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THE PLAINDEALEK 4. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. - - - ILLINOIS CAST-IRON DRAGONS. and seventy miles long. In Orleans Coun­ ty hundreds of orchards were entirely de­ stroyed. The damage will reach many thousands of dollars. A woman living near Gaines is said to have received fatal injuries from a falling building. Many large barns xre«Mlestroyed and the wreck­ age carriprf from sixty to 100 feet. The wind started in the western part of Ni­ agara County and traveled east. THEY CAUSE A MILLIONAIRE MUCH TROUBLE. Brazilian Magnate, Who Has Been Fair Plunder for New York Trades­ men, Turns on ThemnCanse of Late Disorder in Perana Explained. Woes of a Millionaire. The woes of a man with money was aired before Justice Olcott, in the eity court in New York. The man with ,wooe and money is Senor IJuegeuio de F:iria de1 Teixera, a Brazilian nobleman, who came to New York about two years ago with a train load of gold and diamonds. ,-He was --defendant Jn a suit brought by Eugene Kulinski &' Co.,- manufacturers of cast iron dogs, dragons and other beasts and fowl intended i'or the adornment of the i-astles of the rich. -The«contention, of Kulinski, & Go. was that the firm had manufactured for Senor Teixera'a pair of cast iron dragons worth £244, for which he had refused to pay. . Senor, Teixera, while admitting a fondness for; past iron dragons, denied that he had Ordered a pair from Kulinski &. Co. Right here is where some of the woe comes in. There is ground for belief that some of the jury­ men thought Senor Teixera was a Span­ iard and refused to decide in his favor. Senor Teixera speaks Spanish and looks like a Spaniard, but he is not Spanish in his sympathies. He is the loudest shouter for Cuba libre outside of the junta and wears Cuban flags as big as two-dollar bills in the lapel of his coat. '1W testi­ mony showed that am the negotiations be­ tween the Zulinski firm ami the opulent Brazilian had been conducted in Spanish, and the. effect on the jury was marked. The rest of the woe was brought out by the trial of this case. Senor Teixera, ever since his arrival in New York, has been kept weir before the public "through the efforts of a trained corps of press agents. In all of the stories printed about him great stress has been laid on his wealth. Columns.of space have been devoted to the great palace he is building at 918 West End avenue. He' has been besieged by tradesmen anxious to sell him goods. They have bombarded him with Spanish. Eng­ lish, Italian. French, German and Yiddish and have filled his house with things he does.not want. For a long time lie paid for everything brought to him. He has now decided to pay for nothing he does 1 not order. His lawyers have sixty sum­ monses served on him by tradesmen who have delivered goods. He is going to fight them all, Turks Explain the Disorder. In reference to certain published state­ ments, the Turkish legation at Washing­ ton makes the following declaration: "The frequent murders and pillages, committed by Christians of Perana,, under the in­ stigation of Montenegrins, have exas­ perated the Mussulman population of the district and having forced them into re­ prisals, some altercations and disorders have occurred, and during these disturb­ ances a number of huts of villagers have been destroyed. Turkish troops sent im­ mediately in sufficient numbers to the spot . \ , at Wee restored order. His imperial ma jesiy, the Sultan, has magnanimously ac­ corded full and complete amnesty to (he persons implicated in this affair and gfen eroiisly ordered the rebuilding of the de str/oyed huts and the reinstallation into their old homes of the Christian inhabit­ ants who had crossed over to Monte­ negro." Bace for the Pennant. Follpwing is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. WESTERN. Cincinnati Boston ... Cleveland Baltimore Chicago .. Pittsburg . .30 .35 .33 .30 .31 .30 19 New York.. ..27 20 Philadelphia. 23 21 Brooklyn 22 Washington. 25 St. Louis.... £5 Louisville .. .22 20 .20 .19 Following is the standing of the clubs in the-Western League: W. L. W Indianapolis. 34 i9 Milwaukee ; .29 Kansas City.32 21 Minneapolis. 19 St. Paul 33 22 Detroit 19 Columbus .. .28 £0Omaha 13 1 n; $300,000 Fire at Louisville. The entire strength of the Louisville, Ky., fire department was summoned to combat a fire in the wholesale tobacco district, which for a time threatened to do enormous damage. In twenty minutes the walls of Smead & Co.'s iron foundry were tottering and in an hour property to the value of $250,000 had gone up "in smoke.' Smead & Co. occupied the build­ ings extending from Main to Market street between Eighth and Ninth streets. Their loss is $300,000., The Phoe­ nix Hotel, a block east in Market street, caught from the sparks and was partially destroyed. NEWS NUGGETS. Arkansas Democrats have nominated Dan W. Jones of Pulaski for Governor. Charley Fincber, aged 13 years, acci-> dentally shot and killed Otto Gpvey, aged 11, at Mayfield, Ivy. & The Fitzgerald block, one of the finest brick and stone buildings .in the business district of Lincoln, Neb., was totally de­ stroyed by fire. ^ Miss Mila McGrew of Johnstown, Ohio, has become insane as the result of fright. The sight of two men standing harmlessly by the curb on a dark street caused her fright. The Sultan of Turkey, according to the Frankfort Zeitung, has purchased 3.000 square yards of land near Jerusalem, which he will present to Emperor Wili- iam as a site for .a German monastery. Richard P. Blaind, the noted free silver advocate, who represents the Eighth Mis souri district in Congress, has