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THE PLAINDF.ALEB VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. ILLINOIS MUCH BOGUS MONEY, EPIDEMIC OF COUNTERFEITING WORRIER UNCLE SAM. w ; ... Profit in Spurious Dollars--New York Train Wrecks a Station--Fire in a Soda Works--Indiana Bank Fails- Nebraska Fusionsts Agree. Bab Silver Certificates. The United States secret service bureau Js struggling with an epidemic of counter­ feits. Hardly u day passes without the arrest of from one to half a dozen persons detected in passing spurious notes or sil­ ver coin. It is evident that there is a large volume of counterfeit silver certifi­ cates of last year'if issue afloat and that the circulation is continually being dilut­ ed with that sort of material. When these certificates were first put out expert en­ gravers; predicted that counterfeiters would be tempted to resume activities, and the result shows that they were not wrong in their prophecy. As works of art these .certificates'may be very fine, but for purposes of money they were shockingly deficient in many of the safeguards which the department had provided against counterfeiting. , Government detectives have been Instructed to be on the Watch for, bogus silver dollars, the tip haying been given the treasury department that a move Was being made in sornb mysteri- ops and unknown quarter for the minting of.such dollars on a large scale, the coins to have the same amount of silver as the genuine and to be in exact similitude of the coin bearing the stamp of the United States mints. Thus far the department has not been able to locate any of this il­ licit product and it is not believed any of the bogus dollars of that sort are yet in circulation, but that is no guaranty that the country may not at any time be flood­ ed withithem. At the present price of-sil­ ver bullion there is a margin of 60 cents on every dollar privately minted. ^tandinc: of the Club*. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore ...73 33 Philadelphia .49 62 Boston .... .75 34 Pittsburg ...47 60 New York . .67 38 Louisville .. .45) 63 Cincinnati ..62 43 Brooklyn ....4S 62 Cleveland .. .55 52 Washington .46 61 Chicago ....50 59 St. Louis ...28 82 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .SO 30 Detroit 61 56 Columbus .. .72 41 Minneapolis .40 81 Paul ..,.74 4.3 Gra'd Rapids.34 SI 'aukee ..09 48 Kansas City .36 S6 -Runs Through a Depot. in No. 4, the New York vestibuled on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, jumped the track at Blodgett's Mails, and the locomotive, baggage car and two coaches > ran clear through the station. Mrs. J. H. McQuillan of Philadel­ phia was killed and seventeen passengers i. BREVITIES. took the place of oratorical arguments, marked the State convention of Pennsyl­ vania Democrats. The convention was called to nominate candidates for State Treasurer ana Auditor General, but can­ didates were forgotten in the fight to oust William F. Harrity from bis seat in the National Committee. The antji-Harrity element won-and Harrity will be succeed­ ed in the National Committee by James N. Guffey of Pittsburg. WESTERN. Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chancel­ lor, will retire in October. The Sultan of Turkey has sent rich presents to the Ameer of Afghanistan. The safe of the District of Columbia tax collector was robbed of about ?9,000. Mayor Pastoureau of Toulon was stabbed and dangerously wounded by a Corsican. Two members of a stranded show stole $500 from the Adams Express Company at Burlington, Iowa, and escaped. The corporation of Brown University has backed down and asked President An­ drews to withdraw his resignation. Boston's new $6,000,000 subway for street railways was opened Wednesday, about one-third of it being completed. Hiram McKinna and Mrs. Frank Haws, living near Harrisville, Mich., •were whipped and otherwise maltreated by whiteeaps. The strike in Pingree & Smith's shoe factory in Detroit has been ended by a compromise and the operatives all re­ turned to work. It is said the United States govern­ ment now claims Dawson City is in Amer­ ican territory and has instructed Alaskan officials to act accordingly. A Buenos Ayres correspondent says that reports from all agricultural centers indicate an increase of fully 20 per cent in the wheat area of the country. Fred McConnell, cashier of the State Bank of Ambia, Ind., is missing, together •with funds of the bank estimated at any amount between $10,000 and $50,000. The body of E. W. Stump was found at the Golden Fleece mine in Tombstone, the head split open with a blow from an ax. He had been missing several days. He was undoubtedly murdered, but by whom or for what motive no conjecture can tell. The thunderstorms and rains which have prevailed for the week throughout Great Britain and the continent culmi nated in a severe gale, which did much damage to trees and crops, resulting in numerous shipping casualties to the Eng- lish channel and flooded many parts of the Thames Valley. At Nashville, Tenn., Diehl & Lord's wholesale beer, cider and soda works were almost totally destroyed by fire. The loss on stock is estimated at $30,000, with no insurance. The fire originated in the sta­ ble, and five horses perished in the flames. During the fire a number of soda founts and Carbonic acid and gas drums explod­ ed, and several spectators were hurt. Judge J. J. Sullivan, Democrat, was nominated for Supreme Judge by the Ne­ braska fusionists. Judge Sullivan was the second choice of the Democrats. Aft­ er they had agreed upon him the silver Republicans also took him up. Thereup­ on the Populists dropped Judge Neville and Sullivan was declared the fusion can­ didate. Japan is secretly negotiating with the diet of the Greater Republic of South America for the construction of the Nica­ ragua Canal, independent of and in defi­ ance of the interests and influence of the United States. EASTERN. Indiana window glass manufacturers have decided to join the big combine. At tij^trf-state fair grounds in Toledo, Oljioftwo aeronauts were so severely in­ jured that they will die. Mrs. Annie Kirk and her husband, W. S. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwood, a dent­ ist atvSan Francisco, for $250 damages alleged to have been sustained because he positively refused to examine the woman's teeth because she came to his office on her bicycle and wore bloomers. At Wichita, Kan., the expert account­ ant employed to investigate the books of the late County Treasurer John A. Dorau during his two terms' incumbency of that office made his report for the first term Tuesday, showing a shortage of $32,- 178.79. The shortage for 1892 was $10,- 118.9S and for 1S93 $22,059.87. Sunday nightthe town of Colwich, Kan., was invaded by a band ,of American vol­ unteers, who held a street meeting. The audience, frequently interrupted and sin­ ners became violently abusive. They finally secured a supply of rotten eggs and began pelting the visitors with them. The volunteers beat a hasty retreat. - A boom is under way in the Kansas City hog market. Friday's prices were the highast reached within nearly two years, going up 10 cents to -15 cents a hundred weight, on top of a similar ad­ vance Thursday. prices advanced 70 cents since Aug. 1, and near a dollar higher than in the middle of July. Thursday was by far the hottest day of the year for St. Louis and vicinity. From early morniug the mercury climbed stead­ ily upward from 69 until at 4 o'clock in the afternoon 101 in the shade was the record by the weather bureau thermome­ ters. On the streets the heat was fully five degrees worse. One hour later it be­ gan to get cooler and by 7 o'clock the record was 93. A strong wind blew from the southwest all day. but it did nothing to relieve the intense heat, for it was as hot as the air from a furnace. There were no prostrations. Director J. R. Sage of the Iowa weather and crop service has returned from a trip over the State inspecting the corn crop. Ten days ago he became alarmed because of the cold weather and started out to make a personal investigation. He finds his worst fears realized. There will be a big shortage of Iowa corn, and unless warm weather comes, a partial crop fail­ ure. He finds the stand podir, and thinks at best that 600,000 acres will not be har­ vested. Under favorable conditions the Iowa crop will be 25 per cent short, and it may be only half a crop. The cold rains have been very discouraging. He estir mates the total loss iu the State at 50,- 000,000 bushels. Mrs. Agatha Tosch, to whom Adolph Luetgert was wont to confide his business and marital troubles, took the stand for the prosecution when the famous murder case was resumed in Chicago Tuesday, and gave damaging testimony against the prisoner. According to her evidence, the day after Mrs. Luetgert disappeared Mrs. Tosch had a long conversation with the sausagemaker, who, she asserts, was pale and laboring under excitement he vainly endeavored to suppress. In the course of their talk she boldly told him she believed him guilty of making away with his wife and that he thereupon manifested much excitement and begged her to help him, as he was in great trouble. Mrs. Tosch di­ lated on Luetgert's disturbed condition of mind as much as the rules of evidence would permit and finally swore that the^ man, in the extremity of his distress, de­ clared he was tempted to shoot himself and escape the trouble that hung over his head. Before she left the stand Mrs. Tosch also testified to the hatred felt by Luetgert for his wife and his significant threats to crush her. Cracksmen visited the People's Ex­ change Bank at Elmdale, Kan., Sunday morning and, when they left it, they car­ ried away all the money in the vaults with the exception of $128 in silver, which was on a shelf, and $25 in gold, which the force of the explosion threw on the lioor, where it was overlooked. The loss is $1,- 800 in money and $700 in drafts. The vault and safe are totally wrecked. Nitro­ glycerine was used and the first explosion stopped the clock at exactly 1.05 a. m. A woman living across the street heard the explosion and awoke her husband. While he was discrediting her ideas of the noise, a second explosion occurred. He ran to Cashier E. N. Jeffrey's home, a block away. While the latter was dress­ ing other men were awakened. All armed themselves and hurried to the bank. Just as they had surrounded it a third explo­ sion occurred. This rattled the citizens, who opened fire at random, endangering one another, but luckily doing no execu­ tion. In the excitement the rob,bers got away with tbeir booty. About an hour after three men in a buggy passed a camp eight miles west of the town, running their horses at full speed. They are sup­ posed to have been the robbers. The de­ posits in the bank aggregate about $40,- 000. Most of its funds are kept a Em­ poria. Thos. W. Keene, America's foremost tragic actor, who is now playing a two weeks' engagement at McVicker's Chi­ cago theater, made his debut as a Shakes­ pearean star at the Boston Theater about twenty years ago, appearing as Richard III. He "achieved a great success as the crook-backed tyrant, the Dtike of Glouces­ ter, i,nd he has been identified with the character ever since. He has not reached his present position on the stage without hard work and the incidental crosses which mark a successful career. It has been said of him that he has the grace of Booth, the force of Forest and the versa­ tility of Davenport, and it is only neces­ sary ti. scan his varied repertoire to show his rare dramatic genius. Few men on the stage have had the varied experience of Mr. Keene. The first great hit of his life was in a dramatization of Zola's "Drink." In the chief character of. a