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J. VAN SVtK% ETitor and Pub. McHENRY. TLLINOT^ ED PAKDKIDGrE DEAD. GREAT SPECULATOR BREATHES HIS LAST. One of the Most Noted Men in Chica­ go--Always on tlie. Bear Side--Chili Refuses Reparation to Sailors Shields and McKinstry. Famous Chicagroan Dead. Edwin Pardridge, prominent for years as a heavy bear trader on 'Change at Chi­ cago, died Friday of Bright's disease. Dissolution was not unexpected and the dying man was surrounded by members of his household. For several weeks he had been suffering from this malady. Gen­ eral complications set in and terminated fatallvv] Deceased was about 62 years old and was reputed to possess a considerable fortune.. It has been many times said of. Edwin Pardridge that had he been the Only member of the Board of Trade to re­ main upon Yhe beanside; he would have steadfastly refused to join the bulls and. would have gone down in the last ditch before he would admit the possibility of a rise in prices. -Pardridge thirty years ago was one of.the leading dry g (ww|s ' 'merchants in the city.- lie was one of- the first prominent merr.ba.'nts in .that, line to see the.-coming greatness of: State street i's a.thoroughfare, and settled his business at. a point now about opposite. Marsha'1. Field & C'o.'s store. , Thrown Out of Chi l ian Courts . After five years the claims of Patrick Shields and Andrew McKinstry against the Chilian Government for injuries re­ ceived from assaults of a Chilian mob at Santiago have finally been thrown out off' all the courts and commissions. Shields and McKinstry were sailors on the Kee- wanah, that entered Santiago harbor a week after the Baltimore sailors were so roughly handled by the mobs in that city in 1891. They preferred claims against the Government of Chili. Shields for $100,000 and McKinstry for $20.00<i. President Harrison made these two claims a very important part of one of his messages .to Congress in 1892. In this he said that though the men were foreign subjects, they were sailing under the pro­ tection of the American tlag and should receive the same protection as American citizens. F. Allyn Orr, of Oakland. Cal... attorney for Shields and McKinstry. brought the matter before the British Parliament, and it was finally referred to a British claim commission. As a result of the investigation of this commission Mr. Orr has received a letter informing him that the Chilian Government has re­ fused to pay the claims. Colonel Lloyd Wins a Victory. A telegram ty. the British war office in Ciiiro states that Col. Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Suakim. The khedive went to the railway station to witness the departure for the front of 150 men of.horse artillery, with six guns, and his cousin, Prince Aziz, in charge yf seventy cavalry remounts^ 'l 'he higyptian troops displayed unusual enthusiasm. The sir­ dar's brother. Major Kitchener, has he.eu ten days waiting for an appointment. It is said that this delay is owing to the sirdar's unpopularity in high quarters. Lieut. Farquhar. of the Iloyal Artillery, is thought t<v Vie dying from injuries re­ ceived from a fall at ®>lo. BREVITIES. Nikola Tesla has by means of X rays seen through the buuies. bones and all. of three of his assistants, placed in a line. Gold bonds of the Provisional Republic •*if Cuba to the amount of $2,000,000 are to be placed on the American market. They are to draw 6 per cent interest, and are made payable Ten years after the Spaniards evacuate the island. The British budget, which was pre­ sented to the House of Commons Thurs­ day. gives the surplus for 1895-6 as £4.- 210,000. The estimate of expenditures or the current year is £1<XM>47.000 and the calculated revenue. £101.75.~>.0< >0. A Rome dispatch says: The papal nun­ cio at Madrid has been instructed to pro­ pose the mediation of the pope in order to bring about a settlement of the troubles ^ in Cuba or to urge upon Spain the accept- ance of President Cleveland's reported ^jffer of mediation. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of All Souls' Church, Chicago, has announced that bi­ cyclists will be^welcome at the services conducted by him next Sunday, and that their wheels will be taken care of free of charge. ^Knickerbockers and bloomers will not, be barred. At the Maine Republican convention for the nomination of delegates to the na­ tional convention at St. Louis the en­ thusiasm was centered about the name of Thomas B. Reed, the u nanimous choice of the convention as candidate for President of the United States. The London Exchange Telegraph Com­ pany says it is rumored that Buluwayo has been captured by the Matabeles. The news is not confirmed from other sources. A dispatch from Aldershot says the Mid­ dlesex Regiment has been ordered to start immediately for South Africa. Consid­ erable anxiety is felt regarding the South African situation, and the Government is openly blamed for its inaction. An ice jam in the Itideau river. Ontario, has backed up its waters to such an extent that for. miles around farm lands are deeply submerged and it is feared much live stock will be lost. The Presco'tt an(] Ottawa, branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway is for soirle