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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-06
.REINFO RCEMENTS

Secretary Alger, on leaving the cabinet
meeting at 1890, said that the president
had sent a teegram to Admiral Sampson
and General Shafter asking them to con-
fer as to what the present situation de-
manded. Secretary Alger said that il was
his understanding that the bomDardment
had not begun, nor would it take place
before a perfect understanding between
the two officers had been reached. It is
expected that the two officers will reach
a conclusion as TO Admiral Sampson MAX
ing an attempt TO enter the harbor and
assist in the bombardment of Santiago.
Transports with troops will he started
Immediately to reinforce General Shafter
and will continue to go forward as long
a $ the general may think il necessary to
make his victory certain and decisive.
General Alger also said that when all the
facts have come to be heard it would be
seen that the extreme heat and the srv-
ere work done by the troops have con-
tributed as much to our losses at San
tiago as the fire of the enemy.
The var department has been informed
of the arrival of General PandO at San
tiago with achievements for the enemy.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to
the State Journal
Chicago. Aug 16.


WHEAT-Heavy rains today through
out the west where harvesting is in prog
ress started wheat up a fraction. Late
Liverpool, however, showed a decline,
which started some selling here and prices
eased off a trif1e- Another factor that IA
vOred the selling side was authentic eSti-
mates from Minneap polls placing the yield
in Minnesota and the DakotaS a t 100. $50 coo
bushels, against 100, COX, 600 bushels last
year The general primary receipts did
not show much improvement, but there
was a marked increase in the northwest,
where 245 cars were reported, against 322
last year Receipts here were 215 cars
September opened unchanged to &c higher
at 650651sc, declined TO $3.50, then reacted
to 64&4@Ac. December began unchanged
at 6334c, advanced to 6314Q ssc, then down
to 631sqAc-
CORN-Lower cables and enormous re-
ceipts, 1874 cars, caused an easier feeling in
corn Trade was chiefly of a changing
character September began 1sGAc lower
at S212c, rose to 325sc, then sold off to
OATS-EIevator people sold oats and
prices receded a little. September start
ed unchanged at 2015c and declined to
PROVISIONS Heavy selling of Deem
Der pork by packers started prices down
ward in provisions. September pork open
ed nc lower at S9-021A and declined to
1885. September lard started unchanged
at $3.50 and sold off to s5.271b. September
ribs began PFC higher at $5.2776 and weak
BARLEY-No. 2 September. 421Ac.
} RYE-August, 435zc; September, 4015c.
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BURNING THE DEAD.
Spanish rOOps at Santiago No
Longer Bury Their De-
parted Comrades.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 16.-The
Spanish steamer Isla de Luzon sailed
for Spain having on board 2,713 Spanish
soldiers. The Isla de Pana will prob
ably sail tomorrow and she will be fol-
lowed by the De Satrusetegui. The
Montevideo arrived this morning and
will begin loading at once.
The embarkation of the prisoners is
being pushed with great activity. This
is rendered imperative by their horrible
condition. The mortality is so great
in the Spanish camp where disease is
rampant that no longer are the dead
buried A funeral pile of ten or twelve
bodies is made, saturated with kerosene
and set fire to, cremating the bodies in
the open air.
The transport Breakwater sailed this
morning with the Twelfth infantry.
The City of Macon will sail this after
noon with the Seventh regiment and
the LeOna leaves tomorrow with Battery
c, of the Fourth artillery the rem
nants of the Ninth and Tenth cavalry,
the gatling gun detachments and Col.
Parker's two companies of the Thirty
fourth Michigan.
The Clinton has arrived from Tampa.
with medical supplies and several doc
tors.
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CAME OUT WITH GUNS.
Union Miners at Pana More De-
termined Than Ever.

