Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Page 2

tbfjDrmocraticStntincl a. W. McEWE3, RENSSELAER. - - - INDIANA

DR. SMITH ALL RIGHT

SAFELY EXPLORED THE WILDS OF AFRICA. Republicans Win Nearly All—Eastern Elevator Full—Sugar Planters Importunate Marvelous Find a* Cripple Creek—Ship Deserted. End of a Venturesome Trip. A cablegram was received in Philadelphia from Dr. Donaldson Smith, dated Aden, bearing the word “successful.” This news establishes the safety of the plucky Philadelphian who for the past year and a half has been exploring the wilds of Eastern Africa, and at the same time puts an end to the doubt as to his safety which had been felt by those interested in the expedition for the past few months. Dr. Smith entered Africa on the eastern coast a year ago last June, to push across the country of the Uallreas and Masaito, two lakes which had been recently discovered by another expedition; thence on to the two Nyanzas (Albert and Victoria), his object being to carry out and complete the line of exploration from the lakes to the east coast, a distance of several hundred miles. As the region which Dr. Smith has traversed is at the present time represented by a blank space on the map of Africa, the significance of the explorer’s brief message will be realized immediately. He has undoubtedly made a great many discoveries of much value.

SUGAR BOUNTY CASES BEGIN. Two Suita Filed in United States Court at New Orleans. The sugar planters, through Colonel J. D. Hill and other attorneys, filed two sugar bounty: claim suits in the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans under the agreement with the Washington authorities, who will aid in speedy trial and appeal to the Supreme Court. Bad Day for Democracy. Mississippi, Utah and possibly Kentucky were the only fields of victory for the Democrats in Tuesday’s election. Though Tammany captured New York City, the State went solidly Republican. Even New Jersey and Maryland went with the crowd. Results in lowa, Ohio, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were never in doubt after noon. The Republican ticket was -also successful in Chicago. Pingree, Republican, wins his fourth term in Detroit. Lives of Five Men Prolonged. Lucky Davis, Moam July, Sam Simpson, Lewis Davis and Rufus Buck, members of the notorious Buck gang, sentenced to hang Thursday at Fort Smith, Ark., for numerous murders and assaults on women in the Creek nation, have appealed their cases to the United States Supreme Court. This will act as a respite until their appeal can be passed upon. Ship on Fire in Mid Ocean. The Cunard Line steamship Campania reports that while in latitude 45 and longitude 48, she saw a burning threemasted wooden vessel. The Campania bore down upon her and found she had been deserted. It is supposed that the crew had already been picked up by a passing vessel. The passengers of the Campania say that the burning ship presented a grand spectacle. Executed by Cubans. It is announced that the Cuban insurgents have hanged six negroes to trees in the Plateabos district of Cabarian, Province of Santa Clara. Nenr Guasimal, not far from Santa Espiritus, also in the province of Santa Clara, the insurgents have derailed a train by the use of a dynamite bomb. Three hundred head of cattle were killed.

Lecture on Banks. Comptroller Eckels delivered a lecture before the Columbia University ou “National Banks and the National Banking Laws,” The comptroller went somewhat into the history of national banking and expressed the belief that the ideal system of the future would embrace many of the essential features of the system now' in existence. Btroke of Bonanza Ore. In the Airheart lease of the AnehoriaLeland Company’s claim at Cripple Creek, Colo., a six-inch streak of bonanza ore has just been encountered at a depth of 232 feet. Select samples from a halfton of the ore assays $27,240.80 to the ton. Sylvanite abounds. The strike is one of the most marvelous yet made in the gold camp. Americans in Peril. The Turkish Government has again instructed the Government of Bitlis to protect the American missionaries at that place. Owing to the disturbances the American missionaries who have been engaged in relieving the sufferings of the Armenians at-Sassoun have decided to postpone operations and seek safety at Bitlis. Big Fire in Nhw York. A fire started Tuesday night in Keep’s shirt factory at New York, which extended to Crosby street, and it is estimated to have done a damage of $1,000,000. The comparatively new building of the Manhattan Savings Institution was destroyed. Two other buildings were damaged by fire and water. Flooded with Grain. The Buffalo elevators are becoming blocked with the great flood of grain now’ being shipped from Lake Superior. Close to 2,000,000 bushels of grain is there, and a large fleet is due. Many of the elevators are full, and vessels are experiencing serious delays. Will Not Meet the Deficiency. State Auditor Hippie and Commissioner Lockhart were in Miller, S. D., appraising land turned over to the State by ex-Treas-urer Taylor. They say they will appraise the land at its assessed valuation, and that it will fall far short of making up Taylor’s deficiency. Fifteen Workmen Buried. A dispatch from Vienna says that the German Theater Building at Vienna collapsed, burying fifteen workmen in the ruinß. Liabilities Exceed Assets. On executions of judgment for an agr) gregate of over $58,900 Clothier Isadorl H. Sultzbaeh, of Philadelphia, assigned to Simon Bacharach, a clothing manufacturer, who executed a judgment note for $34,000 against him. Mr. Sultzbaeh failed at the same site two years ago. 1 Football Endangers Life. Surgeon General Tryon, of Washington, In his annual report, calls attention to the number of casualties at the Naval Academy resulting from the present method of playing football, and it is recommended that unless the rules be materially modified, rival games be prohibited.

