita currency and L-is sent a delegation to the United States to negotiate a loap of $5,000,000 in order to adopt a gold basis. Dr. E. Y. Mullins of the Newton Cen­ ter, Baptist Church, Boston, has 'been elected to the presidency of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louis- Judge William H. Clark, aged 39, dead at Los Angeles, Cal. Col. Thomas Cornelius of Portland, Ore., a pioneer of 1845, is dead. W. H. Sullivan of Chicago was drown­ ed in the Yeilowatone river at Anaconda, Mont. Capt. Coghlan, U. S. N., lectured before the Winfield, Kan., Chautauqua on "The Battle of Manila." Colorado is to be represented at the Paris exposition by a' gold statue of a girl to cost $1,000,000. A Mecca lubricating oil well worth $100 a day was struck on Richard King's farm, near Warren, Ohio. By the capsizing of their boat in the Yellowstone river at Greyclflf, Mont., three men lost their lives. Rev. Paul Wetzel of Kansas City, Mo., one of the first German Dunkers clergy­ men to preach in the country, is dead, in his seventy-sixth year. F. A. Church, claiming to represent the American Investors' Company of New York, has been convicted at Fort Smith, Ark., of using the mails fraudulently. Frank Neai, the St, Louis boxer, known as "Dutch" Neal, who succumbed during a bout with Harry Peppers of San Fran­ cisco at the Adelphi Theater in Chicago^ is dead of blood clot. At Harper, Kan., John Kornstadt, a 16-year-old boy, has confessed to having murdered his eousin Nora, the 10-year-oid daughter of Tony Kornstadt. a farmer. He first assaulted her and then threw her into an abandoned well, where she was found. Mrs. Alice Petit, wife of Dr. Petit, liv­ ing one mile from Greenville, Mo., was burned to death. Starting a fire in the cook stove, she poured oil on the fuel. The blaze ignited her clothing. She died in a short time. At Leavenworth, Kan., twenty-two suits, the aggregate amount being for $212,000, were filed in the District Coqrt against the Leavenworth and Home Riv­ erside coal companies, to compel payment of royalties. Harry Douglass- of Nevada City, with twenty-five other picked miners from va­ rious counties of California, who left June 2 last year for Siberia under the leadership of John T. McCail, have per­ ished from privation and cold. James Nunley of Coal Bluff, Ind., re­ turned from the Soldiers' Home at La­ fayette a few weeks ago. He began drinking, and at night set fire to the house and then cut his throat and died. He attempted suicide once before after a quarrel with his wife. Five men were drowned in the Missis­ sippi river a mile above Clarksville, Mo., by the overturning of a skiff. They were laborers engaged in river improvement work now going forward in that district under the direction of the United States assistant engineer, Capt. S. Edwards. Another of the Macomb train robbers was convicted at Hartville, Mo., when the jury brought in a verdict finding young Joe Shepard guilty and fixing his punish­ ment at ten years in the State peniten­ tiary. He is a son of Jake Shepard^ a member of the old James gang. John and David^ Howard of Beaver Comity, Oklahoma, FOREIGN* ~ The Empress of Russia lias given birth to a third daughter, who has been named Marie. Sir Thomas Lipton's cup-challenger, Shamrock, was launched at Millwfcll, England. Armed Chinese peasants have been de­ stroying the German railroad from Kin- chow to Kiarao. The peace congress at The Hague has decided that the Russian disarmament proposals are unacceptable. The South African republic ia reported td be placing large orders for riflea in Italy for immediate delivery. Three strikers were killed during the rioting at the Bochum coal mines, Ger­ many. The number of men wounded ia not known, as many of them were spirited away to private houses. Thirty-six ar­ rests were made. A dispatch from Saigon, describing the anti-foreign disturbances that recently occurred in Mengtsu, province of Yun- Yan, says that the Wong-tse custom house, which was in charge of American officials, was sacked and destroyed. Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech at Bir­ mingham, said the British Government accepted full responsibility for Sir Air fred Milner's actions in the Transvaal affair, and declared that while England was not seeking war ahe would not shirk it. There has been a big riot at Seoul, the Corean capital, in which the ten cars owned by the electric railway service re­ cently established there weep smashed and burned and several of tlie tramway employes were killed. The cars had kill­ ed several children since the service was opened in Seoul. IN GENERAL. Maj. Gen. Thomas M. Anderson, com­ manding the department of the lakes at Chicago, has been given the degree of LL. D. by Mount St. Mary's College of Maryland. The Kansas live stocjt sanitary commis- ^sk»c has established a quarantine against cattle from Illinois, Iowa, Indiana Ohio :ij* k aad Michigan because of the recent tuber- calosis scare in those States. " At Hoquiam, Wash., the body of Mary Schweitzer, formerly of Chicago, has been found in the river. She had been mfesing several days, and the indications •re that she committed suicide. At Cleveland, a 10-year-old boy was killed by taking hold of an electric feed wire, which had been blown down and .Was hanging close to the ground. - Mrs. Charles Kopp shot and killed'her fcusband in the parlor of their residence ' In San Francisco. Jealousy a woman named Mrs. B. Monti was the cause of the murder. •; The fire at the United Verde copper . t s rtine at Jerome, A T., was finally " brought under controL To save the pow- " --ft1 bouse the water was shut off from the . •' «lty, and 5,000 people were without wat- '4k, but no complaints were heard. 'A- h W:~! " . . Prof. Samuel Harris of Yale College is dead, aged 85. Arthur Tennyson, youngest brother of Alfred Tennyson, is dead. The wages of all employes of the Ohio River Railroad have been increased 10 per cent. Thirty-three cases of yellow fever, with five deaths, have been officially reported since the beginning of the present oat- break at Santiago. The American Glucose Sugar Refining Company, recently organized under the laws of New Jersey, has filed papers changing its corporate name to the Fed­ eral Contract Company. Fire caused by a spark from a locomo­ tive totally destroyed machinery hall on the industrial exhibition grounds, To­ ronto, and damaged the agricultural im­ plement hall. The loss is $25,000. A. R. Hill of Vancouver, B. C., was killed by a street car. Hill, who was a common laborer, claimed to be the heir of Lord Armstrong, the famous gunmaker, but the peerage list gives no heir to Arm­ strong. It is announced that Russia has placed an order for $20,000,000 of American ord­ nance. L. L. Driggs of the Driggs Sea- bury Gun and Ammunition Company, New York, is the authority for this state­ ment. Commissioner General Powderly of the immigration bureau has mailed to San Francisco warrants for the arrest and de­ portation of six Japanese recently releas­ ed from custody by the Federal Court on a writ of habeas corpus. John Johnson, mate of the Norwegian steamship Krim, from Cuba, was remov­ ed to Swinburne Island hospital, in New York harbor, suffering from yellow fever, and his condition was serious. The steam­ er was detained at quarantine. The International Supreme Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars met in Toronto, Ont. About 500 delegates were there, among them representatives from England, Ireland, Scotland, Nor­ way, Sweden. Denmark and India. MARKET REPORTS. have invented a horseless carriage which is propelled by wind by means of sails like a ship. These men have ridden from their home in Ful­ ton to Beaver City in this strange vehi­ cle. and at times traveled fifteen miles an hour. At Osgood, Ind., while Albert-Shaw- was absent two men entered his house, struck Mrs. Shaw a blow that rendered her unconscious and dragged her down­ stairs. They then tied her hands fast to her knees and put her on the floor while they searched the house. Failing to find anything of value, they departed. Efforts to capture them have failed. Fire broke out in some unexplained manner in the freight house of the Michi­ gan Central at Toledo. In a few minutes the whole structure, including the freight offices, was a solid mass of Same. One freight house of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton fell a prey. One hundred freight cars, nearly all loaded, were de­ stroyed. The loss is estimated at $500,- 000. m̂ tsssSBsr' Country Held by Troop# Sixty Mil* North iad South ©f Manila--Grow­ ing Desire for Ptace--Nallw* Com­ bining to Drive Ont Insnrgenta. Gen. Otis, in reply to a cable from the War Department at Washington asking for information regarding situation and conditions in the Philippines; cabled as follows: "Adjutant General, Washington: Rainy season. Little inland campaigning possi­ ble in Luzon. We occupy large portion of Tagalog country, lines stretching from Imus south, to San Fernando north, near­ ly sixty miles, and to eastward into j^a- gnna province. Insurgent armies have suffered great losses and are scattered; only large force held together about 4,000 In Tarlac province and northern Pampan- ga. Their scattered forces are in bands of fifty to five hundred in other portions Luzon; in Cavite and Batangas provinces could assemble possibly 2,000, though de­ moralized from recent defeat. Mass of people terrorized by insurgent soldiers, de­ sire peace and American protection; no longer flee on approach of our troops un­ less forced by insurgents out gladly wel­ come them. No recent burning of towns. Population within our lines becoming dense, taking up land cultivation exten­ sively; kept out of Manila much as possi­ ble. as city population is becoming too great to be cared for. 