Pana, Ill, Aug. ia large force of
armed deputy sheriffs and special police
were on guard a the mines today and the
union miners were cOngregated on the
highways if anything in greater numbers
and apparently more determined than ever
that no non-union men should pass. Some
of the union miners appeared on the scene
with rifles and shotguns, but the leaders
induced them to return the fire arms
home.
What few went to work were conveyed
in carriages in charge Of armed deputy
police. The operators at the four mines
have now exhausted every effort to induce
the union miners to leave the union and
return to work below the scale price, but
without success. The operators propose
now to bring in negroes, who will bunk
in houses to be erected on the mining
companys property.
The union miners are desperate, having
to almost starvation rations. A mum Der
have homes partly paid for in building
associations ara it is feared serious riot
ing will follow the importation of out
siders.
The residence of George Snyder, who has
been working at the SpringSide mine, was
attacked and partly demolished by I'M
known parties last night and Snyder and
family driven therefrOm. Snyder created
great excitement by wildly running half
naked through the streets armed with a
Other non-union miners houses were serv-
ed likewise. Extra police were on hand.
but did not succeed in detecting the guilty
nartieS
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LONGER LIST OF DROWNED.
80 Lives Lost by the Cloud Burst in
Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 16.-Additfonal
details Of the terrible cloudburst in
Hawkins county have been received in
this city 1t was previously reported
that twenty lives were lost in the HOOD,
but is now estimated that perhaps -
persons became victims of this down
DOur from the skies. The report states
that the families of VIM. Ftgan, ThOm-
Is Figan, VIM. Tunnel and James Conk
were drowned, together with Patience
and Vance Morelock, John Arnold and
mother and Samuel Henry and wife
The Figan family numbered ID, F1gan
himself escaping. The report gives no
number of members of the remaining
families. but is estimated that they av-
era eed at least four each, which would
bring the total number of lives lost
up to 80.
are very large and this is therefore
considered a conservative estimate. The
damage to the crops is also believed to
be much heavier than at first reported.
Reach creek has risen out of its banks
on an average of twenty feet, and
whole corn fields have been devastated.
The report also states that the cloud
burst visited Greene county a distance
of five miles from the Beach creek sec
ton and killed from Is to 20 people in
that community. No reports have,
however, been received from that sec
ton to verify this statement, which
comes direct from Rogersville, the
nearest point to Beach creek.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-16
WAS A LOVERS QUARREL.
The Statement Made That Mr.. and
Mrs. Hummer Were Not Married.

Will o. Hummer, who shot Lucinda
Hendricks Saturday evening near
Shorey, it is now said, was never mar
ried to her. There was mock mar
rage performed, by some one whom
the police and sheriff are trying to To-
cate. Hummer was married before,
and so far as can be learned no divorce
has been obtained.
Saturday, upon being pressed by the
girls parents to make the marriage
legal, Hummer started away with the
girl, Ostensibly to obtain a marriage
license and be married. In passing
through Shorey, Hummer began the
quarrel which resulted in his shooting
the girl in the head. Today it is re-
ported at the hospital that she will in
all proba bility recover.
Hummer is now held on the charge
of assault with intent to kill, which is
a felony. In case the girl should die
the charge will be changed to that of
murder.
The girls parents are staying by her
bedside at the hospital and watching
over her. A report which was current
that she had a trace of negro blood in
her veins is not true.
Hummer has retained an attorney
and refuses to discuss the case further
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LAFAYETTE DAY.
The President Will Soon Issue
Proclamation
Setting Apart a Day For His
tOric Exercises
In ALL THE SCHOOLS.
$25O,OOO to Be Raised by
American Children
cite in Paris.
IN ALL THE SCHOOLS.

Chicago, Aug. 16.-According to pres
emit plans Lafayette, the French hero
who came across the sea in colonial
days, with sword and money to aid the
birth of liberty on American shores is
to have his grave marked with a $780,
600 monuments tribute from the pat
riotic school children of America.
President Mckinley has concurred in
the plans proposed by Ferdinand W.
Peck, commissioner general to the Paris
exposition for the unwilling of this
beautiful memorial at the Paris expOsi-
ton on the fourth of July, 1900.
1t is to be the feature of United
States day. at the exposition.
At the commissioner generals Office,
1t is announced that President McKin-
ley will soon issue proclamation des-
1gnating a date, presumably, October
10, as Lafayette day. for general OBJ
throughout the United States. Cover
nors of states and superintendent Of
instruction will be urged to cooperate.
On this date, which is the anniversary
of the surrender of CORVALLIS at
yorktown, historical exercises will be
held in every school in the country, at
which a nominal admission fee will be
charged. Millions of pennies and dimes
thus received from the rising genera
ton of American patriots will be ap-
piled to the monument fund. With 100,-
900 schools and 20 ,000, 900 young patriots
1t is believed that more than enough
will be realized to erect a monument
that will be the pride of two CONT
nents.
Secretary Of the Treasury Gage has
been asked to be custodian of the fund
and it is said officially has signified his
willingness to do all that he can to add
to the success of this national enter
prise. Designs for the monument will
"a Gil Inn tod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-16
SENT TO THE HILLS.
Gen. Shafter Takes the Second I'm
munes Out of Santiago.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 16.-Genera1
Shafter today ordered the Second vol
unteer regiment of immunes to leave
the city and go into camp outside. The
regiment had been placed here as a
garrison to preserve order and to pro-
tect property.
There has been firing of arms inside
the town by members of this regiment
without orders so far as known; some
of the men have INDUCED in liquor I'M
til they have verged upon acts of law
lessness and disorder; the inhab itants
in some quarters have alleged loss of
property by force and intimidation and
there has, grown up a feeling of uneasi-
ness concerning them.
General Shafter, has, therefore, or
dered this regiment into the hills where
discipline can be more severely main
tanned.
In place of the Second volunteer i'm
mune regiment General Shafter has or
dered into the city the Eighth Illinois
volunteer regiment of coIored troops.
in whose soldierly discipline he has
confidence and of whose sturdy enforce
ment of order no doubt is felt by those
in command.
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BOWLERS COMING WEST.
New York Club Will Go to the Pacific
Coast

