Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 5, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 15 April 1896 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA, Tto News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. ■ -- The Proceedings of the First Session# In the United States senate on the 6th the entire day was spent on the post offlco appropriation hill, but It was not completed. A message announcing the action of the house on the Cubrn resolution was received....ln the house the Cuban resolutions, which originated In the senate, were passed by a vote 0f'244 to 27, and the river and harbor bill ($10,330,660) was also passed. A bill was favorably reported to tax and brand filled cheese. In the United States senate on the 7th the post office appropriation bill was passed. A joint resolution was Introduced providing for an amendment to the constitution to limit the veto power of the president boas to make It competent for the two houses to pass bills over a veto by a majority v0te....1n the house the time was passed In discussing a bill to fix the standard.of weights and measures by the adoption of the metric system on and after July 1. 1898. In the United States senate on the Bth Senator Turple spoke In favor of radical Action on Cuba, even to the extent of sending a fleet to Cuban waters. Most of the day was given to the Indian appropriation bill, which was not completed. Unanimous consent was secured for faking up, next Tuesday, the resolution for a senate inquiry Into recent bond Issues. A bill was passed granting a pension of SSO monthly to the widow of Maj. Gen. Charles S. Haipllton In the house the bill to adopt the metric system of weights and measures was sent back to the committee on ■coinage,' weights and measures for further consideration. The conference report on,, the agricultural appropriation bill was adopted. After being In retirement for several weeks the tariff-sliver bill was brought forward In the senate on the 9th as a text for a speech by Senator Mantle (Mont.), whp urged that unsectlonal protection should be linked with bimetallism. The naval appropriation bill ($31,279,482) was reported —and every pension bill on "the calendar <75 In number) was passed....ln the house the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed and a favorable report was made on the bill for the admission of New Mexico as a state. Mr. Hopkins <I11.) Introduced a reciprocity bill and a r esolution was adopted calling on the state department for information regarding Mrs. Maybtjck, Imprisoned in England. The main portion of the session of tho senate on the 10th was taken up by the Indian appropriation bill, the house proposition abolishing the system of contract schools for children giving rise to a long debate. A favorable report was made on the Jiill providing for a delegate In congress from Alaska. Adjourned to the 13th Tho bouse spent nearly the entire day In general debate on the “fllled-cheese” bill. The fortifications bill ($11,384,000) was reported, as ■was also the bjll to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to Indians holding land by allotments.

DOMESTIC. At Talbotton, Ga., Miss Sallie Emma Owen, a beautiful and wealthy young lady, was shot and instantly killed by Dr. W. L. Eyder, a dentist, because she rejected his suit. William Biggerstaff. (colored) was • hanged at Helena for the murder of Bichard Johnson, champion fighter of Montana. Gov. Drake has signed the anti-cig-arette bill, and the sale of “paper cigars’’ in lowa will hereafter be prohibited. Angered by religious differences, Ben Boehmer killed his wife at McLeansboro, 111., by cutting her throat and hanged his six-year-old boy to the rafters in the stable. He is in jail. A cloudburst in Mulberry Gap, Tenn., drowned Mrs. Ur ah Anderson, aged 70, her daughter-in-law, Oily Anderson, two grandchildren, Charles, aged five years, and Hattie, aged-18 months, and Mary Fleener, aged 19. Discoveries were made of paying quantities of iron and sulphur at and near Mineral Point, Wis. William T. Adams, better known as “Oliver Optic,” the author of books for boys, reached Boston after u trip around the world. Frederick Booth-Tucker, the new coijimtyider of the Salvation Army in the United States, declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States'and toolv but his first naturalization papers-in New York. In Kansas City, Mo., Janies McKinney shot and. killed Nellie Wagner in a fit of jealousy and then killed himself. A’ foot of snow on the level fell in various portions of central New York. Jackson W. Showalter, of New Vo rid, won the chess championship of the United States and a purse of $750 by defeating Emil Kemeny, of Philadelphia. Fourteen buildings in the business section of Yonkers, N. Y., were burned, the total loss being SIOO,OOO. By an explosion of dynamite at the new lladebaugh tunnel near Greensburg. Pa., one man was killed und two were fatally injured. Keports as to the condition of the crops throughout the country show that the season is two weeks late. Jesse Clifford and his wife, living about 17 yiiles from Boston, Ind., were probably fatally assaulted in their home by burglars. The bill passed by the Ohio legislature providing that the heirs of any person suffering death at the hands of a mob may secure damages of $5,000 against the county where the lynching occurs has become a law. By an explosion in powder works at Ogden, Utah, seven men were killed and Beveral others wfere badly injured. The village of Kockfdrd, Mich., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. At Elizabeth, N. J.,' Frank McKinley was killed by a railway in the presence of his wife, to whom he had been married less than an hour before. Jackson Martin, his wife nnej. child wereburned to death at Whetstone, W. Va. The house took fire and the inmates were unable to escape. John Smith, the ex-hired man of the Stone family, three- members of which were murdered at Tallmadge, 0., confessed that he committed the crime because he wa3 discharged by Stone.' The Building Trades council, representing 23,000 men, in session at Pittsburgh, Pa., adopted a resolution favoring a conference committee to settle differences and doing away with strikes.