SIX MILLIONS SHORT. Figures of Government DsatiLA,for Octoner. The tfthaury statement of receipts And disbursements for October and the ffirst four months of the current fiscal year affords some comparisons which will interest business men. The October deficit was whittled down during the last* ten days from $10,500,000 to $6,1«1,000, which reduces the total shortage for the four months to $16,045,000, or $4,000,000, which is the almost exact average monthly deficit during the thirty-two months of the Cleveland regime. The October receipts footed up $28,000,000 and the disbursements $34,000,000. The governmental income and outgo for the first four mouths of 1895-1596, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, is set forth with some detail in the following tabulation: RECEIPTS. This Last fiscal year. fiscal year. Cnstoms * 58.143,054.06 $ 47,759.361.40 Internal revraw 50.547.102.11 65.435.354.44 MUcel 4.783.664.63 3,789,698.70 Total Pcpt5*113.473.820.80 *116,987,414.54 EXPENDITURES. Civil and miscellaneous .? 32.300.671.41 * 35,508.886.07 War 22.101.974.05 20,435,651.36 Navy 8.900.383.21 11.079.143.01 Indians 3.971.975.91 2.995.951.60 Pensions .... 47.656.374.50 47.880,195.03 -Interest 14,588,164.38 13.441,446.22 Total expen.*129,519,543.46 *131,341,273.29 Excess expenditures over receipts ....* 16.045.722.66 * 14,353,858.65 The October receipts, however, are $9,000,000 greater than for the corresponding month of 1894. Internal revenue receipts are now running $200,000 or $300,000 a day heavier and customs receipts a very little heavier than last year.

