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; mmmm • «*..;* »-^h»»V»-. mm. ;-\'-r •.* ... , 5^$£'3 '4VV ... ' - '". " ;' 13 THE PLAINDEALEB J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and p£b. McHKNRY, ILLINOIS. LAKE TRAFFIC BOOM. fGIANT VESSELS TO BE ADDED TO THE FLEET. |Ckicaso Shipyards Were Never 80 Busy -- Secretary Carlisle Contem­ plates Resumption of Issue of Gold Certificates. • Contracts for Bier Boats. f Contracts for over $3,000,000 worth tef new vessels for the lakes have been Closed in Chicago and employment has "been given to 3,500 men who a month ago •were facing the winter with no food in {their clipboards, 110 coal in their cellars •nd no work ahead. The great shipyart So the Calumet River will keep a vast ktmy of men sit work from now until well iovvard midsummer in the construction of tew vessels for lake service. The ship- jyard now leads all others on the,lakes in ffche'. amount of new tonnage under con-; .tract, and;is in the front' rank,of -Amen-, •can shipyards'engaged in the construction kit the merchant,marine. Last week com tracts were closed for two steamers and & large steel. sfchobner, in .addition to tlie igreat steamer Crescent City, which will 'Jlead all lake craft in carrying <tapaoit£ iend general construction. These. lour •V. 1>oals would have been considered ample •_ %ork. for the winter under ordinary cir­ cumstances, but Wednesday the contract for still another vessel, the largest steel Schooner on the lakes, was announced. It will be for James Corrigan, the promi­ nent iron-mining man of Cleveland, and • , liis associates in the iron trade. Gold Certificates. • The Secretary of the Treasury is eon- Isidering the question of resuming the Sssue of gold certificates, which was sus­ pended in 1893 when the gold reserve first Sell below the ,$100,000,000 point. The Jssue of these certificates was .suspended ms a means of acquiring gold in the treas­ ury. Theretofore it had been the custom of the treasury to issue certificates on the deposit of gold, but such gold did not become part of'the gold reserve. By sus­ pending the issue of those certificates many holders of gold, rather than hold it. exchanged it for legal tenders and treas­ ury notes, which, under the ruling of the department being gold obligations, prac­ tically subserved their purposes, but the treasury on receipt of gold so discharged iwas enabled to add it to the sold reserve. As long as the treasury adhered to its pol­ icy of redeeming legal tenders and treas­ ury notes in gold the holders of such jiotes could obtain gold on demand as ^readily on them as on gold certificates.' Since the gradual increase of the gold reserve such leaders believe that there is no reason why the issue of gold certifi­ cates should not be resumed. The mat­ ter is now before Secretary Carlisle, and probably will be decided upon the return 'of Assistant Secretary Curtis from New jYork, It. is understood that Mr. Carlisle jg riot fqvnptihly disposed toward the re- fcumptiou. The issue of currency certifi­ cates under the act of 1872 has never "been suspended.^ ^ Beqtsest to Church of England. " A London dispatch says: For the third time within four months the Episcopal churfh and allied societies have received a windfall exceeding §1,000,000. This time the benefactor is Alfred Marriott, a wealthy retired manufacturer, of York­ shire, who died a few weeks since./ I^is will, which has just been offerejl^or pro­ bate. bequeaths $2,000,000 to the Church of England and its ally, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The will directs that the money shall be devoted toward the ereeti'on of churches in the poorest and most thickly populated dis­ tricts of London and of foreign countries, and to the enlarging of hospitals or ref­ uges for orphan children or fallen women. f - - Express Train Wrecked. The engine, baggage and mail car of the Southern Express-frum Florida, on the Pennsylvania 'Railway, was thrown from the tracks at New Brunswick. X. ,T.. early Wednesday morning. The engineer and fireman were instantly killed, and three Lven were injured--one badly. The three sleepers did not leave the rails. The accident was caused by the breaking of an axle on a car of a freight train which was passing south on another track. The car swung out from its place and struck the forward end of the passenger train, knocking the engine and two cars down an embankment. None of the passengers Was hurt. Winners at Foot-Ball. 'k In Thursday's football games the Chi­ cago Athletic Association won from the Boston eleven, 12 to 6. Chicago Univer­ sity won from Ann Arbor, 7 to 6. North­ western and Wisconsin Universities played a tie. Cornell was beaten by f. Pennsylvania, 32 to 10. Purdue of In­ diana with the University of Illinois, and Iowa and Nebraska, tied. Washington, a Colored man. At the Cen­ tral police station Dr. Taylor examined the man's mouth and convinced Magis­ trate McGary that Washington's-teeth fitted the marks in the pit; This novel evidence was accepted.by the Magistrate, who held Washington in $1,000 bail for court. At Lynn, Mass., the°timely arrival of the police prevented a riot at an Armenian meeting Sunday night. The meeting was an attempt to amalgamate two branches of |he Ilechagist Revolutionary Society, an Armenian organization, to which nearly everyone of the 300 Armenians