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n- J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MoHENRY. ILLINOIS DEATH OF TJIE TRUST DISTILLING AND CATTLE FEED- ING COMPANY KILLED. f i . Ecuador Government" About to Col­ lapse -- Kdlling Plaster Causes a Panic in n School--Hundreds,of Men FightiPennsylvania Forest Fires- Corporation Is Illegal. The Distilling dud Cattle Feeding Com­ pany, kiunyu throughout the leugth of the land as the whisky trtist, was Thursday .struck dead by the hand of the Illinois Supreme Court. The court affirms the decision rendered by Judge Gibbons in the quo warranto proceedings instituted against the trust by Attorney General Moloney, declaring it to be illegal and roid and ousting it /of its franchise. A sweeping and emph^tjc denunciation and. condemnation Qf trusts, monopolies and combines is contained in the decision. Opinions upon the immediate effect of the decision as. expressed by the attorneys of the different parties in interest differ ' Kidely. All that seems certain is that a cloud of fresh litigation must follow in which the leading features will be a per tMbn for a judicial sale to be filed imme­ diately by the. .reorganization committee, and actions by the former owners and present lessors of property making up the aggregation of plants in the trust. A small army of deputy marshals went into service to resist any forcible attempt on the part of the lessors to seize plants, but their efforts will be made through the courts. A bill to recover the $504,000 lost in speculation and alleged to have been paid by the trust was filed by Receiv­ er McNqlta against Greenbut, Morris and other directors. Many Little Pnpils Injured. Two hundred pupils of the East Side school, at Main street and Forest avenue, Evanston, 111., were driven into a panic Wednesday afternoon by the fall of a section of ceiling plaster in one of the rooms. Several children barely escaped instant death beneath an avalanche of mortar and old lath, three were badly "bruised and cut, scores were partially blinded and choked by the- great clouds of lime and dust that filled the rooms and corridors after the crash, and many of the bewildered pupils, stampeded by the foolish cry of lire, would have been trampled to death by their more power­ ful companions but for the heroic efforts of the teachers to restore order. Revolutionists in Control. A dispatch from Panama says: There is little chance that the Ecuador Govern­ ment at Quito will last much longer. The patriots are intrenched securely at Guay­ aquil, and, certain of nearly all the Guay- as province, are only waiting for Alfaro's arrival to continue their victories. The radical change in the Government which is expected renders measures of precau­ tion imperative, and the Cauca troops are instructed to make a special call at Buena Ventura. Gen. Ulloa, meantime, awaits advices from Bogota. In all this one detects a cause for suspecting that , Colombia may have an intention to inter­ vene Ifi Ecuador. Guayaquil advices con firm the news of Gen. Eioy Alfaro's de­ parture from Nicaragua. Forest Fires Threaten Oil Wells. Near Simpson, Pa., the forest fires are dangerously near the wells of Urquhart & Lavens, and that it will be difficult to save the property from destruction. Wed­ nesday a force of 150 men had a hard fight with the flames near Lafayette Cor­ ners. Nearly 2.000.000 feet of lumber at W. D. Johnson's mill was destroyed, en­ tailing a loss of S15,000. The lumbe* was partially insured. The mill was sav­ ed. Another fire near Taintor's destroy­ ed a large quantity of wood for Hamlin & Knowles. Fires are reported from various other parts. burn was an old lake vessel master and once commanded ' the schobuers West Side, J. E. Giluiore'and Dan Ijyonvs.^. '** Richard Golden, the actor, took the poor debtor's oath before Judge Forsaith in the municipal court at Boston. MaskJThe Springer Lithographic Company of New York has sued Golden for'$3,500 for a balance alleged to be due on a contract made in 1890 for posters furnished rtbe "Jed Prouty" company. It developed that last season the gross receipts on the *'Jed~Prouty" company were $30,000, of which 65 per cent fell" tO ^oide^1" He ac­ counted for the loss of =a good portion of this by a trip to Europe. J - A ^4. ..freight wreck/ occurred at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning/three miles east of Kane, Pa. A' heav'ily loaded east- bound freight train, on the Philadelphia and Erie, while running at a good rate of' speed,"was ditched and nineteen cars piled up, A car of oil was in the wreck and took fire immediately. The fluid spread to rae wreckage and nineteen cars are ablaze. One man was killed, supposed to be a boiler maker from Erie; who was beating his way. It is thought that there are others in the wreck. The loss to the company will be heavy. • -r- WESTERN. Senator Wolcott has purchased the Douglass and Brown group of mines in Nevada for $(>00,000. Forest fires;, started by railroad men burning old ties, haVe destroyed SpO acres of timber hear Brazil; Ind. Furniture manufacturers met at Grand Rapids, Mich., and decided to.raise prices on -account of increased cost