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Chronological Record of Twelve Months. FULL RECORD OF 1895. An Epitome of All Events of Importance. "The Usual Admixture ol disaster, --CfibiCt-Political Changesy Commer­ cial Achievements,- and Interna­ tional Complications--Atrocities of Turks in Armenia the Most Shock- ing Pa^e in Modern History--Pow-u ers of Europe Unite in Demanding Reform -- Ci^ban devolution Next in Public Interest, 5, Supreme Court makes changes In In­ come tax law... .Train wrecks In Ohio and Illinois kilt e!gl<t. •• 8. Discovery o^coyarerfelting of pcmtage Btgmps. . .21 minWkllled at New What­ com, Wash... .Collapse of six-story brick at Wheeling, W, Va; (5 killed; loss $200,000 Buzzard of sand and snow in the West. 13. Crude till sells at $2.ln*P!tfsbarg^ .. .Cu­ ban rebels whip Spanish troops. 14. Death by apoplexy of James W. Scott, of Chicago Tlmes-Kerald, in New York $1,000,000 hotel fire at Pasadena, Cal. 15. Conclusion of peace in" the Orient.... Cuban rebellion crushed.... JCattle admitted free from -Mexico. 15). Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago ship­ yards. 20. H. H. Kohisaat. buys Chicago Tlmes- Herald. .'. .May wheat sells at 60 cents... . All grain advances strongly.... Oil goes higher. 21. Five negroes lynched at Butler Springs, Ala..', .15 inches of snow in Colorado.. - 23. Supreme Court decides in favor of Debs in the famous contempt of court rase. May. 1. Ten persons killed by a Kansas cyclone Bandits kiy an Alton engineer.. . .Big Ohio coal strike on. 3. Awful death roll in Iowa and Wiscon­ sin storms..', .Five killed by powd'er mill ex­ plosion at South Acton. Mass... .®ottest 3d o.f-May tm tecord "in-Chicago;-temperature With but two exceptions, the nature of the f.yeuts which go to make up the his­ tory. of the past year is' .not startling. The bulchei-y of thousands of Armenians -by; Turks-, has- aroused the European, powers, and at the close of the year active preparations were in progress which sug­ gested the1;probable dismemberment of the OtIonian empire.; The revolt of Cubans against Spanish rule was the next most important affair, and that, too, Was -invfuH.sYtray at the close of the y<?ar, Spain sbems - to fruitlessly bend .every energy toward its suppression. Popular •sympathy is largely with the Cubans, arid • their success seems notr improbable. ;ln American politics the year has been ex­ citing, and one of the great parties hus suffered such reverses as to leiive the chief executive unsupported in political faith by a majority in either house of Congress. A chronological record of events follows: 1 January. 1. Michigan's first public installation of State officers... .tkiv. Morton, of New York, sworn in... .Belgium bars American beef... Ton) Blair lynched at Mount Sterling, Ivy... Five perish in an incendiary lire at Lancas­ ter, Ivy. 2. l>eath of Col. BdwaitS M. Heyl, inspec­ tor general Department of toe Missouri, at Chicago. .. .Carnegie'sHomestead men strike agninst reduction of wages. 3. Fires: .$75,000 at Springfield, Ohio; $105,- 000 at Ooffeyville, Kan.; $100,000 at Cleve­ land; $300,000 at the Southern Illinois In­ sane Asylum, at Anna. .. :Cleveland enter­ tains Hill at a Cabinet dinner. 4. Scores of villages and cities unite in sending aid to destitute people hi Nebraska ....$100,000 fire in Milwaukee. 5. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, publicly degraded for selling war secrets. 6. $1,000,000 tire a 1.Toronto; two lives lost. 7. Explosion on steamer in Rio harbor kills 120. .. .High water In Ohio Itiver towns. 8. Starving men pillage stores at St. John's, •N. F. 0. W. W. Taylor, ex-Treasurer of South Dakota, embezzles $350,000; his bank at Bed- field closes. 10. Two lives lost in a Toronto fire; prop­ erty loss, $600,000. .11. ('oldest day of the season in Cflicago; 12 below. ... Storms in the East. 32. Train held up near Ottumwa, Iowa. 13. One hundred firemen frost-bitten at Bradford, Pa.; $130,000 damages Several vessels lost on England's coast; fifteen sail­ ors drown. 14. Hundred miners trapped by rising wa­ ter in North Staffordshire, Eng.; 20 drowned. 15. Giant powder""horror at Butte, Mont.; 60 people killed, 100 hurt. .. .French Presi­ dent resigns; Royalists awake. 17. jvi. Felix Faure elected President of France. 18. News of rebellion in Hawaii. .. .Death of Mary, Vice President Stevenson's daugh­ ter. ., .Militia ordered out to protect Brook­ lyn trolleys. 10. Body of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill, Neb., defaulter, found in the river, with rope around his neck. .. .Sinking of steamer State of Missouri in the Ohio; forty lives lost. 21. Chicago has a thunder and raiu storin, with temperature of 54 degrees and a spring breeze, followed by a hurricane blowing 04 miles an hour, temperature falling to 10 de­ grees above Zero; many people hurt by fall­ ing; timbers, blown from new buildings. 23. Steamer Chicora and 25 people lost off South Haven, Mich.; financial loss, $185,000 ....Death of Lord Randolph Churchill at London. 25. Seven killed by Mendota. III., boiler explosion... .Guatemala concedes Mexico's boundary claim. ... Fearful wind and snow storm in the West. 26. Thirteen sailors drowned off Point Ju­ dith. Conn. 27. Mercury below zero all day In Chicago ... .Snow blockades many Western roads. 28. One killed, 43 hurt. In Vandalia wreck at Coatsvllle, Ind. .. .President. -Cleveland's currency message sent to Congress. 20. Receivers named for the whisky trust. 30. Steamer Elbe sunk in collision with the Crathie, in North Sea; 314 lives lost. 31. Death of Ward McAllister, leader of New York's, society. February. 3. News of kidnaping of officers from Uni­ ted States gunboat Concord, by Chinese, for accidental shooting of a native... .Chicago temperature 13 below. 4. Three drowned by Milwaukee strret car -mining Into an open draw,,, .Thirty French miners killed by explosion. .. .Chicago tem- permure 17 below.... Queen Lil abdicates Hawaii's throne. 6. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest. .. . Alarm for the overdue French liner La Gas- cogne. 