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THE PLA1XDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. - - - ILLINOIS MOB PUT TO FLIGHT. STRIKING BRICKIVT^ERS ROUTED BY POLICE. ARE Keetcy'e jag Cure ill Court--Rumored Poisoqiug of French Soldiers by ^American Canned Meat -- Tenant Fares Bad 1 y-- Kailways in Kcypt. Trouble at St. Louis. "Six hundred striking St:^ Louis, Mo., brickyard, workmen left their temporary headquarters west of-Towej* Grove'Park Thursday, armed.: with stones and clubs, Rnd marched' north towards the yards of the Cote Brilliante Pressed Brick Com­ pany. The workmen at these yards re­ fused to strike the other day when vis­ ited by a committee- from the union. A '•warning was sent to the" superintendent of the works by,the police, and he barri­ caded the gate leading to the yards and awaited the mob's appearance. When the mob came up it assaulted the gate, but was repulsed • and.-dispersed -by the police, the struggle for a short time be­ ing highly exciting. , landlord Gets the Best of It. A Chicago North Side man was so well Satisfied last year with his fiat and its renting price that he put in hardwood floors, papered, painted and otherwise im­ proved, aiid expended many good dollars on the property just as if it belonged to him. "When it comes to signing another lease," he argued to himself, "I'll get a reduction because I've been such a good tenant." But he didn't. On the con­ trary,, the landlord said: "You liave been getting that flat too cheap at $50. It goes for $05 next year." Protests were vain. Threats to tear up the improve­ ments were met with promises to sue for damages, and in the cud the lease was signed at $05. Must Disclose Gold Cure. Judge >|/ers, of the Leavenworth, Han., District Court, has made a very important order affecting the rights of Dr. Leslie E. Keeloy. W. p. Johnson, of Topeka, sues Dr. Iveeley for $100,000 damages, the petition reciting that plain­ tiff has been made a physical wreck be­ cause of the gold cure. Judge Myers, in granting the petitioner's request, rules that Dr. Keeloy must make kruAvn the Ingredients of this bichloride of gold com-j pound; The court holds that the cure is* not a property right nor a trade secret; It is unprotected by a patent, has been in use more ttiifn two years and there is nothing to prevent Dr. Keeley testifying, and that he must tell what it is. making promotions among employes, shall pay no attention to seniority of service, but will consider only efficiency. It is said that if the rule is adopted;it will meet with stubborn resistance^by the men. A frame dwelling owned by Henry Sny­ der, in Pittsburg, and occupied by Samuel Weaver and his family, burned the other night. Weaver was ill with typhoid l'ev.er and was known to have perished. In the morning his remains and th^se "of Fred­ erick Snyder, son of the owner of the building,- and William Mitchell, a male nurse who was attending Weaver. Were, recovered from the ruins. Mrs. Weaver, is in a critical condition from burns and fright. Mrs. Weaver is the mother of a two-day-old baby, and she and her cfiild were rescued with great difficulty. The loss was about.$10,000. Figure as they may." the officials of the.., New York Health Department ^annot squeeze out a total population for that city, of more than -l.S4St.S00. These are the official figures as matte public Mon­ day bight. It was stated a couple of weeks ago that they would certainly turn two millions, and when this claim was relegated to the rear it was announced that the population would - certainly be more than 1.900.000? Second canvasses of districts believed to be underestimated was made, the discrepancy being based on the death rate as announced by the Board of Health, but somehow the figures have kept on.dwindling until nOw they are at least 150,000 less than the total fixed upon by the most confident estimators^ The population of New York in June, 1S90, was 1,515,351. • Peculiar Death of a Chicago Man. A wealthy glove manufacturer of Chi­ cago. S. Feihheimer, died at the Hollen- den at Cleveland, O., of blood poisonir Thursday, caused by cutting his tongue with the flap of an envelope. Monffh? he became ill and his wife and two of his sons were summoned from Chicago. Two sons were on the way from New York. Mr. Feihheimer was 57 years old, and after a residence of thirty years in New York recently moved to Chicago. Damroscli Prefers to Compromise. The attachment suit of B. F. Crandall, proprietor of the Grand Missouri Hotel. Kansas City, Mo., against the Wagnerian Opera Company to satisfy a claim of $300 for board for sixty-four musicians was compromised. Mr. Damroscli paid Mr. Crandall $100 and costs rather than be compelled to try the case. WESTERN. A cyclone struck the:.northwestern por­ tion of Omaha. Four houses were de- moffshed at the corner of Thirty-third and Spuulding streets, and a number of out­ buildings and trees were blown down. The members of the East St. Louis Live Stock Exchange held an indignation meet­ ing at the National Stock Exchange.and denounced Secretary Morton. The pro­ ceedings were opened by a discussion of the advisability of replying to his state­ ments in which he charged that the rise in the price of beef was extortion and the result of a beef ring t>r pool or combine. Resolutions were adopted calling upon him to appoint a commission for the pur­ pose of making an investigation under oath as to the truth or falsity of his charges, the exchange to pay all expenses. It is estimated by the Denver, Colo., street railroad companies there have been 5.000 bicycles added to those in use in Denver since, the opening of spring, and electric and cable companies have been the chief losers. Friday the Tramway Company announced the wages of all classes