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THE PLAINDEALER J, VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS BIG GAME OF BOLLS. • • * h. •NET $600,000 PROFIT IN TWO MONTHS. " ' • • (How They Hare Joggled . , ... r • . . , t. workmen were compelled to flee for their f of the greenbacks and their proper re- the Jnly "Wheat Market--Lynn, Mass., Girl ' Throws Vitriol in Ber Lover's E^ei-Tragedy at Cincinnati. r-.K" Profits of Speculators. Narratives of fabulous wealth taken from Klondyke soil are eclipsed by stories of recent manipulations in the July wheat market. For two months a bull clique of New York, St. Louis and Chicago brokers has been playing a fast and loose game with the wheat shorts, demanding tribute and creating fallacious hopes. George it. French, a brilliant young speculator, who was sent to Chicago from New York to guard the' earthworks of the clique, af­ firms unhesitatingly the current state­ ments that his backers have divided not less than $600,000 net profit during the last month. Thus it follows that the tacit impression on 'Change that July wheat was be ing manipulated is bolstered up by facts. Joseph Leiter, the Chicago dark - horse,, is one of the men Who have- pock­ eted a part of the big "rake off." Accord­ ing to Mr. French the combine with which he figures control led not less than 4,500.- 000 bushels,of July wheat. An effort was made by certain Chicago commission merchants in June to run a tight corner in the wheat market at that time when the visible supply revealed only 4,000,000 bushels available wheat. The same firms Identified with this attempt, which did not succeed, transferred their holdings to Sep­ tember. The final day for fulfilling July wheat contracts for delivery saw the Gotham shorts desperately scrambling for the clique's offerings, pushing the price up 4 cents within two hours and shower­ ing ?400,Q00 worth of coin into the coffers of the bull combine. The manipulators again put their heads together, snatched 7,000,000 bushels of wheat at ebb-tide price and in three days sold out the line at a profit of $200,000. Weddinc Frol;c Ends in Death. Three men and a woman were suffocat­ ed and thirteen others slightly hurt by a Cincinnati fire Thursday morning. The dead are: Ezra Rouse, Arthur Guth, Nel­ lie Bennett, Roy Carr. Seventeen men and women were gathered in the second story of a building occupied on the first floor by Otto Adlers all-night saloon. It seems that it was a wedding frolic, in which Guth, one of the dead men. was the bridegroom and the daughter of Land­ lord Adler was the bride. None of the dead Mere burned. All were suffocated by smoke from the fire in adjacent rooms. The only exit for escape was blocked-by a bathtub set up on end at the head of the stairway. The smoke came from (an • adjacent room, where the fire was soon extinguished. The celebrants of the wed­ ding used beer and cigarettes very freely, and it is now supposed cigarettes started the fire and that beer caused the somno­ lence which, with the up-ended bathtub, were the indirect causes of so many fa­ talities. - - . Disfitrnred Her Lover. Susie A. Denehy was arraigned in the Lynm, Mass., police court Thursday on a charge of assault on Thomas Keliher, her lover, by throwing sulphuric acid in his face Tuesday night. She was not repre­ sented by counsel and pleaded not guilty. She was held in $1,000 for trial Aug. 14. On leaving the court room, where she had been hysterical, she fainted. Keliher will be disfigured for life. One eye is destroy­ ed, and the hospital physicians fear that the sight of the other also will be lost. The girl was jealous because Keliher had been to the beach Tuesday afternoon with another girl. Tuesday night they had a quarrel and she threw the acid upon his Kip • >•94 ^*f.y ilife W) W.Aj' face. Now she is very repentant. *'• Ww'- MM. W 'r.' - RISs ||§g IlllllH Athletes of ths Diamond, Following Is the standing of the cltfba of ihe National Baseball League: i W. L. W. L Boston 58 27 Chicago 40 48 Baltimore .. .54 27 Pittsburg ... .38 46 Cincinnati ..54 28 Louisville ... .40 50 New York.. .49 32 Brooklyn ... .35 48 Cleveland ...45 40 Washington. 31 53 Philadelphia 42 45 St. Louis 24 66 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. U Indianapolis. 59 27 Detroit a 47 46 Columbus .. .56 30 Minneapolis. 