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Chicago Union Stock Yards.
Chicago Grain and Provisions:
., u. .,se,,~".. CHICAGO, July 20.
CLOSING PRICES. -. !

~ CLOSING PRICES. ~. II N
WHEAT-July, 7o9sc: September, 7l11c;
December, 71M@71sIc:;l May, 76a6@76lcI
CORN-July, ss96c.ys September, $780,.
December, s11Sc; May, s2X@8a1c. ~
OATS-July,S:2 %; September, 1880
1890; December, zoe; May, s121@22o. 3.
~ PoRK-July,S5s IS IS; September. IS. $50
8.7711; October, g. so.
EMBELLISHMENTS lS11@17c; diar-
les 12@15hc. y7$ g.. I'D
. POULTRY--Dressed, chickens 8x@l2o
ducks 7ci turkeys, 7111@811o. s. zfs.
EGGS-Fresh, 11@l2c.
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Minneapolis Grain.

W1NNEAPOL1S, July %. =
WHEAT-In Store-No. / Northern,
July, 6S14c; September, 6s15c; Deem
Der, 691@69Ac. On Track-No. hard
703sc; No. l Northern, 1920; No. 2
Northern, 68Mc.
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win Interpellate on the Treaty.

PARIS, July 27.-The Eclair says that
NJ. Castelin, Republican revisionist,
deputy for Aisne, will interpellate the
government in the chamber Of deputies
on the concession of minimum tariff
to the United States.
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LATEST MARKET REPORT.


DULUTH, July 26 :.
WHEAT-Cash, No. hard, 7411Sc; No.
l Northern, 1890; No. Northern, 66%c;
No. 364Sc. To Arrive-No. hard, 7416c;
No. Northern. 1880; July, 1890; Sep
tember, 70Ac; December, 71Hc.
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St. Paul Union Stock Yards.


SOUTH ST. PAUL, July 26. 4
HOGS-Market 5@lOc lower. Range OF
prices $38O@4.4O. -
CATTLE-Good cattle steady. Com.
mon dragging. No good cattle on the
market.
Sales ranged at 81 OO@425 for stockers:
$2.25@3.40 for COWS; g. 40@3.45 for heif.
ers; 1926 for steers; So 90@2. 95 for bulls:
81. 75@5.OO for calves.
SHEEP Market for sheep and lambs
steady. Good demand. Il
Sales ranged at $4.OO@425 for sheep:
81. 25@5.50 for lambs. n j
Receipts: Hogs 900; cattle, 500; sheep,
100; calves 200. :
Chicago Union Stock Yards. =
CHICAGO, July ~. !
HOGS-Market slow, 5@1Oc lower. -
Sales ranged at $4.25@a.5O for mixed
and butchers; $4.35@4.5O for good heavy:
$4o5@4.25 for rough heavy; 81. 35@4 s.
for light =" m
CATTLE-Market stronger. :: ~ )
Sales ranged at $4.50@5.S5 for beeves:
$2.O0@4. 30 for cows and heifers; $4,000
$50 for Texas steers; IS. 15@4.85 for stock.
ers and feeders. -. "a; '".& ,--'' z 5zs
SHEEP-Market steady. - - N
Sales ranged at $300@5.00 for sheep:
s. 00@6.75 for lambs. - 49, ..,S2zs.+ -
Receipts: Hogs. &c. 900: CATTLE Ia, 500:
sheep, 1900. - 49,, 49,, :.
The times., 1899-07-07

line and the staff are still open to COM
merce. To the former only officers and
enlisted men who were in the first vol
unteer army will be eligible. But this Will
not act as a bar to any surviving aspi-
rations that young John Logan, young
Alger. young Blaine, young Allen. or any
other young man who received recognition
from the War Department last year may
have. But let that pass. In trying to
be good let US not expect the Alger-
Eagan War Office to be adjectively good.
Where the. beef is. there will the young
ravens congregate, and We must not look
for impossibilities. Congressional votes
have their market price today quite as
certainly as they had a year ago last May.
The assignment of Brig. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler to duty in the Philippines is an
other thing upon which the President is
to be congratulated. Among the general
officers of the service there is not one
better equipped. nor one with as much
experience to fit him for exactly the kind
of service demanded in the field of Luzon.
General Wheeler should have been sent
to the scene of the Malay mutiny months
ago
The times., 1899-07-07
The Loyalty of Drcyfus.

