Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. ; . ■ RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA

RAILWAYS ARE HOGS.

GET THE LIONS SHARE OF THE WESTERN HARVEST. Something About Pricesof Farm Prodbeta—Pittston, Pa., the Scene of a Fearful Mine Disaster—Six Wisconsin People Drowned While Yachting Why the Farmers GrowL When prices in the Chicago market are called low, as they are at present, it is startling to consider what such prices in Chicago really mean for ca riots of coarse grain on track at country points throughout Nebraska, lowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and Illinois. It is not to be won- ’ dered at that those farmers who can are holding their grain in the hope that values cannot be any” worse for them. Taking representative country points in the States named bids sent out to country shippers Friday night based on the market by various Chicago receiving and commission houses were practically below cost of production.- The prices of No. 2 corn on track at Onawa, lowa, based on Friday’s prices at Chicago, was 15%c per bushel, and on No. 2 mixed oats 9%c, the railroad securing 20c per hundred as freight, and this included the local dealers’ profit of about 1c per bushel. '<■■■ ft Gallows* Grim Harvest. A triple execution took place in the Canon City, Cola, penitentiary Friday. The men who were hanged are Thomas Colt, Elbert Hobie and Dominica Romero, who killed Policeman John Solomon in Trinidad. Carl Albrecht was hanged at Marshfield. Orc., for the brutal murder of his wife last January. She supported him by taking in washing, and, because she did not turn all the money earned over to him he killed her. Irving L. Ford, the negro whose brutal murder of Elsie Kreglo on May 4 last formed one of the most atrocious crimes in the police annals of Washington, was hanged. Ford's crime aroused the greatest indigBatfcm -in Washington, and lynching was talked of. His victim was a young white country girl, about 16 years pf age, who lived with her parents, about a mile from the city limits. The negro cut several ugly gashes across the throat of his victim with a knife. Ford was at first defiant, and denied everything, but finally confessed that he murdered the girl. Ford was about 30 years old, and a 1 man of few*-brutish instincts. , Mantling of National,Le«gue. Following is the standing, of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. 1,. Baltimore ...35 lOPhiladelphia. 29 28 Cleveland ...33 ISPittsburg ...28 27 Cincinnati .. .38 22Brooklyn ... .28 28 Boston ...'.. ?33 21 New Y0rk...23 32 Washington.‘27 '24St. L0ui5....15 42 Chicago .....32 29Louisville ...11 42 ■ ‘ ’V. JV Western League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: I' < 7 IY; It W. L. Indianapolis. 33 18St. Paul 29 26 Detroit 32 20Milwaukee . .26 34 Minneapolis. 32 24Columbus ...22 37 Kansas City ,3O 5 . 2<JG’nd .Rapids.2o 41 t_ • Death Comes to Six, A party consisting of O. A. Risum and wife. Herman Drackery and wife, Louis Gokej*. wife and child of Pulcifer. Miss Emma. Garbrecht erf Shawano, and Miss Margaret Crowe of St. Nazianz. Manitowoc County. Wis., started from Cecil at 5 o'clock Sunday in Risum's yacht, en route for a few days’ outing on the north sliore of Ihe lake. When about three miles from shore the Iroat was capsized by a sudden squall, and the party precipitated into the water. Mr. Risum and Mr. Drackery clung to the capsized yacht for almost five hours, the latter holding the child in his arms, when they were rescued by parties from Cecil, who were attracted by their cries for help. Ninety Miners Buried. While ninety or more miners were at work in the lied Ash vein of the Twin Shaft at Pittston. Pa,, about 3 o’clock Sunday morning, the roof caved in, and it is believed all of the men perished. About forty of the imprisoned men were Englishspeaking miners; the others were foreigners. Among the former were the principal operating Officials, including M. J. Langan, inside superintendent, and J. 11. Linuott, inside foreman. The fatalities may reach 100. More than two-thirds of the victims were married men and leave families.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The failure of three New York firms in the bicycle trade were announced Friday. This started shew with increased vigor the reitorts of cutting in prices on strictly high-grade wheels, really meant to sell for SIOO each. As a matter of fact, it developed that about any SIOO machine on the market could be had at cuts from $lO to S4O if the buyer was persistent. Most important of all is the uudenied statement that the high-grade wheels will come down nest season. The Irish National Federation of Amer lea has issued to its branches in this country a notice of the Irish race convention to be held in Dublin on Sept. 1. The convention is called by the council of the federation in Ireland and the chairman of the Irish party. Its object-as het forth in the eall is to Reconstitute a united home rule party and to satisfy the yearning of the Irish race all over the World for a thorough reunion of the ixditieal forces of Ireland. Each branch of the federation in America is entitled to one delegate to the convention. A letter is published at the City of Mexico from Matias Mexican minister at Washington, resigning iris post on account of. an article published in an otficial journal during the pendency of the Gustemahm question, and which Min later Jlomero felt to lie severe in it* judgment of bis views regarding the projier settlement of that question. Fire broke out in the millinery store of ▲nun Durton at Point Pleasant, W. Va., •nd burned Hoof's Opera House and other stores, shops and dwellings, causing • loss of SIOO,OOO, with but little insurance.