'Natives southeast of Luzon combining to drive out insurgents; only hope of in­ surgent leaders is United States aid. They proclaim near overthrow of the present administration, to be followed by "their independence and recognition by United States. This is the influence which en­ ables them to hold out; much contention prevails among them and no civil govern­ ment remains. Trade with ports not in our posses­ sion; a former source of insurgent reve­ nue, now interdicted; not certain Of wis­ dom of this policy, as people in those parts are without supply of food and mer­ chants are suffering losses; meditate re­ storing trade privileges, although insur­ gents reap benefits. Courts here in suc­ cessful operation under direction of abie Filipinos. Affairs in other islands com­ paratively quiet, awaiting results in Lu­ zon. All anxious for trade, and repeated calls for American troops are received. A.m giving attention to Jole Archipelago and Palawan Islands. Our troops have worked to the limit of endurance. Volunteer organizations have been called in and replaced by regu­ lars, who now occupy salient positions. Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Utah now taking transports, and Sixth infantry sent to Negros to relieve California. These troops are in good physical condi­ tion; sickness among troops has increas­ ed lately, due mostly to arduous service and climatic influences. Nothing alarm­ ing. Of the 12 per cent of the command reported sick nearly 0 in general hospital, of whom 3 per cent have typhoid and 17 malarial fevers; 25 per cent have intes­ tinal trouble; remaining 55 p»r cent have various ailments, 14 of which are due to wound injuries. Many officers and men who served in Cuba break nnder recur­ rence of Cuban fever, anu regular regi­ ments received are inadequately officered. . "OTIS." The inadequacy of the a umber of offi­ cers mentioned in the last part of the ca­ blegram has been remedied by the sailing of the transports Zelandia and Sheridan, GERMANY REJECTS SCHEME. WORU Internal >MEN MEST* Colonel Von Schwatzboff Pnte • Check on Disarmament Plans. The Russian proposals for a standstill of armament" have been submitted to a sub-committee of the peace conference at The Hague. This move was all that saved them from immediate rejection. Their eventual rejection is sure. Col. Gross von Schwatzhoft of the Ger­ man delegation made a speech against the disarmament scheme which is the sensa­ tion of the conference so far. In reply to the Czar's plea for disarmament on the ground that a maintenance of large armaments is crushing the nations, he said that Germany was not being ruined and her wealth, contentedness and stand­ ard of life were daily increasing. He said further that a reduction of peace forces was only one small step toward a reduction of offensive power. Length of military service, development of railway, enabling rapid mobilization and economical" conditions were all fac­ tors in a nation's military strength. concluded by saying with amazing frank­ ness that to only consider the non-in- crease of armaments and leave out all these other factors might seem a plausi­ ble scheme for peace to an outsider, but to a military expert it was so manifestly absurd* that he wondered it could ever have been put forward in earnest. Many of the delegates say that Col. von Schwatzhoff's speech was a smash­ ing blok to Russian arguments. The German peace delegates hatfe privately informed their colleagues that they are how instructed to support the principle of arbitration. BELIEVE SHE WAS MURDERED. The Inifnt|ktli|M|} Gonad! *£ Women *peo«d in tie i&tocatloo iMtll of the charrtt house, London, England. The Countess of AbeWNn, president of the council, In her address, after cordiii words of welcome, sketched the duties Of the council. She said international arbi­ tration should ever be placed foremost in