drunken maniac he seemed to electrify his audience and it brought him at once into the first rank of American actors. Mr. Keene is accompanied by and is under the management of Charles B. Hanford, who occupies a prominent place among the younger American tragedians. The other mepibers of Mr. Keene's company are well known artists of acknowledged abil­ ity, who are familiar with Shakespearean and other classical roles. confinement in large central prisons, Ik Russia. Budapest socialists are protesting against the expense of the festivities in honor of the German Emperor. Earthquake shocks in China and Japan, followed by a tidal wave, caused great loss.of life and enormous damage to prop­ erty. The British steamer Hegu was attacked by pirates off the coast of Achentskachen, the captain and many of the crow and passengers killed1 and the vessel looted. The Shinwari and Kahi police posts on the Samana range, India, were attacked, evacuated by their garrisons and burned by the enemy on Sunday night. In addi­ tion, the Orakzais looted the Nariab, Sa­ mana, Bazaar and burned the school. Five more towns have been wiped.put, and not less than 400 persons killed since the last reports were received b.v the erup­ tion of Mayon volcano, on Lucon Island, one of the Philippine group. Widespread ruin, has resulted iu the towns and vil­ lages situated around the base ol «iayon for fifty miles. The latest towns aestroy- ed are Santo Nino, San Roque, Miseri- cordia, San Antdnio and.Sau Isador. The last two named are suburbs of Lifog, the destruction of which was announced sev­ eral weeks ago. A terrible sight greets the eyes ®f visitors at Libbat Lifog, and 115 inhabitants are buried in the ruins. All Jhe surrounding hemp plantations, fields and cattle have been destroyed. Two hundred inhabitants perishe^ when Shinto Nino, San Roque and Misencordia were destroyed, and another 200 met death under the ashes and lava in or near other towns named. Cascades of red-hot lava pouring over Mayon's sides, togeth­ er with dense showers of ashes from the first eruption, buried 500 human beings before they could flee to places of refuge. Gradually the eruption increased in vio­ lence until lava was, flowing into the sea forty miles from the crater, and a tre­ mendous rain of ashes and sand reached ' Nueva, fifty miles away. Villages were thus destroyed which were thought to be safe when the eruptions began, and the number of known dead was increased to at least 900. At Bacacay many houses have been buried under avalanches of nshe^ and sand. In the town of Tobaeo a large fissile opened in the earth, engulf­ ing several dozen buildings. The remain­ ing inhabitants were obliged to hermetic­ ally close doors and windows to keep out the ashes. Escape from this town was impossible, as all the roads were de­ stroyed. PORTLAND IN PORT. TREASURE STEAMER ARRIVES FROM THE GOLD REGION. IN GENERAL. William Hostetter was arrested by Canadian officials at Bell City, Ont., and turned over to a United States postofflce inspector from Denver, charged with the robbery of the Denver postoffice a yeai' ago. & Near Appleby station, Texas, the trucks of the sleeper on"tke south-bound Houston, East and West Texas passen­ ger train jumped the track near a curve, carrying the sleeper and day coach off the track, practically demolishing both. One man was killed. Tlie steamer Portland, from St. Mi­ chael's, had on board an alleged murderer who was chased by detectives half j^ly around the world. He was in charge of two Pinkerton detectives. The prisoner, Frank A. Novak, was pursued over the continent to Juneau, to Dyea and across the Chilkoot Pass, over the lakes and down the rivers to the gold fields of Klon- dyke, where he was taken into custody. Novak was a storekeeper in a small town near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, up to several months ago. One night the store was burned and in the ruins was found the charred body of a man. Novak's relatives claimed that he was burned to death in the fire. His life was insured for $35,- 000 and a demand was made for the money. An investigation led to the belief that the body was not that of Novak, but of a watchman. The theory was at ouce advanced that Novak had committed mur­ der and burned his store in the hope that the body would be roasted beyond recog­ nition and his relatives obtain the insur­ ance money after he had disappeared. Pinkerton men were put on the trail and after one of the longest chases on record arrested Novak at Dawson City July 12, where he was living in the guise of a musician bearing the name of William A. Smith. In speaking of the Klondike gold fields, William Ogilvie, dominion surveyor for the Northwest Territory, discourages all strangers from going into that bleak coun­ try. He denies that, any difference regard­ ing the boundary line exists between Can­ ada and the United States. He says: "Gold has been found in a certain zone in British Columbia, running through the Cariboo and Cassiar districts. Project the axis of this zone northwesterly, and we touch the Teslin Lake, Hootalinqua River, Stewart River, Indians Creek, Troandike. Sixty Mile, Forty Mile, Amer­ ican Creek, Seventy Mile and Birch Creek. Now it is highly improbable that, gold being found at all these points, the intervening spaces are barren, and will do no more than say generally that we have a zone of upwards of 500 miles in length, some of it in Alaska, more of it in the Northwest Territory, and much of it in British Columbia, which will yet be the scene of numerous mining enterprises, both on the quartz and placer, the former practically inexhaustible. The conditions, however, are most unfavorable. There is a nine-months' winter, barrenness is al­ most total, so far as vegetation and food is concerned, the earth is bound in eternal frost, and the thermometer often reaches 60 and 70 degrees below