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THE PLAINDF.ALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub; McHENRY. ILLINOIS SPAIN NOT DEFIANT. RESENTFUL ATTITUDE AVOIDED IN ITS NOTE TO M'KINLEY. Slight Tinge of Insincerity--Questions Advanced that Arc Intended to Pro­ mote Delay--Much Made of Filibus­ tering:--Condemns Mob Law. ' Spain Makes Answer. President McKinley has bad laid before Aim at Washington the text of Spain's answer to Minister Woodford. In com­ pany with Secretary Sherman and As­ sistant Secretary Adee he went over the document with great care. As a result it can be stated from official quarters at the White House that the construction placed Upon the answer by the administra­ tion is that it is not defiant in tone, is not tnemacing and is not warlike. Under sueb fcirciunstatiees those officials who are chiefly concerned in the negotiations do •not ..feel that any crisis is near at hand, nor do they fear that the answer presents an issue beyond the power of diplomatic" solution. On the contrary, the entire dis­ position in 'administration quarters is'to treat the answer as satisfactory in tone, and as a marked advance in the assur­ ances; Spain has heretofore given. Not? •withstanding this official view, there, are those who believe that the message is much stronger in tone than the officials •will admit, and that it presents issues •which will call from the President a ring­ ing message when he lays the case and all the correspondence before Congress a few •weeks hence. From no authoritative eource, however, can this belligerent view be confirmed. alw> tdiot Selectman Gates of Gorhnni, ) manufacture paper, rubber, celluloid, etc. probably fatally injuring him.. Later an­ other body was found, which, it is be­ lieved, is that of a third victim of &|ona- han's fury. A disastrous railroad accident occurred on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, a short distance below Garrison's station. The train was going at a good rate of speed when it passed Garrison's. It was a mile and ajhaJf be­ low when the accident occurred. Con­ ductor Parish says the track seemed to fall out from under the train, the train seemed to shoot into the air, and the next minute it appeared to fall into the river. Into the slimy waters of the Hudson the cars plunged, dragging through the water the helpless passengers. The total num­ ber of known dead is nineteen r the. esti­ mated number is twenty-eight. WESTERN. High Masonic Officers. The snpreme council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 33d degree Ma- eons for the southern and western Ma­ sonic jurisdiction of the United States of America held its twenty-eighth annual session in Providence, R. I. The election ©f officers resulted as follows: Grand commander,tJohn Jones, Chicago; lieuten­ ant grand commander, Richard F. Greene, New York; grand chancellor, C. W. New­ ton; minister of state, W. L. Kimburg of Texas; grand auditor, R. J. Fletcher of Sacramento; grand secretary general, D. F. Seville, Washington, I>. C.; grand treasurer general, W. R. Morris of Min­ neapolis; grand marshal, Spencer N. Gil- more of Providence: assistant grand audi­ tor, James Hill of Jackson, Miss.; assist­ ant secretary general, E. E. Pettibone of Grenada, Miss. The next annual conven­ tion will be held in Omaha in October, 1808. No Agreement Beached. The special committee of lines interest­ ed which was appointed to meet in St. Louis, Mo., and agree upon a basis of rates that should govern on shipments of grain from southwestern Missouri river points to the gulf and to the Mississippi liver, after a two days' session, failed to come to any understanding. Adjourn­ ment was taken until Nov. 8, in Chicago. Condemns Slob Law. Mob law is severely condemned by Gov. Atkinson in his message to the Georgia Legislature. He advocates stringent leg­ islation against mobs and insists that the Legislature pass a law laying every coun­ ty wherein such a crime is committed sub­ ject to a large indemnity to the relatives of the mob's victim. BREVITIES, A son and heir has been born to ex- President Cleveland. Grover, Jr., weigh­ ed twelve pounds at birth. Fifty-four persons perished and eighty others were seriously injured in a church fire horroT at Ivhndeleff, Russia. Andrew Hasche, the New York boy whose neck was broken during a game ol football in Long Island City, is dead. "Gen. Pietri has been appointed minister from Venezuela to England and France. He will renew diplomatic relations with France. Gen. Castillo, commander of Cuban forces in Havana province, is reported to lave been betrayed into Spanish hands and foully slain. William Compton, a farmer aged 48, of Chambersburg, Ohio, while offering a fine horse for sale, was kicked in the breast and killed almost instantly. Potter Palmer of Chicago, according to a Newport rumor, contemplates making an offer for Mrs. O. H. P. Bebnont's $3,- 000,000 "Marble House" at that place. Hartie Bros.' paper Warehouse in Pitts­ burg, Was partially destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000. The fire Was caused by an explosion of gas. No one was injured. Tacoma citizens protest against the pro­ posal to establish a military reservation at St. Michael's, Alaska, which, they say, would bar out citizens of Washington from engaging in business there. Gen. Weyler has been ordered to re­ main in Havana until Gen. Blanco ar­ rives. This may mean that Weyler is to be sent home under arrest for refusing to obey the order to give command to Gen. Castellanos. The Baptist University, at Sioux Falls, S. D., from which institution the pupils all walked out a few days ago, is in a peculiar position. The trustees refuse to . remove tie ^president and the students reflse to return until /this is done. A lighted cigarette dropped by a thoughtless clerk is supposed to have caused the fire which destroyed the white- ctone building at tli&. comer of 7th and Chestnut streets, St. Louis, occupied by the general offices of the Wabash Rail­ road. Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin of Chicago \?as elected president of the National House­ hold Economic Association at its meeting in Nashville. Dr. D. R. Jennings, a prominent dent 1st of Oleveiand, shot himself in his office in the Arcade building. It is supposed that overindulgence in drugs unbalanced his mind. At Cairuthersville, Mo., a distinct, earth­ quake shock was felt. It was very short and produced a rolling sensation. Shortly afterward another shock was felt, but it •was less perceptible. No damage was done. i A Government Indian school similar to that at Carlisle, Pa., will be built at Ash­ land, Wis. Judge Hanford of the Federal Court in Washington State has decided that wives and children of Chinese merchants in America do not. need certificates. Burglars shattered the safe of the State Bank at Blairsburg, Iowa, with dynamite and secured $6,000 in securities and a small amount'of cash. One robber was shot and is in the bauds of the authorities. The Sioux,City, Iowa, dressed beef and canning plant will be opened by the Cud- ahys of Chicago by Jan. 1. Their lease' is for ten years. One thousand laborers will be employed, a lid $200,000 expended in repairing fhe house. It is almost cer­ tain that competing firms will reopen the Silberhorn and Booge plants also before the, first of next year. Fort Randall military reservation bils been opened to intending homesteaders. The scene at Champaign, when the land office was opened for business, was a live­ ly one. A long line stretched far out on the prairie. Many of the settlers who made entry for lands have been squatters for years. Their lands contain many im­ provements. Fort Randall reservation contains more than 100,000 acres. The reservation is partly in South Dakota, partly in Nebraska. Little girls at Derby, Ivas., while on their way to Sunday school, found the dead bodies of Frank . Moon and Jane Wells in a well on Moon's farm near that town. Mrs. Wells obtained a divorce vorce from her husband at the last term of the District Court. After she went to act as housekeeper for Mr. Moon, the lat- ter's wife having left him a short time before. It is believed their food had been poisoned, and that after they had died the murderer had dragged the bodies to the well and thrown them in. Mrs. Peter Hauptmann, wife of a wealthy St. Louis merchant, was attack­ ed Aug. 3 by someone who cut her throat with a bread knife, killing her instantly. At the inquest it was decided that Lou­ ise, the insane daughter, had committed the act. The strongest witness against Louise was her brother Will, whose sanity at that time was unquestioned. The next day an ex-policeman and Will went away on a trip, returning a few days later, and it was ihen stated that Will was insane. Physicians examined him and he was com­ mitted to an insane asylum. Now Will's sweetheart, Annie Kline, and his step­ sister, Mrs. Windslieimer, 'say that on the day of the murder they heard a commo­ tion and rushed into the room, where they found Will standing at the door trembling and that he had blood on his shirt. They say Louise was sitting calmly at a tablf^ eating, in exactly the same position she was when Mrs. Windsheimer left her a few minutes before. The stories of the two women have aroused much attention and a thorough investigation is being made. The initial step toward what may be the final termination of the vexed Indian problem in the Indian Territory has just been taken by Chief Isparcecher in a spe­ cial message to the Creek council. The plan advocated is supposed to be the re­ sult of the recent conference of leaders of the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole tribes, and Chief Mayes of the Cherokee Nation is known to favor the plan. In his message Chief Ispareeclier says: "Our effort to treat with the United States Government has proved unsuccessful and we can now have no hope of continuing our government much longer as we now do by the terms of any new treaty. The time lias now come, in my opinion; when the citizens of the five nations should get together and agree upon the establishment of a general government by which we may perpetuate the rights of self-government. Should we be attached to Oklahoma as a territory or State this right of self-govern­ ment will be taken from us by the superior number of its voting population. None of wants such a connection with Okla­ homa, yet there are strong efforts being made by politicians