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W/7S & ENDS. * mm THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. lkctlENRY. ILLINOIS MS. GRANT'S TOMB. SHE WILL LIE BESIDE HER GREAT HUSBAND. Sarcophagus for the General's Widow i (j f Is Placed in Position--Heating Ap­ paratus in tlie Tomb a Success--Rus­ sia Wants a Water Rbute to Siberia. For a-General's Widow. . A sarcophagus for the widow of Gon. Grant has been placed in the tomb. It as like the oue in which the body of the former President rests. Both were cut from the quarries at Montello, Wis. Each; safeophagus weighs about eight tons. All of the exposed places are, highly polished: The color is a dark red, variegated in spots. On the sarcophagus intended • for Mrs. Grant there is the name in bronze, •'.Tu!ia, I>. Grant." The sarcophagus of, the great Union general merely-has his " iidme^ "Ulysses S, 0.rant;'V- So far its the labors ofMhe -Grant Monument. A ssocia- :;t!iou are concerned they were., finished when the sarcophagus for "Mrs. Grant wa^phtcet! in position.'. There will be ad­ ditional features in the tomb, such as stat­ uary,, but tlte contracts for this work will be awarded by the park commissioners, It is announced, that the new heating ap­ paratus in the tomb is a decided success. It has been found that the "sweating" -of the walls has been stopped with the heat­ ing. and the beauty of the tomb will not suffer. The interior can be heated up to 50 degrees. Via.the Arctic Ocean. Russia greatly desires to find means of communication between her north coast and Siberia by crossing the Arctic sea. According to advices received Admiral Mackaroff of the Russian navy has an­ nounced his belief that it is possible to travel to Siberia by water across the Arc- tie sea, tie believes that regular com­ munication with the north flowing Sibe­ rian rivers can be established through July and August by providing . vessels bound for those ports with an escort of boats furnished with ice plows. The Government is planning to test this pro­ ject, being greatly encouraged by the suc­ cess of the Danish ice breakers in keeping Vladivostok harbor open this winter. Aranguren Killed. Lieut. Gol. Benedicto, with the Spanish Reina battalion, surprised near Tapaste, Cuba, the camp of the insurgent brigadier Nestor Aranguren, killing Aranguren and, four privates, capturing five of the in­ surgents and wounding several others. NEW!? NUGGETS, An assay of ore from a Gillespie Coun­ ty, Texas, mipe gave §15,150 gold to the ton. The price of wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade touched $1.05 the other western 0f Canada was denied at the office of the Northern Pacific. Over half the first mortgage bonds of fhe company have been sold, though, and it is believed the Canadian Pacific has obtained control. Captain Annie P. Hughes of the Vol­ unteers of America and secretary to Com­ mander Ballington Booth, was sandbag­ ged at Orange, N. J. Erich A. Prisman, a former couyiet, recently discharged from the headquarters staff, has been arrested on suspicion. He is suposed to have mis­ taken Miss Hughes for her sister, who rejected his attentions. With'•»*lenfenliig crash a portion of the east wing of the state^ house at Phila­ delphia, Pa., fell. No harm was done to the historic building, fes the arches which collapsed were not connected with it, it section of the wing ljext to the east wall of Independence hall having been torn out under the restoration plans now being Carried out. . The accident was due to the exposed state of the building. The New England cotton mill strike spreads daily, and now has occurred the first . break in the Pawtuxet valley in Rhode Island, where as .many operatives are employed as in New Bedford. One hundred and twenty-five weavers employ- , ed in the Centerville cotton1 mill have re­ fused to.,go to work, having been cut an average of 16 per cent. At Fall Rivet the. refusal, of the Weavers' Union tij- gnuit the weavers of the King Philip mills permission to strike has increased the1 chances of a resumption of work there, and it is likely that an attempt will he made to start all departments save those in which there is/a• strike at an early date. At the iron works office the management reported that the majority of the striking frame spinners have re­ turned to work, and. the trouble is prac­ tically ended. " when Ws horse became frightened, nm away and dashed Streetman violently against a large oak tree, crushing his skull. WARSHIP TO HAVANA =\ WESTERN. George Haefer and Albert Fisher have been appointed receivers of the Zoological gardens at Cincinnati, Ohio, upon apliea- tion of the stockholders, who state that there is a debt of $70,000 and that litiga­ tion is threatened which would bring per­ manent injury to the property. Sunia Matsa Hongo, now Miss Katlier- ine Agnes Gulick, the daughter of the Japanese count who married Miss Emma Tyler of Philadelphia, has made her debut on the stage at Cincinnati. She was adopted in infancy by missionaries and made a desperate struggle for a musical education. Fifty or more lives have been lost by a fire which broke out at Spokane, Wash. The flames were in the Great Eastern block in Riverside avenue. It was a vast six-story structure, the