31 63 W Milwaukee ..60 35 G'nd Rapids.29 59 fit. Paul .55 37 Kansas City.26 66 Under Falling Walls. Four Chicago firemen and an unknown man were killed, Chief Swenie and twen­ ty other firemen were hurt, and $500,000 worth of property destroyed by a fire "in the Chicago Railway Terminal Com­ pany's grain elevator Thursday afternoon. The fatalities were caused by a dust ex­ plosion, which almost invariably accom­ panies elevator fires. BREVITIES, The Pickett extension table Works at Warren, Pa., were entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Iteamship China sailed from San.Fran­ cisco Thursday flying the Hawaiian flag, tt was decided by the officers of the com­ pany to place the big vessel, which is the track ship of the Pacific Mail fleet, under ie Hawaiian flag without loss of time, and it is said in maritime circles that this action indicates a belief among the offi­ cers of the company that annexation of the islands is likely to be accomplished in the very near future. Fort Cralo, the historic Van Rensselaer mansion on the Hudson river in East Greenbush, N. Y., has been sold under the auctioneer's hammer for $4,300. It is Supposed to be the oldest building in the United States, having been erected in 1642 as a manor house and place of de­ fense. It was at one time Gen. Aber- w fi 1 * ^crombie's headquarters. ' The fertilizing works of Adam W. Eiouth, located at Greenwich Point, in the southern part of Philadelphia, were partially destroyed by fire. The loss is about $45,000, with no insurance. EASTERN. Ex-United States Senator James R Doolittle of Wisconsin died at Provi dence, R. I., Tuesday forenoon at the home Of his daughter, of Bright's dis ease. He was 82 years of age. . Judge Doolittle was one of the founders of the 'Republican party. At 8 o'clock Friday morning a dam for- feet wide, confining water from which the three Middletown, Conn., factories £et power, burst, letting down a tremen dous volume of v^iter. The huge stones of which the dam was built crashed into William Wilcox's lockshop, and the lower .floors of the factory were flooded. Forty BBS v: flft. ..-- lives. Much damage has been done and the water is still rushing down. The battleship Maine was mixed up in a general collision in East river, at I\ew York Thursday, and after it was all oyer it was discovered that, while the Maine had escaped unscathed, one heftvily laden car float had plunged to the bottom of the river, another went down alongside a pier, and the pier itself showed what a wreck a man-of-war's ram can make. Only the quickest of quick action on the part of the commander of the Maine saved a crowded excursion boat from disaster. That offi­ cer displayed his coolness when the battle­ ship suddenly was confronted with the choice of cleaving her way through the frail pleasifre craft Isabel or hurling her great weight against the stout pier, per­ haps to wreck herself and her command­ er's future career in that encounter. Quick and sharp were the orders given and a moment later the sinister looking ram of the battleship--to the excursionists threat­ ening as a leveled rifle--was swerving sharply in-shore. Then came' the splin­ tered shock of impact* as the steel spur of the battleship crushed through the stout timbers of the pier. The pier was wrecked, but the Isabel and her . people were saved. • • "WESTERN.'. ; . Mrs. Margaret Lelong has just arrived at San Francisco, ha.vihg made , the trip from Chicago on her wheel. B. F. McKinley, uncle of President Me- Kinley, was appointed assistant postmas­ ter of San Francisco by Postmaster Mon­ tague. James Gerah, a well-known sporting man, from the Pacific coast, was shot and kilted by Willis Day in a row over a game of cards at Chickasaw, I. T. Prof, Edward McClure of the Univer­ sity of Oregon was killed Wednesday night by falling over a cliff on the way to the summit of Mount Tacoma. A freight train was stalled in Lewis' tunnel Thursday night on the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the crew was overcome by foul gas. Conductor Ed Bray is dead. Samuel Hamilton, Ed Womack and Tom Kenwood are in a precarious condition. There are prospects of trouble in San Francisco Chinatown. The highbinders have posted a list of the names of Chinese who have been condemned to death by the hatchet men. The list includes men who stand high in business circles and who have always interested themselves in aid­ ing the officials in their effort* to make Chinatown a law-abiding place. James Rafferty was killed by the cars at Shelbyville, Ind., early Sunday morn­ ing, and it was thought he had fallen from the train. The fact developed at the inquest, however, that Rafferty was knocked from the train by a brakeman, Daniel Walters, who struck the man in the head with a coupling pin. Friday morning Walters was running along be­ tween the cars to uncouple them when they should become slack. His foot caught in a frog and he was thrown lengthwise on the rail and crushed to death. / What was evidently a fiendish attempt to blow up the house of John O'Meara, superintendent of the Moonlight mine, near Butte, Mont., resulted in the death of three children. What, appeared to be Roman candle was found near O'Meara's residence by Mamie Benson and two other little girls. While playing with it one of the children struck it with piece of iron. It exploded, and the O'Meara child was literally peppered with fragments of brass, lead and glass. The other two children were terribly cut. A hole torn in the,ground showed that the bomb was charged with dynamite. Sev­ eral attempts have been made on O'Meara's life heretofore. A Redwood Falls (Minn.) special says that John 0|Connell, a well-known farm­ er and prominent politician