Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE AMANDA SMITH ANNIVERSARY. AMANDA SMITH ANNIVERSARY. The first anniversary of the Amanda Smith Orphan Home, North Harvey, Ill. was held today, Thursday, June 28, 1900. Invitations to all friends in and around Harvey and elsewhere to attend the anniversary had been sent out and a large number were present. The children of the home took part in the programme. Among those to be present were Rev. Thomas Gale of Sacramento Avenue M. E. church; Chicago; Rev. J. M. Townsend of Cincinnati, O., former pastor of Quinn chapel, Chicago; Rev. Ransom, Chicago, pastor Bethel church; Rev. Carey, Chicago, pastor Quinn chapel, also Rev. Lealted, pastor First Episcopal church. To these and other distinguished persons we have extended special invitations and expect them to be present. We also expect to have with us Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson, Mich., state organizer of the W. C. T. U. among the colored people. The affair was a success in every way, and we heartily approve of the good work carried on by Sister Smith. CONVENTION NEWS. The editor's return from the convention in Philadelphia. After attending conventions in Minneapolis, Minn.; St. Louis, Mo., and Chicago, Ill., the one in Philadelphia excels all those he has attended. The parade Monday night was one of the finest ever witnessed and made a great showing. The editor went direct to the headquarters, which is on the tenth floor of Hotel Walton. He had a pleasant interview with prominent committeemen, among whom were Hon. J. W. Manly, Hon. T. Platt of New York, W. E. Chandler. Mr. Chandler exclaimed when shown our paper, "that of all the colored journals the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate made the best showing." All of the committee were very much pleased with our work, and great interest in our behalf was shown by Senator Mark Hanna. The editor was kept very busy attending the meetings in different parts of the city, among the delegates, and in explaining to them Payne's resolution, and met the approval of every one of our people who heard it. The resolution means this: It gives the blacks the same equal rights as the whites. We have this to say, that Mr. Payne is one of the best friends the negro race has in the Republican party. He is easy to approach and is always ready to help the race to better its condition. Now a few words about our old Wisconsin delegates, who made such a grand showing. Hon. Joseph B. Treat of Monroe, chairman; Hon. J. H. Stout; Hon. Senator Baxter, Levi Withee, Hon. Isaac Stephenson, W. H. Stevens and Col. Hoyt A. Winslow. These delegates stood by the editor from start to finish with a hundred of others and assisted him in getting a large number of subscribers for his paper. Would that we had more staunch friends in the Grand Old Republican party who would do more for the negro journals as these noble men have done. Hon. J. C. Spooner was very good and kind and has proven a friend at all times. The one who made the convention famous and who is the talk all over the United States is Col. George Wiswell; sergeant-at-arms. He has the most beautiful apartment rooms in Hotel Walton. The editor had one-half hour's interview with his charming wife and daughter. They are among the best friends we have and Mrs. Wiswell advised us to try while there to secure help for our Wisconsin patrons. Mr. Wiswell had over 700 people in charge and a large number of these were colored men and women. The gentleman who stands next to Mr. Wiswell in all his business movements and transactions is S. A. Matthews of Milwaukee, who was considered to be the most handsome negro in the convention, and we are proud of him. R. B. Montgomery was wanted by some delegates at the Wisconsin headquarters. Mr. Matthews and two other gentlemen spent one-half hour trying to find him, and when they found him he reported at the headquarters. The above mentioned thanked them a thousand times for the interest shown by them. We were treated very nicely by the press and had the pleasure of receiving a great many exchanges. The colored people of Philadelphia are, as a rule, very highly cultured and stand shoulder to shoulder with the white man in every line of business known to the civilized world. Their manner and bearing is that of a race equal to any on the face of the globe. Their business qualifications and management are qualities of such high value that one would only expect to find with people who have had centuries and ages of learning and not in a people who were slaves for three centuries, then fought for their freedom, obtained it and were turned out like so many cattle with not even a crust to call their own. I called on some of my personal friends and acquaintances and there has been a big change in the old city in the last twenty years. The clubwomen proved loyal and lived up to their promise in every respect. I was treated like a prince. I was treated like a king. I would not have missed it for one thousand dollars. Time will not allow me to express all my thanks and good wishes for the royal treatment received in that dear home city and saying nothing about the benefit derived from my visit. (Continued next week.) HENRY C. PAYNE. To Have Charge of Western Campaign. New York, June 27.—National Committeeman Henry C. Payne has just returned from a conference with Gov. Roosevelt and speaks highly of the governor's determination to make a vigorous campaign and thus do his part for victory at the polls in November. "Our candidate for vice-president," Mr. Payne said, "certainly intends to bear his share of the burden. When the great political storm of the campaign gets in motion and sweeps across the J. HENRY C. PAYNE. country, all disappointments, personal preferences, disagreements and differences of opinion will disappear. We are going to have a great campaign. "The Chicago headquarters." Mr. Payne continued, "will be the center of hard work this year. We will cover the entire section west of the Allegheny mountains. We will make an active campaign this year in every one of the Western mountain states, for we believe every one of them can be carried for McKinley and Roosevelt. I am going to Cleveland to see Mr. Hanna, and then will go home to Wisconsin for a few days. Then I will go to Chicago, open up the headquarters and start right in on the campaign. New headquarters, I think, will be selected instead of the rooms we had in 1896 in the Auditorium. We shall get going well about the middle of July." Gov. Roosevelt will leave New York on Friday for Oklahoma to attend the annual reunion of the Rough Riders. After the reunion he will on July 4 visit Kansas, stopping at Wichita and Topeka. Self-Help and to Help our Neighbor CREAM CITY NOTES. A Card of Thanks.—The editor wishes to thank his many friends for assisting the city editor in getting the paper out during his absence in Philadelphia last week. The friends of Miss Maxcy, city editress, who reside in Illinois and are subscribers to the Advocate, are much pleased with the work she is doing in the paper. * * * We have been busy receiving many callers—some politicians asking our views on the political subject. ```markdown ``` We wish to say to the general public that we hope to have another colored physician in our city. Come on, brother. There is room for us all. 永 永 永 We welcome Mr. I. Bess back again. Milwaukee is the place for him, but he had to go to St. Paul to find it out. 白内障 Rev. J. J. Anderson delivered a very interesting sermon Sunday evening, but we were very sorry that the banquet at the Plankinton caused our congregation to be quite small in attendance. * * * Miss S. L. Johnson is in our city from the Windy city. We hope she will like our city, and she as well as ourselves will be benefited by her stay. ☆ ☆ ☆ Just Around the House.—June 22. 1900—"Oh, it is so cold for June. I wonder if we ever will have any summer so we can wear our summer dresses." June 26—"Oh, dear! I am just suffocating with heat. I wonder how long we will have to suffer this awfully hot weather." ```markdown ``` The editor made a nice trip to Waukesha, accompanied by Rev. J. J. Anderson of Chicago. While there they called on Hon. T. E. Ryan. After an interview with Mr. Ryan he promptly renewed his subscription for the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. Mr. Myrtle, law partner of Mr. Ryan, has our sympathies on account of the unfortunate accident in spraining his knee. We next called on Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Coates, who are proprietors of the Turkish bath, and found them full of business, but they were not too busy to entertain us most royally. They are some of our first subscribers and renewed their subscription. They are also some of Waukesha's best people. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mason are in the city and are the guests of the editor. They will probably remain for several weeks. * * * Miss Sadie Johnson is assisting Miss Lillian Maxcy of the Advocate staff. Miss Johnson is bright and attractive and has had considerable experience in newspaper work. ☆ ☆ ☆ Nina Brown, who is awaiting trial for the murder of Frank Bonn, is a little dark woman with a rather pleasant face, but with a frightened stare in her eyes. She will be defended by Attorney Green, who will, it is rumored, enter a plea of insanity. She formerly lived in Sioux City, Ia. Miss Lizzie Brown is the only one who has visited Nina Brown since her incarceration. Some of our people have lots of religion, but we notice that the deeds of charity amongst the colored people are done by those outside the church. Miss Brown supplied her with clean clothing and nourishment. * * * J. Harry Zedricks of the Chicago conservatory is in the city and called at our office today. We congratulate him on his latest accomplishment. The editor rode to Philadelphia and back again in a private car. At New York city, at the special invitation of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, he joined the New York delegation. He attended every session of the convention as a representative of the press and was royally entertained by the politicians and the public, notwithstanding some of our false prophets in Wisconsin predicted we would not get there. With the next issue the proprietor of the Advocate will present as a souvenir of the national Republican convention a life-size portrait of President McKinley to each and every one of our 1500 subscribers. He did not have time to send them with this issue. A King Among Cooks. Another reminiscence of the palmy days of Napoleon III. has been effaced by the death of M. Claude Boujat, the chief of the imperial cuisines. At the Tuilleries, St. Cloud and Compiegne the Chevalier Boujat, who was described by Soyer as the king of all cooks, followed the great French traditions. Boujat himself cared for nothing but boiled fresh beef, with a little rock salt, or a slice of very underdone grilled or roast meat. The Emperor loaded him with presents, and his later years were spent in wealthy retirement at Vitry.—London Chronicle. Journalism on Shipboard It is well known that many interesting papers make a regular appearance on board our great liners, many of the Castle Line journals being quite triumphs of artistic production. Many of these journals are printed and cleverly illustrated; others, less ambitious, are reproduced by copying machines, but all are interesting epitomes of the life spent on board, and record the daily cricket scores, sweepstakes and personal gossip, while ignoring such trivialities as European complications.—Philadelphia Times. HON. FRED W. UPHAM. Hon. Fred W. Upham first made his debut in politics when he was elected alderman from the Twenty-second ward, and served with distinction in the city council. Honesty and fearless loyalty to duty are cardinal principles to which he clings with allegiance. Fred W. Upham has a heritage of good political and military blood. He was naturally the choice of his party as the man to win at the polls. Mr. Upham gave his entire salary as alderman to two men whom he deputized to look after the condition of streets and public improvements in his ward. The Republican party, of M. HON. FRED W. UPHAM. which he has always been an honored member, nominated him for membership on the county board of review—a position to which he was triumphantly elected, to the gratification of taxpayers. Mr. Upham was born in Racine, Wis., in 1861, and is the son of a gallant soldier. He is the nephew of a former governor of Wisconsin who served that grand old commonwealth with honor and distinction. His parents came from New England to the West just before the Civil war. His father was among the patriotic volunteers who responded to the martyrred Lincoln's call to save the flag. The subject of this sketch was educated at Ripon college. He started business life with the Upham Manufacturing company, at Marshfield, Wis. Later he became identified in extended lumber interests and was in the lumber areas of Wisconsin until 1882, when he located at Chicago, where he soon became one of the leading lumbermen of the West. Mr. Upham was renominated at the recent Cook county Republican convention to succeed himself to the important office as member of the board of review of Cook county. He richly deserves the support of the taxpayers. A True Friend of the Negro Race- Hon W. E. Chandler While in the Quaker city the editor called on a number of senators, among whom was Senator W. E. Chandler. As you well know, the senators of the "Old Guard" of the G. O. P. are gradually dying out. Very few of the public men who organized the Republican party are in active service. Among the tew tried and true Republican friends of the negro, Senator W. E. Chandler stands out in bold relief and he must be sent back by all means. William Eaton Chandler, Republican, of Concord, was born in Concord, N. H., December 28, 1835; graduated at Harvard law school and was admitted to the bar in 1855; in 1859 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme court; was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1862, 1863 and 1864, serving as its speaker during the last two years; on March 9, 1865, became a solicitor and judge-advocate-general of the navy department; was appointed first assistant secretary of the treasury June 17, 1865, and resigned that office November 30, 1867; in 1881 was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives; was appointed by President Arthur secretary of the navy April 12, 1882, and served till March 7, 1885; was elected United States senator June 14, 1887, to fill the unexpired term of Austin F. Pike, which ended March 3, 1889; was re-elected June 18, 1889, and again January 16, 1895. His term of office will expire March 3, 1901. War Raises Price of Horseflesh. Horses are high in price and are getting more expensive every day. So said a horse dealer today, and he quoted prices of a number of horses in his stables as proof of what he said. "Why are they expensive?" he continued. "Simple enough. Horses are going out of this country in large numbers to supply the rival armies who are fighting in the Transvaal. The demand both by England and the Boers is heavy, and as the two sides desire different styles of horses the American horse market is swept pretty clean. The Boers like wiry animals, while the British buy only large, stocky horses, able to carry the big, heavy men who make up the cavalry of their service. I should say that, take it all around, horses in New York are 25 per cent. higher now than they were before the outbreak of the Transvaal war."—Pittsburg Dispatch. —The hay-fever season in North Germany lasts from May 27 to June 3; in South Germany from May 20 to May 25. TO THE GIRL GRADUATE OF 1900. With your head brimful of dictionary talk And "isms" and "ologies" and things, And your cap and gown, You are the latest, greatest, up-to-datest Girl Of all the garden with girls rosebudded! The brook and river ebb About your shy, reluctant tootsies, But your boots are wide and waterproof And your skirt plaid and reversible Just ankle length; For you've learned a store of knowledge not in books. Not the wasp-waisted, lackadaisical, lap- dog-petting girl Of imes gone by; But just a girl Gladsome and happy souled, Seeking no voice or vote in puddled politics Nor bifurcated rights in rostrum's glare. No, in the country's new dawn you stand, rose crowned. A golf stick for a scepter and your throne A rock, three-canopied. Your page a caddle, and your king— Ah, well. You've yet to choose. Let him be manful, brave And tender of the flower your girl heart is To keep it safe; A star to light a home! Through the summer time You'll frivol much And get engaged, no doubt, One or two times To summer boys by sea and shore, And they will tell you fairy tales About your being the only girl they ever loved. And things like that. But heed them not. These gay-hat-banded ones. Keep the Ideal Man In sight. For that's as near As you will ever get to him Despite the fact that he runs everything. Quite so, Just let him keep on thinking that we think so. It pleases him And doesn't injure us! But well you know, Girl Grad. Your tears and smiles are powers more potent far Than empty crownship. In your little palm You hold the magic lamp That makes this old world beautiful! All at your feet, Girl Grad, Goddess of rarest June! Be good! Let those who will be great! Look up! Lead on—and smile. The world is yours! —New York Sun. THE STORY OF BABE. It was a strange conglomeration of humanity that occupied the mining camp in Rocky Gulch. Prospectors and adventurers from all parts of the globe were there assembled. There was Red Mike, whose knife had drunk human blood half a score of times; there was Baldy Slick, who had made and lost fortunes at the card tables; there was Coyote Pete, who had prospected in every gold field upon the face of the globe; there was Silent Sam, so-called because of his disinclination to join in conversation, and Talkative Bob, who received his appellation for a very dissimilar reason: there was St. Louis Joe, who dispensed liquid damnation to the miners, and Tipsy Tim, whose sole ambition was to pan enough dust to keep himself in a chronic state of intoxication. There were others, but among them all no representatives of the gentler sex until Joe Hardy—Honest Joe, they dubbed him—drifted into the camp, accompanied by his brave young wife. Some way, the camp seemed different after "Mrs. Joe" came. There may have been no less drinking, but there was less brawling; there was perhaps just as much gambling, but there was less shooting; and when Joe's baby came a wave of reformation actually swept through the camp. It became the custom to gather around Joe's cabin every Sunday, and the baby was gazed at with mingled awe and admiration. As months went by Babe, as everyone called her, developed cute and affectionate ways, and she was almost worshiped by those rough, unpolished miners. There came a sad day for Rocky Gulch, however. Babe was ill. She lay upon her little bed, tossing her tiny arms and moaning plaintively. The miners knocked off work and gathered in anxious groups a little distance from the cottage. St. Louis Joe closed his saloon tight, and declared not one drop would the boys get till Babe got well. "Ain't a-goin' ter hev some galoot git full and git a-shootin' off his gun an' disturbing Babe," he said. Half a dozen of the men remained up all night near the cottage, "to be on hand," they said, "ef Joe wanted anything." The second night Silent Sam offered to sit by Babe to "spell" Joe and his wife. His services were accepted, though Joe and his wife took turns sitting up with him. "You are as handy as a mother," remarked Mrs. Joe after Sam had been ministering to the jittie sufferer. "Any change, Joe?" they eagerly inquired. Joe struggled some minutes to reply, and then with a great sob said: "Babe's gone," and rushed past the group into the darkness. Every inhabitant of Rocky Gulch knew of Babe's death long before morning, and the most of them were gathered at a respectful distance from the cabin when Joe stepped to the door after sunrise. "Come in, boys, an' see her," he said, and one by one they filed past the peaceful figure which lay with a smile on the sweet, upturned face. "It's a cryin' shame," said Coyote Pete, "that the Babe can't hev a genuine, first-class funeral, but there ain't no show fer a spread in this hole." "Ef there was time, I'd go ter 'Frisco an' tote a casket in on my back," said Red Mike, "but there ain't, so's no use talkin'." "Now don't ye fret," said Baldy Slick. "Babe goin' ter hev a funeral, the like of which ain't been seen in Noo York itself," and he unfolded his plan to the boys. Two of Baldy Slick's tables were torn apart and a rude casket was constructed of the boards. The inside was lined with a beautiful dry moss, gathered from the mountain side, the outside was coated with fresh pitch, upon which was sprinkled gold dust, contributed by the willing miners. A grave was hollowed out in a pleasant place near Joe's cabin, and that, too, was lined with moss, upon which was sprinkled some of the dust. When the casket was taken to the house Joe and his wife broke down completely. "Oh, it is so sweet!" said Mrs. Joe, "and it is so kind of you. We were troubled to think that Babe could not have a nice burial, and now this—this—" and she could say no more. The services at the grave were simple. Mrs. Joe had a Bible, and Silent Sam was asked to read a chapter. He did so, and then the little form was lowered into the mossy bed prepared for it. One by one the men passed the open grave, tossing in their last offering to Babe, fresh, blooming flowers gathered from the mountain side, and as they turned from the grave they each took Joe and his wife by the hand in silent sympathy. Silent Sam was the last to clasp their hands, and as he did so he said: "Goodbye, Joe; goodby, Mrs. Joe; I'm going home to my little feller an' the old woman."—Arthur J. Burdick in Buffalo News. STRANGEST OF LAKES. Three Thousand Feet of Water in a Long and Narrow Mountain Chasm. The result of a survey of Lake Chelan in the northern part of the state of Washington has been given out by Gen. Merriam, commander of this department. He says in his report: "The cliffs on each side of the lake were most precipitous, towering up in many places to a height of 1500 or 2000 feet. But it is the lake itself that is the greatest marvel. Its waters are clear and blue, and by actual soundings have been found to be of an average depth of 3000 feet. This seems almost incredible, but it is the truth. The width of the lake varies from a mile and a half to two miles, but the length is the most remarkable of all. "When I pointed up toward what appeared to be the head of the lake and asked the Indians if the lake was not about three miles long, they laughed and shook their heads. They said it was a thre-days' journey for a four-oared canoe. I determined to see for myself, so the next morning my engineer and I and two Indians started up the lake in the largest canoe the natives possessed. "It was impossible to go on the lake shore, as in most places the mountains ran sheer down to the water's edge. We rowed along until we came to the northern confine of the lake and there we found that it made a big bend to the right and stretched on and on. The next day we started out again, and on the third day at nightfall, just as the Indians had said, we reached the head of the lake. On the return trip we measured the distance had found the length to be a fraction over sixty-five miles. "This curiously-narrow and deep body of water was cut right down through the mountains by the glaciers of bygone ages. At the foot of the lake is a great moraine."—San Francisco Examiner. Fish Scale Pearls. M. Leuret, the French manufacturer of artificial pearls from fish scales, says that he will come to the United States and erect works as soon as he hears of a locality where the right kind of scales can be had in large quantities. It is suggested that a suitable place might be found on the St. Lawrence river, among the Thousand Islands. The scales should be small and have a silver sheen." The brighter they are the higher price they will command. The scales should be removed while the fish are alive if possible. Twenty-five thousand pounds of these scales can be used a year. It is anticipated that twice that quantity may be used in a few years. Pure Water Needed in India T. B. Pandian, a Hindoo of noble rank, and a Christian, is in Chicago raising a fund with which to better the condition of the low-caste people of his native land. The greatest need of these cutcasts is pure drinking water, as they are not allowed to drink from the streams which are free to others. He says that $100 will provide a well that will supply a whole village with pure water. He comes to this country with letters of introduction from prominent men of England and the East.—New York Tribune. —When the railway across Siberia is completed it will be easy for a person to go from London to Japan in thirteen days. THE OUTRAGES CONTINUE, Protestant Mission at Weihsein Reported Burned by Rebels. SEYMOUR IS PRESSED. rae London, June 27.—A dispatch from Tsin Tan dated yesterday says that the Protestant mission at Weihsien was burned down by rebels Monday night last. Shanghai, June 27.—A German paper has an uncredited statement to the effect that Admiral Seymour is eight miles from Tien Tsin with 62 killed and 200 wounded. London, June 27.—A_ special from Shanghai, dated iast evening, says that communication with Admiral Seymour was opened by the Tien Tsin relief force Sunday. Admiral Seymour was at that time said to be ten miles from Tien Tsin. Three hundred of the members of his pe were reported sick and wounded, ut only a few had been killed. They were short cf provisions and were return- ing without having rescued the legations. Paris, June 27.—10 a. m,—The French consul-general at Shanghai, telegraphing under date of yesterday, announces that the allied troops have entered Tien Tsin. He states also that the foreign ministers have departed from Pekin for the north, accompanied by a Chinese escort. _ It is supposed that they are headed for Shang- hai Kouan, following the course of the great wall. The telegram adds that the viceroy of Nankin and the viceroy of Tcheng-Gtchetong have requested the consul to announce to the French govern- ment that they are protecting the inter- ests of some of the missionaries and some of the foreign merchants in that re- gion. A Yang Tse telegram of the same date states that the French consul at Chefoo confirms the news of the deliv- erance from Tien Tsin, and the fact that the foreign ministers left Pekin under ALARM IN CANTON. Place of Safety. London, June 27.—The Daily Tele- graph publishes this dispatch from its puerta! correspondent: _ “Canton, June 25, via Hong Kong, June 26.—It is feared that we are on the eve of a scene of bloodshed and anarchy in the two Quan; 3, only poe in history by-the Tai tine rebellion. Wealthy Chinese are hurrying away, taking with them their wives, families and valuables. “Viceroy Li Hung Chang has again been peremptorily ordered to go to Pekin. His enemies declare they will murder him before he can reach there. His presence alone restrains the revolution- ary element here. His departure will oy loose the ‘black flags’ and ‘Red gir- es. Faith iu Americans. “The viceroy trusts Americans in this crisis. He says that they alone want no accession of territory and he places him- self largely, almost unreservedly, in their hands. “Almost all the missionaries have been notified of the imminent peril in which they stand through the medium of con- fidential runners and spies. They are leaving Canton hurriedly, few now re- maining here. “The Canton population reaches 2,000,- 000 in addition to 250,000 living on junks and sampans (flat-bottomed river boats). Most of these people are disaffected, and incendiary proclamations are increasing the number of the virulent.” FOUGHT FOR THEIR LIVES. Desperate Efforts of Engineers to Es- cape from Tien Tsin. Victoria, B. C., June 27.