upper floors of which were occupied by about a hundred roomers. The loss® will" amount to $225,- 000 or more. Representatives of the striking miners and the operators of the northern Colo­ rado coal district have decided to submit their grievances to the State Board of Arbitration. Four mines in the northern district resume work, the miners who will report for duty having become dissatisfied with the way the strike is being handled. Gov. Clough of Minnesota has appoint­ ed H. W. Lamberton, C. D. Gilfillan, Hudson Wilson, W. D. Ivirke, Theodore L. Schurmeirer, W. J. Footner, J. iNew- ton Nind, F. G. Winston, E. L. Danforth, F. B. Dauglierty and Elmer E. Adams to prepare the State exhibit at the trans- FOREIGN Mrs. Katherine Forsythe, the actress, formerly of Philadelphia, died" in Loudon. Russia is about to present a note to Tur­ key demanding payment of the whole bal­ ance of the indemnity of the Russo-Turk- ish war, amounting to $140,000,000, with a view of making the sultan more docile in the settlement of the Cretan question. Anti-Jewish riots have been renewed in Algiers. The mob invaded the .Jewish quarter and pillaged the shops in the Rue Babuzouin,.«driving the merchants out in­ to the streets. A squadron of chasseurs was ortlerpd to the scene, and charged the moh with drawn swor<|Sr-but the mob re­ formed further on, cheering for the army. Revolvers and daggers were freely used; One man, who was stabbed in the back and shot in the head, died oil the spot. Many were seriously stabbed, one, named Cavol, dying from his wounds. 'Further rioting occurred next morning, when it was learned that a Hebrew had stabbed a Spaniard. A mob gathered, attacked and looted the Hebrew stores. At the head of six zouaves^ with fixed bayonets, tlie governor general, preceded by mili­ tary drummers, traversed the streets ap­ pealing for quiet. He was followed "by a mob of about 3,000 people, who shouted: "Down with the Jews! Resign!" inter­ mingled with- a few cries of "Vive la GoUverneur geherale!" The governor gen­ eral finally retired., to the Winter palace, escorted by detachments of police and zouaves. Several Hebrews have: .been assaulted and a score of arrests have been made. Senor Sagasta, the Spanish premier, according to a special dispatch from Mad­ rid, reported at a late cabinet meeting that all the dispatches received from Cu-' ba gave "unqualified promise of peace. He is said to have added that this was not only the impression in Cuba, but in the United States as well. At Washington, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has agreed to make a favorable report on the resolution of Representative Williams of Mississippi asking the State Depart­ ment for information on the Ruiz case. The resolution is as follows: "Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed, if in his opinion compatible with the pub­ lic interest, to send to the House the re­ ports made to the department by Consul General Lee, and any other report made to the department by consuls or commer­ cial agents of the United States on the subject of the execution of Col. Ruiz by the Cuban military authorities." There was no division over the resolution, and the vote was unanimous in favor of re­ porting it. Beyond this there was no ref­ erence to the Cuban question, except in the reference to the sub-committee of the various Cuban resolutions introduced re­ cently. IN GENERAL. day. The Spanish Government will ask the ^ifsjlliPi,i„a^„iln„ternational exl,ositiou next eortes to vote $40,000,000 for strengthening its navy. -' 'The Central Mattress Manufacturers' Association has been organized at Indian­ apolis, Ind., for the purpose of reducing competition and to regulate prices. Miss Blanche Kimmel, a young woman employed in the Columbia Firecracker works, Fostoria, O., was caught in a belt and turned round it. She will recover. The Toronto City Council has adopted a resolution that no - aliens, particularly the citizens of the United States, shall be .hereafter employed oh any civic work. Captain General Blanco'took §380,000 with him on his trip to eastern Cuba, and it is said that should he fail to succeed in an attempt to bribe the insurgent leaders he will return to Spain. According to a decision of the Minneso­ ta Supreme Court, a man who builds a house on another's lot has no claim to the house, nor can he enforce a lien against the lot for its value. The British Atlas Company has offered to purchase the Nicaraguan railroads from ocean to ocean and steamers owned by the Government for $1,500,000 silver. The Government demands $2,500,000. The King of Corea, it is reported, has asked the United States minister for pro­ tection. Captain Wildes of the cruiser Boston refuses to land a naval force at Seoul, though strongly urged to do so by the king. The gold reserve in the United States treasury reached $103,670,000 the other day, the highest point in about seven years. The accumulation is becoming something of a burden and the Govern­ ment is no longer encouraging its deposit. William Earl Cook, said to be the old­ est living free Mason, passed his one liun- " dred and first birthday, at his home in Portsmouth, R. I., Before he was seized with paralysis, Jan. 14, he enjoyed excel­ lent health. Now