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5 : THE PLMNDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor.and Pub. MCHENRY. - - - iLLiyorc. BOATMEN IN BATTLE.' RIOT AT THE TONAWANDA, r. , DOCKS. N. take Captain Tried to Load His Ves- Btjl Out of Turn--Train Robbers Get 85 Cents--Bad Wreck in Belgium-- Bold Chicago Bandits. Capt. Phillips Killed. At Tonawanda, N. Y., one man was killed and another fatally wounded in a riot among boatmen.- About one hun- dredand fifty men were involved in the riot, and several pistol shots were tired. Captain Phillips, owner of the boats John Graft and May, was shot in the head as he stood upon his boat, and died soon afterward. Phillips' son was struck oh the head with a club and knocked insensible. His death is feared. Captain Phillips sought to load out of turn. The boatmen objected and gathered early at the dock toprevent. him. A quarrel arose and soon shooting began. The Tona­ wanda boatmen say that Phillips began it. However .that may jbe,, Phillips was the iarst to fall. His son theft cut the lines and the boat drifted down stream dut of range of the pistols. Eleven ai*- bate been ijiade. • . " - Tnrks Givcn Warning» The representatives of the six powers have sent a collective note to the Turk- i ish Government calling .attention to the inadequate measures taken by the police authorities to maintain public tranquility in Constantinople and its suburbs, and de- manding the prompt institution of a rigor­ ous inquiry into the recent rioting- and bloodshed, and wholesale imprisonment of Armenians. In addition, the powers demand the release of all prisoners who are innocent of wrongdoing and the cessa­ tion of arrests. Said-Pasha, the new Turkish minister for foreign affairs, has called at the different embassies in Con­ stantinople and has presented to the rep­ resentatives of the powers a communica­ tion fr%m the Turkish Government repeat­ ing the assurance that a plan for reform ii^'Armenia has been accepted by the porte. It is not believed, however, that this will satisfy the powers. There have -H-1----* been ljl'0 further excesses, although a feel­ ing of great disquiet-still prevails, and fresh demonstrations upon the part of Armenians are feared. Many quarters of Stamboul have been placarded with notices inciting the populace against "the infidels." Righteen Are Dead, Dispatches received in Brussels from Wavte, where the-' collision between a v , crowded passenger train and an engine occurred, show that eighteen instead of ten persons w¥te killed "and that 100 per­ sons, andynot forty, were injured. Sev- eral of the wounded are so seriously in- •i * jured that their lives are despaired of. There are no Americans among the dead or injured. The passenger train was just passing the railroad station at Mous- ty when an engine coming from Ottiguies at full speed collided with it and tele­ scope# three of the carriages. Relief gangs and medical assistance were promptly sent to the scene from all neigh­ boring points and everything possible was ;; R. and before it was got under control it hard swept through three l&rge cotton mills, two warehouses, small -shells, freight cars and other property, causing a loss which is estimated at more than $1,000,000. " .. An immense assemblage of Pennsyl- vanians and New Jerseyites took part Tuesday in the exercises attending the dedication of the monument of Washing­ ton's crossing. This monument is at Taylorsville, formerly known as MeKo- ney's Ferry, and marks-the spot where Washington and the patriot army crossed the Delaware River on a bleak Decem­ ber night and routed the British and Hes­ sian troops at Trenton. N. J. The exer­ cises consisted of the singing of patriotic songs.,and reading of a poem and of his- toficuFpapers and an oration by General William S. Stryker, Adjutant General of NeW Jersey. _______ WESTERN. .V . done to succor the wounded, at least thir­ ty of whom were in need of prompt assist­ ance., i? Bandits Hold Up a Train. The north-bound 'Frisco passenger train was robbed at Caston, 1. T. Six men did the work. The express car was cut loose from the train and run up the track. The robbers failed to open the through safe, and got only 85 cents from the locaf safe. The passengers were not molested. The train was permitted to pu0A>ut after the bandits failed to open the big safe. It is thought to have, been the work of the Christian brothers gang. BREVITIES. pf$ i "" At City of Mexico some excitement has been created by a rumor that Protestant missionaries had conspired to blow up a church containing the miraculous image Virgin Guadaloupe with dynamite bombs or to set fire to the structure. A section of the city fire department is at Guada­ loupe near the church. " The North Atlantic squadron will go to sea again in a few days from Chesa­ peake Bay to resume evolutions. It is probable that the entire squadron, re- enforced by the Main and Texas, and per­ haps the battleship Indiana, will continue these evolutions on a larger scale in southern waters during the approaching winter. t Four masked and armed men held up a street car on the Evanston and Chicago electric line at 8:30 Monday night in true Western style. They succeeded in carry­ ing off between $200 and $300, besides several gold and silver watches. Of the twenty-three persons aboard the car only three offered resistance, and one of these was shot and the other two badly beaten The date of Illinois and Chicago days at Atlanta was fixed for Nov. 11 and 12, and arrangements are now under way to make it the biggest double event of the exposition. Nov. 12 is also "Georgia day" and "Grady day," and everybody is looking forward to a tremendous "blow­ out." The Governors of all the neighbor­ ing States, with their staffs and body­ guards of State troops, will attend. At Myrtle, a small town thirty miles east of Toronto on the Canadian Pacific Railway, several masked men entered the station and ordered Agent Courtney to throw up his hands. Courtney showed fight and was knocked insensible with a Coupling pin. The safe was then forced open and $2,500 of the Dominion Express i Company's funds and $40 belonging to the railway company taken. Courtney is seriously injured. 