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pWs|j|cf'P|: ,-J S mm •?* a: .Sr -̂.-,̂ *-,.H,.*j,. the Mchenry puirdealer MflHENRY PL41MDSA.LBB (XX 1*henby, izxnroxa. TflP BRIE? P-f'%' $& •W*- r$ 3&# Wilson F. Thrall, an optician, 74 years old, died at Danbury, Conn., from starvation. He declared two months ago that we would eat no •ic e and refused food after that ex­ cept when forced to eat. Announcement is made by Irwin Sbepard, secretary of the National Educational association, that the de­ partment of superintendents, number­ ing 1,000 of the leading educators of the United States, will meet in Cincin­ nati. O-, Feb. 24 to 27. The Overbrook mills at Philadel­ phia, Pa., operated by Rosenheim Brothers & Co., manufacturers^ tap­ estries, and owned by the Haverford Jbuilding and Loan association, were destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss was estimated at $50,000, in­ sured. According to information received at Darmstadt the czarina's condition is in every way satisfactory. 1 he statement of the London board of trade for August shows a decrease of $2,623,000 in imports and an in­ crease of $471,500 in exports. Three hundred and seventeen strik­ ing colliers were fined $40 each at Doncaster, England, for leaving work without noticed Rev. E. L. Kelley of Lacon, 111., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Baptist church of Fairbury, 111. Andrew Meldin, an old resident of Galesburg. 111., was struck by a street car and killed. SherifT W. E. Strain of Monona county, Iowa, shot by Ed Cams near Whiting, is dead. The bank of Sonora, Ky., was brok­ en into and robbed. The robbers got considerable booty. They were fol­ lowed by a posse of citizens. Arrangements have been completed by the postoffice department at Wash­ ington for the establishment of an exchange of international through reg­ istered pouches between San Antonio, Tex., and Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Met, to begin Oct 1. Eight thousand carpenters of New York won their strike for an advance of 50 cents a day when the Master Carpenters' association, after a con­ ference of seven hours, granted the •demand. Boer generals Botha, De Wet and JJelarey held a secret conference with Secretary Chamberlain. The $15,000,- 900 grant may be supplemented. Hayti government troops were de­ feated and Gen. Esmangard and ar­ tillery captured by rebels. Venezuela citizens are starving as a result of the revolution. The Lonaon trades union conference rejected a resolution favoring woman suffrage and condemned the Boer war as wrong. The northern portion of Martinique iiland has been ordered abandoned by flie French government. Fire destroyed the property of the Crystal Springs company, a Hot Springs resort near Butte, Mont. The loss is $25,000; insurance, $15,000. A. J. Cummings & Co., one of the largest brokerage houses in Pittsburg, Fa., with branches in eighteen or twenty towns, suspended. Edgar V. Einstein & Co.. proprie­ tors of a large department store at Hsrrlsburg, Pa., have made an as­ signment, giving liabilities as $117,000 •nd assets $60,000. Rev. J. C. Murray of the faculty of Gammon Theological seminary, At­ lanta, Ga., who was accused of Immor­ ality, was vindicated by the trial koard at Richmond, Ind. Lieutenant John W. Stark of the Seventeenth Virginia regiment has been sentenced by a court martial to dishonorable discarge and to two Sionths in jail for calling a brother Officer a "lobster." Overland passenger train No. 8 on the Northern Pacific, was wrecked At Trout Creek Station, on the Idar bo-Montana line, and Engineer Owens instantly killed. Miss Bertha Fowler, superintend­ ent of the Mercy Home of Chicago, addressed the Illinois conference of the Home Missionary Society of the 1L E. church at Springfield on "The United States in the Mission Field The collapse of the American Bi­ cycle company is regarded as making a commercial end of the fad. The sales dropped 80 per cent in three years and bicycle clubs are disbanded. Striking Ghetto bakers at Chicago started riots when wagons delivered flour to bakeries. The Cape Colony situation is wor­ rying English unionists; Premier Eprigg is allowing the Africander bund to dominate. Secretary Cham­ berlain has been urged to suspend the conBtiiutiofi. Carpenters' Local Union No. 73, one of the largest labor unloffir 'in St. Louis, voted to demand an increase of pay frcm 