Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Page 2

gbeJrnrocraticSciilintl J. W. McEWEN, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

SIOUX FINISH ON TOP.

LANDING THE WESTERN LEAGUE PENNANT. Illteol.’ Governor Talks of Pullman's Assessment Possibility of a General War In the East—lncendiaries Burn Erie's Big Car Works. Corn-Huskers at the Front. With Tuesday's games the season of the Western Base-ball League came to an end. The Sioux Citys landed the pennant. The Toledos, by a great spurt, managed to cut the Kansas Citys out of second place The Minneapolis Club failed to keep up its former good showing and Is credited with fourth. The Grand Rapids team is in fifth place, With Indianapolis sixth, Detroit and Milwaukee following in the order named. The detailed standing was as follows: WESTERN LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sioux City. 74 61 .6'32 Gr'd R'pids62 65 .488 Toledo 67 56 ,659 Indi’-n’p'lls.6O 66 .476 Kansas C'y.69 68 .643 Detroit 66 70 .444 Miune'p’llasa 62 .604 Milwaukee.6o 74 .407 AFTER MR. PULLMAN. Cor. Altgeld Says the Palace-Car Man Should Pay More Taxes. Governor Altgeld addressed the Illinois State Board of Equalization on the assessment of the Pullman Palace Car Company. He wants a higher assessment. He submitted the testimony of Mr. Pullman before the strike commission, in which Mr. Pullman said the company had always paid dividends, never less than 8 per cent; that Its capital stock is $36,000,000, and that its undivided profits amount to 825.000,000. Taking Mr. Pullman’s own figures, the Governor said that the Pullman Company’s stock was worth 861,000,000. As the result of letters recently sent by the Auditor of Public Accounts to all States of the Union and to the Dominion of Canada. It was developed that in sixteen States the company paid no taxes at all; in several other States and in Canada no assessment Is shown; in seventeen States the total ot the taxes paid is only $21,425. while in the aeven remain! ig States the estimated taxes (based on assessments) are $19,326, making the total taxes paid outside of Illinois $40,751 “In Chicago.” said the Governor, “this sum would pay taxes on less than $4,009,000 worth of property." In Illinois tbo assessment is $1,695,500, which at the average rate of assessment represents $7,629,750 worth of property. At the very highest,” the Governor said, •the Pullman company does not pay taxes on more than $20,000,000 worth of property in America.”

ORIENT JS LURID. New Alliance Likely to Increase the Field of Hostilities. News received from Toklo is that, despite her treaty with England, Japan has made an alliance embracing both Russia and France, and that, through Russian bankers, she has effected a loan of £5,000,000. Japan Is bidding high for munitions of war, and European firms are undertaking great contracts. '1 be opinion prevails In Japan that England, Russia, and France will all be drawn actively Into the controversy. The women of Japan seem to be quite as enthusiastic concerning the war as the men. Viscountess Tani, who is the wife of one of ggnera'a many ludjgj of rank are spending all their tTfiie making *wuraji.£ or straw sandals, for the'troois. The vlscountness has dismissed her retinue of _Bervants aqjJ performs nil the household duties herself. Many ciher titled lailes, in order to evince their patriotism, have followed this Illustrious example. So many •warajl” have already been contributed ty women, children and old men, who make them during every leisure moment, that the government is really embarrassed by the extraordinary number of these patriotic offerings. Up to the present time they have received over 1,005,000. office scandal. Novel Plot Develops After the Arrest ol Special Examiner Russell. - Maj. Alex. A. Russell, aspecial examiner In the Pension Office, was arrested charged with forgery by John O. Olberg, an Indian Bureau clerk. Oiberg’s wife is a clerk in the Pension Office, occupying a desk next to that of Russell. It Is charged that she borrowed money from her neighbor, executing deeds of trust against suburban property, valued at $?2,000, owned by her husband, and that Russell forged Oiberg’s name to these deeds. The accused claims that his arrest Is due to a plot of his wife, from whom he is seeking a divorce.

ERIE HAS A 8300,000 FIRE. Largest Car Works in the Country Destroyed by Incendiaries. The plant of the Erie car wo/ka, the largest concern of its kind in the country, was almost wholly destroyed by tre. Several acres of buildings and a number of cars were burned. Toe works bad been used by the Lake Shore Railway for the past fifteen months as repair shops, and all cars destroyed v, ere the property of that company. The fire was incendiary in origin and the second attempt to burn the works within two weeks. The loss Will foot up 8300,090, upon which there Is small Insurance. Choctaw Is Shot for Murder. Jim Allen, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian, paid the death penalty at the Pushmataha court grounds, in Jackson County, 1 T., by being shot. Allen killed Dixon Hewter, a Choctaw, who was a witness against Allen on a charge of theft. Suicide of a Sioux City Man. The Coroner’s Inquest on the body of Charles P. Ibs, a Sioux City man found dead in a hotel, disclosed the fact that he committed suicide on account of financial reverses Ate Poisonous Toadstools. In the little home of Thomas Fluomehel, a Bohemian blacksmith employed In West Pullman, 111, He the remains of his wife and two sons, victims of poisonous mushrooms. Last Thursday members of the family found some of the poisonous stuff, and, mistaking It for the edible variety, ate a quantity for their supper. Will Be Electrocuted. Charles F. Wilson was sentenced at Syracuse, N. Y., to be electrocuted at Auburn State Prison during the week beginning Nov. 6 for the murder of Detective Jamss Harvey. ; Jld Veterans Meet. Soldiers’ reunions Wednesday: At Indianapolls, the Eeccond and Third Indiana Cavalry and the 'thirteen th, Thirtyseventh, Fifty-first and Seventy-ninth Regiments. At Columbus, Ind, the Twenty-second. Fifty-second end filxtyaeventh Regiments. At Ottawa, HL, the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Infantry. At Ridge Farm, HL, the Seventy-ninth. Killed in a Railroad Wreck. Four freight train Na 63 dashed Ihte • witch engine Na 261 and a lot of cars Cour miles east of Pay ton. Ohio, Sunday morning, killing one man and injuring itvtnU others.

