Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 2, 1899, Page 6

The erali-Review. E. CO. KILEY, Editor. GRAND RAPIDS - MINNESOTA. When the weather saan is at his best he seems to do his worst. Fashion rules the largest empire, and collects her tax in gold and blood. Never throw mud at a thing you don’t like; perhaps others may appre- ciate it, Nothing can restrain the juvenile mind from thinking that the sultan of Sulu must be a lulu, It is only in his matrimonial rela- tions that the sultan of Sulu is re ported to resemble Solomon. The girl who can speak seven lan- guages is less sought after than the girl who can hold her tongue in one. The man who returns from the Klondike empty handed escapes con- siderable annoyance at the hands of his relatives. American capitalists have just pur- chased two islands off the coast of Cuba. Some people merely want the earth. Others get it. Dewey still declines to talk. When the admiral once puts an embargo on speech the interviewer needs a ready imagination to supply the deficiency. The Washington Post sagely remarks that the reappearance of Mrs. Luetgert would make things decidedly uncom- fortable for the officials who prosecuted her late husband. It would seem probable that her position would be much more uncomfortable than theirs. Eleven New York aldermen have been ordered sent to jail for contempt of court, to say nothing of the little matter of a $100 fine per alderman. When those misguided city fathers emerge from their darksome cells they will probably have a great deal more respect for the law and the opinions of the judiciary than has ever before been the rule in any aldermanic body. The rising tide of industrial produc- tion and of business prosperity ought | to mean also an improvement in the general condition of the people. And according to Bradstreet’s, during the first six months of 1899, “voluntary in- crease in wages proved to be the rule rather than the exception,” involving an addition of many millions to the in- come of working men and women. This is pleasanter reading than reports of the strikes, some of which have been bitterly contested. H | France is watching the dispute over ' the Alaska boundary with considerable } interest, as it bears a close resemblance ! to her own controversy over the New- ! foundlend shore. In both cases a col- j ony without power of its own to make as yil] respected insists on imposing ! its will in the matter in disputé upon the country upon which it is dependent and upon which the burden of fighting | must fall in case of war. As the. Frenchmen say, this position is anom- | alous. It is difficult to suggest a rem- | edy, however, unless England is sees pared to take a firm stand and place } imperial interests before colonial at the possible expense of losing part of her empire, beneficent, inasmuch as the raw _re- cruit is, in his years of service in a standing army, educated, disciplined, and then returned to society and to in- dustry a far more intelligent and ef- fective person than he was before, or could have made himself, This, to some degree, is true. The standard of manhood ought to be raised and is raised by the military system; but sup- pose the government gave all men a training simply for industrial purposes and put them into trade schools instead of camps? A similar but far higher end would be attained, in such a pro- ductive potentiality as has never yet been realized; and it seems as legiti- mate to train men for national prosper- ity as for national defense, The report of the French Millers’ association on the European wheat harvest of 1899 indicates that the drouth in the Odessa and Nicolaief dis- tricts is so disastrous that the total Russian wheat production of 1899 must show a falling off of 33 per cent from average years, and will be as bad as in 1897, which was one of the worst years on record. In Germany wheat is satisfactory, although slightly less so than in 1898. In Austro-Hungary the estimate exceeds last year’s Produc- tion by 60,000,000 hectolitres., In France reports from twenty one de- partments show a marked increase in the wheat area, and the harvest, gj- though injured by storms in the Mast fortnight, will slightly exceed that of 1898, but should the present fine Weath- er be succeeded by rain during the next three weeks there will be a seri- ous diminution. Se Familiarity which oversteps good manners lately received a gentle re- buke at an English military bazar. An officer, attracted by a lady at a stall