45 to 55 cents an hour, commencing April 1, 1903. The pur­ pose of seven months' notice is to give contractors a basis to figure on con­ tracts. The counties of Kings, Limerick, Longford, Queens and Westmeath and the boroughs of Dublin and Limerick, Ireland, have been proclaimed under the crimes act under the sections dealing with trial by special Jury and change of venue. According to the military command­ ers all the troops with the exception of the legation guards will be wit Rev. C. F. Zimmermann, editor of the German Evangelical Magazine Sunday school papers, leaflets, etc., ant for twenty years presiding elder of the Wisconsin conference, died in Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. Mr. Zimmer­ man n was very prominent in his church and had lived in Cleveland for seven years. He was 59 years old. Henry Sivyer, one of the first men to settle in Milwaukee, died there, aged 90 years. Mr. Sivyer went to Milwaukee in 1835 and is said to have '>uilt the first brick structure both in Chicago and Milwaukee. He was well known throughout the state. Freeman Kelly of Waterloo, Mich., aied of uraemia. He was 68 years of age. He was one of the best known greenback politicians of the middle west and earned the sobriquet of "Fog Horn Kelly." Mrs. John Rodner of Elton, Mich., shot a tramp who attempted to as­ sault her. The tramp escaped and a posse started at once on his trail. The soldiers of Edwards county, Il­ linois, held their annual reunion at Albion and a large number of people attended. , Congressman J. R. Wil­ liams of Carmi was present and deliv­ ered an address. Mrs. Helen C. Henderson died at Joliet, 111., aged 38 years. She was one of the oldest settlers in Joliet. She was born in New York, went to Joliet in 1835, and had lived there ever since. She was the wife of Judge Hugh Henderson, a well-known jur­ ist, who died in 1854. She was the mother of the late Daniel C. Hender­ son, a well-known newspaper man. While two children of August Len- hardt of Marshfield, Wis., were play­ ing with matches in their father's barn at Sherry the barn was set on fire and a four-year-old boy was burned to death. The other boy es­ caped. Arthur T. McElhiney, aged 58, who was the first telegraph operator in Bloomington, 111., and for over twenty years agent for the Western Union company there and later with the pos­ tal company, died in Bloomington. He leaves a widow and three children in Chicago. Taylor Charleston, colored, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of another negro. The case of Missouri state officers against the alleged beef trust was called at St. Joseph and after taking of some testimony was adjourned to Jefferson City, Sept. 15. Persons exposed to smallpox in Knox and North Judson, Ind., will be given the alternative between going to the pesthouse and submitting to vaccination. The case against Truxton Beale and Thomas H. Williams was postponed at San Francisco to await the result of injuries of Publisher Frederick Marriott, whom they attacked. Major Edward F. Glenn of the Fifth infantry, who was tried by court-mar­ tial for administering the water cure to natives, found guilty and sentenced to be suspended for one month and to forfeit $50 of his pay, has been re­ stored to duty and ordered to return to his command at Bayambang, Lu­ zon. Mrs. John Flanagan, wife of a rail­ road contractor on the Ozark and Cherokee Central railroad, was burn­ ed to death at Wagoner, I. T., while attempting to light the fire with ker­ osene. Augustin Chacon, a noted Mexican bandit who escaped five years ago ftom an Arizona jail three days be­ fore he was to be hanged, has been captured and will be taken to Solo- monville to undergo the death sen­ tence. W. A. P. McPike, who for several weeks has been operating the Oma­ ha Tontine and Investment company, was arrested at St Joseph, Mo., on a warrant sworn out by Professor Scott, a school teacher, charging him with swindling Scott out of $60. Captain Princ# Victor Duleep Singh eldest son of the'late Maharajah Du­ leep of Lahore, has been declared uankrupt. The usual receiving order was made in a London court. The empress dowager of China has ordered that decorations of ihe Order of the Precious Star, which is limited to foreigners, be bestowed upon the ministers and secretaries who were concerned in the tariff protocol nego­ tiations. The tug strike, lasting five