7. Whole country suffers extreme cold; 20 below at Chicago. .. .Nine m<>n lost In open boats at Milwaukee. ... Report of annihila­ tion of Chinese fleet at YYel-Hai-Wel. .. . Ad- ministiatiou's currency measure and Reed and Cox substitutes defeated iji the House. 8. President annoiluces the sale of $02,- •400.000 in bonds. .. .Coldest day of the year In Chicago. 10. Schooner Clara and 15 men lost off Liv­ erpool. N. S. 11. La Gascogne, eight days overdue, makes New York harbor with disabled ma­ chinery; great rejoicing. 12. $200,000 street-car barn fire at Chicago. 13. Five firemen killed, 16 hurt, at Lynn, Mass. 19. Death of Isaac P. Gray, Minister to Mexico. .. .New Orleans has ten inches of snow. 20-. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored orator, at Washington. .. .Quick sale of late bond Issue. 26. Riot at Savannah, Ga., because of ex- Priest Slattery's lecture; troops called. 27. $400,000 fire at Chicago: $1,000,000 at Halifax... .Scores of miners killed in New Mexico. .. .Postmaster General Bissell* re­ signs. March. 1. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives.... Five killed, 19 hurt, by falling walls at New York.... Rebellion gains ground in Cuba. 2. $1,000,000 fire iu Toronto; $350,000 at Salina, Kan. 3.^Chicago Tines Issues Its last number before consolidation with the Herald. .. .Ter­ rific snowstorm in Northwest. 4. Fifty-third Congress adjourns. 5. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New tork. 6. One robber killed, one captured, and four citizens woanded. during raid on the Odeil, Iowa, bank. 8. Harry Hayward convicted of murdering Catherine Gin'g at Minneapolis. .. .Steamer Longfellow sinks at Cincinnati; twelve drowned. v It). Spanish war vessel Reina Regente founders; 400 lost. lie Six men killed in New Orleans riots. 12. iSeven /Italians lynched by miners for murder in Colorado. 13. West&rn Newspaper Union plant burns at Kansas City... Jpivo more Italians lynch­ ed in Colorado. ,16. Five killed In round-house fire at To­ ledo; Kellogg ready-print plant at Cleveland borne; $200,000 fire at St. Louis... .Report of sinking of American .schooner aiid crew of 16 by Spanish gunboat. 20. Mine explosion in Wyoming kills 6Cf miners....$100000 fire In Peoria, III. 21. 5400.000 fire at Sioux City; ftfOO.OOO at New Orleans. 24. hi Hung Chang shot by far.at',c Japan­ ese: not fatally. .. .$1,000,000 fire «.t Kansas City. Kan., packing-house. 25. Furious dust storm over Central and Western States. 26. $1,000,000 fire In Milwaukee. 27. Three train robbers killed on Queen and Crescent route. 29.- Japan declares armistice. .. .Hottest March day ever known In Chicago; tempera­ ture 78 degrees. 30. Death of A. C. Heslng, editor of Illi­ nois Staats-Zeltung. April. 1. Boiler explosion kills six .at Woburn, Wass Five ale In BJentucky forest flres. \2. Republicans successful In Ohio, Michi­ gan, Wisconsin and Chicago. s. Death of Mrs. Paran Stevens, society queen of New York. .. .Grand Pacific Hotel of Chicago closed .. .Fifteen killed by explo- fion iu New Oileans. 8S degrees; one man sunstruck. 8. South Chicago and Joliet steel workers strike... .Oriental peace assured. 10. Steamers Cayuga and Hurd sunk off Mackinaw, Mich., by colliding; one man lost; pecuniary loss, $400,000... ̂ Temperature at Chicago drops from 86 to 43... .Twelve peo­ ple hurt by. gas explosion at Chicago; tour die. . 13. Killing frosty from Nebraska to the At­ lantic. .. .Snow stops the Chicago-New York ball game at Chicago:.. .Eighteen lives and" twelve vessels lost in storms on Lake Mich­ igan. • • , " ' ' • • 15. Great flurry in corn aiirl wheat. • 19. $1,000,000 fire at St: Albans, V t... .Ter^ rible earthquakes in Italy..'. .Killing frost in fifteen States'.- •/. . 20. Income tax declared invalid. .. .Wheat sells at .74%. cents. ' " - - ' \ 21." Josp Marte, President Cubafi Insur­ gents, killed... .14 killed -in 'Sail Francisco powder house explosion. ' . 25. Two men lynched for assault at Dan­ ville, .III.,.'. .'Wheat reaches 82 cents. 27-. Suprfenio-Court against Deh.8. ... 28; Death'of Gresham,- Secretary of Stale. 20. Remarkable ' military reunion, at. Chi-' cago. . . v • • '• . .. 30. Funeral of Gxesham at Chicago.. . .Ded­ ication at.Chicago of Confederate monument. 31. Cloudbursts in Texas, parching droughts in middle Western States, 09 degrees in the' SITade in Dakota, six inches of snow in Col­ orado, balmy weather on the Pacific coast, and 06 degrees iu New York City. J ime. 1. 2. 3. Unprecedented heat in Chicago. New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Indian­ apolis; many' deaths from heat prostration. 4. Drop at Chicago of 40 degrees tempera­ ture. 5. Silver convention at Springfield, III. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney General. 8. $200,000 tire at Kalamazoo. 0. $750,000 fire at Milwaukee. 13. Whisky trust declared illegal. 10. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 fire. 17. 11. J. Aldrich fails for $1,000,000 at Denver. .. .Deadly storms sweep the Mis­ souri Valley. .. .Opening of Harlem ship canal. 20. Opening of Kiel ship canal. 21. Itosebery's ministry defeated... .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion ou whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Coin nib us at Chicago, - 26. Six firemen killed at Minneapolis; $100.- 000 loss. .. .$2,000,000 fire at San Francisco. 29. Death of Prof. Thos. Huxley at London. July. 3. Daughter born to the Clevelands. 7. Terrific stoim at Chicago. .. .Six drown­ ed at Lake Geneva, Wis... .Michigan swept by forest flres. 10. Christian Endeavor assembles at Bos­ ton. 14. Destructive storm in North Dakota.. Three drown at South Haven, Mich. .. .Seven accidental fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine killed by storm in New York and New Jersey. _ 16: Beginning of Horr-Harvey debate at Chicago. 17. First appearance of bloomers at a ball, in Chicago. .. .Three Cincinnati firemen killed. 18. Nine miners imprisoned by cave-in at Iron Mountain. Mich. .. .British ship Prince Oscar and unknown vessel sink iu collision; 40 perish. 