of Westline township, was murdered at his farmhouse. Seven gashes in his scalp were the imme­ diate cause of death. After the blows had been inflicted O'Connell's clothing was saturated with kerosene and his home was set on fire. Statements of three of his children made to the county author­ ities are to the effect that Mrs. O'Con- nell, wife of the murdered man, was the sole author of the horrible tragedy. His wife's antipathy to drink was strong and his abuse of her and the children while under its influence may have driven her temporarily insane. The labor strike at the great tannery of W. W. Mooney & Sons of Columbus, Ind., is at an end. At a meeting of the strikers Saturday last their organization was abandoned and the members released from their pledges not to return to work. More than half of those who went out re­ turned Tuesday morning, and at least half of the remainder have applied for rein­ statement. The works are now running with a full force. The reduction and re­ adjustment of wages by the Mooneys was made in older to put themselves in line with their principal competitors, who are located in Michigan, Wisconsin, New York and Pennsylvania, and was made necessary by the sharp competition of these plnees. The result is accepted with general satisfaction, as the, tannery has always been one of the largest and best employers of labor in the city. A cyclone of terrific force swept past San Jose, 111., Thursday night. Those . known now to have been killed are as fol­ lows: Mrs. Samuel Brownlee and three children ; Miss Jessie Groves, visiting Mrs. Brownlee; A. C. McDowell and his grand­ son. The following people were seriously injured: Charles McDowell, Mary Mc­ Dowell, Mrs. A. C. McDowell. San Jose escaped damage only because the storm rose north of the town and passed above Haif an hour later a messenger gal­ loped into town and reported terrible de­ struction on the farm of A. C. McDewell and summoned assistance of surgeons The McDowell homestead Was utterly de molishcd, the house being blown from its foundation and torn to fragments. The barn had shared the same fate. The cy clone also struck the farm of John Me Dowell and destroyed his barn and fine walnut grove. The house escaped. placement by other forms of issue. He also favors the complete separation of the issue and fiscal branches of the treas­ ury, both in accounting and in operation#. FOREIGN. Carl Ctonheiln, who has been employ­ ed in heaving coal and washing dishes in Boston, has been notified of the death of his elder brother, Count Henrik Julius Cronheiln of Sweden, by which he thus comes into a title, four larjje properties and an income of $50,000 a year. The Egyptian Intelligence department has received word of heavy tribal fight­ ing up the Nile between the dervishes and the Jaalons. The dervishes defeated the JaalOns in a pitched battle and occupied Metemneh on July L The losses on both sides were very large. The Jaalons are said to hare lost 2,000 killed. London dispatch: Two prospectors sent out on behalf of a Glasgow company have cabled home that British Columbia will be the principal gold field of the world. They say that not a single mine in that territory has been abandoned. Some of them are earning dividends before the ac­ tual" mining has commenced, and work­ ing costs are declining. There is work in that locality for 6,000 miners. "It is prob­ able, however,*' adds the Glasgow cor­ respondent, "that no important exodus of English gold seekers will take place until spring." The steamer Miowera, from Honolulu, brings the following Hawaiian advices: Honolulu harbor is dotted with British, Japanese, and United States war vessels, and more British and Japanese vessels ^re expected daily. In semi-official quar­ ters everything is reported quiet, but the impression among citizens is that the con­ dition of affairs is very threatening and! a popular outbreak may occur at any time, when international - interference from ships in the harbor would occasion complications. The stream of Asiatic la­ borers is still pouring in, each shipload causing a fresh outbreak of feeling among the different factions on the islands. An immediate cause of alarm te the fact that the United States bluejackets are bitter­ ly hostile to the Hawaiian police, who exercise almost military rule. British and Japanese sailors are not molested, but American bluejackets are constantly ar­ rested as deserters without cause and an­ noyed in every conceivable way. The object of the authorities in this perse­ cution cannot at present be fathomed. The bluejackets are writing numerous let­ ters to the press, protesting against their treatment. Heavy rewards are offered to the police for arresting United States naval deserters, which has caused whole­ sale arrests of men of the American fleet. News of the annexation of several of the Solomon inlands by "Great Britain hits been received with excitement and again started a report that advices have been received from England that the United States will not be allowed