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THE PLA1NDF.ALEB J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. KcHKNKY. ILLINOIS CONVICTS MOST WORK new YORK'S NEW LAW MAKES GOOD SHOWING. The Problem of Preventing Competi­ tion with Free Labor, It Is Claimed, , J« Solved in New York--Bandit Held Up Three Men. Convict Labor Reform. The problem of how State convicts shall be kept at work without competing "with free labor has seemingly been solved by the law which went into effect in New York Jan. 1 of this year. This law pro­ vided that all State institutions, depart­ ments and political divisions should pur­ chase all their supplies and articles of ^equipment from the prisons if such could be manufactured there. Since the Jaw •went into operation requisitions-, ha-vo been received for over $750,000 worth of goods, which guarantee's the continuous employment of convicts. As it costs but $500,000 annually to maintain the pris­ ons, they are therefore'made self-sustain­ ing Under the new-system. Speaking of the matter at Albany, (ten. Austin-La- ikrop, wipcriiitendent of State prisons, Said: "We "are gratified with- the result ©f the first year's working of the new .sys­ tem of convict labor, and I. shall so re­ port to the Legislature. None of the methods of. employing convicts during my administration of ten years have been self-supporting with the exception of the new one. An enormous amount of money •will be saved to the State." » A Nervy Outlaw Escapes. A deputy sheriff, a Santa Fe deputy *nd a policeman, while attempting to ar­ rest a cattle thief in the postoffiee at Em­ poria, Ivan., were all three disarmed by the single man, who escaped. Sheriff Gauglian had received a telegram asking that a man named Kooken be arrested. Deputy Sheriff Fred Wagner, Santa Fe Detective Laws and Policeman A1 Ran­ dolph went to the postoffice and placed Kooken under arrest while he was read­ ing a letter. '"All right," said Kooken, 'I'll go with you in a minute," and com­ menced placing his letter in his pocket. Like a flash he pulled a revolver in each hand, shoved one into the face of Wag- tier and coolly said: "Cough up your gun," and almost in the same breath covered the other two officers. In a moment the *hree men were disarmed. Shoving the pistols into his overcoat pocket the man rushed for the door and disappeared. A posse of deputy sheriffs and the entire police force are now out hunting him. One Killed and Many Hurt. A train .on the Kansas Gity, Fort Scott d Memphis Railroad was derailed just of Williford, Ark. The combination chair car and sleeper went over bank, the combination car going into ng river. The chair car and sleeper both consumed. One passenger was ly injured and twenty-two others or less seriously hurt. Sinks Beneath the Prairie.' e little village of Rozel, Kan., has completely disappeared from the face of the earth. The ground sank beneath it and the whole village sank into a chasm, •which the next morning was found filled "to within seventy feet of the surface with dark, stagnant-looking water. BREVITIES. Phlfadel phia gjis • plant. The great enter­ prise in which" the people have been stock­ holders for;forty-three years is leased to the big'American gas trust. " A bill is to be introduced in the New York Legislature to divide the State, by divorcing the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, West­ chester, 'Orange, Columbia, Putnam, Dutchess. 'Ulster, Greene, Rockland, Al­ bany and Rensselaer, and part of Scho­ harie County, and forming them into the State of Manhattan. 'James R. "Sovereign, who has been general master workman of the Knights of Labor for several years, has been re­ lieved of his office by the general assem­ bly, in sesssion at. Louisville, Ivy. Henry A. Hicks of New York, district 253. New York City, was chosen to fill Mr. Sover­ eign's place, and I. D. Chamberlain of Pueblo, Colo., was selected as general worthy foreman. Sarsfield Fitzpatrick of Montreal and Henry Bostock of assem­ bly 300, glassworkers, were chosen as the two members of the executive board, the third member being Andrew D. Best. WESTERN. The strike of the New York cloakmak- ers has been called off. Oil rock fit for fuel has been discovered on a farm near Carthage, Me. Six Mohammedan .. polygamists have been ordered deported from New York. Countess Teresa F If eld of Russia com­ mitted suicide in an Edinburgh police sta­ tion. ; William Moody of Augusta, Ga., lulled himself after a quarrel with his young wife. H. Compton and his young wife were killed by the cars at Compton, CaL, while crossing the track in a wagon. While trying to save her little son at St Jean Baptiste. It. I. . Mrs. Arthur For- tin was struck by a train and killed. An official denial is made of the report, that Gen. Weyler i.^to be appointed gov­ ernor general of the Philippine Islands. The new owners of the Cincinnati Com­ mercial-Tribune say that Murat Halstead Trill hate nothing to do with the manage­ ment of the paper. .-. According to a New York dispatch Ilinman is to succeed ?xon as" editor-in-chief of Oc-ea n. lia board of pardons has Jpplieation for a pardon of . 