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THE PLAIKDEALER • •• ' ••• _ i • • . ' J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY, * ILLINOIS DEFEAT FOE BRITAIN. TRIBESMEN WIN A DESPERATE FIGHT AT MAIDAN VALLEY. Gen. Westmacott'B Column Retreats Under a Telling; Kii9illade--Hints at Russian Plotting-The Next Session of Congress to Be a Short One. Many Soldiers Killed. News comes from London that the British troops suffered a severe defeat in the Maidan Valley. How serious G«%n. Westmae&tt's command suffered is not exactly known, but the repulse was dis­ astrous. The affair brings to mind that Ijord Salisbury slurred over the Indian •war-in his speech at the Mansion House, and carefully avoidtd^mention of the aipter and of Ilussia. It is deemed cer­ tain that the fanatic tribesmen have sub­ stantial backing and are able to procure rifles of the most approved pattern. The question is--from Whom? Lord George Hamilton, secretary of state for India, made, up later for the forgetful ness of his «hief. Speaking' at Acton, he broadly hinted at Russian plotting, and intimated that annexation of the disturbed region •was the best way out of-the difficulty. He forgets, however, that in these plans he will have to reckon "not only with the ameer, but with Russia. I. rgent action is certainly necessary to crush the revolt, •which is causing serious irritation among the British people. . Next Session of Congress. In an interview in Washington Con­ gressman Hopkins of Illinois says that he is of the opinion that the next session of Congress will be of short duration, not lasting beyond May. With a free silver majority in the Senate he does not see any hope for currency legislation during the life of the present Congress, and a knowledge of the uselessness of attempt­ ing it will, in his opinion, keep Congress off the subject; The feeling that undue agitation under existing conditions would he a waste of time will grow and tend to turn discussion into other channels. Mr. Hopkins expresses the belief that Hawaii will be duly annexed without delay or serious opposition. Touching Cuba, Mr. Hopkins has this to siS'y: "My opinion about Cuba is that unless we are abso­ lutely compelled to interfere from motives of humanity, it were better for us to maintain an attitude of neutrality. The quarrels ef other nations are not' our affairs." Four Men Injured. By the collapse of a three-story brick building which was being remodeled at the south end in Boston, four men were injured, one of whom, it is said, will prob­ ably die. Washington to push forward the new fortifications at Finn's Point, N. J., on the Delaware river. Double shifts of n:en are i;o^v,at woii:. The Upsala College at New York, of which-the Rev. L. H. Beck is: president, has signed contracts with a leal estate company providing for the removal of that institution to the city of New Or­ ange, N. J. There are twenty-seven steamships now in port or under charter at Phila­ delphia to load grain for European ports. Most of the grain will be shipped in the next few weeks. These steamers will carry an aggregate of 3,100,000 bushels of corn and wheat. So far this year the shipments of corn have aggregated near­ ly 22,000,000 bushels, as against less than 7,000,000 in ISDO.-atrd of wheat 3,993,SS9 bushels, eomparedjwitli 3,840,- 616 last; year. WESTERN. BREVITIES, E. A. Woods, a prominent real estate man of St. Louis, is missing. Mrs. Margaret Boughan, who claimed to be 124 years old, died at Chicopee Falls, Mass. Samples of ore from the Robert E. Lee mine in South Dakota assayed $1,060 in gold per ton. The Governors of the New York Stock Exchange have prohibited betting on the floor of the exchange. Statistics from Washington are that the average yield of corn per acre this year is 23.7; last year, 27.3. At Dayton, O., B. F. Ilargrave shot himself in the heart while suffering with Theumajtism. He was 62 years of age. The latest trust reported to be in pro­ cess of organization is a gigantic combi­ nation of insulated wire and electric cable manufacturers. Robert T. Lincoln has been elected act­ ing president of Pullman's Palace Car Company. The election of a permanent president has been indefinitely postponed. John P. McKinnon, formerly a wealthy lumberman of Detroit, disappeared from the steamer City of Alpena between Clie- hoygan and Port Huron, and is believed to have jumped overboard. Information from Hancock County, Tenn., is that the feud between the Ep­ persons amd Williamses, growing out of the killing of William Epperson and Chas. Epperson, has broken out again. The Board of United States General Ap­ praisers at New York has decided that the tariff act went into effect at 4 o'clock p. m., July 24, 1897, and that goods en­ tered before, that hour are dutiable under the old law. Charles A. Dana left an estate valued at between $1,000,000 and $1,200,000. His wife is given all the property, except the atock in the New York Sun, which is left to his son Paul, in trust for the widow and children. V The Yukon Company of Seattle has contracted with the Roach Shipbuilding Company for 5,000-ton steamships to ply between Seattle and St. Michael's. They are to have a.speed of sixteen