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Five Million Bushels of Wheat to Be Imported to Illinois to Feed the State--Chicago Troiley Cars Have Killed and Injured Many. Human 'Brute Attacks Mrs. Fenska* Is Driven to a Cornfield) Holds Pur" suers at Bay for Two Hour*, and Is Finally Overpowered. I "V-- Illinois Wheat Crop Falls Short. The wheat crop of Illinois this year will fall short of feeding the people of the State 5,000,000 bushels. This is the offi­ cial declaration in the bulletin issued by the State Board of Agriculture. This estimate does not include the demands for seed. In other words, Illinois will con­ sume all the wheat produced by ifs farm­ ers this year and will be compelled to draw on surrounding States for a defi­ ciency of over 5,000,000 bushels. The official bulletin shows an increase in area in corn of 2 per cent over the area of 1S9G, giving a total area of 7,052,000 acres. In northern Illinois the area is 3,192,000 acres, in centra) Illinois 2.S31,000 acres, and in the Southern division of the State 1,020,000 acres. Owing to the unfavor? able spring corii was not planted until from two to four weeks later than usual, so that it. is not up to quite an average condition for this date, but during July the weather was very favorable for its growth and it has made up much. Unless injured by early frosts the 1897 corn crop of Illinois promisesAto be a "record break­ er. A few counties in the State report chinch bugs in the corn, usually in liclds adjoining wheat, oats or rye, but no serir ous damage has been done by this pest previous to Aug.. 1. In Putnam "County grubs have done some injury to corn. Hancock County reports some corn scald­ ed, while the crop has been somewhat in­ jured by storms in Johnson, Pope and White counties. Corn needs rain badly in Monroe, Pulaski and Randolph coun­ ties. Of the area seeded to winter wheat last fall, 1,897,000 acres, over one-half-- 55 per cent--was destroyed and plowed up, leaving but 858,000 a eyes for harvest. The average yield per acre on the area harvested was eleven bushels, giving a crop of 9,707,000 bushels. Appalling Fatalities of the Trolley. \Tlie Chicago Chronicle says: When will the slaughter of the innocents cease? When will the clang of the trolley car gong cease to ring out the death knell of some toddler, too young to be alone in the streets even if the swiftly moving cars were absent therefrom? What precau­ tions can be adopted by companies and city authorities to lessen at least the dan­ gers which hover over every home in the municipality? Who is to blame for them? These are questions which are being ask­ ed in many a darkened home in Chicago. They are being asked by mothers whose tear-dimmed eyes mourn for a lost one crushed to sudden and terrible death un­ der the remorseless wheels of the trolley car-/#Thov are asked by mothers and fathers doomed to watch the development of a baby shorn of some of his limbs from the same cause. They can see daily evi­ dences of the fearful perils run by their little ones in the mutilation of one or more of the victims. They know better than any others what it is to suffer through the agonies and probable death of their children. These questions are puzzling the authorities and companies also. Boys and girls lose lives or are shorn of their limbs under circumstances which appall, but under which the train­ men are powerless. Since May 1, 1894, up to Jan. 1 of this year forty-one persons have met death under the wheels of the trolley cars. Four hundred and forty- two persons have fallen victims to acci­ dents from the same cause. Nearly 100 boys and girls are forced to use crutches to supply the places of legs torn off under the wheels. Of these accidents the rec­ ords disclose that fully 90 per cent hap­ pened to children. The ages of the little victims ranged from less than 2 to 10 years. Many were due to the fact that the victims were engaged in stealing a ride on the cars or some other vehicle. Most of the deaths which resulted in­ stantly were of children who \yere run down while playing in the streets or while attempting to cross the car tracks when the cars were running at full speed. Some were due to the sudden fright caused by the mother calling to the children to get out of danger. Few were directly trace­ able to carelessness on the part of the motornien. Strte News in Brief. ± he c initial old settlers' reunion for Sangamon County was held in Ball town­ ship. Fully 10,000 people were present. The Clark County Teachers' Institute adjourned at Marshall, after being in ses­ sion several weeks. The attendance was large. Superintendent Purdue reports the advancement encouraging along all educational lines. Deeds were filed at Peoria transferring the property in Peoria of the American Glucose Company and the Peoria Grape Sugar Company to the Glucose Sugar Re­ fining Company of New Jersey. The con­ sideration of the former is $1,750,000 and of the latter $990,000. The Wellman-Dwire Tobacco Company, employing 250 hands in the manufacture of fine cut and smoking tobaccos, will move from Quiney to St. Louis Jan. 1. It is reported that the company will oc­ cupy Liggett & Meyers' old factory build­ ing as soon as vacated. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Stout of Can­ ton celebrated their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary Saturday. Mr. Stout is 80 years old and his wife is 84. They have twenty-one grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren living. The couple have resided in Canton twenty-four years. W. A. Shealian, ex-grand secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, was arrested at Peoria at the instigation of the grand trustees, charg­ ed with the embezzlement of $1,800. It is claimed by Mr. Sheahan's friends that prosecution is simply persecution, and that the matter might easily have been adjusted within the organization. S. M. Copeland, one of the early set­ tlers of Logan County, died at Mount Pulaski, at the advanced age of 77 years and 5 months. James Fitchie, a farmer living west of Elgin, died Thursday morning. On Tues­ day he and his wife celebrated their forti­ eth wedding anniversary and entertained a large party of guests. As Mr. Fitchie arose to respond to the presentation of a dinner service he was stricken with heart disease and never revived. He was born in Scotland in 1828, and for years had ehnige of the estate of Sir George Kin- lock. Miss Flossie Edds, bookkeeper at the Pekin cooper shops, was run over by a Santa Fe freight train. One foot was cut off and she sustained internal in­ juries which Will probab'.'.' prove fatal. Gov. Tanner has appointed the follow­ ing delegates to represent Illinois at the national prison congress, to be held at Austin, Texas, Oct. 16 to 20: George W. Torrance, Pontine; J. M. Tanner, Me­ nard; John H. Pierce, Ivewanee; Thom­ as W. Scott, Fairfield; Frank filbert," Chicago; Valentine Jobst, Peoria; Rev. Charles R. Henderson, University of Chi­ cago; Rev. Grahaim Taylor, Chicago The­ ological Seminary, and John M. South- worth, Chicago. The funeral of-M^s. John S. Thompson at Lacoa was attended by friends from all over central Illinois. Mrs. Martha G. Sherwood, mother o£ Jugge David BJ Shfcrwood, died at Elgin, aged 93. She was one of the earliest resi­ dents of the section. Frank A. Mills, a sign painter of Beardstown, was found on the bank of the Illinois river at that place. In a fit of despondency he took arsenic. Marcus B. Merriman of St. Joseph, paymaster of air the Burlington lines in Missouri, died at Blessing Hospital, Quin­ ey, of Briglit's disease, aged.48. •> The large grain elevator at Maquon, owned by E. F. Wing of Elmwood, and containing a large amount of grain, was burned. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $1,500. J. A. Willoughby of Belleville has ap­ plied to Secretary Gage for appointment as collector of internal revenue for the thirteenth Illinois district. William K. Murphy is the present collector. A damage suit for $25,000 against the Illinois Central Railroad and one for a like sum against the Mobile and Ohio Railroad were entered in the St. Clair County Court by R. D. Rogers, a tele­ graph operator of Belleville. Rogers claims to be a victim of the blacklist. Lafe Taylor, Jr., aged 21, a well-known young man of Virginia, was standing near the entrance to an abandoned coal mine when, without a moment's warning, a rock weighing", 3,000 pounds -fell and caught him, pinning him to the ground, where he died within ten minutes in the presence of the rescuing party, who were unable to render him any assistance. The Elgin, Carpentersville and Aurora Railway Company has been organized with a capital stock of $500,000, all of which is subscribed for. The purposes are broad ones, authorizing the use of the various systems of propulsion, the car­ riage of passengers, the' furnishing of light, power and heat, and the sale of electrical appliances. It is proposed to extend the lines possibly to Lake Geneva, Wis. The company now has thirty miles of track. Instead of being one of the most solvent as well as the oldest organization of its kind in Illinois, the Mechanics and Trad­ ers' Savings, Loan and Building Associa­ tion of Chicago, which July 31 reported a surplus of $230,810, was shown the other day by the report of Edward T. Glennon, custodian for the State Auditor, to have a deficit of $105,023. The immediate ef­ fect of the revelation has been to raise doubts of the integrity of certain of the leading officials of the embarrassed asso­ ciation, which will, it is said, result in a complete investigation of the business methods and records of the institution since its incorporation in 1873. Several years ago a Mount Vernon woman died leaving several thousand dol­ lars to three young nieces, all sisters, one of whom died