its program, advocated the establishment of an international bureau of informa­ tion regarding all that affects women, and warned women against arrogating to themselves alone the duties of curing all evils. Lady Aberdeen afterward introduced Mrs. May Wright Sewall of the United States, vice-president of the council,' who was enthusiastically received asi* possi­ ble successor to the presidency. For officers the international council has some of the most prominent women in the world. They are: President. Coun­ tess of Aberdeen; vice-president, Mrs. May Wright Sewall of the United States; treasurer, Baroness Alexandra Grippen- bet%: of Finland; recording' secretary, Mme. Maria Martin of France; corre­ sponding secretary, Miss Teresa F. Wil­ son of London. The nations represented at the congress are the United States, Great Britain, Germany, * Sweden, Canada, Denmark, Holland, India, New South Wales, Tas­ mania. Norway, Palestine, China, New Zealand and the Argentine Republic. The United States is represented by Mrs. Fan­ nie Humphreys Gaffney, Susan B. An­ thony and Rev. Anna H. Shaw. Among the well-known American women who are in attendance at the congress are Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, Mrs. Annie Jenness Mil­ ler, Mrs. Florence B. Kelley, Mrs. Eliz­ abeth C. Grannis and Miss Alice Bor- ditt. NEW CANAL COMBINATION. It Propoaea to Conatrnct an Iathmian / Water Way. Articles of incorporation for the Ameri­ can Isthmus Ship Canal Company have been filed in Trenton, N. J. Through these articles the first announcement was made of the new combination, which, it is said, includes many men of large wealth, headed by former Mayor William R. Grace, and expects to carry to complet'on the isthmian canal scheme. Although the nominal capital is $30,000, the articles of incorporation give the right to increase it to $250,000,000. It is estimated that between $150,000i.- 000 and $200,000,000 will be needed to carry out the project, the greater part of which will be expended in buying off the" holders of concessions. According to the papers of incorporation, the object of the company is to acquire any and all conr cessions, rights and franchises on the American isthmus, to build a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, to. own lands, mines and railroads; to colonize and to build, own and operate any canal from ocean to ocean and to obtain aid from the United States, England, France, Germany or any other Government to that end. ' TRUSTS ON THE DECLINE, So Baya Crawford Fairbanks*. Who Organized Strawboard Combine. Crawford Fairbanks- of Terre Haute* Ind., the brewery magnate and the pro­ moter of the strawboard trust, has a vivid idea that the trusts are* so tO' speak, on their last legs. "Did you read that expression of the Attorney General of the United States in which he «aid that the investors in trusts would be the sufferers--not the public?" said he. "Well, his head may be level. The investors have a stomaclw- ful of trusts. Trust stock is down from 15 to 20 points and the investor® don't bite like they did. The furore is wearing off. It takes a bigger chunk of bait and a better quality to have a tempting effect than it did awhile back. I don't think that it will be possible to put through any \ trust deal on a large scale in the future." POWERFUL NEW SHELL TESTED. SOUTHERN. EASTERN. 1 Ul'l&i'ay, aged 75, one of the best- ,hnown inventors in Massachusetts, died :*t Medford. ; Rev. Dr, N. E. Wood, formerly of Chi- OQgo, has been chosen president of New­ ton, Mass., Theological Institute. At Vintondale, Pa., the large sawmill •St the Vinton Lumber Company was de­ stroyed by fire. The loss is $60,000, with •o insurance. t Recorder GoS of New York City has l|ieen missing for several days, and it is iN&eved he is an unwilling passenger on U ocean steamer bound for Europe, as • ; " L * • - • SiSSIi"' •:Y3r Wiiiiam Goebel was nominated for Governor on the twenty-sixth ballot by the Kentucky Democratic convention at Louisville. Three negroes are dead and one is fatally injured as a result of ,.a riot be­ tween the white and negro miners at the ore mines near Cardiff* Ala. While riding along the public road in Elliott County, twenty miles south of Georgetown, Ivy., Lee Sparks was fatally shot from ambush. !