of materials. Joseph Sampson was expelled from membership in the City-Council at Sioux Falls, S. D., for converting $716 from the city to his own use. The manufacturers of iron and brass bedsteads who have been meeting at the Victoria Hotel. Chicago, disbanded. No organization was effected, as was at first expected. „ It has developed that Woodward, under arrest at Cincinnati, operated extensively in check raising in Virginia. It is expect­ ed that arrests of his accomplices will be made in Chicago. J. A. Jones and Thomas Barnes, broth- ers-in-law, engaged in a pistol due! on horseback near Crawford, Neb. Jones' horse was shot from under him. He con­ tinued the battle afoot and was killed. The entire business district of South Chicago was threatened with destruction by fire that started, at 11:30 o'clock Mon­ day night in the furniture store of Peter Young. Before th© flames were gotten un­ der control ten buildings were laid in ashes. The damage will reach about $200,000. The fire started in the rear of Young's furniture store, right in the heart of the business district. It spread west, destroying sis buildings, and the flames shifted north, laying four more" buildings in ashes. Twenty minutes after the tire broke out the flames attacked the big department store of C. S. Cave. This is the largest store in the town. The fire­ men fought the blaze at this point and succeeded in saving the structure, but the. loss from water will be several thousand dollars. Chicago merchants have just been given at least <$7,000,000 of additional trade An­ nually by the railroad and warehouse commission. Merchants in jobbing centers in Illinois other than Chicago will benefit proportionately by the same gift and to the extent of at least $3,000,000. This enormous increase of trade to Illi­ nois merchants comes through the decision of the State commission to establish be­ tween all Illinois points as low a mileage basis of rates as is quoted to them from points outside the State. In other words, the commission is now printing its revised classification which will remove from Chi­ cago .and other Illinois merchants ftie onerous exactions in freight rates which have turned over the jobbing trade within the State to merchants in Cincinnati. In­ dianapolis, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, etc. BREVITIES. SOUTHERN. The Bank of Commerce of Indianapolis has suspended business. Susan Cook, aged 105, has been ad­ judged insane at Quincy. A dispatch from Simla. India, says news has been received from Cabul that the Ameer of Afghanistan has imprisoned Umra Khan, thereby removing the re­ proach that the ameer was receiving Eng­ land's enemy as a guest. W. H. Huff, recently removed from the office of secretary and treasurer of the Florence, Colo., Oil Company, has been held in $5,000 bonds for trial on the charge of secreting valuable papers, mortgages, bonds, money, etc., belonging to the com­ pany. Hdff claims that he was not le­ gally removed from .office. A fishing party from Stuttgart, Ark., consisting of a Mr. Thompson arid another -nan, their wives and three, children, camp­ ing on White river, five miles below St. Charles, were attacked Saturday night by toughs, their tent shot into, one woman and child killed, and a man and a boy se­ riously wounded. John Kemp, one of the toughs, was killed by Thompson. Great indignation prevails. There is no known cause for the outrage. The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominat­ ed the following State ticket: United States Senator, R. S. Thompson, Spring­ field; Governor, Seth II. Ellis. Springs boro; Lieutenant Governor, J. W. Sh arp, Mansfield; Attorney General, W. C. Bates, Columbus; Auditor, A. S. Caton, Coshockton- County; treasurer, J. wl Hawkins, Jefferson County; supreme court judge, John T. Moore, Jackson County; supreme court clerk, David Spey- er, Riphwood; board of public works, James Benjamin, Zanesyille. ( Obituary: At Anna, 111., Captain Hugh Andrews.--At Washington, Major Rich­ ard Oulahau.--At Bagdad, Ky., J. M. Nunn. Geneva, a thriving little town thirty- eight miles south of Fort Wayne, Ind., in the center of the gas belt, was destroy­ ed by fire Tuesday night. The Shamrock Hotel is the only building standing. • Rev. Philip Phillips, the evangelist, is critically ill with consumption at Boston. The Blasland-Parcels-Jordan Shoe Co n- pany of St. Louis has given a deed of trust to protect creditors, whose claims, amount to $87,540. levy (i uniform tax of 5 per cefit on the' gold- and silver contained in all the ore , , mined, in the country, without regard to ;re it is treated. TOM DOWN BY MOBS. FOREIGN, A fire which broke out at Meriny, "Hun­ gary, was not under control until J;20 .houses had been destroyed. Several per­ sons lost'their lives during the conflagra­ tion. ; 4 It is officially announced that fifty fa­ talities resulted from the cloudburst over! the Wurteniberg portibn of the Black Forest. At Ballingen alone thirty houses were demolished by the rise of the River Eyach, and many other buildings were damngedi - News has been received at St. Malo, France,: o^ t;lie abandonnient, on fire and with her passengers on board, of