in that city belong. Soon it was evident that there was a strong sentiment against the new movement, and one of the speak­ ers was interrupted. He resented this and aroused the ire of some of those ia the audience. Some person in the gallery* hurled a chair, which precipitated a free fight on the floor, in which knives were drawn, but the police rushed in and Cleared the hall. More than a hundred mfnisters ib Greater New York have decided to.use their every effort to bring about the greatest evangelical awakening that city has ever known. A„call will be issued at once, to all the ministers in the city to open the doors of their churches every night, for revival services. It is expected that there will be more than.500 meetings a night and that the results will be the most extraordinary of modern times. !: is hoped to ardyse not . only the-. grea *. metropolis, but to have the movement radiate? iti every ,directjon. It is hoped that it will join with that now in progress in Philadelphia and sweep over the whole country. Every denomination and nearly every prominent pastor in New York,and Brooklyn- is interested in this move­ ment. The feeling is said to have been the outgrolvth of' the Moody meetings in New York. Dwight L. Moody has, said that they have been among the most re­ markable of his experience. The Carne­ gie Hall services Sunday have been espe­ cially notable. Coal, Iron and Steel Company come* th» information that the Oolbert Iron Com­ pany shipped twenty carloads of pig iron to Eastern manufacturers. Preparation* are being made to put two more ^rnaces in blast there. Those now in operation are runnifcg to their full capacity and making an excellent grade of iron. FOREIGN. WESTERN. Mabley & £0.. one of the leading retail clothing firms of Detroit, Monday morn­ ing tiled a chattel mortgage for $150,000 to the Union Trust Company as trustees for their creditors. A blanket mortgage, covering the entire stock of clothing, boots and shoes, men's furnishings, etc., was ak«> made to the Union Trust Com­ pany. The receivers for the Wisconsin Central lines were authorized by Judge Jenkias, of Milwaukee to complete the car equip­ ment of the system by the purchase of 1.000 freight cars. The purchase calls for the expenditure of $519,442.80, to be paid in sixty monthly installments of $8,657.3S each, and to begin June 1, 1897. Payment will be secured by mak­ ing the claim of the company a preferred lien uTion all the mortgaged property of the V* isconsin Central. The steamer Sasn Behito. bound froru Tacoma to San Francisco went ashore seven miles north of Point Arena, Cal., Sunday morning. The steamer struck 011 a sand-bar and broke in two. The San Benito carried forty-four men, a mfd ur- ing the severe storm Saturday night rfiust liave lost her bearings. Boats were low­ ered, but one capsized immediately with five men in it. four or whom were drown­ ed. Another boat with four of the crew capsized nine times, losing two men. Three men, hv heroic means,--reached NEWS NUGGETS, Chief Moore, of the weather bureau, in his annual report, claims that 82.4 per cent, of the forecasts during the last year have been verified. Mrs. Maybriek, serving a life sentence in| an English prison for the alleged pois­ oning of her husband, is reported to be broken in mind and health. Mrs. Scott-Siddons, the well-known En-, glish actress, died at'Paris after an ill-, ness of about a fortnight. Her ailment; was congestion of the lungs. Action for divorce has been commenced, by Prince Joseph of Caraman-Chiuiay, a Belgian nobleman, against his wife, the Princess of Caramaii-Chimay. who was formerly Miss Clara Ward, of Detroit. Italo Campanini, the famous tenor, is dead. His demise came while he was Vis­ iting Parma, Italy, where lie was born fifty years ago. The news of his death came as a great surprise, and was first chronicled in the-London newspapers. Consul Germain' sends word' to the, State Department from Zurich. Switzer­ land. that there is a chance to introduce American cattle in Switzerland as a result of the decree excluding all cattle coming from Austria-Hungary -because ,of dis­ ease. The Swiss market was supplied from this source, so that la. nCw source of supply must be secured,-, . - " A cipher cablegram from Havana Mon­ day, night t6 a -Cuban leader at Jackson­ ville. Fla., -says that Gen. Weyler has beeli forced to return to Havana and" that the city is in great confusion. Weyler gives no excuse, it is said, except that it is too hot and unhealthy to do any fight­ ing. It is openly asserted in Havana that Weyler became frightened because Maeeo had set a price upon his head or his capture. Weyler's scouts informed him that Mneeo might make an attempt upon Havana, and the Spanish general retreated in hot haste to the safety.of his palace. It'is also stated in the cablegram that Weyler's recall is assured now, as the , Spanish Government is incensed agaiilst him for his dilatory tactics. Cu­ bans are jubilant, for they think this will have a favorable effect upon Congress. DIJJUGE IN THE WEST IN GENERA; In discussing the recent meeting of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stockhold­ ers Hambleton's Circular says: "Mr, Little's report was read at the annua! meeting of the stockholders. The report shows that dividends paid were not earn­ ed and that if the unearned dividends