10. Rescue of Iron Mountain miners. Cievela nd baby named Marion. 21. Drowning of 148 Italians, by sinking in collision of steamer Maria P....Four killed at grade crossing at Williamston, Mass. .. .$400,000 fire in National Linseed Oil Company's Chicago warehouse. 22. Report of killing of seventeen Indians near Jackson's Hole, Wyoming; grave trou­ ble imminent. 23. Furious storm In Pennsylvania coke region....L. S. & M. S. train held up in Ohio; $7,000 stolen. 25. Thirty-two miners killed by explosion In Westphalia. 31. Sixteen perish In a cloudburst in Col­ orado and Wyoming. ... Menomiuee, Mich., has a $500,000 fire. A us:list. 4. False report of race war at Spring Val­ ley, 111., between Italian and negro miners. .. Murder of British missionaries In China. .. . $1,000,000 fire at Sprague, Wash. 7. IKath of George F. Root, the famous composer. 8. Thirteen killed and many injured by fall­ ing building in New York. .Death of Supreme Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. 10. $200,000 fire at Lockport, 111. 11. $500,000 fire at Newark, N. J.,... .Four killed In a wreck at Bainbrldge, Ohio. 13. $300,000 fire at Philadelphia. 18. Holocaust in Denver hotel; 25 killed. ... Seven drown at Ocean City, Md. 20. Trains held up on the C. & W. M., near Fennvllle, Mich., and on the Union Pacific near North Platte, Neb....Eight killed and eight Injured by explosion at BrauJock, Pa. 22. Milwaukee loses $382,000 by fire...: Gentry loses stallion pacing championship to Patchen. 26-7-8. Heavy rains In corn belt; severe storms accompanied by fatalities in Illinois and Ohio. «-< 20. Fifteen miners drown at Central City, Col. September. 2. Ore hundred people hurt on the Sea Beach road. Long Island, 3. Furious storm in central Northern States. 4. $300,000 fire at Boston. 6. Triple'- urder in Sullivan County, Ind. 7. Fort^*lwo miner.-1 perish -in a burning mine at Calumet. Mich. .. .Defender de­ feats Valkyrie in first cup contest by nine minutes. 8. Five killed by dynamite near Dubuque, Iowa. 9. Opening of G. A. R. encampment at Louisville. 10. Valkyrie fouls Defender at the start, and wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to Defender on protest ....Temperature 07 degrees at Chicago. 11. Seven killed 'by exploding caisson at Louisville... .Six killed in collision on Great Northern. 12. America cup goes to Defender, Valky­ rie refusing to sail. .. .Seventy-five hurt by fall of a gr^ind stand at Louisville, Ivy.... News of death of 300 by earthquake in Hon­ duras. .. .Ex-Queen Liliuokalani pardoned by Hawaiian Government. 16. Six killed in a wreck at Lynchburg, Va. 17. Atlanta Exposition opened. .. .Phenom­ enal heat in Kansas; 107 degrees. 18. Dedication of Chickamauga-Chatta- nooga National Military Park. 19. Spanish cruiser and 46 men lost in col­ lision off Cuba. . .Steamship Edam sunk In collision; all saved. .. .Six die of heat in Chi­ cago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes by storm. 28. Death of Pasteur at Paris. 29. Twenty-four lake vessels meet disaster ia a storm Retirement of Gen. Schofleld. 30. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Elma and eight people lost on Pictured Rocks. ... iMammotli mass meeting at Chi­ cago declares,syiupathy for Cuba. .. .Nation­ al League season closed. Baltimore winning. October. 1. Destructive gales on British coast.... Cuba.declares her independence. 2. Texas special Legislature prohibits pu­ gilism. 3. Million dollar fire at Warren, R. I. 7. Seven killed by explosion in a Wllkes- barre. Pa:, mine. .. .Masked bandits success­ fully hold up a Chicago electric car. 9. Anniversary of big Chicago fire....Five die by fire in Cincinnati. .. .Steamer Africa and crew of eleven lost in Owen Sound.... Georgia father kills his nine children... .Six children burned to death at Snider, Ont. 12. $100,000 fire loss at Duliith. 13. Four killed^ twelve hurt, on a Pittsburg trolley car Five burn to death In a Mani­ toba prairie fire; immense property loss. 19. $150,000 saw-mill fire at Minneapolis. 20. Half-million dollar fire at New Orleans; 1,000 people homeless. .. .First snowstorm of >season at Chicago; Erie, Pa., has a fall of ten inches. 22. President Cleveland welcomed to At­ lanta. .. .$175,000 linseed oil mill tf:*e at Chi­ cago. 21. Lake Shore train runs from Chicago to Buffalo, 510 miles, in 7 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds, running time,,beating world's rec­ ord. 26. Three killed by explosion of tug boiler at Chicago. .. .Sheriff and posse at Tiffin, Ohio, kill two of a lynching mob... .Burning of Virginia's State University. 29. NegrM criminal burned at the stake in Texas. .. .$200,000 fire in Springfield, Ohio ....Two killed, three fatally hurt,- in a col­ lision in St. Louis. 31. Earthquake throughout the central belt of the United Stated; no fatalities, little dam­ age. November. 1. Earthquake >&t Rome.. . .Durrant found guilty of murder at San Francisco. 2. Hi H. Holmes found guilty-of murder of Benjamin PItzel at Philadelphia. 8. Four killed In B. 4c O. wreck near Wheal* ing, W. V*. ...Fourburne<£ tt!iM *H'VStirof ena° Field a* Clilcaio. In'New xork. - ' _ i 6 Fortv killed by boiler explosion la troit. Mich., Journal building... .Ryan ram* ily of six die in their burning house at ^11° Chicago dallies, reduce to 1 cent. ' ---'-j 16: Twenty* killed in a street car accident at Cleveland, Ohio... .Death of Du. S. F. •Smith, author of "America, at Boston.... News of another massacre by Turks n Ar­ menia? 800 slain... .Consolidation of Chicago Journal and Press. _.. It) Furious snow and. wind storm In isortn* west ...Lowell, Mass.; Dallas, Texas; and Purcelt, I. T., have big fires. ' 21. $600,000 fire in Springer Building, Chi- ouro ..Eugene V. Debs released from Woodstock, 111., Jail.. ."iSnltan of Turkey forced to a peace policy by the powers, after he had countenanced many'Armenian massa-_ CI22." Five firen\en lose life in a $500,000 ChU mko blaze. Release from, jail and; enthusi­ astic reception of E. V. Debs, labor leader, at Chicago... .Foreign fleets rendezvous in 1 '*25Tremen<fous damage at Chicago by storm of snow, sleet and rain; all car lines block"'!, wires down. ... Fire at Chlcagojloea $200,000 damage. .. .Seventy killed'by explo­ sion in cartridge factory at Palma, Island of Majorca." 