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THE PLAINDEAIEK J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. HcHENRV. ILLINOIS GOLD BESERVE SAFE. HEW YCRk FINANCIERS SIGN SYNDICATE AGREEMENT. Only Demand for Yellow Metal Comes from Those Who Would Hoard It-- Fcightfnl Railway Accident--Intcr- ntl Herennes Slowly Increasing* ii •" 1 ~--T ' Quiet in Money Circles." Representatives of the syndicate of sterling exchange bankers, formed to pre­ vent the depletion of the ' treasury reserve, iiad a meeting at New York. J. I ' ier- j»ont Morgan is qutfted as spying: "The, strength of the exchange market to-day is entirely natural. There are no bills egalnst gold shipments and the sripply of commercial exchange is moderate. The demand for exchange is not at all urgent, "libwever:"- l leferring to London cables Intimating the probability of shipments of gold to this country in the event of a premium of 1 per cent being offered here. . IMfr. Morgan said: "We <!o not need to import gold at, this time. The only use icr gold Mould lie to settle account 's tbroad, and it would obviously be absurd import it JU a premium of 1 per cent, "fib . liquida te, , a debt due abroad. As to "the people, who want gold for hoarding -purposes, they lack the'credit and facili­ ties for obtaining it ." - - « . '• National Leasne. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball Leagi ' .e: y L. W. L. Cincinnati . . .01,; 2KFhiladelphia. .*i9 44 Baltimore . . .">4 - i Brooklyn . . . .38 4,» Cleveland . . .">•> «l<iW ashingtou. . '54 -4.• Chicago . . . . • r >- -IS New ^ (irk. . . \W 40 rit tsburg . . .45 Ml) St. Louis 2i ;>-S JBoston 4L? 39Louisville . . .21 GU • 'western League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western,-League: - W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. .>0 oODetroit . . . . .42 "'St. Paul 50 Milwaukee . .40- Minneapolis. 4S J 'nd liapids.. '11 Kansas City.46 y<5 (Join tubus . . .27 ".!) 4N 7,\ G U Internal lievenue Receipts. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has | l» s t submitted to Secretary Carlisle ta preliminary report to the operations of •his bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30. It shows that the receipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year aggregated $140,880,015, an increase of *3.5S4 ,5o7 over the re.-olpts of the pre­ ceding fiscal year. The expense approxi­ mated $4,044,351 and the percentage of cost of collection will be 2.70. a reduction of .18, as compared with the preceding -fiscal year. The exact cost cannot be definitely stated until the accounts haw been received. Die by Scores. By a collision between trains on the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads near Atlantic City. N. J. , Thursday e~ven- ing, fully fifty persons lost their l ives and the l ist may reach twice that number. An excursion train of fifteen cars packed to the doors with people from Bridgeton, Millville and other places was crossing the tracks of the Reading when a last ex­ press crashed into it , at the rate of sixty- fire miles an hour. I t is said that every person in the smoking car of the excursion train, except one colored man, was killed. Noted Spotter Deatl. John E. Hartman. a spotter in the em­ ploy of the Rittsburg Consolidated Trac­ tion Company, whose employes have been threatening to strike, was fo*tud dead. He l ived at Uniontown, Pa., but recently •went to Pittsburg from Chicago. He had a hovel way of watching employes on the cars. Instead of boarding the cars as a passenger and "wearing himself out." he •would mount his wheel at night and ride Alongside the car. The police think the spotter was murdered. Most Not Assist Cuba. President Cleveland has issued a warn­ ing proclamation concerning Cuba. He says neutrality laws shall not be violated -fcy the citizens of the United States if the chief executive can prevent it . He cal< on ,all to help the government maintain peace with Spain. Consul General Lee xeport was unfavorable to the insurgents. BREVITIES. The Irish land bill passed its third road 3ng in the house of commons Wednesday. Cox Bros. & Co. have completed ar­ rangements for driving a tunnel through the Quaquake Mountain to their mines m£ Beaver Meadow. Pa. The tunnel will be one and one-half miles in length and will give a natural drainage to all mines -4n the basin. I t will take two years to •complete the work, and from an engineer­ ing standpoint will compare with the fa­ mous Jeddo tunnel. i "At Huber's Garden, a summer resort on the elejctric l ine back of Newport, Ky., •a. faro game of considerable proportions been in progress nightly. Late Tues- <lay night two men With revolvers drawn suddenly entered the room, and. in spite- of the superior numbers of the players Sad proprietors, they emptied the pock­ et* of players aiMPthe coffers of the pro­ prietors and got away unharmed. Major William C. Moreland. ex-city at­ torney of Pittsburg, convicted of the em­ bezzlement of city funds, was sentenced to pay a fine of $20,000 and undergo three years' imprisonment in the Riverside peni­ tentiary. While the shortage on which Moreland and House were convicted was -only $20,000, the amount of Moreland'* fine, there was between $300,000 and $400 ,000 unaccounted for in the books of the city attorney. The .1. B. Hoyt "estate, at Stamford Conn., involving $4,000,000. after being ^in the courts for seven years, is to l>e settled. An agreement has been reach­ ed between the contending parties, and •within one month the whole estate will be disposed of. This is the case in which Timothy H. Porter, one of the executors <*as figured so prominently. TV. B. Clarke & Co.. one of the most SPominent of the book-selling firms of Boston, have made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Ty. B. Clarke