had not been paid the property would have been self-supporting." R. G. Dun Jc Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The gain in volume of busi­ ness continues entirely without precedent,' More than 300 establishments which were idle have started work, and at least 300 have increased their working forces, making (590 concerns which are known to have added largely to the number of hands at work, and these are only part of the whole number. Every day adds thousands to the number of those who are The President hag Appointed Frank 3D. Hill, of Minnesota, consul to Santos. (Brazil, to succeed Henry C. Smith, re­ moved, and Rev. ,T. L. Corning, of New York, consul to Munich, G*many. An advance of 31/^@4c per bushel in ^Liverpool wheat Wednesday sent the 3Sew York market up. Trading at the (opening was very active. December flumped to 90c and May to 98c under the impulse of a strong local buying. Later jprices reacted under selling against calls. Small spring wheat receipts and the strong cash position west were also valua­ ble aids to the bull cause. Total sales during the forenoon were (i,225,000 busli- lels. George E. Ross, for several years mon- •ey clerk at the Kansas City. Mo., Union depot office of the Pacific Express Com- pany,' has been missing since Sun&ay. iRoss had the entire confidence of the company and had the handling of thou­ sands of dollars every day. The case has been placed in the hands of detectives.and jRoss" books are being gone over. _ In the chapter-house of Canterbury Slight Reverend Frederick Temple, arch- bish6p of Canterbury, was formally elect­ ed primate of all England. The quaint normalities of the seventeenth century Vere observed. EASTERN. shore. Daylight found the rest of the crew clinging to the rigging. Such a heavy sea was running that it \Vjis im­ possible to render assistance/ News has just reached Seattle, Wash., from Skykomish, on the Great Northern Railway, which indicates that the Sky- komish River is rising. The river has jumped its banks in many places and in­ vaded the homes of ranchers. One in­ stance is given where a woman waded half mile with ^ b:'.be in her arms through three feet of water to elcape the rising flood. Houses liave been swept away, and big trees, fences and other movable objects are being carried off. A man named Baker came sailing down the Skykomish on a tree, while near him crouched a big black bear. Near the, town of Skykomish Mrs. Sanders saw a bear on a floating tree and shot it dead and secured the carcass. The most important move yet made by the striking Leadville, Colo., miners is announced on what is considered relia­ ble authority. The statement that the Governor had decided to take summary measures to suppress further violence there and to bring the strike to an end has, it is said, caused the officers of the union, with the 'backing of the Western Federation of Miners, to decide to play a trump card, which, they think, will force the mine managers to come to their terms under pressure from the managers of mines in other districts of the State. The union has sent emissaries to all other unions in the State to urge them to in­ augurate a sympathetic strike, thus tying up all the mines in the State. Cripple Creek and Telluride are to take the initia­ tive and the other unions to follow rap­ idly. In this connection it is stated upon authority that the mine managers of Mon­ tana have decided upon making a reduc­ tion in wages of 50 cents a day very soon, and this is expected to precipitate a strike by the largest miners' union in the country. The Montana unions have been contributing liberally in aid of the Leadville strikers, but with a strike im­ minent in their own camp it is believed they vrtll hereafter need to keep all their fikmey at home. Five children of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder Neal, living five miles north of Hamilton, Mo., were burned to death late. Saturday night. The Neal dwelling was burned while the parents were attending a»dance. They had eight children. The oldest, a boy of 15 years, and a baby accompanied the parents to a social party. About 11 o'clock the gathering broke up. Soon after starting home, the Neals, and those accompanying them, discovered that the Neal residence was on fire. When they reached the burning building the father saw his 11-year-old girl lying burning in the front door, clasping her 3ryear-old brother in her arms. The flames pre­ vented rescue. The children were then dead. The father fell in a swoon and has been a raving maniac ever since. Nora, 9 years old, is the only survivor of the fire. She says that the children at home. Cullie 13, Hattie 11, Willie 7, Clarence 5, Julian „3 and herself, retired at the. usual hour in an upstairs chamber. The next she knew the fire was coming through the floor, and the building was enveloped in flames. She says that ail six were aroused. She rushed to a second story window and jtimped to the ground, calling to the others to follow, as the fire had cutoff escape by the stairway. It is thought the fire was caused by an incen­ diary. able to buy a week's supplies and make up gradually for many months of en­ forced economy. Already this brings a great increase in the volume of business, and the clearing house exchanges, for the first time in several years, not only ex­ ceed those of last year by 10 