>o clew to the mur­ derer. ' Gustavus A, Ulmaq of Chicago was married at Richmond, Va., to Miss Gene­ vieve Uaab. During the ceremony a shower o£ roses from a canopy descended tipou the bride and groom. The' steam° tug Berniee, belonging to Paiterson. Downing & Co. of Mobile, was • «'v V ':l Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 33c to 35c; oats, No. % 24c to 20c; rye. No. 2, 61c to 63c; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, Choice new, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 2&e to 30o- St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $&>75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. % 73c to 7Be; corn. No. S yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2, 2ttc to 28c; rye, Wo. 2, 57e to 50c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 85e to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27e to 21V; rye. No. 2, 64c to 66c. Deteoit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2, 78c to 80c; corn. No. 2 yellow, §5c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 31ct rye. 58c to 00c. Trfedo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 86c; oafa. No. 2 mixed, 2oc to 27c; rye, No. 2, 59c to 61c; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.05. Milvaukee-^Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 3, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 1, 59c to 61c; barley. No. 2, 41c to 43c; pork, mess, $8.00 to $8.50. Bufc'alo--Cattle;^good shipping steers, 53.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $&25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.25. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 42c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 32c to 34c; r. creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, West* 14c to 10c. Evidence Showinc that Belle Stair in Did Not Commit Unlcide. When the body of Belle Slavia was found in the oflice of the Nartioaal Bank of Commerce at Wichita. Kan., death having resulted from a bullet wound in the head, it was supposed that she had committed suicide. Later developments seem to indicate that the young woman was murdered and the police are working upon that theory. Miss Slavin, who was the bank's sten­ ographer, was permitted to take in out­ side work, which often kept her' at the bank until 10 o'clock at night. Mr. Jobes, president of the bank, now states that on the afternoon previous a strange man came to the bank and asked to have some work done. Miss Slavin told him to bring it around after (I o'clock. • Mr. Jobes says that he observed the stranger surveying the interior of the bank very critically A citizen heaTd a pistol shot just after 8 o'clock. When Miss Slavin's father and another citizen went in search of her they found the bank door unlocked, papers were scattered around the floor, the con­ tents of several drawers were disarrang ed, and M^iss Slavin's keys were missing. The revolver found by the young woman's side was not hers. Device of Far Greatar Destructive Power than Shrapnel Invented. A shell of terrific explosive power, wide radius of destruction and a capacity to annihilate by bursting fragments and a shock as effective as a streak of light­ ning will be the feature of the fall cam­ paign in the Philippine Islands. Tests df' tb¥ 'Charge'this terrible engine of war have been nffedo at Sandy Hook, the Government guarding closely its secret of manufacture. "A shell of this nature charged with an explosive equal to melin- he'-0r dynamite ^falling near a battalion of the enemy would kill or cripple a very large percentage of the battalion. The chances of escape from this tremendous machine will be,decreased 100 times, ex­ perts say, as compared with shrapnel dis­ charged at the same objects. PLAQUE G|tT$ TO HONOLULU. Two C^Kaths from Bubonic Fcosrge In Hawaiian Harbor. The steamer Nippon Maru, .firom Hong Kong, whLch has reached Honolulu, h«« been quarantined in consequence of a deatH, believed to. be from bubonic plague, having ^occurred oa board three days be­ fore her arrival. One Chinese passen­ ger died; on board just before the vessel reached .Nagasaki and the Japanese heaLth authorities had the body cremated and held the vessel in quarantine for sev­ eral days. Three days before reaching Honolulu another death occurred among the Chinese. The Honolulu health offi­ cers made a bacteriological examination, resulting in tbe finding of bubonic plague baccili in the body. "iMpr T socftt fofr- nearly cpiribr ed mntdarer of lSS Gates, brother John W. Gates of Chicago, presMtnt of the American Steel and Wire Company, has been located in Okla­ homa. The news was telegraphed A.' A. Gates, the aged father, .at St. Charles, 111.,'and he i m m e d i a t e l y s e n t directions to Wich­ ita, Kan., which led •ILBBKT w. SATKS. to the arrest of the