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THEPLAINDEALER J, YAK SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS TKADE TAKES A REST. ^•3 -- - „ : .MIDSUMMER QUIET RULES IN COMMERCE. Enratjed Italians Shoot Down Negro Miners--British Subjects Killed by Brutal Chinese--Tragedy at Wash­ ington. Canse of the Quiet.. II. G: Dun & Oo.'s weekly review of trade say's: "There is u perceptible halt which may deceive if attributed to wrong causes. Trade two mouths late in the spring pushed forward into July a large share of business belonging to April or May. Seeing a rush of orders out of time, many imagined it would continue, . and hurried to give other orders. The jam of -two' months' business into one lifted prices. Then other orders came to anticipate a further rise. But the mid­ summer halt was inevitable, and it is yet somewhat uncertain how much improve­ ment will appear after it. The crop of corn promises to be the largest ever grown, and is almost out of harm's way The;crop of wheat appears perhaps 20.000,000 b'ushels less than was. expected a month ago, and had the b$st hopes been realized it would'have been more than 100,000,000 bushels short of a full' crop. Cotton has lost a ljttle, and more people seem to be­ lieve in 7,51)0,000 baltes than believed in, 8,000,000 a month ago." / y _ " - " ' " ' • -- mor^Hsprious charges against him. ' By T rial to the Tehwat^s frbWthe Blue Grass State who dieclfighting for the lost cause, and which, .in spite of many obstacles, raised by degrees a. fund of $20,000 to carry out this project. The city authori­ ties declared a half holiday in honor of the occasion, and wageworkers and busi­ ness-men alike, turned out in thousands, while trains from different parts' of the State, as well as from across the river in Indiana, brought thousands more. Carnival of Blood. Fourteen negro miners fell victims to the fury of an Italian mob at Spring Val­ ley, 111., Sunday* Three probably will die, and the result of the wounds of many of the others is doubtful. Fully 1,000 Italian miners armed with all sorts of weapons and preceded by a band of music marched on No. 3 location, where a colony of negro miners ^nd their families are domiciled. The mob was bent on 'reveng­ ing one of their countrymen, who had been killed in an altercation with some negroes. The negro colony was complete­ ly misled as to the intentjons of the mob on account of the band, and some of them flocked to see the supposed parade. They fell easy and defenseless victims to the fury of the crowd. It was an attempted massacre,' and in the anger of the foreign­ ers no discrimination as to age or sex was made. The feeling of hatred which has existed toward the negroes ever since their importation during the strike a year ago was given fierce vent, and it was with the ferocity of long-restrained malice that the mob leaped to its work. That dozens were not killed seems almost mir­ aculous. Missionaries Are Victims. A Shanghai dispatch to the London Times says that the mission and sanita­ rium at Wha Sang, near Ivu Cheng, Province of Fokein, was attacked and ten British subjects killed. The Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. Miss Yellow and Miss Marshall, two sisters named Saunders,, two sisters named Gordon, and Steetie Newcombe were murdered with spears &ud swords. Miss Codrington was seri­ ously wounded about the head, and Stew­ art's eldest child had a knee cap badly in­ jured while the youngest had an eye gouged out. The Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Mabel C. Hartford, were both wounded, but arrived safely at Fu Chau Fu." The Prefect of Cheng Fu. who was on the inquiry commission, is seriously impli­ cated in the Cheng Fu outrages. Miss Flagler Kills a Negro Thief, Miss Elizabeth Flagler, daughter of Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance of the army, and well known in Washington, D. C., army and social circles, shot and killed a 14-year-old negro boy named Ern­ est Green Friday at her home in the suburbs of the city. The Flaglers and other families in the vicinity have been annoyed greatly of late by boys stealing their fruit and damaging the trees of t,be.ir..gardens. Miss Flagler discovered young Green on the fence stealing fruit and fired at him from the second-story window. The bullet entered his right breast and, passing through his body, in­ flicted a wound that caused death in a short time. The coroner's jury exonerat­ ed AIisg Flagler, and she was released. Reward for Thief, Dead or Alive. Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel Company, in Pittsburg, has de­ veloped a bloodthirsty quality of which he was never suspected. It all came about since he took to bicycling. This ad­ vertisement in the papers explains the case: "Twenty-five dollars reward-- Stolen, from the corner Dithridge and Bayard streets, Victor bicycle No. 66,- 329, full nickle finish, 1894 model, raised handle bar, wood rims, two-inch tires, scorcher saddle, rat-trap pedals, toe clips, bell, and Spalding cyclometer; no brake; Pittsburg license No. 347. The above re­ ward will be paid for wheel and thief, dead 6r alive. F. T. Lovejoy, 612 Car­ negie Building." NEWS NUGGETS. The Coulterville stage was held up sis miles from Mercer, Colo., by a masked robber, who secured the Wells-Fargo treasure box, with its valuable contents. ' F. E. Wilson, alias C. B. Walts, Will­ iam A. Black, C. C. Woods, and F. H. Woodward, awaiting trial at Pueblo, Col., on a charge of forgery, is said to have operated throughout the West and North­ west. The detectives who have worked UP the cases against Wilson say there are few towns of prominence in Iowa, Mis­ souri, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming where he has not swindled people by means of raised checks. » James Graham was assassinated by moonshiners at Birmingham, Ala. He had been informing on them. The marriage of Edwin Holt and Mabel Eaton, the well-known theatrical people, has been indefinitely postponed because of the arrival at Toledo, where they are playing, of Mr. Holt's wife and three childriSf. • Disappointment in love caused Valente Aragon to blow out his brains at El Paso, Texas. Cuban insurgents are reported to have captured the towns of Baire Jiguani and Guantanamo. Mfc own confession the 6iie of the most dangerous firebugs in Massachu­ setts* Last spring he started fires that caused a loss of more than $50,000. Eugene Blumenthal, a brother of the playwright, Oscar Blumenthal, committed suicide by taking poison in his r66m in the Great Northern Hotel, New York. Blu­ menthal had been ill for some time and unable to procure employment. A. letter was found addressed to the coroner. It was dated July 29. In it Blumenthal stated that he intended taking his lift, and asked that his body be given to some medical college for study. The Hamilton Savings Fund and Loan Association, Pittsburg, 'with a. capital stock of $30,000,000, was closed by the State bank examiners, and the Union Trust Company placed in charge as tem­ porary receivers. The liabilities, accord­ ing to the officers of the association, are but $9,000 and the assets $ll,OOb. The association is a national concern, but the depositors are believed to be all local people, mostly workingmefi. The books show about 1,000 shareholders. The statue of Chancellor James Kent, nearly a century .ago justice of the New York State Supreme Court and the author of the famous commentaries on the Amer­ ican law, was visited at Poughkeepsje Wednesday by a number of his descend­ ants and several members of the bar, who in this way recognized the 132d anniver­ sary of his birth. The statue, which Is approaching completion in the studio of Sculptor George E. Bissel, will be placed next fall ,in the new Congressional Li­ brary at Washington: "WESTERN. ' At Weils, Minn., three business blocks and a livery stable burned Wednesday morning. Loss,,'$25,000; insurance, $11,- 000. Fireman Hayes was seriously in­ jured by failing glass. Twenty-six horses were burned. .. Charles Ringo, stepfather of the two little Findley children, who were raur- •dered and thrown into the Ohio Riv«r at Huntington, W. Ya., March 18, confessed that he was an eye-witness to his wife murdering the children, and 6ays he could withhold the secret no longer. The affair caused,a sensation, as it was one of the most brutal crimes which has ever happened in the county. ; The Union National Bank of Denver, Colo., of which R. W. Woodbury jis pres­ ident, was closed Monday. It will liqui­ date its affairs and go out; of business. The Union Bank, was closed during the panic in 1893. but subsequently resumed business and later was consolidated with the State National Bank, which also closed during the panic. It is Said the depositors will lose nothing and business will not be seriously affected. George F. Blanke, one of the judges of the Superior Court, died suddenly of heart disease at Chicago Sunday night. The Judge seemed to be in his usual health Saturday and held court as usual. He was at home all day Sunday, retiring for the night shortly before 11 o'clock. He had been in bed but a few minutes when he complained of feeling ill and ask­ ed that a physician be sent for. Ih"less than five minutes and before medical* help arrived he was dead. i John Brady, the train robber, went to Maryville, Cal., with two Sacramento detectives and endeavored to show them where Browning, his companion, buried $53,000 which they stole from the Wells- ITar^o Express Company a few months ago. Brady says he does not believe the money will ever be found, as he has but a faint recollection of where it was buried, and Browning was killed while trying to commit another train robbery by Sheriff Bogard. An unsuccessful attempt was made Sunday to find the hidden treasure box. During a heavy gale Tuesday morning the schooner Republic, in tow of the steambarge Swallow, coal laden, became water-logged and sank in forty feet of water, two miles off Lorain, Ohio. The tug Cascade succeeded in rescuing all.of the crew of eight men, who were clinging to the rigging. The schooner and her cargo will probably be a total loss. The cargo of the barge was (>18 tons of soft coal for Detroit. The barge was built in 1854 and was so old that the under­ writers would not place any insurance on her. A special certificate insurance was granted on the cargo. The Republic is so old and unseaworthy that it is not likely any attempt will be made to re­ cover her. The coal may be secured, •however. Cloudbursts and floods in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming did great damage Tuesday