or Sftoizel the firm in 1874. No figures are fiw*. EASTERN. : • The Grant memorial at New York city 4ns at last been completed. j£nos N. Barge, aged 21 years, and Bar 5>ara Herschey, slightly younger, were struck and instantly killed while cross Mag the track of the Pennsylvania Rail •road at Lancaster. The young woman' tbody was carried several hundred feet «B the pilot of the engine, finally being ihurled under the wheels and literally torn Into fragments, •• ;;•««. While Levi Snncomb and.Nellie Bushy sged respectiyoly IS and 10 yea^s, of <£l»a taujaj, N, iXVi.w^re 4^t|ijiiinfi5. to that vil lage about10 o'clock Saturday night, they trerft struck"by'Stt/fcTrgsfie oh the Central Vermont fthilroad as *they ,atteml»ted to cross the track. Sancomb and Missi Bushy and the horse they were driving were instantly killed. Elizabeth Baldy, an angular, sharp-fca-; tured, middle-aged woman well kndWij to the police of New York, Philadelphia aUd Baltimore, has been held to the criminal court at Baltimore, Md., on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses, biie advertised extensively for girls want­ ing employment. She admitted that she had received $2 each from at least twelve victims for whom she seeuf&l nd'ehrpKvy4 ment and who received a couple of pipers in return for their, money. The police believe that she has victimized hundreds, of poor girls. .. . * ' If* ! W E S T E R N . ' - , v . j . • ' ' j I t is believed by the leaders of the Cleveland,. '() . , strike at the Brown hoist- ' ing works that terms' of settlement be­ tween the men and company will be agreed upon, and that Work wiH be re­ sumed at once. Propositions have been made which are likely to be accepted, but the locked out men refuse to give the terms of the settlement; A gang of forty convicts from the Uni­ ted States penitentiary' were being work-- ed on the prison farm on the Fort Leav­ enworth, Kan., reservation Tuesday af­ ternoon when they became mutinous and made a futile break for liberty. The guards spirted* shooting as soon as the prisoners ran, and nearly all the convicts dropped on the ground to avoid being killed. ' \ . • The following noniinatwns were made by Missouri Republicans in Stale •.con" volition:. For Governor, R. K. Lewis; Lieutenant Governor, A. C. Pettijolin; Supreme Judge.-I.J wdolp'h Ilerschel; Rail­ way and Warehouse Commissioner. Geo. N. Stile: Secretary of State. Wm. P. Free­ man; State Auditor. John G. Bishop: State Treasurer, ,T. F. (.iomelich; At tor-, . , nev General. John Kennish: E!eetors-nf- Large, Jos. B. Fpton. Col. John B. Hale: Judge of St. Louis Court of Appeals. R. K. Rombauer: Judge of Kansas City Court of Appeals, James S. Botsford. Rev. Joshua S. Smith has tiled a petition in the circuit court at Independence, Mo., asking a divorce from his wife, Nannie Smith, whom, the petitioner recites, lie married at Stillwater, O. T.. in April , ISOo. The plaintiff alleges'that Ins wife-; spread the report among his congregation at Stillwater that she was his common law wife. By this act he lost his posi­ tion. At Oswego she spread similar re­ ports, with a like result . In addition, lie alleges, she one day smashed the win­ dows in their house and threw his val­ uable theological l ibrary into the street. When he tried to pick up the volumes she threatened to shoot him, and the plaintiff was compelled to call in a policeman. The Cheyenne aud Arapahoe Indians ere becoming res t ive and t rouble i s f e a r ­ ed. Sixty I to and Pueblo Indians from Western Colorado have st irred up a com­ motion at the reservation by introducing "the corn dance," similar to the ghost dance, which causes the Indians to be­ come wildly excited. The visiting In­ dians evaded Indian Agent Woodson and for two days gave their new dance in a secluded spot against his orders. Wood­ son finally corralled the Colorado Indians and sent them home. For teaching them the new dance, the Cheyenne and Ara- pahoes gave the visiting braves a line herd of ponies recently purchased for the Indian" for use in cultivating their farms. A Hood at Springfield, (_>., Friday de­ stroyed property in the city to.the value of $25,000 and crops in the county to the value of $75,000. Buck Creek, which flows through the city, became a-,raging torrent and washed the ballasting from the Big Four Railroad at the High street bridge for 100 feet, and also washed the outer abutments to the bridge. The.Ohio Southern tracks we'rs under Water for miles and it was impossible to run trains. The Grand Opera House foundation sunk three inches, cracking the walls. Scores of families at the bottoms were rescued by boats and thcr gardens and household effects destroyed or carried away. Snyder Park is damaged to the amount of $12,- 000. A cloudburst in Bear Creek canyon, just above "Morrison, Colo., Friday nigiit sent do'Wn a solid wall of water ten feet high, which not only did grent damage to property, but caused the loss of fifteen to twenty lives. A party of campers, fifteen or eighteen in number, were living in a small house just below town. All but one are lost, but their names could not be learned. Viola Foster, a lit t le Denver girl who was with this party, was saved. Searching parties are out on both sides of the stream looking for bodies of dead and injured. It is feared there has been more loss of l ife, as .there were scores of people camping along both sides of the creek, both above and below the town. W ires were down in all directions, ex­ cept the telephone line to Leadville. At Golden, Colo., three lives are known 1o be lost and thousands of dollars ' worth of property is destroyed. gold reserve has risen to $108,000,000. I t was the tiilfc of Wall street thnt the pnv gran undertaken by the local bankers meet*' with the approval of the bankers abroad, particularly