THINKS TREATY IS A GOOD THING Senator Morgan on the Alleged Hus-sian-Chinese Deal. Senator Morgan, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in an interview said: “Whether the newspapers are technically correct in stating that a treaty has been consummated between Russia and China for the occupancy of the harbor at Port Arthur by the Russian fleet and the extension of the Siberian Railroad through Manchuria, I am confident that such an arrangement is among the probabilities of future, and when it is made the government of the United States should do nothhig to prevent its consummation. It is the legitimate result of the situation. Our interests in this instance, as in most others, are antagonistic to those of England. That country is merely seeking, in antagonizing Russia In this matter, to hold the trade advantages she now enjoys in the Orient, und being her rival in the commerce of that section of the world, there is every reason why we should not pull her chestnuts out of the fire. The proposed railroad would open up an immense domain for the interchange of trade, and by directing our influence in the right direction we ought to - secure a very large share of it." INVESTMENT A GOOD ONE. , ’ Expenditure of $0,000,000 on New York Cunals Aj»proved. The Engineering News this week discusses, editorially, the proposed expenditure of $9,000,000 on the New York State canals. It shows that if the pressed improvements reduce the test of carriago 1 cent per bushel, which ' appears probable, the saving, with a traffic on the Erie Canal equal to that of 1894, will amount to $1,038,000 per annum. It,> deems it likely, however, that with the canal deepened and improved as proposed, the traffic will increase to what it was in 1880, and if this occurs, the annual saving in cost of freight transportation will amount to $2,182,000, or a return of nearly 25 per cent, per annum upon the expenditure which the State proposes. Would Burn a Cleveland Institution. The Cleveland, Ohio, police are puzzled over attempts 'of incendiaries to destroy the Speed home for infants in that city. The building was set on fire three times Saturday aud four times Sunday. Some of the attendants say that they saw a man looking from an attic window, but nil attempts to discover the person who set the fires have failed. There are twentythree children in the home, and the attendants are in a state of panic. Saturday noon John Dix, one of the ittmates, discovered a bed tick ip flames. An hour later smoke was discovered in a clothing closet. The neighborhood was aroused and a search conducted. An hour after a man was seen in the building by Mary Speed, one of the children. He escaped before the girl recovered from her fright and in ten minutes fire again broke out. Sunday fire was discovered in the basement, another in the attic and two in closets within an hour and a half of each other, despite the fact that every room was patrolled by a servant and two po : licemen were watching the premises. SoldiereCoin plain. Complaints which may result in an official investigation of Fort Sheridan have been made to the Secretary of War by six enlisted men. These complaints, which have been sent to Congressman McGuire, of California, and Congressman Outhwaite, of Ohio, of the Committee on Military Affairs, relate to the practice of officers employing private soldiers as body and house servants, and the two representatives have been asked to bring the matter before Secret aPy-Lainont as soon as Congress meets. This 'practice of employing enlisted men to do menial work around army posts is-expressly forbidden by the rules of the army. Still it is winked at in frontier posts, where it is impossible for the officers to procure other servants. Avoids the Search LightsThe torpedo boat Cushing made two successful attacks upon the Newport, R. 1., torpedo station Friday night, getting within torpedoing distance despite the powerful searchlights on the island. In the first attack she was within range when picked up by the light and at the, expiration of the time limit, two'and onehalf minutes, was well into the station. In the second attack she was picked up when 600 yards off, but "by speeding up she managed to get within range before the time limit expired. Pays SIO,OOO for a Divorce. Will U. Powers, sou of Banker Daniel W. Powers, of Rochester, N. Y., who is many times a millionaire, has beeen granted a decree of divorce from his young wife. Recently an English bnrmaid got judgment for $15,000 against him for breach of promise of marriage. To escape arrest young Powers fled to Paris aud subsequently returned to Rochester. His divorced wife is to receive SIO,OOO for allowing the divooce case to/ go by default. She also agrees to stop all litigation against Powers. High Honor for Bayard. United States Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard, who is now sojourning in Scotland, has accepted an invitation to deliver the annual address to the Edinburgh Philosophical. Society. The iiivitation to deliver this address is looked upon as the highest literary honor in Great Britain. I Orders 2,000 More Cars. In addition to the fifty locomotives ordered a few days ago the Lehigh Valley Railroad Thursday awarded contracts for 2,000 new cars, Of.theSe the United States Car Company'of Chicago will make 1,000.

TWO DEAD, TWO WILL DIE. tkifty-three Others Are Hnrt on the B. A O. One of the most disastrous wrecks that ever occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Road happened because of a broken wheel at 10 o’clock Sunday morning at Elm Grove, a suburban station five miles east of Wheeling on the Wheeling and Pittsburg division. Mrs. Miranda Hare, of Kittanning, Pa., and Lawrence Bartley’s infant son were killed. C. J. Garvey, an oil operator of Marietta, Ohio, and Ella Vance, of Wheeling, will die. Thirtythree others were hurt. Three cars were smashed into kindling wood and the parlor car caught fire. The flames were extinguished, however, by two of the passengers before they gained much headway. The railroad officials say the accident was one of those unaccountable occurrences that may come at any time. The broken wheel was given the usual test before the train left Pittsburg and appeared to be perfectly sound. VERDICT OF GUILTY. H. E Holmes Convicted of the Murder of Pitzel. H. 11. Holmes was convicted at Philadelphia Saturday of the murder of Benjamin F. Pitzel. “This man of steel and heart of stone,” as the District Attorney described him to the jury, does not evince in the slightest any outward signs of breaking down. With death actually before him now, he is the same cool and callous Holmes. The prison regulations prevented any one from interviewing him Sunday, but a message was sent out that he slept well, and was feeling comfortable and still confident his innocence would yet be established. Extra care has been taken that the man shall not frustrate the efforts of the prosecution by committing suicide. A double guard has been placed on his cell and will remain there until he has paid the penalty of his crime.

