St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 July 1890 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. the WORLD OVER. MIRROR OF THE OCCURRENCES OF A WEEK. Things Tliat Do Happen—A Complete Record of Interesting Events the World Over — Shocking Accidents. Startling Crimes, and Other Topics. HOW WE HAVE GROWN.; Great; Gains Shown by the Census Just Taken. Superintendent Porter, of the census, makes a “guess” at the population of the United States. His guess, in round numbers, is 64,500,000. The Superintendent has had a good deal of official information before him in making the estimate, and those who are cudgeling their brains in figuring probabilities may take a hint. The official returns will ail be made out within the next thirty days and the figures will be known to a certainty. The contest between Chicago and Philadelphia for the position of second city in population is watched with keen interest. The Quakers say that their unofficial estimate of 1,040,000 has been largely increased by the later and more correct returns, and they hope to beat Chicago by showing 1,100,000. The official count of the district of Columbia is through with, and the population is placed at 229,796. The ‘ returns from the cities given below have ) been announced in a semi-official way thus far: Brooklyn 930,670]L. Angeles, Col. 50,000 Baltimore 500,000. Milwaukee 200,000 Beacon 417,720;M1imeap01i5.... 185,000 Buffalo. 250,000iManch’st'r,N.H. 43,500 Cincinnati 306,UK1 New York 1,627,227 Cleveland 248,0001 New Orleans.... 246,000 Columbus 114,000(New Albany.... 25,000 Chattanooga.... 45,000 Philadelphia.. .1,040.450 Concord, N. H.. 17,000 Pittsburg 250,009 Detroit 197,000)5t. Louis 440,900 I Des Moines..... 53,0001 St. Paul 133,000 Dubuque. 40,000jSioux City 35,000 Davenport 30,000 Sacramento 26,500 G. Rapids. Mich 95,000 Stockton, Cal... 12,700 Indianapolis.... 125,000|Washington.... 230,000 Dou is ville. 180,000! Wheel’s, W. Va. 39,000 Inncoln, Neb.... 53,0J0|

GREAT WEATHER FOR CORN. Crop Conditions Very Promising in the Principal Grain States. The weather crop bulletin issued by the agricultural department save: The weather during tile past week has been especially favorable for growing crops throughout the principal corn and wheat States M the central valleys and Northwest. Crop conditions are reported as very promising in Dakota. The harvesting of wheat is in progress as for north as the forty-second parallel, and«the condition of the corn crop is generally reporte 1 as excellent. lowa reports a good yield o< fall wheat, ■with small acreage. Niis sour! reports wheat harvest nearly finished; yield 75 per cent, of the average, and of fine quality. Michigan reports having in progress, with large yield; corn and oate good; wheat ready for harvest in ten days. More rain is needed in Kentucky and Tennessee, although the crops were much improved is those States during the week. The weallter was especially favorable for harvesting, and a largo crop of hay is expected. Texas reports improvement in the ootton crap, notwithstanding tbo absence of rain during the last two weeks. This crop is growing nicely, but the fruit crop in this State is almost a failure. In the middle Atlantic States baying is in progress with a prospect of a large yield. Hains on the North Pacific coast greatly improved crops ; grain promises better than fbr yeajs. Reports from California statu that the outlook is good over the greater portion of the State, and that there will be a medium crop oPfruit and grain. THE NATIONAL GAME. Sttuntlrjx of the Chibs In the Leading Organizations of the Country. Players’. W. L. p cJ National. W. L Boston 35 21 .025 Cincinnati. .37 17 .685 Phi’delphia.3l 25 d*s3ißrooklyn. ..33 21 .611 Chicago 29 24 .547;Phrdolpllia.34 22 .607 New Y01k...2$ ‘26 .518 Boston 31 .553 Brooklyn. ..30 28 >l7 (Chicago ^7 ■ > .519 Pittsburg.. .26 27 .491 New York.. .24 32 .428 Cleveland.. .21 39 .420,Cleveland.. .17 34 .333 Buffalo 14 34 .229;Pittsbuag.. .13 40 .245 American. W. L. s?c-| Western. W. L. ^o. Athletic 37 18 .672 Milwaukee. .31 17 .645 Boqheßter...33 23 .589|Minneapolis31 19 .629 i Louis nite.. .29 24 .547 Sioux City.. 29 22 .568 St. Louis.. ..30 26 .535 Kansas City.2s 20 .555 i Columbus... 29 26 ,527 I>enver 25 24 .510 I Toledo 22 28 ,440;Des Moines. 22 28 .440 | Syracuse.... 22 32 .407 (Omaha. 21 30 .411 i 8r00k1yn....15 39 .2771 St. Paul 13 35 . 270 ILL-Ipwa. W. L. c.! Interstate. W. L. Vc. Ottumwa. ...28 15 .651;Evansville .^34 15 .693 ’ Ottawa 28 16 .636 i Burlington. .35 16 . 686 ! Dubuque.. ..26 16 .619 Terre Haute. 2-3 21 .489 Monmouth.. 