4 Three vessels, one French, and two En­ glish, have been lost on the\south coast = * of Newfoundland, and five \men were drowned. r J In the Indianapolis National Bank case against Francis and Perci^l Coffin, for conspiracy, the jury returned ^yerdict tkat Francis Collin was guilty as charged, and that Percival was not guilty. J . The United States has called upon the Siamese Government to settle what Is known as the Cheek claim. Instructions have been sejit to Sir John Barrett, Min­ ister resident at Bangkok, to request an 0 immediate settlement of this claim. Two young men named Bennet ni^d Matt were arrested at Lyons,; Ohio, for collecting advance tuition fees for a ficti­ tious college at Cleveland, Ohio. Margaret Mather, the actress, horse­ whipped and beat her husband, Col. Giis- tav Pabst, in full view, of many pedes­ trians at Milwaukee Wednesday. William Henry, the Wabash 'engineer who1 fatally shot his wife at Springfield, 111., and escaped, was found dead in a cornfield southeast of the city. He had cut the artery in his left wrist' and shot himself through the left temple "and then through the heart. , ' The Red Cloud, Neb*, roller mill, ele­ vator and warehouse, One of the largest plants in" the State, Wefe destroyed by fir?. The Iqssu will amount to $40,000,t With $20,0(50' insurance oh building and 'machinery.' The mill has been idle Since the high water in June took part of the dam out, but the steam plant was used to generate electricity for the city lights, and the city will be in darkness for some time. About 3,000 bushels of wheat in the elevator also burned. • , _ An unknown burglar who has rifled reg­ ularly homes in Fernbank. Delhi, and, Home City, Ohio, every Saturday night for two months made a rather unusual "haul" Saturday night He entered a residence where two young women were sleeping alone. He stol3 through the house, ransacking drawers, and found in a dresser a jewel case containing a fat roll of bills. The burglar left some valu­ able silverware lying in plain sight and fled. There was $S00 in the roll, but it was^Confederate money. Letters and telegrams continue to pour into the telegraph and postoffice at San Jose, Cal., addressed to Hip Sing Lee, the mythical Chinese merchant jjrince,. in whose name an advertisement recently appeared in a San Francisco paper offering flattering inducements to; any respectable white man who would marry his daughter, Moi Lee. There are at present nearly five hundred letters in the postoffice addressed to the mysteri­ ous Hip Sing Lee. all presumably in an­ swer to the advertisement referred to. First Lieutenant Samuel S. Pague, Company F, Fifteenth Infantry, tried to kill Col. Crofton Thursday afternoon at Fort Sheridan, Chicago. He shot at him three times. Two bullets pierced the Colonel's overcoat, the other went into the ground. Pague was disarmed by his wife, Col. Crofton, and two officers, and was placed in the guard house. By some Lieut. Pague's attack is attributed to alcoholic dementia. Others intimate there are personal differences between the two men. The Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Creighton, Mo., has made an assignment. The statement filed shows assets to the amount of $124,000 and liabilities of $60,- 000, mostly in real estate paper. The offi­ cers of the institution say that the sus­ pension is only temporary, and that the depositors will be paid in full. The cash­ ier of the bank, D. B. Wallis, is assignee. The State Bank of Hemingford, Neb., was taken charge of by the State Bank Examiner. No report of the institution's condition is made, but the cashier asserts that the bank will reopen soon. Reports of Chicago public school prin­ cipals of the enrollment of pupils for Sep­ tember gives gratifying evidence of the substantial growth of Chicago and evi­ dence not so gratifying of the inability of the Board of Education to provide suita­ ble school accommodations for the large number of new pupils. The total enroll­ ment is 1S3,749, an increase of 11.092 over the enrollment for September, 1894. To accommodate the rapid and steady growth in school attendance about twenty new buildings are erected annually and forty have been built since Jan. 1, 1894. But in spite of this activity the reports for the last month show that the schools are so crowded that although sittings are rented in other buildings for 11,606 pupils, there are 20,124 who are unable to get more than half a day's schooling tlailv. , LW" ject the attention it demftnds and is form­ ulating his views to be communicated to Ambassador Bayard upon the return ol the latter froih his vacation in Scotland. The Hon. S. We Lamoreux, Commis­ sioner of the General Land Office, has made his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. The