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Somebody Has Souealed.

CHICAGO, June 29.-The grand jury took
a whack at the Cronin case, and once more
started in to look up Alexander Snllivan's
speculations. Messrs. Schwartz and Dupree
were subpenad to bring their books into
the grand jury room for inspection. It is
believed that in this way light will be thrown
on features of Alexander Sullivan's specuia-
tions which have hitherto escaped scrutiny.
The actions of the police indicate that some
arrests are about to be made. Some one is
reported to have 'squealed." The police
refuse to say who, and rumor has it that the
drag net is about to land some of the con-
spirators high and dry.
Detective Palmer says John F. Beggs was
arrested to prevent his holding commnica-
ton with the outside world. 1t is claimed
that Beggs had been visiting members of
the alleged trial committee, and it was
thought that he had put flea into the ear
of more than one of the committee.
Young Carlson who was in charge of the
cottage to which DIR. Cronin was so myste-
riously called, says that among the visitors
were two men who took occasion to pass re-
marks about the fat of the informer Carey,
and the danger of being too forward in tes-
tfying for the police. Carlson processes to
believe that he is being threatened, but fails
to tell why he did not telephone for the po-
lice to arrest the two men, who, he says, re-
manned in the neighborhood for some time.
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THROUGH A TRESTLE.

A Passenger Train Goes Down and
Fourteen People Injured, Some
Fatally.
CINCINNATI, O., July 1.-The passenger
train from Portsmouth to Cincinnati, on
the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth
railway, with the directors car, two pas.
senger coaches and a baggage car went
down trestle one and half miles west Of
Batavia, II to Is feet high. The engineer
felt it sinking when he went on il, turned on
a full head of steam and saved the engine
and baggage car, but not the three coaches
with passengers. The coaches turned over
and piled up in a m :scellaneous wreck.
No one was killed outright. About four
teen were injured. General Manager Sam
uel F. Hunt cannot recover. General Pas
senger Agent L. ID. Rhoades was, it is fear
ed, MORALLY injured.
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A Trip at Public Expense.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June pa sub
committee from the senate committee on
Indian affairs will start next Monday on a
tour of investigation of the Indian agencies
in the northwest as far as Alaska. Senator
is now in this city arranging for the trip.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, and Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, it is stated. will join
the chairman at Chicago. Senator Sabin is
expected to Join the party at st. Paul. and
Senator Hearst, will probably meet them
some where on the coast. VIM. L. Canaday,
sergent-at-arms of the senate; AMI Smith,
superintendent of the document room, and
William Ohm, clerk of the committee, will
be members of the expedition. Senator
Henderson, of Nebraska, is also expected to
go. The senators will be ACCOMPANIED by
their wives. The investigation was author
lied by a resolution adopted in the senate
last February. This resolution contained
the following resolution, adopted March 1,
1887:
Resolved, That the commit.e, on Indian
affairs is directed to examine into the con-
dition of the Indian tribes along the northern
border of the United States, especially the
Indians on the White Earth reservation, in
Minnesota, and to investigate the conduct
of the Indian agents and their subordinates
and employees at any of the agencies in that
quarter, with q view to aScertaining whether
any of them have neglected their duties or
have abused their authority in the dealings
with the Indians, and that SAID committee
examine into the distribution of annuities
or other appropriations made for the benefit
of the Indian tribes by said agents.
That said committee or subcommittee
shall have power to send for persons and
papers, and to examine the witnesses on
oath touching the matters witftswhich they
are hereby empowered to investigate, and
may hold their session during the recess of
the senate at any place within the United
States"
By an amendment to the resolution adopt
ed at the last session the committee is
especially authorized to investigate the con-
dition of the Indians in Alaska, and to IN
quire into the alleged outrages by Indian
traders in that section. The committee will
proceed at once to Port Townsend, WASH,
and there take the United States steamer
Albatross for Alaska. They expe t to be in
that section of the country during most of
the summer. Upon their return from
Alaska, the committee will visit some of the
Indian agencies in the northern part of the
United States
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Assistant Signal Corps Director.
A Flourishing City Almost Conn
pleteIy Destroyed.