per cent., but also exceed those of the same week in 1892 by 9 per cent. Business men are all anxious to prevent anything like •fecti- tious excitement, and nearly all branches have a rise in prices. There is a great demand for supplies, materials and prod uct.s." L. J. Reinhart, a carpenter of Saa Francisco, Cal., is trying to raise a body of men, buy a vessel, equip it and sail to the St. John or Hermit Islands 111 the South Pacific Ocean, where no inhabit­ ants are left but dusky belles, whose hus­ bands and brothers have been killed by cannibal wars or taken away by black- birders. Capt. Bergman, of the American steamer Bonanza, recently sent, the news that his ship was blown out of its course and anchored one day close to one of the islands. He was astonished to see none but women on the coral reef. The wom­ en swam like mermaids to the ship. They told of the condition of affairs on the island and wanted the Captain to leave some of his sailors. They, said they would heap on them all the honors of dusky royalty if they would take their residence among them. Reinhart declares it is dissatisfaction with the condition of the labor world and the desire to lead a peaceful existence without having to struggle day and night for bread and butter.' He wants to form a republic on co-operative lines. He says as it is in the South Sea the islands support the natives with very little work. By combining forces and pooling interests he believes this proposed band can have all the com­ forts of life with little labor. The scheme is for fifty men to put up $25 each, buy a schooner and provisions for the voyage, and at least a year's stay on whatever island it may be decided to settle upon. RAINS AND CHINOOK CAUSE FLOODS. WINDS Tqwna Almost Swept Out of Existence --Business Houses and Residences Crushed Like Paper by Mass of Drifting Debris. Sad Scenes of Destruction. Never before lias Western Washington had such a visitation of floodB as now prevail. A Tacoma dispatch says that there is water everywhere. The Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific Railroads are blockaded, and it will be several days before traffic can be resumed. The floods have been caused by the four days' almost continuous rain, together with chinook winds which have tuelted the snowfalls in the foothills. The total damage is estimated at $2,000,000. Business has not suffered alone, for scores of houses are floating about in the de­ vastated fields. Many famillies have barely escaped with their lives by means of boats. Steamers were sent out in Snohomish, Columbia and Cowlitz Val­ leys to rescue persons who would other­ wise have drowned. - The steamer Florence Henry went down Snohomish River and rescued twen­ ty-five families living 011 marsh and low lands. In Snohomish County the damage is estimated at $4QO,000. A Snohomish special says the river there is now twenty- one feet above the regular water mark at high tide, Henry Johns, a rancher; was crossing the river with his wife and three children when the canoe upset and all were drowned. Peter Jackson, a log­ ger, fell from the boom at Cherry Valley and was drowued. Many families have remained in the upper stories of their homes and are safe for the present. Sev­ eral houses went whirling down Snoho­ mish River and were destroyed by crash­ ing into the bridge near Snohomish City. At Lowell both the Great Northern and Monte Cristo Roads were washed out. Many log booms have been broken and the logs are being swept into 'the Soun$. Between Snohomish and Everett the river is six miles wide, being two feet higher than ever before. A Mount Vernon spe­ cial says Skagit River is tpn inches higher than ever before in the history of the county. Dykes are nearly all washed away. Awn is under water. Men were working day and night making dykes tft keep the town from being overflowed. \ kBeaver and Olympia marshes are inun­ dated. No trains are running." the track being under water. The Great Northern Railroad bridge is in a precarious eondi- During the Vear the department issued. 370 publications, mainly for gratuitous distribution. The aggregate number of copies printed was 6,561,700. The Secre­ tary again takes occasion to express his opposition to the gratuitous distribution of seeds and to express the hope that the practice will be discontinued. The work of the experiment stations is reviewed at some length. He opposes, for the present, the establishment of an agricultural ex­ periment station in Alaska, but recom­ mends an appropriation of $5,000 for a preliminary investigation of the agricul­ tural resources of the territory. The report concludes with a compre­ hensive review of the condition of Ameri­ can farmers. Seventy-two per cent, of the farms in the United States occupied by their owners are absolutely free from mortgages or oilier incumbrances. The Secretary refutes the idea prevailing that the farms of the West and South are more heavily burdened than those of the East and Northeast. States along the North Atlantifc, he says, are quite heavily in­ cumbered with farm mortgages, and New Jersey carries a debt of this kind greater in proportion to its farm valuations than any State in the Union. The frequent claim that the farmers are almost univer­ sally in debt, despondent and suffering, he declares to be without any foundation, a belittlement of agriculture