of employes would be lowered to the uniform rate of 20 cents an hour, a cijt of 20 per cent. From thb figures of n}en stationed at central points the com­ pany has established the fact that the use of the wheel is costing them $2,000 a day. as there are at least 10,000 wheels in daily use by all classes of citizens. Unable to remove from her mind the strange hypnotic influence exerted her by a music teacher and suffering from unrequited love, Mrs. Seelie Vermieron, f Denver, 24 years of age. fired a bullet ifito her .left breast, inflicting a futal wound. In a letter to her husband she coolly informed him that she loved Lu­ ther T. Hail, the music teacher, and it was for his sake that she intended to ta^fe" her own life. Another letter was ad­ dressed to Hail and one to his wife, both telling of the vain struggle of the writer BREVITIES, Rev. Father Pagaza has been conse­ crated Roman Catholic bishop of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Richard Mansfield has bought all the dramatic rights in this country for No- dier's "Trilby." The State Department as yet has re­ ceived no information or complaint about the incarceration of Francisco Yalorez, Baid in dispatches from Nogales, Ariz., to be detained in prison in the State of So- nora, Mexico. It is learned on good authority that Great Britain has agreed to the proposed settlement of her dispute.'with Nicaragua if the payment of the indemnity is guar­ anteed. It is believed that the affair is practically settled. The Supreme Court of Kansas has de­ cided that the law of 1892 giving a mort­ gagor eighteen months for the redemption of property after foreclosure is constitu­ tional in so far as it applies to contracts In force prior to the passage of the law. United States Consul General Penfield. at Cairo, makes the surprising statement that Egypt, in proportion to population, has more railway mileage and better ser­ vice than Austria, Hungary, Spain or Por­ tugal, and it is'all Government property, with the exception of a few short lines."' The patent office is hearing arguments as to the ownership of a patent for a cigarette making machine that is warrant­ ed to make five miles of cigarettes per day. The tobacco is spun out in an end­ less rope and fitted into an endless roll of paper, and is then cut into the pro­ per lengths. The Department of Agriculture has re­ ceived no official confirmation of the re­ port from Paris that seventeen soldiers at Vitrie died from'eating American tin­ ned meat. Dr. Salmon said that the cause of poisoning from eating canned goods was not well understood. It did not nec­ essarily follow that the meat was diseas­ ed. Some chemical change, dwe to the presence of solder and tin, sometimes took place, which produced the poisonous effects. A report will probably be re­ ceived in due time from the United States consul general. The condition of the Duke of Orleans, who broke his Idg on Friday last while out hunting, is serious. A slight attack of pneumonia is complicating matters. Captain Harry B. McMaster, assistant cashier of the National Bank of Eau Claire, Wis., has been arrested on a war­ rant charging embezzlement of $25,000 &ym the bank. Thirty thousand Ohio coal miners have ided-workjjending the readjustment of the wage scale. Theodore Durant has been held for the murder of Blanche Lamont by the coro ner's jury at San Francisco. of time to give them a chance to make up the amount. The gubernatorial investigating com­ mittee Ms reported to the Teunessce Leg­ islature tlu^t Gov. Turney was elected by a plunjjjfiiy of-2,358 votes. The Repub­ lican members of the committee will pre­ sent a minority report in favor of Evans. Five cheap two-story stores in the Fin- cel Building at Frankfort, Ivy., were de­ stroyed by fire. It was with difficulty that the people in the second stories were saved by firemen. George Yeager, a cripple, and his two children, aged 5; and S years, were burned to death. The habeas corpus, case of Fred Milhei- ser, who was arrested at Galveston, Tex., April. 12, by one of Superintendent Byrnes' detectives on a bench warrant from New York for grand larceny of 1,500 barrels of sugar from the sugar trust, lias been decided in the District Court. Judge Stewart announced that the prisoner will hWe to return to New York. At Arkansas City, Kan., Friday after­ noon Arthur McKay. Stanley,/the 5-year- old sou of Dr. J. A. Mathewsv^v^s found at the bottom of an okl uuu&ed"weU. The boy had been there since Monday, after­ noon, as he disappeared on that' date. A thorough search had been made; the rivers and canal had been dragged, and it was finally concluded that" he had been stolen by Indians. - Edward Henry, a Salvation army captain, heard the moans of the boy. On being taken out the little fellow was discovered to be uninjured,- except for a few flesh wounds. He was alive, but terribly emaciated. . He will pull tlirough. He was without food a period of more than 100 hours. FAVORS MMSILVER SENATOR VOORHEE^ READY FOR f FREE COINAGE. Jr He Avers the " Arrogant Apostles of Gold'^ Mean 111 to the People, and Demands White Metal at 16 to 1-- Says We Should Not Walt for Lngland WASHINGTON. During the third session of the Fifty- third Congress 720 bills and resolutions became laws, which is less than 0 per cent, of the number introduced. The members of the Interstate Com­ merce Commission have reached Kear­ ney, Neb., and'are listening to complaints that the roads are discriminating against Kearney. Reports at Washington, D. C., show that during the last ten month's the num­ ber of Italian immigrants arriving in the country was 10,825 less than during the same period last year. "foreign."" Maximo Gomez, the famous soldier who took part in the last revolution in Cuba, on the side of the