three or four miles' covered with water. To protect the trains going through gangs of men are at work keeping the railway track free from drift wood. Senator Allen proposes to make all vet­ erans of the Mexican war and the rebel­ lion eligible to appointment as brevet col­ onels in the regular army. Five hundred Italian immigrants, held at Ellis Island, New York harbor, for de­ portation, madefy break for freedom, and were only restrained by the revolvers in the hands of their guards. Major George A. Amies, U. S. A., re­ tired, who achieved notoriety last May on account of his arrest for trouble with Lieut. Gen. Schofiehl. is being .sued by ,1ns wife for divorce on the ground of ill [temper and cruelty. plushes, dress goods and-kid gloves in thls country. .Tlife first floor was occupiedby Franz Merz, dealer in and importer of dress goods. The second floor was used by Hugo Bontly, importer of kid gloves, who carried a stock valued at nearly $500,000. The third; and fourth floors were occupied by Dexter, Lambert & Co., manufacturers of silk goods: Franz Mers also occupied the fifth floor. During the course of the fire two firemen were par­ tially overcome by smokeN and one of th£m was burned about the face and was also cut by falling-glass. The firemen said the fire, although not the biggest, was one of the fiercest they ever had to fight. Ther6 were times when it seemed as if the entire block was bound to go. The fire burned three hours,, it having ample food in the expensive stocks of the different floprs. Loss reaches $1.000.000. > The Raines law did not give New York a dry Sunday. It only reduced the num­ ber of places whOjge liquor could be ob­ tained to the city's 500 hotels, and added the price of a sandwich to the cost of a drink. The whole question of Sunday prohibition depended on whether the pro­ prietor had ten bedrooms somewhere about his place of business or not. In most, of these rooms the necessary furni­ ture had simply been thrown in. and if any man applied for lodging.in these sub­ terfuge hotels .he would be turned away. But of the city's 7,000 barroom saloons hot one was open. The screens were tSrawnHwck a fid the bars plainly expos­ ed to view:from the streets.. No"police­ men stood jriiard at side doors.- In Brook­ lyn all- thm the. thirsty desired to drink Was obtained in the same manner. There were more evidence's', of drunkenness on the streets there than in New York, haw- ever., A number of Arrests' of saloonkeep- lers were made, but as.the law 'is,coining tp, be better understood- its infractions are ^decreasing. It is evident, however." that the open sesame to cold bottles in New York is the inoffensive sandwich. • WESTERN. At Duluth, Minn., William Yerill and Joseph Soular were sentenced to be hang­ ed for the murder of Samuel de Mars at Bewabik on Jan. 13 last. Yerill is 18 years of age and Soular 17. The murder was a most brutal one, and was delib­ erately planned. J. Milton Turner, ex-Minister to Libe­ ria, lawyer and politician of national fame, although a colored man. does not,, apparently, possess a thick skull. He is now lying at the St. Louis city hospital with a broken sconce, the result of a scrimmage with his step-daughter, who broke a pitcher over his head. At Excelsior Springs, Mo., there is con­ siderable excitement over the report that the assay ores found in a gulch adjoining the city on the east show them" to be very rich in gold, with considerable silver. Mr. Fargo, a boot and shoe man of Chicago, owns the forty acres directly west of the Endicott farm, where the ore was found. While trying to take a man to prison in October, 1890. Solon Boydston. coroner of Wayne County. <).. was killed at Orr- ville. The prisoner resisted and both men fell on the track of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railway, where they were struck by an engine. The prisoner, a <tramp, lost a leg. while Boydston was killed. That the man cut to pieces was Boydston was not discovered until after the remains had lain in Boydston's own undertaking rooms for two hours. His wife, Kate Boydston, now of Chicago, sued the, company for §10.000 damages for -causing the death of~iTFr husband.--The first jury awarded her $1,500 and the sec­ ond $2,100. Both verdicts were set aside. The third trial ende<) Friday morning, when the jury came in with a verdict al­ lowing Mrs. Boydston $5,000. With an explosion that shook the coun­ try for miles around one of the buildings of the Chicago Fireworks Company at Grosse Point blew tip about 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, killing two persons, fatally wounding two and terribly injur­ ing six others. The employes, most of whom were girls under age, had scarcely been at work an hour when the accident occurred. What caused the explosion is not and probably never will be known. The girls were working briskly and mer­ rily chatting with one another, when sud­ denly a terrible roar was heard, and the walls of the building, which is one of twelve similar ones, fell outward, while the roof came careening down, crushing the poor victims to the floor. A minute later another explosion followed, which mercifully raised the roof from the dying and fainting, and with feeble limbs and agonizing