COMMISSION MAY BE CREATED. British Scalers’ Claims Likely to Be Fixed Satisfactorily. The Canadian cabinet officers, Sir MacIvenzie Bowell and Sir Charles Tupper, have left Washington for Canada. It is stated that, having given all the assistance necessary at present to Sir Julian Pauncefotc in the presentation of the claims of the British sealers for indemnity on account of the seizure of their vessels, a longer stay there would be useless. They had one informal and one formal conference with Secretary Glney and were received by the President. AVhether any advance has resulted in the direction of their object cannot be stated. As the British side express satisfaction with the progress' being made in the negotiations it is assumed that Secretary Olney has inclined a favorable ear to their suggestion that a commission be created to settle the claims. FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL. Nicuraguan Canal Commission Report Has Been Mutlc, Information lias reached Washington that the members of the Nicaraguan Canal Commission have signed their report pn the inspection of the proposed .route for the waterway and will send it at once to the State Department. It is generally believed that the report is favorable to the construction of the enunl under governmental management. It is thought the estimate as to its prospective cost will be about $100,000,000.

Flee from Trembling Houses. A severfe aud prolonged earthquake ' shock was felt in Rome Friday morning. Many houses swayed badly, walls were cracked and other articles fell from the wfills and other places, people ran panicstricken into the streets and a serious disaster was for n tifpe apprehended. Happily, the first Bliock seems to have ended the seismic disturbance and the frightened inhabitants returned to their homes. So fnr as known no serious damage was done. Some idea of the alarm created may be gathered from the fact that the prison of Regina Colli was so badly shaken that the terrified prisoners broke out into open revolt and tried to escape from the building. The situation became so serious that the troops from a neighboring barrack were hastily summoned, and it was not until they had surrounded and taken possession of the prison that order was restored. The inmates were driven back to their cells at the point of the bayonet. The Vatican buildings were severely shaken. Defied the Officers. Mrs. Wheeler has been arrested at Santa Barbara, Cal., on a charge of insanity. When the officers went to arrest her she stood at her door with a revolver and told them to stand back if they valued their lives. For eighteen hours she kept them back. Young Memphis Man Slain. At Memphis Ben Powell was assassinated as he entered his home on Kerr avenue, just before daylight Sunday morning Richard Johnson has been arrested charged with the crime. Monument n Ruin. The Lincoln monument at Springfield, 111., is fast crumbling to a ruin. It is found to be a pile of rotten brick, with a veneer of stone. It will be razed, and a suitable shaft, erected in its place. To Jdin the Insurgents. Jesse Coxey, son of the Massillon, Ohio, commonwealer, wired his mother that he sailed for Cuba Tuesday on th# Adrian. It is believed he will join the Cuban J

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 58c to 59c; corn. No. 2,29 cto 30e; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,30 cto 38c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 80c■ broom corn, common growth to choice breen hurl, 2c to 4c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 66c; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 58e to 59c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 38c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,60 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 42c. Detroit—Cattle, 52. T,() to $5.50; hogs, SB.OO to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No r 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, 39c to 41e. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, ,No, 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 2lc to 23c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 42c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $400; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 57c to 58c; com, No. 3,29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2,36 cto 38c; rye, No. 1,39 cto 40c; pork, mess, SB.QO to $8.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; butter, creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs. Western, 18c to 21c. 1 . I \

HOLMES IS TO HANG

MODERN BORGIA CONVICTED IN PHILADELPHIA. Arch Fiend and Monster In. Human Form Found Guilty of Murder in Ike First Degree—Jury Needed No Time for Debate. Gallows Awaits Him. Henry H. Holmes, otherwise Herman W. Mudgett, swindler, bigamist, murderer and arch fiend, has been arrested in his career of crime by a verdict of murder in the first degree, that is likely to send him his many victims into the unknown beyond the grave. The monster who built in Chicago a labyrinth to snare and kill human game without detection, who •lew innocent children without reason or compunction, who made a pastime of betraying women, who waded through blood for money, who robbed widows aud orphans, who exhausted an expert’s ingenuity in devising new forms of death, who successfully swindled insurance companies of thousands, who escaped detection for years in the most remarkable and varied career in the annals of American crime, was convicted in Philadelphia Saturday of the murder of Benjamin F Pitzel, of Chicago. The man who was about to hear the warrant for his death, who had meted out death to others without mercy and who had gone through trying ordeals almost without a quiver of the lips or a twinge of the conscience, stood erect in the dock, unmoved, apparently unheeding. On his face sat the pallor of death, but it had been there for days, and did not deepen as he gave one swift glance at the rows of unsympatbizing eyes at his back, turned his gaze at the jury in a blank stare, and clasped his hands behind him. Once or twice he moistened his lips with his tongue, apparently betraying a fever of anxiety thaf'he held in check with his Iron nerve. There was no other sign of agitation, and Holmes heard his doom in silence, as though it might have been a dream.