for single statehood including the five nations. They are yet the sovereigns of their soil and politically free born, with the right to shape for themselves a government that will be for the protection of their lives and property." In conclusion the chief recommends the holding of a convention of the leading men of the five civilized tribes, to the end that the United States Government may re­ ceive definite proposals looking to the es­ tablishment of a government "of the In­ dians and for the Indians of the five civil­ ized tribes." EASTERN. Wilson Brothers, wholesale and retaft jewelers of Boston, Mass., made an as­ signment. The one hundred and fifty-first birthday- day of Princeton University was celebrat­ ed at Princeton, N. J. More than usual interest was manifested in the commemo­ ration on account of the presence of ex- President Grover Cleveland and Lord Aberdeen, governor general of Canada. At Gorham, N. J., Thomas Monahan while crazed with drink, shot Joseph Gau thier, an employe of the Grand Trunk Kailroad, killing him instantly. Monahan SOUTHERN. at Norfolk, Va.; the Union "Irrigating Company, capital $10,000, has been char tered at Pecos City, Texas; the Elk Oil and Gas Company, capital $50,000, at Charleston, W. Va., and the Pamlico To baeco Company, capital $50,000, ington, N. C. Woodworking plants will be established at Huntsville, Ala.; Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Paducah,' Ky., and Hamilton, N. C. WASHINGTON. G. J. Corey, of Illinois, has filed an ap­ plication at the Treasury Department for the position of chief <61 the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. The President has appointed Medical Director XV. K. Van Reypen to be surgeon general of the navy- to succeed Surgeon General Bates, deceased. George B. An­ derson of the District of Columbia has been appoiuted consul at Grenoble, France.' Over $90,000 of alleged fraudulent war­ rants on the United States Treasury on the account of the Creek Indian nation in Indian Territory have been discovered by Government authorities. The alleged fraud was perpetrated in connection with the payment of the Creek Indian nation debts, and only the barest details have reached Washington. One of the persons implicated has made a confession.. Ge'ii. Mile^, commanding general of the army, has made his annual report to the Secretary of War at Washington. He commends the efficiency of the army and speaks of the progress that has been made, Oh both the Atlantic and Papifie coasts in the matter of fortification*. He asks that Congress authorize two more regiments of artillery to garrison the new.fortifica­ tions, and also five additional regiments .of "infantry. The general devotes consid­ erable attention to Alaska, and says that' the waters of Alaska should be thoroughly examined by the naval forces, and that there should be at least three military posts established in the territory to sup­ port the civil authorities. He refers to the improved conditions of the Indians, and recommends that the policy of em­ ploying army officers as Indian agents be continued. He makes recommendations in detail for the protection of coast points and says the maximum peace footing of the army should be one enlisted man to every 1,000 population and the minimum ope to every 2,000. FOREIGN. Grace M. Elliott, the elocutionist, is said to be heiress to $25,000,000, left by Imblay Clarke, who died in Australia twenty years ago. If the horrors of the winter of 1879-S0 in Ireland are not to be repeated this win­ ter prompt action will have to be taken by the English Government. So serious is the outlook on account of the Avell-nigh complete failure of the potato crop in the western half of Ireland that strong efforts are being made to secure the immediate calling together of Parliament to obtain funds for the establishment of relief works in the stricken districts and pass­ ing such other legislation as may be deemed expedient. A dispatch from Honolulu states that it has been definitely decided among the Hawaiians opposing annexation that a commission of five men should be sent to Washington to make a determined fight against the ratification of the annexation treaty. At l^ast three Hawaiian societies will give their support to the movement. It is generally understood that J. O. Car­ ter, a white man, will head the commis­ sion. A prominent citizen who has re­ cently returned from Germany says that the Hawaiian annexation question is re­ ceiving some consideration among the German people. A number of prominent Germans expressed themselves in favor of the amalgamation of the two republics. In that event they think Germany should be allowed to take Samoa without interfer­ ence on the part of the United Stat .-s. Germany, th<\v claim, lias as much right to absorb Samoa as Uncle Sam has to take in Hawaii. IN GENERAL Hereafter every pound of goods not bought in Canada will have to pay duty before being allowed in the Klondike country. The Canadian Government has decided to revoke the regulations allowing prospectors to take in 100 pounds of goods free of duty. Wheat bulls had the best day they have had in a month, prices up 3c to 3%c, with not a trace of manipulation, and with all the motives natural ones. December opened at 01%c, sold between 91%c and 94%c and closed at the top. May was only %c under December at the close. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "After the heaviest buying ever known in many branches during Sep­ tember and the first half of October it was both natural and desirable that a more quiet period should give time for .testing the size and temper of retail trade apd for distributing part of the enormous quantities bought. As the buying for replenishment is partly satisfied and di­ minishes, there is some decrease in the volume of transactions, though aF the same time the working force has further increased, the wages of labor have been in numerous cases advanced and the foun­ dation laid more broadly every week for large buying and business hereafter. Fail­ ures for the week were 22! in the United States, against 274 last year, and 30 in Canada, against 60 last year." The attendance at the Nashville expo­ sition is increasing. The National Bank of Asheville, N. C., has closed its doors. No statement has yet been made. At a "State convention of Alabama min­ ers it was decided to affiliate with the United Mine Workers of America, thus adding 13,000 men to the organization. At Louisville, Ky,, 8,000 people saw John R. Gentry defeat Robert J. in tlifee straight heats in the rather slow time of 2:05, 2:05i4 and 2:07Mj- It was a clean victory, for the stallion. Two men in Lebanon, Ivy., are to be sold at auction as slaves were before the war. They were convicted of vagrancy at the last term of the Circuit Court, and it was ordered that they be required to work. In accordance with the laws Sher­ iff Young has posted bills on the court house announcing that he will, on Nov. 1, at the court house door, sell the services of one for nine months and the labor of the other for three months to the highest bidder. The industrial situation in the South shows many encouraging features, and the Chattanooga Tradesman's Southern correspondents among prominent manu­ facturers and dealers report a feeling of confidence and continued satisfaction as to the volume of trade. The iron and steel production is heavy aud the mills have orders on hand to keep them busy until the first of the year. The lumber and textile industries are active, and coal operators report an increasing demand for tbeir.product. Among the most important new industries for the week the Trades­ man reports the following: Electric-light plants at Thomaston, Ga., and Salisbury, N. C,; the Southern Chemical Company, capital $100,000, at Winston, N. C,; a flouring mill at Clferryv.ille, N. C.; an ice factory at,Orlando, Fla., and another at Spartanburg, S. C., at a cost of $30,000; an extensive foundry and pipe works at AnnistonyAla.: the Itivanna Gold Mining Company, capital $5,000,000, at Rich­ mond, Va., and a $30;000 company to prime, grades, MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00' to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 93c; corn, No. 2, 24c to, 25c; oats, No. 2, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 48c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; new potatoes, 38c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. '2) 94c to 95c; corn, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 97c to 99c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 48c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2,50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye,'No. 2, 47c to 49c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. '2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c; corn,^ No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 White, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 49c; clover seed, $3.25 to $3.35. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 86c to 88e; corn, No. 3, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c tc 23c; rye, No. 1, 47c to 49c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 43c; pork, mess, $7.50 to $8.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00-to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to, 98c; corn, No. '2 yellow, 28c 'to -29c; oats, No.--2 white, 24c to 25c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 98e; corn, No, 2, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 45c ta -25c; eggs, Western, 17c to 18o. WRECK ON THE £. ' ' • • VAMPIRES. A TERRIBLE DISASTER NEW YORK ONj jmeof a Voracious Kind Are Found in the Human Family. [Once a year the old doctor spends co days in Newport. It Is his one Noted Apostle of Single Tax Succumbs to Apoplexy. Henry George, the apostle of single tax, eil suddenly at 5 o'clock Friday morning died Fast Express with a Load of Slu| lug Passengers Makes an Awfo Into the Hudson-Goes Over tl bankment to Destruction. Many Lives Lost. A disastrous railroad accident occurred on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, a short distance below* Garrison's station, early Sunday momi: The train was the State express, due New York at 7:30 o'clock, and was ma up of engine No. S72, a combination b: gage and express car, a smoker, two ord nary passenger coaches and four sleeperi in charge of Conductor Parish. Tlie'train left Albany at 3:15 o'clock, Oi time, a.nd