St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 June 1897 — Page 6

Cljc Snbepcndcnt AW A.. HADLEY, I-übllsl-.or. WALKEBTON, - - - INDIANA. WOODFORD IS WISE. MAKES IT A RULE TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT. Will Not Talk of Spanish Affairs — —Santa Fe Loses $30,000 by Theft —Another Chapter in Koss Kidnaping Case Is Closed. Silence Is Golden. An interview tit New York with Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, minister to Spain, as published. in which he says: “From the moment I accepted the appointment 1 have not said one word in relation to it for the press or the public, or to any unofficial person in any form, and shall not do so under any circumstances. Whatever is to be made known to the people of that which I shall have in hand will properly and necessarily come from the State Department. If there is any rumor or .report in the newspapers or elsewhere of an interview with me about Spain or Cuba touching their affairs in any degree, you may be positive, without inquiry, that so far as it concerns me it is without foundation.” Christian iv. oss Dead. Cihristian K. Koss died of heart disease at Germantown. Pa.. Monday. He was the father of kidnaped (.'barley Ross, and up to his last illness Mr. Ross never gave up the search for his missing boy. whose abduction startled Philadelphia on July 1. 1874. and became an unsolved mystery the world over. It is nearly twenty-three years ago since Charley Ross, then 5 years of age. was picked up in East Washington lane, Germiantown, Pa., by two men. who. presumably, were to give the boy and his brother a drive. Walter, the elder lad. was sent back home, but of Charley no tidings were ever received. His father spent the best part of his life and of his fortune in hunting for his lost child'. The unknown abductors at first offered to return the boy for a ransom of $20,000, but when Mr. Ross decided to accept the proposal the Philadelphia police stopped in and offered a reward of $20,000 for the arrest of the kidnapers. This interference proved fatal to the recovery - of Charley Ross. In the winter of 1874 two burglars named Mosher and Douglass were shot while trying to enter Judge Van Brunt's residence in Bay Ridge. Mosher was dead when found, but Douglass, who survived a ft w hours, confessed they had kidnap-d Charley Ross. Westervelt, one of the robbers’ accomplices, served seven years for the crime. but nothing could be got from him touching the whereabouts of Charley Ross save that lie was dead. The police believe that the burglars, when pursued by New York poJiep. threw the boy into North river, ami that the body recovered later was that of the nkssiug boy. The remains, however, were n ver positively identified' by Mr. Ross as those of his son.

Fleeced by Falae Pay Foils. Although the investigation of the pay rolls of the Santa Fe has been in progr *s but a week, it lias already revealed s‘u alines amounting to about SBO,OOO, and officials who are in a position to know siy that this figure will be greatly exceeded. The' old game of placing fictitious names on the pay roll was worked successfully. In order to locate the fictitious names the Santa Fe sent out a pay car last week for the first time in three years. Assistant General Superintendent Turner and Chief of Detectives Kinney were on the car and attended personally to the work of handing out the checks. Hundreds of the checks were not called for and the Investigation proved that the names were fictitious. Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore .. .34 12 Pittsburg . . .22 24 Boston 34 13 Cleveland ...22 25 Cincinnati ..29 17 Washington. 19 23 New York... 27 IS Louisville ...19 28 Brooklyn ...24 23 Chicago IS 30 Philadelphia 24 26 St. Louis. ...10 40 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Columbus ...35 15 Detroit 23 29 Indianapolis. 33 ]G G’nd Rapids.l9 34 St. Paul 36 19 M-nm apdis. 19 35 Milwaukee ..29 2G Kansas City.lß 38 NEWS NUGGETS. The great tailors’ strike at New York, which at one- time involved about 20.000 tails. is ended. The last of the contractors surrendered to the men Tmsday. C. 11. Lamson asended to a height of fifty feet near Falmouth, Me., on one of his big kilts. He went up easily and came down all right after spending time enough dost to look about him. A. S. Austin, the California lawyer who asserted vha4 im could furnish evidence whit h would save Theodore Durrant from the gallows, has been adjudged insane and w’” I rokrn to the asylum. Ex-Mayor Swift of CTe-ao -in Wn-h-

