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head. His body was found bjy two boys on a high':peak „on the lintf of the San Mateo electric road. It was Stretched o\jt on a large rock at the highest poipt the man could reach. ° Congressman--John C! Sturtevant, of Crawford County, who will succeed Jo­ seph C. Sibley in the next Congress, is In Philadelphia. Hesaid that he had called on President-elect McKinley at his home in Canton and that the latter said: "I will caM a special .session of Congress on March 15, and unless X change my mind you may be in Washington by that time. I desire to have my protective system in­ augurated immediately upon my inaugura­ tion, and I want a measure passed that will immediately stimulate business and give idle men work." Congressman Stur­ tevant said further that no Pennsylvanian would be In the McKinley cabinet. The, most disastrous conflagration that has visited Philadelphia in recent years broke out shortly before 7 o'clock Tuesday morning in the rear of the basement of the big grocery store of Hanscom Bros., 1317 Market street, and before the flames were got under control about thirty buildings and property amounting in value to $2- 500,000 or more had been destroyed. -W, H.Purcell Malting Company's large grain elevator at 123d street and the Belt Line tracks^ Kensington, 111., was burned to the ground Tuesday and the loss is esti­ mated at $350,000. Vice-President and Treasurer Joseph Guckenheimer of the company said the insurance will almost cover theJoss. ator Sherman's belief that Mr. Hanna Will couie to the Senate as his successor is shared by nearly all' the Republican leaders in Washington who are familiar with political conditions in the Bnckeye State. FOREIGN. The British steamer Salisbury, from Port Reath to Newport, was in collision with an unknown steamer, abotit four miles from Ilfracombe, Devonshire. The latter is supposed to«have- sunk with a crew of about twenjty men. The Spanish gunboat Cometa has been captured and burned by the insurgents, according to advices from Havana. The' Cometa was one of the most powerful of the smaller Spanish vessels in Cuban waters, used to prevent'the landing of filibustering expeditions. For some time the boat has been accustomed to anchor at night off Sierra M'orena. The insur­ gents opened on the vessel with a twelve- pound Hotchkiss gun. The vessel was struck several times and badly damaged by shells from the Hotchkiss gun, and while the crew was in confusion boats loaded with insurgents left the shore and the Cometa was boarded. A desperate hand-to-hand fight took place on the deck of the gunboat. The Cubans used the machete with deadly effect, and finally, after the Spanish commander and half his men had been killed,: the survivors sur­ rendered. The insurgents looted the ves­ sel, securing a great, quantity of ammu­ nition, many cutlasses and pistols, and a few rifles. Two quick-firing cnnnon which the gunboat carried were also removed. The insurgents then fired the boat, which was soon burned to the waiter's edge. When the fate of the Cometa became known in Havana the Spanish authori­ ties spread the story that the gunboat had most likely been lost: at sea. Key West, I£la.r, dispatch:,Another de­ feat for the Spanish is reported from Pelanos, in the southern part of Havana province. The place has 1,000 inhabit­ ants, is well fortified and has a Spanish garrison of 600 men, with one field piece. Lieut. Col. Hernandez, in command'of 500 insurgent cavalrymen, made a dash at the town Monday afternoon while the troops were at the church celebrating some local holiday. Before they could form the in­ surgents had possession of the blockhouse. The cannon "was trained at the church, and before the Spanish were hardly aware of what was the trouble solid shot came hurling through the walls. Out they rushed only to fall before a deadly volley from a strong force posted behind some neighboring houses. Col. Muncio, the Spanish officer, rallied his men, but as they formed for a charge he fell with a dozen balls through him. The second in command took his place, but he, too, fell in a few seconds. The Spanish then retired, it being a rout, though a portion stubbornly protected their rear, making stands until forced to retire by Hernan­ dez's fierce charges. The insurgents burn­ ed the fort at Pelanos. They secured 1,400 stands of arms, one^cannon, $1,000 in gold and $5,000 in paper money, be­ sides ammunition and many valuable pa­ pers belonging to the Spanish commissary department. Havana officials knew of the defeat Tuesday night, but have kept the news suppressed, and the palace offi­ cials say that the place has been "evacu­ ated." WORK OF CONGRESS, ON FOURTH OF MARCH •YKE, Editor and Pub. THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE, M'KINLEY'S INAUGURATION TO SURPASS AL,C\OTHERS. By H. A. Rcbinson, Government Statistician, ILLINOIS. the Inaugural Ceremonies to Blaze with Splendor--In the Grand Parade There Will Be 60,000 Men, Including; Ex-Confederate*! Under Gen. Porter. BUT TARIFF Wheat. Final Estimates, Jan,,1897. Coin, Month of Decem­ber, 1896. Oats, Month of Decem­ber, 1890. „ Product. Bushels. Acres. Product. OUTLINED FOR THE EXTRA SESSION. 