was going at a good rate speed when it passed Garrison's. It wa a mile and a half below there when th accident occurred. Conductor Parish says the track seemed to fall out froln undei the train, the train seemed to shoot into the air, and the next minute it appeared to fall into the river. Into the waters Of the Hudson the cars plunged, dragging through the wa ter the helpless passengers. There \Vas nothing to presage the terrible accident which so suddenly deprived so many human beings of life. Two cars were left On the track. The engine did not stop until it lay submerged fifty feet below the surface. The two for­ ward cars followed and were piled upon the engine. The smoker and two follow­ ing ordinary cars broke from the train and ran some distance along the ba.uk'and then into the water. Two of the sleeping cars ran into the river, but fortunately Were left only partly under water, the windows toward t'le shore being kit above the surface. First reports gaVe the total number of known dead at nineteen; the estimated number, twenty-eight. Neither engineer nor fireman will ever tell the story of that terrible moment, for, with his hand upon the throttle, the en­ gineer plunged with his engine to the river bottom, and the fireman, too, was at his post. Behind them came the express car, the combination car and the sleepers, and these piled on top of the engine. It is known that it was a trifle foggy aud that the track was not visible, but if there was any break in the lines of steel it must have been of very recent, happening,- for only an hour before there had passed over it a heavy passenger train laden with hu­ man freight. \V'-W% v'"' '. ; The section of road was supposed to be the very best on the entire division. There was a great heavy retaining Wall all along the bank, and, while the tide was high Sunday, it was not unprecedented'. What seems to have happened was that under­ neath the tracks and ties the heavy wall had given way and when the great weight of the engine struck tthe . unsupported tracks it went crashing through the rest of the wall and toppled over into the river. As the train plunged over the embank­ ment the coupling that held the last two of the six sleepers broke and they miracu­ lously remained on the broken track. In that way some sixty lives were saved. LATE PETER E. STUDEBAKER. rollc. Last snmmer, on ills way to 'nlljs room at the Union Square Hotef d New York "City .ApMc^-w^rthc cause' le noted summer resort, be met his old fiend Bent in J*Jew York and per­ suaded him to joi "This Is the first IiolidavJ*iiave taken In five years," said Mr. I»nt, as toward jveuing they strolle4^il>ng the beach. "But don't all the men in the city bank have vacations? You are cash- jier?" , j; but these jaunts are somewhat DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE. J GOTHAM ABLAZE WITH FERVOR. Sixty Thousand Persons at Moody and Sankey's First Revivals. , Writing of "When Moody and' San- key Stirred the Nation," in the Ladies' Home Journal, Nathaniel P. Babeock „ ^ - -- cause. Mr. George made four speeches Thursday night in his campaign as candidate for Mayor Of, Greater New York, and was very fatigued when he retired. It is be­ lieved the sudden attack that ended his life was brought on by the unusually se­ vere strain occasioned by his speech-mak­ ing. Henry George was the mayoralty can­ didate of the silver Democrats of Greater so I fight out the heat in town. ""New York. He had made up to the night very closely--very closely," pull- before his death a red hot campaign, in which he promised, if elected, to do his best to send Richard Croker to the peni­ tentiary. To his denunciations of Croker . , . m . ll<? added denunciations of Senator Thom- had known Tom when he was a Hs C. Piatt. He had entered the contest with great earnestness, and his campaign speeches throughout were-marked with his White beard with a thin, ag hand. •doctor watched him thoughtful- He Began His Business Career as a Peddler and Died a Millionaire. Peter E. Studebakes-, one of th&'inilUon- aire wagonmakers of South Bend/ Ind., who died recently at Alma, Mieli., whith­ er he had gone to improve his.healt.li, was born April 1, 1836, in Ashland County, O. His parents were poor and his youth was spent amid the humblest surroundings. A.s a boy he carried the eggs and butter in which his mother dealt from li,is home to the storekeepers'. At 15 he became a elerk. In five years he saved $150. Then he bought a peddler's outfit and traveled through the country, selling dry goods and notions. Meanwhile his brothers had started in .the manufacture of wagons on 1 small scaJe ami when tihey secured a PETKH E. STUDKRAIiER. contract from the Government to build some wagons their business received sueh an impetus that they called their brother into the partnership. Prosperity contin­ ued to come their way and eventually they had thc'largest manufacturing institution of its kind in the world and the three brothers were millionaires.. Peter Studebaker took an active inter­ est in public affairs and, was more or less intimately associated with Indiana poll-. ties, though he never sought office. One of the noteworthy incidents of his life was the erection of a monument over the un­ marked grave of Lincoln's mother,.. in Spencer County, Ind. A Costly Quarantine. The quarantine regulations have been enforced In the Southern districts infect-, ed with yellow fever a.t a cost to the com­ merce of New Orleans and other cities estimated at nearly $40,000,000. Sani­ tary measures which would have prevent-, ed the epidemic would have been decidedly cheaper. < Telegraphic Brevities. F. W. Hoell, implement dealer in Law­ rence, Kan., has failed. J. B. Thunnison and wife were suffo­ cated at Mitchell, 8. D., by gas from a coal stove. . Mary Beick was burned to death at Colnia, Gal., where the plant of the Cali­ fornia Fuse Company was destroyed by. fire, causing a Joss of $100,000. John Toalston of East township, Car­ roll County, 0., climbed a. tree to shake off a coon, lost his hold and fell to the ground and was almost instantly killed. Stockholders of the American Grocery 'Company of New York petitioned for a receiver. Fire destroyed fhe business portion of Osceola, Ark., a river town a few miles north of Memphis. The loss will reach $100,000. At Duluth, Customs'Collector Wiljcutts refused to allow twenty-eight Italians to land from the steamer Monarch because of violation of the alien contract labor law. While workmen were clearing away the debris of a burned barn at Clarkfield,. Minn., the remains of four human bodies were found. ' The-victims are supposed- to 'have been tramps. earty young fellow, with a wife, babies. How eager he and his d been to earn, enough to buy > home, give the children school- a chance to win their way. in irld! Jack, the boy, had great according to his mother. He be, she thought, a famous lawr- yer, and go out to earn fortune and fame; and Polly, the daughter, would live at home with her old father and mother, as happy as the day was long. The doctor reminded Bent of these old "air castles, • v "Oh, yes; I remember," said the cash­ ier. "Some things one remembers ev­ ery day. My wife even had a design of the liduse--a plain, comfortable little place. She insisted that it should be near a river where I could fish. I was iVery fond of fishing as a boy. She inever liked city life, poor girl; but she lived and died in town.u"'^ He turned his face away. The doc­ tor was perplexed. Bent for thirty ( •years had been the well-paid official of t a wealthy corporation. He and his •wife had sitaple, rational habits. He Should have saved enough from his large salary to stop work, now that his children were educated, and rest dur- JtKXR v GKOItGE. great fervor and earnestness. His ex­ haustive labors are thought to have led directly to his death. Henry George was born in Philadelphia 011 Sept. 2, 1839, and as a boy went to California. He drifted into journalism in San Francisco and attained some celeb­ rity as a writer on political theories. In 1870 he published Progress and Poverty, t which acquired a world-wide reputation, ling the years which were left him. 1 In it he gave the result of his investiga- They Avould not be many. The physi- j 'tions among the poor of the great cities Jcian's eye detected certain signs in his ' and iiis. theories for reform. About the same time he first expressed his plan of taxing property on a single value--that is, taxing the land itself and not the im­ provements thereon. This was the origin of the single tax doctrine. I11 1880 he removed to New Y/irk. The following year he published a volume on Ireland and England. His publications of various theories on political economy made him one of the best known men in the country. In 1S86 he was the candi­ date of the laboring element for Mayor of New York, but was defeated by Abram S. Hewitt by 22,000 votes. He led Theo­ dore Roosevelt, the Republican nominee, by 8,000 votes. Ever since then Mr. George has been more or less identified with political movements. WORK FOR THE GOVERNOR. old friend that indicated this. "I see no reason, Bent," he said, "why ' you should not make Mary's plans real now\ Your savings will enable you to ilive without work. You have done i Vour duty to your children. You have ! a right to live your own life and in­ dulge your own tastes in the time that is left you " ,,; "I understand you," said Bent. "Oth­ er physicians have warned me. If I stop work now, I shall have, perhaps, a dozen years of life before me. If I do not--it's a shorter road downward. jWell, I must tramp it. I haven't saved a dollar. The children have needed my salary, and God knows I am glad to have given it to them, and to give it still. I can't stop work. Don't speak of it again. Come, look at this seine the men are drawing." They hurried to the seine as if there were nothing as Interesting as fish in the world. A dog-shark lay on the sand. Clinging to it ,were two or three pf the hideous eyeless parasites which draw their life from that fish? "We call them water vampires," said one of the fishermen. "They're a mean, onnatural kind of monster. 