—Advices re- ceived by the ane of India, give graphic details of the escape of foreign- ers from Pekin and Tien Tsin. Of all the fugitives to reach the coast none had.a harder fight for their lives than the American, French and Belgian engineers, who were surrouaded by the Boxers at Peng-Tai, the terminus of the railway that was to run to Hankow. When the Boxers attacked the station and the machine shops the engineers bar- ricaded themselves in the machine shops and held the Chinese off for some time. They had several women with them, the wives of some of them. The women had the men’s rifle belts and otherwise as- sisted in repelling the Boxers. The for- eigners soon found their position in the shops untenable as some of the Chinese had crushed them and set fire to a pert of the building. They ran for it, ie their way through the Boxers. When they had got through the Boxers lines the Chinese gave no more attention to them, but instead began to pillage and destroy the station and machine shops. Two of the Belgians then hurried to Pe- kin, where they reported the danger of the party and called for yolunteers to help them. A number of Cossacks were dis- patched to the rescue. Cossacks Are Defeated. The set out on June 2, and encoun- tered a large crowd of Boxers forty miles from Tien Tsin and were obliged to return, being unable to fen their way through the Boxers. The Cossacks, who numbered thirty-three, had two officers wounded, i In the meantime the engineers were be- tween two forces of Boxers. There were thirty of them. They had taken “4 a Position on a small hill and there they made trenches, in which they.fought for an hour, holding off the Boxers, to their front. They were all unconsciois of the ce to their rear, and after their hard hting arranged that — should be left in the trenches to hold back the Box- ers, while the other twenty-two, includ- ing the women and children, went on towards Pekin. They had no carts and the men carried the weaker ones when they became ex- hausted. The march of the fugitives to Pekin was an awful one. When some few miles from where they had been in- trenched they found another party of Boxers, not so strong as the party be- fore encountered, however, to their front, and the men formed a hollow square with the women and children in the cen- ter, and dragging along, fighting and re- pelling the onslaughts of the Boxers, they made their way to Pekin after two days septs with terror. ‘he Boxers of this party were without firearms, being armed only with poles shod with iron knives and spears. Phes were kept at a distance by the rifles and revolvers of the railway men, who killed a number of them. Eight Men Killed. The eight heroes who were left behind to guard their retreat were slain by the Boxers. There were three Frenchmen and one Italian einen Set. the others on their arrival at Pekin -were in a ter- ribly-destitute condition. American marines led the way of the relief party to Pekin. Despite the vice- se edict that no foreigners should be allowed $0.pess Taku forts, forty United States marines landed and made their way ap. the river by lighter. eading the Chinese papers: one would come to the conclusion that China her- self was snaking 20 effort to suppress the Boxers’ rising. ferring to the battle of June 7 between troops under Gen. Nieh and the Boxers one paper says that sev- eral hundred Boxers were killed and five buildings were burned down during the conflict and the local raeey station was destroyed. This was at Laha, the third station from Tien Tsin. Another paper says the Boxers lost 500 men in this en: gagement. Gen. Nieh, who commanded the imperial troops, took a prominent part in the Chinese-Japanese war. The Murder of Rev. Mr. Ellis. Victoria, B. C., June 27.—The Shang- hai Mercury says that a member of the Boxers’ society, who saw the murder of Rey. Mr. Ellis of the London mission and of a Chinese missionary at Kung Tsun, gave the following account of the tragedy: “On the 12th day of the fourth moon the Boxers, numbering 57, crossed the river Tsz-Tsun and met the two mis- sionaries in a boat. They knew the Chi- nese was. a Christian and at once, at- tacked him, wounding him with their swords. Then they dragged him out of the boat and tied him to a tree at the riverside. Then Mr. Ellis was tied with him and Mr. Chao, another Chinese missionary, was found. His toes and thumbs were bound together and he was carried to a tree near where the others were hung up. The arms of the mis- sionaries were cut off, their heads hewn off and after the bodies had been disem- boweled, they were cast into the river. The chapel of the mission was demol- ished and the crowd went on their way.” This was but one of many such out- Salas MORE ENCOURAGING. Belief that the Legations will Reach a Place of Safety: London, June £1.—2:U0 pe ee “tnday ible messages from the far East today are so conflicting in their tenor that iaraoat any desired view of the situation is deducible therefrom. On the whole, however, the news is encouraging and it scems safe to assume that Vice-Admiral ‘Seymour and the legations, whether to- gether or separately, will ultimately reach a place of safety. Various re- ‘ports locate the legationers at divers places, but it seems agreed that they are safely away from Pekin. is The latest Shanghai report says Prince Tuan (the head of the Chinese foreign office and father of the heleeppersn’) has sent the legationers to Sian-Fu un- der escort and adds that Sian-F'u will be the new capital, in the event of Pekin being occupied by the international forces. Admiral Seymour, it is asserted, suc- ceeded in getting a message into Tien Tsin Monday, according to which he was then eight miles westward, terribly har- assed, could only hold out another two days, and had 63 killed and over 200 wounded. He did not mention the min- isters or others from Pekin. Foreigners Leave Pekin. It is thought at Shanghai that now Tien Tsin is relieved, the combined in- ternational forces will have no difliculty in reaching Pekin, though it is found that all of the foreigners have already left. The reports as to the damage done at Tien Tsin and the casualties among the a residents have been highly col- ored. The exodus of Chinese from Shanghai is unabated. Every steamer is thronged and the authorities have been obliged to resort to the use of the fire hose to pre- vent the fugitives from overerowding the vessels. The commander of the British first-class cruiser Undaunted, however, has landed Marger supplies of rifles and ammunition, and guns have been placed in position at commanding points with the result that the foreigners are confi- dent they can overcome any attack on the settlement, into which the foreigners from the outstations are rapidly congre- gating. Russians Need Assistance. According to a dispatch from New Chwang, the Russians there are barely able to cope with the situation. The Chinese, it appears, are burning all the railroad material, killing isolated Rus- sians at every opportunity and destroy- oh the coal mines, The St. James Gazette expresses the en that China is teaching America the impossibility of a great trading na- tion avoiding imperialism, adding: “America’s experience will teach her it is not the desire to grab distant lands, but unavoidable desuny that drives Great Britain ever forward. Washing- ton has no choice but to protect the im- periled American citizens and having once interfered in China to protect her interests, she shall never be able to shake from her shoes the dust of the Celestial empire.” Surrender Demanded. Washington, D. C., June 27.—The Chi- hese minister called this morning on the secretary of state and communicated to him the contents of a dispatch which he has received from the tsung li yamen at Pekin, dated on the 19th inst. The dis- ee states that the foreign ministers had before this date asked permission for the legation guards to enter the city, which permission had been granted; that they subsequently asked that these guards be reinforced, which the Chinese government was not disposed to permit. The dispatch then goes on to state that the consul-general at Tien Tsin—sup- eee to be the French consul-general had telegraphed to the viceroy of Chih- (Li that the foreign admiral had de- manded the surrender of the Taku forts ‘and that the foreign ministers were shortly to leave Pekin for Tien Tsin with their guards. | Regarded with Apprehension, | In well-informed diplomatie circles the news that the foreign ministers have left Pekin for the north under a Chinese es- cort is regarded with some apprehension. It is presumed, of course, that the escort is composed of imperial troops, but a feel- ing of unrest is induced by the evident fact that, in the present circumstances, even the imperial tore. are not absolute- ly to be trusted. Indications are abun- dant that they, too, are imbued with the anti-foreign sentiment which has found its open exponent in the Boxers. .While no fear is expressed that the personal safety of the diplomatic peprevenintives of foreign governments is endangered, the intimation is convered that they may be held as hostages. If this should be true, the troops accompanying them would be rather a guard than an escort. Held as a Hostage. It is pointed out that in 1860, in eir- cumstances quite similar to those which obtain at present, the French minister was teken north from Pekin under “es- cort.” He was actually held as a host- age. “ Diplomatic representatives of foreign | governments have received, so far as known, little news from their govern- ments with respect to the situation in China. While some meager reports have ‘reachéd various legations, the difileulty of obtaining accurate ‘information is em- barrassing all governments interested in the trouble in China. | Eight Miles from Tien Tsin. |. Washington, D. C., June 27.—The fol- lowing cablegram was received at the navy department late this afternoon: _“Chefoo, June 27.—Secretary Navy, Washington: Pekin force and ministers reported with Pekin relief expedition en- trenched eight miles from Tien Tsin. \ An Escort Offered. | Washington, D. C,, June 27.—The Chi- nese minister has just received a telc- [Seed from Pekin via Cree dated une 19, saying that the ministers and | foreigners in Pekin were safe there and made to provide them with an escort cut of the city. Americans in the Fight. London, June 27.—A special dispatch from Chefoo says: “The fight vf the al- lied forces against the combined Boxers and Chinese soldiery, barring the road to Tien Tsin, opened at daybreak. One hundred and fifty Americans were among the 2000 international troops. The Chi- nese soon broke under heavy shelling, and then the arsenal was attacked and the guns gradually silenced. The fight was practically over at noon. “The keen, friendly rivalry for the hon- or of first entering the city resulted in the Americans and British going in neck and neck with the others close up.” The News Confirmed. Berlin, June 27.—The German consul at Chefoo confirms the contents of the message from Vice-Admiral Seymour, which reached Tien Tsin Monday, saying he was then eight miles westward of that city, terribly harassed, could only hold out another two days and had 6: men killed and over 200 wounded, and adds that the admiral asked for the dispatch of a relief column of 2000 men. This column left Tien Tsin during the morning of June 25 under Russian com- mand. * Sanctioned by the Emperor. Yokohama, June 27.—The Emperor has sanctioned an outlay of 15,000,000 yen toward the cost of military opera- tions in China. | It is reported in Seoul that there is increasing hostility towards Christians in Corea. Corea, it is said, repudiates the Jand contract which gave to Russia a site for a coal depot and a naval hospi- tal, as Russia wished to apply towards the price the amount of the pending claims against Corea. Chaffee Leaves for China. Washington, D. C., June 27.—Gen. Chaffee, who has been ordered to com- mand the American troops in China, ieft Washington at 10:40 o'clock this morn- ing for San Francisco, accompanied by Lieut. Harper, his aide. He is due at San Francisco at 5 o'clock Sunday morn- ing and sails for Nagasaki on the trans- port Grant with the Sixth cavalry the same day. Troops Reach Tien Tsin. London, June 27.—The parliamentary secretary of the foreign office, William St. John Broderick, in the House of Commons today declared the government had_ received two telegrams, one from the British consul at Tien Tsin, announc- ing that a British column under Maj. Maurice of the Welsh fusiliers, and a na- val brigade, under Commander Craddock, had arrived at Tien Tsin at noon, 550 strong. The message also said that 1500 Russians were reported to be at the Tien Tsin railroad station, and that 150 Amer- icans and 150 Italians had also arrived. The second telegram was from Rear- Admiral Bruce, dated Taku, June 25. It added to the above that Vice-Admiral Seymour was peported to be ten miles from Tien Tsin, hampered with sick and wounded and engaged with the enemy. Reported to be Safe. London, June 27.—3:38 | p. m.—The British consul at Amoy telegraphs this morning that the Europeans ut Pekin are reported to be safe. FRIENDS ARE ANXIOUS. Many Inquiries at New York Mission- ary Headquarters. New York, June 27.—There was no cable news received today at any of the headquarters of the different missionary boards regarding the situation in China. There were many inquiries from relatives and friends of missionaries. The chief Protestant interests in the Canton district, which is now said to be in danger of an uprising, are those of the Presbyterian church. It has altogether thirty-three missionaries in the three sta- tions of the Canton district, Canton, Lien Chow and Yung Kong. ‘There are 110 native helpers. It has twenty organized churches, with 2931 communicants, six hospitals and dispensaries, a college in Canton and three churches with native preachers. Dr. Arthur M. Brown of the board said today that no word had been received from that district. Hong Kong is near there, with a British garrison, and the missionaries could retreat to that place in case of trouble. The American board of foreign missions, Congregational, has two men and three women missionaries in the Canton district. In Canton are Rev. Charles A. Nelson and wife and Miss Nellie M. Cheney. 7 a POWERS RELEASED. Court Recognizes Pardon Granted by Former Gov. Taylor—Latter Shadowed by Detectives. Harlan Court House, Ky., June 27.— Capt. John Powers of Barbourville, Ky., who was arrested here yesterday on charge of complicity in the murder of Gov. Goebel. was today released. His attorneys instituted habeas corpus pro- ceedings yesterday afternoon and Powers poate ‘a pardon signed by Gov. Tay- lor on March 6, 1900, offering it as a bar to prosecution and arrest. Judge Cornett honored the pardon and Powers was or- dered released from custody. This is the second time Powers had veen arrested on the same charge and released on Goy. ‘Taylor's pardon. Indianpolis, Ind., Jun 27.—W. S. Tay- lor and wife of Kentucky reached here from the East today. Two detectives who followed Taylor to the Philadelphia convention and back, were on the train, vATIN r z PRECAUTIONS TAKEN, Chinese Quarters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Coney Island ‘Thoroughly Disinfected. New York, June 27.—The board of health has decided to thoroughly disin- fect the Chinese quarters in Manhattan. Brooklyn and Coney Island, as a meas- ure of precaution against the plague. The board of estimate today appropriated $20,000 for the work, which will be im- mediately begun. Yokohama, June 15, via Victoria, B. C., June 27.—A case of ees has been discovered on a P. & QO. steamer, the first case to make its appearance here. OPPRESSED BY HEAT. Three More Deaths and Several Pros- trations at Pittsburg, Pa. Pittsburg, Pa., June 27.—Three more deaths and several prostrations from the heat were reporied today. The dead are: Mrs. Sarah M. Shaffer, aged 30 years; William Warner, aged 39 years, an iron. worker, and Mary Tierney, aged'50 years. Samuel Bust and Robert Waddell, both ironworkers, are not expected to live. Chicago, iil, June 27.—Two deaths were caused by the excessive heat and humidity today. Antonio Shoggens dropped dead in the street and Oscar Berzner, overcome while sitting in a sec- ond-story window, fell to the ground, sus- taining fatal injuries. The thermometer registered 89 degrees on the street and humidity was almost at the saturation point. A heavy shower late in the after- noon afforded some relief. GEN. M’ARTHUR ILL. Confined to His Residence in Manila Three Days with Fever. Manila, June 27.--Gen. MacArthur has been confined to the palace for three days with a slight fever. SUMMER RESORT 1S DESTROYED BY FIRE. Weaverly Beach Hotel on Lake Winnebago is Burned to the Ground. Kaukauna, Wis., June 26.—[Special.J— Weaverley Beach hotel, the oldest and most-frequented of any resorts on the north shore of Lake Winnebago, was to- taily destroyed by fire last night. The place was run by Louis Chenevert of App.eton, who had leased it for several seasons from the owner, Mrs. M. Mas- souett. It is situated on the Neenah and Appleton Inter-Uurban electric, midway between the two cities, and was patron- ized by people from Neenah, Menasha, Appleton, Oshkosh and Kaukauna. The loss is $3000 with $1800 insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. The em- ployes barely escaped from the building with their clothes. There were no guests at the hotel lust night. CONDITION OF HURT. John Froehling of Fond du Lac May Not Survive His Injuries. _Fond du Lac, Wis., June 26.—[Spe- cial.]—Charles Froehling returned from Green Bay this morning, having spent the night at the bedside of his son, John Froehling, whose injuries in the wreck at Depere, it is feared, may prove fatal. Mr. Froehling says little hopes for the recovery of his son are given. The con- dition of both Bert Ives and Wilfred Venne he says, is dangerous. _ The sae at St. Agnes hospital, in- jured the railroad wreck at Depere Sunday, passed a comfortable night aud are getting along as nicely as could be ex- pected from the reports of attending phy- sicians this orang. The conditions of Thomas Lamb, whose right leg was broken, and Otto Hankewitz, whose jaw was fractured, are the least favorable. The condition of patients brought to their respective homes in Fond du Lac is re- ported as favorable. Laid at Rest. The funeral of Adam Weber, killed in the collision, was held at 9 o'clock this morning at St. ete church. The local branches of the Catholic Knights of Wis- consin, of which order the deceased was a member, attended in a large ner Services over the remains of George ee Jr., another of the victims, were held at St. John’s church in Byron this morning. Solemn aa mass was cele- brated, a choir from St. Joseph’s church of this city rendering the music. The funeral of Edwin Koske will be held tomorrow afternoon from the fami- ly home, 10 Elm street. The funeral of Lawrence’Plank will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock from the house, 100 Waupun street, and at 9:30 at St. Mary’s church. Maurice Fitzsimmons went to Green Bay last evening to attend his brother, one of the victims of Sunday's wreck, and who lies at St. Vincent's hospital with a broken leg. Hope's Narrow Escape. George Hope, Jr., who was on the ill- fated train, had a narrow escape. A minute before the collision he occupied a seat in front of Mr. Plank of this city, and beside Matthias Korcher of Oshkosh, both: of whom were killed. He left his seat just a few moments before the colli- sion and walked into the last coach. He had scarcely seated himself on the arm of cne of the seats in the car when the jar, which was only slightly felt in that part of the train, came. He says he had no particular motive in leaving the smok- ing car, except that it was close and his gparters, occupying a small seat with rt. Korcher, had become somewhat un- comfortable. His telegram to his fath- er, assuring him of his escape from any injury, was the first to reach the city over the Western Union wires, At St. Vincent’s hospital in Green Bay, Bert Ives, who was among the most severely injured and who was almost unrecogniz- able, was at first identified as Mr. Hope. In Wreck an Hour. Robert Wells, who had « leg broken in the accident, has been brought to the home of his parents ‘> this city. He waz confined in the wreck an hour and a half and was raving mad when released. He frothed at the mouth and fought his rescuers, being determined to gt back to his place in the wreck. Mr. ‘oske died in his arms and his cries that he could not “get rid of that face,” and that he wanted to go back were heart- rending. It was a scene which none who witnessed will ever be able to efface from their memories. It was hours be- fore Mr. Wells was quieted, but he has now entirely recovered from the terrible mental agony which he suffered. GOING TO NEW LONDON. Elgin Pastor will Take Charge of a Wisconsin Church, Elgin, Ill., June 26.—Revy. W. R. Gay- lord has accepted a call from the Con- gregational church at New London, Wis. He has been pastor of the Prospect Street Congregational church of Egan and assistant pastor of the First Congre- gateanel church, both of which positions e resigned. He will be ordained here June 29 and will, with his wife, leave for New London June 30. Mr. Gaylord, in addition to filling the assistant pastor- ate, has been choir director of the First Congregational church and is a member of the noted Hesperian quartette. He is a leader along lines of social reform. SHOT HIS COMPANION. Fond du Lac Children Play with Firearme—Usual Results. Fond du Lae, Wis., June peaenecal! —“The gun that wasn’t loaded” got in its work again eer afternoon at about 5 o’clock. Eddie Vaupel, 10 years old, son of Mrs. Alice Vaupel, 98 coh mour street, pulled the trigger. Georgie Pommerich, 72 Bell street, was the tar- get. The bullet, of the 22-caliber variety, entered just below the collarbone and lodged in the neck, missing the arteries. It was extracted with little difficulty and no serious results are anticipated. The boy had snapped the revolver twice be- fore aiming it at his playmate, and no explosion following - concluded it was harmless. —An Italian royal decision just pro- mulgated re-establishes chaplains in the navy. The Franciscan order is to have charge of the rice en service, the Queen and the Duchess d’Osta assuming the ex- penses invelved. —A West» Australian exploring party that recently arrived at Oodnadata_re- ported that there had not been a drop of rain for two years in the region tra- iedena —A West Austrian exploring party that recently arrived at Oodnadata re- ported that there had not been a drop of rain for two years in the region trav- ersed. —The royal palaces of Bangkok form a city in themselves. They consist of several hundred inaiyiaual palaces sur- rounded by magnificent gardens and pa- godas. ~—Mansour, the horse that ran third in the Grand Prix of Paris in 1894, is now pulling a public cab in the streets of that gay capital. BACKBONE BROKEN. ‘ndications that the Great Build- ing-Trades Strike will Soon be Ended. Chicago, Ul., June 27.--The backbone of the great building trades strike in this city is broken. It is now only a question of hours when the 50,000 workmen who have been idle for many months will be arranging agreements for their return to work. The initial move for ending the lock- out was taken at 2:15 o’clock this morn- ing by the Bricklayers and Stonemasons’ union, the strongest labor organization in the building trades, which voted after an | all-night session to withdraw from the | Building Trades’ council. The council will be notified this morning of the with- drawal of the bricklayers. This after- noon the arbitration committee of the bricklayers will meet the arbitration committee of the Chicago Masons and Builders’ association and sign a working agreement to extend to ane 1902, and the bricklayers will immediately be giv- en work. | The action of the bricklayers’ union was the result of the report of the con- ference committee in which a recom- mendation was made that the union sev- er its connection with the central body because that organization had been un- able to bring about a settiement of the labor troubles. B As the bridge and structural iron work- ers, gasfitters, plumbers, plasterers and hod-carriers’ union have been on the verge of quitting the ‘Trades | council for over a week they will now in all robability follow the course of the ibeicklayert. The bricklayers have a membership of over 3000. By tonight it is expected all the formal- ities connected with the withdrawal of the Bricklayers and Stonemasons’ union from the Building Trades’ council and the making of a working oe be- tween the men and the asons and Builders’ association will be completed. The agreement providing for a scale of wages and other matters was drawn up during the day and, it is declared, will be signed by both parties tonight. The belief that this action is the be- pining of the end of the Building rades’ council and, consequently, the long industrial war, is held by many in- terested in building operations. On the other hand, officers of .the Building Trades’ council and officers of the indi- vidual unions composing that council de- clare that the fight will go on. The Building Trades’ council, they declare emphatically, will never be dissolved. No Settlement in St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., June 27.—Except fer the boycott and 300 policemen on duty but little remains to tell of the great strike of the St. Louis Transit company’s system inaugurated May 8. Cars are in operation on all the imes without hind- rance and are well patronized, except on those running north and south. Many thousand persons, because of the boycott and through sympathy forthe strikers pat- ronize as and "busses manned by ex- street railway employes. This is espe- cially true in the north and south sec- tions of the city. Today the remainder of the force of sheriff Pohlman’s posse, about 600 men, | was mustered out of service, the board of police commissioners having decided they were no longer needed. There have been no developments in the effort started yesterday to secure a settlement. DENOUNCED AS A LIE. Charge that Catholicism is Respon- sible for Iliteracy in South American Countries. San Juan de Porto Rico, June 27.—At a teachers’ conference held here yester- day evening Dr. Saldana, a member of the insular board of education, during the course of an address remarked that the Catholic religion should again be in- troduced into the public schools of Porto Rico. Dr. Campos Valladares, a Portuguese Presbyterian superintendent of public in- struction in Brazil, took exception to Dr. Saldana’s remark, and turning to Bishop Blenk (the Bishop of’ Porto Rico), he said in substance that the Roman Cath- olic church had been negative in results in all the South American countries, as- serting that the illiteracy prevailing there was due entirely to the church's influence. This remark caused great ex- citement. No sooner was the words ut- tered than Bishop Blenk jumped to his feet and striking the table with his closed fist, shouted: “It is a lie,” add- ing: “I will not sit quietly and hear the church of which I am the represent- ative in Porto Rico traduced in such language.” | After a painful silence by a common impulse the adherents of the bishop shouted as with one voice: “Long live Catholicism,” and the incident was closed though it has aroused much feel- Reiaael SLEEPING BOY KILLED. Rils Into M ine Shaft and Falls to Bottom, Breaking His Neck. Ironwood, Mich., June 27.—[Special.] —Thomas Pollard, aged 15, a skiptender, was instantly killed in the Carry mine early this morning. The accident was due to his own carelessness. While the men were lunching he climbed upon the timber over the shaft to rest. He fell asleep, and, rolling over, fell down the shaft, breaking his neck. TRANSFERRED TO NEW YORK. St. Johns Novitiate to be Removed from Frederick, Md. Washington, D. C., June 27.—One of the greatest changes which has ever oc- curred in the Jesuit province of Mary- land will take place at an early date by order of the superior-general of that community in Rome. After an exist- ence of a. years, the St. Johns no- vitiate at Frederick, Md., is about to be removed to a location on the Hudson riv- er, above West Point, where property of considerable yalue has been acquired. The old novitiate was founded by. Father John McElroy, 8. J., who received or- dination as a priest from Archbishop Neale of Baltimore, in 1816, and died at Frederick in 1873. Many celebrities are buried in its shadow; among them the third chief justice of the United States, Roger Brooke Taney, and the Jesuit missionaries eae, Tuffer, Sanders and Vigilante. n the transferral to New York these graves will not be dis- turbed. Father Edward Purbrick is now provincial of the Jesuits in this province, which originally covered the country, but at present embraces only the Southern, Middle and New England states. The province was founded in; 1634. OPENED BY WALES. Underground Railroad Through the Bleart ef Londen. * London, June 27.