to annex Ha* waii, as Great Britain wants the islands herself. WASHINGTON. IN GENERAL. Forty steamers were chartered Thurs­ day to load cargoes of grain at Phila­ delphia, New York, Baltimore and New. port NewS for ports in the United King­ dom an<l Europe, making a day's record which, it is claimed, has never been equaled. To fill these vessels will require over 4,000,000 bushels of grain. During the last two weeks fixtures for steam ton­ nage to carry over 20,000,000 bushels of cereals abroad have been effected. Chicago packers are preparing to ask the Secretary of Agriculture for an emer­ gency relief from a situation which the packers claim is injuring their business, especially the export trade, where Gov­ ernment inspection is required. At pres­ ent Dr. DeVoe, chief inspector in charge of the Government force, has eighty in­ spectors at work, but some of the big packing houses say this number is insuffi­ cient. In the International Packing Company's and Nelson Morris' concerns there is complaint, and Secretary H. Bearse of the former company says that many contracts had to be refused and others canceled simply because they called for Government inspection and the con­ cerns were unable to furnish meat with the stamp of inspection, although they had plenty of material of the required standard. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Dispatches from almost ev­ ery Northern city of importance report without exception improvement in busi­ ness, and from ocean to ocean splendid crop prospects. The task of adjusting the business and industries of the country to conditions created by a new law has pro­ gressed with gratifying rapidity and ease. Even the increasing strength o'f striking coal miners probably forwards the adop­ tion of the uniformity plan, which prom­ ises to remove most of the causes of such struggles. Some confusion is caused by events seemingly contradictory--by clos­ ing of large cotton mills when many other works are starting and by decline in some prices when others are advancing--but the balance is unmistakably on the right side. The most important event since the pas­ sage of the new tariff, which was gen­ erally anticipated a week ago, has been the marked increase in foreign demand and advai.ee in price for wheat. With crop news still favorable producers may probably realize something like $80,000,- 000 more thaq last year on wheat. Corn and cotton also advanced, though reports as to yield are prood." WRITTEN BY A WOMAN MARKET REPORTS, SHE DESCRIBES THE GREAT KLONDYKE GOLD REGION. ' mm m « A Teacher of the Indians Draws a Discouraging Picture of the * New Klderado and Advises the Tender­ foot to Stay Away Till Next Spring. L/ • • No Dream of Ease. Among those in Klonuyke, the newly discovered gold field in Canada, just over the Alaska boundary, who write back warning letters to their friends in civil­ ization is -Miss Anna Fulcomer., a grad­ uate of the University of Chicago, who has been in Alaska a year as a teacher among the Indians under Government auspices. She has been located at Circle City, Alaska, but went to Klondyke in the first rush, hoping to "strike it rich," She writes as follows: "Those now leaving the United States for Klondyke are almost as certainly com­ ing to hardship, privation and suffering. They cannot possibly get here before the c!osing~of the mining season, and they will find every foot of ground known to be rich in gold staked off and held by min­ ers of experience. They will find food and lodging so high and scarce that it will take The transportation companies will thus of necessity renp a rich< harvest. " 'A dog, a dog, my kingdom for a dog,' is the1 general cry here. Horses have practically proved a failure here as a means of transportation. They have to be housed in tents in which a fire is kept. The dogs, however, live on next to noth­ ing and often make astonishing time. The relative value placed on men and dogs is shown by the fact that I could get an ex­ perienced man for my trip to Klondyke for nothing, but had to pay $30 rental for a dog and had to make a contract to pay $75 if anything happened to the animal." Miss Fulcomer gives a good report of the manners and morals of the camps. During her residence of a year at Circle City she knewof no murder being commit­ ted and little lawlessness. The miners Make a law unto themselves, and all tacit­ ly accept its unwritten mandates. kiim. The SWITCH PRIED OPEN. Chicago Express on Bis Fonr Wrecked by Miscreants. The Chicago express on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Rail­ way was wrecked at Thorntown, Ind., Friday morning. Four wefre killed out­ right and several slightly injured. The dead are: Engineer Seth Winslow of, Greensburg, Ind.; Fireman B. Criekmore of Indianapolis, and two unidentified tramps. « There was a deliberate plot to wreck the fcjlj;! Hfll'l a small fortune to survive until an oppor­ tunity to return offers itself. There is gold in Klondyke--gold in abundance, dirt rich enough on some claims to yield