and ah indig­ nity to every intelligent and practical farmer, • "- .. . , •' Referring tc the stress of competition which the American farmer is compelled to endure, Mr. Morton cails attention t.o the nearly 2,000,000 of farms, of eighty acres each; given away by the Govern­ ment under the homestead act of I860, during the last thirty 'years, and to tha amount donated under the timber-culture, law, equivalent to over 550,000 more farms of the same size. Lands long tilled and rendered partially infertile could not, of course, enhance 111 value and sell in competition with virgin soil donated by the Government. No legislation relative to the public domain has been so directly inimical to the farmers who had bought and paid for the lands upon which they had lived and labored.. It was impossible for farmers in the old States to profitably sell their products in competition with those of^tlie newer States, grown upon lands which cost their owners nothing. Referring, to the impression that great­ er rates, of interest are charged for monk­ ey loaned upon farms than for that loaned upon other kinds of real estate, Secretary Morton states that the rate of interest charged on. mortgages upon residential property otner than farms averages eigh­ ty-four hundredths of 1 per cent, less than the rate of interest charged upon farm loans. During the fiscal year just ended the exported products of American farms ag- ITALY IS BEATEN.' A , Kins Menelek Has Won in the Abya* sinian Struggle. Congratulations to King Menelek, th« dusky sovereign of Abyssinia. He has rescued his country from the avaricious grasp of Italy, after having inflicted upon that country the greatest military disas­ ters ever sustained by a European nation in Africa. A year and a half ago the Italians occu­ pied by a military force the northern province of Tigre in Abyssinia, intent upon' the actual enforcement of a pro­ tectorate, which they , had already pro­ claimed, over the kingdom. For a time these forces met with success, defeating the scattered troops of the Abyssinians; but after a time King-Menelek got a KING MESELF.K. powerful and well-equipped army into the field and inflated defeat after defeat on the Italians. And then came in March last the utter rout of the Italian army of 20,000 men under Gen. Baratieri. Tie Italians lost 3,000 men in killed,' whsilo 2,500 were taken prisoners, together with ltftge military stores. Since then no hos­ tilities have taken place, the Italians hav­ ing evacuated Tigre. Now they have recognized by treaty the complete inde­ pendence of Abyssinia. King Menelek frees the Italian prisoners who have been in his hands since his winter and spring victories and is to be indemnified by Italy for their support while in captivity. BUSY WITH HIS MESSAGE. Grover Preparing His Annual Ad­ dress to Congress. A Washington correspondent says that President Cleveland is busy writing his annual message, and Secretary Carlisle is equally busy with the preparation of his annual report, which should be laid before Congress on the first day of the session. An unusual degree of interest attaches to both of these forthcoming doc- r I FATAL FLOODS NORTHWEST. tion. West Mount Vernon is flooded. Families arte fleeing to the hills to escape the water. Many head of stock are drowned, and the farmers will suffer un­ told losses. The Cowlitz, Cliehalis, White, Nooksack, Stiliaguamish and Sno­ homish Rivers are all from a half mile to two miles wider than usual. Hun­ dreds of head of cattle and horses are drowned. Millions of feet of logs have been lost through the breaking of jams at Kelso, on the Cowlitz River. Two million feet of logs and 3,000 cords of shingle bolts ^ire missing. The houses and buildings of August Julesberg at Stockport are gone, and thirteen head of cattle are drowued there. Portland was directly in the storm cen­ ter, and the temperature fell to 34 .de­ gress, an almost unprecedented low tem­ perature for this time of the year. The rainfall during twenty-four hours was 2166 inches. gregated $570,000,000, an increase of $17,000,000 over the preceding year. I11 spite of this there was a falling off^in the percentage of agricultural products exported to the total exports, but this was due to the unprecedented sale abroad of American manufactured goods. The largest market for our products is ad­ mitted to bo the home market, but the export trade is the regulator, the balance for domestic trad'e. It follows that the interest of the manufacturer as well as the farmer is f6und in the most rapid possible increase of the"' export of farm products. General prosperity depends absolutely upon agricultural prosperity, and any commercial system which will increase with celerity and extend with certainty the export of our farm prod­ ucts will be of the utmost advantage to agriculture and all those interested in its profitable expansion. MORTON MAKES HIS REPORT, of Agri- William J. Richter, the murderer of his 12-year-ofd nephew, James McConnell, was convicted at Pittsburg, Pa., of mur­ der in the second degree, the extreme penalty of which is twenty years' impris­ onment. The defense was insanity. Ever Bince SjSunday the Pittsburg, Pa., police have been looking for a man whose teeth would fit into a big bite taken gut of a pumpkin pie, which has been, held In cold storage by Dr. R. L Taylor, police physician, since