—The newest and most important underground electrical railroad, running from the Bank of England to the western suburbs beneath the central portion of London, was opened by the Prince of Wales this aft- ernoon in the presence of a distinguished gathering. FEW SURNAMES AMONG BOERS Seventeen Krugera and Eighteen Steyns in 1000 Prisoners. A very common cause of complaint is that the Boers all seem to have the same surnames. Although this is not absolutely true, it is, perhaps, explainable by the fact that, owing to the intermarriage which has continued among the Boers for several generations there are comparatively few surnames, and these are repeated over and over again until it is most difficult to identify a man by his surname with- out knowing his Christian name and that of his father. A striking instance of this is afforded by perusal of the published list of Boer risoners who have been shipped off to Rt. Helena. z Among 1000 prisoners there are sur- prisingly few surnames considering the ifferent parts of the country from which the commandos are drawn. In the list there are seventeen Krugers and no fewer than eighteen Steyns. But the largest family of all is that of the Van Vurens, of whom there are 23. ‘The Van Niekerks number 14 and the Van Rensburgs 10. The Van der Merwes are 19 in number and the Van Zyls total 17. There are only 4 Cronjes in the select- ed thousand. The Coetzees aggregate 15; and this interesting list also includes 17 Bothas, 14 Fouries and 13 Jouberts. Some, if not all, of the Jouberts must be related to the late general, as they come from his part of the country. There are many descendants of the first President of the Transvaal. for 21 men of the name of Pretorius figure in the list. Several English names occur— for instance, Tom Gervais Bolton, Sam- uel Robert Collins and George Hay- worth; while there are actually three Macdonalds among the prisoners!—Lon- don Mail. TWO POPULAR PASTIMES. Bicycle Riding and Golf Have the Greatest Hold in America. The two forms of recreation which have taken the greatest hold upon the American public are bicycle riding and golf. Why these pastimes have attained so great a popularity in this country is not difficult to understand; and an an- alysis of the elements of their great suc- cess involves an enumeration of thuse elements which must be found in every sport which approaches the ideal. Wheeling and golfing are equally adapted to the pleasure of beth men and women, and naturally bring them to- gether for their Sean This insures the wheel and the golf club a PS in thou- sands of homes from which they would otherwise be exciuded, for many hus- bands will not allow themselves regular indulgence in a recreation which may not be shared by their wives, and wher to the intrinsic interest of any recreation is added the zest of social in- tercourse between the two sexes its pleas- ures and attractions are multiplied. That pastime which calls its partici- pants into places of scenic beauty, and at the same time furnishes them with the exhilaration of interesting exercise, pos- sesses a sure and a potent charm, No rec- reation possesses this characteristic in a greater nee than does golf.—Saturday Evening Post. Ten Davs in a Raloon. Aeronauts are about to try a new stunt. Germans are going to see if they can’t stay a week or ten days among the stars. Heretofore no balloon has been made which will stay up much more than thirty hours, and owing to the change of temperature between day and night, which causes a difference in the lifting power of the gas, it has been con- sidered impossible to an a balloon up for two days and two nights. But about the middle of next month the Germans will try an interesting experiment, the ascent being made near Berlin. This balloon will hold 315,000 cubic feet of gas, and the car, being eight feet square, will be large enough to hold five persons and provide sleeping accommoda- tions for three persons at_a time. Here is another new wrinkle. No one yet. so far as known, has tried to sleep above the clouds. Usually anyone who got as high as that had his hands and brains full, and had no inclination to mere But if the vacation of this party lasts half as long as the members of the expedition plan for it will be necessary to take a nap now and then. 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Wiscoass LACE Kinds ot Wameiiy Dyeing an sonatle prices, orders oer CURTAINS ‘asada os A STATE'S PROGRESS. SENATOR SCOTT TALKS OF WEST VIRGINIA. Remarkable Increase of Prosperity Under McKinley Administration—Coal, Oil and Lumber Industries Are Active—More Money in the Banks. "West Virginia came into the Republican column in 1892, when it gave President Harrison a plurality of 4,471 votes," said United States Senator Nathan B. Scott, a member of the executive committee of the Republican national committee. "We followed this up with a plurality of 11,487 for President McKinley in 1896. This year we expect that West Virginia will give President McKinley a plurality of 20,000 votes. "Our State is growing steadily every year as a manufacturing State. Our big industries are those of iron and steel, tin plate and lumber. We make considerable pottery and glassware, have many textile mills, and manufacture to a certain extent many of the goods that enter into daily consumption. That these industries have improved under the administration of President McKinley goes without saying, and the people know the reason why. "Coal is probably the largest product of West Virginia. In 1895 we mined 11,400,000 tons; last year our output was 18,750,000 tons. The increased demand was caused by the better times. It gave employment to nearly 11,000 more men. Not only that, miners worked in 1895 only 195 days. Last year they were busy nearly every working day. With a large output from our coal mines, with activity in our lumber mills, the demand for the products of our farms and of our factories has increased considerably. "West Virginia farmers grow diversified crops. Our oil belt is another source of profit to the State. Five years ago we only produced eight million gallons of oil; last year upwards of twelve million gallons. We are pumping oil in enormous quantities, and there is no sign of the supply decreasing. Wool is one farm product from which our people have learned something. In 1896 all the sheep in West Virginia were worth less than $900,000. Since then their value has increased 50 per cent, while the wool is selling at 100 per cent more than it brought while Prof. Wilson's theoretical free trade tariff was experimenting with the country at the expense of nearly every industry, whether of farm or field, in the United States. "You must remember that West Virginia has a population of but 1,000,000 people, and we do not claim to do big things. Still our farmers can look with satisfaction at the value of their live stock, which has increased by nearly $5,000,000 since 1896; also at the amount of money on deposit in the banks of our State, which has increased from $5,000,000 on July 18, 1894, to $10,000,000 on June 30, 1899. The increase in the number of depositors has been equally gratifying, from 16,288 in 1894 up to 31,000 last year. With these facts of gain in the wealth of our State there has been a corresponding decrease in the number of business failures. The liabilities of those who were in trouble in 1896 were nearly $700,000. Last year they were only $250,000. Our people, too, appreciate the feature of the gold standard law, which simplifies their currency. They realize the difference between the administration of the national finances under President McKinley when they compare them with the mismanagement under President Cleveland. Then we were borrowing money from Europe at whatever rate of interest the foreigners chose to make us pay, while during the last year we have been loaning money to Europe, and still have more that we can spare to send there should it be needed. "The State of West Virginia is in a small way but the reflection of the conditions in all of the other States of the Union. If the people everywhere would but vote according to their sound thought and better judgment, then President McKinley would be re-elected by acclamation in the electoral college, just as he will be renominated by acclamation in Philadelphia." The People's Wealth. Savings banks deposits in the United States in 1894 and in 1899, compare as follows: Year. Depositors. Deposits. 1899..... 5,200,000 $2,178,800,000 1894..... 4,800,000 1,771,200,000 Southern Object Lesson. Tennessee produced nearly a million tons more coal last year than in 1895. That ought to be an industrial object lesson to the South, especially as practically the whole of it was used at the factories of that State. Encouragement for lawlessness frequently comes home for roosting purposes. The Democratic politicians who have been encouraging rioting in Idaho and St. Louis may realize this fact. Of Course It Does. A decrease of 284,000,000 pounds in the quantity of wool imported in a year shows the value of protection to wool to the American farmer. Dead Against Them. The party that opens the mills has opened the eyes of the people. That is another reason why the Democracy cannot win this year. Republican Free Homes The boom in free homes in Oklahoma is another of the fruits of Republican legislation. A Great National Danger. The present disturbed condition of Europe, with reference to far eastern complications, as well as those arising in Morocco and elsewhere, has called attention to American dependence upon foreign shipping for the carriage of their foreign commerce. If the nations of Europe should become involved in a great war, which many believe to be imminent, there would be a wholesale withdrawal of foreign ships from the channels of trade to provide transport for troops and munitions of war. As nine-tenths of our foreign commerce is carried in foreign bottoms, it is obvious that the withdrawal of a large portion of that shipping for other than commercial uses would deprive our people of their only means for supplying our constantly growing foreign markets. Freight rates would rise to a prohibitive amount in respect of many of our commodities. Our surplus productions would accumulate upon our hands in enormous quantities, prices would fall, wages would be reduced and industrial stagnation and loss of employment would be widespread. The conditions existing between 1893 and 1896 would be re-established in even a more intensified form. This country is the leading export nation of the world, and the future growth of that trade seems illimitable, provided, always, that we have an abundance of ships in which to send our products abroad. But a check at this time, when the broad foundation for an enormous export trade is being laid, would have a most serious and farreaching effect upon our people and our resources. The stability of our foreign trade can never be assured so long as 90 per cent. of it is carried in foreign ships. We send three-quarters of all of our exports to Europe, and American ships carry the ridiculous proportion of but 1.30 per cent.! Foreign ships carry a billion dollars' worth of our products to Europe, and our own ships carry less than thirty million dollars' worth. No greater danger confronts the United States to-day than that caused by our dependence upon foreign ships for the carriage of nearly all of our exports. Of our exports to all the world less than 7 per cent. are carried in American ships. Apart from the commercial calamities possible, and, as some people believe, probable, through the withdrawal of the larger part of the vast foreign shipping upon which we are now dependent, for the auxiliary naval and military uses of the great powers, our great weakness upon the sea emphasizes our only real national danger. Congress cannot remedy this condition too soon. Proper provision must be speedily made for the attraction of American capital into ship-building and ship-owning, so that at the earliest moment possible we shall become possessed of the ships we may require for all of the necessities of our foreign commerce. Our export trade is closely approaching a billion and a half dollars in value. At its present rate of growth less than a score of years will find it valued at three billions and requiring double the shipping of to-day for its carriage. Foreigners will then have us all the more at their mercy if we do nothing to establish our own ships upon the seas. Foreseeing just such a possibility as this, Thomas Jefferson, as long ago as 1793, in a great state paper, predicted that a nation which allows foreigners to do the great bulk of its foreign carrying, "will be disarmed of its defense, its productions will be at the mercy of the nation which has possessed itself exclusively of the means of carrying them, and its politics may be influenced by those who command its commerce." These words were prophetic of a condition that actually exists in respect of the United States to-day. Lots of Help Wanted. The Omaha World-Herald was Mr. Bryan's personal organ in 1896, and during that campaign it made the prophecy daily that in the event of McKinley's election the depression and distress among the working classes would be widespread. The best proof of the falsity of this prophecy is found on the want pages of the World-Herald. The last issue at hand contains the advertisements of two females and seven males who want situations, while on the same page the "help wanted" advertisements ask for 107 females and 115 males. This is in addition to the "agents wanted," and does not include the advertisement for 1,000 men for railroad work. The calamity prophecy was a failure in Mr. Bryan's own State, as it was elsewhere. His Proper Place. Mr. Altgeld announces his intention of taking the stump as soon as the Kansas City nominations are made. As a cabinet possibility in the case of Democratic success, Mr. Altgeld will make a strikingly horrible example. Will Soon Be Republican. The completion of another line of railroad to the South marks another step in the march of prosperity. The South is emerging from the calamity fog, despite her politicians. Democratic Politica. The Hon. William A. Clark, of Montana, is another Democratic millionaire who has been treating the country to an exhibition of the sort of politics that obtains in that party. For Clark's Benefit. The Supreme Court has decided that a public office is not property. The Hon. W. A. Clark should heed this before making any further investments in Montana. He Sees His Finish. Jerry Simpson, who has had considerable experience in the art of getting out from under shaky things, has just retired from Populist journalism. FATHER SEES HIS CHILDREN DROWN. All Chippewa Falls in Mourning Over Death cf.McDonald Children. Chippewa Falls, Wis., June 27.—The bodies of the two children of ex-Mayor McDonald, who were drowned in Long lake, have been recovered. The children were bathing in company with Miss Tena Kennedy, an intimate friend of the family, who had charge of the children. Mr. McDonald was nearby in a rowboat. Miss Kennedy getting beyond her depth called upon Mr. McDonald for assistance. While the latter was aiding Miss Kennedy the children approached and unconsciously waded into deep water and were drowned before the grief-stricken father realized fully their danger. On account of the great smypathy for the father all the places of business here were closed this morning, when the funeral took place. AGED COUPLE WEEP. Their House is Totally Destroyed by Fire and Their Savings Gone. Sheboygan, Wis., June 27.—[Special.] —By the side of the road in the town of Gibson, Manitowoc county, weeping bitterly, sat Mr. and Mrs. John Stevens, an aged couple. Back of them was the smoldering ruins of their home which had been totally destroyed by fire in the night. They sat there hopeless and discouraged. Later in the day a neighbor induced the old man and his wife to come to his house and stay until arrangements could be made for a home for them. In some unknown manner fire broke out in the house of John Stevens. It burned quickly and the old people barely escaped with their lives. They rushed out into the yard and then into the road beyond and there they sat and watched their home burn to the ground. In the chimney Mr. Stevens had made a sort of safe in which to keep his savings. He had saved in the last few years over $600, all of which was in paper money. This was all lost. The building was valued at $1400 and had but $400 insurance on it. The old people are heartbroken and refused to be consoled. SHOT IN THE BACK. Gabriel Green of Stevens Point Fatally Wounded by Unknown Person. Stevens Point, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—Gabriel Green, the man who shot and killed Louis Wiesner on the main street of this city, January 8, was himself shot and fatally wounded at 12:30 o'clock today. Green was standing on a street crossing talking to a Polish couple, when a rifle bullet struck him in the back, going clear through his body and just breaking the skin over his stomach. He was carried home at once, but the doctors say he cannot live. The sheriff has arrested Leo Wiesner, a brother of the man Green killed, and Frank Glisczinski, an employee of Wiesner's sale stables. These men are now in jail. No direct evidence is known against them. Green has been out on bail for some weeks. His trial is set for September. The shooting has caused great excitement in the city. DIES IN MIDOCEAN. Racine Woman Passes Away While on a Trip to Europe. Racine, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—A cablegram was received here this morning from England announcing the death of Mrs. Ellen F. Leach, a well-known society woman of this city. Mrs. Leach left last Wednesday for Europe. She went to attend the Paris exposition and was accompanied by her daughter, Miss Edith Leach, and Mrs. Frances of St. Louis. Mrs. Leach was taken very ill on the trip over and died in midocean on board the Teutonic. The body will be immediately brought back and buried here. MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS. No Trace of Missing Hotel Man Can be Found. Kenosha, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—The police of the city were advised this morning that John Hetto, proprietor of the hotel on the banks of Lake Mary, in this county, is mysteriously missing. He left home on last Saturday morning and since that time no trace of him can be found. At the time he left home he had $100 in his pocket and it is feared that he met with foul play. He was 40 years of age and was worth considerable money. RACINE STRIKE ENDS. Masons and Carpenters Return to Work at Old Wages. Racine, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—The striking carpenters and masons will return to work tomorrow. A meeting will be held this evening, when resolutions to that effect will be adopted. The men go back to work at the same scale of wages they received before they struck. This is a complete victory for the bosses. The men have been out since last April. About 200 men struck. HOLD A DOG FUNERAL. Pet Canine will be Buried in a Casket. Janesville, Wis., June 27.—The pet setter dog Charm of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Jenkins is dead, and like another one which died some time ago will be buried in a casket. Mrs. Jenkins, who is better known as Dr. Clara Normington, will accompany the dead dog to Durand, Ill., where the burial will be made. INSPECT WISCONSIN PLANTS. English Paper Men Are Making Tour of the State. Beloit, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—A delegation of paper makers and dealers from England are the guests of the Beloit works today. The Englishmen are making a tour of the state, inspecting papermills and papermaking machinery. They go to Appleton and then to Minneapolis. Old Horse Killed. Athens, Wis., June 27.--[Special.]—Old Bob, as he was known among the mill men of the Rietbrock & Halsey sawmill plant, is no more. The horse had done service for this firm ever since they manufactured lumber, and of late years was put on an elevated tramway to pull lumber to the yard from the mill. Today poor old Bob had the misfortune to fall from the tramway, a distance of fifteen feet, and was killed. Follows Father to Grave. Sturgeon Bay, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—George Nelson died last night of consumption. He was about 23 years old. His father died suddenly last month. He was an only son. MRS. CASSODAY DEAD. Wife of Chief Justice of State Supreme Court Passes Away at Madison. Madison, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]— Mrs. J. B. Cassoday, wife of the chief justice of the state Supreme court, died at 1:30 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Frances E. Amory. Fond du Lac, Wis., June 26.—[Special.] —Mrs. Frances E. Amory, one of the oldest settlers and wealthiest women of Fond du Lac, died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart, at her home in East Division street, at an early hour last night. Seated on the front porch of her residence, death came without warning, swift and painless. Her husband, Samuel B. Amory, died four years ago under somewhat similar circumstances, dying from heart failure during a concert at the Division Street Methodist church. He left one of the largest estates ever probated in Fond du Lac county. Mrs. Amory was 70 years of age and has been in somewhat feeble health the past year. She was born in Goshen, N, Y., and was married to Mr. Amory in 1846. They came to Fond du Lac in 1849 and were prominently identified with the city's growth and development during its early history. I. C. Klein. Racine. Racine, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—Louis C. Klein died last night after a brief illness. He was born in Germany in 1832 and came to this country in 1855. For many years he was one of the leading merchants of the city and accumulated considerable wealth. He was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature, the city council, board of education and board of supervisors. He was the founder of the Racine county insane asylum and was president of the board of trustees for many years. A. L. Page. Sparta. Sparta, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—A. L. Page, aged 73 years, died last night. He was an officer in the Civil war and an officer in the G. A. R. post. He was elected justice of the peace at the spring election. Other Deaths in the State. Neenah, Wls., June 26.—A. F. Smith, 55 years old. Rache, Wls., June 26.—Mrs. Thomas Graham, aged 47 years. Fogarty, 78 years old. Reedsville, Wis., June 25.—[Special.]— William Zahn, 66 years of age. MUTILATED BY A DOG. Little Boy Is Horribly Bitten by a Savage Beast at Calesville. Galesville, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—The 8-year-old son of Melvin Bortle, a farmer living near this city, was horribly mutilated by a savage dog. Upon examination it was found that there were no less than fifteen gashes in the boy's legs, made by the savage brute's teeth. The little fellow fought the dog bravely, but was unable to beat him off, and would undoubtedly have been killed had not assistance arrived. MUNICIPAL PROGRESS. Our City Governments Are Not So Evil as Reported. The large proportion of our population which live in urban communities makes it necessary that of our political development is to be satisfactory, urban conditions must be very much improved. What has been said must not be understood as belittling the progress which has already been made in the improvement of urban conditions. No greater mistake can be made than to exaggerate the evil conditions which exist in American cities. The progress that has already been made is very great. Fifty years ago efficient police protection was almost unknown. Few, if any, of our cities had ample supplies of potable water. No effective provision was made for cleaning the streets, or for taking away the debris occasioned by the exigencies of urban life. The pavements of our cities were generally wretched in character; and the means of transportation offered to the urban population was altogether inadequate. Much of the improvement that has been made in these respects within the last half century has been due, of course, to the development of scientific methods; but the improvement which has actually taken place would not have been possible had our city governments been as bad as they have sometimes been represented—International Monthly. STEAM PLOW. One of the Latest of Military Inventions One of the latest military inventions which has attracted the attention of army officials is a steam plow, which in one hour can dig a four-foot trench three miles in length. The body of the machine comprises a strong horizontal frame formed with an angle iron wheels. At each end a plowshare is mounted, provided at its front end with a steel point. The shares are so arranged that the earth can be thrown to the right or to the left as desired. The steel point breaks clods of earth which may lie in its path. The machine is merely an ordinary Fowler steam plow modified to meet the requirements of military service. It is said that in the Transvaal the plow has been successfully used in digging rifle pits; but whether the report be true cannot be ascertained. From the military standpoint, the contrivance is clearly defective insofar as there are no means for protecting the men who must guide it. HONORS THE REQUISITION. Alleged Embezzler is Caught at New London. Madison, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—Gov. Scofield today honored the requisition of Gov. Lind of Minnesota for Daniel Darling of Minneapolis, a clerk in the auditor's office, who is charged with forgery by raising figures on the books, the amount involved being $5000 or $6000. The requisition was presented by Sheriff M. Gaarden and States Attorney L. A. Reed, who went at once to New Richmond, where Darling is under arrest. Woodmen at Galesville. Galesville, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]— Five hundred Woodmen from camps at North Bend, Ettrick, Trempealeau, Centerville, Melrose, Winona, La Crosse and Galesville are holding a picnic here today. The exercises are held in Reception park, where the members and their wives and families are making the most of the outing. A Great Economic Achievement. The Trans-Siberian railroad, from an economic and a political standpoint, is the greatest work of this century. It gives Russia a superior standing at Pekin. It now touches the Amur; in three years it will reach Port Arthur, making the distance but thirteen or fourteen days from Moscow to Pekin.-Consul J. C. Covert. Racine Max Lose Plant. Racine, Wis., June 26.-The Wisconsin Wheel Works company, whose buildings were destroyed by fire a few weeks ago, have been offered big inducements to locate at some point between Racine and Chicago. The works employed 300 men. WOMAN TRIES TO KILL HERSELF. WOMAN TRIES TO KILL HERSELF. Takes a Dose of Carbolic Acid but Prompt Medical Assistance Saves Her. Fond du Lac, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—Mrs. H. A. House made an unsuccessful effort to kill herself this morning by drinking the entire contents of an ounce vial of carbolic acid. Her husband discovered her writhing in agony on the floor of their room in the Lewis house, a few minutes after she took the poison. Prompt medical attendance saved her. Mr. House is a Wisconsin Central trainman and recently moved here from Stevens Point. INSTANTLY KILLED. Owen Donahue of Madison Dies at Boscobel-Farmer Falls from a Train. Boscobel, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—Owen Donahue, a brakeman on the Milwaukee road, was instantly killed here today while making a coupling. He lived in Madison, was unmarried and well-known on the Prairie du Chien division. Mauston, Wis., June 26.—Ole Nelson, a farmer living about two miles west of here, was killed by the Pioneer Limited. He was riding on the blind baggage and is supposed to have been intoxicated. His body was horribly mangled. Mr. Nelson is survived by a wife and three children. Madison, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]— Kristina Gold, a dressmaker, formerly of Mt. Horeb, was struck by a train on the long bridge across Lake Monona, near the city this morning, and was instantly killed. She was caught at a point where two trains passed and stepped from one track in front, of a train coming on the other. FAVORABLE REPORTS. The Injured at Green Bay Hospital All Doing Very Well. Green Bay, Wis., June 26.—[Special.] —The reports from the hospitals this morning are that all of the injured are resting as nicely as could be expected. There were a number taken to the hospitals this morning, who have been in private houses. The ones that are in the most critical condition are John Froehling, Bert Ives and Wilfred Venne of Fond du Lac. It is thought that Walter Cooper will have to have one of his legs amputated. Severne and Fitzsimmons are thought to be out of danger. TWO ARE DROWNED. Children of President McDonell or Chippewa Falls-Both Meet Death. Chippewa Falls, June 26.—News was received from Longlake, the Chippewa summer resort of the death by drowning of the two young children of A. B. McDonell, president of the Lumberman's bank of this city. No particulars of the accident have been received. The children were Emily, aged 15, and Don, 13 years of age. EFFECTS OF THE DROUTH. There will Only be Half a Crop in Dodge County. Rolling Prairie, Wis., June 26.