St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 11, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 October 1897 — Page 2

t£ljc Jniupuniicnt. -■ ■■ -^4 W. A. EMJLEY, I’uDlisßer. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. REPULSE FOR REBELS GUATEMALAN TROOPS OVERCOME REVOLUTIONISTS. — Port of Ocas Is Captured—lnsurgents ^^^^Concent rated in Quezaltenango, ^^Yhich Will Soon Be Besieged by ^\yal Forces. Ro ^Trouble Ilas Commenced. ■egation of Guatemala at W ashingTh« received the following telegram: ton IWution broke out on the 7th in San “Revis and later in Quezaltenango and Marc towns. Port of Ocas recaptured othenvernment forces. Rebels attacked by gmeapan and were repulsed. They Toton\neentrate in Quezaltenango, which now cron be besieged by loyal forces. — - । Indians Making Trouble. Two companies of United States cavalfthe Boise barracks passed through Pocatello, Idaho, on route to the Fort Hall agency to assist Agent Irwin in plae s "g Indian girls in school. About a hundred of the young bucks, encouraged by the old squaws, have formed a conspiracy to keep the girls out of school and have defied the authority of the agent. The trouble began a few weeks ago, when a 14-year-old girl, who had been married during the summer, was gathered in by the Indian police in their search for school children. Iler husband and his friends set upon the police, and alter a sharp tight took the girl away from them. Poles in Bloody Fight. Nine men were fatally injured and 3G > more wounded in a bloody riot at Girardville, Pa. The Lattimer affair was the cause of the trouble. Voles boarding at Culacabbage's hotel walked to Cavendish's hotel, where Lattimer workers were celebrating pay day. The result was a bloody encounter, in which axes, knives, razors, clubs and other weapons were used with deadly effect. The police oflicers were powerless to quell the riot. England Will Confer. Notwithstanding contradictory reports. Sir Julian Pauncefote will return to Washington in time for the Bering Sea conference. The staff of the British embassy, now at Munehester-by-the-Sea, will return sooner, and. according to present. plans, the entire British representation will be there when the sea! conference is held. Athletes of the binmon 1. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 91 38 Washington. 59 69 Baltimore .. .88 38 Pittsburg ... .57 71 New Y0rk...81 47 Chicago 57 72 Cincinnati . .74 55 Philadelphia. 54 75 Cleveland ...G9 59 Louisville ...51 7G Brooklyn .. .GO G 9 St. Louis. .. .28 100 Sheriff Martin to Blame. The coroner's jury which investigated ~tiie death of the miners at Lattimer, Pa., has returned a verdict that "the killing was wanton and unjustifiable.'’ BREVITIES, Gold quartz assaying $692 to the ton has been found near Lake Wawa, Ont. A skull supposed to be that of Pearl ' Bryan has been found in an Ohio river sandbar. Raymond Bushrod, colored, was lynched at Hawkesville, Ky., for a most brutal assault. United States Minister Woodford Monday paid a visit of courtesy to the Spanish premier, Gen. Azcarraga. Emperor Francis Joseph has forbidden the prosecution of Count Badein, who fought a duel with Dr. Wolff. Six customs officials have been arrested at Constantinople for circulating pamphlets of the young Turk party. Guatemala has offered SIOO,OOO for the heads of Prospero Morales, the revolution- । ary leader, and his aid, Manuel Fuentes. Rev. IV. A. Hunsberger, Milwaukee’s “marrying parson.” will continue to do business at the old stand for another year, the conference having reappointed him to the charge of the Grand Avenue Church. The official reports of the French harvests of barley and oats for 1897 show that the former will yield 15.542,210 hectolitres, compared with 1G,241,431 in 189 G, ami that the latter will yield 87,016.900, compared with 92,003,398 in 189 G. Department Commander Dodge of the Grand Army of the Remiblic in Indiana has issued an order in which lie asks every member in the State to contribute 5 or 10 cents to care for the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln in Spencer County. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse has proved j herself not only the largest but the fast- f est steamship afloat. On her initial trip ; to New York she broke the record from Southampton one hour and forty-six min- । ntes, making the distance in 5 days 22 hours and 45 minutes. Os the three men who climbed into the elevator at the bottom of shaft 4 of the northwest land tunnel in Chicago, to ascend to the surface for luncheon, two are dead and the other cannot live. This was the result of the breaking of the steel cable which supported the car. Replying to the accusation of inconsistency made against him for condemning the so-called concert of the powers. Mr. Gladstone writes: "In 1880 we tried to make the concert act and we failed and went on without it. We thus procured enlarged territory for Montenegro and Thessaly for Greece. This is exactly what I have desired for a mode of action in the East in these two disgraceful years. Compare the results.” Henry Tolleston of Toledo, Ohio, and Prof. Daniel J. Holmes of Meadville. Pa., College are believed to be held by Swiss bandits. They were last heard from at Martigny, Switzerland, Sept. 8. Fourteen leading 'Wisconsin maltsters decline to join the American ' Malting Company, and announce their intention to fight the trust to the bitter end. Farmer John Becker, who lived near Carroll, lowa, killed his wife and five children Monday night and wounded his eldest son. He then shot himself and is expected to die. The cause for the tragedy is shrouded in mystery.

