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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 5 Oct 1899, p. 2

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3pjESS£EKS$ NSWSBEOOSD a direct violation of tt»e bnild- tig!***, a structure designed »s a pro- teatfclfe tor pedestrians 111 front of a bulld- |n| ia process of remodeling at New York collapsed. One young woman was killed. Oberlin M. Carter, the convicted cap­ tain of the United States army engi­ neers, most serve out the sentence pro- tAinnced by the court-martial that tried Un-five yearn* imprisonment at hard labor and % fine of $5,000. Albert Meddley, who has been missing from hie home at Marion, Ind., was found at Montpelier, O. He had been kidnaped by tramps. Ail four of the kidnapers, who had guarded him by turns, finally went to sleep, and the boy escaped. At Irondale, Ohio, fire which broke oat in Novinsky's clothing store was not brought tinder control until half of the business portion of the town was wiped oat. Nine buildings, occupied by ten stores, the postoffice and several offices were consumed. Particulars have been received of the head-end collision between" a passenger train and a light engine two miles west of Paisley, Mont., on the Great Northern. Four men were killed. The coroner's jury placet! the blame oil the engineer of the light engine. Thirty-seven of Pittsburg's big foun­ dries are idle. The molders are on strike for an advance of $3 for a minimum day's wage, time and a half for extra hours and double time for Sunday work. Ten firms have granted the increase and their plants continue in operation. Burglars tunneled through the vaolts of the Bank of Houstonia at Houstonia, Mo., and blew open the Safe, securing all the cash in the money box. The amount secured by the burglars is estimated as high as $20,000, but Cashier W. F. Long- an says the bank lost only $1,100 in gold. James P. Willett, postmaster of Wash­ ington under President Cleveland's last administration and superintendent of the postofUce department and city postofDce building, was killed by falling down an elevator shaft from the fourth story to the basement of the new Washington postoffice. Fire in the Streuse Block, Fostoria, Ohio, caused a loss on the building of $2,000. Mrs. Sheehy's millinery stock was ruined; Strohmeir's bakery, Shafer's music store, Wright's bowling alley and Oaley's restaurant suffered a total loss Of $5,000. The fire is believed to have been incendiary. The standing of the dabs in the lia* tiopal League race is as follow*: W.L. W. L. Brooklyn --93 43 Chicago .....71 70 Philadelphia 89 54 Pittsburg . . ?T0 72 Boston 87 53 Louisville .. .70 72 Baltimore ..82 56 New York...57 81 St. Louis....82 62 Washington. 49 92 Cincinnati ..77 64 Cleveland .. .20 128 Options have been closed at Doluth for the purchase of the three idle iron and ateel plants at the head of the lake by the Lake Superior Steel Company, a New Jersey corporation, of which John E. Searle is the apparent bead. The new company is being organized with a cap­ ital of $5,000,000. A large sum will be •pent in putting the three plants in shape. B. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "September is the twelfth consecutive month in which the volume of business, both at New York and out- tide, has been greater than in the same month of any previous year. In these twelve months payments through the clearing houses have been $89,600,000,- 000, against $61,200,000,000 in the twelve months ended with September, 1892. The demand still grows, now ranging about 60 per cent greater than in 1892, while popu­ lation, according to treasury estimates, is 16 per cent greater and wages are not over 10 per cent greater. A reconstruc­ tion of business and industries, of produc­ ing and transporting forces, is in progress throughout the land, with can now measure." ' took place at An Saiots' Chap^ Newport, it. mmmm cording to tlw rteeTofthe Ufeek Chawh the previous day. The financial projectors of the Ameri­ ca* Window Glass Company met in Pittsburg and allotted the stock for the new combination. AH subscribers for stock for $10,000 or less receive the full amount, and all over that tola are to be shaded 10 per cent A. P. Stephenson, a prominent and wealthy merchant of Pittsburg, tried to kill his wife and child and then commit­ ted suicide. Stephenson bad been drink­ ing heavily for several weeks and duriug fits of melancholy had frequently threat­ ened to kill himself. A head-on collision between a Ne* York Central passenger train and a freight train occurred just west of Old Flat Bottom bridge, about half a mile west of Auburn. N. Y., and as a result four persons are dead, one fatally injured and four seriously injured. The Union Trust Company of James­ town, N. Y., has received information that Alba N. Kent, a young business man who is charged with securing $20,000 by forgery, has been located in Yoko­ hama by an ensign in the United States navy, and will be extradited. Nathan B. Pryor, aged 25, died at