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I V f) J. VAN SLYKE, Editor arid Pub. KoHENRY. -F-i-- 'Vl'=f lLLINOT'-. SWEPT BY A TEMPEST. WILD FURY OF THE STORM PITTSBURG, AT Advantage of Harveyized Armor Lost to This Country--Market Outlook for : Cereals in 3?<!gland--Farmers Don't Pay for Seed Grain. Storm at Pittabnrg. At Pittsburg three lives were lost By .1 storm Sunday night and a score of per­ sons were injured, while the property loss Air ill foot up $100,000. At least twenty were injured more or less seriously by be­ ing hit by flying debris. The storm struck the city about 10 o'clock and was over in about half an hour, but in that brief time death and widespread destruction was left in its track. The rain came down in torrents, and was accompanied by vivid lightning and terrific wind. Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted'and fences and outhouses demolished. So tremendous was the force of tlie toi'nado that.the steamers Ijud lveefer, Little Bill and Arlington wore oVertK^ned, and many bargejk, coal boats and "small craft torn from- their moorings and sent adrift. .-. hire their own priest arid run their own ehureh without aoleiTowlodging the Bish- AP'3 autho^y-oVer them.. The.-decision, was precipitated t»y tlie refusal of Arch­ bishop Corri^n - to remove a Tiriest to" whom they objected. The new church .Will be"on somewhat the same lines as the independent Catholic church established by members of a Roman- Catholic church in Cleveland last year. <- One perron vjas killed and a score of others injured in a rear-end collision on the Camden and Atlantic Railroad in Camden, X. J., Thursday night, liar shall Johnson, aged 0 years, was. burned to death. The injured are: Lucy Buck- tuan, Maggie Cannon, Mrs. .Mary (Jro­ vers, James drovers. Mrs. M. Johnson, Daisy Naheu. Carrie Quash, Matilda Quash, Mrs. Lizzie Watts, John W'ils^n. The rear of the excursion train caught •fire and was completely burnedi The- train was the first section of fifteen cars, having 011 board tlve parents and scholars of fourteen Colored Sabbath schools from Camden, Philadelphia, and several coun­ ties in Pennsylvania. The headlight of the Atlantic City train was seen as it rounded the curve, and a panic ensued. A rush was made for the doors and win­ dows, and children were thrown from the car to the platform, 'while others jumped froth the windows. Responsibility for the wreck is not fixed! WESTERN. • Uiicle Satii Was Scooped, K Washington dispatch: The construc­ tion end of the Navy; Department lias at length-impressed-the higher powers of the administration that ;t piece of momtmOn.-. ta-1 folly was,committed when the oppor­ tunity was thrown away of. monopolizing the Harvey process of hardening armor- plates for war vessels. As the matter now stands the United States is in the position of developing the ideas of In­ ventor Harvey and perfecting the most Valuable of armor improvements and of neglecting to stipulate for the control of the process. No sooner, therefore, did this Government prove the great useful­ ness of the process than the inventor pro­ ceeded to sell it to all the great naval powers of Europe, placing each and every one on an equality, whereas this country idurald have held a distinct advantage over rival Governments. It may gratify the national pride to know that Uncle Sam now leads the world in excellence of its armor-plate processes, and also in the manufacture of projectiles. Six years ago •this country was away in the rear. England Needs Corm A London correspondent talked with several leading experts at the Baltic Ex­ change, the headquarters of the British corn trade, on the prospects of the British 'corn'crop and the amount of American corn likely to be required. Some prom­ inent brokers declared that the River Platte "holds tin- k ey to the situation, a 1111 that reports from there premise a very large surplus crop of both maize and . wheat. The Danube district also reports an immense crop, as against an abnormal­ ly small one last season, and the view generally expressed was that, however low the American prices may be, the Dan­ ube will undersell them. The British crop is expected to be generally below the aver­ age. but brokers could not hazard an opin­ ion on the probable amount of American corn that will be required. Last year the imports of American corn were only 25.- o07.<55 bushels. This year there ought to be four or five times as much. Steamer City of Sheffield Sinks. The steamer City of Sheffield, from St. Louis to Tennessee River, struck an ob­ struction in the Mississippi River lock of Cairo at midnight Sunday and sunk. Tin- water barely covers ,t fie boiler deck, and she lies straight and smooth and will be raised without trouble.. Several hundred barrels of flour in the hold will be dam­ aged. lives were lost, and the passen- I , gers were taken off. The Sheffield had 100 passengers. The boat knocked a hole in her bottom twelve feet long, and filled and settled down smooth and square on a bar. Most of her passengers were asleep and knew nothing of the accident until morning. Blown Up by a Mine. The London Daily News has a dispatch from Vienna which says Trieste papers report an explosion destroyed the artillerv barracks at Toula, Russia, arid that "no men were killed, including many officers. The barracks were found to be complete­ ly undermined. Many arrests have been made, loula is the capital of the Govern­ ment of Toula in European Russia. It is on the River Oopa, lO.