EASTERN. Mrs. Phoebe Phillips has married Robert J. Hibbart, who was on trial at Atlantic City for shooting her four times last summer. Seth Low has announced that he will not withdraw from the New York Mayoralty race unless the Citizens’ Union wants 1 him to do so. First Lieutenant R. G. Hill, Twentieth Infantry, U. S. A., attempted suicide by jumping from a train near Harrisburg, Pa., but escaped almost uninjured. The Kings County Electric Light and Power Company will compete with the Edison company in Brooklyn, and it is said will adopt some of Nicola Tesla's devices and discoveries. IV. 11. Osterhouf has begun suit for $541,000 against Elmer and Jay Dwiggins, the New York stock brokers who have failed. He claims stock and bonds held by the firm as collateral. Rev. Eliphalet Nott Potter, D. D., LL. D., formerly president of Union College in Schenectady, has accepted the presidency of the Cosmopolitan Educational University. The Cosmopolitan University, it will be remembered, is the new institution founded by John Brisben Walker of New York, the presidency of which was offered and accepted by Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, but later rejected when he withdrew his resignation as president of Brown University. ' WESTERN. Kankakee marsh land, near New Carlisle, Ind., is afire and farm buildings are in danger. Chief of Police Thomas Colbert of Indianapolis has been suspem.Cd for alleged intoxication. Rev. B. L. Morris of Greencastle, Ind., was stricken with paralysis while in the pulpit at Brazil, Ind. Natural gas exploded in a colored church in Indianapolis, and four persons were dangerously injured. Mamie O'Brien, 13 years old, was abducted from St. James’ Convent, Chicago, by an unidentified woman. Nearly the entire business portion of Bainbridge, Ohio, was destroyed by fire and two men lost their lives. A kinetoscope exploded in Belview, Minn., and caught lire, causing a panic in which several persons were injured. Judge Ryan of the Indiana Superior Court has decided that loan associations can collect only the legal rate of interest. General D. B. Ainger of Lansing has been appointed receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Benton Harbor, Mich. IV. F. Karron. now imprisoned in the county jail at San Francisco, charged with embezzlement, has fallen heir to $250,000. Authentic information is at hand that there is a great discovery of free milling gold ore in the Chocolate mountains of Yuma County, Arizona. Shoshone and Bannock Indians in Idaho are slaughtering elk and deer and the settlers are preparing to drive the redskins away by force. The John Gund brewing and malting plant burned at LaCrosse. Loss is S3(K),000, half of which is covered by insurance in old-line companies. A human skeleton, probably buried twenty-five years, was unearthed by laborers digging sand at 57th street and South Park avenue, Chicago. Richard and John McGriff, twins, have just celebrated the ninety-fifth anniversary of their birth. One lives in Geneva, Ind., and the other in Ohio. Colored citizens of Alton, Ilk, took their children back to the old schools and placed them in seats. The principal refused to let the colored children recite. The Minnesota Iron Company at Duluth. Minn., has decided to increase the wages of all its employes 10 per cent. Mining operations will be conducted with a full force all winter. Within the last two weeks notices of intention to construct 3,0(>0 miles of new railways have been tiled with the territorial secretary of Arizona. There are thirty-one separate filings of almost as many separate lines of railways. The question of whether the authorities in the Roman Catholic Church have the right to remove priests at their will was decided in the affirmative by Judge Dick, sitting at Waukesha. The decision was rendered in the celebrated Barton ease. The notorious Staffiebaek house, near Galena, Kan., was burned by a mob at midnight on Wednesday and every vestige of the old structure, where murders and crimes of the most diabolical nature were said to have been committed, was destroyed. After tiring the place the mob withdrew and watched the old structure burn. No fire alarm was turned in until the building was nearly consumed and then no efforts were made by the lire department to extinguish the flames. The search for the remains of the Stattieback family victims still goes on. Suit has been commenced in the Federal Court at Omaha to declare the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange a trust, and a perpetual injunction is asked to restrain its members from further acting as an organization. The suit is begun by United States District Attorney Sawyer, acting under instructions from Attorney General McKenna. Similar