Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publish*!-. ' - .*> ,T> .■ RENSSELAER. • *- - INDIANA.

FIVE NEGROES HUNG.

I THE RESULT OF AN ARKAKSAS MURDER. ■■ 5. Mob TakN Vengeance for the Aeaaa- . aination of a Merchant-Guilty Wife ■ Suicide—Figures on Kanaaa Crops for Twenty Years. Wholesale Lynching in Arkansas. Fire negroes hanging from the limbs of trees near the railroad track and the widow of John T. Orr dead in her cell, are f the tragic denouement of the assassination of John T. Orr. a wealthy merchant at Clarendon. Ark., a few nights ago. The wife died from a dose of poison self-ad-ministered. while the negroes, her assoi ciates In crime, were strung up by a mob J of citizens. Three women (one pt them the cook in the Orr household) were hung. Miss Morris, a Jewess, implicated in the , assassination, was not hanged, she having disappeared. The lynched are: Manse Castle, Dennis Ricord. Ullia Weaver, Susie Jacobs, Will Saunders. A few nights ago John T. Orr was assassinated. A ; coroner’s inquest resulted in the arrest of the fire negroes and Mrs. Orr and a warrant for Miss Morris. It was charged | that the wife had hired the negroes to do Orr’s life was insured for and it developed at the inquest "that Orr and his wife lived unhappily. Mr. |r. Orr was formerly a theatrical man. In ?. 1890 the couple eloped to a summer resort in Wisconsin and were married, loiter 1 they settled in Clarendon, where Orr pros- ? pered in business and was considered wealthy at the time of his death. f- Twenty Years of Kansas Crops. ; Secretary Coburn of the Kansas State Department of Agriculture has issued a pamphlet giving the results of “Twenty Years of Kansas Agriculture.” From 1878 to 1884 the report shows a gradual Increase in the value of farm products. In 1879 the value was $72,528,0(52. and in 1884 $147,1174,01d, when exceedingly low 5 prices prevailed. The wheat yield inI creased from 20,518,055 to 40,(181,521 i bushels, while the corn yield increased f from 89,324,971 to 190,870,870 bushels, p In 1897 the value of the products of Kansas amounted to $136,335,208, and the wheat crop was 50,040,374 bushels, while the corn crop aggregated 152,140,003 bushels. Standing of the Clubs, i Following is the standing of the clube tn the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. it Cincinnati . .65 35Pittsburg ... .50 44 ■v Boston 01 35 Philadelphia. 43 49 Cleveland ...50 35Brooklyn ....30 57 1 Baltimore .. .52 38 Louisville ...30 <sl New York.. .52 42 Washington. 32 58 | Chicago 54 44 St. Louis 28 09 «... Following is the standing of the clube In tbe Western League: W. L. W. L. t Kansas City.o3 38Columbus ...50 42 | Indianapolis. 50 37 Detroit .38 58 Milwaukee ..58 428 t. Joseph... .33 01 St. Paul 57 43Minneapolis. 32 (58 Killed in His Own Door. Frank H. Cheeseman, a painter living : in South Berkeley, went to the house of Henry Brooke in Oakland, Cal., to cull on Miss Ktta Payne, who is Brooke’s » stepdaughter. Brooke opened the door and S: refused to admit Cheeseman, who at once i drew a revolver and shot BroOke dead. | Tin* murderer then entered the liouse and By passed into the kitchen, where he shot | Miss Payne through the thigh. The raothft er attempted to interfere, when Cheese- | man fired a shot at her, the bullet passing I' through her dress. The murderer eseap* I: ed, but later was captured.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Armour & Co. will spend at least $250,* 000 In enlarging their packing house plan! at Omaha, 1 , At Newark, Ohio, Probate Judge David A. Allen was thrown from his buggy and instantly killed. John 11. Lane, storekeeper of the United States transport Minnewaska, dropped dead ou his ls>at at Savannah, Ga: At Norwalk, Ohio, the factory of the Sprague Umbrella Company was burned, ' Loss, s(iO,o<H); insurance, $40,000. At Los Angeles, Cal., authorities have discovered a herd of cattle on the Los Feiiz ranch that is infected with Texas fever. At Canton, Ohio, Joseph Saxton, an uncle of the wife of President McKinley, was struek by a street ear and seriously Injured. It is now certain that Adolph Sutro of San Francisco left a will, which is in the hands of Attorney lieubeu Lloyd. It will be offered for probate within a few days. Violent storms and floods, it is announced in advices from the Island of Formosa, have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives at Talpeh, on that island. Great damage whs done to property there. The Great Southern Gas and Oil Company, a Zanesville, Ohio company, operat- | Ing with Chicago capital, Ims perfected arrangements with the Pittsburg Tube L Company to build a new plant for $450,000 which will furnish the cities of eastern and central Ohio with natural gas. | At Watertown, S. D., the body of a ? tnun was found in a box car, having a bnl--5 let wound at the base of the brain. J. V. L Gallagher of Newark, Oh io^,identified the j body as that of his brother, P, E. Galr lagher of Gibson, Ohio. P. E. Gallagher ; was on a pleasure trip through the West, I and is believed to have been murdered for 6 his money by Henry Walker and Henry I Elliott. | At a dance at Earlboro, Ok., Isaac |, Jones, a white mun, was stabbed to death i by Johnson Tiger, an Indian, in a quarrel I over a white girl. ; Mrs. (Charles Frederick Worth, widow | Of the famous Paris costumer, who died I in March, 1895, and his successor in the 1 superintendence of the Worth establishj meat, is dead. f Fifty tramps captured a Great NorthI ern freight train three miles west of I Grand Forks, N. I)., and ran It to Lari- | mote, about twenty miles, where they I were captured by officers and citizens, fc They offered stubborn resistance.