night, causing much loss of life and great destruction of property. The dead are: At Socorro, N. M.. the in­ fant son of E. Baca, and six members of the Duran family. At Caspar, Wyo., two Harrison children and Mrs. S. New- by and child. At Fort Scott, Ivas., Wal­ ter Austin and Willie Gould. At Ade­ laide, Colo., ^Irs. Carr, Mrs. Tracey, and an unknown woman. Four men are miss­ ing, thought to have been caught in a landslide near Adelaide. The greatest damage seems to have been done at So­ corro, N. M., where seven lives are known to be lost. Three small towns near by may have been swept away. The sur­ rounding country is devastated. The propertv damage is said to be over 000,000. At Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., While the steamer Alva, bound down with iron ore, was aground below the dyke Thursday morning, she was run into and sunk by the whaleback bitrge Hundred and Seven- teen, in tow of the steamer E. M. Peck, bound down with iron ore. The whale- back took a sheer when near the Alva, Which caused the collision, lien, nose punched a hole in the Alva at the engine room gangway, three feet beiow-the main deck, filling Jhe engine-room with water, Steam pumps will be put on board, after temporary repairs have betfen made, so that she can proceed on her way to Chi­ cago. The whaleback barge is badly damaged in the stem and her ballast tank forward is full of water, but as she can free herself with her own pumps she is still afloat. The. Alva's stern is on the bottom, and the jbpw is in four fathoms of water. FOREIGN. The diplomatic corps in Washington is watching with especial interest the Settle- meat of the question of the evacuation of Port Arthur b^t^e-Japanese, in view of the demand which Russia, France and Germany are reported to have made upon the Japanese to evacuate the entire Liao- Tung Peninsula without reference to Chi- . na's fulfillment of her part of the Shimon- OSeki treaty Obligations. It is made quite clear at the Japanese Legation that Japan will ntit accede to this dbmand, if really made, without a vigorous protest. A dispatch from Madrid says: Republi­ can and Carlist Senators and Deputies have addressed a protest to the Govern­ ment against the payment of the Mora claim without the sanction of the Cortes. The protest declares that-the Govern­ ment's precipitancy in setting the claim of the United States is unconstitutional and humiliating to Spain, and that the Conduct of the United States in taking advantage of the (Cuban insurrection , to press the claim is an exhibition of .an un­ friendly disposition! The Government has ^^i^ed to pay the Mora claim in threfT installments. It is the intention afterward to .induce the United States to recognize Spanish claims for damages to property in Florida of citizens of the coun­ try which were incurred during the civil war in America. '*• 1 Fontura Xavier, the Brazilian Consul General in New York, believes that the Island of Trinidad, which was recently taken possession of by the' British, will be regained by Brazil. He said the Brazil­ ian Government was making every effort to settle the difficulty by diplomacy, but if these mekns failed he believed Brazil would try to take the island by force. "My country's navy cannot, of course, com­ pares in strength with that of Great Brit­ ain^' Mr. Xavier said, "but our .citizens are determined to assert their rights and have no fear of England." When asked what position he thought the United States would take in case of war, Mr. Xavier declared that it could not remain neutral without violating the Monroe doc­ trine, and that, he thought, the admin­ istration would be unwilling to do. TOILS BBAW TIGHTER CHICAGO pOlllCE THINK: THEY WILL CONVICT HOLMES. The Modern Bluebeard's Gauzy Tale Concerning Pitzei--SayB the Latter .Committed Suicide--The Mysterious i "Mascot" Located in Arkansas. Holmes Tells a Story. H; H. "Holmes tells to the Philadelphia police au entirely new version of his con­ nection with Pitzel, who is supposed to have been murdered for his life insurance. Ho says the two had on foot a plan to de­ fraud the insurance company; that while in Philadelphia Pitzel became despondent over financial difficulties, the sickness of his daughter in St. Louis, and other mat­ ters, and threatened to commit suicide. Holmes then avers that he jokingly re­ marked to Pitzel: "Well, your body is as good as any other, but I would not advise you to do anything rash." On the following day, Sunday, Holmes says he went to the Callowhite street house where Pitzel was stopping, and found & note telling him that the suicide had been accomplished. The letter plead­ ed that Holmes look after Pitzel's chil­ dren, and suggested that there would be no difficulty in getting the insurance mon­ ey from the Fidelity company, now that the dead body of Pitzel could be produced in evidence. Holmes then told of the ap­ pearance of the corpse, and Said that he pat in the room with the body for over ah hour. He finally made up his mind that flinch Pitzel hadjtaken his life there would be no harm in destroying any evidence of suicide, so that he might be able to get the insurance on Pitzel's life .without any difficulty. Holmes has confessed that he thereup­ on dragged the dead body to the second floor, laid the corps? on the floor, pried -open the mouth of the dead man with a pencil and poured in a quantity of explo­ sive chemicals. He then, he says, placed a lighted match to the man's mouth, when the explosion which so horribly disfigured the corpse followed. To give the more forcible impression that Pitzel came to his death by an accidental explosion Holmes stated to the police that he got a {»pe of Pitzel's, filled it with tobacco, ighted it, then blew out the flame, after IN GENERAL Isaac Gauthier, a Montreal, Que., ci­ gar-maker, 23 years old, emptied five chambers of his revolver into a beautiful young girl to whom he was engaged to be' married, Celina Cousigny, also 23 years old, killing her. Gauthier, after his ar­ rest, said he bought the revolver for the express purpose of killing his sweetheart. He also, he said, intended to take his life, had he not used all the bullets in the re­ volver in killing the girl. It appears that he is dying of consumption. The review of copper and copper mining for the year 1894 made by the United States geological survey has been com­ pleted. Copper mining suffered from the general depression of the year. Still con­ sumption was in advance of 1893, but an enlarged production could only be mar­ keted by means of lower prices. On the whole, copper mining resisted, the tension better than the other metal trades. The exports were legs than 1893 and were almost entirely of the refined metal. The production of copper for 1894 was 158,120 tons. A little over half of this came from Montana and two-thirds of the remainder from the Lake Superior mines. Other sources of supply included Arizona, 44,- 500,000 pounds; Colorado, 0.500,000. pounds; Southern States, 2,400,000 pounds; Utah, 1,100,000 pounds. The available copper supply in 1S94 is placed at 195,000,000 pounds, not including stocks from previous years. The exports from the United States for 1S94 were 173,000,000 pounds, valued at over $16,- 000,000. The following is the standing of the Fine harvesting weather aha wheat, har­ vest advanced. Corn growing ̂ rapidly and potatoes and flax improving. Nebraska.--Small grain harvest nearly completed, arid- sonic threshing done; yield very heavy in northwestern section. Corn has continued to suffef from drought in southeastern section, where about one- half crop is now expected. Com in north­ ern part of State needs rain, but is not 'damaged; in southeastern part it contin­ ues good. Kansas.--Abundant rains in west half of State, light rains in east half, greatly .benefited all - crops west, permitting threshing and haying east. Harvest be» gun in western counties. Much corn dead in Dickinson, Cloud and Washington Counties for want of rain this season. Iowa.--Temperature and sunshine about normal. Considerable damage to crops by local wind and hail storms. Oats harvest about completed and threshing in progress with heavy yields. Corn stead­ ily maintaining its lead and promises to break previous records. Missouri.--Threshing, stacking and haying progressed rapidly under favora­ ble conditions, except in eastern counties, where they were delayedvby showers, with further damage to grain and hay. Corn is in roasting ear. Sorghum, millet, to­ bacco, potatoes and apples doing well. I North Dakota.--Weather favorable, but considerable damage done by heavy hail­ storms, and some damage by smut and rust. Harvesting wheat will begin this week., Rye and barley nearly all cut. Corn backward. ; * , Kentucky.--Cool and cloudy with well distributed showers. Wheat and oats in shock damaged by heavy rains. Con­ dition of corn exceptionally fine. Tobacco progressing finely and some complaint of too rapid growth. Pastures, greatly im­ proved by rains.. Warmer dry. weather needed. . Oklahoma.--Temperature and sunshine slightly above normal. Precipitation con­ sisted of local rains badly distributed. Crops of all kinds made good growth. Rain will be needed next week. Arkansas.--Crops somewhat improved, though showers hav'& been too frequent for best results. Upland cotton very promising, but lowland cotton very poor stand and not fruiting well. Corn con­ tinues very fine generally. Fruit fine and plentiful. Minnesota.--Week cool and dry, very favorable for harvesting and maturing grain. Threshing begun, barley big yield. H. N. MUDGETT, ALIAS H. H. HOLMES, AND IIIS SUPPOSED VICTIMS' clubs in the National League Per P. W. L. cent. 53 35 .(502 Pittsburg .83 49 34 .590 Baltimore .77 45 32 * .584 Chicago . .88 49 39 .557 Cincinnati .81 45 30 .556 Boston .78 43 35 .551 Philadelphia . . .79 43 30 .544 Brooklyn .80 43 37 .538^ New York .79 41 38 .519 Washington . .. ..74 27 47 .36^ St. Louis .84 28 57 .329 78 19 59 .244 WESTERN LEAGUE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis .. . .79 47 32 .595 Kansas City... .81 48 * 33 .593 St. Paul, . .80 40 34 ' .579 Detroit . .81 43' 38 .531 Milwaukee ... ..80 40 40 .500 St. Paul . .80 40 34 .579 Terre Haute. . ..83 32 51 .386 Grand Rapids. ..S3 27 56 .325 MARKET REPORTS. SOUTHERN. EASTERN. At New York Referee Jacobs, in nia report in the suit for div<firce brought by Mrs. Ollie Corbett against her husband, James J. Corbett, the pugilist, finds Mrs. Corbett entitled to a divorce, and recom­ mends that the agreement entered into by her and her husband at the time of their separation, by which he agreed to pay her $100 