been re­ nominated by acclamation. In St. Louis, Mo.. Samuel 1/ Lind-jey, a bookkeeper for the Bargadine-McKit- trick Dry Goods Company, was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, Herbert G. Everingham. . The Missouri crop report says that some ground intended for corn will be used for other crops. Reports of serious damage by chinch bugs and rust to wheat have been received from many sections. Oats are rusting badly. EASTERN. At Ellis, Kan., fire destroyed the opera house and three frame dwellings. Loss, $25,000. While being led back to their cells at the Kansas City, Mo., work house twelve prisoners crowded Guard Ferguson into a corner and made a break to escape. Chas. Hughes, a desperate twelve-months man, succeeded in scaling the wall and was making off when shot and fatally wound­ ed by George A. Smith; a guard. After a sharp struggle the other prisoners were corraled. W. F. Berry of San Francisco, who has just "returned from a trip across White Pass trail, says.lie, did not find conditions there nearly so bad as, had been reported; Three miles of the railroad haVe been built, >and it is to be completed to the lakes by September. Mr. Berry says the number of prospectors between the head Of Lindeman and Tagish lakes is. about 27,000. The forward movement to Daw­ son began May 27. At" Stillwater. Minn., the .flouring mill and elevator belonging to Isaac Staples were totally destroyed by fire. It was the hottest fire witnessed there since the burning of the Minnesota' 'State- prison. The heroic efforts of the fire department and volunteers saved the business houses and factories in North Main street. The loss is estimated at $150,000 and the in­ surance on the elevator a,nd contents was $74,000.' No insurance was carried on the mill, owing to the excessive pre­ miums. The fire, it is supposed, started from a hot pulley in the engine-room of the mill. - At St. Paul, Minn., Alfred S- Kittson, youngest son of the late Commodore Kitt­ son, has made an assignment to Hannah Steinbrecher, better known as Nina Clif­ ford. When Commodore Kittson died in 18S8 he left a will which decreed that Alfred Kittson should not become possess-, ed of his property until 1896, fully four years after his 21st birthday. Kittson borrowed a great deal of money wherever he could get it. Nina Clifford let him ha^e sums amounting to nearly $40,000. Press­ ed for the payment of these notes, Kitt­ son was obliged to make an assignment, as it is understood he has little left of the $200,000 his father left him. The finishing department of the King Powder Company, located at Kings Mills, Ohio, was destroyed the other night in a manner leading to the belief that it was the work of enemies of the Government. The building, in which was stored a quan­ tity of smokeless powder, had evidently been fired near midnight by two men. one of whom was badly burned and apparently had been dragged away from the burning building by his companion, who then ran away in the direction of South Lebanon. Smokeless powder in the condition it was in this department does not explode, like ordinary powder, w|th a flash, but breaks into a bright light, and burns for some time. The great light attracted-citizens and some of these met a stranger going to­ ward South Lebanon. The injured man was taken into custody. He is apparently a foreigner, but is so badly injured that he can scarcely talk. The powder burned was not for the Government, and the money loss is inconsiderable, perhaps $2,- 000. This company has a contract to sup­ ply the Government, and this is thought to be the reason its destruction was at­ tempted. The Ideal mining camp of Park City, Utah, is a mass of unsightly ruins, the fire to which it succumbed having raged with awful fury for .nearly eight hours. The fire originated in ihe Freeman House or American Hotel. Twenty minutes lat­ er great swarms of people filled the streets. The flames Bad spread from the original structure and sped northward. Business blocks and dwellings were 6wept away alike. Through the business houses the fire gained jts way and reached the residences on Park avenue. Here reside the aristocratic portion of Park City's population. One by one the houses fell until no less than seventy-five residences, valued at from $500 to $2,000, were re­ duced. Along the street, one business block after another fell. Appeals for help were addressed to Salt Laj^e and to Og- derr, and a squad from Salt Lake's fire de­ partment arrived. Following was a com­ pany from the Ogden department. The fire at that time had reached the Crescent concentrator, the northern extremity of its course, which fell with a deafening crash. The estimated loss is abdut $1,- 000,060, with light insurance. John Knott, a private in Company D, Seventh Illinois infantry, shot three times at Emma Oakland, a woman barber in Minneapolis, each shot hitting her in the left hip. The mui'derous assault will not prove fatal, although Knott admits he shot for her heart. The woman is now at the Minneapolis city hospital, while Knott occupies a cell at the Minneapolis central police station. The shooting had been planned and Knott traveled 1,500 miles to accomplish his purpose. Miss Oakland is employed at the barber shop of John Anderson, Fifth avenue south and Washington avenue', Minneapolis. Knott arrived in the city direct from Camp Alger, Virginia, where0 his regi­ ment is located. Calling at Anderson's place, he stepped up to Miss Oakland, ad­ dressed her by her first name and asked her to shave him. She refused. He then wanted her to go out oil the street with him. She again refused. They talked for a few moments and he