EASTERN.

E. H. Gibson, President of the Ondawa Paper Company of Greenwich, N. Y., committed suicide by poisoning. The company failed some time ago and it is alleged that it was then discovered Gibson had used up a number of estates of which be was trustee. After an exhaustive trial lasting oyer three week* a New York Jury Tuesday eat from 1800, for making an actress out •f Mrs. Leslie Carter. This verdict gives

Mr. Belasco over $20,000 ir reality, and is in the nature of a vindication for him •nd his witnesses, as well as a ixAvard for his services. . Tremont Temple, at Boston, Mass., Was the scene Tuesday morning of the opening exercises of the eighth annual'iirfernationsl and thirteenth national Sunday school convention. Some 2,000 delegates, together with many times that number of visitors, representing 140,000 Sunday schools with a total membership of between ten and twelve million pupils, were present when Evangelist Dwight L. Moody appeared on the platforitn to conduct the opening services. It. is now twenty-one years since the first internatioua! Convention was held in Baltimore, though the first national one was held forty-two years earlier, Oct. 3, 1832, in Chatham street chapel, New Y’ork. At the first national convention in York 220 delegates were enrolled, representing Cftecj States.

WESTERN.

. Lyman Trumbull died Thursday, morning at his home, 4108 Lake avenue, Chicago, •aged 83 years. He had been ill a long time. He was one of the most famous jurists in the West. At San Francisco George Stutz, a marine engineer, shot and killed Mrs. Cora Borden in a Polk street lodginghouse and then turned the pistol on himself, sending a bullet into his own brain. In the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, Mo., Judge Adams sustained the motion of Louis Houck to vacate the order of June 5 appointing S. W. Fordyce as receiver of the St. Louis, Kennett and Southern Railroad. Noble Sheparß>.,who was waiting execution in jail at St. Louis for'the murder of Thomas Morton and Lizzie Leahey, escaped from his cell some time between midnight and 4 o'clock Monday morning, crawled some twenty feet through a sewer, climbed to the roof of the gallows on which he Was to hang, thence to the high brick wall surrounding the jailyard, -and their to the street. Therels. no d miht that he was aided by friends on the outside, and the jail authorities and the police are trying to unravel the mystery of the escape. Sunday morning the court house in Hoxie, Sheridan County, Kan., was burned to the ground arid all of the records, of the Registrar of Deeds and County Treasurer destroyed. The safes had been both opened, and the records taken out, opened and piled on the floor in such a

manner that they won 1,1 be sure 16 be destroyed. There was SBOO. in the Treasurer’s safe, which is gone. The County Clerks’ safe was not touched and his records were saved. It will cost Sheridau County about $20,000 to repair the loss and put the records where they were. No clew has been found to the perpetrators of the deed and the excitement is high. After many vicissitudes during the period of growth the State of Kansas has produced an eminently satisfactory crop of wheat. From returns furnished from every county in the State, the total yield is 43,000,000 bushels. That is almost double the quantity produced in the same ‘State the year previous. It alsd‘exceeds the average yield of the last five years, which include the phenomenally heavy crop of 1892. It is 9,000.000 bushels more than the season- of 1894-95 at the four principal winter wheat markets and i 11,000,000 bushels in excess of tbe quantify reported at the same four principal winter wheat markets since last Jujy to the present date. The production of jvhegt in Kansas, as officially estimated in the appended table, was as- Tollows; I$9T, 54,866,000 bu.; 1892. 70.83L000 bu..; 1893, 23.252.000 bu.; 1894. 35,315,000 bu.< 1895, 22,1920,000 bw. ■ Joseph K. C. Forrest is dead. . For a period greater in duration than that of any other man lie had done editorial work on the newspapers of Chicago. Few men were better known than he.- In a city where his employers could have passed unrecognized any time these twenty years, Mr. Forrest’s lyalks on the street had been continuous processions through crowds of friends. Of late years Air. Vorrest had been employed on the Daily News, where his occasional articles over the odd signature of "Now or Never” were the best exponents of that older school of journalism, which he always adorued. The frivolous skipped those articles after a first reading. But the settled older fellow, with strong convictions and a positive love for trjie terms, read them and enjoyed and indorsed them. But he was an old newspaper man before there was any Daily News. It is said Jo Forrest named the Tribune He certainly helped start that paper. And even before that he was a professional, if not a veteran, for he had done much excellent work on the Journal. Ever since 1840 he had been actively engaged iu newspaper work in Chicago.