a British' vessel, the Why Not, bound for the Island of Jersey and loaded with fodder. The crew of the Why Not, it is said, deserted the passengers When the vessel caught fire, and, taking the boats, succeeded in landing at Erquy, department of the Cotes du Nord, not far from St. Milo. The fate Of the passengers is not known. A London cablegram says: A special dis­ patch -from Shanghai says that it is al­ most certain that a massacre of all the persons connected with the English, French and American missions at Cheng­ te has occurred. Neither men, wouien nor children have been spared. It is ad­ mitted that telegrams have been inter­ cepted by the Government, the object be­ ing to conceal the news of the massacre. A French gunboat is en route to Woen- chang to investigate the report. Chengte is situated in the province of Pe Chi Li* 100 miles northeast of Pekin. The people composing the population of the city are of a low order. The fact that Chengte is so near Pekin, the seat of the Chinese Government, makes the outrage all the more flagrant. When the news of the massacre arrived in Shanghai a French gunboat was promptly ordered to Wreng Cheng to Investigate. There are several English warships here, but none has been ordered north. The Americans and Eng­ lish will, however, make a thorough in­ vestigation. IN GENERAL The steamer Monarch, owned by Brydges & Durham, which left Rat Port­ age, Ont., for Fort Francis, loaded with- passengers and freight, was wrecked and sunk at Sault Rapids in the Rainy river. The passengers and crew were saved. The great relay bicycle race of the red and blue between Chicago and New York was finished at 1:56 o'clock Saturday" morning. The actual time of the race was 65 hours and 53 minutes. They broke all American records for a relay race. The start was at Chicago at 9:30 o'clock Wed­ nesday morning. The race was organized practically by Gen. Nelson A. Miles to demonstrate the effectiveness of hicycles in military service. The "blue" riders represent the military, the "red" the postal service. The red message was followed at 2:359 a. m. by the blue message. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Plaved. Wron. Lost. cent. Boston 36 23 13 .639 Pittsburg 43 27 16 .628 Cleveland 41 24 17 .585 Baltimore 36 21 15 .583 Chicago 44 25 19 .568 New York 40 21 19 .525 Cincinnati 41 21 20 .512 Philadelphia 38 19 19 .500 Brooklyn ..39 19 20 .487 Washington 39 18 21 .462 St. Louis :..43 15 28 .349 Louisville 38 6 32 .158 • ' WESTERS LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: CHENC-TU MISSIONS WRECKED • 1 BY HEATHEN. Reports of Riotins Coiifirmed, bu Is Possible the Missionaries Kecaiied --Other Places Threatened--Terre Haute Fears Saloon Interests. Viceroy Iiiu Blamed., Shanghai advices say the report of the total destruction of the missions/of Cking- Tu-Fu, Kiathig and Yoachohu has been confirmed. The local officials refused pro­ tect Loatothe missionaries until the mob had completed the work of .demolishing the buildings. The mission stations at other places have been threatened. About twenty adults, besides a number of chil­ dren, took refuge at Ching-Tu-Fu and Ya- men. Viceroy Liu is blamed for the af­ fair. . " Cheng-Tu is the capital city,of the prov­ ince of Se-Chuen, the westernmost arid largest province of China. It borders on Thibet, and has a population of 35,000,- 000 people. Chong-Tu is the largest of seventeen cities numbering over 100,000 inhabitants each. . The pity is situated ifi a hilly region, and the country around it is poorly cultivated. The province is seamed by mountain ranges, and only a few valleys of vthe 200,000 square miles embraced in the province are susceptible of a high degree of cultivation. The peo­ ple of the hilly and mountainous district, including,the rcgtS^around Cheng-Tu, are semi-barbarous. Tli\?y kept up tribal or­ ganizations, and not only are warlike, but bitterly opposed to foreigners,.-Cheng-Tu is from 800 to 1,000 miles from the sea- coast, and the whole province of Se-Chuen is inaccessible by water except in the rainy season, when the river Yang-tse- practice of law. Gait accosted Jackson on the street and Jackson drew a pistol and fired four shotsrin rapid succession."1 Gait fell to the sidewalk rind died within a few moments. Jackson was immediate­ ly arrested and charged with murder, and although Mrs. Gait came to liis rescue and spent a large sum of money, he was con­ victed and given a sentence of twenty-one years in thq penitentiary. Upon the recent release of Jackson from prison the Widow married him, the cere­ mony being performed by the same min­ ister who had married her to Gait over twenty years ago. BANKERS OF ILLINOIS MEET. E. S. mtEYEE. MAP SHOWING CIIING-TTT AND SUKHOt.Nl>- 1NG TEHIUTOKY. The ten-stall road house, shops, seven lo­ comotives, Corliss engine, lathes and tools of the Santa Fe Railroad Company in Arkansas City were destroyed by fire Sunday night. The loss is estimated at $125,000; fully insured. The eUuse of the fire is said to have been spontaneous com­ bustion. At Lexington, Ky.. George Green, col­ ored, shot an<j?