640,860 1,161,720 1,994,822 1.845,660 300,832 1,778,004 17,892,738 0,325,338 52,475,000 4,933,676 19,936.128 38,067,986 29,504,148 15,781,374 32,829,654 4,860,040 32,445,075 27,978,390 15,565,030 32,228,617 20,723,854 71,803,446 21,689,160 80,932,348 123,691,957 40,041,030 133,468,205 284,572,764 33,890,071 34,446,974 321,719,541 176,708,649 247,734,004 208,509,638 31,133,950 974,540 34,(!06 62,075 2,852,028 388,100 iiS'Mo Maine Hew Hampshire. Vermont....i.. .". Massachusetts... Rhode Island.... Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania.... Delaware Maryland....... Virginia......:.. North Carolina.. South Carolina. Georgia... Florida.... Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana........ Texas Arkansas........ Tennessee West Virginia... Kentucky ... Ohio Michigan.. Indiana Illinois Wisconsin;...... Minnesota Iowa..... ....... Missouri.... Kansas.. Nebraska........ South Dakota... North Dakota... Montana.....; .. Wyoming........ Colorado ... New \texico Arizona.... ..... Utah ;.. ... Nevada......;... Idaho. Washington Oregon Calltornta Oklahoma The Inauguration. Washington correspondence: A rn H E inauguration I I of President Mc- JL Kinley will be the yCfitfV most elaborate and splendid affair of kind ever wit- 11• nessed. Money and /Sy -L'41-i. • gpk'» effort are not lack- ivaBgg. ing in the prepara- Tflffl H tions now under way and in- all the ceremonies, in the Street pageant and ' nt .hall theife P --- tamwwimnn*" ^i^ent a finer sense of the artlsticand a more STTTi, I ]l II I" intelligent regard • [[ it' for the comfort of tiie participants - . ' , . than has charac- terissed the lavishly conceived and often crudely and uncomfortably executed in­ augural ceremonies of the past. The ex­ ecutive committee, in Charge of the inau­ gural ceremonies of 1897 is .composed of men who thoroughly grasp the difficulties of the situation that -confronta them and. who are endeavoring to cope with them in a manner that will make the inauguration of Mr. McKinley the grandest and at the same time the most perfect from the standpoint of good sense and good taste that has ever been witnessed in this coun­ try. At the head of this committee is Charles J. Bell. Gen. Horace Porter, of New York, will be the grand marshal of the parade. He is perhaps the most successful organizer of military parades in the country, the latest example of his genius in this direc­ tion being his management of the great sound money parade in New York. Qu this occasion he succeeded in marching 125,000 men over the entire route, accord­ ing to arrangements, the rear files reach­ ing the end of the route only seven min­ utes behind schedule time. Gen. Porter has the able assistance of Col. Corbin, who had general charge of the ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of President Garfield and was adjutant gen­ eral of the last two^ inaugural parades. At Gen. Porter's suggestion it has been decided to condense the exercises at the . Lawmakers at Labor. In the Senate Monday Mr. T-urpie, of Indiana, characterized Capt. Gen. Wey-J ler as the "Herod of Havana, the mur­ derer of women and children," and as air "indescribably diminutive reptile." These bitter words were incident to Mr. Tur- pie's speech of two hours on the Cameron Cuban resolutions. Mr. Turpie frequent-* ly turned aside from his argument to pay a glowing tribute to the insurgent gov­ ernment and its leaders. After 3 o'clock the day was devoted to eulogies on the late ex-Speaker Charles F. Crisp. Early in the day memorials were presented from "the presidential electors 6£ Delaware ask­ ing for a congressional investigation ofj alleged fraud and political irregularities in that State. After consuming most afl the day in disposing of District of Colum­ bia business the House took up the Indian appropriation bill and made fair progress with if before the hour for adjournment was reached. The bill carries $7,525,791,; $366,294 more than the current law and! $246,205 more than the estimates. Twen­ ty of the seventy pages, of the bill were disposed of. A bill was passed calling on the War Department for an estimate of the cost of a water route from Galveston! to Houston, Tex, Mr. Johnston (Rep.)