separatists, has landed in Cuba. There was a crowded meeting at Lon­ don Monday of the shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.. Sir Henry Tyler, the president, announced that on account of the majority of proxies against him he placed his resignation in the hands of the company. The meeting was very noisy, and finally adjourned un­ til next Tuesday in order to enable the shareholders to appoint a new board of directors. Light is being let in upon the intrigue behind the British movements in Nicara­ gua, and the revelations are in the high­ est degree sensational. They point to British control of that republic and to British domination over and ownership of the canal. British capital will build the canal and its operation will be under the protection of British cannon, unless the plans that are now well along toward completion miscarry. IN GENERAL. to control herself and prevent unhappiS^ Straw hats and \\ all paper are now slat- ness to all concerned. Every iron ship in San Francisco har­ bor, with one exception, has been char­ tered. This is a condition of affairs which has never been before at that port. A year ago Mission Bay was crowded with idle British ships, but one after the other they have been engaged at prices rang­ ing from"25 to 31 shillings. The sudden demand for wheat carrying vessels was a mystery until the statement was made that the 200.000 tons of syndicate wheat was to be sold and shipped to Liverpool. The engaged tonnage ityjyrt now amounts to 58.583, while at least forty more ves­ sels which are on the way to San Fran­ cisco have also been engaged. The Hamlin furniture factory at the southeast corner of North Campbell ave­ nue and Homer street, Chicago, was en­ tirely destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. •The factory was a three-story frame building, with a frontage of 150 feet and a depth of 200 feet, and a three-story brick structure with a frontage of 100 feet. Both buildings were destroyed. The stock and machinery were valued at $25,- 000 and are a total loss. Mr. Hamlin said the insurance amounted to about $20,000. The two buildings were owned by J. D. Freese and were worth $21,000. They were insured for between $15,000 and $10,000. What will probably prove another mur­ der inysery came to light at Milwaukee Friday night. The vicim is Henry Mosh- er, of Rochester, N, Y., 29 years of agd, whose body was picked up in the lake, near Lakeside Park, minus money and minus a gold watch. Mosher was the captain of the dining-room waiters in the Pfister Hotel. He left the hotel and was about to go to Rochester, N. Y., to visit his parents. Mosher did not talk much about his business, but he had Thursday drawn thirty-three days' pay from the Pfister and besides that had $120 in er/di on his person. He had a bank ac­ count and carried the bank (book in his pocket." The decision of Judge Smith in the famous suit of the Stockton, Cal., Com­ bined Harvester and Agricultural Works against the Glens Falls and seventy-two other insurance companies to recover $90,- 000 as insurance on property of the plain­ tiff burned several years ago, was ren­ dered Tuesday in favor of the harvester company for the full amount. When the property was burned the harvester com­ pany and the insurance people submitted the matter to arbitration and an award of $00.000 was made. The harvester peo­ ple accepted this, but before it was paid matters were brought to the attention of the insurance companies that caused them to refuse to pay any such sum. Suit was then brought on the award. The cast; has been to the Supreme Court and this was the second trial and the second decision in favor of the plaintiff. The insurance companies alleged that fraud had been committed and that the burned property though insured for $127,000 was worth scarcely anything. EASTERN. ed for a trip to the sky. Their prices are likely to join the procession of balloons occupied by beef, oil and leather. Straw braid. Out of which the familiar and nec­ essary straw hat is made, has gone up 10 per cent, and more, and there is a chance that cheap straw hats will cost a little more this year than they did last. There is an equal chance, some jobbers believe, that next year's crop will be sold at better prices, because of peculiar conditions that exist. Braided straw, of which hats are made, comes mostly from China and Japan. Last summer's rspell of hot weather exhausted the supply of straw hats; the war in the East, it is thought, has interfered to some extent .with the shipments from China and Japan, for it is understood the manufacturers have not yet got their stock. There has been a smart, healthy trade in hats for the com­ ing season and a^rise in straw braid. Out of these conditions jobbers foresee possi­ bilities that hats may cost more. Shoes may go up in price. Leather's price is skyward bound, and as a conse­ quence footwear, 'especially the cheaper grades, may rise also in cost. Leather is one of the things in the procession of commodities the upward whirl of which has attracted the attention of the busi­ ness and speculative world. Prices of certain grades have gone up from six to nine cents a pound--a rise in instances amounting to over 00 per cent, Lower grades of shoes have advanced in some cases 15 per cent., and manufacturers' agents in Boston, the great center of the footwear business, are writing custom­ ers declining to duplicate orders at prices recently quoted. Jobbers and manufac­ turers believe the advance in shoes must at a moderate estimate amount to fully 25 per cent, before snow flies, for they see no marked indications of a change in the conditions which have mainly brought about the rise. These are the facts of the receipts of live cattle and the supply of hides, though there are some men who suspect the leather trust in some measure has helped the hurrah along. MARKET REPORTS. fWarit's No Straddling. . Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, in an in­ terview on the silver question said :; * : I do not regret the agitation of the sliver question. Sooner or later it had to be def­ initely settled whether the. labor producing people of this country canjie bullied out of half of their debt-paying money or that th'ey will stand up like free men and protect and defend the money/ named and provided in •the Constitution--bold and silver, or both-- not one of the pBeciofis metals alone, but both, and on terms and conditions as to coinage and use or absolute eqtnility. That ,4s the question immediately before us, and no -wtter time than now will ever he found for its settlement. The Sherman act, which was conceived in rancorous hostility to silver and brought forth into a'law by An iiiTquitforis betrayal of silver free coinage, lias been buried-fin an unhonored gravel over which no lament will ever be heard. I have never been willing to admit that our system of cur­ rency should be dictated by Kirgland a nil ' other foreign countries, and I repel that idea ijaow. The real and vital issue uow pre : sen ted to the American people is the pro­ posed elimination of silver, from our cur­ rency. This movement means the" destruc­ tion of half of the debt-paying money of the United'States and of the world.-- If it should be successful it will 'doiible t.ljo burdens on every debtor and mullipljrflie galns'antl in­ come of every creditor wherever the Sun fehinefj. " ' v • '• .< . 1 J-'-. The debts of the American people at this time, both public and private, are appalling in amount. They have been contracted on a bimetallic basis and it is now proposed to make them payable on a basis of gold alone. Tbe two metals also constitute the specie basis for such paper currency as may be put in circulation. If silver money is destroyed paper circulation must be contracted in that proportion. Every form a-ij,d kind of money must become that much scarcer and harder to get in exchange for labor and the prod­ ucts of labor, yuch a policy is to my mind simply horrible. I have not a particle of doubt as to the result of the contest now go­ ing on. The enemies of silver will be driven to the wall. Silver money will not only sur­ vive but it will be&£ully restored to its old place as a leading wud controlling factor in the development arfcl the progress of the country. Danger from the coinage and use of silver as money in this country ijjver occurred to the sane mind until greed, avarice, unholy speculation reared its s<,'/pent head and aimed a vicious, deadly blow at the honored dollar of the fathers in 1S73. Since that SEXATOR VOORIIICES. SOUTHERN. " The State Hospital for Insane at Wat- kins, N. Y., was partly burned. The loss was $7,500, and the excitement among the Inmates was intense while the ' fire raged. v . The men employed by the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, near Pittsburg, repudiated the strike order. They said in convention they were satis­ fied with the 55 cent rate. It is rumored In railway Circles that a new rule will shortly be put into force J ^railroads in the Vanderbilt system, Tffhich, in brief, is that officials, 'when Memorial day was fittingly observed, at Mobile by Alabama State troops and Confederate veterans. .Gold has been discovered near Raleigh, a suburb of Memphis, Tenn. It is plenti­ fully mixed with platinum. James F. Caldwell, the veteran starter of race horses, who is known to turfmen the country over, lost $55,000 in a faro bank at; Little Rock, Ark. Judge Goff,,*)f Columbia, S. C., and the State authorities are likely to lock horns over the seizure of liquor brought into the State in violation of the dispensary law. Hail-storms in Arkansas and Missis­ sippi damaged growing crops and de­ stroyed considerable farm. property. A negro woman named Kuuffman was frightened to death. ^Upon • representations that citizens of Nicaragua nvere making an honest effort to raise $75,000 to pay the Hatch indem­ nity, Great Britain granted an extension Chicago -- Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.15; hogs, shipping grades, $3 to $5; sheepT ~fuir to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 r*nl, 02% to 041/£>c; corn. No. 2, 47 , /{>c to 48%'c; oats,' No. 2, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 05c to 07c; butter, choice creamery, lSV^c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 12^c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 70c to 85c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7c. Indianapolis -- Cattle, shipping,. $3 to $0.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.50; wJneat, No. 2 red, 01c to G2^c; corn. No. 1 white, 40c to 40J/>c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to'33M..c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3 to $0.10; hogs. $4 to $5; wheat, No. 2 red, 03c to 03%c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c: rye, No. 2, 03c to G9c. Cincinnati--Cattle. $3.50 to $0; hogs, $3 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wlie^it, 'No. 2, 09c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 48c to 48%c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 31c; rye. No. 2, 67c to 08c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $0; hogs, $4 to $5; sheep, $2 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 05%c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 47c to 471/sjc; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to -Mi/jo. L Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 67%c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 471/>c to 48%c; oats, No. 2 