WASHINGTON.

The Navy Department filially accepted the battleship Oregon from the builders, the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, who have made good all [defects in the protective deck. The plan of field operators of the geological survey for the seqson of 1896-97 has been completed and approved by the acting Secretary of the Interior. Five geological parties will work throughout the summer in the New England States and eastern New York, five in the Appalachian region, two in the cdastal plain from the mouth of the Hudson to the Gulf of Mexico, five in the interior or Mississippi region, four in the Rocky Mountain region and eight In the Pacific region. Half the $50,000 appropriation for the hydrographic work will be devoted to the gauging of streams and determination of the water supply of all parts of the United States under the direction of Expert Newell. The Government Forestry Commission, organized to make an investigation of various forestry problems and outline ap administrative policy on the subject, will devote the summer to its work. The commission consists of Prof. Charles Sargent of Harvard College, Prof. M illiam H. Brewer of Yale College, Dr. Wolcott Gibbs. Newport, R. 1., president of the National Academy of Sciences; Prof. Alexander Agassiz of Cambridge, Mass., Gifford Pincbot, New York;- Arnold Hague of the geological survey, Washington. and Gen. Henry L. Abbott, L. S. A. (retired). All except Dr. Gibbs and Prof. Agassiz, who may join the pilrty later in the season, and Prof. Plnchot, who has been engaged in the work in Montana for a fortnight or so, will meet in Chicago next month and immediately proceed together to the field. The investigations will begin in Montana and later will be extended through Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California. Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado." Prof, Hague will confer with Prof. Sargent this week and the detailed plans of the expedition of the scientific body will be formulated at .Chicago. The commission will return late in the autumn and as soon as possible submit its report.

FOREIGN.

The Spanish senate, by a vote of 88 to 44, bps rejected the motion made by Senator Coma* during the discussion of the Auianca incident, providing for an amendment to the royal address demanfiint that the protocol of 1877 with the United States be renounced in view of the inequality of the -rights of Spanish and

American citizens under the present conditions. ! The first official report that has reached Washington of the great Japanese earthquake and tidal wave came Monday to the State Department from Mr. Herod, Secretary of our Legation at Tokio, in the following brief cablegram, which; however. makes the calamity out to be much worse than heretofore reported : "Deaths caused by tidal wave estimated at>over 30,000 in reports up to date. No mortality among Americans.” The London St. James Gazette says that Great Britain and the United States have agreed to publish simultaneously, within a fortnight, all the arbitration correspondence exchanged between the governments of the,two countries. The publication of this matter, it appears, has been delayed while awaiting the arrival in London of Secretary Olney’s latest communication, which was handed to Sir JqJian Pauncefote, the British ambassador at Washington, early in the week, and which is in Mr. Olney’s incisive style and forms .one of the most important documents of the series.

The failure of Spain to conquer the Cuban patriots, besides being proved by the continuous defeats of the troops ,in the field of battle, the lack of money in her treasury, aud the poor credit she enjoys, is also plainly seen by the supreme effort made in seridiug money, men, and war material to Cuba since the beginning of the struggle with such poor success. In March, 1895, Spain sent to Cuba $500,000; in April, 1 $400,000; in May, sl,521,000; in June, SI,SOO.tXX); in July, $700,000; in August, $1,600,000; in September, $1,400,000; in October, $700,000; in November, $1,700,000; in December, $4,000,000; in January. 1896, $2,000,000; in February, ,$3,000,000; a total of $19,321,000. From March, 1895, to April 10, 1896, Spain has sent to Cuba 40 generals, 562 chiefs, 4,768 captains and lieutenants, 3,396 sub-lieutenahts. 112,560 corporals and soldiers, 143 cannon, 150,111 rifles, 5,000 bayone' r, 23,124 cases of canister shot, 61,878.368 cartridges, and 72,326 kilograms of powder. These figures are taken from E! Liberal,one of the first newspapers of Madrid. The filibustering steamer Commodore was fired on in port at Tampa, Fla., Thursday afternoon by the revehue cutter McLean. The Commodore weighed anchor and proceeded witnout reporting. The McLean signaled it to stop, but no attention was" paid to the signal and the second was treated the-same. -The McLean then fired a blank cartridge at the

Commodore., but. this, failed...as..did a second blank shot. The McLean then fired a solid ball at the Commodore, which had continued to show a clean pair of heels. The shot missed the Commodore about seven feet and brought it to suddenly. It was then boarded by a party from the McLean and everything was found all right. No cargo of any kind being aboard, the Commodore was allowed to proceed. When abopt five miles down the bay two sloops put out from the cover of shore and boarded it. In a little while after this the Spanish consular agent arrived on the scene, and when the Commodore had gotten twelve miles away the McLean started in pursuit. It speeds nine miles an hour, while the Commodore goes fourteen.