27 17 .613 Peoria 21 23 .477 Aur0ra......22 22 .560 Quincy 23'29 .442 Cdr Rapids.2l 22 .488;Indianapolis 938 .295 Joliet 13 30 .302 Sterling 10 35 .222| Crushf d in it Church. A cyclone passed over the northern portion of Gallatin, three miles from Nashville, Tenn., leveling treesand fences and destroying the African Methodist Church, in which services were in progress. The toof and walls fell in and many persons were hurt, twenty of them seriously. Two members of the congregation, Mrs. Ann Martin and Mrs. Mary Huffman, died from their injuries. Kev Granville Bwwn, the pastor, was also severely hurt. One of the heaviest rainstorms in the history of Sumner County followed the wind. G n. M'ddhton Final’y Resigns. An Ottawa, Ont., dispatch says: Gen. Mi idleton has handed in his resignation as commander-in-chief of the Canadian militia, despite the denials which he g!»ve last week to reports of his intended resignation. It was well known in Government circles thst he had. no other alternate open to him after vole of censure ; {> i&sed by Parliament for his part in ooting Bremnei’s furs. Chokra in Spain. A Madrid cabfb says: It is rumored that after the closing of the Cortes the Conservatives will come into office. A few c-nses of cholera continue to be reported from Valencia. Three new cases and three deaths in Gandia are reported. A Family Killed by I/ghtiiaig. At Vanceburg, Ky., during a ct-orm lightning killed Jerry Searles, his wife and his only child, thus annihilating de entire family. They had yurt driven under a tree for shelter. The horse Wat also killed. Two Brothers Drowned. William and Charles Hoffbaur, Aged 12 and 8 respectively, living at 1817 State street, Chicago, were walking along the Seventeenth street dock, when Wdliam slipped and fell into the witei. Charles jumped in to save him and both were drowned. Seismic Disturbances in California. Three distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Santa Rosa, Cal. They were quite severe, people being a waken 3 d from their slumbers. The vibrations were from north to south.

CURRENT HARPENINGS. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. A Philadelphia and Reading express train was wrecked near Tuckerton Station, Pa. The engineer, Lewis Heller, was killed, and the fireman, George Heller, was fatally injured. Several other persons were severely bruised. A Saratoga, N. Y., dispatch says: Kemmler must die at Auburn. His case was argued in the Court of Appeals by Burke Cockran for Kemmler and by At-torney-General Charles F. Tabor for Warden Durston. 'lba motion was dismissed without the court leaving the room, and Warden-Durston was ordered to carry ut the sentence of execution by electik ity. The bark Ethel, bound from London to Brisbane, collided off Portland with the steamer Umbilo, hound from Natal to London. One of the Umhiio’s crew and four of the Ethel s weie killed by falling spars. The Ethel sunk. Her crew boarded the Umbilo. Mrs. Mary Munn, of Orange, N. J., who attempted not long ago to force her twelve-year-old daughter to many a man sixty years of age, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for three vens. '.l he charge against her was abduct ng her own child. William Sears, a prominent Boston contractor and leader in the days of the abolition struggle, is dead. Mr. Sears built maty of the Boston chur hes and many public buildings. He secured the charter for the Northern Pacific Railway, and was for five years its leading Director. He was a liberal financial supporter | of Oberlin University. The Hon. Lucien W. Sperry, of New’ Haven, Conn., shot and killed himself. The direct cause of his d?ed was the exposure of his embezzlement of trust funds placed in his cure. He was exMayor of New Haven and an ex-member of the Connecticut Legislature. A New London (Conn.) special says: The fifteenth annual four mile, straight ■ away, eight-oared, shell race, between the Yale and Harvard University crews, was rowed over the Thames River course I from Gales Ferry to Winthrop Point, j Yale winning by 3J lengths in 21:29. Harvard’s time was 21:40. This is Yale’s fifth successive victory, and the record of

four-mile races now stands: Yale, won ; 9; Harvard, G. The late Thomas C. Sloane, of New , York, hrs, by will, left $75,000 tor the Sloane Laboratory and $200,000 to Yale ' Co’lege, available on tue death of his wife. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Ex-SecreraßY of War George W. McCrary died at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. W. C. Boeteler, al St. Joseph, Mo., aged 55 years. He had been ill for a hmg while, and had been confined to his bed for a month, being taken down shortly after his arrival in St. Joseph to visit his daughter, Mrs. Boeteler. llis i complaint was a tumor of the stomach. ; He leaves a wife and several children. j An Omaha dispatch siys: C. 11. Me- j Kibben, late purchasing agent of tie? Union Pacific, has been charged by the J company with stealing $00.0(10 by fraudu- I lent purchasing during bis administra- j tion. The matter has Isen brought up | in the United St des Cour? and attachments issued for all of McKibben’s prop- ! erty. McKibben is now in the East. A thousand conductors, switchmen, and brakemen in the Chicago freightyards of the Illinois Central Railroad have gone on a strike. The immediate cause was the resignation of Tr rinmaster Berry and his assistant, Irwin E. Pustrie. At Blue Lick Sprints, Mo., five of G. W. Easley’s children. Katie, Annie, Zula, Beatrice and Don. aged respectively 17, 11, S, 4 and 2 years, were poisoned by eating bolognt sausage. The children ate only a lunch consisting of the sau- | sage and crackers