months, was ended at Cleveland, O., In recog­ nition of the union and an agreement by the Great Lakes Towing associa­ tion to discharge the non-union men. The John W. Gates-Colorado Fuel and Iron litigation was taken from the Colorado state courts by United States Circuit court on petition of the Gates faction. At Chicago Mrs. Josephine Moj> cino stabbed Raphael Margenbamo to death because he taunted her for re­ fusing to marry him. Five men were killed at Williams­ burg, N. Y., by the collapse of a steel tank under which they were working. First Lieutenant Henry Watterson, Jr., Twenty-ninth United Suites in­ fantry, resigned to avoid court-martial for duplicating his pay account There is an uprising of Yankton Indians at Naper, Neb., and the mayor has requested the governor to send assistance. Job Murray Williams, colored, has confessed at Bridgeton, N. J., that he. set fire to the barn in which Farmer John S. Holmes and his housekeeper were burned to death, in order to rob their house to get money with which to marry. Dr. W. B. Swan of Topeka, a mem­ ber of the Kansas Board of Health, was drowned at Ludington, Mich., by the capsizing of a boat During Labor Day festivities at Ironton, Ohio, the dead limb of a tree fell, killli^g Mrs. Mary Hoard, aged 40, . colored, and injuring three others. Emperor William was given an en- Firminist Vessel Sent to the 6ottom by the Warship Panther. ESCAPING CREW STARTS FIRE United States Not Likely to Be In­ volved in International Difficulties With Kaiser's Government, as Mon­ roe Doctrine Is Not Affected. The gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot, which was in the service of the Firminist party, has been sunk at "the entrance of the harbor of Gonaives by the Ger­ man gunboat Panther. The crew of the Crete-a-Pierrot left her before she went down. The Panther arrived at Port au Prince Sept. 5 and received instruc­ tions from the German government to capture the Crete-a-Pierrot. She started immediately for Gonaives, the seat of the Firminist government. Demands Surrender. The Panther found the Crete-a-Pier­ rot in the harbor of Gonaives ind the commander of the German gunboat in­ formed Admiral Killick on the Crete- a-Pierrot that he muBt remove his crew and surrender his vessel in five minutes time. Admiral Killick asked that this time be extended to fifteen minutes. This request was granted on the condition that the arms and ammunition on board the Crete-a- Pierrot should be abandoned when her crew left her. Rebels Fire Vessel. The crew of the Crete-a-Pierrot left that vessel amid great disorder. At the end of fifteen minutes the Pan­ ther sent a small boat, carrying an officer and twenty sailors, who were to take possession of the Firminist gunboat. When these men had ar­ rived at a point about thirty yards from5 the Crete-a-Pierrot flames were seen to break out on board of her. She had been fired by her crew be­ fore they left her. Sunk by the Panther. The Panther, then fired on the Crete- a-Pierrot until she was completely im­ mersed. Thirty shots all told were fired. There is much feeling at Cape Hay- tien against the Firminists, and their cause is considered to be a bad one. Soldiers are leaving there to attack St. Marc. Port au Prince is calm. NO FEAR OF A MIX-UP. United 8tates Not Likely to Be In­ volved in the Trouble. No international question of moment is likely to result over the destruction of the Firminist gunboat by a Ger­ man warship. No official report of the incident has reached Washington. Therefore the few officials who are in the city are unable to discuss it intel­ ligently. The disposition of the question ulti­ mately depends upon conditions which will be definitely ascertained before afly action whatever is taken. It is assumed that the German naval offi­ cer acted under a construction that the Haytian gunboat was a pirate. The Haytlan revolutionists have not been recognized as belligerents, and their rights upon the high sea under Inter­ national law is a complex question, which, following precedent, will be de­ cided by each government concerned. It is not believed that the Monroe doctrine will enter into any contro­ versy that may arise, or that the United States will be directly inter­ ested. NEELY FACES MORE TROUBLE To Be Prosecuted on Embezzlement Charge in Federal Courts. New York city special: Edward K. Jones, special assistant attorney gen­ eral of