'Alexander Berkiuann, the anarchist who shot H. C. Frick during the Homestead •strike. The Short Line Railway from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek, a distance' of forty miies, will be built by a company - composed of Franklin D. Rogers, Wood­ man S. Eaton and other Eastern men. ' The Competitor prisoners have at last been released from Cabana fortress by order of Captain General Blanco, acting in accordance with orders from Spain. The men will all sail direct for New York. The Missouri Supreme Court has affirm­ ed the judgment of the criminal court in the case of George Thompson., a negro, convicted of murder, and set .Tan. 7 as , the date of his execution. S. M. Folsom, former president of the Albuquerque National Bank, serving a five years' sentence for falsifying the published statements of the bank, has been granted a full pardon by the Presi­ dent. t ' At the Allen farm, near Bryan, Texas, while gambling for pecans, a negro nam­ ed General Chctham was stabbed twice and killed. Another negro, Tom Sweat, •was arrested for the crime and while be­ ing conveyed to Millican by a posse was taken from his guards and strung up to the Kmb of a tree. The vigilantes are •aid to have been negroes. Mrs. Susan Gessler Pague has begun «uit at Lancaster, Pa., for divorce from lier husband, who, while a lieutenant at Fort Sheridan several years ago, shot Col. Crofton. She alleges cruelty and won-support. EASTERN. Wilson Brothers, wholesale and retail jewelers of Boston, Mass., made an as­ signment. The storehouse of the C. A. Woolsey paint and color works, in Jersey City, fell. No one was hurt. The loss to the com­ pany will be about §20,000. William Sidney Wilson, a prominent lawyer and son of the late United States Senator Wilson, committed suicide at his home in Snow Hill, Md., while temporar­ ily insane. Mayor Warwick has signed the death "warrant of municipal ownership of the Mrs. Mary Greiner, an aged widow of Tiffin, Ohio, was burned to death in her home. Mayor Olmsted' and other prominent citizens of Spokane, Wash., who-were officers and directors of the failed Citi-- zeris' National Bank, have been arrested, charged with receiving deposits . When they knew the bank was insolvent. Rev. Hugo Stubenvoll, pastor of the St . Paul German Lutheran Church, at Racine, Wis., lies in a precarious condi­ tion at his home, the result of a stab wound in the abdtfmen. Keeejved from an unknown assassin at a late'Uottr the oth­ er night. : There has been a blinding snow storm in Nebraska. As. a result of the inability bf engineers to see ten feet ahead of their engines the east-bound express and a freight on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Mis­ souri Valley Railroad collided seven miles east of Chadrou. The engineers and firemen all jumped. Engineer Charles Connors of the freight was seriously in­ jured. Engineer Cooley of the passen­ ger train fell down a sixty-foot embank­ ment, but escaped with slight injuries. The passengers were badly shaken up, but none hurt. The two engines are wedged together aud the baggage and mail cars are badly wrecked. The good government committee of the Young People's Society of Christian En­ deavor at San Francisco has taken a hand in the matter of the petition to the Presi­ dent of the United States regarding slav­ ery in Chinatown, and will work for it to the best of its ability, hoping to roll up such a list of signatures that the subject matter will demand immediate attention. Following is an "extract from the petitioa: "The fourteenth amendment of the con­ stitution of the United States expressly forbids the holding of human beings in bondage and declares that the barter and sale of such human beings is a felony, yet there is now a condition of slavery in this city and State whereby more than 1,000 females are held in bondage, bought and sold as Chattels, and kept in a condition of involuntary servitude. These slaves are scourged, beaten, tortured and even killed by their owners in insolent defiance of the laws of the land. The number of these slaves is annually recruited by im­ portations from. China in violation of the exclusion act of the Congress of the Unit­ ed States. While there are no records of the illegal landing of Chinese females, or the attempt to "illegally land Chinese fe­ males other than those who are held as slaves, the Federal and municipal author­ ities seem powerless to prevent such ille­ gal landing and traffic in human beings." A decision that is of interest through­ out the country to organized labor has been rendered in the United States Cir­ cuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. Ac­ cording to the opinions of Judges Thayer and Sanborn, the boycott is not a legal weapon. Judge Caldwell, however, takes exception to the views of the other two judges, and sets forth his opinion in em­ phatic terms. In his'opinion Judge Cald­ well says: ' Whether organized labor liafe just grounds to declare a strike or boy­ cott is not a judicial question. They are labor's only weapons, and they are lawful and legitimate weapons, and so long as in their use there is no force or threat of violence or trespass upon person or prop­ erty, their use cannot be restrained. In the case of a strike or boycott, so long as each side is orderly and peaceful, they must be ]>ermitted to terminate their struggle in their own way, without ex­ tending to.one party the adventitious aid of an injunction. All capital seeks to increase its power bv combinations, and to that end assumes the form of corpora­ tions and trusts. The struggle is con­ stant between the laborers whose labor produces the dividends and those who en­ joy them. The manager is tempted to re­ duce wages to increase dividends, and the laborer resists the reduction and de­ mand living wages. Sometimes the strug- ton. The special board having the sub* ject under advisement has completed its work and submitted a scheme which has the approval of the Secretary, and after certain arrangements with the Treasury Department, whereby the life-saving ser­ vice is to be partially utilized, it will be Introduced generally. President McKiuley has issued a proc­ lamation, the pith of which may be found in the following: "Whereas, satisfactory proof has been given me that vessels of the United States in ballast which pro­ ceed to Mexico -with the object of devot­ ing themselves to pearl fishery.and fishing on the Mexican coasts or for the purpose of receiving and carrying passengers and mail or of loading cattle, wood or any other Mexican product and which shall go directly to ports open to general com­ merce, so that thence they may be dis­ patched to their destination, and steam vessels of the United States are exempted from tonnage duties in Mexican ports. Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States of Amer­ ica, by virtue of the authority vested in me, do hereby declare and procl%|m that from and after the date of this, my proc­ lamation, Mexican vessels in ballast which proceed to the United States with the object, of fishing on the coast thereof or for the purpose-of receiving and carry­ ing passengers and mail or of loading cat­ tle, -Wood or any other product of the United States and which shall go directly to ports ppen to general commerce, so that thence they may be dispatched to their destination, and Mexican steam vessels shall be exempted from the payment of the tonnage duties imposed by section 4219 of the Revised Statutes of the Unit­ ed States. This proclamation shall re- main in force and effect until otherwise ordered by the President of the United Stales." GRAIN CROPS ABROAD RUSSIAN WHEAT YIELD GREATLY REDUCED FOREIGN. The Countess Cas'tellane, daughter of Jay Gould, has. purchased for 1,000,000 francs, a site at Paris for a permanent building for the annual charity bazaar. The Austrian ambassador has present­ ed pn ultimatum to Turkey, demanding the dismissal of officials responsible for the expulsion of the Austrian merchant, Brazzafoli, from Messina. Consul Machride at Edinburgh says, in a report to the State Department at Washington, that it is claimed in that city that American frozen beef has a great sale, but that it is made clandes­ tinely. The sentence of the lower court against Dr. Peters, charged with cruelty to na­ tives while German high commissioner to Africa, has been confirmed by court mar­ tial. He is dismissed from the service and ordered to pay costs of prosecution. There seems little-doubt that Japan will accept the arbitration Hawaii has sug­ gested. Her attitude has changed so com­ pletely and shows so plainly the desire for a speedy and peaceful settlement of the immigration trouble that whatever the motives are she-must be taken in good faith. It is the first break by Japan with a non-Asiatic power, and she has lost ground by it in national prestige and ma­ terial gain to her people. The diplomatic firmness of the United States Govern­ ment at Washington and the moral power of United States gunboats at Honolulu have .been the most potent factor in the whole business. The Japanese Govern­ ment would go a long way to retain friend­ ly relations with the United States, and in this would have the support of the Japanese people. One thing Japan very much desires to do. It is to remove the impression from the United States Sen­ ate that she has or ever had designs on the Hawaiian Islands. When the treaty of annexation is taken up by the Ameri­ can statesmen they will not be surprised if the protest against it is quietly with­ drawn by the Japanese Government. This does not mean that Japan will cease to protect the interests of her subjects-- interests by no means small, and right and proper for her to protect--but she will do it by a more diplomatic and politic course of action than a protest and gun­ boat. IN GENERAL. A snowslide occurred on the Noble Five mountain range near Gannon, in the S]o- can district, British Columbia. Two min­ ers were caught and one was crushed to death. J. R. Sovereign is reported to have re­ signed as general master workman of the Knights of Labor in order to push his candidacy for President of the United States in 1900. Prof. Charles W. Shields' resignation from the Presbyterian Church has been accepted by the New Brunswick Presby­ tery, which also adopted a resolution call­ ing attention to the deliverance of the general assembly in regard to signing pe- j titions for liquor licenses. It. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of | Trade .says: "Colder and .more stormy ] weather, so long needed, to accelerate the ! dist ribution of winter goods, has material- ieacte> the point of open ruptuie. j >v helped in some quarters, and the result- Y\nen it dues the oniy weapon of defence . jn„ improvement in retail trade is -men- the laborers can appeal to is the strik boycott, or both. These Weapons they j have an undoubted right to use so long as j they use tlfcnrtjR peaceable and oroerly manner." SOUTHERN. Alex. Pelky ./whose daughter married Walter Borcsf<>cd, the bogus lord, drop- d dead at Fitzgerald, (5a.. Death was the result of grief over the action of his Bud I 'eard has been lynched at Carroll- ton, Ala. The mob succeeded in break­ ing into the court house and getting Beard out before the arrival of the State troops from Tuscaloosa. Gov. Atkinson, of West Virginia, in an interview announced his candidacy for the United States Senatorship from West. Virginia, conditional on the withdrawal of Judge (Joff from the race. At Fayetteville, W. Ya., Albert Yoicrs was hanged in the presence of over 10,000 peojile. l ie was the last of the Lewis gang of murderers and thieves and was hanged for the murder of Charles Gib-^ sou at Montgomery, April 22, 1890. After a protracted meeting, the State, Board of Health decided to declare off all quarantine at New Orleans. This has the effect of opening the doors of the city to all hitherto infected ports and will do away with the system of isolation of the fever cases, which has existed since Sept. G. Henry Turner, with his wife and sister, while crossing a small potato field less than half a mile from their home in Fair- burn, Ga., were shot down. At what hour the murder was committed no one knows. Captain Yarborough's bloodhounds were placed upon the trail, but all pursuit has been futile. Willie B. Campbell was shot and killed by Policeman Oscar Duncan at Shelby- ville, Ivy. Campbell was an ex-policeman and very dangerous when drinking. He was intoxicated and boisterous and the officer asked him to keep quiet. He pulled "his pistol and snapped it at the officer's face, when the latter shot him through the heart. .tioned in nearly every Northern dispatch this week, so that orders to fill stocks I have been\ encouraging, and in some j branches the multitude of demands for I immediate delivery show that the distri- | bution to -consumers has already gone j much .beyond the expectation of dealers, j Failures for Ihe week have been 291 in ! the United Stares, against 270 last year, md 24 in Canada, against -10 last year."' MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to $3.