from $100 to $500 per pan; but it is mined with difficulty, mined in a small way, mined slowly, so that for the average experi­ enced digger the profits are swallowed up in the expenses. Men who had been min­ ing in other points in Alaska and the JPNEAU, ALASKA, WHERE THE TRIP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS BEGINS. train, as a coupling pin had been driven into the switch so as to hold it open and throw the fast train off the track as it passed that point. The engine and tender and the mail; express and baggage cars were thrown from the: track and wrecked. The coaches and Wagner sleeping cars remained on the track and none of the passengers was seriously hurt, although they had a lively shaking up. A relief train was sent from Indianapo­ lis to Thorntown and as soon as the track was cleared a new train was made up for Cincinnati and the other points. The train was unusually crowded with pas­ sengers. The officials of the railroad have insti­ tuted a thorough investigation as to the perpetrators of the wreck. No attempt was made to rob the express or other cars after the wreck, and no understanding of the piot can be ascertained. The bureau of American republics has received information that the Government of the State of Peru, Brazil, is inviting tenders for the purchase of the present water works of the city of Para and for extending the system. Bids will not fee received after Nov. 18. The Treasury Department has turned over to the Slate Department for delivery to Christopher Schmidt, through the Ger­ man embassy, the sum of $3,000 as full indemnity to him for injuries sustained in 1892 from a rifle shot fired by United States soldiers while the soldiers were firing over their rifle range. The State Department at Washington has finally ended another international in­ cident by paying over to Count Vinci, the Italian charge there, the sum of $6,000 as indemnity for the doing to death by a mob of three Italian subjects. The men were Lorenzo Saladdino, Salvatore Areno and Guiseppe Venturella, and they were t^jen out of jail at Hahnville, La., about a year ago and lynched. A special to a New York paper from Washington says: Secretary Gage has formulated a definite plan for the revision of the banking and currency laws which he hopes, after modification, to see incor­ porated in a! bill to be introduced in Con gress in December. The plan is not in- any sudden or unwarrant- the existing, system. Sec- ors & gradual retirement tended to Chicago--Cattle,. common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25^ .wheat, No. 2. red, 75c to, 7^q; corn, No. 2, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 42c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; new potatoes, 70c to 80c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $8.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn, No. white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 79c to 81c; corn, No. yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2, 40c to 42c. Cincinnati^-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to' $4.00- wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 5 mixed, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 35c to 37c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00 wheat, No. 2, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 2Mc to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye. 41c to 43c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c corn, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c;> oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 42c clover seed, $4.40 to $4.45. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 3, 27c to 28c; oats, No 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 1, 41c to 43c barley, No. 2, 30c to 35c; pork, mess $7.50. to $S.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75 wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75:. sheqp, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 86e; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c: oats, Ni. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, ̂ creamery,. 12c to 16c; eggs, Western. * a?®" SUMMIT AX CHILKOOT PASS. British Dominion virtually abandoned their own claims^ owing to the craze over Klondyke, hurried there and staked off their claims, and are folding or working them. This was early in the movement, and consequently newconlers have to be content with the leavings of the old men in the work. "There are only four mining months- May, June, July and August--and even then the ground never thaws out more than two or two and one-half inches. The rest of the year the soiMs like a Bolid rock. It is no unusual thing for the mer­ cury to tail 90 or 95 degrees below aero. To go prospecting before May or after August is out of the question, and in the four months I have named it jis a matter of about three hours a day. The coldest we had it last winter was 95 degrees be­ low zero, but mild as the weather was-- for Alaska--it was quite cold enough to make one