in London. Confer­ ences, i t was said, were "feeld in London for the purpose of perfecting arrange­ ments to facilitate the carrying out of tfie policy determined upon here; I t is said that the foreign bankers are prepared to furnish $50,000,000 in sterling exchange and $75,000,000 if necessary. FOREIGN. SOUTHERN. A Chinaman named Ah Yen, who was in jail at El Paso,. Texas, awaiting de­ portation to China for being unlawfully in this country, cut his throat with a razor and will die. He claimed that .1 Chinaman testified falsely against him, and he wanted to die and return to earth in the shape of a ghost to fcill the false w J i tness. • * - At a campaign meeting at Florence, C., Judge Joseph H. Earle, candidate for the United States Senate to succeed J. L. M. Irbv, and Gov. John Gary Evans, who is a candidate for the same office, ime to blows. Earle struck Evans first and Evans responded by a blow under the eve. They wore quickly surrounded and separated. Several men had their hands on their pistols, but comparative quiet was restored and Gov. Evans at­ tempted to continue his speech amid much disorder. I t is reported that a race war has oc­ curred about fifteen miles east of Jas­ per, Fla., in which six men were killed and seven seriously wounded. The trag­ edy is said to have'taken place at Hag­ gard's turpentine stil l , where many ne­ groes are-employed. - I t is reported that the colored men gave a party, and while it was in .progress a number of white men intrude! and the shooting resulted. A posse of white men left Jasper Sunday ht for the scene of the tragedy and if the reports of the affair are found to be true, further trouble is expected. W A S HINGTON. No answer hrffc been received by the Stale Department at Washington from Edward P. T. Hammond, United States consul at Budapest, who has been asked to resign. State Department officials de­ cline to discuss the published statements that charges have been tiled against the consul, but merely say that hm resigna­ tion has been asked for because "he was not acceptable to the Austrian govern ment." Friends have intervened in Mr Hammond's behalf, but the department recognizes the right of foreign govern inents to insist on the withdrawal of otfi cials who may be obnoxious to them An official l ist made up Saturday of the contributions of gold to the treasury from the New York banks shows a total of $17,245,000 from fifty institutions.- ' I t is not 1 ikely-tbafc.any .material additions -will be m«tde . to. the list until a failing away of the surpius.ahall demand .it. Gold to the amount of $1,500,000 was turned into the sub-treasury S*turd/yr. The . . . tJhitcd States .Minister Albert.S. Willis •will return to Hawaii the latter part of this month. ; - A. J . Balfour, first lord of t . lw^tr?apciry and government leader in the House of Commons, replying to a question in the .IIpusc. said that the.,t ime.had not yet ar- i rived to consider the matter of advising the queen to paj;don the Irish prisoners convjcted'of treason, the suggestion hav­ ing been made that her majesty, grant a pardon to such c.Quvicts upon the sixtieth anniversary of her acccssiou to the throne. United States Minister Buchanan and Mr. Zeballos are making preparations to wejeome the visiting merchants from the United States at the legation at Buenos Ay res. Many business corporations are also ready to do-honor to their northern visitors. r i».e government will appoint one of the directors of the statistical- board to wait upon the travelers and give them every "aid in studying trude, in Ar- geutina. Their journey in the republic will be made on an official train. • Colon, Colombia, dispatch: The Gov­ ernment -is making provision to meet an •unseen enemy. The- mobilization of-trOops continues. A large number of soldiers have arrived at Bocas.del Toro. The.gun­ boat Cordova has resumed active service, amt is landing munitions of war here. The isfhmiun Press publishes the Colombia agreement that the personal subsidiary tax collected from British subjects shall not be used for military • purposes, and that all nationalities will have to pay it . The collection is causing much friction. The court-martial of Guillermo Coll, Jose Delgada and GonZ'ales was conduct­ ed at Havana Thursday. Coll is captain of the steamer Genoveva. and when cap­ tured was carrying Major Jorge Aquirre, a Cuban leader, presumably to Havana. The other two were with him on the boat. Coll claimed that he was forced, under penalty of death, to make the trip, and Jose Aquirre Santinste, who says he is an American and lives in New York, con­ tinued this testimony, saying lie was the person who intimidated Coll. He said he was en route to Havana at the time to surrender. No decision was rendered. When the Mariposa sailed from San Francisco for Australia Friday she had among her passengers two political ref­ ugees from England, who were ringlead­ ers in the Johannesburg outbreak, and who left I 'aris three weeks ago at the in­ stance of the British Government to make themselves inaccessible as valuable witnesses for an official inquiry into the origin of the uprising in South Africa. The men are now on their way to Austra­ lia. One is Captain W. S. Patterson of Stirling. Scotland, who is bound for Syd­ ney. The other is Thomas R. Graham, an Englishman, upon whose calling card appears the address "200 West One Hun­ dred and Eighteenth street. New York City." His destination is1 Brisbane. Sheridan P. Read, United States consul at Tien-Tsin, in a communication to the Department of State, says the commerce of that city is increasing very rapidly, and there'is now i:i and around the foreign concessions marked activity in the -con­ struction of new warehouses, private resi­ dences and public improvements. The new German concessions will