Lan­ caster, Pa., from the shock caused by viewing the body of his stepdaughter. He had been ill, but came downstairs to see the child's body. While viewing it his strength left him and he had to be assist­ ed back to bed, where he expired. WESTERN, NEWS HUGGBT8. At Blakely, Ga., Jim Hall, colored, was «*ecuted by hanging. Henry Williams was hanged in the jail yard at Greenville, Miss., for the murder of Eliza Brown. Christian Hartman of Omaha, Neb., is dead. He built the first beef-packing plant in Nebraska. At Hopkinsville, Ky., fire destroyed Samuel Frankel's dry goods store, caus­ ing a loss of $30,000. A Russian from one of the settlements In Stanley County went insane at Fort Pierre, 8. D., and ran amuck with a large knife, wounding several persons. ^ Arrangements have been completed bv Russo-Chinese Bank at Peking for a loan of 1,200,000 taels for the construc­ tion of Lung-Chan and Nan-Ning-Fu Railway. • Richard Carroll, Cincinnati, formerly jpaperintendent of the Cincinnati South­ ern Railroad and more recently rice-pres­ ident and general manager of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, died of heart dis­ ease. False quotations, reporting rapid ad­ s' is cotton prices in Liverpool, caus­ ed a panic on the New Orleans exchange. Prices jumped, but upon later informa­ tion all transactions of the day were de- • {dared void. i The stage running between Atlin and 1 f^iscovery, Alaska, was held up by a lone highwayman. There were nine passen­ gers, bat none carried much money or Valuables, and the plunder secured was fight. The robber escaped. ; The Alexander Gilmer sawmill and lumber yard at Orange, Texas, was burn- |§§d by incendiaries. Loss on mill $1®. : SflOO, insurance $50,000. W. C. Linn, one of the oldest residents the Black Hills, was killed at Galena, D., while thawing some dynamite in bis cabin. He was a first cousin of Pres- ,,_ ident McKinley. Walter Clyatt, a plumber, aged 31, liv- <•: teg in Albiua, Ore., shot and killed him- * , aelf. Before taking his life he shot his frife In the back of'the head. Jealousy . is supposed to have been the cause for 'fjfra- flrW1 • ^ EASTERNT^ ?-v fared B.^Flhgg, Sr., the artist, died at Wffew York, aged 80. Capt. Francis S. Haggerty. U. S. N., Retired, died in New York, aged 90 years. ' At Meriden, Conn., Thomas Kell, aged 17, died from injuries received ia a foot­ ball game. 7 Gen. Henry Heth, the Confederate - chieftain and historian, died at Washing- •Aton of Brigbt's disease, aged 74. 'V A girl baby was born to Mrs. Corne- Slus Vanderbilt at New York. She is ' pile second child born to the young couple. ftidlc FULLY opera J. B. Ballintine is dead at Stanley Bar site, Idaho. Joseph Opelt, a well-known hotel man of Lincoln, Neb., died at Omaha. CoL S. A. lawyer, a well-known finan­ cier and stockman, is dead at Manhattan, Kan. John Doulin, Hopkins, Mo., is deaid, aged 65. He was the first merchant in the town. Stanley Pearson, superintendent of Southland College, is dead at Helenat Ark., aged 50. Tatsugora Ognwa, a Japanese top-spin­ ner, died at the Agnew Hospital, Kansas City, of consumption. Consul Wiltshire Butterfield, Omaha, Neb., author of several widely read his­ torical works, is dead. Dr. George A. Hendricks, professor of anatomy in the University of Minnesota, died of acute Bright's disease. A dispatch from Terre Haute says that the price of Indiana coal has been ad­ vanced 25 cents a ton at the mines. W. Cummings, president of the State Bank of Effingham, Ivan., was found dead in bed. He was 65 years old. The grand jury returned indictments against twelve leading rtail druggists in Kansas City for selling liquor illegally. The pleasure boats Ivanhoe and R. J. Gordon bul-ned to the water at their dock at the foot of Van Buren street, Chicago. Fire which was caused by a lamp being knocked from a table destroyed two busi­ ness blocks at Chickasaha, I. T., with a loss of $50,000, insurance small. A special from the Cheyenne-Sioux agency in Nebraska says there is great excitement over the murder of Long Ha­ ley, a Cheyenne river Sioux, by Ruddy, a squaw man. A thrashing engine exploded on the farm of Henry Brandt, in Red Rock township, S. D., killing Brandt instantly, fatally injuring Fred Lance and seriously burning Robert Smith. A bad wreck occurred on the Great Northern road a short distance west of Glasgow, Mont. Five men were killed and two others seriously injured, all em­ ployes of th'e company. Rev. C. S. Dudley, for five years pas­ tor of Centenary M. E. Church at Beat­ rice, Neb., has been transferred by Bish­ op Warren to be pastor fit the Oakland M. E. Church, Chicago. Conquering Bear, a prominent Sioux chief from Pine Ridge agency, camped at the Omaha exposition grounds, was al­ most instantly killed by jumping from a trolley car while it was moving. As the Rev. E. A. Erwin and John Stanfield were riding along a country toad near Guthrie, O. T., lightning from a clear sky killed Stanfield and his horse and the Rev. Mr. Erwin's horse. The strike of the union carpenters of Omaha for an increase from 30 cents to 35 cents an hour is practically ended, the majority of the contraclors having ac­ ceded to the demands of the men. An innovation in American newspaper methods has been made by the Germnnla of Milwaukee, which announces that it has employed Dr. Duemling, of the Luth­ eran College at Laporte, Ind., as censor. The safe in a private bank at Durand, 111., was blown open by robbers and S3.