he is failing rapidly. He was made a Mason about 1820. Congressman Butler of Pennsylvania has introduced a bill to incorporate the International American Bank, with the object of improving means for financial dealings between the United States and Latin-American countries. Among the organizers named are Cornelius N. Bliss, Jefferson T. Coolidge, Andrew Carnegie, P. D. Armour and Charles R. Flint. The National Stock Growers' conven­ tion at Denver, Colo., came to an end in a wild scene at the Union stock yards, where a grand barbecue had been pre- {'• pared. A crowd of 20,000 people was present. Facilities not being sufficient to accommodate the throng, there was much delay and the tables were finally stormed by the hungry visitors. The efforts of fifty policemen and a detachment of mi­ litia to keep order were laughed at. Angelo Carbone is in a cell at Sing Sing, N. Y., awaiting the execution of a death sentence for the. murder of Natalo Brogno, in New York, while Alexande Ciarmello, the guilty man, is in a cell at the police station in Baltimore. He has confessed his crime and has surren dered to the detective who arrested him the day the murder was committed. The International, the Industrial, the Occidental and the Salvadoreno banks at San Salvador, have, by decree of the Government, been relieved of the obliga tion of redeeming silver bills for eight months. to be held in Omaha. Richard J. Halloran, a police officer of the St. Louis force, was fatally shot with his own pistol by Miss Nellie Manion, who then turned the pistol on herself and put a bullet in her brain. The attempted murder and suicide is the result of disap­ pointed love. The shooting followed a quarrel, during which Miss Manion beg­ ged Halloran to marry her. He refused, and she, in mad desperation, began shoot­ ing. At Clay Center, Kan., train 53 on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail­ road had a rear-end collision, in which Conductor Edwards and Brakeman Grif­ fith \\;ere badly injured. Griffith died later. W. S. Broughton of Clay Center had his skull fractured, his leg and jaw broken and will die. Rod Sceinkonig also had his skull broken and doctors say he will die. George H. Dobbs and Mrs. Amelia New, recently convicted at Eureka, Kan., of the murder' of Mrs, New's husband, have been sentenced to life imprisonment. When arraigned for sentence Dobbs stoutly protested his innocence. Mrs. New made no statement. At the conclu­ sion of the trial and while the jury was deliberating upon the case she broke down and acknowledged the murder of her husband by herself and Dobbs. Later she denied this alleged confession. Joseph New was mysteriously murdered last Oc­ tober. A few days later Dobbs went to live with Mrs. New. A conference of the attorneys in the Hilimon insurance case, held at Topeka, Kan., resulted in the dismissal of the case so far as it affected the New York Life Insurance Company, the company having settled its proportion of the loss ou the life of Hilimon. The amount paid was about ?24,000, and the New York Life will be reinstated in Kansas. Hillmon's widow was present when the settlement was made. She is now Mrs. J. C. Smith of Leavenworth, John W. Hilimon was a miner, freighter and ^cowboy oh the Western plains. He disappeared ii March, 1S79, having a few months pre vious insured his life for $25,000 in the Mutual Life of New York, the Connect! cut Mutual and the New York Life. This case has been in the courts for the last eighteen years, and has been tried by five juries, and no final decision has yet been reached. It was claimed that Hilimon was accidentally shot at Medicine Lodge March 17, 1S79, by his traveling compan­ ion, John II. Brown. The insurance com­ pany claimed that a conspiracy had been formed, consisting of Levi Baldwin, John W. Hilimon and John II.-Brown, that Hillmon's life was insured, that Frederick Adolphus Walters was murdered by Hili­ mon and that his body was made to pass for Hillmon's. The interest has increas­ ed the original claim to nearly $75,000. It is not known what action the other two companies.may take. The sixth trial of. the case has been set for Feb. 14 in the Federal Court of Topeka district. EASTERN. Canada has decided to admit free of restrictions all supplies taken into the Klondike region by the United States Government -relief expedition. The recent gale, accompanied as it was by high winds, heavy fall of snow and crusiug floods in many localities, did great damage throughout the West and South. Trains were blockaded, telegraph and tel­ ephone wires leveled and large loss of property resulted. Silk manufacturers in this country and abroad will be greatly interested in a move about to be made by Duplan & Co. of Lyons, France, to recover their Amer­ ican trade. The Frenchmen intend to es­ tablish a branch plant in South Bethle­ hem, Pa., and to turn out there the same oods now made only in Lyons. Members of the firm say there will be no wholesale cut in prices, and that a war in the trade is unlikely. Home manufacturers, how­ ever, will undoubtedly be affected to some extent by the operation of the Bethlehem plant, where the looms will be started on April 1. Duplan <fc Co. are among the largest manufacturers of silk in Lyons. They