the United States, who has been retained by the Cuban govern­ ment in the prosecution of Charles F. W. Neely, charged with embezzle­ ment while chief qf the bjireau of finance of the postoffice department in the island, gave out a statement concerning the action that will be taken in order to recover the funds. Mr. Jones said that the amnesty guaranteed by the Cuban government extended only to the criminal offense. Neely when first apprehended had $6,000 on hlB person. This was con­ fiscated and is now In the hands of the government at Washington. His $20,000 bail was attached, and he is bonded for $50,000 b/ the Fidelity Surety company of Maryland. The first hearing in the proceedings against him will be held in the fed­ eral court in this city som3 time in October. To Wed a Baron. Paris cablegram: The Figaro an nounces the engagement of Baron Lepic to Miss Whltcomb, daughter of a late noted San Francisco attorney. Reported Lynching. Kemmerer, Wyo., special: It is re ported that John Keffer, the con­ demned murderer who was to have been executed Friday, but who ob­ tained a stay of execution, was taken from the jail at Lander and lyncned. drawn from China next spring. JMcHenry. I havesamples of '?$'The American steam yacht Aster Market. Call and look them ? b* CoL Alexander °°rdon r. The qualities are right, ment largest and prices low- yW4"i" Hamilton, O., has arrived at Cow of Wiiht President Loubet returned the vl which the shah paid to him at Ra bouillet and remained at the Persi monarch's hotel for luncheon. fount "V £ rv*/.v '• 4#ijit-i. The Huntington stove plant, valued at $50,000, was by fire at Huntington. W. ii W a .Justen. MIL INTERESTS - ¥ SET TOGETHER Rockefeller and Gould Join in Pact of Vital importance to Both, COMPLETE MERGER MAY COME Likely to Form One Gigantic System of Their Holdings, Thus Forming an Organization That Would Possess Great Power tn Its Sphere. < New York city special; Gould and Rockefeller in a community of inter­ ests is the next great railway combine. The plans involve a close working al­ liance between the Chicago, Milwau­ kee $ St. Paul and the Missouri Pa­ cific, involving the possible merger of the entire Gould system and the Rock­ efeller railways. Reports of an actual merger sent the Missouri Pacific~^pd St. Paul stock booming skyward oq the stock exchanges of the country, and at many places it is believed that more than the offensive and defensive alliance of the two railway powers is under way. Gets Chicago Entrance., George J. Gouid, by the alliance with Rockefeller, gets a better en­ trance into Chicago for his western roads, and Rockefeller seeures a southern outlet for the St. Paul sys­ tem. The Missouri Pacific and St. Paul come together at Omaha and Kansas City, and the alliance of the systems means a huge saving in traf­ fic business and greater rapidity in handling freight from the Dakotas to the gulf. Keep Their Own Counsel. Those in control of the two great systems refuse to talk of their plans. Railroad meu and stock market lead­ ers believe that an actual merger is riot intended, but that the agreement entered into will bring the roads into as close relations as those now exist­ ing between the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington. The Rockefeller or Standard Oil in­ terests have controlled the Milwaukee and St. Paul for the last two years, and they also control the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Advantageous to Both. The Milwaukee and St. Paul has no independent outlet west of the Mis­ souri river, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas has none east of Hannibal. Mo. The Missouri Pacific, Iron Mountain and other Gould roads on the other hand have no other important outlet east of the Mississippi river than the Wabash, which does not afford them all the facilities they need, especially to territory in the north and north­ west. With the lines controlled -by the Rockefellers allied closely to the Gould lines, the latter would be placed in a most advantageous position to meet the competition of the Rock Is­ land, the Santa Fe, the Harriman and the Hill systems. Close Relations Prevail. Close relations between the Rocke­ fellers and Gould have prevailed for some time, and the Missouri Pacific and Milwaukee and St. Paul have for years been working together in har­ mony. The Milwaukee and St. Paul will give the Missouri