Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1897 — Page 2

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WOUNDED AND SICK CUBANS SLAIN. Spaniards Burn Hospital Patients Alive-Swift Retaliation Follows by the Hansine of Thirteen Captured Spanish Guerrillas. Rebels Busy Raidins. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has this from Havana: "At Madon, Matanzas province, the Spanish troops attacked a Cuban hospital, killing 23 wounded and sick Cubans, who had surrendered on a promise to lie held as prisoners, after a defense of half an hour or more. The Government troops tired the buildings, first placing all the disabled men, who were unable to move, in their cots, burning them alive. The others, eleven in number, were tied to trees and shot to death, the corpses being left there. The pttcificos near there came out afterward and buried them, sending word to Havana of the outrage. Col. Marston, an insurgent leader, a Texan, by the way. on hearing of it promptly hanged thirteen Spanish guerrillas whom he had captured the day previous, and whom he had intended releasing anil sending baek to their camp. All through Santa Clara province the insurgents are busy raiding the towns and doing much harm to the Government stations. commissaries and stock yards. The railroad lines have been broken up and the troops are constantly on the march, keeping the communication open between their largest points and depots. The situation is very serious for the Spanish, anil the Cubans all feel elated over the developments and the present situation.’’

FORESTERS OF AMERICA. Supreme Court of the Order in Session at Denver. Fnlly 200 delegates, representing Foresters' courts in all portions of the country, were in attendance when the supreme court was called to order in Denver Tuesday by the supreme chief ranger, Lawrence .T. Smith of Lowell, Mass. After welcoming addresses and responses and other preliminaries, the reports of the supreme chjef ranger, the supreme secretary, E. M. McMurtrie of St. Louis, and other executive officers were presented. These showed that during the last two years the Order of Foresters of America has made an increase of 17,746 members and eighty-six courts. There are now 1.257 courts in the United States and a total of 134,822 members. The supreme body has paid out in insurance during ttte last two years $735,977 and has a balance of $22,046 in the treasury. HELD UP BY HIGHWAYMEN. Messenger and Guard Relieved of u Retort of Gold Worth $5,000. The retort of the Placer Mining Company’s mill at Leadville, Colo., estimated to be worth $5,(M10, was lost Silurday while being brought by a messenger from Granite to Leadville. The messenger and a guard started from the mill at 11 o'clock. They were heavily armed. About 1.000 yards from the company's mill two highwaymen suddenly appeared, covered them with Winchesters and demanded the retort. They were taken completely unawares and surrendered. The town of Granite was alarmed and a large posse started in pursuit.

Maimed in a Wreck, A score of excursionists were injured in a railway smash-up in the outskirts of Lima, O. Several of them are expected to die. The wreck occurred at the junction of the Lima Northern and the Lake Erie and Western roads in the eastern portion of the city. A Lake Erie freight crashed into a Lima Northern special passenger train carrying a large number of excursionists on their return from Toledo. The Lake Erie engine was knocked off the track and badly demolished, nnd two coaches of the lama Northern were overturned. Neither train stopped at the junction. The Lake Erie engine dashed into the second coach. It was filled with passengers. The engine was sent into a wheat field fifty feet from the track. Athletes of the Diamon t. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 71 31 Philadelphia. 46 58 Baltimore .. .65 32 Pittsburg .. ..43 56 Cincinnati ..62 34 Louisville ...44 59 New York.. .(Ml 37 Brooklyn ....43 58 Cleveland ...52 47 Washington. 40 59 Chicago ....49 54 St. L0ui5....26 76 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 76 29 Detroit 55 54 Columbus .. .65 39 Minneapolis. 37 74 St. Paul 68 43 G’nd Rapids. 34 72 Milwaukee ..68 43 Kansas City. 36 77 Eicht Shot in a Riot, Eight men were seriously injured Sunday afternoon in a riot that occurred among the strikers at the Unity mine, near Pittsburg. Two of them cannot recover, and the others are all in serious condition. The shooting grew out of an attempt of the miners who arc still at. work to get some of the foreigners and negroes who are striking to go back to work.