formerly had a profitable trade in this country, but of late their trade has been going to their Yankee rivals. Bradstreet's commercial report says: "A large measure of activity in business and industrial lines, with, in some in­ stances, previous records surpassed and very general steadiness in prices of sta­ ples, is perhaps the most notable feature of the trade situation this week. Quota­ tions of cereals show the most aggressive strength, while those of some makes of pig iron betray rather more decided weak­ ness than they did a week ago. Mild weather is frequently mentioned as an in­ fluence tending to check retail distribu­ tion of seasonable goods, chiefly because of the effect on country roads. Spring trade opens slowly, as usual at this time of the year, but confidence is still unim­ paired. As already intimated, the im­ mense current production of pig iron, amounting to fully 1,000,000 tons a month, has begun to exercise an influence upon the price of that staple, but de­ creases reported are still only fractional. The outlook in the steel rail trade is re­ ported as a flattering one. Quite a shrink­ age in cereal exports is indicated by re­ ports this week. Total shipments of wheat, flour includc<l, from the United States "and Canada amounted to only 3,- 920,000 bushels, against 5,229,000 bush­ els last week. Indian corn exports also . show a heavy falling off, amounting to only 3,480,000 bushels this week, against 4,401,000 bushels last week." MAINE IS ORDERED TO THE CUBAN CAPITAL. It Is Siinpiy'a Precautionary Measure to Protect Americans--Congress De­ lighted with the Plan, Which in No Sense Is a Provocation to War. No Menace in the Move. The battleship Maine has been ordered to Havana. Other AnrfuTelm-Jiuu^hipa will drop in there from/time to time. The warships go to make fjriendly calls, after many years of stayinjkaway for fear of lousing the suspicions O^Spain. The po­ lice sometimes make fritmrtlvcalls at houses th,at are under suspicioivbut they are always ready to show their authority if necessary. So it will be with Uncle Sam's callers at Havana. They go. with their best clothes, but the bunkers are filled with shot and shell, and with enough men on board to man every-gun. If Spain, receives these friendly callers in a friendly manner, they can drink, tea, salute and depart. tji\cle Sam has not waited for invitations. The warships will call at Havana- whether they are welcome or not. They will call as the right of a friendly power, entitled to .enter every port in .tjine. of peace. " , Y„ A Washington correspondent- says there lias been 110 international reason, why our navy should have kept away from.Cuban waters fo'r the last two or three years. President Cleveland took extraordinary care not to offend Spain by allowing war­ ships to appear "in Cuban waters without invitation. That policy has been followed until now, and the situation in Cuba, has grown wlorse; until to-day not only Amer­ ican citizens and American officials in Havana are in danger, but Gen. Blanco himself is not safe from his own army. That policy has been changed, and or­ ders were sent to Admiral Sicard that the Maine should call at Havana. It will be only a friendly call if the situation in Havana warrants that interpretation. It will be a call for business, if necessary. The reports from Gen. Lee have not been encouraging since the outbreak a week ago. Havana is a smoldering vol­ cano, ready to break out at any moment. Anarchy is the greatest danger, and an­ archy produced by Spanish soldiers. Gen. Lee's reports make it almost imperative the Ow/cc^o pulpit, and then wrote out a confession, but after being kindly receiv­ er in Chicago he reconsidered this deter­ mination. The committee considered the confession and reported unanimously in favor of dropping Brown from the roll. Brown still has* friends in the conference and they were in favor of treating him leniently in view of his repentance. Brown sent his resignation to his Chi­ cago church. It is his intention, so he declares, to preach upon street corners aud in the slums. FINE VIEWS OF THE ECLIPSE. Astronomers at Bombay Enjoy Very Favorable Conditions. At Bombay, India, the total eclipse of the sun was accompanied by a rapid fall of temperature. An earthy smell-per-1 vaded the air, and the scene resembled a landscape under a wintry English sun. The duration of totality was two minutes, with a marvelous corona of pale silver and blue. The conditions were favorable at both Prof. Sir Norman Lockyer's camp, near Viziadroog -(on the Slalabar coast), and at Prof. Campbell's camp, near Jour. The native astrologers predicted terrible calamities, The natives swarm­ ed to devotional exercises, and there was general fasting,, but no great alarm. The, Nizam of Hyderabad liberated fifty pris­ oners, giving each a gift of money and clothes. - . „ , '!'