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' bald McMullen, brolhers, wore killed. The men had gone to an old entry for a ma­ chine. The gas had accumulated there and was ignited by their lamps. Robert McMullen was 21 years old and married, and Archibald was 15. The bodies of the two victims were burned to a crisp. The big mine timbers'^vere splintered and tons of slate tumbled down. Entry doors "Were blown off all through the mine. DROWN AT^ Nearly Four Score . by EMptrrefl H •" The schooner Jane G rayfotTwa^Ted off Cape Flattery. Thirty-four gold seekers bound for Ivotzebue sOund went down with the vessel. Twenty-seven were sav­ ed. At the time of the disaster the ves­ sel was lying to during a gale under fore­ sail. rlen minutes before she sank Cap­ tain Crockett was awakened by the watchman, w'ho told him something was wrong. The vessel was found to be leak­ ing and making water so fast.that it was only a question of a few moments'before she would go down.. No timers lost-in informing the passengers, most of whom were asleep below deck. A scene of ter­ ror then ensued and pitchy darkness add­ ed to the confusion. '• >•' <• ' ••• • Captain Crockett ordered the boats low­ ered and the crew obeyed with wonderful coolness and courage. The first boat launched was swamped. The launch Ken* noma, belonging to the tiigraham parly, outfitted by Prince Luigi of Italy for the Ivotzebue gold fields, was successfully lowered. The Jane Gray was then al­ most under water. She was struck by a great • billow and thrown on her beam ends. It was impossible to lafincli the other boats. * The water was over the .hatches and it was certain that all those below deck'were drowned. Job Johnson aud,C. J. Heilly kept afloat :by clinging to wreckage and two. hours, later were picked up by the launch. The survivprssuffered terribly during the thirty hours before it drifted to Rugged Point, Kynquot sound, on Vancouver Island, eighty miles from the scene of t% wreck.. There waa 110 water on the launVli and the.only food was a sack of dried fpiit and evaporated turnips. „ • The Australian steamer Moana, which arrived in San Francisco, brought the first details of the wrecks of the steamers Maitland and Merksworth off the New South Wales coast, with a loss of thirty- seven lives. A terrific gale swept the coast on the night of May 7. The pas­ senger steamer Maitland, soon after leav­ ing Sidney harbor, was struck by huge seas, and all hands were forced to throw overboard the cargo to keep her from foundering. Heavy seas were shipped and soon the engine fires were extinguish-! ed. Immediately after the vessel struck on a rock and the waves began to break over her. Soon she parted amidships, and crew and steerage passengers who were forward went down and were lost. Those k'ft on the. after part of the vessel were near the shore, but the sea was so terrific no one could be saved without a line. Af­ ter two sailors had failed to take a line ashore a passenger succeeded, and then the women and children were passed first over the line. The next morning a life­ boat crew got a line to the vessel. The steam collier Merksworth was wrecked the same night near Newcastle and nine out of twelve men perished. The vessel foundered suddenly, but the cap­ tain and crew escaped in a lifeboat. The sea was so terrif that the boat wasJcap- sized again and again and foup|rVere THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. ILLINOIS (GIVE UP YUKON BOAD lights and incandescents studding the fronts of the buildings . that liue the lagoon, and the radiance shed from the windows of the buildings at night, make the court of honor at Omaha's exposition a feature of magnificent beauty and gran­ deur. -a Skirting the lagoon on the southern side are four of the main buildings of the ex­ position. On its northern side are three more and the smaller building devoted to the use of the boys and girls who come to see the West's great show. First on the southern side and adjoining the Govern­ ment, building is the structure devoted to exhibits of the fine arts, twin structures, each 90 by 130 feet, separated by a court inclosed by a peristyle. "Fame." female- winged and draped, is the principal ex­ terior iidornment of this building. In each of the twin buildings there are six galler-. ies, two large and four small, for the | hanging of the works of art. Every avail-- ' able inch of space on the walls has been i allotted, and it has "been found necessary to curtail the offerings. The arch of States, the main entrance to the exposition grounds, is • between the fine arts building and the' structure devoted to displays, classified under the liberal arts. Symbolical statuary is the exterior adornment on this building, "Prosperity," supported by -'Labor" and "Integrity," being the features. Next in order on the south side of the lagoon is the mines and mining building, in which are shown specimens of the rich­ es that honeycomb the mountains of Col­ orado, Montana, Nevada and their sis­ ter States. The architecture is of the Greek Ionic order, the interior lighted by a circular dome 150 feet in circumference. Last on the southern side.of the lagoon is the auditorium building for the use of the great assemblages of the exposition, the concerts by the monster choruses and the performances of the musical master­ pieces by organizations such as the Apollo Club of Chicago. The building is attract­ ive in architectural design and has a seat­ ing capacity of 5,000. Agrjeulture has the /• first place on the t hk, north side of the la- I; goon adjoining the pr government. build- UfiL / • ing. Adjoining it is f the administration Jwgr A. building. Manufac- tures is the next link in this great arena of the arts and scien- ces. To the top of K. rosewater. the crowning groupChief of tlu> Publicity of statuary on this and Promotion Bureau- building the distance is 85 feet. The ex­ terior decorations are typical of the title THE Trans-Xiississippi and Interna­tional Exposition at Omaha has been thrown open and all the world !s invited to see the great and varied re­ sources of the great West. The culmina­ tion of the work of the past eighteen months has been reached and all is now ready for inspection. 