The clerk of the court, in a voice op-

pressed with the gravity of his duty, turned to the twelve men in the jury box, and, in slow, measured tones, said the fateful form: “Jurors, look on the prisoner. Prisoner, look on the jurorß. How say you, gentlemen of the jury? Do you find the prisoner at the bar, Herman W. Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, guilty of the murder of Benjamin F. Pitzel, or not guilty?” The spokesman of the twelve men had not been touched with pity for the prisoner, for he answered promptly, clearly and without a shadow of feeling: “Guilty of murder in the first degree.” The accused stood like a statue as the verdict was being pronounced. There was no tremor in his shrunken form; no twitching of a lip. His marvelous selfmastery had not forsaken him. There wns a tighter clasp on a paper he held In his hand, but the eyes rested on the jury as though held by a mysterious magnet. At last Holmes relieved the tension by clenring his throat with a hoarse “hem” as he slowly sank into his seat, and the people moved in their seats and turned to make whispered comments. This remarkable criminal, however, was to give yet another evidence of his self-possession. His counsel requested the clerk to poll the jury, and each of the twelve men reaffirmed the verdict which their foreman had already given. As each name was called Holmes wrote it on the margin of the newspaper. There was no trembling of the lingers which guided the lead pencil, and the writer glanced up at each juryman in turn, as though fixing the face in his memory. The Court made a formal record of the verdict, and Holmes’ counsel made the expected motion for a new trial. Holmes followed the proceedings in silence, and when an officer indicated that he was no longer wanted he arose alertly without protest or apparent reluctance, and started out of the courtroom. He was taken to his cellroom, and a few minutes later left for the prison, where he will probably remain several months until his appeal is passed on. Holmes spoke to his counsel, Rotan and Shoemaker, in the cellroom before he was taken back to Moyamensing prison. To them he said: “I feel that his condemns me. It was an unjust trial.” The specific offense for which Holmes was tried was the murder of his confederate in fraud, Pitzel. They had planned that the latter should insure his life, that a dead body procured in some way should be palmed off on the insurance company as that of Pitzel, and the money be collected and divided. Holmes simplified matters by murdering Pitzel and getting rid of a partner who would have insisted on a division of the spoils. The only disputed question was whether Pitzel committed suicide or was murdered. The evidence satisfied the jury that he did not kill himself, but was murdered. That being the case they had no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that Holmes was the murderer. He alone had a motive, and he had abundant opportunity. His conduct subsequent to Pitzel’s death furnished apple corroborative evidence.

FLAMES SWEEP PRAIRIES.

Indiana Towns Have Narrow Escapes from Destruction. The prairie fires which fiaye been burning south of Whiting, Ind.* for the last two weeks finally reached the border of the place Sunday.' At noon the Whiting, North Hammand and Standard Oil Company’s fire departments were called out, and fought the flamed all the afternoon. Two thousand acres between Whiting and Hammond have been burned. Much of this territory is a kind of peat and is still burning. At one time it seemed that the entire town of Robertsdale, with the Sheffield racing property, would be destroyed. The flames swept upon the

fence* end outhoase* beck of the first row of honses in the edge of town, burning them, end firing several cottages, but the combined efforts of the departments eared the cottages and fought the flames back. The soil about the town is sandy, and now that the grass has been burned off the flames hare receded aud the town is out of danger at that point. Prayers were offered Sunday in many of the churches in the Kankakee region for rain. The entire Kankakee region is one vast waste of ashes, with here and there the partially burned carcass of some cow or horse to tell of the fury of the flames. The fire is smoldering along the river for miles and the only danger now is from a high wind driving the sparks and burning brands to territory which has not been burned over. The crisis is believed to have been passed, though there will be frequent heavy losses until there is long and continued rain.