pieteIy Destroyed.
DURANGO, COL, July IA fire broke out
In the south part of the city and in an IN
credibly short t me the flames, assisted by q
strong wind. spread in every direction, leap
ing from building to building until at this
writing, 4 p. M, half the town Is in ashes.
Every business house and public building
in the city, with the exception of the post
Office and Stratter's hotel, is burned to the
ground. The wind IS still blowing and the
fire is entirely beyond control. The tele-
graph Office is threatened and may loon go.
What the final result will be cannot now be
foretold,
Should the flames be communicated to
the residence part of the city, which is not
unlikely, what was but a few hours since the
tiourishing city of Durango will soon be
nothing but a mass of charred ruins. The
fire department responded nobly but were
completely powerless. The origin of the
fire has not been learned.
The fire was extinguished after total de-
etruction of eight business houses, which in
cludes all the business houses, and three
churches, and part of the resident portion
of the town was also destroyed. The loss is
estimated at $4,000. The origin of the
fire is supposed to be incendiary.
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Missing Links.

CHICAGO, July 1.-According to the esti-
mates of the publishers of the city directory
for 1889, about to be issued, the present
population of Chicago is over 100000.
HELENA, Mont, July 1.-An efforts to
check the forest fire which started in Cas-
cade county two days ago, have proved un-
aviling. 1t has covered an area of over 100
square miles, aud has destroyed the best hay
in the vicinity.
WATERLOO, Ia, July 1.-Farmers from
different parts of the country report that a
strange insect has been found at work in
the corn fields. 1t is small. green bug,
which works at the roots of the corn and
seems to destroy its vitality. The ground
in some fields appears to be fairly alive with
these pests.
PARIS, July 1.-Carlotta Patti, the we'll
known singer, and sister of Adelina Patti,
died in this city last week. q
RACINE, July Ian electric storm passed
over this city and was the most severe storm
known here in many years. Thirteen barns
and houses were damaged by lightning and
100 cellars and easements were flooded.
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among these insects and is rapidly Destroy
ING them. This disease is termed by some
entomologists as chinch bug cholera and by
others ''white fungus" from the fact that
the bugs become covered with sort of white
fungus. Nothing is known of its cause or
symptoms, but it seems to be doing good
a number of fields in this county and in
many places the ground is almost white
with dead bugs. Last year the same disease
made its appearance in Illinois and Mime
sofa and proved very disastrous to The in
sects there. An entomologist in Minnesota
IS said to have sent out twenty boxes of dead
bugs last season with view of spreading
this disease. Professor Snow is in recent
of a number of letters from different coun-
ties which state that in some fields the dis
ease has made its appearance, and in few
instances the fields are white with dead
bugs.
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Cherokee Commjss on

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 2s.-Gen. Lucius
NJ. Fairchild, of Wisconsin, and Gen. John
F. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, the two new
members of the Cherokee Commission, have
been requested to meet in this city as soon
as convenient after the 18th of July to re-
ceive instructions from the Secretary OF the
Interior. The third member of the COM
mission, Judge Wilson, of Arkansas, was
here sometime ago and received his instruc-
lions, so that his presence at this time is
not necessary. 1t is the intention of the
secretary, upon conference with Messrs.
Fairchild and Hartranft, to determine a
time and place for first meeting of the
full commission. At that meeting an Or
ganization of the commission will be effect
ed and the preliminary arrangements made
for the work in contemplation. It is the
purpose of the department to have the COM
mission visit the Indian Territory as soon
as possible and communicate officially to
the representatives of the various tribes in
terested, the desires of the government.
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CHICAGO, July 2-The Farmers Review
Will publish in its review this week careful
estimates based on reports from its cores
pondents relative to the probable yield of
wheat In the winter wheat states.
With the exception of Kentucky and Ind.
ana where drouth was experienced IN April
and May, winter wheat arrived at the har-
vestlnS stage in good condition and with
good prospects OF large percentage of No
hard. There is little change in the acreage
except in Kansas where there is an increase
OF about 25 per cent. and Missouri and nli-
nois, where there has been a considerable
falling off in the area devoted to winter
wheat.
The condition of the crop at the time of
harvest as compared with last year is as fol-
lows:
Illinois lis per cent; Michigan 10; Ken
tucky lOo: Kansas ITO; Indian lbs; Ohio lbs;
Missouri 1SO. Average yield per acre: ILL
nois Is bushels: Michigan Is; Kentucky 1913;
Kansas 20: Indiana Ii; Ohio IA: Missouri 10;
Acreage: Illinois 2. 259, $40; Indiana Alta
O62; Ohio 2,655,227; Kentucky lob. 228;
Missouri |, 402, 626; Kansas 1872, 500; Michi-
gan 1.612,s 47. Total yield for seven states:
49,, 80. 900 bushels.
Assuming that the crops in other states
IN the union will yield the same as last year
III, 500, GOETHE total winter wheat crop
IN 1889 will be about 3l3 ,2 23S3 eco bushels.
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APPOINTMENTS.