• • ' , MEET TO URGE REFORM. COVERED WITH SNOW. GREAT STORM IN THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. Reports Tell of Dire Effects of the Bliz­ zard--Wires Downy Trains Abandon* ed, Schools Closed, and Business Sus­ pended--Several Lives Lost. National Monetary Conference Called, to Order in Indianapolis. The, monetary conference which opened in Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon was the result of a movement started by the Indianapolis Board of Trade a little more than one year ago. This commercial body took upon itself the inauguration of a movement whose primary purpose was monetary reform. Without any assurance that, the object of its endeavor would be realized in a national sense, the Board of Trade issued invitations to commercial organizations of the central west, which brought together the nucleus on which Tuesday's national convention rests. The cities sending representatives to the first conference were Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Grand Rapids, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville; Milwau­ kee, Minneapolis, Sti Paul and Toledo. This conference determined to call a gen­ eral convention of the trade and commer­ cial organizations of the country, to meet in Indianapolis Jan. 12, 1897, to consider UNITED - STATES RATTLE SHIP MAINE. that warships should be near enough to protect Americana. Strict orders were given not to allow the forces from the Maine to land, unless necessary. They will not go into the city for pleasure. When they go it will be for business. The New York World's Washington correspondent says that the battleship Maine was ordered to Havana in response to a cablegram from Consul General Lee. He asserts that after 0 o'clock Monday night three cipher dispatches from Gen. Lee were received at the State Depart­ ment, translated, and sent to Judge Day, who took them to the dinner given by Judge McKenna. At that dinner all the members of the cabiriet except Gen. Alger were present, and a consultation, prac­ tically a cabinet meeting, was held to consider the situation in Cuba. After re­ turning to the executive mansion the Pres­ ident ordered direct telegraphic connec­ tion between there and Key West. The news that at last an American ves­ sel is to be stationed at Havana was en­ thusiastically received in Washington. This move is obviously popular, since it offers protection to our citizens and in­ terests, and puts us in the field in case events should require the presence there of a strong force of American marines with big guns to back them. No well- informed man in Washington expects war as the direct outgrowth of such a trifling thing as the dispatch of a nayal vessel to guard American interests in Havana. Nor does any well-informed man believe the Cuban problem is to be solved in any other way than by virtue of the force and pres­ tige of this Government behind a de­ mand that the war stop, the starving be fed and the homeless be sheltered, with the United States as an admitted and most potent factor in the reconstruction of the Government of the island. The next move of the United States is likely to take this form. SOUTHERN. Ralph Sachs of Baltimore has been elected supreme president of the Improv­ ed Order of B'nai B'rith. Three hundred alumni of Princeton Uni­ versity, at their annual banquet at New York, cast defiance in the teeth of those ^who criticised the use of liquors in the fataous Princeton Inn. President Pat- ton's declaration that prohibition would increase the trade in corkscrews, was en­ thusiastically cheered. -• A rumor circulated in Wall street that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company had purchased the Manitoba and North- Virgil Gallagher has been condemned to death at Galveston, Tex., for the murder of his mother. There are ten cases of smallpox at Mid- dlesboro, Ky., and nearly twenty at Mingo, a suburb. Eugene Burt, the Austin, Tex., wife and child murderer, has been granted a stay of execution until March. At Mobile, Ala., Jefferson, alias Jack Knight, of Pensacola, Fla., was hanged for the murder of Frank Dantzler. One of the largest, warehouses of the Old Hurricane Springs distillery, near Tullahoma, Tenn., Was burned. Nearly 1,000 barrels of. whisky was lost. Two men were killed by the collision of two trains on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, eighty miles west.of Charleston, S. G. Several persons were injured. At<Frankfort, Ky., Judge Thomas JH. Hines, judge of the Court of Appeals, the Confederate officer who planned the es­ cape of John Morgan from the Ohio pen­ itentiary, is dead. At Jones, La., a stockman named Lov ett * Streetman was riding in ; the woods MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 90c; corn, No. 2, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 40c; butter, choice creamery, ISc to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, common to choice, 52c to 05c 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 $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 91C to 93c; corn, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 20c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 90c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 40c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4,00; sheep, . $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 95c to 90c; corn, No. mixed, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 48c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs $3,00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50 wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 White, 27c to 