remarked that a certain article near cher was very pretty. “Yes,” was her reply, “my mother sent it.” “Ah real- ly,” pursued the officer, determined to discover the name of the charming saleswoman, “I think I have met your mother. Her name is—” “The queen of England,” answered the lady. The one did not wait for the fancied ar- cle. THE NEWS RESUME EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. ~ A General Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week From All Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Ferusal By Busy People. — From Washington. The amount of gold certificates is- sued under the recent order of the sec- retary of the treasury in exchange for gold coin is $18,836,040. The war department has chartered the steamship George W. Elder at San Francisco. She has a capacity of 600 men and is ready to sail for Manila as soon as loaded. Cable advices received at the war department indicate that it will be im- possible to save the cable ship Hooker and her cargo of supplies for the ex- tension of the cable service about the Philippines. The director of posts in Porto Rico has cabled the postoffice department that the department suffered no seri- ous damage during the recent hurri- cane and none of its employes was in- jured. Victor W. Olmstead has been ap- pointed assistant director of the Cuban census, and will establish headquar- ters at Santa Clara, Cuba, Col. Sanger (the director) will have his office in Washington. The census is to be com- pleted before Nov. 30. Sporitns. Jimmy Barry says he is going to re- turn to the ring and offers to box the victor of the McGovern-Palmer affair. Joe Bernstein, the New York feather- weight, is anxious to meet Jabez White of England as soon as the latter ar- tives in America. Matty Matthews has offered to meet Bobby Dobbs at 135 pounds, ringside, as soon as the colored light-weight ar- rices from England. Jeff Thorne’s backers offer to bet $500 that the Englishman will beat Kid McCoy when they meet at the Westchester Athletic club on Sept. 2. Ned Burden, who is considered the best welter-weight in Australia, in- tends to visit Yankeeland soon for matches with crackerjacks of the class. Billy Stift of Chicago knocked out Jimmy Scanlon of Pittsburg in the sec- ond round of what was scheduled to be a twenty-round fight before the Colorado Athletic association at Den- ver, Colo. The bout, though short, was the most sensational exhibition of scientific pugilism ever seen. Gus Ruhlin of Akron, Ohio, has been matched to fight Jack Stelzner at Den- ! ver some time in September for a purse of $2,000. The day has not yet been decided upon, but it will likely be during the festival of mountain and plain, which begins Sept. 25. C. D. Klein of Indianapolis, a first cabin passenger on the steamer Barbarossa, from Bremen, died during the trip. His body was brought to New York. Foreign. a4, Reports from Samoa indicate that the early arrival of permanent officials there is needed to prevent further trouble. The Rio de Janeiro Noticia classes as baseless the rumors of a projected alliance of the South American repub- lics against the United States. The Church Missionary Society of London has received a report stating that 40,000 persons have died of fam- ine on the east coast of Africa. The Russian government, according to a dispatch to the London Times from Odessa, is energetically arrang- ing m res to alleviate the famine } eS ee ‘in the districts of South Russia. Germany claims that militarism is | The sultan of Morocco has notified the powers that he is destroying the native boats on the Riff coast and is establishing a gunboat service in or- der to portect foreign shipping from piracy. The Hungarian novelist, Maurice Jokai, now in his 75th year, is about to marry, according to the Vienna cor- respondent of the London Daily Mail, the Hungarian actress, Arabella Nagy, a girl of 18. The state department has been in- formed by Consul General Monaghan, at Chemnitz, Germany, that a new trade arrangement has been made be- tween Uruguay and Germany by which each is guaranteed the same rights as the most favored nation, ex- cept that Uruguay does not grant the special privileges given to Brazil, Ar- gentina and Paraguay. People Talked About. Capt. W. A. Smith of Mount Vernon, Iowa, cashier of the Bank of Mount Vernon, died at Saratoga, N. Y. The French have revived their claim to the right of forming a settlement at Nanking, based upon the treaty of 1858. It is announced that Maurice Grau