| of Indiana took advantage of the latitude allowed in .'debate to read a speech in favor of an/early reform of the banking and currency laws. Mr;'Curtis (Rep.) of Kansas offered an amendment to the In­ dian bill to permit merchants to go into the Kickapoo reservation in Ivansas to) collect their accounts. It was explained! that this year for the fi^st time merchants had been excluded from this reservationj The amendment was adopted. In the Senate Tuesday Cuba, the pro­ posed international monetary conference and the Nicaragua canal each came in! for a share of attention. The WolcOttj bill for an international monetary con-j ference was considered for the first time.] No final action on the bill was taken. The House amendments to the Senate bill fori a survey of a water route from the mouth of the jetties at Galveston, Tex., to Hous-j ton, were agreed to and the bill finally! passed. The House overrode another olj Tresident Cleveland's pension vetoes byi vote of 137 to 52. The bill pensioned! Jonathan Scott of the Sixth lowa cavalry,' now living at Oswego, Kan., at the rate1 of $72 a month. Mr. Cleveland vetoed it; on the ground that the disability for; which the beneficiary was to be pensioned was not contracted in the service. The rest of the day was devoted to a continu-^ ation of the debate on the Indian appro-* priation bill. About twenty-five pages! of the bill were covered. A bill to satisfy) a peculiar claim was passed on motion of Mr. Turner (Dem.) of Georgia. It was the claim of John F. McRae, a deputy United States marshal, for keeping thirty- six African slaves, landed by the ship* Wanderer at Savannah, Ga., in 1859, un-i til they could be shipped back to theirt homes, in accordance with the provisions} of the laws for the suppression of the slave traffic. The amount was $462. A crisis in the debate in the Nicaragua^ canal bill was reached in the Senate Wed-1 uesday. It brought out an energetic states ment from Senator Sherman, in which het foreshadowed a new treaty by which the- United States could build the canal with-j out the intermediation of a private conces-J sion. The Senator declared that this gov-* ernmental execution of the project was the only feasible one, and that all privatel efforts in that direction had proved fail-i ures. Answering Mr. Morgan's recent! charge that England inspired opposition! to American control of the canal , Mr . j Sherman assorted that this was a "buga­ boo," wholly' without foundation. Hei added a handsome tribute to England andi her institutions. The House adopted the conference report on the immigration billj by a vote of 131 to 118. The principal, criticism o^f the measure agreed on by the conferees in debate was based upon the extension of the educational test to fe^' male as well as male immigrants, on the ground that it might divide families, and to the limitation to the ability of an im­ migrant to read and write the English Ian-! guage or the language of their nativej country or residence. Mr. Hepburn (Rep..i Iowa) closed the debate in support of thej report. When he declared that hundreds of thousands of American laborers were* to-day walking the streets of the great cities because they had been crowded outi by the incoming stream of aliens, the pub­ lic galleries of the House fairly shook with' acclaim. The House passed the Indian appropria­ tion bill Thursday and entered upon the consideration of the agricultural appro­ priation bill, but all interest in these two; * measures was overshadowed by two re­ markable speeches, one made by Mr. Gros- venor of Ohio, attacking ex-Gov. Altgeld! of Illinois, and the other by Mr. Dear- tnond of Missouri, heaping ridicule on Sec­ retary Morton for the recent issue of a. pamphlet entitled "The Farmers' Intei^ est in Finance." Mr. Grosvenor's obser­ vations on the Governor of Illinois were called forth by the latter's recent spfeeeh, in which he charged that Mr. Bryan haqh been defeated by fraud--and basetL liisL charge particularly on the eiftjr^ouslt^ crease of the vote in Ohio, where, he al­ leged, 90,000 votes were illegally cast. Mr. Grosvenor analyzed the Ohio vote and explained the causes of its increase^ calling attention to the fact that the Dem­ ocratic vote in the State had increased proportionately much more than the Re­ publican. The Senate, by a vote of 41 to 15, confirmed rlie nomination of William, S. Forman of Illinois to be Commissioner; of Internal Revenue. Senator Cullomi presented to*he Senate a number of let­ ters and memorials he had received from Chicago business firms>a'sking for the pas­ sage of the Torrey bankruptcy bill. Telegraphic Brevities. Three different sections of Texas ex-; perienced their first snowstorm for three •years. . Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle gave "a din* net in Washington to President and Mrs. Cleveland. . The $ew York Board of Health has. placed pulmonary tuberculosis on the list of infectious diseases. The mother, brother and sister of Ar­ thur Palmer of New York, all of whom he shot, are dead. Palmer cannot be found. William Clark Noble, a jewelry design­ er of wide reputution, was arrested at New York on a charge of larceny, brought ng'Jnet him by Julia Adelaide Price, one of his models, who asserts that under a promise of marriage, he, during the latter" portion of the year 1895, wheedled $2,000. all her savings, from her. ^ . Williab , Leibold, 17 years old, until re­ cently a messenger boy for a telegraph company at Lancaster, Pa., has spent $4,000 stolen money since last. October in gambling and fast living, and to-day is in jail with barely a penny left. He pro­ cured the cash through innumerable for­ geries of the name of Charles B. Grubb, the well-known iron and furnace master. jchairman Dlngley Outlines the Pro* gran-To Be Completed in Thirty Days -- Murder at Chattanooga -- Colonists Are Destitute. 306,873 101,651 1,*66,949 - 97,712 468,457 615,*82 633,140 140.868 212,484 ""49,273 4,162 "387*112 157,590 779,819 898,886 801,088 2,422.224 1,228 117 2.204,100 1,950,214 669,094 3,281,624 717,072 1.418,331 2,005,137 1,385,04? 2,403,808 2,529,53:1 45,443 9,148 159.839 38,957 14,500 105,802 6,001 98,127 4*4.844 602.773 3,088,849 200,135 Work for Congress. Washington dispatch: Chairman Ding- jley of the Ways and Means Committee j has outlined the program of the admin-I lstration at the extra session of Congress, l Said he: "There will be no general legis- 'lation during the extra session.. - Presi­ dent McKinley will call Congress in ex­ traordinary session for the specific pur­ pose of passing a revenue bill. When we teeet in March the bill will be ready to present to the House, and it will be pass­ ed within thirty days and sent to the Sen­ ate, Nothing else will be done by the House. We will adjourn from day to, day, jhp take three days' adjournments, accord- j ing to the provision of- the consti tut ion, j The eyes of the country will be on the Senate alone. The House will not con­ sider pension bills nor enter into any gen- i eral legislation. We will simply remain • nominally in session until the Senate reaches a conclusion on the revenue bill, and then the measure will go into a con­ ference, where it will be perfected in a manner to suit both houses of Congress. I do not believe that the Senate will force a long session when nothing is under con­ sideration except the tariff bill."" I Suffering at Topolobampo. ' James Medsker, who was among the number of Americans who took up their residence at Topolobampo, the operative colony west of Chihuahua, Mexico, on the Pacific coast, a few years ago, is in a des­ titute condition at Chihuahua, and is seek­ ing to get back to the United States. He | says the few colonists remaining at Topo­ lobampo are entirely without means of support and are suffering for food. They » are several hundred miles from a railway : and have given up hope of returning to their old homes. The Government can­ celed the concession under which the col­ ony was established, and the members have no special favors or privileges. The attention of United Stated Minister Ran-; som will be called to the condition of the colonists. v, >j Merchant Shot by Robbers. A murder was attempted at Chatta-' nooga, Tenn., Thursday morning that may result in a lynching party. Virgil Moore, a highly respected grocery mer­ chant, was aroused by burglars entering his store, and in attempting to drive them off he was shot down and riddled with bul­ lets. The sheriff's office was immediately ; notified and dogs were put on the trail of the burglars, two in number. The great­ est excitement prevails in the vicinity, and if the parties are caught the officers will not be able to hold back the mob. Mr. Moore is still alive, and although he was shot three times and had his skull fractured, his physicians say he may re­ cover. Boat Mink by Ice. 1 The little steamer Peankishaw, -while endeavoring to reach harbor in Green River, was sunk by the heavy ice about six miles above Evansville, Ind., Wednes­ day night. Thp boat had a barge in tow, and the crew of twelve men escaped to it and floated by Evansville, their cries for help attracting a crowd to the levee. The barge was finally landed in the bend of the river below the city and the men escaped to land half frozen. William Orr, the en­ gineer of the boat, was drowned. The Peankishaw was owned by Server Bros., and was run in the Evansville and Hart­ ford trade.. The loss will be about $2,000. v High-grade gold ore has • been found within the city limits of Deadwood, S. D. Captain Henry King has been appointed to succeed