decline of l he land- office business, as noted in the last report, still continues. Compared with 1S94 there has been a decrease in land entries 19,095 and of 6,016,685 acres entered:up­ on; a decrease of final entries to the num­ ber of 6,584 and 356,059 acres entered upon, and a decrease of cash receipts of $734,370. The business of the office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1S95, was as follows: Cash sales, 417.S78 acres; homestead entries, 5,009,491 acres; .State, selections, 626,169 acres; railroad selec­ tions, L967.479 acres; swamp land pat­ ents, 244,774 acres; Indian allotments, 85,455 acres; Indian lands sold, 42,54S acres; total cash receipts. $2,033,454; pat­ ented or certified with the effect of pat­ enting to railroad companies, 8,184,336 acres; surveys accepted by the land office, 10,123,653 acres.; „ FOREIGN. Herbert Burrows, of London, has writ­ ten a letter announcing that he has lef the Theosophists' 'Society owing to re­ cent disclosures which have convinced liimJthat deception in the society has been rampant for years by both Messrs. Olcott ; and; Sinnett. He"' says he believes that Mme. .BJavatsky was partially fraudulent. Irving M. Scottj president of the Union iron works, is coming home on the China, \\duch is due in San Francisco next weekj but he is not bringing any contracts to build batleships for the Japanese Gov­ ernment. On board the China is also. Gen. Williams, dtye" of the"a'gen t S Of" the Cramps, who was in Japan for the stupe purpose as Mr. Scott and whose mission met with the sanie result. The Japanese Government has not let any contracts for additions to its navy to American or other foreign shipbuilders for the reason that until the imperial diet meets in November the Minister of Marine will not know just what money will be at his service. Even after appropriations are made it is doubt­ ful if any contracts will be made with American shipbuilders, at least; not for some time, the reason being that the peo­ ple of the Mikado's empire have become suddenly impressed with the idea that they can construct their own battleships and cruisers. This decision, of course, shuts out British and German shipbuild­ ers as well from a slice of the Japanese maritime patronage. A slight earthquake shock Wednesday added to the reign of terror prevailing at Constantinople. This, with the blood­ shed and rioting, the imprisonment of about 500 Armenians, the killing of pris­ oners in cold blood and the presence of troops under arms at all points, is well calculated to excite even the most phleg­ matic Turk. The rioting and blood-letting which began on Monday was renewed on Tuesday evening, in spite of all the pre­ cautions taken by the authorities. On Tuesday the principal rioting was the wq?k of the Softas, Mohammedan theo­ logical students, who chased and beat with bludgeons every Armenian they met., During Tuesday night a mob of Softas and Turks attacked the house of a lead­ ing Armeniah, storming the building, threatening its destruction and killing several persons who were unable to es­ cape. This mob also sacked a cafe fre­ quented by Armenians, and twenty of these unfortunate people who were found there were beaten to death with blud­ geons. To the disgrace of the authori­ ties not a single policeman appeared on thesceueaud no attempt was made to save the lives of the Armenians. CUBA'S CRY IS HEAR!) CITIZENS OF CHICAGO ei*OTEST AGAINST TYRANNY. Cause of the Oppressed People Warmly Championed-- Speeches Made and Resolutions Adopted, in Keeping with Declaration of Independence. Pleas for Self-Government. r-The first protest of free-born Ameri­ cans against Spanish tyranny in Cuba was heard in Chicago Monday night. It was as fervid, as resolute and as defiant as if it had been voiced by men and wo­ men who had suffered personally the wrongs that ha ve kept Cuba in a state of ferment for a century. There was no sign of prearrangenient in the speeches. They differed widely as to the proper MAYOR SWIFT. course of this government. But whether the speaker dwelt, upon the necessity of conforming to international law, as Mr. Bryan did, or whether, like Mr. Ilynes and Mr. Mason, he spoke out squarely for Cuban independence, -the undertone was the same. The meetings cried for free­ dom, says a correspondent, and it was noticeable that no sentiment was re­ ceived with greater applause than Gov­ ernor Altgeld's. blunt * declaration in a telegram to the chairman that Cuba should be annexed to the United States. The Central Music Hall meeting was the larger of the two. The other, in the thuslasm which prevailed^ when they were read they seemed weak and inef­ fectual. But they were adopted with a roar. Mayor Swift was chosen chairman of tie meeting, and addresses were given by Cue following gentlemen: Rev. Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, Thomas 3. Bryan, William J. Hynes, William E. Mason, the Rev. J. H. Barrows, Bishop Fallows, the Rev. Dr. P. S. Hensou, John MayO Pal­ mer and E. B. Sherman. NO OPEN SUNDAY AT ATLANTA. Resolution to That Effect Tabled, It Is Thought Permanently. The preachers of Atlanta are still fight­ ing the exposition on the question Of Sale of liquor on the grounds. A ..meeting of the Methodist Ministers' Association was held, and at that meeting the special com­ mittee appointed a week ago reported that it 'had secured legal advice on the ques­ tion, and that the lawyers were unani­ mous in their opinion that the right to sell liquor did not belong to the exposition people or to their concessioners legally. A long discussion as to what the ministers should do in view of their report followed. Some of them were in favor of enjoiniag the exposition directors from allowing liquor to be sold on the grounds, While others favored bringing the matter to the attention of the grand jury. The matter finally took that course, A resolution was adopted thanking the exposition directors fdr keeping the grounds closed on. Sunday and expressing the hope that they will continue to keep them cjpsed. At the meeting of the board of exposi­ tion ."'directors. action was taken which apparMtly kills for all time the project to open the exposition on Sundays. A reso­ lution providing for Sunday opening was introduced by Director Cabaniss, but- after some lively discussion Was tabled. The advocates of Sunday opening have not lost hope, but it is pretty safe to say the chances of that .resolution remaining tabled are excellent. ^ HAZING IN A MISSOURI COLLEGE Student Tucker Terribly Maltreated Upon Initiation to the Sigma Nu, .T. Turner Tucker, a new-comer at the State University at Columbia, Mo., want­ ed to join the Sigma Nu fraternity, and was initiated the other -night. It was a plain case of hazing. First he was bound hand and foot and blindfolded and gagged. Then he was beaten with stuffed clubs for a while and was next put into a coffin for burial. The collin was carried A NEW BATTERY OPENS FIRE ON SPANISH OPPRESSORS. IN GENERAL SOUTHERN. The battleship Texas has been given a brief trial trip since receiving its new machinery. The Texas Legislature, in just three hours Wednesday, passed a law to pro­ hibit the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight at Dallas, Oct. 31. The State Board of Liquidation at Baton Rouge, La., ordered the treasurer to purchase $200,000 of State bonds. It caused the bonds to reach par for the first time since the war. i The famous still run by Tom Blair, who was lynched New Year's morning at Mount Sterling,, Ky., was taken in the mountains by revenue officers after a search of five years. At Vernon, Ivy., the jury after forty- hours' deliberation gave Rev. W. G. Capps two years in the penitentiary for shooting his wife five times three months ago. She had applied for divorce oh ac­ count of cruel treatment. James Cornell, a well-known prospec­ tor and rancher of San ,Mateo, N. M., was shot frQm ambush and killed by one of a small band of renagade Apache _n- dians who have been prowling about in the mountains in that vicinity. Mexico's imports for the year ending June 30 were $61,200,792 silver, and ex­ ports, .$90,854,953. Imports from the United States amounted to $30,000,000 silver value. 'Obituary:. At Leavenworth, Kan., ex- "fenited States Senator Robert Crozier.-- At New York, ex-Police Justice Solon B. Smith, 53.--At Hampton, Conn., Prof. Eli Whitney Blake, recently of Brown University.--At San Francisco, Ira P. Rankin, a pioneer milionaire.--At South Bend, Ind., Michael Steel.--At Denver, Colo., Dr. Richard F. Adams, formerly of Illinois, S3. The latest report from the Mariposa wreck shows her- to be still holding to­ gether. The Weather is calm and the salvors are busy taking out the cargo. Indignation is increasing in St. John's over the charges of piracy made against Newfoundland fishermen in connection with the wreck. The Government will probably take prompt steps to secure a retraction of the falsehood. According to a report to the State De­ partment from United Suites Consul Big- elow at Rouen, the world's production of wool available for commerce was 1,012,- 000,000 kilograms, as against 1,002,000,- 000 in 1894. In France the product has steadily diminished from 32,151,430 kilo­ grams in 1840 to 20,275,716 in 1893. The quality of wool does not improve, and ow­ ing to the high price of meats sheep are being raised for that purpose instead of for wool. Horace Lee Washington, United States vice consul general at Cairo, calls attention to the opening in Egypt American furniture. mand is good and retaijf/lYriees ot simpl grades are double or- New York, while^tbej cent. / m DEATH IN THE CRASH. * v . ; ' - AWFUL DISASTER AT A CHURCH CORNER STONE LAYING. Platform Gives Way and 300 Are Precipitated Into a Pit--Parochial School Is Turned Into a Hospital- Forty Persons Injured^ WASHINGTON. MARKET REPORTS. EASTERN. John Czech was executed at Jersey City, N. J.y for the murder Of his wife. At Rochester, N. Y., because of the to­ bacco war, cigarets dropped in price to twenty for 5 cents. Jacob Serkes has been added to the gang of counterfeiters arrested in Phila- Greenberg has made a full con- One of the largest fires ever known in Southeastern New England broke out at 7 o'clock Thursday night in one of the mills of the Waft-en Manufacturing Cora- pany. situated near the center of Warren, - iillli Iliilylii® Gen. Nelson A. Miles has been appoint­ ed general in command of the army to succeed Gen. Schofield, retired. Gen. Ruger gets command of the department of the East. " .: . Rev. Dr. Rocker, th,g private secretary of Mgr. Satolli, has been appointed to the chair of ethics, in the department of phil­ osophy at the Roman Catholic University at Washington. ... t . The monthly statement of the director of the mint shows coinage during the month of September as follows: Gold, $7,543,572; silver, $473,166; minor coins, $61,414; total coinage, $8,078,653. Secretary Olney positively