\killed his wife and her stepfather. Henderson Weakes, and then attempted suicide. Green's wife had left him, going" to the home of her mother. The woman was killed while asleep and her stepfather upon going into the room when attracted by the pistol shots. Green is still alive, but has two large holes in his head. " Bob Young, a farmer near Richmond, Mo., .was taken by a mob and strung up to a tree in an effort to extort a confes­ sion froiq him which would lead to the capture of the incendiary who recently burned barn's in the vicinity. The mob seized Young at the house of a neighbor and took him to the Woods. Upon his de­ nial of any knowledge of the crime they tied a rope about his neck, threw it over the limb of a tree and drew him up. He was let down, and, still persisting in de­ nying knowing anything about the fires, was twice more strung up. Not making any damaging admissions, he was then permitted to depart. Young says he knows the men, but will not divulge their names. , 0 Ter Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis . ....36 23 13 .039 Minneapolis . ....24 20 14 .588 Grand Rapids 30 20 10 .556 Milwaukee . . ....38 19 19 .500 Kansas City. 38 17 21 .447 St. Paul 30 10 20 .444 Detroit ...... 34 15 19 .441 Toledo .. ..30 14 22 .3S9 The review (3f the fruit condition of the country for 1894 by the pomologist of the Agricultural Department is printed for the first time in the year book now almost completed. It characterizes the season as peculiarly disastrous and unprofita­ ble, in most lines of fruit culture. In the East and South the result was largely due to unfavorable climatic conditions. Fair fruit crops were harvested, however, in the New England, middle Atlantic and lake States aud in portions of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. West of the Rocky Mountains there was an abundant yield, but losses due to the paralysis of freight traffic during the railroad strikes in June and July, together with the low prices caused by the prevailing indus­ trial depression, resulted in very low net returns to the growers and shippers of that region. The year was characterized by exceptional extremes of heat and cold, drought and moisture in different sec­ tions. The average value of apples per barrel exported was about 20 per cent less than in 1893, and exports of dried applej showed an increase of but 5 per cent over those in 1893, in which year exports were smaller than during any year since 1878. Peaches were almost a total failure in the commercial peach districts of the South, except in Florida and Texas. Iviang, in the southern %art of the prov­ ince, is navigable for local traltic. Wu-Chang, the point to which a French gunboat is said to have gone, is in the province of Hupeh, adjoining Se-Cliuen on the east. It is a city of 800,000 inhab­ itants, at the head of navigation for sea­ going vessels on the Yang-tse-Kiang, and is 600 miles and more from the scene of the reported massacre of Christians. Not Reported in Washington. The Chinese legation in Washington has received no information as to the reported massacre of missionaries. It is stated at the legation that Cheng-Tu is a large city in the interior of China. The people are far removed from the centers of foreign commerce such as Canton and Shanghai. Recently, however, by the treaty of peace with Japan, the interior city was one of several places to be opened to foreigners and foreign commerce. This, it is explain­ ed, has agitated the people, who lived by themselves from time immemorial. The missionaries are the only foreigners who have heretofore settled at Cheng-Tu. Their number is not known. It is said, however, that the number of missionaries, including their families, in the entire prov­ ince of Se-Chuen, of which Cheng-Tu is the capital, must be less than 100, includ­ ing all nationalities. ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY. President Dreyer Urges Them to Be Steadfast for Sound Money. "v The convention of the Bankers' Asso­ ciation of the State of Illinois held in Rock Isl&id was the most largely attend­ ed and most inter­ esting-ever held by the association. . It was the fifth annual gathering, and it . brought together the most prominent men of finance and affairs in the State. Reports of the dif­ ferent officers show­ ed the association to have a membership of 400 and with a cash treasury balance of $500. Henry W. Yates, of Omaha, delivered an ad­ dress on "The Fallacies of Free Silver," it being an exhaustive discussion of the monetary question from the standpoint of sound currency, and commended the change of Secretary- Carlisle's conviction on the silver issue, which was pointed to as a cheering sign of the times. . President Dreyer in his annual address called attention to the work of the associa­ tion, mentioning first the abolition of the days of grace by .the Legislature. Another bill passed by the Legislature was that vimending the law governing the indorse­ ment upon negotiable instruments so as to effectually determine the liability of in- dorsers. He recommended that the gar­ nishee law be so far amended that any banker who may have been garnisheed for sums supposed to be deposited with him by a second party may be permitted to file his answer in