the late Joseph B. McCullagh as editor of the St. Louis Globe-Demoernt. By Monday morning the -severe cold wave extended as far east as the Ohio Valley and southward to Texas, where the temperature fell from twenty to forty degrees in twenty-four hours. It was below freezing in Tennessee and cen­ tral Texas; below zero in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, and 20 degrees be­ low zero over the Dakotas and Minne­ sota. The indications were that the cold wave would extend eastward and south­ ward over the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The temperature fell to near zero from Virginia northward, and freezing weath­ er extended southward to the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts. In twenty-five years Chicago had experienced no such severe cold. Sunday morning the mer­ cury was 17 below zero, and. in the whole day there was a variation of but 4 degrees. Monday morning the temperature was 19 below zero. The suffering in the city was indescribably terrible. j The Chicago Post says: On the princi- I pie that it is an ill wind that blows no one any good, dealers in small firearms are congratulating themselves that the car­ nival of store and street hold-ups has giv­ en their business a more decided boom than it has experienced since the great railroad strike. Despite the heavy pen­ alties provided by law for Carrying con­ cealed weapons, from 50 to 60 per cent of the male population who are out after nightfall provide themselves with means of protection, it is said. In most of the saloons, especially in the outlying dis­ tricts, a revolver can be found reposing on a shelf under the bar or in the hip pocket of the bartender, and the same applies to drug stores and other places of busi­ ness, such as restaurants, which are open until a late hour or all night. In the busi­ ness offices of one of the largest gas com­ panies in the city a large navy revolver rests in full view on the counter immedi- I ately beside the eash drawer, although the I receiving clerk is protected from outside 1 attacks by an abundance of wire netting. It is the consensus of opinion among deal­ ers that more revolvers are used for pur­ poses of protection in this city than ever before. 'Loaded canes, on the other hand, are a drug in the market. All the ticket sellers of the Metropolitan Elevated road have been equipped with revolvers. John Williams, day watchman in the big factory building of Greenlee Bros. He Co., 225 to 235 West 12th street, Chicago, found two pipes frozen Sunday morning in a small room at the rear of the first floor. Late in the afternoon he and his assist­ ant, the day fireman, started to thaw out the pipes. They probably succeeded in doing so, but the fire that followed their I efforts laid the entire block in ruins. The fire started shortly after 7 o'clock in the I room the two men had left an hour or so I before, and between the slippery streets and the frozen fire hydrants in the neigh- ! I borhood the fire department was so de­ layed in getting water on the blaze that I the flames spread through the five floors I of the building, and by 10 o'clock had I completely gutted the structure. A loss I of between $300,000 and $400,000 was sustained by the Greenlee Bros. Company I and the Northwestern Stove Repair Works, two concerns owned by Robert I L. and Ralph S. Greenlee. David B. I Carse, general manager of the Greenlee Bros. Company, thought that the amount J of insurance carried would cover the loss. I The residence of Charles J. Barnes, 2238 I Calumet avenue. Chicago, was totally de- I stroyed by fire at 2 o'clock Monday morn- I ing. His private library, one of the finest 1 in the United States, and collection of J bric-a-brac, on which a high value is set, were destroyed, and with the damage to I the -building and furnishings will make I the loss fully $200,000. WASHINGTON. Total Missouri, who. in his last message to the Legislature of his State, made the oft- repeated hold-ups at Blue Cut and else­ where the subject of considerable space, and practically said that the death peu-. alty should be meted out to this class of desperadoes. The trainmen and guards on the American Express trains have re­ ceived letters, in which they are not only told to shoot to kill persons caught in the act of train robbery, but are offered a re­ ward of $500 for "wounding" and $1,000 for killing a train robber. These offers are kept standing through the year. In Michigan, where the death penalty is not lawful, and where a train robber need have little fear if he kills any one in the commission of his crime, the messen­ gers and guards are armed to the teeth, and do not lack for instructions as to what to do in the case of a bold-u.p A THOUSAND A DAY the