Starved Herself to Death. Lena Collinsworth of Claiborne County, Tennessee, is dead from the effects of a 58-day fast. She has been starving herself to death under a vow. She quarreled with her husband, they separated, and she vowed that she would fast until he returned to her. Efforts of friends and relatives to force her to eat had been of no avail. Pleasure Party Miasintr. A party of eight pleasure seekers, left Superior, Wis., Friday in a small sailboat for a cruise along the shore. They intended to return Sunday, but have not been heard from, and it is feared the entire party has been drowned. Cairo Boiler Kills Three. By the explosion of a boiler at the brickyard of W. H. Haliday, nt Cairo, 111., three persons were instantly killed and eight injured. Michigan Banker Killed. At an early hour Saturday morning Ebner E.-Struble, cashier of the Farmers’ Biot by ed the nd cslaving nation is sellmshel, brings these Vheel-

OAVB RI» LIFE FOB ANOTHER, Trantp Killed After Saving Hia Comrade from Death. The souvenir of a brave act and a life that Went out under the wheels of commerce was the blood-bespattered front of a huge Frisco engine us it pounded and rattled over the switches of the St. Louis freight yards the other morning, and, panting great cloud's of smoke after its long run, stopped as with exhaustion. Across the gridironed front of the engine there were stains of blood —the blood of a hero, if he was only a tramp. A tramp who has proven the truth of Bobbie Burns’ saying: “A man's a man for a’ that,” for he sacrificed his life to save that of a man who was nothing to him save that he was one of that sanle brotherhood of wanderers. Engineer Daly tells the story: “We were going along about twenty miles an hour, when I saw four rough-looking men ahead. I figured that we would pass the men on a little trestle, and I blew the whistle to warn them. They looked back, and lined up on the narrow embankment just the other side and the nearest within five feet of the trestle. I noticed that they were talking and lauglfing. Suddenly, when within ten feet of them, I saw one of them fall forward. I shoved the lever forward, but I knew I could not stop in time, and I shuddered. Then I saw one of the tramps —the two others had fallen backward into the ditch —spring out on the track. It was like a flash, and then I couldn’t see him, so close were we upon him. 'Then I saw a body thrown from the track, and I felt and heard the scrunch of bones under the wheels. Twenty yards further on we stopped, and I ran baek. A crushed and mangled body lay under the car —dead, I could see that. The reason the fellow fell? Why, the weight of the train shook the bank and it fell in, throwing one of them in front of jthe train and the others, except Dave, the man who was killed, into the ditch. Dave threw the other man off the track, but it cost him his life’.”

ONE VAST FIELD OF GOLD. Alaska Miner Says Untold Richca Are in the Yukon Valley. Postmaster General Gary has received a copy of the Alaska Mining Record of Juneau of Aug. 4, in which is an interesting sketch of the gold mining regions and advice to the incoming miners. The article says that the gold-bearing regions have never been fully prospected, but enough is known to demonstrate that it Is the richest gold-bearing belt on the globe. The valley of the Yukon and its tributaries constitutes, it says, one vast gold field, where scarcely a shovelful of earth can be found that will not show the color of the precious metal. But it also calls attention to the difficulties which lie in the path of those who come to seek for gold. “In the first place,” it says,, “whoever comes to Alaska must be prepared to support himself for at least two years. The development of the country is such that its present population is fully up to every industrial requirement. In the field of industrial labor, every position is tilled. The professions are fully represented'; the labor market is glutted. Artisan and mechanic find no opening here. Mining and prospecting alone remain open to the newcomer, and he must find his own field, and must be prepared for self-support until he has found it. He cannot depend on his own labor for support in any direction, for the field is fully occupied."

WORKERS OF THE CHURCH. The Young People’s Christian Union Meets at Indianapolis. An early morning prayer meeting in the capitol grounds opened the day’s proceedings of the Young People’s Christian Union of the United Presbyterian Church at Indianapolis. The weather was dear and cool and the attendance large. The subject, “Consecration,” was presented by Rev. J. D. Rankin, D. D., of Denver. At 9:30 a. in. the first session of the day was begun at Tomlinson Hall. After devotional exercises, the Rev. John A. Duff, general secretary, read his annual report. Next came the report of the junior work and award of the junior banner to the presbyteiy representing the largest increase in membership of junior societies. After the installation of the new officers a short song service was had, after which came the reception of J. S. Moffatt of Chester, S. C., chairman of the executive committee and synodical delegate associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The forenoon session was concluded by Rev. W. T. Meloy, D. D., of Chicago, who spoke on “The Ministry of Sympathy.”