extend the mooring place of vessels on the front over a mile. Many new firms, mostly German, from other Chinese treaty ports, have es­ tablished themselves at Tien-Tsin to be participators in the growing trade of the port. I t is regrettable, says the consul, that there is no representative American firm with ample capital at its back estab­ lished at Tien-Tsin, through which a large part of the trade should rightfully pass. The city, by its geographical posi­ tion. is the point of accumulation aud dis­ tribution of all merchandise destined for the United States. The jury in the Jameson South Africa case at London returned a verdict that all the defendants had been found guilty of the charge of violating the neutrality laws in invading the territory of the South Af­ rican republic. Besides Dr. Jameson, the defendants were': Major Sir John Wil- loughby. Col. R. Grey, Col. II . F. White, M ajor R. While and Captain Henry F. Coventry. Dr. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment without labor, Sir John Willoughby to ten months' imprisonment. Major R. White to seven mouths' imprisonment and Captain Henry F. Coventry, Col. R. Grey and Col. H. •F. White to five months' imprisonment each. Lord Russell 's remarks were dis­ tinctly hostile to the defendants. He be­ gan by pointing out that there was no doubt the prisoners had taken part in or abetted the proceedings at Pitsanit , and Mafeking, where the invading forces were mustered preparatory to entering the Transvaal. It was entirely unimportant, in the opinion of Lonl Russell , whether the foreign enlistment act had bOen pro­ claimed at the places named in 1895. There was no doubt the expedition was of a military character,-and whether it Was aimed to overthrow the Transvaal gov­ ernment or to force a change of the laws in the interests of others, i t was equally an expedition against a friendly State. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago-Cattle, common to prime, .50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.<MJ to $X.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $1-5.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 58c to 5'Jc; corn. No. 2, 24c to 20c; oats, No. 2, ISo to 10c: rye. No. 2. ">0c to o2c; butter, hoi^g'creamery, l." '>c to 15c: eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; new potatoes, per bushel, 25c to 40c; broom corn, common short to choice dwarf, $2."> to $00 i>er ton. These Are the Candidates of Ihe People's Party. WILD SCENE EN ACTED Nebraslcan Carries the Conven* tion with a Whoop. "fioy Orntor of the Platte" Is Named for President by More than Two- Thirds Majority at the Populist National Convention--His Refusal to Run Without Sewall for a Mate le Ignored--Great Confusion At­ tends the Callins; of the Roll. last, after sis hours of speech-making, the roll call on the ballot was reached, j When Alabama, the first State, was call­ ed she divided her vote between Bryan and Nortou. ' Arkansas gave her twenty- five yptes for Bryan; Colorado, Connecti­ cut and Delaware voted solidly for Bryan. Georgia gave five of her sixty-one votes for Norton of Ill inois. As the roll call proceeded it became apparent that Bryan would b6 nominated before i t was com­ pleted. At its conclusion the tally clerks had figured the totals, and without further delay Chairman AUen announced the of­ ficial vote as: Bryan, 1,042; Norton, 21; Donnelly, 1. It was then 4:22. Someone made a motion to adjourn. The chair­ man put the motion and declared the con­ vention adjourned sine die. The Vote by States. Following is the vote by States, the totals being those announced to the con­ vention: W. J. Bryan was nominated at St. Louis Saturday afternoon by the Populists as their candidate for "President off i se Unit­ ed States. Only two other candidates were,nomi­ nated to content the field, against Brynh. One was Seymour F. Norton, a lawyer from Chicago, and the d$h<\r, was (!eu. Coxey.- The general 's name was with­ drawn before, the balloting was- begun. Eugene V. Debs would have been a can­ didate had be hot sent a message to the convention declining to accept the nomi­ nation. The voting was all one way, and when the result ' was announced bedlam; broke loose and pandemonium reigiied for fifteen or twenty minutes. The Texas, Arkansas and Maine middle-of-the-road men, with their guidons together, took uo part in the demonstration. The middle-of-the-road men finally massed about their standard on the left of the hull, ;about i>O0 in number, and made a counter demonstration. They cheered and yelled and pushed and fought for ten minutes. The sergeants at arms were powerless to restore order, and, af­ ter rapping for five minutes, Chairman Allen declared Mr. Bryan the ucmince of the convention. - At the first session Friday the anti- Sewull people moved to change the rules und mahe the nomination of candidate for Vice-President the lirst order of business, preceding the nomination for President. I t was generally understood this was a test vote on the Sewall proposition, and on it the anti-Sewall people were victori­ ous by 100 majority. Cen. J, B. Weaver, chairman of the committee on resolutions, read the plat­ form as agreed to by the majority of the committee. Marked applause was given to the pro­ nouncement- for free coinage of silver,- against interest-bearing bonds, the de­ nunciation of the position of the present administration on the bond question; the income tax provision, and the Cuban plank. The platform was adopted as a wnole after the minority reports of Dele­ gates Kirby of Texas and Coxey of Ohio had been rejected. The convention met for i ts evening ses­ sion at 0:o0 o'clock and speeches iiomi- •liating candidates for Vice-President were declared to he i" order. HtHf a dOa~ en candidates were put up.