Commissioner of Pensions, on the second floor, and the Vice-If•esident and the diplomatic corps adjoining apart­ ments. The supper rooms will occupy the entire north side of the building. The ar­ rangements for the reception and enjoy­ ment of everyone who attends will be per­ fect. The dressing rooms will be pro­ vided with every necessity of the toilet, and 12,000 hat and cloak boxes will be in charge of a sufficient number of employes of the city postoffice. Seven thousand four hundred and thirty-five tickets were sold to the last inauguration ball, each ticket being represented by a guest. In addition to this immense gathering there were probably 1,500 attendants who were not included fin the number of ticket buy­ ers. This great host was handled without, crushing or crowding of any serious character. The coming ball will equal the other in numbers and surpass it in bril­ liancy. FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Is the Rate at Which Immigrants Are Coming Into This Conntry. Present immigration to the United States amounts to nearly 1,000 a day. In the last fiscal year the total number of immigrants was 343,000 and the rate at which immigration is increasing makes likely a total for this fiscal year of about 365,000, or 1,000 a day, though, of course, immigration is larger in summer than in winter, and varies according to the condi­ tions of the times and climate. The general impression is that the great bulk of immigrants to the United States find homes "in the great We^," notably those from Englasid, Wales, Germany and the Scandinavian countries. The con­ trary is shown, however, by recent figures to be the cqse. The States into which immigrants go by preference are those on the Atlantic sea­ board. Of 343,000 immigrants who laud­ ed in this country during the last fiscal year covered by the treasury report 127,- 000 meant to remain in New York State. Some 61,000 others had Pennsylvania for their destination, and 36,000 Massachu­ setts; so that these three States absorbed about two-thrrds of the whole immigra­ tion to the United States. Minnesota, long a favorite home among the Scandi­ navian and German formers arriving in the United States, got less than half as many as went to Connecticut. For North Dakota * the number of immigrants was only 1,080; for South Dakota. 613; for Ne­ braska, 1,043; for Kansas, 690; for Mon­ tana, 920; for Wyoming, 226; for Utah, 206, and for Idaho, 118. On the other hand, nearly 3,500 immi­ grants found homes in Maryland^a State which has not been in previous years re­ garded as offering many inducements to immigrants. Indiana got 1,944 immi­ grants, and Missouri 2,485. Kentucky attrncted only 330, and North Carolirvi only 87 immigrants. West Virginia ab­ sorbed 437, but the number that found homes in Florida was surprisingly large, 7,150.* The explanation of this increase is to be found in the fact that consequent upon the hostilities in Cuba, there was an immigration of more than 6,000 Cu­ bans from that country to the United States last year and a large number of them found homes in Florida. A consid-> erable number of Cubans, too, went to Louisiana, the foreign immigration into which was 1,516. The immigration into Mississippi was 85. Among the States of the West into which there was a considerable movement of foreigners last year was Illinois, which •got 22,000. Nearly 5,000 immigrants, many of them Italians, settled in Califor­ nia, and the population of Colorado in­ creased 1,500 by immigration. In only one State of the Union did the number of female immigrants arriving exceed the number of male immigrants. That was New Hampshire. Only 600 immigrants went to Arkansas and 38 to Oklahoma. The second General Assembly of evan­ gelical workers in Mexico at the-City of Mexico was largely attended. The United States was represented by B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago. The chief of the bureau of animal in­ dustry of the Agricultural Department is in receipt of a circular from a commis­ sion agent of London giving the total number of cattle and sheep received at Deptford, England, during the year 1896, and also the average prices realized there­ for. The total number of cattle received from the three sections represented were as follows, with average price in pennies per pound: CATTLE. Countries. Total. Av. price; United States ...146,985 5.13 South America 42,792 4.26 Canada 26,873 4.74 GEN. HORACE PORTER. capitol as much as possible, and the pa­ rade will start at once on the conclusion of the inauguration ceremony proper, and will proceed immediately to the end of the route, the usual interruption to al^ow the outgoing and incoming Presidents to lunch together being avoided. The pa­ rade will be dismissed this