Fred Douglas Minister to Hayti.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 1.-The pres,-
dent has made the following appointments,
Frederick Douglas of the District of 90
lumbla, minister resident and consul gene
raj of the United States to Hayti.
James G. Wright of Illinois, to be agent
of the Indians of the Rosebud agency in
Dakota.
Daniel NJ. Ransdell of Indiana, to be
United States marshal for the District of
Columbia, vice A. A. Wilson, resigned.
Captain Meredith of Chicago to be chief
of the bureau of engraving and printing.
Seth 81. Cook has been appointed gauger
at Cincinnati
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THE ENGINEERS WIN.
The Board of Arbitration Decides
in Their Favor.

The Board of Arbitration Decides
in Their Favor.
OMAHA, NEB, June 2e.-The board of ar
bitration agreed upon between the Union
Pacific engineers and the fremen and the
road, rendered decision in favor of the en-
gineers. They hold that taking the Kansas
Central out of the management of the Union
Pacific did not abrogate the agreement
under which the engineers and fremen were
being paid at that time.
The executive officers of the Union Pacific
system recognize the brotherhood of the
Union Pacific Railway company in fixing
the schedule of wages of the Oregon Rail
way Navigation company, which was and
is part of the Union Pacific system taking
effect March /. 1888 and they should have
recognized them and consulted them before
changing the wages on the Leavenworth di-
vision, which is part of the Union Pacific
system.
Manager Baldwin says the decision is final
and that the wages will be restored and
will date back to May 1, the time of reduc-
ton,
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National Teachers Association.

National Teachers Association.
LAWRENCE, KAN, July 3.-Prof. ]. n.
Garfield secretary of the National Teachers
Educational association, will leave in a few
days for Nashville Tenn. where he goes to
make final arrangements for the great gath
ering of teachers, which takes place in that
city July 1918. The meeting promises to
be a very large one, owing to the compar-
atve central Location of Nashville, and the
interest being taken by the educators of the
southern states. There will be great out
pouring of teachers from the Mississippi
valley and the south. Texas alone has
pledged an attendance of one thousand.
The east will have more than fair repre-
sentation. Large delegations will leave
California and the western states this week.
Instead of national gathering next yeas
the Canadians are very desircus Of holding
an international meeting at TORONTO. Min
nesota, however will axe strong effort
to have a national meeting at st. Paul.
The programme is rather long one and
contains the names of the leading educators
of the country. Kansas teachers will depart
for the south the first of next week.
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Finding Gold Makes Trouble.

Finding Gold Makes Trouble.
BLAcKFoor C1TY, MoNr., July Grave
fears are entertained of general uprising
and wholesale butchery in the Gro Eno
mining district on account of the operations
of an organized gang of town site claim
jumpers from the east and south. The gang
consists of two brothers named Moore, one
from Brooklyn, and the other from Sc.
Louis. Alexander Weir and John II. An
drews of Clean, N. Y, and about twenty
Kansas cowboys in their employ.
There Is great deal of excitement over
the affair, and old miners who have seen tha
quartz ledge uncovered by the gang say il
is richer than that at Granite which is esti.
mated to be worth 100000.
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STATE OF TRADE.