his house was entered' by a burglar and . robbed early Sunday f&orning. The police suspect Frank SOUTHERN. The National Association of Agricul­ tural Implement and Vehicle Manufac­ turers recently held their annual conven­ tion in Nashville, visited Chattanooga and saw the sights. An investigation of the accident at the Central Railway Compress at Macon Ga., in which a number of employes were Injured by the falling of a cotton plat form, shows that no fatalities resulted The Sheffield, Ala., furnaces are enjoy hig a-season of great prosperity. Follow Ing closely upon the large order for 4j000 Iwns of pig iron receivecr by the Sheffield MARKET REPORTS. "Chicago--Caile, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 22c tb 24c; oats. No. 2, 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2, 35c to 37c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; bmom corn, common green to fine brush, 2c tb 5c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice -light, $3.00 to <$3.50; sheep, common-to prime, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2, 85c to $7c; corn, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. -v St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3,00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2, 86c to S8c; orn. No. 2 yellow, 21c to 23c; oata, No. 2 while, ISc to 20c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 tb $3.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 87c to.89c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c,; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 36c to 38c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2 while, 20c to 21c: rye, 37c to 38c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2, 37c to 39c; Clover seed, $5.15 to $5.25.' Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, ,78c to 80c; corn, No. 3, 22c to 24c; oats. No 2 white, 19c to 2lc; barley, No. 2, 30c to 37c; rye, No. 1, 37c to' 38c; pork, mess, $6.50 to $t.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.00 to $3.50 wheat. No. 2 red. 94c to 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; bogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75 wheat, No, 2 red, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c butter, creamery, X&s ta 23c; rggs, Weat KB, 2(te to 25c. Work of the Department culture Set Forth. Secretary Morton, in his fourth annual report, shows that, with $280,000 which may be saved from the appropriations for the current fiscal year, there will have been covered back into the treasury since March 7, 1893, over $2,000,000 out of total appropriations of $11,179,455.45. That this great economy was effected without any loss of efficiency he .attrib­ utes'in a large degree to the improvement in the personnel of the force under civil service rules. The inspection of Animals intended for food is treated of at length. The total number of ante-mortem inspections of cat­ tle, sheep, ca'ves and hogs during the year was 35,947,479, an increase over the previous year of over 50 per cent. Ihe total number of post-mortem inspections was 23,164,858, an increase? of 25 per, cent. The total number of abattoirs under inspection in 1896 was 102 in twen­ ty-six cities; in 1892 there were but twenty-eight in twelve cities. Clearances were issued to 819 vessels carrying cattle and sheep. Of cattle there were tagged for export 377,639, and 422,"603 inspected sheep were exported. The percentage of loss in transit was considerably less than ever before. Mr. Morton urges strongly that Government inspection should be ex-, tended to all animals intended for human food, whether for consumption in the United States or abroad. The cattle and meat trade of Great Britain is reviewed at length. Of live meat arriving in the 'United Kingdom during the first six months of 1896, the United States supplied 75 per ccnt of the cattle and.45 per cent, of the sheep. rlhe testimony of the ̂ department representa lives abroad is that cattle from the Uni ted States arrived in English ports in excellent condition. The Glasgow mar­ ket is especially commended to American shippers. The report, shows a steadily increasing demand in England for Amer ican horses. During the first nine nlontlp? of the present year more of these animals were shipped to that country than for any previous entire year. Reviewing the work of the weather bureau, special stress is laid upon the value of the many timely warnings which have been issued by the bureau, and have resulted in the protection from loss of damage of many milliond of dollars' worth of property, to say nothing of the many lives saved from impending danger. An increase is percentage of verifications b noted. THE DINGLEY BILL. Brief Summary of Its Provisions Given by a New York Paper. Most readers, says the New York World, have forgotten what the Diugley bill provides. Now that there is a pros­ pect of its passage a summary of its pro­ visions seems desirable. It is a tem­ porary revenue bill. It would expire by its own terms 011 Aug. 1, 1S98. What revenue it would yield it. is difficult to say. Mr. Dingley expected $40,000,000 iu- CONGKESSSIA.N DINOI.EY. crease from it; treasury experts put the gain at lower figures,. It takes wool of all kinds off the free list and puts upon it a duty of six-tenths as great'as that of the McKinley tariff. To the present duties