IN GENERAL

Bradley C. Newell, the Vermont “healer,” is at New York on his way to England, where, it is said, he will treat, the Princess of Wales. At Chatham, Ont., during political excitement a balcony of the Royal ‘Exchange Hotel collapsed while a crowd 1 stood underneath. Many persons were severely an I probably fatally injured. During the political excitement at Chatham, 'Ont., a balcony of the Royal Exchange Hotel collapsed, while a crowd stood underneath. Fourteen persons were severely and probably fatally in jured. Returns from Canadian elections show that the Government is badly beaten, and Laurier will have a majority in every province of the Dominion except New Brunswick. His working majority in the new House over all parties will exceed thirty. In New Brunswick Finance Minister Foster has been defeated, and Minister of Justice Dickey is also behind. The latest returns from the Province of Quebec show that that province will stand:: Liberals, 50; Conservatives, 15. Returns from the Canadian elections show that the- Conservatives have been totally routed. Out of a total of 213 in Parliament, the Liberals have a majority over all of 22. The victory was widespread and universal. It was not confined to any district, for from the Atlantic to the Pacific the cyclone swept. It was not a Quebec victory, for in no province has Premier Tupper a majority now, save in New Brunswick. The slaughter began in the provinces by the sea. right at the'homes of the strong men. of the Conservative party. Where seats were not overturned majorities were decreased. St. John City, whose claims as a winter seaport have been ignored repeatedly, put in two Liberals in place of two Tupperites. The lumbermen, the agriculturists, the fishermen, changed their votes in every riding. It was the promise of railway subsidies and the wholesale bribes that were dangled before the constituents that enabled the Conservatives to carry two seats in Prince Edward Island, which is the only province in which gains were made.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 56c to 57c; corn. No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats, No. 2,15 c to 17c; rye. No. 2. 32c to 33c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; new potatoes, per bushel, 25c to 40c; broom corn, common to choice, $25 to SSO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2,59 cto 60c; corn. No. 1 white, 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 21c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 61c to 62c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2,31 c to 33c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 lo $3.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,62 cto 64c;-corn, No. 2 mixed. 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2. 37c to 38c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50. to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75: sheep. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye. 32c to 34c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 64c; corn. No. 2 y-llow, 27c to 29c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,31 cto 33c; clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring. 56c to 57c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; barley. No. 2,29 cto 31c; rye, No. 1,32 cto 33c; pork, mess, $6.75 to $7.25. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. ,$3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white. 22c to 23c. New York-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 64c; corn, No. 2, 83c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; butter, creamery, He to 16c; eggs, Western, 10c to 12c.

CANDIDATES GALORE.

HOT TIMES PROMISED AT THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. Chances of Eastern Men for the Presidential Nomination Not Considered Good — Boies of lowa a Slight Favorite Over the Others. A Wide Open Race. From present indications there will be, more excitement to the square inctf* jammed into the Democratic convention at Chicago than ever before in the history of the party. It will be a mighty clash between the silver soldiers of the West and South against the golden warriors of the East This wilt be one feature of the combat Astute leaders on the other side of the fence acknowledge that the fight will be short and bitter, and that the silver legion will rule the roost. Statisticians have figured that the silver delegates will outnumber the others ttvo to one. The feature of the combat which will attract the gaze of the nation, and which will bring out every ounce of fighting stuff In each and-every delegate, will be the free for all struggle for the nomination. No presidential convention in the history the country was ever such an open affair as this promises to l?e. There are more candidates in the field than ever before, and the chance of one man is as good as the next. It would not be a surprising thing to those skilled in the way of politics if some man, the blackest kind of a dark horse, bobbed up at the eleventh hour and swept the convention like a cyclone. Many people expect this to happen. Chairman Harrity, of the national committee, is one of them. That a Western man will gather in the nomination is practically conceded. The South has some hope, but the cooler heads among the Southern leaders say the time is not ripe for a man south of the Mason and Dixon line to head the Democratic ticket, particularly one who wears the Confederate button. But a sturdy fight will be put up for the second place on the ticket, and if the South succeeds in this •