zero." E. B. Cuthbert & Co., bankers and brok­ ers of New York, made an assignment to Ernest H. Ball with preferences of $73,- 000. The liabilities may reach $500,000. The amount of assets is unknown. In the last six days there has been shipped from New York to western points over $7,000,000 in currency to meet the demands made on the New York City banks for money to move the crops which are now on their way to market. Most of this money which the banks have sent has been in small bills. ' Scenes of riotous disorder, in which fists FOREIGN. The price of bread is still advancing in London and Paris. The construction of the Chinese Eastern Railroad has been begun. General Weyler, it is said, is likely to pardon Miss Cisuerbs before very long. Twenty women were killed by accident in the pumping works at Moncada, Spain. The Spanish government is formulating a plan to bring about the banishment of all Anarchists from Spain. The Czar is said to have decided upon the partial abolition of the exile to Si­ beria of criminals and the substitution of She Carried Thirteen Miners Wl^o Printr About $575,000 in Dust and Nugcets -- Earthquake in Japan Causes Loss of Life-and Property. . Gold from Klnndvke. The long-looked for Portland has ar­ rived. The ship about which so many stories have been told since she left St. Michael reached Seattle Sunday morning. The Portland carried thirteen miners, and the total amount of gold dust on board is about $575,000. The miners had, brought only a small part of their stakes and the size of the Portland's cargo was disap­ pointing. The miners on board. With the amounts of their total mining profits, parts of which were brought with them, are as fol­ lows: J. Rowan, $50,000: James Bell, $45.000f Joseph Goldsmith, $35,000; X. W. Pow­ ers, $35,000; W. W. Caldwell, $35,000; W.'Oler.- $30,000; C. K. Zilly, $25,000; 10. W. Cobb. $25,000; W. Zahn, $15,000; A. Buckley, $10,000; M. S. Lansing, $15,000; B. \V. Farnham, $10,000; M. It. Camler, $15,000. • While the smaH amount of gold brought from the Yukon by thp Portland was a disappointment to many, the miners who returned unite in saying that the country is fabulously rich. The claims which have been worked promise well, and in fact many of them give assurance of proving very rich. A IT estimates of the amount of gold which will be taken out of the Yukon next year must necessarily lie Very rough, as there is no means of determin­ ing how^nuch work will lie done. If men could be secured to work the claims al­ ready located there would undoubtedly be many millions of dollars taken out, but the majority of men who go there prefer to prospect on their own account, notwith­ standing the fact that high wages can be had. Statements have been made that the steamer Portland on her next trip will bring fully $2,000,000 in gold, hut the der water and the rice, fields all alon* Omono river are flooded. Bridges and embankments were swept away by the score. Reports from province of Riknzen state immense waves rolled in forty-five minutes after the earthquake and flooded eight fishing villages. All official build­ ings and the ^railway stataion at Naoyed- zu were flooded. Nine railway officials were carried down stream to sea in their houses. A steamer rescued them, but many smaller boats were swept away. HAS SYMPATHY OF ENEMIES. Beautiful Cuban Girl llay Be Sen­ tenced to Lone; Years in Prison. Gen. Weyler's determination to make war upon women and children as well as Cuban patriots bore fruit in the prosecu­ tion of the beautiful Evangelina Cisneros, whose only crime lies in being a niece of President Cisneros, the rebel chief. The LVAMSEUNA CISNEROS trial in Havana has attracted "great inter­ est and'even the loyal Spanish residents profess pity for this persecuted girl whose very life is in danger at the hands of the bloodthirsty tyrant. For months she has been subjected to the cruelties of a Span­ ish military prison iu the Casa de Reco- jidas, at Havana. The,crown> prosecutor, in his harangue before the military court, demanded that the terrified girl be sentenced for twenty years to the galleys in Ceuta, a place fam- THE PORTLAND AT IIER DOCK. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping- grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25, wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 31c; oats. No. 2, 18c to 20c, rye, No. 2, 48c to 50c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c: eggs, fresh. 13c to 14c; new potatoes, 55c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 9-1 c to 9Gc; corn, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; oacs, No. 2 white, ISc to 19c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 92c to. 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 49c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, £5.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2, 94c to 97c; corn, No. 2, mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 49c. Detroit--Cattle. $2.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, 49c to 51c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 93c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 49c to 50c; dover seed, $4.20 to $4.30. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 88c to 90c; corn, No. 3, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c ty 2:ic; rye, No. 1, 49c to 50c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 46e; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, -No. -2 red, 96e to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No! 2 whiter 23c to 25c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00;-sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to. 98c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; butter, creamery, 12c to 20c; eggs, "Western, 16c to 18c. most reliable men from Dawson City say that no such amount of money will come, as it has not been taken out of the ground. One miner who came down places the outside figure- at $1',000,000. El Dorado and Bonanza Creeks, where the richest strikes have been made, have been staked for many miles, but desirable claims are scarce, and the prospectors are beginning to scatter out. Hundreds of miners are looking toward the Stewart river, the second largest branch of the Yukon, and hundreds of prospectors will undoubtedly be on its banks and bars within the next few months. Although the bars of the main river have been successfully worked for the last ten years, there has practically been no real prospecting done on the many important tributaries. Everywhere that the explorers and scattering prospectors have gone in the Stewart and its branches gold has been found. On many creeks the prospects were extra good. Several things have conspired to leave this field practical­ ly untouched. The question of getting supplies is a very serious one. At the same time the few hundred men who have been on the Yukon up to last year have found sufficiently attractive diggings near­ er to the older districts and closer to sup­ ply bases. The Indians also have a super­ stition regarding a powerful and savage tribe who live on the upper part of the riv­ er and whom they call the "Mahonies" and consequently will not go up the river any great distance. From the mouth of Stewart over to the north fork the distance is estimated at 450 miles, and to the head of this fork in the vicinity of 500 miles in all. The south fork is practically unexplored. One or two persons Lave been on it, and then not for a sufficient distance to determine its character or length. The prospectors and those who have been on the river say that it carries a larger volume of water than the Pelly river. It is beyond doubt the second largest feeder of the Yukon. The first gold discoveries on the Stewart were made in 1885 on bars within abodt 100 miles from the mouth. These were rich. During the fall, in less than fifty days' time, as high as $6,000 to the man was rocked out. In 1886 fully 100 men were working on the river bars with good suc­ cess. Some went up the north fork nearly to its head. Each succeeding season the bars have been worked until now they do not pay wages. ed for its horrors. Cueta is one of the penal colonies on the North African coast, where already hundreds of Cuban pat* riots have entered upon a living. WORLD'S HARVEST SHORT. Annual Estimate Furnished by Hun­ garian Authorities. The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture has issued its annual estimates, in whicfi it describes the world's harvest as ex­ traordinary light. The total yield of wheat is placed at 573,760,000 metric hun­ dred-weights, while the present annual requirements are estimated at 655,150,000 metric hundredweights. It is calculated that for 1897 and 1898 there will be a shortage of 50,800,000 hundredweight. The stocks remaining on hand from 1896 are approximately esti­ mated at somewhere between 38,000,000 and 45,000,000. The total supply for the year, reckoning both the present stocks and the harvest, is estimated from 610,- 000,000 to 651,000,000 metric hundred­ weights. EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN. Great Logs of Life and Property Is Reported. A great earthquake occurred in Japan Aug. 15. It lasted eight minutes and was followed by a tidal wave which «wept up rivers, following into the sea and caused great destruction. Up to Aug. 10 it was known in Yokohama that over 5,000 houses had been inundated or washed away. .Between 100 and 300 people were known to be drowned or seriously injured. It was then too early to estimate the amount of damage done to railways,crops, roads, bridges and shipping. It was re­ ported from Hosoku that coal mines there .were flooded by ah overflowing river, drowning over 100 miners. Earthquake shocks on the morning of Aug. 5 varied from four to sixteen in num­ ber in various places, the movement being from east to west. Less than an hour afterward a tidal wave was felt in towns along the coast. For a week previously raius had fallen almost all the time and the rivers were already very high. The tidal wave raised them in so many min­ utes from twelve to twenty feet higher. The Governor of Nignta prefecture re­ ports that the Arakawa rose twenty feet at Naoyetzu. Fifteen hundred houses were Hooded and thirty people killed or in­ jured. The waters rose so rapidly that over 600 people were afloat in their houses before they knew what had happened. These were all rescued with boats. Fur­ ther down the same river twenty boats were swept away or wrecked and 2.000 filled with water. Nearly 700 houses were wrecked and inundated in other towns At Omagari one-third of the city is un­ The QUI .•eat song this fall is a paean of real thanksgiving.--Baltimore American.' The record of the wheat pits makes the tales of the gold diggings seem tame.-*- Boston Herald. A waitless messenger boy should be in­ vented to go with the wireless telegraph.-- Detroit Free Press. A gold mine to start with is becoming a necessary part of the Kloudyke outfit.-- San Francisco Chronicle. The threatened advance in the price of cigarettes is another withering blow at the poor man's lot.--Boston Herald. Prosperity, even if it conies with a rush, won't shovel dollars into the idle, lazy man's pockets.--Chicago Inter Ocean. * The handshake is the thing before the nominations are made. The grand shake conies afterward.--Richmond Dispatch. It has taken Weyler a long time to con­ vince Spain that lie is a failure. The rest of us realized it some time ago.--Chicago Post. * . " ,1 • The day of long speeches is past. Brev­ ity is the soul, not .only of wit, but of po­ litical popularity, nowadays.--Richmond Dispatch. • ' . One thing that is not booming just now is immigration, and nobody cares very much if it does take a year off.