St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 October 1895 — Page 6

independent. NV. A. ENDLE Y, I'lilHi-ber. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. MARKET IS GLUTTED. NO SALE IN CHICAGO FOR THE - VAST POTATO CROP. United States to Claim Its Own if Forecast of Cleveland’s Message Is Correct —England Can’t Grub Alaskan Gold Fields—Vessel Burned. Chicago Full of Potatoes. Potatoes are cheaper now than they have been within the memory’ of the oldest dealers in Chicago's South '.Vater street. Car lots on track of the choicest varieties are selling at 23 to 24 cents a bushel, and any amount of fair stock is going at li to 2d cents a bushel. Even nt these low prices there is little demand, and the railway tracks within the Chicago yards are glutted. The Chicago anil North western has notified its agents nt country stations not to receive any more potatoes till further notice. Minnesota and AViseonsin have more potatoes than they need. In Minnesota many farmers are leaving them to rot in the groun<V as they are not worth digging. On Minnesota farms as choice and fair-skinned potatoes as u farmer would care to sei' are selling at 3to IO cents a bushel. In Wisconsin thousands of bushels are buried in improvised cellars in the fields awaiting shipment. lowa has a big crop, but the quality is poor. Michigan also has a large yield of good quality. Will Stir the Nation. A Washington dispatch say.-: President Cleveland's annual message to Con gross, the preparation of which will noon engage his attention, will be a most noteworthy state paper. It will be more sen sational ami perhaps of far greater im portunce than the famous tariff message of lss7. which many observers think changed the history of parties in this country. The principal feature of the forthcoming message will be the discus sion of the foreign relations, it is well known that the President is eager for a reply from Great Britain concerning this country's vigorous representation in favor of arbitration in Venezuela, ami he wants this reply before the meeting of Congress if he can get it. More important even than these immediate questions, consider ing the future of the United States, is the : policy of over sea enterprise which the Pn sident is expected to foreshadow in his message. If the expectations of certain of Mr. Cleveltind’s contidcntial friend-' are realizes!, he will say to Congress and the country that the time has come for a new American policy, a policy of aggros siveness, both political ami commercial, beyond this country's coast lines. It Is American Territory. Superintendent Dutlield, of the coast and geodetic survey, has been informed that the Alaska field parties have , m eluded the season's work and are now on Mary's Islam! waiting to lie picked up and brought to Sun Francisco, The work last season consisted of the locating of Mount St. Elias as on the b undarj h< tween the two countries. N- xt season the more delicate work will be begun of run ning the line between these two points. England claims much more than the I'nited States concedes ns to this boundary. The surveys so far made tend to confirm the contentious of this country, j General Dutlield says there is no longer ! any doubt that all of the Yukon River ' basin below the mouth of Forty-Mile: Cfeek is American territory, which includes the gold field <>f that stream as far as oiM'ued. Our Foreign Trade. Latest official statistics sUm that the foreign trade current is still rum ing against this country. The report of im ■ jxirts am! exports for September ami the nine months ending with September show merchandise imports for September S 6, 993.01)0 in excess of exports and Slid 081.060 in excess of exports for the first nine months of the calendar year. The excess of 1894 was 510,252.tm" ami the average for the expired portion of ispo about $13,000,000 !( month. The shrink age to $0,993,000 may therefore be considered a distinctly favorable symptom. Net exports of gold during September ap proximate slo.t*>o,ooo. Burned in Mid-Ocean. An American vessel, the Parthia, Cap tain Carter. Bath. Me,, bound from l.iuT pool for San Francisco with a cargo of coal, was burned at sea four hundred miles off the south coast of Chili. 'he crew took refuge in the bo,its. one of which, that under the charge of the sec । end mate, with seven men on board. । reached Valparaiso, Chili. The other । boats have not yet been heard from. NEWS NUGGETS. Official returns for the last fortnight in ; September show that there were during that time 1.429 new cases and Ui’il deaths from cholera in the Frovime of i Volhynia, Russia. At Akron, Ohio, fifty loirs to the Edwards estate met and discussed their chances of securing the property they claim in the down-town district of New 1 York. No d« finite action was taken. The porte has appointed a commission j to inquire into the recent Armenian ar- | rests, and has promised the powers to deal J severely with any one who is found to ' have tortured the Armenians m prison. N. B. Falconer Ac Co.'s large dry goods ' and millinery store at Omaha was closed ‘ on a chattel mortgage Monday morning, j It is believed the assets will easily cover the liabilities. The company Ims been in business in Omaha for a great many years and has been considered one of the most substantial houses in the West. The competition set up by the big department stores is regarded as one of the factors in the failure. A sensation was mused at Fort Scot!. Kan., Monday when A’ice President .1. .1. Stewart, of the State Bank, posted the following notice at the opening hour: “This bank is closed subject to the order of the State bank commissioner. Depositors will be paid in full.” The failure to open is caused by the defalcation oi the cashier. .1. J. Stewart, Vice President.’’ I'he Tucker Block, at Dy rdmrg, Tenn., was destroyed by tire. The fire origimr.c i in the T. P. A. Ilotel, which was entirely consumed. The guests rse.ijvi withe nt injury. Total loss about ?7b.t>oo, partially insured.

