Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. ' ~~ GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

SPAIN MAY ACCEPT IT

UNITED STATES MAY YET ARRANGE CUBAN PEACE. Members of the Administration Think Our Good Offices Will Not Be Refused —End of the Nicaraguan RebellionFigures for a Deep Water Channel. An Optimistic View. Spain may accept the good offices of the United States as to Cuba after all. A member of the administration, who is known to-have been ih cdnferehce with officials of the Spanish legation in Washington, said there was now at least a fair prospect that Spain would accept our tender of help. At the time Minister Woodford was sent to Madrid it was believed by the State Department that Spain would reject our offer. Now the prevailing belief is that Spain will accept, if not fully, at least sufficiently to afford a basis for future negotiations. The optimisticview which the authorities now take of Spain’s prospective reply to Minister Woodford's note is based on the belief that there will soon be a new ministry in Spain composed of liberals, with Sagasta as the premier. They get this impression, it is understood, through the Spanish legation. If the impression now current in administration circles proves to be well founded Spain will accept our tender, but with the distinct reservation that the sovereignty of Spain in Cuba is not to be disturbed or modified in the slightest.

From Lakes to Seaboard. The deep waterways commission appointed by President McKinley to report on a canal route connecting the tipper lakes with the seaboard has practically selected a route, according to a statement made by Chief Engineer Harrison of the commission. It starts from North Tonawanda and extends to Lake Ontario, the outlet to be near Wilson: begins again at Oswego, thence to Lake Oneida, and from there to the Mohawk river, which is a direct connection via the Hudson. To a certain extent the proposed waterway follows the lines suggested by Elnathan Sweet. The cost of the construction will be, according to estimates. $82,098,601. The Suez canal cost $100,000,000. Nicaragua Rebellion Ends. President Zelaya and the Government troops of Nicaragua are returning to Managua, where the latter will be paid off and disbanded. The president’s prompt and aggressive efforts have brought the revolution to an unexpectedly early termination. Many captured rebels will be imprisoned. Adequate detachments of soldiers remained at the various towns in the districts affected by the revolution to enforce the penalties against the rebels. Congress will adjourn soon to reassemble in January next. Athletes of the Diatnnn-1. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston .....91 38 Washington. 59 69 Baltimore .. .88 38 Pittsburg.... .57 70 New Y0rk...81 47 Chicago 56 72 Cincinnati . .74 55 Philadelphia. 54 75 ■Cleveland ...69 59 Louisville ...51 76 Brooklyn .. .60 69 St. Louis. .. .28 100

NEWS NUGGETS.

By mistake, the little son of Bert Munkasky of Ashtabula, 0.. was given a bath in water containing caustic potash and he will probably die. Mrs. F. J. Jackson of Kansas City, charged with being an accomplice of Dr. G. W. Goddard in the murder of her husband last April, was discharged by the grand jury. At Keil. Wis., a 4-year-old daughter of William Oelhoff was perhaps fatally shot in the forehead by Johnny Stoever, who was carelessly handling his revolver. He didn’t know it was loaded. “The August excess of merchandise ami specie exports over imports was not far from $42,000,000, and the Septegiber excess will evidently be large, unless shipments of gold are considerable,” say It. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade. A jury in Judge Gary's court in Chicago returned a verdict giving Mrs. Estella L. Peacock $7,187 damages against the Chicago City Railway Company for personal injuries. Mrs. Peacock, who is colored, was hurt Feb. 5, 1895, while alighting from a cable ear. The car started suddenly, she testified, and she was thrown to the ground and injured internally. It is now known at Pensacola, Fla., that the steamer Sommers N. Smith landed at least three expeditions of men, arms and ammunition in Cuba during her twen-ty-six days' voyage from Mobile to Pensacola. Iler expeditions were without serious mishap, although she was once nearly captured by the gunboat Helena. “Dynamite Johnnie” O'Brien, it is said, commanded the Smith.