WHEAT TAKES WINGS, Cereal Goes Soaring Around the Doilar Mark. At the opening on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday September wheat was 3% cents above Thursday's close and within a minute the price was 91 % cents. After another slump it rose to 93% cents without any material decline. December wheat also fluctuated, wildly. In New York September wheat sold up to 99, amid the shouts of a big crowd of spectators. The day in Philadelphia was the most exciting ever experienced in the history of the exchange. Quotations jumped up 4% cents and brought the price beyond the dollar mark. There were sales of No. 2 red at $1.02. This is the highest quotation there in many years. In Minneapolis wheat sold for $1 per bushel. McCord Claim Must Be Paid. Relations between this Government and Peru are badly strained, and it is within the range of possibilities, indeed, of probabilities, that it may become nAiessary for the United States to make a demonstration against the South American republic. If similar conditions existed between Spain and the United States to those that now exist between this country and Peru, we would be in the full enjoyment of a well-developed war scare. The trouble grows out of an attempt of the United States to collect a claim against Peru on behalf of Victor H. McCord, a citizen of Pennsylvania. This is a claim for $50,000, and as it has been aired in the newspapers there is no necessity of entering into a detailed history of the matter. Suffice it to say that the present administration has assumed the attitude of backing it and of enforcing its collection. Secretary Sherman several days ago sent an ultimatum to Peru through the representative of the Peruvian Government at Washington. No reply has yet been received to this communication, although c sufficient time has elapsed to have heard from Lima. The case is considered by the State Department as being one of peculiarly aggravated injustice against a citizen of the United States, and it is the purpose of the administration, as expressed by Secretary Sherman both orally and in official documents, to compel reparation. The Peruvian Government has nev«r offered anything but the flimsiest excuses for the wrong committed against McCord, and the justice’ of his claim, which is now ten years, old, has never been seriously disputed. He was simply held up and robbed -of a large sum of money by men who were then representing the revolutionary government, which was successful and is still in power.

Cracksman la Slain. As the result of a bold attempt to loot a bank in Canton, 0., one of the four robbers engaged in it lies dead. Three other men who were with him iu the attempt to erack a vault have escaped. The raid was the moat daring ever attempted in Canton and has aroused widespread interest from tbst the robbers selected the But*

Inga and Depoiit Bank as their prey, an invitation located but a few doors from the court house, and on a street where people pass at all times of day and night. The four men engaged in the job had planned their work with care. They played for a big stake and lost. The bank carries in cash from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. The money is kept in a vault which is solidly built from the cellar up. It was the cellar that had l>een selected as the place of attack, and the burglars were armed with explosives consisting of bombs of gas pipe and dynamite, nitroglycerin and dynamite; they had plenty of burglars’ tools and blankets to aid them in .their work, and had cut an electric wire to be used on the vault. All the tools were left behind. The robbers were foiled by Charles Hemminger, hired by several business men as night watchman. He was making his round of the bank building and was leaving the place by a rear stairway when he was fired upon. He drew his revolver and fired seven shots at his assailant. He brought down his man, while he escaped with a few bullet holes in his clothing. The groans of the wounded man and the sound of shots soon brought help for Hemminger. Three men were seen leaping over a gate eignt feet high, which opened from a court In the rear of the bank to an alley. They escaped. The wounded burglar died with closed mouth.

VITRIOL FOR HIS WIFE. Fensational Charges Against Doctor Ducker of Chicago. Sensational charges are made by his wife, Madalon, against Dr. James O. Ducker, one of the professors of the Post Graduate College and a member of the Chicago Medical Society. The wife charges the doctor with having employed Charles Hill to throw vitriol in her face because she refused to live with him. Mrs Ducker swore out warrants for her husband’s arrest before Justice Underwood nnd Ducker was arrested, but later was released on bonds of $3,500. Dueler and his wife have been separated since January last and a suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Ducker is pending. It is alleged by Mrs. Ducker that her husband made a bargain with a stranger named Hill, whereby the latter was to receive $lO for throwing the vitriol in her face. Hill called at the house of Dyke V. Keedy, 6334 Monroe avenue, where Mrs. Dueker is staying temporarily, with the intention of throwing the acid, but at the sight of her he broke down and confessed his part of the plot. Detectives were placed on the case and their investigation resulted in the arrest of the doctor.