EASTERN. At Philadelphia a meeting is to be held for the relief of Henry Craemer, a Ger-man-American who is under sentence of death for murder at Seattle, Wash., but who is declared innocent by a German paper in Philadelphia, which has investigated. , A freight wreck occurred at AVaterbury, Conn., Sunday night, when two parts of a broken train came together. Ten cars . loaded with trotting horses, live stock, • and other exhibits from the Danbury fair, were crushed and thrown down a fortyfoot embankment. Mazeppa, the famous champion trick horse of the world, valt ued at $40,000. was instantly killed. One । man was fatally injured and two others seriously hurt. At Scranton, Pa., a storage reservoir containing 2,500,000 gallons of water and owned by the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, burst Thursday night. It filled the repair yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad with wreckage and washed away a portion of Mattes street. A girl was carried a quarter of a mile but was rescued. Street car traffic wa- blocked. Hundreds of factory girls crossed the path ot the water a few moments before the break. For the third time in thirty days a een tenninl celebration was held in Washington County, Fa. In till three cases the observances have been held by I nited Presbyterian churches. Four weeks ago the .Mount Pleasant Church celebrated its hundredth anniversary. The Faris Church observed a similar occasion a week later, and Thursday the members and pastor of thy Uetm's Creek Church held services in commemoration of the coinpleiion of the first century of existence of their church organization. Oue of the features of the day was the reading by the present pastor of a history of the church, including biographies of all its preachers, since the year 179,5. On the Carnegie branch of the West End Traction Road a> Pittsburg, Fa., an in cident occurred Sunday by which three persons were killed and twelve or four teen more or less seriously cut and bruised. Car No. .56 of the Carnegie branch of the road was going to Pitts burg. When at the head <>f a Ung. st. cp grade, the car began to run away. It dashed down the hill at great speed for a mile, until a curve was struck, when the car turned nor and rolled down a ten foot embankment. It struck on the j top. and the heavy trm ks crashed through ! the Moor, crushing the ptissctigerH. There were fifteen passcugrts in the <ar. mid only four. together with the conductor, escape l death or serious injury. The a<- ' cidcnt occurred nt a lonely spot and it I was some time before assistance rmchd the suffmer- who were wedged tightly in the wreck. When the c, >ndm ‘ r the car was beyond control he by on the floor am! adv: ed the others to fol low his . xampb The killed w ere fo.md ■X edged under the roof of the mr, who h had la f’ii s: ia*hvd in nt wm them. \A ESTERN. I’he Nebra .ly Iri . yOm. A ■■ a'* annual mc-img will lx* he’d at Sydney Dee. IS and 19. Tl’.i' National 1.. A»- ■:< cided to hold 4* m M convent', n . t Cl. \i-laml. < H ■«. S I. is.a; At St. ,L - oh. Mt. . deb ,: t. - from E ; nois, ! iwa. Missouri, ami Kaases <>rg. : i 1 ized the 1 nt<r-’ i’■ A >iv il ’>r.i><.' ‘i Assn, iatieil to hold all a. lie. '.I . oat. ■' ' < hath s .1• :i v. a- I'r. .a. :. 11. E. Osborn Ai. - President, and F S. Bogardtts S', reiary a id Trensor. i. Marsha! David •' Cooke, of Glm.ster, I Ohio, while standing on a < mnct S.i;.day > night was approached by < x Sight Marshal Elmer Ihmnolb A obi feud exist ed between them. Doumdly drew ag m. saying: “We wHI settle this ditbe dty • now ." He fin d f.-ur sluds ail ।a w : hit Cooke. C< okc fired om- U - -w. ut through Donnelly's heat: He dr.*pp<d dead. Cooke fell I ' ie him a: a .ds ■ < X pi red. Mrs, Sus । Rogers, wife of l’U p R „■ ers. hits disappeared fietu San Fram t - ■«. Her husband has hm searching for h. r for three weeks, and u w beheves that lie h:t' l<» ati d her in AViseonsin. Mr. Re ers is certain that the Durrant « ; I i l something to do with the WHek of his hmee. Airs. Rogers was very mi. h n ten-sted in the .a ami iompe!l'd her husl :iml to sit down every m<.ruing and , rend to her the full report of the trial. Rogers finally wetr 'it s'tike. there was a dtsagrts-ment and his wife left home. Il say s thr.t if she wnnts to return she < an d<> so, ami can spend her whole time m reading the rejs.rt of the Durntnt trm! if she desires. Ail path yts s i :: : ':."