28c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 95c corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No 2 white, 22c to'24c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 48c clover seed, $3.15 to $3.25, Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 88c to. 91c; corn, No. 3, 2(>c to 28c; oats, No 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2r 4(Jc to 48c barley, No. 2, 40c to 43c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats,' No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; .sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 wheat, No.'2 red, $1.04 to $1.06; corn, No 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 17c to 19c. the currency question in a non-partisan way. In response to this call there as­ sembled in Indianapolis ou the date nam­ ed 300 delegates, representing the busi­ ness interests of 108 cities in 27 States. Following the instructions of this con­ vention a committee of eleven was select­ ed to formulate a currency reform plan. After months of evidence and discussion in Washington this committee completed its report, which was made public Jan. 3. Tuesday's convention, which was much larger than the first, was called for the purpose of submitting the plan and secur­ ing its adoption. The convention was welcomed to the State by Gov. James A. Mount. Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa presid­ ed, and C. Stuart Patterson submitted the report of the committee of election. LEADS CHICAGO VIGILANTES. Mr. Milges Has Organized a Force of Citizens Pledged to Shoot Thugs. Mr. Milges has organized a force of 200 citizens, all heavily armed, who are pledg- BROWN ADMITS GUILT. Preacher Confesses5 Immoral Conduct to the Bay Conference. Bay conference, the. ruling body of the Congregational Church in San Francisco, met and expelled Rev. Charles O. Brown, the unfrocked minister, who was after­ ward given a church in Chicago. A sen­ sation was caused by a confession and a plea for mercy from Rev. Mr. Brown. He was present and said the accusation against him was true. He said he had turned utterly and -with abhorrence from his sins longvbefore he was publicly ac­ cused. Brown says he was overcome with remorse on his way East to accept LOUIS MILGES. ed to shoot every highwayman seen. Chi­ cago lias for a month or more largely beer at the mercy of thugs and cutthroats, and Mr. Milges has started a war of exter­ mination. B. A. Ramsey, a conductor on the Mexi­ can Central Railroad, was shot and kill­ ed while discharging his duties. Under Mexican law the remains cannot be sen( to his home in Texas for burial. SANFORD B. DOLE. Winter Is King. The wind and snow storms of Tuesday raged all over the middle Mississippi val­ ley, caused the loss of several lives, much damage to property, and great hindrance to traffic. Ill- the Southwestern region the gale was preceded by violent thunder storms, and the wind in some places reached a velocity exceeding all previous records for this season of the year. The most considerable direct loss of life was at St. Louis. The wind there reach­ ed a velocity of sixty-three miles an hour, the highest since the tornado cfcf May 27, 1S96. August Weymeyer, a Corpenter, was blown from the Shields school roof and killed. Thomas J. Peterson, 4 years old, was blown frorii a\porch toot at. his home and killed.0 ^Irs. Sarah Lor,in was caught under a falling fence and will prob­ ably, die. Many minor injuries are report­ ed. , A street car narrowly ese'aped being crushed by the falling walls of the Rav- enswood 'distillery ruins. The; roof of a store next, the St. Nicholas hotel Was blown across the street. A friinuv build­ ing on Twelfth street,, between Locust arid Washington, was wrecked. Several other buildings lost their roofs, and' there Was much damage to fences, signs, out­ houses and window glass. The gale.reach­ ed its height about 11 o'clock,'and was preceded by a violent thunder storm, be­ ginning shortly after 3 a. m. The storm caused great alarm, the people fearing a repetition of the great tornado. In East St. Louis the baseball park was demol­ ished, signs scattered over the streets, and sections of wooden sidewalk blown across the commons, but no casualties are re­ ported. A wet snow fell throughout the South­ west Monday night, followed by a freez­ ing wind, which broke many telegraph and telephone wires and poles. Kansas City was cut off from communication for several hours and many trains were de­ layed. Houses were demolished near El Reno, Ok., but no serious injury to in­ mates is reported. At Guthrie, Ok., the wind was so violent that many people took refuge in cyclone cellars. The same con­ ditions prevailed through south and cen­ tral Kansas. In Kansas City itself many wires were broken and street cars delay­ ed, but no great damage to buildings oc­ curred. St. Joseph, Mo., reports con­ siderable damage by wind, rain turning to snow, with railway trains delayed, street car traffic demoralized and wires down. Omaha seems to have been out of the direct path of the storm, and reports only two inches of snow, little wind and >io great cold. Dubuque, Iowa, reports the worst storm in several years. A passenger and freight train on the Manchester branch