Fire at Savannah, Ga„ destroyed the building occupied Jby the Savannah Grocery company, the loss being $170,000. Maude and Mary Campbell were burned to death in their hodfe at New Cumberland, W. Va., their clot'he* taking fire from a grate.' The heaviest April dJibw within the memory of the earliest inhabitant fell at Bloomington and other Illinois towns. The cotton mills at Douglassville, Ga., were burned, thu loss being $125,000 ; ra The British ship Blairmore, while riding at anchor in the bay at San Francisco, was struck by a violent squall and capsized and six seamen lost their lives. ‘ Fire destroyed the business center of Lyons, O. At the depot in Millican, Tex., John Brooks shot and killed his daughter, Mollie Brooks, and also shot her lover, A. C. Worrels, as they were about to elope, and then sat down on a box of dynamite, which he exploded and blew himself to atoms. The new St. Louis directory gives that city an estimated population of 611,268, an increase of 145,059 since 1890. The state of Ohio on and after July 1 next will inflict capital punishment by electricity. In central and southern Kansas there is a general movement of tramps toward the mining districts of Colorado. George Owens, an ex-soldier, cut the throat of Cora Barton in Leavenworth, Kan., because she refused to marry him, and afterward committed suicide. It was reported that two whites and 25 blacks were killed in a riot at the polls in Mallet, La. Samuel T. Langdon, who was held in Philadelphia on suspicion o's being implicated in the de&th of Annie J. McGrath, was discharged from custody. Potatoes were selling at two cents a bushel in western New Yqrk, and in some places farmers were giving them away to get rid of them. Harrisoif, Townsend & Cos., carpet manufacturers at Norristown, Pa., made an assignment in consequence of the general trade depression. It was reported that President Cleveland had sent a message to Madrid urging Spain to submit the Cuban question to mediation, and offering the good offices of our government to aid in restoring peace. A non-political tariff convention will be held in Detroit, Mich., May 26, to discuss ways and means for taking the tariff question out of partisan politics and making it a business quesiftn. Hall &.Garrison, manufacturers of picture frames in Philadelphia, failed for $250,000. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 10th aggregated $926,220,255, against $951,976,788 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1895, was 6.2. Capt. James Watts, a prominent citizen and veteran of the late war, was organizing a company at Lebanon, In(l., to go to Cdtta to assist the insurgents. There were 209 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 10th, against 259 the week previous and 207 in the corresponding period of 1895. Crazed by financial difficulties, S. B. Minshall, a prominent insurance man at Pentwal.er, Mich., assassinated William B. O. Sands, a wealthy lumber dealer; then went to his home and killed his wife and three children, and after that blew out his pwn brains. The volume of business has not increased throughout the country nor have prices appreciably advanced since April 1, when the range for all commodities was the lowest ever known in this country. Counterfeit quarters were in cnculation in Elwood, Ind*in large quantities. Arthur Schneider, 20 years of age, was hanged in New Orleans for the murder of Herman Schreder, his rival in love. Capt. John Faunee and his son, Percy, of Washington, were drowned with their crew of seven colored inen by the capsizing of a boat near Cape Henry, Va. The schooner OteHo, which -sailed from Boston February 18 for Savannah, was given up for lost with its crew of . seven men.