court by affidavit instead of being compelled to answer in person, as is the case now. On the currency ques­ tion he urged the bankers of Illinois to stand steadfast for sound money. TEMPERANCE MEN DISCHARGED Leaders of the Nicholson Movement at Terre Haute in Trouble. At Terre Haute, Ind., President Mater and Secretary Dick of., the Nicholson union, .the organization of young church people t& enforce the. new Nicholson sa­ loon law, have been discharged by their employers, two prominent retail houses, and there is great excitement in temper­ ance an(k church circles oil account of it. Their employers told them that their con­ nection wiili the movement was proving to be detrimental to the trade of the stores., Dick's employer wanted, him to sign a paper repudiating the policy of the union, and when he refused to do so he was told that he was betraying the inter­ ests of his employer, who discharged him. The employer is a member of the Presby­ terian Church and the official board of that church had a meeting to take action "regretting" his course. Cs? • J)J> WASHINGTON. EASTERN. MARKET REPORTS. $ Over half the graduating class at the Grove City, Pa., college were expeljed for ducking a lieutenant of the college? guards because he appeared in, a new/uniform.. Barely a corporal's guard of seuiors will receive their diplomas. A number of the freshmen were also expelled for tak- j ing part in the jsame affair,, * George Richards, of Milwaukee, mate of the schoqner Mabel'Wilson, has received a dispatch from a ton of Captain Black­ burn, at Oswego, announcing the foun­ dering of a yacht and the loss" of his father and three others.. Captain Black- W illiam II. Pugh, ; of Ohio, has been appointed auditor^of the treasury for the Navy Department. The swearing in of the new Secretary of State by Chief Justice '"uller Monday was a simple ceremony. During the day the chiefs of bureaus and divisions identi­ fied with the department paid their re­ spects to the new Secretary. President, Cleveland Friday afternoon announced the appointment of Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of State and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, to be Attorney General. The announce­ ment of Mr. Olney's promotion caused no surprise, as it had been expected, but the nomination of Harmon caused a sensa­ tion, as his name had not been mentioned in connection with the vacancy. , Mr. Harmon is about 30 years old, has been a judge of th^ Common Pleas in Cincin­ nati and at present is one of the counsel of the "Big Four" and other roads. C. L. Tompkinson, an American resi- dent'of Mexico, interested in mining there, in explaining,the new regulation-concern­ ing the taxation of mines in that country, said at Washington that it grew out of the fact that the. Mexican Government had recently decided to resume control of the mints. It appears that the mines have for several years been leased to private individuals, who, while they have charged a mintage tax. have put it on a-somewhat different basis from that proposed by the. Government. The charge for minting gold and silver lias been almost 41X> per cent, While the Government has collected in addition a tax of .01 of 1 per cent, mak- Case in Which Marriage and Murder Are Singularly Mingled. A remarkable ending to a romance and tragedy occurred at Lebanon, Ind., re­ cently when Mrs. George T. Gait married William Jackson, who twenty years ago shot and killed her first husband and who had been at the time sentenced to twenty- one years' imprisonment. * In January, 1875, the place was thrown into the wildest excitement by the shoot­ ing of George T. Gait, one of its wealth­ iest residents, by Lawyer William Jack­ son. Three years prior to the tragedy John C. Davis was cashier of the First National Bank of Lebanon and a highly respected citizen. He was the father .of three girls, and upon them he bestowed all his affections, his wife having died a few years before. His greatest desire was that his daughters might each wed a man who was well supplied with this world's goods and of irreproachable char­ acter. When May, his eldest, began re­ ceiving the attentions of Williilm Jackson, a young law student, with apparent favor, the father entered strenuous objections and forbade the would-be lover to again call on his daughter. About a year afterward May was mar­ ried to George T. Gait, cC widower, who, besides being one of the wealthiest men in Lebanon, was known to a few to be quite a sport. Happiness did not reign supreme in the Gait home, and as the husband grew more reckless, Mrs. Gait left him in December. 1874, and began suit for divorce, choosing Sri ljjg in all a tax of over 5 per cent to be paid by Mexican mine owners having their ores corned into money in Mexico, While those who sent their products to smelters ^either in Mexico or the United States es­ caped the payment of the bulk of the tax.