Lucretia Borgia is needed in South Dakota to abate the wolf nuisance. For the crude poisoners of the present day the animals are too wary. Stock has long suffered from their ravages. Big bounties were placed on their scalps. A few were shot and a few trapped, but the proportion was too small to make any appreciable decrease in the gross number. Then the stockmen tried poison. They smeared great pieces of raw meat with Strychnine and threw them where they thought the wolves would find them. But the failed to take effect. It is positively asserted that the animals licked the poison off, spit it out and devoured the meat with much relish. Engineer E. Hennett Mitehell was killed and Fireman John R. Cawley seriously injured by the explosion of a locomotive on the Northern Central Railway at Georgetown, a few miles north of Harrisburg, Pa. The victims were both residents of Harrisburg, and had been in the paaaenger service of the company for many, years. Consul General Pratt at Singapore reports to the State Department that a loan has been authorized there, to the amount of $5,000,000, to begin the construction of a railway system of about 370 miles 4d length in the Malay Peninsula.

EASTERN.

Fuller & Wilson, bullion and specie dealers of New York, have assigned. Editor Charles A. Dina is still very sick as his summer nom?, West Island, Glen Cove. Congressman Ben Butterworth .-Twas held up and robbed by a gang of thugs at Atlantic,. City. "T y The third annual session of the Supreme Lodge of Improved Order of Knights of Pythias was held in Baltimore. Mrs. Phoebe Phillips has married Robert J. Hibbart, who was on trial at Atlantic City for shooting her four times last summer. s \ Seth Low has announced that he will not withdraw from thi- .New York Mayoralty race unless the Citizens’ Union wants him to do so. First Lieutenant R. G. Hill, Twentieth Infantry,' U. S. A., attempted suicide by jumping from a train near Harrisburg, Pa., but escaped almost uninjured. The Kings County Electric Light and Power Company will compete with the Edison company in Brooklyn, and it is said will adopt some of Nicola Tesla’s devices and discoveries. W. TI. Osterhouf has begun suit for $541,000 against Elmer and Jay Dwiggins, the N-. w York stock brokers who have failed. He claims stock and bonds held by the firm as collateral. Judge Jackson has made perpetual his famous injunction restraining Eugene V. Debs and other labor leaders from interfering with the Monongah miners. In delivering his opinion, Judge Jackson defended his course, claiming such action on his part was good law and that the in-juncting-abridged no one's rights.

WESTERN.

Secretary of the Treasury has ■■arrived in Colorado. Kankakee marsh land, near New* Carlisle, Ind., is afire and farm buildings are in danger. Chief of Police Thomas Colbert of Indianapolis has been suspended for alleged intoxication. Cincinnati defeated Dayton in an exhibition game of base-ball, 3to 2. It was no easy victory. Rev. B. L. Morris of Greencastle, Ind., was stricken with paralysis while in the pulpit at Brazil, Ind. Natural gas exploded in a colored church in Indianapolis, and four persons were dangerously injured. Mamie O'Brien, 13 years old, was abducted from St. James’ Convent, Chicago, by an unidentified woman. A kinetoscope exploded in Belview, Minn., ant] caught fire, causing a panic in which several persons were injured. Judge Ryan of the Indiana? Superior Court has decided that loan associations can collect only the legal rate of interest. General 'D. B. Ainger of Lansing has been appointed receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Benton Harbor, Mich. The color line has. boot! drawn in Alton,. 111., and negro children are now taught in schools separate from those for white children.

W. F. Karron. now imprisoned in the county jail at San Francisco, charged with embezzlement, has fallen heir to $250,000. The coroner’s jury in the inquest on the Santa Fe wreck near Emporia, Kam, has placed the blame on Train Dispatcher King of Topeka. Authentic information is at hand that there is a great discovery Of free milling gold ore in the Chocolate mountains of Yuma County, Arizona. Shoshone and Bannock Indians in Idaho are slaughtering elk and deer and the settlers are preparing to drive the redskins away by force. The John Gund brewing■ and malting plant burned at LaCrosse. Loss is $300,000, half of which is covered by insurance in old-line companies. A human skeleton, probably buried twenty-five years, was unearthed by -laborers digging sand at 57th street and South Park avenue, Chicago. Richard and John McGriff, twins, have just celebrated the ninety-fifth anniversary of their birth. One lives in Geneva, Ind., and the other in Ohio. Colored citizens of Alton, 111.,, took their children back to the old schools and placed them in seats. The principal refused to let the colored children recite. 1