wgton to ok ' mgri--. to p.m••• a duty of I cent oil . very pineapple brought into •this country. Air. Swift repres. nt> the interests of himself a.6 otlw r Florida growers. At Gadsden. Al t.. Henry Thomas, a negro excursionist from Birmingham, fired into a party of Gadsden negroes just as the train was leaving ami wounded Will Garner, a cabman. Garner am! his friends returned the fire and a general riot ensued. Thomas was shot in tin back and neck and was stabbed twice in the shoulder and will die. Two other Birmingham negro, s > < re shot and another stabbed. Bad whisky was the cause of the trouble. Mrs. Hora Richardson Maxwell start, d from her home in Fuente. Cal.. for New York City, to contest the will of her uncle. Jos. ph Richardson. w ho recently .lied t here poss. -<< d of a fort nue < st hunted as 'high as 82<>.<)O< pi•l<t. She is tin- daughter of Richardson's young, st brother. She has letters which she claims will prov. her right to a share of the estate. At Washington. Judge Bradley instructed the jury to acquit Broker Sey. vmmr. on trial for alleged contempt of jive Senate sugar trust investigating com knitter. B. ker Macartney will be trie. Sater.

EASTERN. William M. Evarts is dangerously ill with the grip at New York. The bite of a mosquito was the cause of a man being sent to the insane pavilion at Bellevue hospital, New York. Carmine Lepre, aged 42, a bootblack, was bitten on the h. nd a few days ago. He scratched it until it bled. Blood iioisoning ensued and he act* 1 so irrationally that he was sent to Bellevue. Within a short time three furnaces in the Mahoning valley which have been out of blast for some time will resume. They are the Struthers furnace at Struthers, the Andrews Bros. & Co. furnace and the furnace of the Youngstown Steel Company of Youngstown. O. The Andrews and Hitchcock furnace at Hubbard resumed ojH'rations Tuesday. The steamship British King. Which arrived at New York Friday night from Antwerp, passed the steamship Havel about half way from New York to Southampton. The Havel, which left New York JuneS for Bremen, had stopped ami displayed in her rigging three black sails, signifying, “I am not under control.’’ The British King stood by, but the Havel made no signals for assistance and the King proceeded. Doubtless there had been some accident to the Havel's machinery, or perhaps to her steering gear. Moro tea is now afloat on the Pacific ocean than ever before at one time. The importers of New York and other Eastern cities Lave made large purchases in China and Japan for immediate delivery, and are having it hurried across the Pacific in order to enter it before the Dingley bill goes into effect. A fliousand tons of new crop tea lias been landed nt Tacoma. Wash . and 12,000.(1(10 mmnds arc on the ocean between Yokohama ami that port. This tomprises the cargoes of the steam ers Braemer. Mogul, Tacoma and Victoria. The Canadian Line is also bringing heavy shipments. An attempt was made late Wednesday night to hold up a Baltimore tin 1 Ohio Southwestern passenger train m ar Salem 111., sixty-five miles east of St. Louis. The attempt failed through the w< akening of one of the robbers, who informed the sheriff of the gang's plans. With a poss ■ the sheriff went to the scene of the holdup before train time.. He found the track ) iled high with timbers. At the appearance of the posse the gang scat tend, ami most of them escaped, though fired upon by the sheriff and his officers One of the robbers was shot and captured, and h' is now dying in jail at Salem, where he was taken.

WESTERN. Chinch bugs arc reportisl to be damag ing wheat ami oats near Butler. Ind. The I ns'm ss jmrtmn of Morenci. A. T., was d stroyed by tire Monday night. The Ohio G. A. R. Ims voted to ask the I'nited States to buy the Vnksburg battlefield for a national p:rrk. Isaac Norton, cashier of the I'vrod States interim! revenue d. partment in S.ta Frane-sco. committed sui-ide. He had been notified that his accounts were to leexamined. The Illinois Supreme Court has denie I a rehearing in the ease of Kochers|»erger against the estate of John B. Drake, in which the court upheld tin- constitutionality of the inheritance tax law. At Prescott, A. T.. when the trial of the Parker case for the murder of Lee Norris closed the jury wns^otily on! fifteen or twenty minutes, when it reudi rcd a verdict of guilty, fixing the penalty at death.

Rev. Lorenzo D. Mcl iiie. D. D., for tiftV years a profiler in tl-c Ohio W i s leyan I niversily ami a distinguished nu thor aniftliisilogian in tin- Metlm-dist Epis empnl Chun h. d<d at Delaware, Ohio, in his eighty tirs-t y< ar. Mrs. B. M. Lampert, living near Au gola. Ind., "to inrnlly injured bj light ning Wednesday evening. She was tak ing el itlu-s from a wire elothi s line w lien a bolt struck a tree near her and s, nt a current through the wire. Judge Walter ('. Ong of the common pleas lunch was marly ki.l-d at (’h veiand by Iwing caught on hi- bicycle between a wagon and a motor. He was struck by the m >tor and crushed bv tin- life guard. His spine is badly injured. Miss Marie I’erduc. aged 18 y*ardaugh'er of Edward I’erduc, a t roll bank er of Huron, Kan., ebqnxl with Fred’ Walter, a farm hand, and was married to him at 1a a vi-r,w (>ri ii. W niter is 22 yi ar old. Miss Perdue mines of one of the best families in the State. I'pon application of the bondhofifirs. Judge Foster'nas apiHiinted L. L. Doubleday of ('olninlius, Knn., receiver of tie water works company in that city. The