a week for life, be continued. Henry G. Clark, 15 years old, was in the Municipal Court at Chelsea, Mass., charged with breaking and entering. . His was continued in order to $&lmit Fire Marshal Whitcomb to. prefer xs'miMxL The non-union men are being forced to leave the Bluefields, W. Va., coal fields by the strikers, who threaten personal vio­ lence to those who d°n't quit work. .Gov. MacCorkle has reached there and his hasty return is attributed to the threads. Serious trouble is expected within the next few days. John Enhart, a farmer, of Robinson, Ark,, was killed-Wednesday night at his home, his head bfing crushed with an ax. Enhart and his wife jquarreled because he whipped two of her hrst husband's chil­ dren, and as there is nothing to indicate a motive for the crime outside of the household, an investigation is being made on the supposition that the murder was committed by some member of the fam­ ily. With an abundant waving of the stars and stripes,with patriotic music and stir­ ring orations, punctuated by cheers from tens of thousands of feminine and mascu­ line throats, the monument erected to the memory of Kentucky's Confederate dead was formally unveiled Tuesday afternoon at Louisville. The completion of this task is a tribute to the Women's Confed erjite Association of Kentucky, which for eight years has bgen working for & memo Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades* $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.5w to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, '46c to 48c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $1.10 to $1.60; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to, 6l/oC per lb. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3,00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; "wheat, No. 2, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 1 white, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c. ' " St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, 5.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 38c to 40c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75% wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; com, No. 2, mixed, 43c, to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c: rye, No. 2, 49c to'51e. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow,f43c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white; 27c to 28c; rye, 48c to 50c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 50c to 52c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to- $5.50: sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 76c to 77c; corn, No. «2 yellow, 48c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 3, 4lc to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; barley, No. 2, 45c to 47c; rye, ^No. 1, 49c tol 51c; pork, mess, $10.00 to $10.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 17c to ISc; eggs. West­ ern, 13q to 14cT v the tobacco had been partly consumed, and placed the pipe beside the dead man's body. Search in the basement of the Chicago house has revealed almost everything sug­ gestive of dark crime except a corpse. Skeletons and bones were there, but these may have been procured from medical colleges or other sources; they furnish no proof of murder. More mysterious vats, tanks, retorts and kindred devices have been unearthed. And most important of all, there has been found in the Arkansas penitentiary a man who ic 6aid to have been closely associated with Holmes in his fraudulent life insurance deals and who assisted in the transfer of the Fort Worth, Texas, property of the missing Williams girls. This man is known by Jthe name of Hatch, A. E. Allen, A. E. Bbnd, Caldwell and "Mascot," and it is thought was Hoimes' confidential agent. He is serving a fifteen-year term for horse-stealing,?and he is now 55 years old. He claims to/know all about the disap­ pearance of the Williams girls and the Pitzel children, but refuses to tell until he is pardoned for his present'term and relieved of two more ̂ indictments for horse-stealing. Holmes not long ago as­ serted that the man Hatch took the Pit­ zel children to Toronto, in the company of Minnie Williams, and that if he could be found he could clear up the mystery of their death. An attorney went from Chicago to Lit­ tle Rock to treat with the authorities of Arkansas for the release of the old man, and the strongest influence will be used to secure all he knows. One other man now held by the Chicago police is thought to know enough to convict Holmes. This is Pat Quinlan; but in convicting Holmes he will also convict himself, so he has the strongest incentive to keep his mouth shut. On the other hand, Hatch will have the reward of liberty for his dis­ closures, in case the latter are conclusive. So it is upon him that the police pin their faith. Potatoes excellent. Pastures and corn much improved. Haying nearly com­ pleted, yields generally liglit. WEATHER AND CROPS. Close of the Harvey-Morr Debate. While it is not likely that the Ilorr- Ilarvey debate has had the result of con­ verting any one from his deep-rooted con­ victions it may, and undoubtedly has, broadened the views of many. The niero fact that Mr. Ilorr and Mr. Harvey could keep each other so busy in making replies is of some value as an indication that the