has engaged Herr Duck of Berlin, lead- er of the Royal German opera, for the season at a salary of $27,000. Hon. A. H. Longino of Washington county was nominated for governor of Mississippi by the Democratic state convention without opposition. Alexander Bradley, president of the Tradesman’s National bank and tne Pittsburg Insurance company, died at Pittsburg, aged eighty-seven years. Rey. Dr. Benjamin De Costa, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist at New York, has resigned on account of his ad- vanced years. A mission of Russian engineers and their escorts were recently attacked by Chinese brigands at Kirin, on the China-Russian frontier on the main Manchuria railway, and all were mas- sacred. It is expected that Russia will make reprisals. Isaac Congden, for many years su- perintendent of motive power and ma- chinery of the Union Pacific railway, died at his home in Omaha. He in- vented numerous appliances in use on railways, several of which are in al- most universal use, and from which be received large royalties. Lewis H. McCune and William 'T. Swardner of Marshfield, Ohio, were drowned while fishing at Lakeville. John Smith, aged 14, Harry Heinly, aged 12 and Roy Heinley, aged 9, were ro while at a picnic near Byron, Two children of Norman Pickrell of Syracuse, Neb., bitten by a mad dog, have been sent to Chicago for tyeat- ment, Ole Anderson, a section hand on the Chicago Great Western railway, was instantly killed at Stillman Valley by the slipping of a crowbar holding a load of rails. Miss Dessie Garrett of Columbus, Ohio, was struck by a street car and injured so that she died within an hour. She was riding a bicycle when the accident happened. Three hundred fishing craft. were caught in a gale at Frazerburg, Scot- land, and only the promptness of the life saving crews averted a serious dis- aster, Lieut. von Ramm, of the Fourth reg- iment of Prussian guards, stationed at Berlin, and Herr Bergmann, a mer- chant from Charlottesburg, were acci- dentally drowned in Lake Geneva, The United States cruiser Montgom- ery reports having rescued the crew of the British steamer Nettleton, Capt. Vigers, from Norfolk July 25, for Rio Janeiro, which Marice. went aground at Crimes and Criminals. The jury inquest into the cause of the recent trolley accident at Bridge- port, Conn., by which thirty people were killed, indict the motorman for criminal carelessness. Peter Louin and his fifteen-year-old son, who were under arrest at Elec- tric, near Wetumpka, Ala,, charged with shooting Hall Jordan, were taken from jail by a mob of masked men and lynched. McGinnis, the train robber captured at Carlsbad, has been positively iden- tified as one of the men who held up a train near Folsom, on the Colorado & Southern railroad some weeks ago, and whose gang killed two officers in their pursuit at Cimarron. The wine and distilling plant of the Stonehill. Wine company at Hermann, Mo., valued at $250,000, has been seized by the government and the pres- ident of the company and his son are wider arrest, charged with evading the revenue tax. The British government has agreed to the withdrawal of the extradition proceedings in the case of Mrs. Will- iam Y. Perot, charged with the ab- duction of her daughter, Gladys, from Baltimore, who by mutual agreement of the interested parties, was turned over to the custody of her grandfather, William H. Perot. General. Hog cholera has appeared in Grant county, Ind. ‘Two thousand miners are said to have left the coal fields of West Vir- ginia for the West. At Billings, Mont., a train load of 500 horses were watered after thirty hours’ thirst, and half of them have died. Fourteen members of the United States canal commission havé arrived at Graytown, Nic., to study proposed canal routes. ‘rhe comiion council of Glasgow, Scotland, by a vote of 48 to 12, has re- jected the proposal to open the picture gallery Sunday. A suspected case of yellow fever at Cosamaloapam, Mex., has been report- ed to the marine hospital service au- thorities. The Republican state central commit- tee will meet at Dubuque, Iowa, next Monday to elect a chairman to succeed Hancock. Manufacturers at New York employ- ing nearly 5,000 cloakmakers accepted the union scaue, ending most of the strikes. The Canadian Pacific railway earn- ings for the week ended Aug. 21 were $5v0,0u0; same period last year, $491,- 000; increase, $59,000. The striking ore handlers at the Minnesota docks at Buffalo have re- turned to work. They accepted an