EASTERN.

Miss Ruth M. Osborne, daughter of D. M. Osborne, the millionaire reaper manufacturer of Auburn, N. Y., is dead of consumption at Denver, Colo, The strike of the employes of the Syracuse, N. Y., Rapid Transit Railway Company was settled uud the men returned to work. Russell Sage crossed off the eighty-sec-ond in life’s calendar the other day. The new milestone, found him vigorous, busy and cheerful. Frank T. Stimson, his son, 2% years old, and his daughter Mabel, 6 years old, died at their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., from ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating heartily of blackberries. Fire broke out in the chapel of the Niagara University, a Catholic institution near Niagara Falls, N. Y. The chapel was almost completely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $70,000. The fire is attributed to an incendiary. At North Vuesalhoro, Me., the woolen mills owned by Samuel Williams of Boston and Thomas Sampson of Winslow have shut down for an unknown period, owing to poor markets. About 600 hands are thrown out of employment. Two cars on the Belt Line trolley road of Utica.' N. Y., went through Bradley’s bridge, near Whitesboro, and seventeen passengers were precipitated into the Erie canal. Miss Mary Brady was the only person killed. Several were injured. Charles Yobansen, a blind man 43 years of age, and his wife, Christia, three years his junior, \yere found dead at South River, near New Brunswick, N. Y. It is the general opinion that the woman killed her husband and then committed suicide. Mayor Van Wyek, us an honorary member of the New Y'ork division of the volunteer life-saving corps of the State of New York, is entitled to a medal for saving three lives. The presentation of such will take place some time next month in the Mayor’s office. The first arrest in connection with the Jeruegan ease was made at Lubec, Me., when William Arrington, the chemist of the Electrolytic Mining Salts Company, was taken into custody, charged with being implicated in the fraud. He was arraigned l>efore a trial justice and held in $25,000 for his appearance in the Supreme Court in October. Johu Petitt, a millionaire real estate man and head of the John Petitt Realty Company, is missing from New York, and his presence there cannot he accounted for since throe weeks ago. Some say he has been gone four months. His absence was discovered through an attempt to get service on him in a suit brought to set aside the conveyance of certain property.