Considerable Excitement In Spec
ulatiVe Circles ard a Heavy Gen.
eral Trade-Eecouragin Pros
poets.
NEW YORK, July 1.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade says:
It has been a week of considerable excite
ment in speculative circles and of heavy
general trade without material change in
conditions. AS all depends in large meas
ure at this season upon the crop prospect, it
is most encouraging to find the report in
this particular unusually favorable; the only
noteworthy exception being that some dam
age to cotton and grains from frequent
rains is reported at Galveston. In the north
west the grain outlook is particularly fine,
great improvement being reported in quar-
tiers where there has been some apprehen-
sion. With crops of unusual magnitude
highly probable, and with general volume
of business so maintained, with the main
increase of 30 per cent over last year, as it
appears in the clearing house returns, the
prospect is not gloomy.
Wheat has advanced 2 cents; corn and
oats have declined each a fraction and
coffee is still sold at q decline of of a cent.
Pork and Its products are all little stronger.
The general average of prices has fallen.
The money market has stiffened to some ex-
tent here, as is natural after the heavy ex-
ports of gold, but the treasury has paid out
during the week about s., OO0, 600 more than
it has taken in, and there are accounts of
continuing receipts. From the interior
there is no where observable any actual
Indeed, it is one of the phe-
nomena which most deserves attention that
there is generally prevalent feeling of
confident indifference to changes of the
money market, apparently based upon the
faith, that in any event the treasury will
control the situation.
Business failures numder 215 as compared
with 22o last week, and $50 the week pre-
viOus.
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Mrs. Maybrick's Seven Offers Of
MARRIAGE

LONDON. July 2.-The counsel for Mrs.
May brick the American woman who 10
under arrest at Liverpool for the murder Of
her wealthy husband by poison, say they
have recei we'd seven letters from people who
are willing to marry her in the event of her
acQnittal. One comes from a Scotch o,er-
gyman of high family. This calls to mind
the fact that Madeline Smith the heroine
of the great Scotch poisoning case in 1858
married a clergyman and has lived happy
Bartlett. who was tried for poisoning her
husband few years ago. received twenty
five offers of ma riage. She preferred how
ever, to enter Belgian convent and made
over to it her fortune.
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The New Jobb4r's Rates.


TOPEKA, June c9-The Santa Fe has VOL
unfairly reduced the jobbing rates without
compelling the various cities to present their
grievances to the railroad commissioners.
The Santa Fe opposed the reduction when
the Wichita case was before the board for
hearing, but how proposes to make every
possible effort to give fair trial free from
bubble or technicality. Now that the Santa
Fe company has taken the initiative in TINS
matter, it IS quite probable that the other
companies will soon follow suit. 1t is no
more than right. for it simply places the
jobbing cities of Kansas on an equal footing
with the Missouri river cities. Heretofore,
Kansas City, Atchison, Leavenworth and st.
Joseph have had an unfair advantage over
Topeka and other cities of nearly 20 per
cent on almost every article of merchandise
ana manufactured goods simply because
they are what is known as Missouri river
DOintS
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VIII select . committee to visit Johnstown
and decide what is best to be done. II tho
money is not needed it Will be returned to
the subscribers pro rata. The COMMITTEES
considered q proposition to send porter
were said not to be suffering, and it was ce-
cided not to divert the Johnstown fund from
its original purpose.
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DEADLY TYPHOID.
Forty-NIne Laborers Taken With
tho DisnaSa AZ Iahn Sto1un

Forty-Nine Laborers Taken With
the Disease at JohnstoWn.
JoHNsTowN, June 2S.-Acting Surgeon
Fort, of the Fourteenth regiment and labor
ing camps, reported that forty nine laborers
were taken seriously sick with symptoms of
typhoid fever. Many os them were sent
home and the other are being cared for in
the hospital. The local physicians, many
of them sufferers by the flood, have sent
representatives to General Hastings, pro-
testing against the presence here of the red
and yellow cross who are caring for all the
sick, to the financial disadvantage of the
local doctors. General Hastings refused to
act on the premises.
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TANNER AT TOPEKA.
The Corporal is Accorded Rousing
Reception.