ad- vance of 11-2 cents per ton. 1 The Towa Beet Sugar Developing company has been organized in Des Moines and intends building a plant to land the crop from 8,000 acres. The Oriental electric works. at Youngstown, Ohio, has been absorbed by a new company.of local business men, with a capital of $100,000. The drivers, runners and door tend- ers at the Wilson, Coalbrook and Lackawanna mines at Carbondale,Pa., struck because of a recent reduction of wages. About 500 hands are out. The directors of the Boston & Maine railroad declared a semi-annual divi- dend of $1.75 per share, payable Oct. 2. This is an increase from 6 per cent to 7 per cent per annum, The directors of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York have de- clared a quarterly dividend of 1 per cent, a reduction of one-half per cent on the previous quarter. The Republican state campaign opened at London, Ky., in a mammoth political demonstration and barbecue. Gen. Taylor, the candidate for goy- ernor, was the principal speaker. Hugh Grosvenor Curran, formerly in business in Denver as the Berlin Cloak company, has filed a petition in bankruptcy at New York. Liabilities, $74,352; no assets. It is reported in Des Moines that the preliminary negotiations for the sale of the Central Iowa road to the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road are completed. Menominee, Mich., contractors who have secured government contracts for harbor work at Kenosha, Sturgeon Bay and Racine, are busy . in the pineries getting out timber. The mayor of Portsmouth, Eng., has received a letter from Joseph H. Choate, the United States ambassa- dor, saying that an American squad- ron will visit Portsmouth next year. An enterprising western man is mak- ing arrangements to set up a modern ! American saw mill in China, where lumber is still sawed by the primitive methods of a century ago. PRINCE OF QUACKS s, * Handwriting Expert Gives the First Installment of His So-Salled Dem- onstration of the Guilt of Drey- fus—Aided by Diagrams and Spec- imens of Handwriting, He Goes Into a Long-Winded Theorctical Argument Which No One Under- stands but Himself. Rennes, Aug. 27.—After M. Bertillon, the handwriting expert who is at the head of the anthropometric depart- ment of the prefecture of police of Paris, had concluded the first install- ment of his so-called demonstration of the guilt of Capt. Dreyfus, a prominent Dreyfusard referred to him as the fin de siecle Cagliestro. The Dreyfusards refused to regard him as anything but the prince of quacks. They cover his remarks with ridicule and protest that the admission of fantastic theories as evidence before the court-martial is a disgrace to France. Nevertheless the Dreyfusards do not deceive them- selves as to the effect M. Bertillon’s testimony or demonstrations may have upon the judges, who they fear may be gulled by what the Dreyfusards call shams. All the judges have passed the Ecole Polytechnique, the highest school of science in France, and they are thus peculiarly interested in such evidence as M. Bertillon’s. Moreover, with the diagrams and specimens of writings which he submits to them they may be able to follow his reason- ing intelligently, which is more than any member of the audience could do. If the judges accept Bertillon’s pre- mises—that Dreyfus, as an expert, would write no ordinary handwriting, but a close imitation, contriving to give the letters the impression of hav- ing been traced in order to be able to repudiate them as a forgery if detect- ed, the structure built upon this groundwork may be scientifically cor- rect. Eyen Dreyfus, when shown Bertillon’s demonstrations, admitted the ingenuity and plausibility of the system, though he naturally declared that it was built upon a false basis. The military witnesses, all of whom sit in a bunch, leave Col. Picquart and M. Bertullus severely isolated, fol- lowed M. Bertillon’s statements with a grave and wise expression of coun- tenance, upon which never a sus- picion of a smile occurred, as though they understood every word. Evident- ly they had received a mot d’ordre to preserve this attitude, for, not having seen the diagrams they could not have understood any better than did the general public. The Echo de Paris announces that the counsel of Dreyfus had obtained possession of certain documents men- tioned in the bordereau in Esterhazy’s writing, which they will produce in court next week as a coup de theater. The correspondent of the Associated Press inquired as to