on woolen goods it makes a like addition. It does precisely the same for lumber in all forms. It adds 15 per cent, of the McKinley5 rates to present rates in schedules A to N. including chemicals, earthenware, glass, metaj§, manufactures of wood and metals, tobacco, agricultural products, wines, spirits, .cotton goods, flax, hemp and jute, silks, pulp, papers, books and sundries. uments, 011 a number of accounts, not least among which are the probable rec­ ommendations of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to revenue and monetary legislation. As to the latter, it is by no means improbable that the recommendations of last year will be renewed. As to revenue legislation, the case is somewhat different. Unless some men who are usually well informed and are generally supposed to enjoy the confi­ dence of some of the higher officials of the administration, if not of President Cleve­ land himself, are at fault, Congress is to be asked to take early steps to provide more revenue. That thisorecohiineudation will coincide with the lines of the Dingley emergency revenue bill, which passed the House of Representatives last winter and was "held up" in the Senate, is not to be ex­ pected. The provisions in that measure affecting wool and woolen goods alone would probably have provoked a veto if the bill had passed the Senate at the last session, and may do so if it should pa^s at. the coming session. From trustworthy sourcos it has been learned that both the President and Sec­ retary Carlisle are strongly inclined at this time in favor of a:i Increase of the internal tax on beer from $1, the exist­ ing rate, to $2 a barrel.* It is also under­ stood that the Secretary is somewhat in­ clined to consider favorably Assistant Secretary Hamlin's proposition to impose a revenue duty on tea and coffee imported from foreign countries. At $1 a barrel, the internal tax on fermented liquors amounts in round figures to $32,000,000 a year. On the same output and con­ sumption the tax at $2 a barrel would amount, of course, to $64,000,000 a year, and add $32,000,000 to the total annual revenues. It is contended, however, by the oppo­ nents of the proposition to double the tax, that it would would neither double nor greatly increase the revenue, especially in the first year after it should become operative. WHEAT STILL RISING. Moses Thatcher has been ordered to appear for trial before the twelve apos­ tles of the Mormon church at Salt Lake City ftvr violation of church discipline. The case originated last year when Mr. Thatcher was a candidate for the United States Senate before the people without taking eouaMl with the church authori­ ties. It Has Rcached the Highest Point Known in Years. The boom in wheat is still on and the American farmer is in a correspondingly happy frame of mind. It touched the highest point in years on the New York Produce Exchange during the week. It is predicted that it will yet touch llie dollar mark and bring to the farmer the realization of his wildest dreams before the winter is over. The failure of the wheat crop in India and Australia is so large that a deficiency of 2,033,500 quarters has been created in Great Britain's usual supply, which must be made up from other sources. This change is in itself sufficient to uphold the recent rise. One day recently there were in passage to the United Kingdom 2,045,000 quarters, of which Russian wheat amounted to 400,000 quarters, North American 300,000, South Ameri­ can 100,000,' California 1,220,000, and elsewhere 25,000 quarters. One-of the elevators in the American Tract Society's building at the corner of Spruce and Nassau streets, New York,' fell twelve stories to the cellar, a dis­ tance of 140 feet. There were eleven persons in the ear at the time, includiug the attendant, and those tf'ho escaped in­ jury were badly shaken up. SPANIARDS IN A TRAP DYNAMITE DEALS DEATH AND DISMAY IN THEIR RANKS. •Weyler's Men Led Into Ambush by the Wily Maceo--Awful Slaughter of the Royal Forces--Men andt-Uorses Blown to Bits. Two Thousand Killed. Unconfirmed but apparently authentic information conies of the rout and fear­ ful slaughter of the army under Gen. Weyler in Cuba. - ; Col. Jose Reyes, aid-de-camp j)f Gen. Maceo, passed through Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday. He says there has been fierce fighting in the Rubi hills iu Pinar del Rio. The most sanguinary battle of the war was fought there .and 2,000 of Weyler's men were killed in two days and not less than 4,000 wounded. When Weyler went into the field he had 35,000 men in three columns,, one of 15,000 under his direct command; one of 10,000 under Gen.^Echague, and the third of 10,000 under Gen. Munore. They found Maceo intrenched in a cresceiit- shaped range of hills. ' Gen. Munore was directed to oust him from this position and Gen; Beliague to execute a flank movement and cut off .the Cuban general's retreat. Gen. Munore went forth gallantly upon the field, but when he li.%d arrived at the foot pi' the hills his forces aiet with a withering (ire that cut gaps in thef ranks; Maeeo.'s men, shot from bch:nd rocks and trees' a lit J .gradually gave way before the Spaniard*, who, encouraged by what they 'thought to be victory, pursued with extreme con* fidence. of success. 