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The marriage of *ex-President Benjamin Harrison to Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick took place in St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church in New York, Kev. Dr. John Wesley Brown of liciating. Thomas White, one of the oldest stove manufacturers in the country, died at Quincy, 111. In the' Nebraska Ideal elections the issue was saloons or no saloons and high license boards were generally elected. Mrs. U. A. Curtis, aged 60 years, was elected mayor of Citnuiaron. Kan. The state convention of the Webster wing of the republican party was held in Columbia, S. C., and McKinley delegates were elected to the St. Louis convention. The platform demands both gold and silver as standard money. Fifty-two democratic county conventions have bUen held in Missouri and in every one of them resolutions were passed favoring the free coinage of silver. The republicans elected their entire tickets in the towns'of Evanston, Lake View, Jefferson, Cicero, Lake and Hyde Park, and 24 of the 3G aldermen voted for in Chicago. Township elections were held all over Illinois and generally show republican gains. In Wisconsin It. D. Marshall (rep.) was, elected associate justice of the supreme court. Charles B. Landis, of Delphi, was nominated fcs the republican candidate for congress fyom the Ninth Indiana district, and in the Twelfth district the democrats nominated J. M. Eohinson, of Fort Wayne. , Gen. Benjamin Harrison and his bride, formerly Mrs. Dimmick, arrived at their home in Indianapolis from New York. tiugli P. Farelly, of Chanute, was nominated for congress by the democrats of the Third district of Kansas.

In state convention at Salt Lake City the Utah republicans elected delegates to the SL Louis convention and adopted a platform confined almost entirely to protection and bimetallism. Kudolph Kleberg (dem.). of Cuero, was elected to succeed the late W. H. Crane as congressman from the Eleventh Texas district. ‘ / Kobent Littgll, the publisher of Littell’s Living Age, died at his home in Brookline, Mass., aged 64 years. The Oregon democrats in convention at Portland adopted a platform favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one and elected delegates - !*) the national convention instructed to support a free silver candidate for president. The Illinois prohibitionists in convention at Springfield nominated a state ticket with Hale Johnson, of Newton, for governor. The platform favors woman suffrage, free silver, civil service reform, and reaffirms the position of the party on the liquor question. The republicans of the Fifth Nebraska district renominated E. J. Hainer for congress. I At the First district republican convention in Canto, Mo., Maj. C. N. Clark was nominated for congress by acclamation. Thomas H. Tongue was nominated for congress by the republicans of the First district of Oregon on the 34th ballot. Gustavus Koerner, who was lien ten-ant-governor of Illinois in 1852, died at Belleville, aged 87 years. Phillip G. Killian; the union soldier who cut down the confederate flag at Fort Sumt.er, died at his home in Pittaton, Pa., aged 56 years. Ohio democrats will meet in Columbus on June 23 to select delegates to the national .convention. Miss Millie Owsley (colored), aged 103 years, died at Danville, Ky. In session at Portland the Oregon republicans selected delegates to the St. Louis convention for McKinley. The platform declares for both gold and sil'ver and the maintenance of values of the two metals. The Rhode Island repuhlicans-in convention at Providence selected Reed delegates to the national convention and adopted a platfrom in favor of gold as a monetary standard, in favor of a national board of arbitration, and against the free coinage of silver. Gov. John E. Jones, of Nevada, who had been ill in San Francisco for several months from cancer of tha stomach, died in that city, aged 56 years. In the Ninth Illinois district the republicans renominated R. R. Hitt for congress by acclamation. FOREIGN. It wag announced that the sultan of Turkey had issued an order to expel all Christian missionaries from Armenia.’ Fifteen thousand Italian immigrants were about to leave Naples for New York. It was reported that Venezuela was in favor of recognizing the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents. Advices from Cuba say that Spanish soldiers, infuriated by the resolutions of the American senate, shot six sons of an American farmer at Casiguas. Two regiments of Chinese soldiers were blown to pieces by an explosion in a fort at Kiang Gin. Col. John A. Cockerill, tire well-known American newspaper correspondent, died of apoplexy in Ooiro, Egypt, aged 51 years. In the final contests in the Olympiad games at Athens, Greece, the Americans were the winners.