!i'm xvill hereafter be turned away fn.m th County Hospital at Chieago. Neither will they be received at the Detention Hospital. This was d< ided up .u a: the meeting of the Committee on Public Ser- । vice, and th” memfiets went even further ! and com-luded tint! a physician's certif- ! icate w ill not be .suffieieut hereafter to enI able the placing of an insane person in the Detention Hospital. The petition ■ granted by the County Court for admis- : sion to the Detention Hospital, to enable i the insane person to be committed by I the County Court, w ill m ed to be secured . in order to gain admittance. It is believed Harry llaywari, sentj enced to hang at Minneapolis. Minn., for the murder of Catherine Ging. intended making his escape Friday evening. I’he officials made a search of his clothing, anti in a small belt buckled around his body was found a full cipher and si.2’Hi in money. The key io his cell which was secured by the authorities was furnished ; by Mrs. Hayward, from whom the detective got it, under pretense of being in ! the confidence of Hayward. It fits the | coll door exactly. Hayward was dumI founded when he found the Sheriff was | aware of his plans, but he offered no reI distance to the search. Hayward was I placed in another cell, and he only remarked: “This is quite funny." 'i'he steamer Africa, of Owen Sound. . with its consort, the barge Severn, of Toronto, left Owen Sound .Monday loaded with coal for Sault Ste. Marie. AA hen twenty miles southwest of Cove Island in Lake Huron the Africa let go of the Severn’s tow line. Both boats wore making bad weather and the Africa was rolling heavily. The crew of the Severn think the Africa went down with her crew id eleven. The Severn ran before the gale with bare poles until Loyal Island was reached, ami its canvas being all gone it was beached five miles northeast of Loyal Island. The Severn is a total loss. The < rew were saved by some fishermen after being in the rigging for twenty hours. The Africa's lifeboat and preservers were found on Loyal Island. A novel “accident” insurance case xvas decided in court at Detroit, Mich.. Friday. E. L. La Bossiere held a $3,000 policy of the American Employers' Liabil-

Ity Insurance Company. In March. he was in Toledo. One of his teeth com! menced aching in a vicious way, ani | March 21 he had it drawn by a Toledo dentist. In the operation Ln Bossi ere . g jaw was broken, and he diet! March 31 of blood-poisoning. The heirs broug] lt suit against the company for the atnoimt: of his insurance policy, the contention being that his death was caused by the accident in the dentist's chair. Ihe court told the jury that toothpullmg and the resultant evils tire not accidents within the meaning and liability ot ’ n surance companies, and directed a verdict for the defendants. Deductions drawn from data collected by the Mallory, Son & Zimmerninn Company of Chicago and emb< lied in the annual report of that company, show that hog cholera is so widespread as to amount almost to an epidemic. The annua] reports of this concern are considered | )y the trade as tin. l best of authority, and the subject of this year’s report is of unusual interest. Uommenting on the advice re , eeived the report says: “Farmet^ j n lowa and Illinois feel panicky on th,, situation, and are selling their drovqg of pigs before the cholera reaches theti j n ord«*r to get something out of them. This is one of the principal causes for the liberal receipts of hogs at the principal markets. The continued shipmenf«>f these pigs to market can but result in a shortage of hogs for the late winter and spring mouths. Every ear load of pi KS that goes to market now means a shortage of three cars of hogs later, and with the unprecedented crop of corn in the farmers' hands the prospects for thefu look aitything but encouraging. The advices shlow that the great«-st amount of cholera reports come from the two largest hog-prodneing States, Illinois and lowa. This fact is significant.” SOUTHERN. Lexinston*. Ky., has been selected by Mexican veterans, who have had a re union at Nieholnsvillc. Ky.. as the meeting place next June. At Uharleston. S C„ t’ircuif hidg> Simonton dismissed the suit of lawenstein A Uo., of Statesville, X (*.. to have the dispemmrv declared unctmstituionai on the ground of its being a nionojtoly. At Fort Smith. Ark., Alexander Allen, i colored: John