company owns s6<>,taxi of outstanding bonds, upon which interest has been defaulted for about three y.ars. At Denver, Matt Adams, ex clerk of the District Court, who was found guilty of the embezzlement of county funds, was sentemed to State's prison lor live years. After the discovery of Stitt.(Mitt shortage m his accounts Adams lied to England, whence he was extradited last year. William Brockway is a charity patient at the St. Louis city hospital, suffering from the effects of dissipation. Brockway was once famous as a compos, r and musical director. For several years he was orchestra leader lor Mattie A inkers, George S. Knight and William J. ScanInn. While wit it the latter he composed iho famous "Lullaby.'’ t rue a- the Stars." "Little Sweetheart," and other familiar songs. Wednesday dawned upon the Northwest with a continuation of the awful heat J the day before, and in country, villages and cities the excessive humidity and high temperature combined caused many deaths and prostrations. But after noon a series of thunder showers brought relief. In Chicago heat caused three deaths and many prostrations, ami lightning claimed two more victims, while twenty-one persons were severely shocked.

Early Sunday morning a tornado struck the farm of John Eisenmann, several miles northwest ol Duncan, Neb. All his buildings were completely demolished. Mrs. Eisenmann was badly injured and a little child was found a quarter of a mile north on an old straw pile slightly injured. All trees in the path of the storm wore razed to the ground. Considerable damage by hail is reported in the vicinity of the tornado's path. Shortly after noon Sunday the mosif severe earthquake shock since IS6S did many thousand dollars damage to buildings in Hollister, Cal., and their contents. No casualties occurred, though several narrow .scapes are reported. Every brick building in town suffered, and in the court house the walls and ceiling lost most of their plastering. Much damage

was also done at Gilroy, and the shocks were plainly felt at San Francisco. Shortly after noon Sunday the most severe earthquake shock since 1868 did many thousand dollars damage to buildings in Hollister, Cal., and tiheir contents No casualties occurred, though several narrow escapes are reported. Every brick building in town suffered, and in the court house the walls and ceiling lost most of their plastering. Much damage was also done at Gilroy, and the shocks were plainly felt at San Francisco. The new tunnel in the Tomboy mine near Telluride. Colo., has cut the great ore chute in that property at a depth of 450 feet below the old workings. The upper workings have shown a continuous body of free milling ore over 2,(XJO feet long and nine to fourteen feet wide A controlling interest in the mine was recently sohl to the Rothschilds. Gov. Adams, one of the owners, says tfto new development makes it not onl^ the greatest mine in Colorado, but the greatest in North America. Serious troubl-e is expected between cattleme.i and sheepmen in the Henry's Fork six'tion in the southern part of Uintan County, Myo. Lately Sheepman Davt Crawford has been ranging his sheep on; Cottonwood Creek, to which the cattlel men object. A few days ago unknown^' parties went to Crawford's camp, took his rifle and shot a number of his sheep Crawford tried to prevent them, but the threatened to kill him and he was forege to allow them to do all the damage th® 1 ’ pleased. The sheepmen are uniting i-r^ threatening to make war on the eaflK men to avenge Crawford's treatment^H Another beet sugar company has jbert incorporated in .Mariuette (touuty, W&B M ith a proposed capital of .ftI.CMKI,OOO. "'ta incorporators are Karl <«. Korn, ('HW Heinrich and !•’. W. Balzendahl of Mm unukce. The slock is divided into 000 shares. The principal office of the company will be in Marinette. In addition to manufacturing sugar from bwls the company is to manufacture sugar machinery, and for that pur(>o«e will purchase the plant of the Marinette iron works. The statement is made that the greater part of the capital is from Europe and is invested by men a ho have bad large experience in the manufacture of beet sugar.