> miles south of Moscow. It is a manufacturing citv of (0,000 people. Senator Peffer. -of Kansas, favors .a cur­ rency based 011 land values. - , In the pocket of-a man who was found lead on the railroad track near Springfield, Mass., was found the address: "Jauies S. Edward,s. ,"4 Dearborn" street, Chicago." James '.Rhodes', steam sawmill in1 the AdironYlaeks,. near .Watertown, N. Y.. burned to the ground, with a large quan­ tity of lumber. The loss is estimated at $100,000; no insurance. Miss Jennie Lewi's, a domestic employed in the. family of, Rev. George Moar.- of Oakland, Cal.; was shot and fatally Wounded by a man supposed to be. Louis F. Muhlner, a jilted lover. J. R. Irwin, vessel-owner and agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Fair- port, died at his home in Painesville, Ohio. Apoplexy was the immediate cause, of death. Mr. Irwin was a man of great stature, remarkable for his appearance, but had suffered a general breaking down in health since January last. He was in­ terested in tugs, shipchandlery, ware­ houses, and in fact everything in Fair- port, and the growth of the place as a lake port during the past ten years was largely due to his energy and enterprise. Emmett Divers, the negro who assault­ ed and killed Mrs. Cain near Fulton, Mo., a couple of weeks ago. was taken from | tlie Sheriff about 1 o'clock Thursday morning by a 1110b at Fulton and hanged to a railroad bridge. Divers was taken from St. Louis by Deputy Sheriff Bu­ chanan. of Calloway County, anTl arrived at Fulton some time after midnight, i I Sheriff Buchanan left the train with his j prisoner some distance from Fulton and I j was proceeding with him in a carriage ] when he was intercepted by a niob of I j more than a'hundred men, who forcibly grown,, daughters, nnd a son. was burned to the ground, and Mrs. IlarrUI and. the girls perished in the flumes. • Tile son, Who occupied a ro<jni- in the rear of the building; barety eseflpeiT with' Els life. It is thought the women wore drugged, ii3 loghouses burn very slo.wly, and they should have"awakened iiotinie to escape. The remains were burned to a crisp, -i Near Morgantown, W. Va., John Black and sons Were thrashing, Tuesday when the boiler of the machine exploded, kill­ ing three men and injuring four others. The killed are: John Spotsnage, Ciirtin Amnions, John Blair. Tlie injured: Ross Blair, John Spotsnage Jr., Leroy Wade, W illianisAmnions.• 43»rtin Amnions was struck by a piece of the boiler and liter­ ally torn tO pieces. His legs and feet, were found under the barn. All qf Blair's cloth­ ing was totu from him except his shoes. Rufus Buck, Sam Samson, Meoa Judy, Lucky Da vis and Albert Stake were lodg­ ed in the United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark. AH are young men who have in ten days made a criminal record for them­ selves which is almost without parallel in the Indian Territory. They murdered John GarrOtt, a negro deputy marshal, about ten days ago. They are charged with assaulting four women, robbing two stores and holding up three individuals. They robbed a stockman named Calahan and killed a negro boy who was with him. FUTURE IS BRIGHT. THE OUTLOOK FOR CROPS WAS NEVER BETTER.- Most Satisfactory Reports- from the Great Grain Producing Tract--Oats, Rye and Fruit Flourishing -- Corn .Yield the Greatest Ever Known. WILL STUDY AMERICAN CROPS* Germany Attaches nn Agriculturist tf>_ I t 9 - KciIkj X FOREIGN. took the negr An explosii ilay entirely Peerless retii ?00,000 loss, tank first cx Cubans Meet Defeat. A severe engagement, it is reported from Havana, in Spanish official circles, has been fought at Arillao in the Depart­ ment of Santa Clara. It was official!v an­ nounced that Lieut. Col. Palanca" had routed the insurgents under the command of Itoloff and Serafin Sanchez. The in­ s u r g e n t s l e f t s i x t y d e a d a n d w o u n d e d r n •the field. atid twenty of their horses were k i l l e d . T h e t r o o p s l o s t t w o k i l l e d a n d , h a d eight wounded, BREVITIES. The sessions of tlie Catholic summer school for 1805 were closed at I'kUtsburg. President Comity announced that building on the grounds would be com­ menced at once, and that an auditorium, together with cottages, would be com­ pleted for next year's sessions. A number of South Dakota counties that furnished grain to farmers last spring are experiencing considerable dif­ ficulty in collecting the money due from many of the farmers. In some instances farme-Vs who owe the counties for seed grain have completed their thrashing and .left for parts unknown, notwithstanding that if caught such action would under the law be deemed a felony. Printed lists of delinquents are being secured, and they may be arrested. It is feared that war Is inevitable be­ tween Peru and Bolivia. The trouble is over a strip of seaeoast which Chili took from Peru and which Bolivia wants. A. Ivuzar and his 4-year-old daughter perished in the flames which destroyed their home Rt Algonquin. Ill: Mr. Ivuzar had escaped, but went back into the burn­ ing building to rescue his child. A report from Cuba says that Maximo Gomez, the insurgent leader, died from consumption on July 31. The Ocean View Hotel, 011 Roekaway Beach, was burned. All the 200 guests are thought to have escaped. n > and hanged him. 11 and resulting fir" Thurs- consuincl the plant of the cry at Fir.dlay, Ohio, with half insured. A benzine doded from "some unknown cause and in nn instant the building was wrapped in seething flames. Two still men, William Adams and William Be- mis, were