suits, it is said, will be begun against every live stock exchange in the country. The attorney general's office at Washington declares its belief that it has a good case against the South Omaha exchange, and that it can prove that it is operating in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The United States engineers in charge of the fortifications of San Francisco have directed that a survey be made on the shore line on the south side of the bay and Golden Gate from Black Point to Point Lobos. The purpose of the survey, which has just been begun and will be completed a week hence, is to accurately locate the forts for the information of the War Department. Army and navy officers think that the harbor defenses are now sufficiently well advanced to stand off any fleet that Spain or Japan could put into action there, and they arc strong enough, with the assistance of floating batteries of the Monterey and Monadnock type and with the aid of torpedoes, to •make a splendid fight against the best fleet England would be likely to send. SOUTHERN. Bishop Maos of Covington has been appointed archbishop of New Orleans. Serious damage to the tobacco crop of Kentucky and Tennessee has been done by frosts. A second death from yellow fever occurred in New Orleans Wednesday, mak-

ing eight in all. The victim was Miss Elizabeth Nussbaum, aged 17 years of . 1300 Galves street. The Mexican War Veterans, in session t at Nashville, elected Major S. P. Tuft of Illinois president. I Light frosts are reported at Covington Milan and Arlington, Tenn. Arlington is i only a few miles from Memphis. The sawmill boiler of E. G. Dex, three i miles from Livermore, Ky., blew up on Thursday. Three men were killed and , ten injured. Cold water running into the boiler caused the accident. The mill wa totally wrecked. At Edwards, Miss., eight now cases three deaths from yellow fever, is the report. Indicatios at present are that nothing but. a killing frost can allay the disease. The disease is rapidly spreading and while it is regarded as a mild type, it is feared it will become more malignant owing to cool weather now prevailing. 'rhe execution of Grady Reynolds and Bud Brooks, murderers of M. C. Hunt in Jackson County, Ga., was postponed’ The Governor respited Brooks for fouL weeks on confession made by Reynold that he, single handed, had committed-t^’ e murder, but that Brooks planned the mU.. der and shared in division of the mon| WASHINGTON. "If the 'TnUßm eut docs not ta action favorable to Cuba by Dece.-.^r we, the members of Congress, will re<*gnize Cuba's independence, and that, io, at the beginning of the session.” R< 5 sentative Livingston of Georgia j spoke the above, is a Democrat atid a member of the minority, but, a Wasl ilug. ton correspondent says, he voices the sentiment of the majority in the 1< n er house. - The monetary commission appointed mj. der the authority of the IndianaixJTTs sound-money convention held its opening session at the Arlington Hotel in Wash ington, D. C., M ednesday. L. Carroll Root of New York and Barker Willis of Chicago were appointed to collate j n proper form the suggestions that have been received for reference to she appropriate committees. The appointment of three general committees will also be recommended viz.: On gold and currency, on United States currency and on the banking question, to which the suggestions received will be referred. The necessity of increasing the personnel of the navy will be presented to Congress in the forthcoming reports of bureau chiefs of the Navy Department. Rmh officers and mon are needed to man the large number of ships now in commission. Capt. (Towninshield, chief of the bureau of navigation, in order to find officers for vessels is compelled to search the service with a fine rake. The tour of shore dnty of line officers, with the exception of those in common grades, has been cut down in many cases and hereafter the younger officers will have considerably less lime on shore. So far as the engineer corps is concerned, it is understood that Engineer in Chief Melville proposes to recommend that one hundred officers be added to the corps as soon as possible. The ijck of enlisted men has been apparent, for some time. FOREIGN. M • onicral in n ke l ami I \ed Mohmands umK'r the haddah mullnb, fj Foor thousand Croatinn peasants In I risen in armed rebellion to protect lb j ancient privileges. Emperor William at the slate banquet at Budapest declared his ab ding faith in the dreibund and made a gratuitous flin? at the Turk. .V private dispatch from Home says that about forty persons were killed ami many others injured by an earthslip at the Sulphur mines near Girgenti. President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic is said to have been in formed by his physicians that he cannot live eighteen months longer. Lord Farrar predicts that the ultimate solution of the question of bimetallism and the Indian mint will be the adoption of the gold standard for India. The Libertaire of Paris has been suppressed for publishing an article advocating the assassination of President I Faure, King Humbert ami the Queen of Spain. In Havana the beef famine increases. There is no meat, and the importation of American relrigeralil beef is urged. Food has grown scarcer every day sinci the rebellion broke out. Owing to the floods having washed away a bridge of the Bangalore-Mysore Railroad, in India, an engine and live ears filled with passengers were precipitated into tiie river, causing great loss of fife. A pistol duel was fought between Count Badeni, the Austrian premier, and Dr. Wolff, the German nationalist leader, arising from insults addressed by the latter to the premier during a late session of the unterhaus. C mnt Badeni was wounded in the right hand. Consul Heenan at Odessa confirms the report of the wheat crop failure in Russia. Little wheat, he writes, will be shipped this year. The failure is tra^gw able to two sources; a dry winter, killing half the sown acreage, then a wet spring jnsf before harvest. Tlie United States cruiser San Francisco. flagship of the European squadron, has arrived at Tangier, in order to investigate ami obtain redress, if necessary, for the reported flogging of American citizens at Mogadore and also to enforce the promised settlement of former claims of the United States against Morocco. I’he naval authorities at IVashington arc displaying significant activity concerning Hawaii. As another aid in savin" time in getting the erniser Baltimore into active set-vice upon the arrival of the Philadelphia from Honolulu, Acting Secretary Roosevelt has directed that 18(1 men be transferred from New York to Mare Island. The latest health statstics show that the bubonic plague is again active in India, having crept unobserved from hamlet to hamlet, until a wide area is affected. The newspapers assert that, the withdrawal of the medical officers for service with the troops on the frontier vs ill entail conseqnenees intinitely more disastrous than anything happening on the frontier. According to advices brought by the steamer Empress of Japan, there is a report in Japan to the effect that the Pacific Mail steamship City of China may be seized to secure the Mikado's claims against the Hawaiian Government. The vessel is now under the Hawaiian flag, and in tase of annexation would sail under the American flag and be entitled to subsidies for carrying the mails. In respect to the report that the Canadian Government was making large purchases of heavy field batteries and defense

। i guns in England, Dr. Borden, minister of , militia at Ottawa, Ont., in an interview upon the subject, explained that there i was no new scheme on foot in regard to . the defenses of Montreal or the waterw ay s in the neighborhood of that city, and , no new plans were projected by the det puitinoiit for frontier defenses. ’ las been concluded between , blatin 1 asha, representing Great Britain, ' ami Zobein Pasha, representing the mahdi, by which the latter will not oppose t.f. advance of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition ns far as Khartoum and Osman D’Rna s forces will remain at the Bara River so long as Great Britain desires. Ihe niahdi remains King of Khartoum and Zobein Pasha continues to exercise the functions of Governor of Darful, under the protection of Great Britain. Ihe 1 olitique Coloniale of Paris publishes a dispatch from St. Petersburg saying that as a result of an exchange of views between the chancelleries of Si. 1 etersburg, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome and Constantinople, the sultan of Turkey Will addl'2s the powers shortly on the subject ot-Great Britain's evacuation of Egypt, a*<l Russia, supporting the sultan, will invite a conference at Constantinople or St. Petersburg, with the object of settling the question on the basis of the Egypt under the suzerainty IN GENERAL. - -a.Lombard University has abandoned the system of self-rule by students. Window glass manufacturers are forming a trust with $20,000,000 capital. Mjss Constance Ingalls, daughter of the ex-Senator, is to become a deaconess in the Episcopal Church. Two statues and other valuable relies have been received by the I niveisitv of Chicago from Deshasha, Egypt. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Curtis and six other members of the Sani'l of Posen Cmnj -nv have organized a joint stock concern anil will start for the Klondike gold field.