year at Wash­ ington circle, instead of the White House, as formerly, and Gen. Porter expects that the procession will be able to pass at the rate of 12,000 an hour. f Twenty-four files of foot will march in close column, and there will be no change in formation en route. Sixty Thousand Men in Line. The first division of the procession will be divided into three brigades, the first to be composed of regular United States troops and the National Guard of the District of Columbia, the second of the National Guard of Pennsylvania and the third of the National Guards of other States, headed by their Governors and their staffs, their places in the line being assigned according to the date of their adoption of the constitution in the ense of the thirteen original States, and with reference to their admission to the Union. The second grand division will be com­ posed of civic organizations in the order of their establishment. It will be divided into two snb-sections, the first compris­ ing uniformed clubs, the second ununi- forined organizations. While it is pro­ posed that the parade shall be of suffi­ cient length and of a character that shall adequately represent all classes of Amer­ ican^ military,. naval and civilian, the committee on the parade are exiereising the greatest discrimination in its compo­ sition. They have set a general limit of Totals NEWS NUGGETS, Countries. U nited States. South America Canada Total. Av. price. 19,597 5.21 234,028 5.36 36,255 5.20 Colorado College has received from Dr. I D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, a check for I $50,000, which completes the additional j endowment fund of $250,000. j. John M. Masury, who received about I $2,000,000 of the $8,000,000 which his grandfather, John M. Masury, made in I the manufacture of paint, has been sued I for divorce at New York by Helen F. I Masury. , I Attorneys for Arthur Duestrow, con- I demned to death at St. Louis, made seri- I ous charges against the Missouri Su­ preme Court. They allege, in effect, that the State's prosecutor wrote the opinion •of the court affirming the conviction of J their client, claiming that the opinion is full of inaccuracies, which show that the justices did not even read the record of the case. The French Government has by deerep prohibited the sale of all frozen meats unless each piece exhibited for sale bears .a large tag with the words "frozen meat." This is done, nccordiug to United States •Consul Chancellor, at Havre, to protect "the public from the ill consequences of buying this meat (subject as it is to sud­ den decomposition when thawed out). 43reat quantities of this frozen meat are •now being brought to Havre from Austra­ lia. In Morgan County. Tenn.. a mob of men went to the farm house of a Mr. Gage to chastise his son for immoral conduct. Young Gage had a friend in the mob, John Porter, who, after they arrived in thp yard, declared they should not touch Gage. A fight followed, in which John Porter was stabbed and killed. When Porter fell young Gage ran out of the house with a revolver in each hand, firing at the members of the mob, who ran. One, whose name was not learned, fell mortally wounded. The bodies of the two dead men were left lying on the porch all /night. According to the official report just is­ sued at Bombay, there have been 4,396 cases of the plague in Bombay and 3,275 deaths from that disease. At Karachi i694 cases and 644 deaths from the plague have been recorded. At Poonah there have been 65 cases and 60 deaths, and a few cases have occurred at Surat, Baroda, Ahbadabad, Kathianwar and Cutcb. Totals 289,880 • Continuously throughout the year Unit­ ed States cattle have commanded the highest prices. The difference between the cattle of the United States and South America, too, has been uniformly great in favor of our own animals. The Cana­ dian cattle attained a parity of price with cattle from the United States six times during the year. On one occasion, Aug. 13, they held the first place. During the greater part of the year the lower prices received for cattle from the United States exceeded the prices for cattle from either Canada or South America. Indeed, as compared with South American cattle, the lowest prices received for cattle from the United States were considerably high­ er than the highest prices for South Amer- 1 ican. In the case of sheep, the first place I is held by South America, while animals | from the United States and Canada run about even, with a slight difference in favor of the former. The Secretary of the Treasury has re- I ceived a telegram from Ambrose Lyman, internal revenue collector for the district I of Montana, tendering his resignation. I The department knows no reason for Mr. | ; Lyman's action. j