West-bound way passenger train No, 59, leaving New Haven at 3 p. m. and due in South Norwalk. Conn., at 4:07 o’clock, collided head-on the other afternoon with a switching freight train from the Danbury division on-the Washington street bridge. Isaac Davis, a freight brakemnn, was killed and the engineers and firemen on both trains were more or less injured, but the passengers suffered only a Severe jolting. ( Three men killed and a number of rnfftt-elerka^wiwe severely injured on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Canton Junction, Mass., by an express mail special from "New \ork to Boston jumping the tracks. The accident wns caused by a misplaced switch. The special was running at high speed on a down grade. At the bottom of the slope the switch at a siding failed to work and in an instant the ears were off the track. The engine and forward car were turned over on their sidt-s, and the other three cars were thrown from their trucks.

WESTERN.

A. L. Conwell of Higbee, Mo., was killed by a Wabush engine. Horace C. Alger has been nominated for Governor by the Democrats of W yoming. At Dayton, Wash., six warehouses, containing 40,(XKj bushels of grain, were destroyed by fire. Mayor Black of Columbus, Ohio was elected president of the League of American Municipalities. The Japanese of San Francisco are organized into a society similar to the Chinese highbinder tong. The Oliver Mining Company has secured possession of the Pioneer irou mine at Ely, north of Duluth, Minn. At San Francisco, Cal., the national bureau of education is making an inquiry into the life of Theodore Durrant. Judge F. O. Phillips of Medina, Ohio, was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Twentieth Ohio district. The will of Ephraim Sells, tiled in the probate court at Columbus, Ohio, shows that he left property worth half a million dollars to his widow, Hester Seils. While Henry Auhl of Put-in-Bny and Joseph Martin of Sandusky, Ohio,, were out on the luke in a small boat the craft capsized and both men were drowned. William Schaffer of Chicago, first mate of the steamer Escanaba, fell thirty-two feet down the hatchway of his vessel at Toledo, Ohio, receiving fatal injuries. The large plant of the Ilobinson Basket Company at Paiuesvtlle, Ohio, the largest grape basket factory in the United States, was destroyed by tire. Loss, about SIOO,000; insurance, $55,000. A head-on collision occurred at Willoughby, Ohio, between a special car on the Painesville and Eastern Suburban Line and a regular motor. Misunderstanding of orders caused the accident. Eleven persona were injured. The passenger steamer Mauitou of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Line was disabled by the breaking of the engine while abreast of Manistee, Mich. The disabled boat was picked up by the steamer Alcona and towed to Chicago. The plant of the St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company at St. Louis, Mo., was damaged by fire. The cattle sheds, hidehouse, sausage room, pork cooler and fertilizer building were destroyed, the total damage l*eing $50,000. Charles Clyburn and Coleman, alias Fluke, Fleming were hanged in Arkansas. The execution of Clyburn, who killed Deputy Sheriff Rollins March 27, 1897, while the latter was attempting to arrest him for burglary, took place at Prescott.

It is stated at Springfield, Ohio, on good authority that Senafor Brice or his agents will buy the Ohio Southern Railway when it ia offered for sale Aug. 20. It is added that this will be in pursuance of the resolution formed by Brice several years ago to build up a big railway system. Contracts for one of the largest paper and pulp mills in the United States were awarded at Duluth, Minn., by officials of the Northwest Paper Company. It will