and soon after all were I taken violently ill and their condition is serious. The three rear coaches of an excursion tra : n on the Union Pacific, bearing colored Masons from Kansas City, jumped the track about eight miles east of Lawrence, Kan., ami went into a ditch. About thirty persona received slight bruises and scratches, and seven were painfully but not fatally injured. On Lawley toll road, about nine miles from Calistoga, Cal., three men ro bed the Harlin Springs stage, mistaking it for the stage carrying the express and mails. There were nine passengers in the stage. From one of the passengers the robbers took $240 and two gold watches. The three children of Jolin Kujawa, living at Medford, Minn., seven miles north of Owatonna, were drowned in Straight Kiver. At Blue Hill, Neb., sixteen buildings, including the entire business portion of the place, were destroyed by fire. No estimate can yet be made of the losses and insurance. The Travelers’ Protective Association held their eighth annual meeting at Denver, Col., and decided to meet next year at Little Rock. T. S. McGreat, of St. Louis, was elected President. The Attorney General has ordered District Attorney Hay of Minneapolis to begin immediately the prosecution for co ispiracy to dsfraui of the three enumera- । tors of the census who have been accused of making false returns of the population of Minneapolis. The Minneapolis mills scored quite a gain in output last week, though it was ; perhaps not as great as might have been expected, says the Northwestern AHUer. The aggregate production of eleven mills, several of them running lightly, was 82,5011 barrels, averaging 13,750 barrels per day, against 63,620 barrels the week before and 109,800 barrels for the corresponding time in 1889 and 109,200 barrels in 1888. Ex-S. nator Palmer, of Michigan, has been chosen President of the World’s | Columbian Exposition, and Mr. Dick in- ; son Secretary of the body. Five vice presidents complete the organization, j and the danger of a political issue has been carefully guarded against by the mode in which these officers are to be selected. The President of the Thirty-first Street Bank of Chicago, M. C. Koberis, has made a voluntary assignment of the concern to James T. Mooney. Assets, $25,000; liabilities, $25,000. Connection with the Park National tells the story. Reports from all the wheat-growing regions of Kansas are to the effect that

the berry is plump and full. The yield will be 15 per cent, above the average for the last six years. W. H. Hammel and wife, of Hutchinson, Kan,, were burned to death by tho explosion of a gasoline stove. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Thomas Hemmingway, Mississippi’s State Treasurer, has been found guilty of embezzlement. Counsel for defendant at once asked for tinYa to file a motion in arrest of judgment, which was granted. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Crops have been greatly damaged in Pleasant County, West Virginia, by recent rainstorms. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The President has signed the bill providing for the allotment of $490,000 among the militia regiments of the various States. The collections of internal revenue for the first eleven months of tbe fiscal year, ending June 30, 1890, ver) $130,622,004, being $10,594,034 greater than the collections for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. The receipts were ns follows: On spir ts, $75,516,209, an mciease of $1,798,58c; on fermented liquors, $23,160,718, an increase of $1,792,099; on oleomargarine, $758,447, a decrease of $97,207; miscellaneous, $141,750, an increaee of $64,504. The receipts for May, 1890, were $877,671 greater than!or May, 1889. A conscience contribution of $3,000 in SI,OOO gold certificates has been received at the Postoffice Department in an ordinary letter. In the letter accompanying it tbe sender stated that he had recently i-ent another contribution of $1,500, tho tw-o b »ng ou account of a sum ho haff defrauded the Government of. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: Registers of Land Offices- Waldo M. Potters, Fargo. N. D.; G. G. Mills, Olympia. Washingi ton; J. C. Lawrence. Waterville, Washington, i IGceivere of Public Moneys —Charles M. Ogden, l hei tle Wash. ; W. H Bush, Olympia, Wash.; F. M. Dallam. Waterville, Wa..h. Collectors of Customs Max Pracht. District of Alaska; Hockey P. Earhardt Willamette, Ore. I‘erisn P. Palmer, Indian Agent, Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota. Postmasters: MichUa:>|—James Buckley, Petoskey; Lewis V. Curry, Fenton. The following t ongrossional nominations have been mada: Ninth Illinois, Rep , Lewis E Payson ,•.Seventh Illinois,Rep .Thomas J H< ndi-rson • Tenth lowa. Rep., J. J’. Dolliver ;• Nineteenth Pennsylvania, Deiu., 1 rank E BelLAoover; Third Illinois, Rep., William E Mason;* Thirtaontb Illinois. Kep., Jesse Union. •J. 11 Howell. Fourteenth Illinois. Rep,; Michael D. Haiti, Fifteenth Ohl > Dim. ; •Harrison Kelly, Fourth Kansas, Rep ; •Joseph H. Outhwaite, Ninth Ohio. Dem. •Joseph D. Taylor, Blghteenth Ohio Rep.. W H. Cute, First