The Corporal is Accorded a Rousing
Reception.
TOPEKA, KAN, July 2.-The tabernacle
vas crowded to hear Corporal Tanner, the
meeting being presided over by Governor
Humphrey. In brief speech the governor
introduced tine distinguished New Yorker,
rs man we'll known to every Grand Army
man. The corporal extolled the Grand
Army of over 1000, 600 of men whose love
for the flag was of that enduring character
that they gave up all for it. He had q kind
word for the Confederate soldiers who
risked that which they sought to take-life,
and bitterly denounced those cowardly enc
mics in the rear, who SO strenuously cried.
'Why don't the army mover" He classed
and women who watched reports of the
battles, and who, with heart-strings almost
broken, gave up their remaining sons to the
government.
His utterances on the pensioning of old
soldiers were clear and decided, and seemed
to meet with general approval. It was not
generally known that the corporal left the
platform at Ottawa sick and then rode all
night to get here.
The night meeting was regular campfire
with new features. The object seemed to be
amusement. Marshall's band and the Mo
docs supplied the music.
General Campbell presented the sash worn
by DR.. Wyman during the war, to Lincoln
post.
The close of the camp fire was given to
Corporal Tanner, who buckled on his legs,
and at command of his comrades again re-
ported for duty.
The programme of the evening was an ex-
cellent one, lasting until II O'Clock. Pro-
fessor Beal, of Albion college, Michigan,
and the Fay family. aided in the exercises,
while L. w. Webb gave 'The Last Com
mander." by request.
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Wisconsin "Prohibs" at Work.

MADISON, WIS.,, June GA select coterie
of prominent temperance advocates are Sc
cretly at work perfecting plans for new Or
ganization to combat the liquor traffic. The
prime mover IN the matter is L. c. Rich
mond, formerly one of the most prominent
third party workers in the northwest, and
for several years chairman of the Wisconsin
prohibition central committee. The other
projectors of the scheme are prominent re-
publicans and democrats. 1t is believed the
projectors have in view a national move
ment among temperance people of all parts
as we'll as general organization to secure
prohibition in municipalities.
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Lawyer Beggs no squesler.

Lawyer Beggs no Squesler.
CHICAGO, July 2.-John F. Beggs says he
has not squealed:
81 have not" he answered emphaticaly.
s'Because have nothing to tell. I don't
even know why I am locked up here, and
want to say that the treatment accorded me
has been simply brutal. The police have not
deigned to offer the slightest excuse for my
detention, which was made illegally and
without any effort of showing authority"
Beggs said his only visitor while in GUS
tody had b. en- Chief of Police Hubbard.
The prisoner attributed his arrest to the
Vaccinations of a local politician whose ap-
pointment to federal Office had been OPP
posed by BeQgs.
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The Irish Police Down on Him.

CHICAGO, July 3.-Police officer j. d.
Moore gave testimony before the coroner's
inquest in the Cronin case. Since then he
claims to have been badly treated by thu
Irish policemen at his station, and to have
had his steps dogged by spies. A few nighta
ago, while on duty, he was handed the fol-
lowing by boy, who ran as soon as he
handed limit:
"Sir-If you know what is best for your.
self you will quit the police force imme-
diately. Your every movement is being
watched by friends of Alexander Sullivan.
ISigned] CLAN-NA-GAn."
Moore is an American, andthinks an effort
il BEING made to terorrize him.
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To Keep from TestIfying.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. July "A special to the
Appeal from Birmingham, Ala, says: A
prominent Nashville, Tenn, gentleman by
the name of Justice Consodine, who has
been on business trip to this city for seve-
raj days, Is authority for the statement that
few days ago Patrick McGarigle of Chica-
60, an acquaintance of Mr.. Consodine,
passed through this city enroute for South
America. He told Mr.. Consodine that he
had involuntarily been a witness to certain
transactions in the Cronin case; that they
involved men to whom he was obligated,
and that he was going to Honduras to keep
froDi testifying. He was to have sailed
from New Orleans on June Is.