feel the need of good, solid food. Apropos of the living here, it is well enough for them to saycthat there is no lack^pf provisions. Actually the na­ tives and miners haven't the necessaries of life, to say nothing of the comforts. It is impossible to get fresh meat. It is simply a matter of canned goods, and these have to be bought from the trading posts of the Alaska Commercial Com­ pany or the American Transportation Company, at "the companies' prices, and they charge what they please. One dol­ lar a pound for flour, salaratus and pota­ toes is the usual rate. Game has been utterly driven from the mountains. Fish are frozen eight months in the year. Once in a while you can get fresh meat at 50 cents a pound. The fresh meat used at our Christmas dinner, how­ ever, cost $19.50 a pound. There was gold enough in the taste even to make it lie a dead weight on the stomach. You can readily see that an experienced miner here has had to be successful in order to live. What would become of a 'tender­ foot' it is easy to imagine. I can see little in store for the man who gets here after or late in August but hardship and priva­ tion. Those stricken with the gold fever YACHT RACE OFF CHICAGO. Most Interesting Contest Ever Seen on Lake Michigan. The Buffalo yacht Enquirer defeated the Pathfinder of Chicago in Thursday's big race on Lake Michigan. The latter abandoned the contest near Waukegan, and, reversing her engines, steamed back to Chicago. The start was made at 9:30 o'clock in the morning opposite the lighthouse in the outer harbor at Chicago and amid the tooting of whistles, waving of flags and the cheering of crowds on board the mis­ cellaneous craft present, the Enquirer, owned by W. J. Conners of Buffalo, and the Pathfinder, owned by F. W. Morgan of Chicago, leaped forward and began the most exciting race ever witnessed on Lake Michigan. No yacht race ever excited such interest in Chicago. It is the first race of the kind ever to take place on Lake Michigan. It had a flavor of sport about it that sug­ gests the contests that made the Missis­ sippi river a famous course in the old days when the Natchez and the Lee filled their fire boxes with bacon and tied down their safety valves. The race was arranged after a long de­ bate as to course. It was agreed that the owner ef the losing yacht was to present the winner with a $200 silver cup. Aside from this, it is estimated that more than $5,000 had been wagered on the result by MILLIONS IN SAVINGS. •• • Building and* Loian Association League Meets at Detroit. The United States League of Building Associations held its annual convention in Detroit. President Michael F. Brown read his annual address and Secretary H. T. Cellaris of Cincinnati reported on the condition of building association in­ terests generally. Presideut Brown alluded to the organ­ ization of the league a year previous to the World's Congress of Buildiijg and Loan Associations at Chicago in 1893 and recalled the motto then suggested by Pres­ ident Dexter, viz.: "The American Home; the Safeguard of American Liberties," which motto had been adopted by all the leagues of the United States. The presi­ dent quoted a statement of William George Jordan that Uncle Sam's people have 11,483,318 dwelling ,honses, which would make a double avenue reaching round -the globe President Brown gave a lengthy review of the more salient features connected with the progress of building and loan associations from their inception and of the mutual benefits derived from their op­ eration. He said the past year had not been a home-building one, but rather a mortgage-creating period, in which nearly all the people had had a hard struggle. Wage earners of the land had sacrificed during the last few years $5,000,000,000, or ten times as. much as the assets of all the building societies of the United States The executive committee presented an important table of associations, member­ ship and asset3 for 1896-97, covering those States whose laws require returns to be made by building and loan associations: Assoeia- Mem- "' States. 1 ~ tlons. bershl Pennsylvania.... 1,160 STORM KILLS SEVEN. hlo. •lllnols. few .lersey Indiana......... New York Missouri Massachusetts.. California. Minnesota Tennessee Nebraska Connecticut Maine Other States.., Totals . Assets. $105,000,000 06,900,254 80,105,574 40,5)67,624 38,01)6,147 36,452,917 26,352,954 22,906,692 17,972,310 4,836,319 4,405,749 3,771,833 2,707,926 2,691,440 115,215,680 4,776 1,610,300 ?598,388,695 755 718 304 505 313 288 122 136 72 .41 76 1J 34 Tshlp. 