be located at Cloquet, and will have a daily capacity of fifty to sixty tons a day. Tbe W’eyerhausers are interested in the project. Maryville, Mo., young people were shocked when a telephone message announced that Miss Grace Woifers, youngest daughter of E. C. Woifers of Hopkins, had been drowned while at a picnic near Corning, lowa. Miss Grace was formerly a student at St. Mary’s Seminary, Galesburg, 111. She was about 2i years old.. An accident which caused the death of two persons and seriously mangled and maimed seven others occurred twelve miles west of Cass laike, Minn. A construction train With 100 bridgemea and laborers engaged in the extension line of the Great Northern Railway tA.Fosston struck an obstruction on the tracks. Four flat cars with their loads of human freight were derailed. Mrs. Jane Fish of Georgetown, Colo., who was, in a preliminary examination at Silver Plume, charged with poiaoning her husband, Gaylord Fish, on Dec. 6 last, was discharged. Mrs. Fish was formerly Miss Jane Ambrust of Kansas City, and married Gaylord Fish there while she was a member of the Salvation army. Mrs. Fish was arrested at the instance of the Woodmen of the World, In which order her husband held insurance in her favor. The fast mail train on the Santa Fe road was partially wrecked about three and one-half* miles west of Emporia, Kan., when the driving rod on the right side of the engine broke, and the sudden jerk snapped off the driving rod on the other side. In a moment the flying rods had made kindling wood of the cah. Fireman Charles Foley of Topeka was crushed to a pulp, hardly an unbroken bone remaining in his body. Engineer James Itolo remained at his post and succeeded in turning off the steam, and thus saving the train.

SOUTHERN.

A hurricane of unusual severity swept the gulf coast of Florida. The storm bad all the characteristics of a genuine West Indian cyclone. It was first reported at Tampa, where it grazed the coast, but caused sufficient wind to detain steamers in port. John Wesley Lewis, a young farmer residing near Pittsboro, Ala., lately separated from his wife. The other afternoon he armed himself with a shotgun, went to the house she occupied and murdered her. Lewis then went to Hatchechubbe creek, where he stood ou the edge of the stream and placing the muzzle to his head, blew his own brains oat. His body fell into the creek. The tender of the north-bound accommodation train from Bloeton, on the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, jumped the track at McAdory switch, fifteen miles from Birmingham, Ala., the mail caT and two coaches following, and plunged down a twenty-foot embankment, rolling entirely over twice. There were 100 passengers on the two coaches. William F. Tegner of Elyton, Ala., was killed, and ten persons were seriously injured. Dr. E. Heation and Sheriff Henry Curry of Macon, two of the leading men in that section of Missouri, fought a duel the other morning on a Wabash train. It is believed that both are fatally injured. There lias been bad blood between, the two men for some time. They met on the train by accident and words passed when each drew a revolver and began firing. There was a panic in the coach, men and women crawling beneath the seats while others made a rush for the doors. It was with great difficulty that several women were prevented from hurling themselves from the windows. No attempt \\as made by passengers or crew to enter the car until after the firing ceased. Both men wore iyi:|g in the aisle, fatally wounded, it is believed. Curry was shot twice nud Heaton three times. Curry was removed from the train at Lancaster, while the doctor was taken off at Glenwood. The best medical attention was secured and a late report says that there is but slight hope of the recovery of either. A double shooting affray occurred at Weigel’s brickyard in the western part of Little Rock, Ark., in which W. It. Bishop, a white convict, and Giles Hudson, one of the wardens, lost their lives. P. Eulgum, one of Weigel’s guards, shot Bishop for some act of insubordination, killing him instantly. V. A. Toots,"another guard, who is the son of Judge Theodore I'. Potts of Logan County and at present a member of the Arkansas legislature, hastened to the headquarters of Warden Hudson to tell him of the shootThe lie passed between Potts and Hudson and Potts tired four shots at the latter, killing him. By this time ’the wildest excitement prevailed in the camp and Coroner Young wns sent for. He reached the place just as Ftilgum and Potts A’ere hastening away. The coroner grabbed a guard’s shotgun and pistol and went after the men, overtaking them about half a mile away. Potts threw away his two drawn pistois just as the coroner was in the act of shooting and both men were arrested and placed in jail.

FOREIGN.