soon afterward. A fourth daughter was born to the parents, and to this child was given the same name as that of the one who died. Later the will was probated and a guardian for the three children named in the will was appointed, and the share of the.two living children was paid to them, and the share of the dead child was paid to the last born. Now one of the original legatees of the will is about to bring suit in the Jefferson Coun­ ty Circuit Court against the guardian for the dead child's share thus paid to the liv­ ing child. The amount involved is said to be about $1,000. Mrs. Charles Gass, widow of Charles Gass, who died one week ago, committed suicide Monday night at her home at St. David, by taking morphine. The county authorities suspected that the house was a rendezvous for a gang of thieves, and by investigation discovered that the house was located directly over an abandoned coal mine. An entrance was found into the mine. There furnished rooms were found, and in one .a lot of harness, axes, miners' picks, etc., were hidden that had been stolen during the last year or two. The place is thought to have been the secret headquarters of the Quackenbush brothers, who are now serving time at Joliet for counterfeiting and for robbing several country postoffices. Charles Gass, who died a week ago, was a prominent church member and an old soldier. Frenzied by jealousy, Charles W. Clif­ ford, known in museum circles at Chicago as the "champion weight guesser," cut the throat of his wife, Lottie, Wednes­ day morning, and then ended his own life by putting a bullet into his brain. The tragedy occurred at 302 Rush street, where Clifford and his wife have been running a small restaurant. The imme­ diate cause of Clifford's act is said to be due to the discovery of two letters written to his wife by Policeman Gust. A. Penner. The letters are harmless and respectful in tone, but Clifford seemed to think they contained another meaning. Abnormally jealous of his wife, who, nevertheless, was considered byf*her friends and neighbors as an excellent woman, Clifford was car­ ried away by rage, and after a long and bitter quarrel put an end to their lives. Washington Corrington, the millionaire farmer of Peoria, has accomplished the dream of his life by providing for a new university in Peoria, to cost $1,500,000. His entire fortune, gathered during a long life of toil, is to be devoted to the new school, which is to commemorate the founder by bearing the name of Corring­ ton Institute and University. It will be erected or. his old homestead near Peoria, where he has toiled for fifty-three years. Education on an ethical basis is to be the fundamental principle of the new univer­ sity. Sectarianism will have no place within its walls. It will be a university for men and women, as Washington Cor­ rington believes in higher education for the fair sex. The conduct of its affairs will be modeled after the plan of the founder, who acquired all his education away from schools and during intervals of rest on his farm. Washington Corring­ ton is now 85 years old. He may live a score of years more, but for twenty years he has been thinking of this plan to give others the education he could not get in his youth, and he finally has resolved to make arrangements for the disposition of his wealth in the way he ardently desires. „ Before the Chicago police authorities get through with young Mr. Bates wili they kindly make him explain how he can maintain eight wives on $60 a month? Many a man is unable to support one on that salary. A stranger wearing a Mexican sombrero boarded a Chicago cable ear Sunday night, and a gang of hoodlums proceeded to have fun with him. "Shoot the hat!" cried one very bright young man as he grabbed the sombrero and jumped off the car. The stranger fired five shots. The One Man Fatally Hurt and Several Injured--Rock Islanders Repelled by Citizens of Fulton--History of the Trouble in the Order. A Spirited Battle. In an attempt by people of Ropk Island Friday afternoon to secure possession of the books and belongings at the head­ quarters of the Modern Woodmen of America in Fulton, 111., a general riot en­ sued. The list of injured is: Ed. Bare, head and arms injured; Will Bennet, city marshal, head cut, wound believed to be fatal; James Carrier, head cut; P. J. Casey, badly injured on head; W. H. Flanagan, head badly cut; Chris Miller, head cut; L. D. Plank, cut about the head; J. Slougerg, cut about the head. Start, from Rock Island. Judge Gesi of Rock Island had rendered his decision dissolving the injunction Which restrained the oUL'ials of the Mod­ ern Woodmen of America from removing the books and other' belongings of the head office from Fulton, HI.