Spring Wheat Crop la Paid to Be Not Very Good in Point of Quality. The quality of the new spring crop has been a mooted question. For this reason a Chicago paper has obtained from official sources the inspection returns at Minneapolis, the largest spring wheat receiving point, and presents it as a very fair index to the character (quality) of the last crop. It is a good crop in quantity, but the figures are uot especially encouraging from a quality standpoint. Here are the returns for the last three months, showing the number of car loads received and the way they are graded: Grades— Aug. Sept. Oct. Totals. No. 1 northern.2,2ll 7,188 11,235 20,034 No. 1 hard.... 72 153 80 305 No. 2 1,000 3,790 4,993 6,998 No. 3 207 070 2,900 3,783 Rejected 1,008 3,717 2,057 6,812 No grade 75 251 208 534‘ Winter 17 3 20 40 Total car5..5,199 15,778 21,529 39,106 Thus it will be seen that only a fraction of over 50 per cent, received nt Minneapolis in three months lias been of a quality good enough to grade as really merchantable—as contract. The above represents about 25,000,000 bushels of wheat. The new corn crop is beginning to move —is moving, in fact—hence increasing re-

HOLMES HEARS HIS DOOM.

ceipts at nil markets are promised. No (natter what the price is a certain amount is sure to be marketed as soon as ready. Taxes have to be paid and debts contracted during the growing of the crop must be met. It would appear that big crop prices already prevail, and for this reason it would not seem possible for values to sink much, if any, lower. In lowa, Kansas und Nebraska the producer will get very little for his crop, 12Vi@15c per bu, perhaps. Oats are not being marketed so freely lately, perhaps on account of the very low price. Provisions have shown a little more life, but are still very uninteresting.

John D. Rockefeller's Latest Present .to Univers.ty of Chicago. The University of Chicago has again been the recipient of John D. Rockefeller’s beneficence. He has given $3,000,-

J. D. ROCKEFELLER.

are raised before the year 1900. If the full $2,000,000 is not raised by that time Mr. Rockefeller will give as much as the subscriptions amount to. Intelligence of this donation was received Saturday morning at a special meeting of the trustees called for the purpose of listening to a proposition from F. T. Gates, the personal representative of Mr. Rockefeller. Mr. Rockefeller has given to the University of Chicago the grand total of $7,425,000, given in installments as follows: May, 1889, $000,000; September, 1890, $1,000,000; February, 1892, $1,000,000; December, 1892, $1,000,000; May. 1893, $150,000; July, 1894, $500,000; December, 1894, $175,000; November, 1895, $3,000,000.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Rumors of a revolt In Pern are said to be incorrect. Sir Joseph Renals, Lord Mayor of London, has been made a Baronet. The Bank of London and Mexico will establish a branch at Tampico. At Lima, Peru, President Pierola is confined to his bed with an nttack of influenza. The third Cuban expedition from New York will be under the command of De Cespedes. Convicts in camp on the Fort Worth Road made a dash for liberty. The guards killed one and wounded two. Several escaped. It is reported that the Mexican steamship lines will end their rate war' 1 and pool their earnings. At Vera Cruz patriotic Spanish committees have raised $4,500 for the Spanish cause in Cuba. Ex-President Carlos Ezeta of San Salvador has lost all his money at Monte Carlo and the government has confiscated his coffee estates.

WHEAT AND CORN.

GIFT OF THREE MILLION.

000 to the institution under conditions which will ultimately net it $5,000,000. One million dollars of this sum is given outright as an endowment and the remaining $2,000,000 will be placed in the hands of the trustees provided $2,000,000 additional

IT WAS A LANDSLIDE.