this in competent Dreyfusard quarters. He was assured the statement was erroneous, but was also told the defense intended, in the event .of Capt. Dreyfus being recon- demned, to ask the German govern- ment to communicate these documents proving his innocence, and that they had reason to believe that sucn a, re- quest Will be granted. MAY BE A HOAX. Mysterious Letter Connected With the Dreyfus Case. Paris, Aug. 27. — A dispatch from Lyons says a bag nas been found in the River Rhone, there, containing a paper with this penciled inscription: “Labori to Lorimier, Basle. Nothing will be done. Dreyfus is innocent. Voluntary suicide. Orders executed.” The bag was handed over to the police, but no explanation in the matter has been forthcoming. There is a possi- bility that the letter is a hoax. Lori- mier was the late Lieut. Col. Henry’s secretary and he committed suicide at Basle, Swi FIRED BRICKS AT POLICE. Interesting Features of the Siege of M. Guerin in Paris. Paris, Aug. 27.—M. Guerin and his followers, who are still besieged in the headquarters of the anti-Semite league, created some ecxitement by distributing from the windows of the buildings circulars dencuncing the Jews. When the police prevented the people from picking up the circulars the Guerinites bombarded the police with bricks. The police deluged the walls in the neighborhood of M. Guerin’s fort with disinfectants, owing to the abominable stench since the water supply was cut off. DEWEY’S MEN DRILLED. Vast Crowd Views the Olympia Bat- talion. Nice, Aug. 27.—The Olympia battal- ion landed from the cruiser yesterday morning at Villefranche, near here, for drill purposes, the entire population of the town viewing the parade from the surrounding heights. The men presented a splendid appearance. Ad- miral Dewey received a visit shortly before noon from Edwin Andre, Bel- gian consul at Manila. He passed a quiet day on board and seemed in per- fect health and greatly benefited by the rest he is taking. Many Were Rejected. i Washington, Aug. 27.—Since the be- ginning of the Spanish war there have Leen enlisted in the regular army 90,- 671 men. This includes those who were discharged after the close of the war and the increase of the regular for ser- vice in the Philippines; 310,065 applied and were rejected. Guarding Against Plague. London, Aug. 27. — Special precau. tions are being taken at Southampton and other English ports in regard to the bubonic plague and yellow fever. Vessels from Spanish and Portugal ports are rigorously examined. Financial Crisis Imminent. Berlin, Aug. 27.—The Lokal Anzgier publishes the following from Constan- tinople: “A financial crisis is imminent. The Ottoman exchequer is empty. The firance minister has fled from those seeking payment. | MILITIA IN CHARGE. Situation is Colmeey in a Georgia wn, Darien, Ga., Aug. 27.—While all was quiet here last night the day was one of great anxiety and intense excite- ment among the white people. An outbreak by the negroes has been mo- mentarily expected since the killing by John Delagell, a negro, of Thomas Townsend, a prominent citizen and deputy sheriff of this county. Yesterday Sheriff Blount sent the following to Gov. Candler: ‘Please order Liberty independent troops to report to me at once. Situation criti- eal. One deputy killed, another wound- ed.” Col. A. F. Lawton, late commander of the Second Georgia regiment, U. 8. Y., also wired the governor to send a quantity of carbines and supply of am- munition for the soldiers. Col. Lawton is now here in command of the militia, and has enough men, it is believed to easily handle the situation. The sheriff and his deputies continue to make ar- rests of the rioting negroes. The situ- ation here is regarded as critical, al- though, with determined military con- trol it is thought further trouble can be prevented. It is estimated that the negroes outnumber the white people in this part of Georgia seven to one, and the whites are consequently appre- hensive. The seventy-five members of the First Georgia who were left here two days ago, when old man Dalget was taken to Savannah, are now patrolling the town. All saloons are closed and the strictest order is maintained. Nearly every negro left town yester- Gay morning, and word comes that they are massed at Dalget’s swamp, twelve miles from town. A posse of citizens left for the place on a special train at 8 o’clock. They will maintain a guard over the negroes and keep them from doing any damage during the night. A telegram was