(From the Atlanta COnstitutiOn)
So isolated that. like Robinson Crusoe. he had
almost lost the faculty Of expressed thought And
yet, more unfortunate than that mythical char.
acter, he was surrounded constantly by human
beings, men who probably regarded him with
sympathetic eyes. - yet who we're forbidden
to hold converse with him. Was not that enough
alone to have bleached the mans hair. and 10
have given sharp and venomous point to hi,
tongue when he should return home and be
given the privilege Of conversational and vet.
what the facts in the case? p7eyfus declares
that he ia passioHately devoted To the army,
that tyrannic machine which has all but drained
his liie-blood, as at any time in his life. and
that he does not blame his Judges for the part
they took in his prosecution. They we're acting
simply from 4 standpoint OF duty, he says, and
that consequently he chsrishes no malice toward
those who have figured 80 prominently and dis
gustingly in the case. fIere. indeed. IS one nnaa
who deserves the adulation which IS now being
poured him. The French nation Il to b.
cens,rcd for its cruel blindness in his ease. but
it has at least succeeded in developing L hero
whose good qualities are not tinged with the
usual French opera boufe features. and whom
the world, as we'll as his own country, can
respect and admire
The times., 1899-07-07
Appalling Revelations in France.

The action of the Paris municipal au-
head of the AnthropometricaI Department
for the part he took in the persecution of
Dreyfus is not alone significant OF the
rapid and radical change of French senti-
ment in the famous case, but it also re-
veals the vile ramifications of the infa-
nous plot that was formed against Drey-
fus. Bertillon IS the author of the famous
system for the Identification of criminals
This gave him fame and position in
France which were utilized to advantage
by the prosecutors of Dreyius. They IN
duced Bertilion to appear in the trial of
the captain as an expert in handwriting
He testified that the bordereau was written
by Dreyfus. Only few months ago the
amazingly depraved Esterhazy, from his
safe retreat in London, contested, with ap-
palling effrontery, that it was he and not
Dreyfus who had written on scrap OF pa
per the notorious memoranda, known as
the bordereau, dealing with important Sc
crets of the French fortifications in chirog-
raphy which as closely resembled that of
Dreyfus as Esterhazy could make it.
OF course, it is possible that Bertillon
made an honest mistake in testifying that
che handwriting was that of Dreyfus. Ex-
perts frequently commit such errors. For
that reason their testimony is not often
regarded as convincing proof in American
courts. But the balance of probability is
against this charitable view of Bertillon's
part in the Dreyfus conspiracy. The mu-
nicipal authorities of Paris are too de-
pendent for their positions upon the strong
anti Semitic sentiment OF the French capi-
with Bertillon in such a relation. The
probability seems to be that there has been
developed convincing proof of Bertillon' s
guilty participation in the dastardly con-
spiracy against Dreyfus. He was driven to
this course either through fear of incur
ring the active displeasure OF the powerful
conspirators or was impelled to it by some
still meaner personal motive.
Either view of this phase of the case re-
veals most shocking and incomprehensi-
bic condition of the morals of the Govern
ment of France at the time what now an
pears to be monstrous wrong was COM
mitted. The apparent fact that such 4 con-
/ spiracy could have been formed and could
! have so widely ramiiied the forces of gov
ernment and public opinion in France stag
gers belief. The participation in 1t of a
person occupying the relatively unimport-
ant official position of that held by Ber-
tillon indicates not only the oppressive
power of the main conspirators, but also
with what consummate and painstaking de-
liberation they proceeded with their foul
work.
When the world is shocked into reali-
zation of these things it must accord to
| the present Government of France un-
! stinted need OF praise for the display of a
The times., 1899-07-07
SPAIN SHORT OF SUGAR.
Without the CoIonie. Home Industry
Cannot supply the Demand

