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next taken by the Attorney to where
the representatives of the Electric
Light company sat, and there it was
prepared to suit that company. Riders
were attached providing that Council
must not use less than "a arcs and that
the Electric company must not be
compelled to run their incandescent
wires except to points where it would
cost but very little, or, as Attorney
Doub put it, reasonably practicable"
After the contract had been fixed to
suit the Electric company. the repre-
sentative of the Gas company was ask
ed to put gas lamp where it was too
much trouble for the Electric people
to go. He respectfully declined, Civ
ing as his reasons-that it would not
pay his company to spend 1915 for one
lamp and stay up until II o'clock every
night for 81. % besides he thought his
company had been treated unfairly.
His bid for light was less than that
which had been accepted. But, of
course, his company had not paid So
per day for parties to solicit names to
a petition that had been represented
to be for an all-night system of light
ing, but when it came to Council it
was for arc lighting only. 1t was
represented also to Council as con-
tanning $50 names, when, in fact,
there were not that many names on it.
There We're signatures on that paper,
too, that were not signed by the
parties, nor with their consent.
Bailiff's report
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The News Of the Week.
BIZ TEIE0RAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON,

OFFICIAL informationswas given'the
state department of the withdrawal of
Mr.. Thurston. the Hawaiian minister.
SENECA HAsELToS, Uniteu States min
lister to Venezuela. sent his resignation
to the secretary of state.
AT the age of So years Hugh McCul-
loch, who was secretary of the treas
ury under Presidents Lincoln and Ar
thur, died in Washington
The production of gold by the mines
of the United States during the calen-
dar year 1894 was estimated at s39,-
500, 600, an increase over 1898 of s., 500, :
600. The productive of silver was Sea-
100000, a decrease as compared with
1898 of 10, 500, 900 ounces
SECRETARY LAMONT was officially
informed that the Indians in Arizona
were restless and that a feeling of in
security prevailed.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the oath aggregated
81, Ill ,s44, 1874, against 81, 16l. s44, 500 the
previous week. The increase. compared
with the corresponding week in 1894.
was 3O.5.
IL the seven days ended on the Path
there were 2O7 business failures in
the United States. against 2Il the
week previous and 1s3 in the CORE
spending time in 1884,
PRosPECTs were good for worlds fair
exhibitors getting their medals not
later than September /. 1895.
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paid back for their advances in silver vnen
they can buy the bullion Of that metal at fifty
cents They simply will not do It. and IL IS an
absurd folly to imagine that we can compel
them TO do. We are In no position TO stand
aloof cor TO restore confidence in our
business institutions except by agreeing as
we have In the p st as 10 our financial basis In
the marts Of the world, where we meet all
that Is in competition with and all which
Will positively refuse 10 accept our proposed
silver basis as that of the whole wcrld."
LAwRENcEBURG, Ky, May 2s.-Sen-
ator j. C. Blackburn, replying to Sec
rotary Carlisle, in his speech here Sat
urday spoke substantially as follows:
II do not know in what cap city Carlisle
came here and spoke, whether he came as
citizen OF this grand old commonwealth or as
secretary OF the treasury. Carlisle has said
he was never for free silver. On the
9TH day OF November. 1873 Mr.. Carlisle.
while sitting by my side in the house of rep
reseutatives. voted for the Dick Bland bill.
which was silver bill out and out Olly five
five years later the Sherman bill passed. 1
voted against that bill and so did Carlisle, and
yet he is making the same old speech that
Sherman made then. / am going 20 answer his
argument, every point OF It. He did not ad-
vance a single new idea. First, he made the
assertion that IL you have free coinage OF sill
yer you will put the country on a silver
This is not true We have tried it once, and
when we quit had 50 70 81 in gold more than
when we began He says this country would
he the dumping grounds for all silver bullion
He is mistaken there, for ours is the only na-
tion under the sun that has silver bullion"
SALT LAKE CITY, U. T., May 2s.-
Gen. Warner and ex-Congressman Slb-
ley arrived from the west Saturday
and were received by COMMITTEES of
the chamber of commerce. A monster
mass-meeting was held at the theater
at night, presided over by ex-Congress-
man Ra,vlins and attended by repre-
sentative men of all parties. Both
speakers sharply arraigned the admin
istration and the recent speeches of
Secretary Carlisle and Comptroller
Eckels.
MIR. Sibley said that Mr.. Carlisle's
portrayal of the horrors of free COIN
age would not prevent the American
people from giving it an experiment.
He addressed the silver mine owners
particularly, and was immensely
cheered when he said they were the
least part of the calculations of the
bimetallists; that where the mine
owners had lost dollar by
the decentralization of silver, the
American people had lost hun
that there would only be two parties
in America in 1896, one the party of the
gold trust, the other the party of the
American people, and every citizen
must be on one side or the other.
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THE EAST.