backed out to­ ward the door. Suddenly lie drew a re volver, and before ar^ one could interfere had fired three times at the woman. She fell to the floor and he ran out of the shop. When he reached Fourth street and Nicol­ let avenue he gave himself up to Officer Russell. Knott said that he became en­ gaged to the girl in Chicago, but after he went to Camp Alger she wrote him a cruel letter, breaking the engagement. He said if she died he would soon follow her. hours laterTVThe train was running down grade 'at th<£ usual rate, aud just at the entrance of a%it the flange of the outside rail broke, derailing the engine. The mail coach jumped over the embankment and was overturned, being completely demol islicd. The express car telescoped into the mas% of debris and the two messen­ gers were badly shaken ufL, The front passenger car was derailed and a ha,lf dozen passengers were injured, but none seriously. FOREIGN. Another revolution is said to be on foot in the Dominican republic. Good rains which have fallen in that col­ ony have, it is estimated, improved the value of the wlieqt crop of Victoria, Aus­ tralia, by £1,000,000 ($5,000,000). A band of forty brigands, according to a special dispatch from Constantinople, has abducted a sister of the sultan. The princess was seized while she' was out walking at Kizil Toprak, a few miles from Constantinople, where she resided Abdul Hamid has three sisters--Princess Djemile, widow of Mahmotid Djellallodin Pasha; Princess Seniha, wife of Mah- mond Pasha, and Princess Med ilia, wife of Ferid Pasha, late secretary of the Turkish legation in London. Princess Djemile and Princess Seniha have long resided in the suburbs of Constantinople. A dispatch from Berlin says the Reich- sanzeiger announces that from July 31 next Great Britain and her colonies, with the exception of Canada, will receive from Germany the benefit of the most ravored nation treatment. ' The exclusion of Can­ ada from t? >se benefits is regarded as a reprisal for Canada's action which brought about the denouncement by Great Britain of the commercial treaties with Germany and Belgium. Sir Richard Cartwright, minister of trade and com­ merce at Ottawa, Out., when questioned concernim/Qiis^report, said the move was not afciH$lxiiected one on the part of the German Empire, that Canada could not complain, as she need not have expected "favored nation" treatment5 from those to whom she did not give it. "As regards German trade with Canada," continued the minister, "it is decidedly one-sided, and we will not suffer much. We buy at least six tinies as much from Germany as she takes from us, and. possibly a great deal more than that. The direct imports from Germany into Canada last year were about $6,500,000 in value, besides the goods imported from that country through England. On the other hand, Canadian exports to Germany only amounted to $1,000,000 last year. Canada would be very,, little affected by the action of the German Government in this matter." IN uENERAi The claims of Canadian sealers arising out of seizures made by the United States in Behring sea were finally settled by the payment to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, of approximately $473,000, being the full amount of the claims as settled under an agreement be­ tween the United States and Great Brit­ ain. Capt. JohH Bartlett, with a crew of eleven men, sailed from St. Johns, ,N. F.# for New York to man Lieut. Peary's arc­ tic steamer Windward, which will leave that city on a polar expedition about July I. Aii the crew are picked menunqer 28 years of age, carefully chosen to resist the winter's confinement, possibly within the arctic circle. The Windward's destination is Sherard Osborne fjord, west of Green­ land, a point about 200 miles farther north than Peary's previous anchorages. Peary will take an assistant and a sur­ geon, making fifteen all told in the chip's company. The steamer Hope, the Wind­ ward's sister ship, will sail June 25 for Sydney, Capo Breton, where she will load coal ,going thence with a party of Peary's friends on a cruise northward as far as Littleton Island, where she will bid Peary's men adieu before they enter upon the three years' absence from civilization. Bradstreet's commercial report says: "Unprecedented foreign trade totals, in­ volving heavily increased shipments of breadstuffs, provisions, raw cotton and manufactured products; flattering crop prospects, pointing to a very large yield of wheat and most other cereals, as well as cotton; profitable railway operations, as reflected in relatively* higher gains in net than in gross receipts; activity in nearly all lines of manufacturing except some textile branches; prices for most staples showing heavy advances over the preceding year; bank clearings exceeding all previous records at this date; a volume of hew demand limited in the East and South to midsummer dullness, but in the West and Northwest comparing favora­ bly with records of previous years, and a low rate of business mortality, are all features of the general business situation at the present time. The collapse ol Loiter and his deal in wheat, with the demoralization of prices which was con­ comitant, has been followed by a quietei feeling in cereal markets, but export de­ mand, partly on early placed orders, has improved, and more is doing by flour mill­ ers. It is true that the continued wet weather in sections west of the Missis­ sippi is affecting wheat harvesting, but trade opinion leans to a crop of 700,000,- 000 bushels of wheat and large yields ot most "other cereals, witli corn promising least favorably. Wheat exports for the week aggregate 4,380,787 