Senator Sherman said Friday that there I was no truth in the published statement I that he and Secretary Olney had entered I into an agreement that the Cuban ques- I tion should remain in statu quo during the j remainder of the present administration. "The newspapers should invent something ijmore logical," said the Senator. "There is not only no agreement between the present Secretary and myself, but we I have never discussed the question." j The Attorney General has entered into I an agreement with the reorganization I committee of the Union and Kansas Pa- | cific railroads by which the Government J is to join the committee in foreclosure pro- 1 ceedings. The committee guarantees to I the Government that at the foreclosure I sale it shall receive a bid of at least the J original amount of the bond, less pay- I ments made by the company to the Gov- I ernment, with interest at the rate of 3^. I per cent per annum. The agreement hus I I been signed, and active steps will be I taken in a few days. The Government I will receive $46,000,000. [ j Washington dispatch; Senator Sherman I I has once for all set at rest the gossip I I predicated on his alleged intention of I I withdrawing his acceptance of the port- I I folio of Secretary of State. In an inter- J view drawn out by the wholesale publi- I cation of baseless sensational reports I from all parts of Ohio representing that J State to be riven with factional Republi- 1 can quarrels, the Senator uses tim lan- I guage, which would seem to leave no I point unsettled: "My acceptance of th6 I portfolio of Secretary of State was witn- I out any reservation or conditions. Gov. I Bushnell has about six weeks yet before I it Will be necessary to appoint my suc- I ceBBor in the Senate. There seems to be I a general desire that Mr. Hanna should I be selected for the seat, and, while I have I no assurance on that point, I believe that I Gov. Bu&hnell will appoint him." Sen- MARKET REPORTS Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2, 15c to 16c; rye, No. 2, 36c to 37c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to .'10c; broom corn, common, green to fine brush, 2^4c to S'/Jc. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs,..choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, good to choice, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 87c to 89c; corn, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 88c to 90c; corn, No, 2 yellow, 19c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No< 2, 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2 j mixed, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 35c to 37c: Detroit-^Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 91c; corn, No'. 2 yellow, 22c to 24c; oats,.No. 2 white, 19a to 21c; rye, 37c to 38c. J Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; oats, No. I 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c; I clover seed, $5.25 to $5.35. I Milwaukee^-Wheat, No. 2 spring, 76q I to 77c; corn, No. 3, 20c to 21c; oats, No. I 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 25c to I 35c; rye, No. 1, 37c to 39c; pork, mess, J $7.50 to $8.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; 1 wheat, No. 2-red, 92c to 93c; corn, No. I 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats", No. 2 white, I 21c to 23c. I New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 88c to 89c; corn, No. 2, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West­ ern, 12c to 16c. Queen Resent of Spain. CIIARI.ES J. BELT. cause nothing has been heard from or of him for two months, when he started to {pin an exploring party in Mexico. Urged of the actionrby the Duke of Tetuan, her minister of foreign affairs, her Majesty, Maria -Christina, Queen Regent of .. Spain, had intended sending a note to European powers asking them to prevent the United States from interfering in favor of the Cubans. Minister Taylor, however, protested, and the plan was abandoned. Ordered to Vote for Silver. The joint resolution in the Nebraska Legislature directing Senator. John M. Thurston to vote for any measures favor­ ing free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 was adopted by a party vote. Mr. Alrichs has introduced a bill in the State Senate abolishing the whipping post IK"?. and pillory in Delaware, The industrial situation in Pascoag, R. I., and vicinity, which has been de­ pressed for months, is improving rapidly, and many of the woolen mills, which form the chief industry, are increasing their l l lSl---- • production. " . i - ' A. H. Griesbach, a solicitor for the pub­ lishing house of Appleton & Co. of New [fork, by whom he had been employed . over twenty years, committed suicide at- -fian Francisco by Bhooting himself in the "