* .fl?he Government, upon resuming control of the mints ou July 1 next, proposes to Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.2u; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 81c; corn. No. 2, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2, 30c to 31c; rye. No. 2, 68c to 70c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to-18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 45c to 70c; broom corn, $60 to $120 per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 83c to 85c; corn, NO. 1 white, 51c to 53c; oats, No, 2 white, 33c to 35c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 67c to 69c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4,00 wheat, No. 2, 88c to 90c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 04c to 66c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No'. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c; rye, 67c tO 09c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 wUte, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2, 62c to 64c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00;'hogs $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 hard, 85c to 86c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 56c to 58c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 80c to 81c; corn. No. 3, 51c t^53e; oats No. 2 White, 32c to 34c^Harley, No. 2 49c to 52c; rye, No. 1, 69c to 71c; pork fness, $12.25 to $12.75. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; eOrn, No. 2, 57c to 58c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 88c; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c. Senator Squire, of Washington, favors Reed for the Presidency. A call lias been issued for a silver con­ vention at Topeka, Kan. Atlanta, Ga., will endeavor to get one of the national political conventions. Ex-Congressman Bland's friends intend to start a Presidential boom for him. At least 1,500 delegates were appointed to the silver convention-at Memphis, Tenn. Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, believes McKinley will be nominated by the Re­ publicans for President. Gov. Thornton, of New Mexico, says both parties there are united for free sil­ ver. The territory will apply for admis­ sion into the Union next winter. The Boise, Idaho, Statesman has relia­ ble information that a movement is on foot to make W. A. Clark, the Montana copper millionaire, the Democratic candi­ date for Vice-President. The advocates of "sound money" of Kansas City, Mo., liaVe sent an invitation to Secretary Carlisle to deliver a speech on the financial question there at an early day, to be named by the Secretary. Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith has returned from Atlanta, Ga., to Wash­ ington. & He had nothing to say concern­ ing the rumor of his candidacy to succeed as her attorney young Jackson, who had i Senator Gordon, who has announced that in the meantime been admitted to the he will not stand for re-election. SIX OF THE COLIMA VICTIMS. GREAT SILVER BALLY If % ; i ENTHUSIASTIC FREE COINAGE MEN AT MEMPHIS. „ Fifteen Hundred Delegates from All Sections of the West and South in Attendance--Senator Turpie, of In­ diana* in the Chair. Meet Was a Success. ^ Friends, Of silver representing twenty States of the South and West held a two days' convention in Memphis. Fifteen hundred delegates, comprising Democrats, Republicans and Populists, but with "hon- est money," thereby meaning gold and sil­ ver, as the slogan of all, filled the lower floor and a large portion of the balconies at the Auditorium when the gathering was called to order. On the stage, be­ sides/the officers of the Central Bimetallic League of Memphis, under whose aus­ pices the gathering Was held, were many of the leading advocates of the free coin­ age of silver in the United States. y They included Senators Bate and Harris of Tennessee, Jones and Berry of Arkan­ sas, George and Walthall of Mississippi, Marion Butler of North Carolina, Till­ man of South Carolina, ex-Gov. Prince of New Mexico, Senator Turpie of-'Indiana, Gov. John G. Evans of South Carolina, ex-Gov, Eagle of- Arkansas, ex-Congress­ man William .!.• Bryan of Nebraska, Gen. A. J. Warner of Ohio, 0. S. Thomas and Alva Adams of Colorado, Alexander Del- mar of Cal'fo.rnja hd Congressmen and bankers from Tennessee and adjoining States by the dozen. • v . • A permanent organization was effected the first day, with Senator Turpie of In­ diana as chairman, and addresses were delivered by that gentleman and Alexan­ der Deluiar of California in the afternoon, and by Congressman Sibley of Pennsyl­ vania, C. S. Thomas of Denver and Aaron Wilcott of Indiana in the evening. At 2:15 o'clock President W. N. Brown of the Central Bimetallic League of Mem­ phis called the convention to order and introduced Judge L. H. Estes of Mem­ phis, who offered prayer. President Brown then called for nominations for perma­ nent chairman and Senator Isham G. Harris, the ante-bellum governor of Ten­ nessee, was given ansenthusiastic recep­ tion when he arose to ptasentjhe name of Senator David Turnie^HpfflflljSSia. Mr. Harris said he had no idea of mak­ ing a speech; that he only wished to state in a word the purpose and objects of the convention. It was called by the Central Bimetallic League of Shelby County, a strictly non-partisan organization com­ posed of Democrats, Republicans and Populists. Its doors were thrown open to every American citizen who honestly