(10 to Sri.oO; hogs, shipping $•1.00 to $3.75: sheep, fair to choic to $u.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 94c prime, grades, e. $2.00 to 0.1c; All Accounts Agree that There Is a Dcfleit, but Much Difference .of Opin­ ion Exists OH to the Amount of the Shortage. Condition of Foreign CropB. 'The Agricultural Department, in its monthly review of the foreign crop situa­ tion, devotes much attention to the grain crop of Russia, especially wheat, op ac­ count of its magnitude as a factor in the European supply. The review says that all accounts agree in representing the wheat crop as deficient, but much differ­ ence of opinion exists as to the extent of the deficiency. After quoting many dis­ patches painting the crop situation in va­ rious provinces in very black colors, and the statement of the American consul at Odessa that this year's crop has proved a failure, the review calls attention to the fact that since harvest Russia has ex« ported grain "very freely." The report continues: ; - :• •• "The exports of wheal from Aug. 1 to Oct; 23 amounted to 4,152,840 quarters, against 2,855,040 quarters, and-3,383,780 quarters during the corresponding period ifh. 1890 and 1895. respectively. . Those very large exports have led commercial papers to withhold their, credence from the more pessimistic of. the reports which have been published. That the crop was deficient was admitted, but that the fail­ ure was-so serious as such reports implied few of the grain dealers of western Eu­ rope believe. . "Recently, however, some change of at­ titude is becoming apparent. Stocks in the ports are not increasing in the man­ ner usual for this time of year, and the opinion is freely expressed that after this month Russia can be relied on for ouly very moderate shipments. "It is generally understood that Russia had large stocks of wheat left over from the crops of the preceding year, and this fact, coupled with the good prices which have prevailed, may account for the large exports which have taken place, even though the crop failure in large parts of Russia has been extremely serious." The review says the estimates of the Russian crop are so uncertain that their reproduction would be of doubtful utility. The preliminary official figures for France show a reduction of 20 per cent below 1890 and 17 per Cent below the average for ten years. As for five years France, and Russia produced 2G per cent of the world's crop, the review says a heavy shortage in both countries would, there­ fore, be sufficient in itself to produce a very sensible effect on the world's sup­ ply, independent of the short crops in Aus­ tria-Hungary, the Danubian and Balkan countries and elsewhere, and the short­ ness of the last crop in India, Australia and Argentina. The various estimates for Austria-Hun-, gary are more or less conflicting, but there is no doubt as to there being a heavy deficit in the wheat crop. The wheat crop of the United Kingdom is estimated a little short of 51,000,000 bushels. The preliminary estimate of the Italian wheat crop makes it 85,131,000 bushels, against 1-14,722,700 bushels last year. The Rou­ manian wheat crop is estimated at 37,- 134,720 bushels. The Bulgarian wheat crop is estimated at 40 per cent, rye at 35 to 40 per cent, and barley at 25 per cent less than last year. The wheat crop of Turkey has been estimated at 50,800,000 imperial bushels. As regards crops now growing in the southern hemisphere, the news continues to be favorable on the whole. In Argen­ tina drought, which for a time in some provinces threatened serious injury, seems to have been generally broken, and dan­ ger of any serious loss from such a source seems now, in the advanced state of the crop, to have passed. The Indian wheat crop has been sown under favorable con­ ditions, and the same is in general true of the winter grain crops of Europe, and both in India and in Europe the weather seems, in the main, to have been very favorable to the growth of the seed. FEELING AKIN TO PANIC. Dreyfus Case Developments Create Fear in High Circles. Paris is greatly agitated over the Drey­ fus case. The insinuations that high offi­ cials an" involved in the conspiracy, of which Captain Dreyfus is a victim, has caused almost a panic in Government and society circles. Count Esterhazy, who. strange to say, when the linger of suspicion pointed at him, rushed at once into print to defend his reputation, has not created an impres­ sion in his favor, and his new charge, that he possesses papers inimical to Dreyfus, leads people to ask why the count did not make them public before the chaige of treachery to the Government had been prei 'evie,! against himself. - Rac :al and-creed bitterness has been iteii by the o>n?n• vcrsy. and the abi­ lity toward Germany is intensified. • recent withdrawal of the German nKitarv attaches has aNo tended to WASHINGTON. Plans have been perfected by the Navy Department at Washington for a com­ plete coast line signal system extending from Maine around the Gulf to Port Eads, La„ connected throughout with telephone and telegraphic lines, and all in direct communication with Washing- corn, No. 2, 2(ic to 27e; uats, No. 2, 10c to 21c; rye, No. .2, 4(jc"W 48c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, .fresh, 17c to 19c; new potatoes, 35c to GOc per bushel. Indianapolis-^Cattle, shipping, $3.00 t< f|>.