probably fatally burned. Ten oil stills next caught fire and one after another exploded, sending flaming oil over the surrounding buildings and ground. Next two tanks of crude oil, containing 12,000 gallons, caught, sending up red columns of flame 200 feet into the air. A mammoth tank of 30,O0() barrels was fired inTo with a cannon, letting the oil run out. Where it caught fire. Minneapolis underselling Duluth at th^> seaboard by a full cent was the report re­ ceived from the East.Thursday by Duluth wheat shippers. The freight war from the Twin Cities has culminated in the greatest slaughter of tariffs that4 the has ever known. The So-j Road is said to be carrying wheat to the seaboard at the rate of 12 cents per hun­ dred pounds, or only 2 cents more than the lowest all-rail rate ever known to be made from Chicago to the seaboard. If the other \ an Home road, the South Shore and Atlantic, makes the same com­ parative rate or a trille lower from Du­ luth. wheat will go East by all-rail in­ stead of lake and rail. I he Pierre, S. D., court-room was crowded ednesday to hear sentence pronounced on \\ . W. Taylor, the default- nig ex-State Treasurer. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced on him Taylor in a low voiie replied: "I have not." Judge Gaffey then reviewed the case and the different statutes bearing upon the crime. He considered the much-discussed section 1,005 void, and did not believe a two-year sentence was intended toxover such a case as this. He said that Tay­ lor's worst crime was in attempting to for^e a Compromise after gathering to­ gether all the State funds he could lay his hands on. A sentence of live years at hard labor was then pronounced. 1' rank Sweet's efforts having failed to separate Mrs. Alice Burr from her hus­ band at Chicago Wednesday, Frank Burr, a printer, he shot her and a Mrs. Nichols, and then put two bullets into his own brain, killing liims&lf instantly. Mrs. P>urr was fatally injured, it is thought, while Mrs. Nichols received only flesh wound. Burr and his wife have not lived happily together for some time. Sweet '-was a brother-in-law of the two women, his wife having died a short time ago. Lately he had been attentive to Mrs. Burr, and it is asserted that he sought every opportunity to persuade her to leave her husband. She was inclined to listen to him, but was kept from carrying out his wishes by the advieb&f Mrs. Nichols. Edward Clcgg, Coleman Nockolds and Henry Cartenson, the young Englishmen who were arrested at Chadron, Neb., for fast riding and refused to pay th»ir fines, after a couple of days spent in the county bastile, their spare time being employed by sitting on a rock pile with a ball and chain attachment, finally got tired of the affair and paid their fines. , They have, however, had prepared a communication to the British Consul stating their version of the affair and asking for redress from the United States. The protest has not arrived at the State Department," arid if t should be received^ it is probable they would be promptly informed that the de­ partment would take no action in'a case where a municipality had punished any one for violating a police regulation. American bicyclists frequently are arrest­ ed in England for violation of local police regulations. , SOUTHERN. The Sofia correspondent of the London Times telegraphs that M, StamboulofF.s grave has been desecrated, the police ar­ riving just in time to prevent the exhum- g of the remains. , . The," condition of the crops of Europe is reviewed in'"the report of the European agent of the Agricultural Department fos August. It shoWs fair crops in most of, the countries except Great Britain. Constantinople dispatch: The Vali Of .Salonica telegraphs that a Bulgarian band, : numbering about 1,0?)0 men, at­ tacked the village of Janakli. in the dis­ trict of Kirdjali. and burned 290 houses. The Bulgarians are also said to have kill­ ed twenty-five of the inhabitants of Ja­ nakli. The Vali of Adrianople has sent a similar dispatch, but thinks the accounts of the affair are probably exaggerated. The New York World says: "The No- vedades, an organ of the Spanish Gov­ ernment, makes the official announce­ ment from Madrid that Spain will have 150,272 soldiers under arms in Cuba by Sept. 5. When.those re-enforcements ar­ rive there will be 70,272 regulars and 80,- 000 volunteers. The regulars are classi­ fied as follows: Fifty-nine thousand nine hundred infantry. .">.870 cavalrv, 1.803 ar­ tillery, 1.41 5 engineers, 2.700 marine in­ fantry, 1)70 military police, 4,400 civil guards, 1.152 guerrillas. A semi-official note has been published at Paris ^stating that tuberculosis is shown to exist in New York State, and that New York cattle have been refused entry into Connecticut, and also that an­ thrax is ravaging New Jersey herds, while a serious disease, believed to be Texas fever, has been discovered in Penn­ sylvania and Tennessee. The note then proceeds: "These facts fully justify the measure taken Feb. 24 of checking the import of American cattle into France, and are the best reply to the? criticisms this measure evoked."' IN GENERAL Bountiful Harvests. This is likely to be a phenomenal year for agriculturists as the indications for good crops throughout the farming dis­ tricts of the whole West ha ve never been surpassed. Grain of every, sort and all variety of fruits will be most'abundant, and as the farmer looks over his fields of rich crops and his trees laden and weigh­ ed down with fruit his heart laughs aioud_ with joy. , Kansas has this year raised nearly 7,000,000 bushels of Irish potatoes, the largest crop in the history of the State. I11 many instances 200 bushels have been raised 011 a single acre, wliich were sold on board the ears at 50 cents per bushel. Taking the State as a whole, the yields of, fruit and garden products were never so bountiful, and the trees and vines were never before so laden. Conditions aver­ age 75 per cent, for apples, peaches, grapes and cherries, and in one-half of the State apples and peaches rate at 100 and above. - :: ' ..