cries the wounded crawled out, some of them, forgetful of their own awful plight, dragging the more helpless ones with them. The work for the season at the establishment began but a few weeks ago. and osiy two of the twelve buildings were in use. Miss Mary Linnett, of 43 North Camp­ bell avenue, Chicago, shot, and instantly killed Miss Elizabeth Trowbridge, a prom meat young woman of Elgin, 111., and then killed herself, shortly after 8 o'clock Monday evening. The double tragedy took place on the principal residence street of the city. Miss Linnett some two years ago conceived a singular liking for a young woman in Chicago, a neighbor, and attempted to take her life because she would not live with her. She was sent to the insane hospital at Elgin less than a year ago and was discharged from the institution as cured in December last Miss Trowbridge was an attendant at the hospital and had charge of Miss Linnett, who became passionately attached to her. Her great regret in leaving Elgin was that she must leave her friend behind. She returned to Chicago, where she remained at her home. Her friends believed her entirelykcured of her mental troubles. But the strange passion for Miss Trowbridge induced Miss Linnett to return to Elgin, where she endeavored to persuade the latter to accompany her to Chicago. Fail­ ing, the tragedy followed. sehtatlve of this Government and commfs* sioner--the latter, of course, under pri­ vate instructions. After a careful can­ vass of names he selected Gen. Lee aa best fitied to perform the delicate duty. FOREIGN, Col., John A. Cockerill, widely known uas an editor and newspaper writer, died suddenly at Cairo, Egypt, Friday from apoplexy, while he was in the barber shop Of4 Shepherd's Hotel. Col. Cockerill was in the service of James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, for whom he had been in Egypt for three weeks. He left: New York in January, 1895, 'td' be- con\e the Herald's special correspondent in Japan. A dispatch to the Paris Matin from Venice says that Emperojr William and King Humbert, at their conference Sat­ urday, decided to prolong the Dreibund until 1902, the present agreement , in­ cluding an offensive as well as a defensive clause. The correspondent of the Ala tin also says that the African situation Was discussed. It was resolved to pjroceed with, the peace negotiations, and, in event of their failure, a fresh expedition, com­ manded by the Duke of Aosta, brother of King Humbert, is to be dispatched agamst the Abyssinians in September. A dispatch from Madrid to the Pall Mall Gazette saysj "Senor. Canovas; del Castillo (the Spanish premier), is ill and cannot be interviewed. His relatives, however. Confirm the existence of a. com- inunique'from President Cleveland. : But, in the present state of public feeling, it will be impossible for the Government to accept his offer. Matters are very com­ plicated and. while the Government will do everything 'in its" power to, a void a quarrel" with the • United States, it will prefer to fight rather than lose Cuba through foreign pressure. . The coming; Cortes,will"grant Cuba every reasonable, franchise to be enjoyed under the Spanish flag." - ; . - • - • - \ -... The thorough ventilation, which the action of the Sultan toward the,:mission­ aries in Asia Minor has received has had decidedly beneficial effect. The United States charge d'affaires. John W. Riddle, has received a written assurance from the Turkish Government that Rev. George P. Knapp, the American missionary re­ cently expelled from Bitlis, will be deliv­ ered to the United States consul at Alex­ andria. It is further stated that the Sul­ tan's irade providing for the expulsion of other missionaries from Asia Minor has been repealed, and, for the present at least, the missionaries need not anticipate any further trouble. It is understood that in both of these cases the Sultan has acted upon the advice of the Russian am­ bassador. IN GENERAL The special board which was appointed to make the trip from Port Royal to Hampton Roads on the Indiana and thus make the final inspection of that vessel finds there is no weakness or defect in the hull, fittings, or equipment, nor is there any defect in the machinery of the Indi­ ana. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball" League: Per Clubs. Won. Lost. cent. Chicago ... 1 0 KKX) Boston ... 1 0 1000 Brooklyn ... 1 0 1000 Pittsburg ... 1 0 1000 St. Louis ... 1 0 1000 Wa-Ehin^tun « 1 I ) 1000- Baltimore 0 1 Cleveland ... 0 1 Cincinnati 0 1 Louisville 6 1 New York...... 0 1 Philadelphia .... 