subject is broad enough to admit of in­ spection from, opposing sides. From the opening of the finance contro­ versy there has been a general feeling that the public would be helped and en­ lightened by the collection of the argu­ ments on both sides and the arraying of these arguments one against the other. Through Mr. Harvey and Mr. Horr each faction to the financial question has pre­ sented its case, and in such a way that the arguments pro and con come into im­ mediate contrast. The rules of debate forbid a contestant to submit an opinion for which he cannot immediately offer a logical explanation, the result being that there is little chance for the slurring of doubtful points and the suppression of adverse facts which are possible in a mere ex parte argument. It is, of course, to be regretted that the debaters buried their arguments in such an enormous mass of verbiage, but the arguments are there and may well repay the digging out. On the whole, a public which has shown a genuine desire to get enlightenment on the financial issue can hardly fail to find some profitTn\this gen eral stirring up of the fundament: Not a State Report Tells of Unfavora­ ble Conditions. The reports as to conditions of crops throughout the country and the general influence of weather on growth, Cultiva­ tion and harvest are summarized by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as fol­ lows: Illinois.--Exceedingly favorable week. Severe local storms northwest counties on Friday, damage not irreparable. Corn growing splendidly, roastihg cars in early fields. Oats, wheat and rye threshing re­ tarded. Late potatoes, gardens, pastures and second crop clover, millet and fodder crops growing finely. Fruit abundant in central and southern sections. Fall plow­ ing general in same sections. Wisconsin.--Heavy soaking rains have generally benefited corn and- potatoes,. Pastures again becoming green and milk supply increasing. Threshing and fall plowing now general. Cranberries prom­ ise a fair crop. Tobacco growing finely. Michigan.--Very beneficial showers in southern half of State, but not-enough- rain in northern half. Corn and pota­ toes generally improved, but pastures are still very poor. Oats harvest well along, straw short and yield of grain light., Indiana.--Good growing' weather, with several rains. Corn earing' and growing fast. Potatoes look well. Pastures re­ covering. Wheat and rye threshing done. Oats threshing continues. Fall plowing progresses rapidly. . * South Dakota.--Temperature averaged about normal. Fair to copious, though scattered, night showers--benefited all Wte crops, but more general rains needed. EXTINCTION OF THE BISON. Only Two Hundred Wild Buffalo Still A Alive in America. In a wild state, the American bison, or buffalo, is practically, though not quite Wholly, extinct. At the present moment there are about two hundred wild buffaloes alive and on foot in the United States. To obtain these high figures we include the one hundred and fifty individuals that the white head- hunters and red meat:hunters have thus far left alive in the Yellowstone Park, where the buffaloes are fondly suppos­ ed to be protected from slaughter. Be­ sides these, there are only two other bunches; one of about twenty head in Lost Park, Colorado, protected by State laws; and another, containing between thirty and forty head, in Val Verde County, Texas, between DevilV-river and the Rio Grande. Four years ago there were over three, hundred head in thd Yellowstone Park, thriving and increasing quite satisfac­ torily. Through them we fondly hoped the species would even yet be saved from absolute extinction. But, alas! we were reckoningWithout the poach­ ers. Congress provides pay for just one solitary scout to guard in winter 3;575 square miles of rugged mountain coun­ try ̂ against the horde of lawless white men and Indians, who surround tlie park on all sides, eager to kill the last buffalo! The poachers have .been hard at work, and as a result our park herd has recently decreased more than oue- half in number. It is a brutal, burning shame that formerly, through lack of congressional law adequately to punish such poachers as the wretch who was actually caught red-handed in January, 1894, while skinning seven dead buffa­ loes! and now, through lack of a paltry $1,800 a year to pay four more scouts, the park buffaloes are all doomed to certain and speedy destruction. Besides the places mentioned, there is only one other spot in all North America that contains wild buffaloes. Immediately southwestward of Great Slave Lake there lies a vast wilderness of swamps and stunted pines, into which no white man lias ever penetrat­ ed far, and where the. red. man still reigns supreme. It is bounded on the north by Liard and Mackenzie rivers, on the east by the Slave river, on the south by the Peace river, and on the west by the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Warburton Pike says it is now the greatest beaver country in the world, and that it also contains a few bands of the so-called wood buffalo.1 "Some­ times they are heard of at Forts Smith and Wermillion, sometimes at Fort St. Johjl; on the Peace .river, and occasion­ ally at Fort Nelson, on the Liard; * * * but it is impossible to say anything about their numbers." At all eveuts, in February, 1890, Mr. Pike found eight buffaloes only four days' travel from Fort Resolution, on Great Slave lake, and succeeded in killing one. The Ca­ nadian authorities estimate the total number in that region at 300.