. &TER. The report that the 1 president had sent s communication to Madrid on the Cuban question urging Spain to submit to mediation, and offering the good offices of our government t. aid in restoring peace, was said to be false. C. A. Coombs (colored),aged 112 years, died at his home in St. raul, Minn. Eecords show he was born in 1784. Capt. Uen. Weyler asked Spain for the immediate dispatch of 6,000 cavalry to Cuba, and the minister of war was arranging to send them. The Lexington & Carter Mining company, ow-ning 10,000 acres of land in Carter county, Ky., failed for SIOO,OOO. A terrific wind and snowstorm in the Cripple Creek district of Colorado destroyed property valued at SIOO,OOO. In the vicinity of Denver all railway trains were blockaded by snow. A ' dozen buildings were blown down at G.illett and a number at Altman, Goldfield and Victor. Kepublicans of the Fifth Tennessee district nominated Dr. Houston for ongress. The lowa legislature adjourned sine die. Gov. Drake has called an extra session to meet January 19, 1897, to complete the revision of the code. An explosiofi of giant powder in a mine at Butte. Mont., killed six men. . John Hoefs and his wife were found dead in their beds at Milwaukee. They had been poisoned, but no cause wa3 known for the deed. It was reported at St. Johns, N. F:, that the sealing steamer Hanger was lost with over 200 men. Thomas M. Holt, ex-governor and the wealthiest and most prominent oottoa manufacturer in North Carolinu, died at his home in Haw liiver. A. E. Lane, a Boston leather dealer, failed for $150,000. Oaki, a Japanese cook, fntaHy wounded Miss Minnie Miller, by whom he was employed in Denver, Col., and killed her 12-year-old nephew, Willie Truesdell. Keddyeck Adams (colored) fas lynched by a mob at Senl, Ala., for shooting K. T. ltenfro. Over 1,300 Italian immigrants, 600 of them being penniless, arrived at Ellis Island, N. Y. Washington, April 13, —The senate w-as not in session on Saturday. In the house the filled cheese bill, requiring the manufacturers of filled cheese -to pay a tax of S4OO annually, the wholesale dealers $250 and the retail dealers sl2, was passed. . -

UNQUALIFIEDLY DENIED. No Communication Sent to Madrid on tho Caban Question. Washington, April 13. The statement published in a number of newspapers Saturday morning, purporting to give an outline of a dispatch alleging to have been sent by Secretary Olney to the United States minister at Madrid, proposed mediation on the part of the United States in the Cuban insurrection, has no foundation in fact. The most positive and direct denial that can be put in words can he applied to the story. These statements are made on an unquestionable authority and in such 4erms as to justify an explicit repudiation, not only of the whole tenor and phraseology of the alleged synopsis of the administration’s attitude, but a statement <*f equal positiveness that no such dispatch was transmitted to Minister Taylor. Undoubtedly the president and • Secretary Olney, if not the other members of the cabinet, have discussed the Cuban situation with a view to determining what policy this government should pursue with reference to it. But whatever negotiations, if any, may have been initiated on the subject have not been put on paper in any shape. The president has for some time been accumulating information from official, semi-official and private sources to enable him to form a ju3t conseption of the actual condition of affairs in Cuba. Outside of Havana, at the first class ports of Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Sagua ia Grande and Santiago, we have consular officers of high grade. Not one of these ports has yet been disturbed or menaced by the insurgent forces. Reports from the United States consular officials at these points contain much valuable information, which it is not deemed “compatible with the public interests” to make public at this time, as called for by the recent resolution of the house of representatives. There are also a number of American capitalists in Boston and elsewhere who own Cuban plantations and have their American managers on the island. From these men much confidential informatien has been and is being received. With all these sources for obtaining the facts open to the administration it has never been contemplated at any time to send Gen. Schofield or any other army officer to Cuba to investigate and report. The president and Secretary Olney have felt thalthey were getting at the facts/in a much more satisfactory way than by sending a special commissionejvand when they have received all tjxt information obtainable, and not till then, will there be any consideration of the question as to what action; or whether any action, should be taken on the concurrent resolutions of congress. Washington, April 13.—A careful can-, vass of the house of representatives on Saturday showed a complete cessation of excitement over the Cuban situation. The sympathy of the members is still obviously with the insurgents, but some unexpected circumstance will be necessary' to rouse them to action again. The general expression of opinion on both sides of the chamber was that congress had done its duty by adopting by an overwhelming vote the resolutions declaring that the insurgents were entitled to belligerent rights. Having done this, and the matter now being in the hands of the president, it is deemed better to leave it there. While not openly expressed, there was a tacit admission by many of the conspicuous leaders that the house would be acting unfriendly to the president in adopting a joint resolution of belligerency which it would he mandatory upon him to approve Qr to veto. Democrats generally, who claim to have familiarized themselves with the subject, assert that recognition is purely an executive function and that the house would not he justified >n going further than defining its own position. It was not doubted, however, that if a joint resolution came before the house, it would pass through by a majority much less than that which was given to the - senate resolutions a week ago. It is also believed by members who would oppose such a measure that it could be carried through the house over the president’s veto.