believed in the propriety, the advisability and the necessity of the rehabilitation of silver. Their doctrine is bimetallism, and by bimetallism they mean the free and un­ limited coinage of all the gold and all the silver produced in this country. "We are here," continued the Senator, "ns a band of freemen to consider this all-absorbing question which now confronts the Ameri­ can people. We are here to consider the coinage question, and that question only." The Senator from Indiana was warmly received. After he had been elected by acclamation he assumed the chair and addressed the convention. At the evening session Senator W7illiam M. Stewart of Nevada presided, and in­ troduced Congressman Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sibley was greeted with thunders of applause, and in a two hours' speech aroused his audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm. He made an earnest appeal for independent political action in 1896. His auditors were evi­ dently with him, for every attack upon Secretary Carlisle, the President or Sen­ ator Sherman was greeted with a noisy demonstration. The second day's session was devoted to speeches by some of the most distin­ guished of the visitors, and the considera­ tion of the report of the committee on resolutions. IOWA POPULISTS. Reaffirm the Omaha Platform Slaking; Silver an Incidental Issue. The Populist State convention of Iowa, which met in Des Moines, followed the middle-of-the-road course and rejected all advances from those who would make sil­ ver the only issue in i;he next campaign. * Gen. J. B. Weaver, who led the wing of t^he party in Iowa who wished to assist in the formation of a silver party, was de­ feated. The convention adopted a plat­ form which calls for the free coinage of silver, but along with that other Popu- listic measures. When Chairman R. G. Scott, of» the State Central Committee, called the as­ semblage to order there was an attend- .anceof.3G0delega tes, -making- it-the-larg- -- est convention for several years'. Aside from the delegates 300 visitors were pres­ ent from outside the city. A. R. Starrett, of Humboldt, was made temporary chair­ man. The'temporary chairman spoke for forty ipiuutes roundly debouncing the two old parties for their "duplicity on the money question and their subserviency to trusts, corporations and the money pow­ er." He advised the convention to ad­ here to -past party platforms. Ex-Con­ gressman E. H. Gillette, of Des Moines, was made permanent chairman. The report of the Committee on Resolu­ tions was received and adopted. by an overwhelmng vote. The platform reaf­ firms thev principles of the Omaha plat­ form ; denounces the decision Of the Su­ preme Court on the income tax; denoun- .ces recent acts of Government by injunc­ tion in the interests of corporate wealth, . and the issue of Interest-bearing bonds; . recognizes with satisfaction the expres­ sion of individual opinion, irrespective of party, in favor of the restoration of silver to its constitutional place in the coinage of the country- at the ratio of 16 to 1, and extends the right hand of fellowship to all willing to join in the dethronement of the money power of Wall street and Europe and the emancipation of the producing classes of the world; declares for the adop­ tion of the initiative and referendum; de­ mands that all banking institutions be re­ quired to give security to depositors for all moneys received; demands legislation for inspection of workshops and factories where more than ten persons are employ­ ed for preservation of the lives and health of the employes; demands reduction of sal­ aries of oflicers'to a basis to correspond with reduced prices for products of la­ bor; favors a graduated State tax upon incomes, also a State inheritance tax and acState tax of 10 per cent on all contracts made payable in gold, to be paid by the holder. A State ticket was nominated, as fol­ lows: For Governor, Sylvester Crance, of Davenport; for Lieutenant Governor, A. II. Starrett, of Humboldt; for supreme Court judge, F. W. Ivory, of Glenwood; for State superintendent of instruction, L. B. Tabor, of Guthrie Center; for rail­ way commissioner, E. J. Stasou, of Wood­ bury County. DON'T DRESS LIKE WOMEN, Even Ifj to Be Different, You Have to Put On Skirts. > ' Much comment has been caused during the week among bicyclists and in religious circles by the sermon of Rev. Ivittredge Wheeler, pastor of the Fourth Baptist Church, Chicago. The words that arous­ ed the discussion were: "In. discussing this subject I shall hardly venture to touch upon the bicycle cos­ tume, for the reason that if I were ad­ dressing a company of cyclists In the lat­ est and most up-to-date uniform I would be in great' doubt as to the sex of my audience. I will, however, venture a sin­ gle suggestion to wheelmen who are males, aud, not wheelmen who are females. "Here is the suggestion. See to it that your costume is as masculine as possible. Distinguish and emphasize your sex in some way. Wear a mustache, let your beard grow, or sew upon the back of your costume three big, red, capital letters, M-A-N. "You have no right to appear on the streets in a costume worn