'J - It was a second past noon, Wednesday, when the wheels in Machinery Hall com­ menced to turn. President McKinley pressed a button in Washington and made the connection which started the machin­ ery in motion. In an instant fifty bands sent forth sweet imisie, but were almost drowned by the cheers from thousands of CANADIANS ABANDON STICKEEN RIVER RAILWAY. tayisig of the First Rails Into Alaska Leff^to the American-British Syndi­ cate--Death-Dealing Tornado Sweeps Through DeKalb' County, Missouri. The Italian cabinet lias resigned. King Humbert lias instructed, the Marquis Di Rudini to organize the new ministry. Widespread distress is reported in va­ rious parts of .the interior provinces ;.ot Spain, more especially in the Province of Catalonia. Food prices have risen con­ siderably and many working people have been thrown ouf of employment. The British steamer Foscolia collided with the United States cruiser Columbia during a dense fog,-about eight miles off Fire Island light, New York harbor. The Foscolia sank. Her captain and crew--" twenty-one in all--were rescued by boats from the cruiser and taken ashore. Frederick Ilall,'a cratemaker living at Bursleni, the principal town in the dis­ trict called "The Potteries," in Stafford­ shire, England, murdered his wife and five children with a bill hook and then committed suicide by cutting his throat. It is supposed that the man had suddenly become insane. Information from a trustworthy source is that reported negotiations between Spain and France with respect to the sale of the Philippine Islands aim at much more important colonial changes. It is said that both Spain and Russia have al­ ready agreed to the concession of the northwest coast of Morocco to France. The successful consummation of this plan would insure France's aid against the United States, and eventually against England. Russia especially would be pleased to see this key to the Mediterra­ nean Sea in the hands of France. It is argued that the strategical strength of G Split a i- lias suffered a gradual decline, and;-when menaced by Spain from terra firma would no longer be able to retain control of the entrance to the Mediter­ ranean Sea. Add to this the cession of Tangier to France and Gibraltar would no longer prove a barrier to either Spain, France or Russia. What France offers in exchange for all this is kept a secret, but it is believed that she may not hesi­ tate iu return to openly espouse the cause of Spain against the United States. GURDON W. WATTLES, throats. Flags waved everywhere. 4 As there was a lull in the cheers the gr^at chimes iu the dome of the Federal Build­ ing clanged out their greeting, and every musical* instrument on the grounds changed its notes and "Columbia" stirred the vast multitude to its very center. This was the conclusion of the dedicatory ex­ ercises. At 9 o'clock in the morning the civic parade started from the city to the grounds. It was five miles long, and hun­ dreds of uniformed secret societies from Nebraska and the adjacent States were represented. The, entire city was dec­ orated with flags and patriotic streamers, and the streets through which the col­ umn paraded were like a sea of the red, white and blue. President Gurdon W. Wattles in a carriage led the procession, followed by the directors and other officers of the exposition. The Marine Band of Washington led all music societies. A military display of 10,000 troops was ex- Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: Cincinnati Cleveland Boston *... Baltimore New York Pittsburg SOME' OMAHA EXPOSITION VIEWS, Former Secretary of State John Sher­ man and wife returned from Washington to their home in Mansfield, Ohio, and haje departed from there for a summer trip to Siitka, Alaska. Louis A. Gallot, Henry Gardes and Walter Girault, ..three convicted bank wreckers, have been taken from New Or­ leans to Columbus, Ohio, where they will serve eight years each in the penitentiary. Gallot was convicted of abstracting funds of the Union National Bank as an accom­ plice of Bookkeeper H. C. Colomb. Gardes was the president of the American Na­ tional Bank and Girault was its cashier. This closes the most sensational period of bank wrecking in New Orleans. The Canadian negotiations which have been in progress in Washington have been concluded and a definite agreement reach­ ed for the creation of a commission which shall consider all the subjects of contro­ versy between the United States and Can­ ada and frame a treaty between the im­ perial government and the United States for the complete adjustment of their con­ troversies. The agreement is now to be submitted to the British government for its approval, and when this is given the organizatjpn, of,wtlie commission will be completed. For the present the agree­ ment is .confined to the one