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75: :*ioep, common j to choice, $3.00 to $4,00; \vheat, No. 2, !)lc to 93c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3175; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 9Gc to 98c"; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 2ic; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 t-o $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 92c to 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 2Sc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 40c 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 92c; com, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; oats, Ne. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 49c; clover seed, $3.20 to $3.30. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 86c to 88c; corn, No. 3, 26c to 28c; oats, No 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 50c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 44c; pork, mess, $7.00 to $7.50. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c h 27c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to.$4.00; sheep, $3.00 to4 $5.00 .wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn, No 2, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 24c;. eggs Western, 22c to 23c. • t n ; rnia lit i u v Mil in the Paris Tin is an :is tin f .si a nils : epai" ecietf a"in o Billot ' llar.ot w-il! y> on an on of the as already war :-!ina1ion toward the he- eialists and-radicals that arc. held lightly by < er- utuic rMrappers in (Jen. nt and also in that of M. d del-ati bv (; Is likely that the af a sensational inter!)! in parliamenl. 1 nvest •ge affecting high otiii •n secretly begun in n. Billot. REPORT ON BIMETALLISM. Official Documents Concerning the Subject Are Received. - The official report of the correspondence in regard to the bimetallic, proposals of the United States monetary commission to the Government of Great Britain, to­ gether with the report of the proceedings at the conference of the British premier, the secretary of state for India, the first lo-d of the treasury and the chancellor of the exchequer, with the French ambas­ sador and our commissioners, has reach­ ed this country. It fully confirms the reports cabled to America Oct. 21 and 22. The negotiations fell through, notwith­ standing the expressed willingness of the French Government > to open its mints, owing to the rejection by the British Gov­ ernment of the proposition to again open the Indian mints to the free coinage of sil­ ver. None of the other propositions 'were replied to, because that one, the most important concession requested of Great Britain, could not be acceded to. The Government of Great Britain, in making her answer, deferred to the wishes of the Government of India, to which the proposal was referred, and the reply of the Government of India, therefore, is the most important communication in the cor­ respondence. It is a lengthy document, in which the advantage's pro and con to .India are argued and a very .strong case from their standpoint is made out in favor of the rejection of the proposal. .: * - The disturbance of values in India, with the attendant paralysis of trade, at least temporarily, the fall of silver prices in India, concurrently with the increase of -gold, prices- iii Europe and America, etc., are advanced, but the most potent reason urged against, the proposition is that the burden of failuire, if failure should come from the experiment for the re-establishment of bimetallism by France and the United States, must in­ evitably fall on India.; Both the United States and France, the reply urges, with their supply of gold could to a greater or less extent protect themselves if the experiment did not suc­ ceed. In other words, the Indian Gov­ ernment, as a preliminary proposition, de­ clared that it could not risk the success of the suggested measures. , (4. < This definite and absolute rejection of the proposal was fully set forth in the ca­ ble reports of the correspondence, but the document contains a reservation which would seem to indicate that if the scope of the proposed experiment were sufficiently broadened India might be willing to re­ consider her refusal. Nit. HAVE FAITH IN WEATHERS. t i n DIE FROM HUNGER. Frightful Mortality Aipong the Be- concentrados in Cuba, appears now that nearly 75 per cent of the 400,000 helpless women, children and non-combatants in Cuba affected by former'Captain General Weyler's policy are dead. Despite the orders issued by Gen. Blanco to feed the starving, the daily mortality of the remaining "recon- ecntrados" is frightful. The rabid Spaniards, who believe that only by extermination of the race can the Cuban war be won, openly challenge the good faith of Gen. Blanco's statements as to his intention to feed and fiud work for those whom Gen. Weyler has not killed. They jubilantly claim that the new cap­ tain general is enforcing the barbarous "concentration" of .the country people ex­ actly as his predecessor did. The Ha­ vana press no longer prints the news from the small towns. _ In one of the last arti­ cles upon the hunger situation it was call­ ed "one of the most awful spectacles ever presented to humanity.7' Depositors Believe He Will Make Good Their Losses. John H. Weathers, president of the fail­ ed banks at Leavenworth, Marengo and English, Ind., who has been in hiding in Louisville, Ivv., and New Albany, Ind., waiting for the excitement caused by the bank,failures to die out, returned to Cory- don and made a statement anent the fail­ ures to the committee of depositors who held a meeting at Corydon to devise means for a settlement. The statement of Mr. Weatiters is to this effect: While at Corydon'recently attending to his law practice Mr. Weathers received a telephone message from Leavenworth to come there at once, as there was some­ thing wrong with the bank. He imme­ diately left Ctirydon and went to