white, 32%c to 33c^ rye, No. 2, 00c to 07c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs. .4?3 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat, No. 1 hard, 72c to 72V£.c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52c to 521^0; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c. ' '.,1. • Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 04c to 65c; corn, No. 3, 47c to 48c;, oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley, No. 2, 52c to 52%c; rye, No. 1, 66c to 67c; pork, %iess, $12 to $12.50. New York--Cattle, $3 to $6.50; hogs, $4 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 53c to 53%c; oats, white Western, 37c to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs, West­ ern, 13c to lS'/^c. . time we have had nothing but financial vexa­ tion, distrusts, business depression, ruinous panics, and confiscation. If I am told on this question that silver bullion as a marketable commodity at this time commands a low price, my a'nswer is that if gold had been conspired against, per­ sistently assailed by foul means as well as fair, stabbed In the dark and hi the daylight, and in the back and under the fifth rii>, and wherever else a dagger could be planted for nearly a quarter of a century past, it would be In a far worse crippled condition than silver. No other form of money on the face of the earth could have withstood as silver has done such a malignant, unsparing cru­ sade as the last twenty-two years have wit­ nessed In this country. It still holds its place in the affections and confidence of the people. Battered, bruised, and tattered as It has been, yet It will buy to-day all that gold will buy. and pay all the debts that gold will pay, unless a special contract has been made for gold. The American people will never give it up, and the sooner the minions of aggressive, indolent, consolidated wealth and the arrogant apostles of gold mono­ metallism realize and act upon this fact the better and safer It will be for them in the future of this country. The need of the will to metal in the hands of the people is even gfeater now than ever before. There is sea cely a speck of gold in sight of the laboring classes. I11 round numbers there are nearly four thousand millions of gold r • > in the world and about the same ai> 1 t of silver. With sil­ ver demonetized tn ] lain people, the wage workers^and those <vho raise and sell the produce of the soil v ill handle specie money no more forever, and will catch even a glimpse of it but fiiidom. I wish to impugn the motives of no one and to avoid hard words In discussion as much as possible; but the time has come when speech, though temperate, should be very plain. Party platforms from this time forward will not bo framed to cheat 011 this subject, whatever may have been done here­ tofore. If the free and unlimited coinage of silver as full legal tender money and as a standard of statutes and the unit of ac­ count and payment, without a word of In­ ternational agreement 011 the subject, will put this country 011 a silver basis, then we were on slich a b®ils every day and hour from the passage of the first coinage act in April, 179U. until the demonetization act of February, 1873, 11 period of eighty-one years, during which we rose from weakness to the foremost rank among the nations of the earth. I commend to all croakers I11 regard to a silver basis a careful reading of the act of April 2, 1"'.)2, formulated by Hamilton and Jefferson and approved by Washington. SECRETARY MORTON'S VIEWS. Declares Himself for Gold Supply and Demand Regulates Value, ; Secretary Morton, in an interview on the silver question, said: "I do not believe that an international conference can es­ tablish permanently a commercial ratio between gold and silver any more.than it can establish a permanent commercial ratio between rye and wheat. But if an international conference can fix the price of gold and silver it can also fix the price of wheat or any com­ modity, and thereby avoid all possible shrinkages in value which tend to cause panics. _ * "My own judg­ ment is that we must sooner or later de­ clare that the United States recognizes gold as the best and least fluctuating measure of value and medium ofcexehange which the commerce of civilization has thus far utilized. The time for straddlers is passed. Those who are for sound currency on a gold basis ought to have the eourage to say so and abide by the results of their convictions. I have no hesitation in declaring mvself opposed to all free coinage fallacies. My judgment is that silver cannot be restor­ ed to its former monetary place -in- the commerce of the world, because the sup­ ply of silver has outgrown the demand for silver in the exchanges of civilization. The relation of supply to demand is the regulator of value. This axiom applies auke to salt, silver, sugar and soap. All the legislation of the law-making bodies on the face of the,, globe can neither miti­ gate nor anriul the Operation of the inex­ orable law. The relation of supply and demand is the sole regulator of value." platform of a provision for coinage of di­ ver to a considerable amount. They are even Willing to change the ratio and make it 18 to 1, or thereabouts, but they want the Republican party to commit itself to the coinage of $400,000,000 ih silver. Therfe are Republicans in the East who call themselves friends of sil­ ver, and this is the kind of policy they are counseling. » FOR FREE COINAGE. Ex-Speaker Crisp Says the 1890 Demo­ cratic Convention Should So Declare. In an interview,.,jit Atlanta ex-Speaker Crisp gives his ^i<t»-.s of the coming presi- dentialc campaign and the politics which will enter into it. He says: "From the time of the tariff commission of.lSSO down to a year ago tariff