Broxx n ami Edxvard Wil-1 । key, wliite. have l»een sentenced in the । j I nited States Uotirt to be hanged on Mun- i ‘ dax, Dec. 9 This is the third time that ! Brow n and Allen haxe been *< ntencis Xew»- c.tme-' <>f a tt igedy that wcenrr»'d : FA ■ <'"Upty, (.a , in xvhieh < ighi <>r , nine children lost their lives by |x>isonnd j > ministered by their father. It seems fnnn ' the lust information Tlmma- Speer, tik , ing advantage nf his wife's absence, na<| , being promfited by jealousy, mimicisterel i the fatal drug to his children. The tieml [ ; is noxx behind the bar*. There i» im doubt at Awim. T, xns, that the grand jury xxdl return indictments I against Umls-tt ami Fitzsimmons fore<>n-l • :.Igl- XI -I it. a4rt ■|, . ’ t . St. ’ • । jumal ,o<b- But >t i» intimated that the] State officials do n >t care t<> prosecute thef > pugilists further than to secure indict-] m<iit< which ma Ih> held over their] hi ads to keep ‘hem cut of the State. This* ii.i-th -d - lake.। as the va-.est nay by I ■ xxhlch the State of Texa* ego avoid com ! i plicated h’vnl < ouientica* Wediicsdav nftern-m u teiribh- cxplosiuuj i 0.-enrred m the Mcr-Lent-' t qs-ra HouV, i <. r imi. Texas, wb.-t - the "Dexd - ‘ Am tion” c iipiniy we- preparing t<> phi* < Harry < ’oolendge, master <«f transjs>rt i i tian and manager ot tiiy ^kium i -gb’*^ i coUiiNiaj. was testmg arx under. linin' j [ arose some doubt ns to whether or not it , t contained black gas. and a bystander sug ' goti'l that he try it with a mutch, fle I ' struck the match and tom Ins I it to the j j cylinder, and the explosion follow-al, k ng th# *■ • : • ry and li antig out two windows thirty sis-t distant One man * was instantly killed and several hurt. WASHINGTON. . Secretary Herbert hu« returned to AA .isliington from Alabama win r<- h>- ha-n been speaking on finance. I I r,.w. ’• u. n’x. Kx Lexi A idcr-oii killed Duke AVil-m. aged 11. b. ■ the ’ boy made a slighting n mark about his j shotgun. At M A'-mcry, n-a Sm-.-u Mi. M.--Stella \A • M. a young -•< icty leader, shot am! killed In-r'cif while trying to get out i a bullet. At Washing D I' . th.' Ki ght- ■ f the Golden Eagle de id. d to move th« ~!’i< e oft! . Grand t'a-ule from Philadelphia to Washington. .1 udge Brediev. tin- D 'tri . Supreme t' irt. AA'ashington. ordered the di-charue n,,nj custody of Uaptam George A Arim '. who was arrested on tin- oid< r of Lieutenant General S-ii.•field jus! prior to the latter’s retirement from emiKmin I of the army fer having written him an insulting letter. Judge Bradley seon-d the m ti' ii of the late gem nil id' the army. । harm terizing it as unlawful, tyrannical : and va[irieious. The examination of a class of twenty- . ne privates of the army for proinoti i.i to lieutenants was held a: Fort I.fm'iiworth. Kan. The result of the examination was sent to Washington to be ap proved by the Sc ret ary of War. The men in the class are from all purls of the country. Nearly every regiment in tin service is represented. Seven of them are relatives of officers, and three of them. Sydenham. Ryther ami Turman, are men who xvpre students nt AA est Point, but were dropped at that pl c e after examination. Os the class, lour i failed. Tim same men tried and l.tiled ' last year. One of them. Met klehi.^a sou of an officer, tried twice under the old and twice under the new army law. foreign, The British steamer Napier, belonging to North Shields, bound from Uronstadt for Rotterdam, was in collision off the । Island of Aaland with the British steamer Livonia, of Leith. The kilter vessel sank and fourteen of her crew were, drowned in spite of the efforts of the Napier's crew, who, however, succeeded in rescuing ten men. Bogota is clamoring for the withdrawal of the British minister, Jenner. The press clearly reflects the poular excitement in its expression of the hope that Jenner's relations with the railway contractors. which were not before exposed, will persuade the British Government that it is an injury to Uolombia to retain him in office at Bogota. Some of the sapphires and rubies which formed part of the jewelry belonging to Mrs. Langtry, which was obtained by means of a forged order from the Sloan street branch of the I'niou Bank of London Aug. 24 last, have been discovered in the possession of a firm of merchants in business in Hatton Garden, London,