Since the loss OF her colonies as a re-
suit CT the Spanish-American war Spain
has been unable from her own factories
to satisfy the public demand for sugar.
The output Of these factories is about
100000 tons per year. Mr.. Mertens, who
Is in charge OF the United States consular
agency at Valencia, writes to the State
Department that high prohiLitive duty of
102 Ia per cent on foreign sugar protects
the home industry and stands in the way
of sugar dealers and consumers
For this reason" he says "a union
of trades people and merchants of the diff
ferent cities of Spain have petitioned the
Spanish Government to reduce the import
duty to 80 per cent, which wouid afford
fair protection for the retineiies and
at the same time permit the importation
of sufficient sugar 10 supply the demand.
This petition meets with great opposi-
tion from the refners, but in view OF the
need CT sugar and the small chance of in
creasing either the number of factories
or their output in the near future, the
Spanish Government will probably reduce
the duty, more especially as this Will add
to the customs income of the country and
do away with the incentive for smuggling.
As soon as this reduction becomes a law
cur dealers in refined sugar should be
ready with samples 10 secure contracts be-
fore the competition with other countries
becomes too Keen"
The times., 1899-07-07
Expansion in Arknnsas.

ttrOm the Pine Blur Commercially
The leaders of the silver side Of the Demo
cratic party are working like Troians to brin.,
about anti expansion sentiment In the mcIa
tine AgrIinaldo and his deluted followers az,
struggling along in the archipelago with the belief
that the Democrats will universally oppose ex,
pansion, that thereby Bryan viii be elected and
then they will be free themselves from what they
call the American yoke. We Will emphasize that
whenever the CAMPAIGN is begun and ended it
will he seen that the American people are in deal
earnest in their determination to ccr.Orn TO the
treaty Of peace made with Spain and thereby
carry out obligations to every nation on earth
that has interests in the PHILIPPINES. The United
States, therefore, matter whs should be the
next President will have 70 abide by and meet
contingencies as above stated. and the people
or party who are opposing these declared pEia-
ciples not only seeking ard viii find defeat
but they are even now responsible for the Ameri-
can loss OF life being continued in tLat
cntut utrv
The times., 1899-07-07
Tamnany's Way.

tFrom the Brooklyn Eagle)
Ii it had been the intention of Tlmmany HsI
to launch Mr.. Van Wyck as a Presidential can
didate at this time no one would have been
allowed to remain in doubt as to the Significance
OF the occasion. The hall would have been crowd
cd. Banners would have been waved and leather
lunged sht'ters would have been scattered about
the room 10 lead the applause and the building
would have rocked with the wave Of enthusiasm.
Tammany simply did not care TO DO this The
reference to Mr. Van Wyek made by Josepb i
Willett OF Alabama was graceful attention
paid to the Democratic candidate at the most
recent State election. And it was nothing more.
When the Tammany organization instr,Icts its
delegates to the Democratic National convention
one will be LETT in doubt as to its prefer.
enees. if the leaders have any preferences to an
nounce. When Tammany does significant things
it does them in i significant way.
The times., 1899-07-07
The New Volunteer omcers.

Whatever may justly be said in criti-
cism of President McKlnley's course in
delaying the call for volunteers. now that
it has been issued after a fashion. it must
be conceded that he has done well to Sc
lect his commanding and superior regi-
mental officers from the regular service.
In one instance, to be sure. he has made
an exception to the rule; but it should be
remembered that when the Indiana mem
Der Of the Republican National Committee
wants to go to the Philippines and get
his throat cut, IL the Administration can
stand it nobody else need grumble.
One of the abuses and disgraces OF Al
gerism in the Spanish war was that
worthy regular officers OF long service
were ignored and the best places given to
degenerate sons or other relatives of poll
iicians. Mr. McKinleys announced poll
icy In connection with the new volunteer
forces will not entirely prevent Mr. Alger
from taking care Of the proteges OF his
political friends. The field officers are 20
be selected from among our professional
soldiers, 10 be sure. but the regimentai
The times., 1899-07-07
The Pence Congress.

(From the st. Louis Glole-Democrat)
The judgment that the Peace Congress will be
a failure is frequently heard. Until its work is
finished nobody tell what it will accomplish,
or fail to accomplish. Those who had any hope
that it would stop the increase in armaments
will be disappointed, for it will not do this
Probably, however, very few persons ever sup
posed it would. 1t will not abolish war. There
is a strong likelihood that it will not agree on
compulsory arbitration. There is chance, how.
ever, that it viii recommend voluntary arbitra-
tion, and take steps to provide a board to
which international controversies may be sub
mitted. This will be only small part OF the
work which the United States had hoped would
be DONE but even ii this sma! contribution is
made to the influences which work for peace,
the conference will be not altogether a failure.
The times., 1899-07-07
Emphatic and Correct.
CFrom The Boston HeraldD