- 500 stolen. The explosion was of suffi­ cient force to partly wreck the building. The robbers escaped and there is no clew. William Griffenstein, the founder of Wichita, Kan., died at Shawnee, I. T. He left Germany as a political exile and landed at Westport, Mo., in 1850. He was a well-known Indian trader and frontierman. Mrs. J. T. Van Smyth, wife of a Kan­ sas City physician, has fallen heir to an estate iu Rotterdam. Holland, valued at $1,000,000, left her by an aunt. Mrs. Van Smyth was Miss Lucille Livingstone of Richmond, Va. Rev. John M. Life, chaplain of the Sev­ enth Ohio Volunteers, was found guilty by the Ohio Methodist conference of con- d'jct unbecoming a minister of the gospel, and was expelled from the "ministry. An appeal was taken. A head-end collision occurred on the Fire destroyed one of the roundhouses of the Birmingham, AJa., Railway and Electric Company* Several dummy en­ gines, motor cars and coaches were con­ sumed. The loss Is tdfcOOa Fire destroyed the Southern Railway warehouse No. 2 at Pinner's Point. Nor­ folk. Va,, with its contents. The loss, amounting to several hundred thousand dollars, is fully covered by insurance. Members of the Southern Stove Man­ ufacturers* Association met in Chatta­ nooga, Tenn., aad advanced prices 5 per cent. This palces an increase of 30 per cent over the prices of stoves a year ago. Rev. Lewis Luntpkintt, who has been preaching at Scott»Mtii». Ala., for forty years, has been sentenced to the peniten­ tiary for ten years oh the charge of in­ humanly torturing his little grandson by burning him so badly that the child died. Fires have been kindled at the Union Window Glass Company's plant at Cen­ tral City, W. Va., which will give em­ ployment to 250 persons. The plant will be operated in opposition to the window glass trust. It has been idle for six years. Peter Hanes, a well-to-do negro of Harriston, Miss., threw a lighted lamp at his wife and it exploded, enveloping her in flamwhich in a few minutes burned her to death. He tried vainly to smother the flames and was himself fatally burn­ ed. The Lower Potts Creek property, situ­ ated in Alleghany and Craig counties, Virginia, has been sold to the Valley Ore Company. The price paid was $500,000. The tract contains 50,000 acres of the richest iron ore lands in the United -v FOREIGN, 4 ' Africa's exports last year amounted to $350,000,000 and the imports to $400,000,- 000. Gen. Manuel Guzman Alvarez, presi­ dent of the State of Bermudes, in Vene­ zuela, has declared for the revolution as against President Andrade. William Bonny, who accompanied Hen­ ry M. Stanley, the African explorer. In 1887 in the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, is dead at London. " Earthquakes, floods and landslides are reported to have caused great damage at and near Darjeeling, India. Twelve Eu­ ropeans and sixty natives were killed. The insurgents have captured the Unit­ ed States gunboat Urdaneta in the Orani river, on the northwest side of Manila bay. One officer and nine of her crew are missing. A dispatch has been received from Ma­ nila by the War Department stating that Gen. Snyder attacked the position of the insurgents five miles west of Cebu and destroyed seven forts. Fifty thousand Londoners at the peace demonstration in Trafalgar square to a man yelled for war, and it took a hun­ dred mounted police and a battalion of foot to prevent a foretaste of actual hos­ tilities. ' , JN GENERAL. Confirm an R. B~"Hawley, rt>p?egeht- :ng American capitalists, has purchased the Tinguaro sugar estate in Cuba. Chief Wilkie of the treasury secret ser­ vice has found a new issue of an old counterfeit $2 treasury note, portrait of McPherson. Gen. Ludlow has issued a proclamation to the people of Havana warning labor agitators and denouncing the proposed general strike as an iniquitous conspir­ acy. Official reports have been received of two battles between Mexicans and Ya- quiff, one at Vicam and the other near Lake Zaqueca. At both places the In­ dians were defeated with considerable losses. Advices from Barranquilla to Panama state that the steamer General Montoya, belonging to the Magdalena River Trans­ port Company, took tire and among those who perished was Gen. Julio Renjifo, formerly Colombian charge d'affaires in Washington. A buried glacier has been discovered on Boulder creek, Alaska. There was about eight inches of earth over the glacier on which trees eight inches in diameter were growing, showing the ice mountain, which is clear and pale blue, has been there for a long time. News reached Victoria, B.'C., by the