refuses to say anythiugjjtouehing any correspond­ ence he has mid or intends to have rela­ tive to the settlement of the Venezuelan- boundary dispute, so it cannot be posi­ tively ascertained whether he ha£ taken any steps recently to induce Great Brit ain to submit the matter to arbitration It can be stated, however, that since Sec­ retary Greshara's death and up to a very recent date the department had not made a single move in that direction. But in­ asmuch as Congress by resolution direct­ ed the executive to use its best efforts to bring the dispute to arbitration, it is very probable that, having in mind the near Approach of the assembling of Congress Secretary Olney' has been giving the sub Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to ch^jice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 59c to 60c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2. 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 42c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh. 15c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn; common growth to fine brush,"2^ to 4c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 62c to 64c; corn. No. 1 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to. $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c tp 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27o; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c. Cincinnati---Cattle, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, „No. 2, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to'22c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Dietroit-^Cattle, $2.,>0 to $o.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; Wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34if5 oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye. 42c to 44e. Toledo--Wheat, No, 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. Milwaukee--Wheat, No.- 2 spring, 57c to 59c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley, No. 2, 42c to 44c; rye, No. L, 41c to 42c; pork, mess, I $8.-25 to $8.75. „ New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 m1; 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; Oats, No. 2 white, 23c'to 24c; butter, creamery. 22c to 24c; eggs, West­ ern, 17c to 19c. hall of the Young Men's Christian AssO^ ciation in LaSalle street, was an overflow, but enotigh people attended it- >to com­ fortably fill all the seats. As for the State street meeting, it was one of the most re­ markable demonstrations ever seen in this city. In the first place--and that is the most important point--it was Amer­ ican to the core. There are not many Cubans in Chicago. Probably all the exiles of the suffering islands who have found their way to the cigar shops of the town would not fill the parquet circle of Central Music Hall. Most of them were there, leaning forward in their seats to take in every glowing sentence and cheer­ ing wildly the red-hot denunciations of their old masters that poured from the stage. Quesada, the secretary of the revolutionary party, was on the floor, and so was Zayas, the propagandist of the cause, who is here trying to secure contri­ butions of arms, ammunition and medi­ cine for ,tho insurgents. The big cheer the evening went,up for an excited an who arose in the gallery while Mr. Hyhes was speaking and yelled: "I go er and lick Spain myself alone." Chicago's Official Stamp. The other big feature of the meeting was that it was presided over by the Mayor of Chicago, and that the City Council gave it official recognition by at­ tending in a body. If this had happened over in Europe it might have been casus belli. What brought to Central Music Hall this tremendous crowd that filled the au­ ditorium from the back of the platform to the eyries of the topmost gallery? In the crowd there were not fifty men who had ever been within gunshot of Havana. There were not twenty to whom it makes a dollar's difference whether Cuba bursts her shackles or goes on toiling, footsore under her burdens. There was neither politics nor business in it. Their motive must have been as pure as that which im­ pelled the men who made New England ring against human slavery; It was a great demonstration. From the moment that the gavel of the chairman struck or­ der it was a long roll of applause, shouted applause emphasized "with roars that would lend grace to the greatest political meeting. It brought Cuba and the trials and struggles of the Cubans 1,000 miles nearer to Chicago. It lent a new meaning to the familiar lines of the declaration of independence which were in the mouth of every speaker. Liberty and patriotism rang with a different sound to the ears,, that had only heard them from the mouths of politicians who sought to use them for Stepping stones to office. Every mention of the cruelty of the Spaniards was greeted with groans, ev­ ery mention of,the Monroe doctrine and the duty of the government to. enforce it with the wildest cheers. If the responsi­ bility of admitting Cuba to statehood had lain with the meeting and some one had I>ut the question another star would have been added to the flag. At the mere sug­ gestion of Cuba's, possible statehood the meeting went into the wildest applause. To the committee, that had in charge the drafting of the resolutions the demands on the . behalf of the struggling, Cubans had at first seemed too strong, too pro­ nounced; but irt the light of the en- out and put in a spring wagon, and away the funeral train