lflOiu tht Duslon itTdlu-l
1t is not always safe for States OF the Union to
twit each other The retoEt in such instances is
apt TO be n reminder of reforming work that
might be proftabiy done at home. An instance
of this occurs in one of our Philadelphia ex-
changes, which is u good deal t-?uhled about
certain lawlessness in Kentucky, and is thus
moved to say: IF some such man as Andrew
Jackson were seated in the executive chair of
Kentucky, he would find the means of establishing
order in Gle. county without calling the Legis-
lature in extra session or revising the State con-
stitution," which impels the Louisville Courier
Journal to reply: And if some such man as
Andrew Jackson were seated in the executive
chair OF Pennsylvania, he would not be Jump
ing jack strung by Mat Quay. There is worse
lawessness in Clay county than there is in nearly
every county in Pennsylvania under the corrupt
tyranny Of Ouayism'
The times., 1899-07-07
Trnsts md The Tariff.
(From the Baltimore SUM


1t is often asserted. know, that the same
monster consultations that we call trusts are
common also IN free trade England The same
tendency to large business aggregation that ex-
lists heye also exists there, but the absence of a
protective tariff in England makes the trust inoi-
fcnsiye from the point OF view Of the English
consumer-a fact which the American protec-
zionist carefully ignores. trust in England can
not, as here, pu5 prices higher than they in
competing countries II it attempts TO do SO.
German and American goods How in freely and
take the market Free trade makes all the diff
ference in the world to the practical effect OF
trusts. In England the consolidation OF rival
producers is a purely business proposition, since
the foreign producer stands ever ready to come
to the consumers relief, but in the United States
it means taking advantage of the Dinsley tariff
wall to prey upon the defenceless masses. Our
tariff prevents the English and German manu-
facturer from coming TO the relief OF the hapleSs
American when the American trust advances Its
prices from 10 to $50 per cent. 1t is the tariff
back of the trust that makes the latter injurious
to the public.
The times., 1899-07-07
SAGE SCENTS BLAcKMA1L.
smith Ready to Accept Any Action
of the millionaire

New York. July 6-Artemus Smith. who
wrote and yesterday took to the residence
OF Russell Sage, at sos Fifth Avenue. a
letter addressed to Mrs. Sage which said
that the life of member of her family
was hanging by a thread and that the
writer should be consulted Immediately
appeared at the East Fifty first Street po-
lice station early this morning Smith
saw Sergeant Halpin, who was on desk
duty, announced who he was and said
that he was willing TO give himself up
If Russell Sage wished to make any charge
against him. He said that anything he
had done in the case had been done in a
legitimate way.
Sergeant Halpin consulted with Acting
Captain Lantry. and they decided that they
could not hold Smith. They said that had
the letter been sent through the mails
they might have reason for arresting him.
Smith, however, took the letter to the
Sage house in person. When Smith was
told this he went away and said he wo I'D
return whenever he was wanted.
Russell Sage was seen at his home this
morning. He did not seem to worry much
over the letter. Mr. Sage said: 81 believe
this IS an attempt at blackmail. II was
probably conceived by persons who
thought that because an attempt was once
made on my life | could be easily fright
ened into giving up money. l cannot tell
just what | will do in the matter. The
case is in the hands of the police, and |
will act under their advice | think will
simply act on the defensive. Smith in
his interviews has said that he wished to
inform me that young lawyer and a
very brilliant man had threatened to take
my life. 1t may be that. If the case goes
any further. we will find out who this
young lawyer is
Mr.. Sage said he would not leave his
house this morning except on the advice
OF the police. Detective James b. McCau-
ley. OF the East Fifty-first Street station.
called on him in the forenoon and had a
long talk with him. After the conversa-
tion was over Mr. Sage iert for his office
and McCauley returned to the police sta
ton.
Detective McCauley would say nothing
about the case. Mr.. Sage on icdving the
house said, however, that the detective
would have talk with Mr.. Smith, and
that any future line OF action would depend
on the result of that talk. As Mr.. Sage
boarded an elevated train he was sur
rounded by several persons who recog-
nized him and he talked with them about
the case. He said that he did not feel at
all nervous. although he intimated that an
organized gang of blackmaiiers might be
at work against him
The times., 1899-07-07
Queer Justice in New Jersey.