CORN CROP ESTIMATE. Reports from 200 Correspondents Fix the Yield at 1,300.000,000 Bushels. The New York World has published a detailed statement from hundreds ot Western towns, showing a heavy shortage In the corn crop The World says: The biggest crop raised by a single country is Indian corn, and the United States is the country :h»t raises It. In a good year the United States produces 2.005,000,000 bushels ot this staple, and has produced more. At the average market price, this quantity is worth $1,000,100,0 o, or about ten times as much as the gold production ot the whole world tor a year. The reports cover the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin/ Minnesota, lowa. Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The Government report makes the yield this year 1,109,000.000 bushels, but most all of the corn authorities say this is too low. These reports Indicate about two-thlrds of an average crop, or in the neighborhood of 1,390,000,000 bushels The greatest reduction has been in the States west of the Mississippi, and their loss has been heavy. Kansas, which raises more than 150,000,000 bushels In a good year, reports only 42,000,000 bushels But the States east of the Mississippi River, where rain is a more certain quantity, bring up the average. GOULDS BRANCH OUT, Edwin President of a New Match Company. Not satisfied with owning a large share of the railroads in the country and holding a virtual monopoly of the telegraph lines, the Goulds are preparing to enter the field of manufactures and compete with one of the biggest commercial monopolies In this country, the Diamond Match Trust. Edwin F. Gould's name appears In the articles of incorporation of a new company which were filed In Trenton. N. J. According to Its charter it Is formed “for the manufacture of matches nnd other wooden articles;” capital, $1,000,900; President, Edwlu F. Gould; Vice President, W. F. Hutchinson; Secretary and treasurer, Wallace A. Downs. New match-making machines will be used. Each Is slightly larger than a sewing machine, having a larger table. and all that seems necessary to make matches Is to feed a roll of veneered wood in one end of the machine and match splints, all cut, fly out of the other at the rate of 150,000 a minute. These match machines aro patented In every country of the globe and are fully protected. The highest speed attained by any other machine Is 8,000 matches a minute

WHISKY TRUST CRISIS. Belief at Peoria that Officials Would Not Oppose a Receivership. A Peoria. Hl., dispatch is authority for the statement that It Is the belief of those who know something of the inside workings of the whisky trust that a crisis Is rapidly approaching and that some of Its officers would not caro much If it were thrown Into, the bands ot a receiver. This belief Is heightened by the presence there of tbe officers of the American Distributing Company, of New York, who have come to make an investigation of the safety of the rebate vouchers. They have been in consultation with Sam Woollier. whose new distillery, the largest in the world, will be ready for operation next month, and which alone can supply all tbe demand In the present condition of tbe trade. It is possible, the dispatch says, that a deal may bo made with him 1 and the trust left out

TO HAVE BATTLE IN KENTUCKY. Property-Owners Take Up Arms to Avoid Paying Taxes. A fresh shipment of firearms has been made to Union County, Ky., to arm the property-owners ot Llndlo and Caseyville precincts, who are resisting collection of taxes About 700 mon are now armed with Winchesters and dynamite, and they are patiently awaiting the arrival ot Collector Blackwell and his 100 armed deputies Caph Blackwell says that he will collect the tax it it takes military power to do It. Five Warships Destroyed. Dispatches received from Shanghai state that the total number of the Chinese fleet the battle fought off the mouth of the Yalu River was twelve warshipsand four torpedo boats. Tne Japanese fleet, ft Is added, was composed of seventeen ships, mo;t of which were small vessels The Chinese claim to have sunk the Japanese warships Abushima and Yosklna and a Japanese transport which had been couyer'ed jnto a cru/ser arid njj.ru£d tjio Falko. It Is reported tttet the Chinese transport Toonan was sunk after she had Jand?d her troops; but this is thought be probably 'incorrect An official dispatch received in Toklo from the headquarters of the Japanese fleet says that the latter met eleven Chinese warships and six torpedo boats thirty-five miles northeast of Hal Yan Tao with the result that four of the Chinese ships were sunk and one burned. The dispatch adds that the Japanese fleet sustained no damage. The particulars received In regard to the battle of Plug Yang show that the Japanese loss Is only about eleven officers wounded and 260 soldiers killed. The Japanese army Is marching on Wiju. Neither the Chinese nor Japanese Legation at Washington has received any advices as to the great naval engagement off Yalu. The Chinese Minister declines to discuss the recent battles or any phase of the war. In response to an Inquiry he sent word that no advices had been received and that he was very busy. Field Marshal Count Yamagata, commanding the forces In Corea, is marching with 15,000 troops on Moukdeu from the southeast. The treasure captured at Ping Yang amounted to 83,000,000. The National Game. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows in the championship race: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Baltimore..B6 38 .694 Pittsburg. .61 63 .496 New Y0rk..84 43 . 661 Chicago ....56 74 .431 Bostonßl 46 .638 Cincinnati.sl 73 .411 Phll’delpTa7l 61 .682 St. Louis. ..61 76 .402 Brooklyn ..68 68 .540 Washlngt’nH 81 .349 Cleveland. .66 69 .624 Louisville..3s Bo .280 WESTERN LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sioux City. 73 61 .689 Gr'd R'plds62 64 ,4»2 Kansas C'y.69 67 .548 Tndi’n'pTls.6o 66 ,476 Toledo 66 65 ,546:Detr01t56 69 .448 Mlnne'p’Us62 62 .tOo|Mllwaukee.6o 74 .407