marched. Finally the athletic grounds were reached, and he was buried. Then he was taken out and stripped and thrown into a mud hole and then rolled in sand. Then he was kicked and induced by the plausible story of the leader to sing and dance. The hour was close to midnight, and he sang "Won't You Be My Sweet­ heart?" and kept step ;is well as he could. Then he was hung up by the arms for a while, and was next taken to a haystack and given several rapid slides. Then he was branded with lighted cigarettes, or­ dered to dress, and about 2 a. m. was aken home. An investigation has been ordered by the faculty, and it will go hard with the guilty ones. HEAVY FROSTS. Many Portions of the Country Vis­ ited--But Little I>amn*re Done. Dispatches received by the Associated Press indicate that heavy frosts tell Sun­ day night throughout the greater portion of the country. Little damage was done. Warsaw, 111.--The first frost of the sea­ son fell, killing all tender vegetation." No damage to corn. Centralia, 111.--A light frost, with no damage. Elkhorn, Wis.--A heavy frost fell. All crops are beyond injury. P-lainfield, Wis.--A very heavy frost felly-killing all garden stuff. „ East Tawas, Mich.--A sixteenth iruih of ice. was formed. A heavy frost fell with great damage to all kinds of vines. Indianapolis, Ind."--A killing frost fell in many Indiana counties. Louisville, Ivy.--There was a killing frost, which did great damage to tobacco and other vegetation in various portions of the State. TOpeka, Kan.--A heavy frost through out the State. Broom corn seriously dam aged. St. Louis, Mo.--Light frost over t^e State, with little damage. | Memphis, Tenn.--Frost was found in low-lying localities at various points in West Tennessee, north Mississippi, and Eastern Arkansas. Tender vegetation was bitten, but no serious damage was doi^e to the Irish potato crop, and, cotton was not injured to any considerable ex­ tent on the uplands. Duncan, Miss.--A heavy frost in that part of the delta which may cut the cot­ ton crop short by causing immature bolls to open. Ottumwa, Iowa--The frost the other morning was the heaviest of the season and all vegetation was badly damaged. Ice formed in all parts of the county. Altoona, Pa.--The first snowstorm of stlie season fell, accompanied by a cold w^ve. " Notes of Current livents. The personal property of Minnesota is- $99,553,000, as against $100,726,000 in 1894. Orian Apade, 18 years old, living near Akron, Ohio, was killed by the explosion of a gunr . The ejifire family of N. C. Ratte at Akron, Ohio, were poisoned by eating cab­ bage which had been sprinkled with pari® green. _ °. MUST ARBITRATE OR FIGHT. Many May Die. , A frightful disaster phinged Lorain, Ohio,* into" mourning Sunday, and what was meant to be an incident of glad re­ joicing became in an instant:a catastrophe of appalling horror. One child was killed outright, ten persons were fatally injured and between thirty and forty others Were seriously hurt by the sinking of a section of temporary platform built on rotten tim­ bers, The accident occurred at the out­ set of the ceremonious laying of a cor-, ner stone for the new St. Mary's\Roman Catholic Church, and just after the priests had hushed a crowd of 5,000 people into solemn silence. The list, of-dead and in­ jured is as follows: Killed; . v Mary Weber, 3-year-old- daughter of Mat Weber, of Sheffield. , - x l • . Fatally injured; Miss Kate Deidrick, of Sheffield; both legs, broken and hurt internally. Mrs. John Eustin, aged lady,- of Lorain; left leg crushed and chest injuted. John Fe'dkamp, of Lorain; hurt inter­ nally. / " , " . Katie Griffin, 8 years Old,, of Lorain; left leg crushed and hurt internally. Mrs. Michael Kelling, middle aged, of -Lorain; injured internally. Rosa McGee, 3 years old, of Lorain; skull fractured. Mrs. Mary McGrath, of Lorain; left leg crushed and hurt internally. • Mrs. Margaret Mackert, of Lorain; hurt internally. Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan, of Lorain; spine injured and left leg crushed. Mary Seeder, of Lorain, aged lady; chest crirtmed and hurt internally. Seriously hurt: Col. W. I. Brown, leg and arm bruised. Mrs. William Burgett, of Lorain; hurt internally. Mrs. M. Bruce, of IIoganville;*left an­ kle brokeiy Nellie tyollan], of Lorain; head cut. John Eustin. of Lorain; back hurt. 1 Mrs. John Fox. of Sheffield; both legs broken. Mrs. Mary Latimer, of Carlisle Center; right leg crushed. John Martin, of Lorain; left leg broken. Mrs. Mary O'Keefe, of Lorain; hurt internally, and leg will have to be ampu­ tated. William Ryan, of Lorain; right leg broken. George Theobald, 3 years old: head cut. Nicholas Wagner, leg bruised. Platform Was Crowded. The foundations of (he church are ex­ tended about ten feet above the bottom of the unfinished basement. It was on these foundation walls that a large platform had been built, on which the ceremonies were to be held. From an early hour in the morning until 'after 110011 people had been gathering 011 this platform, anxious to secure a- point of vantage from which the services of the church could be seen and heard. When the reverend fathers took their places 011 the platform at 1 o'clock fully a thousand people were standingor-sitting on it. The great ma­ jority oir4hese Were women and children. Four thousand others were grouped about place, all within earshot. 