< Thomas E. Watson of Georgia had the greatest num­ ber of friends. No fewer than two dozen speeches were made in his behalf. The other candidates named were Sewall, Skinner of North Carolina, Buriiit t of Mississippi, Minims of Tennessee and Even Page of Virginia. All the candi­ dates save Sewall were rrom the South, there being a tacit understanding that a straight-out Populist from that section should be placed upon the ticket. When the roll was called Arkansas started off with twenty-five votes for Wat­ son. Mr. Patterson of Colorado cast the forty-five votes of his State for Sewall amid a round of applause from the Bryan men. Indiana gave..her thirty votes to Watson. Kansas gave Sewall eighty-two of her ninety-five votes. Louisiana gave the bulk of her vote to Watson, Mary­ land divided her vote between Sewall and Watson. North Carolina cast her ninety- five votes for Skinner, Tennessee voted for Minims and Texas for Burki.tt . This split up the large delegations. Before the roll call was completed, however, Texas changed her vote to Watson and there were other changes in favor of the Georgian. Col. Burkitt of Mississippi went to the stand and withdrew his name. Then Minims withdrew in Watson's fa­ vor. The Georgian already had votes enough to nominate, but the vote of Ten­ nessee was finally transferred to his col­ umn. Some one made the motion to make the nomination 1111:1 uiulous and it was carried with a whoop. Senator Allen called the convention to order at V):. ' t5 o 'clock Saturday morning. After the invocation the chairman an­ nounced that the first thing in order was the selection of members of the national committee and the committees to notify the candidates for President and Vice- President. Several resolutions were pre­ sented and referred without reading or debate. Weaver Names Bryan. The chairman then called for the nomi­ nations of President and Vice-President, and Judge Green of Nebraska took the stage to place Mr. Bryan in nomination. A Texas delegate interrupted with a point of order that the States must be called in alphabetical order for nominations. Judge Green was driven off the stage by the Texan's point of order. When Ala­ bama was called Gov. Kolb yielded to (Jen. Weaver of Iowa, but Col. Gaither of Alabama got to the platform first and interjected a speech alwut joining the cotton fields of the South with the wheat fields of the West. At the. conclusion of ii is remarks Gen. Weaver came for- Bryan. Norton. Alabama.. ' . . . l iS 1-4 14 3-4 Arkansas 25 14 3-4 California . . 24 12 "" Colorado . . 4 n Connecticut . . 0 Delaware a Florida 8 . . . . Georgia . . 50 5 Idaho T • • • • I l l inois . . . . 3D 15 Indiana*. . . 20 10 Iowa i . 27 1 Kansas . ' . . . . . 1)2 Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1-2 io 1-2 Louisiana . . . . . . 30 Maine 3 '5 ' Maryland . . . . . . . . 0 ,...... Massachusetts . . 2 .1 Michigan . . IU 11 Minnesota , . . . 411 4 Mississippi, . . . 12 (J Missouri 0 - 32 . .Montana . . . . . . . . 11 Nebraska . . r>~" . • ,t..... Nevada . 7 " • H V • •• New Hampshire. . 4 , T i Vi V *' New Jersey. , . . . . / . . . . . . . 10 New-'York. . . . . . . . . , . . . . . 34 3-4 •01-4 North .Carolina . . . . . . , , 70 35 North Dakota": . t f . 12 Ohio . . 21 • n ' "" fu&gon .-. : it 4-9 7 5-9 Pennsylvania : 55 Rhode Island South Carolina. .- ' i i ' South Dakota. !! i i"" Tennessee . . 07 io ' Texas 103 Utah "s"" Vermont 3 Virginia . . 50 it" "" Washington . . 10 l i Wisconsin S 4-5 IK 1-5 West Virginia 5 7-8 2 1-8 Wyoming 0 Arizona (5 Indian Terri tory <f New Mexico 0 Distr ict of Columbia. . . 6 Oklahoma It Alaska (I Totals . . .1.047 331 TEBRORS IN,THE TOILS. Temperature Needed to Hatch Eggs. Artificial incubation is a very an­ cient practice, as early as the tinio ot ' Herodotus, 400 years before the Christian era, beaug so well known in Egypt that, as he says, 10,000,000 of chickens were annually hatched in the ovens used by the dwellers in the val­ ley of the Nile. As they had no ther­ mometers by the aid of which tiie heat could be kept uniform, it be­ comes a niatfor of interest to know what means they employed. The in­ cubation temperature is about that of the body of the living fowl, from 100 to 103 degrees Fahrenheit, and even with watchfulness ami delicate appliances for regulating the heat it is .sometimes no easy matter to main­ tain'the temperature at or near the same point. The Egyptians did ic sole- ly_by the touch. By placing the hand in the oven and feeling the egg.s, they determined whether they were too cool or too hot, and so knew whether to In­ crease or to diminish the'heat. I t is a marvelous illustration of the ex­ tent to which the education of the senses can be carried, but there was money in i t for them, and hence the training. A Strange Clock. Perhaps the strangest of all clocks is to be found in India, being one in possession of a Hindu prince. Accord­ ing to a description, near the dial of an ordinary-looking clock is a large gong hung on poles, while underneath, scat­ tered on the ground, is a pile of artifi­ cial human skulls, ribs, legs and arms, the whole number of bones in the pile being equal to the number of bones in twelve human skeletons. When the hands of the clock indicate the hour of 1, the number of bones needed to form a complete human skeleton come to­ gether with a snap; by some mechan­ ical contrivance the skeleton springs up, seizes a mallet, and, walking up to the gong strikes one blow. This fin­ ished, it returns to the pile, and again falls to pieces. When 2 o'clock arrives two skeletons get up, and strike, while at the hour of noon and midnight the entire heap springs up in the shape of twelve skeletons, aiul strikes, each one after Ihe other, a blow on the gong, and then fall to pieces, as before. 