British Vessel Lost.

The big British ship Senegal Is at the bottom of the Pacific in latitude 30.17 n. longitude 119.08 w. It was in about that locality that U Olseu, a sailor on the schooner Mary C. Russ, saw her red light go out one stcrmy night at sea. The Senegal was bound in ballast from San Diego to Tacoma. She was a large Iron ship of the latest design, and was considered one of the best in the English merchant marine service. The captain was accompanied by his young daughter, and the crew forward consisted of twenty-seven men.

Great Electric Road Projected.

The Central Ohio Electric Railway has been incorporated. It is a scheme for connecting Pittsburg and Chicago by electric railway. The cost, of construction will be from *10,009,090 to 820,000,009. The Incorporators nearly all hail from Mount Vernon, Ohio

Trouble Over a Teacher.

One division of the grammar school at Salisbury. Mass, was closed as the result of a religious quarrel precipitated by the appointment of Miss Isabell Cavanaugh, a Catholic, as a teacher.

Faith Did Not Care.

The particulars of a remarkable case of Christian science treatment are divulged at Richmond, Ind., and have caused much Indignation. Mt, and Mrs. Harry Forbes,

of Williamsburg, allowed their little daughter to die in agony without any attempt to do anything for her in the beltet that she would be cured through absent treatment, tbe doctor being James Armstrong. ot Boston, Mass The coroner delayed tbe funeral of tbe child, held a postmortem and the case has been turned over to the Humane Society. BRITISH CAJCT RAISE FRUIT. Product of English Farmers Inferior to That of America. A London dispatch says: The controversy upon the question of English fruit is growing largely. It was stirred up by the recent Invasion ot California fruit and by Mr ■ Gladstone's recommendation to small British farmers to give up growing wheat and take to fruit growing. In this connection Richard B. Blackmore, the novelist. who to.- forty years has been a large fruit grower upon his model farms in Surrey. has written a letter to the Times In which he says that it is Impossible at the present wholesale prices of English fruit to make a fair profit. Apples alone, says Mr. Blackmore, would give a fair return if the British farmers only had them. In tbe face of these facts, which can only become more adverse every year. Mr. Blackmore expresses tbe opinion that it would be cruel deception to talk of profitable fruit growing In England. Mr. White, of Covent Garden market, tells that the trouble Iles In the fact that the bulk of English fruit Is maggoty, while tn America the fruit-grower destroys the moth by washing the trees. Up to a fortnight ago 4 shillings Was the top price for the best English pears. Al the same time he was selling thousands ot forty-pound cases of California pears at 1C shillings to 14 shillings per case. In conclusion Mr. White says: «! he public arc the bast judges, and they prefer to pay this price for a first-class article to buying English pears at 2 shillings and 4 shillings per bushel.” The Times, commenting on the subject, remarks: “Foreign competition is Increasing and must bo expected to increase. Covent Garden prefers the finest foreign fruit to fruit, aud we suppose it follows the public taste ” i

SUGAR IMPORTS INCREASING. Enormous Receipts at the Custom- House in Philadelphia. At the Philadelphia Custom House there was paid Friday for sugar duties alone $91,390. It was on one invoice ot thesWeet article received by the W. J. McCahan Sugar Refinery from Java, which reached port by the steamer Fortuna. Not since Collector Read entered upon bls duties has such a large sum been received in one day. It is the effect ot the now tariff bill Imposing a duty upon sugar. The business ai ifio toft has recently grown great that the. Jorije of employes, especially of assistant weighers, has b«c >im Inadequate. It necessitated a visit of ihe collector to Secretary Carlisle for the purpose ot obtaining authority to appoint additional assistant weighers. The sugar .impdrtatlons have grown to such proportions that Mr. Read has been besieged by sugar merchants, brokers and steamship companies to afford them relief by increasing the number of weighers.