sent to Savannah for all white men to come to Darien. The presence of the white men is wanted to overawe the negroes, who are here in great number. Troops have been ordered in readiness at Savannah. The ordering out of these troops is in the discretion of Col. Lawton. Will Move Against Negroes. Later — A conference was held at 1] o'clock last night between Sheriff Blount, militia officers and a citizens’ committee and it was decided to take decisive action at daylight against the negroes. The citizens move from Darien for the swamp on a special train at 3 o'clock, and the militia, to the number of 150, one hour later. The negroes are armed in defiance of law, and the purpose of the military is to surround the swamp, relieve the blacks of their arms and arrest them. MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers, St. Paul, Aug. 28. — Wheat — No. Northern, old, 70 1-2@71 1-2c; 70c; No. 2 Northern, old, 69 1. 70c; new, 68 1-2@69c. Corn — 8 yellow, 81@31 Oats—No. 3 white, 28@ 21 1-2@221-2e. Barley and Rye—l barley, 21@33¢; No. 2 rye, #8 1-2@49c; No. 3 rye, 48@48 1-4c. Duluth, Aug. 28—Wheat—No, 1 hard, eash, 745-8c; No. 1 Northern, 71 7-8c; No. 2 Northern, 67 5-8c; No. 3 spring, 64 7-8c; to arrive, 70 ; September, 0. 1 Northern, 705-8c; December, No. 1 hard, 73 8-8c; No. 1 Northern, 713-Se; May, No. 1 Northern, 74 5-8c; oats, 201-4c; rye, 58¢; barley, 33@40c; flax, to arrive, $1.08; September, $1,08; October, $1.05 1-2; corn, 31c. Minneapolis, Aug. 28. — Wheat—Sep- temper opened at 67 7-8c and closed at 68 3-4c; December opened at 703-Se and closed at 701-8c. On track—No, 1 hard, 71 1-2c; No. 1 Northern, 70 1-2c; No. 2 Northern, 69 1-4c. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 28. — Flour is steady. Wheat steady; . 1 Northern, @42 1-2c; sample, Chicago, Aug. 28.—Wheat—No., 2 red, 73 1-2¢; No. 3, 71@73c; No. 2 hard win- ter, v8 1-2¢ ‘0. 3. 66 1-2@67 1-2 1 Northern spring, T3c; No. 2, 72 No. 3, 67@72e. x ‘4 No. 3, 32c. Oats—No. 2, 211-4@21 1+ No. 3, 21e. Chieago, Aug. 28. — Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $4.40@4.80; good nea 50@4.75; , rough heavy, 4.40@4. i 4.55@4.90. Cattle—Beeves, $4.40 cows and _ heifers, $2 @ 5; Texas steers, $3.25@3.90; stoc! anid feeders. $3.25@4,85. Sheep — Natives, $2.7 20; lambs, $3.75@6. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 28.—Cattle— Beeves, $4.50@5.25; cows and bulls, mixed, $2.25@4; stockers end feeders. $3.50@4.85; calves and yearlings, $3.75 @4.75. Hogs, $4.35@4.50; bulk, $4.35@ 4.40. South St. Paul, Aug. 28. — Hogs — $4.35@4.@55. Cattle—Stockers, $3 @ 4.50; heifers, $2.10@2.60; bulls, $2.40@ 50; oxen, $3.10@3.40. Sheep, $3.25@ ; lambs, $4.75@5. STORY OF. DISASTER. Grows Daily. maritime disaster from the late hur- ricane grows daily. Many sloops, barges, lighters and small schooners Albemarle and Chesapeake canal. Two schooners arrived yesterday in distress, the Frank W. first force of the hurricane on the 13th, boats were gone, main sail and sky tions and without water. Gen. King May Get It. El Reno, Okla., Aug. 27.—Maj. A. E. ton. mentioned as his successo. Forest Fire Raging. the conflagration. Record of the Hurricane’s Damage Norfolk, Va., Aug. 27.—The story of are still missing in the region of the in the cape McCullough, Capt. Dunn, and the Os- car G. Smith, both badly handled by the storm. Capt. W. S. Crawford, of the Smith, was washed overboard and drowned. The McCullough caught the and from then until the 19th fared bad- ly. When she arrived at the cape her sail gone and the crew on short ra- Woodson, of the Ninth cavalry, has tendered his resignation of the Chey- enne and Arapahoe Indians at Darling- Gen. Charles King, retired, is London, Aug. 27.—A great forest fire is raging near Rothiemurchies, Inver- nesshire, miles of superb woods be- ing involved. Two hundred men are engaged in an effort to cireumscribe DRY Goons TRUST. Gigantic Corporation to Control Bas- iness Throughoat the Country. New York, Aug. 26. — The Herald says: Arrangements are maturing for the organization of a $50,000,000 dry goods corporation in this city to ope— rate and control dry goods and depart- ment stores throughout the country. The Mercantile Reorganization com-- pany has been recently incorporated im Trenton, N. J., as a preliminary to creating the big organization. It is expected the latter will be launched in time for the fall trade. The company expects to control from 500 to 2,000 stores throughout the country. Form- er proprietors of stores absorbed by the corporation will be retained as managers and will have interests in the stores, HEAD IS GONE. Remains of an Unknown Man Foun@ Near Duluth. Duluth, Minn., Aug. 26.