1st as Monsignore Boff, of Cleveland, the chief Roman Catholic dignitary pres­ ent, raised his hand to bring the audience to quiet, a sound of splitting: timbers threw the great crowd into consternation, which became panic when it was seen that a section of the temporary platform was sinking beneath the weight Of 300. people huddled together upon it. The crash came of a sudden and every one of the 300, save a dozen or two who scram­ bled off the edges, was precipitated into the pit ten feet below. The section which gave away was in two wings, and as it sank it formed a veritable death trap for the victims. The pit. with its slanting board walls, resembled an inverted roof of very steep slant, the. gable ends being closed up by the stone foundation walls, and into this vortex were heaped men, women and children in one conglomerated, struggling heap, all in frightful, mad­ dened panic. The sound of the crash was followed by a wail from the helpless vic­ tims as by an echo, and that again by a great cry from the spectators of the trag­ edy, who had been stricken into a panic find were well-nigh as helpless as the vic­ tims themselves. The inevitable result, of panic followed and doubled the horror, already great enough. Those persons at the top of the mass escaped easily, but when the pit was partly emptied those victims who were still entrapped could not clamber up the steep sides, and they trampled upon each other like so many wild creatures, the strong men getting 011 top and the weaker women and children being crushed and beaten down beneath the greater weight. Three thousand people, lost to presence of mind, made a mad rush forward to­ ward the pit, hoping to lend aid to the un­ fortunates, but as they pressed forward their weight threw at least fifty of those nearest the edge headlong into the pit. For at least fifteen minutes no aid was given, and nothing was done except in the way of making matters worse. Final­ ly ropes and ladders were procured and handed down to the struggling victims. When assistance finally reached them and the rescue was well under way it was found that the dead body of one child lay in the bottom of the basement, and that almost fifty other persons were lying bruised and mangled 011 the floor. Chnrcli Is Made a Morgue. The old Catholic church, a few rods dis­ tant from the new, was turned into a morgue and hospital, and some of the in­ jured persons were carried into the paro­ chial school next door and there made as comfortable as possible. Twenty physi­ cians were on the scene Within twenty minutes, and they were kept busy until sundown caring for the victims' wounds. Several of the injured will die. before daybreak. c When the people had carried the dead and wounded into the old church and quiet had to some extent been restored among those Who escaped the services of corner stone laying were resumed. The delay occasioned was not more than thir­ ty minutes, and the ceremonies laid down by the Roman Catholic ritual were not altered in any wise, except that they be­ came a shade more solemn and to the de­ vout hearers a trifle more impressive. Father Boff delivered the sermon. It was eloquent and impressive and 'was tinged with the somber hue of the dark tragedy that introduced it. Reference to the disaster was frequent throughout. The prayers and then the formalities in which Father Boff was assisted by six other priests also partook of the'unwonted sadness, yet they were carried through with imperturbable purpose, though the audience was altogether unnerved and un­ strung. Following prayers came the lay­ ing of the corner stone. When the cere­ monies were iinished the priests called at the extemporized hospitals and made in­ quiry concerning the condition of the vic­ tims--their parishioners. Alleged Ultimatum by Oliiey to En- gland in the Venezuela Affair. . Nothing has been done by ouig£»overn- ment with reference to the Venezuela boundary controversy since Secretary Gresham forwarded Minister Bayard & copy of the resolution passed by the.late Congress urging Great Britain to submit the disputed question to arbitration. It is said, however, that Secretary Olney hats prepared a note for Mr. Bayard to lay before Lord Salisbury that contains a more forcible expression of the views of the United States 011 this subject than lias yet been Officially uttered. This dispatch is of a positive and most unequivocal na­ ture. As soon as it shall be placed before the British Government it will raise a question which can be settled only by the retreat of one or the Other Government. The stand taken by the United States in this dispatch is one whiclf involves the oldest and most sacred tradition of the Government--the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine. Secretary Olney's dispatch is in sub­ stance a declaration in the most positive language that the United States will never consent to British occupation of the dis­ puted territory in Venezuela unless that nation's right thereto is first determined by arbitration. While this declaration is substantially the same as that which was niade^ouie mOnths tigo, and to which the British Foreign Office replied with a statement that the English right to a part of the territory in question could be .sub- mitteid to arbitration:,1 the- right to another part of the region in question could not be submitted to such arbitration; When Great Britain took this ground the question which"; President Cleveland and his advisers had to decide was-wheth­ er the United States is bound by the Mon­ roe dOctrine and by her dignity to insist that'hll tlie