Ed wal'd Bellamy, the economical writer, has gone to Denver to recover his health, which is said to haveobroken down while he was writing his latest book, “Equality.” A Rock Island passenger train and Union Pacifice stock train collided near Muncie, Kan., and Engineers J. W. Scarf Of Kansas City and Charles Goodall of Chicago were badly injured. William Trift, employed on the government tug-boat Alpha, from Cairo, 111., was taken to the Marine hospital in St. Louis as a yellow fever suspect. The Alpha had been employed in taking yellow fever patients to Cairo. The question of whether the authorities in the Roman Catholic Church have the right to remove priests at their will was decided in the affirmative Jby Judge Dick, sitting at Waukesha, The decision was rendered in the celebrated Barton case. The notorious Staffleback house, near Galena, Kan., was burned by a mob at midnight on Wednesday and every vestige of the old structure, where murders and crimes of the most diabolical nature were said to have been committed, was destroyed. After firing the place the mob withdrew and watched the old structure burn. No fire alarm was turned in until the building was nearly consumed and then no efforts were made by the fire department to extinguish the flames. The search for the remains of the Staffleback family victims still goes on.

Suit has been commenced in the Federal Court at Omaha to declare the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange a trust, and a perpetual injunction is asked to restrain its members from further acting as an organization. The suit is Ijegtin by United States District Attorney Sawyer, acting under instructions from Attorney General McKenna. Similar suits, it is said, will be begun against every live stock exchange in the country. The attorney general’s office at Washington declares its belief that it has a good ease against the South Omaha exchange, and that it can prove that it is operating in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The United States engineers in charge of the fortifications of San Francisco have directed that a survey *be made on the shore line on the south side of the bay and Golden Gate from Black Point to Point

Lobos. The purpose of the survey, which has just been begun and will be completed a week hence, is to accurately locate the forts for the information of the War Department. Army and navy officers think that the harbor defenses are now sufficiently well advanced to stand off any fleet that Spain or Japan could put into action there, and they are strong enough, with the assistance of floating batteries of the Monterey and Monadnock type and with the aid of torpedoes, to make a splendid fight against the best fleet England would be likely to send.

SOUTHERN.

Bishop Maes of Covington has been appointed archbishop of New Orleans. Serious damage to the tobacco crop of Kentucky and Tennessee has been done by frosts. The Mexican War Veterans, in session at Nashville, elected Major S. P. Tuft of Illinois president. Light frosts are reported at Covington, Milan and Arlington, Tenn. Arlington is only a few miles from Memphis. A second death from yellow fever occurred in New* Orleans Wednesday, making eight in all. The victim was Miss Elizabeth Nussbaum, aged 17 years, of 1300 Galves street. The sawmill boiler of E. G. Dex, three miles from Livermore, Ky., blew up on Thursday. Three men were killed and ten injured. Cold water running into the boiler caused the accident. The mill was totally wrecked. At Edwards, Miss., eight new cases, tlirye deaths from yellow fever, is the report. Indicatios at present are that nothing but a killing frost can allay the disease. The disease is rapidly spreading, and while it is regarded as q mild type, it is feared it will become more malignant owing to cool weather now prevailing. The New Orleans fever situation was greatly improved Tuesday morning by a materially lower temperature, the thermometer at 6 o’clock being 62. Incubation of yellow fever germs requires a sustained temperature of 70 Fahrenheit, and if the present cool spell continues conditions promise steadily to grow better. Dr. Touatre, an experienced yellow fever physician and a member of the board of experts, says in an interview: “The records since 1853 show that yellow fever has never been declared epidemic. That was the case in 1853, '67, and ’7B. The history of the epidemics of the last half century proves that all epidemics waned with the first cold of October, disappearing almost entirely in November. If we add a month and a half more to the period of incubation for infectious foci to establish themselves, we are brought almost to the end of October to have an epidemic. An epidemic at that late date is out of the question.” Dr. Touatre produces a number of instances where fever broke out in August. September and October, only to be quickly stamped out by the frost before it had assumed the proportions of an epidemic.

WASHINGTON.