Lorenzo Dow MeCnbe, D. D., LL. D., aged 82, father of Attorney Rolmrt MeCals* of Chicago, and for fifty years pro-f<-Mir in the Ohio Wesleyan 1 diversity, died at Delaware. Ohio. Friday morning, after an illness of several weeks. His death was very ]>eaeefuL He publi<«hcd ■‘l’hilosophy of Holiness.'' "For Knowledge of God and Cognate Themes.” and "Divine Science of Future < 'outiagencies a Necessity. Hl IMliO he was fleet etl \ ice-President and served ns such. Ailegh< ny College confi rretl the degrc«> of D. D. upon him in 1*55 ami Syracuse 1 niversily LL. D. in 1*75. During the fifty years of his prof, - irship B.oxi stu d< nts hai l- gone through his cln-M-s. Tfie Kansu-Citv Star mid that officials o! the Aichi-on, I'op- k i ami Santa Fe Railvv iv Company have Mispi.-ted for some time that fictitious names and the names of dead men have been carried on the pay rolls. It i- rttmered that the compuny has been robb< d of thmi-amis of dollars, that one high official has already been lischarged for the offense and that others will follow him. The investigation w as conducted in m-rixy. and the otlicialH of the Santa Fe refuse to dl-cnss it. It was brought about bj the report of the M-rr'l service dv|>artment of the road, vv b ..iim,.! - Jun > ir, O p;-d * ^|t one official had robbed the company several thvusaud dollar* by drawing salaries of several tielitmus i nip iw whose names appeared on the pay Criminal pr ettti-m ot several mitiw officials is expected. W. L. Church, a well known Chicago politician ami for twenty year- an employe ,f th<- County Clerk's office, was found dead in beil at a looming house Friday morning. The room was full of gas, which was pouring from an open jet. and death was vaii-od by asphy xinthui. Tiie police think Church committed sui

cide. The man left no no-te or communication of any k nd gA ing any reason f<»r ending h;s Hf ( -, but h s friends think a long-standing ilhioks inu--*! him to luemne despomi, nt. Church was one of the most popular imhtn ;iiiix in (Tiivago and had hundreds of friends in the city. He

was about 45 years old and marri,d and 'itel with hi- wife and three grown children at 1323 Gris nwood avt-uuc. He bad iu in m i>*!iii s tiearlj nil his life and followed closely in the footsteps of his father The latter was as,, a well-know n poL itieian in his day and forty years or more ag * was slier iff of Co-k County and at one time acted as reeorder. WASHINGTON. In t’:e Senate bills were passed for public buildings at ('levo.and. Ohio, to cost 82.7<!0.g’K». and a: M- Keesport, Pa., to cost $2Ol tJWH). The Hawaiian :u,m xati-.n treaty swung between the White House ami the Senate chamber for several hours Wednes day. It was signed in the morning by the properlj accredited officials of the two government.s and left the State Department about 10 o'eloek <>n its way to the capitol, being sidetrmked for a time by I’r< sident McKinley. It is umb rstood., and the understanding amounts to a tixeri program, that the Committee on Foreign; Relations will hold the treaty until after the tariff bill reaches a vote in the Send ate unle-s some contingency not nowi foreseen should arise to compel earlier atM t!'>n. This rontinge-ney is hinted at bvj Si n it .'uni iiicuib' rs of < oiiy:r<'<s

their In aths. It is tile possibility of al war with Japan. The Japanese ministeri has signified the di--a t Nfa.dmn of hisGovernment >■ - the terms of the treaty , FOREIGN. Dr. Angell will go to Turkey, the Sultan having issued an order accepting him as minister from the United States. The Rev. William H. Milburn, the chaplain of the United States Senate, preached two sernmns on Sunday in the Queen’s Bark Church, London. Rev. Father Kncipp, known throughout t'ne world for his water cure, who has been suffering for some time past, died at Wocrishofeti Thursday.

Four more bodies of supposed suicides have been found in the Thames at. I/ondon, making twenty-one Iwdies found in the river during three weeks. The steamer Joseph Oteri, from Bocasdel, To'-o. June 5, for Mobile, with 19,000 bunches of bananas, put back June 7 with shaft cracked and propeller broken. Sha threw overboard most of her cargo and will endeavor to make repairs at Bocasdel, Tero. The trial of Frank Butler, charged with the murder of Captain Lee Weller while the two men were on a gold prospecting trip, ,vas concluded at Sydney, N. S. W.,