'Hain't no food nor life but what they suck out of the old shark." , • At the moment a four-in-hand, driven by a very wealthy and well-known leader of society, drew up near the jseine. "Look!" whispered Bent excitedly. l"That is Jack on the top of the coach- handsome man in English driving clothes! That is Polly on the box-seat. She is visiting some of the biggest swells here. She visits a good deal of the time. She is so caressed ir^society! II tell her she only comes home to her old father when she wants a check," he added, laughing feebly; "but Polly •Is ambitious. She says she means to jinarry a title."' The girl A^as beautiful and dressed with costly elegance. She and her |brother recognized the old man with an indifferent nod of the head as the self-appointed job, Mr. Young has chang­ ed every piece of gold and paper cur- thus recalls the first revivals held by the "well-known evangelists in New York City: " To the Hippodrome!' was the cry of the Protestant religious world of New York during the early months of the year 1876. Twenty-one years ago, and yet the strangeness of those days, when over the great me­ tropolis- hung an atmosphere charged with the electricity of religious zeal, is fresh in my memory. 'To the Hippo­ drome!' The words were uttered from the pulpits of scores of churches--first as advice, then as a command--by min­ isters to congregations. To the Hippo­ drome!' You heard the phrase in the street cars, in the hotels, sometimes up­ on the busy avenues. On early morn­ ing trains steaming in from suburban points you saw women by hundreds, with luncheons in baskets, drawn to the city, not by the spring millinery of the stores, but by that shibboleth which echoed in myriad Christian hearts. To the Hippodrome!' •'Moody and Sankey, aided by a mul­ titude of local clergymen and bands of volunteer Christian workers, had undertaken the task of setting New York on lire with enthusiasm for the cause of Christ. How great was the measure of their success may be judged by thmfact that there were days, be­ tween T.eb. 7, the beginning of the re­ vival, and April 19, its close, when as many as sixty thousand persons found their way into the presence of the evangelists--one meeting following an­ other from noon till late in the evening, with almost constantly assembling au­ diences of seven or eight thousand at each. "r "What was the record of conversions during those ten weeks of daily relig­ ious services? Somebody asked this question of Moody midway in the re­ vival's course. 'Record!' he repeated. 'Why, tha/t is kept only In heaven.' Well so, for there, at least, it is im­ mutable, whereas the walls which rang with the glad cries of converted sinners have long since been razed to the ground, and not a stone nor brick, nor joist, nor girder remains to tell the story of what: went on In that vast auditorium in the early dawn of our great centennial year." Washington's State Treasurer Ar­ ranges a Big Job for the 'Executive. Gov. Rogers of Washington has pro­ claimed his intention of investigafng State Treasurer Young's accounts. He has announced that he, in company with oiie of the* Supreme Court judges, will count all the money in the treasury. In order that the Governor may have as much enjoyment as possible out of liis I.AKGE .TOB. coach drove by. "What is Jack's business?" asked the doctor. "He's an artist. He does not paint pictures to sell. He worships art, and does not care for its trading side, he says; but somehow, art and society re­ quire a good deal of money," added the old man anxiously. "Come! Let us look at the fishes. What a hideous thing this vampire is!" "Oh! I don't know," said the doctor, bitterly. "There are plenty of cold, bloodless creatures sucking the lives out of their fellows, quite content and happy. I should like to tell them that they are vampires!" The old cashier looked at him, puz­ zled at his heat, and then walked gent­ ly on.--Youth's Companion. rericy 111 the treasury to its equivalent in silver cartwheel dollars. This will enable the Governor and his assistant to bend tlioir backs, lame their wrists and con­ sume a good deal of valuable time in counting 120 tons of silver dollars. More­ over, Treasurer Young will not permit either the Governor or the judge to enter the treasury without giving bonds. American Fruit in England. Two large consignments--some 10,- 000 packages in all--of American fruits of the distinctly perishable sort reach­ ed the London market in good condi­ tion and were sold at auction at prices eminently satisfactory to the shippers. This marks the success, and on a large scale, of an enterprise thaf never would have been undertaken by persons not possessed of much courage or carried through except by those with much persistence. € They're Envious. Bunting--Chicago lays claim to being a great summer resort. Larkin--Portions of it undoubtedly are. The upper rooms of some of the hotels are about the altitude of the Himalayas.