1 ndiauapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to ward and formally placed Mr. Bryan $4.50; hogs, choice light. ¥3.00 to S3.75; sheen, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2. 55c to 50c; corn, No. 1 white. 20c to 28c; oats, No. 2 while, 10c to 21c. St. Louis--Cattle. 53.50 to $4.50: hog>, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, .">Sc to 50c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 'J'Jc to 24c: oats. No. 2 white, ISc to 10c"; rye, No. 2, 2Sc to 30c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.."">0 to $4 .50: hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, 01c to <»3c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 2Sc to 30c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 28c to 31c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.00 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2 red, 64c to 05c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 31c to 32c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red. 04c to 05c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 20c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 10c 1o 21c; rye. No. 2, 32c to 34c; clover seed, $4.05 to $4.75. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 58c to 00c; corn, No. 3, 20c to 2Sc; oats. No. 2 vyhije. 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2, 30c to 32c"; ' rye. No. 1, 31c to 32c; pork, mess, I 'uJip to $0.25. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs $3.00 to $-1.25; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00 wheat. No. 2 red, 04c to 05c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York--Cattle, $3,00 to' $4.75; hogs $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; No. 2 Ved, Q6c to 07c; corn, No. '2; 81e?to&Hc; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; buffer,' creamery, l ie to 10c; eggs, West , em, lie to 14c. nomination. Gen. Weaver in his opening remarks asked the convention not to applaud, and the delegates listened to him without much demonstration. Km when he con­ cluded by miming "that splendid young statesman. William J. Bryan," the con vention broke loose. Cheer followed cheer. The delegates jumped to their chairs, aud flag*, handkerchiefs, coats, hats and |S.UUe ,- ' .guidons were waved in wild confusion. ' The enthusiasm that fol­ lowed Gen. Weaver's speech was some­ thing terrific. Miss Minerva Roberts led the cheering in the Colorado delegation. While the demonstration was at its height thousands of copies of the "Bryan Silver March" were til ing high in air and fell in clouds on the franti 'r* delegates. When cjuiel was restored Gen. Field, of Virginia, who was Gen. Weaver's run ning mate in ISO'J, hobbled forward on his crutch, and. after a brief speech, mov­ ed to suspend the rules and make Bryan's nom'mntion unanimous. The convention rose^almost en masse and cheered, but above the chorus of cheers came the sliarp cries of the Texas men. "No." "no they yelled. Chairman Allen declared the motion carried, but. yielding to th protest, decided to allow a call of State on the. motion. The Texas men wildly protested. The'Nebraskan having assert­ ed that he positively would not accept the nomination if Sewall was rejected. Hob crt Schilling of Wisconsin attempted t.i secure a recess until Bryan could 1* hoard from, bot he was howled dow.n •J he greatest? confusion prevailed, and Bryan's nomination was seconded by «r{£tors from nearly every State, and at The Whole Gnnjc of Chicago Robber* Now Under Arrest. After five months of terror, caused by a series of the most daring robberies ever perpetrated in any cit§-, Chicago now rests easily, for the perpetrators are in custody. For some lime the police have had out their drag net and have arrested every suspicious character. they have found in the city limits. More than a hundred have been hauled into the^cells, but i t is now almost cer­ tain that only ten men havi been implicated in the robberies. These ten are Red Sul­ livan and John Orme. the lead- ! ' ers of the gang who have become famous as "the "JJKI>" BUI.LIVAX. long and the jshort men," Thomas McGowan, Mi- (Chael Monahnn. James Dempsey, Barney 'Hunt, Alfred alias "Sleepy" Burivb, Jo­ seph Gordon, Jesse Thames and John McLane. The: police are stil l looking for Jesse Thames. The others are ( under ar- irest. All of the prisoners are under 22 years, of age, but are old in crime. Some of tn»m were waifs and bootblacks who never knew a home; others are the vicious children of respected-parents. I t was OVER FORTY DEAD. FLYING EXF*ftESS CUTS EXCUR­ SION TRAIN IN TWO. while confined in the Poritiac reformatory last year that a criminal organization was formed among them, at the instigation of Orme, who is 21 years old. An oath bound aeli member of the society to the other by a pledge of death. Any one who be­ trayed another member of the society was to be put to death. If arrested and put on the witness stand and he told the truth there, he was to 1k> shot in the court room. If he was put in a police sweat box and. betrayed his comrades a bullet was to end his existence at the first opportunity. On the other hand, if one of them was captured and remained loyal, every effort was to be made for his re­ lease. Money was to be used and this failing, i t was arranged that the others were to go into whatever court room (heir associate might be in with their pis-, fols. stand off the bailiffs, shoot down the police who might resist them, and fly with the rescued one. In the event res- cae in a court room wiis not favorable, they liudanother scheme for rescue. That was to follow the train on which their convicted associate would be, hold it up when it was in ihe country and take him off. That is the kind of young fellows the police department has been fighting against all spring and