murderer. Gilbert Gates was murdered near War- rensburg, Mo., on the night of May 2, 1872, while he was journeying westward by wagon with Alexander Jester. When night came they encamped on the river bank, and under cover of darkness Jes­ ter, it is said, stole toward Gates and shot him in the back., He robbed Gates and then attempted to conceal the crime by burning his victim's body. Failing In this, the murderer threw the corpse into the ilver, whence It drifted down stream, where it was finally discovered in Salt river. A successful chase for Jester follow­ ed, and he was captured. A. A. Gates, father of the murdered man, hastened from Chicago to the West at that time and was one of a party which searched the house of a sister who was then living eighteen miles north of Wichita. There Mr. Gates says he found clothing which had been worn by his murdered son. This STOKE THAT ACCUSES JK8TEB. and other evidence was introduced: in the trial, but before it was concluded Jester escaped. Since then he has been at large, and efforts to find him have proved unavail­ ing. A few days ago the sister of the murderer, Mrs. Cornelia Street of She- wanee, Oklahoma, wrote to Sheriff Sim­ mons of Wichita saying that her brother was living in Shewanee Aider the name of W. H. Hill. He wa» arrested and has been identified by John W. Gates. Jester protests his innocence. The bodies of George: and' Laura G<ates, Gilbert's brother and sister, lie in the plot at Oakwood Cemetery, near West Chi­ cago, and between them rises a marble shaft ten feet high, on a granite base. The names of the two children Whose bodies lie beside it are inscribed there, and upon another face is this inscription: GILBERT W.r son of A. A and Mary Gates* Was murdered in Missouri by Alexander Jester, January 25, 1871. Aged 19 years and1 25 days. WON BY PENN'S CREWL To Gallant Wisconsin* Howevery Does the Glory Belong. The honor of the West has been up­ held. But for an unfortunate incident the probabilities are that the most excit­ ing and hotly contested boat race known to college history would; have gone to the University of Wisconsin. A crate bob­ bing on the water directly in the course of the Western eight made it necessary to veer at a sharp angle from the straight path to avoid also the cluster of boats which crowded close to the channel of the contestants. It was too late then to re­ turn to the "live" water, and a-mfd deaf­ ening cheers Pennsylvania crossed the line the winner by a scant half boat length. The race occurred o^ the Hudson river ait Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . Pennsylvania won by a scant half length in 20:04, Wis­ consin being three lengths ahead of Cor­ nell and the latter leading Columbia by Dour lengths* AMERICANS SUE ONTARIO. Lumberman Claim DamasM Under tbe .limber Regulations^ Don M. Dickinson of Detroit has fiied a big bill of damages against the province of Ontario at Ottawa, on behalf of Mich­ igan lessees of Ontario timber lands for violation of the crown timber licenses. Ontario now requires all these lessees to manufacture the logs into lumber in On­ tario, and as a consequence several mills in Michigan have had to shut down. The claims reach the total of $936,500. The constitutionality of the Ontario statute is now being tested in the courts, but the case will not likely reach the final court of appeal, the British privy council, until next November. 8parks from tbe Wire*. Percy Cox, 19, Westfield, N. J., hanged himself. E. B. Weeks found murdered in his home, Bogue Sound, B. N. C. E. G. Leake, Elkton, Ky„ stabbed Ho­ mer S^ott, colored, to death. Joseph Lincoln, 65, relative of Abraham Lincoln, dead, Chattanooga, Tenn. E. C. Robinson, Lexington, Mo., killed himself in a Cincinnati hotel. Arsenic. Congressman Charles Dick will manage the Ohio campaign for the Republicans. Joe Leppi* Louisville, Ky., in a family row, killed his stepfather, George Bow- master. So much gambling in Cuba that Gen. Brooke threatens to close some of the places. John Hayes, Belaire, Md., engaged in a pistol battle with Policeman Bateman. Both dead. Emile Zola, at Paris, filed papers oppos­ ing the verdict condemning him to a years imprisonment. Two principal witnesses in murder casei pending in San Saba County, Texas, wert assassinated. J Jos. Hopper, Summerville, Texas, sud­ denly became insane and killed Samnel Davis with an ax. Four freight cars crashed through the bridge, Pacific, Mo., and fell into tJf river. No one hurt. Capt, Peter Devries, Grand Rapids, Mich., is trying to secure homes ir Georgia for 100 Dutch