—[Special,]—The drought has reduced the small grain crop of Dodge county to one-half a crop, even if the drought is broken soon. A good rain would help corn and potatoes to make a fair crop. Some hay fields are scarcely worth the cutting. Other fields will yield from 500 to 1500 pounds to the acre. Most farmers will have enough hay, corn and straw to winter their stock. Harvesting of grain will be difficult on account of short growth of straw, making machine binding difficult. BOY HOLDS UP TWO GIRLS. Youthful Highwayman Fires Revolver Into Their Faces. Racine, Wis., June 26.—Minnie Spencer, aged 10, and a girl companion about the same age, were held up by a 14-year-old boy in the park. The Spencer girl refused to hold up her hands and the boy fired a pistol close to her face. The powder severely burned the girl's face and eye, and for a time it was thought she would lose her eyesight, but it will be saved. The girls do not know the boy. INSANE FROM OVERWORK. Man Goes Crazy in Trying to Please His Employers. Baraboo, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]— J. B. Powers has been adjudged insane and taken to Mendota for treatment. He was agent for the Elgin Creamery company and was engaged in establishing creameries for them. Overwork and a desire to please his employers is said to be the cause of the derangement of his mind. A TWO-POUND BABY. Little Fellow Doing Well and will Undoubtedly Grow Up. Galesville, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—A 2-pound baby is a wonder in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris, near Trempealeau. The infant was born a week ago and is still alive and thriving. The little one is perfectly formed in every way, and the attending physician says that its chances of life are as good as any child of its age. HUNNER GETS BAIL. Will be in Washington Until Time for His Trial. Alma, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—Ex-Banker L. B. Hunner, who was arrested and brought here from Republic, Wash., some months ago, has been released on bail until the fall term of court. He will return to Washington, taking wife and youngest son with him. The balance of the family are now there. KILLED IN PHILIPPINES. Death of George Day, Formerly of Chinpewa Falls. Chippewa Falls, Wis., June 26.—[Special.]—Rod Carroll received a telegram today stating that George Day, his nephew, had been killed in the Philippine islands. The young man was 24 years old and was a resident of this city sixteen years. Law Graduate Takes a Bride. Madison, Wis., June 26.—The first member of this year's graduates of the University law school to be married is Willard T. Saucerman of Monroe, who took as his bride Miss Jennie Sullivan. Judge R. G. Siebecker performed the ceremony. The groom will begin the practice of his profession in Monroe. Big Office Building at Racine. Racine, Wis., June 26.—The contract for erecting a three-story office building for the Robinson heirs was awarded to Hugh Edwards. The cost is estimated at $18,000 and if two more stories are added, it will be $25,000. Chicago Happenings. —Michael Roche fell thirteen feet and died two hours later. Roche was out for a walk on Ashland avenue, and at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul viaduct at Austin avenue he stopped to lean on the railing. Suddenly the board against which he was resting gave way and he was plunged to the tracks below. —An unidentified woman was found lying unconscious on the sidewalk on Calumet avenue with blood flowing from a gaping wound in the right temple. A heavy stone, covered with blood, was found lying several feet away, and from traces left in the vicinity the police believe the woman was assaulted with the intention of murder. —The inventory of the estate of the late Rufus Wright, who was shot in a room in the Leland hotel last April, was filed in the probate court by Fred W. Morgan and C. W. Kellogg, executors. When the will was filed it was estimated that the value was about $800,000, but the inventory of yesterday shows that it will reach nearly $1,000,000. —Fishermen rescued Morrison G. Schenek and Charles Guise from drowning. The men were nearly two miles off shore, clinging to the bottom of their upturned sailboat, which had been struck by a squall. Both were benumbed and about ready to relinquish their hold on the boat from fatigue. —C. C. Morrison, manager for the California Oil Developing company, with offices in the Stock exchange building, missed his footing while boarding a cable car and fell under the wheels. He was so wedged in that the car had to be raised to extricate him. Beyond painful cuts and bruises he was not seriously hurt. —Word has been received from Cleveland, O., that Samuel Job, president of the Welsh society of the United States and registrar of the Morgan Park academy, is seriously ill, his death being momentarily expected. —Mrs. Milligan, wife of the proprietor of the Victoria hotel, is granted a decree, with alimony of $2400 a year. MARKET REPORTS. MILWAUKEE—Eggs—Market steady at 11¾c for new, cases included; 10¾c for new, cases returned; 11c for old, cases included; dirties and seconds, 7@8c. The receipts were 454 cases. Butter—Market steady. The receipts were 20,005 lbs today against 9185 yesterday. The feeling is steady on all grades with a brisk demand for choice dairy. The offerings on the board were light today and no blds. Fancy prints, 19¾c; fancy or extra creamery, per lb, 19c; firsts, 17c; seconds, 16c; extra dalry, 15c; lines, 12@14; packing stock, 11@12c; whey butter, 9c; imitation creamery, 15@16c; grease, 4@6c. Fancy dairy prints, 17c. Cheese—Steady. The receipts today were 7025 Ibs against 2,950 yesterday. Full cream firsts, October, per lb, 12%@13c; full cream flats, new, colored, 9%@10%c; New York, full cream flats, new colored, 9%@10%c; New York, full cream, 13%@13c; Young Americas, October, 11@12%c; Young Americas, new, 9%@10%c; brick, 8%@9c; lmburger, per lb, 9 @9%@10%c; imported Swiss, 24c; Block Swiss, domestic, 12@12%c; No. 1 imitation loaf, 14%@15c; Sapsago, 19@20; farmers', 9@10c. NEW YORK—Butter—Receipts, 9230 pkgs; firm; cremery extras, 17@20; factory, 14@16%c. Cheese—Receipts, 2402 pkgs; steady; large white, 9%@; large colored, 9%@; small white, 9%@; small colored, 9%@. Eggs—Receipts, 4444 pkgs; irregular, Western ungraded, loss off, 14c; Western ungraded at mark, 10@12%c. Sugar—Raw strong; fair refining, 4 3-16c; centrifugal, 90 test, 4 11-16c; refined strong; crushed, 6.20c; powdered, 5.90c; granulated, 5.80c. Coffee—Steady; No. 7 Blo, 8%c. CHICAGO — Butter—Strong; creameries, 14@19c; dalries; 13@16½c. Eggs—Firm; fresh; 11c. Dressed poultry—Steady; turkeys, Cc; chickens; 8c to 13@19c. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET. light, 5.05@5.20; mixed and medium weights, 5.10@5.25; common to choice heavy, 5.05@5.25; coarse heavy stags, 4.25@4.50. CATTLE—Receipts, 2 cars; dull; butcher steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 4.25@5.10; fair to medium, 950 to 1050, 3.75@ 4.25; helfens, good to choice, 3.25@4.00; cows, fair to good, 2.75@3.25; canners, 2.00 @2.50; bulls, common, 2.50@3.00; choice, 3.25 @3.75; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 3.25@3.75; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 3.00@3.50; veal calves, 5.50@6.25; milkers and springers, no demand, do not ship them. SHEEP—Receipts, 1 car; market lower, 3.00@4.00; bucks, 2.50@3.00; lambs, common to choice, 4.00@4.50; spring lambs, 4.75@ 5.50. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 27,000; cattle, 14,000; sheep, 16,000. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. MILWAUKEE—Flour—Steady. Wheat—Weak; No. 2 spring, on track, 81c; No. 1 Northern, on track, 83½@84c. Corn—Steady; No. 3 on track, 43c. Oats—Firm; No. 2 white, on track, 28c; No. 3 white, on track, 27½@27¾c. Barley—Firmmer; No. 2 on track, 48½c; sample on track, 43@40c. Rye—Firm; No. 1 on track, 63c. Provistons—Higher; pork, 12.72; lard, 7.00. Flour is steady at 4.50@4.60 for patents; bakers', 3.19@3.60, and 3.10@3.25 for rye. Millstuffs are firm and quoted at 14.00@14.25 for bran, 14.25@14.50 for stand-ard middlings, and 15.25 for Milwaukee flour middlings. CHICAGO—Close — Wheat — June, 82%c; July, 83%c; August, 84%c; Corn—June, 42%c; July, 42%c; August, 43%@43%c; Oats —June, 25%c; July, 25%c; August, 25%c; Pork—June, 12.80; July, 12.80; September, 13.02%c; Lard—June, 7.02%2; July, 7.02%2; September, 7.17%2; October, 7.17%2@7.20; Ribs—June, 7.20; July, 7.20; September, 7.27%@.30; October, 7.25; November, 7.00; Flax—Cash N. W., 1.80; S. W., 1.80; Sept- ember, 1.49; October, 1.40@1.42. Rye— July, 60c; Barley—Cash, 38@45c. Timothy —3.25; October, 3.12%2. Clover—Cash, 8.00; October, 9.00. NEW YORK—Close — Wheat — July, 89%c; August, 90c; September, 89%c; De- cember, 90c. Corn—July, 48%c; September, 48%c. LIVERPOOL—Wheat—Firm, 1/4 to 1/4 lower; July, 65d; September, 66d%c. Corn —Firm, 1/4 to 1/4 higher; July, 45%d; September, 482%d. DULUTH—Close—Wheat — No. 1 cash, hard, 80%c; No. 1 Northern, 84%c; No. 2 Northern, 85c; No. 3, 79%c; No. 1 hard, to arrive, 86%c; No. 1 Northern, 84%c; July, 84%c; September, 85%c. ST. LOUIS—Close—Wheat — No. 2 red cash elevator, 82%c; track, 83%@85c; July, 82%c; August, 82%c; September, 83%c; No. 2 hard, 79@80c. Corn—No. 2 cash, 42%c; track, 43@43%c; June, 42%c; July, 42%c; September, 42%c. Oats—No. 2 cash, 25%c; track, 26c; June, 25%c; July, 25%c; Septe- mber, 24%@24%c. No. 2 white, 28c. Rye -50c. Flax-1.17. Lead-4.25. Spelter- 4.05. MINNEAPOLIS — Close — Wheat — In store, No. 1 Northern, June, 84%c; July, 84%c; September, 85%@85%c; on track, No. 1 hard, 88%c; No. 1 Northern, 85%c; No. 2 Northern, 84%c. ST. LOUIS-Cattle-Recelpts, 2500; market steady; native steers, 4.00@5.60; stockers and feeders, 3.50@4.85; cows and heifers, 2.00@4.65; Texas and Indian steers, 3.00@4.65. Hogs-Recelpts, 0000; strong; pigs and lights, 5.00@5.15; packers, 5.05@5.13; butchers, 5.15@5.27½; Sheep-Recelpts, 1500; steady; muttons, 4.00@4.50; lambs, 5.50@6.30 SOUTH OMAHA—Cattle—Recelpts, 4200; stronger, steady; native steers, 4.50@5.40; cows and heifers, 3.75@4.75; stockers and feeders, 3.50@4.75. Hogs—Recelpts, 3400; 2½ higher, heavy, 5.02½@5.07½; mixed, 5.02½@5.05; light, 5.00@5.05; pigs, 4.50@ 5.00; bulk of sales, 5.02½@5.05. Sheep—Recelpts, 3400; steady; muttons, 3.00@4.25; lambs, 4.50@6.50. KANSAS CITY—Cattle—Recelpts, 7000; steady; native steers, 4.00@5.35; Texas steers, 3.00@5.20; cows and heifers, 2.00@ 5.00; steckers and feeders, 3.50@4.70. Hogs —Recelpts, 12,000; strong to 5c higher; bulk of sales, 5.05@5.17½; heavy, 5.07½@5.23; mixed, 5.00@5.15; light, 4.95@5.10; pigs, 4.75 5.00. Sheep—Recelpts, 2000; strong; lambs, 4.00@6.50; muttons, 3.25@5.00. —New Mexico has had a territorial organization since September, 1850. 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It having been judicially determined in a prize-money case that Admiral Sampson was in command of the fleet which destroyed Admiral Cervera's cruisers, the Sampson-Schley imbroglio ought to come to an end. But will it? The hot spots on the sun discovered through the big telescope at the Paris Exposition may be due to the presence of a good many disgusted foreigners. It should not be forgotten that the big telescope itself has been included among the fakes. The Chinese of San Francisco having dissolved the quarantine by securing judicial endorsement of their claim that it was discriminatory, the city should now proceed vigorously with Chinatown, and make the Celestials live "like white folks." The loss of ten lives in a New York tenement house fire ought to lead tenement house reformers to bar out the firetrap absolutely. The aim seems to be for light and air; but in securing these the tenements should not be converted into tinder-boxes. The Wisconsin 'Varsity eight will row in a new cedar shell at Poughkeepsie. This eleventh-hour use of untried boats is a peculiarity of rowing which is explained by the fact that it is wind and muscle that wins, and not boats. Of course, boats must be shells, and not scows. England greets a West Indian cricket club composed of whites and blacks as a sign of imperial unity. Perhaps if the New Era and Phyllis Wheatley clubs were to take in white sisters the mixed clubs might be welcomed as a sign of some kind of unity by the Federation of Women's Clubs. A French astronomer has discovered a spot on the sun which he says will develop into an extensive group and will remain for seven days and become visible to the naked eye, and he predicts that during July, August and September it will be very hot. He will have to be in a great haste with his facts or the prophesy will fail. St. Paul and Kansas City found their Spanish trophy cannon loaded, and there re dangerous: a.d now I radford. Pa., reports a similar discovery in her Spanish cannon. Perhaps the omnipresent wag may be responsible for this, and wherever there are trophies of battle in public places, the police should take an occasional peep into them,—with a stick. Had the coolness of the spring and summer, thus far, been accompanied by a fair degree of moistnre, the outlook for the farmer would be far brighter than it is. The earth is parched with drouth, and the hot months of the year are ahead to still further desiccate the roots of plants generally, unless the rains luring the summer are far more abundant than usual. Texas, Mississippi and Georgia, which have recently abandoned the system of hiring out convicts, have employed them to advantage on farms, especially in raising cotton. This form of employment has been found to work the least injury to free labor and to assure the best returns. Both Mississippi and Texas have made a profit out of their convict farms, and the farms have been free from the hardships and cruelties of convicts inseparable from the lease system. The first formal celebration of Flag day in Maryland took place at Frederick in 1896 in connection with the work that was in progress there at the time of the movement for the erection of a monument at the grave of Francis Scott Key. The Baltimore News says that every year since then a new flag has been raised on the staff at the graveside of the author of the anthem, and the little band of patriots forming the Key Monument association have faithfully paid this modest tribute to the flag. The feeling against foreign skippers engendered during the international yacht races last year has cropped out again because of the employment of English captains for one or two of the seventy-footers which are creating a furore in Eastern yachting circles this summer. One of the yachts is named the Yankee, and will be sailed by an American crew, and it is expected that sentiment will help her to show her heels to the craft sailed by "blarsted Britishers." But sentiment has never yet beaten a steady hand at the tiller and a lively crew at the ropes. The University of Pennsylvania has received in the past year benefactions amounting to $900,000, while Washington University of St. Louis has received $3,000,000 during the same time, which goes to its endowment fund. These are large sums for educational purposes, and a few years ago would have been thought miraculous. Like sums have been received by many other institutions. It shows that monied men have grown richer and more liberal toward education and all that pertains thereto. It shows another thing: that is, the wealth of the country has vastly increased. Helen Gould was in Cincinnati a short time ago, and made a little speech before the Woman's Club of that city, in the course of which she said: I shall never cease to preach the gospel that women of means should do more than rush through life for nothing but their own pleasure. It is the duty of women who have wealth to help others, and especially other women, and to make life for them worth the living. So much happiness may be scattered continually that the more one tries to help others the more one loves to do it. The great beauty of these remarks lies in the fact that they come from a woman who has lived up to them. Helen Gould has demonstrated by her acts that she means what she says. It is a fact significant of much to people who study the trend of modern civilization that the characters of one of the most conspicuous altruists in the United States and one of the richest women in the United States are consolidated in the same person. Washington is to have three new statues this year. The pedestal for the Logan statue has stood waiting in Iowa circle for two years. The bronze figure is to be cast this month in Italy, under the supervision of Simmons, the sculptor, and will be unveiled next winter. The Sherman statue will be placed in position next December. The pedestal on the space south of the treasury department is completed, ready for the bronze. Both the Logan and Sherman statues are equestrian. The third statue is that of Hahnemann, which will be dedicated on Thursday next, during the meeting there of the American Institute of Homeopathy. The statue stands on the triangular little park east of Scott circle, corresponding to the reservation where the Webster statue was placed a few months ago. President McKinley and his Cabinet will be present at the ceremonies. The statue cost $50,000 and is the gift of the homeopathists of the United States to the general government. The announcement is made from Vienna that the Academy of Science there has resolved on adding a department of phonographic archives to one of the public libraries. There will be three sections, the first for the preservation of phonograms of every existing European language and dialect, and, later on, of all non-European languages; the second for the record of the finest contemporary musical performances, supplemented by that of the music of peoples and races in distant countries, and the third for collecting phonographic records of complete speeches or apothegms by celebrated men of our generation and of later times. The main difficulty seems to consist in the necessity of finding a more durable material than vulcanite, of which the plates for the gramophone are now composed, and experiments with various metals are already being made by order of the academy. Should the scheme prove successful, the Vienna Academy of Science will invite the learned societies of other countries to follow its example. A contributor to the Electrical Review pleads for more originality in the designs of automobiles. He calls attention to the fact that every designer of "mobes" seems to have forgotten the fact that the horse has been discarded. Thus he says. "Why not provide for access by a door in front of the vehicle instead of the side doors necessitated by the fact that the horse is in front of an ordinary vehicle? Why not have lower steps and bodies? They are made possible by the smaller wheels used on an automobile, to the great convenience of the feminine half of the population. Why not have open fronts of clear glass for inclosed automobiles, so that the occupant may look directly ahead without being compelled to crane his neck out of the side windows, as in the autocabs in use on the streets today? The automobile goes around forlornly, as if it were an ordinary vehicle seeking the departed spirit of the horse. It is time to make a design that shall embody, together with grace and beauty of line, all the conveniences of which the horseless structure is capable, and not in any degree suggest the ancient hippomobile as its predecessor." The baccalaureate sermon is heard in the land. A writer in an Eastern newspaper complains that it is not sufficiently explicit. It is not enough, he urges, to tell the members of a graduating class that they should go forth and purify politics; they should be instructed how to do it. But the critic himself neglects to go into details, and if he did he would himself be subjected to criticism, for there would be people ready to assert that he was guilty of partisanship or factionalism. The man who accepts an invitation to deliver a baccalaureate sermon must not be egged on to attempt too much. He is as subject to the limitations imposed by human fallibility as is the college student himself. The difference between the two is that the man who preaches the sermon is aware of his limitations, while the graduate is not aware of his. If the sermon is eloquent and contains no heresy, that is all that should be expected of it. The members of the college student body are not invested with the responsibility of reforming the world in the first year after they emerge from their studies. The thing which they need above all others to equip them for intelligent and effective political action is experience. That is a thing they must gather for themselves. Pan-American Exposition - Buffalo THE PROPYLAEA The Propylaea at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901 will mark the northern boundary of the plaza and the extreme northern limit of the grand court. This elaborate and beautiful architectural ornament will serve the purpose of a colossal screen, shutting out from the Exposition the noisy and smoky reminders of the toil and care of our every-day life. The Propylaea is a magnificent creation, treated with fine artistic skill. The combined work is 500 feet long, consisting of two massive arched entrances or gateways at the extreme eastern and western ends of a long. HEAT OF PAVEMENTS. Some Seasonable Remarks Upon the Sprinkling of Streets in Summer. C. W. Erdman, the American consul at Breslau, Germany, has given some attention to the study of street pavements while he has been abroad under both the Cleveland and McKinley administrations. Mr. Erdman is a resident of Louisville, Ky., but is quite well known in Milwaukee and when here it is his custom to stop at the Republican house. His remarks upon street pavements indicate that in addition to preventing the dust from blowing, the sprinkling of streets in the summer, has an important influence upon the temperature of a city. Consul Erdman says: Which is the healthiest street pavement? This question is agitating all large cities of the world. In general that kind of pavement will have the preference which absorbs the least moisture and which is mose durable in that respect as it prevents the forming of ridges and the gathering of puddles caused thereby. But there also exists a special meteorology of street pavements which is of a great importance. On hot, windless summer days you will always see a big vapor cloud hanging over a large city. It is known of the city of Berlin that the formation of such a thick atmosphere extends up to the height of 700 yards, and from the surroundings this "city air" has the appearance of a black smoke-cloud. This formation is principally depending on the large heat-development of a city, the heat of the summer atmosphere being reflected by the immense stone masses of the houses and the large street surface. By this process the dust of the city is carried upwards together with the warm air. Heat from Pavements. For this reason the posture of the pavement to the heat should be taken into consideration in selecting the quality and kind of street pavement. Remarkable experiments have been made in Paris during the last months by the director of the observatory on the Tour St. Jacques, of how much the temperature of the different pavements exceeds the temperature of the surrounding air. For this purpose forty thermometers were placed on a square, the ground of which was partly covered with sand, granite, asphalt, wood pavement, and finally with sod, and the temperature was noted daily and recorded. These experiments were continued for one whole year to learn the influence of the different seasons. It first ascertained that all kinds of ground covering have equal temperature in winter. Snow stays an equal length of time whether it falls on sandy ground, granite, asphalt, or wood pavement. In autumn and spring the difference in the temperature of the several pavements is still insignificant; in summer, however, a very considerable difference is noted. Wood the Hottest. A sodded square becomes a little warmer under the effect of the sunbeams than the surrounding air, but not quite 1 degree Celsius. The largest difference was observed in wood pavement, which becomes almost $ \frac{1}{2} $ degrees Celsius warmer than the atmosphere next to the ground. Asphalt reaches a warmer temperature of 1.2 degrees Celsius. Dry gravel and sand surfaces keep almost the same temperature as the atmosphere. From this point of view wood is the most dangerous and unfavorable pavement for health. It must be considered, however, that such an overheating of the street pavement does not take place every day in summer; that, moreover, rain effects a considerable refrigeration. A surface of water, the depth of 1 to 2 millimeters, refrigerates the temperature of the pavement from 2 to 3 degrees Celsius; if the water surface is still deeper, the refrigeration can even amount to 8 degrees Celsius. From these circumstances comes the necessity of the frequent and careful sprinkling of the streets, especially asphalt streets, on hot days for the health of the city, without which the temperature in cities would be a great deal more intolerable than it is. The meteorology of the street pavement therefore is an important fact and requires special investigation to improve the hygiene conditions in large cities during summer time. Having taken special notice of the streets over here in Europe, I am of the opinion that the granite streets as here constructed are the cheapest and healthiest streets.—Evening Wisconsin. The "King of All Cooks" Dead. Another reminiscence of the palmy days of Napoleon III. has, says our Paris correspondent, been effaced by the death of M. Claude Boujat, the chief of the imperial cuisines. At the Tuilleries, St. Cloud and Compiègne, the Chevalier Boujat, who was described by Soyer as the king of all cooks, followed the great French traditions. Most of his pumils gracefully-curved colonnade. These gateways are 36 feet wide and 54 feet high. Two open towers surmount the sides of each arch, and above the twenty tall Ionic columns that form the colonnade is a pergola or arbor over which growing vines will wind their delicate tracery of green. Behind the colonnade will be the railway station reached by a broad promenade. In the spaces between the great columns statues will be placed, showing their outlines distinctly against a background of color. The electric street railway cars as well as the steam roads will unload many of their passengers at the station opposite the Propylaea, which is reached from the found their way to the London clubs or to the "fins bees" of the English aristocracy. Boujat himself cared for nothing but boiled fresh beef, with a little rock salt, or a slice of very underdome grilled or roast meat. The Emperor loaded him with presents, and his later years were spent in wealthy retirement at Vitry.—London Chronicle. MYSTERIOUS GIFT. It is Enclosed and Not to be Opened for 100 Years. Locked securely away in the big safe which is such a conspicuous feature of the office of the librarian of Congress is a package which ranks in mystery with "The Man of the Iron Mask." It required the efforts of four able-bodied men to place the package in its present location, and the quartette remarked at the time that it was the heaviest job they had ever handled. This package, whatever it contains, is a donation to the government by a noted collector of curios, the only stipulation accompanying the gift being that it should not be opened until the close of the Twentieth century, or 100 years hence. A congressional committee, composed of members of both houses, whose duties are to look after the affairs of the library, accepted the gift and its proviso and turned the bulky package over to Librarian Putnam for safekeeping. Securely sealed and otherwise protected against prying eyes of those who might seek to unravel this mystery, the wishes of the donor will be sacredly respected, at least so far as this generation of custodians may be concerned. Inscribed upon the covering is the date upon which the package was received, together with the names of Librarian Putnam and Chief Clerk Alvord, both of whom attest that its contents are unknown even to themselves. Naturally enough, however, the mysterious parcel has given rise to all manner of conjectures as to its contents, the most generally accepted theories being that it is some priceless manuscript or else an ancient stone, contemporaneous with the obelisk brought from Egypt several years ago by Commander Gorringe for exhibition at the Metropolitan museum in Central Park. New York.