FIVE CHILDREN DROWN. Accident nt Toronto, Ont., Caused by the Capsizing of n Float. Five children were drowned in the Toronto, Ont.,Jiarbor Sunday afternoon by the capsizing of a float. The bodies of three were recovered. The float was twelve feet long and six feet wide, and was made of rough timber and used for conveying workmen from the mainland at the foot of Cherry street to the breakwater, a distance of about 100 yards. The float is worked by chains attached to the bank on one side and the breakwater on the other side. Sunday afternoon thirtyone children, boys and girls, .ranging from 8 to 13 years of age, crowded on the raft intending to go bathing at the breakwater. Half way across the channel, where the water is very deep, the raft capsized, and all the children were thrown into the water. There were many boats in the neighborhood, and these were quickly at the scene of the accident. All of the children were rescued except five. Boom In Wheat Market. The wheat market in all parts of the world Wednesday was the center of interest. Reports of greater shortage in the old world than heretofore reported, and greatly decreased yield in Canada and this country, sent the price for September on the Chicago Board of Trade up 5 cents to 88*/i. The advance in St. Louis was 5% cents, and the same in San Francisco and New York. Cnn’t Go Without Grub. The miners at Skaguay have decided to allow no one to go over the White pass who has not at least 800 pounds of provisions. This action is taken to avoid the necessity of feeding the hungry in Dawson City during the winter. Heavy Cattle Shipment from Pierre. At Pierre, S. D., the first heavy cattle shipment of the season, thirty cars, started for the Chicago market Saturday evening. In the yards twenty steers sold for $53.57 each and 100 went at sls straight. There is a brisk demand.

Wreck a Train. Unknown persons deliberately wrecked an excursion train on the Chicago Transfer Terminal road near Riverside, Ind., by opening a switen. Several people were injured, but none fatally. Many Tired of Life. Another suicidal wave seems to have reached Chicago. During the first eighteen days of August twenty-four cases of suicide have been reported to the coroner. Gobbled by the Postal. The Postal Telegraph Company has secured control of the telegraph lines of the Mexican National and Mexican Central railways. Treasury Statement. Friday’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $221,064,626; gold reserve, $142,075,698.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3 00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn, No. 2,29 cto 30c; oats. No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; new potatoes, 60c to 75c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,84 cto 86c; corn, No. 2 white, 28e to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; pats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,95 cto 97c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,46 eto 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,96 cto 98c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21e to 23c; rye, 48c to 50c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 98c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 49c; clover seed, $4.40 to $4.45. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 3,28 cto 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 1,48 cto 49c; barley, No. 2,35 cto 44c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. New Ycrk—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.05; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c*, butter, creamery, 12c to 19c; eggs. Western, l<c to 16c.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

HANNA’S HEAVY GUNS. For people who claim to have an easy victory iu sight, the Ohio Republicans are importing fighting men to an unprecedented extent. Mark Hanna announced that President McKinley would make speeches during the campaign, but this suggestion was met by such a storm of protests from the press of the United States that Hanna was forced to withdraw it. However, judging from the list of speakers now made public, the great statesman of Ohio is not going to lack advocates iu his Senatorial interests. If there is such a thing as being talked to death, the people of the Buckeye State have grave cause for apprehension, as up to date tile following spellbinders have agreed to talk for Hanna this fall: Senator Foraker, Senator Hoar. Senator Barrows, Senator Gear, Senator Carter, Senator Gnllinger, Senator Frye, Senator Allison, Senator Cullom, Senator Ixslge, Senator Fairbanks, Senator Hawley, Senator Nelson, Senator Wolcott, Senator Wilson, Senator Thurston, Senator Spooner, Senator Wellington. Iu addition to the heavy artillery, composed of Senators, there will be a flying squadron of Representatives and all around orators, as follows: Reed. Maine, Sherman, N. Y., Brom well. Ohio, Dingley. Maine, Bingham, Pa., Babcock, Wis., Mahauy, New York, Belknap. Illinois, Cousins. lowa, Boutelle, Maine. Republicans are not going to spare expense in the Oldo campaign. Such an array of talent will cost more than a grand opera company, but Mark Hanna and the trusts know where the money is coining from. Monopoly has much at stake in the outcome of the Ohio contest, and never before in the history of the United States will have been presented such a carnival of corruption, bribery and intimidation as that which will disgrace Ohio in Mark Hanna’s Senatorial campaign.—Chicago Dispatch.