* to Rock Island. A special train was started from Rock Island over the Burlington road for Fulton, carrying about 000 men, well armed. They reached Fulton about 6 o'clock and marched up to the Woodman building in military style. The Fulton people had been apprised of the move by telephone and were ready to defend the books and papers of the head office, They were assisted by a large force from Clin­ ton and Lyons, their neighboring cities, just across the Mississippi. General Fight Knaue9. A general fire alarm was sounded and hose laid to repel the invaders. When the train arrived the track was torn up on both sides to prevent their escape. A Rock Island man cut the hose. This was the signal for hostilities. Many shots were fired and clubs, rocks and missiles of all kinds used. Quite a number of Rock Islanders are more or less hurt, none very severely. They secured a few books be­ fore they were stopped, but were penned in their train by armed deputies. Head Attorney Johnson of the Modern Wood­ men, Engineer Mitchell of the special train and a number of others are under arrest. Another Injunction Secured. J. D. Andrews of Chicago, attorney for the city of Fulton, went to Sterling on a special train and secured an injunction from J. E. McPheran, master in chan­ cery, which was accompanied by a re­ straining order. It was served immedi­ ately and'the records will now remain un­ til it can be tried in the courts. HISTORY OF TROUBLE. Fight Centered Around J. C. Root, Founder of the Order. The great fight, prolonged for so long, to remove the headquarters of the Modern Woodmen of America from Fulton, 111., to other points, has a very intimate bear­ ing on Omaha, since that city is now the I home of one J. C. Root, who established ; that order and started the long fight by ! making an effort to have the records of the organization removed to Omaha. It was in 1879 that tlie Modern Wood­ men of America was organized under the laws of Illinois. The charter expressly stipulated that the headquarters should be located in the State of Illinois. As Fulton was the home of Root, he selected that place as the headquarters of the or­ ganization. It was in 1S90, eleven years later, that the idea of a change ej\ter£d ljoot'skead, Omaha was oil itlie Voom and he selected tjiat place as the future home of his com pany, when he suddenly discovered that the people of Fulton proposed to have a word to say about the matter. When Root attempted to remove tlie records from the l town he was interrupted by an injunc­ tion. The case was determined in favor of Fulton. Root appealed and the Supreme Court confirmed the decision. This fight had provoked much bitterness in the or­ ganization and there were many who were not satisfied to have Root at tlie head of the order, which was essentially an Illi­ nois institution and which he was anx­ ious to remove to some other State. Then a personal fight was started on Root to oust him as sovereign commander or supreme head of the Modern Woodmen. The matter went through all the State courts and Root was finally defeated. He at once went to Omaha and started a rival order known as the Woodmen of the World. In the past yoar he has had some trouble with the Omaha contingent of this order, and some of the members seceded and formed a new order, claiming that Root had perpetuated himself as sov­ ereign commander and was degenerating it into a one-man affair. The light to keep the headquarters at Fulton was not reopened until two years ago, when, during the Milwaukee conven­ tion, the city of Rock Island, 111., offered to furnish the order a permanent building at that place if the headquarters were brought there. It was accepted and the records ordered removed. k fe ' liat was recovered; so will the joker, it is thought. Judge Puterbaugh of Peoria dissolved the injunction issued Aug. 3 in favor of George F. JHarding of Chicago against the American Glucose Company, restrain­ ing the American company from transfer­ ring its Peoria and Buffalo properties to the newly organized glucose trust. Young Mr. Bates, who is boarding at the expense of the city of Chicago now­ adays for having eight rives and EO di­ vorces, was asked the other day if mar­ riage is a failure and replied that he "didn't know yet." If he had continued with his matrimonial collecting there is some reason to believe that eventually he might have solved this vexed question. It is too bad. » Told in a Few l<ines^ While crossing the river at St. Louis Frank Collins and Joseph Kelly were drowned by the capsizing of their skiff. George E. Stuart, property clerk in the department of charities of New York City, is short in his accounts $0,000 and missing. He lost on the races. John Gordon, alias Lewis Nelson, the negro who murdered William Allen at Brunswick, Miss., on July 15 by clubbing him with a gun barrel, and who was cap­ tured in Louisiana, was Imaged by lynch­ ers. Michael Devine fatally shot Alexander Gowry at Colon, an Oskaloosa, la., sub­ urb. Devine's wife was also slightly wounded. Devine charged Gowry with breaking up his home. He surrendered to the sheriff. All gambling