—Washington Special Chicago Tribune. SAN JUAN AND CANEY FIELDS. Overgrown with Weeds and the Block houses Going Into Decay. "I thought you would probably like to hear about the old battlegrounds—how they look now. I went to Caney and went over the whole field of July 1. You would scarcely recognize the places. The wire fence where Col. Haskell and Dickinson were shot has been repaired, and it is difficult to locate the spot. The bodies buried in the pineapple field—some forty or more—have all been removed and the trench filled up. Parts of leggings, shoes and other clothing of the dead can be seen lying about. The old stone fort is full of weeds and is crumbling down. The roof is entirely gone. The Spanish trenches near it are almost filled up. Down nearer the city the Spanish positions are difficult to determine. All of the wood blockhouses have either been burned or carried away by the Cobans for the lumber. The sunken road is the only natural-looking place. There is a company of the Fifth infantry doing garrison duty at Caney. Their quarters are clean and cool, and it is considered a good station. The town is very free from filth. The streets are being repaired, waterworks being put in, a new plaza under construction, etc. "San Juan hill is overgrown with rank vegetation. A Cuban peasant has a hut where once stood the famous blockhouse. Vandals have injured the Surrender Tree some, but a strong double barbed-wire fence protects it, together with a penalty of punishment for any violation."—Boston Transcript. A Political Tale. It is rumored that William Gores is running on an independent ticket for congressman in the Fifth district against S. S. Barney of West Bend. Some of the politicians up that way, however, think that if Mr. Gores is out for anything it is for the Assembly. He was a candidate for the nomination for assemblyman two years ago and was defeated by Mr. Dengel. Mr. Barney has showed no signs of stage fright. Search Light Required at Suez In order to facilitate navigation of the Suez canal at night the company has ordered that no ship shall go through the canal at night unless equipped with a searchlight sufficiently powerful to light up the channel at least 4000 feet ahead. in addition to electric lights sufficiently powerful to light up a circular area around the ship of about 700 feet in diameter.—Philadelphia Record. tracks by a spacious subway. The visitor will thus enter the grounds through the high arches on either hand of the Propylaea and obtain at once one of the grand views of the great group of Exposition buildings. On the right and left of the Propylaea are the Midway and the Stadium in front of the electric tower and Sunken gardens and court of the fountains; the electricity building and the agricultural hall are on either side; farther along the machinery and transportation building and that of manufacturers and liberal arts; and in the distance the temple of music and ethnology building. The visitor thus plunges at once into the midst of the Exposition. READY WITH ILLUSTRATION. Enjoyment Which Spooner of Wisconsin Furnishes Senators. Unfailing readiness is what makes it a delight to follow Spooner of Wisconsin when the forensic sparring is fast and furious in the Senate chamber. During the course of his recent great speech on the Philippines, the little gladiator held up a paper, which, he said, was a letter written by Gen. Lawton some time before his death. "Do you know it was written?" asked Pettigrew of South Dakota, who had previously expressed doubts of the authenticity, and had tried to cast a cloud over it. "The senator reminds me," said Mr. Spooner, "of a lawyer who was defending a prisoner for murder. The evidence showed that the defendant stood with a revolver when the other man approached and fired it, and when he fired it the man fell dead. On cross-examination of a witness who saw it the counsel said to him: 'Did you see this defendant?' 'Yes.' 'Where was he?' 'Well, he stood so-and-so.' 'Did he have a revolver in his hand?' 'Yes.' 'Was it pointed at the deceased?' 'Yes.' 'Did the deceased drop when he fired it?' 'Yes.' 'Did you go to him?' 'Yes.' 'Was he dead?' 'Yes.' 'Now, sir, I ask you to inform the jury on your oath whether you saw any bullet go out of the barrel of that revolver?' Amid the laughter which went round no answering word came from Pettigrew. —St. Louis Globe Democrat: STRANGERS IN THE CITY and those desiring a first-class place to room should not fail to call upon Mrs. B. Nicolas who has the nicest and best equipped rooms in the city. Give her a call. Northwestern House APPLETON, WIS. JOHN A. BRILL, - Proprietor. Terms $1.00 Per Day. Accommodations the best in the State. When in Appleton stop at the NORTHWESTERN The Chicago Tribune is a newspaper for bright and intelligent people. It is made up to attract people who think. Is not neutral or colorless, constantly trimming in an endeavor to please both sides, but it is independent in the best sense of the word. It has pronounced opinions and is fearless in expressing them, but it is always fair to its opponents. Matters of national or vital public interest get more space in THE TRIBUNE than in any other paper in the West. For these reasons it is the newspaper you should read during the forthcoming political campaign. THE TRIBUNE'S financial columns never mislead the public. Its facilities for gathering news, both local and foreign, are far superior to those of any other newspaper in the West. It presents the news in as fair a way as possible, and lets its readers form their opinions. While it publishes the most comprehensive articles on all news features, if you are brief the "Summary of THE DAILY TRIBUNE" published daily on the first page gives you briefly all the news of the day within one column. Its sporting news is always the best, and its Sunday Pink Sporting Section is better than any sporting paper in the country. It is the pulsar newsletter printed in the West. IT IS THE CLEANEST DAILY PRINTED IN THE WEST. CHAS. D. MILNE, Electrical Contractor 110 Mason St. Tel. Main 527. General Hardwork Estimates Furnished. TONEY THE ARTIST FINE ART Shining Parlor 2161 GRAND AVENUE Opposite Flanner's Music Store MILWAUKEE, WIS. GEO. W. DEWEY, Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, General House Furnisher, 230-232 West Water St., Cash or Easy Payments. Established in 1881. Furniture Exchanged. THIS IS THE PLACE If you want a Suit or Overcoat made to order at the lowest price Cleaning and Repairing Done Promptly NEW YORK TAILORING CO. 322 Wells Street Sustaining Life on the choice juicy meats served by us is just what our athletic, bicycle riding, tennis playing and golfing twentieth century men and women need. Pie days have gone with the spin ning wheel. Good bone, muscle and tissue is what is needed now. You can get them by patronizing the Chicago Market. Our meats are fresh, tempting and choice, and are sold at prices that will let you feast in comfort. WILLIAM RASCH GENEVA LAKE, WIS. RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTHERN WISCONSIN. The settler and manufacturer who have located in the northern portion of the Badger State are developing and improving that immense tract of rich country very rapidly. Tillers of the soil are coming in and new factories are going up. There is reason for this. The quality and quantity of iron ore, clay, kaolin, marl and timber lands tell the secret. Nature yields its riches to those who toil. Opportunities are still plentiful, for much of the rich undeveloped land is awaiting the settler and manufacturer. It can be obtained on easy terms and at low figures. The Wisconsin Central Ry. The pioneer road of the northern section of Wisconsin, affords cheap and excellent transportation facilities, thus opening the markets of the entire country to the products of that section. Those interested can obtain free illustrated pamphlets and maps upon application to W. H. KILLEN. Land and Industrial Commissioner. Burton Johnson, G. F. A. Jas. C. Pond, Gen. Pass. Agent. Colby & Abbot Building, Milwaukee, Wis. Marquette Houghton AND Calumet VIA RED JACKET CALUMET LAKE LINDEN HANCOCK HOUGHTON L'ANSE NESTORIA ISHPEMING MARQUETT NORTH-WESTERN LINE Through Sleepers TO THE COPPER COUNTRY Leave Milwaukee 12.35 a.m. Daily, and 5.15 a.m. Daily. Except Sunday. Same Excellent Service South Bound. TICKET OFFICES, Chicago & North-Western Ry. 102 Wisconsin Street and Depot on Lake Front. OCONTO GREEN BAY APPLETON NEENAH-MENASHA OSHKOSH FOND DU LAG MILWAUKEE RACINE KENOSHA CHICAGO TALMAGES IN the great conflict now raging in Europe as in this country between Christianity and agnosticism Dr. Talmage has taken a decided stand and in this sermon declares his unwavering belief in the divine origin of the Scriptures; text, Matthew vii., 16, "Do men gather grapes of thorns?" Not in this country. Not in any country. Thorns stick, thorns lacerate, but all the thorns put together never yielded one cluster of Catawba or Isabella grapes. Christ, who was the master of apt and potent illustration, is thus setting forth what you and I well know, that you cannot get that which is pleasant and healthful and good from that which is bad. If you find a round, large, beautiful cluster of grapes, you know that it was produced by a good grapevine and not from a tangle of Canadian thistle. Now, if I can show you that this holy Bible yields good fruit, healthful fruit, grand fruit, splendid fruit, you will come to the conclusion it is a good Bible, and all the arguments of the skeptic against it when he tries to show it is a bad book will go overboard. "Do men gather grapes of thorns?" Can a bad book yield good results? Skeptics with great vehemence declare that the Bible is a cruel book. They read the story of the extermination of the Canaanites and of all the ancient wars and of the history of David and Joshua, and they come to the conclusion that the Bible is in favor of laceration and manslaughter and massacre. Now, a bad book will produce a bad result; a cruel book will product a cruel result. You have friends who have been in the habit of reading the Bible a great many years. Have you noticed a tendency to cruelty on their part? Have you ever heard any of them come out and practically say, "I have been reading the story about the extermination of the Canaanites, and I am seized upon with a disposition to cut and slash and maul and pinch and murder and knock to pieces everything I can lay my hands on?" Have your friends in proportion as they become diligent Bible students and disciples of the Christ of the Bible shown a tendency toward massacre and murder and manslaughter? Has that been your observation? Effect on Children. What has been the effect upon your children of this cruel book? Or if you do not allow the book to be read in your household, what has been the effect upon the children of other households where the word of God is honored? Have they as a result of reading this cruel book gone forth with a cruel spirit to pull the wings off flies and to pinion grasshoppers and to rob birds' nests? A cruel book ought to make cruel people. If they diligently read it and get absorbed with its principles that cause must produce that effect. At what time did you notice that the teachings of this holy Bible created cruelty in the heart and the life of George Peabody, of Miss Dix, of Florence Nightingale, of John Howard, of John Frederick Oberlin, of Abbot Laurence? Have you noticed in reading the biography of these people that in proportion as they became friends of the Bible they became enemies to humanity? Have you not, on the contrary, noticed that all the institutions of mercy established or being established were chiefly supported by the friends of this book? There is the hospital in wartime. There are twenty Christian women. They are binding up wounds; they are offering cordials; they are kneeling down by the dying praying for their departing spirits. Where does the cruelty crop out? They have been reading the Bible all their lives. They read it every morning; they read it every night; they carry it under their arm when they go into the hospital. Where does the cruelty of the book crop out? Is it in the gentleness of their step? Is it in the cadence of their voice? Is it in the sympathetic prayer they offer at the bedside of the dying? Your common sense tells you that a cruel book must produce cruel results. When you can make a rose leaf stab like a bayonet, and when you can manufacture icicles out of the south wind, and when you can poison your tongue with honey got from blossoming buckwheat, then you can get cruelty out of the Bible. That charge of the skeptics falls flat in the presence of every honest man. The Charge of Infidels. Again, infidels go on and most vehemently charge that this Bible is an impure book. You all know that an impure book produces impure results. No amount of money could hire you to allow your child to read an unclean book. Now, if this Bible be an impure book, where are the victims? Your father read it—did it make him a bad man? Your mother read it—did it make her a bad woman? Your sister fifteen years in heaven died in the faith of this gospel—did it despoil her nature? Some say there are 200,000,000 copies of the Bible in existence, some say there are 400,000,000 copies of the Bible. It is impossible to get the accurate statistics, but suppose there are 200,000,000 copies of the Bible abroad, this one book read more than twenty books that the world ever printed, this book abroad for ages, for centuries—where are the victims? Show me 1,000. Show me 500 victims of an impure book. Show me 100 despoiled of the Bible. Show me fifty. Show me ten. Show me two. Show me one! Two hundred million copies of an impure book and not one victim of the impurity! On the contrary, you know very well that it is where the Bible has the most power that the family institution is most respected. Again, agnostics go on still further, and they say the Bible is a mass of contradictions, and they put prophet against prophet, evangelist against evangelist, apostle against apostle, and they say if this be true, how, then, can that be true? Mr. Mill, who was a friend of the Bible, said he had discovered 30,000 different readings of the Scriptures, and yet not one important difference—not one important difference out of 30,000—only the difference that you might expect from the fact that the book came down from generation to generation and was copied by a great many hands. And yet I put before you this fact to-day, that all the Bible writers agree in the four great doctrines of the Bible. What are those four great doctrines? God—good, kind, patient, just, loving, omnipotent. Man—a lost sinner. Two destinies—one for believers, the other for unbelievers; all who accept Christ reaching that home and only those destroyed who destroy themselves; only those who turn their back upon Christ and come to the precipice and jump off, for God never pushes a man off, he jumps off. Now, in these four great doctrines all the Bible writers agree. Mozart, Beethoven, Handel and Hadyn never wrote more harmonious music than you will find in this perfect harmony of the word of God, the harmony in providence and in grace. A Remarkable Fact. You must remember also that the authors of the Bible came from different lands, from different ages and from different centuries. They had no communication with each other; they did not have an idea as to what was the chief design of the Bible, and, yet their writings, got up from all these different lands and all these different ages and all these different centuries, coming together make a perfect harmony in the opinion of the very best scholars of all lands. Is not that a most remarkable fact? Again, infidels vehemently charge that the Bible is an unscientific book. In a former discourse I showed you that there was no collision between science and revelation, and I went from point to point in the discussion, but now let us have authority in this matter. You and I cannot give forty or fifty or sixty years exclusively to the study of science that some men give. Let us have authority in this matter. Who says there is a collision between science and revelation? Well, Herbert Spencer; Tyndall, Darwin. They say there is a discord between science and revelation; but I will bring you names of men who have found a perfect accord between science and revelation—men as much higher in intellectual character above those whom I have mentioned as the Alps and Mount Washington and the Himalayas are higher than the hill back of your house. Herschel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Ross, Isaac Newton. My friends, we are in respectable company when we believe in the word of God—very respectable company. Infidelity Nonsuited. Now, I might, as infidels have failed to prove that the Bible is a cruel book, that the Bible is an impure book, that the Bible is a contradictory book, that the Bible is an unscientific book—I might move a nonsuit in this case of Infidelity, the plaintiff, against Christianity, the defendant, but I will not take advantage of the circumstances, for when the skeptic goes on to say that we are a gullible people, when he goes on to say, as he often does, that the greater the improbability the more we like to believe it, when he goes on to say that the Bible is made up of a lot of manuscripts, one picked up here and another there and another from some other place and that the whole thing is an imposition on the credulity of the human race. I must reply to that charge. The Bible is made up of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Let us take the New Testament first. Why do I believe it? Why do I take it to my heart? It is because it can be traced back to the divine heart just as easily as that aisle can be treed to that door, and that aisle to that door. Jerome and Eusebius in the first century and Origen in the second century and other writers in the third and fourth centuries gave a list of the New Testament writers just exactly corresponding with our list, showing that the same New Testimanet which we have they had in the fourth century and the third century and the second century and the first century. But where did they get the New Testament? They got it from Irenaeus. Where did Irenaeus get it? He got it from Polycarp. Where did Polycarp get it? He got it from St. John, who was the personal associate of the Lord Jesus Christ. My grandfather gave a book to my father, my father gave it to me, I give it to my child. Is there any difficulty in tracing this line? "Well," says some one, "I am ready to believe that the New Testament is from the heart of Christ, but how about the Old Testament? Why do you believe that?" I believe the Old Testament because the prophecies foretold events hundreds and thousands of years ahead—events which afterward took place. How far can you see ahead? Two thousand years? Can you see ahead a hundred years? Can you see ahead five minutes? No, no! Human prophecy amounts to nothing. Here these old prophets stood thousands of years back, and they foretold events which came accurately true far on in the future centuries. Suppose I should stand here and say to you, "Twenty-five hundred and sixty years from now, three miles and a half from the city of Moscow, there will be an advent, and it will be in a certain family, and it will be amid certain surroundings." It would make no impression upon you because you know I cannot foresee a thousand years or one year or one minute, and I cannot tell what is going to transpire in a land far away. But that is what these old prophets did. Prophecies Fulfilled. You must remember that Tyre and Babylon and Nineveh were in full pomp and splendor when these prophecies, these old prophecies, said they would be destroyed. Those cities had architecture that make the houses of modern cities perfectly insignificant. Yet these old prophets walked right through those magnificent streets and said: "This has all got to come down. This is all going to be leveled." Suppose a man should stand up in these cities to-day and say, "There will be harvests of wheat and corn where these cities now stand, and these streets will be pasture for cattle." Such a man would be sent to the insane asylum. Let the old prophets did that very thing. Where is Babylon to-day? You go and walk over the ruins of Babylon and you will not find a leaf or a grass blade of those splendid hanging gardens, and in the summer time the ground actually blisters the feet of the traveler. Babylon destroyed according to the prophecy. How could those old prophets foretell that? How could they know that thousands of years ago? Was it mere human skill? Could you have seen so far ahead? Could you have predicted anything like it? Those old prophets stood looking down in the great future and said a Messiah would be born in a certain nation, in a certain tribe, in a certain family, in a certain place, at a certain time thousands of years ahead. Ages roll on, ages on ages, and after awhile Christ, the only one who has been called Messiah by any great number of people—Christ was born, in that very nation predicted, in that very tribe, in that very family, in that very place, at that very time. Could human skill have predicted it? Does not that prove beyond all controversies and beyond all doubt that those prophets were inspired of the Lord Almighty, looking down in the future and seeing thousands of years ahead occurrences to take place, just as plainly as I see your faces this morning. Truth of the Bible. "Well," says some one, "now I am ready to take the New Testament as from the heart of Christ, and I am ready to believe the prophecies. The evidence is beyond all dispute. But you must remember," says my friend, "that the prophecies are only a small part of the old book. You don't expect us to believe all the old book." If you found one of your good, honest letters in an envelope with ten or twenty cruel, lying, filthy letters, how long would you allow that honest letter to stay there? In a half minute you would either snatch it out of the envelope or you destroy the whole envelope. Now, do you suppose the Lord God would allow these pure prophecies, these prophecies which you admit must have come from the hand of God, from divine inspiration—do you suppose God would allow these pure prophecies to be bound up and put in the same envelope with the book of Job, and the book of Psalms, and the book of Deuteronomy, and the other books, if those books were not good books? Besides all this, you must remember that the most of the writers of this book were uneducated men. How can you account for the fact that when Thomas Babington Macaulay, standing in the house of parliament in London, wanted to finish off a magnificent sentence he quoted from the fishermen of Galilee, or, sitting in his house, wanting to finish one of his great paragraphs of history, he quoted the words of the fishermen of Galilee? Why is it that those uneducated men have more influence on modern times than all the scholars of antiquity? Because they were divinely inspired, because God stood back of them. They were not educated and scholarly. It was not by force of rhetoric that they triumphed, but to-day those humble fishermen, those uneducated fishermen, wield more influence in all our modern cities than any twenty-five men living in this generation and day. They must have been inspired. There must have been a divine influence behind them, and before them, and above them, and within them. Besides that, you must remember that this book has been under fire for centuries, and after all the bombardment of the skeptics of all the centuries, they have not knocked out this Bible a piece as large as the small end of a sharp needle. The Infidel's Harpoon. Then all the undevout astronomers went to work to pull away the book of Joshua. They say, "That cannot be true, the sun's halting above Gibeon and the moon over the valley of Ajalon; it cannot be possible, we must pull that book of Joshua away." And they pull away at it, and they pull away at it, and yet what has become of the book of Joshua? Like the sun above Gibeon and like the moon over the valley of Ajalon, it stands still. All the undevout anatomists and physiologists get hold of the book of Jonah, and they pull away and they say, "That story about Jonah and the whale can't be true." Every infidel carries a harpoon especially for that whale, and they pull away at the book of Jonah, but where is the book of Jonah to-day? Just where it has been all the time—the grandest thing that was ever written to prove that when God sends a man to Nineveh, he cannot get to Tarshish, if God to stop him has to upset the Mediterranean sea with a cyclone. The key to happiness is never found in places where you are ashamed to go with good company. The longest slide toward the bottomless pit is loss of respect for woman. SHEAR NONSENSE First Lady-Killer—"Me steady says you kissed her." Second Ditto—"G'wan! She's only boastin'."—New York World "Can you give me the name of the first lady of the land?" asked the teacher. "Yes'm," said the boy with the frowsy hair, "Eve."—Chicago Tribune. Facts in the case: How did he lose his standing in the community?" "By getting drunk and letting a train run over his legs."—Chicago Times-Herald. "Are you going to spend the summer in town, Hilkins?" 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Eminent Statesman—"I must confess that I do not know what to do to save the country." Wise Politician—"Better wait a month and let the sweet girl graduates tell us."—Baltimore American. Excited Lady (at the telephone)—"I want my husband, please, at once." Voice (from the exchange)—"Number, please?" Excited Lady (snappishly)—"Only the fourth, you impudent thing."—Tid-Bits. "Do you know anything at all about drilling?" asked the sergeant. "Faith, I know all about it," replied the raw recruit; "I wurked in a quarry for monny years befoor I j'ined th' army."—Philadelphia Press. "I would like to be in one of those expeditions to the North Pole, would you?" "No: I prefer the South Pole." "Huh! What's the difference between the two?" "All the difference in the world."—Philadelphia Press. "What is blanc mange, papa?" "Blanc mange? It is that ghastly, horrible, nervous, clammy dessert which your mother generally gets up when we have company so that I can't shirk out of eating it."—Indianapolis Journal. More than even with him: Banker—(to crushed tragedian)—"No; I haven't seen you act; I have not been inside a theater for two years!" Crushed Tragedian—"It's five years since I've been inside a bank."—From The Ways of Men. Mrs Grimes—"Do you know, Mr. Briggs, that your hens get into my garden and make an awful mess of it? They tear up everything with their claws." Mr. Briggs—"I don't know what is to be done, unless you shoe them." What we're all coming to: "What, minding the baby!" said Northside, as he entered Manchester's home and found his friend agitating the cradle. "Yes," replied Manchester. "I've got down to bed-rock."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "Women are an ungrateful lot." "Anything special?" 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Saengerfest Train Runs Into a Freight Train Near Depere with Terrible Results Depere, Wis., June 25.—[Special.]