--Balti­ more News. Iu other words, Emperor William and Emperor Nicholas vow that there shall be peace, if they have to fight together fojf it. --Detroit Free Press. ^The anarchists make bold to announce that President Faure of France is to be their next victim. Faure warned is Faure armed.--Boston Herald. Pennsylvania claims to be the banner State for peaches this season, but she is scarcely in it with Ohio with respect to plums.--Boston Herald. Poet Jojiquin Miller seems to regard the Klomfyke jaunt in the light of a picnic outiitg. But li" hasn't reached there yet. --Cleveland Plain Dealer. One great trouble with the country is found in the fact that very few of the peo­ ple are trying to get wealth in the old- fashioned manner.--New York Journal. It is to be hoped that no attempt will be made to enjoin the general use of the at­ mosphere in the neighborhood of those West Virginia mines.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is a satisfaction to reflect that there is no possibility of readjusting boundary lines so as to deflect the advantages re­ sulting from the big wheat crop.--Wash­ ington Star. LABOR LEADERS MEET. Conference in Aid of Miners la Held in St. Louis. In a^speech at the conference of labor leaders in St. LouiB M. D. Itatchford, president of the United Mine Woriters of America, advocated a great sympathetic strike of all branches of organized labor unless Congress met at once and ghve the laborers relief and wiped out the laws which empowered the judiciary "to con­ duct government by injunction." The forces of labor met at Masonic Temple at 10 o'clock Monday morning. H. W. Stejnbiss, secretary of the Trades and Labot Union, occupied the chair. No business was done at this session, a re­ cess being taken until 11 o'clock. About 200 men composed the convention. At 11 o'clock Sheridan Webster nominated W. B. Prescott, president of the International Typographical Union, for '« temporary chairman. His election was unanimously adopted and was greeted with applause. Chairman Prescott then appointed a com­ mittee composed of M. D. Ratchford, James O'Connell, Grant Luce, J. It Sov­ ereign and W. D. Mahon. The Committee on Credentials made its report immediately upon the assembling of the conference for its afternoon ses­ sion. ;. -It was shown that eighty-eight delegates, representing, the following or­ ganizations, were represented: United Mine Workers of America, the Social De­ mocracy; the American Federation of La­ bor, the Stonemakers International Union, Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators, Brotherhood of Bot­ tle-Blowers, Building Trades Council of St. Louis, the Patriots of America, Inter­ national Brotherhood of Track Foremen, the Single-Tax League of America, Cen­ tral Labor Council of Cincinnati, the In­ ternational Typographical Union, the Peo­ ple's party of Kansas and the Industrial Order of Freedmen. Mr. Ratchford took the floor and went over the miners' strike from its inception to the present day, dwelling particularly upon "government by injunction." He pleaded for prompt action, and, coming to the point of his argument, advocated a special session of Congress as the best and in fact the only relief. "In case of a re­ fusal to convene Congress," said Mr. Ratchford, "it will then be time to consider more extreme measures. I am in favor, if the President refuses to call Congress together, of a complete paralysis of business. I believe then in a sympa­ thetic strike." Patrick O'Neill of Rich Hill, Mo., who said he represented 1,500 unorganized "picks," favored a labor revolution. He was a Socialist, he said, and believed in tho miners taking things in their own hands if necessary. Mr. Sovereign put himself on record as opposed to Mr. Ratchford's plan. He believed that the crucial test now confronted organized la­ bor. Mr. Mahon of Detroit said a resolu­ tions committee was useless. The con­ vention should vote on Ratchford's porpo- sition, and then go home. The power of the nation, he said, was in the courts, and if anybody was to be convened let it be the courts. He was oposed to Mr. Ratch­ ford's proposition. James M. Carson, pres­ ident of the Illinois miners, then recited at great length the conditions confronting the miners of his State, and said he be­ lieved his men would be beaten iu two weeks. Mr. Ratchford took exception to Mr. Carson's statement that the Illinois min­ ers bad lost their strike. He said the miners were winning their strike, and, furtheimore, his men were not asking this convention for aid. At 5 o'clock the convention adjourned until Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock., KILLED FROM AMBUSH. Arizona Moonshiners Waylay a Posse of United States Deputies. Six men were probably massacred in the wilds of the mountains of Pope Coun­ ty, Ark. Two were killed outright, two were fatally wounded and left for dead and two have mysteriously disappeared and ait either dead or being held captive by the bloodthirsty bandits who commit­ ted the awful crime. The victims were all officers, United States deputy marshals and deputy sher­ iffs, and the men who did the awful work of carnage are moonshiners of the boldest and most desperate class. The scene of the bloody crime was a gulch or ravine in the mountains of Pope County at an iso­ lated spot thirty-five miles from Russell- ville, the nearest telegraph office, and ten miles from Will Springs. The region has for years been the favoritg rendezvous for counterfeiters and moonshiners and a dis­ trict in which no lawabiding citizen could live. Marshal Taylor, with his posse, located a large moonshine outfit Saturdiy night and decided to make the raid Sunday in daylight. Proceeding slightly in advance of his men, Taylor was within thirty feet of the distillery when he was suddenly fired upon from ambush and instantly killed. As Dodson ran up to Taylor he was also shot dead in his tracks. Rifles