the jup? rendering a verdict of guilty. It was his practice to advertise for a pros--pecting partner, and having found one with means, to murder him while in the bush. The Athens correspondent of the LonTele ßraph says: “It is reported, that the peace conference and the Porte have accepted a settlement giving Turkey either the town of Ligaria, southeast Ot 2‘. Ina ’ or ^‘‘zeros, north of Larissa- Ihe Athens correspondent of the i»ady Chronicle says the Porte has abanof dpla ^ and decided to veept the advice of the powers. Queen Victoria began Jhe celebration of her jubilee Sunday, as was befitting her entire career, before the altar of her faith. Throughout London, the I'nited Kingand the Empire, in every cathedral, 1 ? r of the establish^! church of England, were held services similar to those at St George’s <-hapel, Windsor, where her Majesty paid her devotions and offered solemn thanks to God. She was deeply affected. There was a touch of tenderness in the scene, when, following the simple religious ceremonies, the roya mother, with tears rolling down her cheeks kissed the Empress Frederick and others of her children. IN GENERAL. Marion Nlaiimn, the opera singer, mid her husbaml. Jack Mason, have separated. Obituary; At Bloomington, 111., Charles (h'amp, <ii- At Sau FrimciMco, George Pfuwtiice Barries. Henry Brigham, a Portage hi Prairie (Man.) carpenter, while temporarily inpano, killed his sister-in-law and himself. Obituary: At Now York. John W. Shaw. At Laporte, Ind., John R. Whitaker. At Elyria, Ohio, Mrs. Dr. Goodwin, 87.

The steamship (’ity of Rio de Janeiro, at San Francisco from the Orient, brought an unusually large consignment of prepared opium from Macao. There are over !MM) ca-i-s of tiie drug, valued at about $2,(KK).000, uihhi which the duty amounts to $221,4(i(>. A. R. Milne, collector of customs -it Victoria, B. ('., is in receipt of a letter from Hakodate in which it is siatisl that the Japanese diet has passed a bill to subsidize sealers. This is expected to cause the transferor many British sealers to the Japanese flag. Sidney J. Sanford, county treasurer, has disapixared from Barrie, Ont. He went away June 9. leaving a letter, which was not delivered until Wednesday, saying there was a shortage in his accounts which he could m»t meet. A partial invetigati >n shows a loss to the county of about SI(Mi.HM), which will probably D- increHsvd by further investigation.

Wey |er, the Spanish general, will soon lx? astride a saddle horse which wae bought in Kansas t’ity ami raised some-«l-.ero in Mis-mri. The animal was shipI«xl v .i New i >r-< alls • . Weyler by a Kansas (•ity firm. wh:< h has sent nearly .*iihi mules to Cuba dm ng the last sixty days for the Spin -h army It .s statevi that the price paid was

Julia Marlowe, who is re. ognized a« being tin- repi s-»utative American tragedienne. nt:d Ie r husband. Robert Tnyb>r, have di <-idvd t । part, ami each w ■ I star independent’y n.\t m-.k n. Ms* Mar low i, ti e only rival in certain lines . f \d;i Rebun, has bi -a very ae. i- sfu; for s* v oral xvhs >n«. and the imrting comes in the nature ot a great surprise. Just tv ha the n asomi are is not known, but it is sail! that tbe isniple did not find marriage (?»•• state of eottnnbial Isis* they anticipated. They were married two y ears ago thfesummer, ami went < n a bridal tour to Euro//..'. Tub rn a- he: ten’

vents ago, but left t-> go with Rose Cogh Inn. After th. wnrringe he n -hiiksl his form, r p ..to n, nnd fia, ln * u acting in that capacity since.

R. (J. Dun A Co's W- kl? Re* ew of Trade says: “Tho retarding isitlm-ms- of void mul ut»si asuiiabii w eather has passed. The gain iu business hits iMKxitne clcanr to nil As m> g-nuine improvement ever b, gms w ith an uplifting of prices before th, - prodm ing for-e has be come fairly employed, this does not. nnd the buying of 7,<«>o baAustralian w >1 by om- lb st.m ho • .- . --1 I<MM W pig iron by a Wall sinet op. rat -r. and ad vauetug i rm. s f .t < .« ks, are the only proof that tin- actual e..tnHtioiis are understood by <. me capable men. Iluro is widen, e ..f gradually enlarging bus.m -s in every inqw.rDiut department, inure t - tabliKhiuetits have been set nt work, and more hands .-mphiyt d. and while pruih-uce Ptiil binds s[h i-ul.itive iv . -s<", the progress toward better things is unchecked. Reports from the various <-itl«— show a very general progress ami a eontimiing large distribution through retail trade. 'Elie proof is ckarer, as it should be. in the : n<It:-1»*l;iI tl.an in the trailing field.” MARKET REPORTS, Ch> -ago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sh. -p, lair to <h- . -e, S2.'KJ to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, GSc to 79c; corn, No. 2, 2le to 2Ge; oats. No. 2, lie to 19v; ;ye, No. 2. 33c to 31c; butter, choice creamery, 1 b- to Ilic; eggs, fresh, 8c to 9c; putatoi s. p. r bushel, 25 ■ to 35c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, $25 to S7O per lon. Indianapolis Cattle, shif :>ing. $3.00 t > $5.25; Logs. .-I .... . '■. s - ; i.o t , $3.75; tsheep, common to i Loire. s3.(fo to 8 1.2..: ; Mheat, No. 2. 75c to 77c; corn. No. 2 White. 20e to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Uc ' to 22c. jf St. Ixiuis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, |53.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; f wheat, No. 2. 82c to 85c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 22c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18e; rye, No. 2,31 cto 33c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 83c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27,c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 19e to 20c; rye, No. 2, “Ge to 38c.