Arkansas. Dem. ; •T. C. Mcßae, Third Arkansan, Dem. ; Oliver M. Curry, Eighth Indiana, Co- m Labor. • Renominated. The lowa Republican Convention at Sioux City made tho following nominations: Secretaryof State,Wm M.McFarlan I Auditor, J. A Lvons . Iriasuii r, H. \ Rim; , Attorney Gt neral. John Y. St nc . Junge of the S u r-nio Court, J. H. Hothrocu ; < |< iof the Su; 'emo Court. G. B. Pray, Kejwrtw of the Supreme Court. N B. Raymond; luLiiroal Commissi uer, J. W. Luke. Minnesota prohibitionists have nominated I’. I’inkhim, of Minneapolis, for Governor and also sn entire State ticket. Tin: Illinois Kepubl.can Convention made the following nou.i.a‘ions; Treasurer, Fnuiz Amberg; Superintendent, Dr. R. A. Edwards; University Trustees. C. G. Neely, W. A. Mansiiehf. Charles Bennett; Court Clerks Northern lirtu d Idvision. A. H. Ta lor; i hioa.o Appellate, John McKenna; Northern Appellate, IV C. Duffy. The. President has sent to the Senate the following nom nations: E. P. Earhart. Collector of Customs at Willamette, Oregon; Lieutenant Colonel Richard N. Batchelder. Quarteynjastar-Gen-eral witffi the rank of Brigadier-General. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Twelve hundred carpenter - at Denver have gone on a strike out of sympathy for the strik ng machine woodworkers and bench mill men, 600 of whom went out severs 1 weeks ago. The resuit is a stoppage of building. A Chicago dispatch says: The Ill:note Central Railroad is complately tied up. Long lines of freight trains are standing motionless on the tracks, the passenger station at Randolph street nemg filled with empty and mot'onle^s passen.tr cars. The employes of the load i<re on strike. It is a strike which differs from all previous strikes in many ways.. It is not a strike resolved upon and ordered by any organization, but it is the result of spontaneous individual feeling and act on. Et -h and every striker has a direct personal interest and feeling in the matter. Not one c m be found, as in ordinary strikes, who expresses any hesitancy or dubiousness as to the wisdom of the action taken. It is the personal dislike to a single official (Division Superintendent E. G. Russell), based, it is claimed, on amply sufficient grounds, a thorough diss ffisfaetion with his official conduct, and incidentally an equally strong respect and liking for two old and tried officers, whose resignations have been compelled, that has brot ght on this sudden and spontaneous aetiou, which has assumed the proportions of a gigantic tie-up. First freight conductors struck, next day the yard switchmen followed suit, and the road is as completely tied up as though every railroad employe of the company had 1 on suddenly whisked away to Siberia or the Congo Free State. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Major "Wissman has been created a Baron by the Emperor of Germany. One new case of cholera and one additional death are reported at Puebla de Rugat. There has also been another death at Gaudin It is reported that the scourge bns broken out in Valencia and ihe inhabitants are nying in all directions. The Government of Brazil has established a quarantine against all arrivals from Spanish and African ports on the Mediterranean. The National Liberal party has offered to nominate Prince Bismarck as its candidate for the seat in the Reichstag relinquished by Dr. Miguel, recently appointed Prussian Minister of Finance. Is the German Reichstag all amendments to the army bill were rejected by a vote of 311 to 128. The paragraph which authorizes the Government to maintain

the effective peace stranoth of the army until April, 1894, at 486,983 men was approved. The British man-of-war Espiegle has arrived at San Diego, Cal., from Acapulco under orders to coal there and then proceed direct to the seal fisheries of the Behring Sea. She carries ten guns and has a complement of 160 officers and men. A London cable says: The Dutch ; steamer Prince Frederick was sunk on l the night of June 25 by collision with i the British steamer Marpessa. The Mar- ! pessa has arrived at Falmouth with the | crew and ninety-three passengers of the I Prince Frederick. Six lives were lost in the collision. FRESH AND NEWSY. By the blowing up of a boiler and steam engine at Colchester, Ont., George Craig and Thomas Inick were killed, and Thomas Craig, Peter White, Frank Brady, and Engineer Lindsay were severely injured. Low water was the cause of the explosion. Paymaster Duran, of the Mexican Central Railway, is in jail in the City of Mexico charged with being $19,000 short in his accounts. Mr. Duran has held a high place in fho business and social world, and his arrest has caused a great sensation. Mariners whose vessels ply in the vicinity of Sable Island, near Nova Scotia, will in the future use o-irrier pigeons to give information in case of shipwreck. The following railroad dividends have been declormP. Lake Shore, 2 per cent.; Michigan Central, 2 per cent.; and Canada Southern, 11 per cent. An English syndicate has bought l,500,0(H» acres of mineral anl agricultural land in Mexico. Archibald Woodbury McLellan, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, is