knots, aud have accommodations for 1,000 passen­ gers. Miss Grace M. Elliott, of San Francis­ co, was a little too premature in the dis­ tribution of cash gifts to institutions based upon her inheritance fo2$a,5 - 1 'baaed upon her Inheritance o'f a $25,000,- "000 estate. The inheritance has now proven to be a myth. Premier Sagasta of Spain has sent a ca­ blegram to the United States government declaring: "So far from seeking a pre­ text to declare war against the United States, Spain would regard it as a great misfortune to be given the occasion for such an unhappy resolution." Ex-State Treasurer Booker of North Dakota, recently indicted for making a "fraudulent report of the condition of the Grand Forks National Bank, of which he is president, is missing. Prince Bismarck lias been sued by his head forester for an additional pension which the ex-chancellor refused to grant him. Three men blew open the safe in Heine's bank at Silver Creek, N. Y., securing $10, «Q0 in money and $4,000 in jewelry. They afterward attempted to rob the safe in a neighboring mill, but were frightened away. The watchman was beaten badly. EASTERN. At Greenwich, Conn., Henry O. Have meyer, who was operated upon for ap (pendicitis, -is still very low, although re- ;covering slowly." '!.. Rear Admiral Alexander CoUlen Rhind, U. S. N., the hero of Fort Fisher, is dead at his home in New York. He had been confined to his bed fpr five weeks. i The New York Chamber of Commerce jhas passed resolutions urging the Presi dent and Congress to take immediate steps to strengthen the defense of Goth- 'I1 «m's harbor. Orders have recently been sent from The boiler of a Burlington engine ex­ ploded three ihiles west of Crawford, Neb., instantly killing Engineer H. C. Simpson aud Fireman E. M. Robinson. At Mankato, Minn.,, John A. Willard, a millionaire*1 banker, has made an assign­ ment. Mr. Willard" estimates his direct liabilities at a bout. $480,000. All is se­ cured' with what, was; supposed to be am­ ple security. His direct liabilties are per­ haps double the size of his .direct. "The schooner V-olvano, only seventeen- tons burden,, lias. arrived at San Fran­ cisco after riding out a storm in midocean,- in which her compass was lost.' Capt. William Kissel succeeded in, making port after a voyage, of 1,100 miles with no other guide than the sun, stars and the trend of the currents^ \v- *'• At Carson. Nov.,'Julian Guinan, aged 16, shot and fatally wounded Charles Jones, United States district attorney. Jones died soon after the shooting. Gui­ nan surrendered himself at the sheriff's office and confessed. He claims to have killed Jones thinking he was about to at­ tack Guinan's father. Nineteen lives were lost by the sinking of the steamer Idaho of the Western Transit line. The accident happened off Long Point, in Lake Erie, about sixty- five miles west of Buffalo, on the Cana­ dian side. A strong southwest gale was blowing at the time. Off Long Point the steamer shipped a big sea, which quench­ ed the fires iu the engines and the boat was helpless. The captain and crew were lowering the lifeboat when the vessel gave a lurch and went down on her side, stern first. Two of the crew managed to reach the top of a single spar that stood above the water. There they clung until eight hours later, when they were discov­ ered by the outlook on the Mariposa of the Minnesota line. A St. Paul, Minn., speciaLsays: "When the early c;'op of wheat once gets out of the farmers' hands, after the holidays, it's likely to bring a decidedly better price. Yes, that price would be more than a dollar a bushel. And never has there been a better outlook at this time of the ycii»' for high prices during the following season. Next year will be a year of high-priced wheat." The forego­ ing estimate was made by Oliver Dal- rymple, the bonanza farmer of the Red River valley. "There is certainly a short­ age in wheat supplies at the present time," continued Mr. Dalryniple, "and. the con­ sensus of opinion is that winter wheat will turn out less than an average crop next spring. All the farmers up in Da- iota are naturally feeling good in spite of the small crop. We have high prices at last. I'm just on my way to Casselton to pay off my men, and, let me-tell you, I do it with a good deal more satisfaction than I have experienced for a number of years." 475.23; a total of $139,949,717. Thi« ex­ ceeds the amount disbursed during the fiscal year' 1896 by ~ the sum of $1,584,- 480." FOREIGN. Mount Vesuvius is in active eruption. Marshal Blanco has issued a proclama­ tion pardoning all Cubans who have been prosecuted for the crime of rebellion. The Emperor of China and the Board of Revenue have approved a memorial presented in favor of 'establishing a gold standard and prohibiting the export of gold. Turkey, under the threat from the Bul­ garian Government that unless the prom­ ised berats to the Bulgarian bishops in Macedonia should be granted, Bulgaria would declare independence, finally acced­ ed to the demands and granted the berats. A man named Hinde sued the Prince of Wales at London to recover $300,000 al leged to have been wrongfully paid him by the late Under Sheriff Croll, who wfts the liquidator