bushels, againsl 4,730,982 bushels last week'and 2,547,319 bushels in this week a year ago. Corn exports are also slightly smaller than las1 week, amounting to 4,106,000 bushels." BUYING WAfi BONDS. V: SMALL INVESTORS SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROPULAR LOAN. Results of First Applications Indicate that Small Iuvestora Will Take'JSn tire Issue of $2'00,000,000-Resard- ed as First-class Securities. Loan Is a Success. The Government has taken every possi­ ble' step to make the new bond issue in every sense a popular loan. While the great banking syndicates of this country and Europe are ready and willing to sub­ scribe for the entire bond issue, the Treas' ury Department has decided that individ­ ual subscriptions will receive attention first and that the smallest amounts asked for will be allotted before the larger ones This means that any private citizen who desires to invest a little money in the new government bonds will be accommodated before the millionaires and the banking institutions may purchase these desirable securities. v? , ' Small investors regard the new bonds as first-class securities, and unless all present indications tire misleading the en­ tire issue will be placed before the larger banking institutions will be permitted to subscribe. The people want the bonds and are not a whit backward about asking for them. The sub-treasury, the banks, postoflice station^, and...express offices in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Bos­ ton, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other large cities, as well as many of the smaller ones, Were besieged the first day with requests for information and for the ap­ plication blanks prescribing the form in which subscriptions must be made. Con­ servative Estimates place the first day's "small subscription" totals at $3,000,000. In Chicago the day's subscription reach­ ed $685,860. Experts say more than $10,- 000.000 will be subscribed in small sums in New York alone. These bonds bear interest at 3 per cent, payable quarterly. The denominations of the coupon bonds are $20, $100, $500 and $1,000; of registered bonds, $20, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. In terms they are precisely like all other United States bonds outstanding--that is, they are payable in coin. Secretary Gage's letter of instructions reveals the precautions taken by the ad­ ministration and the Treasury Depart­ ment to make this a popular loan in the strictest sense-^-to insure the small invest­ ors.getting the bonds if they Want them. Until 3 o'clock p. m. July 14, no subscrip­ tion will be honored that calls for more than JJ500. All others will be pigeon­ holed. If the subscriptions for $500 or less exhaust the entire issue of $200,000,- 000 the others will stay , pigeon-holed. Whatever of the total issue, if any re­ main, will be allotted after July 14, and again the small banks and the1 man of money. The allotment of what remains will commence with the smallest subscrib­ er--that is, the man who wants $600 or $1,000 worth of bonds will have his appli­ cation honored before that of the; man who asks for $1,200 or $2,000, and so on. It is therefore practically impossible for the banks and wealthy men who would bid for blocks of $100,000 or $1,000,000 to get any of these bonds if the people of modest means take advantage of this month of time. Marshaling of "dummies" by the banks, which some have appeared to fear, is out of the question, since two dummies" would be needed fo? every $1,- 000 of bonds, and to get a block of $100,- 000 the bond seekers would need a whole regiment of "dummies." The bonds are all to be sold to the peo­ ple at a fixed price or at par value. This is another safeguard for the popular fea­ ture of the loan. No fear is entertained of a too rapid absorption of the nation's currency by the bond purchasers. It is figured that most of the money to be put into bonds will be idle capital. When the small investors have had their fill, if there be anything left for .the big bidders and banks, they will be permitted to re­ ceive their allotments in installments of 20 per cent at intervals of forty days to guard against rapid absorption of the cur­ rency. If the national banks were able to get hold of large blocks, there might be an inflation of. the currency , by an issue of national bank notes against the. new bonds, but this is not a real danger on ac­ count of the restrictions against the banks already noticed. FEARS A NEW POLICY. Mr. Cleveland Warns Against Terri­ torial Extension. Grover Cleveland, in the course of an address on "Good Citizenship" before the graduating class of the Lhwreneeville, New Jersey, school, said he was opposed to the acquisition of,new territory by the United States. He said in substance: The American people are tempted every­ day and every hour to abandon their accus­ tomed way and enter upon a course of new and strange adventure. - Never before In our history have we been beset with tempta­ tions so dangerous as those which, now whis­ per |n our ears alluring words of conquest and "expansion and point out to us tields bright In the glory of war. I believe there Is sometimes a tendency to think of patriot- Ism as something bellicose apd defiant, best Illustrated by noisily bragiging of our na* tlonal prowess, quarrelsomely seeking some one who dares, dispute it, and threatening war against the combined world on the slightest pretext. In view of these thing*;, and considering our achievements In , the past and our promise for the future, recall­ ing what we have done and what we haVe been and what ..yet remains for us to do un­ der the