CANDIDATES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

the East will be shut out completely. The West has the bulk of the candidates in the field, as a glance at the following list shows: A Long List. Here are the names of the men who will be pushed by their respective friends for the nomination; Claude Matthews (silver), Indiana. James E. Campbell (the platform), Ohio. John M. Schotleld (the platform). Illinois. Henry M. Teller (silver), Colorado. David Bennett Hill (gold). New York. William E. Russell (the platform), Massachusetts. William Ralls Morrison (the platform). Illinois. Horace Boles (silver), lowa. Robert E. L’attlsou (the platform), Pennsylvania. 'Richard P. Bland (silver), Missouri. J. C. S. Blackburn (silver). Kentucky. Adlai E. Stevenson (the platform), Illinois. John Griffen Carlisle (gold), Kentucky. Richard Olney (gold). Massachusetts. William C. Whitney (gold), New York. John T. Morgan (sliver), Alabama. Many of those in the above list are considered not to have a ghost of a show. Secretary Carlisle’s hopes were blasted by the defeat of the gold force in Kentucky. and the faet that the State delegation goes to the convention as a unit for Senator Blackburn. Of the latter it can be said that he does not take his candidacy too seriously. He is one of the leaders who say that the country is not ready to vote for a man wearing the Confederate button. He is a believer in Horace Boies, and at the present outlook the Kentuckians will get down to business for the lowa man. If the second place on the ticket goes to a Southern man. Senator Blackburn is considered to stand as good a chance as any one. Senator Morgan of Alabama, whose position is much the same as that of the Kentucky statesman, will get a goodly slice of votes on the first ballot, but he is not banking heavily on the nomination. The East’s Poor Show. Ex-Secretary William C. Whitney has refused to be a candidate, although a great many of the Eastern delegates would stand ready to fight for him at the drop of the hat. Senator David B. Hill has currency views which the silverites would never accept and the same can be said of Secretary of State Richard Olney of Massachusetts. The Bay State has a candidate in ex-Gov. William E. Russell, who leans toward gold, but who would probably accept the platform on the currency question. fcx-Gov. Thomas E. Pattison of Pennsylvania, the candidate of William Harrity, chairman of the national committee, is a gold Viau. but would accept the platform. Harrity Is for gold, but believes in standing by the platform first, last and all the time. Hi* chances are believed to be better than those of any other Eastern man, but few of the leaders are betting on the East these days. Campl>ell of Ohio, Boies of lowa, Matthews of Indiana, Morrison of Illinois and Bland" of Missouri are considered to have the best chance, with Boies a slight favorite over the others. Campbell says he is not out for the nomination, but, of" course, will accept, it it comes his way. Bland, Matthews, Boies and Morrison acknowledge they are out for it and their adherents are preparing to make a gallant fight. These four are singularly alike in many ways, representing the sturdy, independent, aggressive, Western type of •san hood.

SILVER AT CHICAGO.

Table Showing the Relative Strength of the Two Forces. All the Democratic State convention! having been held, it is possible now to construct a table showing the relative strength of the two factions of the party at the Chicago convention. It is as follows: Free silver. Gold. Alabama 22 Arkansas T .. .... 16 California ... 18 Colorado :.... 8 Connecticut 12 Delaware .. 6 Florida .... 8 Georgia 26 Idaho 6 Illinois .. 48 Indiana . .30 . .. lowa .....; ... r; 26 Kansas 20 Kentucky 26 Louisiana 16 Maine 12 Maryland . 16 Massachusetts 30 Michigan 28 Minnesota .. 18 Mississippi . 18 Missouri 34 Montana Nebraska -Tvrhnr.v. .*. . .16 — Nevada .." 6 New Hampshire ..... • 8 New Jersey....’... 20 New Y0rk...., 72 North Carolina 22 North Dak0ta..................—6 Ohlo ? 46 Oregon ... 8 Pennsylvania t‘........... .. JB4 Rhode Island 8 South Car01ina.................. 18 .. South Dakota 8 Tennessee 24 . iTexas i 30 Utah 6 Vermont ... 8 Virginia 24 Washington 8 West Virginia 12 Wyoming 6 Territories .12 Totals 564 342 The tables made up by different persons do not agree, for one reason because the vote in some States is divided between the two factions of the party. The foregoing table is compiled on the supposition that the unit rule will prevail in all the State delegations. Another source of disagreement in tables is the territories, all pf which have elected six delegates each, although the call presupposes their

having but two each. If six delegates shall be seated from each territory the strength of the silver vote iu the convention will be increased by just so much. Even in that event, however, the free silver men will not have a two-thirds vote by which to nominate a free silver candidate for President, though they will not fall far short of it. Florida is placed in the gold column because free silver resolutions. were voted down- in the State convention. Claims are made, however,, that the Florida delegates will vote with the silver wing of the party. There will be contests from Nebraska and Texas, but as the silver men will be in control of the convention it may be taken for granted that the silver delegations from these States will be seated.