resorts at Joplin, Mo., have been closed and Marshal Morgan snys they-shall not be opened during his term. He also proposes to strictly enforce the Sunday saloon law. If Japan and Spain ever decide to unite for the purpose of thrashing Uncle Sam the rest of creation will witness a per­ formance which will beat "Don Quixote" and "The Mikado" combined. A post to which a hammock swung broke and fell across the stomach of Les­ lie Fults, the 8-year-old son of A. J. Fults of Sedalia, Mo., inflicting internal injuries from which he died in a few minutes. As a result of a conference between the minister for the colonies, Senor Cns- tellano, and the premier, Senor Canovas del Castillo, the scheme for the customs reforms for Cuba has been modified. Ex-Secretary of State Will A. Strong of Louisiana, who ^is now serving in Ouachita parish as a deputy sheriff, shot and mortally wounded A. B. Cook on the streets of Mqnroe while trying to arrest him. . . Sheriff Linden of San Jj>se, Cal., has ar­ rested Mrs. Sarah Sehofield, Daniel Dou- ! cher and Irving Maun, the 17-year-old son of Mrs. Sehofield by her first mar- > riage, charged with the murder of Mrs. j Sehofield's husband. Details of the Tragedy. Swift vengeance was meted out Thurs­ day afternoon to a man who made a mur­ derous assault upon Mrs. Paulina Fenska, wife of Karl Fenska, a poor German farmer living "in Leyden township, one mile from the village of Franklin Park, Cook Couijty, 111. A party of infuriated faniers, armed with ritles, revolvers, pitchforks and oth­ er implements, started in pursuit of the man, who had fled from the lonely farm­ house into the nearby corn field. The man, who was a stranger in the locality and whose identity is still unknown, made a vicious fight for his life. He was armed with two huge revolvers and he fought his pursuers until'his body was riddled with' shot and he fell helpless to the ground. , •' r:;"" When this moment came the farmers acted like madmen. They jumped upon the half unconscious wretch and almost tore his body to pieces. They kicked him, stamped upon him, beat him over the head with rakes, hoes and rifie barrels, and pinned him to the earth with the sharp prongs of the pitchforks. When they were through the man was little more than a mass of battered flesh and blood. His body contained a score of bullets aud his head wa3 beateo almost into a jelly. The battle between the fugitive and the men who hunted him lasted over two hours. The stranger repeatedly loaded his revolvers with cartridges which he carried in his pockets. He held the farm­ ers at bay again and again, notwithstand­ ing his legs had been riddled with bullets. He attempted many times to kill the fore­ most of his assailants. He would take deliberate aim and fire four or five shots at the nearest man to him. Pursuers Are Unharmed. But his marksmanship was bad and- he failed to wound any of his pursuers. He fled from corn field to corn field, took his stand behind trees and rail fences, was hunted like a wild beast, and fought with all the desperate courage of a man who knows that his life is at stake and that there is oniy one chance in a thousand to escape. The stranger took this chance. He fought like a rat in a trap and died like one. Mannheim is thirteen miles from the Chicago. Union depot on the Chicago, Mil­ waukee and St. Paul road. It is part of the incorporated village of Franklin Park. There is a large settlement of small Ger­ man farmers about Mannheim. Thursday morning Karl Fenska, along; with other farmers in the settlement, went to Johann Hanson's place to help him thrash his wheat. The field in which the thrashers were at work was 300 yards from Fenska's dwelling. Stranger at the Door. At 11 o'clock, while Mrs. Fenska was at home looking after the children, stranger appeared at the door. His firsts utterance showed that he was a German,, "Where is your husband?" asked the stranger. "He is working on Hanson's farm, thrashing wheat," replied Mrs. Fenska. "Is that very far away?" queried the, man. a i\/-„ "Not very far," she answered. "But how far?" again asked the man, insisting. The woman then went on to explain just where her husband was working, and this seemed to satisfy the visitor, who imme­ diately bf gan to make himself at home. Mrs. Fenska has four children. They are Gustav, aged 9; Friedrich, aged 6;1 Augusta, aged 4, and Mary, a babe in arms. Tlie man went over to where little Augusta was playing on the floor and be­ gan to pet the child, patting its cheeks. Mrs. Fenska told him he was not wanted and had better go away. The man pulled out his watch and remarked that it was 11 o'clock. Mrs. Fenska's clock showed 11:30 and he said her clock was fast. The man was undoubtedly figuring at what time Fenska and the other men were like­ ly to come to the house for dinner. Ftrik^S Her a Terrible Blow. "And you want me to go, do you?" re­ marked the man. The next moment he struck