guidance of the rules and motives which have thus far governed our national lire, ^you surely are entitled to demand Hig­ hest of reasons for a change'in our policy and conduct, and to expect a conclusive ex­ planation of the conditions which make our acquisition of new and distant territory either justifiable, prudent,, or necessary. * FIFTY DROWN AT A LAUNCHING Sad Accident Mars the Ceremonies at Black wall, England. Fifty persons, it is believed,, were killed at Blackwall, England,, when the new British battleship Albion was launched. Crowds of people were on a platform, built to accommodate the spectators, aiid 800 men, womeri1 and children were pre­ cipitated into the river Thames, the woodwork being unable to bear the weight on it. Tugs, steamers and rowboats im­ mediately went to the assistance of the. helpless people, but many sank before they could be reached. The accident was due to a sudden rush of water, following the launching. The backwash from the launching of the ves­ sel surged against and broke down the staging eighty feet long, filled with the spectators. The launching was presided over by the duchess of York. A large and brilliant company of ladies and gentlemen were present, including United States Ambassador Hay and Mrs. Hay. None of the guests were on the stage, nor were any prominent persons included among its unfortunate occupants. INCREASE IN REVENUE. .I/arjje Internal Collections Show Increase for May. The monthly statement of the collec­ tions of internal revenue shows that the May collections amounted to $14,098,117, an increase over May last year of $3,281,- 225. The receipts from the several sources, of revenue and the increases, as compared With May, 1897, are given as follows: Spirits, $7,096,460; increase, $1,- 9S8,057; tobacco, $3,754,062; increase, $1,- 013,759; fermented liquors, $3,131,505; increase, $247,887; oleomargarine, $88,- 014; increase, $23,712; miscellaneous, $28,074; increase, $4,962. The net in­ crease in the receipts during the last elev­ en iponths was $19,938,808. vjctr i«r Oregon's uovernor. The official vote in the recent Oregon State election shows the following result for Governor: Geer, Republican King, fusion Luce, middle of the road Clinton, Prohibition Total vote Geer's plurality Geer's majority . Government Out-a Million. A well-known banking house made a proposition to the Secretary of the Treas­ ury'to subscribe for $100,000,000 of the new bonds at 101. Under the law the bonds must be sold at par and allotted to the subscribers' for the smaller amounts first, hence the offer could not be enter­ tained. Subscriptions for $20 bonds or multiples of that amount up to $500 will be awarded as fast as received. (EUR SOUTHERN. The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company has made an assignment. This company has been running fifteen years, has enjoyed exceptional credit and ha paid regular dividends. An important gas deal, which has been on for the last three years, was consum­ mated at Pittsburg, Pa., by the consolidift. tion of ttie illuminating gas companies oil, to which place Shiire belonged? Allegheny County. The capital stock of the new company is $11,000,000. 7v k terrific windstorm struck Niagara and Orleans counties, New York. The storm traveled in a belt three miles wide my&i.i '• •' •" v • The five negroes who recently murdered Mr. Garden and his wife and an old man named Carlee, near Watumpka, Ala., were taken from the jail by a mob and strung up to a tree near the scene of the murder. When- about to go in bathing at Pablo Beach, Jacksonville, Fla., Janies T. Gate- wood, private stenographer to Gen. Fitz- hugh Lee, was struck by lightning and in­ stantly killed. Gatewood was from Rich­ mond, Ya. The old 'Habersham rice mills, a block of the oldest buildings in Savannah, Ga., one of them having been built in 1828, were destroyed, by fire. The fire was started by lightning. The buildings were among the most historic in Savannah. Private Charles Shure, aged 19, of the Twelfth Minnesota infantry, was drown­ ed while bathing in Chiekamauga creek, Chattanooga, Tenn. Shure could not swim and ventured into deep water. The re­ mains were shipped to Winona, Minn., A Norfolk and-Western passenger train was wrecked-two rnileg west of Sfiaws- ville, Va. Three were killed and several Injured." Engineer Horner. was crushed beneath his engine and Fireman Sadler W so badly scalded that lie died two MARKET REPORTS'*, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3 .00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping .grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 42c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 11c; new potatoes, choice., 65c to 80^ per bushel. 'Inaianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to'$4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c;, oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30cl St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 39c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 39c to 41c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.20; she<jp, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, ivo. 2, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oatB, No. 2 white, 29c ;to 30c; rye, 42c to 44c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2. 40c to 42c; clover seed, $3:30 to $3.40. Milwaukee---Wheat, No. 2 spring, 84c to 86c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 1, 41c to 43c; barley, No. 2, 54c to 46C; pork," mess, $9.25 to $9.75. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.0 Oto $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; .sheep, fair to^chpioe weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4/25 to $6.00. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; bogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 82c. to 84c; corn, No. 2. 37c to 39c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 83c; butter, creamery, 13c to 18c; eggs, Weitern, 11c to 13c. Sampson solves the problem: The way to open the Santiago bottle is to smash it. --Philadelphia Ledger. "I suppose^jthere is no danger of Cer-' vera breaking out?" "Not unless he gets the measles."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Apparently by the time Santiago, San Juan and other places fall, obstinate Mad­ rid may tumble.--Philadelphia Times. The Americans were generous enough to sink o'ne of their own ships when they found Spain couldn't do it.---St. Paul Dis­ patch. Acting Admiral Sampson's opinion of the management of .those Cuba-bound troops is probably wholly unfit for publi cation.---Boston Globe. If Cerv'era sinks that fleet that is soon to become ours we will place it on the ex­ pense account when we come to settle up --St. Paul Dispatch. Come to think of it, Dewey is a name to conjure with.--Philadelphia Press. This country's floating population was never larger than it is now, but it will be still larger ,wlien the next expedition starts.--Boston Herald. It is pot true that t,he troops at Tampa are waiting for the gulf of Mexico to freeze over, so that they can cross to Cuba on the ice.--Boston Globe. The Government has been urged to adopt worsted as the material for uni­ forms, but in battle our troops must not be worsted.--Boston Globe. When sweethearts separate, he going to the war, there are some so prosaic as to call the final parting a kind of souvenir spoon.--Philadelphia Times. Gen. Miles' critics forget that be may cause some annoyance by sinking that bath tub and thu6 foozle the approach of the enemy.--Washington Post. • The war board for the Philippines is composed of George Dewey and Emilo Aguiunldo, and its motto is "Push Things."--Philadelphia Ledger. There is a good deal of heroism and ro­ mance in the present "war--the Americans doing the heroic and the Spanish-doing the romancing.--Salt Lake Herald. In Minnesota the Populists, Democrats fnd silver Republicans nominated a fusion ticket. Arkansas Democrats nominated a State ticket, denounced the bond issue and in- florsed the war. The Republicans of the Twenty-first Dhio district, renominated Theodore E. purton for Congress. The colored Republicans of Alabama, Jn convention, put up a ticket composed exclusively of negroes. M. S. Peters was nominated to repre­ sent the Populists of the Second District of Kansas in Congress. John S. Rhea was renominated for Con­ gress by the Third district . Kentucky Democrats at Bowling Green. Dan W. Jones, of Pulaski, was nom­ inated for Governor of Arkansas by the Democrats in convention at Little Rock. Congressman Lorenzo Danford was re- pominated for his sixth term by the Re­ publican convention for the sixteenth dis­ trict of Ohio. Republicans of the Fifth congressional district of Iowa, in convention at Cedar Rapids, renominated Robert G. Cousins by acclamation. The Kansas Populists renominated the present State officers. The ticket will re­ ceive the votes of the Democrats and free Silver Republicans. At the conventioii of the Michigan mid- dle-of-.the-roaders, held in Grand Rapids, a State ticket was nominated, with Sulli­ van Cook for Governor. The Democratic convention of the Tenth congressional district of Illinois nominated Francis E. Andrew of White­ side County for Congress. The Republicans of Vermont nominated Col. E. C. Smith of St. A'bans f°r Gov­ ernor by acclamation and H. Bates of St. Johnsbury for Lieutenant Governor. , The Sixth district B8pulists and Demo­ crats, in separate conventions at St. Clo'ud, Minn., nominated Charles A Towne, silver Republican, for Congress. The fusibn convention of the Demo­ crats, Populists and free silver Republi­ cans of the Eighth Iowa district met and nominated G. L. Finn of Bedford for Con­ gress. The Democrats and Populists of Ivan sas united in naming a State ticket, J. W. Leedy was renominated for Governor and J. D. Botkin for Congressman-at large. John Lind was nominated by the three conventions at Minneapolis for (governor. J. M. Bowler w;as nominated for Lieuten­ ant Governor by the Populists and indors­ ed by the others. The middle-of-the-road)" Populists of Minnesota, who bolted the State Populist convention, held a meeting of their own and nominated a complete State ticket •L. C. Long was named for Governor. Richard P. Bland, the noted free silver •advocate, who represents the Eighth Mis­ souri district in Congress, was renominat­ ed by acclamation.^ Congressman Bland lias been renominated by the Democrats of his district without intermission since 1872. < The Foreign Relations Committee, through Mr. Davis, the chairman, on Fri­ day reported favorably to the Senate the Newlands resolutions for the annexation <of the Hawaiiah Islands. The bill to in­ corporate the International American Bank, in accordance with the recommend- Pan-American congress, •jwhft^tia^Sofrupied a greater part of the 'Senate's tjfcjW during the week was pass­ ed by a vote Of 26 to 23. The conference report on the bankruptcy bill was present­ ed find read, but no action was taken. The general deficiency bill occupied the atten­ tion of-the House. •' 'Saturday's session of the House was de­ voted cliiefly to eulogies upon the life and clifiifeeter of7 former Senator Harris of Tennessee. Prior to hearing eulogies some consideration was given to a conference report" upon 'fhe District of. Columbia