-, in 1 the spring. The City of Panama has contracted for a modern system of water works, having up to this time relied upon rain water cisterns and bad wells. A Belgian firm has the contract. Arthur Jordan, a Scotch explorer, who 1 claims to be familiar with the coun ry be- i tween Spokane and Klondike, will sium ; leave Spokane, Wash., with six men for the Yukon country. He says that a man can get through with considerably less than $3<W. especially if there is a pariv of six going, in which case certain supplies can be purchased and used in com mon. Fire originating in a woodshed in the j rear of the Musee Theater in Toronto communicated to a large warehouse adjoining and to the theater. The theater was badly damaged by tire and smoke. A fire engine, stationed at the corner of Adelaide and Victoria streets, was left with the horses hitched to it. A jet of steam shot out of the safety valve of the engine with a loud explosion. Thia fright- ' M tin- horse- ami tin y ran away down the crowded street. The engine ran over Bertie Escott. 11 years obi. killing him instantly. Feven firemen v.ere so badly ' I ' 11 ‘‘ffshn mid n wall 1 1 h&ff to he removed hi an mulm ■ f; 4 NcWt •ft Townsend by the • j tug Pioneer direct from Hkugmiy is that 1 there has been u destructive mid dentil- 1 dealing washout or Imidsiide on the Dyea trail, as a result n f which eighteen per- ( sons, im-ltiding one woman, me missing and it is <ertmn that many of them were drowned or crushed to death. One body was recovered. The accident was caused by heavy rains, and was directly the result of cither a huge Imidsiide or the washing down the mountain side of one of the big glaciers which overhang the trail along the summit. It struck the trail with full force at Sheep camp, where there were fortunately but few men camped that day. Lieut. Peary doesn't think Andree has one chance in a thousand of reaching the north pole mid doubts if he is alive at this time. Peary announces that he will leave on a live years' cruise next July in search of the pole and will reach it or sacrifice his life in the attempt. He has made all his arrangement' for the trip and claims to have miiph- financial backing. Ile gave the following outline of his plan for next year's trip: "When 1 leave again, which will be about the end of next July, it will be to remain up there until I reach the pole or lose my life in the attempt if it takes five years to accomplish this object. Next summer 1 'hall take my vessel up to Sherard < Kborne Fjord and make th-it place my base of supplies. My party will consist of a surgeon, po-'ibiy another white man and myself, and tin- rest will be Eskimos.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.5(1; hogs, slipping grades. KJ.UO to $4.50; shn p, fair to . < . 8'- Off to $1.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 9"c t > Die, co n. No. 2,28 cto .KJc; oats. Ni. 2. >•> to 20c; ry<-. No. 2,48 cto in ■: < choice c muery, l!»c to 21c: o^'.-s. t < >n. ’ ]t • lo 15c; m-:v P amo. s, r.Oc to OOc P<-r 4odiunapolis— Cattle, slu imng. $3.00 to )p0; hogs, choice fight, cite; t<, UfT, common to choice, $->.<’6 io SI.OO. wheat, No. 2,94 cto 90c; corn. No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c "st 1 Louis—Ci H". .83-00 o $5.50; $3.09 to $4.50: sheep. $3.00 to H wheat. No. 2,98 cto $1.00; corn. No. 2 vellow, 27c to 2Sc: oats. No. 2 white, 21e Io 23c: t ve. No. 2. 45c to 47e. _ Cincinnati-Cattle, $2.00 to ^•.o0; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $1 .Jo; wheat, No. 2. 93c to 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, glc t<, -><-• rve No. 2, 46e to 48c. Imtroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3 00 to $4.50; sheep. s2.;>o to M-o. wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn No ;< yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. - white, to 24c- rve. 48c to 49c. Toledo—AVhcat, No. 2 red, 9oe to Joe, corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, . o. - white, 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 4Jc; clover seed, $3.35 to $3.45. , Mil waukee-Wheat. No. 2 spring, JOc ( l'> 92c; corn, No. 3,29 cto 31c; oats, No. i 2 w hite, 22c Io 24e; rye, No. 1,48 cto uOe; ( harley, No. 2. 40c to 45c; pork, mess, ( 88.00' to $8.50. , i Buffalo-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, ’ s•‘*•9o to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; . Wheat, No. 2 winter, 96c to 97c; corn. No. I 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 2oc to 27c. ^•'w York- Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $5 00; sheep, $3.00 to s4.uo; whe»it, Nii 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 2, 33<- to*3sc; oats, No. 2 white, 24c ; to 2(ie; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 18 c ’to 19c.