HOT AFTER THE SPORTS. Chicago Aroused to n Frenzy ot Enthusiasm Against Gambling. The campaign against gambling Is on In good earnest In Chicago. Within the past few days raids, instigated by the Civic Federation, have keen made upon many of the largest gaming houses, and the “layouts” captured and burned Sports and gamblers “oat ot a job” stand around their old haunts and swear at the new order of things Sunday a mass meeting was held in Central Music Hall, and this gathering declared war against the evil Rev. H. A. Delano, in his sermon, deplored the fact that the bl? speculators In grain escaped unscourged. Rev. William M. Lawrence, of the Second Baptist Church, rated bargain day patrons as gamblers The First Methodist Church was crowded with enthusiasts engaged In the crusade against gambling, and many other ministers joined in the crusade. Engineer Root May Get a MedalEngineer Root Is to have a medal voted him by Congress Comparatively little opposition to such a reward of heroic fidelity to duty as Roor displayed Is anticipated. The idea of thus giving Congressional recognition to tho hero of the Hinckley holocaust, who saved a train filled with human freight, originated with Congressman Dave Morcer, ot Omaha, who will father the bill and push it through |ho next session Congress Business Better Than Last Year. R. G. Dun & Co,'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Plenty ol material for encouragement and also for discouragement can be found by those who seek that und nothing else. But business mon who want to see the situation exactly as it is find accounts so fur conflicting that it Is diffletilc to strike a balance. In the aggregate, business is about a tenth larger than last year, but still falls about 25 per cent, below a full volume for the season. Alix Trots la 2:03 3-4. Fifteen thousand persons yelled themselves hoarse Wednesday afternoon at Galesburg, 111., when tho great trotting queen Alix boat the world's record by coming under the wire In 2:08%. It was a noble performance from start to finish, justifying Williams' boast about the fastness of his new track and Morris Jones, assertions about the ability ot Alix to beat the world’s record. Their Coin Is "Queer.” A detective named Harris has unearthed a dangerous gang ot counterfeiters, who have been flooding southern Oregon and northern California with spurious coin.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 75 6 so Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 09 0 6 60 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 00 & 3 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 @ 63 Corn—No. 2 53 64 Oats—No. 2. 29 & 30 Rye—No. 2 48 @ 49 Butter—Choice Creamery„ 24 & 25 Eggs—Fresh 15 <£? 16 Potatoes—New, per bn 70 & 81) INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 300 @ 6 76 Hogs—Choice Light 4 00 i» 6 69 to Primo 2 00 @ 3 25 WHEAT—No. 2 Red 48 (<« 49 Corn—No. 2 White 6C @ 16*6 Oats—Ni>;'2 White 32 @ 35 ST. LOUIS; Cattle..,.-.I 1 ?.;. 300 @575 Hogs 3 co & 6 00 Wheat—No, a Red 62 <9 53 Corn—No. 2 Si @ 66)4 Oats—No. 2 32 st 33 Rye—No. 2 48 ® 49 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 50 @ 5 25 —• Hogs 4 00 ® 650 Sheep 200 @ 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 51 @ 52 COBN—No. 2 Mixed 68 ® 5814 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 <g> 32 Rye—No. 2 63 56 DETROIT. Cattle. 250 @ 4 50 Hogs 4 00 <3 6 00 Sheep 2 00 3 26 Wheat—No. 1 White 65 ® 6614 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 66 ® 57 Oats—No. 2 White 39 ® 34 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 52 @ 51 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 57 <a 68 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ 33 Rye—No. 2 43 49 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 White 67 @ 68 No. 2 Red 66 @ 67 COBN—No. 2 Yellow 68 69 1 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ 33 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 54 ® r>4'4 Corn—No. 3 64)2 Oats—No. 2 White......... 31 32 Barley—No. 2 45 0 63 Pork-Mens 13 50 ,414 00 „ NEW YORK, f Cattle 3 00 @ 6 26 5heep........ 2 00 ® 3 60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 <a 58 COBN—Na 2 ■ ’ . fin Oats—Mixed Western 36 <« 40 Butter—Creamery 23 ® 2.5 Eggs—Western \ 16 19

HEATH IN THE WIND

Awful Loss of Life Reported in lowa and Minnesota. TRAIL OF A TORNADO. Whole Towns Are Wiped Cut of Existence. Nombwr of Injured Said to Ron Into the Hundreds—Entire Counties Laid Waste by Wind and Hull-Several Villages Effaced from the Map—No Estimate of the Aggregate Property Lo« Is Made, but It Will Be Something Enormous.

fearful cyclone which swept over a portion of fcouthe.n rilfc Minnesota and Northern lowa Friday night is now known to have been the most disastrous -JcVCV of any storm which has visited the Northwest in many years. From best advices obtainable at the time this is —written seventyeight persons are

known to have boon killed outright, and at 'east a, many more were dangerously, several of them fatally, injured, and the number of those less seriously hurt will exceod 10U. The towns of Emmoisburgh, Britt, Cerro Gordo, and Algona. lowa, and Spring Valley and Leroy, Minn., were visited, and the country around them was laid waste. The telegraph wires are down so badly that full accounts of the awful disaster cannot yet be obtained, but t o dead, numerically, so far as is known, are as follows, Near Algona, lowa 26 In Mitchell County. lowaio North of Wesley, lowa 15 Near Osage, lowa. ’5 Cylinder, lowa 4 Cerro Gordo Conn tv. 10wa.5 Spring Valley, Minh 3 Leroy. Minn 4 Near Britt, lowa 7 Total7g Starting abcut ten miles southeast of Spencer in Northwestern lowa the storm of wind at 8 o’clock began its