—A heavily-loaded train of nine coaches of passengers from Fond du Lac and vicinity, destined for the State Saengerfest at Green Bay, crashed into a double-header freight train in the Chicago & North-Western railroad switch yard at Depere at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning. The baggage car telescoped the smoker, cutting it off completely just at the tops of the seats and smashed in the forward part of the next coach. Seven were killed and over fifty injured, some quite severely. The killed are: KOSKI, EDWIN, Fond du Lac. PLANK, LORENZ, Fond du Lac. MIERSWA, CHARLES, Oshkosh. KORSCHER, MAX, Oshkosh. LLOYD, GEORGE, Barron. WEBER, ADAM, Fond du Lac. KOCKER, MAX, Ashland. The Oshkosh police telegraph that they are unable to find anything about a Max Koescher, killed in Depere wreck, and they are of the opinion that he did not live there. Carr, Edward, leg broken. Carr, Jean, both legs broken. Froeling, B., leg broken. Cooper, E. H., left leg broken. Ecke, Laura Mis., hip slightly injured. Ecke, Lida Miss, head slightly injured. Fitzsimmons, Michael, left leg broken. Bechaud, August, leg crushed. Froehling, John, shoulder dislocated. Fick, Ditlef, back slightly bruised. Frazier, E., both legs injured. Harper, F., head cut. Hankwitz, Otto, arm broken, nose and mouth cut. Hansen, Louis, head slightly cut. Heider, Ella Miss, hips slightly injured. Ives, Bert, Fond du Lac, well-known billiard player, ribs and shoulder broken, head cut; condition serious. Heider, F., head slightly injured. Heider, Mrs. M., badly bruised. Kaufman, William, legs broken. Kraemer, Oscar, both legs injured. Kobes, Albert, both legs bruised. Kfinke, Charles, both legs and arms in- jured. Kaukintz, Otto, jaw fractured, injured about the breast. Kies, E. L., leg hurt. Kayser, Mrs. L., left hand injured. Linke, C. R., legs hurt. Lauderman, Joseph, right leg and arm injured. Laudritz, Otto, head hurt. Lamb, Thomas, leg broken. Lamb, Richard, leg and face bruised. Lloyd, H., leg broken. Lusk, Louis, leg and arms bruised; body jammed. Ryan, John, face injured. Razinski, Frank, knee and hip hurt. Rueping, Henry, hip and knee hurt. Ross, H., right arm hurt and leg badly hurt. Reubling, M., leg fractured; serious. Reinz, F., head hurt. Severin, Emil, arm broken, legs injured, head badly cut. Rueping, Charles, hip dislocated. Soike, H., left hand, arms and leg injured. Schmidt, George, right arm broken, both legs bruised. Thompson, M., slightly injured. Thomson, John, right hand and shoulder injured. Wen, R. L. Venne Wilfred, left hip dislocated; compound fracture of left leg below knee. Zverln, E. P., left shoulder bones broken, muscles torn, condition critical. From Town of Friendship. Hickey, A. F., left foot, arm, knee and right hip injured. Lamb, Richard, right arm and foot and left leg injured. Lamb, Thomas, right leg injured. From Oshkosh. Carr, Eugene, slightly injured. Carr, Willard, slightly injured. Doorst, Bert, badly bruised. From Van Dyne Donovan, J., right knee injured. Gaffney, James, back and leg hurt. Giesen, E., leg hurt. Lyner, John R., ankle hurt. Raddatie, A. H., hand hurt. Schauft, Henry, knee hurt. From Eden. Flood, Mathias, badly injured internally. Mahoney, Stephen, now in hospital at Green Bay. McCarthy, Terrence, back injured. From Other Places. Barten, John, Green Bay, leg hurt Finney, C. H., Davenport, Ia., right leg injured. injured. Garner, Ernest, Neenah, head injured. Kurus, Bert, Menasha, head hurt. Kraus, Ben Kraus, Peter, Taycheedah, right arm but left foot injured. and left foot injured. Robedeau, Edward, Kaukauna, left leg broken. Rosernoski, F. J., Berlin, hip dislocated. Schmitz, J. J., Neenah, leg and chest injured. Griells, W. F., New York, thigh fractured. The excursion train crashed into a special freight train which was standing on the main track a quarter of a mile south of the Depere station. The smoking car was telescoped by the combination baggage and the passenger car nearest to the engine. The freight train, which was a heavy one with two engines, had pulled out on the main track to switch a part of the train on another side track, when the excursion train appeared and crashed into the freight. A flagman had been sent out ahead, but either the engineer did not see him or was unable to use his brakes. Although the work of rescue was be- begun at once it was nearly an hour before all were taken out of the wrecked coaches. High School a Hospital. The high school was soon converted into a hospital, where the injured were carried. Later some were taken back to their homes at Oshkosh and Fond du Lac, while others were taken to hospitals at Green Bay. Those injured were nearly all in the second coach. When the two trains came together the first car, which was a combination smoker and baggage, was driven through the second coach, where the loss of life occurred. None of the trainmen was injured, the engine crew jumping in time to save themselves. The freight train of fifty-three cars was in charge of Conductor Cottrell. The freight special and the excursion train had orders to meet at Depere. The special freight train went in on the siding at the north switch at Depere, and pulled down the sidetrack, but on account of the length of the train the crew found when they reached the south switch that the rear end was not into the clear. The train was then pulled over the south switch. At that moment the passenger train appeared, expecting to stop to meet the freight, and collided with the engine of the freight train which was on the main line at the south switch. Scene was Appalling. After the crash the scene presented was appalling. The first two coaches of the passenger train were telescoped and demolished, few of the passengers escaping injury. Some were killed outright, others were terribly mangled. Legs and arms of some were broken. Others were badly crushed and maimed—all hemmed in amid the debris of the wrecked cars. The other cars were not dislodged from the track, and none of the other coaches were damaged. None of the train crew was injured, all jumping in time to save themselves. The cries of the injured were heart-rending. One young man, who was terribly injured, cried to the doctor who was attending him: "I'm dying, but for Heaven's sake cover my face so that I cannot see the rest die." Injured Pinioned Under Wreckage. One of the dead men hung out of a car window for more than an hour before he could be extricated. For an hour and a half wounded were held pinioned under the mass of wreckage before anything could be done for their relief. The relief train sent to the scene of the fearful disaster was provided with several physicians, stretchers for the wounded and hospital stores. Three other loaded trains of pleasure seekers, one of them from Wausau, had to return as the wreck was of such a nature that it could not be cleared to let the trains pass. The wrecking train from Oshkosh reached there about 1 p. m. Cause of the Accident. The cause of the acident, so far as has been determined at this time, was due to the freight crew failing to give the passenger the right of way. The passenger had on board about 500 Fond du Lac people who were bound for Green Bay to attend the saengerfest. In order to give the North-Western road an opportunity to handle the business at Green Bay, orders had been issued to clear the yards of its freight cars so that passenger coaches could be run in. A freight train of fifty-three cars was made up and started for the south. Orders had been issued to run to Depere and make the siding by 10:10 o'clock. The freight arrived at Depere at 10 o'clock and made the siding. Finding that the train was too long and would not go on one siding, the freight crew cut the train in two and ran ahead on the main track. At the point where the switching was done there is a sharp curve. The passenger, supposing it had the right of way and that the freight was on its siding, came along at a good clip. The next minute the two engines had collided with full force. The wreck that resulted did not do so great damage to the engines, which remained intact. The next car to the engine on the passenger train was a combination baggage and passenger car, and this was rammed into the next passenger coach for fully two-thirds of its length. TWO OUT OF DANGER. Ives and Venne of Fond du Lac will Recover. Fond du Lac, Wis., June 25.—[Special.]—A dispatch at noon to Mrs. Venne says her son will recover and that no amputation is necessary. Word was received that Bert Ives is out of danger. INJURED DOING WELL. Encouraging Reports Received from Green Bay Hospitals. Green Bay, Wis., June 25.—[Special.] Reports from the hospitals are favorable. The injured are doing well and it is thought that all will recover. The inquest was begun at Depere at 2 o'clock. A great many railway officials are on the grounds looking up evidence. It is expected that the inquest will last through tomorrow. CRACKED A SAFE. Burglars Break Into and Rob Store of Meyers & Chase at Abbotsford. Abbotsford, Wis., June 25.—[Special.] —Burglars entered the store of Meyers & Chase of this place early Sunday morning and blew open the safe by drilling through the front door. In the inner safe there were found over 300 dynamite caps, which it is supposed to have been exploded by the shock and their force to have blown the inner safe all to pieces. About $60 was taken besides valuable papers. No clue was left by the burglars. A clock over the safe stopped at 2:25 o'clock, the time it is supposed the safe was cracked. A crew of railroad men were working back and forth about 100 feet back of the store, but they heard nothing. Racine, Wis., June 25.—A gang of thieves are operating all along the line between Chicago and Racine and Racine and Beloit. In this city they went through the house of Mrs. V. Heck, mother of City Attorney May W. Heck, securing about $100 worth of jewelry. They then took a midnight freight train on the Milwaukee road and went to Union Grove and started in to loot the town. Eleven houses were burglarized, and not one of the persons robbed knew of the fact until they arose yesterday morning. At the home of W. J. Callender they got $3 in money and a watch chain, but left two watches and $36 behind; Dr. H. D. Lester lost $36; H. Rosendale missed 36 cents and says the thieves overlooked $60. NO EVIDENCE. Girl Arrested In Medford Charged with Stealing Diamonds is Dismissed. Fond du Lac, Wis., June 25.—[Special.]—Laura Roe, who was arrested at Medford charged with stealing diamonds from Mrs. W. E. Cole of this city, was this morning discharged, there being no evidence against her. Master Mechanic H. E. Wade of the North-Western system and family, who have been visiting Fond du Lac friends, returned to Chicago today. Plans for the fourth of July celebration are progressing nicely and indications point to a rousing old Fourth. Judge N. S. Gilson spent Sunday in the city, returning to Madison this morning. George Wood was sent to the county jail for ninety days for assault and battery. MINERS SMOTHERED. Fatal Explosion in a Shaft In a Mine at Champion, Mich. Champion, Mich., June 25.—[Special.] —Four miners were killed in an explosion at the Champion mine late Saturday afternoon. They are: FLOYD, JOHN, shift boss; married. LARK, NOAH, skip tender; single. LUMA, HERMAN, miner. PARKALA, OTTO, miner. Of five men on the twenty-fifth level near the explosion at the bottom of the shaft, but one escaped by climbing the air-hose to pure air. Gases and smoke asphyxiated the victims. The cause of the explosion is not known, but was probably due to sparks from a miner's pipe. Found in Insane Asylum. Cambria, Wis., June 25.—Mrs. Edward Williams, who disappeared from her home near this village, has been located at the Northern hospital for the insane. She was sent from Jefferson to that institution. WOMAN WANTS $50,000. Famous "Window Smasher" Sues Authorities of Frederick, S. D. FORCED TO LEAVETOWN She Claims the City as Her Home and Wants to Live La Crosse, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—Maria Ricks, the "window smasher," at present domiciled at the Home of the Friendless, in this city, has begun suit against the authorities of Frederick, S. D., her home, when she is at home. She has secured an attorney and will sue for $50,000. She claims the officers of that town are trying to get rid of her and keep her away from her home. She was recently sent out of that town. From there she journeyed on by easy stages to Dubuque, Ia., and from that town she was shipped on to La Crosse. Here she declares she will remain for a time. Maria Ricks formerly resided at Stevens Point, and has smashed windows in almost every city in the state. RAIN SAVES WHEAT. Heavy Downfall Reported In Wisconsin, Minnesota and In North and South Dakotas. La Crosse, Wis., June 27.—General heavy rains are reported at various points as having fallen last night in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North and South Dakotas. Rain came at opportune time in the last-named states and it is believed that the wheat crops can now be saved. It was feared that unless rain fell all would be lost. During the heavy electrical storm here, the North Side German Lutheran church was struck by lightning and damaged to the extent of $2000. The roof of the Robinson icehouse was blown off. The Burlington depot at McCortney was struck and the building burned to the ground, causing a loss of $1500, fully insured. The rains are a great benefit to the Mississippi river and it is already rising as a result of the rains. The rise is greeted with joy by all river and steamboat men and may mean the saving of thousands of dollars to them. Sturgeon Bay, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—An electric storm of unusual severity passed over this city last night, accompanied by a heavy rainfall. The steeple of the Catholic church was struck and badly damaged. MAY BE MURDER. James Sullivan is Assaulted in the Streets of Fond du Fond du Lac, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—This morning James Sullivan was struck on the head by John Kennedy in front of the Exchange hotel. He fell to the ground, his head striking on the curbing. He has been unconscious since and it is feared that he will not recover. Sullivan was on his way to a train when he noticed that Kennedy was abusing his horses. He spoke to Kennedy, who came out into the street and struck Sullivan on the head. Kennedy made his escape. A warrant is out for his arrest. Sullivan is 50 years old and has been in the employ of the street railway company. He was on his way to Milwaukee to take a place in that city. CONDITION OF INJURED. Victims of the Depere Wreck Are Doing Well. Fond du Lac, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—Reports this morning from the hospital and homes of those injured in Sunday's railroad wreck at Depere are to the effect that all the patients, with one exception, are getting along favorably. The extreme heat of yesterday and today increases the difficulties of making the patients comfortable, but physicians and nurses state that their sufferings from this source are reduced to a minimum. Ferdinand Heider, at St. Agnes' hospital, who suffers agonies whenever an attempt to move him is made, was placed under the influence of anesthetics this morning and an examination conducted to discover whether his spine was affected. Physicians arrived at the conclusion that the injuries were to the muscles of the back more than to the spine. Robert Wells, whose leg was crushed in the wreck, suffered much yesterday, his condition taking an unfavorable turn during the afternoon. Pains in the chest and abdomen give rise to the fear that he may have sustained internal injuries of a serious character. Reports favorable as to the condition of the injured at Green Bay were received this morning, and hopes are entertained for the recovery of even the most severely injured. Emil Severin, Bert Ives and Wilfred Venne, who sustained the worst injuries, passed comfortable nights. The funeral of the late Edwin Koske, killed in the wreck at Depere, was held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon from the family home, 10 Elm street, and was followed by services at the Friden's church, conducted by Rev. August Blaukwagel. The members of the turnverein, of which Mr. Koske was a member, attended in a body, the funeral cortege being headed by the military band. Burial took place at Reinza. The funeral of Lawrence Plank, another of the victims of the railroad disaster, was held at 9:30 o'clock at St. Mary's church, a solemn requien mass being celebrated by Rev. Father Woelfing. Burial took place at Calvary. SCORCHING WEATHER. Thermometer Reaches 100 in the Shade in Many Places. Grand Rapids, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—The thermometer registered 100 degrees in the shade today and yesterday. Sparta, Wis., June 27.—The last few days have been extremely hot, the thermometer registering several times during the period over 100 in the shade. Marquette, Mich., June 27.—This has been much the hottest day of the present summer. The government thermometer in the weather-office tower registered 94 degrees for maximum and thermometers on the street several degrees higher. MADISON DOCTOR INJURED. Collides with Iron Post While Alighting from Moving Car. Madison, Wis., June 27.—Dr. A. R. Law, a well-known physician of Madison, was seriously if not fatally hurt last evening by colliding with an iron post while alighting from a swiftly-moving street car. Old Settler Dead. Marshfield, Wis., June 27.—[Special.] —Mrs. George Sexton died last evening, aged 73. She was born in Ireland and settled at Wautoma, Wis., in the early '50s. ARE OUT OF DANGER. Welcome News from China Received by Friends of Dr. Porter at Beloit. Beloit, Wis., June 27.—[Special.] Great relief is felt by the friends over the message from China announcing the safety of Dr. Henry Porter and his sister, Miss Mary Porter. Dr. Porter's wife and family are in Beloit. E. M. Gammon, father of Charles Gammon, a missionary at Pekin and Tien Tsin, is greatly concerned for the safety of his son, Charles F. Gammon, who has charge of the business of the American Bible society in northern China. Mr. Gammon left Beloit several years ago and joined the navy, and while a member of the crew of the Monococy, then cruising the Chinese rivers, he was converted, married a missionary's daughter and has since been in missionary work among the Chinese. For several years he was a teacher of military tactics in an imperial school at Tien Tsin. Lately he resigned the place to do a wider range of missionary work. In his last letter Mr. Gammon spoke of the impending danger to foreigners. Safe in Marietta, O. Marietta, O., June 27.—Rev. Charles A. Stanley and wife, missionaries to Tien Tsin, reported in peril, are now safe in Marietta on a visit. Their daughters, Mrs. Charles F. Gammon and Mrs. George Wilder, were in Tien Tsin when the city was bombarded and no word has come from them. Mrs. Gammon's husband was until recently an officer in the United States navy serving under Admiral Dewey. Mr. Wilder is a missionary. New York, June 27.—The American Missionary association of this city reports a list of names of thirteen Americans supposed to be at Tien Tsin at the time of the massacre. The list includes the names of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Smith, Wisconsin; Rev. Henry D. Porter, D. D., and wife of Beloit, Wis.; Miss Mary H. Porter, Beloit, Wis. BRAKE BROKE. Flat Car Runs Away and Dashes Down a Grade at Fearful Rate. Dodgeville, Wis., June 27.—[Special.] A bad accident occurred here by which Thomas Carey, road overseer of the Madison and Dodgeville branches of the Illinois Central railroad, was very badly injured. The morning passenger train had taken a flat car about a mile below this city to be loaded with rock by the section men. After leaving the flat car in possession Mr. Carey went down the road on a speeder to inspect the track. The section foreman wished to move the car so let it run down the track, which is a heavy grade for ten miles, the brake broke and the car started on its wild flight and overtook Mr. Carey, who did not notice it until it was nearly onto him. He then jumped off the speeder, which was going very fast. The car demolished the speeder and continued until it got within one mile of Janesville. Mr. Carey was brought to this city and the wounds were dressed. It was found that he had several very bad cuts on his face and his chest was badly bruised. He remained unconscious about two hours. BUY IN OPEN MARKET. State Board of Control Saves $1800 in Letting Coal Con- Madison, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]— The state board of control, which yesterday formally rejected the bids received at a former meeting for coal for the state institutions, is today buying the coal in the open market through offers by telegraph from agents who are here. The contract has been let in this way for 3000 tons of Youghiogheny screening at a total saving of $1800 from the previous bid. The first bids, the board thought, gave evidence of a combination among the coal men, which they think they have now broken. Other contracts at a considerable reduction will probably be awarded this afternoon. VILLAGE THREATENED. The People of Gordon Are Fighting a Fierce Fire Which is West Superior, Wis., June 27.—[Special.]—The little village of Gordon in this county is threatened with destruction by fire. A couple of small summer cottages on lakes in that vicinity were burned and today the people in the village are fighting to prevent further conflagrations. Several Superior people own summer cottages there and they are there to fight flames should they approach their places. Preserving Railroad Ties. Experiments are being made in Germany with beech as a material for railway sleepers. It has been found that without preservative treatment such sleepers are apt to rot internally though they may be apparently sound on the exterior. On the Alsace-Lorraine lines favorable results have been obtained with creosoted beech sleepers, which have shown an average life of nineteen and a half years, while others preserved with zinc chloride have proved still more satisfactory, their life being twenty-one and a half years. Cincinnati Enquirer. American Shoes in Europe. American shoe manufacturers, acting upon advice and information furnished them through the department by United consuls, have of late been pushing business in continental Europe, and within the past year there has been a real and growing demand for shoes. Sulphite Mill Closes Down. Appleton, Wis., June 27.—The large sulphite plant of the Interlake Paper and Pulp company has been closed down and will remain idle for the next sixty days. The main factor in the shutdown is the absence of water power. Eighty-five men are out of work. Robbers Stole Clothes. Rhinelander, Wts., June 27.—[Special.]—A telegram received here this morning by the sheriff from Hazelhurst states that the office of the United States Express company was broken into last night and three suits of clothes and other wearing apparel taken. The Box was Only Fooling. Racine, Wis., June 27.—Howard Stickle, 11 years old, is the name of the boy who shot Abbie Spencer in the face Monday night. The lad said that he was only fooling. No arrests were made and the boy will not be punished. The girl was not badly hurt. Four Workmen Injured. Kenosha, Wis., June 27.—Four men were badly hurt by a falling timber while at work on the crib at the harbor pier. The men were James Kennedy, foreman; Theodore G. Martin, Archie Baldwin and Dennis Ryan. —A Dusseldorf firm is making air pipes for ventilating mines of strong sail cloth impregnated with india rubber, so as to be air and water tight. They are kept open by galvanized rings at intervals. M'KINLEY AND ROOSEVELT Ticket Named by the Republican National Convention. HANNA IS CHAIRMAN. Closing Acts of the Convention Received with the Wildest Enthusiasm by Delegates. Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., June 21.—This was the great day and long before 10 o'clock, the hour set for the reassembling of the convention, the hall was surrounded by an immense army of people who besieged all the doors and entrances, clamoring for admission. When the doors were opened they surged in like a flood, submerging the vast hall. The stage had been freshened with green things and at each corner, like a touch of flaming color, red peonies shot into the air. The band in the north gallery was at work early with inspiring music. At 10:36 Chairman Lodge glanced at his watch and then with three raps of the historic gavel stilled the tumult on the floor while the band ushered in the session with the national anthem, Senator Hanna being one of the first to rise and the entire audience following as the inspiring strains reverberated through the building. As the anthem closed the chairman announced the opening invocation by Archbishop Ryan. The distinguished prelate wore the superb purple robe of his high station, falling to his feet, and open in front showing the heavy chain and golden cross emblematic of his office. The Invocation. He paused until the assemblage had risen and bowed their heads and then his strong, rich voice rolled out a prayer filled with a sentiment of the deep responsibility resting upon the party here assembled. When the striking figure of the archbishop, at the finish of the prayer, disappeared in the throng on the stage, the vast assemblage sank to its seats, and the gavel fell to make quiet for the more pressing work of the convention. Senator Lodge called attention to Louisiana being inadvertently omitted from the roll call for national committee and that was corrected. Alabama also named its selections, having failed to do so yesterday. McKinley's Name Presented. Amidst a tumult of applause Senator Foraker went to the platform, and when quiet was restored began to speak, first thanking Alabama for its courtesy in yielding, but attributing that fact to the overwhelming popularity of the candidate. As Mr. Foraker continued he was repeatedly interrupted with cheers. His announcement that the nomination of McKinley was equal to an election in November brought vociferous cheers from the delegates, while the gallery spectators shook the building with their enthusiastic demonstration. McKlnley Renominated. The roll was called and each state voted for McKinley. McKinley was declared the unanimous nominee of the convention for President of the United States. When Senator Lodge announced that McKinley was nominated unanimously for the presidential candidate, the galleries were noticeably attentive, and there was no unusual demonstration among the delegates until New York's vote was announced by Chairman Odell. This brought out a round of applause. When Pennsylvania's vote was announced by Senator Quay many of the delegations arose and cheered. Some of the state were not content with casting their votes for McKinley, but the chairman announced the vote which the candidate would receive in November. At the call of Hawaii the delegations stood and cheered the announcement by the new possessions of its two votes for McKinley. The tally clerks quickly made the official summary and handed it to the chairman. Mr. Lodge took the paper and advancing to the front of the stage, said: "The total vote cast is 930. William McKinley has received 930 votes. It is a unanimous vote and the chairman declares that William McKinley is your nominee for the presidency for the term beginning March 4, 1901." For Vice-President. Mr. Lodge then announced that the call of states would proceed for nominations for the vice-presidency. As the name of Alabama was called on the roll of states, for the nomination of candidates for vice-president, the announcement was made by the chairman of the delegation that Alabama would yield to Iowa to present a candidate. Chairman Lodge then recognized Col. Lafe Young, one of the Iowa delegates-at-large and editor of the Des Moines Capital. Col. Young was in Cuba at the time Roosevelt led his gallant Rough Riders up San Juan hill, and his reference to the governor's campaign was eloquent and touching. The demonstration which followed the announcement by Col. Young of Gov. Roosevelt as the candidate of the young men of the country, who represented their desires and their ambitions and embodied their patriotism and Americanism, was not second to that accorded the President's name. It took some minutes to restore order, Chairman Lodge vigorously pounding his desk and appealing to the assemblage. Just as Alabama was called, the first state on the roll call, ex-Senator Quay started out of the hall and there was a disturbance of cheers. Partial order was restored and the roll call proceeded, each delegation as called casting their votes for Roosevelt unanimously. During the roll call delegates and spectators, realizing that the convention's action would be unanimous, chatted and laughed until the resultant noise was like the roar of a sullen sea on a rocky coast. At the conclusion of the call, Chairman Lodge announced that Gov. Roosevelt had received 925 votes, one delegate in the convention not voting. This delegate was Gov. Roosevelt himself, who refrained from voting with the New York delegation. Chairman Lodge's announcement that Gov. Roosevelt had been nominated for vice-president evoked a burst of applause that fairly shook the great steel-girded building to its foundations. Gov. Roosevelt, now the candidate for vice-president, was surrounded by delegates showering congratulations upon him. He stood in the middle aisle, the stern look of recent days having given way to an expansive smile. The serious work of the convention was practically over, and only a few details remained to be performed. A resolution by Gen. Grosvenor was agreed to for an official print of the convention proceedings and a reprint of the proceedings of four years ago. Another resolution empowered the national committee to fill vacancies on the committee. On motion of Col. Dick, Senator Lodge was placed at the head of the committee to notify the President of his nomination, and Senator Wolcott at the head of the committee to notify the vice-presidential nominee. Resolutions of thanks to Mr. Lodge and to Mr. Wolcott for their able services as presiding officers were unanimously adopted; also thanks to Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia for the hospi- tality of the city, and to all officials of the convention. This closed the work and, at 2:14, on motion of Sereno Payne of New York, the Republican national convention of 1900 adjourned sine die. Senator Hanna was chosen chairman of the national committee. The Buffalo club is trying to break the record for the number of players employed by one team during the season. "Pop" Franklin must have been having a nightmare when he let Baker and Hooker out. The Milwaukee boys are of the opinion that Hooker and Baker were two of his best men and would have won many games for him. * * * Frank Sparks, the Brewers' pitcher, has been ill with tonsillitis for the past week, but has recovered sufficiently to get out for practice again. He will probably pitch the last game against the Cowboys. Pettinger, the young Boston pitcher, has been farmed out to Worcester, as Boston will not carry over five slab artists. Barry has been loaned to Montreal until Manager Dooley recovers from his injury, so that Boston must depend on Hugh Duffy for in and outfield substitute. Ted Lewis is laid up with a bad stone bruise and Bill Clarke is nursing a lame side. It is very probable that Mike Donlin, the erratic fielder of the St. Louis team, who was cut in a room brawl the other night, will be suspended for the balance of the season. Tebeau, it is said, has soured on the youngster and will severely discipline him. Charles O'Leary, third baseman for the Mandels of Chicago, will be tried out by Comiskey's white stockings. Hartman is at West Baden recuperating. There is now a new claimant to the heavyweight championship of the world—namely Gus Ruhlin, the strong boy of Akron, O.