ap- lir<ipi<iatiofr bill. The Senate was not in session'. ' 'u> • Discussion by tlfb. Senate of the ques­ tion of Hawaiian annexation was begun on Monday in open session. The princi­ pal speech of the first day was made by Senator Morrill of Vermont, in opposition to annexation. The taking of a test vote (45 to 15) showed the opponents of annex­ ation to be in a hopeless minority. The House passed the general deficiency bill, carrying $224,000,000. The bill occasion­ ed little debate, and it passed practically as reported to the House from the Com­ mittee on Appropriations. The remainder of the day was given to District of Co­ lumbia business. The resolution for the annexation of Hawaii was laid before the Senate al­ most immediately after it convened on Tuesday. Speeches opposing annexation were made by Mr. Mitchell of Wisconsin and Mr. White of California. After pass­ ing several bills of minor importance the House, in committee of the whole, consid­ ered, without disposing of it, a bill to re­ fer to the court of claims certain claims of persons for property taken or destroyed by the confederate invasions into the southern counties of Pennsylvania. The bill brought oil a long debate. Opponents of the annexation of Hawaii again occupied the attention of the Sen­ ate on Wednesday. Mr. White (Dem., Cal.) resumed his speech begun the day before, but, after speaking two hours, yielded the floor to Mr. Pettigrew (S. D.), who discussed the resolutions for an hour and a half. Mr. White had not concluded his speech, Mr. Pettigrew taking up the argument against the resolutions merely to afford him an opportunity to rest. Mr. Pettigrew maintained that the territory of the United States was already large enough, and he believed it his duty to re­ sist the acquisition of any territory inhab­ ited by a people far inferior to ours or so located as to require a navy to defend it. Discussion in the Senate of the Hawaii­ an annexation question was interrupted on Thursday by Mr. Rawlins of Utah witb a speech in which he criticised vigorously the provision embodied in the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill which acknowledges the right of Indians to lease minei'al lands on their reserva­ tions. At 1 o'clock the Hawaiian resolu­ tion was called up and Mr. Pettigrew of* South Dakota resumed his speech in oppo­ sition, addressing the Senate for about two hours. Mr. Pettigrew, on account of atigue, yielded the floor to Mr. McEnery (Dem., La.), who presented a constitution­ al argument against annexation. At the session of the House further agreements upon the sundry civil bill were reported from the committee on conference and adopted, and further conference upon the remaining points in difference was re­ quested. A large number of bills of minor importance were passed and sixty-three pension and relief measures were disposed of. pursuant to the recommendations reached several days before in committee of the whole. The House adjourned until Monday. Ancient Posters. It is probably the general impression that posters and handbills are modern inventions, but it lias just been dis­ covered that the ancient Romans prac­ ticed this method of-advertising. In digging at Herculaneum there was brought to light a pillar covered with bills,-one on top of another. The paste used to stick them was made of gum ara.bic. The bills, when separated and examined, were found to be programs and announcements of public meetings and even election proclamations. Ant Knowledge. The president of t he Agassiz Associa­ tion, H. H. Ballard, recently caught an ant near its hill, shut it up in a box, carried it 150 feet away, and set it free in the middle of a sandj^-road. What followed he tlius describes; "It seemed at first bewildered. Then it climbed to the top of a ridge of sand, erected its body as high as possible, waved its antennae for several seconds, and then started in a straight line for home." Growth of Palestine's Population. As one testimony to the rapid growth of Palestine's population, it is stated on good authority that, while ten years ago there were not quite 15,000 resi­ dents in Jaffa, to-day there are nearly 50,000. * Italian Faster. Sued, who recently completed his sixty-fourth public fast, in Rome, has abstained from food in his perform­ ances for 2,500 days of his life--nearly! seven years. Too Mnch for Him. •Sad about Joe Smith's insanity, poor fellow." "What ailed him?" "Well--he was janitor in a bank, and broke down bis constitution trying to keep it warm enough for thin clerks aud cool enough for the fat ones." Clovefe for the World. The two little islands of Zanzibar and Peuiba furnish four-fifths of the cloves consumed by the'world. Fly in a Machines. If a flying machine had power to varj> Its inclinations, when once launched into the mean velocity of the wind it could take advantage of the varying velocity and direction of the wind. Failing with the slower wind, it would accumulate the«euergy which it would have to ex­ pend in rising with the higher and thus become capable of indefinite sustain- tnent or advance. It would require, however, an even more intimate knowl­ edge and quick perception of the cur­ rents of the ,air than a mariner pos- ' scsses as to sea currents. WAR HISTORY OF A WEEK. / ' Friday. The British warship Talbot * went to Havana to take off the British consul and residents. 