families. Mrs. Margaret Trishman, Mamcwtt} LABOR WAR AT LAPEL, IND VJnien and Non-nnion Men Walk the streets Heavily Armed. Union and non-union men walk the streets of Lapel, Ind., armed to the teeth and carrying guns and revolvers without any pretense of concealing them. Several days ago the workmen in the two flint- glass factories at that point organized and the management in turn locked them out. Since then the entire community has en­ gendered a bitter feeling against union­ ism. The union men held a conference and were attacked by a mob of citizens. Tbe hotel was riddled with bullets. No­ tices have been received by several union sympathizers that their places would be blown to pieces if they did not join in the hostile ^movement against the unionists. Sheriff Moore and deputies have practi­ cally established military government. TO TRY DREYFUS. Co position of Court-Martial for tbs Revision of His Case. The official list of the composition of the Dreyfus court-martial, which is to assemble in the army service building at Rennes for the retrial of the prisoner, is as follows: President, Col. .Tuarest; Maj. Brangniast, artillery; Maj. De Breon, ar­ tillery; Maj. Profilet, artillery; Maj. Merle, artillery; Capt. Parfait, artillery; Capt. Beauvais, artillery. GIVES BERMUDA RECIPROCITY. Treaty. Effected In Washington and Mow Only Awaits Ratification. - A reciprocity treaty relating to the British West Indian colony of Bermuda has been concluded. The Bermuda com?" mission has left for home with a draft of the treaty, which is to be submitted to the Bermuda Legislature before being finally signed, on behalf of the two gov­ ernments, by Commissioner Kasson and Mr. Tower, the British charge. Telegraphic Brevities. 1 Carl Tasi, 45, and son, George, 10, Nor­ folk, Va., convicted of circulating spurious half dollars. Pat Sweeney, Cincinnati, attempted to eject an unknown man from a theater. Sweeney was shot and seriously wounded. ' The paper board mHls of McEwan H« «•»*£. -1 KfBA wrsH&j'ir throat of her 5-year-old son. Insane. 1 ' * -- :,jy. *..4*1, Wt.r-.Z mt llii^ MUSKEGON ASSASSIN AVENQS# , AN ALLSGED QRIEVANCfc ** Jmmtm Balbirnle Slain by a Dinr «;« pointed Officeseeksr, Whs lamed- lately Afterw^yd Take* His Own Life mt --Deadly Work of Ballet and Poison. ° John W. Tayer, former director of the city poor, assassinated Mayor James Bal-|ff: 'fe birnie of Muskegon, Mich., at noonf-ft;7 Thursday and then killed liimsdf. Iaf gf > order to make sure of death he swaiiowedl . a quantity of carbolic acid and then shof ^'t^, himself. / ( X1 The shooting took place on the asataf^;ft1'1 business street of the city, director . fa|S front of Mayor Balbirnie's funftMe»V store and undertaking establishment. The Mayor had just descended from hia " living room over tbe store and was about to untie his horse, standing near the* walk, when he was accosted by Tayetv®fx who said he wished to speak with him. ' The Mayor thereupon turned and seated - ' himself in a chair in front of the store. A mail carrier approached and handedi \jti the Mayor a letter, and while the carrier^, *Jr was still present Tayer shot Mr. Bal-/*-<..... birnie, the ball entering his left breast. * The murderer then stepped into the> ' v doorway of the store,"swallowed a quan- „>•; "| t i t y o f c a r b o l i c a c i d , w h i c h h e t o o k f r o n t " * I • vial in his pocket, and then shot him- ""1 % \ self in almost identically tbe same place*v \; ] that the Mayor had been shot. The May-,.'-, or staggered to his feet and ran upstairs* ^ to his residence above the store. William- : *' &: Burnett, a blacksmith, who has his shop*, across the street, was a witness to the;. j shooting. He ran after the Mayor andj^^; reached the top of the stairs just as Mr.;. I } Balbirnie fell. In fifteen minutes, almost^'s ' before aid could be summoned, the Mayor ^ was dead. After Tayer shot himself he[ t'*" sahk to the walk, and later was removed ' - ^ to the city hall, where he died shortly be-' >»v' " fore 1 o'clock.' i The motive for the crime Is supposed tO!