point that the commission shall be created, the time and place for the commission to begin its work being left for future determination. It is understood, however, that the first meeting will be held at Quebec, probably during the coming summer. The mem­ bership of the commission will be deter­ mined by the executive branches of the two governments. The discussions have proceeded in a manner most satisfactory to all parties concerned, it being stated by those participating that the spirit of good will was marked throughout. The purpose was not to arrive at final conclu­ sions, but rather to pave the way for a commissio'h which would effect these con­ clusions by complete examination of all the details of the several questions in­ volved.. These include the Bering' Sea, North Atlantic and lake fisheries, border immigration, reciprocity, minfng regula­ tions in the Klondike and in the British North American possessions, and also the determination of the Alaskan boundary line. given to the consideration and passage of a bill called up by Mr. Jenkins (Rep.) of Wisconsin to remove all political disabili­ ties incurred by the third section of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. The debate gave rise to notable speeches from Mr. Grqsvenor (Rep.) of Ohio and Mr. Settle (Dem.) of Kentucky, upon the obliteration of all section feeling and the reality at last of a reunited country. In­ cidental to the debate several members re­ viewed the conclusion that a member of Congress could not hold simultaneously a military and civil office. Upon its pas­ sage the bill received a unanimous vote. Marked progress was made by the Senate toward the final disposition of the war revenue measure. The committee amend­ ments on nearly sixty pages of the bill were passed upon. The /uteres! of the session centered in the action taken upon- the amendment of Mr. Gorman (Dem.) of Maryland, levying a tax of one-quarter of 1 per cent, upon the ^.oss receipts of all corporations doing a business exceed­ ing $250,000 a year. By a direct vote upon it the amendment was rejected--27 to 34. The Gorman amendment so modi­ fied that it levies a tax"of one-quarter of one per cent, on all corporations engaged in the refining of sugar or. petroleum was passed: Yeas, 33; nays, 20. The Senate continued its consideration, of the war revenue bill through its ses­ sion of Friday, completing everything but the bond provision and the amendments proposed by the Democrats to take its place. The speech of the day was male by Mr. Butler (Populist) of North Caro­ lina. The House, practically without de­ bate, passed the urgency deficiency bill providing for emergency, expenses of the army and navy incident to Directed Ooum»~i!^sftt8enients. Down to tlu> : enry VIII., and occasionally'siM^M^fepird of Mis­ rule" was appointwMHS^irect the amusements of thej^^^^^^ourt dur- tlie festivities, prepar^^l^^ies, di­ rected the sports, ano^iftV that the court was kept property amused dur­ ing Christmas week. The office was considered highly honorable, and the "Lord of Misrule." was generally some wealthy noblemsfn who was willing to spend money lavishly in promoting the gayeties of the court. It is of rec­ ord that during the reign of Elizabeth, Essex, as "Lord of Misrule,", spent in one Christmas season .$15,000 of his own money on the court games. TKW WEST FROM TOBOGGAN. VIEW NORTHEAST FROM WEST DOME OF FINE ARTS BUILDING. VIEW SOUTHWEST FROM WEST DOME OF FINE ARTS BUILDING. pected, but the soldiers having been called away to fight the battles of their country, this feature had to be dropped. In the great auditorium, Dr. Samuels, of St. Louis, assisted by a number of other prominent clergymen, delivered the official prayer. Nearly every exhibit was in place, and no half finished buildings or scaffolding were left to mar the beauty of the surroundings. More than a thou­ sand men were engaged night and day on the grounds the past ten days in order that the expositon might be opened in its completeness. Somthing of the Big Show. Omaha's exposition is not a Chicago World's Fair in magnitude, but it is in magnificence. The grounds are a para­ dise of beauty and -the buildings are mag­ nificent in appearance. For the good re­ sults achieved the people of this city and State owe much to the president of the fair, Gurdon W. Wattles, and to his able corps of assistants, both men and women. One of the pleasing features of the grounds is the. beautiful lagoon into which the purified water of the Missouri drowned. Five others, including the cap­ tain, died of exhaustion in the boat. The survivors, after being fifteen hours in aij open boat, were washed ashore and res­ cued. of the building, 12 magnificent statues surmounting the grand entrance. Most attractive of all the displays is housed in the electrical building, which adjoins manufactures. Here the latest and most ingenious of the products of American inventive brain are shown. The exhibits are not confined to America, but, of course, her citizens lead as they always have done in devising man's means of making life more worth the living. The boys and girls' building, the last on the north side of the lagoon, is. really the woman's building of the exposition. It is 100 feet square and in its center a hall is provided for lectures and entertainments, interesting to mothers and instructive to the little ones. The building is named for the boys and girls of the West because they contributed the money to pay for its construction. The exhibits includes dis­ plays of fancy work for the women and pictures and objects of interest for the school children. Another interesting building of the ex- • position is that for the housing of the transportation exhibit. Open air spaces are allotted for the display of agricul­ tural implements in operation, farm fences, pumps and windmills. Plenty of ground space is set aside for the poultry coops, and small, buildings are erected for the apiary and dairy displays. Several acres are given over to the dis­ play and explanation of methods and de­ vices for the irrigation of the arid lands of the West and lectures by practical men to the farmer, telling them how to supple­ ment nature with-the devices and meth­ ods born of man's brain and thus secure greater results from the soil they culti­ vate. '• . v An interesting feature of the fair will be "old soldiers' week." designed to be held during the week that President Mc­ Kinley will attend the exposition. The exposition will close Nov. 1. GOVERNMENT EXPENSE GROWS. Joseph Ringl. umeago--Uattie, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; s>heep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.74 to $1.76; corn, No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 2Gc to 28c; rye, No. 2, G2c to 63c; butter, choif.' creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 10c 'cO 12c; potatoes, common to choice, 55c to 70c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.19 to $1.21; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to S5c. "St. Louis--Cattle, $3;00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 t* $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.18 to $1.^1; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 57c to 59c. Cincinnati--Gfcttle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.17 to $1.19; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 56c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; slieep, $2:50 to $4.50; wheat, No.f2, $1.24 to $1.26; corn, /No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. .2 white, 30c to 32c; rye, 55c to 57c. > Toledo--Wheat, No. -2 red, $1.25 to $1.27; com. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 59c to 61c; clover seed, $3.20 to $3.30. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, $1.25 to $1.27; corn, No. 3, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 32c; rye, No. 1, 59c to 62c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 50c; pork, mess, $11.50 to $12.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.34 to $1.36; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, i $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75j i wheat, No. 2 red, $1.44 to $1.45; corn", No, 2, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to • 35c; butter, creamery, 14c to-17c; egg», : 'Western, 12c to 13c. WASHINGTON. Wheelman who won the Chicago road race on Memorial Day. Statement for May Shows Expendi- 1 tures lixceed Receipts. • The comparative statement of the re­ ceipts and expenditures of the Govern­ ment shows that during May, 1898, the receipts amounted to $30,074,818 and the expenditures to $47,849,909, leaving a de­ ficit for tho month of $17,800,000. This deficit is accounted for by the increase#" expenditures on account of the war. The increase in these two items as compared with May. 1897, is about $19,500,000. The receipts from customs during the last month aggregated $13,466,534, a decrease as compared with May, 1897, of about $3.<KK).OOif. The receipts from internal revenue amounted* to $14,492,208, a gain of nearly $4,000,000. For the eleven months the receipts show an increase over 1897 of over $60,000,000. T'nnip', Tamp", T'amp.',--'.'the boys are marching" to Tampa. 159 ADMINISTRATION ARCH, Iliver has been turned. At the western end of the lagoon is the Government building, a notable example of the Ionic style' of architecture. It overlooks the entire lagoon, its main buildings being topped by a massive dome, surmounted by a heroic figure of "Liberty Enlightening the World." It is built in three sections and is 504 feet in length. The torch held aloft by "Liberty", is 178 feet from the ground. Immediately in front of this building is the water mirror built in the form of a trefoil, its ground edges being surrounded by an attractive peristyle. Around the lagoon on all of its four sides are pillars 15 feet high and about the same distance apart, each" sur- ""mounted by a stud of a dozen incan­ descent lights. There are at least a hundred of these pillars, with 1,000 lights in all. These, added to the arc Grent Rabbit Cntoh. A cat owned by Mrs. Henry Hastings, of Poultney, Vt„ has captured 175 rab­ bits during its life, which have been eaten by the family. The cat carries the smaller animals home itself, but leaves the larger ones for some member of the family to go after. ' To prevent the overfilling of bottles' an air tube is placed inside the filler and bent N-shaped to enter another bottle and draw off the liquid Vt-hen it rises, bent U-shaped to enter another bottle being filled. Command Offered W. J. Bryan. Gov. Stephens of Missouri wired Wil­ liam .T. Bryan tendering him the colonelcy of a regiment of volunteers. Mr. Bryan replied, stating that lie appreciated tho honor, but that there avas a prospect that his regiment would be accepted, and he felt that his first duty was to the Ne­ braska boys. ' ' Steamer Pedro a Rich Prize. The steamer Pedro, which was captured by the New York off Havana on April 2.1, was appraised at $200,000 by the uaval board.