Detroit- ('at tie, $2.00 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, S2c to 84c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye. 34c to 36c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. Sic tc Sue; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,34 cto 36c; clover seed, $4.20 to $4.25. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 3,24 cto 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; barley. No. 2,28 cto 34c; rye, No. 1,34 cto 36c; pork, mess, s<2s to $7.75. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, Stic to 87c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; shiep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, .11 to 16c; eggs, Western, 10c to 12c.*

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Halls of Congress Important Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. The Senate madegreafer progress Thursday on the tariff bill than any day since the debate opene d. Two entire schedules, covermg twenty pages, were completed - name:v, schedules 11. on spirits, wines ami beverages, and schedule I, on mam:factured cotton goods. The portion of the bill passed is substantially the same as that reported, all committee changes being unimportant, while the opposition amendments of Mr. Jones of Arkansas and Mr. Vest were systematically rejected by majorities ranging from five to ten. Mr. All-son secured the addition of a new paragraph to the cotton schedule, with r. view to <xvmp<nsatiiig the cotton manufn.tur.rs for the recent action of the bmnto in placing raw cotton on the dutiable list. '1 lie House was in session an hour and a half, most of the time being taker, up with roll calls. The bi:i for the relief of the residents of Gri-er ( ounty. ( >kkihoiini« whh unsai d the tariff tnll came to a halt in the Senate Friday, less than one pagw of the flax schedule being disposed of. The debate drifted into political channels. Lase in the day Mr. Morgan proposed a s vv< < ;>- ing amendment to place a lo per cent m' valorem duty on all artic'is now on the free list, with a few stated exceptions. In supporting the amendment Mr. Morgan ca' id attention to the singular fm-t that the income tax feature of the Wilson bi" is not repealed and can be enforced by a change in tin- personnel of the Supreme Court of the* I’nited States. Bills were passed for public buildings at Cleveland, ()., to cost s2.7imi,<xmi, ami at MeK.csport. Pa., to cost S2(NI.(K>(). (living to the interest in the Hawaiian annexation treaty Mr. Davis of Minnesota secured an agreement for the printing of s,ci:(i copies of the treaty and other documents. In the Senate Saturday the I'lnam-e CommithM* failed to secure adoption of its report fixing the tariff schedule upon matting. bagsing, jute fabrics and burlaps. I ho effect is to ri store floor mattings manufactiired from straw and other vegetab ■ substances to the free list. These in- • ■imle tl.e Japanese. Chinese and Indian mattings; i; b<- Imr’aps. jute grain bags a d cotton bagg ng. This result was reached by .Mi—><. Cart< r and Hansbnmgh. Uepuhii. ans, uniting with the opp. sifion.