began to crack in all directions and a terrific volley was fired into the officers. Two fell mortally wounded and lay by the road­ side until later in the day, when a traveler named Pack chanced by. All traces of the bandits had disappeared, as well as two of the deputy sheriffs. The United States marshal will make a determined effort to capture the murder­ ers. BIG HAUL OF GRAIN. Railroads Prinor Chicasro Over 5,000 Cars in One lJay. The roads running to Chicago from the West, and Northwest are doing the largest business they have ever done before at this season of the year. Monday was a record breaker. Over 5,000 carloads of grain were brought in by the Western roads. This means over 100,000 tons of grain in one day, or more than three times as much as the ten east-bound roads took from the city during the whole of last week. Of the above mentioned 5,000 car­ loads of grain, 3,500 carloads were corn. The Burlington brought, in 1,100 cars and the ltock Island over 900 cars, and they ran short of rolling stock. While the lake lines took out of Chicago last week nearly 200,000 tons of freight the largest amount on record--the Chicago east-bound roads are carrying no more through freight than they did at this time last year. The reason is the rattis charged by the railroads are higher than the traffic will bear. . Total shipments of flour, gram, and pro­ visions from Chicago through to seaboard points and for export by the ten east- bound roads last week amounted to 44,349 tons, against 40,153 tons for the week previous and 41,117 tons for the corre­ sponding week last year. Flour shipments last week were 2,510 tons, against 5,328 tons last year; grain, 30,488 tous, against 20,851 tons; provisions, 11,351 tons, against 14,938 tons. Hurricane Destroys n Town. Advices state that a severe hurricane visited the gulf of California and lower Mexican coast. At Las Guaoimas, near the mouth of the Yaqua river, the region for miles around was inundated and the town swept away. Three lives are report­ ed to. have been lost and great damage •was done to crops. With prospective trouble in India, and the United States holding the surplus wheat of the world, arbitration is the pol­ icy of Great Britain.--Indianapolis Jour­ nal. Haying drawn ,tc ers of the Federa gress and. Preside* cial permission, tlr ARE READY TO RISE. Strong Resolutions Adopted at 6ft. Louis by Laboring Men. Below is given the text of the declara­ tion of principles promulgated by the St. Louis labor convention: The fear of the more watchful fathers of the repuolfc has been Jusufleu. lue judi­ ciary lias become supreme. We ^itnes« a political phenomenon absolutely new in tbo history of the world; a republic prostrate at the feet of Judges appointed to administer its laws. They acknowledge no superior on. earth, and their despotic deeds recall Mil­ ton 8 warning to his countrymen: "Who- bids a man rule over him above law may bid as well a savage beast." tinder' the cunning form of injunctions courts liavi^ assumed to enact criminal laws, and after thus drawing to themselves the p iwer of legislation have repealed the bill, of rights, and for violations of these court-made laws- have denied the accused the right of trial by jury. The exercise of the commonest rights of freemen--the right of assembly, the right ot free speech, the right of traveling the pub­ lic highways--has by legislation, under the- form of injunctions, been made a <;rlme, a>.& armed forces: disperse as mobs people daring, in company to exercise these rights. At' its last term the Supreme Court of jshe United States decided that the thU-weuth- amendment forbidding "involuntary^servl- tade" is not violated by in-resting safeamun. Imprisoning him until his vessel is 'rJmly to- leave port and then forcibly putting him on. board to serve out the term of ids contract -- a decision under which the old fugitive slave laws may yet be revived and striking labor­ ers be seized and returned to the service of| their masters. mselves all the pow- vernmeiit until Con- iuay act only, by judi- Federal. judges' have bc£ gun the subjugation Of sovereign states, so that, unless a check is soon put upon the progress of usurpation, in a short time no government but the absolute despotism of Federal judges will exist'auywhere over any portion of American soil: The pending strike of coal miners, starved to feebleness by their scant wages earned by arduous and dangerous toil, the strike for. the right to be fed enough to make labor pos­ sible, has been prolific, of judicial usurpation, showing the willingness of judicial despots to resort to the most shameless defiance of decency as well as of law and humanity in. order to enable heartless avarice to drive its hungry serfs back to the mines to faint and die at their drudgery, and there remains to­ day not one guaranteed right of American citizens the exercise of which an Injunction, has not somewhere made a crime by these subversions of constitutional liberty. We have met to counsel together and have come to the following conclusions: Whereas, The present strike of the coal miners has again demonstrated the fact that our so-called liberty is not freedom, hut is a stupendous sham, under which millions are degenerating, while hundreds of thou­ sands--men, women and children--are starv­ ing in hovels, and on the public highways. Whereas, This condition has become per­ manent for a large and ever-increasing num­ ber of our population, as long as we permit a comparatively small elass of legalized ex­ ploiters to monopolize the means of produc­ tion and distribution for their private bene­ fit--a fact again obvious in the case of miners. Wliereas, Appeals to Congress and to the courts for relief are fruitless, since the leg­ islative as well as the executive and judicial powers are under the control of the capital­ istic class, so that it has come to pass in