refbrm had its varying fortunes,- resulting at last in a revision acceptable to the people. The silver question is going through the same course of public discussion. Just as in that fight the silver men will have their battle royal, when the American people. TEACHERS TOGO WEST EX-SPKAKKli rRffiP. will award the victory. The majority of people in both parties are in favor' of the free .coinage of silver. They are to­ day behind-the free silver movement, and they will push it 011 to success and have silver re-established to its old equality with gold. In the next campaign the re­ habilitation of silver will btHihe controlling issue upon which Democracy will appeal to the people. Party platforms should always be plain and direct. Whatever reason existed for different constructions of the platform of 1892 should no longer exist, and for-> this purpose that to be adopted in 189G should be so plain that even a school boy can understand it. The platform should declare for the free coin­ age of silver. "Of course," said Mr. Crisp, "there is a contingency in which the people might not be called upon to settle the question- that is the probable action of an interna­ tional conference. That would be the best and easiest method $f re-establishing silver, and with less of the element of ex­ periment in it. If such a conference should be called, and it took action restoring sil­ ver so that the people would be satisfied, we would have 110 financial issue for 1890. I am in favor of its free coinage, as I have always been." ALLISON FOR SOUND MONEY. Iowa Man So Expresses Himself to a Chicago Newspaper Interviewer. Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa, passed throu^i Chicago the other day on his way to Washington. I11 response to the quiries of an in­ terviewer he said: "I am in favor of sound money. Gold and silver have been the money of nations for centuries, and all that is needed is to N. establish the relative J- | value of the two met- \ a Is. I The question now is how can we place silver in circu­ lation and pass it current with gold? It is gratifying, is it not, to know that a few men can save our country by loaning us gold to pay our current espousesV" AI.I.ISOX. Tennessee Bimetallic League. The first movement of the friends of free silver coinage in Tennessee to or­ ganize was made when, in response to a call, a gathering of the supporters of the white metal was held in Memphis, at which the nucleus of a Bimetallic League to embrace the entire State was formed, before organization was perfected the meeting declared its principles in a brief resolution favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1, independent of the action of other coun­ tries. Trials of the New Party. Washington dispatch: When the Bi­ metallic League, which has headquarters in Washington, organized the new silver league on a 10 to 1 basis, it was with the expectation that both Populists,and free coinage Democrats would go into it. The Democrats refused to,have anything to do with a new party movement, and now the League people have been informed that the Populists will decline to join them. Sixteen to One Move in Texas. At a caucus in Austin, Tex., of the members of the Legislature, at which Hon. John II. Iteagan, ex-State Comp­ trollers .Brown and Swain and other prominent citizens were present, resolu­ tions were adopted looking to the organ­ ization of the free silverites in Texas on the 10 to 1 basis. SEC. MOBTOJT. Carlisle to-Speak at Memphis. Secretary Carlisle has confirmed the re­ port that he is to address the sound- money convention at Memphis. He sent a formal acceptance and will at once be­ gin the preparation of what he is to say. WORK OF THE LAST CONGRESS. A'HOS^r WILL ATTEND THE DEN- "jC. I ;Vfe!?' CONVENTION. Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National Educational Association, July 5-12--Many Eminent Educators oil.the Program. ~ Thirty Thousand Expected. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the National iEdncai;ioaql, "Jfe" will be held in Denver, Jufy 5 to 12. The asso­ ciation goes sq far West this year for the second time in its history. In 18S8 ih« session was held in San Francisco, rhe president of the association for '8S was Aaron Gove, then and now superintend­ ent of the Denver schools. The" San Fran- cisc'o meeting was the largest the asso­ ciation has ever held, before or since that time, and such en­ thusiasm « a,s was manifested in 188S' has. not been> known until 189,-). when the fame of Denver has called forth, three months before the time set for the July meetings an enthusi­ asm on the part of educators through­ out the country, which assures an attendance of-between 20,000• and "30,OOO. people. The San Francisco attendance-was 12,^00. The National Educational Association was established in 18r>7 in Philadelphia; its object, as stated in the preamble to the constitution, is "To elevate the char­ acter and advance the interests of the profession, of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States." - Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Colum­ bia College, professor of philosophy and education, and State university examiner for New York, is president of the asso­ ciation. Dr. Butler is one of the young men who have of late.years come to the front in educational lines. He is 33 years of age and is recognized as one of the Di:. Kt TI.KK. DKXVEH CITY IIAI.L. Over Twelve Thousand Dills Intro­ duced, but Very Few Decauie Laws. According to figures prepared by B. S. Piatt, enrolling clerk of the Senate, 720 bills and joint resolutions became laws during the third session of the Fifty-third Congress. Of these 215 were Senate and 505 House bills and resolutions. During the entire Congress 12,223 measures were introduced in the two houses, of which 2,952 originated in the Senate and 9,271 in the House. The Senate passed 527 of its own bills, but only 239 of these re­ ceived favorable action in the House, while of the 711 House bills which passed the House, 509 also passed the Senate. The President vetoed or failed to sign 24 of the Senate bills sent to him, while 54 House bills met the same fate at the hand of The executive, rt appoars frora this statement that less than 0 per cent, of the bills introduced during\the Con­ gress became laws. Dridget's Dates. _ "Bridget, I am tired of your careless­ ness. .Only look at all that dust lyin.j: about on the furniture. It's six weeks old at the very least." Bridget (very dignified)--Then it is no fault of mirje. You knows very well, mum, that I have been with you only three weeks."