^,;., have been morbid despondency. Tayer'. had been city poormaster. He was re- moved last spring by Mayor Balbirnie. Tayer asked the Mayor for the position? ,r, 'r of city sexton, and this was refused' him. r ^ Tbe Mayor's actio® embittered Tayer, but;" < there was no suspicion that be had been. "V| aroused to a murderous state of mind. " K ^ LOST IN SHIPWRECK. ^ V! Steamer Margaret Otwill Goes Do»w< in Lake Kriet In a northeast gale the steamer Mar- •*'*_ J i g a r e t O l w i l l , l a d e n w i t h s t o n e f r o m T C p I - v ' 5 - ' ley's Island to Cleveland,, foundered ini / :C. L a k e E r i e o f f L o r a i n , O h i o . N i n e p e r - i ̂ f - ' sons were drowned. Four members of? \ the crew have been picked up by passings, • steamers and taken into Cleveland. ^ I From the reports of the survivors the: *- tOlwill's cargo of stone shifted while the ;U. vessel was laboring in the trough of the»i|^/i sea. Shortly before' it went down the cud- ' " »' der chains parted, allowing it to fall off into the trough. As the helpless craft rose on top of a heavy sea the stone slidl to leeward, the steamer listed- heavily, and sank to the botom. The rescued mem­ bers of the crew were found floating oni the surface of 'Lake Erie,, clinging to bits*" of wreckage. Their rescue was attended, b y e x h i b i t i o n s o f g r e a t h e r o i s m , f o r a heavy sea was still running when they were picked up. The Olwill lies in fifty feet of water,. eight miles off Lorain. It belonged to L.. P. and J. A. Smith of Cleveland and had' been carrying stone from t|Je quarries at Kelley's Island to Cleveland for the breakwater now being built. The Olwill. was launched in 1887 and was 175 feet long and 34 feet beam, , It 'measured. 554 gres» tons. NO ld»MIT TO ARMY, M - .. Xeeraitine Officers to Make Enlist­ ments Until Notified to Desist. The War Department at Washington* has not yet placed.a limit upon the num­ ber of men to be recruited for the Philr . ippines. Secretary Alger says that the- recruiting officers have been, instructed to. , make enlistments- until the department or-;' ders to the contrary. He would not say ' V -i when the recruiting would stop. He- anr. _ ^ t * nounced, however, that it was the pur- 1 pose of the department to furnish. Gen.rr-, , Otis soldier» not only to> take- the place off/'^i1 those incapacitated by sickness and; » wounds «nd those killed in: the harassing;'. sorties of the Filipinos during the rainy * ' season, but also to furnish garrisons and police for the cities and towns occupied! by the United States. At present a com­ paratively small force will be required for this purpose. When active campaigning is resumed after the close of the rainy season, and the American army with a fighting force of 36,000 proceeds against the Filipinos, their progress should be rapid, and hence pa large reserve force will be required to garrison the places> captured. * TO ENFORCE FISHING Newfoundland Warns Americana Not to Aid French Violators. Tbe Newfoundland colonial government has .prepared a circular intimating to American fishermen that the bait act is about to be stringently'egforced against the French, and warning the Americans I. that if they assist the French by bringing them bait to St. Pierre the laws will be"™" similarly enforced against them also. The British first-class cruiser Indefatigable, one of the finest ships of the British North American squadron, has been or­ dered to Newfoundland. It is no doubt the intention of the naval authorities to attach her to the fleet performing fishery service on the French coast. CONFIRMS DEATH OF ANOREE. Letter from the Explorer Is Washed Ashore on Norway's Coast. ' H. J. Baron, formerly an Eastern news- paper man, has written the foliowing^fj from Wrangel, Alaska: "Information re-j^ ceived here confirms the story that An-v •• dree, the arctic explorer, is dead. A Nor-"' wegian, who was a passenger on the Ro­ salie, a Seatttle boat bound for Skaguay, showed a le\fer supposed to have been written by Andree. The letter, in a seal­ ed bottle, had been washed ashore off the Norwegian coast. The latitude was giv-*» }< en as 74 north and the balloon was some- * where to the westward of Iceland. 'I am|' |r; leaving balloon and provisions.--Andtfee,* •; were the words written." J" SIR JULIAN TO RETIRE. ^ Ambassador Will Give Up His AaMrl* can Mission Next April. v*C The correspondent of the Londonr 4 Standard at The Hague telegraphs that; j he has had an interview with Sir Julian" Pauneefote, British ambassador ,tt> the,' United States and head of the BritishKv5*.^ delegation at the peace conference, and^ ,• been assured by him that he intends to'-' ,' -j retire from the Washington embassy in'. April next. The correspondent says: "Sir- Julian will stay in England after the con-' ? ' ferenee until October, unless the Alaskan^. Affair calls him to Washington eSriievr r Roosevelt Not a Candidate^. . Gov. Roosevelt of New York declare that be is not a candidate for the Republp lican nomination for President in 1900. V" I'Jr* ->'• mALt "i /