--Louisville Courier-Jour-: j dfSna tc^'ic' nal. Price of Amber to Advance. It is said that the price of amber is Blanco says he will end the Cuban war in seven months. Weyler was going to do it in six. Among recent incorporations in New York is "The Motherhood Company, Lim­ ited." Very. Notwithstanding the reports from Lon­ don, Salisbury probably will neither re­ sign nor blow out the gas. There is a rumor afloat that the Yerkes telescope is the finest one in the world; scientists ought to look into that. "The Last Fly of Summer" is the title Of a poem printed recently in a Maine paper. It is.a very spectacular produc­ tion. # The writer cf an article in a current re­ view who says that "there is. 110 excite­ ment in modern military life' evidently had not heard recently from Fort Sheri­ dan. „.. A young woman in Brunswick. N. J., lias just fallen heir to $25,000,000. '1110 dispatches do not state whether she is beautifuror not, but she certainly has a magnificent figure. We suggest that Gen. Weyler's hand ,,, , , .. , , , • bajrgitKC be searched before he leaves likely to advance considerably owing ^ - Unk.,s SlKlin adopts that precnu. to the fact that the greatest deposit of ]j0 will probably take his famous this, substance in the world is almost 1 ti.(Kba ,a.way from the island. exhausted. This deposit is 011 the Sam- land Peninsula, which juts out into the Baltic Sea. Luetgert says "the suspense was terri- bkv"'" The suspense might have been wdrse."* -,, Of course a greai many families have A Finnish Fish Story. skeletons in the closets, but comparative- Finland appears to be a paradise for Jy fcw have sesamoids in a vat. - It is to be hoped that during all this fishermen. One skillful native fisher­ man caught in five days 674 pounds of salmon and grayling. He is said once to have caught with the rod 1,600 pounds of fish in three weeks. They had quarreled. "Do you love me?" she asked. "Yes," he replied, "but no one loves you as much as you love yourself." extended investigation into bones, chem icals, and morality the Leutgert jury will not overlook the minor issue: Is the de­ fendant guilty of murder? The, medical profession itself should take up in earnest the cry for reform in the method of obtaining e,xpert testimony in court. The exhibition i.11 the Luetgert case at Chicago was a disgrace to the *raft. A Trying Husband. It is possible to carry even one's vir­ tues to excess. Mrs. K. relt this to ^e true in the case of her husband's gen­ erosity. He was a very studious man, who lived "in the clouds" much of the time, and was quite lacking in prac­ tical common sense. A man of this kind, good and true though he may be, is likely to cause his wife more or less anxiety and annoyance. One fall Mrs. K. .purchased a hand­ some cape for herself. It was to be her "best wrap" that winter, and she put it away in her closet with great care. Some days later she wanted it for a special occasion, but it was not to be found. After searching "high and low" for it, she went up to her husband's study and said to him: "Have you seen anything of my new- cape?" "Cape? cape?" said Mr. K. dreamily. "Have I seen anything of your cape? Why, no, I guess not." "Are you sure?" "Why, yes; what should I be doing with your cape? I--let m^see. Wait a minute. It seems to me that I--yes, I did give a cape away tc( a poor woman I met at the door one day. She said she wanted a wrap of some kind, and I--is it possible that I gave her your new cape? I meant to give her your old one." "My old one is in my closet, and you must have given away that handsome new one that I had never worn! Why can't you keep your wits about you?" "It is too bad," said the contrite pro­ fessor. "I'll try to be more careful hereafter." A few days later Mr. K. was out on his lawn when a ragged and evil-look- ing tramp came down the road, and with the usual tale about having just come from the hospital, begged for "the price of a meal o' victuals." Mrs. Iv., who was sitting by a win­ dow, saw lie^r husband give the man what seemed to be a bill, which the tramp took and departed with such alacrity that he was out fore Mrs. K. could go out ani^S^ to her husband; "You didn't give that creature a bill, did you?" "Why, yes, I did. I didn't have any- thing $5 bill, and I told him he mighrgm; n good meal out of it and bring back the change." The tramp must have dined sumptu­ ously, for not a penny of change ever came back to Mr. K. A Legal Luminary. The young lawyer was consulting in the jail with his unfortunate client, charged with stealing a stove. "No, no," he said, soothingly; "I know, of course, you didn't really steal the stove. If I thought for a minute that you were guilty, I wouldn't defend you. The cynics may say what they like, but there are some conscientious men among us lawyers. Yes, of course, the real. difficulty lies in proving that you didn't steal the stove, but I'll man­ age it now that you have assured me of your innocence. Leave it all to me, and don't say a word. You can hand over ten dollars now, and pay me the rest " "Ten dollars, boss," repeated the ac­ cused man, in a hoarse voice. "Why don't yer make it ten thousand dol­ lars? I c'd pay ye jest ez easy. I ain't got no money." "No money?" The lawyer looked In­ dignant. "Naw, ner know we're I kin git any, eether!" The young lawyer seemed plunged in gloom. Suddenly he brightened. "Well," he said, more cheerfully, "I like to help honest men in trouble. I'll tell yoi£ what to do. I'll get you out of this scrape, and we'll call it square if you'll send the stove around to my of­ fice. I need one."--Tit-Bits. Pur^s Shops to Clcss Saturday. Paris is trying the experiment of closing the stores at noon on Saturday. Many shops have closed' regularly on Sunday for some years past. Compliments 011 a tombstone might be properly termed epl-taffy,