by females. If there be only two costumes suitable for bicycle riding, the single, closed skirt and the knickerbockers, I say to the men, 'Be gallant, let the women have the choice, and if they take the knickerbockers, do you take what is left. Be £ man and put on the skirt.', Make it universal and let the public understand it. This will dis­ tinguish the sex on the wheel. Remem-. ber, I am speaking only to men. Never dress like a woman, not even on the wheel." PROF. HAROLD WHITING, MRS. wklTING, AND TflEIR CHILDREN. The President has accepted an invita­ tion to visit the Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta Oct. 21. Postmaster General Wilson delivered the annual address to the students of Cen­ tral College at Fayette, Mo. Secretary Herbert delivered the oration at the commencement of the Alabama Ag­ ricultural aud Mechanical College at Au- jburn. .T. Walter Blandford, who was private secretary to Mr, Olney while lie was At­ torney General, will hold a like position with him as Secretary of State. The trial of Capt. Henry W. Howgate on two indictments charging forgery and falsification of accounts while disbursing officer of the signal service in 1879 was begun Monday. The President has denied an application for a commutation of sentence of death imposed on Joseph A. Beam for the mur­ der in Washington of his stepdaughter, Miss Anna Leahy. . Beam was sentenced to be hanged July 26. Minister Ewing informs the Department of State that a new department--the min­ istry of industry and labor--has been cre­ ated in Berlin, and Nyssens, a member of parliament• for Louran, has been ap­ pointed to direct the office. The Post Office Department has issued a fraud order against Wilson Foster arid Foster's Art College of St. Louis, Mo., excluding the company's matter from the mails. Its scheme was to sell tickets for crayon portraits, which, it is-said, were never delivered. E. P. Baldwin, auditor of the Treasury Department, lias issued a circular requir­ ing the action of appraisers, gaugers, weighers and measurers to be in duplicate and Requiring entries, invoices and cer­ tificates to be forwarded to the auditor for the Treasury Department. , Tiie results of the special investigation made by the Department of Agriculture in 720 cotton growing counties show that in eighty-eight there will be little or no change in acreage as compared with last year. The general average for the coun­ try is 81, against 88.3 last year and 85.6 in 1893. Wheat percentages: Acreage, 90.1 per cent; condition, winter wheat, 71.1 per c-eut, against 82.9 May 1, condition report­ ed was 83.2. Spring wheat shows aver­ age whole country, 97.S per ceut; average percentage of all wheat is 97.1. The per* •centageof spring wheat for entire country is 99.5. No official information has been received at the Indian bureau concerning the charges made against the chief of the Creek nation aud the treasurer of that tribe as to unlawfully paying out funds of the tribe. The supposition of the offi1 cials at Washington is that the whole trouble is nothing but a political squab­ ble. The danger of war between Costa Rica and Nicaragua is past. A local uprising in the Province of Cor- rientes, Argentine, is reported. The manufacture of dolls has been in­ troduced in the prisons in the Thuringian principalities of Germany. Prince Bismarck's health would not permit: liiin to attend the ceremonies at the opening of the canal at Kiel. Anthrax, a disease of sheep, is prevalent in some parts of Australia in a most fatal form. The doctors can find no remedy for it. The British steamer Davaar, previously reported ashore on Briggs' reef, has been floated, towed to Belfast aud safely deck­ ed there. Freiherr von Bergen, the German Min­ ister to Guatemala, has been gazetted: German Minister to the Republics of Cen­ tral America. JProf. Dougherty, of Mages College, Bel­ fast, has been appointed assistant under secretary for Ireland, vice Sir William S. B Kaye, retired. A daughter has been born in London to the Countess of Essex, who before her marriage was Miss Adele Grant, daughter of Mrs. Beach Grant of New York. A fire which broke out at Meriny, Hun­ gary, was not under control until 320« houses were destroyed. Several persons lost their lives during the conflagration. 0 Sig. Ferrari, who was recently elected a member of the Italian Chamber of Depu­ ties, defeating the socialist candidate in his district and who was shot by unknown men, is dead. " The Brazilian cruiser Teradentes has- been dispatched to French Guinea. Ad­ miral Gullobel will then proceed to Paris with a view to securing a settlement of the frontier dispute. A number of bullocks shipped from Vic­ toria, Australia, to England have died from pleuro-pnonmonia on shipboard. Cat­ tlemen of the colony fear England will stop all'shipments. News of Minor Note. George Brown, a workman in a sadiron factOry, was killed at Independence, Kan., by the breaking of a belt. Bolt and nut manufacturers of the United Statfjs met at Cleveland, O., and decided to raise prices 10 per cent." > The report of the prevalence of cholera at Brest, Fijnnce, is contradicted by the United State\\represeutative at Nantes.