T— : r whom they bad been sold. The value , of the stolen jewels have been estimated . at from SIOO,OOO to $200,000. The mail steamer from Kingston, Ja- | maica, brought to Halifax an account by an American citizen, who xvas a passenger on board the steamer Alene of the Atlas line, of the firing ujxm it by a Spanish gunboat while passing the eastern end of Cnba. The American says the gunboat, when slightly south of Cape Maysi lighthouse, fired on the Alene, and when the latter hove to the gunboat made for the nearest headland, increasing to full speed, evidently disinclined to come nearer or give any explanation of its action. The Treasury Department has received through the Secretary of State and the Spanish minister the substance of a telegram from the Spanish consul at Key AV eat stating in effect that another filibustering expedition is fitting out at Pine . Reef, one of the Florida keys. Leaders and a number of men have left for there, i The Cincinnati is said to be at Key West. ! Assistant Secretary AVike has scut tele- • graphic copies of the Spanish minister's ■ notes to the collectors of i-ustoms at New . Orleans, Key AVest and Tampa, with instructions for them to consult the I nited . States attorney and the officers of the nearest revenue cutters with a view to preventing any violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. IN GENERAL The Green Countx Batik at Springfield, Mo., has gone into the bauds of a re- । ceil er. Deposits. sii<t,i*H>; assets. $l3O,- j ts»O. Heavy shipments of new dollars are being innde almost daily from the City of I Mexico, destined for China and Japan, । via San Francisco. The total exporta- . lions of Mexico in the hist fiscal year were $124N7».'>,353. divided as follows: United States, $H2,433.999: England. $29, 92’>.<MX); France. S7.7’M>,ihm»; Germany, $f.,474.9!»9; Spain. 52..832.999: Belgium. st©9,(?oo, and |hc remainder to minor countries. An American baby has been born on Herschel Island. Its mother is the wife of Captain A. C Sherman, ot tin- steam i whaler Beluga. Herschel Island is a barren sj»ot in the Arctic Ocean. It is ■ the extreme northern poriion of Ahiskx i and of British North America. The ■ whalers, most of whom had been away i from home for more than eighteen months ' when the baby was lx*rn. were greatly i interested in the event and sent many ’ presents to the happy mother. Then hnp|»ene<l to Im* a i lcrgyman of the Churei: of England nt the < amp. and he ehristem d i the child Helen Herschel Sherman. The ! baby Ims taken very kindly to the mild but perpetual dnyTnrht of the summer il Herschel Island, and bids fair to thrive ' there thresh the long. dull, winter i month*. Ps pltivthing* arc made front ’ whalebone, and its cradle was cut from pie- es of wreckage by a ship's carpenter. R. G Dun A Go 's Wiekfv Review of • Trade nays; “The price barometer gives i indications that are not entire'x favorI able. Cotton i.-•> I* go up. with im n as- , ing evidence that th- crop of cotton is ’ short. Price- of .qb- r mtmu: e tured | pn*du*'ts, of w ■ •!. h;d*'s. and leather, all f show seme decline, a general ahntr-metit j in new orders being the principal enuse. With an,immense vohu. e of bu-iaes-, not | much exviMMled in the largest month ot the rxeepriouai year 1N92 and with wii dem e that in -exetal important branches I the volume has surpassed that of any ’ prevmioi ve>tr. there is a growing timer I I amt x aUmt th, mar future <4 industries. are i.' iCM-r arauud nor i threatening, foreign exchanges t.o longer i raise uppre'heasiom and tears for the , gnat Northwestern < roj>« are jmst. There I have been few advances of w ages of labor ‘ during the last month ami only a tewi work* have been < losed by strikers for an । advance.” Private dispalt hes reccixvsl at San Francisco *ay that La Fax, Mexico, has < Iwcn complefeli destroyed bj a huKricane. ’ The storm was folhuxed by a tidal wave, • the wafers in the bay rising to an unpi 4, tile.! height, invading that portion <d the ity tr nt Of'm the U y and earryi mg out to -e i men, animals and debris >f : wreck.-d building* as the tide subsided. M,-x .