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

Winter Wheat Harvest About Ended and Corn Lookins Well. Reports as to the of the crops throughout the country and the general effect of the weather on the growth, cultivation and harvest of the same were received at Chicago us follows: The favorable weather conditions of the previous week have continued, under which rapid progress has la-en made in the cultivation of crops, especially corn, and the .harvesting of winter wheat, which is now well advanced in the more north;, erly districts, and is practically finished iu southern sections. Corn has made good progress during the week, ami the general condition of this crop is very satisfactory. It Is now being laid by as far north as Missouri and Central Illinois. In the States of the Central Mississippi and laiwer Mississippi’ Valleys, where during the first halt of May cultivation was much {delayed and the crop very grassy, the fields are now mostly free from weeds. In Texas. Louisiana, and portions of Arkansas and Mississippi corn has suffered front drought, particularly in Texas, where much of the crop is too far advanced to be relieved .by rain. In Texas and Louisiana cotton continues to suffer from drought and complaints of injury from lice are numerous from the eastern portion of the cotton bolt. A marked improvement is reported from Florida. In Arkansas the crop is making slow growth, but is dean and well cultivated. In Missouri it is looking well, but fields are very foul. Cotton is now in bloom over the northern portion of the cotton region. Tobacco planting is about completed and the reports indicate that this crop is in very satisfactory condition. Kentucky. Tennessee and Ohio report good growth during the week. In Southern Virginia tobacco is in bloom and some has been topped in North Carolina.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Col. Francis W. Rhodes, brother ot Cecil Rhodes, has been escorted to the border of the South African republic by Boer officials. The retrial of the case of Roliert F. Kneebs, the American horseman accused of racing a mare under an assumed name, has been set in Berlin. Earl H. Siver, aged 7, and Thomas I. Melville, aged 12, of Russell, 111, were drowned In Opaline creek while picking pond lilies for the celebration of Children s day.

TELLER THEIR MAN.

SILVER PEOPLE URGE HIS NOMINATION. ■ •” . ’ ' ' , ' f A Definition of Their Position Bet Forth in an Address to the Voters of the Countr*y— Views of • Those Who "Bolted.” Silver Men’s Manifesto. The silver men who walked out of the Republican convention, with others of the same faith, have Issued a statement addressed to the people of the United States and the national conventions yet to bo held. They say in part: “There 11 no sanctity in a mere party name, and the mark of decay is set on individual strength in the nation when an absolute rule of a political organization coerces men from the truth for the sake of expediency and establishes an Insincere submission to partisan rule for the sake of power. “There has been growing in this country, and swelling with each recurrence of the national elections, a«great mass of Independent thinkers and voters, which, falling within itself to control, has gravitated between the two great parties. Since 1872 (excepting possibly 18'6) the pendulum has swung from side to side each four years. In 1872 the Republican party elected its President. In 1876 Democracy claimed the election. In 1886 the Republican party elected. In 1884 the Democrats elected. In 1888 the Republicans elected, and in 1832 the Democrats elected. In 1898, until within a few weeks, it has been conceded that the Republicans would elect.” The signers say this is because party promises made were broken to tfie people by party performance. They declare further: “During all this period we have lacked a great constructive administration. It becomes a source of reproach to any man that he should dare to renounce allegiance to an organization.. Men have been expected to submit their views to the dictation of conventions, although It is of common knowledge that conventions have been swayed to the views and declarations not most approved by the mass of people flor for their welfare.” The silver men further declare: “The time has come for the performance pf a duty to the country. Parties may outlive their usefulness, but truth never becomes obsolete. Every generation of free men has a right to affirm the truths of past knowledge and present acquirement, and if the enforcement of those truths shall make necessary a departure from the party organization, the people have this right and will exercise it until the old parties shall return to the truth or new parties be created to enact it Into law.

“We hold that in the great work of social revolution In this country monetary reform is the first requisite, and no policy, however promising in good results, can take its place. The continuation during the next four years of our present financial system will bring down upon the American people that cloud of Impending evil to avert which should be the first thought of statesmen find the first prayer of all patriots. Our very nstltution is at stake. With a rapidly increasing population, with widely swelling demands, the basis of our money Is relatively contracting and people are passing into t. servitude all the more dangerous because it is not physically apparent. “The nation Itself, as to other nations, is losing the sturdy courage which could make It defiant in the face of injustice and Inteznational wrong. From the farmer and tradesman to the Government, there Is an apparent shrinkage from glvjgg offense, lest the vengeance of the offended financial bowers descend. Business must yield some portion of its International rights lest some mighty foreign creditor make a destructive temand.