The s. ante mad* - a:.t strides on the tariff bill Monday. covering fifty-sx pages. The list two s ( 4ii>d.iies of the duf able list, euviring paper and manufaetund sundries, were completed, with the IXe] ' Oil of ilie |a ia LTU [ill s on hides, gloves, coal and some h sser artos. which went over. This advam-i d tl.e Senate to -he free ]'-t. vv hu h was oomph ti d iu three hours. Early in t’uday the wool ami silk soln dubs went ,-ver with an agn-tment that wo-I would be lakiu up Tuesday. After that the tobaei o s, ’mdule. the reciprocity provisions ami l ie internal revenue |*ortions of the bill ns well as the many isolated paragraphs passed over r* niain to be considered. The progress M< nday was so mark•xl, Fiwe'u r. that for the first film- there w.o. a feeling that the end was not far Oil. Th.- House, aft. r the approval of th.- journal, adopt. ’ a bill appropriating SjnoyMKi f,,r the repair of dry d. k No. 3at New I ork Mr. Dingley of Maine, from th. Committee on Ways ami Means. pr«Mmt«sl n favorable report on a joint resolution providing that foreign exhibitors at ! lie I mana exposition in IS9S may bring to this .imntry laborers to P’eii.oc ami Lave charge of exhibits. Two u-' dim nts provide that the S. < ret ary •■f the Tn risury ska]] fix th,. nnmlM-r of tab r. rs to . ■ t. r the i-mintry ami that they shall leave the I'nited States within tnr.e tm ml:< from tin terminaiion of tile exposition. An ■ x ■ -:g di Late ma: k< -1 the considf ' ,1' io: i .•! :,, e w < ■ s . ieu tl Ie ill till Senate T ■ - lay I i a wai m personal < x < i'.ti go b, :;.v is-n S. . -ors Car'- rof M.m---!i .a .i'l l Foraker .! (>;i!.. on the one Lend and Mr. Ah.-on . ( lowa, in charge of t bill. ■ tin- other. Mr. Foraker a- rt-■! !i.:: .r.i aur>-mein concerning rates on certain wools was Ding viola;<d and that under such circumstances .v. ry S- r vv mid b ■ fr. to act for C lm-clf. Mr. Ain-mi de.lartd he rmil.i i 4 be '.riven l.y C rents. Mr. Car:. ; - , i who had ar.ms.il the ■ :>-rm, . ml.-avore: j to have the paragraphs r.lating to carp- । wools go iv .-r, but Mr. V. <l obj.cied. Mr. T.'.l. rof C. rado al-.- spoke mrai - i delay. A-i.:.- from th.< ii it rruptl m fair I [ rognss W... made . a Ilie wool m iw.bl'e. i The duty mi first-cla- - wool was ;mr. i i to at 9* ci nts par pound irul on HO'iiJI class wmo 11 i'< nt<. xvl)i< h is D twe. n the i IL.a-e ami 8 mate rates in . a.-h . i The ra !s on . ait • ! -ei - wools w. nt ov r. ' M.i't o'’ the otlu r aim :. Inn n- related l» ; the ma- ilh ath-ii < - f v.. Mr. J<m. s.. ’ I Arkansas -po 1 .., ronh.-' dm < dir. sc.;. ;h A Horne Thrust. A short time since a young man from I.ondon arrived in a northern city, and wishing to let his friends, in the South know of his safe arrival, he \v< nt to a pcstottice- not the chief one —and inquired if he could send a telegram direct from the office, and how long it would lake. The young lady was inclined to lu-snubbish. and c”t short bis inquiries with:

"I am not paid to answer y qm st ions." Her face blanched wonderfully. however when, she found h< rs< If compell 'd to wire the following uwssage: "Arrived safe. Girls here ugly end bad-tempered." The automatic alm*-distributor is an ingenious device, and is a texm^tl of the ordinary penny-m the-slot machine in that it dispenses the <'<>in instead of absorbing it. The contrivance i< devised to act as a labor test for vagrants and beggars, for it exacts the turning of a handle 100 times before it yields the covet, d penny. And this labor is by no means lost, for it actuates machinery, electrical or otherwise, which will perform some actual work, or store up the energy expended for future use.

DEATH IN THE HEAT. Suffering: Humanity Succumbs to Sun’s Fierce Rays. The excessively h-jt weather of the fifust week, following an unusual cold spring period, has brought no inconsiderable suffering. Many places report the hottest June weather ever known. Wednesday the South was a furnace. In Kansas the earth sizzled under shade trees, which could not keep the mercury from reaching 100 degrees. Only Duluth escaped the hot wave, the thermometer registering a minamum of 4G degrees there, 31 degree's lower than at not far distant St Paul. Tiie extreme East l;ad a few degrees less warmth. This is an indication of how the country swelter, d: Concordia. Kan.. 100 Des Moines 00 Omaha ps Davenport 90 Dodge City 9(5 St. Louis 90 Jacksonville. Fla. 96 Springfield, 111.... 80 Abilene, Texas... 94 Nashville 90 Kansas City-.... 94 Washington 88 Charlotte, N. C?. 94 Chicago 84 Amarillo, Texas. 92 New York 80 1 arkersburg .... 92 Boston 78 North Platte ... 99 Albany 78 Chicago and vicinity Wednesday afternoon and night was visited by a terrific thunderstorm. Strange visitant with the rain was hail which fell heavily in tha fKiuth end of the <-ity. Terrifying lig'h'tning flashed and played-queer freaks, and thunder roared- Fatalities were supple* mentisl by damage to property and by broke-i and surcharged overhead wires. Persons wee sihocked and injured by the efi-etric fluid. T-he rain fell in sheets and chokexl up sowers atud flooded basenaen-ta over tiie city. The electrical disyilay, due to tthe long drought and the overcharged condition oi the air, was something marvelous. It had another side than the spectacular. As the Harrison street bridge the Jightmcng became enamored of the iron girders of the structure, ami completing a circuit with the ground wires of the trolley kne, turned the bridge into a mighty magnet. George Brown, a driver, urged his horse out upon the bridge in spite of the blno flames that were playing along the iron rods. The animal was- hardly upon the structure before the electric fluid leaped through the iron calks of its shoes and it went down in a heap, stone dead. The draw was finally swung open and the circuit broken. Lightning struck several electric street cars, ,-ne of which was thrown from tho irack by the shock. Lightning ran along the cable in the power house of the MetTopditnn cle-vated electric road and caused a blaze in the repair shop. The rainfall lasted almost incessantly from 3 o’clock in the afternoon until midnight.