--St. Nich­ olas. Caught a Shark with a Salmon Rod. A1 Cumming had an encounter with a huge shark at Santa Cruz Sunday, says the San Francisco Examiner. Gum­ ming had engaged a boat and was out for salmon. Suddenly there was a jerk at his line that almost capsized the boat. The fish came to. the surface, and his fins showed that he was a big shark. Cumming toyed with him for a while, and as the shark felt the, sharp prong of the hooks forced into his mouth he made a plunge, going down fully 100. feej and feeling out about 500 feet of line. Cumming had only 100 feet more on his reel, and if the shark had accom­ plished that distance he would have es­ caped. But he was exhausted and came to the surface again. Then, with the skill of an experienced angler, Cum­ ming played the line carefully, and after great effort got the shark along­ side of his boat. Both the shark and' his captor were winded. The boatman killed the shark with one blow of his boathook. Mr. Cumming caught the shark with a twelve-ounce salmon rod and a linen salmon line. The fish was more than five feet in length and weighed fully 150 pounds. It is the largest shark ever landed there with a hook and line, and its capture was due to the perfect knowledge of fishing that Mr. Cum­ ming possesses. The contest lasted just an hour, and exciting as it was for Mr. Cumming it, was also as muclgjfco for the onlookers.. Fully twenty boats were in the vicinity. Arizona comes to the front with a pet­ rified human heart. That's mighty hard to beat. Mrs. Frank Leslie is coming home again. There will be general curiosity to learn his name. » Michigan has decided that for judicial purposes an oath administered by tele­ phone is binding. That decision seems to be sound. Cincinnati has a woman's street-clehn- ing brigade. 'Tis woman who rules the world, and the broom is oftentimes her weapon. > Speaking of the silver movement the Chattanooga Times refers to "the sober second thought in Kentucky." Is there any such .thing? V ! L_ An Aard wolf in the New York zoolog­ ical garden's J'happy family" made a meal of three terrier pups the other day. That was indeed Aard. » The rubber trust announces that it will materially raise prices Sept. 1. In other words it pxirposes to substitute an "o" for the "u" in its name. For the first time in five years Kansas and Jsebraska have all all the rain they want. This is also the first .year,JJuif "rainmakers'* have kept out of those States. ., • . . A New York paper demands "some sort of invention which will make shipwreckB safe," That isn't a bad idea. But after it is secured we give notice now that we shall rise and demand an invention h make railway wrecks enjoyable. The Language of Flags. To "strike the flag" is to lower the national colors in token of submission. Flags are used as the symbol of rank and command, tlie officers using them being called flag officers. Such flags are square, to distinguish them from other banners. A "flag of truce" is a white flag dis­ played to an enemy to indicate a desire for a parley* or consultation. The white flag is the sign of peace. After a battle, parties from both sides often go out to the field to rescue the wounded or bury the dead, uuder the protection of a white flag. The red flag is a sign of defiance, and is often used by revolutionists. In our service it is a mark of danger, and shows a vessel to be receiving or dis­ charging lier powder. The black flag is the sign of piracy. The yellow flag shows the vessel to be at quarantine, or is the sign of con- tagiofi'sdiseS'se. A flag at half mast means mourning. Fishing and other vessels return with a flag at half iu&st to announce the loss or death of some of the men. Dipping the flag is lowering it slight­ ly and then hoisting it again, to salute »a vessel or fort. If th<i President Qf the United. States goes afloat, the American flag is carried in the bows of his barge or hoisted at the main of the vessel .on board of which he is.--School Journal. anfii otiso tur d!s- oves and stands for monarchlal Institution^ has had a large majority of-tire of deputies to Support it:. But thl moil of the minority, was such th^ solution was welcome. The king n freely about the public places streets. Every day he may be sedn on! the- boulevards, sometimes on liorse- baek, sometimes walking or driving. He* goes unattended by military escort or guards. Tie mingles with the people, finds -ecfmpanidns among them, an<i talks with them. He goes to the thea­ ter and to public entertainments, and there is an entire absence of that ex- clusiveness whicjh is popularly.suppos­ ed to be chara(?feri^tic of royalty. H<y is fond of athletics, is a perfect horse­ man, a capable yachtsman, and enjoya tennis."