ODD FELLOWS AT SPRINGFIELD. Sovereign Body of the Order Meets in Illinois Capital. The opening session of the sovereign grand lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was held Monday morning In Representatives’ Hall, Springfield, 111., and was introduced with appropriate ! ceremonies, taking the form of a public reception, in which the hospitalities of the State, city and the grand bodies of Odd i Fellow’s of Illinois were extended by their proper representatives. Gen. Alfred Orendorff, past grand representative of Illinois, called the meeting to order. Seated upon, the speakers’ platform were Gov. I aimer, Mayor Wheeler, Grand Representative J. Otis Humphrey, Grand Sire I’red Carleton of Austin, 'Texas; Grand Master George C. Rankin of Monmouth, Ill.; Grand Patriarch J. D. Murphy of Bushnell; and Mrs. May D. Stone of Vandalia, President of the Illinois Rebekah assembly. Gov. Tanner was the first speaker. He spoke in the highest praise of Odd-Fel-lowship and bade the visitors a hearty welcome to the city and State. Mayor Wheeler spoke briefly, extending a hearty welcome on behalf of the city, and Grand «isi» .... •” ' A cC '.nihiii .1 A<-- ■ - —'t- 1 * ■■ ■ - - '■'' OnDFEi. lows’ nUILDIXO, RI’HIXOFIELD. Patriarch J. D. Murphy followed. Grand Master George ('. Rankin spoke for the Odd Fellows of Illinois and Mrs. May D. Stone gave welcome in the name of the Rebekahs. Response to these was made by Grand Sire I 'red Carleton, who paid tribute lo the State of Illinois, its greatness as a producer of wealth, a centi-r of papula- ! tion, education ami the banm r State of t Odd Fellowship. He named the great’ mon who had made the Slate illustrious. | The genius of Odd-Fellowship is that it i binds all races and cre>-ds together. The 1 <>rand Sire said that this was not the first time this body had been welcoimul by the Governor of a State, but, it was the first time it had been welcomed by a Governor ns a brother Odd Fellow. Ihe regular session of the sovereign grand lodge was then convened by Grand Sire ( arleton. I'he appointive officers and couKnittees were named arM a large number of resolutions presented and referred 1 without reading. In the afternoon the ' loux.l Rebekah lodge* gave verv large.lv i nttvmtea reception in honor of the visit- 1 ing Rebekah degree members and the , •overe-gn grand lodge. I Tuesday afternoon a fine parade of Odd | j Fellows was given under command of U General J. I'. Ellacott of Chicago, com- | । mander in chief of the Patriarchs Militant, and consisting of the Illinois National Guard, commands, cantons of Patriarchs Militant and subordinate encampments and lodges escorting the representatives to the sovereign grand lodge. Following this wm a prize drill of Patriarchs Militant. Canton Muncie, No. 4, of Muncie, Ind., won the first prize, S3OO, in 1 class A, ami Canton McKeon, No. 28, of Terre Haute, Ind., won the first prize, , $l5O, in class B. They had no competitors. At night the past grand representatives held a 1 eunion in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, at which addresses were made by Grand Representatives \\ . G. Nye, of Minneapolis; Lucius 11. Fuller, of Putnam, Conn.; ami Stillwell 11. Russell, of Dallas. Texas. HITS BOARDS OF TRADE. Possible Effect of the Decision Made by Judge Foster. Judge Foster's decision in the United States District Court at Topeka, in which be held that the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange was a trust, organized in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, may result in closing all the live stock, grain and produce exchanges of the country. The decision, if it is upheld by the Supreme Court of ths L nited States, to which it w ill be appealed, will be of the utmost importance, for it will class all exchanges which are organized on the same lines as the Kansas City institution as unlawful combinations in restraint of commerce. "Washington attorneys are uncertain as to the scope of the decision, for the reason that there may have been some peculiarity about the organization and methods of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange which does not apply to other exchanges. As it is understood, however, this exchange is similar to others in which live