Leaven­ worth, where he and Nolan Barnett, the cashier of the Leavenworth bank, exam­ ined the institution's books and found that the funds of the same were at a low ebb. It was decided by them to close the three banks at once. President Weath­ ers was advised by friends to leave the town until the sensation abated, which he did. He, however, thought he might yet bridge over matters, and took some col­ lateral with him. but after deliberation he decided it would be better to return the same and have an assignee appointed. He thereupon made a general assignment, with Ii. C. Arnold of Leavenworth as as­ signee. Mr. Weathers said further that all he wanted was a reasonable support for his wife and child while the settlement was in progress, and that he would spend one year without compensation to facilitate matters, to the end that dollar for dollar be ]>aid. Mrs. Willett, wife of the missing cash­ ier. is almost prostrated with grief, but is not dying, as has been reported. The people of the various communities in which the banks are situated are much re­ lieved and express confidence in Weath­ ers' ability to settle up matters in a sat­ isfactory manner. The consensus of opin­ ion is that Weatjiers was the victim of Cashier Willett. and is himself innocent of any wrong doing. Nothing has been heard from Willett. Telegraphic advices from English. Ind., are to the effect that Willett 's kinfolk are Milling to unite with his grandmother to donate sufficient funds to cover his short­ age, provide ! he proves himself not guil- ly, of any intentional wrong doing and will return, liis grandmother will donate £."(),( KM I and other re'atives have pledged ihcm^elves for £7.">.<•<HI additional, ( 'ash­ ler Uothroek-'of the 1 lun:ingburg bank, it is said, has .pledged himself to stand by both Weathers and Willett. Three Ar re s t s a t Lans ing . Three arrests were made in the defunct People's Savings Bank case at Lansing. Mich., and inorn ate promised •by'-i |f(i pros­ ecuting attorney. The persons lirsi ap­ prehended are: Charles 11. 0>band. late cashier of the bank,, and Christian Breisch and Charles Bress, directors. Os- band is charged with making®live* false entries in the books of the bank with in­ tent to deceive bank-officers, the officials of the State banking department and to defraud the bank and its depositors. The law requires that each director shall own ten shares of the stock of the bank in his own name and unpledged in any way. Directors,, Broas and Breisch are charged with having subscribed to this oath at a time when all the stock in their names on the books of the bank was plcdgeu to oth- r banks as collateral. Bankers Accused of Perjury. I. A. Winstauley and C. J. Frederick, president and cashier, respectively, of the defunct New Albany (Ind.) Banking Company, were arrested and taken to Jeffersonville to answer indictments that have been returned against them, charg­ ing perjury. It is charged in the indict­ ments that Winstanley and Frederick swore falsely several months ago when they prepared affidavits asking for a con­ tinuance of the cases charging them with the wrecking of the New Albany bank. ENDS IN A DEADLOCK. FAILURE IS THE RESULT LAURIER'S MISSION. OF Canadian Premier Will Not Agree- to Join with the United States in Pro­ tecting the Seal Herds--Insists Upon Talcing Up Other Questions. Uncle Sam's Ultimatum. The United-States has delivered an ulti­ matum to Canada and her British spon­ sors concerning the seal fisheries, and as a result of it Sir Wilfrid Laurier's mis­ sion to the United States ends in failure. The chances of any kind of an agreement being reached between the United States, Great Britain and Canada regarding the seals and the other disputed questions are so sHght that the plenipotentiaries frank­ ly admit a settlement at this time is out of tne question. The situation can be easily explained. When Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Louis Da vies came to Washington they com­ menced to discuss reciprocity. The Cana­ dian premier had suggested that the best concession the United. States could make would be the. admission on terms of re­ ciprocity of certain Caliadia'n products, and it, is very clear that when he first came to Washington he was of the impres­ sion that the - Washington Government would be willing to conclude a settlement (vith reciprocity, forming part of it. •Now, however, what amounts practi­ cally to an ultimatum, although .couch­ ed in-the -politest terms, has been deliver­ ed to the Canadians by Gen. Foster, rep­ resenting this Government,. and it. has brought about a deadlock from which there appears to be no escape. Sir Wil­ frid, has ..been .informed that this Govern­ ment will not consider any other question tin til an agreement has been readied on Bering Sea; Our Government insists on the absolute stoppage of pelagic sealing for at least one year. If Canada will agree to this the United' States will then consider reeiproeity/"aii(i any other ques­ tion which may bfflbrought up. Until the Bering Sea question is settled nothing else will be discussed.. This is the Ameri­ can ultimatum. On her part Canada is equally firm. Sir Wilfrid refusesfrto getOe the seal dispute until he kiibws whfii he gets for it. Can­ ada enjoys an impregnable position, and the Canadian authorities know it. They say that- if jio agreement is reached Oan- iida' will siitiply continue to carry on the sealing business under the terms of the Paris award, and of course the United States can do nothing to prevent it. It has been suggested that if Canada per­ sists in her obstinacy Congress will au­ thorize the annihilation of the seals. Sir Wilfrid hears this news without any dis­ play of emotion, and suggests that possi­ bly that course might inflict a greater loss on the United States than Canada. The differences between the two Gov­ ernments are so radical that a compro­ mise appears