FLAMES swept away many factories
at Cambridge. Mass.
The philanthropist and noted abOli-
ZIONIST. Henry A. Chittenden, died at
his home in Mont Clair, n. j., aged 7e
years.
The sudden death of Andre Louis
Dagger, consul in Washington for
Sweden. Norway and Denmark, oc-
CURED at Asbury Park. y. j.
COMMODORE DARLINGTON BooTH, of the
Salvation Army, and his wife, Maude
Elizabeth Booth, became citizens of the
United States at Jersey City, n. j.
They declared their intentions five
years ago.
In a meeting at New York of the
democratic editors of the state letter
was read from the president in which
he depicts the danger of free coinage
of silver.
NEAR Washington the Langley flying
machine flew distance of 1000 feet at
test
Ii the Pittsburgh Q'a.) district the
miners strike was ended. the strikers
going back to work at the operators
terms, sixty cents per ton.
ABOUT $4,000 pupils took Pct in the
great anniversary parade in Brooklyn,
y. v, of the Sunday School union.
Ex-President Harl ison reviewed the
children.
PERCENTAGES of the baseball clubs in
the National league for the week ended
on the 25th were: Pittsburgh. .7l4; Gin
cinnati. .677; Chicago. .6s3; Cleveland.
$50; Philadelphia, 500; New York, $50:
Boston, 500; Baltimore. 500; Brooklyn,
.3s5, st. Louis. .367; Washington, .346;
Louisville. 200.
THE manufacturers of WIRE nails
throughout the country organized a
trust at Pittsburgh, Ia.
PROF. j. MADISON WATSON, the au-
thor ana publisher of series of school
books used throughout the United
States, was sent to an insane asylum
at Elizabeth, \. J.
IN the Hamburg canal at Buffalo,
y. V, a steam yacht named Trilby
capsized and three men were drowned.
THE death of William Cogswell, of
Salem, who had served continuously in
congress from the Sixth Massachusetts
district since 1856, occurred in Wash
ington. at the age of 81 years. NJ.
Cogswell was also a war veteran, en-
tering the service as private in 1861
and retiring as brigadier general in
I-6J
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FORECASTS OF FASHION.

RIBBONS, in al The pretty new Ores
den designs, will be much used as trim
mings for gowns this summer.
A VERY captivating mourning para
sol is trimmed with chiffon flounces
headed by border of black violets.
LIGHT summer velvets, in all the new
and lovely colors, are being imported
for warm weather wear.
SPRING hosiery displays exult in an
unusually large variety, indulging all
the new fads in plaids, checks and
stripes.
.WuTE and ecru linen collars and
cuffs, hemstitched or trimmed with
lace, will be used on heavy gown ma
terials this season.
SOMEBODY says impertinently that "a
woman is a creature who can wear a
feather and tin buckle and call it a
bonnet"
SLEEVES are to be either long or
short, and the newest silk blouses for
housewear have elbow-slecves trimmed
with lace-hounces.
IT is stated that N. Jean Worth has
inherited his fathers clever artistic
originality. acd that he will success
FULLY continue the paternal business.
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WILL STAND TOGETHEP.

Treaty of OdeDse and Ifefense Between
Central American Republics.
WASHINGTON, May 2s.-New treaties
of far-reaching Importance have re-
Gently been made between Nicaragua
and Honduras, and official copies have
just been received in Washington. The
treaties have been under negotiation
for some time and were finally put into
effect by proclamation April Is. They
are the first practical step toward the
formation of Central American nation
out of the several small republics,
Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala. Sal
vador and Costa Rica. The first
treaty forms a defensive alliance IN
case of foreign war and an offensive
alliance against common enemies.
1t obliterates commercial frontiers
so that foreign goods once admitted to
one country are free to enter the other.
An express provision is made against
the possibility of war between the
countries by an article requiring diff
ferences to be adjusted by arbitration
by some government on the American
continent.
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FREE LANDS.
boomers Make Great Rush for the
kickapoo Reservation.