dead. A St, John iN. B 4 dispatch says: A. Ferguson, a lumber operator at Sussex, has disappeared. Ferguson handled over $50,1 IG for other peo(Ue, half of which was furnished by M. S. White. What disposition Ferguson has male of tbe mom yis unknown. It is thought he has gone to the St .tes. A City of Mexico dispatch is as follows: Mon4erey telegrams to a press agency here say the revolutionists under Ruiz Sandoval attempted to cross tho Rio Grande iram the United States to Mexico, six miles west of Laredo, but were driven Imck by Mexican forces under command of Colonel Seron, when Sandoval and six men were captured by the Chief of Police of Lartulo, Texas. The Mexican troops, however, succeeded in capturing one prisonersnd several horses. Mr. Vali me, the Brazilian Minister to tho United States, said that there is no foundation whatever for the story which has gained circulation that there was likely to bo trouble soon between Chili and Brazil, and that tho latter country had tuit<atd into alliance with Peru and tho Argentine Republic against Chili. Thg readju tment of se< >nd-claas Postmasters' salaries, to take effect July 1, has b< -n completed. Following aro the chaugoe in the Western States HJ INOIS. BcllevniH. inertaa - $2 ivjto $2,200 I A:;U a. itwemw 2 0 Uto 2,100 Danville, iucrea-e. 2,400 to 2,500 Decatur, cltvrea-o ftSOJ to 2,700 J’ixov, iucTvaae 2.200 to 2,3'10 Evanatou. im:rea*e 2.190 to 2,5(Xi Lulous. mci'Siiso 1,900 to 2,000 GaledtCrg. iUCD a-k< 2,7 V.) to 2,390 I a Salle, inacM* 1,033 to 2,0 0 Oak I’tlrk, iucrease 2,390 to 2.590 I‘ekln. decrease 2.300 to 2,000 Pulluuui, decrease 2.JUO to 2,100 Rock Island, iinTMMu 2J'»JO to 2,706 Watikegaa, inoraaae 1,800 to 2,000 WISCD.OSIX. Appleton, increase $2,300 to $2,400 SheboyHau, increase 2,300 to 2,409 Watertown, iocrvaao 2,000 to 2,100 Wtu saw, dvcri-ane 2,200 to 2,100 XH HUiAN. Bay ( ity, inernas • S2.CM to $2,700 <t. idwater, inorras*. 2.200 to 2,800 f 1 liid, increiwe 2,400 to 2AOJ Hiiladale, decraense 2,290 to ZIWJ louia, decrease... 2,209 to 2,100 Jackson, iacreo-w. 2.8p0 to 2.900 Marquette, increase 2,.W)t0 2,400 Owosso, increase 2,100 to 2,200 Saul: Mo. Marie, itvneme 1,900 to 2,000 Ypsilanti, increaao 2,200 to 2.3U0 IOWA. Cedar Falls, increase $2,000 to $2,100 Fort Dcdge, iucrtsur- 2.009 to 2,1 U) Marshalltown, increase 2,C4>1 to 2,600 Mount Pleasant, iucnase 2,000 to 2.100 Muscatine, increase 2,490t0 2,500 ISDIAXA. Anderson, increase $1,900 to $2,300 Conners villa, increase 2, U oto 2,390 Ciawfordavrile, increase 2,0 Mto 2,300 Frankfort, increase l.ilOO to 2.U00 Huntington, increase L'JOO to 2,090 Kokomo, increase 2,209 to 2,300 La Porte, increase 2,20 V tx> 2,200 Logansport, iucruaee 2.400 to 2,500 Michigan City, increase 2,000 to 2,100 Muncie, increase 2,300 to 2,400 New Albany, increase 2,200 to 2,400 Vincennes, increase 2,209 to 2,300 MARKET RETORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Prime $4.75 5.25 Fair to Good 4.00 4.75 Ocruinion 3.0 J 4.00 Hoes—Shipping Grades 3.50 35 4.C0 Sheep s.oo 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red .85>2 Cobn—No. 2 33 '(jj .34 Oats—No. 2 27 .23 I’ to. 2 46U.@ .47’4 Butter—Choice Creamery 14 .15 ~ Cheese—Full Cream, fiat’s 07'..118 Egos—Fresh 1 ( 1 .12 Potatoes—Choice new, per Tri. 3.99 3.50 Pobk—Mess 12.50 <213.09 M ILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Sjning 82 © .83 Cohn—No. 8 34\(<J .3oW Oats—No. 2 White 29 .30 ’ Rye—No. 1 46,Ut$ .47^ Barley—No. 2.r 48 ’3? .48^ Pork—Mess 12.50 <<513.00 DttWlOlT. Cattle 3.M @ 4.50 Hoos 3.00 (ip 4.25 Sheep 3.90 5.99 Wheat—No. 2 Reo 88 ,89 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 35t^<5 .30*4 Oats—No. 2 White 31 0 .32 TOLL IX). Wheat.. 871^ .B=s^ Corn— Cash 35 .36 Oats —No. 2 White 29 t 5 .39 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.00 5.00 Hogs 4.00 <u 4.50 Sheep 4.25 & 5.75 Wheat —No. 2 Koi <ls .96 Corn—No. 2 >i tai .43 Oats—Mixed Western.. 31 @ .34 Pork—Mess 18.50 @14.00 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE 4.00 & 5.00 ’Jogs 3.5;) <<« 4.00 Wheat —No. 2 Red. 84 @ .85 Corn—No. 2 32 @ .33 Oats—No. 2 27 @ .28 Rye—No. 2 44 @ .45 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.09 & 4.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.0 J @4.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 85hJ@ ,86>^ Corn—No. 1 White 35 @ .36 Oats—No. 2 White 31 @ .32 CINCINNATI. Hogs 3.00 @ 4.01 Wheat—No. 2 lied 8,5 & ,hj Corn—No. 2 37^@ .38<4 Oats —No. 2 Mixed 30W, <5 .31^ RYE—No. 2 53 Bj@ .541,, BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime 450 @ 5.00 Hogs—Medium and Heavy 5.59 @ 4.09 Wheat —No. 1 Hard so @ 91 Corn-No. 2 37 ~^