--Buffalo, Express. WHITTIER'S BOYHOOD. The Quaker Poet Had but Scant ln* Btruction in Youth. In his boyhood Wliittier had scant in­ struction, for the district school was open only a few weeks In winter. Htv had but few books; there were scarcely thirty in the house,. The one book h» read and read again until he had it by heart almost waLs the Bible; and the Bk ble was always the book which exert* ed the strongest literary influence upon him. But when he was 14 a teacher came who lent him books of travel and: opened a new world to him. it was this teacher who brought , to the Whit- tiers one evening a volume of Burns and read aloud some of the >pooms, after explaining the Scottish direct. Whit- tier begged to borrow the p^k, which was almost the first poetry m^md ever read. It was this volume oflBurns- which set Wliittier to making himself, serving both as the tion and the model of his earlier efforts. Thd Scottish poet, with his homely pictures of a life as bare and as hardy as that of New Englaud then, first revealedf to the American poet what poetry really was, and how It might be made out of the actual facts ^>f his ofcn life. That book of Bums' poems had an even stronger influence on Whittier than the old volume of the Spectator which fell into the hands of Franklin had on the American author whose boyhood is most like Whittier's. Frank­ lin also was born in a humble and hard­ working family, doing early has Share of the labor, and having but a meager education, though always longing for learning. It is true that Irving and Cooper and Bryant did not graduate* from college, but they could have done so, had they persevered; and Emerson and Longfellow and Hawthorne did get as much of tlie higher education as was then possible in America. But neither Franklin nor Whittier ever had the chance; it was as much as they could do to pick up the merest elements of an education.--St Nicholas. poe Bonaparte's Horrible Suggestion. As a votary at the shrine of science he believed in the lawfulness of sui­ cide, and he now coldly suggested mur­ der to his surgeon general, hinting that an overdose of morphine would end the sufferings of those plague-stricken men who would have to be abandoned. It was long believed that such a dose ac­ tually had been administered to the sixty or more who were left behind. But the conclusive report that the re­ port was false is in the fact that when Sir Sidney Smith occupied Jaffa the sufferers were still alive. Napoleon to the last defended the suggestion as proper, though he falsely denied having made it himself, and untruthfully de­ clared at St. Helena that he had de­ layed three days to protect the dying patients. With cynical good nature, he told the fine story of how the noble French physician Desgenettes (who, in spite of his conviction that the plague was contagious, had already inoculated himself with the disease in order to allay the panic of the terror-stricken soldiers) had rejected tlie criminal suggestion, replying that a physician's profession was to save, not to destroy, human life.--Century. Vice President Breckinridge. Mr. Breckinridge had in a remarka­ ble degree the characteristics of his blood. He was born of one of the old­ est and most celebrated families of Kentucky, and he and his admirers were wont to boast that in him had been bred tlie blood of those families to a higher perfection than In any other of her sons^then in public life. He was a genuine Kentucky thoroughbred, and exhibited in a marked degree the points of his lineage. He was distinguished more for personal impressiveness of speech and manner, of figure and ad­ dress, than for intellectual power, and would be classed, not with the con­ structors of institutions, but rather with those who fashion and polish what otliers design and rough-hew.--Cen­ tury. A Tribe of Hairy People. On the Island of Yezo is a tribe of hairy people called Ainos, often called also Hairy Kuriles. They are believed t o b e t h e r e m n a n t o f t h e e a r l i e s t i n - ) habitants of tlie country. They are ntfl akin to monkeys, but they have their own language and their own customs. Their features are of European type rather than Asiatic. Swiss Have Heat Holidays. It is said that heat holidays haVe been established by law in the public schools of Switzerland. Recognizing the well known fact that the brain cannot work properly when the heat is excessive, the children are dismissed from their tasks whenever the thermometer goes above a certain point. Portugal's Dumocratio--Ki«g.--_ Senor de Segulra Thadieu, the new minister from Portugal, who nas just presented his credentials to the State Department, talks interestingly of af­ fairs in his country. "Our legislative body," said he to an interviewer, "was dissolved last December and we' are to have an election before it reassembles in January. Before the dissolution oc­ curred the ministry was harassed by the obstructive tactics of the minority. The ministry, which is conservative, An Even Divide. The champion stingy man of th~* .sel- eon has^een unearthed at DownsjK"a)h. At a dinner the other day a lady aSked lier husband to pass the toothpicks. He picked one out of the holder, brok«? it in half, handed one piece to her and used the other himself, remarking that economy was necessary these hard times. . Future Yachts Will Be Steel* Mr. Charles H. Cram^says the yacht "of the future will be of steel, and tb:$ jits motive power will be electricity. | He has an order for a yacht bigger and j faster than the 1,000-ton Giralda, the- j fastest yacht afloat, and says that this; order will be filled'. Conscience is one of those burglars that works best in solitude and dark- ness. _ : •