summer. Chief Badenoch says that in his l ifetime and with the knowledge which he has of once anions Chicago criminals, he has never met with a more bloodthirsty or better organized band of thieves than the one which Orme put together. In February the gang who had finished their terms at the reformatory began their depredations. Citizens were held up on their way home at night. In almost every instance assault folowed the rob­ bery and the victims in some cases were found unconscious in the streets. The thugs transferred their operations to the large stores and the depredations there have been alarming. More than a score of business places have been robbed and one murder has been committed. That more lives have not been sacrificed is due to the fact that the robbers have not met The Ancients ami Soap. Whether soap, made of the ingredi­ ents now used, was known to the an­ cients much before the Christian era is questionable. The term most used by the Itomaus to designate a cleans­ ing substance means fuller 's eaiili , which is known to have been employed, not onlV in their baths, but alsd in washing clothing. The Hebrew word translated "soap" in several places in the Scriptures is merely a general ex­ pression for any cleansing subs:.uice, and the Jews, Greeks and Romans are known to have scrubbed themselves with sand and clay, often also employ­ ing soda anil certain roots that make a white lather. Pliny mentions soap as known in his time, and his statement is confirmed by the discovery at Pom­ peii of a soap boiler 's establishment with a considerable Quantity of soap in a fairly good state of preserva ion. The Postoftloe System. Few persons realize what a big thimr is our postotiice system. At the close of the fiscal year of 1804 the number of postoffices was 00.S05, while the number of miles included in the postal routes was 454.740. The salaries of the postmasters were $15.S(>2.021, and $41,170,054 were paid to companies or individual* for the transportation of the malls. The revenue of ti ie de­ partment. was $15,080.410. and its ex­ penditures amounted to the enormous sum of $84,324,414. And yet this tre­ mendous institution, reaching, as it does, every neighborhood in this eouii try. is but one department of our great Government. It i-i a peculiarity of Ashauti thnt tlu common names, seven in number, corre spomi to the days of the week. "Kwa sie." indicates a man born on Sunday "Kudjoe" on Monday, "Kwabina" on Tuesday. "Kwaku" on Wednesday "Vao" on Thursday. "TvofFi" oil Friday and "Ivwamina". on Saturday. Thei> are all accented on the final syllable. .7. W. Bradjmry. the oldest livlmr tx Senator of thoX!nl(ed Stages, celebrated the ninety-fourth anniversary 6f his^ birth at his fiome in Augusta, Maine. CHIEF OF POLICE, BADENOCH. MONAHAN. Awful Disaster Occnts at a Crossing Near .Jersey City--Kending Kxpre<*« Catches a West Jersey i-xeursiou. BroajJsiUe--Sixty Are Injured. with resistance, for they were prepared at all t imes to shoot down whoever op­ posed them. Their method almost inva­ riably was to enter a store, draw revolv­ ers, get the drop on all present and then grab the money box and escape before the frightened proprietors, employes or cus­ tomers could regain their senses suffi­ ciently to act. Sometimes two men did the robbing, sometimes three, four or five, but in nearly every case a tall man and short man took a leading part, and fully half the robberies were committed by these two without assistance. The tall nian was very thin. The short man had a red face covered with blotches and pimples. For weeks the police seemed d(unfounded. Almost in their sight the robbers operated as boldly as if 1 1 0 iwlice officer existed. The activity displayed by the gang was something surprising and the detectives never knew where they were going to operate next. One night tl ;ey would do a job in the center of the city and a few hours later they would complete another ten miles away. This they kept up for weeks. Finally about two weeks ago lted Sullivan was captured while drunk anil from him was obtained information which led'to the arrcsT ot the others. Orme, Dempsey and Monahan were the last to be arrested. They were captured in De­ troit . where they had laid plans for simi­ lar work. Ortne. the leader, is a good dresser an.1 would he taken for a student. There is nothing about him to suggest a criminal and on,this aceouut he succeeded so well, Orme generally walked into the stores first and the soft smile on his face would disarm suspicion until he got close to the person he intended to cover, when he would pull out the big revolver and shove it at the man. saying in a low voice: "Now be quiet or I will blow daylight through you." Scores Are Killed. A flying express train on the Reading: and Atlantic City Ilailroad crashed. inp» a West Jersey Kai 'road. excursion train at the crossing of the two roads Thurs­ day night. At least forty people were* killed outright and about sixty injured. Of the killed twelve were women, twenty- four men and four children. The eras Ik Was the most disastrous in the history of eastern railroad traffic. The accident was the result of a col-, lision between tin- 5:40 p. m. express train from Philadelphia over the Reading and Atlantic City Railroad,and aa excur'sioa of Red Men from Bridgeton, N-. ,L. and vi­ cinity, returning from Atlantic City, over the West Jersey Railroad, at the crossing of the two roads .a short 'distance out of Atlantic" City. At the second signal tower the tracks of the two roads cross diagonally. The Read­ ing train was given the signal, bin St either failed to work or the speed of the ; express was, too great to be checked in time/- It caught the,-.excursion train- broadside and plowed through It , l i terally cleaving it in twain A . The engine of. the Reading train was shattered to'"pieces. Every car was jammed to lls fii i lest ca­ pacity! 