her a terrible blow in the face with his fist, knocking her against the wall. He then hit her again and knocked her to the floor, where she remained in a half conscious condition. The brute began kicking liei as she lay on the floor, and bruised her frightfully around the body. Tlie woman crawled along tffe floor to the water pail and washed some of the blood out of her eyes. She then picked up her baby and, crawling and stagger­ ing, managed to make her way to the field where Ler husband was at work. Tells the Thrasher*. ' She gave a general description of the man and then fell unconscious. There were fifteen or twenty hands at work thrashing tlie wheat when Mrs. Fenska appeared and told her terrible story. With shouts of anger they dropped their work and hurried away for firearms. Among these farmers were Frank Baker, Henry Wiemerslage, Fritz Kossack, Henry Ithoda, Karl Linneway, Adolph Rolfs, George Ivoltze, Johann Nettinger, Louie Ivoltze, Fred Koltae, Jr., Henry Kanberg, William Ivonzoele, Johann Hanson. The men, soon re-enforced by others, quickly armed themselves with pitchforks, clubs, army muskets and stones, and with­ in an hour had their victim surrounded in a corn field. He ran from cover to cover; one pursuer climbed a telegraph pole, and though he was the target for a score of shots from the desperado's revolver, kept his companions informed of the latter's position. Not until the hunted man had expended all his ammunition and been wounded so severely as to prevent further flight, was he overpowered. Notes of Current Events. J. C. Parmerlee, a leather merchant at Sedalia, Mo., made an assignment. Lia­ bilities, $10,000; assets about same figure. Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia is very domestic in his tastes, and when through with the cares of office amuses himself playing the violin. The tenth annual meeting of the Ameri­ can Association of Obstetricians and Gyn­ ecologists began at Niagara Falls Tues­ day. About 200 physicians were in at­ tendance. Somebody has discovered that the word "Klondyke" means "plenty of fish." Next spring the discovery probably will be made, also, that the particular fish re-' ferred to are suckers. 1 . • ' • A Boston paper urges "young women" to "marry a man whose gaze is steady and unswerving," But if his judgment is also steady aqd unswerving he will permit only one young woman to marry him at a time. No one should start for the Kloudyjce gold fields without $1,000 in his po?«set. • With the odds so heavy against him the avtiage man with $1,000 in his poss-Mh 6iou will stay at home and stake it oa some more promising proposition.--Ottoia* wa Courier. Ohio Politics. The lumber dealers and producers of Ohio stood firmly by the party of Protec­ tion in 1893 while theFreeTrade lumber schedule of tlie Wilson bill was pending in Congress. The time is upon them again for raising their voices and using their ballots in defence of their inter­ ests, but this time, it is to preserve what we have just achieved. WitJx the possibility of a Free Trade House in 1898 we must have a safe majority iu the Senate to save our industries from ruin. Maine Sets the Pace. In tlie general "slump" which fol­ lowed the advent of the; free trade par­ ty Into the control of the Government in 1893 wages on the Maine Cental Uncle Sam's New Suit. Railroad were cut down, and they stay­ ed at the cut figure until the free trade party went out ol' office. But among the first fruits of the restoration of pro­ tection to American industries is tlie restoration of wages in the Maine Cen­ tral to what they were previous to 1893. They used to say, "As Maine goes so goes the Union." Maine has set the right pace this time, aud it will not be long until the rest of the Union follows with better earnings for the people. All hyes on Ohio. While there is no possibility of a change from the beneficeut tariff act just passed to free trade conditions for the next four years, yet the continual agitation of the question of change of tariff laws is almost as hurtful as change itself, and the only way to pre­ vent the possible evil in 1898 is to pre­ vent the election of a free trade ma­ jority in the House of Representatives and to make the Senate safely protec­ tive. Ohio will sound the opening blast in November, when she elects her next Governor and Legislature, and her ev­ ery material interest is involved in the result. The country expects her to send a firm friend of protection to the United States Senate, and she can do this only by sending strong friends of protection to her Legislature. Her great iron, coal, lumber and other industries should begin to work to this end now. these missionaries. It is that there are in the treasury of the United States more than $500,000,000 in silver--and it is not and never was demonetized--not a dollar of it. How much silver do the silver statesmen think we ought to have in the treasury? It