-i s in Sai; Uraueisco -ay that they ‘ had dispati lw— about a severe storm wht< h j revailed all along the roast early ’in the week. The loss of life is reported : heavy, b d. mfis of the db-asti r :it ■ tmT.ger. La l'a is the capital of Lower i California and situated on a bay of the same name. i'he port is well sheltered ; and easily defensible against attack from the sea. The city had a population of ' Kot*', a cathedral, a government house ' and a town hmtse and the place was once the abode of luxury, as evidenced by the handsome dw,•Hings of the wealthy idass. The city was also nm e the seat of extensive pearl fisheries, silver mining was • \- ■ teusively engaged in and the •■ommer. v of tlie D>rt was not inconsiderable. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to ^5.75: hogs, shipping grades. s3.im) to s4.s<>; sheep, fair to choice, >.‘.30 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 59e to tile; corn. No. 2, 2*l” to 2'.r . oats. No. 2. 17c to 18c; rye. No. 2. He to 12c; l.ntter. choice creamery. 2b- to 2.“. c; eggs, fresh. IGe to 18c; potatoes, per bushel. 2”c to > 30c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush. 2 1 _e I” L' per pound. * Indianapolis Cattle, siiipo •s. : s:;."<i t” I $.7^5; hogs, choie- light. to > l j sheep, common to prime. ■" I wheat. No. 2. <>l<' to K"c; corm No I w hite, 2Ue to 31c; oats. No. 2 w hite. 22c to 24c St. Louis —Cattle. S3.<><* to s.».o>: hogs. $3.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 re<L 62e to <>3e; corn, No. 2 yellow. 2;>e to 27c. oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye. No. 2. 56c Cincinnati- -Cattle. $3.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50: sheep. s2.«>o to so-o>; wheat. No. 2. G7c to 69c; corn. No - | mixed. 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed. _oc to 22c- rve, No. 2. 44e to 46c. Detroit-Uattle, $2.50 to $5.2..; hogs. $3.00 to $4.5H; sheep. $2.00 to s3.G>j " heat. No. 2 red. 64c to 65c; corn. No. 2 yellow’, 31e to 32e; oats. No. 2 white, 21e to 22c■ rve. 42c to 4.>e. Toledo—AA'heat. No. 2 red. 65c to 67c; forn. No 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 whip., 21e to 23c: rye. No. 2,j!3c to 41c. Buffalo—Cattle. $2..>0 to $.>..»0; hogs. ^3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.,i0 to $4.~.>; "heat. No. 2 red. 68c to 70c; corn. No. - yellow, 36c to 3Sc; oats, No. 2 white, “^e to 25c. „ . - C) Milwaukee—AYhrnit. No. 2 spnng. 58c to 59c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats No. “ white 19c to 20c; barley, No. _. 3Jc to 41e ; rye. No. 1,40 cto 42c; pork, mess, S B -D 0 to $8.50. , York-Cattle, $3.00 to s;>mo; hogs, s3.no to $5 00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; " heat, No 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2. to 38c’; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 16e to 24c; eggs, AVesteru > 17c to 20c.

SPAIN IS MERCIFUL. « CAMPOS ISSUES A PROCLAMATION OF MERCY. “When the Devil Was Sick» the Devil a Monk AX’ould Be; AVhen the Devil Got Well, the Devil a Monk Was He.’’ Spain in a New Role. Gen. Campos has issued a proclamation to the Spanish unuy in Cuba forbidding the summary execution or illtri atment of prisoners. The ]>lacing of Unban women and children and prisoners in front of the "Squadron of Death," Spain’s heartless convict company, as I well as the atrocities of other Spanish I leaders, who look upon Cubans as snakes and not as humau beings, .has excited the disgust of the xvorld. The Spanish 1 Cabinet, cognizant of the effe<-t such ! cruelties would have in exciting sympathy I for Cubans, has instructed Campos to issue the proclamation in order to appease I an international wrath that might deI veloji into the recognition of Cubans as belligerents. "Wedonot hojie that SpauI ish cruelty will be any less vengeful than I it has been, but it will be more secret, । more discreet than in the jiast.” said the ! Cuban who brought the news to Jacksoni idle. Fla. "I’he day 1 left Havana scores of prisoners were taken from Moro Castle, I pitiful, half-starved specimens of human- | ity. burdened with chains, and carried on I board ship to be transported to Spain’s prisons in Africa, never to be heard of ■ again.” Itcath of a Famous Wonian, • Mrs. Clara Doty Bates died Monday m rtting at Chicago. She was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dee. 22. ! s 3n. and was the daughter of Samuel Rosecrans Doty, a cousin of General R isecrans. wi n traced back his ancestry through Ethan Allen to the first Doty of the Mayfiowe:’. < * her mother’s side was descended from the Laxvrence family of Virginia. | and she inherited the sturdy mora’. fiber j of the Puritan with the gr iee • of person g/ the • avalier. She was marrii-d in IXiHI io Morgan Bates, a well ku i.vii trade ' paper publisher, and since 1577 they h-iie 1 made ’.heir home in ('•licago. Mrs. Bates । was always a close student of the last iiitcat re and a lonlinuous, though not a voluminous, writer if poetry and of stories and -ketches, chietly for the i • ■-g ll* r first vers.