0 1 R. G. Dun (k Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The volume of business has not on the whole increased, nor have prices appreciably advanced since April 1. when the range for all commodities was the lowest ever known in this country. Bread-stuffs and iron products have risen slightly, but some other articles have de­ clined, and the root of the matter is that demand for consumption is still below ex­ pectations. The number of hands em­ ployed has been slightly lessened by strikes in some establishments and by stoppage or reduction in force in others, but the "change during the last week has not been relatively important. The weath­ er has not favored active distribution of spring goods, and uncertainty as to con­ tinued employment affects the purchases by hands in a large number of establish­ ments." George Gould, who was at Dallas, Tex., to attend the annual meeting of the Texas and Pacific, in an interview on the sub­ ject of railroads, said: "What we need is some legislation looking to the relief of the railroads. Two-thirds of the railroads of the country are either in the hands of receivers or have recently been reorgan­ ized and are trying it again. I attribute this bankruptcy of the railroads of the country almost entirely to the operation of the interstate commerce law. That law has paralyzed the railroads, and they will never prosper again until it is re­ pealed, hor will you see any more roads building while that law is in effect. The laws are too oppressive on invested capi­ tal. The repeal of the interstate com­ merce law, for instance, would help the country amazingly by permitting existing roads to prosper and by encouraging the building of other roads. This would throw life into the railroads and other collateral industries at once." BIG ROW AT THE END. SECRETARY CARLISLE SPEAKS IN CHICAGO. Free-Silver Advocates Create a Scene at thfe~MeetinjE--^"hey Fire a Volley of Questions at the Speaker--Police Take a Hand in Affairs. Carlisle at Chicago. Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle addressed an audience in the Chi­ cago Auditorium for nearly two hours Wednesday night on the "financial ques­ tion, . Gold was down on the progranv and had the platform. Silver was down on gold and had the fun. Altogether, sayS a correspondent, the address of the gold advocate Was as near a Harvey-Horr de­ bate as the friends of the white metal could make it. And it only wanted a little more warm blood and a little less police to end in a row. * Mr. Carlisle had held his long and august form in the vision of the. people for two hours when the silver men began. Then the lights went out and that ended the incipient debate. They began this way. Mr. Carlisle had just thanked the people for listening to him.. Col. J. C. Roberts, a prominent member of the Peo­ ple's paxty and one of the editors of " the 'National Bimetallism who. had stumped the South for Mr. Carlisle in the days when the Secretary talked not of gold but:,of silver, arose in his seat, and, in'a voice that was heard above the din of ence show, as is well knowb now, that the efforts, to intervene came to naught and that the recognition of the belliger­ ency ot the insurgents was held up by our Government. RED LAKE RESERVATION, Grand Rush for Homes tb Take Place on May 15.. In an irregular rectangle in northwest­ ern Minnesota, with a length of 112 miles a«dr-a~breadth of 100, with a fron­ tier of about 500, and containing 900,000 acres ready for settlement, is the great Red Lake reservation, the lasbof the large northwestern Indian reservations. It is to be opened to the settler on May 15. The entire reserve consists of about 4,000,000 acres, but much of it contains pine ,and will hot be allowed for settlement, while more is to be reserved for the 1,500 In­ dians of the Red Lake Chippewas, and will not come into the market until the band is wiped out or has become suffi­ ciently civilised to take and improve al­ lotments and cease to be the ward of the nation. The reservation is virgin territory," of meadow, oak openings, reclaimable bog, prairie and brush lands, an unbroken wil­ derness of pine and hardwood forest, of tamarack, cedar and spfuce $wamp, of muskeg and of lake, brook and river. Save the freighters' roads to and from the trad­ ing pest at the agency at the south shore of the lake, in the center of the lands, and;, the marks of the survey or! s ax and scribe on section, lines and corners, there are no signs of "the intrusion of the white mail on .this the greatest hunting and fishing ground held for the northwestern Indians. Were it pot , for the prevalent industrial' and financial:depression there Would be a A l a k e ITTSOM *0,. ICAu, one at MARSHAL s|\£^//VAiHep\RFDL i A ne C WHIT £ earth t^P/AN Hue SARD countr RESERVftT'OA/ GEN., FITZHUGH LEE. Something of the Aewly Appointed Consul General to Cuba. Gen. Fitzlpugh Lee, the newly .appointed consul general to Cuba, is a nephew of Gen. Robert El Lee and served under the GEN. FITZHUGH LEE. MAP OF THE RESERVATION. WASHINGTON. EASTERN. Insurance Inspector Gary, of the Fidel­ ity Mutual Life Company, of Philadel­ phia, in which Holmes' victim, Pitzel, was insured, says Holmes did not commit all the murders he confessed to. Kate Darke is in Omaha, T)r. Russell in Mich­ igan, Anna Van Tassell in Arkansas and Robert Latimer in Chicago. Ger­ trude Conner did not die for six weeks after leaving Chicago for Iowa. One of the fiercest fires in New York within a year started in the five-story building occupied by C. A. Auffmordt & The Treasury Department is struggling with the problem of whether imported holy wafer is subject to a tariff tax.. The triennial international counting of all mails going from one country to an other in the postal union will take place from May 1 to May 2S. It is the expectation of Secretary Mor­ ton to have covered back into the treas­ ury at the end of the present administra­ tion in the neighborhood of §2,000.000 from the appropriations for the Agricul tural Department for the four years of which he shall have been at its head. . To do this he plans, to save $500,000 a year, but the aggregate may be smaller than hoped for owing to the rigid pruning of estimates. Already the amount returned to the treasury from these appropriations has reached .