of the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company. The plain­ tiff declared that the money belonged to Mr. Allen, of whose estate he was the assignee. The caseB was thrown out of court on a technicality. A letter received in London from Vierir na says the published reports, of the po­ litical situation in the Austrian empire ednvey no adequate idea of the chaos prevailing. "Badeni must go!" .is the general war cry now, and the Premier's downfall is considered inevitable, regard­ less of tlie outcome of the present fight between the Germans and the Czechs. No one can foresee how it will end. There is likely to bp a complete change in the polity of Spain in dealing with the United States, 'according to the view taken by Englishmen. This is attributed to the printed utterances of former Unit­ ed States Minister to Spain Hannis Tay­ lor. News comes from Madrid that the cabinet intends to abandon its plan of conciliation and will inform the United States in diplomatic but plain language that Spain will do as she pleases regard­ ing the granting of reforms in Cuba. It is also said in Madrid that Mr. Taylor's strictures on Spain will work hardship for the Competitor prisoners in Havana. It has been understood that these Ameri­ cans would have only a perfunctory trial and would be released as a mode of ap­ peasing public clamor in the United States, but now the statement is made on apparent authority that they are to be prosecuted to the fullest extent. Spain will claim that her officers were within their rights in capturing the Competitor, and that the protocol of 1887 referred to American citizens residing in Cuba. IN HONOR OF LOmiOY HANDSOME MONUMENT TO THE FREE SPEECH MARTYR. Formal Dedication. in* Alton, II1.» I® • Witnessed by Many Visitors-,Story of the Killing of the Great Aboli- tionist-Durrant Is Doomed. 4 IN GENERAL. SOUTHERN. The House of Representatives of the Georgia Legislature has passed a bill by vote of 73 to 19, making the playing of foot-ball within the State limits a mis­ demeanor, and imposing a' fine for viola­ tions of this act. The Hotel San Marco, one of the finest and most commodious in St. Augustine, Fla., was burned to the ground, entailing a loss of about $250,000, with less than $50,000 insurance. The lire was started by incendiaries, who made the work sure. The total attendance at the Tennessee centennial exposition was 1,682,305. The indebtedness is only $36,000, while th« property of the exposition company is valued at far more than this sum, and there are uncollected assets amounting to $39,000. The Georgia House 0^Representatives has passed a bill making it unlawful to play a prize or match game of foot-ball where an admission is charged. One thou­ sand dollars fine or one year in the peni­ tentiary, or both together, were fixed as the penalty. James Conley, a prominent cotton planter, and W. II. Booe, of the firm of W. II. Booe & Son, became involved in a dispute over a'settleiuent at Lonoke, Ark., when Booe drew a revolver and shot Con- ley five times, twice in the back, and both lungs were pierced. Judge John J. Jackson, in the United States Court at Martiusburg, W. Ya., has decided that under the civil service law transfers cannot be made without trial, holding that it is equivalent to re­ moval, and that the appointment of a man to a Federal position under the civil service law gives him a right in equity to the place which I10 is not forced to surrender save for caused Shaft to a Hero. The Elijah P. Lovejoy monument, re­ cently built at Grand View Cemetery, in Alton, 111., was formally dedicated Mon­ day. The dedication was first to occur in J une, but an acci­ dent to the monu­ ment while in course St construction ne­ cessitated a post­ ponement, and it was decided by the committee in charge to dedicate the struc­ ture on the anniver­ sary of the killing of Lovejoy., It was on . k. I', love JO?. NoV. 7, iS37, that a mob, angered by the abolition editorials appearing in Lovejoy's weekly paper,.the Alton ObseifyC'Pf came across the river from Missouri and besieged the editor and his friends in Godfrey & Oilman's ware­ house, where they had taken refuge; The "doors arid shutters were strong and the. mob was Unable to gain admission. "The infuriated men sought to dislodge the; Lovejoy party by throwing burning brands upon the roof. Lovejoy climbed from the window twice and snatched the brands, receiving a bullet wound the sec­ ond time froni which he died shortly after rejoining his friends. Through the efforts of the late Senator C. A. Herb of Alton an appropriation of $25,000 was made by the State Senate, but Gov. Altgeld refused to sign' the bill till the citizens of Alton had raised $12,- 000 by popular subscription. The Love­ joy Monument Association was then or­ ganized, and succeeded in raising about half that amount. The Governor then allowed the appropriation to pass into the hands of the association. Plans and spe­ cifications were immediately drawn up, the work was started and was pushed to The total losses by fire for October in the United States and Canada aggregate $11,387,500. John Fortier, wanted by the Chicago police 011 two indictments for larceny and embezzlement, was