MAP SHOWING TOWNS VISI ED BY THE CYCLONE

work of destruction. Taking everything before it, it swept across the State just north of Emmetsburg and Algona, wiping out the tQyvn of Cylinder, bat mostly injuring the country districts. After passing Mason City and ruining the country northwest of Osage it bore off to the northeast, crossing the Minnesota line, and soon aftey ly o’clock wrecked the town of Leroy, where a bad. fire added to the destruction. Spring Valley was right in the path of the cyclone and suffered severely. Turning again to the east the towns of Homer and Lowther were badly damaged, and at one time reported completely wiped off the face of the earth. After crossing the Mississippi and doing considerable damage to farm buildings hear Marshland, Wis., the sto.m seemed to have spent its force. A smaller storm did some damage at Dodge Center, which was not in the path of the main cyclone. The path of the : torm was not wide, but it had all the characteristics of the deadly tornado and the dimensions of a cyclone. Country the Heaviest Loser. While the loss of life is great, it might have been much greater had there been many towns in the path of the storm. As it was only a few villages weie struck. The greatest destruction of life was in the vicinity of Mason City, Iowa; Wesley, Iowa; Fertile, Osage, and Britt. At Lowther, lowa, where the town was reduced to kindling, no fatalities are reported, but seventeen persons were injured, some ot whom will die. In Minnesota, the storm seemed to start at Le Boy, after traveling in the ail* for several miles. Five persons were killed at this place. At Chatfield, Minn., a dance was in progress in the opera-house when the storm descended upon the town. The building was bkwn down and many persons Were hurt. Sixty hou es in all were demolished and 10J persons were injured.

The cyclone appeared in lowa at about 8 o’clock in the evening, and was accompanied by violent lightning and thunder. Alter tho death-laden wind came a flooding rain, which rendered tho destruction more complete. There appeared to be three clouds, oce above the other, all whirling in opposite directions,and when they came in contact everything in their path was swept away. The storm was eccentric, as in many cases houses were completely demolished while structures directly adjoining were unscathed. The storm lasted about two hours, and traveled over a strip of territory 120 miles in length and from a quarter of a mile to ten miles wide. With the exception of a call from Thompson, lowa, for medical assistance to care for the wounded, there were no appea's for aid, and the more fortunate in the scourgod district announce that they will care for the survivors. The devastated district is visited by thousands of spectators from far’and near, who charter every conceivable conveyance in which to make the journey. The picture of desolation presented will never be forgotten by those who saw it. That the wind could do what has been done in the way of destruction would not be believe 1 were it not that the ocular proof is at hand. Forests of considerable area an 1 heavy growth have been leveled as completely a) though mown with a giant scythe. In some instances barbed wiie fences, that offer the least possible resistance to wind, were blown away as clearly as though a fence had never existed in the locality. Boards have been picked up in which grains of sand are so deeply and thickly embedded aS to give them the appearance of the sandpaper of commerce. In many instances the bodies of the dead have the akin so thoroughly penetrated by the flinty grains of sand as to be almost unrecognizable.

Every train into the district on Shitnrday took its quota of coffins to every station, and, as they were piled up awaiting transportation, a grewsome sight was presented. Sunday was a day of funerals throughout the devastated district*. In Kossuth county, lowa, alone there were nineteen. followed on Monday by nearly fifty. The money loss in that county will foot up *250,0 0, and scores of people there and elsewhere are left destitute. The same condition exists at Leroy and Spring Valley, Minn. Killed and Injured. Following is the list, as nearly correct as can be obtained, of those kited and injured by the tornado: Near Algona,la.—Killed: Robert Stevenson, chill of Charles Lee, Mrs. George W. Beavers, daughter of George W. Beavers, child of George Holman, Dingman, Sweeper, Mrs. Sweeper, infant child ci Swetper s, unknown man and wife, infant child of Clauseden. Injured: Mrs. Robert Stevenson, Carl Earryck, Mrs. Carl Barryck, Charles Lee, Mrs. Charles Lee, five Lee children. George W. Beavers, Mrs. Myron Schenck and child, Mrs. L. Schenck, Horace Schenck, George Holman, four children and wife. Near Wesley. lowa Killed: M. Ca*ler, Mrs. M. Casler. J. W. Dingman, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Eden, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Rockow, Fred French, M. Schweppe, two children of Fred French, two chi dren of Thomae Tweed, two children of M. Scheppe, Mrs. Tweed. Injured.—Joster Camp, Mrs. Joster Camp, four children of Joster Camp, Eden, Mrs. Eden, four children of Mr. and Mrs Eden, Thomas Tweed, Mrs. Thomas Tweed, Mrs. E. Tweed, three children of Thomas Tweed, four children of Mrs. E. Tweed. At Britt, la.—Killed: Jacobson, Griggs, Mrs. Similton,Mrs. Stuggart, child of Mrs. Similton, two children of Mrs. Stuggart Injured: Bingham, wife and three children, —— Dana, wife and three children, F. Eaughtman and wife, A. Dockman and wife, W. Foy and sister, Christ Hanson, Mutz, wife and child, R. P. Madson, Arteccourse and wife, Smith and three children, Similton and child. North Cerro Gordo, lowa. Killed: D. T. Haddon, Mrs. D. T. Haddon, Ellery McCercher, John Patterson, Peter Peterson. Injured: Miss Maggie Baker, Miss Edith Bentley, Alice McKercher, Harold McKercher, James O'Neill, Sr. Osage, lowa.—Killed: Mrs. Phil S. Herbert, Harry Herbert, Ruth Herbert, Mrs. Patrick Lonergan, Anna Perry. Injured: Jacob Finley, Benjamin Kestern, Mrs. Benjamin Kestern, Dennis Lonergan, Joseph Lonergan, Katie Lonergan, William Perry. Cylinder, lowa.—Killed: Alex-