Advocates of Robbery. Will the advocates of a gold monometallic currency ever become honest enough to admit facts, or will they always persist in prevarication? . As facts are fatal to the arguments of those who demand gold and gold only, the hope that they will admit facts is not to be entertained. Any policy which forces up the value of money’ Is nothing less than stealing. When silver was demonetized and the volume of the circulating medium cut in two the people were robbed of half of all they owned, and the gold uipnometalllsts were the robbers. Since the purchasing clause of the Sherman law was repealed prices have fallen 11 per cent, and it has taken only four years to bring about this disastrous result. What does this fall in prices mean? It means that gold has increased in purchasing power and that every debt made four years ago has grown 11 per cent through the unearned increment of an appreciating currency. This is the boldest and most unblushing robbery. The “honest” money that is so loudly clamored for is dishonest money. It is just as dishonest as a short weight pound or a decreased bushel measure. There is fraud in every gold dollar; there is fraud in the demand for a “stable currency” when it is made by a gold monometallist, because gold is not a stflble measure of value; it is constantly increasing, and by this increment robs the debtor and impoverishes the hard-working and honest toilers of tlie nation. Democrats Win in Indiana. Of course, the “silver sentiment is dying out.’’ Indiana has proved that favorite Republican claim by making big Democratic gains and paralyzing all opposition in electing the late William 8. Holman’s successor. Francis Marion Griffith has been chosen to represent the Democracy of Indiana in the House of Representatives, and his selection by a largely increased Democratic vote is a great victory for the cause of silver. The Holman district was a close one, and the great personal popularity of the “great objector” gave him, on the occasion of his last election, a plurality of 300 votes. Griffith has a plurality of 1,800 votes. Republicans are astounded at the result, and can find no reasonable excuse to urge for their defeat. The “free silver sentiment has died out” iu the Holman district to the extent of multiplying the Democratic plurality six times; it is “dying out” In Ohio, lowa and Kentucky at the same rate. It will continue to “die out” until Democracy wins the conflict in 1898 and elects a Democratic President on the free silver issue in 1900.

Growth in Tension Outlays. The growth of the expenses of pensions is attracting wide attention. Onethird of the revenues of the Government now goes to pay pensions, and the number of names on the list is growing so rapidly that It is estimated that there will be a big deficit in the pension appropriation at the close of the fiscal year. It is now disclosed that jist prior to the commencement of the new fiscal year all allowances for new pensions were held up until the new year began, because there was no money to meet them.-Utica Observer. Fightin" t pirit Has Returned. Democrats need not look beyond the Fourth Indiana District for renewed courage and fresh hope. The unmistakable evidence is there of Democrat ic buoyancy and harmony which augur party unity and victory. The Democrats of the Fourth Indiana District have demonstrated that the party’s oldtime fighting spirit has returned. Now let Democrats everywhere catch step and march resolutely ou to the glories of victory that await them this year, next year and in 1960.—5 t. Louis Republic. The Price of Hanna’* Tojja. Mr. Sherman is unfit for any office of trust and responsibility whatever. Partlculn he disqualified for one which prestipposM. the possession of

unusual qualities of discretion and txt in its incumbent. The forgetfulness and the garrulity of old age have become Mr. Sherman’s dominant characteristics. More than once he has brought the nation to the verge of a diplomatic crisis by his unguarded and irresponsible prattle upon subjects of grave international importance. This is a heavy price to pay for the presence of Mark Hanna in the United States Senate.—New York Journal.

Protection and Pillage. A Chicago paper engaged in booming the Dingley tariff prosjierity idea, the monetary reform idea and all the other plutocratic and Republican party ideas, quotes the local market reports with.an accompanying flourish on its prosperity trumpet. It is not necessary to comment at length on this matter, because it speaks for itself. The gist of the article is contained in the following quotation: "A cursory examination of the market discovers that during the last week there have been advances in the following articles used in the ordinary household: Dried fruits of all sorts. Dried and salted meats. Dried and salted fish of every kind. Beans. Wheat flour. Rye flour. Hominy. Corn meal. Japan rice. All sorts of farinaceous foods. Canned tomatoes. ('aimed peas. Canned peaches. Cheese. » Pickles. Sugar. Syrups. Glucose. Jellies. Preserves Medium and low grades of tea. The declines are as follows: Lamp chimneys of certain undesirable sizes. Coffee. All that need be said is that necessities of life are advancing in price and that wages are either stationary or going down. This kind of benefit from Republican legislation will result in making the voters think seriously before they give their suffrages again to the party of protection and pillage.