arrested at. Lohgeuil, Quebec. Fortier admits having stolen $20,000 from Straw, McCoy & Co., cloth­ ing importers of Chicago, for whom he was bookkeeper. The steamer George W. Elder has ar­ rived at Nanaimo, B. C. Among her passengers was Donald Nicholson, who left Dawson Sept. 23. Mr. Nicholson says the food problem was a most per­ plexing question when he left Dawson. Seven steamers were then overdue. Nich­ olson says that Skookum Gulch proved an absolute failure outside of one claim. He believes the country to be rich, but it can never be property-developed until provisions are cheaper. Work is plenty at $1.50 per hour. The gold commission­ er and mounted police do not consider it advisable, under existing circumstances, to collect the 20 per cent, royalty and to reserve alternate claims for the Govern­ ment. The miners are not required.to take otit licenses, but have to pay $15 for staking claims, which pays for surveying and recording, and $100 for the claim the second year. F. W. Yaille, assistant su­ perintendent of the railway mail service at Portland, Ore., has received a letter from Dyea stating that a party started Oct. 22 with 300 pounds of late mail for Dawson. The Canadian police were in charge, and the mail was drawn by dog teams. Bradstreet's commercial report says: "Killing frosts South, the raising of quar­ antine embargoes at nearly all States in­ vaded by yellow fever, the resumption of traffic and a prospective revival in de­ mand for 'staple merchandise constitute the trade features of the week. Rains in central western and western States, fol­ lowed by colder weather, have favored farmers and stimulated demand from in­ terior storekeepers. This has had a favor­ able effect at Louisville, St. Louis and Kansas Qity. Jobbers in northwestern States are awaiting seasonable weather to stimulate the. movement of heavy dry goods and winter clothing. Leading man­ ufacturing industries continue fairly well employed. In addition to lower prices for Southern and Bessemer pig and for steel billets, quotations for naval stores, wools, copper, coffee, pork, flour, oats and wheat are lower, while those for cotton, print cloths, sugar and beef are unchanged, and for Indian corn and lead, are a shade higher. Wheat exports--flour included as wheat--from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week ag­ gregate 5,575,216 bushels, compared with 5,911,391 bushels last week. Exports of Indian corn this week amount to 2,199,- 550 bushels, compared with 1,589,000 bushels last week." WASHINGTON. Secretary Alger has recommended an increase of the army by two regiments of artillery. Walker Fearn, one of the judges ap­ pointed by the President 011 the Egyptian international court, has resigned 011 ac­ count of ill health. Gen. Wade Hampton, who has just been succeeded by Gen. Longstreet as commissioner of railroads, has submitted^ to the interior department at Washington his report for the last fiscal year. He says that the year marked the low-water mark of railway construction. During the vaar thirty-four companies, with 5,- 441 miles of road, passed into the hands of the courts, and fifty-eight others pre­ viously placed iu receivership were sold at foreclosure. A steady improvement in railroad earnings during- the first six months Of the current year is noted, an improvement particularly apparent in the bond-aided Pacific railroads. The outlook in the, West generally for the present year is reported encouraging. The first annual report of Commissioner of Pensions II. Clay Evans to the Secre­ tary of the Interior at Washington has been made public. A summary follows: "There were added to the rolls-during the year the names of,50,101 new pensioners, and there were restored to the rolls 3>971 pensioners who had been previously drop­ ped; a total of 54,072. During the same period the losses to-the roll were 31,960 by death, 1,074 by remarriage of widows and mothers, 1,845 by legal limitation (minors), 2,683 for failure to claim pen­ sion for three years and 4,560 for other causes; an "aggregate of 41,122. The whole number of pensioners on the rolls June 30, 1S97, was 976,014. The net gain over the previous year was '5,336. The amount disbursed for pensions by the pension agents during t)re year was $139,799,242.12^ arid the amount disburs­ ed by treasury settlement was $150,- MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5.50; hoys, sh ipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 93c; corn. No. 2, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2. 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 48c; butter, 10c to 18c; new potatoes, 35c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 92c to 94c; corn. No. 2 white-, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 'to $-1.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 9oc to 98c; corn-, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2, 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2!c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 48c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 91c to 93c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 40c to 48c. Toledo--Wheat,-No. 2 red, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2, 47c to 49c; clover seed, $3.20 to $3.25. Milwaukee--Wheat, No, 2 spring, 85c to 80c; corn, No. 3, 27c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 49c; barley, No. 2. 