DEATH FOR SIX. E*plosloq ■in a .Montana Mine Results Disastrously. Butte, Mont., April 13. —By an explosion in or near the magazine bn the east 1,100-foot level of the St. Lawrence mine about 4:20 Saturday morning six men lost their lives. They are: Con. G. Lowney, John Quinlan, Ed Shields, James Dwyer, John McVeigh, Patrick O’Hourke. None of the men, as stated at the mines, were married. The magazine is siluated 150 feet east of the shaft. Lowney and Quinlan, it is supposed, had gone to the magazine to make their primers. Just how the explosion occurred is not known, as the only ones in the vicinity at the time are dead. Lowney and Quinlan were undoubtedly killed instantly by the explosion. The other four men were probably suffocated by the foul air caused by the explosion. The bodies of McVeigh, Dwyer, Quinlan and Downey have been recovered. The position of the bodies indicated that the men were running in different directions when the explosion occurred and were evidently aware that it was coming and tried to get away. Will Ignore American Claims. Havana, April 13. —Great interest is felt .here in a report received by the Diario Marina from Madrid to the effect that the Spanish government has decided to pay no attention to claims of American citizens for damages for losses suffered iu Cuba until the United States agrees not to intervene in the Cuban question. * Salvador Asked to Explain. Washington, April 13. —llobert Bonney, an American citizen, was murdered in Sau Salvador March 28 and as a result the state department has de manded the fullest investigation.

THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER. To thicken whitewash, put salt in it. The four King Georges of England all died on the same day of the week. .In the early days of Sir Isaac Pitman’s shorthand crusade the system was assailed on religious grounds. There are more than’2oo lakes within the boqpdaries of Venezuela, one of the largest being 1,600 feet above the level of the sea. The Poe dog of the South Sea islands lives on vegetables and grass, and is highly esteemed by the natives as an article of food. The Eskimos give the doctor his fee as soon as he comes. If the patient recovers he keeps it; otherwise he returns'it to the family. The Hartford Courant claims that the Widow Watson, of Hartford, who did business in that place about 120 years ago, was the first woman editor in this country. The lady was the owner, editor and publisher of the Courant. Home Seekers Excursions. In order to give everyone an opportunity to see the Western Country and enable the home seekers to secure a home in time tp commence work for the season of 1896, tne Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y has arranged to. run a series of four home seekers excursions to various points in the West, North-West and South-West on the following dates: March 10. April 7 and 21 and May 5, at the low rate of two dollars more than one fake for the round trip. Tickets will be good for return on any Tuesday or Friday within twenty-one days from date of sale. For rates, time of trains and further details apply to any coupon ticket agent in the East or South, or address Geo. H. Heaffokd, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111. Oub dangers and delights are near allies, from the same stem the rose and prickle rise.—Shakespeare.