“Where will all this end if the people decline to assert themselves? The country cannot much longer exist free and independent against all the rest of the world, nor can Its people much longer be free In the noblest sense of the term, If the United States as a debtor nation shall follow the policy dictated by the creditor nations. “Wo produce all the necessaries of life, while other nations consume our products. In the race for existence It Is a constant struggle between the producer and the consumer. Our present system of money deliberately submits to the desire and profit of the creditor nations, leaving us en masse and as individuals a prey to the money gathering and deadly cheapening of the old world. As our debt to creditors abroad Increases on the masses of the nation, the price of human production on the farm and in the workshop decreases with appalling rapidity, exacting more and more toll from our citizens to meet a given demand and holding over their heads the threat of confiscation to meet their obligations, leaving then* bare and defenseless. “The only remedy Is to stop the falling prices, the deadliest curse of national life. Prices never will cease falling under a single gold standard. The restoration of bimetallism by this country will double the basis of our money system. In time it will double the stock of primary money of the world, will stop falling prices and steadily elevate them until they regain their normal relation to the volume of debts and credits In the world. “We have endeavored In a plain way to set this matter before the eyes of our fellowcitizens. We Invoke a union of all men and all parties who believe the time has come for the triumph of justice." The signers then pronounce a eulogy upon Senator Teller and suggest him to all national conventions yet to be held as a candidate for the Presidency. POPULISTS INDORSE TELLER. Issue an Address Calling on All Silver Men to Support Him. As the result of a series of conferences between the committees appointed by the secedtfig silver men of the recent Republican convention and a committee composed of prominent Populists, an address has been issued from the headquarters of the People’s party national committee in St. Louis, advising Populists throughout the country to name Henry M. Teller of Colorado their national standard bearer. Immediately after the silver men walked out of the convention they appointed a committee, of which Charles S. Hartman of Montana, Senator R. F. Pettigrew of South Dakota, O. F. Cannon of Utah and Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho were members, to confer with a similar committee of Populists. That evening at the Planters’ Hotel they met H. E. Taubeneck of Illinois, chairman, Dr. Howard 8. Xfaylor of Chicago and Thomas M. Patterson of Denver, of the national Populist committee, and as a result of that and subsequent conferences the address was issued. Chairman Taubeneck in an interview said: "The seceding silver men of the Republican party and the Populists have, as the result of our conferences, come to a perfect agreement as to the future, and henceforth we will work along the same lines.” He predicted victo»y for a ticket with Teller as its leader.

SILVER MEN CAUTIONED.

Whltncv Say* Free Coinage Plank Will Cnnae Defection*. William C. Whitney has made public a statement in which be defines the political situation, makes his position clear as regards his decision to remain in this country instead of going to Europe, and concludes by saying that he is not a presidential possibility; that he “would not run if nominated aud would not serve if elected.” Shorn of verbiage, Mr. W’hitney’s statement declares that the fight is practically sectional, with the South and West standing for independent free coinage of silver and the East for a. gold standard unless bimetallism can be effected through international agreement. He practically serves notice on the Chicago convention that if a free silver platform is adopted there, the party can with certainty expect large defections in the East. A correspondent says: More time hus seldom been spent over a state document than Mr. Whitney has spent upon this statement. " Weeks ago he prepared it. and he then intended that it should be given to the public before the meeting,ol Ihe Republican national convention. Then came the President’s manifesto, and as a result the statement was called In by Mr. Whitney. It may be said that had President Cleveland remained silent the *old Democrats of the East would have offered much more favorable terms to the silver Democrats of the West. At Toledo, 0., the Snell Cycle Fittings Company announced a shut-down until August. This is the concern in which a strike of M 8 men is now on.

HOPE FOR FARMERS.