$1,014,000. The President has stolen a march on Spain in the appointment of Gen. Fitz hugh Lec, of Virginia, as Consul General at Havana, vice Ramon O. Williams resigned. He has long wanted to send a special commissioner to Cuba to ascertain exact facts with regard to the scope and significance of the revolution, but from the outset he encountered the angry oppo sition of the Madrid Government, which resented the suggestion as insufferable impertinence and gratuitous intermed­ dling in a strictly family affair. He could not move Spain from this view, but he never for a moment abandoned the idea, It occurred to him that he could accom plish his purpose by appointing a Consul Co., one of the largest importers of silks, r^ene,ra ', at Havana, who could serve in ' - . , the double capacity, of diplomatic repre- MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 06c; corn, No. 2, 20c to 30c; oats. No. 2, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 36c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, ,10c to lie; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c; broom corn, $20 to $45 per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis--Cattle. $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.60 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 10c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 39c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to - ' r>0; hogs, «4.25; i. 2 i2c -cheering and other-noises^--demanded -the attention of the chairman, M. J. Carroll, who had called upon Secretary Grady to read a resolution thanking Mr. Carlisle for having accepted the invitation of trade unionists to address them. "I desire to ask Mr. Carlisle," said Col. Roberts, "to answer one question." "Sh-h-h-h-h," said the people, and Mr. Carlisle did not turn his retreating form. M. J. Carroll, who had not called for short words of testimony in closing, jump­ ed up with the resolutions in his hand. "Whereas " he began. "Why don't you let the speaker answer the question." shouted another man, ris­ ing in an excited little group. "Whereas " "Mr. Chairman, why don't you----" The "whereas" seemed to have it and the resolution, which advised all the work- ingmen to read Mr. Carlisle's speech and voted him unlimited thanks, was read, al­ though for the rising din it might as well have been Weyler's proclamation. The' groups of silver men, who were intent upon asking the question, were noisy and belligerent. But two policemen had Col. Roberts in their eyes, and found him and conducted the Populist to the rear. Chairman Carroll finally managed to put the ftsolution of thanks to a vote. There were thunderous "yeas," but the "noes" would have carried any ordinary caucus. Little whirlpools of turmoil were forming in different parts of the house, and the policemen were kept busy. The crowd, too, was moving homeward. "II urrah for Eugene V. Debs, any­ way," yelled a silver man. This called forth a vigorous response. "Hurrah for John G. Carlisle," shouted a gold man in the gallery. The "house" was plainly "gold." By this time the police had circulated their rotund forms quite thoroughly and the belligerents were quieted. The question which they wanted to ask, and for which„Cpl. Roberts rose, related to Carlisle's speech in 1878, when he pro­ nounced the demonetization of silver "the most gigantic crime of this, or any other age," which would "ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pestilence and famine that ever oc­ curred in the history of the world." The silverites had fun earlier in the evening by distributing the following trib­ ute to Mr. Carlisle, until the police stop­ ped them: "John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, after a lifetime devoted to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, was sud- denl3' converted in 1893 to the gold stand­ ard in order to secure a seat in Cleve­ land's cabinet. "He now comes here, fresh from the banquet tables of the Wall street gold bugs, to tell the idle and starving work- ingmen of Chicago how they may be suc­ cessfully robbed by the gold bugs for the next four years." rush t-o-this promised la wlas grea t as was that at the opening of the Oklahoma coun­ try, and as it is there is the greatest move­ ment of .people that the Northwest has ever seen. German and Scandinavian farmers are in the majority of incomers^ The States of Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota have furnished the largest quota. Southern Michigan, the Dunkard colonies of In­ diana, Nebraska, and even the New Eng­ land States are looked on to be represent­ ed later by hundreds of colonists. Ihe Red Lake lands are beautiful for situation, well watered by streams whose sources are in never-failing springs, while ten to fifteen feet will tap the underground veins in any part of the lands