Joseph B. Jackson, a dangerous crank from Meriden, Conn., was arrested at the White House door. He carried a revolver and it was feared he intended to kill President McKinley. “If the President does not take some action favorable to Cuba by December we, the members of Congress, will recognize Cuba’s independence, and that, too, at the beginning of the session.” Representative Livingston of Georgia who Spoke the above, is a Democrat and a member of the minority, but, a Washington correspondent says, he voices the sentiment of the majority in the lower house. The monetary commission appointed under the authority of the Indianapolis sound-money convention held its opening session at the Arlington Hotel in Washington, D. C., Wednesday. L. Carroll Root of New York and Parker Willis of Chicago, were appointed to collate in proper form the suggestions that have been received for reference to the appropriate committees. The appointment of three general committees will also be recommended—viz.: On gold and currency, on United States currency and on the banking question, to which the suggestions received will be referred. The necessity of increasing the personnel of the navy will be presented to Congress in the forthcoming reports of bureau chiefs of the Navy Department. Both officers and men are needed to man the large number of ships now in commission. Capt. Crowninshield, chief of the bureau of navigation, in order to find officers for vessels is compelled to search the service with a fine rake. The tour of shore duty of line officers, with the exception of those in common grades, has been cut down in many cases and hereafter the younger officers will have considerably less time on shore. So far as the engineer corps is concerned, it is understood that Engineer in Chief Melville proposes to recommend that one hundred officers be added to the corps as soon as possible. The lack of enlisted men has been apparent for some time.

FOREIGN.

Emperor William at the state banquet at Budapest declared his abiding faith in the dreibund and made a gratuitous fling at the Turk. President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic is said to have been informed by his physicians that he cannot live eighteen months longer. ( Lord Farrar predicts that the ultimate solution of the question of bimetallism and the Indian mint will be the adoption of the gold standard for India. The Libertaire of Paris has been suppressed for publishing an article advocating the assassination of President Faure, King Humbert and the Queen of Spain. In Havana the beef famine increases. There is no meat, and the importation of American refrigerated beef is urged. Food has grown scarcer every day since the rebellion broke out. Owing to the floods having washed away a bridge of the Bangalore-Mysore Railroad, in India, an engine and five cars filled with passengers were precipitated into the river, causing great loss of life; It is said a bomb was exploded at the Budapest railway station just after the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hun-gary had met there. No one was injured and officials tried to suppress all news of the occurrence. The British steamer Yucantan, Captain Jinks, which has arrived at Liverpool from New Orleans, reports that when seventy miles west of Fastnet, Ireland, she passed a steamer of the Chesapeake Line towing a Red Star Line steamer. Consul Heenan at Odessa confirms the report of the wheat crop failure in Rus-

sia. Little wheat, he writes, will be shipped this year. The failure is trace- ' able to two sources; a dry winter, killing half the sown acreage, then a wet spring just before harvest. The United States cruiser San Francisco, flagship of the European squadron, has arrived at Tangier, in order to investigate and obtain redress, if necessary, for the reported flogging of American citizens at Mogadore and also to enforce the promised settlement of former claims of the. United States against Mdtocco. The latest health statstics show that the bubonic plague is again active in India, having crept unobserved from hamlet to hamlet, until a wide area is-affected. The newspapers assert that the withdrawal of the medical officers for service with the troops on the frontier will entail consequences infinitely more disastrous than anything happening on the frontier. According to advices brought by the steamer Empress of Japan, there is a report in Japan to the effect that the Pacific Mail steamship City of China maybe seized to secure the Mikado’s claims against the Hawaiian Government. The vessel is now under the Hawaiian flag, and in case of annexation would sail under the American flag and be entitled to subsidies for carrying the mails.

A , treaty has been concluded between Slatin Pasha, representing Great Britain, and Zobein Pasha, representing the mahdi, by whkti the latter will not oppose the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition as far as Khartoum and Osman Digna’s forces will remain at the Bara River so long as Great Britain desires. The mahdi remains King of Khartoum and Zobein Pasha continues to exercise the functions of Governor of Darful, under the protection of Great Britain. There is high authority for the statement that the dispatch from San Sebastian to the Paris Temps, representing that the United States, through Minister Woodford, has submitted to Spain an ultimatum to the effect that the war in Cuba •must cease by October or the United States will intervene, is a gross exaggeration. No ultimatum to Spain has been issued by this government, and no crisis now exists Or is likely- to come for a long time. Officials of the State Department emphatically deny the accuracy of the dispatch. It is true that Minister Woodford has, in accordance with the President’s instructions, presented to the Spanish minister of foreign affairs~the first of his notes of instruction, and represented the earnest desire of the United States that the war in Cuba be brought to a close. Ample justification for the effort of the United States to interpose its good offices to this end is set forth in the note which Minister Woodford read to the Duke of Tetuan. But there is no suggestion of an ultimatum in the correspondence. State Department officials say it is absurd to suppose the President of the United States would go at Spain in such undiplomatic fashion as to issue an ultimatum before politely sounding the Madrid Government as to its intentions.