Pacific a much shorter line from Kansas City to Chi­ cago than it has by the Wabash, and it will give a good line to St. Paul and the Dakotas. The Wabash of course would continue to be the direct outlet for the Missouri Pacific to the east from St- Louis, the Milwaukee and St. Paul having no St. Louis line. Would Reach 'Frisco. In connection with the Missouri Pa­ cific and the' Rio Grande, which is a Gould road, the Milwaukee and St. Paul would secure the shortest line to Salt Lake City, and from that point to San Francisco the Central Pacific branch of the Southern Pacific, a Har­ riman road, would undoubtedly fur­ nish the desired outlet to -San Fran­ cisco. HANGS HIMSELF WHILE A8LEEP Somnambulist Found Dangling in a Barn In Holland, Ind. Holland, Ind., special: Fred Raden- maker, a somnambulist, went to his cattle barn and hanged himself from one of the beams supporting the loft. His body was lifeless when it was dis­ covered by eoe of the farm-hands. His relatives and friends are at a loss to explain his suicide except on the theory that he, in a nightmare, ad­ justed the noose about his neck and stepped off a barrel found overturned near his. suspended body. Ants Invade Village. Paris cable: The village of Nerac has been evacuated for perhaps the most peculiar reason on record. An army of ants invaded the village in such great numbers that the inhabk tants were compelled to leave. 0H|p BATTLE CRY Tom L, iohnson Controls the Democratic Convention in the Buckeye State^v MAYOR DICTATES THE fMtf Platform Declares Against Everything Republican, Both National and Lo» cal, Being Especially Severe on the Municipal Code Now Pending Secretary of itate, the Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, 1 Supreme court judge. Michael Donnel­ ley. Food and dairy commissioner. Philip H. Bruck. Member board of public works, Joseph J. Pater. Cedar Point. O., special: Tom L. Johnson for President. Bryanism and free silver indorsed. Anti-trust; anti- expansioh; deunciation of republican­ ism, both state and national. Election of senators by direct vote. These were the keynotes of the Democratic state convention held here. The other feature of the convention was the introduction into Ohio politics of the Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, pastor of the Vine Street Congregational church at Cincinnati, who was made the standard bearer of his party and made a speech of acceptance that was received with unusual enthusiasm. Bigelow is 33 years old. Independent in his creed, and has become promi­ nent as a lecturer as well as a popular preacher. Johnson Suggests Ticket. It was a Johnson convention throughout, although Mr. Johnson was more conciliatory than at the prelimin­ ary meetings of the last two days. The platform was adopted as it came from him through the committee. The state central and executive committees were both organised as he suggested, and the stats ticket with a single exception was nominated by acclamation as slat­ ed by the Johnson men. Mayor Johnson accused Republican legislators of being in control of monopolies and intimated that the Su: preme court is corruptible. He charged gross discrimination in taxa­ tion of corporations, and devoted much time to a statement regarding an al­ leged partnership between state offi­ cials and railroads. Statement of Principles. The platform deals principally with state issues. After declaring for the Kansas City platform, it says in part: "As a specific statement of our principles upon these and other pub­ lic questions we declare: "That all taxable property should be appraised by assessing boards, which should be in session for at least a part of each year and whose proceedings and deliberations should be open to the public; that power be given to employ a representative to present the interests of the public in hearings before these boards, and that in making assessments all property should be appraised at not less than its salable value. Condemns Free Passes. "That all public service corpora­ tions should be required by law to make sworn public reports, and that the power of visitation and examina­ tion over such corporations should be given to the proper auditing officers, to the end that the true value of the privileges had by such corporations may be made plain to the people. "That the acceptance of free passes or other favors from railroads by pub­ lic officers or employes should be ade­ quate ground for their removal from office. 