260,000 297,650 196,732 111,575 157,264 94,964 58,024 63,105 19,957 10,800 7,198 12,145 , 10,415 8,226 302,245 GHASTLY TALES OF DEATH. Starvation Awaits Many Gold Seekers to the Klondyke Region. Serious news has come from Port Town- send relative to the Klondyke excitement and it forecasts a horrible situation that in the near future will confront many gold seekers en route to the arctic El Dorado. As is known Dyen, which .is a short distance from Juneau, is the start­ ing point for the overland journey to the Klondyke region, and there, according to the report, is more freight piled up than the available force of Indian carriers can transport over Chilkoot pass in eighteen months. In the twenty-seven miles be­ tween Dyea and the head of Lak« Linder- THE KLONDYKE. man there will probably be many a tra­ gedy this winter. The Alaska Commercial Company, which has already ten times tis much business offered by the Yukon route as its river boats can handle, is doing all in its power to check the rush by the Juneau route. Many persons have already start­ ed by land route, lacking experience, suf­ ficient provisions and proper clothing. Even when parties were small arid infre­ quent it was necessary for them to wait days and weeks to get out lumber at Lake Bennett lor boats or for violent snow storms to cease. With this sudden influx of Ivlondykers it will be utterly impossi­ ble for a fraction of the travelers to get dogs, Indians or boats. The delays will exhaust their supplies, and they cannot secure provisions of any kind between Dyea and Dawson City. Un- m. EXCITING RACE BETWEEN THE YACHTS ENQUIRER AND PATHFINDER. £ •ft*!** + Inner in YUKON MINER'S OUTFIT. keep flocking here and the influx of would- be miners will doubtless continue till ev­ erything is frozen-up so tight that it will be;' impossible to do anything but hunger, look at the moon and wait till next May. It is to the interest of the transportation companies to encourage this migration of the people north since they get the trans­ portation money--it costs about $150 to go from Seattle to Klondyke--and besides have a corner on supplies. All who go to the gold fields will have,to buy from fhs-n. sim WX-;.-iSSffiS the admirers of the competing yachts." Both of the yachts were built last year. The Enquirer was constructed in Buffalo and cost $05,000. The Pathfinder was built in Racine and cost $75,000. Each is 133 feet long. The Pathfinder is 18 feet at the beam and the Enquirer one foot less. The Pathfinder has a ram bow on the lines of that o^ a battleship, while the Enquirer has a clipper bow and an overhang stern. - .. Strews with Skeletons. The widow of Lieut. Schwatka, the Arctic explorer, being interviewed at Ben­ ton Harbor, Mich., concerning the Klon­ dyke gold regions, which country she has repeatedly visited with her husband, says the Government should stop the tide of immigrants pouring into the gold fields in Alaska. She says the mountain passes are strewn with the skeletons of unfortu­ nate miners who perished from either cold, heat, malaria or starvation while trying to reach the golden region. The new fast train over the Santa Fe has reached Kansas City on its initial trip Wednesday. It carries passengers, mail and express and reduces the time be­ tween Chicago and Kansas City from fourteen and one-half hours to eleven hours and thirty minutes. The train overtakes the regular passenger train for California, at. Kansas City, and will work a material improvement in mail and ex­ press service. The bank of Mammoth Springs, Ark., closed "its doors and named C. G. Buford as assignee. Assets, $100,000; liabdities, $71,000, of which about $25,000 is mui • vidual deposits. •;'V 1 less relief stations are speedily establish­ ed there will be some ghastly fales to tell of this mad rush, of the calamities of the Chilkoot, in blinding blizzards and of mis­ erable death in the hundreds of inhos­ pitable miles that lie between the moun­ tain pass and the Yukon. ILLINOIS CYCLONE DOES TER­ RIBLE HAVOC.. Home of A. C. McDowell la Destroyed1 and the Inmates Crashed -- Bodies,- Torn and Mangled* Are Scattered- Pai and Wide by the Wind. Destruction Near Sian Jose. A cyclone of terrific energy swept across- the regioii aiound San Jose, 111., at T o'clock Friday evening and left destruc­ tion and death in its wake. At midnight: seven deaths were reported and three per­ sons were severely injured, y is prob­ able that there were other casualties in. outlying districts. After a day of terrible heat, the Clouds- began to pile up in fantastic forms at.' about 5 o'clock and the air grew thick and- oppressive. The heavy clouds in the north especially grew dark and darker. Every one instinctively feared the coming of a cyclone. About 7 o'clock darkness fell suddenly upon the earth, broken here and there by „ vivid lightning. Soon, with a rush and a roar, came a tornado from the- north, carrying with it b'oiling and tossing clouds. Every one ran for a place of safety, many seeking refuge in cellars. San Jose escaped damage only because- the storm rose north of the town and passed above it. Half an hour after the passage of the «;torin a messenger came galloping into the town on a foaming horse. He reported that terrible destruction had. been wrought on the fann of A. C. McDowell, two aiufc one-quarter miles north, and summoned! the assistance of surgeons. A terrible scene was that at the home- N ! the McDowells. The cyclone had- struck the farm at its northern line and. swept across