stock, grain, cotton, farm produce and petroleum are dealt in. and if the Supreme Court of the United States should uphold Judge Foster's decision these institutions would have to close their doors or change their organization and methods. MAY CRITICISE THE JUDGE. Wisconsin Court Hands Down a Decision Against Judge Bailey. Justice J. B. Winslow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court handed down a decision that is of particular interest to lawyers and newspaper publishers. The opinion is in the case of the proceedings for contempt of court by Judge AV. F. Bailey, of Eau Claire against 11. C. Ashbaugh and L. A. Doolittle. The court says: We are well persuaded that newspaper comments on cases finally decided prior to the publication cannot be considered criminal contempt. Truly, it must be a grevious and weighty necessity which will justify so arbitrary a proceeding whereby a candidate for office becomes the accuser, judge and jury, and may within a few hours punish his critic by imprisonment. If there can lie any more effectual way to gag the press and subvert freedom of speech, we do not kuow where to find it. Dr. Hunter la Acquitted. The jury in the cases of Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, ex-Congressman John Henry AVilson, E. T. Franks and Capt. Noel Gaines, accused of conspiracy to bribe members of the Kentucky Legislature, brought iu a verdict of not guilty.

FHOST WILL NOT HURT. Crops Are Now Said to Be Entirely Out of Ita Way. The weather bureau in its report of crop conditions for the week says: The week has been favorable for ripening and securing crops, but in the Central Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, Tennessee and over portions of the Middle and South Atlantic States, it has been too dry for fallowing and seeding of fall grain. The exceptwiaiij^wfll-in weather of th* first liaS~oF the mouth m idly, and has placed nearly the^wn^e^" crop beyond injury from frost. Owing to drought conditions in some of the moreimportant States the grain, particularly the late crop, did not fill well, and the reports indicate that much will be chaffy. Cutting has progressed rapidly under favorable conditions. Cotton has continued to open very rapidly and picking has been vigorously carried on. The reports indicate the bulk of the crop will be secured by Oct. 15. The weather conditions on the Pacific const have been favorable, the absence of ram in California being especially advantageous for curing raisins and drying fruit. In Oregon and Washington the damage to grain by rains of ths two preceding weeks is considered light. State reports follow: Illinois—Dryness anti heat was broken the 14tb, and slight frost in the north half Saturday anti Sundar morning, with only sllirht unmade to Ifttest fields of corn. Corn, with late and early, dry and much in shock, with cutting completed this week; yield fair to good, but much light, chaffy corn and some late fields only fodder. Plowing and wheat seeding resumed under difficulties; drills still running In some fields. Wisconsin-First of week warm, followed, by well distributed rains amt deridodly tool weather, with light frost in low places. Hot weather matured corn rapidly ami two-thirds of crop now ripe. Late plantings require week to ten days. Cutting being pushed Vigorously. Cood crop now assured. Michigan—Corn is good crop; nearly a 1 ! safe from frost and cutting al! under‘way. Buckwheat fine crop ami cutting in progress^ In six southern counties fail seeding is still Uelajed by dry spell, and rain is also much m . le<l to germinate seed already sown. !. >aI ” P'flatoes generally matured, but yieldlag lightly. Al] fall fruits except pears and grapes yield very p mr. South Dakota—Warm days ami scattered lig.it rains favorable for corn. The earlv ami mrddllKg late well matured and a very gw d crop generally. The grain of the latest 11 in many localities by frost of IGtii ami 17th ami preceding hot winds, bat will make g - .J stock f.ml. Nebraska ('oru maturing nicely, and most of the corn crop made and cannot be injured by frost. Frosts in northern counties, but generally light, and only slight damEgo dem- to late corn on low lands in a few "omities. Large a.