0 Government by Injunction. "That the denial of the right of peaceable persuasion in times of labor disturbances is a denial of the right of free speech, and* that government by injunction, if persisted in, will wreck the liberties of the people. "That we condemn the vicious and corrupt bargain between the boss of Cincinnati and Ohio's United States senators to force through the legis­ lature a code that will foist upon the municipalities of Ohio, Cincinnati's form of government in order that the power of its boss may be preserved on the one hand and on the other hand will perpetuate existing street railway franchises which Ohio's United States senators represent." The platform ends with a demand for election of senators by direct vote. URGE ELEVATION FOR 3PALDING Postoffice Is Looted. Tazewell, Tenn., dispatch: The post- office safe was blown open and $400 in stamps, $60 of the money order fiind, $50 of Postmaster Davis' money and two registered letters were taken. Hooligans Are Busy. London cable: "Hooliganism" is again rampant in several districts of South London. The criminal records abound in daily lists of outrages com- mflted in the chief thoroughfares by organized bands. I Town site Commission. Muskogee, I. T., special: The secre­ tary of the interior has appointed a townsite commission for the Cherokee nation as follows: L. W. Bufflngton, Vinlta, I. T.; Edwin Long and Merri- man Higley, Atwood, Kan. Catholics of Central Illinois Will Ap­ peal to Rome. Bloomington, Illinois, special: The Catholic clergy and laity of central Il­ linois have decided not- to submit with­ out remonstrance to the rumored re­ jection of Bishop Spalding of Peoria as the next archbishop of the Chicago diocese. Steps have been taken for an organized movement of the entire priestly body and laity in,IlUnols to demand a reconsideration. Fatal Freight Wreck. Logansport, Ind., dispatch: A rear- end freight wreck occurred here on the Panhandle railroad. Conductor William Gay was killed and Fireman O. P. Murray lost a leg. Boy Horsethief. Vandalla, 111., special: There Is In­ carcerated in the county Jail here pos­ sibly the youngest horsethief in the country. He says he is Frank Smith and Is but twelve rears old. Jspanese Vitftory. London, cable: Thevjg^anese in Formosa have, by a rear attack, cap­ tured the insurgents' stronghold near Tainan. It was a most difficult posi­ tion, in a dense forest surrounded by precipitous mountains. Order Restored in Agrsm. •gram, Hungary, cable: The pro­ clamation of martial law here has re­ sulted in the restoration of order. The police have replaced the military in patrolling the streets. Nominated for-Congress. Second California... .T. A. Bell (D.) Fourth California J. Kahn (R.) Sixth California G. Ashe (D.) Eighth California. .W. T. Smythe (D.) Tenth Michigan M. O'Brien (D.) Second Wisconsin. .H. C. Adams (R.) Arkansas Lynching. Stephens, Ark., dispatch: A negro nSmed Hog Wilson was hanged near here by a mob. Wilson attempted a criminal assault on a girl while she was in the garden gathering vege­ tables. He confessed his crime. Csttle Are Poisoned. Baraboo, Wis., dispatch: Fanner Butner of Big Creek lost eight heaa of cattle by poisoning. Some person mixed arsenic with flour and salt and put it around a spring where the cat­ tle were accustomed to drink. Liners In Collision. Liverpool, cable: The Dominion liner Manxman collided with the Nor­ wegian steamer George in the Mersey. Both vessels were considerably dam­ aged but no lives were lost Big Corporation Reaching Qui After Property in Southern Illinois. 1 % SECURES THOUSAND'S^MR Plan to Turn Output Into Coke Under a New Procens, the Product to Be Shipprd to Market Over Newly* • Built Railroads. * i The United Spates Steel corpora­ tion, through the Illinois Steel com­ pany, is endeavoring to secure, through every means, as, much of the coal lands and interests of- southern Illinois as possible. Already the company has 4,500 acres, under which is an eight-foot vein, and recent de­ velopments show its interests have immeasurably grown. After Undeveloped Lands. Mr. Ramsey of Chicago, represent­ ing John W. Gates, and for years one of the prominent and active members of the Weaver Coal and Coke com­ pany, is at present in the coal fields pushing the combine and negotiating for every available