IN GENERAL.

Lombard University has abandoned the system of self-rule by students. Window glass manufacturers are forming a trust with $20,000,000 capital. Christopher Merts, of Elwood. Ind., has returned from a two years’ stay in Alaska x with $230,000. Miss Constance Ingalls, daughter of the ex-Senator, is to become a deaconess in the Episcopal Church. Two statues and other valuable relics have been received by the University of Chicago from Deshasha, Egypt. President Johnson of the Western League believes it cheapens base-ball to get an outside attraction like an ex-pugil-ist as one of the main features of the day. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Curtis and six other members of the Sam’l of Posen Company have organized a joint stock concern and will start for the Klondike gold fields in the spring, y.-. The City of Panama has contracted for a modern system of water works, having up to this time relied upon rain water cisterns and bad wells. A Belgian firm has the contract. Lieutenant Peary and his party of arctic explorers have reached Sydney, B. C., on the bark Hope. All are well and satisfied with their summer work. They bring back the huge Cape York meteorite, the largest in the world. Arthur Jordan, a Scotch explorer, who claims to be familiar with the country between Spokane and Klondike, will soon leave Spokane, Wash., with six men for the Yukon country. He says that a man can get through with considerably less than s3oo> especially if there is a party of six going, in which case certain supplies can be purchased and used in common.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, ?3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4,50; sheep, fair to choice, $-.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49?; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; new potatoes, 50c to 00c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, sbinp'iig, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice sheep, common to <.nojee, $ ». (| 0 to $1.00; wheat, N«. 2,94 cto 96c; corn, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. 'Louis—C t Me, $3.00 o $5.50; hoys, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2,98 cto $1.00; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Cincinnati—Chttle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; Sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2. 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2Le to 22c; rye. No. 2, 4*ic to 48c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 whale, 23c to 24c; rye, 48c to 4t)c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No, 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; clover seed, $3.35 to $3.45. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 3,29 cto 31c; No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,48 ctv 50c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 45c; pork, sness, sß.oo* to $8.50. Buffalo-Cuttie, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 winter, 90c to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00;. corn, No. 2; 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 240 to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs. Western, 18c to 19c.

ODD FELLOWS AT SPRINGFIELD.

Sovereign Body of the Order Meets In Illinois Capital. The opening session of the sovereign grand: lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was held Monday morning in Representatives’ Hall, Springfield, 111., and was introduced with appropriate ceremonies, taking the form of a public reception, in which the hospitalities of the State, city and the grand bodies of Odd Fellows of Illinois were extended by their proper representatives. Gen. Alfred Orendorff, past grand representative of Illinois, called the meeting to order. Seated upon the speakers’ platform were Gov. Tanner, Mayor Wheeler, Grand Representative J. Otis Humphrey, Grand Sire Fred Carleton of Austin, Texas; Grand Master George C. Rankin of Monmouth, Ill.; Grand Patriarch J. D. Murphy of Bushnell; and Mrs. May D. Stone of Vandalia, President of the Illinois Rebekah assembly. Gov. Tanner was the first speaker. He spoke in the highest praise of Odd-Fel-lowship and bade the visitors a hearty welcome to the city and State. Mayor Wheeler spoke briefly, extending a hearty welcome on behalf of the city, and Grand

ODDFELLOWS’ BUILDING, SPRINGFIELD.