26. Three vessels go ashore at Glencoe, lltj crews of 26 men saved... .Riot in -Jackson, Mich., prison. . 27. Death of Alexandre Dumas, Jr., at ^*2^B*Day of doom for- the turkey..: .Foot ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. froih De Pauw; Columbia Athletic downs Co' lumbia University; Brown defeats Dar4» mouth,. December. 2. Assembling of; Flffy-fourth Congress; Reed elected Speaker of-the House.. . .Zero fcveather in North'wesi.'.. .Further massact'ea Mil Armenia. ." . ; - 7 $350,000. fire in San Francisco. .. . Europe storm-swept; British boat and twenty-seven sailors lost off . Scotland;. . ' • . » -$600,000fires in Chicago...:Death-of.Ge.e A Saia.'London Journalist, ... .Tug Campbell and seven men lost in Lake Superior, 9. Chilton, Wis., razed by fife. 10 St. Louis gets next National Republican Convention:.. .-Sultan permits guard ships to pass-. Dardanelles. .., Harry Hay ward hanged at Minneapolis. 11. Burning of Catholic, Orphan Asvlum at Milwaukee; 200 children rescued... .Steamer Germanic sinks the Cambrae. at London; no lives lost. .. .Mob threatens Kansas Medical College at Topeka, because of grave-robbing. 12. Death of Allen G. Thurmau at Colum­ bus, Ohio. 15. German ship Athena with a cargo of naphtha explodes off Cape May; 14 lives lost. 17. Cleveland's Venezuelan message arouses great enthusiasm at home and astounds Great Britain... .Philadelphia iu the hands of a mob during a strike. 18. Explosion on liner St. Paul killetl six men and injured five House passes $100,- 000 appropriation for Venezuela commission ....Rioting In Philadelphia; entire street railway service suspended... .Death of Capt. Isaac Basisett, doorkeeper of the Senate. 19. Thirty-six lives lost in Newfoundland fishing fleet Ir* storm Forty-three killed in a North Carolina mine. .. .Tremendous rainfall at Chicago. 20 ^anic on Wall street. .. .Senate unani­ mously passes House bill for Venezuelan commission... .Cleveland sends financial message to Congress..; .Twenty-four miners at Dayton, Tenn., killed Unprecedented fiood at Chicago. PUFFING THE PLAY. Kindly Old Scotchman Killed by u Train in View of Ills. YoanU Granfi- 8on-- fenncssee Farm,;r Swindled by Sharpers, '. • " V . Lad \ lews a Horror. . ^ -before the eyes of his young grandson., old .1 atues Martin was run down by a Isorthem Pacific train Saturday at the Eedzie avenue crossing at Chicago. Both the old nnin s legs*were cut off. He was dead .almost as soon as reached by those j@r®t 'Xtlracled 1O the spoL Mr. Martin had beeri taking a walk to see the extent the floods .which, are spread over the open -grotti-wi i-u ti(11 til" the "ertrr--As thej- were crossing the tracks at Ivedzie ayenne the.old man stepped in a switch and caught his loot-. WJiilc he was trying to extricate his lout, with the aid of his grandson, a Northern -Pacific train came thundering down. The boy saw it coming And redoubled-hi* elTorts-.' Then, to save himself, hp dropped on the ground aS'the train eathe, roaring by. .The old man fell outward across the rails and the 'wheels passed over both.-his legs.' Engineer LeWis as soon as piis'sible., stopped the train,itn'i! canie-bayk^ Rut of-course that did f»o good.- for old- .Lubes Martin' had breathed l.ii-s last. He had come-atl the -way fiPbm the "hills of .ScotUmd'to be killed by. a raihvay* train oil. a water-soaked Iilin'ois prairie. • .. " Joint D. . - John Lotiir, 1 he ater, at Chicago, f r iend of t in ' 1 imf end came at Sr . .1 ilhiesS of three wi I<6ns Is head, \ i . uv tve r -of the Park The- -and tins philanthropic oVtunate." is dead. His osrph .Hospital after an •eks. H<> was conscious 'A New Y'ork Success "--Abuse Of Press Courtesy. The United States is a broad and busy country, and it is well supplied with ex- colicnt journals, says me Forum. As is nantral and unavoidable, these gener­ ally take their tone in treating dra­ matic affairs from those of*t"he metropo­ lis. What is said and done iu New York about plays anil actors is publish­ ed all over the union as quickly as the wires and press can spread the news. -Consequently the theatrical business of the entire country is managed from New York. That is why actors, man­ agers and the minor personages of stage life flock to New York. That is why for many years past it has been possible for the wily speculator in rot­ ten dramatic lumber To set up a flimsy stage structure, held together only by the adhesive qualities of paint and printers' ink, Ihitl^-ky keeping a New York theater open and empty for its exhibition for a stated term of weeks at the expense of $3,000 or 94,000 a week, and by a continual pestering of the good-natured journalist--to obtain a sufticient amount of notice of his "great New York success!" to enable him to travel throughout the country with his "show," and gather a rich har­ vest from those who are eager to see what sort of plays please the people of the great city. Of course the "show" soon falls to pieces from the weight of its own worthlessness, and the'seeds of general contempt for New York's godd taste in theatrical matters are sown broad­ cast. But no matter. The enterprising speculator, now well in funds, returns to New York and is soon upon the full tide of another -lik^'venture. Year af­ ter year this sort of thing goes on. But the people of the East, South and West are becohiing Wise and wary. The ^'business" is not so good now as it once was in those often-deluded sec­ tions. One of the roots of our theatri­ cal troubles upon which the ax should fall quickly and sharply is this abuse of the pressvoourtesy--first extended in good nature toward the struggling ar­ tist, but now demanded as a right- by the brass-band "show boomer." Swiss Advertising. The practical Swiss have hit upon an original method of advertising which it is sincerely to be hoped will not be­ come universal. Visitors staj'ing at the lake of Geneva this summer have been astonished to behold the surface of the water ornamented with the name of a certain paper sparkling in golden beams upon the waves. How this miracle was contrived was at first a mystery, but the explanation is very simple. Large black lacquered placards, with raised gilt letters coated with some varnish which resists wet, are sunk and fas­ tened securely to the ground, and, of course, the rays of the sun striking up­ on them brings the reflection to the surface. Some of the finest views in Switzerland are already sufficiently dis­ figured by advertisements--the major­ ity, be it said with sorrow, generally setting forth the superlative excellence of some article of English manufac­ ture; but the tastelessness of this latest idea would surely be difficult to sur­ pass, and happily it cannot be placed to our discredit.