NOVEL STRUCTURES IN PROCESS OF ERECTION BY HUSTLING IOWA CITIES. Creston’s Splendid Blue Grass Palace — Ottumwa’s Great Black Diamond Palace —Buildings Unlike Anytliiu<Constructed Elsewhere. [Creston (la.) Cor. Chie.oga Herald.] Work is progressing rapidly on the new Blue Grass Palace. The building will bo three times as large as that of last year, and the managers say t-hey are determined to take the lead in the palace business this year. Tho new struct- — ~ - - GRASS PALACE. uro will be 130 by 260 feet, and decorated all over with grasses, grains and cereal and flowers. A novel feature will be the balustrade on top, running from north to south 20) feet, from which thousands of spectators can view the races. Tho Creston T 'r is held during the Blue Gross Palace ' sition, and tire palaeo faces the race track and is northwest of the amphitheater and grand siand. The amount in tbe speed ring is $7,500, and the total premiums will aggregate sls^)o. ( reston is in the great West** ern racing circuit with Topeka. Non., Lincoln, Neb., and Kansas City, Mo., an! this year one of the finest fields of horses ever entered will contest at tho Creeton Fair. Tbe floor space for exhibitors will be more than double that of last year. The south wing of the palace will contain an auditorium seating 2,500 people, in which there will be grand concerts by leading musicians and speeches by eminent rneu. The palace will l*> opened by Gov. Boies on Aug. 21. at which time the managers hope to secure tho presence of P»esi<lent Harrison and Cabinet. Messrs. McKinley and Mills have been invit<>d to discuss the tariff question aud will probably l>e present. Senators Wilson and Allison yill undoubtedly be present. Tbe exposition will be run something on the Chautauqua plan : speeches, orations and concerts in tho forenoon and services by eminent divines on the Sabbath. The display of fine stock, fruits aud grain •will be the largest ever seen in lowa, not excepting the State Fair, and in ail respects the blue grass palace exposition will be a memorable event in the history of the State. Ottumwa's Novel Structure: [Ottumwa (la.) Cor. St. Lonis Globe-Democrat.] Sept. 16, 1890, an exposition will be opened here in a building unlike anything ever constructed—a building representing the great industry of this secUon of lowa, coal mining, tbe principal material used being tho j roduct of these mine-;. The Ottumwa Coal I’alace was the conception of a few enterprising citizens, with Col. I’. G. BallitiKall at the bead. The enterpri -e l>ef<>re it could be commenced, needed $25,901 capital stock. A proposition was made Unit, if twenty manufacturers and jobbers would each subscribe SSOO the rest would be assumed by tho retailors aud professional men. It was not much work to secure tho twenty nun, mid needed very little more idl-ort to make up tho remaining $15,000, and now the work is begun and tile building will be ron ly for <HvupiM>ey by Sept.il, The palace will be an imjKiiing structure 260 feet in length, with tin aveiago width of 130 feOt . tho main tower lifting itself proudly upward over 2 U feet. It will be built, as the cut indicates, with nn arclutectnral ahiuraoeer of its own. and unlike the other palaces of the State>— of hay, wood or Stukble —tho whole'’structure will tx> veneered with coal, various unique doaigus lx<ing Woven into the building of jvt from / iw ™/I \ I P kmK® H \ <? 1 THE PALACE BUILT OP OOAL, the output of the various milk's about OF tuinwa. A miniature coal mine is to be one of the features of tbe palace, and the excavation is most admirably adapted to it. Into the mine a shaft will lead from tire main tower, over 150 feet I above. The tower at its base will be over 40 J feet square, and will be reached by means of two i elevators in the semicircular towers toward ths front, or by a flight of stairs in either of the other semicircular towers on the rear corners. ; From this point the sight-soer will get into a ' ear, just as in a regular mine, when he will be I lowered through a dark shaft Into the sunken park, where the mules, the miners with their I lamps and picks, and the coal in large veins can be seen, as if in the Foster or Phillips mines, twenty miles south of tho city, The palace will be two stories in height, tho first being about 25 feet to the ceiling, tho other reaching to tho top of tho structure, varying from 50 to 100 feet. In the front, or Washington street tower, will be the stage, £ox36 feet, and Uie main hall, with tho balconies ascending direct from the stage, will give the buihting a seating capacity of from 3JXJJ to 5,000. On either side of the main room or nave of the building will be the spaces above and below for tho exhibits of the nine surrounding counties—namely: "Monroe, Appanoose, Davis, Keokuk, Mahaska. Lucas, Van Buren, and Jefferson. These exhibits are intended to l>e iudustri-1, for the greater jiirt. The coal which will cover the building will bo from these counties. The garden will bo one of the crowning features of th.o palace. Like the mine, it will be ■ below the level of the street, the sloping green from Main street and the depot sides being planted with flowers and plants spelling in large, bold, beautiful letters “Ottumwa Coal Palace.” Fountains, delightful walks, rich tropical plants aud treea will bo utilized to add to its beauty. The palace at uignt from the exterior will present a most striking appearance. Powerful electric arc lights will flash out their brilliancy from each ot the towers, aud each of the many windows will be provided wiWi various colored electric lights. The work