Patriarch J. D. Murphy followed. Grand Master George C. Rankin spoke for the Odd Fellows of Illinois and Mrs. May D. Stone gave welcome in the name of the Rebekahs. Response to these was made by Grand Sire Fred Carleton, who paid tribute to the State of Illinois, its greatness as a producer of wealth, a center of population, education and the banner State of Odd-Fellow,ship. He named the great men who had made the State illustrious. The genius of Odd-Fellowship is that it binds all races and creeds together. The Grand Sire said that this was not the first time this body had been welcomed by the Governor of a State, but it was the first time it had been welcomed by a Governor as a brother Odd Fellow. The regular session of the sovereign grand lodge was then convened by Grand Sire Carleton. The appointive officers and committees were named and a large number of resolutions presented and referred without reading. In the afternoon the local Rebekah lodges gave a very largely attended reception in honor ofthe visiting Rebekah degree members and the sovereign grand lodge. Tuesday afternoon a fine parade of Odd Fellows was given under command of General J. P. Ellacott of Chicago, commander in chief of the Patriarchs Militant, and consisting of the Illinois National Guard, commands, cantons of Patriarchs Militant and subordinate encampments and lodges escorting the representatives to the sovereign grand lodge. Following this wis a prize drill of Patriarchs Militant. Canton Muncie, No. 4, of Muncie, Ind., won the first prize, S3OO, in class A, and Canton McKeen, No. 28, of Terre Haute, Ind., won’ the first prize, $l5O, in class B. They had no competitors. At night the past grand representatives held a reunion in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, at which addresses were made by Grand Representatives W. G. Nye, of Minneapolis; Lucius H. Fuller, of Putnam, Conn.; and Stillwell H. Russell, of Dallas. Texas.

HITS BOARDS OF TRADE.

Possible Effect of the Decision Made by Judge Foster. Judge Foster’s decision in the United States District Court at Topeka, in which he held that the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange was a trust, organized in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, may result in closing all the live stock, grain and produce exchanges of the country. The decision, if it is upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, to which it will be appealed, will be of the utmost importance, for it will class all exchanges which are organized on the same lines as the Kansas City institution as unlawful combinations in restraint of commerce. Washington attorneys are uncertain as to the scope of the decision, for the reason that there may have been some peculiarity about the organization and methods of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange which does not apply to other exchanges. As it is understood, however, this exchange is similar to others in which live stock, grain, cotton, farm produce and petroleum are dealt in, and if the Supreme Court of the United States should uphold Judge Foster’s decision these institutions would have to close their doors or change their organization and methods.

MAY CRITICISE THE JUDGE.

Wisconsin Court Hands Down a Decision Against Judge Bailey? Justice J. B. Winslow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court handed down a decision that is of particular interest to lawyers and newspaper publishers. The opinion is in the case of the proceedings for contempt of court by Judge W. F. Bailey, of Eau Claire against H. C. Ashbaugh and L. A. Doolittle. The court says: „ We are well persuaded that newspaper comments on cases finally decided prior to the publication cannot be considered criminal contempt. Truly, It must be a grevlous and weighty necessity which will justify so arbitrary a proceeding whereby a candidate for office becomes the accuser, judge and jury, and may within a few hours punish his critic by imprisonment. If there can be any more effectual way to gag the press and subvert freedom of speech, we do not know where to find it.

Dr. Hunter Is Acquitted.

The jury in the cases of Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, ex-Congressman John Henry Wilson, E. T. Franks and Capt. Noel Gaines, accused of conspiracy to bribe members bf the Kentucky Legislature, brought in a verdict of not guilty.

FROST WILL NOT HURT.