ander Goulden, Mrs. A. Goulden, two children of Alex. Goulden. Spring Valley, Minn.—Killed: N. Dcdge, Mrs. jN. Dodge, child of Frank Mashek. The Injured: Mrs. William Bot-ee, Lucy Boree, Charles' Dodge, Mrs. Hamper, Jesse Harris, Harper, Clark King. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. King, John Ness, Mrs. John Nees, Jofin Ness (child', Mrs. Frank Mashek, Mrs. Louis Rose, Lenaßcse, Nellie Rumsey, Mrs. William Strong, Sallie Williams. Leroy, Minn.—Killed: Mrs. Dunton, Henry Finley, Gilbertson, Joe Nelson. Injured: Charles Blair, Carl Carson, Horace Chamberlain, Mrs. Horace Chamberlain. Henry Colton, Mrs. Henry Colton, Arthur Maxfield, Nels Weigan.

PREY TO FLAMES.

Disastrous Dock Fire Costs Portland, Ore., Over 81,500,000. The most disastrous, fire in the history of Port and, Ore,, broke out Sunday afternoon in the dock of the Pacific Coast Elevator Company, and raged for three hours, destroying property valued at over $1,503,600. The fire department was scattered about the city. looking after the small fires, when the alarm from the elevator was rung in. When the engines arrived the fire was beyond control and in half an hour from the time it started the docks for half a mile were on fire. Nothing could be done but to let the fire burn itself out. 3 he Pacific Elevator Company's mainjbui ding, the coal bunkers of the North Pacific Terminal Company, and the Oregon Railway and. Navigation Company's wharf, 400 feet in length, were distroyed. The elevator contained nearly 500,000 lusheliof wheat. The new plant of the Portland General Electric Company, just arrived from Lynn, Mass., was standing in the yards of the terminal company on the cars, not having been unloaded. The machinery was of the most expensive kind, the most of which was destroyed, and the remainder badly damaged. Two hundred freight cars, nj of which were loaded, were destroyed. The Oregon Railway and Navigation decks held 1,500 tens of freight, consisting cf wood, salmon, general merchandise, and cement, all of which was destroyed with the dock. There were st red on the dock about 12,000 cases of salmon from the lower Columbia River and Puget Sound, awaiting shipment for the East. It was valued at about $40,000, and was paetly insured.

MRS. CHAS. GLASSCOCK.

The Woman Who Brings Sensational Charges Against Senator Stewart. The sensational charges made against the venerable Senator Stewart, of Nevada, by Mrs. Chas. Glasscock,

though generally believed to be an attempt at blackmail, serve to make Mrs. 'Glasscock a person of interest. She is a Southern woman, now res iding in a poor quarter of Washington. D. C. Her maiden name was Carrie Brady and her father was a farmer in Iredell Co., N. C. Her amily threw her off when

MRS. GLASSCOCK.

she married G'a*EC ck. a livery keeper of dissipated habits. She was married ton years ago at the age of 18 and is the mother of five children. She is slight of figure, /of the blonde type, and although not handsome, her face is not without evidence of refinement. To defend her childien aid clear her name, she says she will remain in Washington until the courts do her justice. A sharp tongue never needs filing.

EXPENSE OF CONGRESS

WHAT IT COSTS THE COUNTRY FOR ONE SESSION. Salaries of Senators. Representatives anl Their Clerks Foot Up a Large Sam Various Contingent Funds for the Comfort of Lawmakers. May Soon Reach 85,000,000. Washington correspondence: The session of Congress just closed was perhaps the most expensive Congressional experience that the country ha= ever had. By this is meant not the cost of what Congress did, nor the appropriations that it made for the general administration of the government, but for the actual cost of the two houses them-elves. It is an interesting study to watch the growth of expenditures that the two houses of Congress are willing to appropriate for, when the expenditure is for their own personal recompense, comfort and pleasure. The expense ih some of the collateral channels is simply appalling, aid it is something that will one day cause a wild spirit of icsentment throughout the country. There i* too much money spent at the annual sessions of Congress and entirely t x> much recklessness in appropriating the public funds for the purpo-e. The great waste of money is naturally in the direction of salaries. Both wings of the Capitol are loaded and overloaded with employes. Tnete are clerks to do this, clerks to do that, and clerks to supervise the other clerks. The fight and scramble and constant wrangle and furious contention i* to get on the pay roll. The earlier Congresses rarely cost as much as $1,000,030 per session. Here is what the fifty-third Congress appropriated for the last session of its terjn. It must be remembered that this is the short session, covering practically but three months, wnich expires March 4,189 a. The bulk of the appropriation, however, covers the whole period of the fiscal year, for most of the salaries are annual.