New York, Aug. 16.-The bowlers of
New York and vicinity will again in
wade the west next season. Seven or
nine of the leading players will be or
gained under the name of the Greater
bowling center in the United States will
be visited if dates can be secured.
The ground east of Chicago which has
been covered for the last four seasons
will again be visited After leaving
Chicago games will be booked at Mil
waukee and other leading cities in Wis
consin, Minneap polls, St Paul, St. Joseph,
Omaha and Denver, thence north to Sc
attic and Portland. The team will re-
turn home by the southern circuit, play
ing in Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio
Maryland and Pennsylvania. The play
ers expect to leave here about Novem-
Der Is, returning April Is.
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LADUKE'S FATE.
Must Serve Life Sentence in Leaven-
worth Prison.


Washington, Aug. 16.-The war de-
partment has received the following:
Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 15.-Adju-
tant General Washington: Replying to
your cablegran. Private Laduke has
been convicted by court martial for
killing Private Stafford; sentenced to
life imprisonment; penitentiary at
Leavenworth designated. He is now
ton. GILMORE,
Brigadier General
Alex Laduke was a member of Com
pany I, Second Wisconsin volunteers
and was enlisted at Merriette Thorn
as Stafford, the murdered man was a
member of the Thirteenth infantry
regular army. The murder was the re
suit of a quarrel in a wine shop near
Ponce. 1t was enormously stated in q
dispatch from Mariette, Wis, a few
days ago that Laduke had been court
martialed the day after the crime and
shot at Ponce, on August 4.
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Chicago Livestock Market.

Chicago, Aug. 16.
HOGS-Estimated receipts Of hogs to-
day, 1900: left over, 5000. Market fairly
active, shade higher. Light. $36584;
mixed, $4,000. O215; heavy, So. 6OU405; rough.
50 Goa 3.75
CATTLE-Receipts $500. Steady. Beeves.
81. 1005.40; cows and heifers. 81. 2CGI4 so; Tex
steers, $225d430: westerns. So. 60Q4. 20;
stOckers and feeders, $3.2504S0.
SHEEP-Receipts, Il. 900. Steady Ma
tiVes, SS.25Gi4S0; westerns, S3S56t4. IS;
lambs, 81 2566.SO.
Yesterdays official.
HOGS-Receipts. 80 $40; shipments. s,11O.
CATTLE-Receipts, 19,479; shipments, A.
SHEEP-Receipts SASS; shipments, 2o4
Estimated receipts of hogs for tomor-
row, 28,0O0
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Hettv Green's Skve Terrier.

New York, Aug. 16.-Hettie Green,
the richest woman in America, has
made an addition to her summer
household at Bellows Falls, Vt. It is
a tiny Skye terrier that weighs but
three pounds Mrs. Green is seen on
the village street every day leading the
wee canine by a small cord and watch
ing the animal with mingled amuse-
ment and interest. Hetty was never
known to cherish a fondness for any
kind of animal and the villagers and
summer boarders of Bellows Falls are
specula ting as to what has induced the
famous feminine fnancier to adopt a
toy dog for a pet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-16
A GANG OF SCAMPS.
Prqmoter Hooley's Agent Kept Half
the Money Intended for
De La War;.