A Spring Trip South. On April 7 atfd 21. and May 5, tickets will be sold from principal cities, towns and villages of the north, to all points on the Louisvillo & Nashville Railroad in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one single fare for the round trip. Tickets will be good to return within twenty-one days, on payment of $2 to agent at destination, and will allow stop-over at any point on the south bound trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., or J. K. Ridgely, N. W. P. A., Chicago, lIL Are You Going to Cripple Creek ? The Santa Fe Route is the most direct and only through broad : gauge line from Chicago and Kansas City to the celebrated Cripple Creek gold mining district. Luxurious Pullmans, free reclining chair cars, fastest lime and low rates. -x Aprofusely illustrated book, descriptive of Cripple Creek, will be mailed free of charge on application to G T. Nicholson, General Passenger Agent, Chicago,, or a copy\may be obtained from any agent of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. “You fairly take my breath away,” murmured the red-aosed man, as he swallowed a clove.—Philadelphia Record. Cheap Excursions to the West andNorth*t ' west. On April 21 and May 5, 1896, the NorthWestern Line (Chicago & North-Western R’y) will sell Home Seekers’ excursion tickets at very low rates to a large number of points in Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, Northwestern lowa, Western Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, including the famous Black Hills district. For full Information apply to ticket agents of connecting lines or address W. B. Kniskekn, G. P. & T. A., Chicago, 111. When two discourse, if the one’s anger rise, the man who lets the contest fall is wise.—Plutarch. Do You Want a Virginia Home ? A fine improved farm of 184 acres, bouse, barns, sheds, Orchard all under fence Three miles from Railroad station. Twenty miles from Washington City. Will be sold with live stock, implements and furniture, Price $3,000. For complete description, rates of fare and time folders, etc., address Fhed L Fee, <Land and Excursion Agent C. & O. Ry., 234 Clark St., Chicago, lIL Some people have moral sentiment who have no moral sense. There is ad stinction and a difference.—N. Y. Mail and Express. All About Western Farm Lands. The “Corn Belt” is the name of an illustrated monthly newspaper published by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R. It aims to give information in an interesting way about the farm lauds of the west. Send 25 cents in postage stamps to the Com Belt, 209 Adams St., Chicago, and the paper will be sent to your address for one year. Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.—Greville. Cheap Railroad Rates. On April 7th, 21st and May sth, 1896. half fac# excursions will be run to points on the Cotton Belt Route in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. For full particularsand copies of illustrated pamphlets write E. W. Laßeaume, G. P. &T; A., - Cotton Belt Route, St. Louis, Mo.

THE MARKETS. New York, April 13. LIVE STOCK—Steers $4 10 @ 4 7744 Sheep 3 60 @ 4 50' Hogs 4 00 @ 4 40 FLOUR—Minnesota Patents 3 75 @ 4 05 Fancy 2 75 @ 2 95 WHEAT—No. 2 Red 76%@ 7674 May 72i/ 2 @ 7314 CORN-No. 2 40 @ 40U ~ 35%@ 3644 OATS —Western 25 @ 29 PORK Mess, Old 900 @9 50 LARD Rendered....! 5 32%® 635 BUTTER—Western Cr’m’y.. 12 @ 18 EGGS 12 @ 12U CHICAGO. CATTLE Beeves $3 50 @4 35 Stockers and Feeders 275 @3 85 Cows and Bulls 1 50 @ 3 8o Texas Steers 3 00 @ 3 90 HOGS-Light 3 65 @4 05 Rough Packing 340 @ 3 60 SHEEP 275 @3 80 BUTTER—Western Cr’m’y.. -14 @ ig Dairy io © ir POTATOES-<per W) 14 © 23'* PORK Mess 865 @8 70 IS fig* uSssteca”::.7- 2 S 1 3 1 L Corn, No. 2...., 2914® 29’Z Oats, No. 2 ... ]9 ® 19 i| Rye, No. 2 3544® 3FM Barley. Good to Fancy., :: 31 @ 37 MILWAUKEE. GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Sp’ng f 6544® 65>4 Corn, No. 3 ..... 2914® Oats, No. 2'White....,..., 21 6x) 21H sye,’5 ye ,’ 39 @ 39’4 •PDurr rley ir NO ’ 2 32 @ 32 '4 riRp“ MeSS '’ *•••• 845 @8 50 LARD 505 ® 515 . DETROIT. GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Red.. $ 7244® 724i • gats. No. 2 White..A 23 @ m‘ Rye, No. 2 37$i@ 38 ST. LOUIS. ' CATTLE—Native Steers $3 60 ® 4 25 Hf J e „ las 2 60 @3 80 OMAHA. CATTLE-Steers... .....* 340 @3 90 *; ow . s 1 50 @ 3 CO SHEKB 300 @ 340