PROSPERITY IS IN STORE FOR TILLERS OF THE SOIL. Wheat to Yield Heavily—Total Larger than the Average for Sixteen Years —West Chiefly Affected —Outlook Par- * ticularly Good in Mississippi Valley Comparison of Crop Values, There is hope for the farmers. The year 1896 promisee. to bring them rather better returns for their labor than last year and better than the year before. The wheat crop of the country is sure to be the largest since ■ 1892, and larger than the average of the last sixteen years. This year’s wheat crop is unofficially estimated by the Department of Agriculture at 475,000,000 bushels. This has been ex- > ceeded only six times since 1880. lu millions of bushels the crop was as follows for the years named: 1880 49811889 490 1881 88811890.:.. 399 1882 504 1891 611 1883 40111892 515 1884 ......512 1893 396 1885 .857 1894 . .460 1886 457 1895 467 -188T-.vrrV7...... .456 1896 .475 1888 415 The importance of the wheat crop > to the farmer is not so much in the total yield as in its market value. According to the present outlook, the value of thia year'! wheat crop will greatly exceed that of the last three years. The Department of Agriculture does not presume to estimate the pricey of any commodities in advance of the market, but unofficial information is to the effect that the average value of wheat this year is likely to be about 57 cents, against 51 cents last year, 49 cents in 1894, 54 cents in 1893 and 62 cent! in 1892. Jf the estimate of 57 cenfis far this year’s crop be borne out by the market quotations’’ I ’during "the remainder of the year, the total value of the 1896 wheat crop $270,000,000. The value of the wheat crops of recent years, as given by the Department of Agriculture, is as follows: 1892 ..«322,00CL900| 1895 $238,000,000 1893 .... .213.000:000 1896 279,000,000 1894 226,000,0001

These figures seem rather small compared to those of 1891, when the total value of the wheat crop was $513,000,000, and .when the value of the corn crop rose io < ihe_enormaua..totaLoX..sß^6.QQQr.... 000, the greatest value ever known for that crop in this country. Though 1896 cannot by auy possibility be such a "boom” year as 1891 was, nor yet quite as good as 1892, it promises to yield much better results for the farmers than ’93* ’94 and ’95. The wheat outlook is particularly good in the Western States, taking them as a whole. Encouraging Harvest Reports, Reports from the winter wheat harvest, now is progress, are very encouraging. The' wheat acreage is given by the Department of Agriculture as follows: WINTER STATES. California 3,011.000 Kansas 2,684,000 Ohio 2,422,000 Indiana ‘4294,000 Illinois 1,906,000 Missouri 1,418,000 Pennsylvania 1,239,000 Michigan 1,202,000 Other States.... 6,618,000 Total winter area. .. .22,794,000 Total last year. 22,609,000 SPRING STATES. Minnesota 3,200,000 North Dakota.:. 2,530.000 South Dakota...: 2,463,000 Nebraska 1,224,000 Other States.... 2,408,000 Total spring area 11,825,000 Total last year 11.438,000 The net increase in the combined acreage is 572,000 acres, or the total of 34,619,000 for 1896. against 34,047,000 last year. The condition of spring wheat indicate! a prospective yield that closely approximates a full or normal crop, the average for the country being 99.9 per cent. The average for the year 1895 was 97.8. Averages for the principal spring wheat States are as follows: Minnesota 92 South Dakota 11l Wisconsin 110 North Dakota 103 lowa 103 Washington 86 Nebraska 105 Oregon 96 The percentage of the combined winter and spring wheat acreage is 101.7, and the condition of all wheat is 87.6. As yet the Department of Agriculture has no official returns on the corn crop, but unofficial advices indicate a normal crop, probably equal to last year's large yield of 2,151,000,000 bushels. Prices are stiffening up a trifle, and the outlook for a greater total value than last year is counted good. The outlook for oats, rye and barley is good, and in the Southern States there is a renewal of confidence in the future on account of the fine outlook for cotton. » *

STOLE TO GRATIFY THEIR VANITY

Two Girls Who Have Brought Disgrace Upon Their Family. Georgiana and Florence Brock, aged respectively 20 and 12, are the extremely handsome and Innoceut-appeariug daughters of Henry Brock, the head of a New York commercial agency. They have been arrested for stealing $4,000 worth of

GEORGIE BROCK. FLORENCE BROCK.

gowns and laees froiju the handsome row of houses in which the Brocks live in New York. The roofs of the fourth floors down the whole row are joined, so it was an easy matter for the two sisters to enter the windows of any house in the row. The case is most' remarkable on account of the prominence of the family, and the fact that It was not necessary for the girls to steal to replenish their wardrobe. The parents are heartbroken over the affair. The friends of the family say it was only a girlish freak, but the police claim that the girls are skilled thieves,and lied brazenly when confronted with the evidence of their guilt.

Told in a Few Lines.

The Theosophical Society of America has resolved to undertake a propagandist tour of the world. 'i'he executive committee of the Western Union Telegraph Company has recommended the quarterly dividend of 1% P* r cent. A bill has been introduced in Congress for the establishment of a home for disabled soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies at Eureka Springs, Ark. There is a new “Jim the Penman” at work in New York, to the terror of the bankers. A number of banks have taken in bills that have been cleverly raised from $2 to |5. Prof. L. L. Diche, of Peary expedition fame, the Kansas University naturalist, has left for an extended trip to Alaska. It is said be will make preparations for another trip to the north pole.