acre of land. This fact, taken in connection with Gates' operations in Colorado and his push­ ing into the Tennessee coal fields near La Follette, and others of his vast operations, is said to indicate that the bringit\^under one cplossal combination the undeveloped or , Re­ cently opened coal fields has a tar- reaching influence and will inevitably involve every paying shaft in this section. Has Thousands of Acres. The operations so far completed presentaeome interesting facts. Along the Big Muddy river, the largest stream which runs through southern Illinois, the combine has secured over g,000 acres. On the west side of the river Gates already owns 1,320 acres. Two other persons own south of him 540 acres. To the west of the Gates land is 1,000 acres owned by Harper and another 1,000 owned by Foote, both the lat­ ter being connected with the Illinois Steel company. Plan Rail Connections. West of the last two named is 4,500 acres owned outright by the steel company. Two thousand six hundred acres lying south of the combine's land is that owned by Harrison and the Chicago-Carterville Coal company, and through which the Illinois Cen­ tral railroad must be reached by the output. Negotiations are now on for its purchase. A spur of the Illinois Central runs to the Chicago-Carterville mine--one of the very best shafts in the state. A connection is proposed to extend on to cross he East & West railroad now being built through the north section of the territory, and also to connect with the Zeigler & Gulf rail­ road. To Make Coke. By connecting with the Illinois Central, the Chicago & Eastern Illi­ nois railroad, and the C., Z. & G. rail­ road, the field will have two distinct routes to St. Louis and three to Chi­ cago. Surrounding the tract, ahd in some instances contiguous to it, some of the best coal in Illinois is being mined. The purpose of the new com­ bine are only to mine but to coke it under a distinct, new process. The Chicago-Carterville Coal company has for its president ex-Sheriff James Pease of Chicago. TRADE SHOWS HEALTHY TONE Movement of Merchandise Reported to Be Satisfactory. Steady progress is reported in trade and industry. Distribution of mer­ chandise is heavy and a healthy tone is evident. Prices are well maintained by liberal consumption which more than neutralizes the effect of en­ larged facilities for production. Do­ mestic conditions continue much bet­ ter than those, existing abroad and home trade received more attention than foreign commerce. Farm pro­ ducts have appreciated in value owing to less favorable weather and produc­ ers will be fully compensated for any decrease in quantity by the higher quotations." R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade makes "the foregoing resume of the industrial situation. Continu­ ing it says: "Agricultural conditions are less satisfactory. Wheat is com­ ing forward freely, though receipts do not equal the abnormally heavy move­ ment a year ago. Corn developed strength because of fears that injury would be done by frost, and the move­ ment is very slow compared with last year's figures. Business failures for the week ended Sept. 4 number 135, as against 140 last week and 169 in this week last year. In Canada for the week the number is fourteen, as against twenty last week." Carthage College Is Opened. Garthage, 111., dispatch: Carthage college opened with a most gratify­ ing number of students, the enroll­ ment being 25 per cent greater than last year. Rev. H. L. Yarger of Atch­ ison, Kan., made the opening address. Denial by Drake. New York, dispatch:- John A. Drake has denied the report emanating from St. Louis to the effect that a new rac­ ing circuit is to be established by him­ self, Johrf W. Gates and others. Celebrates Silver Jubilee. Elkhart, Ind., special : Rev. . Henry A. Boeckelmann celebrated the twenty- fifth anniversary of his ordination ae a priest in the Roman Catholic church. Nearly a hundred priests from sur­ rounding cities were present. Strike at Illinois Mine. V Pana, 111., dispatch: Two hundred and fifty men in the Penwell Coal Company mine went out on strike as the result of the company discharging WiUia* Joaea- % fireman. former Governor Boies Leads the Gold Faction to * , M Decisive Victory. 