--The Lady's Pictorial. Game, The Yorkshire gamekeepers have an ingenious way of protecting their hares from poachers. They net the hares at the various gates and stiles through which they pass, and then let them go again. The result Is the bares arn so frightened .that thej' will never go throug: poache; is surpi fence. "Ha second Lake. imitat Rowl again, and when The net thert for them he them jtimp over the !Chief' is a song in the Scott's "Lady of the boat song, designed to the Scottish boatmen.1 is written by Sir Henry ttlfs are those we fight up to within an hour charity will live at'te plain man, who did go tested notoriety. Wl man or woman died money to furnish the was John Long's poo' opened to defray the < "Nick" Norton, said 1 I. O. U.'s which woi bureau drawer. apply lor help. Nick." Long wo O. I"." The $."> \ perhaps this wa> if his him. lentil. His He was a od secretly, and de- en an unfortunate and there was no funeral expenses it iethook which was? •ost. I lis manager. ,one lia's a stack of ild till a good-sizee Grangers would lis old man say. "and take his 1. hi be handed over and ast of the loan. Of ten " I l i ve t he 1 Killed by Sewer Gas. Fred Speight. T homas Griftin and .la's. Griffin were cleaning a sewer in the base­ ment of viOl West Adams street, Chicago, when they were hurled through the air by a terrific explosion of sewer gas. Speight was killed outright. The Grif­ fins were badly hurt. One of the men entered the catch basin with a lighted candle, when the explosion came with a thundering report. The explosion created a panic In the house, the inmates rushing in terror from tin- doors and screaming to pedestrians to come to their assistance. Robbed by Grec;< Goods Men. In response to e'cculars Thomas It. Palmer, a wealthy tnrtner of Humphrey. Tenn., came to Cairo to get worth of green goods Of $(ir>0 good money. When he producer his roll of toils the lamps in the room were suddenly x'Xtin- guished and the iuor\v Was jerked from him. He got out of the house instantly, fearing he would be murdered, and made his way to police headquarters, where he reported his loss. The green goods men escaped arrest. State News in l?rief. David Tinstey, of \ orotia. was killed by a Santa Fe'traffn near Kinsman. Samuel Woollaii. an early settler of Ap­ ple River, is deacq, aged S.'l years. Sinclair TumhnsQD was arrested at Car- lyle and held for trial on the charge of criminal assault. The Equitablc-jI'r Mayor Fort entertained . 500». La con Bfihoiol children, giving, each" a .handsome present and feasting utem on""*ice creatn and cake. A dance for the older people followed. At Mount Vernon a son of D. R. Elliott, while playing around the car-shops, leaned against a guy wire whioh clifne in contract with an electric light wire. He was instantly killed. Mr. and Mrs. S. IV Crawfird, one of the most prominent- couples in Rockford, celebrated their golden wedding, enter­ taining 400 friends. They.have lived in Rockford forty-three years. All infant, son of J. .7. Todd, of Chit-ago, fell from a fourth-floor window at tlm Chicago Beach Hotel?.and alighted in a mud puddle. He suffered .only a broken leg. and will recover_quiekly, > County Clerk .folin Hartley, of Mar­ shall County. following the precedent of the County Clerk of Cook County,'has re- fused to pay bounties mi spMi-rowsllllRajLs, Attorney General Moloney instructs hinx that the sparrow law lias not been re­ pealed, and that it is still in full fierce and effect. ••• . . Expert cracksmen are operating in Marshall County. Last week three safes were broken into at Washburn. The sales of Sharp & Ferryman arid Stenbing npd Epple at La rose were wrecked and the. contents st olen, the first two firms los­ ing from $?500 to $500 arid Epple about $400. . •».; The "mine .operated by the Odin Com-' ,pany at .Odinon the Baltimore arid South­ western Railway, was: the. scene of an­ other, explosion Saturday aftemdn. An­ drew Deman,; John Hit lias. John Simp­ son and Robert Dallas, all experienced miners, were seriously burned- anil sev- erftl others slightly injured: i ' I Miss Kate.Curley had spent Wednes- ; day morning merrily with her family at' r-Chicago. She was in gooil spirits and ap- parently in the best ofdiealth. The din­ ner was smoking hot as^she sat down to the table. Just as she touched the knife and fork, sin- fell backward in her chair and in a few moments was dead. Senator Ctilloui has offered in the Sen­ ate bills appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Joliet. Congressman Graff has offered in the House a bill appropriat­ ing $,£00,000 for a public building at Pekin. In ca< h iiistaiYce a site is to be purchased and paid for from the appro­ priation "t)?fore the building is started. In a fi^'nt on the depot^platform at Alto Pass Sunday morning K. Liuneson, a butchet, was :.vatcu over the head with a club by C. A. Johopon, the village mar­ shal, Lnmeson died and Johnson left the place. Officers are in pursuit. John­ son's two sons sre under arrest cuferged with participation ih t'e cricj.ie arid with aiding their father to escapc Public gambling has been fouiu. rr. Chi­ cago. Chief of Police Badenoch became painfully aware of this