Ex-Empress Eugenie is reported to be seriously ill at Paris.

The correspondent of the London Daily News at Odessa gives, under reserve, a report that the Russian charge d’affaires at Pekin, M. Pavloff, will soon be removed, and he regards it as indicating a Russian backdown.

El Epoca of Madrid states that the police are investigating an anarchistic plot against the life of a high political personuge which was to have been carried out upon the occasion of the anniversary of the assassinntion of Senor Canovas del Castillo.

At Paris, Le Temps says the United States has notified the French minister for foreign affairs, M. Delcasse, that it desires to enlarge the reciprocity treaty by including new products. France, the paper adds, has accepted the suggestion and the negotiations on the subject will be opened. 1

George N. Curzon, the parliamentary secretary for the foreign office in London, has accepted the office of viceroy of India, in succession to the Earl of Elgin. Mr. Curzon married Miss Mary Leiter, the daughter of L. Z. Leiter of Chicago. He was formerly parliamentary under secretary for India.

The London Statist predicts a great wave of American prosperity after the war and active European business in American securities. “Cube,” it says, employment to a vast amount of capital, and the stimulus to industry there will react upon the United States. The investments in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines will particularly benefit railways.” F. W. Beasley of Miles City, Mont., has

returned to St Michael’s after prospecting fourteen months along the Siberia* coast In company with Louis SpitcheL They were ordered out of the country by the Russians and Darrowly escaped imprisonment. They bring news of the imprisonment of six Americans in a convict settlement 300 miles interior from East Cape. Beasley says that lie learned this from a Russian official. The Russian said the men had been arrested in 1896 for persistently violating the laws prohibiting prospecting, and were sentenced to long terms in the mines of Siberia. The following message regarding the revolution in Guatemala has been received in San Francisco from a friend and supporter of Gen. Morales, now at Tampachula: “Prospero Morales is at San Marcos. Quezalteuango favors the revolution. We are on the way to Ocos. — Miguelin.” Morales is said to have 5,000 Remington rifles and 700 men. Details of the revolt are difficult to obtain, as telegraphic communication is interrupted. Morales is represented to have little means of his own, but he is supported by wealthy men in the liberal party. There is believed to be an understanding between Jose Leon Castillo and Morales, both of whom are candidates for the presidency, (hat the one who has the strongest following shall receive the other’s support. What they are bent on is the defeat of Cabrera.

A dispatch from Pekin to a London news agency says: “Efforts are being made by the British colony at New Chwang, in conjunction with the Japanese, to obtain concessions for the neighborhood as a proposed railroad terminus. The matter has been referred to the local Tautai (the ruler of two or more departments of a province united in a Tan), whose dilatoriness in the matter is declared to be due to Russian bribes. It js impossible to overestimate the importance to the English of obtaining a proper footing in a region where already Russian Influence preponderates. A great proportion of the New Chwang trade is in American goods, and this fact renders the co-opera-tion of the United States minister and his support of the British demand necessary, as the gravity of the situation is undoubted. Letters have been received from leading British merchants in North China confirming the reports of the uneasiness prevailing among the Chinese, who regard the issue between Russia and England aa likely to decide the future of China.” Information has been received in Washington from London through private channels to the effect that the Indian mints are to be reopened to free coinage, and the assertion is made that this will occur at an unexpectedly early date. The report of the Indian commission is to be published before the Ist of September, and this is expected to throw some light upon the details of the matter. The announcement that the important steps of reopening the mints hill take place comes from a source which is usually reliable. There is a strong effort to have the ratio changed from 16 to 1 to 22 to 1, and it is asserted that a willingness to assent to this change has been evinced by both the United States and France. The establishment of a ratio of 22 to 1 would have the effect of increasing the present price of silver, but it would, on the other hand, probably prevent forever the restoration of the ratio of 16 to 1. There is some disposition to doubt the accuracy of the information, but this doubt appears to arise largely from the fact that it is unexpected.