They do strange things in New Jersey.
The latest is the deportation of a citizen
of that State byLjudiciaI decree.
The case is most peculiar one all
around. A young man of the name of Ford.
son of former member of the New Jer-
sey Judiciary. broke into the house of a
Mrs. Bradford at New Brunswick After
arousing her and her aged sister he de-
manded money. In default of ready cash
Mrs. Bradford gave him a check for two
collars for which he gave her receipt. But
he did not cash the check. He was arrested
and released on bail On Wednesday his
bondsman surrendered him to the court
over which presides the unique Judge
Strong This wise justice acquiesced in the
plea OF Ford's lawyer for immediate exile
OF the prisoner from his native land. He
ordered that Ford be taken to Brooklyn
by an officer, who was instructed TO secure
certificate from the naval authorities
there, guaranteeing Fords immediate de-
parture from the country on transport
bound for Manila within two days The
ohicer executed his orders. The account OF
this remarkable affair states that Ford
waived the formality of a grand Jury in
vestigation of his case, going directly into
court. pleading guilty to no charge in par
ticular. and asking, through his attorney,
for the severe sentence that was imposed
The affair would be as humorous as
the ordinary occurrence in New Jersey il
1t did not so completely contravene every
principle of established processes of JUS
tice. Primarily, no law of exile applies In
Ford's case. Aside from the terrible Sc
verify OF the penalty assessed, the law was
tampered with in frivolous and illegal way
by the court. The proceedings and the
sentence make trayesty of justice. The
fact that the criminal was the son of a
former judge appeared to play no incon-
siderable part in the case The desire to
get him out OF the country in order to
save the family name from further dis
grace seemed to be one of the impellina
motives with the court. But the theory
as well as the practice of the courts in
this country is that they are no respecters
Of persons. The young man either COM
mitted an offence which should have been
| investigated and tried by the regular pro-
cesses of the courts, without any regard tc
the prestige of the name he bears or his
family connections, or he did nothing
| which should have caused his arrest and
enforced presence in a court of record tc
| enter plea
The case is not as trivial as the spirit
by which it was treated by the New Jer-
say authorities would suggest 1t goes tc
the roots of judicial abuses in the country
1t ought to be vigorously investigated.
The times., 1899-07-07

higher order of moral courage than is
manifested by the mere act of opening for
Dreyfus an opportunity for simple justice
through the medium of retrial. To do this
the government has had to grapple with
mighty forces of evil that had sunk their
roots deep in French confidence. The up
roofing of these will mean for France a
revolution quite as important to the sta
bility of French Institutions as was the
bloody conflict led by the commune The
ultimate result will be the publication of
French politics by the lessening of the in
huenees of the vast military establishment
in affairs that are, or ought to be, strictly
civil in a republican government
The times., 1899-07-07

having sent one message TO Won Diederich
offering to destroys-his feets-send another
months later denying that their official
relations had ever been unfriendly?
1t would be perhaps premature to accuse
the 'Neuste Nalhricten'' of Berlin, of
deliberately uttering forgery, but if such
letter was written the Navy Department
must have copy of it together with many
reports from Admiral Dewey describing
his relations with the German commander
in Manila Bay. which for prudential rea-
sons have not heretofore been given to the
public. Perhaps, in the circumstances,
Secretary Long will abandon Sampson
for an hour or so and in simple justice to
Dewey, look up the files in his office ana
proclaim the truth.
The times., 1899-07-07
RepubIiennism and Catholicism

(From The New York CommercilI- Adverti5er.)
The most momentous utterance of yesterday
was Cardinal vaushan's speech in London, indi-
eating that the Church OF Rome would unite with
England and America against Russia in the future
of China. With the ending OF the temporal
power OF the Pope. and with the growing hos
tility OF royalty in Europe. the Catholic Church
is realizing that its greatest power in the future
must be in the free countries. through the people
whom it knows well how to sway. This in its
turn has counteracted on the Church. making it
broader and more liberal, and adapting it to the
form of Government between which aad itself
there was formerly the greatest mutual antag-
onism
The times., 1899-07-07
She Turned the Laugh.

(Frum the Detroit Free Press)
She is from the far Southwest and on her first
visit TO the city, but all attempts to chaff her
have been reaetive. Il suppose said her host,
with wink to the others at the table, ''the
cyclone you had just before leaving, carried away
township two and pasted them against the
mountains beyond?''
''Yes, and stood one of the mountains on its
apex, where it spun like top. But the most
interesting feature to me was the hail. The
stones not only very large, but nearly all OF
them were hand painted and some had horns. -