- • ' • • ' Tire stories of drought and" distress which went forth from Nebraska last fall and winter will hardly, be repeated this year, for. while farmers in many.sections, are 0,11 the anxious seat as to their corn crops, -they are just completing what is probably the ..most- satisfactory harvest of small grata in the history of the State. Indeed, the yield of wheat and oats may ho said to be record-breaker. The acre­ age of both these cereals this year, alon£- with rye and barley, was less than that of last, but the production of all, accord­ ing to estimates made, will be far above the average. J Vis is all the more grati­ fying from the fact that the early drought was the cause of gloomy forebodings. In the Dakotas, the great wheat-grow­ ing States, the crop is placed at 2,400,000 acres and the yield at about twelve bush- Several of the European Governments lia\e decided to send, to their embassies or legations- in this country what they term "agricultural attaches."' Such an attache will be expected to keep his home Government informed not only, as to ciopxonditions^. prospects and prices in DIED IN THE FLASLES. •.tiife'v. ' the I. nitod btatos tit regular,.intervals, but.* also to ke&p his people posted as to prog­ ress in all agricultural methods and im­ provements from time to time. Germany is the first to send an attache of this sort. \\ ho arrived in Washington a few days ago and called upon the Secretary- of Ag­ riculture. His name is Beno -Reinhardt: Freiherr von Herrnuin. He is a baron, although an agriculturist, so that he will 110 doubt be welcomed into official society this winter, despite his long name. It is understood that both the English and Frencli Govcrnments will soon follow the example of Germany and send an agri­ cultural attache to their embassies here, and Secretary-Morton now thinks that it might be wise 011 the part of our Govern­ ment to return the compliment by send­ ing some of our most practical and suc­ cessful farmers abroad in place of the fOw military and naval attaches who pre­ sumably adoru the diplomatic" service of the United States. HORRID FATE OF MANY HOTEL' FIRE. IN A Gumry House at Weaver Wrecked by fan Kxplpsjon at Midnieht--6neet« Caught in tlie Ruins--Fire Ureako Out and Firemen Forced to Retreat. FOR THE BENEFIT OF VETERANS. Accommodations Provided Those At- - tending Chattanooga. Reunion. The Chattanooga national military, park commission has issued the ,following an­ nouncement on behalf of the veteran sol­ diers who wish to go to tlie encampment at Chattanooga: "It appears from numerous letters de­ ceived by this commission that its previous circula-r in regard to furnishing quarters id canap barracks lias-been construed to mean that such barracks will be erected without regard to the orders received, and that those desiring these quarters can obtain them upon their arrival at Chattanooga. This, however, is not the case. "As Congress made no appropriation for free quarters, a plan was devised by which barracks accommodations could be provided by the citizens' committee of Milwaukee brick manufacturers are arranging to form a trust. Fred Filgiano, absconding cashier of the Grand Trunk Road, who pilfered $17,- 000, has been arrested at Hamilton, Out. Although passengers arriving at Vic­ toria, B. C., by the Oriental liners agree that cholera is working frightful havoc in Japan, the newspapers of that country contain no reference to the devastation of the plague. This is probably due to the fact that the disease finds its victims chiefly among soldiers recently returned from the front, and the Government, therefore, takes advantage of the law re­ lating to the press censorship to its fullest extent. According-to officers of the Vic­ toria, and the more recently arrived Em­ press of Japan, the military has suffered ii loss of thousands during the last few months and the principal stations in Jap­ an are at present converted into great hos­ pitals. The Formosa expedition has prov­ ed especially disastrous. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League. En'tkri ' iusixg Fa p.mkk. acquainted. ;lad to see >011 and hope we shall lie better Per P. W. L. cent. < levelanu . . . . . . . 101 t 38 .021 Baltimore 111 51) 35 .015 Pit tsburg . . . . . IMj 57 30 .504 Chicago 11!) 55 44 ,5o0 Philadelphia . . . . 02 51 41 .55 1 < ' ineinnati . . . . 04 - •) 42 .553 Boston 02 50 42 .513 Brooklyn 04 4!) 45 ..121 New York 04 47 47 .500 Washington . . . st; ' 30 5«> .340 St. Louis its 32 (',(.j Louisville . . . . . . 01 22 GO .242 WE ST E UN" I.I .A or E. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis . .. .05 (il 34 .042 St. Paul .'. 15 r>(> 30 .5X0 Kansas (, 'ity . . . .Oti 55 41 .573 Minneapolis . . . .1(4 4!) 45 .521 Milwaukee . . . . .0(1 47 40 .400 Detroit .1)7 47 50 .4S5 Torre Haute. . . .OS 41 57 .41S (I ra nd Rapids. . ..1)0 07 EASTERN.