fa<;t Tuesday night when eighteen of his officers bat­ tered down the doors at both 12(5 and 174 Clark--"street. Officers arrested fifty-four inmates and confiscated two wagon-loads of gambling paraphernalia, which was taken to the Harrison street station. It was the unanimous opinion of the gam­ blers that the arrests constituted the two best ,planned and most cleverly executed raids made in the city iu many a day. So sure of their position have the gam­ blers felt that they had no fear of police interference and when the officers in the twoTSlaces prevented all escape more tlian one "sport" thought it was a case of rob­ bery rather than a raid by the police. •WILLX0T BUYWHEAT ENGLAND INDEPENDENT OF US FOR BREADSTUFFS. Greatly Increased Her Wheat In porta in'1894, but Bought I>ess from the United States--LoaS in the Value of Hocs,& - . "Capturing:" the Wheat Market. England increased her imports of wheat in 1894 by 9,S00,000 bushels over her 1892 imports, but bought 17.000,000 bushels less from, the United States and inereased hei' purchases from Russia by 23,000,000 bushels, from the Argen­ tine by i8,000,000 bushels and from Australia by 3.500.000 bushels. In 1894 she bought less wheat from Chile, Tur­ key, Roumania, Egypt, India and Can­ ada. ° , 5 France grew more of her own wheat supply in 1894 than in 1S92, buying loss from all countries except Russia and ,tween 1892 and 1895'. .Their per c&nlt value IncrefisetLrUy 31 ..cents, but total value fell o£E by $21,530,1481 Tt Is the.way the free traders Improve" value of farm products. WATER AND GOLD. J I»i? iwluce and It Rockfo Ased. •afcv. Evans vice and Stock Ex- Roekford by Chi- .loseph Keim, whose brother is cial circles, was Northern Hotel of Woodlawn Park, prominent in commer- found in the Great at Chicago Tuesday change, conducted cago men, has been c John Thomas, FraJji. Evans and Frank •Schmidt were convicted of burglary ut Peoria and sentenced to Jol'.et. The Bachelor Oi/l's Club, an organiza­ tion composed of twenty-two leading young society ladies of Ilillsboro. gave a minstrel show at the opera house for the benefit of the public library. Many nf the girls were in black face. They were greeted with a crowded house, fifty bach­ elors occupying the front scats. The lat­ ter were mercilessly guyed by the ladies. Some person at Mascoutah. a s yet un­ known, has developed a peculiar mania for spitting on shop windows and soiling fronts of business houses. The despeiier has carried lijs depredations to such an extent that merchants and others are thoroughly aroused and have instituted a still hunt for the miscreant. Mayor Bruegel offered a reward of *'J~> .for the arrest of the guilty person. Elgin claims to have beaten t h e record in church building. On Nov. IS the Evan­ gel ical Associat ion determined t o e r ec t a second church, and commenced work on the af ternoon of Nov' . 21, excava t i ng fo r the bui lding. Just one month f r om t he t ime of commencement the bu i ld ing was completed in every detai l and f u rn i s he d throughout ready for oc c upa nc y . l ' h e church is ent i re ly f ree from deb t . ' The trial of William Donovan, o f Pe­ oria , charged with the murder o f 1 ' e r ry Glover , came to a close, the j u ry r e tu r n ­ ing a verdict of not gui l ty . Donovan and Glover quarreled concerning a cab i ' A boa t , and Glover was ki l led in an i mprompt u ' duel . At the close of the t r ia l I ) o i i o v a n was rearrested by Sheriff Johnston on a charge of burglary and larceny o f a ches t of tools s tolen las t June from Met J i l l ' s foundry. A. J. White, of Kentiand, Ind.. i s now lying at the Fairbury jail awaiting the action of the coming Circuit Court on a Charge of s teal ing horses f rom Fred Tr o - niea. a wel l - to-do farmer, , near C h a t s - worth. White was caught t rying t o s o i l the horses in Lafayet te , Ind. Quite a number of f ine horses have been s to l en in that sect ion within the las t year , and i t i s thought that While possibly knows something about all the thefts. Jasper Howard was identified at Ihil- las*. Texas, as a fugitiv^ from j u s t i ce , wanted at Jerseyvillc for burglary and theft. Mount Pulaski is involved in difficulty. The City Council ordered the tilling of a well in the public street which I. II. Snider was having sunk deeper. He says the city granted him an ordinance a few years ago privilege to use this well. The City Council now says he has no right to sink it deeper and on Saturday evening this ordinance was repealed. -A large crowd witnessed the filling up of the Well. Trouble is sure to follow. At Yandalia fire caused by spontaneous combustion destroyed the flouring mills belonging to G. II. Marly. Loss, $5,600; insured in the Northwestern „of Ifrfeport for $1,500. ' . ' / i The town of Rutland, near Lacftn. was thrown into a panic by the acttoha of a wild man, who chased.everybody he met. The Marshal finally captured him and placed him in the calaboose. The- fellow, while imprisoned, took a long stick and lit it by a lamp arid set fire to the bedclothes and would have been cremated had not aid arrived. The Sheriff was sent for to take him to the county jail, arid at the depot the stranger tore all the clothes off his back. ~ evening, suffering from what Dr. W. L. Tallman pronounced poison. Keim form­ erly owned a restaurant and did a pros­ perous business. A year ago a tramp en­ tered the restaurant and asked for a meal, which was given him. Each day for about ten days he was on hand at meal time. But one day his order was refused. He went to Keim and demanded a meal. When refused he pulled a "slung- shot" and struck Keim on the head, in­ flict ing a seVo.ro wound. Keim was never the same man again and his business dropped off until he was compelled to dose the restaurant. Ilis friends claim that' he took to drink and was always thinking about his troubles. In the event of hostilities with a for­ eign power Rock Island arsenal would become one of the most active scenes of operation in the war department's em­ ploy. Now regarded as one of the