IN GENERAL.

It is estimated that the salmon pack for the season of 1898 on the Columbia river will be 100,000 cases below the average. The steamer Hiawatha, which went out in search of bodies from the Bourgogne, put into Canso, N. F., having found thirty bodies and buried them. She sailed again to continue the search. Dun's weekly trade review says: “Prospects of peace stimulated many kinds of businesg. In spite of records, the impression prevails that delay and hesitation have legitimately resulted from war, and larger contracts are, in fact, coming forward for iron products, with a better general demand in most industries. A few labor troubles only call attention to the fact that this season has been remarkably free from such hindrances. In spite of a promise of 700,000,000 bushels of wheat this year the price is 2%c higher for the week. The disposition of farmers to hold back their wheat for prices more like t tkose obtainable recently accounts for receipts 36 per cent smaller than last year. The visible supply is extremely low, but exports at the present rate throughout the year would have little lifting power if the crop is about 300,000,000 bushels more than home needs for seed and feed. Failures for the week have been 196 in the United States, against 237 last year, and 21 in Canada, against 29 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats. No. 2,20 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c: corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. Bt. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; Oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, :34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 44c to 46c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,45 c to 47c; clover seed, $3.20 to $3.30. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 84c to 86c; corn, No. 8,33 cto S4c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 29c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c; barley, No. 2,43 cto 45c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extira, $5.00 to $6.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, SB.OO to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 80c; corn. No. 2,88 cto 89c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 83c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs. Western, 14c to 15c.

GREAT WHEAT YIELD

LARGEST HARVEST IN NATION’S HISTORY PROMISED, Spring; Output, It la Stated, Will be 330,000,000 Bushels—Recent Rains Here Helped Corn—Capital of North Dakota Destroyed by Fire. To Eclipse “Bumper Crop." According to reports, the largest wheat crop in the history of the United States will be harvested within a fortnight The winter wheat yield, which aggregates front 375,000,000 to 400,000,000 bushels, will be increased to the exteqt of nearly 350,000,000 bushels from the spring wheat region. The “bumper crop” of 1891 will be eclipsed this year by 1Q0,000,000 bushels from present indications. Railroad officials who have made extended trips through the spring wheat and corn growing States make optimistic reports. State crop reports received from Kansas and Michigan say: “A bumper crop is here.” The corn crop is slightly below the average because of the wet June and dry July weather in the corn region. But the great bulk of wheat which this country will have for home consumption and export is regarded as more than sufficient to make up for the corn shortage. Furthermore, the large stock of corn on hand is thought to be more than enough to make np for the lack of production. Another feature of the general crop situation is the threatened reduction of the surplus of wheat exported from Russia, which will compel European markets to call for probably more than tbe average annual supply of 150,000,000 bushels from this country. A comparison of the wheat yields in this country since 1890, with the yield of the present year, tbe spring wheat crop being estimated, is as follows: Bushels. Bushels. 1800 390,282,000 1895 467,103,000 1891 611,780,000 1896 427,684,000 1892 515,949,000 1897 580,149,000 1893 396,132,000 1898 700,000,000 18P4 460J267.000 The Kansas State crop report for August shows that the yield there will be the second largest on record, or 60,000,000 bushels. The Michigan crop report, also received, says the wheat yield of the State will be the largest since 1892. The average yield will be the largest since 1892. The average yield per acre in Michigan is reported as 17.96 bushels, and the estimated crop is 30,700,000 bushels, against 32,700,000 in 1892. The wheat is likewise of an excelleht quality. Harvesting of spring wheat has begun in the southern portions of the Northwestern States. Tim total estimated yield in Minnesota ana Dakota this year is 210,000,000 bnshels, as against 143.000,000 last year. The “bumper crops” in Oregon and Washington are regarded as more than enough to make up for the bad crops in California. Corn Estimate. Thoman estimates the total corn yield this year at 1,825,000,000 bushels. In the August report corn is shown to have suffered during the last month and a reduction of nearly 8 per cent since July 1 is noted. According to the latest reports the yield of corn in Kansas and Nebraska will be from five-eighths and three-fourths of a full crop. The Missouri crop report for August makes the condition of corn better and the average yield of wheat per acre is placed at ten bushels. lowa also enters the field this year with a great wheat crop, but Minnesota and the Dakotas are ahead in spring wheat production. Late rains not alone have improved corn prospects, but have increased the wheat yield.