^ Two new strikes were begun at New -York Wednesday in accordance .with res­ olutions passed by the Children's Jacket- Makers' Local Assembly, 155, K. of L., and the Pantsmakers' Local Assembly, demanding contracts for one year instead of six months. , Altogether there are something like 7,000 or 8.000 persons thrown out of work by the strike, but the leaders assert that it will last only a few days. At Buffalo, N. Y., the members of St. Albert's Roman Catholic Church have formally decided to sehede ai)d to estab­ lish an- independent church. They will Senator Sam Bell dying at Eureka is oyer 70 years of Fx-United "States Maxey is reported Springs, Texas. IIt age. A New Orleans linotypist has estab­ lished a new record by setting and cor­ recting .81,011 ems of agate type in eight consecutive hours. John Johnson, colored, was hanged at Mo'u'nt Sterling, I\y., for killing Police­ man Charles Evans on June 15. John­ son's neck was not broken and he did not die for twenty-five minutes after the trap was sprung. Nearly ten thousand people witnessed the hanging. Just before daylight Friday morning -a double loghouse near Arlington, Tenn., ' occupied by Mrs. Callie liar rill, her two MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $,'1.75 to $0.25; hogs, shipping grades, $.'1.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 07c; corn, No. 2, 38c to .'59c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 45c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 35c to 45c; broom corn, Illinois, poor to choice, $55 to $100 per ton. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 05c to 07c; corn, No. L white, 30c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, '2/Sc to 27c. (. St. Louis---Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hog^ $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 00c to 07c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 30c; oats, No. .2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 41c. ' . Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50.to $4.00; wheat,»No. 2, 08c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2. yellow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c; rye, 44e to 40c. ' Toledo---Wheat, No. 2 red. Tic to 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye. No. 2, 45c to 40c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 27e. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 00c to 07c; corn, No. 3, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c tot 25c; barley, No. 2, 42c to 44c; rye, No. 1, 45c to 47c;' pork, mess, $'9.00 to $9.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2,50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 40c,to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; butter, creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, W, ' era, 13c to 14c. els per acre, or a total of from 28,000,00 1o 30,000,000. This estimate was made before thrashers got to work and 011 a basis- of fifteen to -eighteen bushels' per acre in the southern and eastern counties. But since the actual test is being made, the yield in that section is going beyond the average, some fields thrashing out as high as thirty-five bushels per acre, while from twenty to twenty-live bushels is common. This may bring the total up to 35,000,000 bushels, while there was not over 7,000,000 or'S.HOO.OOO bushels raised last year. The yield will be cut in the northeastern part of the State, where the prospects were good, by a heavy hail­ storm, which destroyed 20,000 acres. Some smut is reported in the eastern part of-the State, but not enough to do' any- great damage. The acreage devoted to the oat crop is probably about the same as in former years, or 800,000 acres, and the yield is re­ ported far above the average--twenty-five bushels per acre. Wherever the crop has been thrashed some fields go as high as eighty bushels per acre. In the south­ eastern part of the State, where all crops are the heaviest, the average this year may be safely put at thirty bushels'per acre, or a total yield for tlie State of 25,- 000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels. The Corn Crop. The crop of corn of the country this year will be the largest that lias ever been known. It is .estimated at the present time that the yield .will-exceed by 200,- 000,000 bushels the record of any previous year. This condition did not exist a month ago. At that time continued drouth in nearly all the corn States made $he outlook dubious for an average yield. But the rains came, copious, heavy, continued showers, just sit the time most needed, and to-day prosperity hovers closer over millions of homes than for many a year. How much depends upon the corn crop is realized by few. The corn crop will bring more money, if marketed; than all other grain products combined, and pota­ toes may be counted with the grain to make good measure. The estimated yield | of corn for this year is from 2,250.000,- ! 000 to 2,500,000,000 bushels. At the pres- I cut price, which is 35 cents for December | or May delivery, the crop will be worth i $80<),000,000. To emphasize the immensity of this I product it may be said that the State of Iowa alone will raise enough corn this vi ar to supply more than five bushels to every man, woman and child in the Uni­ ted States. Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas comprise what has been termed the corn belt. This section furnishes nearly, if not quite, two- thirds of the entire corn product. The greatest yield of any year previous to this was in 1889, when the acreage was 78,319,0.71 and the yield" 2,112,892,000' bushels. The following year brought a practical failure, which was again made up in 1891, when the yield amounted to 2,000,154,000 bushels from an acreage of 70,204,.)15. For the past three years the yield has been 1,(>28,404,000 bushels for 1892, 1,019,490,431 bushels for 1893 and 1,212,770,052 bushels for 1S94. The indi­ cations at present, therefore, are that the 1895 crop will bo nearly double that of last year. It will not all be turned into cash, but considered from the standpoint of value it will represent $400,000,000 more than the crop of last year. . Chattanooga at a very low rate for all who might order such a sufficient time in advance. It is the intention to extend barracks as orders for accommodations are received. Such accommodations can­ not be provided under applications re­ ceived after Aug. 30, 1895. "Those who send $2 to ("apt. Charles F. Muller, Chattanooga, Tenn.. will receive in return it ticket which will entitle the holder to a comfortable barrack bunk for the entire time of his stay at Chattanooga, •including safe storage for hand baggage and toilet accommodations; It will riot be possible to furnish ladies with quar­ ters in these barracks, or to supply meals or lunches in connection with them. Jt will be necessary for each person to bring his own blanket and towels. The "bar­ racks will be constructed upon the plan adopted at the last Grand Army encamp­ ment at Washington city, where a very large number of veterans were thus housed. Such structures will be erected in Chattanooga, where, within convenient distances, meals and lunches 11 ,y be ob­ tained at reasonable prices. "Communications in "regard to bar­ racks addressed to ("apt. Muller, who was selected by the citizens' committee to take charge of this work, will receive prompt and reliable attention. "J. S. FULLERTON. "Chairman of Commission." NORTH KNOCKED OUT. Tried to l>uy Iiin Way Into Parlia­ ment but Failed. One of the most picturesque figures in English life is Col. John T. North, known familiarly as the "nitrate king." The son of a mechanic in Leeds, England, he started out in life without any advantages and in the 00's went as an engineer to Chili. Thence he went to the nitrate beds of Peru and partly by good luck and partly by collusion with corrupt Cbillian and Peruvian politicians acquired a con-, trolling interest in the rich nitrate beds and incidentally a fortune of many 111 ill- ions. A, few years ago he returned to England to buy his way into society and public life. He performed numerous An Awful Tale. The Gumry Hotel, at Denver, Colo., was wrecked by a terrific ^explosion at 12:10 (l. 111. Monday. The rear half of the building, a fiye story brick and stone structure, went down with a crash. The hotel was crowded with guests and be­ tween forty and fifty of them were killed, as well as the entire force of hotel em­ ployes, who were sleeping in the portion of the building which fell. No meals were served in the hotel, and every guest entered 011 the register occu­ pied a room in the hotel Sunday, most of them late at night, the list being as fol­ lows: , Mrs. O. H. Knight, Lake City. Mrs. Knight's sons. _C- J. I. Kirk, Omaha. J. C. Brown,Omaha. Bud Burert, Colorado Springs. «T. W. Roberts and wife; Colorado Springs. , . Miss Jennie Ha word, Boston. , Mrs. C. W. Williams, Boulder. Miss H-attie II. Williams, Boulder. W. 0. MeClaiii, Huron. Kan. Mrs. McCIain aiid child, Huron, Kan. . Heijry Sloan, Hiiroli, Kan. -, - Mrs. Henry Sloan, Huron, Kan. George Burle, Colorado Springs. EL. T. McClOsky, Cripple Creek, Colo, " F. French, Central City', Colo. B. .Lorah, Central City; Colo. . ' W. .T. Corson, Pueblo. . M. E. Letson, Denver. , : Probably Sixty Killed. At 3 a. 111. Monday only fifteen persons who are known to have been in the build­ ing ut the time of the explosion are ac­ counted for. This leaves sixty supposed to be dead. Henry Sloan and wife, of Huron, Ivan., hnd W. C. McCIain, cashier of the Huron State Bank, ure among those taken down by ladders, and are all more or less in­ jured. On both sides of Lawrence, from 17th to 18th street, und on Larimer, directly bac-k of the Gumry, the plate-glass win­ dows of the business houses were blown in and a number of pedestrians were in­ jured by falling gla^s. The fronts of many buildings in the vicinity were badly wrecked. The hotel structure, for 100 feet along the alley and extending 75 feet toward the | front, is a mass of debris. Brick and | plaster piled in heaps twenty feet high, and from this mass of wreckage could be heard the moans of the injured and dying. | 1 he cause of the explosion is uncertain, but it is supposed that the battery of boil­ ers in the hotel basement must have ex­ ploded. 1 lie sound of the explosion was hoard throughout the city, awakening people in bed a mile from the scene. A cloud of dust was thrown a thousand feet in the air, and, as there was not a breath of wind, it hung in the air like a huge col­ umn. Minute atoms of powdered brick and Biortar descended like geutle snow. At 12:.i0 the ruins began burning fierce­ ly an„d the firemen were obliged to retreat from the work of rescue. Everv engine in the city was pourin<g streams into the mass, but the flames could not be possibly got under control before the injured were cremated. As their chances of escape lessened the cries of the imprisoned people were in­ creased, heartrending shrieks rising from every portion of the great mass of wreck­ age. During the height of the excitement a te:un ran away 011 18th street, stamped­ ing the great crowd