40c to 45c; pork, mess, $7.50 to $8.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. New York--Cattle, $3;00 to $5.25; hqgs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 24c; eggs, Western, 20c to 22c. I.OVE.TOY MONUMENT, Al.TON, ILL. completion in a short time. The monu­ ment cost $30,000. The architect was Louis Mulguard of St. Louis, and the sculptor Robert Bringhurst of St. Louis. The first, speaker 011 the program at the dedication was Thomas Dimmock of St.. Louis. Lieut. Gov. Dimmock is better acquainted with the story of Lovejoy than any other living man, having been a resident of Alton at the time and an in­ timate friend of the family. Dr. Wilkerson, a colored divine of Up­ per Alton, representing the colored peo­ ple, made "a speech. Lieut. Gov. North- cott delivered an address and a choir con­ sisting of the different singing societies of the city furnished music for the occa­ sion, accompanied by the White Hussar ba nd. ; John W. IIa mod of Greenville, 111., who was an eye-witness of the death of Lovejoy, was present at the dedieatory exercises. BUST OF COLFAX. Modeled by an Indiana Girl and Will lie Placed in December. The United States Senate chamber is to be adorned with a bust of Schuyler Col­ fax. It is the work of Miss Frances I*. Goodwin of New Castle, Ind. At present the bust is in the office of the architect of the capitol, where it is an object, of inter- GOVERNMENT The Average Yield Be 23.7 Bushels The November report of the Department of 23.7 bushels as the aver! of corn according to th turns of the department The corresponding pre! PORT. ^|^]hown to re. tistician e gives per acre ftary re­ sidents, estimate last_year was 27.3 bushels, and that of 189o 20,2 bushels.. The average yield in the principal corn States New York, 32.5; Pen Ohio, 32.5; Indiana, 28, Iown, 29.0; Missouri, 25. Nebraska, 29.0. The aven quality is 86.3, as compar 1896 arid 92.3 in 1895. The preliminary estimate yield of buckwheat is 20.7 acre,, as compared with 18.7 year and 20.1 bushels in 1895. ages in New York and Perms two States of principal pr< 22 and 21 bUshels per acre, The average per cent of qualit, as compared with 94.7 in N last year. The average yield per tobacco is 040 pounds, against 67! per acre last year and 743 pounds in 1895. The estimated average yield per acre, of Irish potatoes is 04.6 bushels, as compar­ ed with' 86^8. bushels last year arid- 100.7 bushels in November, 1895. The average per cent of quality is 81.3, against S9.2 in November last year and 94.8 in Novem­ ber, 1895. , The average yield of hay is 1,-.42 tons per acre,.against ah. average of 1.21 tons per acre for.; the. last fifteen years, In point of quality tlie average is-92.8 iter epnt, as compared with 92.9 per .cent in November, 1896, and 91.3 per. cent in 1895. r Favorable conditions for the sowing of the fall crops are reported from most parts of Europe, and the condition of the crops, so far as sown, is likewise favor­ able. The opinion is freely expressed that an increased area has been sown in wheat, but this appears.^o be more as a matter of inference from the natural ten­ dency of high prices to produce such an effect than as an observed fact: The crop reports from India continue favorable, and on the whole this is true as to those from Argentina and Australasia, but in all these countries the harvest is too re­ mote to permit any very confident pre­ diction as to the final outcome. In the case of Argentina it may prove that more damage has been done by the locusts and the spring frosts than is yet apparent. There is nothing to indicate that the wheat shortage in Europe is any less than has been supposed, while the crop of Man­ itoba is now represented to be much below the official estimate issued in August and that of the Canadian Northwest territory is poor. EMPLOYING COOLIES. Illinois Mine Owners Said to He Im­ porting Chinese I^abor. The news that Chinairien are to be im­ ported into the mines at Carbon Ilill is not considered very seriously at Spring Valley. Men stood around the corners in knots discussing this latest phase of the strike situation in Northern Illinois, but the coolies did not interest them as much as the reported settlement at Braceville, where it is stated the miners have accept­ ed the operators' offer. The men in the Spring Valley district are indignant over the action of the Braceville men in accepting a settlement below the scale. The Spring Valley men claim to have the strike' won, and the leaders say that no matter if Braceville does return to work at a non-union scale the Spring Valley men will hold out until next May, if necessary, for the scale for­ mulated at Springfield. Ladd, Seaton- ville. La Salle and Porn are equally firm. The labor leaders scoff at the idea of the coolie movement being a success. They say it is only a bluff. Said one prominent leader: "What if they do suc­ ceed in working one obscure mine with Chinamen? That does not necessarily break the strike. We are not going