--Exchange. ' ^ Proposed Republican Policy. Washington dispatch: Certain!"elements in the Republican party will endeavor to obtain a definite declaration regarding silver at the national convention. The'y •think it useless to attempt to commit the party to free and unlimited coinage, but they will try to secure insertion in the The eyeball is white because the blood vessels that feed Its substance are so small that they do not admit the re-corpuscles. most advanced thinkers; and among the most progressive educators in the worldt Superintendent A. G. Lane, of Chicago schools, is vice-president; Irwin Shepard, State superintendent of Minnesota, is sec­ retary; Superintendent J. M. Greenwood, of the Kansas City schools, is treasurer, and Superintendent N. A. Calkins, of the New York schools, is chairman of the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the association. The membership is composed of men and women eminent in educational lines in the United States and Canada, and numbered last year over 5,000. Convention Program. The National Educational Association has eleven departments, each of which has a meeting place and holds sessions of its own, in addition to those of the gen­ eral convention. The departments are: Kindergarten, Elementary, Secondary, Higher, Normal, Manual Training. Art, Music, Business Education, Child Study; and a National Council of Education. Among the noted ed­ ucators who will read papers and take part in the discus­ sions of the conven­ tion and its depart­ ments are: President De G a r m o, of Swarthmore; Com­ missioner Harris, of the United States Bureau of Educa­ tion; Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior; Prof. Jackman. of the Cook County Normal School, Illinois; Chancellor W. II. Payne, of Nashville University; George H. Mar­ tin, Supervisor of Boston Schools; Prof. William Carey Jones, of the University of California; James L. Hughes, Inspec­ tor of Schools, Toronto; Dr. .T. M. Rice, of New York; Mrs. Mary Hunt; of Bos­ ton; Prof. Richard T. Ely, of the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin; N. C. Shaeffer, Pennsylvania State Superintendent; Ilai- sey C. Ives, Chief of the Art Department of the World's Columbian Exposition. The Convention City. Not only has Denver become famous as a city of conventions, some sixty organ­ izations having met there in convention last year, but 110 city of the age and size of Denver is so well known throughout the country for the superior excellence of its school system and for the educational advantagesdt affords. Ever since the Knight Templar Con­ clave, of August, 1892, when 100,000 CROPS IN GOOD SHAPE. Fine Showing of Winter Wheat--Corn Planting Well Under Way. Reports as to the conditions of crops; throughout the country and the general in­ fluence of weather on cultivation and growth of crops made by the directors oft the different "Slate weather servicg^jaud. telegraphed to Chicago are as follows: j Winter wheat is reported as in excel­ lent condition in Kentucky, Tennessee,' Maryland and over the greater part of. Illinois; Nebraska reports good condition: in extreme southeast, elsewhere mostly! wintlier killed; Iowa reports' good condi-, tion; Ohio much improved and in fair1 condition except in northern portion; a good crop is promised in Indiana, except^ 011 clay soil; Arkansas and Oregon report crop much improved; Michigan fair con­ dition, except in some central counties,; where winter killed; in Wisconsin it has been largely winter killed; in Kansas the' crop is improved in western portions of' the State, but in central counties liiuchj has been plowed up and the ground sown; in other grain. Spring wheat is coming' up and growing nicely in the Dakotas and Minnesota, but in the southern por­ tion of the last named State the late sown is needing rain. Corn planting has begun in Minnesota and is progressing in Pennsylvania, Ohio,. Indiana, Illinois,' Iowa and-South Dakota; .some damage is' being dpne by cut worms in Mississippi and Kentucky. Cotton planting is nearly completed in South Carolina; Alabama' 'jand Arkansas and will be finished in Louisiana the coming week. Indiana--Warm weather and few show­ ers were beneficial, but rain is needed; wheat on favorable soil promises good crop, 011 cla'y ground it stands thin and spotted; plowing for corn nearly ended; planting begun in most counties. A\ isconsin--\Yeather too cold and dry for crop growth; grass and oats making, slow progress; winter wheat largely kill­ ed and land sown to other grain; about n0 per cent, of the crop saved in east por­ tion; planting begun. Iowa--The, week ended warm and favor­ able; a fair start has been made in corn planting; all small grain crops doing well; winter wheat in good condition. j North Dakota--Favorable weather, wheat seeding about finished; oats, rye and flax being sown; grain coming up nicely. Minnesota--Good rains in northern and central portions and light showers in southern