fore­ most arsenals in the world, it would then be fully recognized as such, and in pro­ viding army armament and equipment it would be equal to any contingency that could possibly arise. At.present there is no unusual stir at the arsenal, where from 500 to 000 men are employed in the shops the year around, and where every­ thing that constitutes the equipment of a soldier, from a saddle buckle to a firearm, is manufactured. At present all the store­ houses are full, and there are enough sup­ plies on hand to equip a small army and put it in the field on a fevi^ininutes' no­ tice should the occasion require. The arsenal, when running to its utmost ca­ pacity, one of the officers raftid recently, could make material for -10,000 men day. „ Jacob Strawn, of Jacksonville, avenged with a pistol the action of Gregory Rog­ ers, who had been talking about Mrs. Strawn for a good while, in spite of re- • peated warnings. He declared Strawn lacked courage, and would not hurt any­ body. but Wednesday morning Strawn met him and demanded' an explanation. Rogers made some sort of a defense, but I it was not satisfactory, and Strawn pro­ duced a pistol and at once began business. I He tired three shots, one Of which hit I Rogers in the ch-iu. tearing his face badly. He was taken to a hospital, where his wounds were dressed. Strawn hastened I to the sheriff's office and surrendered I himself, but as there-was no warrant, for him; lie "was released on parole. • In th» j afternoon friends of Rogers swore out a warrant, for him and he was arrested, although he made mrattempt to get away. I He is a man of good habits, and a grand- | son of .1 a cob Strawn, the cattle king and millionaire. War has been opened in Alton by a new organization kno-wfi as the Civic Federa­ tion against the salqou-keepers, and the tirst gun w;\s tired in the issuance of a big batch of warrants for alleged viola­ tion of the 11 o'clock and Sunday closing ordinances. At BJoomington William II. Marinou was fined $150 for assault with a deadly- weapon upon George L. Hutchin, editor of the Sunday Eye. .Marin'on took of­ fense at a statement made by the ^ Eye- regarding a friend, and in attempting to compel a retraction drew and threatened to use a revolver. Burglars entered the residence of Philip Schlesinger, Chicago, Wednesday morn­ ing and secured $500" ami- jewelry val­ ued at $400. The burglary vrus one of the most daring perpetrated in the Stanton avenue district Within a year. Dr. W. I*- Biles, an oculist of Mount Vernon, opened the lachrymal duct and removed a tumor from the eye -of TMiilip Eitnian, of Duquoin, the patient being hypnotized while the operation was in progress instead of having chloroform ad­ ministered, as is usual in such-cases. Al­ though the operation is one of the mosl painful known to surgery, the patient suffered no pain frotn the operation. e UnltedStcw® 0 Qfosrt'!* I rwifon'BuskcU" --- Sc-mVUsoTi Bus - 4om«lh \CiWi\hon BusfoeU- -- - 10£ lUW>i> GopUiring UAeat Itlarkel oj England! Northern Africa. She bought upward of 25.000,000 bushels loss from the Uni­ ted States, practically the total amount of her diminished imports. Germany also bought about 8.000,000 bushels less wheat, in 1S94 than in 2892, taking 12,000,000 bushels loss from the United States, but buying considerably more from Roumania, Russia and Ar­ gentina. her purchases from Argentina increasing by nearly the same quantity that her purchases from the United States decreased. What Woolen Manufacturers Want. Notwithstanding the popularity of Australian wool, manufacturers would prefer the restoration of the duties upon wool and "manufactures of wool" as they existed under schedule .K of the law of 1890 rather than to continue one moment longer under the present law, the ad valorem schedules of which are so easily avoided that foreign cloth is admitted at the custom house at a valuation which in many cases is not higher than the' foreign price of the yarn. The Government thus loses a large amount of its legal revenue and goods are admitted into the American market at rates of duty that fail to cover the difference between European and American wages.--Justice, Bate- man & Co. 8imple Process by Which Millions Dollars Are Annually Gained. . . It is "not geffferally Jinown, "even" its California, that millions of dollars ar4 annually taken fr*«m rude heaps on base looking quartz by the flowingl water over huge piles of broken rockflf that contain the precious metal. Thai process of robbing the earth of its gold has now been reduced to such a fine point that the gentle'flow of wateti over the ore gleans it . of its golden treasures, and this works well in cases where the old chloride and other meth- ods are nat so useful. The water used by miners in bringing gold from piles of mineral-bearing quartz is charged with a simple chem» ical, which has the potency to dissolve gold and hold it in solution. The spark^ ling liquid, which flows over iiundredai. of tons of quartz, trickles through thei mines and seeks its level, laden with gold, is charged with a deadly poi­ son, cyanide of potassium, a drug which ferrets out the minutest parti-' eles of the yellowish metal, and dis­ solves thetn and brings' the prOcioua r' "•burden to-the vats for conversion into refined gold again. '•* , ' - - v;-:: The cyanide process is. as noiseless ' and unerring as the laws of gravlta-* tion. The method is based on the- facti that even a very weak solution of .qya-* v nide of potassium dissolves gold and silver, formings respectively, auro-po- tassic cyanide and argento-potassic cy­ anide. The solution is separated from the solid mineral, and the gold and sil­ ver are precipitated in metallic form.; During the last five years the process has been introduced into almost every? gold field in California and elsewhere? and more than $20,000,000 has been re­ covered by the gentle flow of the wat­ ers charged with the magical chemicalj Precipitation is effected by the use of fine pieces of 7-inc, so arranged that? when the rich waters flow over them' the fine gold clusters in rich deposits over the zinc, for which it has an affin­ ity. The gold deposits itself in the form of fine dust on the plates of zinc.