5 > CONDEMN the banking bill Fowler Measure Declared to Be a Huge Scheme to Create an Immense Trust of the Fii^tnciai Interests of ;1 the Country. , f Secretary of state, Richard Burke. Auditor, J. S. McLuan. Attorney general, John S. Dennlson. .Treasurer, R. V. Chapman. Supreme court judge, Thomas Staple- ton. Supreme court judge (short term) W. H. Quick. fi Sumpreme court reporter, John Dalto% Supreme court clerk, Jesse Tripp. Haiiroad commissioner, Thomas Bea»».'v ton. Des Moines, la., dispatch: The go)&* men captured the Democratic convene - tion and defeated an attea.iJt to affirm the silver plank of the KansaC City platform by a vote of 384 to 344 The resolutions committee labored for over four hours to reach a compro­ mise, and in the end sent two report* to the convention, where three more hours were spent in the fiercest floor fight known to the party in this state Victory for Boies. It was a great victory for Former Gov. Boies, for the platform as adopts ed was prepared by him and by him was read and defended on the floor of the convention. When the resolutions committee b*» gan its labors it wis discovered that no agreement could be reached on the silver plank, seven members standing against reaffirmation of the Kansas City declaration and four b* ing lor it, so the committee turned t9 the other sections of the platform as they had been prepared by Gov. Boies and all were agreed, upon with- out change. Wrangle Over Silver. The opening paragraph of the plat­ form as proposed by Boies was as fol­ lows : "That we reaffirm the fundamental principles of democracy as promul­ gated by the fathers of the republio at its birth and interpreted by th« great leaders from the foundation at our government to the present time." S. A. Brewster of the Sixth district, Stuart of the Eighth, Hoily of th* Seventh, and McDonald of the tenth opposed the compromise offered by Boiec and offered the following in lien thereof: "The Democracy of Iowa indorse the principles of the democracy as enumerated by the last national plafr form adopted at Kansas City in 1900." Denounce Fowler Bill. The platform as adopted declares anew faith in the fundamental prin­ ciples of the democratic party and re­ news allegiance thereto, but this is as close as it comes to mentioning the Kansas City platform. It denounces the Fowler bill now pending in Con­ gress as an attempt to convert the banking interests of the country into a huge financial trust, opposes govern­ ment by injunction, finds fault with the administration's policy in the Philippines, renews the demand for the election of United States Sen& tors by direct vote, demands equal taxation, declares for the repeal of the mulct law, and the enactment oi a local option law. The ticket was nominated by acd* mation. i THE LATEST MARKET REPORTS Wheat. New York--"No. 2 red, 77%c. Chicago--No. 2 red, 72%@73%c. St Louis--No. 2 red, 65c. Kansas City--No. 2 hard, 66c. Duluth--No. 1 hard, 7014c. Corn. New York--No. 2, 68 %c. Chicago--No. 2, 60%c. St. Louis--No. 2, 67c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, 66c. Peoria--No. 3, 61c. Oats New York--No. 2, new, S4V&C. Chicago--Standard, 35 He. St. Louis--No. 2, 29^c. Kansas City--No. 2 white, 85e. Milwaukee--Standard, 38@34c. Peoria--No. 3, 33Vic. Cattle. Chicago--$1.50 @8.60. Kansas City--$2 @8. St Louis--$1.75@7.60. Buffalo--$6 @8. Omaha--$2.76@8. Hogs. Chicago--$5.60 @7.75. Kansas City--$6.60@7.66. St. Louis--$7.25 @7.67%. Buffalo--$5 @7.80. Omaha--$6@7.50. Sheep and Lambs. Chicago--$2.50@5.60. 1 Kansas City--$2.30@6.60. St. Louis--$3.50@5.45. Buffalo--$3.25 @5.60. Omaha--$2@5.35. f Haitians in Political Riot. Aox Cays, Haiti, cable: More po­ litical rioting has taken place. There was prolonged street fighting between the federals and republicans. Th# police quelled the rioting after sev* eral persons had been wounded. Nominated for Congress. 8th Kentucky... .W. L. Sum rail (R.) 1st Maryland..... .J. Ellegood (D.) 6th Maryland F. Kenneweg (D.y 3d Ohio R. M. Nevin (R.) 9th Virginia C. Slemp (R.) Wo.nan Killed by Car. Rockford, 111., dispatch: Mrs. Mary J. "Packard, 75 years old, was struck by a car on the Rockford, Beloit ami Janesville Electric railroad and su^ talhed injuries from which a few hoars later. Berbers in Revolt. Tangier cable: The revolutionary movement in favor of Mohammed, brother of the sultan pf Morocco^ Moula I. Abd-El-Asls, is spreading among the Berber tribes. mailto:1.75@7.60 mailto:6.60@7.66 mailto:6@7.50 mailto:2.50@5.60 mailto:2.30@6.60 mailto:3.50@5.45 mailto:2@5.35