does not seem that fifteen thousand tons are satisfactory. A thousand million dollars would be a mere suspicion of free money in the white metal. ^ Glasses Not Needed. The class legislation inflicted upon the country by the Dingley tariff law was visible without glasses the other day in New York when the Majestic arrived. The poor people wTio had crossed the sea to witness the jubilee and do a little shopping had their boxes pulled open and ransacked, and thou­ sands of dollars were taken from the victims. It was the class of people who go abroad to spend their money that were subjected to this procedure, and the Democratic soul burns about this class legislation. Secretary Sherman's Strength. Secretary Sherman astonishes his po­ litical opponents by his vigorous and forceful administration of the State De­ partment aud by his ringing American utterances ou international matters which bring a thrill of pride to every American heart. It is, however, hard on the pec^ile who were assuming six months ago that the selection of Mr. Sherman as the head of the cabinet was a mistake. Better Protection. The paj ment of fees to American con­ suls is, o„' course, distasteful to foreign exporteru. But the heavier these fees are made the stronger becomes our policy gi protection. A Lesson to Importers. Congressman Dolliver of Iowa, in his speech in' tlie House of Representa­ tives on the Dingley bill, stated that a great number of importing merchants had appeared before the Ways and Means Committee and that not one of them had come to protest against a pro­ tective tariff. As Mr. Dolliver pointed out, the importers of this country have learned, during the disastrous days of the Wilson-Gorman law, that not even importers can prosper under the indus­ trial paralysis caused by free trade, which means the destruction of Amer­ ican industries and a consequent loss of work and reduction of wages to Ameri­ can wage earners. People without work have np money to buy imported goods or any other kind of goods. Our Silver Statesmen. One of tlie ways the free silver propa­ gandists proceed is to instruct loud­ mouthed cranks and blatherskites to go about the country and talk big about a few alleged points for silver. Usually tlie first one is to complain of the "crime" of "demonetization" of silver. There is one fact that goes hard with Political Notes. Fusion which fuses votes only and gives t.ll the offices to the Democrats is no loivger popular with the Populists. Wbiit has free trade done for the farmers of England? Wiped them out. The free trade policy in America would liavii the same tendency. In order to keep up the price of wheat the farmers of the Northwest should take the tip of extending the area of barley and going into beet culture. The Republicans have no policy that contemplates the contraction of the currency. They never did demonetize silver and never mean to do so. The sil­ ver that we have--we mean the money --we shall keep and make useful. It is not scarce, aud it will wear out slowly. The recent fall in the price of silver lias precipitated alarming business troubles in Mexico. Exchange lias gone skyward, business is at a standstill, manufactories have suspended, and there is talk of going to tlie gold stand­ ard as a business necessity. The Harrison Administration, under the McKinley tariff and Sherman re­ sumption, was in full career of prosper­ ity when there was "a change" want­ ed, and after tlie Democratic election iu 1892 that came fast enough, and stuck to the people like a burr. Thousands of Democrats who sup­ ported the Chicago platform and can­ didates last year are refusing to do so in this campaign. The fall in silver and the advance in farm products are convincing tliem of the fallacy of the principles which they unwillingly sup­ ported in 1890. The increase in the supply of gold through the recent developments iu new mines aud new processes is not a mere matter of chance. It is the legiti­ mate response of the miners and money producers of the world to^the demand for a convenient metallic medium of exchange which does not fluctuate in value. Special Washington correspondence: ' Letters received by members of Con­ gress, officials of the various depart­ ments of the Government and newspa­ per men here indicate the very general return of prosperity to nearly all sec­ tions of the country. All of these are good reading in these times of calamity cries, and permission has been given to present extracts from a few of the most interesting. They are as follows: W. T. Yoe of Independence, Kan.: "There is a general increase in business here. Our wheat crop is a million bush­ els in this county aud the price is 30 per « cent above a year ago. Kansas will share in the returning prosperity." L. P. Bissell, Charlotte, Mich.: "Farm­ ers have harvested excellent crops of wheat °and hay. with fair prospects on other cereals. The greater part of the depression