—The body of an unknown man was found near Wisconsin Point, on Superior bay. The remains were badly decomposed and the head is gone. It will probably be impossible to secure identification. Coroner Downs’ theory, from the fact of no clothing being on the body, is that the man was bathing and was drowned. MANITOBA’S CROPS. Wheat Production Estimated by Gov- ernment at 33,504,766 Bushels. Winnipeg, Aug. 26.—The government crop bulletin estimates the wheat yield of the province at 33,504,766 busbels, or an average of 20.55 per acre; oats, 23,008,120, an average of 46; barley, 5,532,972,,an average of 30.25. The wheat estimate is considered ex- tremely conservative. Estimated total production of cereals of the province, 62,429,335 bushels. DEWEY'S RECEPTION. An Effort Will Be Made to Hold It Earlier. New York, Aug. 26.—The Dewey re- ception committee is making an effort to have the Dewey celebration Sept. 29 and 30 instead of Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, as now arranged. Admiral Dewey has been wired of the change and will be expected to hurry his trip. Much Dreaded Desperado. Houston, Tex., Aug. 26—The Folsom, N. Mex., train robber who is now dy- ing at Trinidad, Colo., as a result of wounds inflicted by Conductor Har- rington in the recent attempted hold- up, has been positively identified by Wells-Fargo secret service men as Tom Ketchum, alias “Black Jack,” who has terrorized parts of Western Texas and New Mexico for the past two years, Stonecutters Strike. Helena, Mont., Aug. 26. — Stonecut- ters on the Montana state capitol have struck against the employment of Foreman William H. Hamilton, whe was until last April treasurer of the Trades and Labor Assembly of St. Paul, the grievance being that Hamil- ton discharged three men whom he said were incompetent. Ptomaine Poisoning. Bloomington, Ul., Aug. 26.—Ptomaine poisoning has occurred at a number of places in Tasewell county and on the western border of McLean county late- ly. In all the cases the poisoning is at- tributed to eating pressed chicken. Peculiar atmospheric conditions are supposed to have affected the food. Strike Is Threatened. Chicago, Aug. 26. — A strike is threatened by the structural iron workers on the new government build- ing and the contractors have been given until Monday to cemply with the demands of the men. The dispute is due to the demand of the men that a city ordinance be cbeyed. Repulsed by the PoPlice. Paris, Aug. 26.—The police repulsed a number of market women who were trying to supply provisions to Jules Guerin, the anti-Semite agitator, and his companions who are now in- trenched against the authorities at the headquarters of the anti-Semite league in the Rue de Chambrol. Wrecked by an Explosion. Pottsville, Pa., Aug. 26. — The dry house of Samuel Betsonberger’s pow- er mill, near Shepton, this county, was completely wrecked by an explo- sion and William T. Betsonberger, one of the proprietors, and Harry Jones, a powdermeker, were literally blown to atoms, Riots in Austria. Klagenfurt, Austria, Aug. 26.—Riots broke out here in front of the palace of the prince bishop and the landwehr was called out to support the police. Qrder had been restored by midnight. Finlanders Emmigrating. St. Petersburg, Aug. 26.—Emigration from Finland has assumed immense proportions. Agents are being sent to the United States, Canada and Aus- tralia to seek settlements. Chicago Gets the Cup. Toronto, Aug. 26.—The Canadian cup goes to Chicago. The third race for the trophy between Beaver and Genesee wus won by the latter by ten minutes and forty-seven seconds. Three Fatal Accidents. Vienna, Aug. 26.—Three fatal acci- dents have occurred in the Tyrolese Alps during the last few days. The vietims include a landed proprietor named Maurer. Five Miners Killed. Joplin, Mo., Aug. 26. — Five miners were killed by an explosion of dyna- mite at the Margaret Mining com- pany’s mill near Carterville. Careless Shooting. Tiuron, 8. D., Ang. 26. — A bullet red from a 22-caliber rifle by George Tlake, passed through a crack in a fence, marked the skin on Joe Hig- gins’ chin and lodged in Ray Bliss” neck just under the jaw. work on the yards and sidings of the ‘vw steck yards company has com- enced, and it is expected to have the © -ords ready for business within ways. Co ‘ Pierre, S. D., Aug. 26.—Construction