of driving tho piling on which the structure will rest has been commenced. It w ill take7oo piles for the foundation, 22 feet in length, and will requirt) a force of twelve men over a fortnight to complete this part of the work. Various committees are busy at work in the contiguous counties arranging for their exhibits and are meeting with the greatest success. Each of these counties will have a day of its own as a special feature. The various railroads running into the city will each have a day set apart for them, and then there Will still be left fourteen days for special attractions. It is intended to have four of the leading pulpit orators in the country preach on each 01 the four Sabbaths during the month of festivities, and musical and literary features will be numerous. The palace will be opened Sept-. 16 and closed Oct. 11. and President Harrison will honor it with his inesence some time during the session. The sum of $55,000 in gold coin was sent from San Bernardino to San Francisco by t mail a few days ago as secondclass matter at one cent an ounce. An insurance company took“a risk on tire coin, and the bank saved $l5O by using the mail. Eddie Saltless wonders why all the girls giggled so the other evening, when he was announced as a fresh arri*al. The reason that a great many people fall into the blues is that they don’t look at things in the right light.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’s Capitol-What Is Boinß Done by the Senate and House—Old Rial ters Disposed Os and New Onos Considered. In the Senate on tho ;24th inat,, the confer-. ence report on the appropriation bill was presentod and agreed to. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of tho postoffice ap. propriation bill. The afternoon was spent on ‘ the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The salary ol tbe minister to Turkey was fixed 1 at SIO,OOO per year, the present rule being $7,53Q per year. The amendments appropriating a sufficient, sum to enable the Piesident to carry into effect tbe recommendations of the International American conference discussed at considerable lengt h. The general expression of sentiment was in favor of the proposition, irrespective of party lines. Tbe amendments were adopted without opposition and the bill passed. The bill to carry into effect|thc recommemiations of the maritime conference to prevent collisions at sea was algo patseed, and the Senate at 5:45 adjourned. In the House, Mr. Conger, of lowa, Chairman ot the Coinage Committee, presented the report o! that committee. It simply recommended that the House non-concur in each and all ol the Senate amendments to the silver bill and requeet a conference on the same. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, moved that the House concur in the Renato amendments. With t hese motions pending t’se debate Legau. Mr. Conger taking the initiative. The speeches attracted very little attention and at times there were scarcely more tluui one-tenth of the members in their saatauiMlfaw of those present listened to the remarks offered. Tbe House adjourhed at 5 ;5C o'clock. The Senate spent the greater part of the 25th> fnet. in the disoussion of the House bill for the admission of Wyoming into the Union. Mr. Vest opposed the bill on the ground that the population of the Territory was not sufficient ri) entitle it to Statehood. There were at the laziest estimate only 9(1,000 people there, and ' they were scattered over an area of 98,0^0 square miles. Os tho 18,000 voters, 6,000 were women, and ho was decidedly opposed to woman suffrage. Mr. Platt replied in support of the Lill, ami without reaching a vote the Senate nt 5:40 adjourned. The House adopted the conference report on tbe naval appropriation bill, and then pi ceded to the discussion of the silver Lill, the debate was closed by Mr. McKinley. At the conclusion of: Mr. McKinley s speech a vote was taken on Mr.. Bland’s motion to concur in the Senate amendmevit which declares the silver dollar equal im value to a gold dollar and provides for free (wwiage. and the motion was defeated—nays, 152; yeas, 135. This was a test vote on the silver bill, and when this amendment was rej«Acd by a yea an., nay vote, the o.ber amendments were (rejected without, division and the bill sent to a conference committee. The Republicans who voted to agree to the Senate free coinage amendments were Anderson. of Kansas; Bartiue, Carter, Connell, DeHaven, Dorsey. Featherstone, Hermann, Kei- ; 1"V, Laws, Morrill, Morrow Perkins, Peters, Post, Smith of Illinois, and Townsend of Colorate. The Democrats who voted aaainst agreeing to tbe amendments were : Andrew, Buckalew. Campbell, Claneey, Covert, Durban Dunphy. I tower, Geiesenliainer, Mays, McA.lov. Mutchler, Quinn, Rusk, Stump, Tucker, Turner of New York, and Vaux. Mr. Hitt (1.1.) presented the conference report on the diplomatic appropriation bill, and it was agreed, to. Mr. Vannon (111.), from the Committee^m Rules, reported back a substitute for tbe resolution introduced bv Mr. Lod:3’ (Mass.) setting amirt five days ot the presen “>eek for the oonliJeration of the national