territory in dispute should be submitted to arbitration, or whether by conceding England's contention we should virtually abandon the field and leave Ven­ ezuela to fight it out alone. Few more serious questions have presented them­ selves to the American administration Within recent years. The decision of the President and his Cabinet advisers, after careful discussion and painstaking investigation, is that a bold and consistent policy shall be adopt­ ed, and this policy has been formulated in the dispatch which Ambassador Bay­ ard will lay before the British Govern­ ment as soon as he returns from his pres­ ent journey to Scotland. The dispatch meets England's rejoinder with a reaffirmation of the principle of original contention expressed in phrases which leave no possibility of doubt as to the meaning and earnestness of the Uni­ ted States. It does more. I11 polite, but firm and significant words. Secretary Olney declares it to be the belief of the United States that the territorial claims which Great Britain has set up in Vene­ zuela are in the nature of an attempt to seize territory on the American continent to which she has no lejgal right. CORN TOi, BURN. The Garnering of 1S05 Is Certainly a Monster. • The Chicago Tribune thus suggests a novel way of disposing of the surplus corn crop: "On a 2,500,OOQ.OOJJ bushel crop the West will have corn to burn. According to a Kansas City dispatch a packing house company has already issued orders to its Wichita house to begin the use of corn for fuel so soon as it can be bought for 12 cents a bushel. Last year the un­ usual and abnormal feature in the grain situation was the feeding of wheat to farm animals. Little attention was paid to it at first,, except as an experiment, but in the aggregate it amounted to millions of bushels, and was reflected in reduced stocks in farmers' hands. Burning of corn fon«f uel is less, of a novelty than feed­ ing of wheat to hogs, as it has been gen­ eral enough on several occasions to attract a great deal of attention. Both are direct results of overproduction. The conditions in wheat which made stock-feeding prac- tieal$e are all present in corn in an aggra­ vated form to make its use as fuel in many sections feasible. The 1S95 crop of corn is practically made, and without doubt it will be a record-breaker. On the basis of present prices corn will be cheap­ er than coal for fuel during this fall and winter in States west of the Mississippi River. It is said that experiments have shown that a ton of dry corn will go fur­ ther in producing steam than a ton of coal. The-oil in" the corn makes it espe­ cially adapted for hot fires. It. is clean to handle and almost smokeless. A prom­ inent operator 011 the Board of Trade of­ fered to forfeit $10,000 if he could not furnish the 'Alley L' road with corn for fuel at a less cost than that of the coal supply." But 011 the other hand reports from Ne­ braska. Kansas and Iowa points, where in times of coal famine resort has been made to corn for fuel, state that its use is neither satisfactorj* nor profitable. The heat is so intense that the iron of furnaces and stoves is soon burned out. Then, too, it is not steady, which renders it im­ practicable for making steam. INDIANS AVENGE THEIR DEAD. Bannocks Kill Thr.ee Men Who Have Caused Them Trouble. J. W. Wilson, a scout, and courier for the United States troops stationed in Granite Canon, came into Idaho Falls, Idaho, and reported the killing of Capt. Smith and two companions by Indians, in the lower end of Jackson's Hole, on Thursday morning. Capt. Smith will be remembered as the man who precipi­ tated the Indian fight last July in tho Jackson's Hole country. At that time he killed one or two Indians, and was himself shot in the breast, but recovered. The Indians swore vengeance against Smith, and as he was, with his two com­ panions, prospecting along the south fork of the Snake River, at the outlet of Jack­ son's Hole, he was ambushed and all three were shot and their bodies left on the river bank. " Wilson was scouting in the vicinity at the time, and, with Constable Manning, saw the bodies, and immediately rode to Capt. Collins' command, in Swan Valley, and reported the facts, leaving Manning in Camp Granite to return to Jackson's Hole with the military, who immediately left for the scene of the killing. Wilson rode^*^Idaho Falls with dispatches. Wil^R^"?15 there are about sixty Indians in the Hole. He believes that this will settle the matter, and that the Indians, having avenged the death of their braves by killing the man they were after, will return to the reservation. The Indians are Bannocks from the Fort Hall reser­ vation. Troops C and D. Capt. Collins commanding, immediately started into the Hole, and will undoubtedly„drive out the Indians, if found. Wabbsh officials and employes at To­ ledo say there is_.no immediate danger of a strike on that system. \ At Yankton, S. \ D.? the London and Yankton Development Company, repre­ senting $750,000 invested in fraudulent school bonds and tax certificates, issued by J. T. M. Pierce, of Yankton and Lon­ don, has taken possession of Pierce's property, including an unfinished railroad to Norfolk, Neb. mm 1» w'w," - Charles Stewart, ex-member of Con­ gress- from Houston district of Texas, died at San Au'tonio, Texas, after a 'lin­ gering illness. He was 59 years of age and served five years in Gongress, where- he was prominent as a member of tho River and Harbor Committee, . . . .