this- "free country" that while cattle and swine have a right to the public highways, Ameri­ cans, so-called freemen, have not. Whereas, Our capitalistic class, as is again, shown in the present strike, is armed, and has not only policemen, marshals, sheriff and deputies, but also a regular army and military, in order to enforce government by injunction, suppressing lawful assemblage, free speech and the right to the public high­ way, while on the other hand the laboring men of the country are unarmed and de­ fenseless, contrary to the words and spirit of the Constitution of the United States; therefore, be it Itesolved, That we hereby set apart Friday, the 3d day of September, 1897, as a "Good Friday" for the cause of suffering labor in America and contribute the earnings of that- day to the support of our struggling brothers, the miners, and appeal to every union man and every friend of labor throughout the country to do likewise. Resolved. That a general convention be held at Chicago on Monday, Sept. 27, by the representatives of all unions, sections, brunches, lodges and kindred' organizations of laboring men and friends of their cause, for the purpose of considering further meas­ ures in the interests of the miners-and labor In general.. Resolved, That we consider the proper use of the ballot as the best and safest means for the amelioration of the hardships under which the laboring class suffers. Itesolved, That the public ownership of railroads and telegraphs is one of the most necessary reforms for our body politic.. Resolved, That we most emphatically pro­ test against government by injunction, which plays havoc with even such political liberty as workingmeu have saved from the steady encroachment of capitalism; and be it finally Resolved, That no nation in which the peo­ ple are totally disarmed can long remain a free nation, and therefore we urge upon all liberty-loving citizens to remember and obey article 2 of the Constitution of the Unitetl States, which reads as follows: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." ANNUAL MEETING OF FARMERS. National Conffresa Convenes at St. Paul--President's Addreaa. The seventeenth meeting of the Farm­ ers' National Congress of the United States was called to order at St. Paul, Minn., in the hall of representatives, by President B. F. Clayton of Indianola, Iown. The opening session was not large­ ly attended. The delegate representation in the congress does not at its maximum exceed 500. The morning session was devoted largely to tho matter of a formal welcome, and. following an invocation by Archbishop Ireland, the congress was greeted by Mayor Doran for St. Paul, by President Weaver for the Agricultural Society and by Gov. Clough for the State, and to these addresses responses were made by John M. Stalil of Illinois, secre­ tary of the congress, and B. F. Clayton of Iowa, president. In his annual address President Clay­ ton said: The farmer reads little, and is often doubt­ ful that he is the better from that little; from it he learns more things to brood over without finding a remedy. The little glimpses he obtains of tbe world in what he reads in- tensities bis prejudices and does not prepare him to cope with apparent Ills He brushes so little against a world of which he is »>. important a part that the world practical y ignores his existence. He is enumerated in the tables nf population, but expunged from statistical lists of . the nation's representa­ tives He is enrolled on the tax list, but. canceled in the catalogue of those who levy . taxes He is registered in the poll book, but disfranchised of the privileges and immuni­ ties of a citizen. Whether the farmers of" America will assert their sovereignty re­ mains to be seen. No one conscious of his power will willingly remain a slave, but it Is strength and intellect and mind which must win in all economic struggles. Those engaged in agricultural, pursuits are n majority of all the people, yet we cannot if we would close our eyes to the fact that this majority is practically without voice in. shaping public affairs. I am not an alarmist; I take no pride in. making war on any organization or institu­ tion that has for its object the greatest good to the greatest number of people. I bill tliem godspeed and "a magnificent success lav all legitimate enterprises; but I hope and believe there will never come an hour when, the Congress of. the United States will pur- posely give its consent to the buildiug up of trusts and combinations for the control of the prices of the necessaries of human exist­ ence. . ~.w' • Secretary Stahl of Chicago read bus re­ port, in which he said: „ Mr. Hatch, for so many years chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, said a. short time before his death: "The Farmers' National Congress has more influence with, the Congress of the Uulted States than all: other agricultural organizations combined." The influence is well shown In the agricul­ tural schedule of the.Dingley bill. The- Farmers' National Congress was the only agricultural organization seriously to cham­ pion the farmers' interests at the special ses­ sion that enacted that law. I am happy to report that the iufluenee of this Congress lias been powerful in securins' needed good-roads legislation in severa.li States, and also other legislation beneficial' to our agricultural interests. Told in a Few Lines. Because rejected by Miss Ella Deuiagg. a pretty domestic of 20, Private John Mottke of Fort Ethan Allen committed suicide at Burlington, Vt. Chief of Police Peter Coniin of New York has been retired by the police com­ missioners on his own application. He- will receift a pension of $3,000 a year. California is estimated at about 40,000' bales of hops; the long spell of dry, hot weather' has not been beneficial to the- plant, which, with indifferent cultivatioi*. will make the crop us above