impossible. "How can you compromise," said one of the negotiators, "when there is no middle ground? The American demand is no pelagic sealing, and that is insisted upon as a sine qua non. The Canadian rejoinder is refusal to yield this unless an equivalent is made the price of settlement. In the circum­ stances an agreement, I regret to say, ap­ pears to me to be out of the question." Girls for Gold Fields. Charles Citrrington of Seattle, Wash., has created no little stir among the young women of Auburn, N. Y., during the last week. Carrington announced his business there to be the selection of 300 healthy women whom lie proposes to take to Alas­ ka in the spring for the purpose of equal­ izing the disparity between the male and female population that it is supposed will exist in the gold regions next season. The matrimonial agent is an ex-miner and pro­ poses to pay the expenses of the party, getting his remuneration omt of the sums that will be paid for wives o>n his arrival. BANK FAILURE BRINGS MISERY. Relatives of Indiana Financiers Bowed Down with Grief. Nothing has yet been heard from R. II. Willett, the defaulting cashier of the Leavenworth, Ind,, bank, whose collapse carried down the banks at English and Marengo, and it is now regarded likely that he has drowned himself in the Ohio river. He was under a terrible mental strain for months before the crash came. Willett's wife is hysterical and uncon­ scious. His grandmother offers to give $50,000 to relieve him if he returns. The Holcrafts, the woman's relatives, recog­ nizing his wife's approach to death, pro­ pose to help him out. John Weathers has assigned all his property to Judge N. R. Peckinpaugh of Louisville and the Ouerbackers of Louis­ ville, who are Peckinpaugh's brothers-in- law. Peckinpaugh was Weathers' law partner before the former's appointment as Governor of Alaska. Steps have been taken to have the methods of Willett and Weathers inves­ tigated. OFFICIAL VOTE IN OHIO. Gov. Bushttell's Plurality Known to Be 2S,101-- The Legislature. The official vote in Ohio for the respec­ tive candidates for Governor at the late election is thus recorded: Bushnoll tiiep.h 420, SKi; Chapman (Dem.t. 401.7ir>: Ilolliday (Pro.), 7.">.~)S; Ooxey iPop.t, 0,2.1-1: Dexter (Nat. Deiu.t, 1.001; Watkins (Soe. Lab.). LVJ42; Lewis (negro prot.), 470: Liberty, 3,107. busli- nell 's plurality. 28,101. The. Senate has 17 known Republican members. IS known Democrats and 1 fu­ sion Republican. 'J^otal, !>0. The House has oS known Republican members, 47 known Democrats and 4 fusion Republi­ cans elected on the Democratic ticket in Cincinnati. Total, 100. On joint ballot the Republicans have five majority. CUBA REFUSES LOAN. Syndicate's Offer to Advance $200»- .000,000 Declined. Cuba has refused the offer of a loan of $200,000,000 with which to purchase her independence from Spain. Various dis­ patches sent out from Washington of late have stated that an enormously wealthy syndicate had offered the Cuban Govern­ ment a sum sufficient to buy their liberty of Spain, and that it was more than prob­ able that Cuba would accept the tender. Since the beginning of the revolution va­ rious s5"ndicates have lieen formed for the purpose of terminating the war in Cuba and incidentally gaining control, if not possession, of the island. The last to make such an offer was composed of about twenty of the most prominent mill­ ionaires of St. Louis and of the East. Gerrit H. Ten Brw-ck of St. Louis, a. lawyer of that city, went to New York in September last and as the syndicate's representative sought the Cuban delega­ tion. The result of tlieP offer of the syn- dicatehas just transpired. Several preliminary interviews were ar­ ranged by Mr. Ten Broeck and others with Benjamin Guerra, the treasurer of the Cuban delegation, but owing to the fact that he was suddenly called to Mex­ ico matters were not brought to a final issue until a few days ago. The termina­ tion of. the whole matter in a nutshell is that the Cuban provisional government, acting through their representatives in New York, has refused a loan of $200,- 000,000 with which to buy their freedom from Spain. George Reus, a war Corre­ spondent, acted as the active agent be­ tween the syndicate and the.Cuban dele­ gation. The syndicate proposed to loan the. Cuban provisional government $200,- (K)0,000 or any amount in excess of that necessary to purchase their independence from Spain without further fighting. Bonds of the republic of Cuba were to be accepted as security for the amount and at very near their face value. Six per cent interest was to be asked. Much to the surprise and disappoint­ ment of the syndicate the loan was re­ spectfully declined. In answer Mr. Guer- ra stated that although the temptation to accept any terms which would bring to an end the sufferings of the women and children who were starving through Spain's policy of concentration was very- great, still the leaders of the revolution, who were responsible for the future of Cuba, could not consent to saddle them­ selves and their posterity with a debt that, even with the blessings of independence, would sink them into the slough of finan­ cial slavery. WORK OF A MOB. Odds and Ends. The offender never 'forgives. In Dublin there is a collie dog which plays foot-ball with great intelligence. The bandaging of the feet of Chi­ nese girls is begun, iu many cases, at the age of 4. The expenditures of the government last year were $4.84 per capita; in 18G7 they were $9.87. The bronze statue for the memorial to Harvey Rice, "the father oi the Ohio school system." will be cast. The Japanese Red Cross Society is going to build two vessels of 2,000 tons «>ach for the use of patients in time of The Ch icago IIor.se Show. Master John A. Logan has achieved success in a new role, lie has conducted a horse show with a deficit of $22,000.