kickapoo Reservation.
GUTHRIE, o. T., May 25.-At noon
Thursday, the time when the lands of
the Kicbapoo reservation became le-
gally open for settlement, a remark
able rush of settlers encamped along
the border for many days and nights
ensued. Thousands entered the COW
eted strip and Immediately staked out
claims. Many personal encounters oc-
Cured.
1t is estimated that not less than
20, 600 persons joined in the rush at
noon. At a few points on the south
line the intending settlers lived up to
the letter of the proclamation, and
made the race in strict conformity
with the rules. Those who did make
the run found every claim occupied by
ooners, and in some instances by
crowds of pleasure-seekers, who had
converted them into picnic grounds.
Wednesday night a township boom
was started on the southern border and
it spread through the camps with light
ming rapidity. The result is the city of
McLoud, located on 800 acres of land
on the line of the Choctaw, Oklahoma
& Gulf railroad, o miles north of Dale.
BY night it had population of 5000,
with IA mayor and full complement of
officers and all the attributes of typi-
cal frontier city.
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BOOK EOTES.

A PosTHUMoUs volume of poems by
James Russell Lowell is soon to be pub
lished.
Mrs. HUMPHREY WABD's "Marcella" has
just gone into its eleventh edition, in a
popular one-voluue form.
Nh. WILLIAM ".STER has in prepare
ton two new volumes. Brown Heather
and Bluebells. and third series of his
popular Shadows of the Stage"
1T is hoped that fact viii confirm the
rumo- that among Stevenson's unprb-
lished MSS. has been found n comple te
volume entitled Letters To Boy of
Twelve"
A BOOK FOR ALL BooKIsH Folks,
no doubt, is "Meditations in Motley, by
that clever, original, audacious, humor-
GUS literary pessimist, Walter Black
burn Harte.
THE WOMAN VINO Din" by Grant Al
len, is pronounced by some queerly
biased critics "a strong book" whereas
the story is strong" only as superan-
nuated fruit is strong.
AMONG the verse tributes to Robert
Louis Stevenson recently issued are
1.-The Sea Mark; A Threnody," by Bliss
Carman; and IAN Elegy," by Richard
lie GallIenne.
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GRESHAM Is DEAD.
Death Claims a Member OF Presi.
dent Cleveland's Cabinet.
The Demise Occurs at Washington After
q Lingering Illness. The Exacting
Labors of His Position and the
Climate the Causes.

WASHINGTON, May 2s.-Secretary
Gresham died IT lis o'clock this morn
ing at his rooms at the Arlington hotel.
All hope of his recovery was practically
abandoned when his spell occurred
shortly before 6 o'clock last night.
The most powerful heart stimulants
known to medical science, nitroglycerin
and digitalis. were injected periodically
and an infusion of normal saline solu-
tion was made through an open vein IN
the arm. He recovered slightly, but
owing to severe rigors shortly before
IL o'clock he began to fall rapidly, and
his vitality began to ebb.
The three physicians saw that the
end was near and at 12 o'clock with
drew to the anteroom, leaving in the
sick chamber only the members of his
family. Mrs. Gresham, her daughter.
Mrs. Andrews, and son-in-law Mr.. An
drews, and the nurses.
Up to that time he had been con-
scious and talked at intervals His
words were full of bravery. lie fully
appreciated his condition and spoke
words of hope and cheer to his stricken
wife and daughter.
Sometimes his mind wandered slight
! ly and went back to the days of long
ago, recalling incidents of life and hap
mess in the springtime of his life. He
| spoke, too, of his absent son and his
and his private secre tary, Mr.. Lands,
whom he loved as a son, and who, like
his son, was speeding to his bedside,
/ but all too late.
| Just before the physicians withdrew
| he ceased speaking, though he appeared
| 20 be conscious Mrs. Gresham sat at
he bedside smoothing his fevered brow
and occasionally reading to him from
bible passages whick he loved. As the
end approached, his pulse became hard
/ ~ perceptible.
Gradually his eyes glazed and closed.
| ,ortitude, continued to read the words
If the gospel to her departing husband.
| Her daughter and son-in-law stood
With bowed heads az the side of the
.ouch.
At 1915 o'clock his breathing ceased;
peaceful shadow passed over his pale
.ountenance, his pulse flickered and Il Q
Borrowing family were in the presence
| VI death. One of the nurses conveyed
| he news that the end had come to the
| physicians in the next room and they,
n turn, brought it to the watchers in
he reception room.
Gresham came from English stock.
| His ancestors moved to Virginia and
alter to Harrison county, Ind, where
lie was born Oh st. Patricl1's day, 1882.
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FULL OF DANGER.
Dun Thinks the Rise in Wheat May Prove
tHIamitOus.