REPUBLICAN VICTORY NEARLY UNIVERSAL. New York, lowa, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nebraska. Kansas, and New Jersey Go with the Surging Tide. Kesnlts of the Klection. Returns from the twelve States and one territory. in which elections were held Tuesday carry no encouragement to Democrats. It was a Republican landslide of the most accentuated type. In only two States of the twelve ha 3 the Democracy surely triumphed—Mississippi and Kentucky. Everything else is Republican. Even Maryland has turned and joined the victors. New York, lowa, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska. Pennsylvania, Kansas aud Utah, from present indications, have reverted to their old standard by unequivocal majorities. In New York the Republicans elect their entire State ticket and carry the State by an increased majority. Conservative estimates place the figures at from 50,000 to 60,000. New York City is carried by Tammany, but the Combined Democratic vote of that city and Brooklyn shows a loss of about 12,000. The Legislature is solidly Republican. lowa goes Republican by a plurality approximating 70,000. Five hundred precincts showed that Drake (Rep.) for Governor, had run ahead of Jackson (Rep.) 1,560, and that Babb (Dem.) had run behind Boies (Dem.) 7.580. The Legislature will be Republican and all the Republican State ticket will be elected. In Ohio Bushnell, the Republican candidate, is elected Governor over Campbell by from 80,000 to 100,000 majority. His vote exceeded that of McKinley right through the State. In addition to electing Bushnell and the rest of the State ticket the Republicans have fully threefourths of each branch of the Legislature, thus enabling them to elect a Republican successor to Brice in the United States Senate.

Late returns from Kentucky confirm the election of Hardin (Dem.) for Governor, with the entire State ticket, with the possible exception of Judge of the Appellate Court.. The returns were meager and unsatisfactory, but there seems to be no doubt of the general result. Hardin’s plurality will not be over 2,000. The indications are that the vote of Jefferson County will decide the race for Governor. Garrard, Bradley's county, gives a Republican gain of 181. Every county from which complete returns wore received showed large Republican gains. YV. F. L. Hadley, the Republican candidate for Congress in the Eighteenth Illinois district, to succeed Fred Uemann (Rep.), who died in office, defeated his Democratic opponent, Edward Lane, in each of the six counties of the district. C. S. Culp (Pop.) received scant support. Hadley’s estimated majority is 3,300. In Maryland the Democrats met a veritable Waterloo. The whole State seemingly repudiated Senator Gorman and the indications now are that a Republican will succeed Senator Gibson. Baltimore went Republican by from 5,000 to 10,000. Lowndes’ election as Governor by a majority of anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 is conceded by the Democratic committee. While the complexion of the Legislature could not be determined definitely Tuesday night, there is no reason to hope that the Democrats have saved it. Massachusetts Republicans re-elected Gov. Greenhalge by increased majorities. In spite of its being an off year the ticket went through with more to spare than it had last year. Returns in at midnight showed that the Democrats elected nothing and are lucky to be in the race at all. New Jersey may possibly join the Republican column. In many of the counties from which returns were received up to midnight Griggs (Rep.), for Governor, was iu the lead by substantial majorities over McGill. The State committee; however, claims McGill’s election by about 6,000. On (lie other hand, the Republicans claim the Governorship and Legislature on joint ballot. In Nebraska T. L. Norval, Republican candidate for the Supreme bench, is probably elected by 15,000 majority. Maxwell (Pop.) polled less than 00,000. while Phelps (Silver Dem.) got about 25,000. Mahoney, the straight Democratic candidate, will not receive to exceed 10,000. Forty-two precincts out of seventy-six in Omaha gave Broatch (Rep.), for Mayor, 800 plurality. His total plurality is estimated at 2,000. Pennsylvania went Republican with increased majorities. The voting early in the day indicated but little interest, and a probable falling off df the votes of both the big parties. In the late hours, however, this was overcome by the rapidly increasing number of electors, who appeared itt the pools. The vote was fully up to expectations and the majorities will average 80,000 and better. In Philadelphia alone there was a heavy increase in the Republican vote. The city went Republican by 00,000. This may send the toal majority in the State over 100.000. In Kansas the election of David Martin, the Republican candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court, is conceded In Mississippi the Democrats have swept the State by 50,000 majority. The Republicans carried Chicago and Cook County by pluralities considerably less than those given their ticket one year ago. The Democrats made gains in almost every ward of the city, but their combined gains were not sufficient to overcome the Republican excess in 1594. Farlin Q. Ball, Republican, defeated Richard W. Morrison, Democrat, for the vacancy on the Superior Court bench by 30,098 plurality. For the full term on the same bench Judge Henry M. Shepard, Democrat, was elected without opposition to succeed himself. Judge Shepard received a total vote of 134,339, which was only about 2,000 less than the combined vote of Ball and Morrison. The Republicans also elected five of the Drainage Commissioners, which gives them control of the new board.