steamer Cottage City that a relief expe­ dition had been sent by the mounted po- I'ce to the Mackenzie river trail, where great suffering is said to prevail. The last arrival from the Mackenzie river was an Australian named Edwarason, who, after losing his supplies, was a week without food. A circular letter is being framed by several of the largest wholesale nut merchants in. San Francisco, to be circu­ lated among the sellers and growers in California, Virginia and other peanut raising States, asking signatures to the petition to Congress to raise the import tariff on peanuts from the present % cent duty to at least 3 cents. The object is to shut out Japanese peanuts, f ' " v . Arrives Ahead of Time. BIG WELCOME BEGINS. &M3 Belle Plaine and Muchakinoek extension, seven miles southeast of Oskaloosa, Iowa, killing four train bands and injuring seri­ ously ten others. The trains case to­ gether as a result of an error in orders. At Grass Valley, Cal., in a fight be­ tween Jim Preadergast of Sacramento and Charles Hoskiu of Grass Valley. Hoskin was floored three times and failed to come to when the referee counted off the ten seconds. He was probably fatal­ ly hurt. Mrs. Julia Benheard, a widow, living at W iehita, Kan., in looking over some aid letters, found a deposit certificat-i for £>10,000. which her brother, W. L. Rich­ ardson, had placed in the Bank of Tren­ ton of Trenton, Tenu., to her credit Jan. 23, 1883, ^ . -jfW • = . * erf.' SOUTHERN. • 'v'r:# At Union City, Ttnn., T. R. Bond shot and seriously wounded M. E. Chambers. The trouble grew out of a lawsuit* rhe plant of the Owensboro, Ky.. woolen Mills Company was totally de­ stroyed by lire. Loss $100,000, insur­ ance $45,000. D- P. Hearn and J. P. Hearn, brothers, and Pean Harn were killed by the ex­ plosion of a stationary-engine boiler at Palmetto. Ga The body of a negro named Will Otis was found hanging to a tree near 43tawl Springs, Miss. The. man is supposed to have been lynched. \ * The large Dingess «>al mines at Hunt- fagton. W. Vfl„ that- h»A liaa. Ulo New* of Unexpected Arrival of Excitement. Fever CiHttla^' tile "Wwr6:"!-Wa. OOO Mill* A way When He Was With­ in Gamdsot of His Native Land-Ad­ miral and All on Board Reported Wall-Signal Men Are Kept Busy Aaiwerteg the Salatos of Welcome. Admiral Dewey Tuesday morning treated the nation to another surprise. With the United States cruiser Olymp-.a, flagship' of the fleet that won the victory of Manila bay, he quietly sailed into New York bay at 7 o'clock iu the morning, nearly sixty hours ahead of time. The famous cruiser was first sight­ ed off the coast short­ ly before 0 o'clock. At 7:04 she passed in at Sandy Hook, and half an hour later she an­ chored in the lower bay. While Admiral Dewey and the Olym- pia wc-re reported by "expert" calculators to be about 000 miles off New York City they were almost within gunshot. It was the a d m i r a l's failure to touch at Bermuda that left everybody in doubt as to his course and *\w*LcnMK, • his whereabouts. His admiral!" early arrival is taken as further proof of the "Dewey way" to be -on time. All the morning, as the cruiser Jay at anchor, her signalman was kept busy dipping the ensign in answer to the wel­ come of passing vessels. An orderly came ashore from the Olympia soon after she had anchored, with dispatches and messages from the admiral and officers. New Yorkers Tuesday knew how Ad­ miral Montejo and his sailors must have felt that May morning, more than a year ago, when Dewey appeared in Manila bay, days ahead of the time the Span­ iards had bargained for. The reception | YtLVOW [ Hue. am a sailor. My that way. I know a# least should know It, and t <§&" to mix up in the affaira of fwwfiflMftUil' I am perfectly satisfied to Mveaaddle a simple sailor, who tried:to do Ids duty. I cannot make a speech 'Kfen.. "Gen. Otis has tried to do too. much. I told him so. He wants to be general, governor, judge and everything else--to have hold of all the irons. No man can do this. The-fight in the Philippines should be easily ended. Do I thiak the Filipinos are fit for self-government? WiU, no, not just now. They probably will tie ll! a little time. lt is my candid opinion that THK DEWKY ARCH. they Are Tftore fitted for it than the Cu­ bans; that they are a better'people than the Cubans in every way." When told that he had been suggested to lead the Democratic ticket with Gen. Wheeler as a running mate, the admiral said: "'Well, we should make a pretty mess of it. Gen. Wheeler, of course, has some training in the political school, but then he is a West Pointer. I had for­ gotten that. He would want to run ev­ erything as he would a regiment and, of course, would make a splendid mess of it. ¥ou cannot run a government as you would a regiment." When told that his son had said he was a pronounced Republican, the ad­ miral laughed and said his son knew about as much about it as the Olympia. There is heartiness and health in every gesture of the famed sea fighter. He has the quiet, courtly manner that stamps the man of the world, and the vigor that, characterizes the sailor. His face has M* i • 'i£.. ^ lV KH! THE CRUISER OLYMPIA, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S FLAGSHIP. MARKET REPORlUk Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, '*$3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to. 23c; eggs, 'irSu, 1 lGc to lTc; potatoes, choice, 30c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats,; No. 2 white, 25c to 2Cc. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye. No. 2, 62c to 63c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28e; rye. 58c to 60c. Toledo--Wheat, • No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c; clover seed, $5.75 to $5.85. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 60c to 71c; corn. No. 3, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye. No. 1, 59c to 60c barley. No. 2, 46c to 47c; pork, meats, $8.00 to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, gaod shipping steers, $3.00 to $6 .50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; bogs, $3.00 to $5.25; tfbeep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 42c; oats; No. 2 white, 30c to Sic: i butter, creamery, 17c to 24c; eggs, wtst- committee had asked the admiral to reach New York by Thursday, Sept. 28. He replied that he would be there.by.that time, and the people, knowing, he w^ld keep his word, expected that he wquld hover off the coast and then come in and drop anchor at the stated time. His ar­ rival, therefore,' was a shock. But* the people got over it quickly and weri't to work with renewed vigor to prepare for the reception to the nation's hero. It was eleven minutes to 6 Tuesday morning when the sleepy marine observ­ ers at Sandy Hook saw a trim-looking American man-of-war looming up iu the mist off the lightship, seven miles off shore. They keep tab on all of Uncle Yarn's ships and knew that no cruiser was due at New York that day. Mean­ time the ship drew nearer, and soon her signals, denoting that she was the Olym­ pia, were discerible. The news was quick­ ly flashed to the city and then transmit­ ted all over the country. By 7 o'clock the famous sea fighter had drawn close to khore and a few minutes later she crossed the bar. She proceeded about a mile and a half up the bay, inside the Hook. Wednesday morning Admiral Dewey and his men were early astir on the Olympia. At an early hour a number of tugs and chartered boats filled with pat­ riotic Americans hovered about the Olympia ready to cheer and wave flags at the slightest provocation. It was 9 o'clock when the Olymfia's Anchor was stripped, and five minutes later the graceful warship way. Her progress up the bi continuous ovation. \Y blown and flags dipped by p as the Olympia moved up through the narrows. To Staten Island and Long flocked in hundreds to Olympia, and, if possil glimpse of her comma When the Olympia t the head of the fleet bedlam' broke loose. T an admiral's salute and for twenty minut< with smoke and thu the ships of Sampsr Jated Cervera's mi crowded to the rail utes cheered the who had helped to Manila bay. T ed in kind. It navy to the navy. Mm in Hospital St. Vincent's hospital at Norfolk, Va., was burned to the ground at 2 o'clock Thursday morning. One woman was burned to death and two persons are missing. A nurse, Mrs. Dolan, was se­ verely injured. The fifaaucial loss is esti­ mated at $200,000. on at sville tired guns, a's tilled ckies on I annihi- Santiago, gome min- f Olympia, o's fleet in rrs respond- ting of the the bronze inevitable after thirteen months' exposure to the tropical sun of Manila bay. Dewey's eyes are of hazel brown, and sparkle when he is talking enthusiastically. His voice is strong and clear. The admiral dresses as immacu­ lately as ever. His appearance corre- tgpw&ds with that of the flagship, i. 'i . • ADMIRAL, DCWUY'S FUTUHK. Will Be Needed in Washington During Session of Philippine Commission. Adnrral Dewey is to be formally de­ tached from the Olympia. The flagship will then proceed to Boston, where she will be placed out of commission and re­ ceive an overhauling. The admiral will not be assigned to duty until he has been consulted on the subject. The President and the Secretary of the Navy will as­ certain his desires. While the action of the Navy Department will be dependent on the wishes of the admiral, President McKinley and Secretary Long have cer­ tain plans concerning him to which he will hardly object. When the Philippines commission assembles in November, Ad­ miral Dewey's presence at the meeting will be necessary, as he is one of its members. It is probable that the com­ mission will remain in Washington dur­ ing most if not all of the coming session of Congress. Admiral Dewey will reach the retiring |gc on Dec. 26, but as the law leaves it optional with him whether to retire or hot he will, it is believed, prefer to re­ main on the active list. It is said that the present intention of the Navy Depart­ ment is to assign Admiral Dewey to duty as the