COST OF A SENATE SESSION. Senators’ Hilariesno,ooo Senators'mileage 4..000 Compensation of officers, clerks, messengers 426.313 Clerks to Senators, not otherwise provided for 30,000 Contingent expenses lT.otw Miscellaneous items lltt.UM Total for Senatesl,oß3,Blß HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Salaries of memberssl,Boo,ooo Mileage of members 100.000 Officers,clerks,messengers in the service of the House 374.000 Clerks to members and delegates 97,000 Contingent expenses 108,000 Official reporters of debates 25,610 Expenses of Congressional library.... 71.000 Expenses of botanic garden 19,8,0 Expenses of capltol polio* 38,900

Total for Houses2,M6,7oo Expenses for both housessi,7 0,613 This does not include SIB,OOO appropriated by the two houses jointly for the salary of the Public Printer and his clerks and the miscellaneous expenses of the Public Printer's office, nor dees it include the enormous expense of printing the public documents, the Congressional Record, and all manner of public printing ordered by Congress. There are thousands of people employed in the printing office of whom it is impossible to get any record. They are employed on piece work, and it is impossible to estimate what will be needed to pay them. There is not a department of the government that does not include in its estimates a smaller or greater amount for the printing of its own department, aud that brings up the cost of the printing bureau to figures which it would be impossible to follow out. G'V'.’t Expouse ’or Cork*. The grossest ite n in the Senate and House bill of expense are the charges for clerk hire. It long ago became a byword that there often were more clerks sitting in the Senate in their employers' chairs than there were Senators. It is true. When Senators f®M that they can afford to appoint their sons, their brothers, their brothers-in-law and any other male members of their family to act as their secretary and draw the pitiful sllO a month, they ought not to be ashamed ,of their presence on the floor, and perhaps they are nor. There are Senators, and many of them who have not only placed their sons on the pay-roll-, but who have installed wives and daughters as their private secretaries and stenographers, thus keeping the amount allowed for clerk hire all in the fansily. And among the Senators who have thus provided for their dependents are those best known to the country as leaders. There is no wqy 3f getting at the names of the people who draw those salaries, but it Is an open secret that fully one-half the Senators have their sons or some member of their family on the payroll. Perhaps nobody should blame the Senators of either party for thus aiding in the support of their dependents, for they have an illustrious example in the Vice President of the United States, whose first official act after taking oath was to appoint his son his private secretary. While the House of Representatives is in a general way more co. s tly than the Senate, that fact must be attributed to its greater membership, but the House is learning fast. For years it has been trying to have a corps of | clerks, one for each member, like those appointed by the Senate. It is only within the past year that the Senate would con ent to this, but finally through means of a deal it-was accomplished. It is the c stliest innovation that the House has made in its expenses in many years. It involves, in fact, so much money that every method of disguising the real expendituie is employed. There are 36* members of the House, of whom about 203, not being chairmen o. (Ommittees, are entitled to this clerical benefit. Under the new rule each member, notachairman, is entitled to $10) per month during the session fcr clerk hire. Care was taken in the wording of the resolution that the members shall not ap l point a clerk to draw that salary, but that he should draw that sum himself ard use it as he sees fit in hiring clerical help. This serves a double purpose. First it keeps a lot of names off the pay-roll, where it is not desirable to have them, and again, if a Congressman does not want to employ a clerk, not need ng one, he can draw the money and put it in his own pocket, and it is an open secret that many of them do it. Nothing since the famous back-pay scandal years ago ha* | grated so unpleasantly upon the Con- I gressional sense of honor as this petty I means of adding to the Congressional i perquisites. As will he seen, the ap- I propriation for this clerical help is I $97,000, but that is intended simplv to i cover the short term of Congress. During the session of Congress just ended there was expended more than $200,000. To be exact, $226,530. The Packing Box Item. There are other expenses in both branches of Congress which seem ; a pually large. For instance, the item j lof contingent ex lenses, $103,0.0, is composed largely of stationery, $51,000 . being appropriated for that alone. I Theie is another item in the contingent account which always makes a