of spectators. A number of people were more or less in­ jured by being trampled upon and falling in the broken glass which covered the- streets and sidewalks in every direction. Electric-light wires dangling from brok­ en poles in the alley added fresh peril to the firemen. One horse was burned by coming in contact with a live wire. two injured women had been almost ?xtricated from the ruins when the flames ipproached so close that the rescuers had ;<> abandon them for safety. The bodies >f three women were also to be seen in :he back part of the building, but could jot be reached. Ilardly had the firemen i;ot fairly at work when they were forced to retreat. Proprietors of the Hotel Killed. Among the dead are Peter Gumry and R. C. Grenier, the proprietors of the ho­ tel, the day clerk and the night clerk, none of whose bodies have been found. Imme­ diately after the explosion occurred a baby was heard wailing in the corner of a room which had nearly all fallen away. Its parents had gone down with the first crash. Afterward the little one's cries became weaker and weaker, and when the flames shot up into the skeleton of the building it became silenced. The firemen made a brave effort to save a woman caught in the debris of the north corner of the hotel, but were forced to abandon the < 01,. xomir, \W! SITUATE KING.7 Joi n Ilartman, Joseph Wilke and Alex­ ander Wilke, members of-a New York 1 plea are party, were-drowned. benefactions, endowed hospitals qnd col­ leges. gave splendid parties, became one of the Prince of Wales' amusement set and then, satisfied that he stood well in the minds of the people of his native towns of Leeds, I10 announced his inten­ tion of entering Parliament, standing ^I the Tory platform. He was defeated, however, by Herbert Gladstone, son of the "grand old man," and has now time sufficient on his hands to realize that money- does not always /accomplish the purpose of Jts user. - The Gumry Hotel was a five-story brick with stone front, and was built about six- years ago. It was of the better kind of second-class hotels, catering largely to transient family patronage. Thus many women and children were < among, the guests. The building was put up as the Eden Musee by the widow of Gen. Tom Thumb, and was so occupied for several years, later being remodeled for use as a hotel. Gumry and Grenier have owned the hotel for several years. Mr. Gumry was a prominent contractor and had done much of the work during the building of the State capitol. Mr. Grenier acted in the capacity of manager. Told 111 a Few Lines. Hetty Green announces that she will Spend the summer in prayer. It is cheap­ er than spending the summer in Europe. John L. Sullivan's benefit performance in New York the other night netted him about $0,000. This ought to last him at least two weeks. A thoughtless visitor began humming "Every Day'll Be Sunday By and By" in New York the other day and a mob chased him nine miles. Gen. Campos has ordered 1.200 pounds of quinine from Spain. It 's 110 use: qui­ nine will not stop the Spaniards from shaking in their boots. ' Several days ago Gen. Campos took complete control of the Cuban cable and announced that 110 news except reports of Spanish victories • would be sent out henceforth. We haven't Jieard from Cuba since then. Col. Fellows, the district attorney, lias, returned to his office in New York from England, where he has been spending the latter part of his vacation. Walter Dennison, Ann Arbor, Mich., and II. F. Decon. Detroit, have been awarded scholarships for study In the American colleges at Athens and Rome. The bread riots in Tabreez Continue. A mob has wrecked the house Of the Gov­ ernor. Who has resigned his authority and promises a reduction in the price of bread. The London Court of ^Appeals lias dis­ missed Countess Russell 's appeal against the judgment of April last, dismissing her 6uit against her husband, Earl RasselL for a restoration of conjugal right* ADDRESS TO. tHE PEOF® Silver Democrats Prepare Campaign of 489 The Democratic silvei^ co] session in Washington ado: gram and platform, and issue] to the people of which the. the principal points: • > At a conference between Democrats from different St . tended the non-partisan coiiveii ly assembled at Memphis, T< purpose of promoting tlie cause ' . „ ver coinage, which conference was Field af­ ter the adjournment of the convention, a committee consisting of Senators ..Tones of Arkansas, Turpie-of Indiana, anrl Harris O.f Tennessee was appointed anil authorized to invite representative Democrats from the several States to meet them at Washington for consultation, with the view of securing co-operatlpn and concert of action among those Deihocrats throughout the Union who Believe 'n adhering to the cardinal Demo- cratlc policy of actual bimetallism. .Disclaiming all right to-bind any person i>u . r , utterances, but profoundly conscious .tnut^uiBiiemocratlc party fu-day confronts ir s ,e most momentous fb-fts-idstory. far-reaching perils jtiFihv uo w nU .?i^ the country, we are assembled njuivtaual Democrats ;to take counsel together, and for the undisguised purpose or inaugurating and promoting a thorough and systematic organization of. the Demo­ cratic masses, so that they may go forward as one man with a resolute purpose to res­ cue the old party founded by Thomas Jeffer­ son from- plutocratic domination. There­ fore, with this object in view, this conveii*' tlon of American I)emocr&ts, composed of representatives from twenty-four of the leading States