Crop* Are Now Said to Be Entirely Out of Its Way. The weather bureau in its report of crop conditions for the week says: The week has been favorable for ripening and securing crops, but in the Central Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, Tennessee and over portions of the Middle and South Atlantic States, it has been too dry for fallowing and seeding of fall grain. The exceptionally warm weather of the first* half of the mouth matured corn rapidly, and has placed nearly the whole crop beyond injury from frost. Owing to drought conditions in seme of the more important States the grain, particularly the late crop, did not fill well, and the reports indicate that much will be chaffy. Cutting has progressed rapidly under favorable conditions. Cotton has continued to open very rapidly and picking has been vigorously carried on. The reports indicate the bulk of the crop will be secured by Oct. 15. The weather conditions on the Pacific coast have been favorable, the absence of rain in California being especially advantageous for curing raisins and drying fruit. In Oregon and Washington the damage to grain by rains of the two preceding weeks is considered light. State reports follow: Illinois —Dryness and heat was broken th# 14th, and slight frost in the north half Saturday and Sunday morning, with only slight damage to latest fields of corn. Corn, with late and early, dry and much in shock, with cutting completed this week; yield fair to good, but much light, chaffy corn and some late fields only fodder. Plowing and wheat seeding resumed under difficulties; drills still running in some fields. Wisconsin —First of week warm, followed by well distributed rains and decidedly cool weather, with light frost in low places. Hot weather matured corn rapidly and two-thirds of crop now ripe. Late plantings require week to ten days. Cutting being pushed vigorously. Good crop now assured., Michigan—Corn Is good crop; nearly all safe from frost and cutting all under way. Buckwheat fine crop and cutting in progress. In six southern counties fall seeding is still delayed by dry spell, and rain is also much needed to germinate seed already sown. Late potatoes generally matured, but yielding lightly. All fall fruits except pears and grapes yield very poor. South Dakota—Warm days and scattered light rains favorable for corn. The early and middling late well matured and a very good crop generally. The grain of the latest shrunken some Jn many localities by frost of IGth and 17th and preceding hot winds, but will make good stock food. Nebraska—Corn maturing nicely, and most of the corn crop made and cannot be inlured by frost. Frosts in northern counties, but generally light, and only slight damage done to late corn on low lands in a few counties. Large acreage of,winter wheat being sown, and early sown coming up nicely. Missouri—Good showers in some sections, but over large portions of state drought practically unbroken. Where good rains fell pastures Improving and wheat sowing progressing. Kains too late to benefit corn; cutting completed in many places. Late corn very light and much of it chaffy. Frost would do little damage. Cotton picking progressing, crop greatly shortened by drought. lowa—Three days hot weather, followed by copious rains and sharp frosts. Greater part of corn crop being matured, the damage by frosts is not extensive. Potatoes and f garden truck suffered greatest Injury. Plowng and seeding of all grain progressing. Winter apples badly hurt by drought. Indiana—Numerous local rains, and hot weather ended on Thursday. Light, harmless hoar frost formed Saturday morning. Corn matured and dried rapidly, most Is cut and In shock and that still standing Is safe from danger from frost. A fair crop of tobacco is being housed rapidly. Seeding wheat progressed slowly only; fanners are waiting for more rain. Ohio—Very warm, sunny and dry until showers 16th; cool and dry since then, with light frost 18th in some places. Late corn, late potatoes, late tobacco, pastures, gardens, apples, grapes, and wheat and rye In ground badly Injured by drought. Early corn about half cut, late generally beyond frost, but not nearly so promising as ten days ago.

ALTON NEGROES RISE.

Separation of White Pupils from the Colored Raises a Storm. The fight between the Board of Education and the negro citizens of Alton, 111., over the separation of the white children from the black is growing more fierce and the relations between the two are becoming more and more strained. The attendance at the Douglas and Lovejoy* schools, the two buildings set apart for the colored children by the Board of Education, ha.s been very small, and, on the other hand, the old buildings are overcrowded on account of the colored residents insisting on their children attending the same schools as the whites. Superintendent R. A. Haight has given Instructions that the negroes shall be admitted, but that no recitations shall be heard until they go to their own school. They are allowed to remain in the schoolrooms, but only as visitors. There has been no serious trouble, but several of the school buildings were surrounded all day Wednesday by colored men and women who were there to see that their children received proper recognition. The members of the board are firm in» the stand they have taken, and say that no pupils will be recognized or allowed to recite a lesson until they are in the proper building. The stand they have taken is that the city of Alton has been put into one large school district, and they, with the superintendent, have the right to assign pupils to any school they think desirable. They say they are willing, if need be, to have the matter tested before the courts. On the other hand, the colored residents oppose the separate-school plan, and are no less emphatic in the stand they have taken, and say they propose to fight the case to the end. Public meetings have been held and a large sum of money has been raised. They claim the scheme to separate the children is an illegal one. They do not admit\even the point of discretionary power which the Board of Education holds is vested in the superintendent of schools.

Told in a Few Dines.

The linseed oil trust, incorporated ia Illinois, has qualified to do business io Ohio. Three men robbed the postmaster at Belmont, Neb., of S4OO in government bonds. , Harry Wells, charged with involuntary manslaughter, was convicted after a four days’ trial at Shoals, Ind. The lamp chimney manufacturers of theUnited States have signed the wage scaledemanded by the workers. Two negro tramps murdered Jefferson. Batey and seriously wounded William Davis, brakeman on the Illinois Centra? Railroad, near Carbondale, 111., and escaped. Charles Wood, a Racine, Wis., police* man, has secured judgment for salary held back because the Mayor refused to appoint him. He remained on duty under the civil service law; A petition of the temperance people of Emporia, Kan., asking for a special grand jury to investigate alleged viola-, tions of the liquor law has been stolen from the office of Judge Culver.