to be open­ ed. There is no danger of drouth. There are no prettier locations for homes in all the West than on the streams that the Red Lake Indians have so zealously guarded for these many years, and arc now about to give up. Around the streams and bordering the lakes is the timber growth, which, next to the meadow grass, will yiehl. to the fortunate possessor the most ample returns until the cleared land may produce crops. This timbered growth comprises all the woods common to the North, poplar predominating, and all in a thrifty condition. The timber is inter­ spersed with hazel bushes, an unfailing sign of excellent soil. Several railroads are preparing to cross the lands in the near future, most of them running to the Lake Superior entrepot of Duluth, which will give the finest market in the North­ west to the grain and produce raised. Among these roads is the Farmers' Rail­ road of thevNorth Dakota agriculturists, under the lead of D. W. Hines. The opening of this reservation will have widespread results. It will push the frontier into Canada; it will settle the vacant lands in northern Minnesota and make them tributary to the wholesalers of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth; it will double the population of the sur­ rounding towns in a month; it will add 25,000 people to the census of Minnesota in the first, year; it will infuse new blood and new life into the farming communi­ ties of the Northwest. great Confederate leader during the war of the,rebellion. He,was born in 1835 at Clermont, Fairfax County, Virginia, and was graduated from the military academy in 1856. Commissioned as lieutenant in the. Second cavalry, he Went to the fron­ tier, was severely Wounded by the Indians and .was recalled to be instructor of cav­ alry at West Point., When the war. came Lieut. Lee resigned his commission and joined the Confederate cause. At first he did staff duty and was adjutant gen­ eral of Ewell's brigade, In September, .1861, he was made lieutenant colonel' of the First Virginia cavalry and soon af­ terward was promoted to be colonel. He served.in all the campaigns of the army of northern Virginia. In 1862 Lee was made a brigadier general and a major general in 18(>3. At Winchester, in 1804, he was disabled by a severe wound, which kept him from duty for several months. In 1865 he was placed in command of the whole cavalry corps of the army of north­ ern Virginia, and a month later surren­ dered to Gen. Meade at Farmville and re­ tired to his Virginia home. In 1865 he was elected 'Governor of Virginia. Gen. Lee goes to.Cuba with absolute liberty to travel about wherever he pleases unob­ structed and unrestricted by the Span­ iards. Should the President desire any in­ formation concerning the state of affairs in Cuba the new consul general will be in a position to gather it. It is known that Gen. Lee, while being a fair man, warm­ ly sympathizes with the insurgents. FARM WORK PROGRESSING. Weekly Reports of the Weather Bu­ reau Covering Crop Prospects , The Weather Bureau, in summing up the situation in weather a^id crop circles, says that in the Southern^States the week has been generally favorable for farm work, which has made good progress. In the more Northern districts, owing to the lateness of the season, farming operations are much-delayed, but are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Cotton planting is now quite general in the north­ ern portion of the cotton belt, is well ad­ vanced in the southern portion, and the early planted is coming up. In Florida, it is nearly finished. Winter wheat is re­ ported in excellent condition in Nebraska and eastern Kansas, and mnchJmproved and looking well in Iowa, Missouri, Ar­ kansas, Tennessee and northern Illinois. Less favorable reports are received from Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio. West Vir­ ginia, Virginia. Maryland. Pennsylvania and New York, in some of which States it has been winter killed and is in poor condition. No corn has yet been planted north of the Ohio river, but some planting has been done ^s far north as Kentucky and Virginia. West of the Mississippi some corn has been planted as far north as southern Nebraska. Planting is nearly completed in Oklahoma, and is in progress in Missouri. In Illinois and Indiana plow­ ing for corn is general. In the Southern States corn planting is practically com­ pleted. START A BLAND BOOM. WORK OF CON&RESS. THE WEEK'S DOIMGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro- ceedings in the Legislative Cham­ bers at Washington --Matters that Concern the People. , -_w' x $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.5l wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; c mixed, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 to 24c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 ti $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $1 5; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 7 ,. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, N 23c to 24c; rye, 37c to 39c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red. ioc to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 38c to 40c; clover seed, $4.60 to $4.70. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 3, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley. No. 2, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 1, 38c to 39c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. ^ Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to '$4.75; sheep,* $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 »red, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn,.No. 2, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter, creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, West­ ern, 11c to 12c. CLEVELAND AND CUBA. President Complies with the Request Made by the Senate . The President has transmitted to Con­ gress without comment the correspond­ ence caHed for by the Senate at the in­ stance of Senator Hoar relative to the at-' tempt at mediation made by the United States Government during the course of the preceding rebellion in Cuba. The correspondence covers the period from No­ vember 5,1875, to August," 1876, and com­ prises about 400 typewritten pages. A great part of it has already been made public, some of it in Wharton's digest of international law and some in correspond­ ence formerly supplied to Congress. The leading feature is the letter of Secretary Fish to United States Minister Caleb Cushing at Madrid in 1875 setting out at great length the evils, of the situa tion as it then existed in Cuba and sug gesting reforms that the Spanish Govern ment should put into operation in Cuba to correct these abuses. Copies of this note were submitted to all of the courts of Europe; apparently to pave the way for the intervention that was hinted at in case Spain failed to profit by the suggestions of Mr. Fish? but the concluding chapters of the correspond- Rev. Dr. John Lanahan sprung a sen­ sation in the Methodist preachers' meet­ ing at Baltimore when he announced that in a few days he would publish in a per­ manent form a document entitled "The Era of Frauds in the Methodist Book Concern at New York," where he was at one time an agent. A magnificent banquet was.given at the City of Mexico by foreign resident manu­ facturers, merchants and bankers in hon­ or of President Diaz. The station house of the, Vera Cruz Railway was converted into a banquet hall and 500 people sat down to the table. Missouri Democrats Declare for Free Si lver Coinage. It. P. Bland's boom for the presidential nomination, on a free coinage of silver platform, was launched with great enthu­ siasm by the Mis- s o u r i Democratic State convention at Sedalia. It was the largest gathering of the party ever held in the State, for, in addition to the 535 delegates, over 2.000 visitors were pres­ ent. Chairman Mof- titt of the State Cen­ tral Committee called the convention to order in Wood'sOpera House at 12:30 o'clock. After prayer by Rev. J. S. Mey­ er, ex-Congressriian William M. Hatch was announced as temporary chairman, and Jeff Pollard of St. Louis as tempo­ rary secretary. Mr. Hatch made a spir­ ited address, and throughout its delivery was cheered long and loud. The mention of Mr. Bland's name as one of .the most valuable and faithful of Democrats brought forth a flood of applause and cheers. Mr. Hatch hoped the Chicago convention would adopt an unequivocal silver platform. K. 1'. it I. AND DEBS BARRED OUT. Facul ty of Chicago Universi ty He- fuses to I.<et Him Address Students . Division of opinion and not a little feel­ ing has been aroused among the students of the Chicago University by the decision of tlie faculty in barring E. V. Debs from speaking to the students some time dur­ ing the next quarter. At a meeting of the local oratorical association it was agreed to invite the labor leader. When the members of the faculty were apprised of the intended invitation they immediate­ ly senf out for the representatives of the association and firmly demanded that no such invitation should be issued. THREE KINGS IN COUNCIL. Heads of the Triple All iance, Who Held an Important Conference a t Naples Last Week. Lawmakers at Labor. After two days' debate the House Sat­ urday by a vote of 160 to 58 passed the Grosvenor "filled-cheese" bill. Practical­ ly the only amendment adopted was one reducing the tax on retail dealers from $40 to $12. The bill requires the manu­ facturers of filled cheese to pay if tax of $400 annually, the wholesale dealers $250 and the retail dealers $12, and for failure to pay such tax: imposed. upon manufac­ turers a fine of from-«$400 to $3,000, upon wholesale dealers from $250 to $1,000 and .upon retail dealers from $40 to $500. It also requires the branding of "filled cheese" and its sale only from original packages. 