to let 200 Chinamen at Carbon Ilill make the price ol' coal digging for 2,000 white miners of Northern Illinois. The very fact that the Northern Illinois operators are importing 'coolie' labor is an indica­ tion that the white miners are poorly paid ind evidence of their cause." A remonstrance against allowing Chi­ nese coal miners to be imported into the State for the purpose of mining coal at Wilmington and other towns in place of striking miners will be placed before Gov. Tanner in the name of the United Mine Workers of Illinois. The Governor will also be asked to co-operate with the State secretary of the Miners' Federation i nkeeping out the coolie labor. COLFAX BUST AND ARTIST. est, especially to Indiana people, all of whom pronounce it an excellent likeness and a fine work of art.- At the invitation of the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, Col. Richard J. Bright, Miss Goodwfn went to Washington a few weeks ago and se­ lected a niche in the Senate chamber where the bust will be placed. TO AID ICE-BOUND MEN. Movement to Send the Cutter Bear to Point Iiarrow. There was a conference at the White House in Washington Monday, attended by Secretaries Gage, Long arid Alger, Commodore Melville and Commander Dickens of tire navy and Capt. Shoemak­ er, commander of the revenue marine ser­ vice, to consider measures for tire relief of the American whaling (leet said to be icebound in Bering sea. It was decided to send the revenue cutter Bear to the relief of the whalers. She is now at Se­ attle; Wash., having just arrived from Alaska. Orders have been issued to put her in commission for the voyage at once, and Capt. Shoemaker says sire will be ready to sail as soon as she can be pro­ visioned, which will take but a short time. DURRANT'S FATE IS SEALED. California Murderer Must Suffer the Death Penalty. The United States Supreme Court Iras' affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court for thev California district, refusing a writ of habeas corpus to William Henry Theodore' Durrant, under sentence of death for the murder of Miss Blanche Lament itr San Francisco in April, 1895. The case has attracted attention throughout the whole of the United States and this decision permits the law to take its course with tire" condemned m Mil. EVIDENCE IN NOVAK'S TRIAL. The Jury Is Secured and Witnesses Are-Called to tlie Stand. The trial of Frank A. Novak, who is charged with the murder of Edward Mur­ ray at Walford. Iowa, last February, was begun at Cedar Rapids Tuesday. The work of securing a jury was completed by the noon recess. Immediately after noon the jury was sworn and County Attorney Tobin made the opening statement to the jury. He said that the State expected to prove that Novak was on the brink of financial ruin and insured his life for large sums of money, and that in murdering Euward Murphy, which was a part of the precon­ ceived plan, it was for the purpose of causing the people to believe that he (No­ vak) had perished in the ruins, and that it all was done with the intent of de­ frauding the insurance companies. Judge Ney, assistant counsel for the defense, made the opening statement for the de­ fendant. The taking of testimony was at once commenced. SEEK TO BAR FOOTBALL. Ordinance Is Introduced in the Chi­ cago Council. Aid. Plotko, of ant.i-higli hat notoriety, took another ordinance to the Chicago Council chamber Monday night, with the1 intention of clinching Iris claim to fame as a lawgiver. The ordinance will pro­ hibit the playing of foot-ball anywhere within the limits of the city of Chicago. In speaking of his anti-foot-ball omi­ ttance, Aid. Plotke said: "Why do I in- introduce it? Because it is an inhuman game; a game that should have been stop- ped long ago. Somebody gets hurt badly every time a foot-ball game is played, and.many have been killed. It is forty times worse than prizefighting. I'd rath­ er see a prizefight any day than a game of foot-ball. It teaches school children to be brutal. Every little boy in the city gets out in a vacant lot and fights and swears just like the older boys do play­ ing foot ball. The game should not be tolerated in Chicago." Fever Steadily Abating. At Ncav Orleans all interest in the fever has about disappeared. The newspapers are paying but little attentat to it, con­ fining themselves to simply the official bulletins. From all infected points the same diminution in the disease is report­ ed, and it is expected that the .pc^t cold spell will wipe out the pestilence entirely. Prospects for a cold snap are excellent tand in anticipation the merchants throughout the city are preparing for a rush of business. Mobile reported, nipe new cases Tuesday a ltd Mon tgomery re­ ports one new case, with no deaths. GORMAN IS BEATEN. Republicans Control the Legislature in Maryland. According to Associated Press dis­ patches, an official count of the ballots cast in Maryland leaves no further room for doubt that the Republicans have con­ trol of both branches of the Legislature and that a Republican will succeed Ar­ thur P. Gorman in the United States Senate. The Republicans have forty ̂ nrne members in the House and the Dem- o c r a t s £orly-two. The Republicans