Deafness Cannot Be Cored by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness i caused by an inflamed condition of the nm. cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it if entirely closed deafnesß is the result, and unless the inflammation ■can be taken out and ibis tube restored to its normal con-, dition, hearing will be destroyed forever* nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh* whioh is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Chenet & Cos., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75 c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us when we are suffering under affliction only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.—Rousseau. Rlngllng Bros. Circus. This Great Show will be at Tattersall’s„ Chicago (16th, State and Dearborn streets) from April 11 to May 2. The performance! this year is superior to any thing ever offered! in the amusement line, and is well worth ai special .trip to see. Special arrangements have been made for the comfort and pleasure of out-of-town visitors. Preceding each performance there will be an hour's concert by the Royal Hawaiian Band. The arenic performance embraces three hundred performers, many especially imported from Europe for the great show. There is a wonderful somersault act from a, platform 40 feet high; also Speedy, the original American diver, who plunges 80 feet into a tank of water only three feet in depth. There are trick elephants, rates, sports, and the fine zoological collection for which Kingliug Brothers’ menagerie ia noted. Don’t miss it. The SnEniFF—“You say that fellow who broke jail left a message behind?” The ■ Keeper—“ Yes. sir; here it is on this paper —‘Excuse the liberty I take 1’ ’’—Truth. Half Fare to Virginia and Carolina. April 21 and May 5 Homeseekers’ Excursion tickets will be sold from all points in the west and northwest over the “Big Four Route’ ’ and Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. to Virginia and North Carolina at one fare forthe round trip. Settlers looking for a home in the south can do no better than in Virginia. There they have cheap farm lands, no blizzards, no cyclones, mild winters, never failing crops, cheap transportation and the best markets. Send tor free descriptive-pamph-let, excursion rates and time folders. U. L. Tkcxtt, N.W.P. A.,234 ClarkSt.,Chicago,llL When kings make war no law betwixt two sovereigns can decide but that of arms, where fortune is the judge, soldiers the lawyers and the bar the field.—Dryden. Fair and Fruitful As the West is, it is often malarious. B-ut it is pleasant to know that a competent safeSiard in the shape of Hostetter’s Stomach itters exists, which absolutely nullifies the poison of miasma. Western bound emigrants should bear this in mind. Norshould it be forgotten, the Bitters is a sterling remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, kidney and nervous complaints and rheumatism. Bank President Isaac Lewis of Sabina, Ohio, is highly respected all through that section. He has lived in Clinton Cos. 75 years, and has been president of tho Sabina Bank 20 years. He gladly testifies to the merit of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and what he says is worthy attention. All brain workers find Hood’s Sarsaparilla peculiarly adapted to their needs.’ It makes pure, rich, red blood, and from this comes nerve, mental, bodily and digestive strength. “I am glad to say that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a very good medicine, especially as a blood purifier. It has done me good many times. For several years I suffered greatly with pains of Neuralgia in one eye and about my temples, especially at night when I had been having a hard day of physical and mental labor. I took many remedies, but found help only in Hood’s Sarsaparilla which cured me of rheumatism, neuralgia and headache. Hood’s Sarsaparilla has proved itseff a true friend. I also take Hood’s Pills to keep my bowels regular, and like the pills very much.” Isaac Lewis, Sabina, Ohio.

Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. It. Prepared only by 0.1. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass. Hruvrl’c Pillc are prompt, efficient and * 1 v* a r ills easy in effect. 25 cents. Remember! You are wasting moftey when you buy cheap binding instead of the best. Remember there is no “just as good ” when the merchant something else for Bias Velveteen Skirt Binding. Look for “S.H. & M., M on the Label, and take no other. M your dealer will not supply you we will. Send for samples showing labels and materials, to the S. H. & M. Cos., P. O. Box 699, New York City. A SHINING EXAMPLE of what may be accomplished by never varying devotion to a single purpose is seen in the history of the McCormick . Harvesting Machine Cos., Chicago. For 65 years they have simply been building grain and grass-cutting machinery, and while there are probably forty manufacturers in this line, it is safe to say that the McCormick Company builds one-third of all the binders, reapers and mowers used, throughout the entire world.