Dun Thinks the Bise 10 Nheat May IToNe
taIamitOus.
New YORK, May pr. q. Dun Il
Co. IS weekly review OF trade says:
IF wheat has been so greatly injured by the
Of ~ cents in two weeks is justified. the calam
ity will affect all business prospects. The
markets do not believe il. for stocks 30
not collapse. iron, leather and hides
still rise and no holders Of wheat would sell
at 80 cents. a lower price than had been known
at this season for thirty years prior to 1898, If
current reports we're credited some in
Jury has undoubtedly been sustained, but
our own dispatches do not show that IL is
really serious The fact is that relief
from long anxiety and the abundance and
cheapness of money for which Industry and
legitimate trade give as vet no adequate de-
mand have excited the speculative spirit be-
yond all restraint The hot fever will have
nothing to do with cold facts. The temper is
to buy regardless OF visible requirements, in
the faith that prices are sure to rise.
wild excitement in wheat, with sales In
one day at Chicago alone of 10000 900 bushels
about thee times the wheat there is in the
country-and renewed frenzy in cotton. with
sales in three days exceeding the whole visible
stock in America. followed the furious rise in
stocks In oil and in hides and leather-at once
a recognition of re Il improvement In business
and "a menace 70 its progress.
ION Thursday July rose to s4Izc, but With
heavy sales receded to 81 lzc and closed Friday
at soc Corn rose Sal during the week. though
much OF the corn killed may be replanted;
100 pounds. and o Its cents Cotton also ad-
yanced &C for the week
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LYNcHEp AT DANvILlE, III.
Citizens Take the Law Into Their Own
Hands


DANvuLE, Ill, May 81. = Early
Saturday morning a mob which had
been in possession of Vermiliion coun-
tvs Jail for several hours succeeded in
locating John Halls, Jr., and William
Royce In their cells, took them outside
and hanged them for assaulting Miss
Laura Barnett
The story of the crime was the topic
of discussion here all day. Business
was practically suspended and shop
keepers and their clerks gathered in
knots on the street corners and dis
cussed the affair with farmers who
hocked to the city during the day. Short
~ after nightfall ominous mutterIngs
were heard and some openly counseled
the more quiet of their neighbors to
take summary vengeance on the per-
petrators of the crime and not take the
chances of the laws delay or the tech
nicalities which might arise and even
tually free the men.
As early as 10 o'clock the crowd con-
gregated on the main street, and it
only needed a venturesome leader to
proceed 70 the jail at once. That leader
was soon found. From whispered
threats the cry arose for vengeance,
swelling on the night air until 1t
echoed and reechoed from one end Of
Danville to the other. A rush was
made for the Jail, where, under fear of
just such proceeding, the guard had
been reinforced, but constituted only
a handful of men to face a frenZied,
bloodthirsty mob. wrought up to an
indescribable pitch and bent only
on having the lives of the two cover
ing men within. Clamoring at the Jail
doors, the mob was met by Sheriff
Thompson, who denied admission and,
retiring behind the doors. locked and
doubled bolted them.
The crowd procured a telegraph pole
and a railroad iron, and at 1:30 bat
tered in the outer door. The be-
siegers thronged in and commenced
work on the inner door.
At 2 o'clock Sheriff Thompson sent
for Judge Boolxwalter, of the eircuit
court, who addressed the crowd from
the Jail corridor. He counseled them
to peace and order, and for minute,
and but a minute only, his words
were needed. Then another desperate
attempt was made to reach the cells
where the two men were secreted.
Finally Royce was located crouching
and shivering with fear. His cell door
was quickly battered down. A
score of hands dragged him uE ,eremo-
niously from his hiding place un-
derneath the wooden bench which
serves prisoners as their bed. Half
dragged and half pushed he was
hustled into the dining-room and seat
ed ON the table. A rope was placed
over his head, and while part of the
mob kept close guard over him the
others continued the search for Halls
until he was discovered in another and
more remote portion of the Jail.
At 3:15 o'clock the mob secured both
of the prisoners and started toward the
bridge with ropes about their necks.
They were hanged almost upon the
scene of their crime.
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To siege Corea.