CROPS IN GOOD SHAPE.

Favoring Weather Conditions and Everything Growing Rapidly. Tin- following bulletin, based on tho reports of the directors of the several climate ami crop sections, is furnished for the information of the public: The weatbi r conditions of the week have b< i n generally favorable to agricultural Interests over the greater portion ot the country. There las been too much rain, however, in New England and the northern portions of tiie Middle Atlantic States, where It has a:so been rather cool, whlls over portions of the lower Ohio valley, western Tennessee and northeastern Silssourl rain Is much needed. Except over limited ureas rains would also prove generally beneficial to growing crops In the central valleys am! Central Gull’ States. The latter part of the week was particularly favorable In the Stati s <>f the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys. In ?>ebruska the week was tin- most favorable of the season. Corn, i while generally backward, has luade good i progress in the principal corn States under the favorable weather conditions of the past week. A marked Improvement In the condliion of the crop is reported from Missouri. Kans:;s ami Nebraska, and generally throughout the central valleys improvement is reported. Cold weaJher and frosta of prei UK wtiks have caused serious Injury In Wisconsin, Minnesota ami North Dakota., and the unseasonable cool weather of the past week in New England and tiie northern p rtions of the middle Atlantic States and upper Ohio valley has retarded tiie progress of corn. In these last named districts the cron is backward and the plant looks yellow, while eonsidi rable rotting In the hill Is reported from New England. There has been a general Improvement In the condition of cotton tlirouyhcut the cotton belt, the Improvement being most marked in South Carolina ami Georgia. The crop is generally clean and insects less numerous. In Texas the crop needs warm, dry weather over the northern portions of the State, where growth has been slow and some replanting continues. while showers would prove beneficial In other secttans i f the'State. (Vinter wheat has, ex < pt on the Pacific coast, continued to Improve. Harvest is now in progress In tho southern portion of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, and Is nearing completion la some of the more southerly States. M’KINLEY’S SUMMER HOME. He Has Found an Ideal Retreat a Fexv Miles from Washington. Seven miles soutirwest of Wa^hi'ngtan and back of Fort Myer President McKinley has acquit ed a summer home known as "(’lo-rry Valley,” though not perhaps named after the historic incident in the life if George Washington. It is the pro; ■ -*y of ex-Senator John B. Ih-n-der-son of Misscuri. Here President and Mrs. McKinley, with Secretary and Mrs. Porter, will epend the heated summer mor ! us. The house is far back from the pnbli< re-ad. Situated along a veritable forest a

' 4b 4" 4’Ww - tS t. it' 's^ o _I \i m’kixley’s summer home. fruit and shade trees, t'he small summer cottage is as completely isolated as though it were a thousand miles from the national capital. One must have a most intimate acquaintance with the geography of the adjacent country in order to find the house at all. It is reached by a narrow lane which turns in from the man road about half a mile below the small village of Ballston. The official program of the queen’s jubilee proee-wmi as published, has given umbi-ige to the Liberals, owing to the ut.tcr al -01100 of recognition of the civil and industrial side of the queen’s reign. Tthe Daily Chronicle is very outspoken on the subject, especially at the omitting of Mr. Gladstone. Albert Benson and Thomas Olsen got into a friend'iy wrestling match at Brooklyn. Olsen 'lifted Benson off his feet and threw him backward. He did not rise, however, and Oisen walked over and fried to raise him. Benson’s neck was broken.