here was diie to poor prices on agricultural products, and as fair returns in both quantity and quality -and iu price are now assured Ave have reason to hope that better times are on the verge of the wall surrounding Us." W. H. Goetzinger, Elbow Lake, Minn.: "There is a marked and substantial evi­ dence of return to better times. Farmers have done more building this spring than for a number of years past and have bought more buggies and windmills than ever before. Merchants carry larger stocks, tramps are fewer in number and in general a better feeling prevails." F. E. Adams, Mansfield, Mo.: "The most noticeable improvement here is in the price and demand for sheep. For this stock the price has almost doubled and the demand at the higher price trebled, which means prosperity for many farmers. The demand for horses and mules has been good and the price higher than for several years. Price of wheat here has almost doubled, benefitting many of our farmers. From the statements of our county banks the deposits of many of them have dou­ bled, showing that there is more money in the country than ever before. Cattle are high and farmers have sold more cat­ tle, sheep, horses and mules than ever be fore in the history of the county. It looks to me as though a renewal of activity has certainly come or is about to come to our community." J. A. Doty, Southwest City, Mo.: "Two industries here, flour milling and distill­ ing, after two years of idleness, opened for business July 1, and other business enterprises that have been under a strain to keep going have taken on new life and are employing additional help. There is a marked improvement not only in this " place, but in surrounding towns and coun­ try." Allen C. Bragg, editor and general man­ ager of the Gazette Publishing Co., Reno, Nev.: "The outlook is encouraging here and a better feeling is undoubtedly about in the State. The live stock interest, beef and mutton are looking up; wool is J> or A cents a pound higher, gold mining has taken on new life and much prospecting is being done with a degree of success that is encouraging. Take it all in all, the in­ dications are excellent for a revival of business. Nevada is not a manufacturing , State, but I regard the outlook for live stock and mining as brighter than it has-- been in tlie past ten years." J. Dawson, Eutaw, Ala.: "Our town has just completed electric lights and water works, and tlie great talk now is the building of a cotton factory. Busi­ ness is improving daily." J. W. Baker, Columbia City, lud.: "Farmers have gathered a fairly good wheat crop, a bountiful hay crop and a ' good oat crop, which indicate renewed prosperity for them. A new factory has just been erected here with a capacity of 300 employes, and a large new lumber company has just started. Our idle men are now generally employed, some at in­ creased wages, some at prices foimeily C paid." W. A. Smith of the Decatur County Abstract Company, Oberlin, Ivan.: "I have lived in northwest Kansas for over thirteen years and we are now in a more prosperous condition than -ve haw betn at any time during that period. We have had boom times wherein business was greater and more people were engaged, but, like most booms, the bottom dropped out. We are now on a solid bas;s. There are more farmers working on their own capital in this county than ever before to my knowledge. Our wheat crop has been very fine and the corn will undoubtedly be as heavy a yield as we have ever had. Alfalfa culture is being introduced; also the Campbell method of cultivation ..with good effect. The machinery for a full creamery has been ordered and >vil) be in full operation by September. Since Jan­ uary O! erlin has shipped forty-two car­ loads of cattle and 122 of hogs. Many mortgages will be paid." A. B. CARSON. The Divided Democracy. Free trade lias been betrayed in the house of its friends. Mr. Bailey of Texas, the Democratic leader in , the House, has repudiated the Democratic doctrine of "free raw material." A con­ siderable number of Democrats voted for some of the Protective features of the Dingley bill, and tlie "Atlanta Con­ stitution," in a recent issue, said that the time had come to correct tlie error people made iu considering tlie Dem­ ocratic party a Free-Trade party. We have more respect for tlie foresight of these men than for their consistency. They at least have read the signs of tlie times and have seen that Free-Trade Is a "dead dog" in the future politics of this country. Hence they are trying to rid themselves of any part or lot in that economic fallacy by whatever means they can. In any case, however, we are glad to welcome them from the dreary outposts of Free-Trade into the fold of Protection. We recognize them as pio­ neers iu the general movement of the people of the South toward the adop­ tion of the sound principles of the American system of Protection. HARD TIMES FOR THE CALAMITY HOWLER.