5The President decided to send a second expedition" of 6,000 men from Tampa to re-enforce Gen. Shafter. The new fortifications af Cardenas have been bombarded by American warships and the Spanish severely punished. The Spanish steamer Purisihia Cqncep- cion, loaded with food for Manzanillo, left Kingston, takings westward course. The American collier Ravensdale, o'wn- ed by a Philadelphia firm, is suspected of delivering a cargo of coal to the enemy's warships. Saturday. It is said that Gen. Miles will personally 'end the expedition to Porto Rico. The British ambassador and the Spanish minister of wa# had an important confer­ ence at Madrid. Emperor William of Germany is said to be irritated over reports in British arid American newspapers:that he is unfriend­ ly to the United States. One of the German war vessels at Ma­ nila has been ordered -away, indicating lhat the Kaiser intends no menacing act io American domination. Eleven of Admiral Camara's fleet said to be eri route to Cartagena for orders. Five of the sqi>,#kon are not located. There are said troops;, on the fleet.. ' -L\ At a council of war at the White House 't was decided that the original plans of campaign for the conduct of the war shall De adhered' to and pushed with vigor and energy.; Sunday. Report current that Manila has sur­ rendered. The cruiser Newark left Hampton Roads with part of the Illinois recruits on board. James T. Gatewood, private secretary to Gen. Lee, was killed by lightning at Jacksonville, Fla. Spanish infantry made a hasty retreat for cover at .Guantanamo under heavy fire from American warships. President M.cKinley chooses 195 young men from the enlisted ranks and civilian • life for appointment as second lieutenants tn the army. Admiral Sampson decided to reduce Morro Castle at Santiago. He learned (hat Hobson and his men were no longer in the fort as a shield against the fire of the American ships. Monday.t 4 News of attempt to assassinate Blanco. Gen. Shaffer's army of invasion arriv­ ed off Santiago de Ciiba. •_ , Believed that the President will soon issue a call for more volunteers. Illinois naval recruits left Norfolk, Va., on the collier Cassius, which sailed south. Indications that the Spaniards desire a ransom before releasing Hobson and his crew. 'Ji:'! Reported that hereafter Captain Gen­ eral Blanco will recognize no flag of truce in Havanese waters. The President and; Secretary Long de­ cide to make Hobson, the hero of the Mer- rimac, a lieutenant commander. Albert Ames of Massachusetts and Jo­ seph W. Plume of New Jersey were nom­ inated to be brigadier generals. Tuesday. Hunger is prevailing in Havana, and the rich are reported to be taking flight. General Blanco is going to send four battalions of troops to the relief of the city. Proposed to establish near Atlanta, Ga., a stockade to hold all prisoners captured during the war. Orders issued to hold all persons cap­ tured on Spanish prize ships until further orders. They number 200. Favorable report made by the House Military Committee on the bill to revive the grade of lieutenant general. Reported that European governments are contembplating overtures to America and Spain in the direction of peace. Arrival of the American invading army off Santiago officially reported by Gen­ eral Linares, the Spanish commander. Wednesday. Four picked crows removed seven sub­ marine mines from Guantanamo harbor. . Efforts are making by Blanco to win the Cuban leaders to the cause of Spain. Official report made that Mauser bullets caused the laceration of bodies of inarihes killed in Cuba. Protests are published in the Madrid press against reports that the Queen Re­ gent is to resign. A cable from Havana denies that an at­ tempt has been made upon the life of Captain General Blanco. Admiral Sampson and Gen. Shafter of­ ficially report landing of troops at Bai^ quiri and laying of plans to attack San­ tiago front and. rear. Blanco says that Hobson is not ex­ changed for the reason that the lieutenant and his companions had an opportunity to see the defenses of Santiago harbor. Thursday. Sagasta said to have announced in the Spanish chamber that the fleet of Admiral Camara is bound for the Philippines, Cable news direct from Cuba and by dispatch boats to Jamaica is that there has been sharp fighting on land near Bai- quiri. , The auxiliary cruiser Yale sailed from Old Point Comfort with the first re-en­ forcements for Gen. Shafter's army at Santiago de Cuba. Cables from Cuba by way of Madrid report that fierce fighting has taken place between the allied American and Cuban forces and the Spanish. Splendid work has been done by Ad­ miral Sampson's ships in bombarding the Spanish batteries near Santiago. The Texas is credited with the best work of the war. The Vesuvius has demonstrated the complete success of gun cotton shells. News pf Minor Note. Joseph Brown was drowned"while fish­ ing near McDaniel's Mill, east of Carth­ age, Mo. L» - Joseph Jones, aged 4 years, was drown­ ed while bathing in the Ohio river, near Owensboro, Ivy. J. F, Smith, a prominent citizen of Tex- arkana, Ark., committed;suicide by shoot­ ing himself with a pistol. It is estimated that the wheat crop of the .eastern part of the State of Wash­ ington this year will bo 25,000,000 bush­ els, 3,000,000 more than last year. Joseph McKerron, a New York capital­ ist who has been living the life of a re­ cluse in that city, died of starvation. A Chicago doctor claims to have cured consumption by compressing the lungs with nitrogen, permitting self-healing. "Abraham House, a negro, who murder­ ed a white-girl near Eiinis, Tex., in 1896, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. In New York City an aged man of riiis- erly disposition," said to be worth about $50,000, was found dead in a fiithy room. A suit for $500,000 damages for libel has been brought by W. R. Hearst, of the New York Journal, against the New York World. ' ' < Y . . . " ,1. .