-rcage of winter wheat being sown, ami early sown coming up niceMlssour! Cood showers In some sections, but over large portions of state drought practically unbroken. Where good rains fell ?: -'urrs improving and wheat sowing progressing. Kains too late to benefit corn; cut- । ling completed in many places. Late corn very light and much of it chaffy. Frost would do little damage. Cotton picking progressing, crop greatly shortened by drought. lowa Three days hot weather, followed by copious rains i^ml sharp frosts. Greater part of corn crop being matured, the damage by frosts is not extensive. I’otatoes and garden truck suffered greatest injury. Plowing and seeding of all grain progressing. Winter apples badly hurt by drought. Indiana—Numerous local rains, and hot weather ended on Thursday. Light, harmless hoar fr- st formed Saturday morning. Corn matured and dried rapidly, most Is cut ami in shock and that still standing Is safe from danger from frost. A fair crop'if tobacco is being housed rapidly. Seedth? wafting lor’more rj.??' lv °’" v: — Ohio—Very warm, 'sunny and dry until showers tffih; cool and dry since then, with light frost ISth in some places. Late corn, late potatoes, late tobacco, pastures, gardens, apples, grapes, and wheat and rye in. ground badly Injured by drought. Early corn about half cut, late generally beyond frost, but not nearly so promising as ten days ago. ALTON NEGROES RISE. Separation of White Pupils from the Colored Raises a Storm. The fight between the Board of Education and the negro citizens of Alton, 111., lover the separation of the white children from the black is growing more fierce and ; the relations between the two are becoming more and more strained. The attendance at the Douglas and Lovejoy schools, the two buildings set apart for the colored children by the Board of Education, has been very small, and, on the other hand, the old buildings are overcro’wded on account of the colored residents insisting on their children attending the same schools as the whites. Superintendent R. A. Haight has given instructions that the negroes shall be admitted, bnt that no recitations shall be heard until they go to their own school. They are allowed to remain in the schoolrooms, but only as visitors. There has been no serious trouble, but several of the school buildings were surrounded all day Wednesday by colored men and women who were there to see that their children received proper recognition. The members of the board are firm in the stand they have taken, and say that no pupils will be recognized or allowed to recite a lesson until they are in the proper building. The stand they have taken is that the city of Alton has been put into one large school district, and they, with the superintendent, have the right to assign pupils to any school they think desirable. They say they are witling, if need be, to have the matter tested before the courts. On the other hand, the colored residents oppose the separate-school plan, and are no less emphatic in the stand they have taken, and say they propose to fight the case to the end. Public meetings have been held and a large sum of money has been raised. They claim the scheme to separate the children is an illegal one. They do not admit even the point of discretionary power which the Board of Education holds is vested in the superintendent of schools. Told in a Few Lines. The linseed oil trust, incorporated in Illinois, has qualified to do business in Ohio. Three men robbed the postmaster at Belmont, Neb., of S4OO in government bonds. Harry Wells, charged with involuntary manslaughter, was convicted after a four days’ trial at Shoals, Ind. The lamp chimney manufacturers of the United States have signed the wage scale demanded by the workers. Two negro tramps murdered Jefferson Batey and seriously wounded M’illiam Davis, brakeman on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Carbondale, 111., and escaped. Charles Wood, a Racine, AVis., policeman, has secured judgment for salary held back because the Mayor refused to appoint him. He remained on duty under the civil service law. A petition of the temperance people of Emporia, Kan., asking for a special grand jury to investigate alleged violations of the liquor law has been stolen from the office of Judge Culver.