--Bos­ ton Journal of Commerce. 6 fJ-** A European Idea. One of the most characteristic feat­ ures of European prisons as a whole is that prisoners are allowed to have ai-v portion of their earnings. This system prevails in France, Germany, Italy,1 Switzerland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark and other countries. The amount earn­ ed by the prisoners varies considerably^ where it depends upon piece work. In France the average salary of tho prisoner is thirty-five cents a day. Of this amount the prisoner is allowed to spend one-half while in prison for sup­ plementary food and clothing, postage, etc., though no expenditure is--made-- without the approval of the adminis­ tration. The other half is reserved un­ til the time of his discharge. A threo years' prisoner has to his credit on leav­ ing an average of $50; a four years' prisoner $70, and a five years' prisoner $90.--Chicago Record. Will Waste Their Time. "The Bureau of American Republics has received information that the cattle raisers of the Argentine Republic are making arrangements to import large numbers of high-grade cattle for the purpose of improving the herds in order to compete in the European markets with the live stock shippers from the United States and Australia." It is useless for them to waste their time and money in attempting to do that. Don't our Southern neighbors know that all the markets of the world have been given to farmers in the Unit­ ed States under our present free trade tariff? If any doubt exists upon this point, study the object lesson illustrat­ ed elsewhere in this issue.'. Effect of the Cyclone. Tho late election has indorsed the sound tnoney and protection policies of the Republican party, rebuked the ad­ ministration for its loss of revenue at home and loss of respect abroad, anni­ hilated Populism, punctured the Mug­ wump bladder and made venerable but wicked Democracy feel as if it had been electrocuted after being struck by a cyclone.--The Louisville, Ky., Commer­ cial. Beware of the Enemy. A few of our Republican exchanges have allowed themselves to be duped into using the matter and cuts furnish­ ed by the "Sound Money Club" of New York. If they would stop and inquire into this matter tttOy would find out that this club is the mouthpiece for the gang that is pulling th°e leg of the, pres­ ent administration and are backed by foreign capital. The American Econo­ mist sounded a warning note some time ago, but there seems to have been some who did not catch on.--Blue Springs, Neb., Weekly Sent1 tel. Got Off the Track. What an object lesson we have, as to the beauties of the Wilson tariff, in the reports/rom Washington of the imports and exports for tffe first nine months of the present year. There was a fall­ ing off in exports of more than $1S,- 000,000, and»an increase of imports of more than $97,000,000 below the sales of the same period last year, although we were promised that the Democratic tariff would work directly the other way. It is true that the Wilson tariff has opened up the markets of the world, but we are on the wrong side of the world to get the benefit.--Republican, Springfield, Mo. Loss in Valuta of Hogs, i 1S92 r 1S95. Kumber 52,39S,0*9 44,105,716 Total value : $241,031,415 $219,5t/1.2G7 Value per head ' • $4.60 There was a.decrea§b of S,232,303 in the number of bogs in the country Tlie Right Thing to Do. Free trade and no foreign policy ad­ vocates appear to be 'without a leader." The man who poses to be better than his people appears to be without a par­ ty. Old and tried officials in finance and government are talking to morer* earnest listeners, and will likely again be called upon to reinstate confidence, business and stability in American en­ terprises still sorely embarrassed. The 54th Congress will place the respon­ sibility of the additional public debt andfthe chronic deficiency in treasury funds exactly where it belongs.-- Clapp's Weekly Market Letter. For America, by Americans. The next tariff will be made by the party of protection. It will be an Amer­ ican tariff, framed with a view to give American industry the first chance in the American market. It will lack tha sweet simplicity of ad valorem duties, which hold out the largest rewards to exporters and importers, who do the tallest swearing.--The Intelligencer, Wheeling, W. Ya. , - < Wheat Values. Cents.' Harrison, 1S90-93, average New York price 93 Cleveland, 1894-95, average New York price .65*, Cleveland loss to farmers 28 *Not that promised dollar. , « -- • The Keynote Sounded. While the Harrison administration reduced the debt nearly $260,000,000. Cleveland has increased it very large­ ly. AHsin all it may be assumed that the keynote of 1896 has been sounded .this year.--San "Francisco Chronicle. Utah's Costly Lesson. Utah's wool clip has these past two seasons averaged less than half the1 price that it easily brought while the McKinley law was in force. "This isi a Democratic year."--Salt Lake City Tribune. • ^ »Cause and Effect. V The delicate predicament" ln which Mr. Cleveland's administration finds itself requires "prompt and wise treat-> ment." Moral--Don't tinker with a protective tariff. That Tired Feeling. i That tired feeling must have over­ come the President when he wroto about "enervating paternalism," The Democratic Idea. To increase our bonded indebtedness rather than the revenue has always been true Democratic policy. Ah. There! Mr. Cleveland finds that he has got the country into a "delicate predica­ ment." It Confronts Him. A "delicate predicament" is a condU tion, not a theory. ,. One of India's Superstitious. •The natives believe that elephanUj have a religion and form of worship. "Had I a Heart for Falsehood Fram­ ed" was by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the poet and dramatist, two ok three oij whose plays*still hold the stage. Thd Lr Is an Irish melody called "Gra mix ohree.'8 . • . - . i When in doubt, tell the truth.