confidential advisor of the Secre­ tary of the Navy on naval affairs. The admiral will have as much leave as he desires. All the secret the second Bav been stolen from geant named S Elias Hat fie. was found guil ing H. E. Eli five wim Jwiin Dent Grant , ' , - * JjP -ii" 'wBfciS papers of corps bav* est. A ser- spected. W. Va., anghter In kill- will be from Told in a Few Lines. Sam Ireland, Paducah, Ky., crushed George Crumby's head with a whipstock. Standard Oil Company asserts that the Nebraska anti-trust law is unconstitu­ tional. Mrs. Mary Needham, Pittsburg, Pa., poured oil on a fire. She's dead and ^wo houses burned. Addie Jump, 17, Chicago Junction, O., fired two bullets into her breast. Family interfered in her love affairs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt succeeds his broth­ er, Cornelius, as president of the New York and Harlem Railway. Two highwaymen in Chicago robbed Mary Vandeasek, 16, of 60 cents and cut off two braids of her hair. Lawrence Gardner, secretary of the Na­ tional Association of Democratic Clubs, died at his home in Washington. Mississippi towns are raising the quar­ antine against Jackson. There is no dan­ ger of a further infection of yellow fever. Anguilla, one of the British West In- \ dia Islands, was swept by a hurricane, i Two hundred houses were destroyed, ren­ dering 800 persons homeless. A bronze bust of President McKinley cast in- heroic sise will be In the United ! States building at, the Paris njfcnAOm j shool Dedication --Dnsncceaafnl Attempt at --Killed tn Train Wreck-Shot from Ambosh--Boy Burned to Death* The Northern Illinois State Normal School, one of the finest buildings for educational uses in the State, was dedi­ cated at DeKalb with interesting cere­ monies. Gov. Tanner and other State Oligjabi came from Springf|eld ai# J>$#r lafgtr parties arrived from <^cagb, J*eo- n and other cities. .$li§ exejpiies ce on the school catRpua, and ware witnessed by fully 5.<XIQ p6n»otts. President John W. Cook prwMed,*aaid the guests were welcomed in an address delivered by Col. I. N. Ell wood. The ̂ x- 'ercises were preceded by a parade tad by mounted G. A. R. followed by hundreds of school children. The State officials and Other distinguished guests followed in carriages and then came a long line of secret societies, labor unions and other organizations. A majority of the visitors remained in DeKalb for the big carnival parade in the evening. The procession and the pyrotechnical display which fol­ lowed were reviewed by the city's guests from the balcony of the Glidden House. Following that there was a public recep­ tion in the auditorium of the new normal school. Fail to Blow Open a Safe. Burglars made an attempt to blow open the heavy safe in the Exchange Bank at Holcomb, but it proved unsuccessful. Af­ ter getting the outside door off they were evidently frightened away, for the tools, which were stolen from a local black­ smith shop, were found scattered all over the bank floor. Entrance to the bank was gained by breaking the fasteners of a window. In the morning Joseph Magin discovered that a team and carriage had been stolen from his livery stable during the night, with which the safe crackers made their escape. They were traced five miles north to Davis Junction, and there they turned into the road toward Rockford. They dqpve direct to Rock- ford city, for Several hours later the po­ lice were notified that a bay team had been hitched in Court street, on the South Side, since before daylight, and St proved to be the horses stolen from Holcomb. Two suspects have been arrested. Brakeman Uenson Is Killed. A P.,.D. & E. gravel train was wreck­ ed two miles north of Olney. Albert Hen- son of Mattoon, a brakeman, wis killed. The engineer, Edward Milton of Mat- toon, was scalded on the legs and his body bruised. Fireman Hunsicker of Mattoon had his shoulder mashed and was otherwise injured. The wreck is be­ lieved to have been caused by a defective bridge. The engine Is a twisted mass of Iron, and fifteen gravel cars ware plied on it. * Fatal Wreck at Elkhart. The Chicago and Alton south-bound limited express was wrecked at Elkhart 'by the rails spreading. The dead: W- F. Long, real estate dealer of Kansas City, Injuries on head, died in hospital. The Injured: A. C. King, Leroy, knee twisted. The locomotive and cars left the rails, but none of the tars was overturned. A broken rail passed through the floor of the smoking car and struck Long in the forehead and King in the leg. ^ Farm jland Bnrned to Death. Edward Belyle, a farm hand, was burn­ ed to death in the barn on the farm of Frank Roach, near East Alton. Belyle had been to Alton and become intoxi­ cated. The presumption is that he lay down in the hay and attempted to smoke. His charred body was found after the flames had died out. He was 51 years old and had a family in Baltimore, Md. Farmer Shot from Ambnsh, John Moore, a farmer, living north of Harrisburg, was shot from ambush the other morning while feeding bis stock. A man was seen