Ohio Populists Bought. The hand Is that of Coxey, but the voice is that of Hanna. Ohio Populists have nominated Jacob S. Coxey for Governor with no hope of electing their candidate and with no object to be gained except that of embarrassing the Democracy and the cause of silver. Undoubtedly Mark Hanna is back of this demonstration, and positive proof of this fact was brought forth in the convention. The Rev. J. H. Taylor, a leading fusionist, claimed Major Dick, Republican State Chairman, agreed to pay the expenses of headquarters, literature, etc., for the anti-fusionist Populists at the State convention. In spite of the most direct charges of corruption and notwithstanding the fact that indisputable documentary evidence was produced, debate was choked off and the anti-fu-sionists nominated their ticket. The fight in Ohio is going to be most bitter, and the Republicans will spare no money to buy votes for the purpose of returning the king of the trusts (Mark Hanna) to the United States Senate. Forewarned is forearmed, and the Democracy will go into the contest fully aware of the kind of tactics they will have to meet.—Chicago Dispatch. Finally If Rests on the Consumer. “Prices are better,’’ which means that what cost the consumer a given figure under the Wilson tariff will cost him considerably more under the Dingley tariff. The manufacturer having competition removed by a prohibitive tariff law, will advance his prices to the broker, who in turn will advance them to the retailer. The retailer must advance prices to the consumer, who, after all, must bear the brunt of the battle.—Memphis Commercial-Appeal.

Claiming It Both Ways. One of the lowa Republican papers does not propose to be stumped on the prosperous times. The other week the cancellations of mortgages exceeded the number of new mortgages made, and it claimed that this was an evidence of prosperity. The next week the mortgages exceeded the cancellations. and the paper came out and claimed that it was positive proof of prosperity, because the farmers were Imrrowing money to make improvements.— Peoria Herald. The People and Injunction Tyranny. If federal courts can enjoin men from talking they can extend their powers and throttle the press. Then it will Im; only a step further to punish men for thinking. If this abuse of injunction continues the people—the real source of all power—will find a remedy for intolerable conditions. They respect the law, but they cannot be made to submit to tyranny, even though it is clothed in the judicial ermine.—Lafayette (Ind.) Journal. Indorsing and Condemning at Once. The Kentucky Republicans in their platform indorse the national administration and oppose the system of civil service which that administration upholds. In other words, they indorse the administration, but they oppose its administration.—Louisville CourierJournal. Coxey Wants His Share. The evidences point to the fact that “General" Coxey is trying to recoup by getting in his graft on the residue of that national Republican campaign fund which Mr. Hanna clings to with a tenacity that is characteristic.—Omaha World-Herald. Grand Duke Paul of Russia is so tall that no hotel bed is long enough for his comfort, and he has one built in sections, which he carries with his luggage everywhere. The bed is put up by a special mechanic, under the superintendeney of the royal valet, wherever the Grand Duke goes.

DOLLAR FOR WHEAT.

PRICE GOES TO THAT FIGURE IN MANY CITIES. Reaches to Top Notch Amid Wild Ex-citement-Some Reaction—Big Advance Abroad—Price as Compared with That of Last Tear. Prices of Grain Jump. Wheat has gone to the dollar line in Chicago and in other cities has passed beyond that. For a short time Beelzebub seemed to have possession of the wheat pit. The instant the dollar sign went up every man in the big Chicago Board of Trade building appeared to lose his senses. The news came outside and went up and down the business streets —“dollar wheat.” Bulls with rampant horns tossed the cereal to the zenith of the financial sky. Bears rooted in the pit, trying to find a hole into which the price might fall. Fortunes accumulated in the twinkling of an eye. The prophets and the sons of prophets to the seventh father and mother were right. Dollar wheat was a reality. Continued heavy foreign exports, a healthy demand from countries short of a crop, a distant rumor that the demand is still greater than the supply, took September wheat Saturday morning at 97%, made it a dollar, then shoved it back to 99%. December wheat closed for the day at 99%. The lowest cash selling prices of the principal cereals last year were: Wheat, 53 cents; corn, 19%; oats, 14%; flaxseed, 63%; rye, 28. Compared with the September prices of Saturday the increase in the value of the crop in sight and the small surpluses of last year’s crop on hand is over $600,000,000. The rapid and steady nature of the advance for the preceding ten days had an inspiring effect in the thought that the era of low and unremunerative prices had come to an end.