also have eighteen Senators to eight for the Democrats, and a majority on joint' ballot of seventeen. Among those most prominently men­ tioned as the proba­ ble successor to Senator Gorman A l e x a n d e r former Con- se.vatob uoh^iax. gressman John V. L. Findlay, Postmaster General Gary and Congressman Sidney E. Mudd. The result will make 1S0 immediate change in Senator Gorman's plans, as, his term does not expire until Mart-h 4, 1S99, Mr, Gorman will not be troubled by the howling of the traditional wolf of pov­ erty at his door. He probably could draw his check for $3,OQ0;,,QOO without an in­ dorsement. His money was made large­ ly through lucky investments in some coal arid iron lands in western Maryland, Mr. Gorman will be ntissed In the Sen­ ate 111 .one way and another he has been associated with this body at various times since 1832, when be entered, it'as a page. In January, 1S80. he was-elected-to the United States Senate to succeed William Pinckney White. He took his seat March 4, 1881, and was re-elected in 1886 and in 1892. " COURTS MAY DECIDE. VVB. Ohio Election Will Result in Numer­ ous Contests. The contest for the control of the Ohio Legislature will likely be carried into the courts. To the official returns of close counties protests have been made. It is proposed now to prevent the issue of cer­ tificates of election to certain legislative candidates if the courts will so order. Press dispatches say that if Wood Conntv should finally be put in the Democratic list by the official figures the Legislature would stand 74 Republicans to 71 Demo­ crats. While this is a mathematical ma­ jority of 3, it is a constitutional surplus MARK BANNA. of only 1 to guarantee the re-election of SenatorIlanna. It requires seventy-three votes or a ma­ jority of all the 145 members to elect a Senator 011 joint ballot. With only sev­ enty-four votes in the Legislature the death of a Republican member or a Re­ publican vacancy front any cause would leave the bare majority and if Wood County should elect a Democratic repre­ sentative there would no doubt be start­ ling developments at once in at least two Other counties. It is estimated that there were 900,000 votes c;.-;t, of which the deeidiag seventy votes is an infinitesimal per cent. The Republican plurality on the State ticket approaches 29,000. ATE THEIR BOOTS. Privations of Fugitives from the Fam­ ine-Threatened Klondike. A party of prospectors who went to the gold region last August and after see­ ing the uangers of arctic winter returned to Vancouver, B. C., tell a pretty hard story of their privations and sufferings. When the party left Dawson City they had only thirty pounds of provisions, all the citizens' committee of safety would allow to be taken from the general store. The snow had obliterated all traces of the trail, and the fugitives from the famine- threatened city staggered blindly onward for days, their last ounce of food gone. BKKAKI'AST OX THE TUAU.. Af ter fasting three days and dragging out a similar jteriod with an owl as rations for the entire party, tlroy were reduced to the necessity of boiling and eating a piece of rawhide and the tops of theii boots. At the river several dog salmon were caught by the Indians. When they reached Dalton's camp two were mad from hunger. Dalton had gone, but a note on the door said that starving men could enter and take enough to relieve their sufferings. Thus the dan­ ger of death was removed. "To add to the misery of the position," says one of the party, "every day sees the terrible satire enacted of'200 or 300 new arrivals." CUBANS WILL NOT SURRENDER Officers in Pinor del Rio Providence I Issue a Proclamation. The following official document has been issued by tire Cubans from Pmar del Rio province to the world: "We will never forget the bloody of­ fenses qt the sanguinary Weyler, repre­ senting the Spanish nation, his assassina­ tion of aged people, women and children, the persecution of our families by the brutal Spanish soldiery and the efforts of the chiefs to exterminate all the elements that compose .Cuban society. All these have aggravated our convictions and we declare a sain that we will not accept any­ thing but absolute independence. W« must have a government of our own and an assembly of representatives according to our own constitution. We are sworn to liberty." RATTLER ON HIS BREAST. A Botanist Awakened from Sleep by a- Venomous Monster. Prof. Charles Rice, the botanist, bad a thrilling experience with i monster rattlesnake, and it was only his cool­ ness and presence of mind that saved him from death. Prof. Rice, in com­ pany with Dr. Tynan, the bugologist, "were up in the higher altitudes of the Sierra in search of rare specimens, and were camped at a place called Moore Creek. They had a small tent with them, Which they had pitched near a stream of water that was fed by a spring higher up on the side of the mountain. Friday evening of last week the pro­ fessor and his companion, who were completely worn out with their day's tramp in search of rare flowers and bugs, retired to their tent, rolled them­ selves up in their blankets and were soon in dreamland. Just as daylight was breaking the professor was