Le1 don, Aug. 1s.-In the queens
bench division of the high court of JUS
tice today, Justice Wright resumed the
hearing of the motion to commit Earl
De La War;, Messrs. Broadley, Brad
shaw and Rucker for contempt of court
in attempting to induce Mr.. Ernest
Terah Hooley, the bankrupt company
promoter to falsify his evidence in the
bankruptcy court.
Mr.. Hooley, who was sworn, explain
ed the discrepancy between his own
statement that he had paid Earl De La
War; $4,000 pounds sterling and the
earls statement that he had only re-
ceived $4,000 pounds by saying that he
paid the latter $4,000 pounds directly
and subsequently paid him an equal
amount through Mr. Broadley, Mr..
Hooley's agent, for division between
Earl De La War; and Lord Abe
marie.
Mr.. HOoley said he had since discov-
cred that BrOadley kept the Is 600
pounds.
Regarding Earl De La Wars alleged
offer OF 1000 pounds if he CHooley)
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Market Gossip.
Furnished by the Wickham CommissiC
Co., 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan.

Furnished by the Wickham Commission
Co, 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan.
Liverpool: Wheat I'D lower; corn, Esd
lower.
sas City, LOCO; Omaha, 5000.
Receipts of cattle: Chicago, 800; Kan
sas City, II, 600; Omaha, 1000.
Chicago receipts today: TTneat, 2l5
cars; corn, 994 cars; oats, 76S cas-.
Liverpool, BIS p m: Wheat and corn
easier.
Northwestern receipts: This year. Min
neapolis 2S2 cars, Duluth 10 cars, total 245
cars; last year. Minneapolis lis cars, Du-
1uth PIP cars, total 327 cars.
Chicago: Estimated receipts for tomor-
row: Wheat, s. cars; corn, 34S cars; oats,
292 cars; hogs, 900 head.
Second Liverpool cable: Wheat sd
lower for the day.
stock.
Bradstreet's: Wheat, decrease, 2,69s,o0O
bushels.
Exports four ports: Wheat, $4,000 bush
els; flour, 1900 barrels; corn, $4,000 bush
els; wheat and flour equal to $4,000 BUSH
els.
Forecast: For Kansas City and vicinity.
unsettled weather with showers this
evening, tonight and Wednesday For
Kansas, partly cloudy tonight with condi-
lions favorable for thunderstorms: cooler
tonight, Wednesday generally fair with
cooler in south portion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-16
A Kansas Electric Railway.

A company with the right to build an
electric line of railway between and
and Moran, Allen county, filed it's char
ter today in the office of the secretary
of state. It is to be known as the lola
Rapid Transit Electric Light company,
and in addition to building railway lines
will have authority to put in electric
light plants and secure franchises. The
capital stock of the company is 10000,
and the directors are w. S. Hendricks,
G. A. BerolUs, w. J. Evans, J. E. Chas-
tain, L. S. Northrup, A. w. Beck and
r K TaylOr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-16
SUES THE CHURCH.
A Priest Claims Damages on Account
of Recommendation.

Chicago, Aug. 16.-The Rev. Anthony
KOzIowski, priest in charge of the All
Saints Polish Catholic church has in
vOked the aid of the American courts
to obtain redress for his grievance
gainst Archbishop Feehan, of the
diocese, and Cardinal Ledochowski, the
head of the congregation of the propO-
ganda at Rome, through whom the edict
of accommodation was promulgated
against the priest on June 20.
In a bill fled in the circuit court
Father KOzlOWski asks that $50, 900
damages be awarded against the arch
bishop and cardinal because of injuries
he has received through their action.
This is the first time such action has
been brought in this country.
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TO GO TO CUBA.
Colored Troops Enlist Aid of Con-
gresham Curtis.

Leavenworth. Kan, Aug Icon
gresham Charles Curtis arrived yes
terday with the intention of devoting a
week to his interests in this city and
county, but his stay was of short dur
alton. A telegram from Cy Leland who
is now in Washington, called him to
that city, where an effort will be made
to have the Kansas cOIOred volunteers
sent to Cuba. Mr.. Curtis stated that
ests of all the Kansas troops and do
what he can for them. He will return
next week and open his campaign at
this point.
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Mrs. Diggs Goes to Texas.

Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, state librarian,
will leave today for Dallas, Tex, to at
tend a bigPOpUlist camp meeting which
is now in progress in the vicinity of
that city. Mrs. Diggs will make several
addresses while there. This is one of
the methods employed during the cam
paign by the Populists of Texas, and
the people of that political faith flock
to the camp meetings the same as peo-
pie flock to camp meetings of a religious
nature
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PRAISE FOR KANSANS.
San Francisco Chronicle Lauds the
goth Literally.