great deal of fun and that ia the Item of packing boxes. Every Senator and every Member b entit'ed, when he g.:e* home, to have three boxes made in which io pack hi* boons and papers. These boxes a e made under contract. Each set cnnsists O f two large bexe* a r .d one one. Those in the Senate are made elaborately. The < o t of making there boxes is not so much. Those for the Senators cost about $1,20 J, those for the Home cost about $4.0: 0, but their actual cost is but a trifle compared with what it costs the posted ce department to transport the boxes and their contents about the country. Under the franking law each Senator and member can frank anything Ke pleases that is xraosporuible iu a po ffial car. When these* Congressional b xes are filled, they weigh frem 100 to 300 pounds. All that is necessary to secure them transmission through the mails is to paste on them one corner of a Congressional envelope with the member's frank male with a rubber stamp. During the last days of Congress every postal car that went out of Washington was jammed to tbe roof with this deafiead. dead-weight stuff. On two nights the Pennsylvania Road cent out two extra postal cars which contained nothing but th s class of dqadhead matter franked by members of Congres*. The Botanic Ga den, while nominally a public instilution, is really kept up for the sole benefit of members of Coagross. It cods nearly SIO,OOO a year. Senators and members are the sole beneficiaries, for tue reason that they alone can procure cut flowers, plants, cuttings, or bulb* or propagagation. Ihe C pitol police i a necessary adjunct, although why it should cost $3 .000 a year to properly guard the Capitol Building it is hai d to say. And from year to year it is growing. I very Congress finds tome new necessity, some new comfort some new perquisite or some ether new way of spending money. If it is not ore thing it is another. If it is not a new SIOO clerkship it is a new horse and wagon or an additional bureau or a better packing box or a larger collection of printed books for distribution or more garden seeds or more roots and plants. Taking the appropriations as made for the next short session of Congress as a basis, we may soon expect to see each session of Congress, no matter which party i* in power, for they are bath alike in that respect, cost the American people something like $5,003,000.. As it is to-day, it is the most expensive* legislative body <n the face of the earth. There is nothing to equal it anywhere. The mst extravagant monarchies of Europe, while they squander money upon their royal families, and in proper maintaining of royal dignity, are exceedingly chary of their-legislative expenses. \The British Parliament does not co t one-third the amount expended by the American Congress.

SHOWERS IMPROVE PASTURES.

Late Corn A’so Promises a Larger Yield Than Had Been Anticipated. The reports of the condition of the crops throughout the country received anil compiled by the weather bureau at Chicago are as follows: Hanoi.— xemperaUire, except In central por.lon. aboie normiii; rainfall above and sunshine below. Fiost in northern portion; no damage. Corn maturing fast; chinch bugs damaging some sections. Decided improvement in pastures. Ground in excellent condition for plowing and seeding. Indiana—Showers have improved pastures and gardens in most sections and ■ seeding i* progressing rapidly. Corn is maturing slowly and is filling well; much in shock and most corn free from frost. Wisconsin—Ruin has been general In all sections. Grass shows a remarkable growth and fall feed is abundant. Potatoes Improving. Corn turning out better than was expected. Cranberries nearlyMJ p’cked. Considerable wheat and rye so,.n. Minnesota—Temperature above normal. Nights cool, with irequent frosts, which only damaged garden truck. More rain needed. Fall plowing progressing rapidly. Potatoes being dug; yield light lowa—Corn generally safe from frost More than the usual amount of plowing has teen done. Pastures and lute potatoes show marked Improvement touth Dakota—High winds have delayed' thrashing during tbe week, but it 1* nearlyfinished now. Frost has killed all vegetation that had not matured. Kansas—Abundant rains in south half of the State and lighter rains in the north half, with much cloudy, cool weather, havegreatly improved pastures, gardens, meadows and orchards. Plowing for a large acreage of wheat. Feeding began. Nebraska—Very little change In crop conditions. Rain much needed for full plowing and seeding. Frost did little damage. Oklahoma—Weather cool and pleasant. Copious rains fell every where, with the exception of limited areas in the north portions of central sectio-i, where the ground Is too dry for plowing and chinch bugs are damaging forage crops. Some wheat sown. Late crops doing well. Grass will make good late hay and pasturage. Missouri—Plowing end seeding progressing well, with soil in good condition except in some southern counties, where they wereretarded by heavy rains. Pastures, turnips. late potatoes and considerable latecorn greatly improved. Arkansas—Weather very unfavorable. Cotton seriously injured by rust, rot, shedding and worms. Opening slowly and picking not general yet. Corn will be a good crop. Potatoes, pastures and fall gardens fine.

MORTON IS NAMED.

New York Republican* Want the Ex-Vice President for Governor. Ex-Vics President Morton was nominated for governor cf New York by the Republican State convention at

Saratoga on the first ballot. Gen. B. F. Tracy in an extended speech placed in nomination ex-Vice President Morton. Col. Baxter of Elmira placed in nomination J. Slcat Fassett. Silas jB. Dutcher* of Kings County nominated Gen Stewart L. Woodfoid. John S. Wise of New York, formerly of Virginia, seconded Merton's

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nominatisn. E. A. Nash cf Cattaraugus, named Gen. Butterfield. ExCongressman Parker of St. Lawrence County presented the name of Judge Leslis W. Russell. Cries for a vote followed and the chairman ordered the roll to be called by counties. Before Ontario was reached Morton had been nominated, and when the vote was finished the clerk, amid great canfusion, announced: “Morton, 5325; Jassett, 69; Woodford, 40; Butterfield, 29; Russell, 20: Bl is*, 404, and: Arkell, 1.” The nomination of Morton was made unanimous. Charles T. Saxton was nominate! for Lieutenant Governor on the first ballot. A feature of the meeting was the enthusiasm caused when J. Sloat Fas.-ett was mentioned as a candidate, but it ended with a demonstration, for Fassett was not in evidence when the votes were counted. The platform denounces recent tariff legislation and the present administration in general.

Hermann Klumpp has been recognized as consul cf the German Empire at New Orleans and Hans Giese asconsul of the German Empire at Tacoma, Wash.

John Morrow killed James O’Neill at Dallas, Tex