When men grab each other as if they were demented, when they talk a jargon at the top of their voices that is like Choctaw to the uninitiated, when they lose their hats, nearly drop their eyes, clutch at the air, scream and stammer all at the same time, then wheat is at $1 in the pit of the Board of Trade and the men who do that are in the pit. When the sunlight streaming through big windows into that pit is made gray by a flying cloud of dust; when in the hallways of the stone building a distant roar is heard like that of lions sometimes or jackals at other times, coming down the glen; when men limp into out-of-the-way places, drop into a chair, wildly clasp their hands to their foreheads and gasp, “My God, I’m ruined,” or when they come out with red, flushed faces, clothes all awry, eyes sparkling, lips dry and hands clenched, saying, “What’ll you have?” that’s also dollar wheat on the Board of Trade. Such things took plaee Saturday in that gray building, the trading center for the grain market of this country. 'They cheered when the dollar was reached, and the building trembled. Messenger boys were flying in every direction. Telegraph wires were carrying the news to every part of the world. Four years have passed since that price was last reached. Some men have grown gray haired waiting for it. Men who have not laughed for years past came and went with broad grins. Ev»n hardened bears had to chuckle—perhaps thinking of a future in which they may have their day.

The advance brought a crush of offerings from those who were willing to capture the magnificent profits possible on their holdings. Short sales at the price were also regarded as a promising venture, and the result was that thousands and thousands of bushels which were seeking a market at 99% or even 99% could not be placed. In the corn and oats markets there was wild excitement, but mon rushed from it to take part in the wheat whirl. Hats went into the air, old men yelled and young men screamed. Pandemonium had the pit until the close. The week’s wheat market gave an illustration of what foreign demand well sustained can do in the way of advancing prices. The net gain in the Chicago price of September wheat was 15%c. This at any time would be a remarkable enhancement of values, but was the more noteworthy inasmuch as it came on top of a series of advances of equal significance and rounded out a 50 per cent gain in less than two months. There seems to be little doubt that a situation has been developed in which a high range of values can be maintained with perhaps little reference to the yield in this country. The conditions of demand and supply elsewhere promise to make the price, and from the outlook the farmers of this country are not only to realize good prices, but are to realize such prices in at least a fairly good yield. Aug. 15, 1891, September wheat sold at $1 and $1.05%. The next day it advanced to sl.ll, and cash sold at $1.13, and the third day was back to sl. It did not get above $1.05% the balance of the month, and on Sept. 30 sold at 98% cents to $1.02. Present prices are the highest since that time. Wheat closed in Chicago Saturday 42c higher than a year ago, and Liverpool was 41%c higher. The following gives the closing prices of September wheat Saturday at the points named, the closing Friday and for the corresponding day last year: One year Saturday. Friday. ago. Chicago 99% 93 57% Minneapolis 97% 91% 54% St. Louis 102% 96% 61% Duluth 100% 94% 58% New York 105% 99% 64% Toledo 102% 96% 64% Liverpool 113% 108% 72 Wheat at $1.05 in St. Louis. In St. Louis Saturday, history was made on Merchants’ Exchange. For the first time in six years the prevailing option on wheat sold at $1 .a bushel. For the first time in the history of the exchange two active options were held above $1 simultaneously. For the first time in the history of any exchange sales at more than $1 a bushel were made in three options during the same session. Cash wheat sold at $1.05. Precedents were established so quickly that daring traders caught their breath and hesitated before entering the pit. Before ten minutes of the session had passed all but the heaviest traders were seared off the wheat market. In Minneapolis, eight cars of actual wheat sold for cash Saturday morning at the Chamber of Commerce at $1.07%. There was a sale of 5,000 bushels old wheat to arrive at $1.06, and four cars on track at $1.07%.

Don’t be too hard on the Dingley bill. It increases the tax on cigarettes.—St. Louis Republic. It is distinctly masculine. When a man has no other way of showing his love he kills the woman—New York Sun. It is inaccurate to say that lives are lost in attempts to reach the north pole, They are .deliberately thrown away.—Washings ton Star. Gen. Weyler will take to the field again. As heretofore, shortly after taking to the field he win take to the woods.—Atlanta Constitution.