SOGn A1DGEallY.
The San Francisco Chronicle gives
this handsome notice to the Kansas
soldier boys:
"A great concourse of people, seated
In many ties rising from the long rec
tangular floor space in Mechanics pa
vilion, gazed in delight upon the Tween
tieth Kansas volunteer regiment during
three hours Of what was generally the
most novel and complicated military
drilling ever witnessed in San Fran
cisco.
1T was a popular exhibition for the
financial benefit of the Army and Navy
Christian commission. Minnesota, Ten
nessee, the Seventh California and Iowa
had each in turn appeared for a similar
purpose during the past six weeks, but
though Kansas came last, the attend
ance was not diminished, nor was the
entertainment repetition of what 9TH
ers had done. EvOlutiOns were gone
through with at double time and with
an elasticity of movement that made
hundreds of fiag-Waving spectators re-
mark the SmoOth-ShaVen faces and ap-
parent youth and agility of the volun-
teers from Kansas.
aside from the graceful motions of
companies and battaHOnS marching and
going through the manual of arms in
admirable unison, there were two es-
pecially interesting, novel and spectac-
ular exhibitions given by cOmpanyK,
Captain BoltwOOd, and by company NJ,
conducted by Major Whitman. Captain
BOltWOOd, a veteran officer of the regi-
ment, accomplished in a series of COM
plicated marches, skillfu1 company for
nations, evolving crosses and triangles
and squares, in perfect alignment and
time, and the applause was thunderOuS.
Company NJ delighted the assemblage
with graceful calisthenics with rifles.
There was a musical programme, and
singing and speeches and enough va
riety to complete a successful show.
After the regiment had passed in final
review before Brigadier General Marcus
P. Miller, next to whom sat Major Gen
eral Merriam, General Miller said: The
Kansas volunteers are young and
strong and eager Their drilling cannot
be praised TOO highlv.' -
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Loving Cup for Dewey.

Cincinnati o., Aug. 16.-The Picca-
della club of this city has had a very
valuable loving cup made at the Rock
wood works here for Admiral Dewey.
Colonel Mark Bret and other members
of the club have communicated with
the admiral regarding the presenta-
ton of the same. The loving cup is the
finest article of the kind ever manu-
featured in this CITY
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Express COMPANY Cases.

The cases against the Topeka agents
of the express companies for violation
of the new revenue law have again been
continued, this time until September
26. This is the second continuance, and
while it is taken Ostensibly because Eu-
gene Ouinton, one of the attorneys of
the Well, Fargo agents is out of the
city, it is believed that the postpone
ment of the hearing is really for the
purpose of allowing a final interpreta-
ton of the law to be made.
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THEY FEAR SHADOWS NOW
.nish Alarm Over Prospective
Anglo-Russian War.
Spanish

Madrid, Aug 16.-EI LIBERAL discus
sing the eventuality of a conflict be
tween Great Britain and Russia thinks
it a cause of fresh peril to Spain and
urges that special preparations be
made for the defense of the BaIearic
islands and the coast towns of Andalusia
1t says;
For three years we have sought to
defend our honor and Spanish sover-
eighty in the colonies. Today we are
threatened with another danger. We
have to defend our homes
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In for a Redhot snell

The hot weather is increasing in in.
tensity and there is little hope Of a
change within the next "a hours. This
afternoon on Kansas avenue the 100
mark was reached. Following are some
heat records: 6 a. m, 76 degrees; 10 a.
m, IS degrees; noon, 90 degrees; p. m,
96 degrees; 2 o. m. 100 degrees.
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New York Money Market.

New York Aug. 16.
MONEY-Money on call. nOminally u
a. per cent; prime mercantile paper. 3AGl4
per cent; sterling exchange steady, with
actual business in bankers bills at S4.S51a
as for demand and at $4.S4d4S414 for so
days; posted rates. $4s41z64.S5 and $4S6d
4.S61a; commercial bills. $4.83Q4S31
SILV ER-SilVer certificates, $3.50 assoc;
bar silver, $3.50; Mexican dollars, 46c.
BONDS-GOvernmen bonds steady. New
As, registered, 1874 coupon, 127A As. 11112;
coupon, Ill.,; seconds, 81; 5s, 112; coupon,