-- Minneapolis Tribune. The kind of a horse young Logan is rid­ ing in connection with the Chicago horse show seems to be a hobby.--Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. Nothing more English marked Chi­ cago's horse show than that while society sat in the boxes the horses,occupied the stalls.--Philadelphia Times. The Chicago horse show, with Johnnie Logan left out, would have lacked the .comedy streak that all good shows must have.--Minneapolis Times. It appears that Chicago's big horse show was a financial failure, llie reason seems to have been that the affair was conducted without a bar annex. New York Mail and Express. After all, It may be that the State Board of Agriculture will be able to head off John A. Logan in the matter of finance. If it. has any difficulty in so doing it might call in Gen. McCook.--Peoria Journal. Doubt about the merits of Chicago's horse show is no longer possible. To be sure, a balance of $20,000 on the wrong side of the ledger is not so great as the more ambitious residents of the city would like, but it does very Well for a beginning, and' it proves that Chicago is on the right track.--New York Times. From all accounts, the lively young Mr. Logan may not yet shaft the horse show off his shoulders, despite the fact of the show closing. Somewhere and some time he was unfortunate enough to say th§t the exhibition was $20,000 to the good, whereas the fiict is it is $22,000 to the bad.--Buffalo Express. Three Indians Are Lynched in North • Dakota. Twenty-five masked men took the law into their own hands Sunday morning at the county jail in Williamsport, Emmons County, North Dakota. They left the bodies of three men, who had been accus­ ed of murder, swaying in the wind as a testimonial of-the completeness of their revenge. The men were Paul Holytrack, Philip Ireland and Alec Coudot, Indians, who were under arrest accused of the murder of six members of the Spicer fam­ ily last, winter at Winona, Emmons Coun­ ty. They were aroused from slumber, dragged from the jail to a beef windlass that stood near the jail, and were hanged to a bar that served to suspend the car­ casses of slaughtered animals. Williamsport is a little hamlet forty miles from a railroad, and not over fifty persons reside there. The jail where the victims of the lynching were confined is a stone structure and was guarded by a solitary jailor, Thomas Kelly, who was arotised by a light tap on the outer door of the jail. Thinking that it was a sum­ mons from some of his friends, who were accustomed to call at night to t:j,lk with him, he opened the door, to give entrance to a mob of masked men. who presented a revolver at his head and demanded that he open the door to the cells in which the prisoners were confined. Ivelly saw it was useless to resist and opened the doors and the three men were dragged from their beds, ropes were fastened about their necks and they were hauled from the cells into the op>?u air. No ceremony was wasted on the vic­ tims. The beef windlass stood near and this was made to serve the purpose of a gib'bet. Two of the men were partly un­ conscious from the effects of the dragging, but their bodies were speedily raised into the air and the three forms were left to dangle in ihe moonlight. The crime for which the men were thus executed by the mob was the murder of six members e.f the Spicer family, near Winona, last winter.- The bodies of Thomas Spicer, bis wife, his daughter, Mrs. Rouse, and her twin children, and of Mrs, Ellen Waidron. his mother-in- law, were found at the Spicer home, all horribly mutilated. Paul ilolylraek ayd Philip Ireland, two of the men who were lynched, had already confessed having assisted in the.,murders. Their narrative was so f-evo.lting as to arouse indignation to fever beat.- The confession of the two implicated Coudot, the thin! of 1he'~ vic­ tims. Fear that the men would escape punishment f°r their crime led Jo the lynching. OSJECT TO THE TAX. Dawson Miners >3ay Forcibly Resist the Canadian impost. .. C. C. Burns has returned to San Fran­ cisco from Dawson City. When Burns left Dawson, Sept. 2.">, for the coast there was in progress ;i mass meeting of miners to consider the proposed colleei.ion ,of the "dominion - tax. ' ' The feeling against the new- law. he says, is very strong," and the Canadians have so far led in the agitation. So strong became the mutterings that the collectors-of the district had to announce that he would fake no steps until in­ formed more fully of the scope of the law. The new chief, who was met. on the way in by Burns, is, however, determined to assess Ike output tax, and the result may be forcible resistance by the men now holding the big producing claims. The shortage of provisions in the dis­ trict was such that Burns and his com­ panions, who had not entered an order- for a year's supplies when they knew they were coming out, could not buy pro­ visions for their trip, but had to beg and scheme to get a piece of meat here and a little meal-there to make up an outfit for their thirty-five days' trip to Dyea. Burns says the principal shortage will be of flour and the Dawsonite next spring who asks for bread will be given roast beef or mutton, as the supply of the lat­ ter will be good, owing to the number of cattle and sheep driven in during the fall. Burns says the holders of most of the big claims arc now planning to work as many men as possible this winter, make ;» big clean-up next year and quit the frozen north for civilization and a big time on the proceeds of their labors. Notes of Current Events. Seven persons have perished in a mine fire at Antonieuhuette, Silesia. Ex-Congressman John M. Imngston of Virginia, one of the most prominer'. col­ ored men in the country, is dead. He was born a slave in 1S29. Arthur Tweedy, the British vice-consul at Santo Domingo, capital of the repub­ lic. of Santo Domingo, has been arrested there oil the charge of obtaining $0,000 by fraudulent pretenses.