CITY OF BISMARCK IS IN RUINS.

Capital of NortJi Dakota Almost Wiped Oat by Fire. Bismarck, N. D., was gutted by fire the other night as never before in its history. The greater portion of the business section of the town was wiped out, the Sheridan hotel being one of the few important buildings lefts standing. The flames also invaded the residence district, doing immense damage. The total loss will run into hundreds of thousands, and may reach the million mark. The fire originated in the agent’s office of the Northern Pacific depot, and almost as soon as it was discovered the entire building and the immense warehouse of the company were in flames. Inflammable oils and powder contributed to the rapid spread of the flames, and before they could be checked they had spread to a block of brick buildings across the alley, destroying the Tribune, Nare’s hardware store and the entire row. The flames then leaped across the street to the First National Bank building, which melted away in a few minutes. The Central block followed, and then the fire spread to the postoffice, sweeping over the entire block and carrying down the postoffice, the Merchants’ Bank block, the Griffin block and all intermediate frame and brick structures. Kupitz’s store and the greater part of that' block were also burned. The flames also spread north into the residence section and gutted it. The firemen were powerless to check the inroads of the fire, which spread to hundreds of buildings, licking them np as so much waste paper. Every drug store in the city was burned, and all the grocery stores but two or three, two newspaper offices, and the great bulk of the business portion of Re city,with several blocks of residences. The Sheridan House had a narrow escape, but was saved. All the postoffice supplies and fixtures are lost. Many people are homeless. The line of fire extended from the Northern Pacific tracks to Thayer street on the north, and from Fourth to Third street on the east and west. The insurance may cover one-half the loss.

Sir Martin Conway has left England for Bolivia, where he intends to explore the high, group of the Andes, containing the peaks Illimani and Illampu (or Borate). He is accompanied by the Alpine guides Antoine Maquignaz and Louis Pellissier, who made the first ascent of Mount Elias, in Alaska, last year with the Duke of Abruzzi. r w » ;• « ' . ' *■ Mrs. Charles W. Mason of Ellsworth, Me., is exhibiting a full-blown rose, which she declares grew upon an apple tree on her place. On the tree apples are beginning to form. Seeing what she supposed was a belated blossom, Mrs. Mason plucked it, and was astonished to find that it was not an apple blossom at all, but a rose. In proof she exhibits the flower. On the basis of the taxes paid, it is estimated that the beer consumed in Philadelphia last year would provide an average of about fifty glasses for each inhabitant ,

WAR HISTORY OF A WEEK.