it, ' cutting a pathway of destruction. The McDowell homestead' was utterly demolished, the house being blow® lrom its foundation and torn to- fragments, its timbers and furniture scat­ tered to the four winds. The barn had shared the same ftite, and its contents- blown out of sight. The seven occupants of the house were killed, and their man- glec^and torn bodies were scattered aboutr the ruined homestead. Three injured, were taken from the ruins. F.f.v.Viu A FINE WHEAT CROP. This Year's Yield Will Undoubtedly Be Above the Average. Reports received from the great wheat regions of the Northwest and 'Southwest are most encouraging, and the crop this year, it is predicted, will be above the average. The recent heavy rains have helped the crop considerably, except in ports of Minnesota and the two Dakotas, where the rainfall has been too fxtensive. Grain on lowland is flooded in the Red River valley, and even that on the uplands has suffered more or less from a heavy wind that accompanied the drenching rain. The damage, however, misht eas­ ily have betn more severe and is more than balanced in the other sections where the rain was badly needed and drowned out the chinch bugs, which have become a regular pest. Favorable weather, it is expected, will largely repair whatever in­ jury has been done. In spite of many •drawbacks the shield in Minnesota and the Dakotas is estimated to reach 170,000,000 bushels. In the Southwest the rain has been of great benefit to the wheat. In some sec­ tions the complaint is made that the wheat was beaten down by the weight of the downpour, but this damage is trifling and is confined to small areas. Corn, oats I and barley are reported to be doing finely. - ... *. .. ... .../ ; „JV ••• •' Crops Destroyed by Hail. A destructive hailstorm passed near Sioux Falls. S. D., early Friday morning. The storm started three miles west of Dell Rapids, and went in a southwesterly direction, destroying absolutely every­ thing in its path around Garretson. One- branch of the storm passed over Sher- mantown and Luverne, Minn. Here it went in two paths, oi?e north and the other south, across Rock and Nobles coun­ ties. The path of this branch of the storm was over ten miles wide. It is estimated that fully 1,000,000 acres of crops were destroyed. WITH A BULLET IN HIS HEART. A Chicaco Man Bids Fair to Live to a- Good Old Age. The medical men of Chicago are amazed' by a case of almost unprecedented vitality in that cit». Charles B. Nelson was shot in Washii.gton Park recently. The ball lodged in some part of his anatomy, the medical men could not say just where. So experiments were made with the Roentgen rays, and the results have been most astonishing. A radiograph has been taken which shows the bullet imbedded in the heart! The strangest feature of the case is that the doctors believe that he has every BULLET IN NELSON'S HEART. reason to live to be an old man with a. leaden souvenir imbedded in his breast that will go with him to his grave. The bullet penetrated his body to a depth of two and a half inches from the surface. Then it penetrated the pericardium, or sack which surrounds the heart, and,lodg­ ed between the center and left curve of that organ. A somewhat similar case was once known in Vermont, when a farmer was. shot in the heart. The bullet entered the- aurta, which is worse than a wound ini the heart ordinarily. It pierced the right auricle and remained there. Sixty days ifter he was well and went to work in, his hay field. One day he fell while at work and died from aneurism, a rupture- or tumor caused by the formation of blood! near the scar. The bullet in the heart,, however, did not kill him. During the civil war there were a few instances where soldiers were shot in the heart and lived. Animals have demon­ strated the same vitality in several cases. It is remarkable, however, for any human being to have such endurance. ' "A?' v"--v'ftil..... " :-'v ' ' J.-..:; / i Sir Edwin Arnold, besides being a poet, is a sportsman, yachtsman, traveler and cyclist. The Duchess of Teek spends annually $5,000 in philanthropic work--one-fifth the amount granted her by Parliament. Prince Albert of Belgium will shortly set forth on a tour of the world. He will follow the route adopted by the present czar. Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell, widow of the Irish leader, is about to take up her- residence at Trematon castle, near Ply- * mouth. Ellen Terry sells her autographs for 25 cents each, and with the money so ob­ tained will endow a child's bed in an Eng­ lish hospital. The grand cross of the Imperial Order ;>f Leopold has been added to the decora­ tions of the Khedive of Egypt by the- Emperor Qf Austria. Miss Mary Rachel Dobson, eldest daughter of Austin Dobson and a gradu­ ate of London University, has joined a missionary settlement of college women in Bombay. The Horticultu'ral Society of Shrop­ shire, England, lias taken upon itself the expense of erecting n statue to Darwin at his birthplace, Shrewsbury. It willt coat $U,000.