1" .As soon as the news reached Atlantic- City the utmost consternation prevailed. Relief trains were dispatched to the scene, loaded, With cots and bearing staff 's "of surgeons. As fast as the bodies were re­ covered they were carried into the local hospitals and undertakers ' shops. A gen­ eral fire alarm was sounded, and the de­ partment promptly responded and aided in the work of digging for the victims. The worst fears were realized as the vigorous work of the relief gangs revealed the awful extent of the disaster. The first Reading relief train bore into the city twenty-seven mangled corpses, men. wom­ en and children. ' Ihe next train, not ail hour later, carried fifteen of the maimed and wounded, and two of these died soon after reaching the city. . Hospitals Overtaxed. As train after train was hurried to the scene of the wreck and came back with its ghastly load the sanitarium which does duty as the city hospital quickly found its capacity overtaxed. Meanwnile oth­ ers of the dead and injured were being carried to the private hospital at Ocean and Pacific avenues. Edward Farr. engineer of the Reading train, was killed outright, as was another road man who rode on the engine with him. This man saw the collision coming and leaped from the cab an instant before the crash. Almost at the same instant the engine cut i ts way .through find caught him directly in i ts path. His body and that of Farr were found under a heap of debris, but the engineer lay in what re­ mained of the cab and his right hand stil l grasped the throttle. He had been faith­ ful unto death and met it at his post. The fireman roii -t he train had -leape<l--a--few- seconds before and escaped with trifling injuries. Not Known Who Is to Bfame. The excursion train was made up of fifteen cars, the foremost of which was a baggage car. This and the n.»xt two coaches caught the full force of the crash and were utterly demolished. What re- niained°of the third car was fumbled into a ditch at the roadside. The responsi­ bility for the accident cannot now be fixed. Charles Itynick, of Bridgeton. who was in the excursion party, was in one of the rear cars. "When we saw that a col­ lision was una voidable," he said, "the scene in our car was terrific. Women fainted and men rushed in mad panic for the door. But it came almost before we had time to think. One car was cut right in two and the lower portion of it l ifted bodily from the track and tumbled over. The roof of one of the cars fell in a mass and everybody in that car was buried un­ der it . I t simply dropped on fop of the people. I don't know who is to blame. When we were a bout two miles out from Atlantic City. X. J. , we came to a stop out in the meadows and stayed there for sev­ eral minutes, but I do not know why. I think there must have been fully eighty of 100 killed. The only person -with me was my 0-year-old son, and he was not hurt." Fourteen of fhe injured are reported to have died at the sanitarium. Superintendent I . N. Swigard, of the Philadelphia and Reading Company, places the number of dead at thirty-seven and the injured at about the same num­ ber. William Thur'ow, the operator at the block tower situated at the crossing, has been placed under arrest by order of the coroner. Scene nt the Fatal Ploce. An Associated Press reporter was on one of the first relief trains sent out. by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The train was in charge of a number of railroad offi­ cials and Prosecutor Perry of Atlantic County. It drew up in the darkness a few feet this side of the fatal point. Stag­ gering in and out of ditches and stum­ bling over masses of broken timber, with only a few lanterns, the rescue gang set bravely to work. Axes and shovels were piled with the greatest vigor, and almost at every half a dozen strokes a mangle*! form was brought up and laid tenderly on the pallets. It was a terrible task, and the strongest of men turned aside, faint from the revelations of the workers. A heap of blood-stained timbers, turned aside by one of the rescuers, brought to sight a woman's arm. It had been wrenched off at the shoulder. Not five minutes later a chance blow from a pick revealed a human heart. Serious floods have occurred in {he Ber' .e/ . Alps, the .lura mountains and the canton of Valid and the lower vnllais of Switzerland. Bridges have been carried away,-roads destroyed and railway trav­ el interrupted; Much damage has been done to.crops. No fatalit ies are reported. Another blue book on Venezuela has b«o issued by the English foreign office- A Poisonous Orchid. Few departments of botany are more interesting than that in which are con­ sidered the various ways in which na­ ture provides for the protection of cer­ tain plants. A singular defensive qual­ ity has been discovered iu a compara­ tively common orchid, one of the oldest of cultivated species. This plant has deckled poisonous properties. The j>oi- son is localized in the stems and leaves, and those who are imprudent, enough to handle the orchid instantly find them­ selves attacked by a special cutaneous irritation, which resembles in some measure that which appears iu persons who have handled poison ivy. The of­ fensive substance consists of an oily matter secreted by the glaaular hairs. This matter is found, as iu the Chinese primrose, deposited between the cellu­ lar wall tuul the cuticle of the terminal cellule of the hair. I t is set. free by the rupture' of the cuticle. This poisonous secretion seems to perform the function of protecting the reproductive portion of the plant, for the virulence of the poi­ son and the quantity secreted increase as the plant develops, and attain a max­ imum duringthe formation of the seedii.