, Thursday. Third Illinois regiment landed with Gen. Brooke at Arroyo and engaged In skirmishing with the Spaniards. Gen. Miles formed practically a new plan of campaign in Porto Rico, his object being to bem in tbe Spanish troops at Albonito, as well as to avoid mined roads. In consequence of an appeal by the commanding officers in our army at. Santiago, tbe President ordered Gen. Shatter's troops brought home as soon as possible. , Sagasta summoned political leaders to a conference in Madrid, presumably to disenss the peace terms. All information as to the progress of the negotiations withheld from the people of Spain. Friday. Captain Edgar Hubart, Eighth Infantry, died of brain fever at Ponce, Porto Rico. Cape San Juan, Porto Rico, captured without opposition and the American flag raised. A schooner and a sloop captured as prizes. Sagasta issued orders to the Spaniards in Porto Rico not to resist the Americans to the utmost. He realized that San Juan must fall and he would avoid unnecessary loss of life. Iron ore importers benefited by a change in the eastern Cnba tariff decreed by tbe cabinet. The export duty on iron repealed and a cargo tax of 20 cents a ton one way, 10 cents both ways, and no charge for vessels in ballast, ordered put in force. Saturday. The Spanish erniser Maria Teresa floated. The order dismissing the Michigan naval reserves from the service revoked by Secretary Long. The Spanish cabinet decided to accept without change the terms of peace offered by America, the Queen Regent also assenting. Camp McCaila, held by marines since the first invasion of Cnba near Santiago, abandoned. The camp was burned and the marines returned on board ship. Guayama, Porto Rico, occupied by the Third Illinois and Fonrth Ohio regiments under Gen. Haines, after a sharp engagement in which four Ohio men were wounded. Sunday. The tug Hudson captured a Spanish sloop and sank another off Cardenas. The rough riders, the First regular cavalry and Cummings’ battery sailed from Santiago for Montauk Point. General forward movement of the American army begun from Ponce, Porto Rico, the objective point being San Juan. Secretary Alger decided to have the bodies of the soldiers who were killed or who died of disease at Santiago brought to the United States. Monday. Sampson’s report on the work of his fleet given to the public. Spain’s reply to the American peace terms reached Washington. Gen. Shatter reported eleven deaths and many new cases of fever in his army. Three transports loaded with men from Gen. Shatter's army sailed for the United States. Gen. Shatter in dispatches to Washington disclaimed responsibility for the suffering of sick soldiers on the transports Concho and Seneca. Secretary Long of the navy wrote a letter containing an elaborate defense of Rear Admiral Sampson against the numerous criticisms that have been made upon him. Tuesday. The monitor Monterey and its collier Brutus arrived at Manila. Spaniards at Guantanamo laid down their arms pnd surrendered to Grig. Gen. Ewers. Spain accepted President McKinley’s peace terms. Certain representations made regarding Cuba which were not accepted. Gen. Ernst’s brigade captured Coamo, Porto Rico, after a lively fight, in which seven Pennsylvania volunteers were wounded. Two hundred Spaniards were taken prisoners.

Wednesday. The Fifth Illinois were embarked at Newport News for Porto Rico, but received orders to disembark. Orders issued removing a number of regiments from the present camps in the South to new camp grounds. Reports reached Santiago that Garcia had captured Gibara, and that he was besieging Holguin with BJXX) men. Said that Japan has made an offer to aid the Philippine insurgents with arms and ammunition in case America abandons the islands. Gen. Merriam, at San Frqncisco, was ordered to assemble transmits as rapidly rs possible to embark the 5,000 men now on the const for Manila. A system of tariff rates for Cuban ports in possession of the United States was formulated by the War Department. United States importers or exporters not exempted. Protocol covering the peace terms of the United States was agreed upon by M. Cainbon, representing Spain, and President McKinley. It was telegraphed to Madrid. Admiral Dewey wrote to Congressman Livingston of Georgia expressing gratitude for his introduction into Congress of the resolution thanking Dewey and his men for their victory at Manilla,

Notes of Current Events.

Mrs. Eliza Guy, colored, aged 102 years, died at Wyoming, Del. Strong efforts will be made to stimulate the raising of cottbn in Hayaii. Gertrude Hall, member of a suicide club, killed herself with gas in New York. Young King Alfonso of Spain has regained his health, the measles having left him. Samuel D. Haynes of Maine, a life convict and former incorrigible, has become a devout Christian. 1 Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii will seek to recover from the United States crown lands and a large sum of money. The shipment of green fruits from California this season exceeds that of 1897, notwithstanding there is a shortage in the adduous fruit crop. The mining town of Eveleth, Minn., is to be removed to the top of a mountain, several thousand feet from its present location, a vein of valuable ore having been discovered under it.