escaping through the corn field. Bloodhounds were put on the track. Late the same evening Felix Rude went to Harrisburg and gave himself up. He said he shot Moore because Moore was stealing his corn. Fatal Fire in a Playhouse. At the Flenner school house, two miles west of Kansas, during the noon recess the pupils constructed a playhouse of straw and rails, leaving one small open­ ing. Several children were inside the house, when the straw was ignited by a match and the whole structure was con­ sumed. Six children were severely burn­ ed. Ralph Nay, aged 6 years, is dead. Brief State Happening*, Two new "Jacks the Clipper" have ap­ peared in Chicago. Nauvoo, a town of 1,400 people, levies a city tax o£ but $600. The Harold family of De Witt County recently iheld a reunion. Charles Crandall, Dwight, a pioneer and leading citizen, dropped dead. A 20,-000-bushel grain elevator is In course of construction at Dwight. A movement is on foot to erect a $50,- 000 board of trade and office building at Decatur. A farmers' mutual insurance company in Logan County - had but one loss the past year, $900 on a bam. Martin Walgren, a bookkeeper, 22 years old, was killed in a fight in Her­ man Kugel's saloon in Chicago by Fred Fisher, a tailor.,,, James S. Ticknor of Rockford is dead, aged 75. He was at one time prominent in Democratic politics and was a member of the Legislature for several terms. Henry E. Weaver, president of the Weaver Coal Company of Chicago, has filed in the United States District Court a petition in bankruptcy in which he places the total liabilities at $314,817, none of which is secured. After several weeks of agitation, in which many prominent people participat­ ed, the Sunday closing movement at Bel- viderc received a knockout blow when the City Council, by a vote of 8 to 2, Toted down the ordinance. At the request of President Goforth of the local miners' union the Pana Coal Company has made its best proposition. The operators offer the miners 33 cents a ton for mine run, $1.60 entry driving and $5 for opening a room. It will sup­ ply powder to the miners at $1.75 a keg, oil 45 cents a gallon, one-half of a cent a 1 ton for smithing. James Burns, GO years old, a farmer who lives near Fond du Lac, Wis., and who sells butter in Chicago, was found in his room in that city almost dead from asphyxiation by gas. William McLean, aged 83 years, died at Chillicothe. He had served as a member of the Legislature, was a Free Mason for fifty-six years, being the oldest member of the order tn Illinois. Mrs. Grace Doyle, who was charged with murdering her husband, Richard C. Doyle, In Chicago, was found guilty of manslaughter. The jury fixed her punish­ ment at one year in the penitentiary. During the trial she proved that her hus- y. ison County jail at Edwards-^ fire, but the]blpae was extln- .. i» IM^ |^lSmall d«mti^ - . llirty of t&* Ss*. Charles fibtei, mysterfttasly disappeared - from Pana recently. His ftentftats arr v straight and his business satisfactory. la the Circuit Coart at Joha ^. Neil was found j and aeatwd to tb*^ twenty-five years. July 8 Nell shot **18/ killed Cyril WillffoJrd, a unlon miner, dur*- ing a quarrel. Fraak Taylor Gimlin, aged 76 years, ~ fc tb kill a d6zen mpa. He- - was an t a furniture"" repairer, altd ha$ two daughters, whose- '**< ^hereaboats (sre unknown at present. ?. '" ^„4-:S|*dll2|Beetiiig. of the trustees of Wabaahjpolfefe at Crawfordsville, Ind.,. Dr. William P. Kane of Evanston was unanimously eletfted-as president, to sue- ceed Dr. G, B. Burroughs, who resigned. last June. Dr. Kane will assume control ^ at once. The firemen in all the coal mines in the ^ Danville district struck for an increase wages. Though the firemen are not mem* bets of the United Mine Workers of America, they have tied up all the mines , •*& i in the district, throwing 2,000 union min- 4*, ers out of employment. ^ The dead body of a man was found in> \ an old caboose in the Big Four yards at >• Sh* Mattoon. In a pocket was found a testa­ ment on the fly leaf of which was writ- ten, "John Dunn, Cincinnati, Ohio." Thi» * is supposed to have been the man's name; " t % 1 He died from natural causes. . ' Willis Hogan, a young farm hand ia V the employ of Davis Coulter, met with. , J|» a fatal and unusual accident at Mowea- qua. In descending from a hay stack, he- ^ * slipped and fell upon the upright handle- of a pitchfork, which penetrated his body I twelve inches.. Hogan was unmarried. f * Moses Harper, colored, through jeal- 1 ousy, shot Sadie Robinson and Tom Turkjs '" t both colored, in the street at Rock Isl- and while all Were returning from ai* ^1 e m a n c i p a t i o n p i c n i c . T w o b u l l e t s w e r o s 5 ' , taken from the woman's body. Turk's i n j u r i e s a r e n o t s e r i o u s . H a r p e r e s c a p e d ; / f ' A plot to liberate all the prisoners in -:ii j the Macoupin County jail was revealed T J by Jack Sharp, a prisoner. The attempt r." was to have been made the same night.!,; The conspirators during their liberty ' • hours in the corridor had loosened a masf.