—who won the right to challenge Jim Jeffries for the title by defeating Tom Ruhkey, the "Sailor" pugilist, in decisive style Tuesday night at New York after fifteen rounds of hardest fighting ever seen in the ring. There was no question about a draw or anything of that kind—it was a clean knockout and Ruhlin deserves all the credit possible for his victory. The Akron boy had the best of the weight, but still he is not as heavy as Jeffries, and the latter failed to put Sharkey out in twenty-five rounds—in fact, it was always a question in the minds of many whether Jeffries had a clear title to the decision. Sharkey roughed it throughout the fight with Ruhlin, but he found that he could not wear his opponent down, but instead was met with hard left jabs through the contest, which made his head feel the effects of it before going a great distance. Ruhlin was game and also showed great improvement over his previous form. It is probably a lucky thing for Fitzsimmons that he met with an accident and thus permitted Sharkey to take his place. A victory over Ruhlin now by Fitzsimmons would be all the more creditable to him. Sharkey began to tire badly in the fourteenth round and was put out in the fifteenth. The closing round was as follows: Round 15—Tom was first up. He closed, but Gus sent him away with short left and right jolts on the head. Tom looked tired, and Gus followed him and jabbed his head back and crossed his right to the jaw. Tom staggered, and Ruhlin stepped in and banged him with both hands until the sailor staggered to the floor. He was up at the count, but unable to make a defense, and again he went to the carpet from Ruhlin's blows. With bulldog gameness he struggled again to his feet. Gus by this time was hardly able to use his hands. When Tom regained his feet he staggered. Ruhlin sent short lefts and rights to the head that looked as if they would not hurt a child, but Tom was so badly done for that he again went down under them. Again he rose blindly to his feet and Gus walked to him. Tom tried to clinch, but Gus stepped back and gave him a straight left to the face and a righthand uppercut to the jaw. Tom toppled forward, all out, and Referee Johnny White waved Ruhlin to his corner. The sailor pugilist's second carried him to his corner, where he gradually revived, and was soon able to leave the ring. After the battle Ruhlin said: I am now prepared to fight Jeffries for the heavyweight championship of the world, and I can defeat him. My easy defeat of Sharkey entitles me to first call from the champion. I beat the sailor in much more decisive and quicker style than Jeffries. The champion cannot ignore me now. Tom Sharkey said: "Ruhlin surprised me by his showing. He has improved wonderfully. He fought a great battle; but I injured my left rib, which I broke in the fight with Jeffries. That hurt me after two rounds of fighting, and, besides, I wrenched my left shoulder, which also went back on me." * * * The National Athletic club of San Francisco has matched Willie Cole to box Tommy Cox twenty rounds as a preliminary to the Neill-Moffatt fight July 13. They will weigh in at 127 pounds. Cox claims to be the champion featherweight of Australia. *** At Cincinnati Joe Gans of Baltimore knocked out Barney Furey, a local lightweight. Mike Schreck of Reading, O., and Harry Lyons of Baltimore fought ten rounds to a draw. * * * If the present plans do not fail Tom Cooper and Major Taylor, recognized as the two best bicycle riders in the country, will be seen in a match race, in Milwaukee during the L. A. W. meet, July 10-15. Gerhard Aussem, chairman of the racing committee, has been in correspondence with both riders for the past few days, with hopes of arranging a match race, and present indications now point that they will come together here. A good-sized purse will be offered. There is to be two out of three heats, or three out of five heats at a mile. One provision will be inserted that, if the match is made, it will not be a repetition of some of the matches between professionals last year, such as the Ball-Cooper race, at Indianapolis, when Ball won two straight heats by unclean work and in very slow time—5:57% for the first heat. A letter received from Taylor here this morning is to the effect that he is now hard at work in New York, and that he never was able to follow the pace better than he is now. Cooper is now in the South and has been at work for the past few months. During the winter season he took good care of himself and consequently did not have to work hard to go in shape. One or two days ago he covered a mile in 2:01% at Fountain Ferry track and was paced only part of the distance. Should the two men meet on the indoor track at the Exposition, those interested in cycling will undoubtedly, not only witness one of the fastest match races for indoor track, but also one in which skill will go a great distance. Chairman Cramer expects to hear from both riders in a day or so. If the match falls through, which is not likely, both of them will, nevertheless, participate in all professional championship events. *** Eddie Bald defeated Orlando Stevens in a match race, two out of three heats, single placed at Buffalo. * * * Fred Raymer, the Milwaukee second baseman who was loaned to the Sioux City club of the Western league for the balance of the season, is down with smallpox in a hospital in Sioux City. The one thing that qualifies a person to give advice on any subject is experience - experience creates knowledge. No other person has so wide an experience with female ills nor such a record of success as Mrs. Pinkham has had. Over a hundred thousand cases come before her each year. Some personally, others by mail. And this has been going on for 20 years, day after day and day after day. Twenty years of constant success - think of the knowledge thus gained! Surely women are wise in seeking advice from a woman with such an experience, especially when it is free. If you are ill get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once-then write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. TWO QUEER THINGS. Vegetables Resembling Animals and Animals Looking Like Vegetables. Most extraordinary in its resemblance to an animal is the bird-pea. It is found on a bush about five feet high, growing in western Australia. The wings of the pea are brown, with dark stripes, admirably representing the marking of feathers. The breast and tail are light green, while the head and beak are a still lighter color. Should you see these tiny birds swaying in the wind you would almost expect them to fly away, so life-like are some of their motions; but they are firmly fixed to the bush, and in this respect just the opposite to the "leaves with wings," which can move at will from tree to tree. The grass fish are so-called because they always maintain a vertical position and resemble a bed of grass growing from the bottom of the sea. Their home is in the greatest depths of the ocean, and they have for neighbors creatures as curious as themselves-quaint looking sea-squirts, strange sea spiders, sea horses and animal flowers. Here they live, swaying to and fro, with their snouts in the earth, as if not content with being several miles from the surface of the water and were making constant efforts to go deeper still. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-fourth the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers. Montreal's First Printing Press The first printing press ever set up in Montreal was that which Benjamin Franklin placed in a vault in the Chateau de Ramezay in 1775 for the printing of manifestoes to excite Canada to rebellion. The press was afterward removed to this country, but the vault is now being restored to its original self and a tablet will be placed in it in memory of Franklin.—Philadelphia Press. Siberia's Natural Wealth. Siberia produces one-tenth of the world's yield of gold, and but few of the mines have been worked, on account of the climate. The immense coal deposits have hardly been touched. One mine, with six beds, contains as much coal as all the deposits in England. The back of transportation facilities alone has prevented it from being worked.—Consul John C. Covert. —There is an extensive mine of jewels on the banks of Yogo creek, in Montana, Rubies and sapphires are the principal products. TOO MUCH TAPE. A Live, Crawling Thirty - foot Man-Eater. Human Lives Destroyed by Tape-Worms— Thousands of Weak, Debilitated People Are Worm-Eaten. Lots of people are eaten alive without knowing it. Thousands of invalids suffering from weakness and debility, wasting away in a slow death without apparent cause, are turning out to be victims of tape-worms. Cascarets Candy Cathartic are found to be perfect eliminators of tape-worms, those destroying parasites that are eating up human lives by thousands. There was no way of telling the presence of tape-worms until Cascarets began killing them. The records of cases come in daily. Here is one: Lima, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1899. Lima, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1899. Gentlemen—After suffering for two years and spending a great deal of money trying to be relieved from a tape-worm, I was induced to try a box of your Cascarets. After taking four tablets between nine a. m. and five p. m., at seven o'clock in the evening I passed a worm about thirty-two (32) feet long, head and all. I take great pleasure in recommending Cascarets to any one suffering from this trouble. Yours truly, SAMUEL WEINFELD, Traveling Salesman, Henry Diesel Cigar Company. If you feel bad, and don't know why, take Cascarets. They are absolutely harmless, make the liver lively, open the bowels and kill the disease germs in the body. Buy and try Cascarets to day. It's what they do, not what we say they'll do, that proves their merit. All druggists, 10c, 25c, or 50c, or malled for price. Send for booklet and free sample. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can.; or New This is the CASCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascaretbears the magic letters "CCC." Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imitations and substitutes. This is the CASCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascarets bears the magic letters "CCC." Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imitations and substitutes. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Testes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Popular Singer Has Abandoned the Stage for Good and All. M. Love for Henrick Voisin, a Swedish artist, to whom she is reported to be engaged to be married, is said to have caused Sibyl Sanderson to abandon all ideas of returning to the stage. The singer, known as Mrs. Antonio Terry in private life, and the artist met at Pau and are said to have been infatuated immediately. Love for Henrick Voisin, a Swedish artist, to whom she is reported to be engaged to be married, is said to have caused Sibyl Sanderson to abandon all ideas of returning to the stage. The singer, known as Mrs. Antonio Terry in private life, and the artist met at Pau and are said to have been infatuated immediately. IN GAY NEW YORK. Scenes and Incidents of Everyday Life in the Paris of America. I do not care how oft he tops His ball or digs the ground; I do not care how oft he drops In hazards goling 'round; I do not care if in the glen He lands in rushes thick— But I'm sure to lose my temper when He calls a club a "stick." It's not because he poorly plays That I dislike him so; It's not because he cannot raise His ball o'er bunkers low— I mind it not if, now and then, His drive is but a foot— But I nearly go distracted when He calls a putt a "put." I can forgive him for a lot Of faults in form—and more; I don't complain of strokes forgot In putting down his score. When 6 he writes instead of 10, I smile at his deceit— But I'm mad enough to kill him when He calls a cleek a "cleat." —Town Topics. John Rogers, proprietor of Rogers' historic chophouse in Park place, has filed an application in bankruptcy. The place is being conducted temporarily by an assignee. The chophouse has long been the resort of men of renown in politics and business. It was here that Chester A. Arthur was toasted when he received the nomination for the vice-presidency, and Roscoe Conkling used to drop in there for luncheon every day. Rogers' has been the headquarters of the Irish societies, and the New Amsterdam club, which was later the County Democracy, came into existence there. Mayor Van Wyck may be found there at noon every day, and dozens of other prominent New Yorkers are at home there. The liabilities are $15,000 and the assets $8500. Mr. Rogers lost money in conducting a hotel at Far Rockaway, and he had a disastrous fire in Park place not long ago. To these two causes is ascribed his present difficulties. W. K. Vanderbilt, Col. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor and W. S. Hoyt were landed in the city from Mr. Vanderbilt's steam yacht Valiant, which arrived at quarantine Tuesday night from Havre. The party left that port June 11 and made the trip in nine days and one hour. The yacht maintained an average speed of 14.29 knots. The passangers on the Valiant said that they had a pleasant trip. Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Hoyt sailed from New York in the yacht January 8. The yacht made a fairly good run to Gibraltar, and then visited French ports in the Mediterranean. The yacht touched at Southampton before she headed for Havre. The Valiant was reported last winter to have parted her moorings in the port of Palermo during a gale. The active re-entrance of Mrs. Goelet into Newport society will no doubt revive the Wilson-Vanderbilt feud. Mrs. Goelet will espouse the cause of her sister, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and, being a woman of spirit, her entertainment will without doubt eclipse any that may be given by the intimate friends of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt and of those who encouraged the deceased millionaire in his opposition to his son's choice of a wife. In this Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who has a grievance of her own, will aid and abet Mrs. Goelet in all her undertakings, and the prospects are that the season will develop one of the warmest social battles in many years. Miss Maude Fortesque, daughter of Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt, was married to Ernest Sutton Pickhardt Wednesday afternoon in Grace church, Broadway and Tenth street. Miss Fortesque was given away by her stepfather, Robert B. Roosevelt, formerly minister to the Netherlands. She was dressed in white satin, trimmed with chiffon and point d'alencon. Miss Helen Clifford McCormick of Eaglesmere, Pa., the maid of honor and bride's only attendant, wore white dotted muslin over pink taffeta. Walter B. Odiorne of Boston was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Pickhardt will sail for Europe on June 28, where they will travel in England for several months. Here is the technical description of a cream-white serge gown seen at Manhattan Beach the other day, rattled off by a feminine sartorial sage: The kilt-like pleats were stitched down flat and the skirt fit closely to the figure because rows of stitching around the hips made a yoke. There was a little bolero pleated to match into ad eep border of stitched pink and white tweed. A turnover collar and vest of pink linen and a little tucked blouse of pink batiste and lace, very smart and pretty, completed the costume. And to the ordinary man the whole combination, girl and all, was a dream of June loveliness. Two of the new dances accepted by the American National Association of Masters of Dancing, now in convention, are the "Dixon" and the "Asbury." One of them is the invention of a Pittsburg professor of dancing, although it has not been announced which one. The dances will not be very different from the ordinary waltz or two-step, only a little more elaborate, or, as a Bowery spieler remarked recently, "Jist er few scallops on de old t'ing, ter give dancin' schools er hunch on teachin' de up-ter-date mugs." Plans are now well under way for the erection of a handsome building on the site of the old Windsor hotel. Fifth ave- nue, between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets, which was destroyed by fire on St. Patrick's day, 1899. The structure will be an arcade, designed especially for a gallery of fine arts, a store for fine imported chinaware and a gallery for one of New York's leading photographic firms. A sale was made on Tuesday of a Cotton exchange membership at $3975, the seller paying the transfer fee of $25. Next day a seat sold for $4000, the buyer paying the transfer fee, making the cost of membership $4025. Less than two years ago Cotton exchange memberships sold as low as $500. Improved business advanced the price to $2200 last spring. Since then a new commission law has caused the increased value. The "Countess Mensterberg," who is Princess Aribert of Anhalt, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, sailed yesterday on the North German Lloyd steamer Friederich der Grosse for Bremen. The countess occupied the cabin of the second engineer. Men were engaged busily during the night in fitting it up for her reception. Princess Aribert has preserved her incognito in this country. She was accompanied to the pier by British Consul-General Sanderson. Some of the handorgans and street pianos this year are turning out religious music. Familiar hymn tunes which have not ordinarily been heard in the streets from these instruments now seem to hold a crowd of listeners as well as the Coney island songs and rag-time dances. One of the street pianos which make the circuit of the central part of the town just now is playing as sober an air as that to which is sung the hymn: "It is well, it is well with my soul." Very dainty and pretty are the lemonade spoons shown in the silver shops. One design shows a golden shell, ribbed and fluted and daintily small. It is attached to a long, slender stem, which terminates in a water lotus and delicate silver foliage. Some of these lemonade spoons are yet more fantastic in pattern. The handle is provided with a canal, thus serving as a straw as well as a spoon. Tired of wearing dogs' collars for belts the modish maiden has gone a step further and appropriated the long, flexible whip of braided leather which she was wont to use to correct her too sportive pets and wears it now for a belt. The rolled or braided whip is twisted twice around the waist, a piece of plain leather and a stout harness buckle fastening it in front. There once was a goat of Kildare, Who, having lived much in the gutter, Was called by the folks who lived there A common old oleo butter. THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY WAY. If you would have a thing well done, As Franklin would declare. There's one sure way, and only one— Tell cook you'd like it rare. —Philadelphia Press. Among the unclaimed property sold by auction by the police department were 834 revolvers. More than half of the pistols were bought by a woman. CARNIVGROUS PLANTS. Supplied with Bright Red Tentacle which Encircle the Innocent Fly. Not a few plants are as truly carnivorous as a tiger, catching their prey, converting their structure for the time being into a stomach, and digesting the nutritious parts just as we do our dinner. Our bogs and mountains are studded with the attractive little sundew (Drosera retundifolia and longifolia). From a loose rosette of battledore-shaped leaves rises the panicle of somewhat inconspicuous flowers. The leaves are thickly sprinkled with bright red tentacles, each crowned with a tiny drop of sticky mucilage, which glitters in the sun and gives the plant its name. But woe to the fly that attracted by its beauty! Once let him light upon it, and there is no escape; the mucilage holds him fast. There is a story somewhere of an Englishman who won a large sum at a gambling house in Paris. Unwilling to walk the streets at night with so large a sum about him, he was persuaded to engage a room in a lodging house next door. Fortunately for him, he was too excited to sleep, for in the still hours he suddenly became aware that the tester of the bed on which he was lying was slowly and silently descending to smother him. The feeling of the fly on the sundew must be somewhat similar to his. Equally slowly and silently the tentacles when cover the leaf fold themselves around him; and when they expand again there is nothing left of the fly but the wings and the skin, the rest having been assimilated by the leaf. Another carnivorous plant is the bladdewort (Utircularia). It is an aquatic plant, wholly submerged with the exception of the blossom, and profusely furnished with small bladder-like appendages about the size of snipeshot. The bladders are open, and the opening is fringed with hairs pointing inward like the wires of a rat-trap. The small animal organisms, whose number and variety in a single drop of water when examined under the microscope astonish one, can enter, but they cannot leave it. There and then they turn into vegetable. —From Longman's. —The pronunciation of Mafeking is a difficulty to many. The name is correctly pronounced like Maffy-king—with the accent on the first syllable. THE REPORT OF A MAN OF EXPERIENCE. What He Found in Western Canada to Induce Him to Settle. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Feb. 20, 1900. To whom it may concern, especially to those who are desirous of obtaining health and wealth for themselves and families, I wish to state a few facts in regard to the Canadian Northwest, where I went, leaving Sault Ste. Marie on May 2, 1899, for the purpose of seeking a better home for my family in the future. I got a special rate ticket for Ft. McLeod, Alberta. Through Manitoba and part of Assinibia the farmers were busily employed ploughing and seeding. I found the farmers very kind and friendly, willing to talk and assist in giving me the particulars of the country. At McLeod I spent a few days looking over some ranchers' stock, which I was surprised to see looking so well; they were in better condition than any stock I ever saw in Michigan, even those that had been stabled, and most of these had never seen the inside of a shed or received any feed from the hands of man. But as I was looking for mixed farm land, I found McLeod no place for me; it is only fit for ranching purposes. Retracing my way back to Winnipeg, I stopped off at Lethbridge, where I found some of the greatest horse ranches I ever had the pleasure of looking at; it is a fine, level country and lots of water and good grazing. At Medicine Hat, which is located in a valley, there were lots of sheep, cattle and horses in the surrounding country and all looking well. On July 14 I went on to Regina. There I began to see mixed farming lands in abundance, and the crops looking remarkably well, and as long as daylight lasted I saw the same all along the line, and on the 15th day of July I arrived in Winnipeg, just in time for the exhibition. There I met with one of the most beautiful pictures of the world's records, for as soon as I entered the grounds my eyes met with all kinds of machinery, all in motion, and the cattle, grain and produce of the country was far beyond my expectation, in fact it was beyond any industrial exhibition or agricultural fair I ever visited, and I have seen a good many. From Regina to Prince Albert, a distance of 250 miles, it is all good for mixed farming, and well settled, with some thriving little towns. In some places the grain, just coming into head, would take a man to the waist, and the wild fruit along the line was good, rich and in great quantities. From Saskatoon on the south branch of the Saskatchewan river, to Prince Albert on the north branch of the Saskatchewan river, is one of the best farming districts, without any doubt, that ever laid face to the sun, and everything to be found there that is necessary to make life comfortable, all that is required is labor. There is lots of wood, good water and abundant hay land, and the climate is excellent. Prince Albert is a flourishing little place, situated on the north Saskatchewan river, having a population of about 1,800, with good streets and sidewalks and churches of nearly every denomination, three school houses and another one to be built at once, also a brewery and creamery. Here I stayed for about four months, working at my trade of brick laying, and met with farmers and ranchers, with whom I made it my special business to talk in regard to the prospects. I also visited several farmers for some distance out in the country while crops were in full bloom, and I may say that I never saw better crops in all my travels than I saw along the valley towards Stoney creek and Carrot river. In the market garden there is grown currants, both red and black, and as fine a sample of roots and vegetables as ever went on a market. The soil in and around this district cannot be beaten for anything you may wish to grow, and besides the season is long, giving time for everything to mature. The cattle were looking as good as I saw anywhere, good pasture and hay land, and plenty of water wherever you go; the country is dotted all around like islands with timber fit for fuel and building purposes, and within a day's walk of lumbering woods, where lumbering and tie-making is carried on in winter. Both large and small game is plentiful. There are two good sawwills in this district, with a good supply of all grades of lumber all the year round, and also two good brickyards with an excellent quality of brick. There is no scarcity of building material and at a reasonable price; clothing and living are no higher than I find in Michigan, and furthermore I wish to say that there is a great demand for laboring men all the year round, and good wages, ranging from $1.75 to $2 per day, and from $25 to $35 per month with board. I wish to say that I am perfectly satisfied with the country, and I intend to return to Prince Albert early in the spring of 1900. Any reasonable man can go there and in from five to ten years make a good comfortable home for himself and family, and if any person into whose hand this letter should fall desires more information, please write to me and I will freely give them my best opinion. I am writing this for the benefit of those who may want to make a better home for themselves and families or friends. Trusting that this statement may be useful to you in the publication of your next pamphlet and be the means of guiding at least some of those who are in search of a home, I remain your humble servant, (Signed) WILLIAM PAYNE. The above letter was written to Mr. J. Grieve, Canadian Government agent, Saginaw, Mich. Information as to lands can be had from him or from Mr. M. V. McInnes, No. 2 Merril block, Detroit. To Crystallize Mint Leaves. Gather the leaves of spear-mint, wash and pick them from the stem. Dry them on a cloth and press in a book for two days, then remove them to a dry page. This prevents them from becoming dark. When they are dry and stiff they are ready for dipping. Make a syrup of half a cup of sugar and two tablespoons of water. Let this boil with stirring until it will spin a thread. Set it back on the stove on an asbestos mat, if you have one, and with candy tongs dip each leaf, and sprinkle with granulated sugar. When the syrup gets stiff add a little water, place over the fire a moment, then it can be used as before. You can repeat this until all the syrup is used. This quantity is enough to handle at one time. FREE Our 160 page illustrated catalogue. FREE WINCHESTER SHOTGUNS and FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS the winning combination in the field or at the trap. All dealers sell them. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 180 Winchester Ave., New Haven, Conn. Winchester Factory loaded shotgun shells, "NEWRIVAL," "LEADER," and "REPEATER." A trial will prove their superiority. South Dakota Lithographic Stone. Lithograph stone will be mined from Custer county within three months. As yet no lithograph stone has been found in the United States that will stand the demands of the trade. The Black Hills Porcelain, Clay and Marble company of Michigan has purchased about 460 acres of the lithograph stone ledges located west of Custer, and the exploitation work already done shows that the quality of the stone is equal to that of the Bavarian, Germany, stone. Medical Book Free. "Know Thyself," a Book for Men Only, sent Free, postpaid, sealed, to any male reader mentioning this paper. 60 for postage. The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, the best Medical Book of this or any age. 370 pp., with engravings and prescriptions. Only 250 paper covers. Library Edition, full gilt, $1.00. Address The Peabody Medical Institute, No. 4 Bulfinch Street, Boston, Mass., the oldest and best in this country. Write to-day for these books; keys to health and vigor. Periodical Famines Expected. Since the first great famine of which there are records devastated the land in 1770, when 10,000,000 perished in Bengal alone, India has scarcely passed a decade free from scarcity of grain in one district or another. The British government expects a drought about twice in every nine years, a famine once in every eleven or twelve years and a great famine like the present about twice in a century.—Review of Reviews. What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about $ \frac{1}{4} $ as much. All grocers sell it. 15c and 25c. A Prodigious Snowfall. The most prodigious fall of snow in the mountains recorded of late occurred at Ruby, a coal camp in Gunnison county, Col., during the winter of three years ago. In one month's time 239 inches fell, and during the winter 780.5 inches, or 65 feet, were precipitated. This latter amount means 93.21 inches of water.—Ainslee's Magazine. No Soda Water There: Soda-water fountains are unknown in Bahin, Brazil, icecream is a luxury very seldom indulged in, and even when used it is always made to order, while the little water ice used by the whole city would not consume anywhere near 100 pounds of ice a day in its manufacture. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. A hound was bought in Missouri and shipped in a closed express car to a ranch in Kansas. In a day or two it was missing. Investigation proved that it had gone back to its Missouri home, over a distance of 500 miles, on a road entirely unknown to the dog. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. —A newspaper has estimated that during the last year New York has drained Chicago alone of men and corporations representing $300,000,000. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. —A striped waistcoat worn by Robert Burns was sold in London the other day for £3 5s. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price 75 cents. Hasheesh is the cause of 22 out of every 100 cases of insanity in Egypt. Uncle Sam uses the best of everything. Uncle Sam uses Carter's Ink. He knows. Of the 3700 Chinese in New Zealand only 26 are females. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for child teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The native hen of New Zealand is an expert rat-killer. 1 Miss Susan Wymar. Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the Richmond school, Chicago, Ill., writes the following letter to Dr. Hartman regarding Peru-na. She says: "Only those who have suffered as I have, can know what a blessing it is to be able to find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been my experience. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and every bottle of Pe-ru-na I ever bought proved a good friend to me."—Susan Wymar. Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1214 North Superior St., Racine City, WIs., writes: "I feel so well and good and happy now that pen cannot describe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to me. I have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na for female complaint. I am in the change of life and it does me good." Pe-runa has no equal in all of the irregularities and emergencies peculiar to women caused by pelvic catarrh. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O., for a free book for women only. HELP the reason? Hair needs help just as anything else does at times. The roots require feeding. When hair stops growing it loses its luster. It looks dead. AYER'S HAIR VIGOR acts almost instantly on such hair. It awakens new life in the hair bulbs. The effect is astonishing. Your hair grows, becomes thicker, and all dandruff is removed. And the original color of early life is restored to faded or gray hair. This is always the case. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor, and am really astonished at the good it has done in keeping my hair from coming out. It is the best tonic I have tried, and I shall continue to recommend it to my friends." MATTIE HOLT, Sept. 24, 1898. Burlington, N. C. If you do not obtain all the benefits you expected from the use of the Hair Vigor, write the Doctor about it. DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. Chewed the Thermometer and Died Lee Chew, a Chinese who lived at 17 Fish alley, had been ill for some time. On Thursday afternoon Dr. Pillsbury in making the rounds of Chinatown was taken to the sick man, who seemed to have typhoid fever, for the purpose of making a diagnosis. In the course of the examination a small thermometer was placed in Chew's mouth to ascertain his temperature. He allowed it to rest beneath his tongue for a moment and then breaking it with his teeth deliberately swallowed the mercury. In the opinion of the physician the man was too weak to permit the use of apamorphine, the usual antidote, so after the removal of the particles of broken glass from his mouth he was allowed to digest the mercury the best he could. He rested well Thursday night, but early yesterday morning began to sink and in the evening he died.—San Francisco Chronicle. Heenan, Sayers and the House of Commons. The prevailing emotion spread on Monday to the House of Commons, but in a milder form. The most intense excitement that I ever saw in the House was the day when the prizefight was taking place between Sayers and Heenan. It was—if I remember rightly—a Wednesday. Almost every legislator was in the cloakroom awaiting the news and eagerly discussing this illegal combat. And when the news arrived that Sayers had fought on with one arm disabled the enthusiasm could not have been greater had some battle of Waterloo been won. Sayers subsequently was brought to the House of Commons by some member, and he was the hero of the hour. The greatest orator that ever lived would not have been listened to while this worthy man was in the lobby—London Truth. A Titled Sponsor. The baptism of the infant daughter of Mr. Vivian and Lady Sybil Smith, for whom Queen Victoria stood sponsor, took place in the Chapel Royal, St. James' palace, a few weeks ago. The child received the names of Victoria Alexandrina Vivian. Her majesty was represented by Lady Victoria Dawnay. The other sponsors were the Hon. Lillian Baring, Victor Cavendish, M. P., and Angus McDonnell.—Philadelphia Bulletin. A Novel Lightning Rod. Bavaria boasts that it has the longest lightning conductor in the world. It rises some yards above the top of the meteorological station on the Zugspitze, the highest point in the German empire, and runs down the side of the mountain to the Hollenthal, where there is running water all the year round. The length of the rod is five and a half kilometers, nearly three miles and a half.—Indianapolis News. —The slaughter houses of the City of Mexico net the treasury about $50,000 a month in taxes. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U. Pension Bureau. 3yrs in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cure worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAY'S treatment FREE. Dr. H. H. Green's Son, Box 5, Atlanta, Ga. AS LONG ago as 1809 the American navy had its first fight with the Chinese; and in Japan and Corea the United States has also landed parties to demand satisfaction for injuries to American citizens. The chief role of the United States in Asia has been as the sponsor for China, Japan and Corea as nations. The United States was the first nation to make a treaty with China by which that country recognized the principles of international law, and it was followed promptly by other nations. An American naval officer secured the first commercial treaty with Japan, forced the Shogun to admit foreigners to trade, and incidentally brought about the overthrow of a usurper and the establishment of the present liberal government in control. Corea's first treaty was with the United States, as was that of the king of the Loo Choo Isles. The United States in 1894 made the first treaty with Japan that treated the Mikado's empire as a civilized nation. Within the last year this country secured the adoption of an agreement for the open door in China by the powers. Some of the most influential generals, admirals and diplomats in the service of the Asiatic powers have been Americans. It is on account of these facts that when the present trouble arose the suggestion was made in many foreign countries that the United States should settle the crisis in China and also because of the known disinterestedness of the United States, which has allowed other powers to reap the territorial advantages that have followed its action. So, too, the Chinese minister was not without reason for his suggestion that the Monroe doctrine be applied to China. First Lesson. The first experience of the Chinese with Americans grew out of a somewhat similar state of affairs to that in the Mediterranean, where the United States suppressed the Barbary pirates, who had been levying tribute on the ships of the great nations without hindrance. Chinese waters were also infested with pirates, against whom the Europeans had made no determined resistance. The United States ship Athualpa, under the command of Capt. Bacon, happened along in 1809. The ship entered the river at Macao and sent a boat crew in command of the chief officer ashore to get a pilot. The pirate junks stole quietly up and suddenly rounded the boat, intending to leap on board and kill the crew. When the Americans realized what had happened they turned their loaded cannon on the Chinese and fought off the boarders with their Brown Bess muskets and boarding pikes. The Chinese gave hard battle, throwing hand grenades on board. The pirates were beaten off, and the defeat of the leader was such a blow to his prestige that he was afterwards betrayed by some of his men. The mandarins put him to death by the means known as the "thousand cuts," a slow and prolonged process of hacking into little bits. Capt. Bacon's lesson, however, taught the Chinese pirates to respect the American flag, and American trade grew and prospered. The opium war, which was declared against China by Great Britain in 1840, was responsible for the opening of that nation to the world's commerce by means of the treaty ports which were afterwards established. That war grew out of the attempt of China to suppress the smuggling of opium carried on by the British to the depletion of the imperial revenues. To suppress the trade the Chinese had recourse to force. But after the short, sharp struggle in 1857, which resulted in the capture of Canton by the allied British and French, the United States was one of the powers that joined with England, France and Russia in securing treaties for freedom of trade. The first foreigner employed by the Chinese for the reorganization of their army was an American, Frederick Townsend Ward, a soldier of fortune, born in Massachusetts. He adopted the Chinese nationality under the name of Hwa, married the daughter of a wealthy mandarin, and was made a mandarin of the highest grade and Admiral General in the service of the Emperor. Gen. Ward turned his attention to the reorganization of the empire's army, but found it a difficult task. He died as the result of a wound received in directing an assault on Tsekie. The Chinese paid him the highest possible honors after his death by burying him in the Confucian cemetery at Ningpo. Ward's successor in command of the Chinese forces was Major Charles G. Gordon—"Chinese" Gordon—who THE U.S. PRIGATE MISSISSIPPI. brought to a high degree of discipline and efficiency the army whose foundations had been laid by Ward. The treaty made in 1868 provided for the application of the rules of international law to the conduct of war between the nations, gave China the right to appoint consuls to the United States, provided for the recognition of freedom of religion in China, and permitted Chinese to embrace Christianity, permitted the Chinese to attend schools in America and to have free right of travel here, and for all the mutual privileges which are allowed to the most favored nation. The Chinese exclusion act later excluded the Chinese, and in this again the United States was first and was followed by Australia, the only other nation where the coolie competition was felt. When the war with Japan ended disastrously for China Li Hung Chang turned immediately to America to secure a disinterested adviser to aid in the peace negotiations and watch the interests of the imperial government. The man upon whom his choice fell was John W. Foster, who had succeeded James G. Blaine as Secretary of State. Mr. Foster went to Shimonoski and conducted his negotiations to the satisfaction of the Chinese government. In the case of Japan the United States was actually the godfather of the new nation. Japan had been a closed nation from 1638, when the Portuguese had been expelled, until 1854, when Commodore M. C. Perry, a brother of the victor on Lake Erie, opened the country to foreign trade. The Japanese government did not permit any foreign vessel to touch at a Japanese port under any pretense. In 1849 the United States had its first trouble with the Japanese government. Commodore Gisinger, learning that some American sailors were imprisoned at Nagasaki, sent Commodore Glynn to demand their liberation. He succeeded in doing so, and the report he then made of the resources of the island was partly responsible for the determination of Daniel Webster, then Secrétaire of State, to open the islands to American trade. The acquisition of a Pacific coast line by the United States suggested to Millard Fillmore and Daniel Webster that the United States should be the chief trading power in the East, and that the commerce of Japan would be profitable. Commodore Perry was, therefore, given a letter to the Mikado, signed by the President and written by Daniel Webster, soliciting a treaty of friendship and commerce between the two nations by which the Mikado's ports should be thrown open to American vessels for purpose of trale. Commodore Perry sailed in November, 1852, with a fleet, and he carried with him many useful implements and inventions as presents to the Japanese government, including a small railway and equipments, and a telegraph line—things which were unknown to the Japanese. Commodore Perry's instructions, which he received from Webster before the Secretary's death, were to approach the Emperor of Japan in the most friendly manner, and to use no violence unless attacked, but if attacked to let the Japanese feel the full weight of his power. Perry's Diplomacy. Perry carried out his instructions by sailing to Yeddo and delivering his letter to the authorities with the request that it be presented to the Emperor. The Japanese, in accordance with their custom, refused to permit him to land, and Perry waited for his answer for several months, during which he surveyed the Loo Choo Islands. While in these islands he made the first treaty negotiated by them with a Caucasian power. After waiting several months Commodore Perry returned to the Bay of Yeddo, and finally by a triumph of diplomacy, aided by the sight of his seven ships, effected a landing and obtained a treaty permitting the Americans to trade. This treaty permitted citizens of the United States to trade with Japan through the ports of Simoda and Hakodade and the United States was authorized to appoint Consuls to represent its interest at these R. W. SHUYELTZ WHO OPENED KOREA TO THE WORLD. points. It was stipulated that steamers from California to China should be furnished with supplies of coal, and that American sailors shipwrecked upon the Japanese coast should be treated humanely and not killed or imprisoned, as had been the Japanese custom in their attempt to secure isolation. Thus Japan, after 216 years of seclusion, entered into the family of nations. The other powers were quick to follow the United States' example and secured similar treaties, and three other ports were soon added to which Western people might trade. Perry's visit was the cause of the overthrow of the dynasty then in power in Japan. From the twelfth century the authority of the Mikados had been nominal. They had been relegated among the gods and their power was exercised through a Shogun, who was the real sovereign. When the Shogun yielded to the American demands it created a profound sensation in Japan. The nobles were indignant at the departure from the traditional policy of the empire. They gained the upper hand, and in 1863 ordered the Shogun to abrogate treaties of commerce. Attacks on the foreigners followed, and foreign vessel attempting to enter treaty ports were fired upon. One of these vessels was the Pembroke, a small American steamer loaded with merchandise. Japs Learn a Lesson. The insult was reported to Commander MacDougal, who was with the Wyoming at Shanghai. The Wyoming attacked and destroyed the Japanese fleet. McDougal sailed away in the Wyoming, which was hit twenty times. Five of his men were killed and six wounded. The American minister made a claim of $10,000 for the loss of time and freight sustained by the Pembroke, which was paid promptly. Perry opened Japan to trade. The United States in 1878 and again in 1894 led the way for the admittance of Japan into full fellowship with the nations and to permit trade of Americans in every part of the empire. After 1868, when the Shogun was finally overthrown and the Mikado himself began to rule under a constitutional government, the Japanese showed constant progress in peace. They became restive of being treated as barbarians and wished the removal of the stigma. The first effort was received with favor by the United States, which, by the treaty of 1887, placed Japan upon exactly the same footing as Germany, France, or any other country in relation with the United States, except that the consular courts were continued. The treaty of 1894 was the first to give Japan standing among nations. Until then the empire was closed to foreign residence and travel. Corea was the last of the Eastern Asiatic countries to be opened the world. "The Hermit Kingdom," as it was called, excluded all foreigners until 1882, when Commodore Shufeldt of the United Sates navy opened it by much the same methods that had been employed by Commodore Perry in the case of Japan. The first communication the United States and Corea had was one of force, and in a punitive expedition 2,000 Coreans were killed. This expedition was sent because of the treatment of the crew of an American schooner, the General Sherman, which had been chartered by a British trader. Their defeat in this battle taught the Coreans a wholesome respect for Americans, who were unmolested from that time forward. The United States was determined, however, to secure trade with the peninsula, which remained closed to all nations except China and Japan. The negotiations were put in charge of Commodore Shufeldt, who had served in one of the expedition against the Coreans. The matter was accomplished by diplomacy when China became jealous at the growing influence of the Japanese in the kingdom. ROMANCE IN A TRIAL. McKinley Lost His First Case in Court, but Won a Bride. President McKinley, as a young attorney, lost his first case in the Common Pleas court of Stark county, as shown by the records, but he won a bride. He was elected prosecuting attorney during the trial. This case was first heard before Justice Philip Loew, of Navarre, Stark county, in 1869. Loew is a rock-ribbed Democrat. He is still a justice of the peace in the village of Navarre, and has held the office in an unbroken line all these years. John Rosetter, a farmer of Bethlehem township, Stark county, brought action against Philip Sheets, his tenant, to recover damages of $213.20. The farmers had a quarred over some horse breaking into a wheat field. The plaintiff caused an attachment to be issued to satisfy his claim, should he win the suit. Summons was served on Sheets March 18, 1869. He demanded a jury trial. This was granted, and April 6 was fixed as the time to hear the case. The parties were not ready, and the case did not come to trial until May 8. It took three days to hear the evidence and the arguments. The jury finally The house is a two-story brick building with a large front door and a large window. It is surrounded by a grassy area with a fence and a tree. The sky is cloudy. WHIMAN COVERAGE gave judgment for the defendant. Sheets, amounting to $136.85. McKinley's client was not satisfied with the issue of the case and took an appeal. stiff, Col. Bryan explains his money's worth. "The scenery is worth he says, "the climate During the trial of the case McKinley had become engaged to marry Ida Saxton, the belle of the town of Canton, and, while the case was pending between Rostetter and Sheets, McKinley was getting ready for the wedding tour. He was married in January, 1871. His interest in this important event of his life is shown in a letter written a short time before his marriage to Judge Ambler, of Salem, Ohio, then congressman from the district. The young Canton attorney sent a letter of inquiry to Congressman Ambler at Washington and informing Mr. Ambler of his approaching marriage. The visit of William McKinley and his bride to the national capital was an eventful occurrence in the young bridegroom's life. Another important event in the life of McKinley that caused him to delay the case of Rostetter and Sheets was his canvass for prosecuting attorney of Stark county. He was nominated, partly as a joke, for the county had been strongly Democratic. The opposing candidate was William A. Lynch. McKinley won. Here is another strange thing clustering about this period of McKinley's experience. The opposing counsel in the Rostetter-Sheets case was also this same William A. Lynch. McKinley won the election, and his bride; Lynch won the law case. Two years later McKinley and Lynch were again op- 150 Oil Mill posing candidates for prosecuting attorney. This was Lynch's turn, and he defeated McKinley. The presiding judge in the case, the parties to the suit, and most of the jurors are dead. The little house used as a court by Justice Loew still stands near his grocery stores and serves as a small store room. would take too man as busy as lives in the little greater part of the crops and the duties of the fact the chicken yard attends to person Butterfly Consumption Cure. Frederick R. Knight, of Venice, Fla., is here to carry on experiments in an alleged consumption cure. The basis for the cure is the bodies of dead butterflies pulverized to a powder. Knight says that it has long been known that the fever weed which flour- ishes in Florida has been a great stimulant for malarial and consumption cases. The thought occurred to some one that the peculiarly bright butterfly that in its first stage lives off the fever weed might be used instead of the weed itself. The idea was tested, and has proved efficacious in many cases. A company has been formed to manufacture the cure.-Denver special to Chicago Chronicle. BRYAN'S FARM Where the Democratic Leader Finds Rest and Recreation. William Jennings Bryan maintains a little farm of thirty acres just outside the city limits of Lincoln. He bought the first five acres some years ago because he liked the look of the place. He and his wife were driving by what is now his farm, or the nucleus of it, and they stopped to admire the view, with pleasant farms all around. Antelope creek, with its heavy forest, near at hand and neat country homes in their setting of shade and fruit trees all around. So charmed were Mr. and Mrs. Bryan with the situation that they bought the five acres for $250 an acre. While this price was perhaps pretty XOX. stiff, Col. Bryan explains how he got his money's worth. "The scenery is worth $100 an acre," he says, "the climate another $100, and the soil $50." Since that time Mr. Bryan has added to his farm in five and ten acre tracts until now he has thirty acres. Mr. Bryan's farm is not even separated from the adjoining ground by a wire fence. At present the farmhouse is occupied by his tenant. It is a one-story and one-half frame structure in the style so commonly seen on the Western prairie. One room Mr. Bryan has reserved, and in it he keeps the effects which he has collected as Colonel of the Nebraska regiment. Some fifty feet to the rear is the inevitable windmill with the drinking cup made of a tin can. North and west of the house is the garden which Mr. Bryan planted and has cultivated, and the chicken-house is at the rear of the farmhouse. Col. Bryan is a true Nebraskan. Although he has visited every part of the country in his campaigning tours and has had a chance given to few men of comparing the relative beauties of lake, river, mountain and prairie country from ocean to ocean, he declares that no section of the country satisfies him as Nebraska does. He likes to get out on his farm and take things easy, watch the chickens, ramble around in the fields and drink from the old tin cup. Of course, Col. Bryan does not "work" the farm himself. Small as it is, it A windmill stands in front of a farmhouse, with a horse and cart nearby. The field is covered in tall grass. would take too much of the time of a man as busy as Bryan is. A caretaker lives in the little farmhouse during the greater part of the year and attends to the crops and the thousand and one duties of the farm. The garden and the chicken yard are what Col. Bryan attends to personally. The rest of the work—the fields of oats and corn, the orchard and all the wide sweep of acres—is attended to by the employe. It is but a short drive from Col. Bryan's home in Lincoln to the farm, and therefore, he seldom, if ever, remains at the farmhouse over night. Fishing stories are white lies. --- Salt on Asparagus Beds. Sowing salt on the site of a city used to be the formula for rendering the place a desert, but modern science declares that a place sown with salt is a good place for an asparagus bed. Mehan's Monthly says: "In sandy or comparatively dry soil salt is an excellent article to apply to asparagus beds. It will not, however, take the place of strong manure. Its chief office seems to be to encourage a plentiful supply of moisture. Hence, on soils already retentive salt is of little use, and, indeed, may at time be injurious." Women as Surgeons. That for women women surgeons are the best, and that nature has especially adapted them for the work by bestowing on them peculiar gifts and qualities, is the opinion of Sir Thomas Smith. "Their small hands, deftness and dexterous use of needle and thread," he says, "are no small advantages, now that surgery is becoming more constructive." —President McKinley's liking for the red carnation seems to be unfailing. He has a dozen sent him from the white house greenhouses every day and nearly always wears one when out for his daily drive. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms 317 Vliet Street. 1st flat. Morning before 10; evening after 7. FOR SALE—REAL ESTATE. $2 DOWN. BUYS A CHOICE LOT IN TIPPECANOE ADDITION. A FINE level piece of property, located on Howell avenue car line a short distance south of Tipppecanoe lake and town hall, only 12 minutes' ride from business center of Bay View, and 25 minutes' ride from center of Milwaukee. Howell avenue is 100 feet wide at this point. 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