LONDON, May 27.-It seems to be ac-
cepted as a fact in official circles that
Russian troops have crossed the ST.
berian frontier in force-some Shang-
hal reports say 10000 strong-and
advanced down into the province of
Kirin, in southern Manchuria, near the
Corean border. According to German
information Russia has embarked upon
no less a venture than Selling Man
ehuria and Corea for herself, and it is
suspected from various indications she
has an understanding with China on
the whole subject.
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FOREST FIRES ARE RAGING.
Michigan and Wisconsin Towns Threat
ened by the Flames.

ASHLAND. Wis. May 25.-Forest fires
are raging in the vicinity of Ashland
junction and south of Ashland. The
weather has been so dry that some
concern is felt. Dispatches from
along the lines of the Wisconsin
Central and Chicago & Northwestern
roads say the fires are looking threat
ening. The state fire wardens will take
every precaution.
Iron MOUNTAIN. Mich, May 25.-
Forest fires are raging near here and
this city is enveloped in smoke. The
flames are famed by south wind and
the thermometer is Sc in the shade.
Everything is very dry.
RAMSAY, Mich. May 25.-This town
is surrounded by forest fires and the
residents are in great fear that the
town will burn and are taking neces-
sary precautions. The weather is OPP
pressively hot and the brush and under
growth dry as finder.
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Brothors-ln-Law right Duel One KILLED

VERSAILLES, Ky, May 2s.-At noon
Sunday the steps of Troy Presbyterian
church, miles south of here,
were converted into dueling
ground, George i. Montgomery killing
his brother-in-law. Archibald Riley,
and being himself nortally wounded
by Riley. The murder is the culmina-
ton of a sensation that uOset high so
ciety in the Blue Grass section three
years ago, when Riley seduced
Montgomery's sister and fled to
Mississippi. He was brought back and
at the point of a pistol forced to marry
the girl. He Immediately deserted her
and did not return to these parts until
recently. Both men attended church
Sunday.
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sent 10 Ecuador.

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The revolu
ton in Ecuador has assumed so threat
ening an aspect that the navy depart
ment has cabled the commander of the
United States steamer Ranger to pro
coed with his vessel to Guayaquill.
Press dispatches telling of the recap
ture of Esmeraldas were confirmed by
a cablegram received at the state de-
partment. and the navy department
was informed with the result stated.
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DIR. JOHN NJ. BYRON, who died of con-
sumption in New York hospital the
other day, was a victim Of scientific re-
search. He was strong and healthy
man until about a year ago, when he
contracted the disease which caused
his death while experimenting with
tubprcla harillf
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MoST CLAIR, n. j., May 25.-Henry
A. Chittenden. the philanthropist and
noted abolitionist, died at his resi-
dence here Thursday morning. He
was 20 years of age. Mr.. Chittenden
was one of the pioneers in the anti
slavery movement, a companion OF
Joshua Leavitt, Lewis Tappan, VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips,
Frederick Douglass and Mrs Harriet
Beecher Stowe. He was active in the
underground railroad" system
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THE japanese are a poetic people,
and their poetry has the quaint, sug-
gestive style of their paintings. Every
national event is signalized by some
lyric or ballad, and the recent war
has given rise to many popular songs.
Every new year the mikado gives his
people the subject for a "leta," or
short, sharp poem of thirty-one sylla-
bles- These poems are sent to the
court poet, who decides upon their
merits This year the subject was the
''plum blossom" and, as usual. the
emperor and empress composed poems
on the chosen theme
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pe,tb of Gen. HavIey.

OMAHA, Neb., May 25.-Gen. John b.
Hawley died suddenly at Hot Springs,
5. D., Friday night, where ne was stop
ping for his health
lGen. Hawley was about co years Of age and
was assistant secretary of the treasury under
Hayes when sherman was the secretary. He
came to Omaha seven years ago and has been
general solicitor tor the Fremont, Elkhorn &
Missouri Valley railroad since. He has been
suffering from gastritis for several months
he leaves a widow and four children After
the Hayes administration he represented the
Rock Island (Ill) district in congresSl