^f^' sive stone in the walls near the roof an^M^lfjl had fixed one cell lock so that the occu­ pant could get out and release the rest, Sharp was brought into court as witnesa. , 5/' in a lawsuit and took the opportunity to* 4 « appraise the authorities. This Is the third "J,l attempt in three months. 4 ? • Twenty freight cars were piled in an unrecognizable mass in front of the depots tV"?>T at Highwood the other night, the result ^ ? * of the breaking of a coupling pin in a t i- Chicago and Northwestern train. All empty refrigerator train was passing th# S depot when a pin in the middle of th#! \ train snapped, and in an instant the first J " * ^ car behind the break jumped the track and crashed through the front of the de* -' ! pot. Nineteen other cars which followed ^ •' telescoped oae another, until there was a \ \ mass of wreckage ttrenty-flve feet higll^ ' "'j, j and'half a block in length. There was a lively discussion in the ses* , sion of the Illinois Free Methodist eon* ference at Belvidere over the questiou of expunging from the church discipline the article declaring against human slavery. This article was made a part of th^v-";^^^ church rules sixty years ago. It is obnox* ' ious to Southern members, who have ask-#, ed that it be stricken out. The matter • - was brought up in the general conference : of the church and left to the various) State conferences to decide. The Illinois; conference by a vote of forty to sixteen " 7-V- declared in favor of leavihg the discipline unchanged. v All the citizens, of Rock Island County have been practically merged into a de-' tective forced Unprecedented action to -" ' 1 stop thieving was taken there recently by the County Board of Supervisors, and \ ; hereafter each resident is to be a spy . ' 1 upon his or her neighbor, near or remote* . V Thieving has been reported of late in r alarming frequency. Domestic animala " have been the favorite booty of the depre* ^ dators. Hence the following standin^'5^|p; offer of rewards decided upon by the Sup* • j. ervisors: Horse thieves, $50; cattl» -1 thieves, $25; poultry, $15.. The punish* _ ment of any thieves caught in the futurf ', f| will be commensurate with thp amount' ' , -'l of money thus to be expended for their detection. ' •' Additional particularsfin regard to the* „ confession of Henry Brunot, in jail for . the killing of his aunt, Jane Brunot, have* come to light at Pana. He says not only* „ that he killed Mrs. Mary Mclntyre, but f V ' that he and his mother killed his father^ who was supposed to have dropped dea<$£xps at the supper table on his farm a year ago from heart trouble. Henry intended .* killing another man in Pana had not the. officers acted too quickly. The confession was made to a fellow prisoner, who wrote' the facts to Steven Millot, Brunot's un­ cle. Millot gave the letter to the State's Attorney. lf| William Dettering, formerly of Evans- . ton, has arrived at Tacoma, Wash., from Dawson after nine years' hard work in the mining districts of British Columbia i" and the Klondike. He returns smiling( i •'=; however, for he has made a fortune of /.* $150,000. Before coming out Dettering and his partner, Joseph Staley, disposed of half their interest on the Yukon. Det- :? tering is known as "Cariboo Bill." On leaving Evanston he went to the Cari-* boo district, British Columbia, making J only wages 'there. He drifted into the- .-.Avr-" lis had treated her, brutallr, x . ' . . • • - . 1 Yukon country and was in the Klondike district soon after gold was discovered. ;• * Soon afterward he discovered Fren<a»hilt, * *•% located at the junction of French gulcli and El Dorado creek. The richest bench claims in the Klondike were found on , ^ French hill. The people of Ottawa have finally suc­ ceeded in raising nearly all the necessary $165,000 required to secure a big glass plant to cost over $1,000,000, and the re­ mainder is certain to be forthcoming. The contract with Monroe SeiberUng, the pro­ moter, is practically closed. ' The good roads convention at Ottawa was only fairly well attended, but the ^ • demonstration of the approved methods . of road building on one of the leading highways was watched by 400 people, who also listened to a very interesting ad­ dress by Gen. E. G. Harrison, the road expert. t William R. Hay of Springfield has en­ listed in the United States army as a private and was assigned to troop H, Eighth United States cavalry. Hay is a son of former Mayor Charles E. Hay, one of Springfield's most prominent citi­ zens, and is a nephew of Secretary of State Hay. Maj. Davidson's automobile gun car­ riage is, now practically completed at Pe-S? oria. The gun has been mounted and the -carriage given its trial. Its performance was regarded as very satisfactory. It covered the distance between the factory at Peoria Heights and Mr. Siberling's residence on Randolph avenue, a distance 4* treadles. i & exactly fourteen ihisBM | PS

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