portion; warm sunshiny days,i with frosty nights* early sown grain good stand and sprouting nicely; potato plant-' ing well advanced and corn planting be-; gun; grass and late sown grain need more; rain in southern portion. South Dakota--Above an average tem­ perature, with about average rainfall and sufficient sunshine caused satisfactory progress in all vegetation; wheat, oats, gardens and grass growing nicely; flax seeding progressing; potato planting ad­ vanced; corn planting becoming general. Michigan--Warm, dry week has greatly advanced farm work, but held back vege­ tation, which is badly in need of rain; all winter wheat in fair condition except in eastern third of central counties, where it is poor and winter killed in spots. Nebraska--Crops have grown slowly owing to dry weather first of week, but heavy rains the past three days make the week close with all crops in excellent condition. Winter wheat good in ex­ treme southeastern counties; elsewhere mostly winter killed and has been plowed up for other crops. Fruit in remarkably good condition. AAUOS GOVE. COI.OEA1JO STATE CAPITOI., PKXVEH. guests were so royally entertained in Denver, that city has always been consid­ ered in choosing a place for large con­ ventions. Several other cities, east and west, fought hard for the '95 convention of the National Educational Association, but Denver prevailed. From all points in the East, railroads will sell tickets to Denver ami return -at-one-fartN-]Thts-$2-formem-berslHp-in- the association. These tickets will read, "good returning July 15 or 10," but if de­ posited with the Union Ticket Agent iii Denver the return coupons will be ex­ tended to any time up to Sept. 1. Big Deficit Certain. A Washington dispatch says that the treasury receipts during April have not been up to expectations, and it is proba­ ble that there will be a deficiency this year of nearly .$45,000,000. Receipts for the month were $24,247,830 and expendi­ tures $32,952,090, leaving a deficit for the month of $8,704,854 and for the fiscaj year to date •of $45,247,000. Some men would rather not pray than to have their trousers bag at the knees. J. Fletcher Williams, ex-secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society syid one of the most prominent Odd Fellows in the Northwest, died at Rochester, Minn., of softening of. the brain, uie to over­ work. / PYTHIANS ON PARADE. Delegates from All Over the World Meet at Indianapolis. Twenty-four States were represented at the first meeting of Supreme Council Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias of the World, which began in Castle Hall at Indianapolis, Tuesday. There were in attendance the supreme chancellor and other officials, many representatives of supreme lodges, the brigade commanders of the various States and the members of supreme tribunals. The supreme council is the legislative power of the rank. This is the first meeting since the uniformed rank was authorized to be under control of its own members. James Carnahan, who is at the head of the rank, welcomed the delegates to the convention, and Su­ preme Chancellor Rich, of Ohio, respond­ ed. The report of General Carnahan was then read. It called attention to the rapid growth of the uniform rank and made recommendations for the future government of the rank. The report was referred to a committee. Committees were then appointed on rules and regula­ tions, finance,-revenue, appeals and griev­ ances, ibileage and per diem and law. The convention fixed a basis on mileage and per diem for the representatives and accepted and approved the bond of Wil­ liam J. McKee, of Indianapolis, adjutant general of the rank, who will hereaftlh: handle all the funds of the uniform rank. In the afternoon there was a magnificent parade, commanded by Gen. J. R. Ross. At night the delegates to the convention witnessed the exemplification of the pro­ posed ritual of the uniform rank at the opera house. Charles B. Lewis, better known as "M Quad," has resumed his editorial connec- tiyn with the Detroit Free Press. Mr. John W. Foster is well pleased with the peace treaty between Japan and China. He gets $100,000 out of it. The Princess of Wales is a lover and collector of fine and rare laces and has $150,000 worth locked up in her cabinets. John Ruskin can play chess and indulge in other similar recreations, but it is not thought that he will ever be able to re­ sume literary work. Mr. Foote has been-elected president of the Boston Boot and Shoe Club. Some years ago Mr. Foote was walking on his uppers, but now he is well heeled. Chief Clarence of- the Mosquito Res­ ervation is still at Kingston, Jamaica, under British protection, and is allowed $22 a day for living expenses. Dr. Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory, has been made\fom- mander of the Order of the Ernestine House of Saxony in recognition of his s^ vices to science. <j --Mrs. T'otts. the woman suffrage-leader of Topeka, has applied for divorce for the reason that Mr. Potts has accorded her, among other rights, the one of earn­ ing her daily bread. E. Clark, Jr., who recently resigned his position as general freight agent of the New York Central Railroad, had been forty-seven consecutive years in the service of the company. Prof. Guiitz, of Nancy, says that he has found a simpler method of obtaining ar­ gon than that of Lord Raylejgh and Prof.- Ramsey. He extracts it from lithium at a moderate temperature. f E. St. John, vice-president of the Sea­ board Air Line, was recently presented with a magnificent gold watch from the locomotive engineers of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad as a token of their appreciation of the kind treatment they received from him while he was . general manager of the Rock Island road.'