election bill. Messrs. McMillin and Blount vigorously attacked the bill, and from this time on there w-as great confusion on the floor. Mr. Otumon (111.) and Mr. O Neall (Ind.) engagedin a colloquy somewhat personal in its nature, and this added, bo inucli to the already existing disorder that the Sergeant-*t-ai'ms came forward with, his muoe of office and restored order. Mr. Spnager (Ill.) moved to table the resolution. On a yoa and nay vote, this motion was lost,— yeas, 116; nays. 133. After arranging to meet a: eteven okilock for the six days during which the debate is to continue, the House adjourned. In tbe Senate, on the 26th, the House bill forthe admission of Wyoming as a State was taker up Mid Mr. Jones (Ark.) addressed tho Senate, lie declared himself in favor of the admission of Wyoming, but ho wan unwillingto see Wyoming admitted sh tbe wav naw proposed. There was no authority for holding a constitutional coaventtan. Mr. Stewart spoke in fa ver of the 1-111 umi Mr. Reagan opposed it. At the close ol Mr. Bqagan’s speech an understanding was reneliod that the vote ou tho bill and amendment would begin at 4 o'clock next day. After disposing of some routine business thi Senate went into executive session and soon thereafter adjourned. In the House Mr. Lodge, (f Massachusetts, began the debate upon the mit-ional-electione bill. He proceeded to sketch the plan of the bill in outline. No local machinery was disturbed, he said ; ballots were to be oast as at present, and no secret-ballot system was to interfered with where ft, now prevailed. Everything that concerned the Government should be open. The assurance of honest, elections lay in making public every step and oct by which the representatives of the people were cLo*en to their high office. To secure publicity at every stage of the election, therefore, was the Fading principle of the bill. Under its terms concealment beoame impossible without a resort to violence, and violence itself was publicity. Tire debate was continued by Messrs. Hemphill of Bouth Carolina and Rowell, of Illinois. The latter was frequently interrupted by Southern members, Who questioned his ^>’,tements relative to the alleged suppre^^on of the negre vote in certain Southern States. Mr. Bingham, from tire Prstotfico Committee, reported the Senate amendments to the postbfflee appropriation bill, aud on his motion the House uon-con-curr^ in them. The consideration of the | election bill was then resumed and Mr. Lehl- : back, as New York (Republican), spoke against tbe bill. Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, spoke against tbe bill and then the House adjourned. In tho Senate, n the 27th, the consideration I of the bill *br the admission of Wyoming as 8;, I Stete was resumed, and Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate in opposition to it. Messrs. Payns a>ud Gray argued against the bill, end Mr. Platt favored it. Tho question was taken on Mr. Jones’ substitute (an enabling act for Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico), and it was rejected by a strict party vote—yeas, 18: nays, '*>. Mr. Jones (Ark.) then moved as a substitute an enabling act for Wyoming alone, and it was rejected by exactly tho same vote. The bill was then passed by a strict party Tire first section of the bill is as follows : “That the State of Wyoming is hereby derdiwed to be a State of tbe United States of America, is hereby declared admitted into the Union on an equal leoting with the original States in ail respects whatever, arxl that the constitution which the people of Wyoming have formed for themselves be and the same is hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed." Tho secoii 1 section gives the boundaries. The third declares the State entitled. to one representative in the List Congress. The other sections refer to public lands and tc provisions for schools, an agricultural college, a penitentiary, an insane asylum, etc.; also to Circuit and District Courts of the United States. The bill for the admission of Idaho was then taken up and went oyer as “unlinisbod bueiriess.” After an executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House, consideration of the Federal elections bill we,s resumed, the debate being participated in by Messrs. Haugen. (Wie.), Covert (N- Y.), Vaux (Fa), and Kennady 8-drio). The House in tbe evening passed 195 private pension bills, including a large number which came over from previous sessious,. and st M) 310 adjourned. PEARLS OF TRUTH. Illusion is brief; but repentance it loi^r. Distrust a woman who speaks of faer virtue. Society is the master, and man the* servant. Passion is always suffering even when, gratified. Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. Tbe finest day of life is that on which, one quits it. Mon are women’s plaything; women are the devil’s. lie has half the deed done who has made a beginning. To-morrow is a satire on to-day and shows its weakness. Ilie greatest luxury a man can allow himself is marriage. To learn to die is better than to study ;he ways of dying. By being contemptible, we set men’sminds to tbe tune of contempt?