1 Without the least premonition a deafen­ ing explosion was heard and a scene fol­ lowed resembling the mine horror at Petersburg during the civil war. Horses and men were blown high in .the air and tell to ihe earth dead and mangled. A dynamite mine had been touched off by Maceo's electrician. Maceo then used his dynamite guns and still greater havoc was wrought. Col. Reyes' men say that Weyle.r lost 700 men in the explosion and 500 more in the charge that followed, as well as 1.600 wounded. ^ On the following day, Maceo, who knew of the reserve force under Weyler, retreated to a stronger, position. He was there attacked by a column under Echague. who was driven from the field. Eight hundred men were killed and 1,300 wounded. It was in this fight that Echague lost his leg. It was torn off by a dynamite bomb. His men then became panicstrlcken. They feared another mine and would hot obey when ordered to attack a second time. On the the third day Maceo again re­ treated, maneuvering continually to en-< trap Weyler into a filed that had been honeycombed with dynamite. In the meantime Weyler heard that there was danger of an uprising in Havana because he had failed to crush Maceo and he has­ tened back to the capital. In a letter brought by Col. Reyes to- prominent Cubans Maceo says; *(Have no fear. I am like a turtle in his shell. If thej get into my shell God help them." VICTIMS OF FOOTBALL. List of Thursday's Killed and Wounded Upon the Girdiron. A careful compilation of the casualties reported from all over the country in Thursday's football games shows the list of dead and wounded to be about as fol­ lows: The dead: in^Mnnv mm10; ? r0 !0k ,-vn ' kh°cked down and lnstantl.v killer! during a rusn of two teams Ihe injured: llipmas Anderson, Jacksonville bruised in a free-for-all ficht. .. fight. I>ergeron, Cleveland team bone broken badly collar Frank Oofl'eon, Lafayette, Ind.. arms and *"en Ulse (1 l j J being jumped on by eight Harry Coy. half back of the University of Chicago team; shoulders dislocated. Clancy, Chicago: badly bruised in the game at Detroit, Mich. Benjamin H. Davis. South Chicago; body badly crushed;. will probably die. Edwai'4 Graham, Iiosfon, right leg dislo­ cated in game with Chicago Athletic Club; - - JH nick ley, captain of the Beloit team: kicked In the small of the back; left arm badly bruised. James Hooper, South Bend, lungs knocked out of place for a short time; not si-rious. W. S. Hotchkiss, Mayfair. knocked down and trampled 011 during Bvanston game; arm broken and injured internally. Andrew Johnson, arms and back carved by James 1'tlack in a dispute over the um­ pire's decision at Greentown. La. Sol. Johnson. Pekin, both eyes blackened, nose broken and toes.smashed. Itobert Kennedy. New Orleans, jumped on and ridden over; will die. Ray Lewis. Wheaton. N. D., left eye gouged out and left hip broken. Lewis, captain of the Racine team, struck In the breast and stomach and car­ ried from tlie field. T. O. Marrow, Deadwood, S. D., left ear torn off. M. O'Malley, Grand Port, Wash., both ears torn off. , Seovili. center of Riverside Athletic lean;, right ankle broken. Thomas Stoeker, Scranton, Pa., part of scalp torn off. . , Tucker, full bhek for the Missouri team; head badly hurt during Kansas City game; taken to hospital. C. Upp. Toledo, (-rushed about the body in a game with the Michigan frpshmen. Samuel Werner. Akron team, shoulder blade fractured and body bruised. Whitney, right end for Kansas team, hurt'in the stomach during the Kan­ sas City game; taken to hospital. Fred White, Pekin, knocked senseless while making a rush. Herbe.t Wliiteomb. San Francisco, swal­ lowed s» t of teeth during the excitement of . .i"" ' Frank Woollv. Tower, Minn., bit over tlio head wUh a 'brick thrown by an Indian; scalp badly cut. The injured expect to be in shape to play again next Thanksgiving. TO FREE IRELAND. A Movement in Boston to Use Force Against England. 4.11 elaborate movement has been start­ ed* among the Irish people of Boston with the avowed object of invading Ire­ land to free it from England by force. The originator of the movement is said to be 110 less an organization than the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The time set for the sally is two years hence. "There will be a repetition of .1708. in lSOS,'®' says one of those most prominent in the, movement. "It will be an inva­ sion indeed. If the Irish iuvade Ireland in 1898 it will be with a different object than a celebration." June 7. 180S is the date fixed for the sailing, and one of the finest steamers that ply the Atlantic will be chartered for the occasion, if indeed more than one is not taken. The fact that preparations are being made thus early indicates that the expedition will be a large one. The place of landing has n<|t been decided upon, and it is a question whether it will be announced w hen the doeisioiwis-jnadey- for obvious reasons.. Dublin,' howikver. will be the headquarters of the move­ ment, arrangements having been made with ex-^Iayor Shanks, of that city, who will0welcome the Americans on the pat", of the people of the old land. Six week * is the time mentioned for the stay of the visitors 011 the Emerald Isle. The only thing which worries the originators the^sehernc is the possible attitude of the British Government toward the invaders. The ostensible object of the expedition is to commemorate the attempt to free Ire­ land' 100 years ago. •MST