What They Earn.

A Persian cook can earn $3.22 a month. A printer in Peru can make $1.25 to $1.50 a day, A native printer in India earns 40 cents a day. A mule driver in .Morocco earns 10 cents a day. Farm laborers in Belgium reSeive 40 cents a day. An engraver in Rio Janeiro can make sl2 a week. A boss mason in Ceylon can earn $3.20 per week. A blacksmith in Jerusalem can make $1.92 a week. A railroad conductor in Turkey gets $27 a month. A thrasher in Turkey can command 40 cents a day. Music teachers in Hamburg are paid 21 cents an hour. Policemen in Saxony receive $261 s year as salary. . Shop girls in France receive an average of SIOO a year.

DURRANT IS DOOMED.

FOUND GUILTY OF THE MURDER OF BLANCHE LAMONT. End of the Trial at San FranclicaVerdict Falla with Crashing Effect Upon Prisoner and Friends—Extra* ordinary Scene in the Court Room. Death the Penalty. Theodore Durrani, of San Francisco, Assistant superintendent of Emanuel Baptist Church Sunday school, was on Friday convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont, for which he has been on trial since July 22 last The jury was out twenty minutes and arrived at the verdict on the first ballot As there was no recommendation of mercy the punishment was fixed at death. There was no deliberation at all. The Jury had evidently decided upon a verdict before they left the box. It was 3:33 when they filed out of the courtroom,

DURRANT IN HIS CELL.

and at 3:55 a knock on the door announced that a verdict had been found. It took just five minutes of actual time to elect a foreman and take the one ballot necessary. As the aged foreman, pale and trembling, read the words that fixed Durrant’s fate a noise like the roar of a mob arose from the rear of the courtroom. The next moment men were cheering wildly, while women wept hysterically in excitement. The bailiff rapped loudly for order, but the tumult continued for a minute before anything like quiet could be brought out of the disorder. Judge Murphy named the day for sentence, and said he would then also fix the date of Durrant’s trial for the murder of Minnie Williams. During the tumult that followed the announcement of the verdict Durrant and his mother were lost sight of except by the few who sat nearest them. As the last words of the verdict were uttered Durrant made a spasmodic effort to arise

BLANCHE LAMONT, THE VICTIM.

to his feet, but before he could do so his mother, with a half-sigh, half-moan, throw her arms around his neck and sunk back into her chair. Durrant’s father was not in the room when the verdict was returned. , Aside from the spectators Mrs. Npble, Blanche Lnmont’s aunt, and Maud Lamont, the dead girl’s sister, were apparently the happiest persons in the room. When the verdict was announced Maud Lamont sprung from her seat, clasped her hands and then cried of sheer excitement. Mrs. Noble mixed smiles with tears and shook hands with a number of friends wKo crowded around to congratulate her. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court, and it is expected nearly a year will elapse before a decision will be obtained.

THE EARTHQUAKE OCT. 31, 1895.

As it will be sixty years hence, when the old settlers tell about it.—Chicago Record.

Sparks from the Wires.

Seven hundred deaths are reported at Tangier, Morocco, to date from cholera. At Kingston, Ont., a statue of the late Sir John A. Macdonald was unveiled in the presence of nearly 10,000 people. Maj. Davidson, of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., aged 83 years, an ex-State Senator, committed suicide by shooting. Cause, physical infirmity. The President has designated Capt. William H. Clapp, Sixteenth Infantry, as acting Indian agent at Pine Ridge, S. D., relieving Capt. Penney, the present agent. The special session of the Texas Legislature adjourned sine die after defeating both the validating act aud the school fund bill. The Watkins’ investigation amounted to nothing. Near Mount Gilead, Ohio, Christopher Miller shot his wife fatally and then committed suicide by hanging. He had been adjudged insane, but relatives kept him from going to an asylum. In the bye-election in Montreal Center for the Provincial Legislature, Hr. J. M. Guerin, Liberal, received 2,892 votes and C. A. McDonnell, Conservative, 1,038; Liberal majority, 1,254. Thw is a Liberal sain.