'Ihe "George" bill to establisha, uniform system of bankruptcy was reported to the Senate Monday from "the Judiciary Com­ mittee. The most important amendment made by the committee was that provid­ ing that where any debtor who, being a banker, broker, merchant, trader or manufacturer owing $500 makes an as­ signment or conveyance of his property, or gives any lien or incumbrance thereon,, contrived or de™ s ed with the actual i n - , tent on his pa/t to defraud his creditors, such act shall"be deemed bankruptcy. The measure provides for voluntary bankrupt­ cy; At the same fime(; Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, submitted the views of the mi­ nority of^"the committee in the shape of the measure agree'd on by,the House Com­ mittee on Judiciary with some- modifica­ tions. The latter provides for voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy. The propo­ sition to secure the passage of a bill pro­ viding for an additional United States district judge in the northern district of Illinois conies too late to accomplish any­ thing during the present session. A pro­ nounced sentiment exists in the House against creating any new judgeships. The house -Tuesday passed without amendment the fortification appropriation bill carrying appropriations and authori­ zations involving an expenditure of $11,- 384,613. The appropriations for fortifi­ cations since the Endicott commission in 1886 reported its plan for the defense of twenty-seven seaports, at an approximate thing over ij!2,000,060 annually. It was made apparent after a lively colloquy in the Senate'Hhat there was no disposition among the silver and Populist Senators to allow the resolution for a Senate in­ quiry into recent bond issues to lapse. Mr. Squire (Rep., Wash.) made an elab­ orate presentation of the pressing need of coast defenses, pointing out the de­ fenseless condition of our great sea-coast harbors. In the House. Wednesday Mr. Hull, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, called up'the resolution for the re­ appointment of William B. Franklin, of Connecticut, Thomas J. Henderson of Illi­ nois, George L. Beale of Maine and Geo. W. Steele of Indiana as members of the Board of Managers of the national sol- diers' homes. -Mr. Blue made a sensa- tional speech against Gen. Franklin, charging him and Col. Smith (for whom he said Gen. Franklin was responsible) with cruel and brutal treatment of the in­ mates of the home at Leavenworth, Kan. He moved to substitute tlje name of Gen. (). (). Howard for that of Gen. Franklin. Mr. Blue said his purpose was to free the Leavenworth home from the drunken and brutal man now at its head. Mr. Blue read a telegram from E. J. Anderson and others urging him to fight Gen. Franklin's reappointment and telling him that 60,- 000 soldiers in Kansas were behind him. He claimed that Gov. Smith maintained the biggest saloon in Kansas under the shadow of the flag the soldiers fought to save. Last year, he said, the profits of the beer hall alone were $13,000. Mr. Blue also read an affidavit charging that a contract existing whereby the Keeley cure was given to inmates for $6, while outsiders were charged $20. "Has not the board made an investigation of Gov. Smith's administration?" asked Mr. Hull. "Any investigation made by the Board of Managers," replied Mr. Blue, "is a roar­ ing farce." With the understanding that a vote should be had Thursday, the House adjourned. The Senate ratified the Ber­ ing sea arbitration treaty. The treaty provides for a commission to arbitrate the claims made by citizens of England against the United States for seizures of vessels engaged in the capture of fur seals prior to the Paris award. •/ • Mr. Blue's tight against the reappoint­ ment of Gen. William B. Franklin as a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteers, which was the feature of the proceedings in the House Wednesday, terminated un­ successfully Thursday, when his amend­ ment to substitute the name of (Jen. O. O. Howard for that of Gen. Franklin was rejected, 149 to 61. Several minor bills were passed. The speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Cobb (Dejn*). of Ala­ bama, on the Ways and Means Commit­ tee in place of Mr. Tarsney, who was un­ seated; Mr. Aldrich (Rep.), of Illinois, on Banking and Currency, and Mr. Van Horn (Rep.), of Missouri, on Labor. De­ bate of the resolution for an investigation of recent bond issues consumed the time of the Senate. .c ® Km* Saiulow Rides a "Wheel. During the last year Sandow has be­ come a confirmed bicyclist. He did not at first give bis approval to this form,, of exercise, thinking it developed the leg muscles only. In his exhibitions at Proctor's Pleasure Palace, Sandow has demonstrated that he is much stronger than he was a year ago. He has in­ creased his single finger lift from 600 pounds to 750, while the dumbbell that be raises with one hand weighs 255 pounds, an increase of fifty pounds over that of last year. His harness lift has been increased from 5,800 to 6,100 pounds. Insulted the Kaiser. A girl of Metz. 14 years old, has re­ cently been condemned to eight days' Imprisonment, for having insulted the Geranan Emperor. The insult consist­ ed in writing a private letter to one of her little friends, iu which there was something disrespectful to his Majesty. It is said that such sentences are com­ mon in Alsace-Lorraine. Ilerr Lieb- knecht, the veteran socialist of the Reichstag, will have to serve four months' imprisonment also for insulting the Emperor after the Reichstag ad- journs.t . Mail's Proud Equal. Much significance is naturally at­ tached to the confession of a woman across the bay that she has purchased a brick of glittering brass. The inci­ dent shows the proud upward march of the sex to that pla ne oil which man Is supposed to stand, superior and envia­ ble.--Sah' Francisco Examiner.