of .the Union,' makes the fol- lowing declaration on ..the monetary ques- tion, which has been forced Into the leading pla.ee among the issues of to-day./- The Well-known arguriients in favor of bi­ metallism at a ratio of 10 to 1 follow, and the document declares the Democratic pasty the champion of that bimetallism from Jef­ ferson to the present time. The. charge •that the act of 1873 was passed by fraud is reiterated, with the claim -that falling prices are the result of the appreciation of gold. The .document: then saysi. "The; Democratic • Is the traditional .friend and champion of bimetallism. Its strehgt.tr-ahd power ami popularity have been largely lmiit. Upon its steadfast opposition to the demonetization of-silver and its record of' unwearied-effort to restore it to its historic place as a full money metal equal with gold. The effort at this late day to make It par excellence the champion of gold mono-metallism, the ene­ my of the policy it has upheld, and the de- fender of the crime it has denounced, is an effort to dishonor ifs record, its promises, and its principles." Proposed National Platform. Duty to the people requires that the party of the people continue the battle for bi­ metallism until i ts efforts are crowned with success; therefore be. i t Resolved, That the Democratic party, in national convention assembled, should de­ mand the free and unlimited coinage of sil­ ver and gold into priniarv or redemption money at the ratio of 10 to 1, without wait­ ing tor the action or approval of any other nation; that i t should declare its irrevocable opposition to the substitution for a metallic money of a panic-breeding, corporation-cred­ it currency, based on a single metal, the sup­ ply of which is so limited that it can be cor­ nered at any time by a few banking institu­ tions in Europe and America. lhat it should declare its opposition to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the I 'nited States the option reserved by the law to the Government of redeeming such obligations In either silver coin or gold coin; that it should declare its opposition to the issuing of interest-bearing bonds of the United States in time of peace, and especially to placing the treasury of the Government un­ der the control of any syndicate of bankers, and the,issuance of bonds to be sold by them at an enormous profit for the purpose of sup- . plying the Federal treasury with gold to maintain the policy of gold mnno-rrjetatllsm. With a View to securing the adherence to and readoption of the Democratic rinaneial policy above set forth, by the Democratic national convention to be assembled in 1890. and of the nomination of a candidate for • the Presidency well known to be in hearty" sympathy therewith, we hereby pledge our mutual co-operation, and urgently recom­ mend to our Democratic brethren in till the States to at once begin and vigorously and systematically prosecute the work of a thorough -organization. LONDON'S PARKHURST. He Is Iiev. Dr. Buss, and He It? Now Visiting America. The Dr. I 'arkhurst of London, Rev. Septimus Buss, is now 011 a visit to the United States. For twenty years he has been engaged in the interest of reform, the regulation of the sale of intoxicants occupying most of his attention. He is president of Sion College, and as vicar of Shoredifeh, a London parish of 125,000 population, he is vested with nearly all of the powers which Mayor William L. Strong possesses, excepting the privilege of appointing municipal oflieialfl. "I have been interested in the reform movement to regulate the sale of iutoxi- cants for twenty years," said Dr. Buss. "Since our vigilance committee was form­ ed we have taken a more determined stand and have several times come into open conflict with those opposed to us-- they are called publicans. The English KEVi. SEPTI.MC6 BUSS. license law differs considerably from the American. We have two laws--one that has reference only to London and the other to the provinces. The laws are in reality a law and an amendment to a law. Subsidiary acts relate- to Sunday closing, selling to children under 13 years of age, etc. "There are several Sunday laws. In London saloons are closed from 11 to 1 o'clock, open from 1 to 3, then closed un­ til early evening, after which,they remain open until 11 o'clock. Different laws were- enacted for Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man. • /U\ Ireland the five most popu­ lous cities are exempted from the provis­ ions of the Sunday closing law. "The American impression that our Sunday law r works satisfactorily is er­ roneous. It is continually and openly violated. The police, as a rule, are ill league with the publicans. Police drink at prohibited times and in prohibited places/ News of Minor Note. Southern Railway and Steamship As­ sociation liu^s have decided not to cut rates. v A child of Mrs. Annie Seeley, who was being taken to a New York free dis-" pensary, died in a street car. -Charles L. Walters, a well-known musi­ cian, was admitted to the city hospital at Louisville, Ivy.-, a hopeless wreck from alcoholism. George Traver, a Chicago dentist, was found dead in a ravine in Mexico. It is believed he-was murdered and robbed by his native servants. In a Cleveland court-room Henry Du Lawrence, an attorney, administered a severe horsewhipping to F. B. Calhoun, also a lawyer itud notary public. Continuous rains have ruined the riCe crops in many parts of Japan and a fam­ ine is feared. Many lives have already been lost nnd the damage done is enor­ mous