-s nor;- jmblishi 4. i before ski' was • ight ye »rs old. and since I tin ii she had written constantly for the ’ best publishers. It is sai ] of h<r that S ■ tt:e death of Louisa M. A’.cott she i had wider circle of friends and admirers amoiig the young and among motht rs who l ave grown up to i ar their iliil- ; • t' tbe stories of h, rs that they icad •I । n elves in childhood than any other W”<m;u in Ameri<a. It is said of Mrs. • I’. H a' she ivas a Vuritun lithont bo:i: -i bigot. Her . harm ter was beauti- ; till a: 1 lovable. «»n M.m Kittel, Sc. co. Injured. Two lonvclers ai the American ir-m | \V. rk ot Jones A- Latig'i ns at Futsi c,, -r aed ALmd.ii m.wnmg and 'sixteen tens of mnt”n m •• t! pond m ■ the J i’ below, where i s, ore or mo'-e ' men Me ,■ at work, tine imci was fatalj ly bur: , |. three daiigetim- 'y ar. i fm r oii'.rs >.i>eimil -a.os ini’-ries. 'I he ‘ i:i red ii •re removed to the hesjota!, m here everything p • -sible was done to al-ik-xiato their suffering. The rcsiH'nsibili ity for the it' idi-ie nas not ’e: been ' placid, but it is said to hue been uui avoidable. The dam-ig” to he mill was not x ery heavy. The neident o, , urred j while the men were raising conv; rter No. । I. whit h contained ov, r eight t>>ns of ' molten metal. It is en ■ ated by c.mii pressed air power. Samm-l Love and i ' John Tunney were xvoi-Kiar nt it, and Le- . fore thev got it raised ihe nwn workmg at converter No. 2 si.tr'cd t • raise it air,.. The metal ran out of converter No. t , 1, and the men became so c ;< iied over the pessibil 'y of an i spins.< u that they le* “ । go of the < •.■mi>resed-air machiiie and • । allowed the • otivi rier io dr >p. l iie metal was thrown in every d rectmu and en--1 , vehqa d nearly all the m-n employed m ■’ . that portion of the mill. ■ j Lion Lashes His Tail. r । A teh gram from Para. Brazil, has been । received in Rio Janeiro, -tgting that an : ■ arim 4 British force is marching through : Brazilian territory to that part of A’enef 1 : ida elaimi il by the British Governi m nt. The new< will create a tremendotis sensation when it shall become gen- " ■ । rally known. < Hli -iaks of the State I>eI partment believe Gn at Britain ha* deti- ’ I i lo iy decided to refuse arbitration of the \C ezm l.m boundary dispute. This belief leads to aii nncomfortalde feeing that serious trouble is in slot-• for us. ami that Great B; Lain is likely to show stubborn resistance to the efforts ~f our government to apply the Monroe doctrine to this case. The Prcsjdi nl and his cabinet are in favor of enforcing the Monroe * I doctrine. BREVITIES. Franklin Leonard I’ope. of Groat Bar- ’ rington. Mass., the noted elc -trii-ian. was ‘ killed by a shock of electricity. Along the Neva Scotian < oast a hcavy ’ J Storm rag. ,’. 'Pile Amer: an brigantine 11. <'. Siblci n ent ashore at Black Rock. At .lamestown. N. A., it is reported that detectives have traced the murder of Mrs. Sherman ami Mrs. Davis in Busti last December to Emmet Bitties and three others who are in the Pennsylvania penitentiary for another crime. Mrs. Lillie J. Kreqqi and her son of Bancroft. AVis., were- arrested at Den>er on the supposition that they were to meet John Krejijc defaulting cashier of the Bancroft Bank. He did not appear and the woman and boy were released. By the explosion of a thrashing engine near Mountlake, Minn.. Joseph Schumacher. Jasjier Malette and two other men. names unknown, were killed. At Cincinnati, Ohio. A'ictoria Killner, 15. was found guilty of passing counterfeit money. Sentence was deferred to await a decision from Attorney General Harmon because of her youth. National Guardsmen will be interested in the case of Jose Ryan of the lowa militia, sued by his captain for sl4 for seven days' absence from anqi. Two courts decided for Ryan ami the case will go to the Supreme Court. State Senator Herb, who was stricken withjiaralysisat Alton. 111., is slowly sinking and there is little hope that he will rcObituary—At AA’est Point. N. Y.. Lieutenant Bert d'Armit. 32; at Nashville, 111., ex-Judge Isaac Miller, 76; at St. Paul, Rev. Zacariah Stiemke.