awakened from his slumbers by feeling a soft and clammy substance crawling over his fhee arid down on to his chest, and on raising .his head a little t his hon or he discovered it Was, a monster rattlesnake. The reptile hac1-coiled it­ self, with its head raised about a foot and ready at the least movement made •to Stivre. Cold drops of perspiration oozed from every pore of the professor's body, while, his anuscles became as rigid as bars of iron, and his eyes became fixed with a stony glare as he gazed at the head of the monster which was about six or seven inches from his face and swinging from one side to the other with the regularity of a clock pendu­ lum. The suspense was becoming un­ bearable, but still he knew that the least move that he made meant death in the most horrible form. IIow long he remained iu this terrible position he does not know, but it seemed ages, when suddenly he felt his muscles re­ lax, his vision grow dim, everything around his became dark and iu a few seconds he was oblivious to everything around him. The doctor was quietly sleeping a few feet away unconscious of the terrible danger of his compan­ ion. '"When ho awoke tlie sun was brightly streaming into the tent, and as he rolled over in his blankets toward his companion his blood seemed to chill in his veins at the sight presented to his view. His companion was stretched at full length upon the ground, with his eyes closed and his face as white as a piece of marble, while coiled up<jn his breast was a huge rattlesnake ap­ parently asleep. He quietly siezed a shotgun that was standing near by and, cocking both bar­ rels, raised it to his shoulder and was about to lire when he realized that if he did he would probably injure his companion. Just at this moment his companion moved a little, when the snake gave a rattle and agaiu raised his head. The doctor seeing his chance fire, and at the report of the gun his companion gave a yell and jumped to his feet, throwing the reptile some three or four feet away from him in its death struggle. The doctor's aim was true, for tlie reptile's head was blown completely off. On being measured it was found to be four feet nine and a half inches in length and had seven­ teen rattles and a button. The profes­ sor's nerves were so shattered by his terrible experience that he was hardly able to walk and the following day, in company with his companion, he re­ turned to this place, where he is at present recuperating under the doctor's care.--Calaveras Chronicle. .. . Photograph of Capo Horn. Ever since Cape Horn's existence has been known efforts have been made to get a picture of it. Artists have gone down there, and some have been for­ tunate enough to secure a few rough sketches, but an actual reproduction of the spot did not exist, until a few days ago. This was when a negative made by Captain Rivers of the ship A. J. Ropes was developed. The southernmost point of South America is, for a piece of barren land, the best known in all tire world. Ev­ erybody who can read kno'ws of Cape Horn, and for some mysterious rea­ son takes an interest in it. Of course the great writers of sea stories have done their share to make the spo-t fa­ mous, but there seems to be some rea­ son deeper than all this. Why would it not be an easy matter to make a pic­ ture of Cape Horn? There are a dozen reasons outside of the photographic ones, and they alone are enough to de­ ter the camera operator from attempt­ ing it. In the first place, It is not always pos­ sible to see Cape Horn, even though the ship is only a few miles away. Storms nearly always prevail at that end of the world, and the atmosphere is likely to be hazy. When the water is comparatively calm there is likely to be a fog. During the seasons of the heavy, dry winds and clear weather no ship would dare venture- within sight of the Horn. At other times the light is likely to be poor, and to make a pic­ ture impossible.. And then, when all conditions are favorable, the chances are there will be no camera aboard the ship that happens to be there at the opportune time. Photographically, tlie principal diffi­ culty would be lack of light and con­ trast. Under ordinary conditions, a plate exposed on Cape Horn would re­ veal very little, if. indeed, it gave so much as an outline. The chances are that the water in the foreground would show and the distance appear only as" a line of fog.--San Francisco Call. Government. Loans to Farmers. Victoria, Australia, has inaugurated an official lo«a.u office. Small loans, tip to a maximum of $5,000, are to be granted to farmers and CKthers to.en­ able them to improve their buildings. The loans will bear interest at 5 per­ cent. The money will be provided from the savings banks. " sheep in Eastern Australia. In Eastern Australia 100.00.000 sheep now find sustenance in a region which thirty years ago was a sandy desert. The sheep gradually trampled the soil into firmness, so that it now grow's a dense mass of vegetation. Home-Grown Aristocracy. "Why did your daughter break her engagement with that English earl?" "Because I told her that, with tlie present ^prices for wheat, she would better try to catch an American farm­ er."--Chicago Record. - ,