of-the Illinois Central collided in the storm. Fireman Ellis Sweet was killed and Engi­ neer Harvey and Postal Clerk MeDuff were probably fatally injured. Over a foot of snow fell at Clinton, Iowa, partly suspending street car traffic and breaking down wires. Iowa City reports the worst storm in six years, with passenger trains delayed and freight trains abandoned, ow­ ing to snow blockades. All the schools at Ottuniwa, Iowa, were closed, street cars abandoned, trains delayed, and busi­ ness suspended. All traffic was stopped at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and even the let­ ter carriers were forced to quit. High winds drifted the snow badly, and stock suffers from the increasing cold. Galesburg, 111., reports schools closed, street cars blockaded,-business practically suspended, and traveling almost impossi­ ble. A Chicago, Burlington and Quincy passenger {rain stuck in a snowdrift near Oneida, Rockford, 111., reports over a foot of snow, schools closed, street cars stalled, railroad trains delayed*^3bd the worst storm in fifteen years. In s>))ne lo­ calities the country roads are impassable on account of snowdrifts, and in many of the smaller towns of northern Illinois and eastern Iowa the schools were closed and business almost entirely suspended. GRAIN BURNED IN ST. LOUIS, Over 1,000,000 Bushels of Wheat, Corn, and Barley Destroyed. Flames that did $1,500,000 damage at East St. Louis destroyed the Union grain elevator, the Burlington freight houses, forty adjacent dwellings, the stables of the St. Louis Transfer Company and 100 freight cars loaded with wheat. The ele­ vator contained 500,0<)0 bushels of wheat, 480,000 bushels of corn and 20,000 bush­ els of rye. Between SO,000 and 100,000 bushels of wheat was on the cars that were burned, thus making the total loss <if wheat ill the.neighborhood of 000,000 bushels. The lire originated from some cause not known, in the elevator, and was discov­ ered about 10 o'clock. A few minutes later the huge structure was a mass of flames, which lighted up the country for miles around. A strong wind was blow­ ing from the northwest and carried show­ ers of embers for miles, endangering the whole of East St. Louis. The loss on the elevator, its contents and on the freight houses and contents and cars burned is fully covered by insur­ ance. The risk is distributed among twen­ ty-five or thirty companies. Plan an Immense Waterway. Application will be made to the Domin­ ion Parliament at its next session by a number, of Canadian and United States capitalists who have a project for con­ structing a hew waterway, for an act in­ corporating the Montreal and Lake Cham- plain Canal Company. ' Capitalists look upon this enterprise with great favor, es- X;ecially since the route has been heartily endorsed by the international deep water­ ways commission. President of tlie Hawaiian Republic now in Washington looking after thj Irland's annexation interest?. ' .. & Jimmy Michael has cleared $20,000 this season in cycle racing. The University of Wisconsin crew is anxious to row Pennsylvania in June. The first trotting meeting of 189S will be held at Newbern, N. C., from Feb. 28 to March 5. Terrc Haute, Louisville and Readville claim the last week in September for trot­ ting meetings. James Hart says that the earned run should be done away with in scoring, as no two scorers treat it alike. Jay Eaton of New York, the indoor bi­ cycle king, has issued a challenge to ride against any bicyclist in the world. The Australians in the cricket match at Adelaide, Australia, with the visiting English team, won by an innings aud 13 runs. St ill mas G. Whittaker, the old-time,"cy­ cle racing man and holder of all long-dis­ tance ordinary records, is now located in Indianapolis. In the House on Friday there was a parliamentary struggle over the bill for the relief of the bock publishing company of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. By shrewd maneuvering its opponents succeeded in preventing action. Previous to the consideration of this bill the House passed the bill to extend the publje land laws of the United States to the territory of Alaska and to grant a general railroad right of way through the territory. The urgent deficiency bill was sent to confer­ ence after the silver forces, with some outside aid, had succeeded in concurring it? the Senate amendment striking from the bill the provision requiring the depos­ itors of bullion at. Government assay of­ fices to pay the COst <of transportation to the mints. In the Senate the resolution Of Mr, AJlen asking the Secretary of the Interior-for papers Concerning-the dis­ missal from the pension office of Mrs, M. E, Roberts was referred to the Com­ mittee ,0n Civil Service and Retrench­ ment,.. after considerable debate. The Senate spent'- most of the day in executive session. | ; ' : ; 1 Some bills of minor importance were pass<MfjjBr the House on Saturday and the remaWiier of the day was devoted to general debate on the Indian appropria­ tion bill. That the Cuban question is still uppermost in the minds of the mem­ bers was evinced during this debate, much of which was decoted to it. Mr. Hitt, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commit­ tee, submitted a