GOOD CROP REPORTS. FIFTY THOUSAND CORRESPONDENTS BEING ORGANIZED. The Agr cultural Department Enin a Gigantic Undertaking— The Agent Receives Only Department Documents in Compensation^ Improving the Service. Washington correspondence: Henry a. robinsou, the chief statistician of the Ag-

riculturul D e p a r tment, is engaged in the gigantic task of organizing a corps of oG.tMMj correspondents throughout the agricultural distric^s, particularly in j the AVest and South. a This corps will twice as great as the ~ standing army of the United States, neary ly one-half as great pas tiie militia force ■ in all of the States and Territories, one-

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twelfth of 1 percent, of the population of the I nited States, fifteen times as great as the whole corps of first, second and third class postmasters in the government service, to whom neariv SG,IMMUMM.> is paid every year. And tin-work of tlii< corps of correspondents will be performed without any cost to the government, except what is represented by the value of some crop pamphlets which are distributed by the Secretary of Agriculture every month. This work of organizing is the result of the meeting at AA’ashington last spring of the rejiresentatives of commercial bodies from all parts of the United States to protest against the system under which the information about the crops xvas collected. The chief occupation of the statistician of the Agricultural I b partment is the jireparation of statistics showing the condition of the growing crops. Bulletins containing this information are published every month. They are awaited anxiously by all the people who are interested in cotton or cereals. They are of chief inter - • ■st to the speculators in grain and cotton, because if the government report shows a good condition of the graving crops, the prici sos grain for future de ivt ry are like'y to go down; and if the government report shows a bad condition of the crops, or a decrease in the acreage planted, the price is likely to go ujc AA hatever the character of the report, there is one class of men dissatisfied with it; and never a month passes that the statistiean is not denounced by the speculators as unfair or stupid or corrupt. Air. Robinson’s predecessor, Prof. Dodge, bad this experience, and it was the persistent attacks of the speculators and the dealers in grain in the large cities that brought about his retirement from the department. Mr. Robinson is having a similar experience, and it is making his hair gray. Weakness of the Obi System. Under the old system of making up the monthly crop report, returns were received at the statistician’s office from ea>-h agricultural county. In each of these counties were four correspondents. One of these vas designated the chief correspondent, and to this one the other three sent their reports of the crop conditions on a day fixed. These three reports the chief correspondent combined with his own. and he made a report to ' the Department of Agriculture on the 1 crop conditions of his county. There were ; (and there are now. for that matter) 10.1 1100 of these- correspondents, of whom , 2.5i>0 sent reports to the department. In ‘ addition to these correspondents, there is another corps which is intended to be just as large, which is organized in each ! State under the supervision of a State agent, who receives a salary from the government. This salary may be anything from S4OO to Sl,2fMi a year. The : amount is supposed to be proportioned to the work. Mr. Robinson tells me that the division of salaries has not been entirely 1 fair in the past, and that there is to be a reorganization of those State agencies some time in the near future. These State agents appoint their corrcs](ondents in each county, who are independent of the agents reporting di--1 rect to the department. The reports of their agents are made to them direct, and then each State agent assembles the reports which come to him ami makes up a general rejiort of crop conditions in the State to send to AA'ashington. The two sets of correspondents are exi»eettd to be a check on each otlu r. If there is any discrepancy between the reports of one and ' (he reports of the other, the statistician investigates through a s]iecial agent, and learns which set of correspondents is wrong. AA'hen the representatives of the com- ' mereial bodies met here the statistician went over the subject of the reports with them very thoroughly, and after some consideration he came to the conclusion that he was not raking the country carefully enough for his crop facts. So.lffr 4 '”' termined to multiply th^ ■ V .„»A, dents to a —, _ -owmau Ol|l LRIM Jiepß 9A one to each JO AjOjS S||9J p iSBO A how to inson decided to write to the county clerks, as men likely to know the most available correspondents. So he selected twenty-one States, in which from twothirds to niue-renths of the grain crops are raised, and sent circular letters to the county clerks, asking them to send the names of men. two in each tow nship, who might be willing to act as the department's eorresjiondents. and who would be competent to make crop estimates. AA’ith each circular was inclosed a franked envelope for reply. This correspondence has involved no little labor. Most of the county clerks have replied promptly, but a great many have not replicil at all. and it has been necessary to address these again. In all. there are about 2.500 county clerks to hear from, but the department has not entered into correspondence with all of them at once. For. when the county clerk replies, it is necessary for the statistician to address circular letters to twenty men more or less in the county: and when these twenty men have replied, to send circulars to the alternates, in case the men first addressed refuse to serve. Harvard University began its 258th vear with increased attendance in all departments and the prospects of another prosperous year. The Indents have been pouring into Cambridge during the past week and the old college yard has shaken off its summer lethargy and become all bustle and activity once more.