TOWN IS CAPTURED,

Crusading Miners Make ■ SttcCMa* fni Raid on Coffeen. A Hillsboro, 111., dispatch says: The oft-repeated threats of the crusaders to force their way into the village of Coffeen were carried out amid great excitement Tuesday afternoon. For two days re-enforcements had been pouring in from all quarters, until 400 men and seventyfive women were in the camp. They became more and more restive under the rigid exclusion enforced by the Village authorities and began drilling in the camp. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon the attempt to break the picket lines was successfully made. They formed eight abreast, 400 strong, the Staunton band of eleven pieces bringing up the rear. The women remained in the camp. As soon as Sheriff Randle ascertained that the march had begun he placed twenty deputy sheriffs, armed with muskets and with fixed bayonets, across the highway. The other deputies were stationed to guard the mine, where 100 men were at work getting out coal. President Traylor went to a point 100 feet in front of the deputies and when the column arrived ordered a halt. With regular step the strikers marched on, paying no heed to the order and brushing the village president aside without ceremony. The deputies received no orders to fire and the invading army marched upon them without stopping or hesitating. The strikers in the front ranks grasped their guns and the column by sheer force of numbers pushed the deputies, many of whom were considerably frightened, from their places. President Traylor ordered the deputies to arrest Gen. Bradley, who was marching in front with a greerKsash over his shoulder. Two stalwart deputies seized him and rushed him through a side street. They quickly placed him in a carriage and drove to Hillsboro, where the “general” was placed in jail. Meanwhile the strikers continued their triumphant march through the little village which has so long defied their efforts. After parading through the principal streets they halted near an elevator, half a mile from the coal mines, where they were addressed by several speakers from among their number while they awaited the 5 o’clock whistle, which announced that the working miners had quit for the day. As the picket line was broken by the strikers Sheriff Randle ordered his deputies, together with over 100 able-bodied men. who had been summoned by two hoarse blasts from the mine whistle, to form a new picket line around the mine. This was done and further orders were given to shoot anyone who attempted to pass the line without permission. When the miners quit work, instead of meeting the strikers as the latter hoped, they went at once to their homes. The strikers then appointed a committee of twelve to hold a meeting and attempt to persuade the mint. 3 to quit. Intense excitement exists in Coffeen and its vicinity, and it is feared that blood will be shed if the miners persist in working.

HANSBROUGH TAKES A WIFE.

North Dakota Senator and Mias Mary Chapman Are Married. H. C. Hansbrough, United States Senator from North Dakota, and Miss Mary Berri Chapman of Washington, D. 0., were married at the Hotel Burlington In New York Monday. The ceremony took

HANSBROUGH AND HIS BRIDE.

place in one of the parlors of the hotel, which was decorated with white azaleas, maiden hair ferns, palms and pink roses. Rev. Lester Bradner officiated, using the Episcopal service. After the ceremony the guests, numbering twenty-five, were entertained at an informal repast, served in an adjoining room.

BANKERS AT DETROIT.

Leading Financiers of the CountryMeet in Convention. The spacious opera house at Detroit was filled to overflowing Tuesday morning at the opening of the twenty-third annual convention of the American Bankers’ Association. The retiring president, Robert J. Lowry, president of the Lowry Banking Company of Atlanta, Ga., called the gathering to order promptly at 10 o’clock. In its representative character the convention was even more influential than last year’s gathering at St. Louis, every section of the country being largely represented by the presidents, cashiers or other officers of national and State banks. Prayer having been offered by Rev. Henry A. Shopman of the Society of Jesuits, president of Detroit College, the roll of delegations was called and welcoming addresses were in order. Gov. Pingree spoke felicitously for the State, Mayor Maybury for the city and E. H. Butler, chairman of the Detroit clearing house, for the bankers of the city and State.

FIELD BREAKS THE RECORD.

May Retire After Serving Nearly Tbirty-five Years. Associate Justice Stephen J. Field of the Supreme Court of the United States Monday broke the record for continuous service on the supreme bench, having served thirty-four years, five months and six days, or one day longer than former Chief Justice John Marshall, whose rec-

JUSTICE FIELD.

ord of service has hitherto been the longest of all the justices since the establishment of the national tribunal of last resort. It has been generally understood that Justice Field would retire from the bench when his length of service exceeded that of Chief Justice Marshall. It is probable that his seat upon the bench will become vacant in the near future and upon his retirement Attorney General McKenna, according to the present understanding, will succeed him. The vacancy in the attorney generalship, it is expected, will ken be filled by Judge Goff of West Vic* bd*.