privileged report from his committee, recommending the passage of a resolution of inquiry, requesting the State Department to transmit to the House all information in its possession relative to the military execution of Col. Ruiz, a Spanish envoy to the insurgent camp of Aranguren. The resolution'was adopted without division. In the Senate after a speech by Mr. Stewart in favor of the Teller silver resolution, considera­ tion of bills on the private calendar was begun and a number were passed. In the House on Monday a couple of hours were devoted to" business relating to the District of Columbia, and the remain­ der of the day was occupied with the Indian appropriation bill. A lively de­ bate was precipitated by an allusion made by Mr. Simpson (Pop., Kan.) to an alleg­ ed interview with the President on the subject of immigration. Mr. Grosvenor took occasion to express the -opinion that 1 he President had never used some of the language imputed to him, and the debate drifted into a general discussion of our industrial conditions. In the Senate pro­ posed annexation of Hawaii was some­ what extensively reviewed by Mr. Mor­ gan of Alabama while speaking to a ques­ tion of personal privilege. One of the features of the session was an elaborate speech by Mr. Turpie of Indiana in sup­ port of the Teller resolution. The pension appropriation bill was debated for nearly three hours, but was not passed, the Sen­ ate adjourning pending the disposal of a point of order made against an amend­ ment offered by Mr. Allen of Nebraska to the pending bill. Under the parliamentary fiction of dis­ cussing the Indian appropriation bill, the House devoted almost the entire day Tuesday to a political debate in which the main question was whether prosper­ ity had come to the country as a result of the advent of the present administration. Mr. Smith, the delegate from Arizona, made an attack on the system of educat­ ing the Indians, and Mr. Walker moved to strike out the appropriation for the Carlisle school. No vote was taken on the motion. A bill was passed granting American register to the foreign built steamer Navajo. In the Senate the ses­ sion was characterized by a heated, al­ most acrimonious, discussion of tlie finan­ cial question. For nearly four hours the Teller resolution was under consideration, the principal speeches being made by Mr. Allison (Iowa), Mr. Berry (Arkausas) and Mr. Hoar (Massachusetts). Consideration of the Indian appropria­ tion bill consumed the entire day in the House on Wednesday. The debate was chiefly on extraneous subjects. The mo­ tion to strike out the appropriation for the Carlisle Indian school was defeated after considerable debate, 29 to 65. Ten pages of the bill were disposed of. The conference report on the urgent deficiency bill Was adopted. In the Senate the day was spent in a discussion of the Teller silver resolution. The Indian appropriation bill was pass­ ed by the House on Thursday and the political debate which had been racing since Monday was transferred to the Dis­ trict of Columbia bill, which followed it. The only two important changes made in the Indian bill as passed were the elimi­ nation of the provisions for the leasing of the gilsonite mineral lands of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Wichita reservations, both of which went out on points of order. The features of the de­ bate Thursday were the speeches of Mr. Hartman (silver Republican, Mont.), in •denunciation of the financial policy of the administration, and of Mr. Dolliver (Re­ publican, Iowa), in reply to thegeneral at­ tacks of the opposition. In the Senate the day was spent in debate on the Teller resolution. News of Minor Note. Prof. Taschenberg, the entomologist, is dead at Halle. Secret societies at Denver are waging war on department stores. M. B. Goodman, clothing merchant of Texarkaua, Arlc., was attached by home creditors. Liabilities and assets not stat­ ed. The Comptroller of the Currency lias appointed William J. Kenncsaw receiver of the First National Bank of Pembinar N. 13.. - - The United States ambassador to Great Britain, Col. John Hay, and family, will sail from Genoa on the North German Lloyd steamship Prinz Regent Luitpold for Egypt for a tour up the Nile. The condition of the health of Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany excites comment. v'&ae will go in the spring to some Southern air,cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms. The Dominion cabinet which has had under consideration the case of Mrs. Olive Sternaman, under sentence to be hanged at Cayuga, Out., for the murder of her husband, decjded to grant her a new trial. At Holbrook, Ariz., wild dogs are caus­ ing great loss to the ranch owners by killing stock. At Ravenna, O., while walking with his sweetheart, CoruelUfs O. Eatiuger quarreled with the young woman. Sud­ denly he, pulled ii revolver and without a' word of warning sent a bullet through his brain, falling dead at his sweetheart's feet, A chattel deed of trust has been filed by M: W. Alexander, proprietor of one of the oldest retail drug houses in St. Louis, I to Charles W. Wall, treasurer of Meyer Brothers' Drug Company. Liabilities amount to $17,200. The cause of the fail­ ure is not j;iveu.'